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Churches, 1928

3,684 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 185

CANTATA Lidcombe Congregational Church

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 30 March 1928 · page 6

Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, there was a large congregation at the Lidcombe Congregational Church on Sunday evening, ,hen a choir of over…

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Church Collapses. Earthquake in Alps. Village Destroyed. London, March 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 March 1928 · page 13

A report from Rome says that investigation of the earthquake in the Carnie Alps shows that 25 people were killed at Cannla by falling masonry…

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"All Bread and Wine God's Body and Blood" Priest Has Nothing To Do With It, Says Free Churchman LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 March 1928 · page 4

"All bread, whether at Communion or on the breakfast-table, is God's body, and all wine His blood. The priest has nothing to do with it," said Rev. Thomas Phillips in his presidential address to the National Free Church…

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Newcastle Mission

The Methodist · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 18

On Sunday evening, 4th, the Central Hall, Newcastle, was well filled, despite the very inclement weather, the occasion being a welcome home…

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Methodist Men

The Methodist · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 19

Owing doubtless to the inclement weather., there was only a moderate attendance of about twenty-five or thirty persons at…

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Home Mission Report

The Methodist · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 6

The 1926-27 report has just been printed and published by our Epworth Press, and will be going forward to circuits at an early date. The typographical and pictorial character of the publication will,…

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OUTBACK. An Aeroplane Mission. Bush Church Aid Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 18

Few of the people who attend metropolitan churches realise that at their backdoor, so to speak, is a parish larger than England and Scotland together, a huge extent, where dust…

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The Churches. Rev. Richard Brimelow. Kensington Methodist Circuit

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 11

The Rev. Richard Brimelow, who was appointed by the recent Methodist Conference to take charge of the Kensington circuit, was formerly a prominent minister of the…

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An Armidale Methodist Family Four Generations

The Methodist · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 6

We offer our congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. E. Purkiss, sen. They have been connected with the Methodist Church at Armidale for over thirty years and have done much towards the maintenance and extension of the Church's influence and work in the town and district. Mr. Purkiss occupied the position of circuit steward for many years. Mr. A. Purkiss, his son, is associated…

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Stages in the History of the Methodist Newspaper

The Methodist · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 13

"The first religious magazine in Australia was the sole production of the Wesleyan Missionaries, in the year 1821. This…

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Men from England A Methodist Welcome in the Conference Hall

The Methodist · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 8

The President of the Conference presided at the welcome arranged by the Home Mission Department on Thursday, 22nd instant, at 3 p.m., to Rev. D. C. and Mrs. Hughes and their two children, and…

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Ladies' Church Aid

Nepean Times · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 5

On Wednesday afternoon the members of the Penrith Methodist Ladies' Church Aid Society tendered a farewell to their president, Mrs…

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87 Years Old Prospect Church Built by Pioneers

Evening News · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 7

OCCUPYING a magnificent site. St. Bartholomew's Church of England at Prospect will be 17 years old in April. It is associated with…

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Bourke St. Church. (To the Editor.)

The Methodist · Saturday 31 March 1928 · page 17

Sir,—Re "Echoes of the Conference" by "Methodist Special," in your issue of March 17, 1928, making reference to the recent…

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Church Attacks State The Public Protest Against Government's. Unemployment Pitiful Conditions on South Coast Wollongong

Sunday Times · Sunday 1 April 1928 · page 8

Clergymen of three denominations joined in a monster public protest last night against the Bavin Government concerning the grave unemployment existing on the South Coast. Together with other speakers, they advised the unemployed to form…

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Church Disciplined When Vicar Refuses Orders London

The Sun · Sunday 1 April 1928 · page 1

The Bishop of Leicester (Dr. Bardsley), replying to a protest from the Parochial Council of the Church of St. Mary de Castle, which recently…

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Indefinite Amounis's Mission

The Sun · Monday 2 April 1928 · page 13

Although Amounts is still in the Doncaster, he is hot yet a certain runner. Present intentions are to run him…

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Manly Parish Hall. Foundation-stone Laid

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 April 1928 · page 12

Mr. Justice K. W. Street on Saturday afternoon set the foundation-stone of the new paribh hall of St. Matthew's, Manly. The new hall, which is to be erected at the rear of…

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Eucharistic Congress. Presbyterian Protest. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 April 1928 · page 12

At the Presbyterian Asbembly to-day a resolution was carried protesting against the intention of carrying the Host throught the streets of Sydney at the Eucharistic…

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Chinese Portia to Represent Nanking Mission to Europe London

The Sun · Monday 2 April 1928 · page 1

Vivacious, pretty, bobbed, and short-skirted, with a magical smile and a reputed ability to over-match less agile-minded male diplomats of the old…

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