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Churches, 1937

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Visitors From Country Methodist Girls Entertain

The Sun · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 15

REPRESENTATIVES from more than 60 country centres will be among the large number of Ministers' wives and other visitors from…

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Hurstville Methodist Sunday School. Annual Picnic

The St George Call · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 6

The annual picnic was held at Carss Park, last Saturday in good weather. Over 300 scholars, parents and friends attended and all bad a very enjoyable…

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Women Meet Auxiliary To Methodist Overseas Missions

The Labor Daily · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 13

REV. WALLACE DEANE, the newly-elected president of the New South Wales Methodist Conference, conveyed the greetings and good…

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"Going to the Test. Some Methodist Ministers. Conference Frown on Sport Before Work. Melbourne, Thrsday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 11

Church work will not be mixed with pleasure by delegates to the annual conference of the Methodist Church of Victoria and Tas[?]lania, although some ministers have booked seats…

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Bishop Hits Church "No Clear Mind of Its Own" London

The Sun · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 13

"I KNOW that the Anglican is the communion in which I must live and die, but I foresee that my loyalty…

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Christian Science Churches

The St George Call · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 1

“Mind” was the subject in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday. The Golden Text was: “Trust in the Lord with all thy heart; and lean…

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Home Mission Demonstration

The Methodist · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 11

The Conference Home Mission Demonstration will be held in the Lyceum Hall on, Wednesday, 3rd March,, As usual, two sessions will be held, in order to accommodate the crowds who attend…

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Farewell to Popular Parish Priest

The Labor Daily · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 6

THE Catholic parishioners of Haberfield met at St. Joan of Arc's Hall last Thursday night to officially farewell Father P. J…

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Church Services. Number Broadcast. Reduction Criticised. Methodist Conference

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 23

The Methodist Conference yesterday carried A resolution, viewing with regret the reduced number of church services broadcast on Sundays by the "A" class stations, and expressing…

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Returning to the Mission Field

The Methodist · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 6

The Rev. and Mrs. S. G. Cowled and the Rev. and Mrs. R. S. Walker having offered and been accepted for service in the Mission Field, will soon be leaving for their appointments in the…

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The Needy and the Church (To the Editor.)

The Methodist · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 14

Sir.—Mr. A. B. Lalchere has written many arresting messages, but in view of the approaching Conference, nothing more timely than the first paragraph of his article under the above heading…

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Letters to the Editor The Church, War and Youth (To the Editor.)

The Methodist · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 13

Sir.—May I criticise certain statements made by you in your "Notes of the Week" under the heading, "Another Peace Movement?"…

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Bishop's Loyalty to Church. "Strained to Breaking Point." Attitude to Divorce. London, Feb. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 18

The Bishop of Ely (Dr. B. O. F. Heywood), in a message to his diocese opposing the admission of re-married divorced persons to Communion, stated: "Too often the Church…

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The Churches. Rev. Fred. H. Meyer. New Rector at Stanmore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 11

The Rev. Fred H. Meyer, who for six years has been minister in charge of St. John's, Maroubra, has accepted the rectorship of St. Augustine's, Stanmore. He was inducted into…

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Wilton Village Unusual Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 13

In summer, the country round Salisbury, the famous plain, the slopes of the downs, is like a tapestry with a design of green and silver—silver water…

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Society Slum Work: Neglect Denied "Smug Suburbia's" Answer to Church Paper's Challenge

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 5

A SUGGESTION that the clergy should seek out "bright young things" of Sydney's society, and interest them in social work, such as slums, was made by Miss Enid Riddle yesterday…

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Church News Problem of Foreign Missions

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 17

FINDING money for foreign missions is yearly becoming a more difficult problem for the Churches in Sydney…

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Young Man Struck Domestic Trouble Early in His Life Enforced Bachelordom No Use To East Hills Husband Wife Left Him at Church Door; Has New Love, Now

Truth · Sunday 28 February 1937 · page 23

THERE was little wrong with the heart that beat so strongly within the manly bosom of Jack Burt Warner Turner, except maybe that it went just a little too fast. But, then, that wasn't so much because Jack suffered…

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Greatest Budget May Be Chamberlain's Last Budget Will Beach £1,000,000,000 to Set New Record for Peace-time Can Churchill Make a Comeback in New Cabinet? London

The Sun · Sunday 28 February 1937 · page 17

ALTHOUGH MR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, HAS BEEN CONFIDENTLY TIPPED AS PRIME MINISTER IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CABINET WHICH IS…

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For Mission Service Medical Couple's Sacrifices

The Sun · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 11

Dr. Edwin Gault. 32 years old, with a rising reputation, and a practice in the prosperous Melbourne suburb of Canterbury has sold the…

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