70

THE MOST EMINENT LORD

HENR V EDIVARD
ARCHBISHOP OF IVESTMINSTER

CARDINAL PRIEST OF THE HOLY ROMAN CHURCH

OF THE TITLE OF SS. ANDRE IV AND GREGORY

ON THE CCELIAN HILL

WHENCE CAME TO THIS ENGLAND OF HIS LOVE

IN THE EARLY TIME

THOSE FIRST APOSTLES

IV

{HIS

PROTOTYPES)

HO PREACHED TO THE PEOPLE

THE GOSPEL OF REDEMPTION:

IS

INSCRIBED

THIS RECORD OF A BROTHER

WHO SHARES WITH HIM

TO-DA Y

THE LOVE OF ENGLISH^PEAKING CATHOLICS

AT

HOME

AND IN MANY LANDS

VOL. V.

D D

358

A SKETCH FROM
lOne of several similar
sketcJies

ST.

MARY'S.

and otherwise, made in 1840 and 1841, mostly hy undergraduates wJio were not conscious of the element of caricattire inevitable in the work of

"from memory

"

amateurs.

Perhaps a truer idea

may

be conveyed by

a contemporary's portrait in words. Ed.]

"

He was aboye the

The
I

middle height, slight and spare.

His head was large, his face remarkably like that of

Julius Caesar.

forehead, the shape of the ears and nose were almost the same.

Tery peculiar, aad

refused to be

should say exactly the same.

to

In both

moulded by circumstances, which was

The lines of the mouth w^ere men there was an original force of character, which make its own way, and become a power in the world a clear;

ness of intellectual perception, a disdain for conventionalities, a temper imperious

attaching gentleness, sweetness, singleness of heart and purpose.

and

wilful,

but along with

it

a most
;

Both were formed by Nature to command others both had the faculty of attracting to themselves the passionate devotion of their friends and followers."
J.

A.

Froude.

MERRY ENGLAND
October, 1885.

JOHN HENRY, CARDINAL NEWMAN.

The Event
Newman,
in

of October,

1845.
Henry-

the development of Christian doctrine" within him, left the Anglican com-

'PORTY years ago, this month of "October, John

consequence of
into the

munion and was received

Church of Rome.

was immediately understood to be enormous but those were early days and the full force and effect of it, its action and its reaction,
significance of that event
;

The

cannot be accurately estimated even yet. To the friends whom he left, the transition of the late

Vicar of

St.

the Oxford

Movement

Mary's

and,

name, the leader of into a layman of the Church of

in all but

Rome, was
those

who

a grief and a regret comprehensible only to realize what that Church was traditionally

supposed to be by Anglicans, even of the High type. At first Keble could not resist throwing out at any rate the supposition so commonly made on to one friend

D D

3 6o

CA RDINA L

NE WMA N.
down
to our

kindred occasions, from the time of Festus

own

he
too

really feared the excitement of events

had been a

little

much for Mr. Newman's

brain.

That was merely

a mood, however, and did not show his heart. To a visitor, In the course of a walk, many years after, Keble pointed out a spot, saying:

*'Ah

that

is

a sad place
It

that

is

event of

my
us.

life.

was there that

I first

connected with the most painful knew for certain that J. H. N.

I felt sure

contained, and I carried it about with me all through the day, afraid to open it. At last I got away to that chalk-pit, and then, forcing myself to read the letter, I found that my forebodings had been too true; it was the announcement that he was gone."
it

had left of what

One day

I received a letter in his handwriting.

How

Pusey

felt

the parting

is

among

the most affect-

ing records of a history which, In other ways also, was a tragedy.

not only to theologically-minded friends, but also to a little group of politicians, the month of October, in the

And
1

Lord Beaconsfield and the Young: Ens^landers had never dreamed that without and to religion they could effect social regeneration
year
845, brought a day of

doom.

them, for the most part, religion appeared only In the But against the efficacy of guise of the Establishment.
its

administrations, the high priest of

all

that

Young

England venerated in Anglicanism now made protest, Thus it was that Lord solemn and pronounced.
reviewing the history of that political '' movement, declared long afterwards that the secession of Mr. Newman dealt a blow to the Anglican Church
Beaconsfield,

Other Prime Ministers, one of them speaking from the standpoint of a Whig, have
under which
it still

reels."

THE EVENT OF OCTOBER,

made statements about
the the

1845.

3^1

same

event.

Lord John
person of

Russell, in a speech on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill in

House

of

Commons,

in 1851, alluded to '*a

great eminence, of great learning, of great talents, whom we all have to deplore as having ever left the Protestant

Church and joined the Church of Rome I mean Mr. Newman." And Mr. Gladstone has made several pronouncements, one more decisive than another, of the sense
of grief and disaster which the secession of Mr.

Newman

brought upon him, and which he still retains. For even Mr. Gladstone, though so passionate a theologian, is
a politician
to

and a theologian afterwards. But what was loss and grief to some was joy and gain others, a gain and a joy which politicians have not in
first

their reckoninofs.

It

is

curious enouofh to turn

now

to

the Tablet q{ October 25, 1845, where it is speaking of that epoch-making incident. While the writer expresses
a thankful

welcome to Mr. Newman,

his

remarks are free

something more than a paltry party or sect should ever be from any display of unworthy triumph over the cause which had
as the utterances of those
to

who belong

lost its leader.

