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Churches, 1929

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Church of England Notes

The Biz · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 1

From "Parish News":-Smithfield Ladies' Guild has elected the following officers: President, Mrs. F. King; secretary, Mrs. Oliver;…

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Southern Cross. Mission Father's Diary. Drysdale Mission. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 17

Corroboration of the statements made in Captain Crane's log to the effect that the crew of the Southern Cross thought the invitation to land at the Drysdale Mission was…

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£10,000 Offered. to Presbyterian Church. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 18

At the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church to-day it was stated that Mr. W. R. Black had offered to give £1 for every £1 collected within a certain time up to £10,000…

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Quarterly Meetings Rozelle Mission

The Methodist · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 20

Membership 83 full, juvenile 10. Income for the quarter of £97 18s. 2d., an expenditure of £96 2s. 2d., credit balance £1 16s…

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Inland Mission. New Nursing Home

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 21

To-day, at Innamincka, a township on Cooper's Creek, on the border of South Australia and Queensland, the Australian Inland Mission's Eleanor Symon Nursing Home will…

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Education. Catholic Association. Trend of Modern Teaching

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 18

At the Catholic Education Association yesterday. Professor T. C. B. Osborn, of Sydney University, explained his reasons for altering the botany syllabus for secondary schools, and…

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Innamincka Place of Tragic Memories Mission Oasis Nursing Home in Land of Isolation

The Sun · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 3

To-day at Innamincka--a township on Cooper's Creek, on the border of South Australia and Queenslandp--the A.I.M. "Eleanor Symon Nursing Home" is being opened by the Acting- Superintendent of the A.I.M., Rev. J. A. Barber, who is…

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City and Suburbs Deluged--One Man Drowned--Races Postponed "Regret" Mission Father's Diary Those Wrong Directions How Smithy Went Astray Perth

The Sun · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 5

"It was simply a note asking for the direction of Wyndham."We regress very much if our sings led the aeroplane into…

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SYDNEY'S Great SERMON in Stone Church Today As Witness Pulpits and Personalities No. 1—St. Mary's Cathedral to Vital Truth

Evening News · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 3

THE history of Catholicity in Sydney is well known. Most people are familiar with the names of Archpriest Therby, Archbishop Polding, Archbishop…

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The Windsor Church. Reopening Services After Renovations

The Methodist · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 8

Methodism began in Windsor in the early years of the ministry of the first Methodist minister in New South Wales, viz., Rev. Samuel Leigh. The church there has had ups and downs, and in some…

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An Appeal for the Wakefield Church. (West Wallsend Circuit.)

The Methodist · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 16

Sir,—Will you please insert the following appeal in your paper at an early elate? Our church at Wakefield was completely burnt out in the…

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Welcoming Newcomers to Our Churches. (To the Editor.)

The Methodist · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 16

Sir,—Many hearts will go out in sympathy to "Disappointed," whose experience is all too common, and points directly to one of the most…

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Grenfell Circuit Opening a Church at Bumbaldry

The Methodist · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 13

One of the last services performed by Rev. E. W. Hyde before leaving Grenfell for Katoomba. was to open the new church at Bumbaldry. Two years ago there were no Protestant services being…

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The Church at Home the Hunter River Valley

The Methodist · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 13

It would be a very interesting trip to follow the Hunter River from the Pacific Ocean, to its source high up in the ranges. Travelling inland from the ocean, one would be impressed with the…

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The Churches. Rev. Victor C. Bell. PRESIDENT N.S.W. Council of Churches

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 11

The Rev. Victor C. Bell, who has been elected president of the New South Wales Council of Churches, in succession to the Rev. Dr. Waldock, has for the past three…

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Liberal's Bitter, But Poetic, Attack on Churchill Tax Gibe Parliament Is Dissolved King Plays Part London

The Sun · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 1

"The Commons hath he pill'd with grievous taxes And quite lost their hearts." "And daily new exactions are devised He is "grown, bankrupt like a broken man…

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Anglican Notes

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 May 1929 · page 24

THE Rev. F. H. Hordern, deputation secretary of the Church Missionary Society, has left for six weeks deputation to the Goulburn diocese…

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Methodist Notes

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 May 1929 · page 24

THE Rev. A. W. Pederick and the Rev. H. J. Williams will spend several months at the new Methodist Training College in Sydney before proceeding to…

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Religion and Philosophy Is the Church Failing? Clergyman Gives Emphatic No New and Better Day

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 May 1929 · page 24

THERE are always the waiters who bemoan that the Church is losing its grip—that the good old days of Faith, Hope, and Charity have vanished from the earth. J. W. Meminger, in the "Reformed…

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Church Attendance Go-as-you-please Spirit

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 May 1929 · page 24

At a farewell function given recently to a minister at Bathurst (N.S.W.),one of the Church officers declared that it would ^not have been necessary for their minister to leave them if the congregation had treated him as he ought to have…

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