RETURNING TO THE FOLD

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 22, 28 May 1903, Page 3

RETURNING TO THE FOLD

A London contemporary announces that the Duke de Moro, of Hill Hall, Epping, late of Norton Heath, near Ongar, who was until recently an active member of the Anglican Church Union, has been received into the Catholic Chfurch. The Rev. William Wheler Hume, lately curate at St. Michael's, Shoreditch, has been received into the Catholic Church at the Church of the Assumption, Warwick street, London, by the Rev. O. R. Vassall-Phillips. Sixty adults, till recently belonging to St. Michael's Anglican Church, Shoreditch, were Confirmed by the Right Rev. ~Dr. Cahill, Bishop of Portsmouth, recently at St. Mary's, Mooriields, London. On April 2, Rev. Samuel Macpherson, late pastor of St. John's (Episcopalian) Church, Auburn, New York, was received into the Catholic Church by the Rev. W. T. Clark, S.J., at the Jesuit Novitiate, St. Andrew-on-the-Hudson. The Rev. George Stewart Hitchcock, 8.A., sometime curate of St. Paul's Anglican Church, Chatham, and latterly minister of Chatham Unitarian Church, is now (states a London secular newspaper) a candidate for admission to the Catholic Church. The ' Catholic Times ' states that the Rev. Mr. Evans, until recently rector of St. Michael's Anglican Church, Shoreditch, London, has been received into the Church, the ceremony having taken place in Florence about the middle of March. Ninety-three persons, who were formerly membeis of St. Michael's congregation, ha\e already been received at St. Mary's, Moorfields, and the number under instruction is daily increasing. The Rev. Edgar Lee, who has been vicar of Christ Church, Doncaster, for about ten years, has resigned the living, and is to be received into the Catholic Church. Tho rev. gentleman's reasons for taking this step are connected with the question of authority. He has sought in vain, he says, for an adthority in the Church of England upon which he could rely. The rev. gentleman was formerly vicar of St. Anne's, Buxton. Mrs. Henrietta Dougherty (says a Californian exchange), a woman of high literary attainments and a writer of considerable note, who had been brought up an Episcopalian and had affiliated with that denomination all her long life of eighty years, has been received into the Church by Rev. William Quinlan, of Los Angeles, after having been thoroughly instructed. Mrs. Dougherty had been a student all her life and joined the Church only after a most thorough investigation. An interesting conversion (says the London ' Tablet,' March 28) took, place last week. Mrs. Thelwall, the widow of the well-known water-color artist, Wevmouth Thelwall, was received into the Church by the Rev. Father Coventry, O.S M., of the Fulham Priory. Mrs. Thelwall is herself a connection of Sir Walter Scott's family, and her late husband was the youngest son of tho celebrated John Thelwall, the Reformer, who, together with Home Tooke and Hard- was tried for high treason in 1795. This conversion offers a curious instance of the links of history. John Thelwall, the new convert's father-in-law, was the friend of Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and Condorcet, and yet here is his daughter-in-law living and hale at the dawn of the twentieth century. No man, in his time, did more to advance Catholic Emancipation than John Thelwall, nnd, by a curious coincidence, his son died a Catholic, and his grandchild is a pious Catholic, whose influence has brought her mother into the fold.