"

It

says

Our readers will naturally expect from us a few words on the subject of Mr. Newman's conversion, but we confess we find- great difficulties in The subject is so wide and yet so simple, so fulfilling that expectation. personal and yet so diffusive, that we hardly know what to say or what This great event has been looked for anxiously and to avoid saying.
long.

has been prayed for ; it has been written for ; it has been wished ; it has been dreaded ; it has at length come. So far as a remote observer can presume, imperfectly at best, to judge of character, the
It

Anglican establishment has been deprived of the largest mind and the most penetrating intellect lately to be found, at least among her ecclesiastical children

He commenced, fifteen years ago, an

ardent anti-

362
Romanist.

CARDINAL NEWMAN.

During that time, with every prejudice against the truth, he has dihgently laboured in his endeavours to place the Anglican theory on a sound basis in his own mind and before the public. He has tried

scheme

after

scheme

step

by step he has

fallen

less onset of truth.

He

has yielded slowly

reluctantly we

back before the

resist-

may

say

surrendering no point gratuitously ; even when defeated making use of his matchless ingenuity to discover standing-room where a less keen sight would have discovered nothing but a vacuum ; entrenching himself

stubbornly among ruins ; every moment (we may imagine) checked in his course of retreat by the anxieties of his public position, and by reflecting how many looked up to him as a guide ; and sparing no pains
or labour to escape,
satisfying
if it

change

might honestly be done, the last great painful We congratulate Mr. Newman warmly and

with most devoted affection on his happy conversion, and our readers on God knows it fills u with a joy their share in the fortunate event.

which we cannot adequately express, and with expectations sufficiently sanguine, we think, though not quite so sanguine as those of some
better hopers among ourselves. May God prosper him every way ; and from the first hour of his baptism to the last of his breath may the Almighty deign, after His own good will, to use him unremittingly in the

noblest service this world can witness

"
!

of their colleges, despoiled of their churches, ostracized from civil life, the professions shut to them,
their

Robbed

goods seized and their possessions subjected to special taxes and distraints, the Catholics of free England, when this century began, and Cardinal Newman with It,

were

in sorry plight as to

their resources for acquiring

Even their learning and for celebrating their religion. foes had begun to feel for them a generous compassion. True, the vital principle could not be destroyed. As in
the catacombs, so now,
sticks,
If

there were only

;

wooden

candle-

the priests were of gold

and though the

collegiate

halls

might be humble enough, they enclosed such men as Lingard, the works of whose hands were to benefit

THE EVENT OF OCTOBER,

1845.

363

generations of students in those very seats of learning of which he, and such as he, had been disinherited.

pay back that and many another service. By an irony of fate, this very Alma Mater, which had been appropriated to propagate the policy of
to

And

Oxford was

the Eighth Harry, reared, as it were unconsciously, the noblest among its sons in this century to love the Old
rather than the new, the Catholic rather than the insular,

the Eternal rather than the temporary in short, the Divine rather than the human. It was a debt to the

starved and persecuted Church of those days due from the

Oxford which had been founded and endowed by that same Church centuries earlier, in the hour when kings
wxre

and queens its nursing mothers. Right royally that debt was paid, and England is generous
its

fathers

enough not
It

to regret the

day of
its

restitution.
little

seems, therefore, that some

memento

of the

event of October, 1845, on

fortieth anniversary,

may

made, especially in the form it here takes, by the employment of as few words as may be on the part
be
fittingly

of the compiler, and the presentment of as many as may be from the pen of Cardinal Newman himself, or from

the pens of those

especial
ality,
off,

who have been drawn

to

him

in

an

manner have felt the inspiration of his personand have followed him, some as strangers and afar

with a life-long love.

364

O O i

365

THE NEWMAN FAMILY GROUP.^

" It
it

was

in 1823 that

Newman was

elected to a Fellowship at Oriel

and

was always a comfort to him that he had been able to give his father The this good news at a time of great sorrow and embarrassment.
father died not long after,

and the family may be

said then to have

had

In the summer of 1829 the Newman family took a furnished cottage in a very out-of-the-way spot at Horspath, of which

no home

Dr. Ellerton, a well-known Fellow and tutor of Magdalen College, had

This was pleasant enough in the summer ; but when Dornford, a Fellow of Oriel, who was serving Newnham Courtney, and had the use
charge.

of a cottage there, offered

it

to the

Newmans, they were glad

to avail

themselves of the opportunity, though the change did not bring them It was said to have been intended for the parsonage, nearer Oxford.

Indeed in the Midlands but was by no means a picturesque building. it would have been set down as the habitation of a family of weavers or
Jean Jacques Rousseau occupied it for some time under the patronage of the Harcourt family, and is said to have sown seeds of many foreign wild flowers in
stockingers.
It

was

not, however, without associations.

spots where they were hkely to grow.

The
'

fact of

such plants being found

about
is

has been adduced to support the tradition that this the true Auburn of Goldsmith's Deserted Village.' .... A special

Newnham

interest attaches to this cottage

from

its

being the scene of a remarkable

family group, including the whole surviving

Newman

family, in chalk,

by Miss Maria R. Giberne, an early and ardent admirer of Newman, and Rev. T. Mozley, M.A. {Cardinal Newmaf^s his follower to Rome."

brother-in-law)^ in his admirable ^'Reffiiniscences,'' which have the rare

merit of being written about interesting

*

men by an
;

interesting 7nan.

[^Ed.]

Mrs.
;

Newman,
Francis

died 1836

Harriet m. Rev. J. Mozlcy

Jemima m. John Mozley

John Henry

Newman

W. Newman.

^366

CARDINAL NEWMAN,

The

Letters of

Half a Lifetime.

nPHE

following Collection of Letters written by Cardinal Newman during half a lifetime includes, of

course, only those printed in periodicals, or those which,

though addressed to private persons, have received the

writer's sanction for their publication.

