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Show A Remarkable Conversion. Protestant university circles in Germany Ger-many have just been convulsed by the news of the conversion to Catholicity of one of their most distinguished professors, pro-fessors, Dr. Albert de Rouville, member of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Protestant University of Halle, has passed over to the Catholic Church after aft-er having made his solemn abjuration of Protestantism. He is about to pub-ish pub-ish a book which will make a sensation, to be entitled "Return to the Holy Church," in which he will publicly avow the motives which brought about his change of religion, the sub-title being "Experiences and Beliefs of a Convert." In one of the first chapters he shows that that which first shook his belief in Protestantism was. of all things, Harnack's book, "The Essence of Christianity, which made such' a noise in its time. The other chapters of Professor Rouville's book are devoted devot-ed to studies of the distinctive doctrines doc-trines of the Catholic Church, and the attitude of a convert to her teachings. Professor Rouville's conversion is all the more remarkable as such an event Is a rare one in Germany amongst Protestant professors or "intellectuals," who for the most part are Rationalists of the most Rationalistic type. |