The Irish standard., 1896-01-18
from his biography: At the ntl lYersity
Manning was not, like Newman, U leader

1 of men, devoted heart and SOulsTO the
study of religious questions; nor an earn
est student devot almost exclusively to
! his books like Mr.. Gladstone. Manning
seemed to play double part. ~HeSWas to
be seen everywhere, always spruce and
| smart, in striking contrast TO Mn. Glad
stones somewhat slouching gait and care
| less attire. Manning took part in all OF
| the sports, was present on every festival
| occasion, but though his conciliatory
manners made him popular, he does not
appear, owing to his natural reserve, to
| have entered into any intimate friend
| ships at Oxford. EIe was, however, al
| ways busy and CT the alert, devoting
much time and study to the debates OF
[ the union. When or how he managed to
| find tine for his schools no one Knew.
! When Mr.. Gladstone, who belonged eX-
| clusively to the studious set, took double
| first. no one who knew him at the uni
| versity was surprised, as almost everyone
was when, in Michaelmas term, 1880,
| Manning took his 8. A. degree and a flrst
class in classics.
| Notwithstanding his taste for political
speaking, Manning was interested IN re-
l.gious questions In one OF his notes ne
says that he used to like going TO chapel,
and that psalms and the lessons were al
| ways delight to him: that he read ana
reraad Buffers sermons and the Analogy.
and that formed his mind and conscience.
! But this does not alter the fact that his
reputation at Oxford rests in the main On
! his achievements as a ready and agree
able speaker at the union.
! After leaving Oxford, as his father S
fortunes seem to have dwindled away,
Manning took a. position in the Colonial
office. 1t was while there that he. met
a Miss Defel with whom he seems TO
| have fallen in love. But her father op-
posed the match on the practical grounds
that the young mans position i'll the Co
| loniaJ office. and prospects in lie We're
not such as to warrant proposals OF mar
riage. so he forbade an engagement,
though permitting the disconsolate low
ers the consolation of correspondence
Thus the future Cardinals early love at
| fair came to an untimely end, for, as his
biosrapher pertinently remarks, Love,
! at least a mans love, does not thrive on
mere letters The woman, however, was
faithful to the end, and lived and died
for Manning's sake in single blessedness:
Some time after this, when Manning mao
| taken orders and Was rector at LaVlng
| ton. he fell in love with Caroline, thlfo
daughter of Mrs. John Sargent, Two Oh
whose daughters were marl1ed 10 the
| Wilberforces-Samuel, the well knoW1l
bishop and Henry, his brother. Ihefe
was no obstacle to this marriage ana 50
| Caroline Cargent became Mrs. Hehry
Manning, She, fortunately, perhaps, Tor
Manning's change of religious falth dieo
at the end of four years. Of his married
life the cardinal never spoke. tie seemed
/ to have been rather ashamed that a car
| hor a.
weakness His wife's death was sor-
row to him, because he truly loved her.
nut it gave him the opportunity to go
more deeply into the study and practice
of the faith that commands Celibacy IN
! it's priests.
! The first volume of this biography is
devoted to the Anglican period in Car
dinal Manning's life, while the second
discusses Manning as Catholic
| In the pursuit OF his theological studies
Manning went to Rome, and after having
qualified as a priest in the Catholic
church. he returned to London, In let
ter to Robert Wilberforce, with whom
| he was on terms of close Intimacy, ne
saws: so far as l know, am come nome
for good, and my purpose is to continue
| I'm London the life was living in Rome +;
that is. to live in community with three
or four. having library, chapel and re-
factory in common. + find this, both in
tellectual1y and spiritually great help,
and + shall set apart "A room for you. my
hest wish for you is what has been given
to myself-to be soon in daily happiness.
offering the holy sacrifice.
cannot tell you what thankfulnesss teel
to our Divine Lord and his vicar upon
earth for having taken me under the
care of the Holy See
Manning was an originator, ana most
indefatigable worker. He was ever on
the alert. Whatever his quick eye oe-
tected his quicker hand carried out. re
impaired by force Of example some OF ms
restless activity to those about him. He
kept his reverend and very reverend sec
retaries on their office stools from morn
ing till night without pity or remorse.
wing for work himself and loving it, he
taught them to love work not merely out
Of obedience or sense of duty, but for its
own sake
On Manning's conversion to Rome his
intimacy with Mr. Gladstone came to an
end For II years they never, met, but
in the course Of time they did come TO-
gether again, though widely apart IN
their theological views. Mr.. Gladstone
attacked him publicly and he answered
back. and yet Manning writes. IN a letter
to Gladstone: "My act in 1851 may nave
overcast your friendship for me; it did
not overcast my friendship for You. as
think the last years have shown: IN
answer to the letter from which this quo
tation is made, Mr.. Gladstone wrote to
Manning: cit did, confess, seem to me
an astonishing error to state IN. pubic
that a friendship had not been overcast
for az years until now which your letter
declares has been suspended as to all
action for H.. I doubt not that you ta1l
to perceive that your inaccurate assef-
tion operated to sustain the insidious and
painful charges made against me; thai
have suppressed my opinions on the vat
ican council until had no longer the
Roman, Catholic vote to gain or lose.
In the same letter Gladstone says: our
differences. my dear Archbishop, are IN
deed profound. We refer them, sup
pose. in humble silence to higher pow
/ err We have both, also, l firmly Delaeye,
cherished as well as we could the srecol-s
lections Of the past. They probably re-
strained your pen when you wrote slate-
Nv. They have certainly and greatly re-
strained mine. You assured me once of
vo,,r PRAYERS at all and the most solemn
times. / receive that assurance with graf
|fitude. and still cherish it. as when they
move upwards there is meeting point for
those whom cllasm separates below. 1Y3s#8
Mr.. Purcell was certainly right when
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