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Show NINE FORMER EPISCOPALIANS AT 0VERBR00K SEMINARY . Six of the Protestant Episcopal ministers recently re-cently received into the church will enter the Seminary Sem-inary of St. Charles Borromco, Overbrook, in September, Sep-tember, where Messrs. Henkell, Hawkes and Bourne have already preceded them. Those who will enter at the beginning of the scholastic year are Dr. William Wil-liam McGarvey. Maurice L. Cowl and William L. Hayward. late of St. Elzabeth's V. E. church, this city; Charles E. Bowles and Otho W. Gromoll, late of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Chicago, and Edgar X. Cowan, formerly of the Protestant Epis-conal Epis-conal diocese of Milwaukee. William II. MeClellan, formerly of St. Elizabeth's Eliza-beth's P. E. church, wll become an instructor in a Jesuit college in September, and may later enter that order. One member of the Protestant Episcopal Sisters of St. Mary, whose convent is at Peekskill, X. Y., has been received into the church "at St. Elizabeth's convent, Cornwells. of which Mother Katharine Drexel is superior, and two other members of the same community are under instruction there, all three being at present guests of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. The one who has already entered the church is Sister Eliza, whose submission was made to Archbishop Arch-bishop Ryan on Sunday last, on occasion of his grace's visit to Cornwells to lay the cornerstone of the Holy Ghost' Fahers' Apostolic college. The two who are under instruction are Mother Edith, former for-mer superior of the Sisters of St. Mary, and Sister Marina. The three Sisters corrie of well-known families. Mother Edith was a Miss Pardee of Xew England, and is a woman of great intellectual and administrative adminis-trative ability. Sister Eliza was a Miss Montgomery Montgom-ery of St. Louis, where her father was a prominent citizen. Her maternal grandfather was Governor Phelps of Missouri. The lay converts in the various parts of the city include members of other Protestant Episcopal churches than St. Elizabeth's, two of the recent' converts being from St. Clement's. |