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Churches, 1873

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Ireland. the Education Question. Address of the Rector of the Catholic University

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 March 1873 · page 5

Recently the current session of the Catholic University was opened by an able address from the Rector, Very Rev. Dr. Woodlock, and of whick the following is the…

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Newcastle. St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Branch of the Australasian Holy Catholic Guild. Report of the Council for Half-year

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 March 1873 · page 6

The council have much pleasure to meet you, brethren, at the expiration of the ninth year of the existence of this branch of the Holy Catholic Guild, and to lay before you their…

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Loss of the Mission Schooner Dayspring

Evening News · Friday 14 March 1873 · page 2

LIKE many other vessels that have been employed in disseminating Christianity amongst the natures of the South Sea Islands, the scheoner Dayspring, of the Presbyterian mission, has found a last resting place on a…

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Loss of the Mission Schooner DAT-=mSPRING

Empire · Friday 14 March 1873 · page 2

LIKE many other ressels that have been employed in disseminating Christianity amongst the natives of the South-Sea Islands, the schooner Dayspring, of the Presbytcrian mission, has found a last resting place on a…

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Catholic and Protestant Increase

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 March 1873 · page 4

The New York Nation, of October 24th, 1872, in its review of Mr. Robert Dale Owen's Debatable Land, says:—Not a single European nation is Protestant to-day,…

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Loss of the Mission Schooner Dayspring

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 March 1873 · page 8

CAPTAIN JENNINGS, of the missionary schooner Dayspring, arrived on Thursday in the steamship Havilah, and brings intelligence of the loss of that vessel on a coral reef at Aneiteum, during a severe hurricane on the…

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Canadian Independence. (Catholic Opinion, Dee. 28.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 March 1873 · page 11

To the Times is due the credit of reopening the question of Canadian independence. The storm which that journal's now famous article—at the result of the arbitration at…

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Pamela's Story. (Catholic Opinion, December 28th.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 March 1873 · page 11

Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King at Arms, has come out this year in company with the annuals and Christmas stories, " founded on fact," to remind us again how very much…

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New Wesleyan Church, Brunswick

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Wednesday 19 March 1873 · page 5

The Wesleyan denomination in Brunswick, have for some time past been laboring under considerable disadvantage in consequence of the want of adequate church…

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Sermon on St Patrick. Preached at St. Patrick's Church, by the Rev. J. CUNNINGHAM

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 March 1873 · page 2

"Their sound hath gone forth into every laud and their words unto the ends of the world. ("Ps. xviii.) When , the self-styled reformers of the six…

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Meeting at St. Benedict's Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 March 1873 · page 2

A meeting of the parishioners of St. Benedict's was held on Sunday evening last, in the Church immediately after Benediction. The Blessed Sacrament was removed from the…

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The New Church at Candelo

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 March 1873 · page 6

The Bega correspondent of the Manaro Mercury, writing on March 4, gives the following account of the ceremony of blessing the foundations of this church:—…

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Victoria. St. Bridget's Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 March 1873 · page 5

A concert in aid or the tunas St. Bridget's choir was given in the Carlton Orderly Room oh Tuesday evening last. The Rev. W. Kelly, S.J., presided, and the Rev. J. P. O'Sullivan…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 March 1873 · page 7

February 16.—Diamond Valley Church, Bathurst diocese, was opened for Divine worship. The incumbent read the prayers, and the sermon was delivered by the Rev. A. R. Blackett, B.A…

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A Ragged Church Service in London

Evening News · Tuesday 25 March 1873 · page 3

IN a neighbourhood well provided with places of worship of all denominations Divine service was held yesterday morning to a [?]ngregation the sight of which would have started many an old Londoner who…

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St. Joseph's Catholic Church Bazaar, Orange

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 March 1873 · page 2

Of all the means adopted to raise money for charitable or other objects, none seems to meet with greater favour than a Bazaar or Fancy Fair. The gaiety of the scene no doubt has its…

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More Anti-catholic Misrepresentations. (To the Editor of the Freeman s Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 March 1873 · page 9

SIR,—In the London Times there appears monthly a letter from a Sydney correspondent. This worthy, who if not greatly maligned, is an imported cocksparrow, and holds a prominent…

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The New Wesleyan Church in William-street

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 March 1873 · page 392

THIRTEEN or fourteen years ago the foundation-stone of the little Wesleyan church in Dowling-street laid by the late Rev. Daniel James Draper, the then President of the Conference. For a time—a very short time—…

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A Ragged Church Service in London

Empire · Saturday 29 March 1873 · page 4

IN a neighbourhood well provided with places of worship of all denominations, [?]vine service was held yesterday morning to a congregation, the sight of which would have started many an old Londoner who…

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The Reformed Catholic Church. (From the Correspondent of the Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 April 1873 · page 6

PARIS, JANUARY 13.—I am afraid I shall rather shock some of my Protestant fellow-countrymen when I tell them that last night I heard a sermon preached by a Roman Catholic priest to a Protestant congregation,…

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