RETURNING TO THE FOLD

New Zealand Tablet, 17 June 1920, Page 35

RETURNING TO THE FOLD

Rev. Lawrence Frederick Harvey, 8.A., of Exeter College, Oxford, who was received into the Church at St. Philip Priory, Begbroke, lately gave up the head-mastership of a well-known Protestant school for this purpose, A special message to the London Universe, received from Prague early in February, announces that Colonel Coulsin, the Chief of the British Mission in Prague, and his aide-de-camp, Mr. Arthur Dilley, had just been received into the Church. Rev. Harry Malvin Ovington, until December 28 last curate-in-charge of All Saints’, Stechford, Birmingham, England, has been received into the Catholic Church by the Rev. Wenceslaus Memnagh, at St. Vincent’s Church, Ashted Row, Birmingham. A great sensation has been caused in Anglican circles in London by a wholesale conversion at a wellknown London church, not far from Westminster Cathedral (says an exchange). Two or more of the clergy and several members of the congregation have Seen received into the Church. Miss Benson, daughter of a former Archbishop of Canterbury, who visited Dublin shortly before he died, was recently received into the Catholic Church at Seaton, Devonshire, by Rev. P. O’Toole, P.P., St. Mary’s, Brewood, Staffs. She is a sister of the late Monsignor R. H. Benson, of Mr. E. F. Benson, the novelist, and of Mr. A. C. Benson, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Mrs. Hewins, wife of Mr. W. A. S. Hewins, late Secretary of State for the Colonies, was received into the Church by the Rev. J. Lionel Dove, in the Lady Chapel, Westminster Cathedral, London, on the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She was confirmed the following morning by his Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster in his private oratory at Archbishop’s House. On a Sunday afternoon a few months ago the Right Rev. Dr. Grey Graham, Edinburgh, administered the ■Saci ament of Confirmation to close on 400 persons in St. Mary s, Star of the Sea. During the course of a practical address to those about to be confirmed, his Lordship made special allusion to the adults who were coming forward to receive the Sacrament. There were over 60 of —nearly all recent converts to our holy Faith. He congratulated them on having found the way to truth in spite of obvious difficulties. Among the many converts recently baptised at Washington, U.S.A., was Major William Heimke, U.S.A. (retired). He was born in 1847 and was educated in France and Germany at army schools and at the West Point Military Academy. He graduated from the last named institution in 1875. He served in various capacities in the army from 1862 to 1880 He was appointed in 1887 U.S. Vice-Consul at ChihanS a ’ inof’ and Was in char ge of the Consulate from May, 1887, until his appointment as Consul in 1892 He was Second Secretary of the U.S. Legation at Mexico in 1897, and Charge d’Affaires at various times, Secretary of Legation at Bogota, 1906; Charge 9 °A 1907; US - Mii,ister <» Guatemala, 1908-9, and to Salvador, 1909.1915. In 1915 he retired as Chief of the Division of Latin-American Affairs, Department of State. His wife and family are CathSaint M p St f eV T7 aT thl Dowlin £> D-D., Archbishop of Saint Paul, U.S.A confirmed a large class recently n the • Church of St. John the Baptist at Darwin, Minn. Among those confirmed was Joseph Plumadore convert in yearS u &8 ?f P robabl y the °M«>t Catholic S all of t WOI J d - ? e 13 the father of chilren. all of whom have been received into the Church. HelT r / C ° nrt dass has a unique history. He has lived under 19 Presidents of the United States He was born in Pennsylvania when President Tyler

the tenth successor of George Washington, died. Incidentally four other converts were received into the Church, with Mr. Plumadore, whose combined ages totailed 378 years—a most remarkable incident. Among the recent converts to the Catholic Church in America are Dr, Carlton J. Hayes, of Columbia University, and Henry J. Ford, of Princeton University. Dr. Hayes has been Professor of History at Columbia for many years. He is the author of British Social Politics, The History of Modern Europe, and other historical works. Dr. Hayes has begun his active Catholic life by becoming , secretary of the newly-founded Catholic Historical Society. Professor Henry J. Ford was received invo the Church by the Jesuit Fathers of New York. He is a former newspaper man, having been engaged on many of the leading metropolitan newspapers. From 1906-1907 Mr. Ford was lecturer on Political Science in John Hopkins University, and since 1918 has been Professor of Political Science and Government in Princeton University. Professor Ford is the author of The Pise and Growth of American Politics (1898); The Cost of Oar National Government (1909) ; The ScotchIrish in America (1905); The Natural History of the State, and The Cleveland Era.