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Churches, 1876

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Catholic Directory. DECEMBER

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 December 1876 · page 12

Sunday, 24.—Vigil—4th Sunday of Advent, V seq Post ant Alma die. Post partum et Deus qui salutis, Monday, 25.—Xtmas Day, the Nativity of…

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Naturalist. the Mission of the Fly

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 December 1876 · page 8

THE generally received opinion about flies is that, despite limitless ingenuity expended on patent traps and poisoned paper, they form one of those ills of life which, it not being possible entirely to cure, must perforce be endured with as…

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A Story of Christmas Eve-Told in a Church

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 December 1876 · page 20

WE had been decorating our little church for Christmas, sad had almost concluded our pleasant task Our dear minister and two or three young gentlemen friends had left, when it was suddenly announced by the…

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

Evening News · Thursday 28 December 1876 · page 4

'Him! what can he mean? I suppose he explains a little further on,' mused Mr. Arden. 'He is, in short, a practitioner about whom auspicious of an infamous knid have prevailed. One…

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Correspondence. Newcastle Seaman's Mission. (To the Editors of the Protestant Standard.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 30 December 1876 · page 7

SIRS,--In your issue of the 16th December there appears a brief article under the above heading, which is calculated to mislead, however unintentionally, those of your readers who…

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A Story of Christmas Eve—Told in a Church

Evening News · Saturday 30 December 1876 · page 3

WE had been decorating our little church for Christmas, and had almost concluded our pleasant task. Our dear minister and two or three young gentlemen friends had left, when it was suddenly announsed by the…

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

Evening News · Saturday 30 December 1876 · page 3

Mr. Arden bowed, and wenton; And when the young lady distinctly declines the honour you propose, you persist in paying your addresses, as though her answer meant just…

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The Church the Mother and Nurse of the Domestic and Holocaustic Life. Sermons Preached by the Most Rev. Archbishop Vaughan, at the Solemn Blessing of the Sacked Heart Presentation Convent, Wagga. "Unless the Lord build the house they labour in vain who build it."—PSALM 126, v. i

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 December 1876 · page 17

MY LORD BISHOP OF GOULBURN, MY LORDS, DEARLY BELOVED.—When preaching on the occasion of the opening of a Convent such as this, and the presence of no large, no mixed, and…

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Russia. the Church and the Eastern Question

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 December 1876 · page 8

Nothing could so much be calculated to justify the attitude of the Catholics of Turkey in the pending struggle as the way in which the leading schismatic country, Russia…

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The Intolerance of the Romish Church

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 30 December 1876 · page 5

The Tablet's remarks on this subject are very significant. It will be noticed that they cover three points: First, the Roman Catholic Church is intolerant of error, and whether this…

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