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Churches, 1876

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Mr. Bennett's Church at Frome Selwood

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 1 January 1876 · page 4

As you desire information regarding this place, the sphere for twenty three years of the active ministry of the Rev. W. J. E. Bennett, I gladly endeavour to comply with your [?]…

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

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 1 January 1876 · page 2

SIRS,—In these days of doubt and difficulty, of sacerdotalism, ritualism, and Popery, it is refreshing to reflect upon the career, however crisp, of a faithful standard-bearer of the truth…

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Mr. Beecher's Church Ex-communicates Mrs. Moulton

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 January 1876 · page 27

Brooklyn, November 4.—To-night the Plymouth. Church congregation, represented by forty-two members, met m the lecture-room of the church and adopted a recomm udatiou made by the…

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The Right of Clergymen to Preach in Nonconformist Churches

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1876 · page 3

WE have been requested to publish the following correspondence on this subject:- [CIRCULAR.] Bishopscourt, 27th December, 1875…

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A Subject for "Special Prayer." to Members of the Church of England. (Per favour of the Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1876 · page 5

A RECENT advertisement has apprised us of the intention of the clergy, with the approval of the Bishop of Sydney, to hold a week of special prayer in and about Sydney. We have not, however, been informed as to what…

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Patteson Memorial Melenesian Mission Fund

Evening News · Wednesday 5 January 1876 · page 2

A meeting of the subscribers to the Patteson Memorial Endowment Fund of the Melanesian Mission was held yesterday afternoon, in the Church Society's rooms is Phillip-street. The attendance numbered…

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Church of England Clergymen in Nonconformist Churches. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 January 1876 · page 3

SIR,—Having just read the Bishop of Sydney's circular upon the above subject, and Dr. Barry's reply thereto; will you permit me to inform many of your readers, who may be ignorant of the fact, that at the requeost of the Rev…

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Victoria. Catholic Intelligence. Church of the Sacred Heart

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 January 1876 · page 6

The opening of the pretty little church of the Sacred Heart, Walpole-street, Kew—the first church in the city or neighbourhood of Melbourne dedicated to the Sacred Heart of…

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Great Britain. Catholic Scotland

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 January 1876 · page 4

The following extract from the report of the British Government School Inspector for 1874, refers to the Catholic schools in the middle and lower wards of Lanarkshire, and…

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NOTICE. The Catholic Directory, 1876. Sydney : F. CUNNINGHAME and Co

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 January 1876 · page 11

THE Catholic Directory for 1876 has come out in a new form, which is calculated not only to meet the requirements of the clergy, but to interest and instruct the laity, and which reflects…

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Gibraltar the Church at Gibraltar

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 January 1876 · page 4

By way of supplement the Very Rev. Dr. M'Auliffe, secretary to the Bishop of Gibraltar, in a letter to the Catholic Times, observes…

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To the Editor of the Australian Churchman

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 8 January 1876 · page 2

I cannot accept your thanks, as I feel that injustice has been done to a large body of Christians, to whom the colony has been greatly indebted as pioneers, and to whom the cause of…

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The Right of Clergymen to Preach in Nonconformist Churches

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 8 January 1876 · page 5

We have been requested to publish the following correspondence on this subject: -- [CIRCULAR.] Bishopcourt, 27th December, 1875…

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School Church

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 8 January 1876 · page 3

On the 18th December, a well-attended meeting was held in the provisional schoolroom, Blacktown; to arrange for the erection of a building in which the…

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Blacktown. Church of England Sunday School

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 8 January 1876 · page 3

The following has been forwarded to us from Blacktown, with a request for us to publish — This school was established on the 4th…

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St. Patrick’s Church

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 8 January 1876 · page 2

The Children’s Jubilee at St. Patrick’s, conducted by the Revd. Arch-Deacon Rigney, has bi en largly attended during the past six days, and concluded last…

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Diocese of Sydney. (From the Australian Churchman.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 January 1876 · page 7

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Rev. Canon Sergeant, incumbent of Williamstown, diocese of Melbourne. Rev. H. A. Laugley, St. Mary's Balmain, locum tenens for the ecclesiastical district of St. Andrew (Cathedral),…

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Church Furniture

Evening News · Tuesday 11 January 1876 · page 2

There has just been turned out from the workshop of Messrs. Constable and Turner, Market-street, three or four articles of church furniture, intended for St. Paul's Church, Darling Point, which are remarkable…

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Palmer-street Pres[?]yterian Church.—

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 January 1876 · page 5

The twenty-second annual meeting of the above Church. (Rev. Dr. M'Gibbon's), was held on Monday evening last; the Hen. John Franzer, M.L.C., in the chair. After Singing and prayer, the chairman in his opening remarks…

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The Bishop of Sydney and the Kurrajong Church. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 January 1876 · page 5

SIR.—At a meeting of a considerable number of the Sydney [?]y on Monday last, when some conversation arose concerning the circular lately issued by the Bishop for the guidence of his clergy, some facts were elicited which it…

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