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The Rev. James Frawr. late incumbent of the Episcopalian Ohuroh. Banchory, N. 8., has been received into the Catholic Church at St. Benedict's Abbey, Fort Augustus. Rev. Joseph T. Oaugle, who, in December 1901, joined the Austrian Old Catholic sect, has returned to the Catholic Church, and made public a letter of humble recantation. Mr Thomas Addis Emmet, nephew of General Louis Botha, who Served in the South African war under Oeneral De Wet, was taken prisoner in 1901, and conveyed to the camp at Upper Topa, close to Maree, a station served by the Foreign Missionary Fathers of Mill-hill College. While there Mr Emmet was received h,to tne Catholic Church. Dr William Thorton Parker, from whose earnest pen a numb r of articles — notably his chivalrous defence of the Jesuit*— have have appealed in the ' Sacred Heart Review,' was reoeiveri into the Catholic Church on December 2 by the Rev. Thomas P. Luoey, pastor of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Northampton, Maw. On December 20 in the chapel of the Ursuline Convent, Toledo Miss Mary Waite was baptised by the Rev. J. T, O'Connell, pastor of St. Francis de Sales' Churoh. Miss Waite was formerly a member of the Episcopal iac Churoh, but had, for a number of years, been contemplating the step which she took. The ceremony was witnessed by a number of the friends of the young lady, who is a member of one of Toledo's oldest and most prominent families. She is a daughter of the late Edward T. Waite and granddaughter of the late Chief Justice Waite. The Hon. G. L. Marble, of Van Wert, Ohio, who died the other day, was a recent convert to the Catholio faith. Deceased was a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan College and of Princeton University. At the age of 18 he became an agnostic and was a close friend of the late Robert Ingersoll. Yet he refused to attend any of the lectures of the great infidel, believing them wrong in undermining the religious faith of others. Some years ago he began to consider the claims of Catholicism, and when he had satisfied himself of its truth, accepted ie with a beautiful and edifying faith. He willingly made every sacrifice that the Churob could demand of him, even the forfeiture of his standing amongst the Masons, of which he was an influential member. He was a Hebrew scholar, and a keen student of Latin and Greek. His enormous library included books on all subject of philosophical and scientific research. Mr Marble was one of the legal lights of the State of Ohio, and stood high as a counsellor in Republican State politics. He was a personal friend of the late lamented President McKinley, and several times was called to Washington to deliberate on questions of national importance.