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Churches, 1891

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Catholic. Prior Builer's Good-bye

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 18

THE Very Rev. Prior Butler, the eloquent Carmelite of the Diocese of Melbourne, who is returning to Ireland after ten years' active and successful work in the colonies, during which he…

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Death of a Great Catholic Leader. Dr. Windthorst the Catholic Gladstone of Germany

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 18

BY cable we learn of the death of Dr. Ludwig Windthorst in his 80th year. The statesman who has just passed away, and who was the leader of the party of the Centre, fell down the steps of the…

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Catholic. Brought to Its Knees. the Apology of the "Sunday Times."

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 10

WE have heard the last of the Carmelite Convent " sensation." What was intended by the enterprising but misguided showmen no a journals melo-dramatic "boom" has ended in a tunny farce…

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Home and Foreign. Ireland. Gladstone and Catholic Disabilities. the Offices of Lord-lieutenant of Ireland and Lord Chancellor. the Proposed Reform Rejected

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 5

Parliament (says the Dublin NATION, Feb. 7) had two chances of doing justice to Ireland this week, and refuced both. It decided that the agrarian strife must continue, end it refused to…

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

Nepean Times · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 3

True Christian Religion, intelligently 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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St. Patrick's Day in the City Churches. at St. Mary's and St. Patrick's

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 10

FOLLOWING the custom established some six years ago by the Cardinal-Archbishop, the Festival was celebrated with every possible mark of honour and solemnity in St. Mary's Cathedral. On St…

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The "Church" and the Bible

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 7

Slides of some of the minute parasites, prepared as transparent objects, are occasionally exhibited in a highly magnified form for the purpose of showing the suctorial apparatus…

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Church Funds

The Australian Star · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 3

THE Primate of Australia has addressed a circular letter to the clergy and the churchwardens of the Diocese of Sydney inviting their attention to the necessity of…

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The Churches

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 3

The Primate has issued a circular to the clergy and churchwardens of the diocese of Sydney, bringing under their notice the subject of "a more systematic and self-denying…

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Congregational Church, Parramatta

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 7

THE anniversary of the Congregational Church, Parramatta, was celebrated on Wednesday evening last with a tea and public meeting. The tea was held in the…

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The Churches. Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 March 1891 · 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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Wesley's Churchmanship. a Subject of Discussion

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 11

There is much discussion in Protestant clerical circles as to a sermon preached in St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, on Sunday evening last, which dealt with " The Churchmanship of John…

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News of the Churches

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 9

The Rev. J. Anderson, formerly minister of the Wesley Church at Strathalbyn, died on Saturday in Adelaide, aged 76 years. He came to the colony 14 years ago…

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Queensland Churches

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 8

Our Queensland correspondent writes under date March 16: The Central Queensland bishopric committee held a meeting on Thursday at St. Paul's Schoolroom, Rockhampton, when Bishop…

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Church (yard) and Stage

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 34

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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Congregational Church

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 2

The anniversary of the establishment of the Congregational Church in Parramatta was celebrated on Wednesday evening by a tea and public meeting…

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Presbyterian General Assembly

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 March 1891 · page 7

The sittings of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales were continued on Monday, March 9, the "Very Rev. the Moderator (the Rev. Robert Collie, F.L.S.) in…

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St. James's Church, Croydon

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 March 1891 · page 9

The foundation-stone of a parsonage for the inoumbent of St. James's Church, Croydon, was laid on Saturday afternoon by the Primate, Dr. Saumerez Smith. The building is being erected on a piece of…

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The Late James CHURCHlLL Fisher. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1891 · page 5

Sir,—As by one these who fitted the present generation of Sydney for their daily lives passes away to the land beyoud our regrets increase. And now another has doparted. The voice which taught and…

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Catholic Notes

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

NOTICE is given of a bazaar and concert at Port near Bathurst on Easter Monday and two following nights. The proceeds are to be devoted to St. Joseph's Convent…

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