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Churches, 1886

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Memorials to the Anglican Bishops

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 November 1886 · page 5
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The following reply has been sent by the Bench of Bishops to two memorials almost identical in substance, which have already appeared in our columns, the one presented by…

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Presbyterian General Assembly of Victoria. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 November 1886 · page 7

The discussion on the dispute between the Scots Church and the Melbourne Presbytery began in the General Assembly of the Piesbyterian Church of "Victoria to-day. The Rev. Joseph Hay, the leading appellant…

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The Melbourne Scots Church Case

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 November 1886 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The general assembly of the Presbyterian Church was occupied all day in considering an appeal made by the Rev. J. Hay and others against the…

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Celibacy in the Roman Church. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 November 1886 · page 7

Sir,--Will you allow me to reply to "Fiat Lux From internal evidence furnished by his letter, it is clear that he is an ecclesiastic. I have been wondering since the morning that…

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Is the Church Up England Protestant? Ii. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 November 1886 · page 6

Sir,--In my former letter I stated that the church had never in any authentic way, accepted or assumed the title of" Protestant" ; but on the contrary bad, at a serious crisis in her…

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Presbyterian Jubilee Fund

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 November 1886 · page 5

Melbourne, Thursday.--The report of the Jubilee fund committee was presented to the Presbyterian General Assembly to-night. It stated that of tho £80,000 proposed to be raised…

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Presbyterian General Assembly of Victoria. the Case of the Rev. G. Dods. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 November 1886 · page 8

The case of the Rev. George Dods was further dealt with in the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church to-day. Mr. Dods made a speech in his defence, which for force and fluency has rarely…

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The Melbourne Scots Church Case. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 November 1886 · page 5

Melbourne, Thursday.--The Presbyterian General Assembly to-day continued its inquiry into the appeal against the Melbourne Presbytery for refusing to. sustain the call of the…

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The Anglican Synod

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 November 1886 · page 13

EACH Greneral Assembly of the Anglican Church unfolds to view her inherent principle of disintegration. No doubt, from an Anglican point of view, a great deal has…

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A Protestant Minister's Tribute to the Catholic Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 November 1886 · page 6

At a musical and literery "dilettante" the Rev. H. E. Haweis (says the London-Catholic Times) is widely known, and there are some who believe that he carries dilettantism into the…

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Monument of Catholic Heroism

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 November 1886 · page 6

The Catholic officers and men of the Imperial Royal Navy have placed a mural tablet in the Catholic church at Sheernegg to the memory of their co-religionists of the Royal Navy and…

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Catholc Catholic Mortuary Chapel

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 November 1886 · page 14

ON Sunday afternoon, in the presence of a large assemblage, the Cardinal-Archbishop performed a solemn ceremony of peculiar interest. We refer to the laying and blessing of the cornor-stone of…

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The Anglican Synod and the Divorce Bill

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 November 1886 · page 9

AT the General Synod of the Anglican Church on Friday the principal resolution discussed was that moved by the Bishop of Goulburn deprecating any extension of facilities for the dissolution…

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St. Luke’s Mission Boom Floral Fete

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 13 November 1886 · page 8

A FLORAL late in aid of the library fund of the Sunday school connected with St. Luke’s Mission Room, Parramatta North, was opened on Wednesday afternoon by Canon Gunther as…

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America. Catholic Institutions Destroyed by the Recent Earthquakes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 November 1886 · page 6

The terrible earthquake which has nearly devastated Charleston has done more damage to the Catholic institutions of that city than could possibly be estimated from the somewhat…

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The Memorial to the Anglican Bishops. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 November 1886 · page 7

Sir,—I am sorry to have once more to ask leave to make a correction. In the first paragraph of the reply of the bishops to the recent memorial, which you were so good as to publish on Thursday, the final words, "by the Courts…

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A Famous Catholic Lady Artist. the Painter of "The Roll Call."

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 November 1886 · page 20

A LONDON paper, the LADY, in the October issue publishes a brief biography of Mrs. Butler (Miss Thompson). The painter of "The Roll Call," says the Lady, is, and has always been, called a…

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The Presbyterian General Assembly of Victoria. the Case of the Rev. G. Dods. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 November 1886 · page 12

The debate on the case of the Rev. G. Dods was continued by the Presbyterian General Assembly to-day, with considerable warmth. A division was taken in the afternoon, with the result that the action of the…

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The York-street Wesleyan Church. Public Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 November 1886 · page 8

Last night a public meeting was held in connection with the series of colosing services or the York-street Wesleyan Church. On account of the unpropitions state of the weather there was only a moderate attendence. The…

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