New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-20
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

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Mr.. FRoUDE ON CARDINAL NEwMAN.-Ihe
| following extract is from Mr.. j. A. Froude'a
second article in Good WOrds entitled :
/" "reminiscences of the High Church Revival =;
from DIR. Pussy, from all the rest was the true
chief of the Catholic revival-John Henry New :
man. Compared with him, they all were but
| as ciphers, and he the indicating number. The
the stormy passions which dubbed round them
are long dead and forgotten among new excite,
ments. Newman, too, for many years had
| dropped silent, and disappeared from the
worlds eyes. He came out again 10 conflict
with dear friend of mine, who, ON my account
written), provoked contest with him, and
impair c0Rgressus AchilK seemed to have been
foiled. Charles Kingsley is gone from US:
English readers know now what he was, and
from me or from anyone he needs no further
pane3yric. In that one instance he conducted
his case unskiltully. He was wrong In bis
estimate of the character OF bis antagonist,
whose integrity was as unblemlshed as DIS own.
But the last word has still to be spoken on til
essential question which was at issue between
them. The immediate result was the publlca-
ton of the famous Apologize, u defence per-
sOnally of Newmans own life and actions. and
next of the Catholic cause. The writer OF 1T is
again q power in modern society, prince of the
Church surrounded, il he appears in public,
with adOring crowds, fine ladies going on their
knees before him, in London salons. Himself
the most modest nature, he never sought great
ness, but greatness found him In spite OF him
self. TO him, if to any one man, the world
owes the intellectual recovery OF Romanism.
Fifty years ago u was In England dying creed,
lingering in retirement in the halls and chapels
o. few half-forgotten families. A shy Oxford
student has come out On its behalf into the field
of controversy, armed with the keenest weapons
of modern learning and philosophy, and wins IL
lustriOus converts and has kindled hopes that
England herself, the England of Elizabeth and
Cromwell, will kneel for absolutlon again be-
fore the Father of ChristendOm. Mr.. Buckle
questioned whether any great work has ever
been done In this world by an individual man.
Newman, by the solitary force OF his own mind,
has produced this extraordinary change. What
he has done we all see what will come OF it our
children will see. Of the magnitude of the phe-
nomenon itself no reasonable person can doubt
Two writers have affected powerfully the pre-
sent generation of Englishmen. Newman ts
one, Thomas Carlyle is the other. But Carlyle
has been at issue with all the tendencies OF his
age. Like John the Baptist, he has stood
alone preaching repentance in world which Is
to him wilderness; Newman has been the
voice of the intellectual reaction OF Europe,
which was alarmed by an era OF revolutions
and is locking for safety in the fOrsaken beliefs
of the ages which 1t had been tempted to de-
spise."
The New VERsIoN.-Advance copies of the
Revised Version of the New Testament have
been distributed among English newspapers,
and the following comparisons are made from
extracts printed in The London Record: