The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-02-04
CARDINAL MANNING.
Tho Favor able Impression He Made on eH
American Visitor.

of the Roman purple here, I thought,
as | stood at the entrance of a large
but severely plain house, of no partic-
ular style of architecture, within
short walk of the Houses of Parliament.
Yet this was the episcopal residence
the titular palace Of the Cardinal Arch
bishop of Westminster. l had some
trouble in finding the place. A police
man who was summing himself around
the next corner said he had never
heard of Cardinal Manning.
The door of the mansion was opened
by middle-aged woman, very plainly
dressed. ! entered wide hall which
was almost destitute of furniture. The
woman who had admitted me opened q
door to the right, and l found myself in
large well-lighted 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 liz
brary was Of the plainest kind, consist
ing of an oblong table, half a dozen
leather seat chairs, and a cheap carpet
of a neutral tint. On the walls were
several pictures, among which L no.
ticed portraits of Plus IX.. Leo Kill,
Cardinal Wiseman and King Edward
the Confessor.
While was turning over the pages
OF a work on the Roman antiquities the
library door opened, and n tall, slender,
delicate figure glided 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, but ex-
quisitely modulated.
found the Cardinal deeply interest
ed in the United States. Like many of
his 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 of the poorer classes to
the vice of intemperancc. The Irish
man drinks from joviaIity, the English
man from brutality, and it is easier to
reform an Irish than an English drunk
ard.
1t is not generally known that Car
dinal Manning was married man.
While an Arch-deacon in the Church of
England he married Miss SERGEANT,
whose TWO sisters married Bishop Will
berforce and Henry Wilberforce, his
brother. Mrs. Manning lived only a
few months after her marriage, and her
death filled the sensitive soul of her
husband with q deep and lasting sor-
row, and turned him more and more to
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 the
Bank OF England. Young Manning,
after 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 a
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
| III hoI hn
preached so violent q TRADE against
"Popery' that DR.. Newman, who was
then preparing to join the church, de-
clined to see him the next time he
called. W.ile holding orders in the
Church of Eagland, DR.. Manning
maintained the spiritual grace Of bap-
tsm, and when this doctrine was
denied by Mr.. Gorham, and the view
of the latter was pronounced tenabie
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 Oblates of st. Charles of
Borromeo, was raised to provost of
Westminster. and became great
favorte of Cardinal Wiscman, who
recommended him to the Holy See as
worthy of the honorary title of Mon
signor. When Wiseman died, in 1865,
Pope Plus TX. raised Monsigpor Man
ming 10 the vacant See of Westminster,
and in 1875 he was created q Cardinal.
Cardinal Manning is II frequent guest
at luxurious banquets, but the ascetic
churchman in the midst of such feasts
makes his dinner off baked potato, a
piece of beef and glass of water.
The Cardinal is an early riser, getting
up ut five in summer and six in winter.
After half an hours meditation, he
saws mass in his private chapel, and
then passes thirty minutes in thanks
giving. He breakfasts at 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. -