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Churches, 1891

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Primitive Methodist Church, Penrith

Nepean Times · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 4

Services at 11 a.m., by Rev. J. Ashmead; at 7.30 p.m., Rev. J. Ashmead, will by request preach a special temperance sermon in the Temperance Hall. Sons of Temperance and Good Templars in regalia…

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Primitive Methodist-Church Anniversary

The Australian Star · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 3

LAMBTON, Friday.-- The above church held their anniversary on Sunday last, and on account of the inclemency of the weather the tea on Monday was anything but the…

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Evangelistic Mission

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 8

About 150 of the Free Church of Bristol are uniting in an evangelistic mission, which was commenced early in January. The city is divided into 16 districts, with a committee in each to…

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Catholic Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 17

WE are asked to direct special attention to the arrangements made in connection with the union in aid of the debt on St. Mary's Church, Young. The drawing has been positively fixed…

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Catholic Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 15

THE Rev. J. M. Curran, F.G.S., lectures at, the Girls' High School, Elizabeth-street, on Wednesday next. THOSE who are interested in the Art Union held…

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Mission at Burrowa

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 17

THE mission at St. Patrick's Church, Burrowa conducted by the Passion[?]st Fathers Ambrose and Coletnan, was largely attended. Missions will be held at Marengo, Binalong, Frogmore, and…

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China Inland Mission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 10

A meeting was held in the Centenary Hall, York-street last night, for the purpose of bidding farewell to the missionaries who on Saturday next will start for China under the direction of the China Inland…

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Foreign Mission Work

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 3

A missionary meeting was held at the Bourke-street Congregational Church last night of a more than usually representative character. Dr. Arthur Renwick, M.L.C., presided, and after the…

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Catholic. Pyrmont School-church Successful Foundation-stone Ceremony

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 17

FATHER Furlong has every reason to the be pleased with the proceeedings of Sunday last. The laying of the foundation-stone of the new school-church was fixed for sunday afternoon, and for what…

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A Curious Catholic Cathedral

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 18

ON the Feast of the Immaculate Conception a new Catholic Cathedral was consecrated at Mandalay, the old capital of Burmah. The Cathedral was built at the sole expanse of a wealthy…

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A Scotch Catholic's Bequest

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 17

AN Aberdeen paper gives the particulars of the bequests of the late Mr. Donald Gordon Stuart, of Liverpool, who left a sum of $17,250 for the Catholic Church of his native country of Scotland…

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Scotland. Fire in a Catholic Church. an Excited Congregation

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 7

A fire which, had it not been promptly attacked, threatened to have most disastrous results, occurred in St. Mary's Catholic Church, Broughton street, Edinburgh, on Dec. 27. While the Mass…

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Vincentian Mission at the Cathedral

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 15

THE general mission in St. Mary's Cathedral, which is being attended by great crowds of men and nomen, was opened on Sunday last by the Vincentian Fathers. Three Vincentians are…

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An Anglican Clergyman in Trouble a Serious Charge Withdrawn

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 16

AT the Water Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. B. Lee, S.M , the Rev. Edwin Heary Wright, stationed at St. Clement's Church of England, Marrickville, was charged with having, by means…

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The Attitude of the Irish Roman Catholic Prelates

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 9

Mr. William C. Bonaparte Wyse (a Roman Catholic) writes from the Manor of St. John's, Waterford, to the Morning Post, as follows :-- " It would be very amusing, were it not utterly…

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Southwardho' Tasmania Revisited Tasmania Revisited. the New Anglican Cathedral at Hobart, &C, &C

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 16

PERHAPS no such imposing ceremony has taken place for many years in Hobart as occurred on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of the chancel of St…

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Southward Ho[?]tasmania Revisited Tasmania Revisited. the New Anglican Cathedral at Hobart, &C., &C

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 16

PERHAPS no such imposing ceremony has taken place for many years in Hobart as occurred on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of the chancel of St…

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Catholic. the Cardinal and the Carmelites. a Newspaper Sensation— Facts of the Case

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 14

THE sydney SUNDAY TIMES in its last issue came out with a column of " sensation" An article purporting to be a plea for the the Carmelite Nuns at Marrickvile was decorated with…

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Death of an Old-time Tasmanian Catholic. a Man Who Knew Father Connolly, the First Pioneer Priest

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 17

THE other day there died at Hobart one of its most respected citizens, and one of the oldest Catholics in Tasmania. We allude to the late Mr. William Burgoyne, formerly largely…

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Practical Christianity and Pure Theology. Published for the Benefit of Non-church Goers

Nepean Times · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 3

True Christian Religion, intelligen understood, comes not to add to men's burdens but to remove them. "For God sent not His Son into the world, to condemn…

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