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Churches, 1913

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Covered with a Gun. Man in a Church. Helensburgh

The Sun · Tuesday 22 April 1913 · page 5

There was a good deal of excitement at the Roman Catholic Church shortly after 6 o'clock on Sunday morning, when a man was discovered by two sisters of the convent…

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Church Cricket Competition Final in Dispute

The Sun · Tuesday 22 April 1913 · page 12

The action of the umpire in declaring Paddington Mission winners of the match with Mill Hill in the final of the Eastern Suburbs Churches Cricket Association competition is…

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Sacrilegious Burglar. Lindfield Church Entered. the Communion Wine

The Sun · Tuesday 22 April 1913 · page 1

The inadequate staff of plain-clothes constables in the northern suburbs is becoming bewildered with the pranks of the burglars and housebreakers that revel nightly in the…

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Cathedral Church at Singleton

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 April 1913 · page 9

All Saints' Anglican Church, Singleton, which has just been completed and consecrated, cost £25,450, and will be an enduring memorial to the late Mr. A. A. Dangar, by whose…

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Retirement of an Anglican Clergyman

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 23 April 1913 · page 29

It is announced that the Rev. Stephen Henry Childe, B.A., who has been incumbent of St. Thomas' (Anglican) Church, North Sydney, since 1880,. is about to retire. The…

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Balkan Issues. Reconciliation Mission. London, Tuesday, 8.45 p.m

The Sun · Wednesday 23 April 1913 · page 8

M. Tcharykoff, formerly Russian Ambassador in Constantinople, is reported to have been entrusted with a mission to reconcile Turkey and the Allies, and to make way…

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Dominion Navies. Mr. Churchill's Opinion Need for Conference. a Serious Situation. (From Our Special Correspondent.) (By Telegraph from Fremantle.) LONDON, March 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 April 1913 · page 13

It is useless attempting to disguise the seriousness of the statement by Mr. Winston Churchill in his speech explaining the navy estimates on Wednesday. I was present…

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Suffragette Vandals. Try to Burn Historic Church London, Tuesday, 9.15 p.m

The Sun · Wednesday 23 April 1913 · page 8

Suffragettes tried to perpetrate another gross act of vandalism last night, when they made an attempt to burn down the historic church at Minster, in the Isle of Thanet,…

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Mr. Churchill Robbed. Dramatic Spy Story. First Lord's Serious Loss. Relieved of £500 and Important Documents. Light-fingered Lady's Clever Work. London

The Sun · Wednesday 23 April 1913 · page 9

An extraordinary story of a daring robbery of which Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, was lately made the victim by a young woman at Cannes, has…

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The Churches

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 23 April 1913 · page 13

RICHMOND, Tuesday.--Mr. Frank Biddle, n candidate for- the ministry, was tendered a send-off in the Methodist Church, and presented with a cheque. Mr. Biddle left, for…

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News of the Churches

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 23 April 1913 · page 57

The Passover Festival of the Jewish community is being celebrated this week. The inaugural service was held on April 21, at the Great Synagogue, Sydney…

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The Churches Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 23 April 1913 · 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, the…

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Catholic Notes

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 24 April 1913 · page 21

Very Rev. Father Butler, P.P., Tumut, died on Sunday last. Further particulars next issue. The annual Catholic social is announced…

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The Catholic World

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 24 April 1913 · page 7

Archbishop Quigley, of Chicago, has become Chancellor of De Paul University, in that city. Within the past three months two Jesuits…

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Catholic Education Praised

The Catholic Press · Thursday 24 April 1913 · page 6

A word in favour of Catholic education by Protestants was something altogether out of the ordinary 15 or 20 years ago, but nowadays any amount of testimony like the…

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Mission Yacht Southern Cross

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 April 1913 · page 7

NORFOLK ISLAND, Wednesday.--The mission yacht Southern Cross arrived to-day, and leaves for the Islands to-morrow. Her passengers were: Bishop Wood, Archdeacon Uthwaite, Mrs…

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How the Anglican Monks and Nuns were Received into the Church

The Catholic Press · Thursday 24 April 1913 · page 16

In your last issue I gave an accouut of events at Caldey up to Monday. On that day the Abbot of Maredsous, Dom Columba Marmion, arrived. He had very kindly…

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Catholic Federation. Forming Branches

The Catholic Press · Thursday 24 April 1913 · page 31

The ordinary meeting of the Provisional Committee of the Catholic Federation was held last Wednesday evening at the Catholic Club. The president, Mr. P. S. Cleary…

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The Anglican Benedictines. Catholic Reception of Monks and Nuns. Converts Received as Oblates of St. Benedict. Unprecedented Event

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 24 April 1913 · page 37

On the island of Caldey has been concluded a ceremony which would bring to mind the triumphs of the Church in the past, when hordes of savages abjured their worship of…

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Catholic Federation of New South Wales

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 24 April 1913 · page 16

The ordinary meeting of the provisional committee was held last Wednesday evening at the Catholic Club. The president (Mr. P. S. Cleary) occupied the chair, and Mr…

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