The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-21
lead. KINDLY LIGHT.
CARDINAL NEWMAN WAS
opaITD BY hymn TIMERS.
,,sarted q stanzs in Ills Imnor-
song and Otherwise Changed II
,-Tt,arnseIves-His Protest.

La1-a taken all Sorts VI
&c. CARDINAL Newman's famous nymn'
, - as Lead, Kindly Light" VI this
-. author has the following to say IN
poe.' oo,oe,ia:n 81 was aching to get homo
us ,,.rt Of a vessel was kept at Pal
49, +bree weeks this was In 1883.
g 49, - cot off in an orange boat bound
a. -Ia-ssiIles Then it was that L wrote
~ lines. lead, Kindly Light which nave
49, become well known. we were De-
- whole week in the straits OF
o ,1.e.,;o was writing verses the
time of my passage.
6rst will say, whatever
49, ~ saving it for leave differences to
CONES +bat for wears ] must have had
oVu Satb;ng of an habitual notion, though IL
sonlet..u.t o,,d had never led me to distrust
was Iav9-r CONVICTIONS, that my mind had not
my ~ iss ultimate rest, and that, in some
49, 10 ar other. was on journey: turing
- sara massage across the meoiterr anea1
~ Ighich | wrote Lead, hlhuIy Llgu. l
IL eta the verses which are found IN the
also W. ,'oder the head Of 'Providences,' be-
u;3Jniny when look back
glI III ,sr ticular hymn in question Is OF
10 nn stanzas only, and runs in this wise:
kindly llgul, duAA1 VIZ
A011' Lead thou me on;
- ;h+ is dark and am far from nome
4D' Lead thou me on.
.,aan thou my feet; do not ask 70 see
The distant scene-one step enous i0A ---0'
NOT ever thus, nor prayed that thou
was Shouldst lead me on;
,lovad 10 choose and see my PaIh' ou1 uo"
Lead thou me on
49,, .he rarish day. and. spite of fears,
~ lied INV will: remember not past years
.1org tbv power hath blessed me, sure it still
'o'@e Will lead me on ~
...--,oor and fen. Ger crag and torrent, till
The night Is gone;
And nth the morn those angel races sunile
1zSich I have loved long since and lost awhile
One of the first things the thinkers did
~ hitch a fourth stanza to this poem,
and this was the stanza:
Meantime. along the narrow, rugged path
Thvself hast trod,
1ssd Saviour lead me home in childnke taith,
Home to my God;
tn rest forever after earthly strife,
IN the calm light of everlasting life.
In many of the hymnals the authors lone
n stan enough for me" has been changed to
"one steps enough for me" Il loved the
1,or;sb davn has been weakened into 81
iSovad the glare of day" while for the line
Ger moor and fen. DER crag and torrent,
q the vandalS nave ScUeoAeuO0o UH0 SOLunAou-
place
III Der hill and dale. through stream and torrent.
n The audacious liberties taken with the
poem vexed Newman to a degree, and sew
eral wears ago he served notice that his
HYMN consisted of three stanzas only, and
that the fourth stauza quoted above) was
1.-THE unwarranted addendum of another
nan The man who wrote that himsy
fourth stanza ia now the Bishop of Exeter,
Int at that time he was editor of a delecta-
HE periodical known as the HynlGI Com
no1ion. Few newspapers have quoted the
hymn correctly; even you, dear Ne0S, in.
sisted upon substituting has" for hath
in the first line of the third stanza.
Much discussion has been had over the
supposed obscurity of some of the express
siops in the poem. After he was created
cardinal the author pleaded that he twas
not bound to remember his own meaning,
whatev er il was, at the end OF almost fifty
years. friend comes to the rescue and
adds: THE author of the hymn having
now embraced the Tridentine doctrine OF
Durgatcrium, state Of altogether indef-
mite duration so indefinitely prolonged that
masses for the dead are often endowed with
out any stated period of cessation-has
e resigned the hope expressed In the hymn,
or at least would not venture TO utter 1t,
and on being Unexpectedly asked to explain
the lines affirming this hope, evades the diff
E# fculty.n
| But Newman did not withdraw or apollo
gize for that poem. Had he lived some
what earlier he might been compelled to dc
k# both ere the church would have received
|# him.
Gresset was the name Of a young French
man, Who at % years of age, wrote poem
whichis admired to-day as model of sa-
h.
the JesntS; he was inexperienced, innocent
decorous; yet in an hour of exuberance he
reeled off these immortal verses. They re.
count the awful adventures of a certain
parrot reared in the pious atmosphere
OF a nunnery; becomes famous as q
sanity bird; is borrowed by the sisters OF
aneghboring nunnery; travels up the Seine
Two days on boat; hears and acquires ioose
and profane language; arriving at the
second nunnery, he shocks and horrifies this
noly sisters with his profanity-surely you
nave heard the amusing tale, perhaps reac
Il, as very charmiugly paraphrased BY
father Prout. Well, for this composition
winch set all Paris into commissions, the
young author was expelled from the order
u tne Jesults Shortly thereafter he re
pented OF his sin" he fell into condition
VI the most abiect spiritual terror. HI
wrote letter to the bishop form
sHy abJuring his title as a poet
expressed sorrow for having writer
100 verses about "Ver-V ert"-that was the
parrots name-and humbly craved pardon
.or ms crime and blasphemy. Then he wa,
received back into the fold, and from thai
Iolnent employed his pen at writing
soVehng religious commonplaces. BY NJ
means vicious. "Ver-Vert" is a UNIQUE II
D' 81 a charming bit of fanciful humol
vue most ingenious and at the same tim,
-? niosG natural composition of its kind il
sNlence Some other man-not Gresset-
Iouiu nave written that poem. Gresse
sl,npy lell into fame-he was an arranu
"ietched, despicable coward.
& 10 return however, to Newman. It wa
~ iag one OF the great public controver
os Vpat ne wrote in this wise concerning
apaI l1lalllbiity: 1.-The Duke of yelling
s ~ Ism. salu That great country could not hav
n tYIe var; nor can a great theological
$50 1eSiion nave short answer. If began
Iuliu get into controversy, and should b.
iosC committing myself to a treatise
III ~. can easily fancy that at my age, anC
S WI ~ many things to weary my mind,
q 81 ndlaI! rom writing on any serious subject
s @i AMY do hold that the supreme pointif
"a GIT which no Tsar or Sultan neve
ana to which, SO far a
,AnCw, Tsar or Sultan neve
a al5 claim. A ukase or a hattie is a com
NJ ~ OF an ordinance, l suppose; but tn
,,nt matter Of the pope's infallibilitv i
n a as' and truth In tina province of relg
W .,5 Synd morals.
H iue pope is not infallible in his acts or hi
auiiands. Pope Honorius made a grea