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New Zealand Tablet, 6 April 1916, Page 23

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Mr. S. M. Miller, M.A., Lecturer on Roman History and Antiquities at Glasgow University, has been received into the' Catholic ■ Church. ; ; In one church in Philadelphia recently 148 ■ adults were confirmed. Of this number 86 were men and 62 women, nearly all converts to the Catholic faith. Mr. Albert Barnes Boardman, a prominent lawyer of New York, and also a vestryman of St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church of that city, has been received into the Catholic Church, " ’■ Mrs. Alexander Poro, daughter of a noted German scholar, Herr Bruno Jagow, of Leipsic, was received into the Catholic Church on Christmas Day in St..Ann’s Church, Hoboken, N.J. ' \ Henrietta Knox Kelsey Campbell, who died recently in Louisville, Ky., was a lineal descendant of the Scottish . ‘ reformer.’ She was born of Protestant parents in Belfast and became a great benefactor of Catholic charities. A Home exchange announces the reception into the Church of the Rev. Alban H. Smith, 8.A., who was formerly associated with the Anglican Bishop of Zanzibar. This makes the ninetythird conversion of English Protestant ministers since 1910.. Mr. Stuart P. West, the head of the American Catholic Converts’ League, says the public has no conception of the large number of Protestantsbetween 30,000 and 40,000wh0 are entering the Catholic Church every year in the United States. r A London journal reports that the Rev. R. F. Sheppey-Greene, late of St. , Thomas’, Clapton, and now second lieutenant in the Army .Service Corps, has been received into the Church by Mgr. Scott, D.D., Y.G. The ceremony took place on January 6 at Cambridge. The London Universe chronicles the reception into the Church by Father Wonnacott (himself a convert) of Mr. John Cox, a prominent member of the ‘ Catholic League ’ .(Anglican) and secretary of the South London Branch, of ‘The Living Rosary of Our Lady and St. Dominic.’ r The London Uinverse learns of the reception into the Church a few days before Christmas, of Edward Hicks, the youngest son of the Anglican Bishop of Lincoln. It "is interesting to -recall that Mrs. Hicks was the daughter of a clergyman who was afterwards received s into the Church. Sister Katherine, the well-known Anglican nun, who has worked for many years among the poor of Birmingham, and latterly has been Superioress of .Bad- . sey and . St, Christopher’s, Pershore, has been received into the Church by Father O’Hagan, and is now ' a humble postulant at the Convent of Mercy, Camp Hill, which is doing such excellent work for education in Birmingham. ( • ” , ' \ We are .pleased to be in a position to announce conversion to the Catholic faith of Mrs. Ilbert, nee " Annie Barrack,, daughter of the Rev John Barrack, formerly the much esteemed minister of .Falkland parish, Fife (says the Glasgow Observer). She is now the wife of an Anglican rector’s son. * I learned,’ she says, * not to look for flaws, but to look at the beauty of holiness itself.’ Mrs. Ilbert is devoting herself to hospital work near Plymouth. .. .. ‘ Archbishop ’ . Mathew, who for the past nine years has presided over the ‘ Old Catholic 1 movement in i Great Britain,. has written to Cardinal Merry del Val, Prefect of the Holy Office at the Vatican, announcing r that : he ~ offers his unconditional submission and adhesion to the Pope. Five of his episcopal suffragans have taken the same step, as have also several of . the priests connected with the Old Catholic Church, which thus, as far as Great Britain. is concerned, ceases to exist.., 7 The Archbishop’s reasons for this step ate given in a letter of some length which he has addressed to the . Catholic newspapers. / .

A, rather unusual incident occurred recently in the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Paterson, N. J. When that-edifice was- known and ; used as ,SC Luke’s Lutheran Evangelical Church, Miss . Katherine Hertner was a member. Since then,* however. Miss Hertner has been converted and recently she had the happiness of. being baptised in the true faith in the church she'formerly attended as a Lutheran. . .. <

Mr. Arnold Crush, an l_>architect well'- known in Anglican ecclesiastical circles, has been received into the Church by the Rev. Father Joseph Bacchus, of the Oratory, Birmingham, England. Until quite recently he was associated locally with what is known as the * forward movement.’ in the Church of England, his special knowledge of ecclesiastical art causing his advice to be sought by an increasing number of v those Anglican clergy who are recognising the value of Catholic and medieval standards in such matters.

Dr. Eugene Woldemar ’ Hilgard, for many years professor emeritus of agriculture at the University of California, died at his home in Berkeley, Cal., recently, at the advanced age of 83 years. Eugene Hilgard was born at Zweibrucken, Bavaria. - His' father was a Lutheran and Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals. In 1835 the latter emigrated to America with a family of nine children, of whom Eugene was the youngest. The family settled on a farm near Belleville, 111. The youngest son was educated at home by his father arid sisters, and was able to enter Heidelberg - University ' at the age of 15, receiving his degree of Ph.D. at nineteen. He spent two years in Spain and began an investigation in regard to the doctrines of the Catholic Church. The result was that on his return to the United States he was received into the Church at Washington, D.C. ; '