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Churches, 1897

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Earthquake in Calcutta. Very Severe Shocks. Eight Natives Killed and Many Injured. Churches and Public Buildings Damaged

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 June 1897 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday Night.--Severe shocks of earthquake occurred to-day at Calcutta, lasting five minutes. The cathedral, many churches, and the…

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The Central Mission Children's Home. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 June 1897 · page 9

Sir,--I would like to draw the attention of all who love little children to the number of poor neglected ones that are wandering about our streets, and to ask them if they will help us to…

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The Record Reign. Croydon Church Services

Evening News · Wednesday 16 June 1897 · page 5

In connection with the record reign celebrations, services will be held in St. James's Church, Croydon, on Sunday, 20th instant. The morning service and children's afternoon service will be conducted…

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Pitt-street Congregational Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 June 1897 · page 5

The sixty-fourth anniversary of the Pitt-street Congregational Church was celebrated last evening by a tea and public meeting. A tea was held at the schoolroom and was well attended. At the public…

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The Disaster in Paris. Scenes at the Pifferent Churches

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 June 1897 · page 8

The Paris correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette writing on Saturday the 8th May, says:—Seldom, if ever, has Paris witnessed in one day a more mournful series of funerals than that of the victims…

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New Zealand. the Catholic Church and Federation

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 June 1897 · page 6

WELLINGTON, Thursday.--Archbishop Redwood, who has recently returned from Rome, states that whatever may happen regarding the political federation of New Zealand with the…

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Cleveland-street Wesleyan Church Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 June 1897 · page 6

Last evening a concert was given in the Cleveland-street Wesleyan Schoolroom for the purpose of raising funds to make certain alterations to the schoolroom. The following contributed to the…

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Central Methodist Mission To the Editor

The Methodist · Saturday 19 June 1897 · page 6

DEAR SIR,—May I crave a short space in your next issue for the publication of an appeal which we are making on behalf of the CM. Mission, an extended…

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Church News. Anglican

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 June 1897 · page 18

The Bishop of Bathurst yesterday week (St. Barnabas' day) held in the morning an ordination in All Saints' Cathedral, Bathurst, when two deacons were admitted to the priesthood; in the evening he…

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Presbyterian

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 June 1897 · page 18

The Rev. W. J. Culbhert, who has been for many years Presbyterian chaplain at the Necropolis, will retire at the end of the present month, and his place will be taken by the Rev. William M'Kenzie, M.A…

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City Mission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 June 1897 · page 18

Next week a distribution of provisions and clothing, &c., will be made by the mission. The Government contributed £150, and donations in kind were made privately…

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Roman Catholic

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 June 1897 · page 18
Also in Nepean Times

The mission being conducted at St. Peter's, Surry Hills, by the Redemptorist Fathers will be concluded on Sunday. The Very Rev. John Ryan, S.J., who has been…

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In the Waverley Parish

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 June 1897 · page 15

THE members of the Apostleship of Prayer assembled in goodly numbers on Wednesday evening last at St. Charles', Waverley, the occasion being the half-yearly meeting, and the election of officers for…

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New Catholic Reformatory

The Catholic Press · Saturday 19 June 1897 · page 20

Catholics who were in South Australia in the early days (says the "Southern Cross") will remember the old church of St. John's, Kapunda, one of the first erected in the…

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Catholic Soldiers' Institute

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 June 1897 · page 5

The most noteworthy incident in Irish mille tory affairs daring the first week of May was the opening of the Catholic Sold[?]rs' Institate at the Curragh by Lord Roberts. The Rev…

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Evolution of the Methodist

The Methodist · Saturday 19 June 1897 · page 13

The present Jubilee number of the Methodist naturally suggests the evolution of the paper itself. Since…

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The Mission at Glen Innes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 June 1897 · page 16

THE Mission conducted by the Very Rev. P. Le Rennetel, S.M., of St. Patrick's, Sydney, at Glen Innes proved very successful. The Rev. father expressed much gratification at the earnestness…

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The Wesleyan Methodist Book Depot

The Methodist · Saturday 19 June 1897 · page 10

The Book Depot, which is one of the most important and necessary institutions of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in N.S.W., has just completed its…

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Sixty Years in Foreign Mission Fields

The Methodist · Saturday 19 June 1897 · page 2

In the English Missionary Notices for 1887, the following statistics are given of the Foreign Missions in the " South Seas:"—N. S. Wales, 4…

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