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Churches, 1911

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The Church Army's Financial Position

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 April 1911 · page 19

The Church Army "Blue-book" has been issued for the year ended September 30, 1910. The Army's total receipts amounted to £289,377, and the excess of expenditure over income came to…

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St. David's Presbyterian Church

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 April 1911 · page 4

The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the manse to he used in connection with St. David's Presbyterian Church, Dobroyde was performed on Saturday afternoon by Mrs. J, H. Goodlet…

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New Presbyterian Manse

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 April 1911 · page 6

The ceremony of laying the foundationstone of the new manse which is being built for St. David's Presbyterian Church, Dobroyde, was performed by Mrs. J. H. Goodlet…

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Roman Catholic Presbytery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 April 1911 · page 10

At Fern Hill on Sunday afternoon Cardinal Moran laid and blessed the foundation-stone of a new presbytery in connection with St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church…

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Confiscated Church Property

Evening News · Monday 24 April 1911 · page 8

LISBON, Sunday Evening.—It is estimated cost the Government will secure £6,000,000 as the result of the configuration of Church property…

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The Church in Portugal a Drastic Law

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 April 1911 · page 7

LISBON, Friday Afternoon.—The bill Introduced into the Chamber of Deputies dealing with the Church, abolishes the taxes paid for the maintenance of parish priests…

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Mission Steamer John Williams

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 10

Mr. Thomas Pratt, agent, for the London Missionary Society, has received a telegram from captain Steele, of the mission steamer John Williams, stating that he was leaving Daru on the 18th inst., and that he…

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New Roman Catholic Presbytery

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 15

The foundation-stone of the new presbytery in connection with St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church at Fernhill was laid and blessed by Cardinal Morana on Saturday afternoon, in the presence of a large gathering of…

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Victoria's Immigrants. Result of the Mead Mission. Domestics Like the Climate

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Monday.--The net result of the M'Kenzie-Mead Mission to Europe and America so far is 2027 immigrants, men, women, and children. Only 141 heads of families or single…

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Anglicans in the Mission Field. C.m.s. Has Good Record. New South Wales and Victoria Federate

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 12

The 86th anniversary meeting of the Anglican Church Missionary Association was held in the Y.M.C.A.-hall last evening, the Archbishop of Sydney (Dr. Wright) presiding. There was a…

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Religion in Portugal. Church Property Confiscated. Lisbon, April 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 9

It is estimated that the Government will secure £6,000,000 as the result of its confiscation of Church property…

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Church Missionary Association. Eighty-sixth Anniversary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 12

The Y.M.C.A. Hall was crowded last night, when the eighty-sixth anniversary of the Church Missionary Association was celebrated. The Archbishop of Sydney (Dr. Wright)…

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Slumber in Church. Clergyman's Sharp Rebuke. Melbourne

The Sun · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 7

Another of our old prerogatiorna is to be swept away. No longer ore we to be permitted to slumber peacefully la our pews while the preacher forges his way from…

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An Easily-earned £6,000,000. by Confiscation of Church Property

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 9

LISBON, Sunday Afternoon.--It is estimated that the Government will secure £6,000,000 as a result of the proposed confiscation of property belonging to the Church…

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Churches. Bourke

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 15

Bishop Stone Wigg, formerly Bishop of New Guinea, conducted the morning and evening services in St. Stephen's, Church of England, on Sunday. On Monday evening he…

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News of the Churches

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 57

Rev. W. P. F. Dorph has been inducted as rector of St. Peter's, Rockley, by the Bishop of Bathurst. Rev. J. F. Thomas (Anglican), of Goulburn…

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The Churches Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 56

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…

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The "Catholic" Church

Watchman · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 6

Not only Father O'Gorman, but Rome everywhere arrogates the title of the Catholic Church. What, and where, is the Catholic Church? Dr. J. B. Paton, in…

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Catholic World

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 34

"A Palavra," the only Portuguese paper which can now be regarded as reliable where ecclesiastical affairs are concerned, has incurred the displeasure of the Portuguese…

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Catholic Notes

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 21

The Rev. John Sherin has been appointed chaplain to the State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay. The Pope is unwell, says the cable, but his…

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