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Churches, 1887

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Latest Intelligence. [By Electric Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Lord Randolph Churchill and the Marquis of Hartington. London, Dec. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 December 1887 · page 8

Lord Randolph Churchill is at present on a visit to the Marquis of Hartington, the leader of the Liberal Unionist party…

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The Leichhardt Catholic School

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 17 December 1887 · page 2

On Thursday evening n very good entertainment was given by the pupils of the above school in their School Hall, Balmain-road, and the following programme was gone through…

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The Chief Justice of Queensland and the Catholic Church. a Eloquent Tribute

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 December 1887 · page 17

SIR Charles Lilley, the Chief Justice of Queensland, presided at the public banquet at which Cardinal Moran was entertained in Brisbane last week…

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Catholic. St. Anne's Orphanage and Industrial School for Girls

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 December 1887 · page 14

THE Sisters of Charity have just established the above charitable institution in connection with their convent at Liverpool. The support of the orphans, we understand, will depend entirely…

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Catholic. an Afternoon with St. Aloysius' Boys. the Annual Entertainment

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 December 1887 · page 17

A GERMAN humourist, once describing a performance in a densely crowded theatre, went to the length of saying that the packed audience had to breathe and laugh perpendicularly, there being…

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St. Paul's Church, Emu. Opening of the Enlarged Church

Nepean Times · Saturday 17 December 1887 · page 4

Tuesday last was certainly a lively day for that quiet, interesting and thriving locality, Emu Plains. The good people of that locality are of an unusually quiet disposition, but when ever they do start on…

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What the Church Has Done for Liberty and Progress. Some of the Works of Her Cardinals

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 December 1887 · page 17

THE Cardinal-Archbishop of Sydney, in the course of an eloquent speech at the public banquet given in his honour last week in Brisbane, said:— There are writers not at all friendly to the…

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The Church Centennial Fund. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 December 1887 · page 6

Sir,—In your report of a convivial meeting, held at the Chapter House on Saturday last, to inaugurate the Church Centennial Fund in the diocese of Sydney, the Primate's address contains these words:—"His own opinion was that…

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Church Centennial Fund

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 December 1887 · page 1280

A luncheon to commemorate the inauguration of the Church Centennial Fund in the diocese of Sydney was givon in the Chapter House laet Saturday afternoon by the Primate. There were present Sir John…

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Did the English Reformers Intend to Set Up a Ritualistic Church

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 17 December 1887 · page 3

If we are to form a judgment from the Preface of the Book of Common Prayer on the subject of the retention of ceremonies, -- a subject now so agitated at…

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The Greedy Church and the Contractor

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 17 December 1887 · page 6

In the jury court on Friday 9th inst., before the Chief Justice, and a jury of four, the building action, Smith v. Chisholm came on. This was practically an action by a contractor…

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The Churches. Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 December 1887 · page 10

Under this heading, Hermons by eminent preachers are published in this wldely-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 Broad Church School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 December 1887 · page 4

At St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday afternoon the Primate delivered the third of a course of lectures upon phases in the history of the Church of England during the present century, the subject being "The Broad Church…

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"The Broad Church School." Lecture by Bishop Barry

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 December 1887 · page 3

At St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday afternoon, Bishop Barry delivered the third of a course of lectures on three phases of the Church of England history in this century, the subject for…

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REVIEWS. My Consulate in Samoa: a Record of Four Years' Sojourn in the Navigators' Island, with Personal Experiences, of King Malietea Laupepa, his Country and his Men By WILLIAM B. CHURCHWARD, late Acting British Consul and Deputy Commissioner for the Western Pacific. (Richard Bentley and Son, London.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 December 1887 · page 5

The interest in Samoa which has been aroused by recent events makes an account from one who has personal experience of the country, the people, and the condition of the group especially…

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Church of England Association in Brisbane. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 December 1887 · page 10

A meeting of laymen of the Church of England was held last night in the Protestant Hall, about 100 being present, for the purpose of forming a Church of England association, the objects being to do away with the…

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QUEENSLAND. Ritualistic Practices in the Church, Stormy Meeting

The Australian Star · Wednesday 21 December 1887 · page 5

BRISBANE, This Day.--It was decided at a meeting last night to form an association with a view to abolishing certain ritualistic practices which are making way is some…

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Mr. Burnett's Temperance Mission

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 December 1887 · page 5

WAGGA, Wednesday.--In May last Mr. Matthew Burnett, temperance lecturer and reformer, opened a mission in Wagga, which has extended up to Bourke. Mr. Burnett has just…

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The Crofters. Mrs. Gordon Baillie's Mission

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 December 1887 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.--Mrs. Gordon Baillie, who has returned from Australia, states that she has obtained several grants of land in Australia and asks the Imperial Government…

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Latest Cables. Will of the Late Sir William M'arthur. £150,000 for the Wesleyan Church. London

The Australian Star · Thursday 22 December 1887 · page 5

The will of the late Sir William M'Arthur, ex-Lord Mayor and Sheriff of London, and head of the firm of M'Arthur and Co., dealing with his personal…

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