Reasons for Conversion.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 14, 3 April 1902, Page 6

Reasons for Conversion.

Several particulars have been printed of late as to the means by which various converts have been in-luced to join the true fold Personal examples have induced some, hibtorical Btudy others. But one of the most curious reasons assigned is a persistent desire to keep out of the Church. A graduate of Oxford, England, was, some 15 years ago, most eager to prevent his wife from going in that direction, To that end he purchased her a copy of Littledale's Plain Reatons Against Joining the Church of Home, He studied the little work with the intention of being able to elucidate more clearly to his wife the errors of Rome. But the natural result occurred and the weakness of Littledale's arguments, or rather the inaccuracy of hiß statements, soon convinced the Oxonian of the errors contained in the side which he was trying to bolster up. A few days after his good lady's reception, he was received himself into the Catholic Church. But the lady was received by a prelate of the Church and the Oxford honor-man by the chaplain of a London poorhouse. A gentleman hearing of this remarked that he had often heard of the Church bringing people to the poorhouse, but never before of the poorhouse bringing people to the Church.