One

letter,

written

to the

Bishop of Birmingham at the time of the Vatican

and already published, is not here reproduced, for a reason which it is hoped the reader will think sufficient namely, that it was never intended for the public Nor would it be considerate, or even candid, to eye. publish that document apart from the history of the conditions under which it was written. Two other letters, addressed to the Standard in March, 1870, are not intelligible, save as a context to that private document it had The " Letters" to Dr. Pusey, put into print. on the Eirenicon," and to the Duke of Norfolk, on the Civil Allegiance of Catholics, each a book by no place in this Collection itself, naturally find and, for analogous reasons, is omitted the letter on
Council,

''

Anglican Orders, addressed to Father Coleridge, S.J., in " Characteristics." 1868, and republished in Mr. Lilly's
since limitations of space compel further sacrifice, I have made it in the case of the communications most recently addressed from the Oratory at Birmingham to the outer world. And I console myself with the reflection that the

And

absent are still fresh in the memory Young Generation which will draw from the Past in these pages a fresh affection for the subject of them an affection destined to carry into the Future, from those who were his contemporaries to those who come after us, the traditions of a great epoch and of a venerable name.
letters thus

of that

THE LETTERS OF HALF A LLFETLME.

GOOD-BYE. To A Number of Friends.
Littlemore, October
8,

367

1845.

expecting Father Dominic, the Passionist, who, from his youth, has been led to have distinct and direct thoughts, first of the countries of the North, then of
I

am

this

night

England.
his

own

After thirty years' (almost) waiting, he was without act sent here. But he has had little to do with
I

conversions.
Baptist's

saw him here

for a

few minutes on St. John

Day

last year.

He

is

powers. ; ask of him admission into the one Fold of Christ.

a simple, holy man, and withal gifted with remarkable He does not know of my intention but I mean to

RECEIVED INTO THE CHURCH.

To
the

Rev. T.

W.

Allies, M.A.
Littlemore, October
9, 1845.

My

dear Allies,
I

am

to

be received into what

I believe

to be the one
it is

Church and the one Communion of Saints

so ordained.

this evening, if
is

Father Dominic, the Passionist,

I

here,

and

have begun my confession to him. be received with me.

suppose two friends

will

have only one-tenth part as much faith as I have I do not suppose intellectual conviction where the truth lies

May

any one can have had such combined reasons pouring in upon him that he is doing right. So far I am most blessed but, alas my heart is so hard, and I am taking things so much as a
;
!

matter of course, that

have been quite frightened

lest I

should

not have faith and contrition enough to gain the benefit of the Sacraments. Perhaps faith and reason are incompatible in one
person, or nearly so.

Ever yours, most

sincerely,

John H. Newman.

368

CARDINAL NEWMAN.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
To Cardinal Acton.*
Noveinber
25,

1845.

hope you

will

great gratification
letter.

have anticipated, before I express it, the which I received from your Eminence's

however, was tempered by the apprehension that kind and anxious well-wishers at a distance attach more importance to my step than really belongs to it

That

gratification,

of course an inestimable gain ; but persons and things look great at a distance, which are not so when seen close and, did your Eminence know me, you
to me, indeed, personally,
it is
;

would see that

talk for

was one about

whom

there has been far

good and bad than he deserves, movements far more expectation has been raised than the event

more and about whose

will justify.

As
to

I never, I

do

trust,

aimed

my own
much

sense of right,

anything else than obedience and have been magnified into the
at

leader of a party without

my

wishing

it,

or

acting as such, so
I

now,

as I

may

wish to the contrary, and earnestly as

may

labour (as is my duty) to minister in a humble way to the Catholic Church, yet my powers will, I fear, disappoint the expectations of both my own friends and of those who pray for
the peace of Jerusalem.
If I

might ask of your Eminence a favour, it is that you would kindly moderate those anticipations. Would it were in

my

power to do what
I

do not aspire to do

At

present
it

certainly

cannot look forward to the future, and though

would be a good work if I could persuade others to do as I have done, yet it seems as if I had quite enough to do in
thinking of myself.
*

Who

had written a

letter of

very

warm

congratulation.

[Ed.]

THE LETTERS OF HALF A LIFETIME.

RENUNCIATION.
To

369

Friend.
jfanuary 20, 1846.

Obliviscere populum lonely I am. tuum et doinum patris tui" has been in my ears for the last I realize more that we are leaving Littlemore, twelve hours.

You may

think

how

"

and

it is

like

going on the open

sea.

''WE ARE TO BE ORATORIANS."

To
\_Private.'\
J.

R. Hope.*

CoUegio

di Prop.,

My dear
I

February

23, 1847.

Hope,
lately, that

have been writing so very, very much

tell

now

that I want to

you something

my

hand

is

so tired

that I

can hardly write a word. We are to be Oratorians.

about
it

Mgr. Brunelli went to the Pope

the day before yesterday, my birthday. The Pope took up the plan most warmly, as had Mgr. B., to whom we had mentioned it a month back. Mgr. had returned my paper,
in

which

drew out

my

^'

plan, saying

Mi place

iimnensa-

mentel'

and repeated several times that the plan was " ben ideatar They have from the first been as kind to us as possible, and arc ever willing to do anything for us.
I

my

have been ever thinking of you, and you must have thought silence almost unkind, but I waited to tell you something
real news.
It is

which would be
Oratorians
;

no secret that we are to be

of detail being uncertain, you had The Pope wishes us to come here, better keep it to yourself. as many as can, form a House under an experienced Oratorian
* Afterwards
*'

but, matters

known

for four years afterwards, a

as Mr. Hope-Scott, Q.C., and member of the Anglican

(2 vols.

still,

in

1847,

and

Memoirs," by Mr. R. Ornsby, M.A.

