Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-09-27
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CARDINAL NEWMAN.
lei sketch Of the Great English
Convert.
'wenty Years One Of the Most ReSlled
IA n England, but Now HOnOred
and Regered BY His
Countymeh

Sncs. September 25.-It is MOI easy
ssine greater contrast than that ex-
between the physiognomies Of the
Gle Church who have their residence
= Ind, sRd their faces are true reyela-
az their intellectual and spiritual char
Sssics. Cardinal Manning, as | have
y "a in my sketch of him, recently plb-
4 h those eolumng, is the very type OF
Roman ecclesiastic and raler. Cardinal
mn is cast 10 quite another mould. II
,of tie person to take the head OF the
She has said Of himself IL never from
Ia last VAS more than 3 leading suthor
school. nor have any wish to be any
more" His work has been that OF
.sr. &c is the living embodiment Of q
Ual movement which forms one Of the
sinking chapters Of Nineteenth Con-
fbi8ory. a few years ago, when Mr..
ia was painting his portrait | accom-
"a him during two or three OF his sls-
and / remember vel the artist mar.
M 10 himself, halt in admiration, aft
ssoAir, There il 30 much in that fAeer
4 very trae. SEeetness aud srength,
mslox wisdom Of fourseore
akdnl years, and trace OF that
CA vhich, according to the Aristotle
dfctan, Is the portion Of genius, the
Gee Of zone Who feels the immeasurs5le
dT-An these things are there, and
much else. But there is nothing Of the
arch in Cardinal Newman's aspect 1t
presSive Of the serene beuiguity Of one
looks at life, its problems, It's duties,
sials, with larger, other eyes than
= The voice, with is soft, flute Ike
nee, falls upon our ear, and We do not
< Of is as uplifted to judge or to de-
zee, but as pleading, as convincing, as
ing. Uneonseiously he would seem 70
drawn his osa picture for Us, fl may
are to saS so, in certain verses Of his
(. Philip Nsri. To him, as to his Pat
II has been given
by grace Of his address,
b. the sEeet music Of his face,
And ltS l0S tones OF tenderness,
VI To melt q noble. stubborn race
ke position which Cardinal Newman
e among his eountrYmen is Of quite q
sue kind. There are few living English
! Who, however widely they may differ
him in matters Of speculative opinion,
otregard him, not merely with veners.
and pride, but with 9 kind Of personal
oiion.
a Once Hated Englishman.
has been always so WITH thus IllastrIous
i suppose that for twenty years OF
hfs-from 1914 to lS6l-no one was
object Of more general and profound
sast. not 10 say aversion. Inc
ctarian movement was supremacy
hateful 10 the great mass OF Eng
men. Ifthere was any characteristic of
r own country which they especially
led il was the national Professionalism.
ry event in British history appealed to
4 as peculiarly sacred, it was the Re-
aation. Now the Tractsrisn movement,
9 ss saeh result was thought Of in its
iafion, aimed at undoing the work of
Reformation, ct IN ro!estsniZing the
ntry, which, as South boosted q century
/ half ago, alone made Professionalism
siderable IN Europe.
he epithet applied most freely to John
Dry Newman Tor years after his secession
Rome was traitor" Popular iudigua-
/ does not, as a rule, nicely chose its cpl.
). Il might seem a Ii tie had that q
D should incur the imputstion Of tresch
for leaving q communion when be found
could no longer honestly remain IN 1t.
The notion was tina. be was kind OF
steenth Century Guy Fsgkes, who tor
md been comprising the destruction
SsxzSsh Church, and hsd skuiked
: a .rSen Skyigilsnt Episcopste had found
ont. iIss in time. Such was the
a Of miseonesption under which DR..
sman remained for twenty years without
lufmur. Nay, be even found an excuse
his detractors. IAN impression Of this
q, he would say, rs almost unavoids-
T: bat do not doub. that, IN the event.
will acquit me of uatruthful-
:. even though it may not be in my life
q" 1t is the penalty OF greatness not
be understood. Every high vocation
ans the cross. But the world, which kills
prophe,s, afterwsrd builds their shEines.
Ris Apology for His Life.
4 Is Dr.. NewmAn's singular happiness
4 he has lived 10 see his own spoIheosls.
. occasion for the great revulsion OF feel
about him was supplied by writer who
1 as far as possible from intending to do
, hat service. A vivid and picturesque
relist, writing in "Mscmillans Maya
y in 1864 roundly declared: "TrGth,
Is own sake, has never q virtue with the
Iaan clergy. Father Newman informs
hat il need not be, and, on the whole,
rs not to be" No one who knows Car
y vssezmAR can be- ignorant that q
.;ouate love for Truth, and an almost
,pnlous exaetness in the practice OF It
: ever been among the main notes OF
character. IL was q wild and most
snOy venture of Mr.. Kingsley to sttri-
. Ia him . proposition directly contra
~ 10 -. Ehole5 tenor of his teaching
IA 80 h. Correspondence ensuet;
.srnIets gere pun A-A-9 And Dr. New
NJ "Apoiogia PA sctio Sua' was given
lie world. Its sueHs OFFS far'as l know,
Without parallel id wi ature. Its I'M
died digni ty, its sntIS, simplicity. Its
nsparent honesty, its irresistible eandoE,
ned conviction to impartial minds. Bat
effect went far beyond its author 5 de-
4. Not only did it right him with his
,ntrymen; It did much to dispel the tog
Which, things Catholic had, for three cen
ies been snvelOpsd for the English
Rome and Her Convert.
mi Il "a not only from English Protest
tisun that Cardinal Newman has had to
Esr. His life as Catholic for many
srs, perhaps it may be said for over thirty
as, was fun Of trials and affections. he
4 the Church Of England because, as ne
n Archdeaeon Manning he was foreign
sterial and could not sssimilate
n il. BE did not altogether escape a sim
y difhculty in the communion Of Rome.
was not that the formal teaching Of the
.lholic Church presented any difficulty to
~. Even the doctrine of Pspal iniali-
CIV. which to some of his friends was SO
sat stumbling block, be held, as mat
: Of private opinion, for years before II
5 dogmatieslly defined But his sympa'
les we're not with the party which, from
9 year 1850, dominated the councils Of the
ts Portif. A very different school of opiu'
.. the school of which Lscordsirs and Mon
lembert were he foremost representatives,
md in him an earnest adherent. In the
neral line Of thought and conduct OF
oss illustrious men be enthusiastically
ldissesh.- he judged them to be before