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Churches, 1882

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New Catholic School-chuurch at Camperdown

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 April 1882 · page 16

SOME short time ago (in October last), as was stated in the Freeman, the Catholic school at Camperdown was placed under the charge of the Sisters of St. Joseph. Since that time the…

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An Irish Presbyterian Minis-ter on Landlordism

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 April 1882 · page 6

The Rev Matthew Macaulay, Presbyte-rian minister, Castleblayney, is a root-and-branch land reformer, and, to judge from some letters of his which he has just…

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A Catholic Priest Imprisoned for Exciting Discontent

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 April 1882 · page 9

LONDON, March 27.—Father Feehan, a Catholic priest at Rathdowney, in Queen's County, Ireland, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for exciting…

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Catholic. the Bishop of Maitland. Return of His Lordship the Right Rev. Dr.murray

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 April 1882 · page 15

ON the 22nd April, 1880, the Right Rev. Dr. Murray, Bishop of Maitland, left these shores in the s.s. Chimborazo, after an affectionate leave-taking with his friends in his diocese, as well as…

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Church Reserves

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 April 1882 · page 14

His Worship the Mayor and Aldormen Playfair, J. D. Young, Davies, and Mr. Merriman last Friday waited upon the Colonial Secretary under the following circumstances. It seems that among the reserves…

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The Episcopalian Church, Manly

Evening News · Monday 3 April 1882 · page 3

Owing to the large increase in the attendance at the Church of England at Manly, the residents belonging to that denomination sometime since resolved to enlarge the church, and upwards of [?] having…

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The Church of England's Surrender. To the Editor

Evening News · Wednesday 5 April 1882 · page 3

SIR,—The heads of the Church of England called a meeting the other night to promote tie object of the object of the Bishop in carrying out a system of religious instruction in our public schools. In response to this…

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Origin of Convents. Father Chiniquy and the Independent Catholic Church

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 8 April 1882 · page 9

The largest audience since the opening of the new year assembled in Masonic Temple last Sunday evening. Nearly 1000 persons were present. For a wonder the Roman…

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Catholic. the Archbishop's Lenten Lectures

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 April 1882 · page 15

ON Sunday evening the Archbishop delivered the last of the series of Lenten lectures. He said they had now come to the last discourse touching upon the Divinity of Our Blessed Saviour…

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The Church of England and the Education Act

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 April 1882 · page 17

ON Thursday, 30th ult., a meeting, in connection with the committee appointed by the Synod of the Diocese of Sydney to assist the Bishop in carrying on religious instruction in Public schools,…

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Memorial Window in St. Patrick's Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 April 1882 · page 15

The stained memorial window erected in St. Patrick's Church, by Mrs. Caraher and family, deserves more than a passing notice at our hands, not only on account of its rare beauty, but for…

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The Church of England Education

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 April 1882 · page 13

THERE was a certain pathos and diguity in the attitude, of the two gentlemen who attended the Church of England meeting at St. James' schoolroom on…

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ECCLESIASTIC In the Scots' Church, Melbourne

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 April 1882 · page 533

The Scots' Church takes high rank among the splendid ecclesiastic edifices of Melbourne. Strangers' eyes are quickly attracted by it, and when they have learned that the Bev. Charles Strong is the preacher…

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Church Sunday School Union

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 8 April 1882 · page 3

There is and has been for many years a society for the Management and help of Sunday schools, called the Sunday School Union. The name is sufficiently large to…

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St. James's Church

Evening News · Monday 10 April 1882 · page 3

The morning service at St. James's was conducted by the Rev. Canon Allwood ; In the evening the Rev. W. HOugh officiated, and at each service there was a very large congregation…

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Catholic. Meeting of Catholics at Rockhampton

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 April 1882 · page 10

The correspondent of the Queenslander reports that a large meeting of Roman Catholics was held in the Hibernian Hall, Rockhampton, on Thursday, 30th March, to consider the present…

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No. 10.—The Wool and Mail Mission

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1882 · page 26

Now that the mission to the capital of the United States is over, it may be as well to briefly sketch what was attempted and done in connection with the two objects of public interest, which…

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An Actor-Priest. a Roman Catholic Clergyman Deserts the Mass and Treads the Professional Stage. (By Telegraph to the " New York Herald.") BOSTON, February 20. 1882

Evening News · Saturday 15 April 1882 · page 5

The Roman Catholic priest, Rev. George Leeming, D.D., late of New South Wales, Australia, and now of Boston, made his debut as an actor, last evening at the Gaiety Theatre playing the role…

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"The High Church Confessional."

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 15 April 1882 · page 7

This little work by Mr. Dadson is one of the ablest exposures of the "High Church Confessional" that we have seen and the price-- Sixpence-- brings it within then reach…

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Election of Churchwardens

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 April 1882 · page 6

We have received the following additional results of the Easter Tuesday elections of churchwardens:—St. James's, Sydney: Trustees' warden, Mr. W. Day; people's warden, Mr. S. Baylis; clergyman's warden, Mr. W. E. Kemp…

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