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Churches, 1881

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Catholic. Proposed Memorial to the Late Bishop of Brisbane

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 September 1881 · page 17

A PUBLIC meeting who held in the Chamber of Commerce, Brisbane, on Monday evening, September' 5, to consider the best means to be adopted for erecting a memorial to the late Right Rev…

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St. Patrick's Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 September 1881 · page 15

The Feast at of the Holy Name of Mary was colobrated in the Church of the Marist leathers on Sunday last, and as usual on such occasions all the Masses as well as the evening service were…

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The Church Sunday School Union

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 17 September 1881 · page 3

There has recently been founded anew Society, with the title "The Church Sunday School Union ;" and it has opened an establishment in Paternoster-row for…

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The Church Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 September 1881 · page 6

The annual meeting of St. John's (Darlinghurst) Auxiliary to the Church Society was held last night in the schoolroom adjoining the church. The Very Rev. the Vicar-General presided. The attendance was not large…

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Mission to French Roman Catholics

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 24 September 1881 · page 9

The Rev. R. W. McAll's: undenominational mission to the working classes of Paris has attracted considerable attention in this Colony as well as in Britain and America. Recently…

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The "Freeman" and the Catholic Vote

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 24 September 1881 · page 7

A Denominational contemporary has in its last issue, an article on the use of the Catholic vote at election in New South Wales. To the section of the public for whom it is…

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Progress of the Old Catholic Movement in Austria

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 24 September 1881 · page 9

In spite of all the opposition which the Austrian Old Catholics have to endure the movement, especially in Bohemia, is progressing. The congregation of Warnedorf,…

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Catholic. the Lay Society of St. Vincent De Paul

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 24 September 1881 · page 14

FRA ANGELICO, the painter-monk, among the many beautiful pictures with which he has spiritualized and expounded some of the material evidences of mediaeval Catholicity, has left one…

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Can the Church of England Reform ?

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 24 September 1881 · page 4

The Constitutions of the Church of England as now acknowledged by act of local legislature, are unfortunately, so framed, that there is no opportunity of…

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The Church of England Aboriginal Mission at Warangesda

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 September 1881 · page 7

The following letter has been addressed by the Bishop of Goulburn to Mr. Alexander Stuart, M.L.A., and forwarded by him to the Australian Churchman:—"Bishopsthorpe, "Goulburn, 12th September, 1881. My dear Stuart,…

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The Church of England Aboriginal Mission at Warangesda. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 September 1881 · page 7

Sir,—The Bishop of Goulburn, in his letter to Mr. Alexander Stuart, in referring to the above, which appears in yesterday's Herald, expresses the " hope that the time has now arrived for the Government to render material…

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The Temora Mission

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 October 1881 · page 15

YOU are already aware that our church is to be blessed by the Right Rev. Dr. Lanigan on Sunday, October 9. Very few places in Australia can boat of having so much done for our holy…

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Catholic. Address From the Olergy of Queensland to the Bishop of Bathurst

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 October 1881 · page 15

ON Wednesday, 21st ult. (reports the Australian), the priests of this diocese who had assembled in Brisbane for the Month's Mind of the late Bishop availed themselves of the opportunity to present…

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Reform in the Church of England--how to Be Effected

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 1 October 1881 · page 8

Your recent article on this subject brings back to me what has led up to the present state of things. For more than twenty years I have been…

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The Rev. Dr. Ellis and the Church of England. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 October 1881 · page 6

Sir,--in a recent issue of yours I read a letter suggesting the desirability of Dr. Ellis preaching in the Cathedral on Sunday afternoons. I think this would be a mistake, and before I give my reason…

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The Novelist. Meliora to the Rescue Chapter X.—the Churchwarden

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 October 1881 · page 30

"Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." " Meliora!" said Lavinia, a day or two after the memorable interview in the library, " I do believe…

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New Wesleyan Church at Stanmore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 October 1881 · page 6

The suburb of Stanmore has so rapidly increased in popululion that the Wesleyan Church, which was oponed about seven years since, has become too small to meet the demands for sittings, and as its construction is on a plan…

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The Warangesda Mission. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 October 1881 · page 6

Sir,—The case of the Warangesda Mission is not just as stated in a sub-leader in yesterday's Herald. The jealousy of one church at another, if such exists, has nothing what-ever to do with the question at issue. As the writer of the…

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Telegraphic News. [By Submarine Cable.] the Turkish Mission to Egypt. Constantinople, October 5

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 October 1881 · page 3

The Sultan, in reply to Lord Dufferin, the British Ambassador, has explained that, the mission sent to Egypt had no special political significance, but was despatched in a friendly…

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Catholic. St. Mary's Cathedral

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 October 1881 · page 15

THE annual meeting takes place in the new building on the 17th instant, when the Cathedral will be used and lit up for the first time. The Archbishop will preside, and several well-known…

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