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Churches, 1891

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Bishop Taylor's Mission in Africa

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 10

Bishop Taylor was sent by the Methodist Episcopal Church to Africa in 1884 as Missionary Bishop. He at once introduced a new policy in missionary lines ; a station was…

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Catholic. Bishop Byrne on Gulgong

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 18

HIS Lordship Dr. Byrne, Bishop of Bathurst, in addressing a congregation ab Forest Reefs, near Orange, recently spoke as follows :— The Catholic population at Gulgong was very small,…

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Catholic. a Wesleyan Champion of Catholic Sisterhoods. Fraise for Our Convents and Our Nuns

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 15

THE Rev. Mark Guy Pearse, who is one of the shining lights of Wesleyanism, and one of the fore[?]st preachers in London, ig at present on a visit to The Sydney. The rev. gentleman, betides being…

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Our Catholic Schools. a Few Striking Figures

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 15

IT may not hs generally known that there are at the present time in new South Wales 334self—supporting Catholic schools attended by 30,700 children. When State—aid was withdrawn in…

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Paenell's Delegates in America. Their Mission a Failure

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 16

A London cable, May 5, says :- Messrs. James J. O'Kelly, M.P., Mr. W. K. Redmond, M.P., Mr. Henry Harrison, M.P., and Mr. John O'Connor, M.P., who arrived in New York on March 15 as delegates to America on behalf of…

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Davitt on Parnell, What He Thinks of the American Mission

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 6

Michael Davitt, in an interview, contemptuously referred to what be calls " Mr. Parnell's bluff." Mr. Davitt said he did not intend to be a candidate in an election in the division of…

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The Parnellite Envoys in America. Is the Mission a Failure

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 6

Last week we quoted the New York IRISH WORLD, March 28, to the effect that the mission of Parnell's delegates was "a dismal failure." Here is what the Dublin FREEMAN,…

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America. Death of Lawrence Barrett. the Great Actor Died a Catholic

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 7

In the death of Lawrence Patrick Barrett, which occurred suddenly on March 20 (says the New York Irish WORLD, March 28), the dramatic profession lost one of its foremost figures and…

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Catholic Home for Domestic Servants. the Sisters of Mercy and Their New Work

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 15

THE Catholic community of Sydney will soon have a new institution. It has long been the desire of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Patrick's district to establish a training school and home for…

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Practical Christianity aiul Pure Theology. Published for Tme Benefit of Non-church Goers

Nepean Times · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 7

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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Stealing From Churches

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 16

St. Clement's Church (Church of England), Mossman's Bay, has been broken into by a thief or thieves, and the content) of the missionary box, which, it is believed, amounted to only 16,…

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Feast Day at the Passionists' Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 15

THE presence of two prelates, Most Rev. Dr. Navarre, M.S.H , Archbishop of New Guinea, and the Right Rev. Dr. Higgins, Auxiliary—Bishop of Sydney, lent a special dignity to the celebration…

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Sydney and Provincial Social Items, &c. St. Mary's Parsonage (Church of England), West Maitland, New South Wales

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 2

One of the prominent buildings of West Maitland is St. Mary's Parsonage. It is an attractive structure of two storeys, treated in the Italian style of architecture, and the…

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Sydney and Provincial Social Items, &c. St. Mary's Parsonage (Church of England), West Maitland, New South Wales

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 2

One of the prominent buildings of West Maitland is St. Mary's Parsonage. It is an attractive structure of two storeys, treated in the Italian style of architecture, and the…

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News of the Churches

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 11

Dean Goldsmith, who leaves Perth (W.A.) on a visit to England; has been presented with a purse of sovereigns. Dean Goldsmith, Mrs. Goldsmith, and. Miss…

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Queensland Churches

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 11

Our Brisbane correspondent writes under date May 4: The Rev. G. D, Buchanan on Sunday evening preached in the Wickham Terrace Presbyterian Church to a crowded congregation on the…

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The Churches. Sermon for the Home

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

Under this healing 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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Mission Work in New Guinea. a Missionary's Experience

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 May 1891 · page 3

The Rev. James Chalmers, who is staying in Sydney for a few days, has spent 25 years in mission work in the South Seas, and for the last 14 years has been actively engaged…

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The New Guinea Mission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 May 1891 · page 6

A public reception, was given to several missionaries and 33 native teachers, with their wives and families, en route to New Guinea and New Britain, in the Centenary Hall, York-street, last evening. The hall was…

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The Church Society

Evening News · Tuesday 12 May 1891 · page 5

The thirty-fifth annual meeting of the Church Society for the Diocese of Sydney was held at the Y.M.C.A Hall on Monday evening. There was a large attendance, which included the Governor…

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