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Churches, 1876

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President's Address to Church Body

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 24 June 1876 · page 6

We regret to have to animadvert on the singularly unhappy and ill-timed remarks which marred the opening speech of the President of Synod this year. It is the…

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Church of England Synod

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 June 1876 · page 7

The Synod met at 4 o'clock on Saturduy, when the usual prayers were read by the President. Captain SADLEIR moved "That the question of the formation of an association to impart religious…

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Action against a Roman Catholic Bishop

Evening News · Tuesday 27 June 1876 · page 2

It is but seldom (says the Melbourne Age, of the 24th June) that courts of law are resorted by clergymen in order to settle a difference in accounts, Yesterday, however, a case appeared in the County…

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Wesleyan Church Sustentation and Extension Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 June 1876 · page 5

THE annual meeting of the Wesleyan Church Sustentation and Extension Society was held last night in the Wesleyan Church, York-street. The attendance was very small, in consequence, no doubt, of the inclemency of the weather…

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Wesleyan Church Sustentation and Extension

Evening News · Wednesday 28 June 1876 · page 2

The seventeenth annual meeting of the New South Wales Wesleyan Methodist Church Sustentation and Extension Society was held on Monday night, in the York-street Wesleyan Chapel Owing to the…

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Church Bells To the Editor

Evening News · Friday 30 June 1876 · page 2

Sir,-It is my misfortune to reside within easy earshot of the bells of St. Mary's Cathedral and St. James' Church. I and sometimes driven to the verge of lunacy by the twanging and the clanging, the jangling and the wrangling of these…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 June 1876 · page 8

MAY 21.—The B'shon of Grafton held a confirmation service at Inverell, administering the rite to twenty-six persons: on the 23rd consecrated the Church of England p[?]tion of the public cemetery: and on the 24th laid the…

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Lecture by Rev. F. HIBBERD In answer to Archbishop Vaughan's "Fourth Advent Conference," entitled, "The Church of Christ the Catholic Church." PART II.--Continued

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 1 July 1876 · page 5

The three pillars upon which the Primacy of Peter rested so securely, according to our Author, have been removed. We have seen that Christ did not appoint Peter as Chief…

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Literature. Mission Work in Polynesia. Forty Years' Mission Work in Polynesia and New Guinea. By the Rev. A. W. Murray. (Nisbet and Co.)

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1876 · page 8

Written from the point of view of the London Missionary society, this book sims at giving a connected account of the society's work in the South Seas rather than a description of the life and manners of the islanders. Everything is…

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Sacred Heart Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 July 1876 · page 14

The devotion of the Quarant Ore began in the above Church on Friday last at 11 o'clock. The solemn High Mass of Exposition was sung by the Rev. Pore Garavel, assisted by Fathers…

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St. Patrick's Church—monnier Memorial Windows

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 July 1876 · page 18

IT will be in the recollection of our readers that shortly after the demise of Father Monnier the congregation of St. Patrick's district, among whom the latter part of his life was spent…

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Poetry. Church Bells. Supplementary to Poe's "Bells." (An attempt to complete the poem which Poe left incomplete.)

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1876 · page 8

HEAR the holy Sabbath bells— Christian bells! What a world of consolation in their utterances dwells! They commemorate the day…

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The Lutheran Church of France

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 1 July 1876 · page 2

Like the Reformed Church it is supported by the State, and, in spite of recent losses, holds an important position in some parts of the country. Indeed, the very trials which it has…

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The Church of England

Evening News · Monday 3 July 1876 · page 2

We clip the following items from the Australian Churchman of Saturday:—The General Synod of the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania has been summoned by the Metropolitan, for Tuesday, October…

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The Church of England in Victoria. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 July 1876 · page 3

SIR,—In your issue of the 2lst ultimo, there appeared an article based on the statements of the Melbourne Argus, with reference to the clergy of his colony. As you were under a misapprehension of the facts of the case, and as the…

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China. Catholic Missions in China

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 July 1876 · page 8

The Christian Union of New York, a Protestans paper, gives an insight into the progress of Catholic missions in China :—A cathedral is in process of erection at Canton…

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New Zealand. Roman Catholic Schools, Wellington

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 July 1876 · page 9

A meeting of Catholics was held at St. Mary's Cathedral yesterday afternoon, to consider what steps should be taken to raise funds for the purpose of erecting a suitable school and…

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Lecture by Rev. F. HIBBERD. In answer to Archbishop Vaughan's "Fourth Advent Conference," entitled, " The Church of Christ the Catholic Church." PART II.--Continued

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 8 July 1876 · page 3

But this result was reached in a torturous way, and by the employment of means which brand the Church of Rome as the chief of impostors. Facts are too stubborn to yield to Dr…

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Letters to the Editor. What Good Catholic Congregations Bismarck Is Forming in Prussia. (To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 July 1876 · page 16

Sir,—I am indebted to a kind friend, for showing me a letter written by a French gentleman, who stopped for a short time at Herne, a village in Westphalia, Germany…

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Fireside Readings. in Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 July 1876 · page 19

We read the story olden, In a purple light and golden, beneath the western window we stood entranced, and gazed…

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