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Churches, 1891

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The Church and the Un employed

Evening News · Tuesday 3 February 1891 · page 2

At the Centenary Hall on Sunday the Revs. W. G. Taylor and P. J. Stephen delivered addresses dealing with the scheme for the amelioration of the poor, propounded by General…

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The Melbourne Church of England Assembly. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 February 1891 · page 7

A special session of the Church of England Assembly was commenced today under the presidency of the Bishop of Melbourne. A series of resolutions were passed to raise £50,000 on the…

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Catholic Relief Bill. Opposition of the Government

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 February 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.--In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Gladstone will move the second reading of the Roman Catholic Relief Enabling Bill. The measure is…

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An Independent Immigration Agent. Mr. W. B. Chaffey's Mission to England

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 February 1891 · page 6

A week ago in the mid-city square of Sydney they unveiled the statue of a valiant man and true. He was the first truly independent immigration agent of Australia, and he left on a…

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Glebe Presbyterian Church

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 February 1891 · page 6
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Last night the members of the Glebe Presbyterian Church met for the purpose of electing a new minister in succession to Mr. Andrew Gardiner. Two clergymen (Rev. B. S. Paterson…

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Catholic Disability. Mr. Gladstone's Measure Rejected. a Narrow Majority

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 February 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--In the House of Commons last night Mr. Gladstone moved the second reading of the Religious Disabilities Bill, to remove the disabilities of…

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Religious Equality. Roman Catholic Relief Bill. Defeated in the Commons. LONDON, February 5

The Australian Star · Friday 6 February 1891 · page 5

The second reading of the Roman Catholic Relief Enabling Bill, intended to remove the disability by which Catholic subjects of her Majesty are debarred from appointment…

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The Catholic Disabilities Bill. the Measure Rejected. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, Feb. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 February 1891 · page 5

Mr. Gladstone's Religious Disabilities Removal Bill was rejected in the House of Commons upon a division by 256 votes to 223…

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New Roman Catholic Church

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 8

On Sunday afternoon Cardinal Moran laid the foundation stone of a new Roman Catholic Church at Manly, in the presence of a large gathering. The site of the new edifice is an…

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Presbyterian Missions

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 9

The Irish Presbyterian Church has seven mission schemes, and, according to the latest reports, the missionaries are prosecuting their work with undiminished ardor and encouraging…

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Catholic Disabilities

The Australian Star · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 4

MR. GLADSTONE,'S measure to sweep away the few remaining disabilities under which Catholics remain in the British Constitution has been defeated…

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Catholic Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 17

ST. Bernard's Catholic Church, in Fourteenth-street, New "York, was totally damage is £15,000. A BERLIN correspondent writes that a…

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Catholic Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 15

Father Holland, Catholic chaplain of the Liverpool Asylum, was present at the Governor's official visit on Wednesday. The North Sydney village fair in aid of the…

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China Inland Mission

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 9

The Australian contingent for the China Inland Mission will be further increased by the departure of a number of lady missionaries in about a month's time, who will join the Rev. J. and Mrs…

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Catholic. Clerical Retreat

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 15

THE priests of the diocese of Sydney have in Retreat during the week at St. Patrick's Ecclesiastical Seminary, Manly. Upwards of 100 of the clergy with the Cardinal-Archbishop have been conducted by…

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Rome in the Mission-field

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 9

At the National Protestant Congress the following remarkable paper was read by General George Hutchinson, late Lay Secretary of the C.M.S. The careful survey it presents…

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Official Praise Op a Catholic Institution

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 17

The Inspector-General of Public Charities in Victoria has furnished the Chief Secretary with a report of an inspection which he recently made of St. Joseph's Home at Surry Hille, near…

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The Catholic Guild. Presentation and Elections

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 15

AT the recent quarterly Communion of the member of the A. H.C. Guild at Randwick, Brother R. Ellis, one of the members of the recently-formed district, presented a beautiful Processional…

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Gladstone's Catholic Relief Bill Opposition of the Government

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 16

IN the House of Commons on February 4, Mr. Gladstone will move the second reading of the Roman Catholic Relief Enabling Bill. The measure ia opposed by the Earl of Zetland,…

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