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Churches, 1939

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Christian Science Churches

Liverpool News · Thursday 23 March 1939 · page 4
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Matter was the subject in all Churches of Christ. Scientist, on Sunday. The Golden Text was: "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in…

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Guildford Congregational Church. Sunday School Garden Party

The Biz · Thursday 23 March 1939 · page 3

Last Saturday afternoon the Guildford Congegational Sundey School, with parents and friends, held an afternoon garden party at the home of Mr. and Mrs…

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Our Lady of the Rosary Church

The Biz · Thursday 23 March 1939 · page 3

Fairfield parishioners have been unstinted in their praise at the qualities of the new assistant parish priest. Rev. Father Gallon, a young Australian who…

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LOOKING Backwards Our Catholic Life of Long Age "There's many a memory bright and fair will tingle at a name, But leave unstirred the embers there we cannot fan to flame." —"Around the Boree Log." Notes From Our Files of 1902

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 23 March 1939 · page 33

A list of ordinations to the priesthood and of minor orders conferred in 1902 on students of St. Patrick's College, Manly, and the Sacred Heart Missionary…

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Led Czech Mission

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 March 1939 · page 3

LORD RUNCIMAN, who was sent by Mr. Chamberlain to Czechoslovakia last August to mediate in the…

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Letters to the Editor Paddington Methodist Mission and Country Visitors

The Methodist · Saturday 25 March 1939 · page 7

Sir,—Numbers of our country Methodists will be among the large crowds of people arriving in the city this week from all parts of the State…

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Paddington Mission

The Methodist · Saturday 25 March 1939 · page 13

Twelve months ago Paddington Circuit was constituted a Mission, and the first anniversary was observed by special services on…

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Home Mission Notes

The Methodist · Saturday 25 March 1939 · page 4

An Urgent Appeal.—The Department of Home Missions is seriously embarrassed by the shortage of Home Missionaries. Six young men who were employed by the Department last year have…

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New Presbyterian Minister. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1939 · page 6

A large congregation attended at St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church, South Grafton, when the Rev. A. Campbell Begbie was ordained into the Presbyterian ministry and…

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Trade Talks in Russia. British Mission. Cordial Reception. From Our Own Correspondent. London, March 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1939 · page 12

An improvement in trade and diplomatic relations between Britain and Russia is confidently expected to result from the visit to Russia by the…

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City Church

The Methodist · Saturday 25 March 1939 · page 16

The Conference Committee's report (Rev. W. N. Lock, convener) presented to Conference, stated that although the Conference of 1937…

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The Congress the Spiritual State of the Church

The Methodist · Saturday 25 March 1939 · page 2

FOR the last forty years there has been a strong set of the tide away from the Church and spiritual things, in most so-called Christian lands. Our distress is not that of the business man on…

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New Church at Central Concord

The Methodist · Saturday 25 March 1939 · page 12

Last Saturday a brick church, to take the place of the weatherboard building which has done duty for some years, was opened at Central Concord. The local band played selections prior to…

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The Churches. Cessnock Circuit. Australian Gains English Experience

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1939 · page 4

The Rev. Alan Walker, of the N.S.W. Methodist Conference, who returned by the Orama on Thursday last, has enjoyed a notable experience while…

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Mothers Crowd Church Service

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 March 1939 · page 12

Extra chairs had to be brought into St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday, to seat the hundreds of women who attended the annual festival of the Mothers'…

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Peters Inheritance The story of an ex-mission youth, PETER, who became a primitive savage

The Sun · Sunday 26 March 1939 · page 8

EX-MISSION youth Peter was weary and forlorn. A lonely black soul, he sat mournfully on a red cliff ledge to gaze at a vast yellow plain below. Above this in the shimmering heat of a noonday tropic sun could be seen faintly a blue straight horizon of…

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Mission Returning

The Sun · Monday 27 March 1939 · page 5

London, Sunday.--The Secretary of the Overseas Trade Department. Mr R. S. Hudson, and other members of the British Mission, are leaving…

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Presbyterian Centenary. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 March 1939 · page 7

Speakers at a social function [?] members of the Bowenfels Presbyterian congregation on the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the charge. Among the speakers…

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Air Mission's Report. Release This Week. Conference in Canberra. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 March 1939 · page 11

The financial implications of the recommendations of the British Air Mission on the manufacture of milibary planes in Australia will be discussed by the Federal…

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