The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-12-01

the loss of Cardinal Manning, John Henry
Newman, the best living English scholar
Fsber, Dahigsirns, Wiiberforce, Marshall
| etc:
II could not well be love OF power or of fame
| that led DR.. Newman to exchange tho Oxford
that adored him for the Birmingham that
| knows him not; that tempted Cardinal Man
| ming to step aside from the open path that led
easily on to Lambeth Palace and seat in the
Lords; that weighed with q hundred rectors
] and vicars--such rs Oakley and FAber and
Bathurst-who left fat livipgs and certain pro.
| motion to lsbor obscure parish priests
among the iguorant and the poor; that brought
| the noblest Of earth's sons and daughsers-
with such titles as Norfolk, Argyll Leeds, Buc
e'ench, Hamilton, Ripou, Bute, Londonderry,
Lothian: Qaeensberry, Depbigh, GAinsborongh
ard Her bert-to bow before the lowlest min
listers OF the lowly; or that led poets like Gov.
entry, Patmore and Aubrey de We're to adopt a
temper of their time 1t was not ''love Of co.
olesiasticiam" that made Henry Wilberforcs,
Ed ward Wa'ford, Lord Charles Thy nne, Mr..
Okenham and hundred more, leave the oure
OF souls in the Anglican syssem to join .
Church whore, from one cause or another, they
could never rise above the level of the lAity.
1t was net want OF learning or disinolinstion
to weigh evidence that led men like the author
of "The Apologize" and Mr. Allies, after years
OF controversy, to change one creed for another.
PKCUNIARY GAIN COULD HARDLY BE THE
GROUND
on which clergymen with wives and families
gave Up their emoluments to fight against
starvation as best they cou1d- with scran ee
weapons. which one, az least, to our certain
knowledge, welded so i'll that he sought, at
last, shelter in work nc use and love Of money
cannot be the conduct gusge of q company
priest of the old faith rather taau o worldling
millionaire; and George Lane Fox, the eldest
son Of I0rksbise's greatest gentleman, the
and charity his CO reiigonists are proud to
speak. lt was not any want of hereditary
Protestant traditions, careful training. and
strong M M family ties that allowed nearly all of
the Wibetforces the descendants of Sir Walter
SCOTT the Lockhalts, DR.. Arnoids eldest son,
Father Coleridge, brother of the judge; Miss
Stanley daughter of the Bishop aud sister OF
Chancellor; the Bowrings. Miss Gladstone
sister of the ex Premier; Lady Charles Thyme,
Mrs. PSe, both of them daughters of Bishops,
mooripgs. Nor did they in most cases, scale st.
Peters bark without Infinite suspeu So, heart
ache aud difa,ulty. The hot impulse of yonth
might possibly be urged to explain away the
boy and the stagnaton of age to account for
that Of the octogenarian, Sir Bouohier Wrey
@ oss every iotervening stsge Of life is represent
Catholic revival has it's origin in 0 dilettante
sntiquari6nism. or in the dreams of book
worms, brought up in university and unfa-
n3ltar with practical IFS, for some of it's most
ardent disciples are gathered from the ranks of
gay Guares nen, and many q whilom soldier |
aud sailor son of Eoglapd has def I'd his uni !
form to don the CO vi of the monk and the cas- |
sock OF the priest. Men of recognized learning |
in truth are these, such as Paley, Professor of
Classics at Cambridge; Professor BArf, the /
Chemist; Seager, Assistant Professor of Hebrew |
at OxtoId, aud legal men. eminent as Sergeant
Bellasis, or es dward Bcdeley, Hope SCOTT, |
Mr.. Aspinwall, and Ar Bsgshswe- Q leen's
Counsel ell focr of them; but every thin is not
grave aud weghty where F. G. Bernard is. and
Arthur ABeckett, and Arthur Sketohley-a
Pot %. mt GUFRta tha 0ida0 lima
"sillnts,." as Exeter Hall supposes be laid at
the door OF the ladies' who have elected to be. |
come daughters OF the II >ly Roman Church. !
Adelaide Proctor, the poetess Eiiz Abeth
Thomson, tie military painter; L>dy Gsorgf-
ana FL Horton, Lady Gertrude Douglass, author
of Linked Lives and many rIore whose names
cannut fad pisce on cur lat, beca go they arc
o. tSt'eE=is1 tta"sh familiar indeed,
HbeFsseF soaerinx is to be tend cd aud ui sery
O.; s led, are not exactly those to whom
SILLY woMKN''
w9uid seCU to be an applicable term. lis eVi
dent therefore, az on mono Of tlese grouIds
can We att ar ourselves at have discovered
key 10 the RnDeTard vement-G9w pleas.
ant soever th&t discovery might be t, our Pro
teetsntism." IL relates thGt SIR. Gladstone ia
very fond OF telling his friedds tb At at tie
time OF De-. Newman n'a secession, cling eeri
onsly trcn hled, he ran do1n to Lavingtoa aud
opened his mind to the rector" Tell me-" he
said the then stauGuhiy Protce.ant Archdea.
con Manning, ''Hre We to take each separ ate
conversion to Rome as o separate :Cs imony to
Romanisn, OF is there any one charact sristic
pccollar to al! the converts tbs will aft I'd o
common explanation of their change f"''rhere
:. rep.i6 d the ATchdeacon il his calm. incsvo
way; they have oil one common characteristics
a want of truth" That is, desire for it.
To all these we might add Archbishop
Bayley, of Baltimore; Bishop Ives, of North
Carolina; Fathers Baker, L. man (brother of
the Anglican Bishop of North Carolina),
Curtis, Kent Stone, and hundreds of 9th
ers whom We might name, such ss the Hon.
Joseph r. Chandler, Judge Barnet, of
California; Gaston, of North Carolina,
etc., men whose higa tone, deep piety and
moral excellence as we'll as learning have
never been called in question, aud who,
precisely because they wished faith and
not mere fleeting opinion, came to Rome.
We might fairly challenge comparison with
those who leave the Church, and their
motives and character. spurious faith
lie presumably counterfeit; but we would
ask how can that be a counterfeit which
goes back in unity to the time of Christ,
and can show ita exiEtence in the cornnra-