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Churches, 1887

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Mr. Burnett's Mission

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 May 1887 · page 5

GENDAGAI, Tuesday.--Mr. Matthew Burnett, the social reformer, has concluded a three days' gospel temperance mission at Gundagai. The Assembly-hall was tilled last night to hear his…

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True Stories from English History from the Conquest to the present time. By Oscar Browning, M.A., senior fellow and historical lecturer of King's College, Cambridge. London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden, and Welsh (successors to Newbery and Harris), west corner of St. Paul's Churchyard. 1886. Nimrod's Remarks on the condition of [?]unters, the Choice of Horses, and their Management; reprinted from the "Sporting Magazine." By C. TONGUE, author of the "Stud Farm," &c. London: Whittaker and Co., 2, White Hart-street, Paternoster-square, E.C.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 May 1887 · page 4

In the strict sense of the word there are no true stories to be obtained from English or from any other history, for the simple reason that no two historians ever entertained precisely the same opinion regarding…

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The New Catholic Bishoprics

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 May 1887 · page 5

GOULBURN, Wednesday.--The very Rev. John Gailagher, president of St. Patrick's College. Goulburn, will, it is believed, be called upon to preside over one of the new Catholic…

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Mission to the Blind in China

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 May 1887 · page 5

We have received a copy of an interesting little pamphlet, by Miss C. F. Gordon-Cumming, a lady who is deeply interested in the work of Christianising China. The pamphlet describes a new method invented by Mr. W. H…

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Pitt-street Congregational Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 May 1887 · page 5

The 54th anniversary of the Pitt-street Congregational Church was celebrated in the school hall attached to the sacred edifice last evening. Despite the unpropitious state of the weather there was a fair attendance of members and…

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Catholic. Take L Catholic Paper and Pat for It. a Bishop B Advice

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 May 1887 · page 14

IN an admirable speech, while proposing the toast of "The Press" at the public banquet on Sunday last in connection with the Goulburn Cathedral memorial-stone ceremony, his Lordship the Right…

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Church-Bell Ringing and the Sick

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 May 1887 · page 1050

Nothing is more inexplicable than the tenacity with which even sensible persons hold to the traditions of any system with which they have been associated by education and habit. A very striking example of this is the ringing…

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How the people at St. John the Baptist Church protested against ritualistic illegal Innovations

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 21 May 1887 · page 8

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE. LIGHTING OF CANDLES AND SNUFFING THEM OUT. THE RITUALISTIC VICAR GIVES THE PROTESTANT…

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The Churches. "O day of rest and gladness, O day of joy and light, O balm of care and sadness, Most beautiful, most bright." Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 May 1887 · page 7

Under this heading, Sermons by eminent preachers are published in this widely-circulated journal in order to present sound religious literature in the colony, and especially in the remote interior. By this means the isolated free…

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Opening of a New Roman Catholic Church at Campbelltown. [By Telegraph.) (From Our Own Correspondent.) Campbelltown

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 May 1887 · page 7

The new Roman Catholic church was officially opened to-day by Cardinal Moran, who in the course of a brief address pronounced it one of the most creditable church buildings in the colony. The Rev. Father Le Rennetel,…

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Petersham Congregational Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 May 1887 · page 3
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The rapid growth of the congregation attending the Petersham Congregational Church having necessitated the enlargement and completion of the church building, the necessary work has been commenced, and to commemorate…

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Anglican Cathedral at Brisbane

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 May 1887 · page 5

BRISBANE, Monday.--a meeting was held in the Masonic-hall this evening to promote a movement for erecting an Anglican Cathedral. The chair was taken by his Excellency the…

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Mr. Matthew Burnett's Temperance Mission

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 May 1887 · page 5

ADELONG, Tuesday.--Mr. Mathew Burnett, Gospel temperance evangelist, has just finished a mission in this district, and the result has exceeded all expectations. In Tumut 220, in…

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Discharged Prisoners' Mission, Refuge for Women, &c

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 May 1887 · page 4

The half-yearly meeting of the Discharged Prisoners' Mission, the Home of Hope for Friendless and Fallen, and the Open All-night Refuge-for Women institutions conducted under the auspices of the Blue Ribbon Gospel Army,…

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The Queen's Jubilee. Address From the Wesley an Church

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 May 1887 · page 6

A deputation representing the Wesleyan Methodist Church waited upon his Excellency the Governor yesterday morning to present an address to her Majesty the Queen on the…

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Consecration of the Carrington Catholic School-church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 15

THE Right Rev[?] Bishop of Maitland, opened and [?] Catholic School-church at Car[?] the 22nd inst. The building [?] HERALD)…

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Mr. Burnett's Temperance Mission

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 5

WAGGA, Friday.--Mr. Matthew Burnett, the temperance advocate, having returned to Wagga, delivered a lecture, meeting with great support. Since he was last here he has been along…

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Queen's Birthday. PRESBYTERIAN S.S. Teachers Picnic

Nepean Times · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 4

On the above date a number of the teachers of the Presbyterian Sabbath School journeyed to Lawson, where they had decided to hold a picnic. All arrived safely,…

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Failure of W. O'brien's Mission of Agitation in Canada

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 6

Mr. W. O'Brien's mission of agitation to Canada has not been a success, and the failure of it will naturally help to strengthen the hands of the Unionists in England, who of…

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