The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-02-09
CAnulNaI MANNING.
The Favorable Impression He Made on an
American Visitor.

| Oh Lne hpman purple mere, lHod1hI'
as l stood at the entrance of large
but severely plain house. of no partic-
ular style of architecture. within a
short walk of the Houses of Parliament.
Yet this was the episcopal residence
the titular palace of the Cardinal Arch
bishop of Westminster. had somc
Trouble in finding the place. A pole
man who was summing himself aronnd
the next corner said he had never
heard Of Cardinal Manling.
The door OF the mansion was opened
by middle-aged woman. very plainly
! dressed. l entered wide hall which
was almost destitute offurniture. The
woman who had admitted ne opened q
door to the right, and found myself in
a large well-liThted library, the sides
Of which were filled with bookcases
| reaching from the floor to the ceiling.
and containing about 10000 volumes
OF works in every department of litera-
ture. although theology, philosophy
and history predominated.
The furniture of the Cardinals IL
br;lry was of the plainest kind, consist
ing Of an Oblong table. half a dozen
| leather seat chairs, and 4 cheap carpet
OF a neutral tint. On the walls were
several pictures. among which l no.
ticed portraits of Plus TX. Leo XIII.
Cardinal Wiscman and King Edward
the Confessor.
While l was turning over the pages
OF york on the Roman antiquities the
library door opened. and tall, slender.
delicate figure g,ided into the room.
The small red cap told me WAS in the
presence OF the Cardinal Archbishop Of
Westminster, Henry Edward Manning.
His simple, gentle manners made me
feel at home at once. His voice WAS
singularly sweet and winning, bat ex-
quisitely mGdulated.
found the Cardinal deeply interest
ed in the United States. Like many of
bis intelligent countrymen. he looks
upon America as the country of the
future, where the mental and the
physical development of mankind are
destined to attain their perfection. The
Cardinal is greatly Interested in the
temperance cause. and attributes most
of the misery If the poorer classes to
the vice of intemperance. The Irish
man drinks from jovialitv. the English
man from brutality, and it is easier 10
reform IN Irish than an English drunk
ard.
It is not generally known that Car
dinal Manning was Il married man,.
While an Arch-deacon in the Church OF
England he married Mss Serieant,
whose two sisters married Bishop Will
berforce and Henry Wilberforce. his
brother. Mrs. Manning lived only 4
few months after her marriage, and her
death filled the sensitive soul of her
husband with deep and lasting sor-
row, and turned him more and more to
a life of entire spirituality. Cardinal
Manning was born in 1909. the same
year that witnessed the birth of Alfred
Tennyson. His father was u member
of Parliament and Governor of tho
Bank of England. Young Manning,
after a preparatory education at Har-
row, entered Balliol College. Oxford,
where he distinguished himself no
less by his scholarship than by the
polish of his manners. He became i
fellow of Merton College at the early
age of twenty-four. and Archdeacon OF
Chichester before he was thirty-three.
At that age the future Cardinal Arch
bishop seemed very far from the Cath
olic Church, for just at that time ne
preached so violent a TRADE against
..Popery' that DR.. Newman, who WAS
then preparing to join the church, de-
clined to see him the next time he
called. While holding orders in the
Church of England. DR.. Manning
maintained the spiritual grace of bap-
tism, and when this doctrine was
denied by Mr. Gorham, and the view
OF the latter WAS pronounced tenable
by the Church of England, Manning
.'felt the very ground on which he
stood cut from under him." and shak-
ing from his feet the dust of the church
OF his ancestors entered the Church of
Rome. His rise was rapid. He founded
the order of Obiates of st. Charles Of
Borromeo, was raised to provost of
Westminster. and became n great
faYorite of Cardinal Wiseman, who
recommended him to the Holy See as
worthy OF the honorary title of Mon
signor. When Wiseman died, in 1865,
Pope Plus *. raised Monsigpor Man
ming 10 the vacant See of Westminster,
and in 1875 he was created 4; Cardinal.
Cardinal Manning is a frequent guest
at luxurious banquets, but the ascetic
churchman in the midst of such feasts
makes his dinner off Il baked potato, a
piece of beef, and a glass of water
The Cardinal is an early riser. getting
up at five in summer and six in winter.
After half an hours meditation, he
says mass in his private chapel, and
then passes thirty minutes in thanks
giving. He breakfasts ut seven in sum-
mer and eight in winter, and then
passes an hour or two over his CORES
pondence, and devotes the rest of the
morning to literary work, and to mat
ters belonging to his archdiocese
EUgcpe L. Didier. In Epoch.
A Red Top-knot.
Two ladies were purchasing mufiers