RETURNING TO THE FOLD

New Zealand Tablet, 17 September 1908, Page 35

RETURNING TO THE FOLD

_-We (Catholic Times) learn that the Rev. P. W Hemans, late Curate-in-Charge of St. Nicholas, Black"wall, E., has been received into the Church. ■ The Latin- Patriarch of Jerusalem has sent to tV Holy Tattler a message announcing that an entire village in Palestine, -consisting- of one thousand five hundred inhabitants, has just joined the Church. * l n **£ P rocession at th e laying of the corner stone of the Minneapolis" Pro-Cathedral a few weeks ago were twenty Japanese converts, who were received into the Church in March and April last by Father Cosgrove, of St. Vincent's, St. Paul, Minn, T^ Rev. A. H, Easton, 8.A., late curate- of St. peters, Folkestone, was received into the Church at St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate, on Sunday, July 12, the Feast of the Patronage of St. Benedict, by the Very Rev. Prior Egan, 0.5.8. Mrs. E. L. Gedge, a lady well known in connection with her work for the Anglican Church in Gravesend and Rochester, was. received into the Catholic Church a few. weeks since at Westminster Cathedral by the Very Rev. Monsignor Howlett, D.D. An unusual incident occurred' alew weeks ajjoTn the Monastery church at Melleray, lowa, when Mr. and. Mrs. Charles Johnson and their ten children were baptized and became Catholics, the- parents and five of- the children receiving first Holy Communion together at the hands of the venerable pastor of the parish, the Rev. Father David,, who gave the family _ instructions^ in the faith they had accepted. i ; M ot £ er Edith > Mother-General of the community of the Sisters of St. Mary, a Protestant, Episcopal Order, with headquarters at JPeekskill, N.Y., has been received into the Church at St. Elizabeth's Convent," Cornwells , Philadelphia, of which' Mother Catherine Drexel is Superioress. Her example has been followed by Sister Eliza and Sister Marina, ,of the same Urder. The Central Catholic of Winnipeg, Canada/ s^ys : Rev,, John McDonald, S.J., has received into the Church four converts. Three of them, Anglicans and natives of England— Joseph Gould, Frederick Hubert Viggars, and John Henry Newman Wishart— were baptized conditionally. The fourth, a Danish Lutheran, Miss Annie Sonerson, was baptized uncondition- - a i y o T he . c cer emony took place in the large chapel of St. Boniface College. *• - . The death occurred recently of Mr. Joel Chandler Harris ( Uncle Remus '), prior to which he was " received mto the Church. The Rev. O. H. Jackson, of St. Anthonys. Church, Atlanta, Ga., from which Mr. Harris was buried, when asked the date of his reception into the true fold, said : ' I had the pleasure of receiving Mr. Harris into the Church on June 24 I had known Mr. Harris intimately for the past six years, and in all that time his belief and his life was thoroughly Catholic. His natural retiring disposition, to my mind, was the only thing that prevented him from taking the step sooner. Mr. Harris had never been baptized in any Church, but his knowledge of the truths of the Catholic Faith was far greater than that of many Catholics.- His favorite books were Cardinal Newman's works, and his weekly companion the Aye Maria, which he always enjoyed. So his request for. baptism was no surprise to me. "