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Churches, 1940

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Red Army Welcome Says Catholic Paper

Tribune · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 3

"White Russian and Ukrainian Poland welcomed the Reel Army and exchanged Polish domination for membership of the Soviet Union with eagerness." This frank admission is made…

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St George Association. Tomorrow’s Final Round Four Grades Still in Donbt Kogarah Bay, A1 Premiers. Kogarah waratah (A3) Sutherland Churches (B3) Banksis Waratah (B4) and H.M.H.Y.S. (B6) Premisre in their Respective Grades

The St George Call · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 4

The 14th and final round of matches will be commenced by the St. George Association to-morrow. Premiers in five of the nine grades have…

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Christian Science Churches

The St George Call · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 1

“Matter” was the subject in all churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday. The Golden Text was: “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth…

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Catholic Girls' Leader Killed

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 March 1940 · page 1

Miss Judith Bowman, leader in Australia of the Catholic Order of the Holy Grail, was killed yesterday at Wangaratta while travelling by car from…

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Noted Methodist Minister Dead Melbourne

The Sun · Saturday 30 March 1940 · page 2

The Rev. J. H. Cain, a member of the Methodist ministry in Victoria and Tasmania for 50 years, and an outstanding figure in…

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New Mission for Japanese Envoy Tokio

The Sun · Saturday 30 March 1940 · page 2

M. Sotomatsu Kato, the Japanese diplomatist, will shortly visit South and Central America. He was formerly counsellor of the…

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Young People's Department—Easter Camps Methodist Crusaders

The Methodist · Saturday 30 March 1940 · page 1

As anxious as everyone is to see the rain, there was no lack of appreciation of the beautiful weather that favoured the many Easter Youth Camps throughout New South Wales. The…

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Sir William Glasgow's Mission. Ottawa, March 29. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 March 1940 · page 18

"I am here to study Canada's problems, and to inform you regarding Australia. I feel that we can learn much from each other's experience," said the Australian High…

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No. 6.—Sermonettes for Soldiers (Good Friday Church Parade.) The Veil of the Temple

The Methodist · Saturday 30 March 1940 · page 5

"And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom."—Matt. 27:51. We cast our minds back to-day to the first…

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The Church

The Methodist · Saturday 30 March 1940 · page 5

Steadfast and embattled she stands, the only sure Hope of the world, Though the serried might of the lands against her in fury be hurled!…

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Malvern Hill Church

The Methodist · Saturday 30 March 1940 · page 5

The Malvern Hill Church celebrates its 21st anniversary as a circuit to-morrow (Sunday), 31st March. Before it was constituted a separate circuit it was worked in conjunction with…

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The Churches. Roper River Disaster

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 March 1940 · page 12

The response to the appeal for the repair of the flood and cyclone damage at the Roper River Mission Station has been very encouraging…

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WINSTON CHURCHILL--Man Of Vivid Contrasts LONDON, March 6, 1940

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 30 March 1940 · page 5

THERE is something explosive about the character of Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, dynamic force in the Chamberlain Government…

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Bride, 'Groom Leaving Church

The Sun · Sunday 31 March 1940 · page 5

Captain Leslie Dawson, of the 18th Battalion, militia, and his bride, leaving St. Paul's Church, Burwood, last night, after their wedding. Mrs. Dawson was formerly Miss Jean Longworth Gates, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Gates, of Croydon, and the bridegroom…

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Liquor Raffled on Church Steps

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 31 March 1940 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- The raffling of liquor on the steps of the Collins Street Baptist Church, to raise funds for the Red Cross, was condemned at a meeting of the Council of Churches today. "A sense of shame and…

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Sumner Welles's Mission. President Roosevelt's Statement. No Peace Proposals. Washington, March 31. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 10

President Roosevelt categorically, denied yesterday that the Under-Secretary of State, Mr. Sumner Welles, who acted as his personal envoy in Europe,…

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Summary. Oversea News. Mr. Churchill's Review

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 1

"We stall follow this war wherever it leads, but we have no wish to broaden the area of conflict," said the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Winston Churchill, in a broadcast…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Monday, April 1, 1940. Churchill and Molotoff

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 8

Once again Mr. Churchill has performed his recurrent task of breathing life and fire into the Allied cause, of stripping the situation down to its…

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From the Pulpit. Division in Church. "Ridiculous, Irrelevant."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 8

"In the light of the mighty upsurge of paganism and the threatened collapse of human systems, the present denominational barriers are ridiculous…

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War Not Sought with Soviet. Mr. Churchill's Declaration. "No Wish to Broaden Area of Conflict." Terrorised Smaller States. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, March 31

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 April 1940 · page 9

"We shall follow this war wherever it leads, but we have no wish to broaden the area of conflict," said the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Winston Churchill, in a broadcast address yesterday evening, surveying the progress of the war…

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