Murray).

[Ed.]

Church.

See his

370

CARDINAL NEWMAN.

Of course they Father, go through a noviciate, and return. will hasten us back as soon as they can, but that will depend
on our progress.
I

suppose we shall set up

in

Birmingham.
Bresciani)

You

are not likely to

know

the very Jesuits of Propaganda.

We
is

are very fortunate in them.

The Rector (Padre

;

of great delicacy and real kindness our confessor, Father Ripetti, is one of the most excellent persons we have

man

fallen in with,

though I can't describe him to you in a few Another person we got on uncommonly with was words. Ghianda at Milan Bellasis will have told you about him.
;

We
my

owed a great deal

Let
!

to

you
it

dear Hope.

me

say

O that

there,

and did not forget you, God would give you

It I know you will. the gift of faith Forgive me for this. I want you is of no use my plaguing you with many words.
for the

Church

in

England, and the Church for you.

But

must do

my own
is

work
fixed.

in

my own

place,

and leave everything

adore.
it

else to that inscrutable

Will which

Well, our lot

we can but What will come of

I

know

not.
It

Don't think
will

me

ambitious.
for

am

not.

have no views.

be enough
soul.

me

if I

get into

some

active

work and save

my own

Ever yours

affectionately,

John H. Newman.

"DREAMING SURELY!"
To
the

Rev. T. W. Allies, M.A-.

Mary vale, Perry

Bar, September

6,

1848.

My DEAR
post,
I

Allies,

Thank you for the pamphlet you have sent me by to-day s which, from its subject, I shall read with much interest.

was very glad to find my introduction was useful to you. You would have been much pleased with the Archbishop of

THE LETTERS OF HALF A LIFETIME.

Besangon he has the reputation and the carnage of a saintly man.
;

371
very-

Glad as

am
it

to be of service to you,
I

it

pains

me more
out

than

you can understand to write to you.

cannot

make

how

you reconcile
few people,
if

with yourself to take up a position which so any, in the whole world ever did before you.
pretence to say you follow the you follow her living authorities, or
liturgy,

You

have,

excuse me, no

Church of England. Do her Reformers, or Laud, or her

cannot understand a

or her

Articles

though I when he does

you going by private judgment, can understand his thinking he goes by authority
not.
I

man

like

can understand a

man

identifying

Laud

with the Church of England, or Cranmer with the Church of England, but it amazes me to find him interpreting the

Church of England by prophet and doctor of

himself,
his

and

making himself the

This,

and a few others are now

doing

Church.

calling

suppose, you that the Church

of England which never was before so called since that Church I can't make out how you can be said to go by authority was. and if not, are not you and all who do like you only taking

up a
call

form,

of liberalism

It

puzzles

me

that

people won't

things
is

by

their

right

names.

what
stand.

no

longer
is

Catholic Church
I

not that

practically
it

not boldly discard professed t Say that the

:

Why

has broken up

this

under-

don't understand saying that there is a Church, and one Church, and yet acting as if there were none or many.

This

is

Excuse

dreaming, surely. this freedom.

don't

wish,

as

you

may

well

suppose, to get up a controversy, when we both have so much to do but when I think of your position and that of others, I assure you it frightens me.
;

Ever yours, most

sincerely,

John

H.

Newman.

I'j2

CARDINAL NEWMAN.
DECLINES AN UNPROFITABLE CONTROVERSY.
To
the

Rev. T.

W.

Allies, M.A.
Bar, September i6, 1848.

Maryvale, Perry

My dear

Allies,

you a line to acknowledge yours,^ lest you not as if I should think it unkind in me not to do so
I write

intended to take up your time, as I said in Were it worth while doing with argument.
cheap, there would be
;

my
so,

former

letter,

and were time

much

to

but I intended my bring forward lest you should think me other than
I

say on various points you letter merely as a protest,

1

am.

And, assuring you

often think of you at sacred times,

I

am,

my

dear Allies,

Very

sincerely yours,

John H. Newman.

CERTAIN MODERN HAGIOLOGY.

7b Father F. W. Faber.
Maryvale, C>^/d?^^r3o, 1848.

My DEAR FATHER
I

WlLFRID,f

have consulted the Fathers who are here on the

"

subject of the
* Mr.

Lives of the Saints," and

we have come
calls

to the

a sharplya sketch of the course pursued in the last three pointed shaft," years, and a sort of challenge to point out where I had been wrong." [Ed.] f Father Faber, who had resigned the Rectory of Elton and become a Catholic a few weeks after Mr. Newman's conversion, was at this time (and until he became Superior of the London Community, formed a little later,) with the first Oratorian Community, established at Maryvale with Father Newman as Superior. One of his first literary labours as a Catholic was to " edit a series of Lives of the Saints," which an older Catholic, speaking in the name of a large body of his fellows, protested against as " reducing ReHence the cessation of the ligion to an unmeaning course of puerilities."
Allies, in reply to the letter just given,

which he

"

had written

"

series in 1848.

[Ed.]

THE LETTERS OF HALF A LIFETLME,

unanimous conclusion of advising you
present.
It

373

to suspend the series at

appears there is a strong feeling against it on the part of a portion of the Catholic community in England, on the ground, as we are given to understand, that the lives of Foreign Saints,

however edifying in their respective countries, are unsuited to To this feeling we England, and unacceptable to Protestants.
consider
it

a duty, for the sake of peace, to defer.

