Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-13
Tho Dead CARDINAL.

One among the many contributions to
religious literature that entities Cardinal
NEWMAN TO place in history is the hymn
LEAD Kindly Light" This Of itself earned
him fame. But during the greater part of
the ninety years Of his industrious and
eventful life he was constantly engaged in
preaching, lecturing. and writing, and the
beauty and purity of his style, and his
great intellectual vigor gave him high
standing and wide renown as a scholar.
He was educated at Trinity College, Ok
ford, and in 1929 was made incumbent of
the Church of st. Mary there. Having
withdrawn from the Church of England In
1913. in 1916 he went to Rome and was or
dained priest, and on returning to England
In 1913 he became head of the Oratory of
st. Philip Neri at Birmingham. In 1854 he
was appointed rector of the newly-founded
Catholic University of Dublin. After four
years spent there he returned to the Ora
tory.
Upon the accession of LEO XIII. to the
papal chair DIR. NEWMAN was raised to the
dignity of cardinal-deacon. He continued
to reside at Edgbaston, near Birmingham,
where he conducted school for the edu-
cation Of the Catholic gentry and super
vised the affairs of his Order, and there he
died the day before yesterday of pneumo-
MIA.
His estrangement from the Church of
England grew out of the famous Oxford or
Tractarian movement inaugurated by the
poet KEBLE and followed by his own High
Church "Tracts for the Times"
He was often engaged IN controversy,
but such was the purity and benignity of
his character that he commanded universal
respect. and was on terms of affectionate
intimacy with many who differed from him
in opinion.
His works are philosophical and give evi-
dence of profound sincerity and piety, and
made him q name known to all the Chris
tan world.
The London Times of yesterday devotes
much space in its editorial columns to the
late Cardinal and saws:
"A great man has passed away, great
link with the past has been broken. Al
ninety years of age: full of years, full OF
honor, but not of honors; In the obscurity
Of his almost private home. the great man
receives his last summons and quietly
obeys. The most interesting chapter IN
our history closes with his death; and q
life that bears strange testimony to the
permanence Of certain types III human ma
ture becomes q part of the past. Once
more the world is reminded of the degree
in which respect and love still attach To
the sanity life when 1t is coupled with one
or another kind of intellectual leadership
Cardinal Newman is literally the last OF
his generation. Many Of his old friends
and colleagues he has long survived, Others
have but lately passed away, but he, to all
appearance the most fragile Of all, has re.
manned TIL now.
He liked the tactarians less; perhaps
he understood them less than his eminent
foreign contemporary. with whom one
naturally compares him. DIR. Dollinger.
The one Is more interesting as an example
OF intellectual energy and critical alert.
ness; the other as poet, mystic. and a.
thrice-refDed example Of the unworldi,
life.
will Newman's memory survive IN the
estimation Of his country? Will his books
maintain it OF one thing We may be sure
that the memory of his pure and noble life
untouched by worldliness. unsecured b,
any trace OF fanaticism, Will endure
and that, whether Rome canonizes bin OIL
not, he will DO canouized in the thoughts
OF pious people OF many creeds. In Eng
land. the saint and the poet in him WI
surviye.n