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Churches, 1902

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Presbyterian Assembly. Evening Session

The Australian Star · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 5

When the Assembly resumed in the evening after devotional exercises the Clerk announced the names of those who had been elected to the different committees of the Church…

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Presbyterian Assembly. the Church Property. Pitt-street Church Resumptions

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 12

The Presbyterian General State Assembly resumed its bueine[?]s yesterday morning in St. Stephen's Church. Phillip-street, the Moderator (the Rev. John Walker) providing…

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Catholic Notes and News

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 22

On Sunday his Grace the Coadjutor-Arch-bishop will preside at the Hibernian Society's annual Breakfast in St. Benedict's Hall at 9 a.m. He will afterwards journey to Manly…

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Methodist Union at Leichhardt

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 14

A tea and public meeting, to commemorate the union of the Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist Churches and tho creation of Leichhardt as a separate circuit, were held in the…

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Work of the Simultaneous Mission

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 12

The Simultaneous Mission closed to-night, and the termination provided some remarkable scenes. Four huge meetings were held daring the day at prominent centres in the city, and…

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Presbyterian General Assembly. the Annual Session

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 7

The thirty-seventh annual session of the Presbyterian General Assembly of New South Wales was continued at St. Stephen's Church, Philip-street yesterday. The Right Rev. the Moderator (the Rev…

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Catholic Education. Address by Dr. Higgins

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 26

The Right Rev. Dr. Higgins, Bishop of Rockhampton, opened and blessed the new Echoed of the Christian Brothers at Charters Towers on April 13. At the conclusion of the…

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The Coronation Oath and the Presbyterian Assembly

Watchman · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 8

The Rev. Robert Thomson, of Ladywell Parish Church, Glasgow, occupies the sa[?] position in that city as the champion of Protestantism that our own Dr. Dill Macky does in…

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Kogarah Methodist Literary, Debating and Social Union

The St Georges Advocate · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 2

THE weekly meeting of the above society was held on Wednesday evening last. The question before the house was a debate on the subject,…

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What to Eat. How Food Affects Health. Specially Written for the "Catholic Press." Chapter I,—(Continues)

The Catholic Press · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 26

For every physical and mental Effort, therefore, a corresponding debt must be paid in the transformation of some of our living structures. Whether we run or walk, or…

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The Children's Columns. For Boys and Girls Who Read the "Catholic Press." Result of the Competition

The Catholic Press · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 29

Dear Playments,—I must confess that I do not like judging our competitions. Not only is it very hard to single out the composition containing the most excellence, but…

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Grand Mathodist Celebration. Interesting snail Enthusiastic Meetings at Parramatta. Stirring Speeches by Prominent Methodist Leaders. Letters from Archdeacon Gunther and She Hon. Joseph Cook

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 11

On Wednesday last, the long-talked of Parramatta Celebration in connection with the consummation of organic Union of the different Methodist Churches of Australasia took place…

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The Annual Missionary Meeting of Penrith Wesleyan Church

Nepean Times · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 4

The central block in the local Wesleyan church building was comfortably filled on Monday evening last by an expectant audience, who attended to hear yet another deliverance from the Rev W Chambers,…

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Church of the Immaculate Conception, Manly

The Catholic Press · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 18

On Sunday there will be Solemn High Mass at 11 o'clock at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Manly, when his Grace the Archbishop will bless the new…

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Church of the Immaculate Conception Manly

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 22

On Sunday next, 11th inst., there will be a Solemn High Mass at 11 o'clock, when the Archbishop will bless the new school…

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News of the Churches

Watchman · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 4

'Missionary Gilbert is back again to his work among the Seamen, after fourteen weeks' absence down the South Coast with the "Canvas Cathedral."…

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New York Churches at Easter. £100,000 Given on Easter

The World's News · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 3

Like everything else in the United States, church offerings are on a tremendous scale. The latest American flies show that Easter offerings (that is, offerings on Easter Sunday) in New…

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Church Struck by a Cyclone

The World's News · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 9

On Sunday, March 30, the United Presbyterian Church at Jamestown, Penn., U.S.A., was struck by a cyclone. It was whilst the Easter services were going forward. Just before noon the sky…

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A Member of the Church Militant

The World's News · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 26

Most people favor religious toleration, but the advocacy of murder from the pulpit really passes the limit of tolerable opinion. It is, therefore, not surprising that the Austrian Government has…

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Waverley Congregational Church. Welcome to the Rev. R. F. Beecher, B.a

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 10

The Rev. R. F. Beecher, B. A., late of Parramatta, who began his pastorate of the Waverley Congregational Church on sunday last, was accorded a welcome at the church on Thursday…

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