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Churches, 1936

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Week of Prayer All Protestant Churches to Take Part

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 4

All Protestant churches in Sydney will join in the Universal Week of Prayer, under the auspices of the World's Evangelical Alliance, which…

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Anglican Summer School to Open Next Saturday at the King's School

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 13

An Anglican summer school, under the auspices of the Australian Board of Missions, will open at The King's School, Parramatta, on Saturday…

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Church Leaders Appeal For Peace God's Rule Only Way To Fight National Jealousies LONDON

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 12

ISSUING an appeal, entitled "The Way of Peace," the Archbishops of Canterbury and York announce that the…

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Fewer Seek Divorce; Marriages a Record BUT 1935 Petitions One to Ten Alarming Percentage, Church View

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 11

ALTHOUGH there was a fall compared with 1934 figures the divorce rate in New South Wales continued high last year when 2082 petitions were lodged…

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Christ or Hitler: Faith Test Bitter Church War In Gerrnany LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 1

There is no sign of abatement of, the grim conflict between the German Confessional Church and the Nazis…

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The Church In The Coming Year A World Harmony

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 4

The Church in our modern scientific age has many problems to face, not the least of which are those manifested in our present world troubles, our national divisions, our class selfishnesses, our home disloyalties. In this…

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1936 And The Churches

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 17

WHAT may be regarded as one of the outstanding vices of the Churches has arisen…

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Students' Conference. Mission of the Church. Mittagong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 13

At the Australian Student Christian Movement Conference on Saturday, the Rev. H. L. Hurst, Australian secretary of the London Missionary Society, spoke on the world mission…

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Peace Pact Made with Wild Men Anthropologist's Lone Mission

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 7

DARWIN, Sunday. -- Having travelled 500 miles on foot, 400 miles on horseback, and 90 miles by native canoe, Dr…

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Europe Discusses U.S.A.'s Neutrality Policy Oil Embargo Prospects Assist League? Italy's Complaint May Send Mission London

The Sun · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 1

NEWSPAPERS are discussing the possibilities arising from President Roosevelt's address to Congress, most of them interpreting it according to their own politics. THE Rome correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states…

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Site for New Church. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 12

Following the sale of the Presbyterian Church property, Mr. W. A. Lang has presented the church authorities with a site for a new church, at the corner of Burelli and Kembla streets,…

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English Church Is Flooded Disorganisation Of Road And Rail Services Further Rain! London

The Labor Daily · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 6

ALTHOUGH flood conditions in many districts of the Thames Valley were again worse to-day, and the rate of the…

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Church Worker's Death

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 9

Mrs. R. Rorke, a cousin of Mrs. B. S. B. Stevens, and a prominent worker for the Methodist Church, died yesterday at Ocean Beach. The…

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Bathurst Island Mission Where the Aborigines are Increasing

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 41

MORE than twenty years ago, when the aboriginal mission station on Bathurst Island was started by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, it was only at long and irregular intervals that…

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Eyes on the World She Waited At The Church!

The World's News · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 2

HENRY GUZY is only 24 years old, but he has the wisdom of serpents.... at least, he found a novel wvay of evading his…

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Reconverting World. "Church Needs Reconditioning." MITTAGONG

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 9

Mr. K. T. Henderson, of Western Australia, addressing the Australian Student Christian Movement conference to-night, said that the Church needed reconditioning for its task…

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Married in Hospital. Bride Injured on Way to Church. PERTH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 9

While motoring with her parents to Co[?]e, to be married, Miss Prosser, of Bunbury, was severely injured when the steering gear broke and the car crashed into a bush. She was…

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Church Steeple Condemned By Council MELBOURNE

The Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 10

Because of a serious defect which has been discovered in the steeple of Scots Church, Collins-street, city, the spire has been condemned by the City…

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Parish Priest Passes

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 1

THE LATE REV. FATHER W. P. McNALLY, whose death was reported last week. Father McNally was priest in charge of Baulkham Hills…

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Catholic Notes

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 26

A welcome visitor to Sydney yesterday was the Archbishop of Brisbane, Most Rev. Dr. Duhig, who is staying at the Cathedral Presbytery…

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