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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 15, 14 April 1904, Page 29

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Mrs E T Ma reliant, of Tan y bryn, Beaumans, was received into the Church at the Father I)a\ les Chapo', Bcaumaris, Wales, on Sunday, Januaiy 'M\. Captain Colin M'Rae, l Black watch,' was received into the Church at Glasgow recently Captain M Rae is a nephew of Ihe Marquis of Bute. The Re^ Geoige Heniy Wharton, M.A , late Vicar of St. John's, iUiddlesbonnigh, has been moived inUj the Catholic Chinch by the Rev Sydney Smith, S J Captain P. W Yndeison, Nigeria, was iecpi\ cd into tvhe Church recently at Las Palmas by the Bishop of Canary, and made ' his First Communion in his Lordship's private chapel on the same day. Mrs. Burnev, wife of Major and Brevet Lieiut Colonel Herbert Burnev, at piesent second in command of the Gordon Highlanders, has been received into the Catholic Church by Father Basil Alatunn The Holy Father an February 17 gave audience to three gentlemen who were recently con\ cited from Protestantism : John Muller, of Vnter Kulm in Switzerland , William Fischer, of Memel in Prussia , and Richard Schellander, of Stuttgart. Mrs Bourland, a prominent society leader of Peoiia, Illinois, has been received into the Catholic Church. Mrs Bo'ur'and is a member of one of the most aristocratic families of Peoria, and her conveision created something of a sensation, not alone in the city but throughout the State, wheie she is widely known

A despatch from Milwaukee, under date Jan/vary 21 states tjiat in the presence of a congregation that filled Gesu Ohuirch, the Rev. Charles H. Sohmltz, formerly of St. Stephen's Episcopal parish, was baptised and received into tlhe Catholic Church. A large numiber of those in the church were Mr. Schultz's former parishioners. January 20 was a day long to be remembered by the old veteran heroes who live at the Michigan Soldiers' Home. On that date Bishop Richter gawe lirst Holy Communion and administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to fifteen old veterans who had embraced the taith of the Mother Church. Impressive ceremonies marked the obsequies of the great Confederate ( leader, General Lpnigstreet, at Gainesville, Georgia (U.S.A.), on January 6. General Longstreet at the tflose of the Civil War, in which he was one of the most distinguished of General Lee's lieutenants, became a convert to the Catholic faith, lie served as United States Minister to Turkey. Miss Louise Drew, daughter of John Drew, the actor, was received into the Catholic Church on .January 11 by the Rev. Henry E. O'Keefe, C.S.P., at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York. Mrs. Williams, an aged actress, acted as Miss Drew's godmother. Miss Drew's mother was present, arid her father telegraphed his approval from Providence, R.1., where he was playing. Mr Henry L Rich arch, who died recently in Winchester, Mass., in his 90th year, was pastor of St. Pawl's Church, Columbfus, Ohio, for ten years, hut in 1852 he became a Catholic. He was followed into the Church by his devoted wife. Their five children are likewise Catholics ; and one, the Rev. J. Havens Richaids became a Jesuit. Mr. Richards had the great joy of bringing into the Church many sincere and faithful converts. A message in an American exchange, under date February 17, from St. Elizabeth, New Jersey, states that the Rev. Dr. H. E. 'Gilchrist, who resigned from the reel orate of St. Luke's Episcopal Church of Roselle, sonic weeks previously, was that morning receLve-d into the Catholic Church in St. Michael's Church, Oranford, by Rev. .John A. Westman. Baron and Baroness von Odmelle stood as godfather and godmother for Dr. Gilchust Neaily all races were represented at the Sacrament of Confirmation administered to 200 converts at St. \ incent's Church, St. Paul, Minn., recently, by Bishop MoGolrick Chinese, Indians, Africans, and many of the nationalities of Europe were received as members of the Church. Besides the adults of European nationalities there wcie six Indians, seven Chinese, and four negroes Two of the Indians were nearly eighty years of ago, and one of them was a squaw seventy-three \ oai s old Last week (says the ' London Universe ' of Decembei 2(>) there wete two remarkable conversions in Rome —one t i professor of languages, Leonidas Basilides, of Constantinople, a sohismatio of the Oriental Greek ule, and the other Signor Aless,andro Sterio, a Croatian of the E\ angelical Reformed Church. The new converts, who were received into the Church on the 16th and ISth insts respectively, were afterwards received m audience by the Holy Father, who gave them his benediction The ' Liberte ' af Fnbourg, Switzerland, pays a \eiy touching tribute to Miss Florence Boulton, who died there on January 26 ' She was,' it says, ' well known an|d deeply loVed by the greater numiber of families m oai r city.' Miss Boulton, who was born in London on May 14, 1866, was received into the Church by Fathei Clnules Cox on June 10, 1895 At Fnbourg she gave lessons in cookery for the Office of Public Instruction The Bishop, Monsignor Dcruaz, visited her in her last illness, and her charitable work gained her troops of fi lends, who spoke of her as ' our generous Miss Boulton ' At the ending of the mission for non-Catholics which the Paulist Fathers had been conducting for three weeks at the Paulist Church, New York, Father Oonwav anoounced that sixty-four conversions had been made He said that one of those converted was an act less of considerable prominence A Presbyterian minister connected wifh one of the West Side churches was under instruction, Father Conway said, but has not vet decided to enter the Church. One of the con\erts is a Jew, the first to be baptised by the Paulists in sevoin years. Of the others, nine came from the Episcopal Church, six from the Lutheran, and two fiom the Presbyterian.