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Churches, 1876

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Catholic Directory

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 November 1876 · page 12

Thursday, Feast of St Andrew Apostle, is a day of Devotion. Sunday, 26.—24th and last Sunday after Pentecost (5th Nov.) St. Silvester Ab…

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A Roman Catholic Reader

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 25 November 1876 · page 8

WE are really glad to have a Roman Catholic correspondent who is not ashamed of his name. Anonymous ones are plenty enough: and if we have not…

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Germany. an Old Catholic Triumph

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 November 1876 · page 7

The so-called Old Catholics have achieved a further triumph belonging to the class known as barren victories. In Breslau, the capital of Liberia, which counts upwards of…

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The Roman Catholic Orphanage. (Cumberland Times.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 November 1876 · page 17

OF all the public charitable institutions we have hitherto visited, there have been none that have inspired us with a greater respect for the better portion of our nature than the Roman Catholic…

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Correspondence. Daring Outrage on Catholic Peeling. (To the Editors of the Protestant Standard.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 25 November 1876 · page 2

SIRS,--When I read in Sydney Freeman of October 28th, the above heading, I concluded that some young priest had persuaded some sensible nun to enter the holy state of wedlock,…

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Mines and Mining. The New Goldfield at Urana. Urana, November 10,1876, [REPORT concerning the newly discovered Goldfield at Brookong Run, parish of Burtherwa.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 November 1876 · page 18

"To the Under-secretary, Department of Mines— " I visited the Brookong gold diggings on the 8th instant. The ground is situated about 3 1/2 miles from the Round Swamp, in a north-easterly direction, and the…

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Ireland. the New Church at Clonliffe

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 November 1876 · page 5

On September 14 the beautiful church which the Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin has erected in connection with his diocesan seminary at Clonliffe, was solemnly dedicated…

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The Congregational Church, Balmain

Evening News · Tuesday 28 November 1876 · page 2

We learn from the Border Post, that during the post month the Rev. A. G. Fry paid a visit to Balmain, near Sydney, with the view of occupying the vacant pulpit of the Congregational Church at that place for…

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Brutal Punishment of a Boy in a Roman Catholic Orphanage

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 2 December 1876 · page 5

Some time ago, says the Protestant Advocate, we reprinted a correspondence that had taken place between the Governor of Western Australia and M. Griver, Roman Catholic…

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The Opening of St. Mary's Church Mudgee

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 December 1876 · page 14

LAST Sunday witnessed tho performance at Mudgee of a ceremony full of interest to all those who take an active part in the promotion of religious teaching and in the spread of the…

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Opening of the New Catholic Church of St. Malachy, Rylstone

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 December 1876 · page 13

Seldom indeed does it fall to the lot of a district to have two beautiful stone churches opened by a Bishop during the same visit. Such, howover, has been the good fortune of the…

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Baby- Farming at Roman Catholic Institutions

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 9 December 1876 · page 4

We have frequently been obliged to comment upon the irregularities of Roman Catholic schools and homes. It is not long ago since a matron of one of these institutions was…

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Eastern Churches

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 9 December 1876 · page 5

Commander Telfer, R.N., has just published an account of a rapid journey which he lately made under very favourable circumstances into the Trans-Caucausian regions of Georgia…

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Checkmate. Churchyard,' 'Willing to Die,' Uncle Silas, Etc

Evening News · Monday 11 December 1876 · page 4

'I did not know half what people said of him. I've heard a great deal since.' 'But is it true?' said Alice. 'It is nothing to me whether it is true or not. It…

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Checkmate. by the Author of 'The House by the Churchyard,' 'Willing to Die,' Uncle Silas Etc

Evening News · Tuesday 12 December 1876 · page 4

An opportunity seemed to offer sooner even than he had hoped; for as he drove towards St. James's Street, passing one of Richard Arden's clubs, he saw that young gentleman ascending the steps…

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The Church of England's Week of Prayer at the Be[?]inning of the Year. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 December 1876 · page 8

SIR,—It has been thought by some, whom I hold in venera tion for their own and their work's sane, that the week of prayer set apart by members of the Church of England in thin city is in a spirit of antagonisin to other Churches…

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The Wesleyan Mission in Tonga. (From the Tonga Times, October 14.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 December 1876 · page 5

THE great meetings in connection with the jubilee at Tonga have taken place, and it may not be out of place for us to make a few remarks with regard to those meetings, and the circumstances in connection with the Wesleyan Mission in…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 December 1876 · page 8

November 16.—A meeting was held at [?] Archdeacon Gunther in the chair, at which it was resolved to build a new church. 29.—The Rev. Canon Smith laid the foundation stone of…

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Catholic Directory. DECEMBER

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 December 1876 · page 12

Sunday, 17.—3rd Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday), semid. V seq com praec ot for (Sepientia). Monday, 18.—Expectation of the Blessed…

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The New Guinea Mission

Evening News · Tuesday 19 December 1876 · page 2

A private letter, according to the Brisbane Telegraph, has come to hand, which says:—"November 22nd.—The wife of Dr. Turner, one of the missionaries, died last night. She bad scarcely been married year,…

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