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Churches, 1923

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Shy of Mission Work Adelaide

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 April 1923 · page 9

The report of the Dunesk Mission Committee in Central Australia, submitted to the Presbyterian Assembly, showed that for 26 years missionary…

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Mr. Hickson's Mission. Preparatory Services. Sydney Arrangements

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 April 1923 · page 16

There was a crowded congregation at the second of the series of preparatory services held in St. Andrew's Cathedral on Tuesday night in connection with the Hickson healing…

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Memory of Good Deeds. Presbyterian School Hall

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 21 April 1923 · page 8

"This Hall is dedicated in memory of Margaret Wynne, whom the children loved.—April 14th, 1923." This is the inscription on the tablet in…

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Mission of Healing. Have I Enough Faith?

The Methodist · Saturday 21 April 1923 · page 6

More or less familiarity with the methods of the various cults of faith healing has provided an impression in many minds that the kind of faith required for spiritual healing is something of the same nature as…

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Board of Missions Twenty Missionary Volunteers New Mission Steamer

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 April 1923 · page 9

The Australian Board of Anglican, Missions has been meeting in Sydney during the greater part of the week, under the chairmanship of the…

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Healing Mission Lists Finally Closed Over 10,000 Applicants

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 April 1923 · page 6

The lists for Mr. Hickson's healing mission, to be held in May, are full. Rev. P. A. Micklem, director of the mission, states that over 10,000…

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St. Stephen's Church Annual Vestry Meeting

Nepean Times · Saturday 21 April 1923 · page 5

The annual vestry meeting of St. Stephen's Church, Penrith, was held in the Parish Hall on Tuesday evening, find was attended by about fifty…

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Soldiers' Memorial Church

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 21 April 1923 · page 2

The annual vestry meeting in connection with the Soldiers' Memorial Church of St. Stephen, Lidcombe, was held on Tuesday night last. The rector, Rev. R…

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Earlier Church Services

The Methodist · Saturday 21 April 1923 · page 1

WE were again disappointed and displeased at an utterance, mentioned in the "S.M. Herald" of Saturday last, by Canon Bickerstoth at the Goulburn Synod last week, identical with similar pronouncements…

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The Churches. in Remembrance of Anzac

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 April 1923 · page 9

Anzac memorial services will be held in a number of churches to-morrow, as well as on the actual date of the commemoration-Wednesday next. The day is no longer one of…

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The Preposterous Irish Mission

Sunday Times · Sunday 22 April 1923 · page 4

IT does not seem necessary that the Irish Republican delegates, Father O'Flauagan and Mr. J. J. O'Kelly, should be pushed out of Australia by Government action; but it is extremely desirable that they should be frozen out by the cool common-sense of Australians…

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Fete at Fernleigh Rectory Required at St. Michael's Church

Sunday Times · Sunday 22 April 1923 · page 2

"We must show our loyally to our church by deeds as well as words, and help provide the means for carrying on said lady forster in opening a garden…

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Man, Mind, and Faith-healing Hickson Mission Scientifically Examined Cures by Faith and Their Limitations The Truth in Psychic Methods How the Subconscious Mind Is Used in Medicine Mr. Hickson's Theatrical Claim to Miraculous Results

Sunday Times · Sunday 22 April 1923 · page 3

After consultation with the highest scientific authorities available in Australia, including not only the serious printed literature on the subject, but the assistance of distinguished medical men who…

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The Churches. Central Methodist Mission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 April 1923 · page 10

Three services were held yesterday at the Central Methodist Mission, Lyceum Hall, Pittstreet. In the morning the Rev. F. H. Raward…

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Mr. Hickson's Mission. More Cures Reported. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 April 1923 · page 8

Canon Bevan, rector of St. Matthew's, Albury, who attended the Hickson spiritual healing mission in Goulburn, mentioned what he described as undoubted cures from the mission,…

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To the Editor Church Union

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 April 1923 · page 4

Sir, -- My friend, Rev. G. R. S. Reid seems to have overlooked the main point and intention of my article under the above heading, and conse[?]…

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Faith Cures Armidale Mission Thronged Services ARMIDALE

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 April 1923 · page 6

Definite cures by faith healing in connection with the Hickson mission, which has aroused remarkable interest, are listed…

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"Chaotic Methods" Immigrants for Australia Mission to England ? MELBOURNE

The Sun · Tuesday 24 April 1923 · page 12

At a meeting, of the Melbourne branch of the Australian Labor Party deep concern was expressed at the "chaotic methods" of securing…

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Dance by Cripple Armidale Faith Cures Hickson Mission Sick Make Pathetic Sight

The Sun · Tuesday 24 April 1923 · page 7

"A man, crippled by a stroke, threw away his stick and danced. "A baby boy, paralysed from birth, used his afflicted arm which…

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Spiritual Healing. Powers of the Church Mr. Hickson's Claims. Armidale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 April 1923 · page 9

Mr. Hickson gave an address on spiritual healing at Armidale Town Hall on Sunday afternoon. The hall, which scats about a thousand people, was crowded, and many were…

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