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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WESLEY'S HISTORIC

BIRTHPLACE.

METHODISTS TO ACQUIRE EPWORTH RECTORY.

Widespread interest has been aroused by the proposal to pur chase Epworth Vicarage-the Wesley home on the borders of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire-by the Wesleyan connexion.

to

THURSDAY,

JULY 28, 1927.

ANSWER TO TYPIST'S PRAYERS.

THE SHOT OPERA SINGER.

INTERVENTION BY A KINDLY "ACCUSED WIFE'S STORY OF

SAINT.

A REINSTATEMENT.

BETRAYAL,

The trial of Frau Nelly Grosa- veset for shooting dead her Rn- nianian husband, the celebrated tenor opera singer, began at the Budapest it disenssing a recont end of June in Vienna. Fifty wit occurrence (testified to by reliable nesses are to be examined. Frau witnesses), which the religions ac- Grasavescu, who is now 31, was cept as a miracle, the psychically divorced four years ago by her The scheme is its original form minded as a successful materinlian first husband, Major Caltun, an was eenfined to an appeal for tion, and the sceptical as an opt-Australian, because of her int!- funds to restore this historic cal illusion.

macy with M. Grosavescu, whom home of the great preacher, but The scene of this manifestation court was crowded with lending. she afterwards married. The now followers throughout the was one of the Governmental off-members of Austrian society. world of the religion he founded ces, in which the final reduction M. Gosaveech was shot four are anxious to secure the house as of the staff, required by the recon- months ago after a squabble with 11 permanent tribute

his struction programme, was being his wife, who wanted to accom- memory. The plan receives a effeeted. One of the dismissed pany him to Berlin. suspecting fresh impetus from the fact that employes, a girl typist, who sup- that he would meet another wo only a few weeks ago a no less ported an aged mother, was seri-

man, Frau Stransky. famous vicarage at Haworth-ously troubled over her situation,

Tall and thin, with a black the Yorkshire home of the Brontes as there seemed no likelihood of -was, purchased for the nation. her securing another equally re-mourning dress falling to her an-, It is felt that similar steps should minerative post. One day, the kles, "Frau Grosavescu spent three be taken to ensure the future of blography of St. Theresa of Lisle hours giving her evidence. She the one at Epworth, which, like its ux accidentally came into her Justifled her jealousy of Frau Northern neighbour, is visited by hands, and after reading the story Stransky by describing how, when tourists from all parts of the of "Little Theresa," the Carmelite herself. ill, she wont to a sitting- world.

nun, who died in Budapest in 1897, room in their flat and found her at the age of twenty-four-the husband with this woman, but con- The Rev. Walter H. Armstrong youngest saint in the Calendar-sented to keep silent to avert n of the Wesleyan Methodist Lon- the girl decided to make a "No-scandal. don Mission and Extension Fund, vena," or nine days' appeal, to the

Describing the shooting, sho explained to an Obaerver repre-saint.

said her husband.. threw her sentative yesterday that of all

The ninth and last visit to the clothes from his trunks, refusing places associated with Wesley his birthplace was, perhaps, held in Carmelite Church happened to fall to take her to Berlin, but she ro the greatest regard by his 40.000,-on the day when the typist's emplaced them, locked the trunk and 000 followers.

ployment ended. On this morn took the key, whereupon he strug- ing the chief of the department in gled with her, recovered the key The present proposal," he said, which she worked received an un- by force, and was going away. is as yet unofficial. The position announced visit from a young nun when she fred. She is that the rectory has become On being asked what she desired, remember where she found the dilapidated to an extent which has the non said that she had come pistol. She accused her husband led the rector to appeal through to plead for the reinstatement of of brutality, extravagance, Lam- 12 well-known Methodist Sir the dismissed. typist. The chief gling, and immorality. Thomas Rowbotham, of Stockport declared himself unable to move la

い

Could not

SLAVE-RAIDERS ROUTED.

FRENCH GARRISON'S FIGHT.

-for help. A number of Wesley. the maller; but, when the an ana have responded gladly to the firmly announced her intention of appeal, but now it is felt that a remaining until he decided more important consideration grant her request, he was sur arises. While the rector is a man prised to find himself agreeing to of broad sympathies, whose a-revoke the dismissal. Litude towards Methodism hes

The door had scarcely closed on beet exceedingly kind, in many the departing nun when the typist quarters it is felt that the time 's knocked and entered. The chief, now opportune to purchase the nonplussed at his inexplicable

Paris: A French station on the rectory and keep it in the hands of capitulation, told her to call back African Atlantic coast

near the followers of Wesley for all time, the Bun she had sent fe plead her frontier of the Spanish zone wan But the gh denied all attacked on June 13 by a strong "The suggestion receives added cause.

of Moorish raidera. This weight from the fact that the knowledge of the nun, and when band better-known places with which the employees in the outer rooms portion of the Spanish zone is for its slave-raiders, Wesley was associated are in the and the hall porter were question-notorious hants of the Anglican Churched, it transpired that no nun had who have on several occasions at- tacked the pilots and passengera as the Charterhouse School and been seen to enter the building.

had to alight in the Rio Oro dis- trict by accident.

Lincoln College, Oxford--and the A scene of confusion followed, of French seroplanes which have only building we possess having during which the tearful typist, and very definite memories is the pleading her innocence, drew froin Wesley Chapel in the City road," her satchel a little book, and say- Sir Robert W. Perks, Bart., one ing. This is the only nun I know of the best-known, lay figures in anything about!" displayed the the denomination, was not in photograph of St. Theresa. at pressed by the proposals. "sight of which the chief declared doubtful without hesitation, "Yes; that was extremely think it

abel" whether the rectory can be pur-

chased, and, even so, the question It is, perhaps, superfluous to arises as to what use is to be made add that the typist remains at her of it," he said..

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The attack was intended as a surprise, bat the French garrison was prepared and after a set-to Moorish slave-raiders were the routed with heavy loss.

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