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Churches, 1879

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Home and Foreign. England. the Anglican Paddock." (Calbolic Review.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 5

The London Times may abuse the Pope and the Catholics, but it reserves its contempt for "the little Anglican paddock," is Air. Gladstone called the Church of England in…

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Folkestone. Sisters of Mercy Taking the Veil in the Church on Rome

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 9

The Universe reports that on Thursday, November 21st, three ladies "formerly connected with a sisterhood at Folkestone in connexion with the Established Church " were…

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Clocks in Churches

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 7

Few, if any, human inventions embody so much moral character as the time-keepers. Poets and preachers have been helped to many useful truths by this device. The prophet…

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Church Society for Diocese of Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 March 1879 · page 3

On Monday night the annual meeting of this sceicty was held in St. James's Infant Schoolroom. There was a large attendance. The Bishop of Sydney presided, and among the other ministers and gentlemen present were the Dean of…

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Holy Trinity Church

Evening News · Saturday 22 March 1879 · page 4

The members of the chair in this parish, taking advantage of Mr. C. A. Wilson's retirement from the portion of choirmaster, through his removal from, the parish, have presented him with…

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The True Church

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 22 March 1879 · page 7

[Bishop Perry, late of Melbourne, preached recently in the Temple Church on "The True Church." We give below extracts, with the opinions of an English paper on it.]…

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Baptist Church Parramatta

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1879 · page 5

ON Wednesday evening last a tea-meeting was held in the school of Arts, Parramatta, in c[?]naction with the above church to celebrate the first anniversary of the Rev. R. Williamson’s [?]…

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Roman Catholic Appointment

Evening News · Friday 28 March 1879 · page 2

ROME, March 26.—The Pope has appointed the new Bishop of Armidale, and the consecration ceremony took place to-day…

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Father M'namara. Brief Sketch of the History of the Independent Irish Catholic Church

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 29 March 1879 · page 9

In the name of God, Amen ! On this first day of this New Year, a sense of duty impels me to comply with the request which has been urgently and repeatedly made, that I would…

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Home and Foreign. England. Catholic Education in Ireland

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 March 1879 · page 5

The Edinburgh Scotsman publishes a report that Cardinal Manning has had an opportunity offered him of explaining personally to Lord Beaconsfield his views…

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The New Roman Catholic Bishop of Armidale. Rome, March 26

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 March 1879 · page 504

The Pope has appointed the new Bishop of Armidale, and the consecration ceremony took place to-day…

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FROM The Curate to the Content: A Narrative belonging to tho Nineteenth Century. by a Churchman. Chapter XXXVII.--(Continued.) a Protestant Indignation Meeting

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 29 March 1879 · page 8

The chairman wound up with a few illustrations of the evil of the confessional, and the practical effect of Jesuitical teaching in reference to oaths. In connection with the first, he…

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Decoration of St. Patrick's Church

Evening News · Monday 31 March 1879 · page 3

For some time put improvements have been going on at St. Patrick's Cathedral, and the whole of the interior of the building has been renovated. Messrs. Palmer and Weakes, the well-known eccla[?]tical…

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New Congregational Church, Camperdown

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 31 March 1879 · page 6

The ceremony of laving the foundation stone of a new Congregational Church at Camperdown was performed on Saturday afternoon. A procession of Sunday-school children, with a neat little banner, was formed and…

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Congregational Church, Camperdown

Evening News · Tuesday 1 April 1879 · page 3

The interesting ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of a new Congregational church at Camperdown took place lost Saturday afternoon, in the presence of a large congregation of clergy and laity…

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Mission Work

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 April 1879 · page 524

The twenty-fourth meeting of the New South Wales auxiliary to the London Missionary Society was held on Thursday, March 27, in the schoolroom of the Pitt-street Congregational Church, when the Rev. J. Jefferis…

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Roman Catholic Appointment

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 April 1879 · page 9

ROME, March 26.—The Pope has appointed the new Bishop of Armidale, and the consecrationceremony took place to-day…

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Diocese of Goulburn. William by the Grack of God, and of the Holy Apostolic See, Bishop of Goulburn. To the Catholic Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of Goulburn

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 April 1879 · page 19

"If any man will follow me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it. and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the…

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Wesleyan Church Matters at Goulburn. GOULBURN

Evening News · Saturday 5 April 1879 · page 4

Last Sunday the new Primitive Methodist Church was opened at Arthursleigh. Two sermons were preached by the Rev. J. Studds, of Goulburn. A public tea meeting was held on Tuesday in the…

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The Decorations of the Pitt;street Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 April 1879 · page 6

During the past eight or nine weeks the Congregational Church in Pitt-street has undergone a marked change in its internal appearance, by the substitution of artistic decorations for the somewhat inornate and plain tinting which the…

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