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Churches, 1918

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The Catholic Honor Roll Heroes of the Battlefield

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 14 February 1918 · page 27

The Rev. Father Cooney, Adm., Bathurst, recently had a long letter from his brother, Lieutenant Jim Cooney. Owing to the brave soldier's long silence, his family had…

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N.S.W. Catholic Debating Societies' Union. Annual Meeting

The Catholic Press · Thursday 14 February 1918 · page 24

The annual meeting of the above union took place in the Southern Cross Hell on Friday, January 25. The attendance was gratifying, and representative of the…

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Blue Mountain Churches. Order of Masses

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 14 February 1918 · page 11

The following order of Masses and devotions will be observed in the Blue Mountain churches. When very wet the evening before or morning of the appointed Mass and…

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REPATRIATION Practical Help Wanted the Views of the Anglican Primate

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 15 February 1918 · page 2

The Primate of Australia (Dr. Wright), discussing the problem of repatriation last week, declared emphatically that it was urgent that something thoroughly…

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Methodist Garden Fete

Nepean Times · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 2

The Penrith Methodist annual garden fete will eventuate next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (February 19,20,21), at the Parsonage grounds, Penrith. This is the…

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Colonel House: Head of the American Mission

The World's News · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 6

THERE are very few Americans more House, the head of the American mission that was recently in London. I have watched American public life at pretty close…

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Australia's First Preacher a Methodist. (To the Editor.)

The Methodist · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 11

Sir,—In your "Brief Mention" of to-day you have a small paragraph in which you say: "An old record says that Chaplain Johnson, chaplain of the first fleet,…

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Glebe Road Methodist Y.p.s.c.e. Semi Jubilee

The Methodist · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 10

The following extract, from a report read at the 25th Anniversary Meeting, on Monday, February 4th may provo interesting, giving as it does a few facts…

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Oreign Mission Notes. Report of the Conference F.m. Secretary for N.s.w. and Queensland, 1917

The Methodist · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 3

In presenting thin brief report of the work done in connection with the New South Wales and Queensland Auxiliaries for the year ending 31st December, 1917, I desire at the outset to express my heartfelt thanks…

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The World of Books "The Oppressed English," by Ian Hay (Angus and Robertson), Methodist Book Depot, 1/-, posted 1/1

The Methodist · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 9

A smart and pungently satirical, as well aa witty and practical parody of the Irish position and the Home Rule question in British politics. Under a clover assumption of a note of injury and…

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Ths Wrong Bride. [?]Barrassing Mistake Occurs at a London Church

The World's News · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 2

THE arrival of a bride at the wrong church led to an embarrassing situation in London a few weeks ago. Two weddings had been arranged for about…

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Church to Army

The World's News · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 9

The rapid rise of a Presbyterian minister, who, until a few months ago, was in charge of a provincial church of which little has been heard outside its own neighborhood,…

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Papers on Church Union. I.—preparatives to Union

The Methodist · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 1

PROPOSALS for the union of the Churches have been before the public for several years past, but up to the present there has been little practical result. It is true that bases of doctrine and polity…

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"Our Church Services." (To the Editor.)

The Methodist · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 11

Sir,—The majority of your readers will no doubt agree with the remarks which appeared in your last issue on the above subject. Most people will endorse what…

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The Church Triumphant Mrs. Elizabeth Balcomb

The Methodist · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 8

Elizabeth Balcomb was born at sea on June 21st, 1827. At an early age she married William Bailey, of O'Counell Plains, who died leaving her with two children, a…

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The Churches

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 9

The Archbishop of Sydney, Dr. Wright, will deliver the first of a series of sermons on the su[?]ect of sin at St. Andrew's Cothedral tomorrow night, taking for his Subject the fact…

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Arncliffe Baptist Church. Welcome Meeting

The St George Call · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 4

At the Arncliffe Baptist Church, on February 6, a welcome meeting was extended to the Rev. Henry Clark and Pastor V. White, on behalf of the sister…

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Church News

The St George Call · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 4

Rev. W. A. Brice, locum tenens for St. Paul's Church of England, Kogarah, received a cable on Thursday morning to the effect that Rev. H. R. A. Wilson…

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Religious. Church Union

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 8

In the course of his paper on Church Union, Rev. Dr. Carruthers (Methodist) says:--"There are many ways in which the atmosphere of Christian union may be created and promoted…

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The Churches

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 February 1918 · page 11

The Pitt-street ConGregational. Church is notable for the manner in which it caters for the soldiers. The workers never weary in well-doing in this respect, and the…

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