The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-11-27
DR.. Manning as a Preacher.


reviewing celebrated English Protestant
p, eachers, speaks in the following terms OF
the Archbishop of Westminster:
Such is Edward Henry Manning, not yet
sixty years of age; poor vicar once in
Sussex, then an arch deacon, "pervert,"
a secular priest doing humble missionary
work in the purlieus of London, preacher
flor such he was in 1857 in the streets OF
Rome, and now a titular Archbishop, with
Cardinals hat in prospect: Scon not,
Protestant reader, at these honors. DO
not fancy because the Holy Father, through
human folly-his own, if you please-has
fallen or is q prisoner, that the dlgnltles ne
bestows are worthless. They are at least
picturesque, though 1t Is Isl not OF them
disputable things. The "perverts of the
ANGLICAN Church are dangerous adversaries
in this, that their leaders-at least two OF
them-are masters of English style
Men whose mother tongue was English
and whose pens were trained in what l
have sought to show is the great and sound
school of Anglican theological composition:
No one can read q page OF that wonderful
volume of venial egotism, g The Apologize
: pro Vita Sua" without being struck with
this. Equally is this manifest in Man
J u4ng's sermons, those, l mean, preached
Mon his secession. Those since 1 have
not seen, nor did care, though the chance
was within my reach, to listen to his
! spoken words, doubtless of eloquence, in
/ the Roman piazzas, eleven years 3, ago Ego:
: especially preachers powers, and discre-
= ton too, and in which the dexterous
handling of words is needed. Any one
b may preach on :" Charity" and the simple
!. elemental virtues, or their correlative
: crimes. Nay, the common dogmas of the
= ology are within easy reach. Of not such
. is that greatest of mysteries-as mysteri-
y GUS in the buried and the budding grain
. as iu the human grave-the /" Resurrection
), of the Body" But let the curious reader
. text, and unless his heart be callous, hii
;, brain sluggish and slow to move upon it,
- hinges, and his sense Of the beautiful II
! rhetorical art as inert as in his or hers whs
. prefers frame Puritan Westinghouse to
:, cathedral, he will be moved to admiration
, and come closer to conviction than he eve
), dreamed it to be possible. 1t lies before M
a as write, and, critically and Rstbetically
- it is worth study. 1t is relatively yer.
! brief; measured by the voice and ear, no
:. more than half an hour. 1t is argumenta
~ tive and poetical. 1t teaches and it con
ia vinces. But it is its marvellous Englis
% % that the scholar wonders at. 1t IS Englis
~ ~ /" pure and simple" There is no NOR
70 Latinizing there than is in Cobbett @
W Swift. and vet there is rhetorical c
5 81 rbythmical polish and grace which neithe
No has. In one long sentence, or c0ngeries
~ sentences of 1913 words, there are br
.s seventeen of Latin root, and but ten longt
Az than dissylables. Take one, and but on
e. beautiful passage, ana my iaie ra"o
ha among sermons is ended:
no ~" After all our toiling and self-chastis
/, . ment, there still remains with us myster
c% GUS evil and a deep consciousness is ev'
m. telling us that, do what we may, we mu
- bear the grave-clothes OF the fall TILL Il
morning of the resurrection that we mu
suffer under the load of an imperfect n
to ture, until God shall resolve our sulli'
ia manhood into its original dust, and gath
the it up once more in a restored purity. III
rn- hope of the resurrection. is the stay of o
ish souls when they are wearied and baffied
W. striving against the disobedience of o,
es: passive nature. At that day we shall
md delivered from the self which we a6h'
bed and he all nure as the angels of God.
ere healing and kindly death. which shall r
OF fine our mortal flesh to q spiritual bod
rls- and make our lower nature chime with t
,ly, eternal will in faultless harmony !"