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Churches, 1891

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The Churches. Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 January 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 Revolutions

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 17 January 1891 · page 3

MICHAEL DAVITT, writing in his paper on the Church and Revolutions, says:—There has not been, so far as we can read in history, a political or social…

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The Cemeteries of Parramatta. St. John's Churchyard

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 17 January 1891 · page 2

PARRAMATTA'S burial-grounds—six in all—lie sundered and scattered; three in the northern part of the town, and three in the southern. Of the latter, indeed, two are just…

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The Goulburn Anglican Synod

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 January 1891 · page 5

GOULBURN, Sunday.--At the synod yesterday an ordinance providing for the election of future bishops of Goulburn by the synod passed through its closing stage. It is not know…

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Miss Ackerman's Mission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 January 1891 · page 7

Miss Ackerman held a meeting in support of temperance in the Wesloyan Church, Waverley, last Thursday. On Thursday afternoon she addrassed a large gathering of ladies at the Oddfellows' Hall, and…

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Australasian Holy Catholic Guild

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 January 1891 · page 7

The half-yearly meeting of the Australasian Holy Catholic Guild of St. Mary and St. Joseph was held in the Guild Hall, Castlereagh-street, yesterday afternoon. Cardinal Moran, the patron…

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The Holy Catholic Guild

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 January 1891 · page 4

The half-yearly meeting of the Australasian Holy Catholic Guild of St. Mary and St. Joseph (friendly society) was held in the Gaiety Theatre yesterday afternoon. Cardinal…

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[?] Coulburn Anglican Synod. the Cathedral Dispute. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent) Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 January 1891 · page 6

[?] the Synod last night Mr. K. S. Hayes, who had been elected diocesan trustee, declined to act unless the [?] trustees not resident in Goulburn resigned, in order that a majority of the trustees might be on the spot…

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The Church and the Social Problem. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 January 1891 · page 3

Sir,--It seems ungracious if not ungenerous, to criticise any scheme designed by earnest and warm-hearted men to raise the moral and industrial status of the submerged poor, but I…

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Holy Catholic Guild

Evening News · Tuesday 20 January 1891 · page 2

Cardinal Moran presided at the half-yearly meeting of the Australian Holy [?] Guild of St. Mary and St. Joseph, on Sunday afternoon. There were also…

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Robbery From a Church. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 January 1891 · page 5

Some time during the night of the 13th instant the Wesleyan Church at Kew was entered. The Communion service, valued at 10 guiness, was stolen, and the sacrament book was defaced in a…

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A Church Robbed

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 January 1891 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.--On the caretaker of the Wesleyan Church at Kew proceeding to open the church on Sunday morning he found the place had been broken into and the…

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The Church Society at Goulburn. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Goulburn, Tubbday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 January 1891 · page 8

The 27th annual meeting of the Church Society was held last evening, under the presidency of the Bishop of Goulburn. The Primate was present, and delivered an address. He was the recipient of an address from…

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Sydney City Mission

The Australian Star · Friday 23 January 1891 · page 2

THE Mission Hall, Chippendale, was crowded to excess last Tuesday evening, large numbers being unable to gain admission, The occasion was the monthly…

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Launch of a Mission Vessel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 January 1891 · page 5

Thanks to the liberality of the Niue natives the New Guinea missionaries will soon be the possesses of one of the handsomest little crafts that has been turned out at this port. The…

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The Melbourne Anglican Cathedral. an Imposing Consecration Service

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 January 1891 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A vast crowd of people collected about St. Paul's Cathedral to-day to witness the ceremonial of the consecration of that edifice. The footways at the…

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Goulburn Cathedral Dispute. Captain Rossi in Court. Charged with Interrupting Church Service. GOULBURN

The Australian Star · Friday 23 January 1891 · page 6

Captain Rossi was brought before the court this morning, charged with interrupting divine service ut St. Saviour's Cathedral on Sunday last. Defendant appeared on…

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Catholic Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 15

We learn by telegraph that the bazaar in aid of the Catholic school building, Wilcannia, cleared £370. At the Sacred Heart Church, Darlinghurst,…

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The Country. the Shoalhaven Presbyterian Church

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 5

NOWRA, Friday. -- A meeting of the congregation of the Shoalhaven Presbyterian Church was held in the church at Nowra yesterday, when the attendance was a very representative…

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A Distinguished Catholic Convent

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 19

THE late Sir Richard Burton, who was received into the Catholic Church a abort time before his death, was one of the greatest explorers of the age, as well as a most distinguished Oriental…

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