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Churches, 1887

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Presbyterian General Assembly. Opening Meeting

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 March 1887 · page 6

The 22nd annual session of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales was opened last evening at St. Stephen's Church, Phillip-street. Service was…

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The New Guinea Mission. Bishop Barry in Melbourne. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 March 1887 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Bishop Barry presided at a meeting held this evening in the Athenmum-hall, Collins-street, with the object of bringing under notice the proposal of the…

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(Reuter's Telegrams) Sir H. D. Wolff's Mission to Egypt. London, Mahch 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 March 1887 · page 9

In the House of Commons last night Mr. Bradlaugh moved that the vote for the expenses of the special missiou to Egypt undertaken by Sir Henry Drummond Wolff,…

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Wesleyan Church, Baulkham Hills

The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 9 March 1887 · page 3

A NOVEL and most successful meeting was held in the Wesleyan Church, Baulkham Hills, on the evening of Monday last. It was held in the interests of the Wesleyan Church…

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Presbyterian Assembly

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 March 1887 · page 4

The sittings of the Presbyterian Assembly were continued yesterday morning under the presidency of the Moderator, the Rev. W. Bain, at St. Stephen's, Phillip-street. Committees…

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Presbyterian General Assembly. Morning Sitting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 March 1887 · page 11

The sittings of the twenty-second annual session of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales were continued yesterday, the Moderator, Rev. W. Bain, presiding. There was a good attendance of…

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Church Colonising Society. London, March 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 March 1887 · page 9

It is proposed to form a Church Colonising Society with a capital of £250,000. The principal object which the promoters of the movement have in view is to render…

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Presbyterian Church Financing. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 March 1887 · page 5

Sir,—During the past five or six years the Presbyterian Church has pursued a mode of financing, which, I believe, is without parallel in either the commercial or ecclesiastical community. The Sustentation Fund (formed for the…

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Presbyterian Assembly. Second Day

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 March 1887 · page 6

The sittings of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales were continued on Wednesday at St. Stephen's Church, Phillip-street…

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Presbyterian General Assembly. Morning Sitting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 March 1887 · page 5

The sittings of the twenty-second annua session of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales were continued yesterday, the Moderator, Rev. W. Bain, presiding. There was a good attendance…

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St. Matthew's Church Bazaar

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 March 1887 · page 5

In the presence of a goodly number of ladies and some half-dozen men, and in the absence of the Hon. John Sutherland, Mr. W. Stephen, M.P., yesterday afternoon formally opened the…

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Catholic Concert

Nepean Times · Saturday 12 March 1887 · page 4

The Temperance Hall was crowded on Saturday night last with persons wishing to hear the concert to be given that evening, by the children attending St. Joseph's School,…

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The United Free Methodist Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 March 1887 · page 9

A deputation consisting of the Rev. Mr. Porteus, minister of the United Free Methodist Church, at Newcastle, accompanied by Messrs. Ellis and Creer, Ms.L.A., waited upon the Minister for Lands, yesterday, to urge that a…

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A Tournament in Aid of a Catholic Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 March 1887 · page 18

THE Advocate, a Catholic paper just started in Auckland, New Zealand, contains in its first issue an account of " St. Benedict's Fete and Tournament," lately held in that city. Our contemporary…

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Presbyterian General Assembly. Morning Sitting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 March 1887 · page 8

The sittings of the twenty-second annual session of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales were continued yesterday, the Moderator, Rev. W. Bain, presiding. There was a good attendance…

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Catholic. the Bishop of Maitland

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 March 1887 · page 15

OR Wednesday his Lordship the Eight Rev. Dr. Murray, Bishop of Maitland, returned, via Melbourne, from his trip to Tasmania. His Lordship, who has benefited considerably by his visit…

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Mr. Barrie and the Lismore Roman Catholic Riots. (To the Editor of the Protest ant Standard.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 12 March 1887 · page 6

Sir,--My attention has been drawn to a paragraph in your issue of the 19th inst., under the heading, " A Richmond River Candidate," in " which you take the most unwarrantable use of…

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Catholic. the Suspension of the Rev. Dr. M'glynn. His Refusal to Go to Rome. Michael Davitt's Views on the Case

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 March 1887 · page 18

THE following account of the now celebrated M'Glynn case has been telegraphed by the New York correspondent of the London Times :— Archbishop Corrigan has published a statement…

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Italy. the Pope and the Persecution of the Church. the Holy Father Speaks

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 March 1887 · page 7

We have received the following admirable translation of the Allocution addressed by the Holy Father to the Scored College at Christmas. We accept with sentiments of great…

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St. John’s Auxiliary to the Church Society. Annual Meeting

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 12 March 1887 · page 3

THIS was held in St. John’s schoolhouse on Wednesday evening last. The proceedings were opened by singing the Doxology, after which…

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