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Churches, 1885

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Wesleyan Methodist Conference. Wednesday,--kvening Session

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 January 1885 · page 8

The ministerial conference resumed its fit lings at 6.30, It was announced that an offer had been received from the Victorian conference to transfer the Rev. A. H, Carrie to the New South Wales…

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Sacred Concert at Pitt-street Church

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 January 1885 · page 6

A sacred concert was given at the Pitt-street Congregational Church on Wednesday last by the members of the choir and friends in aid of the Choir Music Fund. The attendance was not a…

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Wesleyan Methodist Conference

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 28

At the sitting on the 22nd, Messrs. F. J. Branch, W. A. Heighway, and H. Worral, were continued in the institution for another year; Mr. A. J. Harding to be appointed to a suitable circuit. Rev. W…

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Catholic. the Petersham Cemetery

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 14

ALL persons interested in interments at the Petersham Catholic Cemetery are invited to attend a public meeting, to be held in St. Mary's Hall (late Pro-Cathedral), this evening (Friday)…

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A Catholic Social Club

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 15

THE recent admirable entertainment served to bring into public prominence the Young Men's Social Club which has now been some time in existence in St. Patrick's parish. The idea, after…

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The Catholic Bible Hall

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 16

WE have been requested to announce that the first of tho series of lectures on the Sacred Scriptures for 1885 will be given by the Rev. William Kelly, S.J., in the Bible Hall, William-street, on…

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The Herald on Catholic Laity

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 13

IT is very hard for Catholics to please the HERALD. Some years ago a Catholic Union was started in Melbourne—and imitated in this colony —and nothing could…

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Wesleyan Methodist Conference. Friday Morning

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 6

The president (Rev. J. A. Nolan) took the chair at 9.30 a.m. The secretary of the conference was directed to write a letter to the Rev. J. Oram, expressing the…

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Advice to Catholic Masters and Mistress

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 16

AT St. Mary's Cathedral on Sunday morning the Rev. P. M. Ryan, in the course of a sermon on the mutual obligations of masters and servants, touched on a matter of more than ordinary…

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Opening of the New Roman Catholic School

Nepean Times · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 2

THIS building, of which the foundation stone was laid by his Grace Arohbishop Moran in October last, has just been completed, and was opened with some ceremony on Monday, The rain during the day…

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Hie Burning of Tile Brooklyn Catholic Orphan Asylum

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 7

SOME four weeks ago we received the first intelligence by cable of the destruction by fire of the Catholic Orphanage at Brooklyn, with the dreadful loss of life. In one of the papers by the San…

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The Presbyterian Newspaper. (To the Editor of the Protestant Standard.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 8

SIR,-- I thank you heartily, and I am sure that you have the thanks of many, both ministers and people, for your article last week, on the conduct of the above paper. My surprise is, that some…

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Tee Petersham Roman Catholic Cemetery. a Protest Against Its [?]Lgsure

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 8

The Action of the municipal council of Petersham, in passing a by-law prohibiting interments in the local Roman Catholic cemetery, has caused something of a feeling of indignation among those…

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Catholic Feeling at Armidale. (By Telegraph. From Our Correspondent.) Armidale

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 12

At the conclusion of the service, which was held on Sunday morning in the Roman Catholic Cathedral, the congregation remained to take part in a public meeting, which had been…

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Steamer Church Ashore

Evening News · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 4

LONDON, January 29.—The P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Chusan, which left London on the 7th January for Bombay, has gone ashore at Perim, at the entrance to the Red Sea…

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St. Paul's Church, Redfern

Evening News · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Auxiliary to the Church Society in this parish was held in the school-room, on Tuesday night. There was a fair attendance, and the Rev. F. B. Boyce, the incumbent, presided, Mr…

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Catholic Lords

Evening News · Monday 2 February 1885 · page 7

The number of Catholic peers in the British House of Lords has been, increased by the conferring of the dignity of Baron of the United Kingdom on Lord Henries. The Roman Catholic peers having seats in…

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The Roman Catholic Church and Mixed Marriages

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 February 1885 · page 6

It is generally understood that one of the decisions of the last Council of the Roman Catholic Bishops of Australasia was to the effect that the clergy should during the early part of every year…

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Wesleyan Methodist Conference. Friday--evening Session

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 February 1885 · page 7

The conference resumed its sittings at 7 p.m. The whole of the evening was devoted to the second reading of the stations. The Rev. J. A. Bow[?]ing was appointed evangelist for the year…

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Unitarian Church --Rev. A. B. Camm

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 February 1885 · page 5

Last night in the Unitarian Church, the Rev. A. B, Camm delivered the second part of a lecture upon Tennyson and Morris, as the poets of the [?]igher theism, in the course of which the modern…

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