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Churches, 1891

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Catholic Guild in Queensland

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 17

FATHER A. Horan, addressing the annual meeting of the Catholic Guild at Ipswich, Queensland, dwelt on the benefits which would accrue to the young men of the parish by joining the Guild…

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Catholic Events in Melbourne

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 15

ON Sunday Archbishop Carr attended at SS. Peter and Paul's, South Melbourne, for the pur­pose of inducing the Rev. J. L. Hefferaan, the newly-appointed pastor, into the charge of the…

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The New Guinea Wesleyan Mission

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 9

The energetic President, of the Wesleyan Conference and General Missionary Secretary, the Rev. Geo. Brown, has completed his arrangements for starting the new mission in New Guinea. The…

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Our Catholic Primary Schools. (To the Editor.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 17

SIR,—The standard of proficiency for our Catholic primary schools, drawn up at Sydney under the supervision of a committee of the Australian Bishops, is a step in the right direction to…

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The Parnell Mission in America. Described As a Failure

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 16

THE New York IRISH WORLD, March 28, says :-The first response given in America to Mr. Parnell's money-begging manifesto is a response which that individual and his friends must in…

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Catholic. the Hospital Foe Consumptives. Cardinal Moran's Donation of £1000

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 15

THE annual report of St. Joseph's Hospital for Consunptives at Patramaita issued by the Sisters of Charity cannot be other than gratifying to all who take a sympathetic interest in this noble…

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Practical Christianity. the "Forward" Methodist Movement. Interview with Rev. Mark Guy Pearse

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 5

In the Methodist world there are few, it indeed any, better known men than the Rev. Mark Guy Pearse. And not only among Methodists is he well known, but among the…

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Catholic. Bishop Lanigan's Visit to Europe. What He Has Done in the Goulburn Diocese

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 17

DURING the week the Right Rev. Dr. La igan, Bishop of Goulburn, proceeded to Melbourne to catch the Orient Co.'s s.p. Austral. On the eve of his departure fivm Goulburn the venerable…

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

Nepean Times · Saturday 2 May 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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New Church at Forest Reefs

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 18

AT For st Reefs, near Orange, on Sunday the Right Rev. Dr Byrne, Bishop oE Bathurst, confirmed 27 girls, 20 boys, and four adults. The. bishop was assisted by Father Ryan…

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The Real Cause of Romanism in the Church of England

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 4

Certainly the cause of Evangelical truth was never so assailed and endangered. In many churches, the confessional, the altar services, the priestly…

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Dean Church on the Oxford Movement

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 6

By a striking coincidence, on the very day on which Dean Church's account of the circumstances attending the establishment --fifty years ago--of the Anglican Bishopric at…

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Wesleyan Church, Parramatta. Welcome to the Rev. J. W. and Mrs. Winspear.THE Tea Meeting

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 2

ON Wednesday evening, a goodly company numbering considerably more than 200 persons, partook at the Parramatta Town Halt (which was elegantly decorated) of an excellent tea…

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The Churches. Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 May 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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News of the Churches

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 10

The death of Father Janet, of the Catholic mission at Yule Island, is announced. The Rev. Mr. Holt, incumbent of St. Paul's, Deniliquin, is to be made an archdeacon…

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Queensland Churches

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 9

Our Brisbane correspondent writes under date April 27: The Easter meeting in connection with the Church of St. John the Evangelist ([?]cathedral) was held on April 20 in the Sunday…

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Church Festival

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 8

THE festival of St. Mark, evangelist and martyr was on Sunday evening duly celebrated in the Church of St. Mark at Granville. The festival service was choral throughout. The…

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The Anglican Synod

Evening News · Monday 4 May 1891 · page 3

The synod now in session, after the ceremonies conducted by the Primate, the consideration of the ordinance in committee at the 14th clause, which, refers to the annual…

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The Anglican Synod

The Australian Star · Tuesday 5 May 1891 · page 3
Also in The Daily Telegraph

THE Anglican Synod met at 7.30 last night, and after the Dean of Sydney gave notice that as soon as the business admit he intended to move that the report of the…

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