The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-29
Cardinal Manning.


fourth year. He is the son of the laft
William Manning, M. p. and Governor
OF the Bank of England, and was edu
Gated at Harrow and Raliol, migrating
thence, after taking the highest honOrs
TO become a Fellow of Merton. lie is
a typical public school man, and could
scarcely have been at any but fashion,
able public school. Men who have NOT
had such training may have courtly man
ners, may be thorough men of the world
those educated at home may have equal
sometimes more, erlldition; but the com.
Dlnat1on or learning worn lightly like a
| lO"er, great frankneSS of manner with
power OF reticence when needed, aptness
Tor being at home in any society, from
the rough to the cOurtier, and simple, un.
conscious ease, are generally to be found
among Englislmen only in those edll-
Gated at our first-class public schools.
These were the qualities which, Joined
with his birth and his fathers position,
gave him, even as a very young man, a
commanding influence in Oxford society,
which raised him to be Archdeacon of
Chichester at the early age of thrty-two,
and which made him 50 great power
IN his own communion since he Joined
1t. They have also given him influence
among very various classes of society
especially among the great, SO that his
brother-in-law, the late Bishop Of Win
| chester, smarting under the desertion of
his friend, and unable to deny himself
the use of epigram, called him the "aDos-
tie OF the genteels," lie became Rector
of I.avington and Graffham in Sussex in
1884, and married the youngest Miss
serjeant, one 81, tbs cGR6i8SSef 9ss,tAs
having married Samuel Wilberforce,
afterward Bishop, and Henry Wilber-
force, his brother. Mrs. Manning sur
vived her marriage but few months.
When the spiritual grace
Of baptism was denied by Mr.. Gorham,
and his view pronounced to be tenable
within the Church of England, Arch
deacon Manning, with many others, felt
the very ground on which they stood cut
from under them. If the Church of
England denied dsacramental grace, which
to them involved the very essence of re-
ligion, there was indeed nowhere to turn
but to the Church of Rome, however
impossible it had once seemed that they
should do SO. Immediately after the
GOrham Judgment was pronounced,
ArchdeacOn Manning shook from his
feet the dust of a heretical Church, to
join that toward which his steps had SO
long unconsciously been advancing;when
no doubt he found that the boundaries
were by no means 50 difficult to overstep
| as they had seemed to him on that No
! yember day. After the short retirement,
| inevitable on his change, preparatory to
taking orders in the church of his adop-
| ton, his rise was rapid and signal. lie,
Charles Borromeo, filling in the interim
the dignified Office of Provost of West
Minister In 1865, Monsignor Manning
was consecrated Archbishop of West.
minister. In 1875, he was created car.
dinaI with the title of Saints Andrew
and Gregory. Since his appointment as
archbishop few men have been more
before the world. Not only is ne con
slant preacher in and a frequent preach
er out Of his diocese; not only has ht
beena combatant in intellectual contests
especially in the Nc taphysical Society, 8
club which met monthly, where he helC
his own with such disputants as DR.
Martineau, Mr.. Frederick Harrison, and
Professor IIuXley,-he has also takel
| part i'll the social life Of London to sucl
al extent that there is hardly a phiian
thropic work in which he could consist
emily cooperate wherein he has not beer
n sharor. Conspicuous above all ha:
been the aid that he has given to tota
abstinence societies both in and out O
his church. In politics he is understood
to take a strongly democratic view, ant
has been heard to say that, were he no
what he is, his choice would be to be
dcmagogue. On the Irish question, ant
to some extent on the extreme Irish side
ha has bnnO ynrv OutaDOk an. and OH Ia
it hereafter prove to be possible that tn
Catholic Church, at least in the West
should ally herself with the cause of TIN
people, as distinguished from the caus
of the oligarchs, Cardinal Manning
name will be found Oh the roll Of thos
who have helped the fusion.