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Show I Catholics and Controversy. (Philadelphia Catholic Standard and Times.) Miss Ida Hitchcock, daughter of the Rev. Charles Hitchcock, head of the Hitchcock Military academy of San Rafael, Cal., formerly rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church, has announced her intention of becoming a nun in thc-Cathollc thc-Cathollc church. She took the white veil on her novitiate at the convent of the Sister of the Holy Name, in Oakland Oak-land on Aug. 18. "I have given my full consent to Ida becoming a nun," the Rev. Mr. Hitchcock Hitch-cock said in an Interview on the subject sub-ject "I do not think that I should be a barrier between her and her duty as she sees It." The San Francisco Monitor says: "The wonderful spirit of St. Ignatius, which has sent men proclaiming the cross into all corners of the world, lives stronger than ever today, and is kept keenly alive wherever the great Jesui: order is established. It is the spirit of the teacher and the missionary, and it! works at home as well as in 'the field j afar.' Here, in San Francisco a fitting celebration of St. Ignatius' feast four new converts have just been received at St. Ignatius' church, all 'High church' Episcopalians." Among those lately received into the church are: Mrs. Theodore Wattson Hall of Corn-wall-on-Hudson, N. Y daughter of the late Rev. Joseph Wattson of the Episcopal Epis-copal church and sister of Rev. Father Paul, Superior of the Anglican Community Com-munity of the Atonement and editor of the Lamp. Mrs. Roswell Parke Sherwood, Chicago, Chi-cago, late a member of All Saints' Episcopal Epis-copal church, Ravenswood. Mr. Campbell of Dunstaffnage, head of one of the oldest families in Scotland, has been received into the Catholic I church. & Rev. Dr. Hudson of the Protestant church of Ireland. 4 Mrs. Julia Palmer Stevens of Bloom- 1 ington. III., widow of a Methodist min- i ister, who was presiding elder of differ- S ent conferences for many years, and i youngest sister of General John M. Pal- mer, former Governor of Illinois, United j States senator of the same state and l candidate for the presidency. Mrs. j Stevens is also a noted linguist, was f professor of modern languages in Illi- J nois college, in Jacksonville. A notd t pupil in the Sunday school class taught by her was William Jennings Bryan. She has contributed for years to pub- f licatlons of the Methodist denomination, i as well as to many other papers and a magazines, and is also a translator of French and German books. |