The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-05
SOCIETY.
BY ANNIE PERRY REID. Bell Telephone 1897.
CONCERNING REV. DE OWES.

Rev. Raimond Garcia de Ovies of St. Andrews, Birmingham. who preached the Trinity Ienten sermon on Tuesday even ing in Mobile. is an exceptional man or his years in the church, says the Mobile Register His brief career mas combined the picturesque and practical in equal degrees and he has probably done more active and real work than any man of his date.
 MT. de Ovies. as his name indicates, is d Spaniard by descent; his father being Count Louis de Ovies, who was on the staff of Don Carlos in his movement for the throne The count married an Eng fish lady, and the young son was 10 have completed his education in Massa- chusetts, with no reference to his pres ent sacred office. But the coming preacher had ideas, as well as will of his own. He had been thrown with Episcopalians, and had heard of St. Lukes seminary in its sequestered moun- tain perch and of it's learned and lovable dean. William Porcher DuBose. So, after canvassing all points Of difficulty he came south some ten years ago
 Count Louis made no active objection to his sons s choice of church and teacher, he merely declined to assist it in any way. The youth entered St. Luke's, proved himself gifted, versatile and earn est. He had, beside faith, clear critical faculty, delightful voice and singulary clear and vigorous dicton, all aided by handsome and expressive personality and a magnetism almost resstless. He became a marked and talked of man in the class of O2, and in the autumn of that year Bishop Thomas F. Gailor of Tennessee sent him to reinstate the tagging mission of the Episcopal church at Winchester In that state.
 So effective and resultful was his work there that Bishop Beckwith asked for his
 transfer to Sheffield to build the new church edifice, long expected there. There MT de Dives earned high repute, both
 as preacher, worker and missionary. When the church fund was assured and the work done, the young pastor was transferred to the new field of Ensley,
 for its deep ploughing.
 So thoroughly was this done that it's echo crossed to the South Highlands or Birmingham and the managers of the 1 St Andrews Mission there invited the Ensley missionary 10 deliver series of | Sunday afternoon addresses So effective were they that call was made for MT. 1 de Ovies the mission developed into a | church, and he is now it's pastor, with a | growing congregation that demands the | speedy enlargement of the building.
 | In the summer of 1903 Rev. de Ovies | was rewarded for constancy and devotion | of different sort. by his wedding the i lovely and popular belle of the university.
 In his first year he had met her, and | mutual love resulted. She was schoolgirl | at Fairmount. he a penniless theolog,
 without a living in sight. Natural ob- | stacles rose between the pair. but they were patient and true, After Ills ordina-
 ton and employment in the better work 1 of the diocese he married the beautiful 1 Miss Bessie DuBse, at the old chapel, to l the envy of many another man who as- , sisted His wife is the daughter of Treas ] urer Robert DuBose. and niece Of Rev i w. P DuBose of Sewanee. She Is help | ful pastors spouse and gifted with the l friends making attribute. Two children | bless their union, a boy and girl oi
 whom parents and parish are proud | There is but one reason why their entry
 into real life, sorce of years hence
 may not be from a bishops palace. Ina ] is the young rectors absolute burial O
 personality in his work. That is his life