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Churches, 1941

4,258 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 213

Women's Home Mission League

The Methodist · Saturday 19 April 1941 · page 9

At the April meeting Mrs. Woodhouse welcomed new representatives from Burwood and Summer Hill L.C. Aid, also Mrs. Knox Read, a…

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Methodist Crusaders a Happy Easter

The Methodist · Saturday 19 April 1941 · page 7

Allowing for the many inevitable war "casualities," the Metropolitan Executive of the Crusaders this year reduced the number of Metropolitan Camps from three to two. Everything considered,…

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A Call to Prayer the President of the Conference to the Methodist People

The Methodist · Saturday 19 April 1941 · page 7

The present situation is fraught with grave danger to us, and the cause for which we are contending. The extension of the war into the Balkan States, and the consequent demands upon…

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Methodism on the Manning River Diamond Jubilee of Taree Church

The Methodist · Saturday 19 April 1941 · page 5

Speaking some time ago of the prospects of his church, a distinguished London Anglican Prelate ventured the opinion that the Methodist movement is an ebbing tide of religious emotionalism…

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Churches Under Fire Effect of Bombing

The Methodist · Saturday 19 April 1941 · page 4

I EXPECT YOU have seen photos of some of our bombed churches—that one, for example, of St. Paul's with the light streaming down upon the remains of the high altar through the hole…

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Churches Condemn Beer Exports to A.I.F. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 April 1941 · page 17

The Government's policy of sending beer to troops overseas was condemned by the Council of Churches at a meeting in Melbourne to-day…

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The Churches. a Munificent Gift

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 April 1941 · page 10

The gift of £40,000 by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cull to Wesley College, within the University, will permit of the completion of the college in…

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Churchill Warns of Bombs on Rome London

The Sun · Saturday 19 April 1941 · page 1

The R.A.F. will bomb Rome if the Luftwaffe bombs Athens or Cairo, Britain warned Germany…

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London's Agony: Night of Ruin Greatest Raid Of War Robs World Of Priceless Treasures Wreckage Includes St. Paul's Crypt Famed Churches LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 20 April 1941 · page 3

Great heaps of smoking masonry are all that's left of the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral after Nazi bombs blew the floor of it out in Wednesday night's raid on London -- the most savage air assault of the war…

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Mission of Empire. Soul of London Intact

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 April 1941 · page 8

Preaching at Scots Church on "London Calling," the Rev. T. E. Ruth, who is conducting "a Mission of Empire," said that we shared now the feeling of the Jews by the…

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Deanna Durbin Married. Crowd of 2,000 Outside Church. HOLLYWOOD, April 20. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 April 1941 · page 10

Deanna Durbin, the young film star, was married yesterday to Vaughan Paul, the producer. It was a formal, traditional ceremony, with…

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Sunday Concerts Condemned. Church Disapproval of War Raffles. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 April 1941 · page 6

The Victorian Council of Churches will urge the City Council not to make the Town Hall available for Sunday concerts. The council also claimed that the…

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Mr. Churchill's Warning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 April 1941 · page 9

The Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, has issued the following communique: "In view of German threats to bomb Athens and Cairo, the British…

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Anzac Day Service in New York Church

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 April 1941 · page 2

NEW YORK, Monday (A.A.P.) .--As part of New York's observance of Anzac Day, the Australian Minister to Washington (Mr. Casey) will address a…

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Hess's Mission to Madrid. London, April 22. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 April 1941 · page 12

It is unoflicially reported in Vichy that Hitler's Deputy, Herr Hess, went to Madrid by air with a personal letter form Hitler to the Chief of the Spanish State[?] General…

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Church Centenary Celebration on

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 23 April 1941 · page 3

A congregation that crowded St. Bartholomew's Church, Prospect, and overflowed into the grounds, celebrated the centenary of the…

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Church Celebrates 58th ANNIVERSARY

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 23 April 1941 · page 6

There was a large congregation at St. Mark's Church, Ermington, on Sunday, to commemorate the church's 58th anniversary…

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Christian Science Churches

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 23 April 1941 · page 7

Doctrine of T[?]onement was the subject in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday. The Golden Text was: "All things are…

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Scanty News in London. Mr. Churchill Explains to House. LONDON, April 22. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 April 1941 · page 11

The Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, told the House of Commons this afternoon that not even the Government itself received full information from…

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Leaving Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 April 1941 · page 22

MR. and MRS. MARC RUTTY leaving St. John's Church, Wahroonga, last night after their wedding. The bride was formerly…

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