The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-26
THE LAST OF r

only Cardinal Howard Survives of Three
English Dignitnries.
Of the four English cardinals that have
been created in late years only Cardinal
Howard survives. Wiseman, Newman and
Manning are numbered with the dead. The
three who have departed we're all educated
for the English church. They won distinc-
ton as scholars in the English universities.
Tho movement which began with DR..
Pussy, or to which hs gave additional en-
phasis, carried these men into the Roman
Catholic church. They did not make the
transition in a day. Newman was some
years on his way. For a long time he was
versity where no had been educated. He
won many converts. Thousands were
drawn to hear him by his gentle ways and
his pulpit eloquence.
Manning had less pulpit ability. But he
had great executive ability. He came in
personal contact with the masses. He sym
pathizod with their privations and suffer
ings. In one Of the great strikes that re-
!. Gently occurred in Lndon, when hardly less
than 80, 600 men were out of work and the
mol element became dangerous, there was
no one who had SO much personal influence
in preserving order as Cardinal Manning.
Tho municipal authorities consulted him
and wore glad to nave his counsel and his
personal influence. He went everywhere
among the turbulent and disaffected.
He became in some sense their medl-
ator, voicing, in a gentle way. their
complaints, mitigating the h~arshness
of adverse judgments and pleading the
themselves aggrieved. Never had q car
dinal before appeared In just that %associa-
ton. A prince of the church, he stood not
an hour upon his dignity. but went down
among his suffering fellow mon. hearing
patiently the complaints Of the lowest,
sympathizine with them, and by his per-
sonal efforts and wise counsels succeeded in
obtaining concessions for them which in a
great measure satisfied thoir demands. He
had magni6ed his great Office by pleading
the cause of the weak and the oppressed.
He chad compassion on the multitude"
Manning worked in many ways outside
of his church for tho improvement of
the social life of the people. He was act
i've in promoting a temperance reforma-
tion. He served AZ late as 1861 on a royal
commission for the housing OF the poor;
and a year later on a commission for pro
noting education. He had the qualities of
a statesman and the spirit of n reformor.
Pussy, Wiseman, Newman and Manning
made the largest use of the press. For them
it gained an audience that they could mover
reach from the pulpit. Both Newman and
Manning wrote at first in defense of the
ILnEllBu CHURCH,. Az u laL0T uHy tQoy COu-
troverted their earlier controversial works.
What was deemed sound became heretioal
by virtue of their own transition aud ulti-
mnto convictions.
While Manning had not the pulpit elo-
quence of Newman, he ranked as a great
preacher, winning that reputation whom
for some time he had the rank OF one Of
the SOLICIT preachers of the Oxford Uni
~versity. Remaining in the English church,
he might hayo become a bishop. Going
idly advanced until ho became 4 cardi-
nal. His personal ministrJ-that by which
no came in contact with the multitudes,
sympathized with them, took their cause
to hia own heart, won their confidence,
allayed their hostilitiss and fears, pleaded
with them and for ~them-addsd new lustre
to his life. All this service was rendered
outside Of the routine life Of n prelnte. II
was in a noble sense apostolic. It was
Christianity applied to relieve the wants
and to mitigate the woes of humanity. The
memory of this illustrious man will be eel
ebrated in history, not only as the scholar
and author. but for his ministrations
among those who did not enter churches
and cathsdrals.~ Exchange.