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Churches, 1889

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Induction of a Presbyterian Minister

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 June 1889 · page 9

Last evening the Presbytery of Sydney assembled at the Waverley Presbyterian Church, for the purpose of inducting the Rev. G. B. Greig into the charge of the church and parish of Waverley. Present: Revs. T…

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Penrith Presbyterian Sunday School Teachers

Nepean Times · Saturday 1 June 1889 · page 4

On Queen's Birthday the annual picnic of the above was held at Wentworth Falls. The party, numbering 20, including the Rev. T. E. Clouston, proceeded to Wentworth Falls by the tourist train…

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Catholic. the Visit of the Cardinal and Bishops to Tasmania. Remarkable Tributes of Honour and Respect

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 June 1889 · page 14

WE briefly announced in last week's Freeman that the Cardinal-Archbishop and the other prelates of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia who assisted at the investiture of…

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Catholic. the Christian Hero of the Century. the Scene of Father Damien's Self-sacrifice. a Sketch of the Isle of Lepers

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 June 1889 · page 18

FATHER Conrady, writing to one of the home papers before death put an end to the sufferings of Father Damien, thus described the horrors of the leper settlement and the sublimely heroic…

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Ceremony at the Randwick Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 June 1889 · page 14

ON Sunday next a very interesting ceremony will take place in the church of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart at Kandwick, namely, the foundation in Australia of the Arch-Confraternity of…

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The Rain and the Churches

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 June 1889 · page 18

THE phenomenally heavy rain on Sunday on interfered considerably with the attendance at almost all the city and suburban churches. The 11 o'clock services suffered most in this respect,…

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Church of England Synod

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 June 1889 · page 1143

A MEETING of members of the synod of the Church of England has been convened, we understand, by Dean Cowper, to be held in the Chapter-house on Tuesday, June 11, to elect a successor to…

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Glorifying the Pope, in a Ritualistic Church

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 1 June 1889 · page 8

Some few years since I went into Keble College, Chapel, and was much impressed-- not favourably-- by its magnificent and Popish appearance. Over the great west door of the chapel I noticed…

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The Churches. Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 June 1889 · page 7

Under this heading Germons 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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A Recalcitrant Churchman. Bishop King, of Lincoln

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 June 1889 · page 8

Dr. Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, was born about sixty years ago, and was educated in Oriel College, Oxford, becoming B.A. in 1851, and M.A. in 1855. He was ordained deacon in 1854., and a…

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Woollahra Presbyterian Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 June 1889 · page 3

The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the Presbyterian Church now being erected at the corner of Ocean and Fourth streets, Woollahra, was performed by Sir John Hay, K.C.M.G., on Saturday afternoon,…

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Home Rule for Nations--not for Churches

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 June 1889 · page 4

The Rev. Dr. Jefferis last evening continued the course of lectures he has been delivering in the Congregational Church, Pitt-street, on the 'Isms th at Haunt Us in the Nineteenth…

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Presbyterianism at Woollahra. Laying the Foundation-stone of a New Church

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 June 1889 · page 4

The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the proposed Presbyterian Church. Woollahra, was performed on Saturday afternoon by Sir John Hay in the presence of a large…

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Woollahra Presbyterian Church

The Australian Star · Tuesday 4 June 1889 · page 3

THE foundation-stone of a new Presbyterian Church at Woollahra was laid on Saturday afternoon by Sir John Hay, President of the Executive Council, in the…

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The Church in the Diocese of Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 June 1889 · page 4

The first of a serios of lectures in connection with the Guild of St. Lawrence, Christ Church, was delivered in the schoolroom, Christ Church, last night, by the incumbent, Rev. C. F. Garnsey, the wardon of the…

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The Union of the Churches. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 June 1889 · page 5

Sir,—The letter of your correspondent, Zachary Barry, LL.D., has in it an element of the right spirit emanating from the Great Master. The desired union can never take place until the true spirit of Christianity…

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Church of England Temperance Society

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 June 1889 · page 6

The annual festival of the Church of England Temperance Society was celebrated by a service in St. Andrew's Cathedral last night. There was a fair attendance. The service for…

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Catholic Schools and Water Rates. Protest by an Albury Priest. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 June 1889 · page 5

ALBURY, Wednesday.--At a meeting of the Albury Borough Council to-night a communication was read from the Very Rev. Mr, Dunne, head of the Catholic congregation here,…

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The Roman Catholic School at Albury. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 June 1889 · page 9

At a meeting of the Albury Borough Council this evening some discussion took place concerning the liability of the, Roman Catholic boys' school for the payment of water rates. The school building recently…

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A Recalcitrant Churchman. Bishop King, of Lincoln

Evening News · Thursday 6 June 1889 · page 6

Dr. Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, was born about sixty years ago, and was educated in Oriel College, Oxford, becoming B.A. in 1851, and M.A. in 1855. He was ordained deacon in 1854, and a…

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