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Churches, 1913

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Bishop Scolds His Clergy. "Indolemt and Listless." Empty Churches at Carlisle. London, Thursday, 9.10 p.m

The Sun · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 9

The Bishop of Carlisle (Rev. J. W. Diggle), in a pastoral letter to the clergy of the diocese, refers to the good work which was done last year, but adds: "There…

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Palace.—"the Parish Priest."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 23

This evening, at the Palace Theatre, Mr. Allen Doone will produce Daniel L. Hart's three-act domestic drams "The Parish Priest," a play which has won a reputation throughout American. Tableaux showing…

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An Australian Catholic Federation

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 12

According to the "Catholic Pross" the organisation in New South Wales of the Australian Catholic Federation will engage the attention of the Roman Catholic laity early this year…

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Tasmania's New Governor. More Catholic Protests. Hobart

The Sun · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 9

Objections continue to pour forth from local Catholics against Mr. Ellison Macartney as Governor of Tasmania. One of the leaders of the State Labor…

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Welsh Church. Disestablishment Bill Position of Border Parishes. London

Evening News · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 8

The Welsh Church Disestablishment Bill is making steady progress through committee. On clause 9 an amendment was moved by Mr. G. Cave (Unionist) to exclude border…

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Western Suburbs Churches' Union. January 4 and 11. A Grade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 22

St. Clement's v Marrickville Methodist (wicket No. 8), Enmore Tabernacle v All S[?]s' (No. 1), St. Peter's C.K. v Dulwich Hill Holy Trinity (St. Peters), Stanmore Presbyterian v Marrickville Presbterian…

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The Churches. Religious Education

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 6

Speaking at a meeting held in London a few weeks ago on the value of religious education, Lord Hugh Cecil, M.P., said of the two sets of crities—secularists and…

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Our Boys and Girls. a Clean Church

The Methodist · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 4

My dear boys and girls,—On the eleventh day of the twelfth month of that poor old year that died only last Tuesday night, I had the pleasure of travelling in the train with the G.S. to a beautiful country town…

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Keep Away From the Edge Sect Believe World Flat. Bar Newspapers and Churches

The Sun · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 12

There are many strange sects in the world, and one of the oddest must surely be the Amish community in Alabama and Oregon. A representative of the United…

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General Cables. Church Statistics

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 14

LONDON, Thursday Evening. -- According to the year's, statistics, the Congregationalists of the United Kingdom lost 2221 members and 3178 Sunday school scholars during 1912. The…

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"The Parish Priest."

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1913 · page 3

Possessing an indefinable but happy blending of humor and pathos. "The Parish Priest" completely captured the large audience at the Palace Theatre last night. The play was well…

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The Theatres Palace—"the Parish Priest."

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 January 1913 · page 2

Last night at the Palace Theatre Mr. Allen Doone produced "The Parish Priest." by Daniel L. Hart, an American author, The domestic drama in three acts, as it is styled, is new…

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Church Anarchy

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 January 1913 · page 19

In the Upper House of Convocation last month the Bishop of Manchester moved,—"That it is desirable that for the existing Ornaments Rubric the following be substituted : The minister, at…

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Water in Church Wine

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 January 1913 · page 19

The vexed question of the use of fermented wine in the Eucharist of the Church was discussed by the Bishop of Lincoln, England (Dr. Hicks), in delivering a lecture in Manchester…

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Church with a History

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 January 1913 · page 27

Last month the 210th anniversary festival services of the Church of St. Thomas. Regent street, W:, London, were held. The original wooden chapel known as "the Oratory or…

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Peculiar Will. Dr. Bernard Keemn. Masonic Chaplain and the R.C. CHURCH

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1913 · page 10

A somewhat peculiar will is that of the late Dr. Bernard Keena of "Royston," Rose Bay, "Clerk in [?]oly Orders and Doctor of Divinity," which has been…

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The Church Militant Roughs Interrupt Congregation. and Are Routed By the Pastor. Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1913 · page 9

A number of unruly roughs interrupted services being conducted by Rev. John Hosking in the Congregational Church, at the comer of Brunswick and Fitzroy streets, last night,…

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New Anglican Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1913 · page 3

The Archbishop of Sydney laid the foundation stone of a new Anglican Church at Roseville on Saturday. Last March the district was subdivided so as to make Lindfield…

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"The Parish Priest."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1913 · page 3

The quiet comedy of parish life, produced by Allen Doone at the Palace Theatre on Saturday night, afforded mental refreshment to a crowd of playgroers, pleased to be led…

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Anglican Church. Question of Continuity. Theological Controversy

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1913 · page 12

BATHURST, Sunday. -- Two weeks ago Very Rev. M. J. O'Reilly, president of St. Stanislaus' College, Bathurst, and provincial of the Vincentian Fathers in Australia, took…

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