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Churches, 1908

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The Anglican Congress

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 6

The keynote of an article on "An Imperial Conference of the Church, and its Significance," by Bishop Welldon, in the "Nineteenth Century and After," is that the Pan-Anglican…

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The Home Mission, Secretary on Tour

The Methodist · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 3

Cootamundra.—Hitherto my journeys had been on tracks familiar to me. This trip took me to entirely new fields. I alighted first at Cootamundra. The weather was intensely cold. Fogs and frost cut down…

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CORRESPONDENCE The Mission to India. to the Editor

The Methodist · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 8

Sir,—In the letter, over the name of the Rev. Wm. Aitken Heighway, which appears in your issue of the 6th of June, there is only one point I should like to notice…

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Letter from Mrs. Bromilow To the Methodist Women's F.M. Auxiliary Societies of New South Wales

The Methodist · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 8

My Dear Sisters,— It has fallen to my lot to send you a letter this month. I greet you first of all with thankfulness for all your sympathetic help in the past…

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A "Directoire" Costume. That Attracted Mr. Winston Churchill

The World's News · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 5

Mile. Titcombe, wearing the "Directoire" dress, shown in the illustration on this page, went for a ride in Rotten-Row (London), one Saturday morning recently and created quite a…

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Church Society. an Unsatisfactory Position

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 6

The Vicar-General, Archdeacon Gunther, presided in the Chapter-house of St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday afternoon at the fiftysecond annual meeting of the Church Society…

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The Churches

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 6

Archdeacon Gunther, Vicar-General, on Sunday preached at St. John's Parramatta, on "The Spiritual Expansion of the Church;" on Monday afternoon preached at a meeting of…

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Sunday Concerts. Chapter House Protests the Church Moving

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 13

The Town Clerk yesterday received a latter from the Vicar-General, Archdoacon Gunther, protesting, on behalf of St. Andrew's Cathedral Chapter, against the resolution of…

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NO. 1 Jury Court. (Before Mr. Justice Sly and a jury.) Pitt-street Church Organ. Rendall v Dunstan and others

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 10

Dr. Cullen, K.C., and Dr. Brissenden, instructed by Mr. Ralph L. Houston (Houston and Co.), appeared for the plaintiff, Walter George Randall; and Mr. Leverrier and Mr…

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The Church and the World

The Methodist · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 7

The meetings of the May Synods in England have discussed the question of the decrease in the membership already reported. There was a good deal of heart searching. A speaker in one of the Western…

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A Church Organ Rendall v. Dunstan and Others Plaintiff Non-suited

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 15

The action in connection with the organ of the pott-street congregational church was concluded yesterday afternoon. Mr. Justice sky heard argument on the…

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The Church of Scotland

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 11

Rev. S. P. Stewart, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia, addressed the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland tin the evening of May 20. along with…

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The Church Society. Annual Meeting

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 10

The fifty-second annual meeting of the Church Society for the Diocese of Sydney was held in the Chapter-house, St. Andrew's' Cathedral, yesterday. The Vicar-General, Archdeacon Gunther. presided, and there was a…

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NO. 1 JURY. (Before Mr. Justice. Sly and a jury of four.) the Church Organ Case. Rendall v. Dunstan and Others. Plaintiff Nonsuited

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 22

The hearing of the action brought by Walter George Rendall, organ-builder, against Edward Tremayne Dunstan and others, deacons of the Pitt-street. Congregational Church, to…

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Religious. Arrested Church Progress

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 19

The statements as to the arrested progress of the Churches made at the recent May assemblies receive startling confirmation front America. The London "Christian World" publishes…

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The Country Bathurst Church Lads Brigade

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 20

BATHURST, Friday.--At the second anniversary of the company of the Church Dads Brigade connected with St. Barnabas Church of England, South Bathurst, last night, it was…

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Pan-anglican Congress

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 July 1908 · page 8

One of the most difficult parts of the organisation in connection with the Pan Anglican Congress was met with in arranging hospitality for the groat number of…

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£6000 for Wesleyan Mission

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 July 1908 · page 8

Mr. Jesse Boot, head of the well-known firm of chemists, of England, has offered the Wesleyan Mission £3000 towards the cost of an organ, in addition to…

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At Sydney's Churches No. 75.—Glebe Presbyterian Church

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 July 1908 · page 5

Situate at the corner of Globe and Parramatta roads, the Glebe Presbyterian Church occuples a fine position, and the edlfice worthy of It. The church was…

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Sunday Concerts in Church Hours

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 July 1908 · page 12

The City Council on Monday night carried a motion by Alderman Measlier to allow concerts to take place in the Town Hall on Sundays during the hours of service in St, Andrew's Cathedral…

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