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Churches, 1891

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Church of England, St. Marys

Nepean Times · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 4

Services next Sunday—11 am, with celebration of Holy Communion; 7.30, Evening Prayer. Subject of addresses—Morning, "The Awakening;" evening, "The Noblest Work of God."…

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Church (yard) and Stage

Evening News · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 2

Playbills nowadays are (remarks an English contemporary) occasionally turned to strange uses. The margins of the programme of one of our most popular suburban pantomime houses…

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Church Disestablishment in Wales. the Beginning of the End

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 8

IN the House of Commons on Friday (we learn by cable) Mr. G. O. Morgan, M.P. for Denbigh East, moved that the Church of England in Wales should be disestablished. Speaking to the motion,…

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As in the Days of Old. a $50,000 Memorial Church

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

THE Baltimore papers give at length accounts of the consecration of a fine Gothic church, 61 feet by 142 feet, which has been erected by the most numerous and one of the leading Catholic Families…

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Church of England Association of New South Wales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 11

The quarterly meeting of members of the above was held on Thursday evening in the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street. The chair was taken by the president, Mr. Justice Foster. The meeting was opened with…

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Churchill Visits the Cape. London, February 27

The Australian Star · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 5

Lord Randolph Churchill intends shortly to pay a visit to Cape Colony…

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Church of England Association

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 3

The usual quarterly meeting of members of the Church of England Association of N.S. Wales was held on Thursday evening in the Temperance-ball. The president, Mr. Justice Foster,…

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The Churches

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 3

The annual congregational meeting of the Manly Presbyterian Church was held on Wednesday evening. The Rev. T. G. Molyneux presided and there was a good attendance. The…

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Lord Randolph Churchill

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Friday. -- Lord Randolph Churchill is about to visit Cape Colony…

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The Churches. Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 7

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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News of the Churches

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 9

Rev. Dr. Kelynack, of Newington College, is indisposed and is resting at Bowral. The Right Rev. Dr. Stanton, D.D., the newly elected Bishop of Newcastle, has arrived at the…

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A New Church

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

Our Cootamundra correspondent writes under date February 24: It was decided at a meeting held at Mr. George Curry's residence, Lagoon Creek, the Rev. J. Beal occupying the chair, to…

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Queensland Churches

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

Our Brisbane correspondent writes under date February 23: A united meeting of Christian Endeavor Societies took place in the Grey-street…

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Working on Sunday. The Churches Protest

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 6

A DEPUTATION, representing the churches at Granville, Auburn and Rookwood waited upon the Railway Commissioners on Friday morning, and…

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Evangelistic Mission

Evening News · Monday 2 March 1891 · page 6

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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A Newcastle Church Robbed

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 March 1891 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Sunday. -- Mr. Frank Asher, secretary of the Brown-street Congregational Church, reported to the police to-day that between Friday night and this morning the…

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Plundering Churches

The Australian Star · Tuesday 3 March 1891 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--Information was given the local police last night that thieves had broken into the Congregational Church, Brown-street, and had stolen about 30s…

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Presbyterian Assembly

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 March 1891 · page 3
Also in The Australian Star

The twenty-sixth session of the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales was opened at St. Stephen's Church, Phillip-street, last night. Divine…

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Wesleyan Methodist Conference

The Australian Star · Wednesday 4 March 1891 · page 3

THE 17th annual meeting of the Wesleyan Conference of New South Wales and Queensland was commenced in the Centenary Hall, York-street, last night. The relieving…

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