The Irish standard., 1890-08-23

church. He and Froude paid visit t
Monsignor, afterward Cardinal Wise
man at Rome; and when DR.. Wisema1
asked them to return there, Newman
sald gravely. = We have q work to do il
En- 3land.'' He was taken i'll, afte
parting from his friends, of malaria
fever at Leonorte, in Sicily. My ser
want thought that I was dying" h
says, and begged for nv last directions
gave them as he wished; but said
4 shall not die, tori have not sinned
against light have never been abl'
to make out at all what | meant.
Later, when in great depression, he be
gan to sob bitterly. and his servant
asked what allied him, he could only
reply, II have work to do in Eng
land.' at last ne got off in an orange
boat, and was becalmed for week II
the straits of Bonafacio, between Cor
sica and Sardinia; and there it was tina
he wrote the famous lines, best known
of all his poems, Lead, Kindly Light.
On his return to Eng and the follow
ing spring he threw himself with all the
arClor of devotee into the tractarian
movement, becoming it's most con-
spicuous. light. The "Tracts for the
Times were started under his editor
ship. His Fluctuations of the Bamp-
ton Lectures of DR.. Hampden brought
the conflict between the high church
and the broad church party to Crisis
In 1886; but after gaining a temporary
victory, the former gradually lost
ground in the popular estimation, fear
being entertained lest thew should
Romantic tile church. How Newman
would regard this fear, even then, may
be judged from this extract from his
lectures on Catholicism in England, ~
delivered at later period of his career.
Never" he said, ''has the establish
ment failed in the use Of these impOr-
tant and effective watchw0rds (namely.
No peace with Rome, Down with the
Pope'); many are it's shortcomings, but
it is without reproach in the execution
of its charge. Heresy and sceptlcism.
in6delity and fanaticism, may challenge
itin vain; but fling upon the gale the
faintest whisper Of Catholicism and 1t
recognizes by instinct the presence OF
it's con natural foe. Forthwith, as dur
ing the last year, the atmosphere IS
tremulous with agitation, and dis
charges its vibrations far and wide. A
movement is in birth which has no
natural crisis or resolution. Spon-
taneously the bells of the steeples begin
to sound, Not by an act of volltlon,
but by a sort Of mechanical impulse,
bishop and dean, archbishop and can.
non, rector and curate, one after ano-
ther, each in his high tower. off they
set. swinging and booming, tolling and
Ginning. with nervous intenseness aid
thickening emotion, and deepening
volume, the old ding dong which has
scared town and country this weary
time: tolling and Ginning away, jingltng
and clamoling, and ringing the changes
on these Door half. dozen notes, all about
the 'Popish aggression 'insolent and
lnsidious,' 'insidious and insolent and
atrocious,' .atrocious and insolent,
'atrocious. 1nsolent and ungrateful.
'ungrateful, insolent and atrocious,
foul and oppressive .pestllent and
horrid.' subtle and unholy,' 'audaclous
and revolving contemplate and
Shameless malignant 'frightful.
mad, 'meretrlcious.' bobs Il think the
ringers call them(, bobs and bobs royal
and triple bob majors and grandsires,
to the extent of their compass and the
full ring of their metal in honor o.
Queen Bess and to the confusion of the
Pope and the princes Of the church. "
The picture drawn here serves admir-
ably to portray the nervousness and
FRENZY OF the high churca people and
the Wesleyan ranters lest Rome should
capture England. Its counterpart can
be seen here in Boston Just now, in the
Music hall meetings. only the work is
coarser, Grader and more brutal and in
artistic.
Young Newman gave evidence in
these uttrances of a degree Of intellec
tual freedom and Liberalism which
soon brought him into violent collision
with the church authorities In l84l
he wrote a tract in which he eOntanded
that subscription to the Articles was
not incompatible with holding many Of
the doctrines of the church of Rome.
The heads Of houses at Oxford con-
denned it, and the bishop of Oxford
called on Newman to discontinue the
publication Of the tracts, a mandate
which he obeyed. But the structures Of
q church organization could not check
the intellectual progress going on, and
Newman soon broke with PrOtes estantism
altogether. He resigned his position in
the church Of England. abandoned the
Oxford movement, and IN 1845 was adj
mittad intOSthe ROman Catholic church