For myself,
absolutely
I

saying with you in this matter identify myself

you

know

well,

without

my

it,
;

how

but, as

you may have to publish this letter, I make it an opportunity, which has not yet been given me, of declaring that I have no sympathy at all with the feeling to which I have alluded, and,
in particular, that

no one can

assail

your name without striking

at mine."^

Ever your affectionate Friend and Brother, in Our Lady and St. Philip,
J.

H. Newman,
Congr. Orat. Presb.

"WHY

LEFT THE ANGLICAN CHURCH."

the

To

Rev. T.

W.

Allies, M.A.

Oratory, Alcester Street, Birmingham, February 20, 1849.

Thank you very much, my dear

interesting,

and,

if

might use

your most the word without offence,

Allies,
for
:

Dr. Pusey on the " Eirenicon," wrote "When I returned to England, the first expression of theological opinion which came in my way was a propos of a translated series of Saints' Lives, which the late Dr. Faber originated. That expression proceeded from a wise prelate, who was properly anxious as to the line which might be taken by the Oxford Converts If at that time I was betrayed into any acts which were of a more extreme character than 1 should approve now, the responsibut the impulse came, not from old Catholics or bility, of course, is mine but from men whom I loved and trusted, who were younger than Superiors,

* Later, Dr. Newman,

in his letter to

myself.
safer

.... My mind

in

no long time

and more

practical course."

[Ed.]

fell

back

to

what seems

to

me

VOL. V.

E E

374
hopeful book.*

CARDINAL NEWMAN.
It

cannot be but

it

must subserve the cause

I

of Catholic unity, of which

you must know

think there

is

but

one way. You do me injustice if you think, as I half gathered from a sentence in it, that I speak contemptuously of those who now stand where I have stood myself. But persons like
yourself should recollect that the reason why I left the Anglican Church was that I thought salvation was not to be found in it.

This feeling could

Anglicanism,
to leave
in
it.

not

stop there. of those

If

it

led

me

to

leave

it

necessarily led me,

and leads me, to wish others

The position
think
it

who

leave
it, is

it,

in the

only

way

necessarily one of To leave it merely as a branch of the Catholic hostility to it. Church, for another which I liked better, would have been to desert without reason the post where Providence put me. It is
I

which

justifiable to leave

on the grounds of his conversion, must be an enemy of the Communion he has left, and more intensely so than a foreigner who knows nothing
if justifiable

impossible, then, but that a convert,

about that

Communion
will feel
it,

at

all.

Moreover he
has
left in

lest

most anxiously about those whom he they should be receiving grace which ought

to bring
to

them
it,

quench

the Catholic Church, yet are in the way and to sink into a state in which there is no
into

hope.

Especially will he be troubled at those who put themselves forward as teachers of a system which they cannot trace to any
of men, or any doctor, before themselves who give up and maintain that it history, documents, theological authors
set
; ;

blasphemy against the Holy Ghost to deny the signs of Catholicism and Divine acceptance, as a facty in the existing bearing and action of their Communion.
is
j^

But of such as you,

my

dear Allies,

I will

even augur better

* This was the "Journal of a Tour in France," which Mr, Allies,Jthen|Vicar of Launton, published as " a debt I seemed to owe to the Roman Church " to whose practical mission he paid a tribute more unusual than it now is from a Protestant pen. [Ed.]

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375

and hope against hope, and believe the day will come when (excuse me) you will confess that you have been in a dream and meanwhile I will not cease to say Mass for you,
;

and

all

who

stand where you stand, on the tenth day of every

month, unless something very particular occur. Again begging you to excuse this freedom, I am.

My

dear Allies,

Most

sincerely yours,

John H. Newman.

A DEDICATION.
To
the

Right Rev. N. Wiseman, D.D., Vicar

District.

Apostolic of the

London

{^Afterwards First Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster^

My dear
I

Lord,

present for your Lordship's kind acceptance and patronage the first work which I publish as a Father of the I have a sort of claim upon your Oratory of St. Philip Neri.^

permission to do

so, as

a token of

towards your Lordship, since it is that I am a client and subject, however unit, under God, worthy, of so great a Saint.

gratitude and affection to you principally that I owe

my

When

found myself a Catholic,

district,

I also

found myself in your

I first

Lordship's

and, at your suggestion,

moved

into

and then, when your Lordship your immediate neighbourhood, Then it was my further desired it, I left you for Rome.
blessedness to offer myself, with the condescending approval of the Holy Father, to the service of St. Philip, of whom I had so
often heard

you speak before

I left

England, and whose bright

* " Discourses to Mixed Congregations" (Bums

&

Oates). [Ed.]

E E 2

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CARDINAL NEWMAN.
my
devotion even when
I

and beautiful character had won

a Protestant.
^

was

dear Lord, how much you have to do with my present position in the Church. But your concern with it is greater than I have yet stated, for I cannot forget that when,

You

see then,

my

in the

year 1839, a doubt first crossed my mind of the tenableness of the theological theory on which Anglicanism is based,

it

was caused

in

no

slight degree

by the perusal of a contro-

versial paper, attributed to

your Lordship, on the schism of the

of St.

Donatists.

That the glorious

intercession

Philip

may

be the

reward of your faithful devotion to himself, and of your kindness to me, is My dear Lord,

While

ask your Lordship's blessing on The earnest prayer of

me and

mine.

Your Affectionate Friend and

Servant,

John Henry Newman,

Of the
In Fest. S. Caroli.
1849.

Oratory.

A CONVERSION.
To
the

Rev. T.

W.

Allies, M.A.

