New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-01

With the exception Of a year at sta
tions in the Mediterranean. the novice )
deca4e of training was spent at Man
resa House, Roehampton, at stony
hurst. and at st. BeunO's. in North
Wales, where Charles Blount and Her
bert Thurston were fellow students and
friends Between the completion of the
scholastic studies at Stonyhurst ana
the commencement of the theological
course i'm St Beunos there was
teaching interval Of three years in the
college of Malta, where George TyrreH
devoted himself to the elementary
classes Following his ordination as
priest. i'm 1891, he was at first occupied
in visiting missions, and he had SIN
gle year of fruitful and happy parochlal
life among the poor of Lancashire
town. St. Helen's. 1t was with IN
feigned reluctance that he relinquished
the parish ministry to assume the
duties Of the chair Of philosophy IN
St. Mary's Hall, StOnyhurst. Barely
two years were passed in his new Office
and he was then, in 1896. sent TO Lon
don to join the staff Of writers at Farm
street. BY this time his growing pow
ers as an exposition Of Catholic truth
were coming TO have recognition, ana
now that he was less restricted In MS
ARRANGEMENTS his somewhat voracious
intellect was finding pabulum more TO
arfx- for
him the acquaintance, which was 10
issue i'm stimulating and sunny
friendship. Of the Roman Cathohc
scholar Baron Friedrich Won Hugel'
concerning whom Miss Petre observes
that he had won his faith in the sweat
of his brow. at home in many fields
OF knowledge, but profound believer
in the one Church, a mind that sought
truth at any price, but appreciated the
need of legitimate submission. Under
such kindly guidance George Tyrrell
studied the continental Catholic writ
ers. Blondel and Laberthonniere' and
he was persuaded TO learn German so
that he might get at the then untrans-
lated treasures Of Rudolf Eucken. The
wicket once open, he found theologians
like Wernle. Johapnes Weiss ana
Schweitzer within his reach.
Certain inward questionings, becom-
ing more acute and insistent, were
keeping pace with Father TyrrelFs
widening influence His withdrawal
from the professorship at Stonyhurst
had been due to opinionatlve differ
cnces with his colleagues as to the IN
terpretation Of the scholastic authorl-
tv. ST Thomas Aquinas. The Kterni
PATHS encyclical Of Leo XIII, aiming
at a return to the pure sources OF
Thomistic philosophy, had in TyrrelIs
Judgment been made a dead letter
through the opposition Of the Jesuits'
In Aduinas he saw not only great
teacher Of the past, master
equally in analysis and In synthesis'
but a great hope Of future light and
freedom, provided he were STUDIED
naturally, that is 10 say, critically ana
historically genius. \ deeper dis
ilusjonment was in store for the priest
when in his mature manhood he scru-
tinted the workings OF the society
which had engaged the Imagination
and exacted the vows OF his youth.
The need of elasticity and accommo-
dalton TO the changed conditions or
new world was precisely what had
moved Ignatlus Loyola. in opposition
10 the conservatism Of the old religious
orders Of his day, 10 conceive OF new
order. whose first principle should be
elasticity and accommodation, even 10
the sacrifice, not OF principle or rlGht'
but OF any mere tradition, custom or
positIye enactment standing In the way
Of mans ,reater spiritual good. At
tempting I'm the world Of real life 10
apply a laboriously prepared medieval
apparatus TO the mental and moral
needs OF the day, and seeing the fulfill
" Of such efforts To- placate the mod
ern mind, George Tyrrell's conclusion
was that the spirit Of the founder had
fed the society. This conviction II was
that formed the subject Of long CORE
spondence between the Jesuit and his
superiors. In which his request for dis
missal was earnestly urged. That
Father Tyrrell met the fate OF those
who would argue with the Pope only
the more closely indentifes him with
his contemporaries in the Church, An
tonic Fogazzaro, Alfred Loisy and
many another who. themselves Cath
Ole to the hearts core, believed in the
perfectibility Of the Church In her hu-
man aspect. Tyrrell in his most pas
sionate book, "Mediavalism," had said
in reply TO Cardinal MERCER:
My faith in the Church is, I'm its very
different way as blind az your own. IL -
I part of my faith in humanity whose pros
reefs seem not less desperate. The very
word Catholic" is music 70 my ears. and
summons before my eyes the outstrctched
all-embra cirg arms of Him who died for
the whole orbis terrarum.
Deprived Of the sacraments until he
should retract some mOdernist utter
ances, Father Tyrrell suffered as only
the loyal may suffer. In his dying
hours friends in the priesthood were
with him to give dissolution, and the
crucifix was frequently held TO his lips,
but permission TO accord him Christian
i. G., Catholic-burial was refused by
the authorities. Able Henri Bremond
recited prayers and gave a brief adj
dress at the graVeside in Storrington