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Churches, 1889

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England. a Noble-hearted Protestant Vicar. £1000 to the Catholic Leper Mission

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 January 1889 · page 7

The Protestant Vicar of St. Luke's, London, the Rev. Hugh B. Chapman, has nobly collected amongst his friends the sum of $1OOO, which he has forwarded to the apostle of the lepers of…

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Catholic Obsequies of Dean Leonard

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 January 1889 · page 17

THE remains of the late Very Rev. Dean Leonard, whose death we recorded in our last; issue, were taken, from St. Vincent's Hospital last Friday…

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A Noted Colonial Presbyterian. Principal Macvicar

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 January 1889 · page 9

If he who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is counted worthy of the grateful acknowledgment of his fellows, much more must we esteem and render sincere thanks…

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Proposed Protestant Mission to Spain. Lord Plunket's Foolish Had

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 January 1889 · page 6

From the latest number of the well-known Pro-testant organ, the "Rock, we gather (says the IRISH CATHOLIC, December 15) that Dublin and Canter-bury are rapidly drifting into conflict with one…

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Church Discipline in America. a Peculiar Case

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 January 1889 · page 7

A remarkable case has just come before the public tribunals of America. Some time since a man named John M'Guire died suddenly, at a meeting which was called in support of the views…

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New Wesleyan Church, Waverley

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 January 1889 · page 181

In our issue of the 12th instant we published a report of the opening of the new Wesleyan Church at Waverley, undoubtedly one of the handsomest and…

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From the Curate to the Convent. Chapter Xiii. the Church and the Scriptures

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 26 January 1889 · page 7

Both the gentleman first passed the place where the ladies were seated, the younger one slightly raising his hat as he recognised Julia, and ware soon lost to view in the winding of…

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Wesleyan Church. the Annual Conference. Third Day (Friday)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 January 1889 · page 12

The President took the chair at 10 o'clock, The daily record was read and adopted. The Rev. GEORGE LANE read a letter from the Rev. E. J. Rodd, resigning his position in…

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Church Meeting

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 January 1889 · page 12

A meeting of the parishioners of St. John's, Bishopthorpe, was held on Tuesday, the 22nd inst., when Messrs. T. Wynn Knight and Cecil Way were unanimously chosen lay…

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The Churches. Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 January 1889 · page 8

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

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Russian Mission to Abyssinia. London, Jan. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 January 1889 · page 7

The party of 200 Cossacks who recently landed at Tajurrah Bay, in the Bed Sea, under the command of Admiral Atchinoff, are now marching to Abyssinia…

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Wesleyan Church. the Annual Conference. Fourth Day (Monday)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 January 1889 · page 9

The president took the chair at 10 o'clock. The secretary reported the death of a daughter of the Rev. W. G. R. Stephinson's, and it was resolved that a letter of condolence be sent to…

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Evening Session. the Proposed Central Mission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1889 · page 4

The question of transforming the York-street Circuit into a central mission of evangelistic effort occup[?]ed the greater part of the evening sesaion. The Rev. G. LANE moved,—"That the York-street…

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Church Meetings

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 February 1889 · page 3

The fifty-second anniversary of the Baptist Church, Bathurst-street, was celebrated by special services on Sunday last, conducted by the Revs. F. Hibberd and Charles Bright, and a…

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Catholic. Father Kavanagh's Departure

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 February 1889 · page 8

THE Very Rev. Gonsalvo Kavanagh, O.P., left Syd-ney for Europe in the Orient Co. s.s. Oroya on Monday, a number of clerical and lay friends assem-bling on board to wish the worthy priest good…

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Catholic Bazaar at St. Benedict's

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 February 1889 · page 14

THE successful opening of the bazaar in aid of the building fund of the new hall adjoining St, Benedict's city Church on Anniversary Day must have given Father P. L. Coohen, the zealous pastor, Mr…

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Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Seminary at Manly

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 February 1889 · page 239

St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Seminary at Manly was opened and blessed on Wednesday, the 23rd instant, with much solemnity of ceremonial, by Cardinal Moran. Two special steamers filled with Roman Catholic…

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That "Report" of Monsignor Persico's. the Times Version of the Monsignor's Mission to Ireland

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 February 1889 · page 6

The correspondent of the London TIMES at Rome, writing on December 13, says: — Monsignor Persico has almost completed his report to the Pope with respect to his mission in…

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Church Meetings

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 February 1889 · page 9

The annual meeting in connection with the Waverley Auxiliary to the Diocesan Church Society was held in St. Mary's Schoolroom at Waverley on the evening of the 29th ult.,…

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The Churches. Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 February 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 Been, the stockman, the miner, the…

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