Oratory, Birmingham,

May

23, 1850.

My dear
ing

Allies, Your most welcome

it

letter

came

to

me

only this mornit

^
;

and, while

gave

me most

sincere pleasure,

vexed

me much
*

to think that I should not be in

town

this

week.

Containing the intelligence that Mrs. Allies intended to become a Catholic, and asking Father Newman if he could meet her in London, to receive her. Her husband, whom she preceded into the Church, wrote at the " time It is not, I suppose, by the way of study that either the female sex in general, or the poor, or the great mass of mankind, are intended to arrive at truth. In this case it has often occured to me that some such process
:

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In truth
I

2>77

have been quite knocked up with my lectures. I have two to do for next week, hardly begun, and, though I am usually well, a matter of this kind generally oversets me. I have face-ache at night and am much pulled down ; and, did
attempt to go to town till next week, I am certain I should not have my lectures ready for the days appointed. I was writing till the last minute before delivering my last.
I

It is
I

know

a great grief to me to keep Mrs. Allies in suspense, for how painful a time that is. However, I will receive

her, if all is well,

and
if

if it

suits her, early

it.

Corpus Christi day,

she wishes

on Thursday morning, cannot come up before.

I keep it here, Day, our Founder. and go up to King William Street in the evening, when I have

Wednesday
Dr.
I

is St.

Philip's

Wiseman
enclose a
it,

at supper as
little

my

guest.

book

for Mrs. Allies

and a medal
if

let

her
in

wear

and every day use the Memorare,

she can find

it,

totally

Marrying very young, and with religious views unformed, she naturally looked to her husband for guidance in such matters. Now, she was a close witness, for eight years, of the mental conas the following took place.
flict

being disgraced in London for going moderate Oxford ;'.... of my going down to a neglected country parish, and making an attempt to humanize and Christianize it, which totally failed of the gradual accretion of Catholic of the wretchedness produced in principles and practices which I took up me by the inadequacy of Anglican rites of the accounts which I gave of

which

had

to

go through

of

my
'

further than the Bishop of London's

death-beds
in

of studies in the
to

Roman

controversy which, while they resulted

left me more wretched, if of counter-experiences in the than when I entered upon them possible, actual Catholicism of the Continent, which pointed to that as the true Church in as great a degree as the past experiences of Anglicanism discredited that form of religion of most unfair treatment undergone for the free exhibition of these conclusions, and now at last of a community torn to pieces by intestine divisions. Then, again, she found a comfort in Cathohc books of devotion

what professed

be a defence of Anglicanism,
;

which was wanting to the Anglican. And so, grace acting in and through all these means, she saw the conclusion before I did, having perhaps less obstinacy and more simplicity."' But not long before for Mr. Allies was received into the Church by Father Newman on the nth of September, 1850. See "A Life's his uniquely frank and religious autobiography eloquent
;

Decision"' (Kegan Paul, 1^80). [Ed.]

3;8
the
"

CARDINAL NEWMAN,

Golden Manual," kissing it. And let her say once a day " Golden Manual." the Litany of Penance in the I write this on the supposition she resolves to wait till next

week
quiet

but she

may

prefer to be received at once.

There

is

old priest, called Wilds, who received a friend of mine, I don't think close to Dr. Wiseman's (lo, Upper John Street).

should like you to mention my name as sending you, lest he should not be able to refuse you, since he is very old. He would receive you very kindly, if you said you were a friend of
I

mine and began talking of me.^

Ever yours
affectionately,

John H. Newman.

"THE CLAIMS OF CHARITY ABOVE THE PRAISE

OF CRITICS."
To
the

Right Rev. William Bernard Ullathorne, D.D.,

Vicar Apostolic of the Central District.

O.S.B.,

{Now Bishop of Birmingham?)

My dear

Lord,

In gaining your Lordship's leave to place the following volume under your patronage,t I fear I may seem to the world
to

have asked what

is

more gracious

coming or reasonable
assignable connection

in
is

me

you to grant, than beto have contemplated. For what

in

there between your Lordship's

name

and a work, not

tional,

didactic, not pastoral, not ascetical, not devo-

most part simply controversial, directed moreover, against a mere transitory phase in an accidental school of opinion, and for that reason, both in its matter and its argument, only of local interest and ephemeral importance ?
but
for the

* Mrs. Allies did not wish to delay till Dr. Newman's visit Mr. Wilds. [Ed.] reconciled, therefore, by t The dedication, dated July, 1850, of "Certain Difficulties cans in Cathohc Teaching'' (Burns &: Gates). [Ed.]

and she was

by Angli-

felt

THE LETTERS OF HALF A LIFETIME.

Such a question may obviously be put
answer
it

379
I

to

me

nor can

except by referring to the well-known interest which your Lordship has so long taken in the religious party to which I have alluded, and the joy and thankfulness with which you

have welcomed the manifestations of God's grace, as often as first one and then another of their number has in turn emerged from the mists of error into the light and peace of Catholic
truth.

Whatever, then, your Lordship's sentiments

character of the work
itself, I
it

may be
I

of the

persuade myself that

may be

able suitably to present

it

to you, in consideration of the object

part, will not repent of

has in view

and that you, on your

countenancing an author who,

in the selection of his materials,

would
and

fain

feels

put the claims of charity above the praise of critics, it is a better deed to write for the present moment

than for posterity.

Begging your Lordship's blessing-, I am, my dear Lord, Your Lordship's faithful and grateful servant, John H. Newman.
Of the
Oratory.

A QUESTION OF STUDIES AND AUTHORS.

Td?

T.

W.

Allies, M. A.

