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Churches, 1878

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Protestant Servants in "Catholic" Families

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 26 January 1878 · page 7

Sir,--Will you have the kindness to insert the following in your next issue. It shows the subtil web woven round our poor Protestants in Roman Catholic houses, as well as the studied…

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Mission of the Jesuit Fathers in Albury

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 January 1878 · page 14

A very successful Mission was given lately iu Albury, by the Jesuit Fathers of Melbourne. At the invitation of the Very Rev. Dr. M'Alroy, V.G., the Rev. W. Kelly, S. J., and the Rev. M. Watson, S.J., and the Rev…

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Intercolonial. Victoria. Catholic Meeting at San[?]urst

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 January 1878 · page 8

A very large and enth[?]astic sooting of the Catholics of this city was held on Wednesday 9th inst, at St. Kilian's Hall', to consider the best mens of support the catholic schools…

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Italy. Seizure of Churches

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 January 1878 · page 7

The following is the tent of a letter recentely addressed by the Pope's Secretary of State, Cardinal Simeon, to the Diplomatic Corps [?]redided to the Holy See : -…

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St. Patrick's Church, Sydney

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 January 1878 · page 14

On Monday evening, 21st instant, a, mectiug of the parishioners was bold in St. Patrick's Hall, in refence to the rebuilding of St. Mary's Cathedral. Having been announced from the…

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Church Association Autumnal Conference

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 26 January 1878 · page 9

From the late Church Congress we now pass to the approaching Conference of the Church Association; from Church diplomacy, artifice, compromise, expediency, and dissimulation--necessarily…

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The Continental Churches. France

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 26 January 1878 · page 7

The last General Synod honoured me with an appointment as Commissioner to the "Reformed Church of France." That church has had one meeting of the National Synod during two or…

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DR. McNEILE on the Church Congress

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 26 January 1878 · page 5

A voice which used to thrill through the whole body of Evangelical Churchmen has Bounded again from Bournemouth where, in "undimmed decay," Dr. McNeile is serenely…

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Murrumburrah Catholic School

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 February 1878 · page 15

The bazaar in aid of the School Debt Fund came off on the evening of the Race Meeting, 25th and 26th, in the long room of the Commorcial Hotel (kindly placed at the disposition…

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The Jesuit Mission at Albury

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 February 1878 · page 15

The following is the tent of the address which was road by the Hon. George Day, M.L.A., of the conclusion of the mission given by the Jesuit Fathers of Melbourne, reported in…

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The New Roman Catholic Hierarchy. Rome, November 27, 1877

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 2 February 1878 · page 9

Like a great many other Italian newspapers, the Italic, published here at Rome in French, had an article not long ago on the subject of the new Scottish Hierarchy. As it may interest…

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The Want of a Protestant Church of England Paper

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 2 February 1878 · page 6

The Protestant portion of the clergy of the Church of England are very sore about the absorption of the "paper representing all parties" into the Romanesque anti-Protestant…

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Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 February 1878 · page 5

THE annual meeting of the above-named society was held in the Wesleyan Church, York-street, yesterday evening. There was a good attendance. The Hon. Sir G. W. Allen (Speaker of the Legislatiye Assembly) occupied the chair…

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Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Scotland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 February 1878 · page 5

A Roman Catholic Hierarchy has been established in Scotland…

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Palmer-street Presbyterian Church

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 5

The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the above church (Rev. Dr. M'Gibbon's) was held on Thursday evening, the 24th January, David M'Beath, Esq., J.P., in the chair. After…

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The Russo-greek Church. (Contributed.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 17

In the year 980 Vlademir became Grand Duke of Russia by fratricide. This lascivious despot had six wives and eight hundred concubines. Rogueda, Princess of Pololsk, whose family he…

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Correspondence. a Greek Church Passport. (To the Editors of the Protestant Standard.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 6

SIRS,--At the burial of a late Greek Bishop at Pera, writes an English traveller, being present at the ceremony, rafter listening to prayers "for the repose of his soul" the mitre,…

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Home and Foreign. Ireland. Mr. Gray, M.P., and Mr. Parnell., at the Catholic University

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 February 1878 · page 5

On Thursday night, December 13th, Mr. M. J. Duff delivered the inaugural adress on "The Study of Irish History" at the opening meeting of the Historical Society of the…

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Germany. Church Property in Prussia

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 February 1878 · page 8

The Supreme Tribunal for the province of Westphalia gave judgment on the 10th inst. in three cases of considerable importance concerning the legal transfer of ecclesiastical…

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Church Society

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 16 February 1878 · page 6

THE annual meeting of St. John’s Auxiliary to the New South Wales Church Society was held on the evening of the 8th instant, in St. John’s…

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