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Show TO GIVE UP WIFE FOR CHURCH. (Special to Chicago Tribune.) San Francisco, July 9. Charles Heade's powerful power-ful story against celibacy of the priesthood, "The Cloister and the Hearth," evidently has had little weight with the Kev. Stephen lnnes, formerly rector rec-tor of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin of thia city. It will be recalled that Gerard, Mr. Keade's hero, while in liome, was informed that his young wife, whom he had left in Holland, had died. Gerard was inconsolable and finally decided to enter the priesthood. A few years afterward, while visiting his old home, he discovered his wife was still living and awaiting his return. It then became a struggle with him as to which he should give up his wife or the church. The church won, but the lives x of both the priest and I the wife were embittered by the choice. Xow the Rev. Stephen lnnes is about to put away his wife to become a priest of the Roman CarnTmc'hOTefi. "WitlrMrs. lnnes he" wiirgoeirgo" to Rome to seek papal sanction foi a separation. It is not because of diminished affection or respect or domestic happiness, however, that Mr. and Mrs. lnnes have decided to part. Mr. lnnes believes it his duty to enter the priesthood, and Mrs. lnnes agrees with him and will not only second sec-ond his appeal to the pope, but will herself enter the service of the church in some one of the stricter religious orders. Father lnnes. as he is commonly known, is a son of the Rev. Robert F. lnnes of Philadelphia, founder of the Philadelphia Home of the Merciful Savior for Crippled Children. He studied for the j priesthood, but reconsidered the determination and became a high church Episcopalian clergyman. Soon after the announcement of it was given out, Mr. lnnes was engaged to Miss Louise Smithers, daughter of F. S. Smithers, a New York banker. The couple were married in 1900, and in September Septem-ber of that year Mr. lnnes came to San Francisco as rector of St. Mary's. Father lnnes became involved in 1902 in a disagreement dis-agreement with the bishop regarding alleged violations viola-tions of the church usages, and it was said he was finding himself less in sympathy with the tenets of the Episcopal faith than he had hoped to be. Finally, about a year ago, Mr. lnnes gave up his work at St. Mary's and became a communicant of the Roman Catholic church. MrT and Mrs. lnnes have no children of their j own, though they have adopted a son, a boy 5 years 1 old. What will be done with him when his foster parents have broken up their home and entered upon up-on their isolated religious duties has not yet been divulged by either lnnes or his wife. lnnes refuses to discuss his plans for the future. |