Oratory, Birmingham, October

8, 1850.

My

dear Allies, I don't know how

to

answer your question.

was

thinking of the effect on my own mind of reading various Catholic divines e.g.^ falling back upon Billuart after reading Suarez and Vasquez, or upon Tournely. You yourself give an instance of it in your quotation from Bossuet, in the early

part of your

work

just published.
if

Nothing can be better than the Treatise on Grace,

you

3So

JOIIX

HENRY NEWMAN

IN 1844.

{After a Portrait hy G. Richmond, R.A.)

38

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

In
1844,

in 1844.

Newman,
sittings to
is

a few months before his reception into the Church, Dr. at the instance of his friend, Mr. Henry Wilberforce, gave

Mr. George Richmond, R.A., for a portrait, of which a sketch here given. Some years later an engraving was pubHshed, and from
our reproduction
is

this

made.

The

original portrait

is

in the posses-

sion of Mr. Wilberforce's sons, at Kensington,

and

it

differs

from the

engraving in the manner of the dress, inasmuch as the outline of an Anglican clergyman's costume has been transformed by the engraver
into that of the costume of a Catholic priest.
picture belongs to

The

copyright of the

debted

for its

Mr. Thomas M'Lean, to whom our readers are inpresentment to them in this form. For the portrait which

forms the frontispiece of the volume, equal obligations

acknowledged to Mr. Barraud.

[Ed.]

may

here be

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wish a subject.

CARDINAL NEWMAN,

Tournely is reckoned best."^ It is certainly exceedingly good, and to me more interesting than Suarez. But Suarez, of course, is the greater writer. Viva, though short, is a writer I like, particularly when taken in connection
with his Damnatae Theses.
St.

Thomas

himself would be

most

instructive.

though a partisan not to a mere expounder of results, or an eschewer of scholastic quarrels, as Perrone, useful and accurate
as he
is.

But, anyhow, go to a real thorough thinker,

The

fault of

Suarez

is

his great length.

I

speak

diffidently, for tastes differ so,

but

should prefer to

recommend

to

you Tournely.
I

am

exceedingly pleased with what

("

new work
finished
it.

The See of St. Peter," etc.), The argument is very well and
to Paris
;

have read of your but have not yet

So you are going back

yesterday, and

I I

powerfully put. don't think you can be

sorry hereafter for having done so.

heard from Wilberforce

was
I

employment.
for small boys.

he was looking out for should not wonder if he found he had a turn
surprised to find

He now
letter is

is

afraid of

Rome, from the expense.t

* The writer of this

Gfatid.

speaking distinctly and only of Tournely de

'\ Henry Wilberforce, son of the slave emancipator, and brother of Archdeacon Robert Isaac Wilberforce, and of Mr. William Wilberforce, who, hke himself, became Catholics, as well as of Bishop Samuel Wilberforce. After resigning the living of East Farleigh in Kent, and sustaining, besides, a heavy loss through the defalcation of an agent, Mr. Henry Wilberforce must have been perplexed in what direction to turn his hand most usefully but he found field for his ripe learning in literary work, and he earned the gratitude of Catholics by reviving and conducting the Weekly Register. Besides this monument to his memory, there are sayings of his which will be gratefully held in mind as the rare witticisms uttered during an anxious and a soul-stirring period in the history of religion in England in this century. He it was who, in those troublous times, when, as Mr. Gladstone said of Cardinal Newman's "A secession, great luminary drew after him a third part of the stars of summed up Dr. Pusey's belief as " Credo in Lydiam Sellon." He Heaven," was wont, we are told, to walk about, repeating to himself, "He believes in twelve women, he believes in twelve women." Mr. Allies himself, even more than Mr. Henry Wilberforce, was harassed by the material considerations alluded to by Father Newman. " No occupation or maintenance for the
;

THE LETTERS OF HALF A LIFETLME.

I

383

are there any days you wait to say three Masses for you would prefer ? I am not engaged on many.

Ever yours affectionately

in.

Christ,

John H. Newman,
Congr. Orat.

"PUSEY AND SANGUINENESS."

To T. W. Allies, M.A.
Oratory, Birmingham, October 11, 1850.

My

dear Allies,

be glad to see you at any time but I am sorry to say that I cannot be sure whether we shall have room inside the house. At present three of our party are away, or
shall
;

We

rather a fourth,

whose room B occupies, but I don't know Even if, however, by bad luck, we quite when they return. were full, we would manage for you in some way. We set up formally the London House on the anniversary
of

remembering it. They are now quite separate from us and me. sorrowful thing, and anxious, yet hopeful.
reception.
I

my

Thank you

for

It

is

have just received Maskell's able and settling pamphlet,

I

but

am

very sorry the three letters did not appear, as you

their
effect.

intended,

immediately on would have produced an

he
tells us,

beiqg written.

Then they
would have

The

question

presented itself ; as to temporal matters a more arid waste of years could not stretch itself before the fainting traveller than then encompassed us. The convert in the first three centuries often met at once the Roman axe, or the torturing hook or scourge, and w^as released after a glorious conflict but here the trial, if not so sharp, was far more prolonged.
future,"
;

"

An

indeterminate space of time, dark and unredeemed by hope, opened its illimitable lowering desert before us. The first taste of it was utter uncertainty what to do, with the necessity of doing at once." To Henry W. Wilberforce " Callista "
is

To you alone, who have known dedicated in these words me so long, and who love me so well, could I venture to offer a trifle like this. But you will recognize the author in his work, and take pleasure in the recognition. J. H. N." [Ed.1
:

"

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CARDINAL NEWMAN.

been before the world, and the doubt would have thrown the onus probandi on Pusey. Now, it is to be feared, the omi,s
probandi
will
I

be upon the
think of
it,

"

Why
I

should
regret
his
it.

read Maskell

"
?

