Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1915 — Use Dormitory as Church. [ARTICLE]

Use Dormitory as Church.

Rev. B. G. O’Rourke, chaplain to the British forces who was captured with the British ambulance column during the retreat from Mons, In a letter to his brother at states that he is in camp at Magdeburg, occupying a room with British, French, Beljgian and Russian officers. > A dormitory has been fitted up as a church, which is a great novelty. At one end is the French Roman Catholic altar, at the other end is the British altar, on the third side is the Russian, and the fourth side is piled with beds. British, French and Russians use the church at different hours. “We had a meeting yesterday,” he adds, “to decide the fate of our communion vessels and brass cross, which will have a historic value. Some were for presenting them to St. Paul’s or some garrison church, but in the end they were presented to me for use la whatever church I serve.”