New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-12
CARDINAL NED Nan.

40. completes a career fraught with intel
loctual power and fairly electric in it1 inllu-
cnce. II was his singular good fortune TO
survive all his allies and antagonists III the
memorable oxford movement, and while stand
ing apart from a generation Of controversial
Isis and religious Zcal0tS, who knew OF his
fame ONLY as a tradition of the England OF
1888. 70 be able in tho reaches Of a calm and
contempative old age u measure the results
Of that remarkable renaissance in the Estah-
lished Church. in the development OF his re-
hgioii, opinions he swung from one extreme -
the other OF the pendulum arc In his youth
he was greatly impressed with the ratioHaI!S'Ic
writings Of Hume and Noltaire; he was or
dancd to the Ministry with mind hoSpita5y
inclined toward CalviniSiic tendencies hc en-
tered upon the publication OF the Tracts and
the Library Of the Fathers protesting against
Enmanizing Influences and he emerged from
the oxford movement Il Roman priest to be
crowned in the fulnoSs OF time with Car
dinal's hat Not even his old pupil. Mr. Glad
stone. who used t. listen to his sermons at
~. MaryS. has travciscd more complete
circuit in the evolution of political opinion
from extreme Toryi>m to democratic Radical
ism than he himself had done in religious
thought II he failed {, comprehend fifty
wears ago In" force OF The tendencies that were
carrying him onward his life Wa, rounded out
70 80 complete span rs - enable MIN - judge
f the mOmcntOus result, Of that memorable
controversy.
The general result of the Oxford move
mcnt. once fcrcely denounced a. fatal 10 the
English Church. ha, been markedly different
from the forecasts OF either IL leaders or OPP
poncnt>. Instead Of contributing powerfully
70 promote the revival Of autiquatsd doctrines
aud drprling il of it, Protestant charlclcr II
has impaired = great impulse r. it, Intellectual
and spiritual ACTIVITIES. If Dr.. Pussy had not
hc,d hi, ground and prevented gcn"fai stain
podc to Rome. Tractarlani,m might have upset
Inc English Church. " it VAS. thcr" was =
remarkable accession Of intellectual force /;
there was a general awakening on the par OF
the clergy 10 the Responsibilities OF th'H call
ing and there was vast increase ol working
power, especially among H." poor. il ntuai-
..!n. which Dr.. Newman ~ -. ML!'> neither
prl,ti>cd nor preached, followed lnctaran-
i,m there wa, also the growth If breeder
and more elastic spirit Of t3lnnnr'. TIA" OK
ford movement was an inyigorating tome of
life. giving power. II has involved remark
able Development oi the spiritual resources
N The English Church.
The result, Of Cardinal Newmaus own So
,c>.ion from that communion unGo,atrdiy
never co4sed 10 ~Irprs" him Will" b" lived
81 Oxford in 1870 b. was surrounded by =
land Of Jealous and pious friends over whom
hc c.cricd a magnetic influence. The move
uent had swept everything before II M the
university. II was natural 70 expect that hl>
final stop IN entering the Roman Church would
lc thc signal for a secession which would dI-
vide the English Church. But the reaction
head. ii by him soon spent IL force. Master
inl a, he proved himself - be IN subsequent
controversies with Kingsley and Gladstone, and
astounding ~ was hi, greatest intellectual feat.
| rir "iroloei1 Pho Via Sua" there was a
! sharp >"u,r OF diNproportion between his in
Huoac" ~ a leader Of the oxford movement
| and hi. unoycntfr service in rho Roman com
munyn There may be reason 10 believe that
! h, Was disappointed hy the failure of bi' Cath
! die university scheme, bat none whatever T.
-upI,o>c tha, he wa ever diScoDt.ut.d with his
wol, at the OiMory ~ Birmngham Cardinal
| Ncwman> whole cllcrr embodied IL" s'nii-
mcnt Il hi, beautiful hymn, " Lead, Kindly
! Light lie followed where the Light s'cmci
10 lead him, and the result, to the English or
the roman Church. whether expected on I'M
forcsccn, could not di,concert 81 seif-contancl
and Tranquil man.