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Churches, 1908

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South Sydney Mission

The Methodist · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 1

A fairly healthy centre with a fairly indefinite circumference. A conglomerate of heavy debts and infant enterprises. Wesley Church, with its magnificent memories and still existing possibilites. Mount Lachlan…

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The English Methodist Decrease

The Methodist · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 7

The London Connexional papers just received give some particulars of the decrease in the membership of the Wesleyan Methodist Church as already reported by cable message all over the world. The…

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The Methodist Pulpit of To-day

The Methodist · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 1

IN a leading article of a column and a quarter's extent in one of our morning dailies, lament was recently made over the decline of interest on the part of the play-going public in plays making any serious demand…

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Pan-anglican Congress. of Australian Origin. Its Aims and Objects

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- At a public meeting to-night, Archdeacon Hindley explained that the Pan-Anglican Congress, to be held in London, was really of Australian origin…

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The Mission Field. Archbishop and Nonconformists "A Noble Utterance." London, May 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 13

The Archbishop of Canterbury, in a letter heartily wishing Godspeed to the London Missionary Society's forthcoming exhibition in London, expresses a hope for…

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The Kindergarten System. As Practised at the Rockdale Methodist Sunday School. Apparatus

The Methodist · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 4

1.Sand Table.—Zine trays, 2 ft, 6 in, x 2 ft, 3 in, deep, as used by the State Department of Public Instruction, costing about 6s each, can be obtained at school stationers. (Our own is a specially constructed…

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New Church at Woolwich

Evening News · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 2

His Excellency Sir Harry Rawson will lay the foundation-stone of St. John's Church, Woolwich, this afternoon. A squad of bluejackets, by direction of Commander Buchard, of the…

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Bluebird Builds Nest in a Woman's New Hat. Follows the Hat's Wearer to Church

The World's News · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 17

Mrs. Simon Harrison, pretty and demure, entered the Methodist church at Swinefield, N.J., one Sunday recently, wearing a brand new and becoming hat. Over the mass of flowers,…

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The Churches

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 11

An interesting article in a recent "Guardian," by an Englishman, deals with the Canadian clergy of to-day. The method of appointment to parishes is a good example of…

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Union of Churches. to the Editor

The Methodist · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 3

Sir,—In a copy of the "Congregationalist" for May, 1st, put into my hands by a young man canvassing for subscribers, my eye alighted first thing upon a paragraph entitled "Union of the Churches." I…

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Gladstone's Church Rules

The Methodist · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 9

Hung on a pillar of the nave in the little church of St. Deniol's, at Hawarden— where Gladstone regularly attended church when at home—are his rules on church at-…

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A Powerful Church

The Australian Star · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 6

In no European State, probably, does the Churh wield such power as in Greece. It will hardly be disputed by those versed in the internal history of modern Greece that…

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Religious. Decrease in Church Membership

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 May 1908 · page 15

Referring to the London cablegram a few weeks ago, stating that there had been a decrease in the membership of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in England and Wales, the…

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Turncoat Churchill

Sunday Times · Sunday 31 May 1908 · page 6

In view of Mr. Winston Churchill's campaign in Manchester and his flamboyant Radical election address, the following quotations from his speeches…

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At Sydney's Churches No. 71.—Our Duty to the State

Sunday Times · Sunday 31 May 1908 · page 6

AN inspiring sermon was preached by the Rev. W. I. Carr Smith, one of the military chaplains, at St. Andrew's Cathedral, last Sunday before a large…

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A Powerful Church

Sunday Times · Sunday 31 May 1908 · page 7

In no European State, probably, does the Church wield such power as in Greece. It will hardly be disputed by those versed in the internal history of modern Greece…

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St. John's Church, Woolwich

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 31 May 1908 · page 1

Yesterday afternoon the foundation-stone of the new Anglian Church at Woolwich was laid by Sir Harry Rawson, in the presence of a large gathering. The old church a wooden building, had been moved bodily…

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A Distinguished Presbyterian. Death of Dr. G. M'innes

Evening News · Monday 1 June 1908 · page 2

Rev. George Mi'Innes. pastor of St. David's Presbyterian Church, Ashfield, died at his residence, Parramatta-road, Summer Hill, yesterday morning, at the age of 61. The deceased…

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Revival in South Aerica. the Cause of Federation. General Botha's Mission. London, May 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 June 1908 · page 7

Mr. Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, in the course of a speech which he delivered at the South African dinner, over which he presided, said that…

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New Church at Woolwich. Laying the Foundation-stone

Evening News · Monday 1 June 1908 · page 6

The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of St. John's (C.E.). Woolwich, by His Excellency Sir Harry Rawson on Saturday afternoon was witnessed by folly 2000 people. Elaborate…

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