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Churches, 1875

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Extraordinary Scene in a Church

Evening News · Monday 8 November 1875 · page 5

THE Melbourne AGE gives the following account of an extraordinary scene in a church. Last Sunday night week, after the Rev. F. Lawson Wilson, minister of the Wellington-street Independent…

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Extraordinary Scene in a Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 November 1875 · page 3

LAST Sunday night (the Aqe reports), after the Rev. F. Lawson Wilson, minister of the Wellington-street Independent Church, Collingwood, had finished his discourse, he proceeded to read a paper explaining to the congregation…

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Lydd Churchyard and the Lossof the Northfleet

Evening News · Thursday 11 November 1875 · page 8

On the 2nd of January. 1873, a fine ship anchored off Dungeness, having on board 350 stout and able-bodied men with a number of women and children —all bound for Australia. The weather was, of…

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Presbyterian Church at Nowra, Shoalhaven

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Friday 12 November 1875 · page 3

IN October, 1872, the Presbyterian body of this district undertook the erection of a new church from a design prepared by J. Horbury Hunt, architect, Sydney, under whose direction the whole of the several works have been completed…

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The Chairman of the Primitive Methodist Church. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 November 1875 · page 8

SIR,—I see by your report of the proceedings conn[?] with the laying of the foundation stone of the N[?] Protestant Hall, that a document was placed beneath [?] [?] certain information, and among the [?]…

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Lydd Churchyard and the Loss of the Northfleet

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 November 1875 · page 28

ON the 2nd of January, 1873, a fine ship anchored off D[?]ngeness, having on board 350 stout and ablebodied men with a number of woman and children —all bound for Australia. The weather was, of…

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Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 November 1875 · page 3

THE Synod of the above Church met on the 2nd instant, at 7 p.m., in St. George's Church, Castlerongh-street, Sydney. The Rev. Isaao Mackay of Grafton, the retiring Moderator, commenced theo proceedings with praise, prayer, reading of…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 November 1875 · page 6

October 22—A special service was held is St. John's Church, Parranmatta, in connection with the Mclanesian missions. 25.—The anniversary tea meeting, in connection with…

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Old Catholic Conference

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 3

The Conference closed yesterday, and last night a great entertainment was given by some of the English and American visitors to the Orientals, to which Old Catholics were also…

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Victoria. Catholic Education at Elaine

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 8

The publication of the successful efforts made by the Catholics of the colony in the cause of Catholic education is always to us a pleasing duty. The success of a…

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Churchism Versus Protestantism. (To the Editors of the Protestant Standard.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 2

SIRS,--Bold, brave, and Luther-like has been the opposition of the Standard to that "man of sin" who is now a tolerated hibitue of Rome, and never was the stout uplifting of the…

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Hon Reverdy Johnson on Catholic Citizens

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 November 1875 · page 6

The Hon. Reverdy Johnson presided at the Democratic Canservative Mass Meeting held in Baltimore on the 15th instant, and in his address made strong allusion to the…

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Catholic Institution for the Deaf and Dumb

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 November 1875 · page 11

It is announced in another page that the nuns of West Maitland are about opening an establishment for the reception of Catholic deaf and dumb children. This is a Catholic institution of a kind…

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(The Editor of the Australian Churchman.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 4 December 1875 · page 2

SIRS,--I must beg a small space in your Columns to reply to " Tis, "who by implication impugns the correctness of my assertion "That the Bishop hast recently, decided ex cathedra…

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Femenine Brevites. BELLES call many young fellows to church

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 December 1875 · page 25

The number of lady clerks in the savings bank department of the London Post-office is now about thirty and will be shortly increased. The toast roaster who delivered the following is dead…

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Wesleyan Church at Windsor

Evening News · Thursday 9 December 1875 · page 4

A large number of persons went by special train yesterday to Windsor, to witness the futuresting ceremony of laying the foundation of a new Wesleyan church in Fitzgerald-street, close to George and…

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Priests' Visit to an Irish Church Mission School

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 11 December 1875 · page 5

It is an unusual circumstance for one of our schools to be visited by a Roman Catholic priest, unless it be to recover, or to intimidate, some child in attendance; but recently a school…

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Mission Schools in Dublin

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 11 December 1875 · page 4

Miss E. J. Whately has written the following letter to The Christian -- "Dear Sir,-- Some of your readers may perhaps be interested in a few particulars of the…

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"Who Translated the Bible? Or, Biblical Memoranda Concerning the Holy Scriptures; Showing the Part Taken by the Catholic Church in Their Translation and Dissemination," &c. By E. S. Hall, Medical Practitioner. (Hobart Town.)

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 December 1875 · page 3

The writer of this little book states that it was occasioned by the calumnious assertions of clerical speakers, made at the annual meeting of the Tasmanian Branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society, in June, 1872, and that the…

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America. Converts to the Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 December 1875 · page 6

Speaking of converts to the Catholic Church, the Ave Maria says :—We need not go to England to cite examples of illustrious converts. Without leaving the United…

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