Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-08-13
CARDINAL NEWMAN DEAD.
His Life Passes Peacefully Away-Career
OF a Remarkable Churchman.

lore o CLOCK last evening AT the head house
of the oratory, located at Edgboston.
fashionable suburb of this city. The scene
ut the bedside was touching. The Cardi-
nails death was due to an acute attack of
pneumonia, made doubly dangerous by his
advanced age, he having reached his nine
ticth year News of his condition, and the
fact that extreme JUNCTION had been admin
istered, was sent through the country, and
called forth kilograms of inquiry and sym
pathy from every direction and from the
highest to the lowest in the land.
AT THE MOMENT OF Ills DEATH
there We're about him all the fathers and
clergy of the diocese and many of the high
dignitares, who had come from distance,
summoned at the first knowledge of the
Cardinals Illness.
The Duke of Norfolk was tclegraphed
for, but owing 10 an accident was prevent
ed reaching the Oratory before the Cardi-
nal passed away.
The end was peaceful. The Cardinal
retained his intellectual powers until the
last
John Henry Newman, son of John New
man, banker was born in London, Eng
land February 81, 1901, and at the age of
23 was ordained in the Church Of England.
Two years later he was appointed vicar OF
the Church of Mary, the virgin of Oxford.
His Oxford intimateS were Gladstone,
Pusey, Kablc, Hurrell and William Froude
a brother of James Anthony Froude In
1852 Newman took his first vacation abroad,
and i'm Rome made the acquaintance of DR..
Nicholas Wiseman, afterwards First Car
dinal Archbishop of Westminster. 1t was
while on his way home from vacation and
on board ship that he wrote,
"LEtD KINDLY LIGHT
a literal and living inspiration that has
found "a fixed place in the hymnals of every
Christian denomination.
On the Sunday after his return TO Eng
land, July l3, 1888, Keble's sermon on Ma
tiOnal ApOStaSy' sprung the mine which
startled all England This was the So
called Oxford movement, and the issue of
Tracts for the Times Immediately fol
lowed. In this year Newman's volume,
The Church of the Fathers Indicated
the course of his mind toward the Church
of Rome. which was further evidenced in
by his three volumes of "ParOchial Ser
mons, university Sermons and Ser
mons on Holy Days
The new movement in the Anglican
Church, which took its name from Pussy,
but of which Newman was really the head,
and which came To be called the "Tracta-
rian Movement" Puseyism and what not,
created an excitement which eliminated in
the publication of Tract No. &c and in
1871 the Nce-ChancellOr and heads of
houses AT Oxford met TO consider the ac-
knOwledged author of the tract, John Hen
~ Newman.
He became q Romanist October -, lS45,
and his appearance at that time is thus de-
scribed by James Anthony Erode:
"EIe was above the middle height, slight
and spare. His head was large, his face
ftI l-4 If
forehead. the shape of the ears and nose
were almost the same. The lines of the
mouth were very peculiar, and 1 should
say exactly the same. In both men there
was
Az ORIGINAL FORCE OF CHARACTER
which refused to be nodded by circum-
stances, which was 10 make It's own way
and become a power I'm the world, a clear
ness of intellectual perception, disdain
/ for cOuveuuOnalties. temper lmperous
aud willing. but along with II most at
tachiug rentleuess, sweetness, singleness
of heart and purpose. Both were framed
bv nature 20 command others both had the
faculty of attracting to themselves the
passionate devotion of their friends and
/ followers
He was iudefatigable in his literary
| labors during all the years of his manhood,
us numerous works will attest. and the
product of his pen is found in all
uEuG'oUs LIBRARIES OF TIE WORLD.
In 1854 DR.. Newman went TO Dublin as
Recorder of the Irish Catholic University.
which position he held for four years. IL
was In lS57 when he published his Ser
mons Preached on Various Occasions"
and dedicated his book 10 DR.. (afterward
Cardiual Manning
He was greatly disturbed in 1852 by the
appearance i'm the London Gi0bc of the
statement that he was about to return to
the Church of England. and he wrote an in
dignaut letter of denial in which he said:
IL should be a cOnsummate fool If in my
old age ! left the land flowing with milk and
honey for the city of confusion and the
house of bondage
nOctober 1874, he found it necessary to
inform the editor of the London Telegraph
that he did not wish 10 join the JeSuits.
In this year also he made known the fact
that he was the author of an anonymous
novel called Loss and Gain" the author
ship of which had been a mystery for
nearly thirty years. In 1879 DIR. Newman
was
CREATED CARDINAL DEACON
bv Leo XIII. This event brought con
gratulatoyy addresses from every diocese
in England: from the Catholics in Ireland,
represented by Lord . Hagan; from a
meeting Of the Academia. at which Cardl-
nal Manning presided; from the Catholic
Union. bred by the Duke OF Norfolk; from
the Poor School Committee, represented
bv tho Marquis of RipOn, who attributed
his own conversion TO Cardinal Newman.
writings: from the young mems Catholic
societies I'm Great Britain; from the
."sl.. 4 n.-F l.
English-speaking Catholic residents and
visitors at Rome. when he went TO receive
his Cardinals hat from the hands OF the
Pope. and from dignitaries and dlOceses
throughout the United States. The eleva-
tion of his Emineucc made no difference iii
THE SIMPLICITY OF HIS LIFE.
Uercmained Superior of the Oratory at
Birmingham. continuing his lifelong habit
Of rising at or o'clock, summer and
winter saving mass in his private chapel,
brealzfasting by himself and taking the
head of the table at the meals of the father
at [ and o'clock. The last few years OF
his life. though his general health was good
aud his mind rs clear as ever, he performed
few public functions, rarely preached ara
wrote very li,tle. but on great feast days
he delighted TO conduct the VeSper service
Of benediction for the boys in the chapel OF
the school ne founded. lie was always
ready. when his health permitted, to re
ceive visitors, and was especial Y accessi-
BILE 10 Americans.
ONE OF HIS sOLACEs
was his old and valuable stradivarius,
which me touched with the hand of a master
His personal popularity with all classes
and creeds was unbouuded, and the love OF
him bvhis immediate friends and associates
was as the love Of children for a KIND
father
Canoni1cd by Many English Crseds.
ToNpoN. August l2-The Times SAYS OF
Cardinal Newman: ''The memory OF ms
pure and noble life. untouched by worldl!-
ness and unsecured by any trace OF ianau-
cism will endure. and whether Rome can
onizes him or not he will be canonlzed ID
the thoughts of the pious people OF many
croeds in England
BELLAIRE.
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