RETURNING TO THE FOLD

New Zealand Tablet, 16 July 1908, Page 24

RETURNING TO THE FOLD

The London ' Tablet ' is desired by the Marquis of, Queensfoerry to state he was received into the Catholic Church on April 4.~

"Father Louis Roussin, of the diocese of Valence, _ France, who was connected for a time with a schismatic church in Rue Legendre, Paris, has abjured his errors and received permission to celebrate Mass.

Rev. John G. Ewens, recently rector" of Holy Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, Manistee, Michigan, has just been received into the Catholic Church, and is staying. with the Paulist Fathers in New York City.

The Rev. Dr. Russell J. Wilbur, former Dean of the Chicago Episcopal Cathedral, has entered the Catholic Church. He has been received by the Jesuit Fathers in their novitiate at Florisant, a suburb of St. Louis.

We learn on reliable authority (says the Manchester ' Catholic Leader ') that Mr. Roberts, jun., son of the Rev. Canon Dale Roberts, Anglican Vicar of St. Paul's, Lozells, Birmingham, has been received into the Catholic Church. We also learn that Mr. Roberts intends studying for the priesthood.

At the ordination in Rome on Holy Saturday two students from the Scots College were raised to the priesthood — the. Revs. A. E. Franklin and J. Donncllv. Father Franklin, who for many years was an Anglican clergyman, belongs to the diocese of Edinburgh, and Father Donnelly to that of Galloway.

Returning as a Catholic priest to Manistee, Mich., where for several years he held the rectorate of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Rev. Ernest Willoughby Jewell celebrated his first Mass on March 24. Before he left the Episcopal Church in 1905, Father Jewell, who is a widower with three children, held rectorates at Petoskpv, Calumet, and Manistee, 4 being known as an extreme High Churchman.

News has been received of the death of Mrs. Isabella Baker, widow of the Hon. John Baker, of Morialta, and mother of Sir Richard Baker (says the Melbourne ' Advocate '). The deceased lady was in her flOth year, and her death took place on Anril R, in London. She was the second daughter of Mr. Goorie Allan, of Mian Vale, Tasmania. She and her daughter (Miss Bpssie Anstis Baker) were converts to the Catholic Faith. They have resided in London for some years.

A press desnatch from Milwaukee reports the reception into the Church of two widely-known Episcopal dergvmen. "Hey. Edward Hawkes and Rev. James H. Bourne. They were professors at Nashotah. Wis., the seminary of the Episcopal Church in the West. Professor Hawkes occupied Ihe chair of Greek ?nd history and Professor Bourne that of Latin. They were graduated from Lenoxville College, in Canada. They are men of marked ability, and have already distinguished themselves as instructors in Nashotah Seminary-

Rev. Henry A. Yost, who was at one time minister in charge of ■ Sfc. Timothy's Protestant Episcopal Church, Roxb'orough, has been received into the Church. The ceremony took place in the Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia. Rev. Alvah W. Doran, who before his conversion had been a curate at St. Clement's Episco-

pal Church, officiated. Mr. Yost was accompanied by his cousin, Mrs. Cora A. Heine, and her nine-year-old daughter, both of whom were also baptized. Mr. Yost declared that his step had been taken after much study and prayer.

Rev. J. B. Haslam, for the past four years one of the Companions of the Holy Saviour, a Protestant Episcopal' Order, whose headquarters is at St. Elizabeth's Protestant Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, has resigned TrorrT'the ministry to enter the Catholic Church (says the 'Standard and Times'). He aspires to the priesthood, and hopes to be received into the Paulist community. When asked by a reporter of the daily press why he took such .a step, Mr. Haslam said •: ' I . am going, over because of the positive side of the Catholic Church. I believe it to be the Church of God.'

. A press despatch from Philadelphia, under date May 12, says :— Dr. William McGarvey, formerly rector of St. Elizabeth's Protestant Episcopal Church, and six other clergymen, who recently resigned from the Protestant Episcopal- ministry, have presented themselves to Archjb^shop Ryan for preparation to be received into the priesthood of the Catholic Church.

They are, besides Dr. McGarvey, Maurice L. Cowl, William L. Hayward, William ,H. McClellan, and Edgar N. Cowan, all Companions of the Saviour, of which Dr. McGarvey was Superior ; Charles E. Bowies', formerly of Ravenswobd, 111., and |Otto W. G-romold; -until recently of Pullman, 111.

Sir Charles Euan-Smith, who has been received into the Church by Father Thurston, .S.J., was formerly Minister-Resident at Bogota, the capital of Colombia, served in the Abyssinian campaign of 1868, and in 1872 was Military Attache, to Sir Bartle Frere's special mission to Zanzibar and Consul at Muscat, he went through the Afghan War of 1879-80, and from 181)1 till 1893 was Envoy and Minister to the Emperor of Morocco.

H is a remarkable fact (says a writer in the Philadelphia ' Catholic Standard and Times ') that nineteen ministers of the Episcopal Church have come. into the Catholic Church within the last few months, or are on their way and will be received, it is hoped, before the summer. That this ,has not made much of a stir in Catholic circles is altogether remarkable. The' time was when the conversion of *one minister would be heralded W the daily papers as a great news item, but now it is taken as more or less as a. matter of course. Yet the fact is undeniably remarklable — nineteen ministers, some of them in early life, others men of maturity, breaking away from the Church of |their baptism and the scenes of their chosen ministry, where the pleasantest days of their life have been spent, and for conscience sake submitting to the Church, with all the uncertainties of the future in regard to living, 'aiul work. One of the greatest convulsions of life is 'the soul change that is implied by conversion. Tt is breaking one's life in two. It is a wrenching away from the associations of one's early life, and conscience alone can compel such a change.

Kenyon College was founded near Mt.' Vernon, Ohio, at the little town of G-ambier, by the Anglican Bishou Chase, whose granddaughter, by the way, Sister Mary Friatnces de Snles Chase, was a Visitation nun (says the ' Rosary Magazine '). The money was furnished by Lords Kenyon, Gambler, and Boxley. The erandson of the man for whom the college is named, Ihe Hon. John Georee Kenvon, of Christ Church College, Oxford. formerly a Papal zouave, is a leading convert in Eneland. The American convert sons include Commodore Beniamin Franklin Bache, 1801-1881, for several years profpssor of natural science -at Keri- . von : Ihe Vcrv Rev. Faiher Fidelis (Dr. James Kent Stone), now Provincial of the Passionists in the Eastern province of the United States, president of Kenvon a short time before his conversion ; the Right Roy. fivlvest.p-r Horton Rosecrans, D.D., first Bishon of Columbus. Obio, and his brother, Maior-General William Ptark Rosecrans, one of the heroes of the Civil War ; Hpnrv Livingston Richards, for years an Episcopal minister, father of the distinguished Jesuit, the T?pv. .To^e^h Havens Richards ; William Richards, brother of Henry, a well known lawyer in the national ranital. author of ' The Road to Rome ' ; Congressman Franl- H><rd, the Hon. Thomas Marshall, Judee of the Circit Court of Utah, and the Hon. Edward Simeral, of Omaha.