OXFORD CONVERTS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 111, 12 June 1875, Page 9

OXFORD CONVERTS.

A cokbbspondent wrote lately as follows to the ' Rock' :— " The attention of your readers has not yet, I think, been called to the fact that five members of this university have turned Papists during the last twelvemonths— three of them members of the socalled English Church Union, and all five of them, I believe, members of Mr. Noel's congregation at St. Barnabas's, whose curate, Mr. Moore, went over to Borne some time since. These preverts are, H. M. Browne, New College j J. C. Dunn, 8.A., New College : G. H. French, BalUolj C. D. Williamson, University; A. N. G. Mac Call, Magdalen. A Romish chapel of large size and considerable architectural pretensions is in course of erection in St. Giles's As there is already a chapel in St. Clement's sufficiently capacious to hold the few Papists in the place and neighbourhood, it is plain that — ' in nostros fabricata est machina muros/ and a most dangerous engine of proselytism it will be. Dr. Manning will, no doubt, figure from time to time in the pulpit, and crowds of undergraduate* will go to hear him. Meanwhile he will have in Mr. Noel a most effective pioneer ; and young men in the habit of attending St. Barnabas's church will find little difference between his teaching and the cardinal's."