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Churches, 1871

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The Presbyterian Church. Public Breakfast

Evening News · Friday 3 November 1871 · page 3
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YESTERDAY morning the Lay Association of Presbyterians entertained the ministers attending the General Assembly, who were accompanied by other members of the Assembly, at breakfast in the Hotel…

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General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 November 1871 · page 9

FORTH SEDERUNT.—The Assembly met yesterday morning at 11 o'clock, and was constituted with prayer. RESCINDING RESOLUTIONS. The house resolved into a Committee of the Whole…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 November 1871 · page 6

SEPTEMBER 29.—A meeting was held at St. Peters, Cook's River, the Rev. G. King in the chair, at which an auxiliary to the Church Society was initiated. October 3.—At a meeting of the Armidale Church…

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Presbyterian Church Assembly

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 November 1871 · page 1139

THE Seventh Session of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales was opened on Tuesday evening in the Phillip-street; Church, when the retiring Moderator (the Rev. J. B. Laughton, of…

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The Presbyterian Church.—general Assembly. Sixth Sederunt

Empire · Saturday 4 November 1871 · page 2

THE General Assembly met, pursuant to adjournment, yesterday morning, and was constituted with prayer by the Moderator. A p[?]tition was received and read from the…

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Catholic Temperance Hall

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 November 1871 · page 7

On Monday evening a meeting of the members of the St. Francis Temperance Society and their friends was held in St. Francis' Hall, Haymarket! There was a large attendance present, and on…

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General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 November 1871 · page 7

SIXTH SEDERUNT.—The Assembly met at the usual place, yesterday morning, at 10.30, and was constituted with prayer. The minutes of the previous sederunt were read and…

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The Council of Education and the Grenfell Catholic School. (To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 November 1871 · page 9

SIR,—Finding nearly all the journals in the colony complaining that the Council of Education unjustly and illegally refused a certificate to a Roman Catholic school at Grenfell because…

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Alleged Illegality of Church Disestablishment

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 November 1871 · page 1142

An important ecclesiastical case is likely to come before the Court of Queen's Bench, immediately aw the long vacation. Canon Selwyn has given notice the Lord President of the Council of his intention to…

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To the Editors of the Australian Churchman

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 4 November 1871 · page 7

Sirs,--Mr. Gordon does not it seems seek to put Dr. Barry and myself on trial before our Ecclesiastical Tribunal for Sabbath Desecration; but ho has put us on our trial at the bar of…

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"Scene of Sabbath Desecration." To the Editors of the Australian Churchman

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 4 November 1871 · page 6

Sirs,--Mr. Gordon designates as above, the services held in the Exhibition Building on the 16th July last. We do not know exactly what he means…

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To the Editors of the Australian Churchman

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 4 November 1871 · page 6

Gentlemen,--Two letters, one from the Rev Dr. Barry, and the other from the Rev. Thomas Wilson, appearing in your last number, invite a brief notice from me. My answer to both is as…

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To the Editors of the Protestant Churchman

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 4 November 1871 · page 6

Sirs,--To my request for explanation of the terms " Scene of Sabbath Desecration," as applied by Mr. A. Gordon to the evening prayer of our Church, conducted by the Rev. T, Wilson…

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Presbyterian Church General Assembly. [?]Ight Sederunt

Empire · Monday 6 November 1871 · page 3

THE Assembly met this morning soon after 10 o'clock, and was constituted with the reading of the Word of God and prayer. The minutes of the last sederunt were read and confirmed. Returns on the…

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The Presbyterian Church.—general Assembly. Sixth Sederunt

Evening News · Monday 6 November 1871 · page 4

THE General Assembly met, pursuant to adjournment, on Friday morning, and was constituted with prayer by the Moderator. A petition was received and read from the…

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The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 November 1871 · page 2

EIGHTH SEDERUNT.—The General Assembly met on Saturday morning, in the usual place, at 10 o'clock, and was constituted with prayer. The minutes of the preceding sederunt were read and…

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Presbyterian Church.—public Meeting

Empire · Tuesday 7 November 1871 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting was held last evening, in the Presbyterian Church, Phillip-street, for the promotion of the schemes of the Presbyterian Church, by members of the General Assembly. There was a…

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Presbyterian Church.-public Meeting

Evening News · Tuesday 7 November 1871 · page 3

A PUBLIC meeting was held last evening, in the Presbyterian Church, Phillip-street, for the promotion of the schemes of the Presbyterian Church, by members of the General Assembly. There was a…

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The Schemes of the Presbyterian Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 November 1871 · page 5

LAST night a large meeting was held in the Phillip-street Presbyterian church, for the purpose of promoting the work of the Presbyterian Church in this colony. Among the audience were most of the ministers of the Church…

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