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Churches, 1894

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The Primitive Methodist Sunday Schools. Second Convention

The Australian Star · Monday 11 June 1894 · page 6

The second convention of the Sydney branch of the Primitive Methodist Sunday Schools Union was opened at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the Albion-street Church. The…

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Church Home

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 June 1894 · page 6

The weekly meeting of the committee of the Church Home for the Intemperate and Fallen, Norfolkstreet, Paddington, was held on Tuesday afternoon. The hon, matron reported that there were 22…

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Lord Randolph Churchill. Visit to Australia. London, June 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 June 1894 · page 5

Lord Randolph Churchill, M.P., will shortly visit Australia. He will proceed via America…

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Visit of the Rev. Dr. Jefferis. Sermon at the Pitt-street Congregational Church. "The Advance of Christianity."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 June 1894 · page 5

The Rev. Dr. Jefferis was announced to preach at the morning and evening services yesterday of Pittstreet Congregational Church, of which he was for a considerable time the pastor. There was on each…

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The Churches. the Pentecost, or Feast of Weeks

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 June 1894 · page 6

The Pentecost, or Feast of Weeks, was celebrated yesterday forenoon at the Great Synagogue, Elizaboth-street, The feast is called the Feast of Weeks because it is…

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Rev. Dr. Jefferis at Pitt Street Church. Sermons Yesterday

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 June 1894 · page 5

The Rev. Dr. Jefferis preached to his old congregation in the Pitt-street Congregational Church yesterday forenoon and evening. There was a large congregation at…

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Meetings. Melanesian Mission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 June 1894 · page 7

The annual meeting of friends of the Melanesian Mission was held in the Chapter House yesterday morning. Canon Childe presided, and among those present were the Revs. C. F. Garnsey, P. R. Spry…

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Liverpool and Sussex S[?]r[?]ts Mission Church

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 June 1894 · page 3

Four hundred indigent and unemployed people of Sydney sat down to a breakfast on Sunday morning last at the schoolroom of the Mission Church, Liverpool and…

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Some May Meetings. the Church Missionary Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 June 1894 · page 3

The annual meeting was held in Exeter Hall. Sir J. Kennaway presided. The report stated that 93 missionary candidates had been accepted, including 18 University men and two retired army officers…

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A Church Social

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 June 1894 · page 3

An enjoyable and successful social gathering took place in the Oddfellows' Temple last night in aid of the parochial funds of St. Francis's Church, Haymarket. The…

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WYCOMBE v. Church of England Grammar School

The Australian Star · Tuesday 12 June 1894 · page 8

Played at North Shore on Saturday, and resulted in a win for Wycombe by 12 points to 8. The Wycombe made the game too fast for the School, who were outclassed in…

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The Church and Labor Questions

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 June 1894 · page 4

Some time ago we commented upon certain very advanced utterances of Dr. STUBBS, the new Dean of Ely, delivered in connection with the Church Forward…

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St. James's Church. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 June 1894 · page 3

Sir,--I am afraid that the public, after reading the letters which appeared in your issues of Friday and Saturday last, will be inclined to ask what manner of persons can…

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Zola and the Pope. the Ban of the Church

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 June 1894 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.--The Vatican has placed the ban of the Church on the book written by Emile Zola, describing and ridiculing the holy fountain at Lourdes…

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The Renovation of St. James' Church

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 June 1894 · page 4

In consequence of the complaints made through the columns of "The Daily Telegraph" regarding the manner in which the ancient relics connected with the spire of…

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Church Home

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 June 1894 · page 3

The weekly committee meeting of the above Home in Norfolk-street, Paddington was held on Tuesday. The hon, matron reported that there were 25 inmates, three having been admitted during the week…

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The Churches

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 June 1894 · page 6

The annual meeting of the Petersham Baptist Church was held on Tuesday. Mr. C. Whiddon, one of the deacons, occupied tho chair, and there was a large…

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Church News. Anglican

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 June 1894 · page 10

The Dean received by mail on Saturday last a letter from the Primate, written on 2nd May, after passing through the Straits of Messina, in which he states that the voyage from Albany had been very…

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Presbyterian Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 June 1894 · page 10

The address of the Rev. George MacInnes, delivered on his taking the Moderator's chair at the last General Assembly, has been reprinted in America. An ordination of elders took place at Chalmers…

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Catholic Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 June 1894 · page 16

THIS evening (Thursday) the social re-union in aid of the Randwick church Will be held in the Paddington Town Hall. ON Sunday last Bishop O'Reily, of Port…

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