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Churches, 1887

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Pastorate of the Scots Church

Evening News · Friday 9 September 1887 · page 5

LONDON, September 7.—The pastorate of the Scots Church, Melbourne, has been offered to the Rev. James Barclay, of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Montreal, Canada…

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Synod of the Church of England. Eighth Day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 September 1887 · page 4

The sittings of the Synod of the Church of England were continued yesterday, the Primate presiding. THE REVISED EDITION OF THE BIBLE. The Rev. C. F. GARNSEY (for Mr. G. H. Cox) asked…

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The Scots Church, Melbourne. London, Sept. 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 September 1887 · page 7

The pastorate of the Scots Church, Melbourne, has been offered to the Rev. James Barclay, of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Montreal…

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Teetotal Mission

Evening News · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 4

Mr. Matthew Burnett, the social temperance reformer, visited Ironbark on Thursday night and delivered a graphic address on "Real Life on the Victorian Goldfields."…

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Mr. Burnett's Temperance Mission

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 5

IRONBARK, Friday.--Mr. Matthew Burnett, the social reformer. visited Ironbarks last night. He was met by a body of Good Templars and the local brass band, and a torchlight…

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Mr. Matthew Burnett's Mission

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 10

WELLINGTON, Thursday.--Mr. Matthew [?] opened the new Temperance-hall here on Wednesday evening which was crowded. A united procession then took place to the…

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The Anglican Synod. Ninth Day.--friday

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 6

The sittings of the synod were continued in the Chapter-house yesterday, the Primate presiding. NEW GUINEA MISSION. The Rev. A. YARNOLD…

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The R.C. Aboriginal Mission

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 13

Some additional information has nome to hand with regard to the telegrams announcing a projecoted Papal mission to the Aust alian aboriginals. There is no doubt that considerable attention has been paid for…

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Catholic. St. Mary's Cathedral Works

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 14

W? are sure the notice of Mr. Wardell, the architect of St. Mary's Cathedral, in our advertising columns this week, calling for tenders for the completion of the Cathedral, will be read with…

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The Moruya Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 15

BY a very interesting account of the laying of the foundation-stone of the new church, the erection of which the Catholics of Moruya have so courageously undertaken, we learn that the event…

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The Lily and the Cross. By E. NESBITT. London: Griffith, Fairan, Okeden, and Welsh. west corner of Saint Paul's Churchyard

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 9

This little book consists of fifteen stanzasin heroiemetre, together with eight dainty lithographs by Ernest Nister, of Nuremberg. The versification is smooth and musical. The lily complains that the shadow of an adjacent…

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Church of England Synod. Ninth Day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 8

The second session of the seventh synod of the diocese of Sydney was continued at the Chapter House yesterday afternoon and evening, the Primate presiding. AUSTRALIAN ROARD OF MISSIONS…

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The Church Catechism

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 4

The Lower House of Convocation of Canterbury, as we recently reported, has been engaged in discussing and perfecting an Appendix or Supplement to the…

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The Church Association in Synod

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 3

Those who still hold to the doctrines and practices of the Reformation in the Church of England, having been too long averse to combining, while the…

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The Church of England Synod

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 6

The Church Association has made its power felt in the Church of England Synod this session, in defence of the Protectant reformed principles of that Church, which little by…

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The Missing Man Churchill

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 5

GOULBURN, Friday.--No further particulars are to hand with reference to the Churchill mystery, beyond the fact that the man was seen on foot the night of the accident…

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The Churches. Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 8

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…

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The Universal Church

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 September 1887 · page 9

In his letter to Cardinal Mariano Rampoller, Secretary of State, Pope Leo XIII. summarised the plans for the government of the Universal Church. His endeavors led him to show that…

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Methodist Church at Alexandria

Evening News · Monday 12 September 1887 · page 6

On Saturday the foundation stones of a new Free Methodists' Church were laid, in the presence of a numerous gathering of spectators, at the site selected in Wyndham-street, Alexandria. The…

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United Methodist Free Church

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 September 1887 · page 3

On Saturday afternoon Mr. William White, of Redfern, and Mrs. Hounsell, wife of the pastor, laid the memorial stones in connection with a new chuck for the above denomination…

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