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Churches, 1889

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The Vaudois Church

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 7

The Christian Intelligencer reminds us that the Waldenses are proposing to celebrate a great event in their history next August. Among the many excellent results…

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Sydney Church Society. Annual Meeting

The Australian Star · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 7

THE annual meeting of members of the Sydney Church Society was held last evening at the Y.M.C.A. Hall, Pitt and Bathurst streets. The Most Rev. the…

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The Church Congress

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 4

A great amount of interest, social as well as ecclesiastical, attaches to the Church Congress which is to be opened in the Anglican Cathedral of this city…

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The Church Society. Bishop Barry on "The History of the Church."

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 6

The thirty-third annual meeting of the Church Society of the Diocese of Sydney was held in the large hall of the Y.M.C.A. last evening, under the presidency of the Primate (Bishop…

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Rents of Church and School Lands

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 5

GLOUCESTER, Friday.--An influential meeting of farmers and leaseholders of church and school lands at Barrington and Gloucester Rivers was held at Barrington on Thursday…

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The Churches. Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 8

Under this heading sermons by eminent preachers are published in this widely-circulated paper, in order that, in the remote interior, where there are no churches, and a clergyman is rarely seen, the stockman, the miner, the…

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Christ Church Guildford

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 4

On Easter Day three service were held in Christ Church, Guildford. The church was tastefully decorated, and all the services were well attended. On Tuesday was held the…

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New Church at Toongabbie

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 8

ON Monday last the Primate laid the foundation-stone of a new church in this district. The site of the new church is a most central one, being about…

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Christ Church, Rouse Hill

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1889 · page 4

The Easter Tuesday meeting was held under the presidency of the Rev. F. Elder, incumbent. Mr. E.S. Rouse read t he statement of accounts, which shewed a small balance in hand. On…

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The Church Congress

Evening News · Monday 29 April 1889 · page 5
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In connection with the opening of the Church Congress which takes place to-day special services were held on Sunday in St. Andrew's Cathedral, when addresses were delivered by the Primate…

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Church Services. the Forthcoming Church Congress. Objects of the Gathering. Relations of Christianity to the Speculations of the Age. New Methods of Warfare

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 April 1889 · page 4

Special services having relation to the forthcoming Church Congress, to be opened to-morrow, were held at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday. At that held in the morning the Primate delivered an address; at that…

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The Bishop of Bathurst on the Function of the Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 April 1889 · page 4

The Bishop of Bathurst, who preached at the evening service took for his text, Numbers XVI., 48, "He stood between the dead and the living and the plague was stayed." The Bishop said to his mind this…

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Church of England, Orange

Evening News · Tuesday 30 April 1889 · page 6

ORANGE, Monday.-Matters in connection with the Church of England here are becoming lively. The financial and social condition of the churche is declared to be unsatisfactory. The incumbent…

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New Church, Canl[?]y Vale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 April 1889 · page 5

St. Paul's, Canley, was opened for divine service on Sunday last by Archdeacon Gunther. The building is erected on land given by Mr. Pavne, and will meet the wants of a scattered population. It Is capable…

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The Church Congress. Working Men's Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 April 1889 · page 5

A working men's meeting, which was indirectly connected with the Church Congress to be opened to-day, was heldtat the Y. M. C. A. Hall last evening. The whole of the body of the hall was resorved for working…

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The Church of England at Kempsey

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 April 1889 · page 7

Our correspondent reports that considerable feeling has been shown lately, in consequence of the strained relations which have existed between the Rev. C. F. Turner, the incumbent of the…

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The Church Congress

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 April 1889 · page 4

The most important Anglican Church Congress held in Australia will begin to-day, when a very large gathering of bishops and clergy from most of the colonies will meet. The…

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High Churchism. the Proposed Consecration of Archdeacon Dawes. Opposition by Clergy and Laity

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 April 1889 · page 6

A public meeting of the clergy and laity of the Church of England was held Just night at the Protestant hall, Castlereagh street, to consider the proposed consecration of Archdeacon…

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The Church and the Working Men. Public Meeting in Connection with the Church Congress

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 April 1889 · page 5

In accordance with the democratic spirit of the age, the Sydney Church Congress, one of the most important, in some respects the most important deliberative religious convocation…

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