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Churches, 1926

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Bridal Churches

Evening News · Monday 8 February 1926 · page 8

From Lionel Lindsay's beautiful series of drawings of Sydney's churches, the "Evening News" has prepared a…

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One Hundred Years Ago Sydney at Church Yesterday's Centennary

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 February 1926 · page 4

THE 138th anniversary of the Church of England in Australia was celebrated in several hundred churches yesterday, and was…

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PROHIBITION. Congress Debate. Angry Scenes. Church and the Law. WASHINGTON. Feb. 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 11

The referendum on prohibition taken by the Episcopal Church has precipitated one of the greatest sensations since the Volstead Law was enacted. This, coupled with the…

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Big Churches and Poverty Are Side by Side Unions and Foreigners Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 1

Mr. J. Howie, of the Workers' Educational Lear addressing a meeting in Lithgow Park yesterday, said housing conditions [?] Lithgow…

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Swimmers for New Zealand. Dominion Officials' Mission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 19

Officials of the swimming in New Zealand are anxious for a visit of three leading New South Wales swimmers during the present season. In an endeavour to secure a representative party of three swimmers, it is…

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Seamen's Funds. Mission Fails. a Lively Meeting. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 16

The Sydney committee ot the Seamen's Union, led by Mr. Jacob Johannsen, has been outmanoeuvred by the Victorian officials in its attempt to inspect the books of the…

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Noise and Church Services

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 41

THE National Roads and Motorists' Association draws attention to the fact that considerable inconvenience and interruption have lately been caused during church services by the…

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The Council of the Churches

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 18

THE ANNUAL MEETING AT THE Y.M.C.A. YESTERDAY…

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The Churches. Council's Meeting. Appeals for Unity

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 12

Optimistic references to its future activities were made yesterday at a special luncheon held by the Council of Churches. The president (Archdeacon D'Arcy Irvine) presided,…

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Worthy Churchmen

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 4

Sir.--The attitude of the various Christian Churches toward those great social and industrial problems which every day clamor more insistently for…

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Council of Churches

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 February 1926 · page 5

"I regard the Council of Churches its one of the important movements helping on the great aim of Christian people nowadays tor organic union,"…

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Catholic Women's Association

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 11 February 1926 · page 31

At the first committee meeting of the New Year, several fresh activities were suggested by members, and the committee, generally, favor their…

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Catholic Parents' Obligations

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 11 February 1926 · page 3

HERE is the law: Unless they entrust their children to a Catholic school all Catholic parents are obliged, under pain of mortal sin, to furnish an…

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Sutherland-cronulla Parish. Fixed Masses

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 11 February 1926 · page 26

Cronulla.— Every Sunday at 7 and 8.15. Devotions at 7.30 p.m. Sutherland.— Every Sunday at 8 and 9.30 a.m…

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Transubstantiation. Anglican Bishop's Erroneous Conception

The Catholic Press · Thursday 11 February 1926 · page 11

According to the London "Church Times" the Anglican Bishop of Manchester, at his Diocesan Conference, lately delivered his opinion of the Catholic doctrine of…

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Mission at Bondi Junction

The Catholic Press · Thursday 11 February 1926 · page 20

At Holy Cross Church, Bondi Junction, Rev. Father P. M. Lynch, C.SS.R., who has just returned from a missionary tour in Tasmania, gave stirring addresses to the…

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Around the Catholic World

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 11 February 1926 · page 40

THE Catholic Directory for 1926, just issued, gives the Catholic population of England and Wales, based on diocesan returns, as 2,042,630, which…

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An Excellent Investment. Catholic Bookselling and Church Requisites' Co

The Catholic Press · Thursday 11 February 1926 · page 33

The business of Louis Gille and Company, for the purchase of which a company is being formed, was founded in Sydney nearly 40 years ago, and it is well-known…

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Those Empty Pews And the Crowded Catholic Churches. Why?

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 11 February 1926 · page 5

SOME while ago the editor of "America" asked Mr. Frederick A. Fullhardt, a New York lawyer, to find out for its readers what effect, if…

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Royal Show. on Good Friday. Anglican Protest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 February 1926 · page 10

A request by the Anglican Church that the Royal Agricultural Society should not open the show, on Good Friday, and a courteous refusal by the council of the society, is…

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