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Churches, 1901

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Australasian Students' Union. Home Mission Claims. Bowral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 January 1901 · page 7

The convention of the Australasian Students' Summer School was continued to-day. The devotional portion of the morning sesaion was led by the Rev. E. Stanley Wilkinson, M. A., who gave a brief…

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The Children's Columns. For Boys and Girls Who Read the "Catholic Press." Edited by Playmate. To Playmates

The Catholic Press · Saturday 12 January 1901 · page 26

When my playmates read this the Commonwealth inauguration ceremonies will be over, and the country will have again Battled down to steady work. "All work…

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Getting into Society. "We Catholics Here in Australia are a Body of Snobs." Why Catholics Marry Non-catholics. the Social Side of Catholic Life Pictured in Dialogue

The Catholic Press · Saturday 12 January 1901 · page 20

"Snakes in Ireland!" promptly interrupts the Old Member of the parish, "Catholics seem to delight in holding aloof from one another in social matters as a sort…

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Correspondence the Church Awakening. To the Editor of the Nepean Times

Nepean Times · Saturday 12 January 1901 · page 4

Dear Sir,—Through your columns I wish to thank Mr R H Dempster, the author of the article under the above heading, for revealing his identity. I would also thank him for the large measure of…

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The Church and the Commonwealth. the Celebrations. a Complete and Unparalleled Success. a Dramatic Incident

The Catholic Press · Saturday 12 January 1901 · page 11

The most complete success attended the Catholic celebrations in connection with the inauguration of the Commonwealth. Never before were seen larger crowds or…

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Church News. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 January 1901 · page 7

The Archbishop of Sydney on Sunday morning proached in the Cathedral; on Monday evening presided at a mealing held in the hall of the Young Mens' Christian Association in connection with the…

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Newtown Congregational Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 January 1901 · page 7

On Sunday last Commonwealth services were held in the Newtown Congregational Church. The Rev. Warlow Davies, M.A., preached in the morning on the subject "Our Inheritance." In the evening he…

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The Vacant Rectorship at St. Barnabas' Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 January 1901 · page 7

A meeting of the board, consisting of the nominators of the synod and the nominators appointed by the parishioners of St. Barnabas' Church, Georgestreet West, was held during the week to consider…

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What the Romish Church Calls "An Unblemished Reputation."

The Methodist · Saturday 12 January 1901 · page 7

Our Roman Catholic contemporaries ought to agree amongst themselves as to the explanation which is to be offered to the world about the Conningham…

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Traveller. Mapledurham Church

Liverpool Herald · Saturday 12 January 1901 · page 10

This pretty little river-side edifice is situated in that pleasant corner of Oxfordshire, almost enclosed by the Thames, where Mapledurham lies hidden away…

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News of the Churches

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 January 1901 · page 10

The United Free Church of Scotland has 338 European agents employed in almost every part of the mission-field. The Rev. James Christie, B.A., of Carlisle, is…

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The Churches. Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 January 1901 · page 8

Under this heading sermons by eminent preachers are published in this widely-circulated paper, in order that in the remote interior, where there are no churches, and a clergyman is rarely seen, the…

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Woollahra Presbyterian Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1901 · page 8

The Rev. T. H Chapman, M.A, B.D., chaplain to the Presbyterian contingent of the Imperial troops, occupied the pulpit of the Woollahra Presbyterian Church on Sunday. In the morning the Presbyt[?]…

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The Afrikander Mission

Evening News · Monday 14 January 1901 · page 5

LONDON, January 12.-Mr. J. H. Hofmeyr, who is recruiting his health at Munich, Bavaria, has cabled that the proposed Afrikander mission to England would be useless…

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Sydney Medical Mission

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 January 1901 · page 6

At the monthly meeting of the advisory board of the Sydney Medical Mission, the following report of work since the opening of the mission on November 19, 1900, to January 5th, 1901, was…

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Sydney City Mission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1901 · page 5

The monthly meeting of the committee of the Sydney City Mission was held on Thursday afternoon at the mission office, Y.M C.A. Buildings. Mr. William Crispin, J.P., presided, and there were also…

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Hofmeyr's Mission. January 12, 12.45 p.m

The Australian Star · Monday 14 January 1901 · page 4

Mr. J. H. Hofmeyr, one of the Afrikander deputation, reported to be proceeding to England to lay the state of affairs before the British Parliament, is recruiting for the Boers at…

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The Afrikander Mission. January 18, 12.45 p.m

The Australian Star · Monday 14 January 1901 · page 4

The majority of the Dutch farmers in the "Wellington district of Cape Colony support the appeal to Cape Colonists made by the Kroonstad Peace Committee. The farmers…

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Death of Dr. Byrne. Roman Catholic Bishop of Bathurst

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 January 1901 · page 4

BATHURST. Saturday.--Dr. Byrne, Roman Catholic Bishop of Bathurst, died last night…

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Second Edition. 4.30 A.m. the Boer War. Hopes of Peace. Kroonstad Appeal Supported. an Unpopular Peace Mission

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 January 1901 · page 4

LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The majority of the Dutch farmers in or near, Wellington, in the Paarl district, 40 miles northeast of Capetown, support the Kroonstad…

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