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Churches, 1891

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New Mission Agencies

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 10

The Irish Presbyterian Church, has just made a new departure in its foreign mission work, and in connection with Trinity College, Dublin, action has baen taken in a similar direction. In the…

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The Churches. United Methodist Free Church

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 6

The annual district meeting of the United Methodist Free Church continued its sittings on Wednesday. The address from the annual assembly was read, aud Revs. B. Hobson and G…

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Catholic. Clerical Appointments

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 14

AT the conclusion of the Diocesan Clerical Retreat at St. Patrick's Ecclesiastical Seminary, Manly, the Cardinal-Archbihop made the following appointments:— Rev. Peter O'Reil'y to leave St…

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Mission at the Cathedral

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 15

A SOLEMN general mission will be opened by the Vincentian Fathers in St. Mary's Cathedral on Sunday, February 22nd, at the 11 o'clock Mass…

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The Last Catholic Disabilities

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 13

THE defeat of Mr. Gladstone's Roman Catholic Relief Bill is less surprising than significant of the party which rolled up 266 strong to resist the removal of about the…

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Rome in the Mission-field. (Continued.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 5

Katampakal-- Alwaye Itinerancy.-- Of the hostility of Romanists and Syrians a missionary writes:-- "From the time we commenced (about five years ago) to the middle of 1888…

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The Catholic Disabilities Bill. Gladstone's Measure Rejected

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 16

MR. Gladstone's Religious Disabilities Removal Bill was rejected on Feb. 4th, in the House of Commons, upon a division by 256 votes to 223. In the course of debate Mr. Gladstone said that…

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Catholic Dignitaries in New Zealand. a Cordial Welcome

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 15

ARCHBISHOR Carr of Melbourne, Bishop Moore, of Ballarat, and Bishop Higgins, of Sydney, received a cordial welcome on their arrival at Dunedin last Friday night…

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Catholic Affairs in the Diocese of Wilcannia. Corvent Ceremony and School Church Openings— the Bishop's Departure for Europe

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 15

THE first ceremony of religious reception in connection with the Convent of Mercy, Wilcannia, took place on Sunday, the 1st February, and attracted a large and representative congregation…

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Catholic. Carrying on the Cathedral. Still Active in a Great Work

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 17

THERE was a good attendance at the monthly meeting in aid of St. Mary's Cathedial Building Fund on Sunday evening. Among those who took an active part in the meeting in addition to…

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Two Sermons Set Stone. the Cathedrals of Sydney and Melbourne. Catholic St. Mary's and Protestant St. Paul's

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 17

PERHAPS the readers of the FREEMAN may remember the humorous description given in one of his speeches by the late William Bede Dalley of a public ceremony in Italy at which the experiment…

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Is the Church Growing Rich? Spread of Religious Institutions

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 14

HIS Eminence Cardinal Moran, in the course of his speech at the opening of the new presbytery of St. Peters, Surry Hills, on Sunday, reviewed the progress of the Church with the past five or…

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The New Church at Milton

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 15

THE latest addition to the churches of the diocese of Sydney, as already notified in the FREEMAN, was blessed and opened by his Lordship Dr. Higgins, Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney. The…

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Irish Church News. Intolerance in Arklow

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 10

The following statement of facts in connection with the disturbances which have taken place at religions services held in the town of Arklow has been published by the…

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The Ritualists' "Adult's Church Service."

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 10

This little manual is or was in use among the mem hers of a Guild connected with one of the too many "high" Churches in the Brisbane Diocese. The book is but small,…

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Extraordinary Scene in a Church

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 3

On Sunday, November 23 (reports a London contemporary), at 10 o'clock mass at the Italian Church, Hatton Garden, which was crowded, there was an extraordinary scene. Alter the…

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News of the Churches

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 10

Mr. Bramwell Booth has written a book descriptive of the life and last days of " The Mother of the Salvation Army." The volume is to be entitled " On the Banks of the River."…

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Our Oldest Church

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 10

The oldest church in Australia, Christ Church, Newcastle, is about to be demolished, tenders being called for pulling it down and stacking the material. It dates from 1817, and is " one of the…

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The Churches Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 9

Under this heading sermons by eminent preachers, arepublished 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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Queensland Churches

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 10

The anniversary services were held on Sunday last in connection with the Baptist Church at Sandgate, when the Rev. Mr. Poole, of Vulturestreet, South Brisbane, preached to large…

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