Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-12

HIS Life.
LONDON, Aug. 11.-Cardinal Newman
died at Birmingham to-day from at at
tack of pneumonia. The last rites of the
church were administered to him.
Cardinal John Henry Newman was born
in London, February 81, 1901, and was
educated at the school of DR.. Nicholas at
Ealing, whence he passed in 1916 to
Trinity college, Oxford, of which college he
became scholar by competitive examine
ton in 1918. Having graduated in 1920,
he was elected of Oriel college in 1922,
where he attracted the notice of DIR.
ployed in the preparation for the
publication of his well-known Trea-
tise on Logic, and introduced to the editor
of the Encyclopedias Metropolitana, to
which he became a contributor. He was
ordained in 1884; but on being named q
tutor in his own college in 1897, as public
examiner, he resigned the vice principal
ship. In 1928 he was presented to the
vicarage of ST. Mary's, Oxford, in which
church the sermon which he delivered at a
late period had an extraordinary effect in
forwarding the religious movement with
which his name is permanently associated.
At this period, Newman was an earnest
antagonist of the Roman Catholic Church.
He was one Of those who trans
ferred their support from Sir Rob-
ert Peel to Sir Robert Inglis on occasion
of the formers introducing the Roman
Catholic relief bill; and he was one of the
most active in commencing and carrying
on the so-called Oxford movement, the
great object of which was to counterfeit as
well the Remaining as the dissenting ten
denotes of the time by restoring and bring
ing into notice what Newman and his
friends believed to be the Catholic charac-
ter of the English church. With this view
he commenced in 1888 the series known as
the Oxford Tracts, to which he was him
self one of the chief contributors; in 1888
he became editor of the British Critic, which
was an organ of the same views, and, in con-
nection with Drs. Pussy and Keble, of a
Library of Translation from the Greek and
Latin Fathers. He continued the publica-
ton of the tracts up to the ninetieth num-
Der, which was written by himself, and
the tendency of which was SO distastefu1
to the Anglican authorities that the heads
of houses at Oxford condemned the tract,
and the bishop of Oxford called upon New
man to discontinue the publications. re-
quest with which he at once complied. The
British Critic continued for some time
longer to advocate the same opinions;
but in 1843 that publication was
also discontinued; and Newman, who had
for sometime resided at Littlemore, near
Oxford, engaged, in company with some
of his more youthful adherents, in study
and ascetic exercises, thenceforward con-
fined himself chiefly to his Littlemore
residence, and eventually, in October,
1916, was admitted into the Roman Catho-
lie church, step which was Immediately
followed by the publication of work on
the Development of Doctrine, which was
intended as an explanation of
the process through which the
writer's own mind had passed.
Soon afterwards Newman repaired to Rome
where, after some preparation, he was ad-
mitted to orders in the Roman Catholic
church; and in 1s4s, on his return to Eng
land, he established a branch of the con-
gregation of the oratory of St. Philip Neri,
Of which he was himself appointed the
superior. In 1859 he was appointed rector
of the Catholic university established in
Dublin, an Office which he held for five
years, afterwards returning to Birming-
ham, where he still resides, and in connec-
ton with which he has established school
of higher studies for the youth of the
Roman Catholic religion. DR.. Newman, in
addition to the large share which he had in
the publications already named, is the
author of several important works, written
as well before as after his withdrawal from
Anglicanism. OF the former period are
his History of the Arians, Prophetical
Office of the Church, The Church of the
Fathers, an Essay on Miracles, a Transla-
ton of the Treatises of st. Athanasius,
with many learned dissertation, and several
volumes of sermons. To the latter period
belong the Development of Christian Doc
trine, Lectures on Catholicism in England,
Apologize pro Vita Sua, Letter to DIR.
Pusey, Essay on Assent, and Letter to the
Duke of Norfolk ON Mr.. Gladstone's Ex-
postulation 1873. Newman is also the
| author of two religious tales, Loss and
Gain and Callista, and of some fine hymns.
He was made n cardinal deacon of the
| church in 1879.