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Churches, 1915

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The Church and Bed Cross

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 2

It will be remembered that at a meeting of the local council held a couple of weeks ago, an application was received from the Rev. A. E. J. Ross, rector of S. Mark's, for…

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From Comedy to Pathos How French Outpost Captured a Thief Woman in Disguise and Her Painful Mission

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 January 1915 · page 1

"Peste !" said the sergeant. "Where is my chocolate ?" He emptied his knapsack and shook it upside down in the effort to discover the strayed…

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Catholic Education

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 7

A letter written by Archbishop Kelly on the education question was read in the Roman Catholic churches of the archdiocese yesterday. The faithful were invited to attend a great…

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St. Patrick's Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 10

St. Patrick s new parish hall and school building was officially oponed and blessed on Sunday afternoon by Atchbishop Kelly. The Archbishop said that all their city and…

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Boy Scouts. Week's "Rally" Opened. Church Parade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 10

On Saturday night boy scouts drawn from the metropolitan area, together with 20 from Cilgandra, making about 500 in all, took part in a route march from the Sydney Sports…

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Mass in Ruined Church. London, Saturday Night

The Sun · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 1

The Bishop of Sora celebrated mass at an improvised altar amid the ruins of his church. Ten thousand survivors were kneeling before the altar when another shock…

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Church and State. Identity in Education

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 8

A vigorous assertion of the identity of interest in education as between Church and State a strong pica for fuller recognition of the claims Roman Catholic schools in this…

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Buildings and Works. Progress of the Trade. New Parish Hall and School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 7

The new hall and school of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic parish, Church Hill, was officially opened by Dr. Kelly on Sunday last. The building, several stories in height, has a…

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The Churches. Parkes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 10

At the Methodist quarterly meeting, the Rev. A. J. Burt intimated that he would not be remaining for [?] fourth year in the circuit. The appointment of a successsor was left to the…

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Welsh Church Bill

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 7

LONDON, Monday.--Remarkable progress is being made in the taking of signatures asking, in view of the war that the Welsh Disestablishment Bill be modified so as to prevent…

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French Peasants Imprisoned in a Church

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 17

Where the German soldiery has not wantonly levelled churches to the ground, it has utilised them as stores, prisons, and barracks, utterly regardless of the sacred associations of such places. Here a French church houses the remnant of a village population, not because their German captors have awakened to humane sentiment but simply in order to guard against espionage. For that reason men and women are herded in the straw-strewn nave, while sentinels with fixed bayonets keep watch…

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Church Services on Courses

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 1

The secretaries of the various race clubs in the metropolitan areas have received the following circular:—…

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News of the Churches

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 49

The Rev. G. Logan has been inducted to the charge of Maclean by the Presbytery of the Clarence. The Rev. G. H. Cranswick is to be inducted…

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The Churches Sermon for the Home

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 20 January 1915 · page 48

Under this heading, sermons by eminent preachers are published in this widely-circulated paper, in order that in the remote interior, where churches, and a clergyman is rarely seen, the…

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Bulli Parish

The Catholic Press · Thursday 21 January 1915 · page 34

Mass is celebrated in St. Joseph's Church, Bulli, on the first and third Sundays of the month at 8.30, and on the second and fourth Sundays at 11…

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Catholic Notes

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 21 January 1915 · page 24

St.Joseph's College, Hunter's Hill, secured same Out of eleven honours awarded for all schools for chemistry, at the Leaving Certificate Examinations…

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Catholic Women's Association

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 21 January 1915 · page 24
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At the general meeting of the Association on Monday, 11th inst., a vote of sympathy to Mrs. Trefle (who is vice-president of the Association) in the sad loss of he husband,…

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The Catholic World

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 21 January 1915 · page 10

Since July, 1913, Father L. Joosten B.F.M., who is labouring in Eastern Manchuria, has baptised 230 newly converted pa-gans…

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Church and the State Penalising Catholic Parents

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 21 January 1915 · page 19

The Archbishop of Sydney, speaking at the blessing and opening of the new Girls' School at St. Patrick's, Church Hill, on Sunday, said that he would take the opportunity of…

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