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Churches, 1891

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Sussex-street Mission Church

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 October 1891 · page 3

The anniversary services in connection with the Sussex-street Mission Church were held on Sunday, when sermons were preached by the Revs. B. Kenny. C. Waters and Mrs…

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Methodist Oecumenical Conference

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 October 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday. -- A Methodist OEcumenical Conference was opened yesterday in New York. There are 120 British delegates present…

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Methodist Conference. London, October 6

The Australian Star · Wednesday 7 October 1891 · page 5

A Methodist Ecumenical Conference was opened at New York yesterday. There were 120 delegates from Great Britain present…

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Fasting in the Church of England. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 October 1891 · page 8

Sir,—As a rule I object to replying to anonymous correspondents; in the case of "Bathurstensis" I will break my rule. As I have not a copy of the Book of Homilies by me, I must refer him to a…

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Woman's Work in the Churches. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 October 1891 · page 3

Sir, -- The Anglican Synod have taken a wise step, and one which will bear good fruit in the future history of the Church of England, by having decided in favor of the…

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The Methodist Ecumenical Council

Evening News · Thursday 8 October 1891 · page 4

London, October 7.—Five hundred delegates, including 43 men of color and 200 British representatives, are attending the Methodist Ecumenical Council in America…

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The Methodist Ecumenical Council. London, Oct. 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 October 1891 · page 5

Five hundred delegates, including 43 men of colour and 200 British, representatives, are attending the Methodist Ecumenical Council…

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The Church in Australia

Evening News · Thursday 8 October 1891 · page 4

London, October 7.—The Bishop of Manchester, Dr. Moorhouse (formerly Bishop of Melbourne) preaching at the Church Congress at Rhyl, declared that the proposal to…

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Bishop Moorhouse at the Church Congress. London, Oct. 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 October 1891 · page 5

The Bishop of Manchester, Dr. Moorhouse, preaching at the Church, Congress at Rhyl, declared that the proposal to disendow the Church of Wales meant the…

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The Welsh Church. London, October 7

The Australian Star · Thursday 8 October 1891 · page 5

The annual session of the Church Congress was opened yesterday. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop Moorhouse of Manchester, and Bishop Ryle of Liverpool…

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The Church Congress. Defence of the Welsh Church

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 October 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday. -- The annual session of the Church Congress was opened yesterday. During the day speeches in defence of…

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Presbyterian Bazaar

The Australian Star · Friday 9 October 1891 · page 3

A BAZAAR in aid of the Waverley Presbyterian Church was opened on Tuesday, and during tho two first days £225 was taken at the doors, The bazaar is to remain open…

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Robbery in a Church

Evening News · Friday 9 October 1891 · page 6
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At the Central Police Court yesterday, before Mr. W. Johnson, S.M., John Smith, 77, on remand, was charged with having Stolen a handbag and articles, valued in all at 4s 3d, the property of…

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The Nonconformist Churches

Evening News · Friday 9 October 1891 · page 4

LONDON, October 7.—Mr. Gladstone, in a letter just published, predicts the early reunion of the Presbyterian bodies, and also of the Baptists and the…

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The Church in Wales. London, October 8

The Australian Star · Friday 9 October 1891 · page 5

The Baptist Union has passed a motion declaring that the disestablishment of the Church of England in Wales shall occupy a foremost position in the Liberal…

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The Baptist Union. Disestablishment of the Welsh Church

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 October 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday. -- The Baptist Union have passed a resolution declaring that the disestablishment of the Welsh Church should occupy a foremost place in the…

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The Anglican Synod

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 October 1891 · page 813

The General Anglican Synod concluded its sittings last Saturday. When the members of the synod met they were confronted by a business-paper on which there were no fewer than 24…

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Primitive Methodist Church Anniversary

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 10 October 1891 · page 2

The third anniversary of the Granville Primitive Methodist Church was celebrated on Sunday and Monday last. The Rev. P. S. Young (Wollongong),…

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Suicide in a Catholic Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 October 1891 · page 7

Towards dusk of, Saturday evening (says the London TABLET, August 29) a man named Thomas Mason, aged 56, a stage-carriage driver, entered St. George's Cathedral, South wark, and, hiding…

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