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Churches, 1895

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News of the Churches

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 April 1895 · page 8

The net result of the Gundagai Catholic bazaar, which was recently held, will be about £200. The Rev. D. H. Dillon and Mr. W. H…

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Railway Deadheads. All Sorts and Conditions of Foreigners get indulged with Free Passes—Presbyterian Moderators, Governors' Servants, and Russian Noblemen

Truth · Sunday 7 April 1895 · page 4

FROM a return issued to the order of Mr. Schey, it appears that during the first nine months of 1894, free passes were issued to the following, among many others:—…

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Canterbury Presbyterian Church

The Australian Star · Monday 8 April 1895 · page 3

The third annual picnic of this church Sunday-school was held on Friday in the tannery paddock, placed as the disposal of the school for the occasion by…

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The English and Roman Catholic Churches. Question of Their Union. a Mission to Rome. London, April 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 April 1895 · page 5

Viscount Halifax, president of the English Church Union, and his Eminence Cardinal Vaughan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, are visiting Rome…

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Roman Catholic Church. the Goulburn Bishopric

Evening News · Monday 8 April 1895 · page 4

LONDON, April 7.—His Holiness the Pope has appointed the Rev. John Gallagher as Coadjutor-Bishop of Goulburn, New South Wales…

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Roman Catholic Church in New South Wales. Coadjutor-bishop of Goulburn. London, April 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 April 1895 · page 5

His Holiness the Pope has appointed the Rev. John Gallagher as Coadjutor-Bishop of Goulburn, New South Wales…

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Sunday Services. Chalmers Church

Evening News · Monday 8 April 1895 · page 2

The Rev. James Milne, M.A., at the evening service of the Chalmers Church, Castlereagh-street, yesterday, delivered an interesting discourse on "The…

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English Church Defence

Evening News · Monday 8 April 1895 · page 4

LONDON, April 7.—Lord Selborne, (late Lord Chancellor), Viscount Cross (formerly Home Secretary), and Baron Egerton of Tatton are…

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Church Defence Committees. London, April 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 April 1895 · page 5

Lord Selborne, Viscount Cross, and Baron Egerton (of Tatton) are appealing for a sum of £20,000 to maintain Church-defence committees in every parish in England…

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Arrival of Rev. H. R. Haweis. He Talks of the Church. Its Relation to Modern Thought. Some Plain Statements

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 April 1895 · page 5

The Rev. H. R. Hawels arrived here from Canada yesterday for a lecturing tour of this country. He put up at the Australia. Mr. Hawels is a man of limited dimensions…

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The Churches

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 April 1895 · page 6

The fifth anniversary of the settlement of the Rev. T. B. Clouston in the charge of the Glebe Presbyterian Church was celebrated on Sunday…

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Church News. Passion Services at St. Andrew's Cathedral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 April 1895 · page 5

In former years the attendance at the first of the special Passion Week servies at St. Andrew's Cathedral has not been large, so that the crowded attendance last night was all the more gratifying…

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Pitt-street Congregational Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 April 1895 · page 5

On Sunday the pulpit and communion table were gracefully decorated with palms, and in the evening special music was rendered. Miss Sharidan Reed gave an artistic rendaring of Handel's "He…

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Canterbury Preseyterian Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 April 1895 · page 5

The third annual picnic of the Sunday school of Centezbury Presbyterian Church was held in the tannery paddock an Friday, and was largely attended, both by scholars and members of the…

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Church News. Passion Servicis at St. Andrew's

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 April 1895 · page 6

There was a considerable congregation at St. Andrew's Cathedral last night, considering the rain, the occasion being the second of the Passion Week [?]vices. The Rev. Dr. Corlette preached, and in…

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The Welsh Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 April 1895 · page 3

A pleasant social in connection with the Sydney Welsh Church took place in the main hall of the Trades Hall last evening for the purpose of according a welcome to the new minister, the Rev. J. D,…

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Church News. Passion Services at St. Andrew's

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 April 1895 · page 3

There was a very large attendance at St. Andrew's Cathedral last night, when Packer's oratorio, "The Crown of Thorns," which was sung on Monday evening, was repeated. On account of the undue…

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Skirts and Sanctity. a Ballet at Ballarat. The Bishop's Prohibition. Objections to Skirt Dancing at a Church Bazaar

The Australian Star · Friday 12 April 1895 · page 5

The parishioners of St. Peter's (Church of England), Ballarat, last week held a fancy fair in the Mechanics' Institute in aid of the church funds, and included in the…

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The Catholic Mission in Corea. a Presbyterian Tribune

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 April 1895 · page 7

The Rev. Mr. Knox, Presbyterian Minister in Corea and Japan, has contributed to a non-Catholic paper two remarkable articles on the Catholic Missions in those far lands. He tells how the…

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Anglican Churches

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 April 1895 · page 9

The celebrations at Christ Church commenced at 9.30 a.m. with a children's service, conducted by the Rev. C. S. Smith, B A., followed by the Litany and ante-communion office at 11 a.m. From noon to 3…

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