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Churches, 1909

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Anglican News

Evening News · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 2

During the past year the members of the Lay Readers' Association conducted 350 services in 43 localities. The total number of services, since the inception of the association in 1875, numbers 16,510…

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Methodist Conference

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 17

The Methodist Conference was continued at the Conference-hall, Castlereagh-street, yesterday morning. The first hour was devoted to the consideration of the status of students…

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South Sydney Mission

The Methodist · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 12

On Wednesday evening,, the 17th of February, the teachers and senior classes of the Wesley Sunday School tendered a very hearty welcome to the…

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Methodist Conference. Ministerial Session

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 11

A brief ministerial session was held yesterday morning. The president of the conference presided. The report of the examining committee in respect of candidates for the ministry, theological students, and…

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Selected. the Chapman-alexander Mission

The Methodist · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 15

The other day, a large number oil representatives from the various Evangelical Churches of Sydney and suburbs met in the Y.M.C.A. Lecture Hall in…

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Methodist Church of Australasia. New South Wales Annual Conference. Tuesday, February 23rd

The Methodist · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 2

The Opening Session of the New South Wales Conference took place, under exceptionally favourable circumstances, on Tuesday evening last, at 7 p.m. For the first time, the Conference assembled in the…

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"The Muster of the Methodist Clans." Margaret. I. Holliday

The Methodist · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 11

The Methodist circles were magnetic with emotion—it was the opening of the Conference of 1909! The tang of life pulsated in the vicinage of the "Lyceum, as the br[?]ren and members, adherents, and…

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Northern Territory. a Great Lone Land. Industrial Mission Stations. Interview with Bishop White

Evening News · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 7

FREMANTLE. Saturday.—Among the passengers from London by R.M.C. Orontes is the Right Hon. Dr. White, Bishop of Carpentaria, who is returning from the pan-Anglican…

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St. Francis' Church. Haymarket Edifice to Disappear. Before the Tide of City Improvement

Evening News · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 3

Within a very short time the buildings known as St. Francis' Roman Catholic Church and Schoolhouse, at Haymarket, Sydney, will pass away, for in July last the City Council…

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The Churches

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 11

The Archbishop of Sydney presided at a harvest festival service held at St. Aldan s Church, Blackheath on Sunday. Private letters received by this week's…

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The Church Triumphant. MRS. S. BLUMER

The Methodist · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 15

The late Mrs. Sarah Blumer passed away peacefully on January 28th, after a short illness of about seven days. She was in her 81st year. She was an old colonist,…

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Export of Fruit to England An Interview with Mr. C. Churchill Tucker

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 7

Mr. C. Churchill Tucker, councillor of Hornshy Shire, ami member of the well known Sydney firm of Tucker and Co., wine merchants, who has recently…

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Ridding the Church of Smyth-pigott. Charges of Immorality Proved. London, January 20

Sunday Times · Sunday 28 February 1909 · page 12

The Rev. John Hugh Smyth-Pigott, a clergyman in the Church of England, the self-styled Messiah, and the head or the notorious Agapemone at Spaxton,…

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At Sydney's Churches 108.-Chrhst Church, North Sydney

Sunday Times · Sunday 28 February 1909 · page 7

Snugly ensconced on the incllne above the northern shore of Lavender Bay, and within a stone's throw of the water, stands Christ Church, a pillar of…

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The "Spectator" on Mr. Churchill

Sunday Times · Sunday 28 February 1909 · page 6

"For brazen political impudence, for flagrant paradox, for unblushing sophistry, Mr. Churchill's speech at Birmingham would be hard to beat" (says the…

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Methodist Conference

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1909 · page 8

A pastoral session was held on Saturday morning. The President of the Confernce, Rev.J.Beale presided. Rev. H. Jones, of Robertson, applied to be made a supernumerary. It was agreed to comply with…

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Cardinal Moran at Watson's Bay. New Roman Catholic Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1909 · page 8

Cardinal Moran, after bestowing his blessing upon the foundation-stone of the little church now being built at Watson's Bay, performed the ceremony yesterday of laying it…

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Methodist Conference. Ministerial Session

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 March 1909 · page 8

The Ministerial Session of the Methodist Conference on Saturday forenoon was devoted to the consideration of the examining committee's report 011 tho work of tho probationers for the year…

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Sabbath School Quarrel. Christ Church, Geelong. Incumbent and Superintendent. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1909 · page 8

Recently Mr. Pearson was dismissed from the position of superintendent of Christ Church Sunday school, Goolong, by the Rev. F. R. Newton, who succeeded Canon Nash…

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Watson's Bay Church. Laying a Foundation-stone

The Australian Star · Monday 1 March 1909 · page 1

The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a now church at Watson's Bay was performed yesterday by Cardinal Moran. There was a large gathering of…

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