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Churches, 1889

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Mr. Glover's Temperance Mission

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 June 1889 · page 6

Mr. T. W. Glover gave his final address at the Town-hall on Thursday night, his subject being "The Comic Side of a Drinker's Life." The object of the lecture was to raise funds for…

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T. W. Glover's Mission

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1889 · page 4

A LARGE audience was present at the Parramatta Assembly Hall on Tuesday evening, to welcome the great temperance lecturer, Mr. T.W. Glover, who is o[?] a missionising visit…

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Roman Catholic Church, Penrith. "Corpus Christi." Mass and Procession

Nepean Times · Saturday 22 June 1889 · page 6

On Thursday forenoon last was commemorated, in connection with St. Nicholas Church, the moveable festival known as Corpus Christi. For the benefit of those unacquainted with the Catholic ritual, it may…

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Catholic Charities and Municipal Rates

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 June 1889 · page 15

A CASE of considerable interest occupied the attention of the Small Debts Court at Albury, on Wednesday. The Rev. Dr. Dunne, the local head of the Catholic congregation, was summoned for…

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Catholic. Reception of Bishop Higgins in Sydney

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 June 1889 · page 14

HIS Lordship the Right Rev. Dr. Higgins, Assistant Bishop of Sydney, after the private audience with the Holy Father duly notified by cable, proceeded on his way to Sydney in the Orient…

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Catholic. the Cardinal and the Unchristian "Charities." the Infants' Home at Ashfield

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 June 1889 · page 17

MRS. Ada M. Docker, the hon. treasurer of the Infants' Home at Ashfield, wrote on Thursday week to the S. M. HERALD in reply to the observations of his Eminence the Cardinal-Archbishop,…

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The Clan-na-gael. Condemnation by Roman Catholic Prelates. LONDON, June 20

The Australian Star · Saturday 22 June 1889 · page 5

In view of the recent revelations at the inquiry into the Cronin murder regarding the Working of the Clan-na-Gael Society in the United States, all the Roman Catholic…

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Nepean Church Column. Christ Church, Castlereagh

Nepean Times · Saturday 22 June 1889 · page 6

For this week's pulpit echoes, as will be seen, we go rather farther afield than we have hitherto done. Last Sunday afternoon we dropped in at the above church, and were most successful in carrying out the…

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The Churches. Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 June 1889 · page 8

Under this heading sermona by eminent preacliers 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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Realism in Church

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 June 1889 · page 9

We do not often have anything in the way of sensational religion to parallel the performance of the Rev. John Jasper, colored minister, of Richmond, Virginia (U.S,A.), in his latest plece…

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The Irish Delegates' Mission

The Australian Star · Monday 24 June 1889 · page 5

BRISBANE, Thfs Day. -- A letter received on Saturday from Mr. Dillon says that it is his intention to visit Barcaldine and Bundaberg, two places which were not on his…

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Mr. Parkin's Mission to Australia. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 June 1889 · page 6

Sir,--Mr. Parkin, delegate of the Imperial Federation League, last night stated that his mission to Australia was to ascertain the state of public opinion regarding Imperial federation,…

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Mr. Dillon's Mission to Australia. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, June 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 June 1889 · page 7

The Standard states that Mr. Dillon is prudently touring when the plan which he engineered is breaking down. The Dublin Freeman's Journal announces…

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The State of Ireland. Monsignor Persico's Mission. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, June 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 June 1889 · page 7

Monsignor Persico, the Roman Catholic prelate who was sent by the Pope in the autumn of 1887 to report on the condition of Ireland, asserts that he holds proofs that…

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Stealing in Church

The Australian Star · Monday 24 June 1889 · page 5

ANOTHER case of making devotion a blind to screen villainy was heard at the Central to-day, when Mary Ann Heames, an elderly person, of genteel appearance…

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Sydney City Mission

Evening News · Tuesday 25 June 1889 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

A tea and public meeting in connection with the Sydney City Mission took place at the Redfern Ragged School, Botany-street, last evening. There were about 400 persons at the tea, and…

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Primitive Methodist Church at New Lambton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 June 1889 · page 3

Tho Reva. G. James and Kenny, Primitive Methodist ministers, waited on the Minister for Lands yesterday with reference to a site for a Primitive Methodist Church at New Lambton. They stated that certain…

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New Wesleyan Church at Manilla

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 June 1889 · page 4

MANILLA, Tuesday.--The Rev. Dr. Sellers opened a new Wesleyan church in this town on Sunday last, and although the state of the roads and the fresh in the Namoi and Manilla…

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Site for a Church on the Newcastle Commonage

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 June 1889 · page 3

A deputation, consisting of Revs. G. James and B. Kenny, Primitive Methodists, waited on the Minister for Lands yesterday with reference to the site for a church at New Lambton…

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