RETURNING TO THE FOLD

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 08, Issue 32, 8 August 1907, Page 13

RETURNING TO THE FOLD

m r- . It is stated (says the ' Catholic Weekly ') that Mr. George Grossmith, >jun., the distinguished actor, has been received into the Church. Colonel Angus, brother of the- Rev. Father Angus, of St. Andrews, Fifeshire (says the Edinburgh ' Catholic Herald '), has been received into the Church. Captain Belfield, Justice of the Peace, of Maintains, . P'renchay, near Bristol, has been received into the Church. The ' Catholic Register" of India states that the Rev. Dr. Durham, retired chaplain of the Anglican diocese of Madras, has been received into the Church "at Rome by the Very Rev. Father Whitmee. On Easter Sunday at the Weliwitte church (says the ' Ceylon Catholic Messenger '), Rev. Father Don Feter baptized the wife and children of Mudaliyar G. E. Weerakoon, President of V.T., Hewagam, Korale. The Rev. Alexander R. G-oldie, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, formerly vicar of Elvaston, Derby, and rector of Gawsworth, Macclesfield, was received into the Church on March 8 at Bath,, by the Rev. Dunstan Sweeney, 0.5.8. Mr. George E. Weerakoon, President of Village Tribunals, Hewagam, Korale (says the ' Ceylon Catholic Messenger '), was on Sunday, February 24, received into the Church by the Rev. Father Dob Peter at the church at Cotta. / ~ % Miss Gertrude Burnett, • daughter of Captain John Burnett, of Wolverhampton, was received into the Church by Rev. 1 Father Witters, St. John's, Blackrock, County Dublin, on April 26, arid was confirmed at St. Patrick's, Monkstown, on April 30, being presented by her guardian, Mrs. Anne Kellett, Blackrock, County Dublin. A correspondent informs the ' Catholic Herald ' of India' that on the lust Sunday in Lent (February17) Rev. Father A. M. Oorreya, at Delhi, received into the Churcli Mr. Arthur E. Caleb (Lond. Univ.), sometime Professor of English Literature, Keyford College, and author of 'Indian Love-Essays and Poems.' Mr. Caleb is at present private tutor to the sons of „ a Nawab in Delhi. Mr. Robert Wright, the founder of the firm of Wright and Neil, died on May 4 at his late residence, Lisson. Grove, Hawthorn (says the Melbourne 'Advocate '). Mr. Wright occasionally sang in „the choir of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Hawthorn. A few hours before his death, at 1 his request', he was received into the "Church by one of the Jesuit Fathers. > On Tuesday, April 30 (,says the ' Catholic Herald') Father Widdowsoh, S. J:, received into the Catholic Faith at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Lauriston, Edinburgh, the Rev. James Cheeseman, late Primitive Methodist minister, his wife, and his six sons. The father, • mother, and four of the sons received- the Sacrament of Confirmation from the hands of his Grace Archbishop Smith, in- St. John's, Portobello, on Sunday, May. 5. Mr. Cheeseman's entire family comprise eleven children, and three of his daughters hope shortly to be also received into the fold. The determination come to is attributed by Mr. Cheeseman to teaching given him 1 many" years ago by , Father Turnerelli, of Sunderland, I and the final step to the influence of Mr. A. Baptist Stavert, M.A., himself a convert, at whose school in Portobello five of his sons have been pupils. The/ boys' , parents have made a big 'sacrifice in the step they have taken in following the dictates of their 'convictions, and for the sake of their children's education, progressing so favorably at Mr. Stavert's school, they have pluckily resolved to continue life's battle in the | city of their conversion.