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Churches, 1890

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Presbyterian Assembly

The Australian Star · Saturday 10 May 1890 · page 5

BRISBANE, Saturday.--At to-day's sitting of the Presbyterian General Assembly the Rev. Jas. M'Dowell, convener of the committee on immoral literature, brought up…

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Catholic. Clerical Changes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 May 1890 · page 14

THE Rev. Peter Byrne, for several years pastor of the Kogarah and Hurstville mission, has been appointed to St. Mary's Cathedral, with the special charge of the new church of St. Canice. Father…

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A Catholic Chief Rewarded

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 May 1890 · page 18

SOME time ago, it will be remembered, the naval authorities at Washington determined to present King Mataafa of Samoa with a boat as a mark of their appreciation of his humane conduct to the…

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Panic in a Catholic Church. Alarm of Fire in Marlborough Street Cathedral

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 May 1890 · page 6

On Sunday evening (says a Dublin paper, March 29) at the concluding service of the mission by the Redemptorist Fathers in Marlborough-street Cathedral, Dublin, an incident occurred which…

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Catholic. University Examinations. Civil Selvice and Law

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 May 1890 · page 18

THE following Catholic students were successful at the Civil Service and Law Matriculation Examinations held last month in the Sydney University…

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Presbyterian General Assembly. the Divorce Bill Condemned. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 May 1890 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- The Presbyterian Assembly concluded its session to-day, when a resolution was passed condemning the Divorce Bill, which recently received the Royal assent…

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The Novelist. Whose Was the Hand? (Begun in " Town and Country Journal " of Feb. 1.) Chapter Xii.—florestan's Mission

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 May 1890 · page 30

Florestan lunched with Mr. and Mrs. Arden on the day after their meeting at the opera. It was the lady who gave him the invitation. He had always been a favorite of hers, since the time…

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By Yarra's Banks. Our Melbourne Message. Deadhead Railway Travellers. A Model P.M.--A Presbyterian Loss-- A Relic of Golden Days--Young Loch and Young Parker Victorian Prosperity-- Weeding v. Rose-- Drink Records

The Australian Star · Saturday 10 May 1890 · page 2

THE fraudulent travelling public of Melbourne and suburbs have just been badly beaten, and their careers of crime suddenly settled. For years post the Victorian…

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The Church and Stage

Nepean Times · Saturday 10 May 1890 · page 6
Also in Freeman's Journal, The Australian Star

The relations of the Church and Stage, have at all, times been a matter of fruitful controversy. In this progressive age prejudice is fast waning away, and while in bye-gone days the antagonism against…

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Festival at the Passionists' Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 May 1890 · page 14

THE celebration of the feast of St. Paul of the Cross at the Passionist Fathers' church, Marrickville, on Sunday last, lacked no feature of solemnity or impressiveness. Although the rain…

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Free Church of England at Rockdale

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 10 May 1890 · page 7

The New Free Church of England at Rockdale was opened for Divine service on Sunday last, when large congregations assembled, despite the inclement weather. Mr. Perry…

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English Church Unionists Secede to Rome

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 10 May 1890 · page 6

Mr. W. N. B. Vance-Packman writes to the Yorkshire Post:--" I presume that the paragraph quoted from the Daily Telegraph, and mentioned by Mr. Mickelth waits in your issue…

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The Churches Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 May 1890 · 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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Flower Service at All Saints' Church

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 10 May 1890 · page 3

How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage-altar, and the tomb. The Persian in the far-cast delights in their perfume, and…

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The Victorian Divorce Bill. a Church Protest. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 May 1890 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- A circular letter by Bishop Goe, protesting against Mr. Shiel's Divorce Bill was read in all the Anglican Churches throughout the colony to-day…

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The Anglican Primacy of Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 May 1890 · page 3

At a Sitting of the Anglican Synod of South Australia on May 2 the Rev. P. R. P. Dodd moved,— "That this Synod is of opinion that on the death or resignation of the bishop-elect at Sydney the necessary…

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New Guinea Mission

Evening News · Wednesday 14 May 1890 · page 7

A most important and enthusiastic meeting in connection with the Australasian Wesleyan Missionary Society was held on Monday evening in the Centenary Hall, York-street…

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Sydney City Mission

The Australian Star · Wednesday 14 May 1890 · page 3

MR. JAMES INGLIS, M.L.A., delivered his popular lecture on "Cake, Ale, and Homespun," in connection with the Waterloo and Alexandria branch, at the Bagged School,…

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