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Churches, 1883

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Cable Messages. Errington's Mission to Rome

Evening News · Monday 11 June 1883 · page 2

LONDON, June 8.—The newspapers twit the Government with having admitted in the House of Commons, that the Government had availed itself of the presence of Mr. Errington in Rome…

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Colonial Roman Catholic Bishops and Irish Politics. London, June 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 June 1883 · page 7

The Pope of Rome has forwarded to the colonial Roman Catholic Bishops the decree which his Holiness recently promulgated, enjoining the clergy to refrain from…

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Latest Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] Our Special Telegram (From Our Own Correspondent.) Mr. Errington's Mission to Rome. London, June 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 June 1883 · page 7

The newspapers taunt the Government with the admission made in the House of Commons, in reply to a question, that the Government had availed themselves of the…

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A Church Scandal

Evening News · Wednesday 13 June 1883 · page 5

A New York correspondent writing on May 2 says that the Bey. Florence M'Carthy, pastor of St. Cecilia's Roman Catholic Church, Brooklyn, has begun an action against Daniel Cronin to recover…

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The Redmond Mission

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 June 1883 · page 16

FROM the message received as to the time to elapse before Mr. Redmond visits New Zealand, we are led to conclude (says the New Zealand TABLET) that he will come here from Melbourne…

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The Melanesian Mission

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 16 June 1883 · page 8

ON Thursday night in St. John’s schoolroom, Bishop, Selwyn, of Melanesia, discoursed on the Melanesia Mission for the propagation of the Gospel. The room was crowded. After a…

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Catholic. This Cathedral

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 June 1883 · page 14

FATHER Lonergan, a recent arrival, and one of the two priests who came to Australia in the s.s. Chimborazo for Brisbane, was the celebrant of High Mass at St. Mary's on Sunday morning,…

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Sundays in Sydney. St. Bene[?] Catholic Church

Evening News · Saturday 16 June 1883 · page 6

In noticing the various agencies in Sydney for promoting religion and piety it would be a man[?] injustice to pass over the Roman Catholic Church. Whether a person does or does not agree with all it…

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Catholic Hall for Goulburn

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 June 1883 · page 15

LAST Monday evening (says the SOUTHERN ARGUS) in response to an advertisement, some thirty persons met at the Salutation Hotel to consider the advisability of erecting a Catholic…

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Christ Church School

Evening News · Saturday 16 June 1883 · page 4

An entertainment is aid of the prize fund of Christ Church school, took place in the Christ Church school-room on Thursday night. It was a great success, both artistically and financially, By half-past…

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Prayer Book of the English Church Union

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 16 June 1883 · page 6

It is not generally known that this traitorous Romanising Society which calls itself by a name that it has no right to has a prayer book of its own intended for its own members only…

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Redfern Congregational Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 June 1883 · page 6

The Congregationol Church situate in Cleveland street Redfern, is new in course of being remodelled. At the back of the church an infant school, a vestry, a verger's room, and a class-room are in course of construction, and…

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Melanesian Mission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 June 1883 · page 8

A public meeting was held under the auspices of the Melanesian Mission last night in the Protestant Hall, with a view of raising funds in support of the mission and affording Bishop Selwyn an opportunity of delivering an address…

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The Melanesian Mission

Evening News · Wednesday 20 June 1883 · page 7

A public meeting in furtherance of this mission was held in the Protestant Hall on Monday night. The meeting was fairly, though not numerously attended. The Dean of Sydney, as ordinary of the diocese,…

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Bourke-street Congregational Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 June 1883 · page 3

The anniversary of the Bourke-street Congregational Church, and of the pastorate of the Rev. Thomas Johnson—who after 22 years' service as minister of the church has retired—were celebrated at the church…

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Catholic Concert

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 19

In point of attendance, as well as in a musical sense, the concert given in the Masonic Hall on Monday evening was a very fair success. The hall was well filled, and the audience an appreciative and not a severely critical one, while the…

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The Anglican Priest

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 8

Our fathers free would not bend the knee, Once from their bonds released; And never again will we wear the chain Of the Anglo-Catholic Priest…

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Enough to Poison a Parish

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 8

A Protestant little girl, being asked by the priest to attend his religious instructions, refused, saying it was against her father's wishes. The priest said she should obey him…

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The Anglican Bishop of Tasmania

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 31

The Rev. Daniel Fox Sandford, LL.D., the incumbent of St. John's, Edinburgh, on April 13, was presented by his congregation with an antique silver vase and a cheque for £1200, as a…

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Catholic. New Church and Convert at Gordon, Lane Cove

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 June 1883 · page 15

EVERYBODY of course knows that there is such a place as Lane Cove, for it is just at the other side of the water, within a stone's throw of the city; but comparatively speaking few of us have any…

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