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Churches, 1931

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Presbyterian

Nepean Times · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 6

Penrith, Sunday, 22nd last.; Harvest Thansgiving services at 11 a.m. and 7.15 p.m. Evening service will be preceded by a period of community…

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Cronulla Methodist Church

The Cronulla-Sutherland Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 2

The Annual Harvest Festival Services in connection with the above-named church will be held on Sunday 22nd inst. The Church will be decorated as is usual…

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Methodist Worker

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 7

Miss Bua Lagl, ft native of Fiji, arrived in Sydney yesterday by the Morinda, on her way home from Papua. For the past five years she has been training as a nurse in the…

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Methodist Reunion

The Methodist · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 6

Newington College, Saturday, February 28th. What rallying centres of Methodism the Conference fixtures are. Folks from all over the State, and even beyond its borders, look forward each year…

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Home Mission Demonstration

The Methodist · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 4

The ever-popular Conference Home Mission Demonstration will be held in the Lyceum Hall on Wednesday, March 4th. For several years it has been impossible to accommodate the crowds in one…

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Methodist Church. Annual Conference This Month

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 6

The annual conference of the New South Wales Methodist Church will be held in Sydney this month, commencing on February 24. It will be the 77th conference held since…

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Methodist Girls' Hostel

The Methodist · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 3

The quest for a new Hostel has been long, but has at last proven to be very satisfactory. Glebe, because of its adjacency to the University, was combed through and through, but the right type of…

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The Churches. Rev. G. M. Scott. New Presbyterian Movement

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 6

The Presbytery of Sydney has launched a new movement, to be known as the Presbyterian Institutional Church, to take over the work of the Church in the Ultimo and Redfern…

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Methodist Men a Reminder

The Methodist · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 13

Conference will be in session soon, and visiting representatives may have opportunity to look in at the power house. For their benefit we mention…

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Social Crusade Mission Reopening of Services

The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 4

To-morrow night, in the Railway and Tramway Institute Rev. C. W. Chandler, will reopen his mission services. The institute is within the parish of Christ…

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Methodist Laymen Mr. H. M. Hawkins

The Methodist · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 2

During a period of about thirty-five years, the name of H. M. Hawkins has appeared on circuit plans, particularly of course in metropolitan Methodism, but also, in at least a few in the country. It…

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Young People's Department Methodist Tea Rooms

The Methodist · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 6

The President, Rev. W. H. Jones, though exceedingly busy with the cares of his office at the opening of the Conference sessions, has kindly consented to open the new Tea Rooms, which will be run…

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Methodist Fair a Brilliant Display Opening Ceremony by Dame Mary Cook

Nepean Times · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 7

The enterprise and cithusiasm of the workers for Penrith Methodist Church were reflected in a briliantt army of stalls in the Nepenn Theatre on Thurs…

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For Women Who invites communications by letter at "The Methodist" Office. Then Gifts of Healings (By E.C.) I.

The Methodist · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 18

I'M afraid there is no hope; his ease seems to me quite hopeless," said the great doctor, quietly and gently, as he stood in the hall-way with the anxious mother. "I…

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The Church's Expenditure

The Methodist · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 14

A number of additional letters have come to us in regard to the expense the church is under at the point of ministers' allowances, and other…

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Notes of the Week a Challenge to the Church

The Methodist · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 3

WITH the publication of the report of the proceedings at the Annual Meeting of the Board of Missions and also of the Annual Report of the Home Mission and Sustentation Society, the facts…

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Church Opening at Earlwood

The Methodist · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 6

The Earlwood Church has just been considerably enlarged, so that, now it is a T-shaped building, 64 feet long, 25 feet in the old portion, and 45 feet broad in the new. Minister and choir vestries have…

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German's Book. Condemned by Churchman. LONDON, Feb. 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 13

The Rev. Thomas Nightingale, on behalf [?] the National Council of Free Churches, has [?] a dramatic denunciation of Dr. Robert [?]er's book, "The Messiah, Jesus, and John…

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Wedding at Westminster--last Touches to Scots Church

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 10

WEDDING at St. Margaret's, Westminster, of Miss Joan Verney and Hon. Gustavus Lascelles Hamilton-Russell, son of Viscount Boyne.--Top: Bridesmaids. Right: Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, and her mother-in-law, the Dowager-Countess of Harewood STOCK in Marrickville Bowling…

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Going to Church

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 February 1931 · page 6

THE admonishing at a Manchester Court of a local councillor for failing to attend church on the Sabbath cannot fall to focus attention on the extent to which…

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