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Churches, 1875

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Churchyards and Epipaphs. (From the Builder.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1875 · page 8

"THE luxury of woo" has lost much of its spiritual significance, and is become grossly materialised. Nowadays it has a price in the market. We measure our grief by the length of…

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Christ Church Parochial Association

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 February 1875 · page 7

YESTERDAY evening, the annual general meeting of the Christ Church Parochial Association was held in the Schoolroom connected with that church—the Rev. T. V. Alkin, the clergyman at present in charge of the…

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Sudden Death in a Church

Evening News · Wednesday 3 February 1875 · page 3
Also in Empire

The Newcastle Pilot reports that an inquest was held on Monday, [?] instant, at Lake Macquarie, by Mr. F. J. Shaw, [?] for the district of Newcastle, on the body of Mary Marks, wife of a miner named…

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Archbishop Manning on Catholic Politics

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 February 1875 · page 4

A LARGE meeting of Roman Catholics assembled at Archbishop Manning's house [?] Westminster recently to hear his inaugu[?] address to the Roman Catholic Academia [?]…

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Roman Catholic Criminals' in Scotland

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 6 February 1875 · page 8

Some curious tacts regarding the religion of Scotch criminals are brought out by a recent Parliamentary return. From this it would appear that, from the 1st of January to…

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Great Britain. Mr. Gladstone and Catholic Allegiance

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 February 1875 · page 3

THE following are extracts from some of a number of letters which followed Dr. Manning's in reply to Mr. Gladstone's Expostulation:—…

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Lecture on the Vitality of the Catholic Religion by the Rev. Fr. Burke, O.p., at St. James's Hall, Westminster

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 February 1875 · page 4

ON Thursday (reports the Tablet, November 7), the great Hall, of St. James's was densely crowded on the occasion of the Rev. Fr. Burke's lecture on "The Vitality of the…

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(Advocate.) Sunbury Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 February 1875 · page 7

On Sunday night last a handsome new church, recently built at Sunbury, in the pastorate of the Rev. J. Hoyne, was opened by bis Grace the Archbishop, who was accompanied by the…

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Bishop Wordsworth on the Church

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 6 February 1875 · page 8

We take the following extract from an excellent address delivered to the "Lincoln Diocesan Conference " by Bishop Wordsworth-- "And here, may I venture to offer a word of…

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Wesleyan Conference. Sixth Day. [?] Mission

Evening News · Monday 8 February 1875 · page 4

The ex-President read a letter from the committee of the parent society in England, referring to the importance of adopting additional measures for the purpose of incressing the funds of the…

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Wesleyan Conference. Sixth Day. Foreign Mission

Empire · Monday 8 February 1875 · page 2

The ex-President read a letter from the committee of the parent society in England, referring to the importance of adopting additional measures for the purpose of increasing the funds of the…

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Presbyterian Church, Strathalbyn

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Wednesday 10 February 1875 · page 18

THE view of this strikingly situated church will give our readers some idea of the scenes that are to be met with in South Australia. The original building was erected some years ago, chiefly through the liberality of the late Hon…

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The Presbyterian Church, Strathalbyn, S. A.

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Wednesday 10 February 1875 · page 12

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Installation the Roman Catholic Bishop of Ballarat

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Wednesday 10 February 1875 · page 16

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New South Wales and Queensland Conference of the Australasian Wesley an Methodist Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 February 1875 · page 6

THE New South Wales and Queensland Conference of the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Church commenced its annual sessions, in the York-street Wesleyan Church, on the evening of Wednesday, the 27th January, and has…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 February 1875 · page 6

JANUARY 19.—A tea meeting was held at Balmain, followed by a public meeting, at which Captain Rowntree presided, to welcome the Rev. W. F. B. Uzzell to the pastorate of the parish of St. Thomas…

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Lecture on the Vitality of the Catholic Religion by the Rev. Fr. BURKE, O.P., at St. James's Hall, Westminster. (Continued.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 February 1875 · page 3

EVERT other day we are sending addresses of condolence to the great, the holy, the supreme man of men, who sits crownless and imprisoned in his Vatican Palace at…

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Churchyards and Epitaphs

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 February 1875 · page 16

"THE luxury of woe" has lost much of its spiritual significance, and is become grossly materialized. Nowadays it has a price in the market. We measure our grief by the…

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The Treasury, New South Wales, Sydney, 15th January, 1875. Provision Contracts for the Public Service. Protestant and Roman Catholic Orphan Schools, Parramatta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 February 1875 · page 6

NOTICE ia hereby given that TENDERS will be received at this Office, until noon of TUESDAY, the 23rd February next, for furnishing, on account of the Public Service, the supplice undermentioned, in such quantities as…

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