New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-27
PERSONAL "REMINISCENCES or f. d. MAU.
RICE
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Maurice was prophet who had vet the some
what unprophetical Virtues of humility and charity.
> Imagine all that was best in irving and Keble
the light OF the other being happily blended In
that most remarkable man. Tho ono worldly
qualify ne had WINCH brings success was an absolute
tor all yon dop once asked friend. II don't
know" replied Maurice with smile, except that
He had publish ed his first and only novel, Eustace
Conway" Shortly after his ordination he received
challenge from major in the army who had read
the book, and imagined that he I'd been deliber-
ately insulted because q Major Smith Tor BrOwn)
was tho name OF .the villain" and the gallant
officer was bImtelf called Smith Tor Brown.
Maurice wrote back an amused letter explaining
ttst he was a clergyman and therefore could not
tight and that ne was very sorry il he had uninten
rho teaching of Coleridge had made him an
Anglican, but of an extremely cloudy type. He
belief, while not tor moment believing il in any
ordinary sense of the word belief. OF course the
| munlcatng itself to his style. Lord Beaconsield
made OF his happest hits in a speech at Oxford
| by an alluson to "nebulous professors O perusa |
OF whose works would enable one to realize that |
eternity OF punishment to which they so much OBJ
ject" Maurice laughed at 1t heartily any one.
A lady told him once that she wished very much |
to- receive the Communion at his church on the |
following Sunday, but she had a confession to |
make. She had read Remains " Life Of Jesus" and |
she shared Remains opinions. Could she present |
herself under tho circumstances at tho holy table
Maurice was very mach distressed, but after some
tfcction bade her come and welcome He made
no attempt to argue her out of her views. The fair
suppliant, l may add, made complaint which
too many OF Maurice's friends obliged to echo
She said you could never trng him to the pointn |
in theology, be 1t duly understood. On other
subjects he could be explicit enough, and white
was the light he shed on many controversy.
The Peace Society once sent him pamphlet in
favor OF their peculiar theories. All the stock
arguments vere duly found arrayod-among them |
the fact that wars help To raise the incOme-tax. |
that such an inducement to join their society was
an insult TO man of honor. A clergyman
especially who is bound to set before his congrega
ton the III CHEST ideal OF morality, cannot tell them
that they ought to acquiesce In the degradation of
their country in the oppression of o weaker
State lest they hOud run the risk Of having to cut
down their expenditure or of denying themselves ,
luxury or two tor q time One of his sons, by the
engineers IL was he who the Wellington !
Prize for essay the best plan OF campaign to
resist an invading army. Sir Garnet WOseley was r
b. mself among the competitors; but young Maui h
rices performance was quite the best in the
)pinion of excellent Judges. y
Maurice was delightful Mt the dinner table. One
often met him ut CTabb RObinson's, and it made D
everybody positively happier TO see his noble cOun G.
enance and hear his pleasant laugh. But TO I'M b
lerstand the enthusiastic love and admiration OF II
haurlces followers for their master you nad 10 90 H.
20 O church where he was to olfcate or to preach. In
| lis voice shook with sacred emotion as ne fecied
iaurlce read the Goth chapter OF Isaiah rise, In
shine, for thy Light is Gomez was one of the Dc
highest intellectual pleasures ne mad ever known. ST
Ia preacher he was natural, simple, affecting tb
here were no pOemcs In his sermons, he would liy
ave considered them out of place. From the pull in
IL ne had only one message to deliverto bid men 81
o charitable and truthful aud brave, to assure BE
hem of the Divine help In their trials to show that
he Kingdom Of Heaven was within them, II only th
Fey would have it so. One went away cheered hi,
nd cOmtorted by his words. Lar