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Churches, 1875

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State-church Clergyment in Novconformist Pulpits. (From the English Independent, June 24.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 September 1875 · page 5

A MEETING was held at the City Temple on Thursday, to consider the opinions of Mr. Fitzjames Stephen and Mr. Benjamin Shaw, in regard to the right of elergymen of the Established Church to accept invitations…

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New Catholic Church, Hay

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 12

IT is not long since we directed the attention of our readers (says the Standard) to the fact that the Rev. Laurence Keating was about to make an appeal to the residents in this district, on…

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My Mission

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 25

EVERY spirit has its mission, says the transcendental crew; "This is mine," they cry; "Eurea! this the purpose I pursue;…

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REVIEW. The Internal Mission of the Holy Ghost. By Henry Edward, Cardinal-Archbisbop of Westminster. London: Pickering, 1875

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 11

Whatever the world may have to say against Cardinal Manning, they cannot charge him with either lack of energy, lack of zeal, or lack of, faith. Like a good watchman of the Eternal…

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St. Ignatius' Church, Richmond

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 7

The solemn consecration of the district of Richmond to the Sacred Heart of Jesus took place on Sunday last (says the Advocate) ia the church of the Jesuit Fathers,…

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Christ Church and Its Service. (To the Editors of the Protestant Standard.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 2

SIRS,--In compliance with advertisement, I attended a meeting on the 15th instant, in the Christ Church school-room. The objects of the meeting were to practically consider and act…

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Cruise of the Mission Ship Ellangowan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 September 1875 · page 5

FROM the Brisbane Courier's Somerset correspondent we take the following condensed narrative:- I send a rough sketch of the mission steamer Ellangowan's last trip to New Guinea. This little vessel, after…

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Catholic Church, Grenfell—public Meeting

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 14

THE Record reports that a public meeting was held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Thursday evening, for the purpose of considering what steps should be taken for the erection of a Catholic…

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The Jubilee at St. Francis' Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 11

THE Jubilee at St. Francis' Church closed on Sunday evening last. The Very Rev, Dean S[?]eridan celebrated the first mass, and administered Holy Communion to nearly the…

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Commodore Goodenough. (From the Australian Churchman.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 September 1875 · page 2

THE death of our Commondore has saddened the return of spring to the inhabitants of Sydney. Under any circumstance it is painful to be brought face to face with a death so sudden and exceptional: but here is a man who…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 September 1875 · page 6

August 24.—The Bishop of Bathurst laid tho foundation stone of a church about to be built at Miltown. 30.—The twentieth anniversary of the Rev. Canon Stephen's incumbency of St. Paul's, Redfern, was…

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Presbyterian Church Wollongong

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 4

The annual tea meeting connected with the Presbyterian Church took place in the Temperance Hall, on Tuesday evening last, and notwithstanding the day being very wet and cold,…

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St. Stephen's Anglican Church, Bourke

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 21

THE foundation-stone of this Church was laid by the Rev. F. B. Boyce, of Orange, in August, 1874, and the contractor has completed his work, in the most satisfactory manner, in much less than twelve months, and…

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Stealing From a Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 13

THE following case is reported in the Murrurundi Times [?] principal evidence :—Mich[?] remand, was charged with [?]"entering the Church of St…

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St. Joseph's Church, Newtown

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 11

ON Sunday last the services of the Jubilee were brought to a close at the above-named church by the Rev. Father Dillon, of Camden, who, throughout the previous week, laboured,…

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Mr. Selwyn on the Churches and the State, to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 September 1875 · page 3

SIR,—An ordinary reader may well be excused if he failed to discover what Mr. Selwyn is aiming at in his two letters on the education question. If I rightly understand him, he would have something in the nature of a concordat…

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New Catholic Church, Tumut

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 October 1875 · page 8

THE Gundagai Times reports that on Sunday morning last the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Roman Catholic church at Tumut took place in the presence of a large…

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Primitive Methodist Anniversary

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 2 October 1875 · page 2

Anniversary Sermons will he preached in the Primitive Methodist Church, Macquarie-street. to-morrow, Sunday, by the Rev. J. A. Foggon, and on Wednesday next a Public [?] Meeting…

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St. Patrick's New Church, Cooma

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 October 1875 · page 8

ON Sunday afternoon last (reports the Mercury) a large number of Catholics attended the meeting in the Denominational sohoolroom, Vale-street, in response to the call of the Very…

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