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Churches, 1891

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Catholic Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 15

THE Catholic church at Campbelltown was broken into on Tuesday night when Be value articles of value were stolen. At St. Benedict's Church on Sunday last Miss…

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Catholic Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 19

BISHOP Grimes, of Christchurch, New Zea­land, has been preaching at the Marists' church in Spitalfields, London. A pine now organ has been presented to the…

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The English Presbyterian' Synod

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 9

It is 15 years (says a London contemporary) since the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of England was formed at Liverpool, through the union of two branches of the denomination that…

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Archbishop Carr on Catholic Schools

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday.--In an address given at St. Patrick's College to-night Archbishop Carr defended the existence of separate Catholic schools in the colony. The…

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Mission Premises Burned at Hong Kong

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 15

THE Chinese riots, according to the cables from London, have extended to Hongkong, where the mission premises have been attacked and burned to the ground. One of the missionaries and a…

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The Catholic Canadian Premier. the Orangrmen Object

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 9

LONDON, June 14 -Intense opposition is being shown against Me. Abbott being appointed Premier of Canada, on the ground that he was formerly a Wesleyan, and became a convert…

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The Question of Precedence. the Anglican Primate and the Cardinal

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 3

The question of precedence in relation to these two prelates has recently been dealt with by the Freeman's Journal arising out of the fact that Lord Jersey…

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Catholic Richmond Convent Concert. the Sydney Liedertauel Assisting

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 19

NOTWITHSTANDING the inclement state of the weather, there was a good audience at the School of Arts, Richmond, on Wednesday week, when a fine concert wan given by the Sydney…

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Mission to the Jews in Sydney. Third Report. 1890 91

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 7

When the ascending Saviour was leaving His parting instructions with His Church on earth, He gave the command: "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every…

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Our University Library. the Collection Started by a Catholic Bishop

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 20

IT is not generally known that the scholarly Bishop Davis, who was for several years Archbishop Polding's assistant in Sydney, was entrusted with the original selection of the books…

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Off to Oxford. a Young Sydney Catholic Going to the Big University

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 15

MR. T. B. Curran, son of Mr. Thomas Curran, of " Manila," Surry Hills, the well-known city merchant, will on Monday be a on the wing" to England. Our young Catholic friend, who has already passed…

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Why the Working Classes Do Not Attend Church

Nepean Times · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 4

We extract the following article from a vacant issue of Reynold's Newspaper, Londo.— TO THE PARLIAMENTARY AND OTHER RELIGIOUS PROGESSORS…

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

Nepean Times · Saturday 20 June 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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An Historical Irish Church. Altering Christ Church, Dublin

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 6

It is proposed to improve away, according to the notions of modern " restorers," the easternend of the grammar school which forms part of the Christ Church buildings. This was formerly…

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Revival in the Waldensian Church

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 7

A remarkable revival in the historic Waldensian Church has broken out through the instrumentality of two members of the Salvation Army. A batch of officers has been…

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News of the Churches

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 9

The Presbytery of Sydney has unanimously nominated the Rev. Dr. White, of Singleton, to be the next Moderator of the General Assembly of this colony…

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Queensland Churches

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 9

Our Brisbane correspondent writes under date June 16: The Rev. G. D. Buchanan, pastor of the Wickham Terace Presbyterian Church, who recently returned from a visit to the south, preached…

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The Churches. Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 9

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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The Church and the Elections

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 20 June 1891 · page 4

THIS is how the "Christian World" delivers itself on the elections:—"The Opposition como off badly so far, having secured only nine seats, find lose their leader, Mr. Dibbs…

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Sydney City Mission

The Australian Star · Tuesday 23 June 1891 · page 3

LAST Monday proved a red latter day in connection with the Waterloo branch of the Sydney City Mission, being the occasion of the annual meeting in connection with that…

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