The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-20
CARDINAL MANNING.
Romance-Habits and Mode Of
blS Life.
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lis Life.
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final Manning's early life has not been
- its romance. In 1884, before his
"i i.lIrswsl from the English church, and
W.. Ia was archdeacon of Chiches-
NlI' 70 married o lovely English
ta, rbou he cherished deep affection.
gI!' fsu months after the marriage Mrs.
B-l..Tjny died, and the nature OF her huss
A1u iis Continents toward her may be gath
pa -3 rom the sadness which tinges the
eIeI-o11r1es of "Parochial Sermons" writ
i'ul lily after her death. As in the case
tel S,non Wilberforce, the event had its
a. .,,0on his whole after life. He did not
eAeo. despondent or inactive even then.
peSI me Of his hest literary work is OF this
Tsriod Of regret. -
--.orsllv Cardinal Manning has always
'i,,+ansely practical For long time
pei lived in London IN great, gloomy
Ie,a 90 not far from the Victoria station, a
- IT, which he selected on account of its
p.osoossihility and Toominess. 1t was a
aunt. ugly building, nothing IKE nome
sao-raaTance aud having for outlook one
" or or most soualid vistes in London. Here
o. ~ - always at home 20 such visitors as
NC 49, naed his assistance or wanted TO con-
Ii is him upon topics of mutual interest.
sI5r NJ diverse Glasses and conditions and Of
1m riods of Intellectual bent have seen him
on and most of them have been received
,r;th simple informality.
AT WESTMINSTER.
uis residence at the archbishop's house in
7rostnir ster was also spacious and simply
s,rnished. The walls were Of plain white
we're hung with religious paintings and
ala hn oil raA
S1HssIf WAS the possession Of a few costly
nnd fnely illustrated books, and most of
tbosa were presentation copies. Under a
.-ioss case in the vestibule he kept the scar
fst beretta conferred upon him by pontiical
Id on the occasion of his appointment to
10 sacred college, and near it the large sill
Tsr croser enblematio OF his office.
MANNING's MANNER.
7, manner he was rather democratic
though ever dignified and reserved. In his
study. where he received guests, be was to
beftund in the morning wearing the ordi-
undress cap of a Catholic bishop, his
scarlet scull cap alone indicating bis cardi-
nal rank The study itself was strangely
Indicative Of the breadth and variety of his
ooonpations and of the actual life which he
lad It was a tranquil, cheerful room, with
two photographs of st. Edward the Comics
& s,r's shrine in Westminster abbey by way
Il nj ornament. Here it was his custom to sit
and work amid mass Of books, papers and
reviews. accomplishing more in eight hours
than many men would do in sixteen.
q APPEARANCE AND HABITS.
He had the thin face, keen eyes and
sharply cut features of an ascetic, and his
looks did not belle him. He believed in
'plan living and high thinking" and his
mode of life was extremely simple. With
8 the clergy attached to him, he took dinner
every day at o'clock in a common room
set apart for the purpose. At his oratorY,
where be said daily mass, were various
sacred relics, the inter and maniple of st.
Thomas a Beckett among them.
n MANNING A MAN OF ACTION.
Cardinal Manning was the first resident
Of England to receive the scarlet hat since
the time of Cardinal Wolsley. A parallel
between himself and Cardinal Newman
naturally suggests itself. Both were men
otpromse in the English church, and both
changed their views and attained eminence
IN Catholicism. Newman, however, became
interpretive, studious and speculative, rep
resenting the ascetic and monastic phase OF
the Catholic mind. Manning grew oon-
# santly more and more practical, getting in
touch with the English people, working fol-
them with all his energies and sounding the
depths of human experience In his varied
ri diplomatic labOrs on their behalf.