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Churches, 1912

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Police and Military. Churchill's Bodyguard. Preparing for Eventualities

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 9

LONDON, Wednesday Evening.--Southern detachments of police are being brought to Belfast for the purpose of strengthening the local…

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Church Bells Ring Warnings. Settlers Lose Heavily

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 9

ADELAIDE, Thursday.--A fierce bush fire has been raging to the westward of Mr. Hahndorf's place, and close to the township, all day. Many settlers have lost everything but…

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The Churches

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 13

ORANGE, Thursday.--Rev. Woolls Rutledge, organising secretary of the Methodist centenary fund, has visited the district, and received promises towards the fund of over £400…

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Methodist Fete

Nepean Times · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 6

The annual Methodist garden fete opened on Tuesday afternoon last under much better weather, conditions than the previous one, when heavy…

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Randwick Revival Mission

The Methodist · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 8

Although the notice given was very short, yet we have to record a most helpful visit from our conference Evangelist, the Rev. A. E. Walker, and his sister, Miss P. Walker. The Mission began on January 13th…

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Open-air Gospel Mission

The Methodist · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 2

The workers of the Open-air Gospel Mission devoted the holiday on Friday last to conducting meetings at Manly and Coogee. At Coogee the meeting was held during the…

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Presbyterian Protest. London, Feb. 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 17

Ten thousand Presbyterians from all parts of Ireland held a demonstration in Belfast against Home Rule. It was resolved to urge the Government, with…

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The Fourth Ecumenical Methodist Conference Held at the Methodise Metropolitan Church, Toronto, Canada, October 4th TO 17th, 1911. the Conference Message To be read in all our Methodist Churches throughout the world on the first Sunday of February, 1912

The Methodist · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 1

The Ecumenical Methodist Conference assembled in Toronto, sends greetings to the Methodist Churches throughout the world. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We offer…

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Vice-regal Influence. a Presbyterian Protest. Rights and Liberties of Protestants. No Encroachments by Rome Wanted. London

The Sun · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 1

A leading Presbyterian adverting to the attitude of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and Lady Aberdeen, says: -- "This is not the time for honeyed words. I say Vice-Regal…

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Late Cable News. Received To-day. Workers' Worries. Miners and the Minimum. Anti-catholic Cotton-spinners. French Taxi Strike. the Lisbon Outbreak

Evening News · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 2

LONDON, Friday Evening.—The Miners' Federation has adopted a scale of minimum rates, which vary according to the districts they apply to…

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Church Murder. Verger Found Done to Death Near Altar. Village Priest Arrested

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 11

The inhabitants of Igornay, a little town in Burgundy have been thrown into a state of consternation by the arrest of the village…

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Notes. Mr. Winston Churchill

Evening News · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 8

Preba[?]y the most diag[?] man over the ta[?] of the Nationalists to held their meeting in Ulster Hall is Mr. Winston Charchiff. The First Lord of the Admiralty likes…

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Not Mere Salvage. Churchmen's Duties. a Bishop's Homily

Evening News · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 5

LONDON, Friday Evening.—The Bishop of Oxford, Dr. Chan Gore, addressing the Christian Social Union at Westminster, denounced churchmen's traditional indifference to social…

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The Churches. Orange, Friday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 15

The Rev. Wools Rutledge, organising-secretary of the Methodist Centenary Fund, whose objective is the sum of £50,000, has completed his tour of this district. He has obtained…

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The Churches. Is the Pulpit [?]Oomed?

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 4

Church circles in the old country are considerably perturbed about an extraordinary pronouncement on the part of an ex-chairman of the Notts Congregational Union. A violent…

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The Church's Objective

The Methodist · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 2

The criticism of the American Church that, has been recently indulged in by Sir Robt. W. Perks, one of the prominent Wesleyan Methodists of England, raises the question of the Church's objective, and whilst…

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Church Triumphant Mrs. Grace Johns

The Methodist · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 10

Relict of the late Mr. Thomas Johns, of Fairfield Farm, Adamstown, passed from earth to heaven on Friday, January 5th. Mrs. Johns was the oldest…

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The King Denounced by Presbyterian Protesters. Row Over a Communion Table. London

Truth · Sunday 4 February 1912 · page 2

The "Standard" says that the Communion table recently placed in the Crathie Parish Church by King George as a memorial to his father is the cause of…

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Abolish the Slums. Bishop of Oxford on Churches' Social Obligations. London, Friday Night

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 February 1912 · page 7

The Bishop of Oxford, addressing the Christian Social Union of Westminster, denounced the Churchmen's traditional indifference to social obligations…

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Life in a Graveyard—among the Tombs in Time of Trouble—a Churchyard As a Lying-in Hospital

Truth · Sunday 4 February 1912 · page 10

Strange things happen in the labyrinth known as London. The place is so overcrowded that the only privacy for people in trouble is among the tombs. There is…

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