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New Zealand Tablet, 31 March 1910, Page 491

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The San Francisco Monitor says: Fifty converts have been confirmed in Eureka by Right Rev. Bishop Grace.’ ?? • A Home paper states that Sir Bruce Burnside was received into the Church before his death, and was buried with all the rites of the Church. ' .. _ o At the Ursuline Academy, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A., on .December 31, Miss Emma • Lore, daughter of termer Chief Justice Lore, Was received into the Church. , ill m^ r * Frederick. Back, at one time general manager of the Tasmanian Railways, and for many years a resident of Christchurch, was received into the Church before his death which occurred recently at South Yarra, Melbourne. -’ . Miss Browne, daughter of Dr. C. G. Browne, of Lympstone, Devon, Rural Dean, and a member, of the St JLhomas Board of Guardians and Rural District Council has been received into the Catholic Church by the - Abbot of Buckfast. - Mr. James Mahool, eldest brother of Mayor Mahool of Baltimore, and for nearly thirty-five years in the service of the Consolidated Gas Company of that city, died recently- ; During his illness (says the Baltimore Sun) Mr. Mahool, who had been a Presbyterian, was converted to the ; Catholic religion, the faith of his wife, i- Mr. James M. Raker, formerly Rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Merrill, Wisconsin, was received into' the Church on September 21 by Very Rev. Henry T. Drumgoole, LL.D., Rector of St. Charles’ Seminary, Overbrook. Mr. Raker will study for the priesthood. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. _ . - .... Every great city, of the United States (says the Boston Pilot of -December - 25) . has had examples of conversions -among the Chinese. , The latest of these is that of a nephew of the celebrated Wu Ting-Fang, who became a Catholic three weeks ago at Washington. Here in our own. city eight Chinese, one of whom is a prominent merchant, will be baptised on Sunday at St. James’ Church. •.- Mrs. Gertrude Haile Lanman; of Norwich, Conn., and of New York, a lady of considerable wealth and social distinction, a student and h a philanthropist, has become - a Catholic. Indeed, according to an interview granted to a representative of a New York paper and published in its columns, she has been-a member of the Church since last August. Mrs. Lanman is a daughter of the late Dr. A. B. Haile, a prominent Norwich physician, and widow of William Camp Lanman. The Catholic Standard and Times, Philadelphia, in its issue of November 13, says: Friends in this city of Rev. Henry R. Sargent, of the Protestant Episcopal Order of the .Holy Cross, -have received advices from England announcing his - intention to enter the Catholic Church. The new convert is at present the guest of Rev. Basil W. Maturin. He will go to the Benedictine Abbey at Downside for a religious retreat and instruction. Mr. Sargent graduated from Harvard University with distinguished honors in 1879.’v On the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Miss Mary Violet Parry-Okeden, niece of. Mr. Henry Lee-Warner, J.P., present owner of Walsinghara Abbey, was received into the Church by the . Rev. Father Gray. . Walsingham is a famous old shrine. The last regal devotee was Henry VIII., who in the second year of his reign walked hither barefoot from the village of Barsham; a little later, however, he caused the image of Our Lady of Walsingham to be removed and burnt at Chelsea. Mr. William Peter Waterman, of Brooklyn, Mich., who was recently received into the Church, was for fifty years a member of . the Methodist Episcopal Church. All that time his leanings were such, as to lead him since to believe that he was practically a Catholic ■ at heart. He frequently made the statement that he believed that when ■ our Lord said, ‘This is My Body,’ He meant what He said. Mr. Waterman’s conversion was due to his son, Mr. Edward Waterman, of Detroit. The latter is himself a convert, whose zeal so impressed his father that he finally decided to become a Catholic. - , - - : The Hon. C. Gibbons, of Paris, Tex., ill with an incurable malady, was received into the Church recently by the Rev. James M. Hayes, of Texarkana. Mr. Gibbons, who had been previously instructed by Father Hayes, received Baptism in the presence of his children, his grandN children, the Sisters of Mercy, and a few old friends. His son, Edward G. Gibbons, teller of the City National Bank, and his daughter, were his sponsors. His wife was present, and held his feeble hand, while the beautiful ceremony that .made him a child of Christ was. being performed. - ; . v A passing reference in our issue of , January 27 to ’ the - Rev. Father Angus, who was for some years the first resident priest at St. Andrews; Fife, since the Reformation, has -brought the following interesting letter from an esteemed Wellington correspondent—‘l spent a summer in St. Andrews two years , ago, and made Father Angus s acquaintance. He ‘ was an extraordinarily interesting character, and it is only through your paper that I have become t aware of his death, and am able to say a ‘‘De Profundis ’’

for him. He : told me himself that he had originally been an olfacer in the Army, and in his youth had marched with his regiment (infantry) practically all ‘ over -India, which is more than .most soldiers can say now in these days s of extensive .railways. He was brought up a Presbyterian, and in his journey towards the One True Faith became tor-some two years an Anglican. .. At this time (he told me) ms Anglican friends used to tease , him by saying that he was half a Puritan and half a Papist, but not one fraction of an Anglican.” .: His knowledge of - the Bible was so thorough that he was often asked to preach on that express ground, and he used to give it as his advice to converts from Protestantism: “ Don’t think that now ‘ you are a Catholic you can afford to drop your Bible.’’ While on this topic may I be allowed to express my gratitude to two Jesuit'priests—one Rev. Father Bernard Vaughan, and a Trench Father from Lyons, both of whom urged in the strongest terms a daily: reading of the Bible? “Ladies : ask me daily to recommend them some spiritual book. I say to them; u You have the four Gospels. Do you know those as they, should be known ?V’—Father Vaughan. “Lisez done le Bible: mais lisez surtout ; I’Evangile,” said my French Jesuit preacher, I think - a great point, is often missed in controversy with Protestants in omitting 'to . tell them that. an Indulgence is attached to the steady reading of the Bible for. fifteen, minutes a day.’