The more
Dear
a Catholic,

the more

C. Marriott could
if

make up
and

mind to-morrow

to

be

he would ; at least
lately,

this is
I

my
not.

feeling,
I

though you

have seen him so much

don't think he

has any argument, unless arguments have grown on him, except

Pusey and sanguineness.

All kind thoughts of Mrs. Allies. Believe me, ever yours affectionately,

John H. Newman,
Congr. Oral.

DIFFICULTIES OF ANGLICANS.
To
J.

R. Hope, Q.C.

Oratory, Birmingham,

November

20, 1850.

My dear

Hope,

with the greatest pleasure I have just read the letter you wrote to Bathurst. I now fully see that your silence has arisen merely from the difficulty of writing to one in
It is

another

you will what may be misconceived, and what can scarcely have object
or use.
I

communion, and the irksomeness and indolence (if let me so speak) we all feel in doing what is difficult,

dear Hope, your great moral and intellectual qualities, and will not cease to pray that the grace of God may give you the obedience of faith, and use them as His
perfectly well,

know

my

instruments.

For myself
single

say

it

from

my
to

heart

have not had a

I

doubt,

or

temptation

doubt,

since

became a
is

Catholic.
I believe this to

be the case with most

men

it

certainly

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with those with

385
great

whom

am

in habits

of intimacy.

My

temptation is to be at peace, and let things go on as they will, This being the case, and not trouble myself about others. " your recommendation that I should take a review of doctrine

and of the

difficulties

which

beset

it

to

an

Anglican,"

is

anything but welcome, and makes me smile. all the writing in the Surely, enough has been written If all were world would not destroy the necessity of faith.
:

now made clear to reason, where would be the exercise of The single question is whether enough has not been faith ?
done to reduce the
absolutely blocking
large
built.

difficulties

so

far

as

to

hinder them

up the way,

or excluding those direct

and
is

arguments on which

the

reasonableness

of

faith

Ever yours

affectionately,

John H. Newman.

A RENEWED FRIENDSHIP.*
To
J.

R. Hope, Q.C.

Oratory, Birmingham,

November

My
how

29, 1850.

dear Hope,
I

write a line to thank

I

glad

shall
I

be to

you for your letter, and to say hear from you, as you half propose,
different pleasure.

whether or not

am

able to say anything to your satisfaction

which would be a greater and

* In reply to Dr. Newman, Mr. Hope had written to him from Abbots" The receipt of your letter gave me sincere pleasure. It renews a ford correspondence which I value very highly and which my own stupidity had Offence I had never taken, but causes sush as interrupted. you describe much better than I could have done were the occasion of my silence. You may now find that you have brought more trouble on yourself, for there are many things on which I should like to ask you questions, and I know
:

your time

is

already

much

engaged."

[Ed.]

that

386
It

CARDINAL NEWMAN,
What

makes me smile to hear you talk of getting older. must I feel, whose life is gone ere it is well begun ? Ever yours affectionately,

John H. Newman,
Consfr. Orat.

THE ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES

To
the

BILL.

Most Reverend Paul, Lord

Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate

of all Ireland.*

My
it is

dear Lord Primate,

It is the infelicity

of the

moment

at

which

I write

that

following pages under the patronage of the successor of St. Patrick with the ceremony and observance due to so great a name, without appearing to
to place the

not allowed

me

show disrespect to an act of Parliament. Such appearance a Catholic is bound to avoid whenever
possible.

it is

authority of the civil power is based on sanctions so solemn and august, and the temporal blessings which all

The

classes derive

from

its

protection are so

many, that both on

it is

Christian principles and from motives of expediency,

ever

a duty, unless religious considerations intervene, to profess a simple deference to its enunciations and a hearty concurrence

but how can very suggestions what may almost be called a dogmatic the Catholic Church has made you ?
in
its
;

deny of your Grace fact, that you are what

I

Evil, however,
I shall I

is

never without

its

alleviation
if,

and

think

have your Grace's concurrence

in the present instance,

recognize the operation, already commenced, of that unfailing law of Divine Providence by which all events, prosperous or
adverse,

are

made

to

tend,

in

one way or

other,

to the

triumph of cur Religion.

The

violence of our

enemies has

" * The dedication, dated from Birmingham, September, i85i,of Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England" (Burns & Oates). [Ed.]

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;

387

thrown us back upon ourselves and upon each other and though it needed no adventitious cause to lead me to aspire to
the honour of associating my name with that of your Grace, whose kindness I had already experienced so abundantly when

1847, yet the present circumstances furnish a motive of their own for my turning my eyes in devotion and
I

was

in

Rome

in

affection to the Primate of that ancient

enduring Church past history, can teach her restored English Sister how to persevere in the best of causes, and can interchange with her,

and glorious and muchthe Church of Ireland who, from her own

symand the power of Catholic intercession. pathy Begging from your Grace, for me and mine, the fulness of
St. Patrick's benediction,

amid

trials

common

to

both, the tenderness of Catholic

am,

my

dear Lord Primate,

Grace's faithful and affectionate servant,

Your

John Henry Newman,

Of the
Oratory.

VISIT TO ABBOTSFORD.
To
J.

R.

Hope, Q.C.
Birmingham, October
29, 1852.

would be a great pleasure to spend some time with you,^ and then I have ever had the extremest sympathy for
It

answer to an invitation to Abbotsford, from Mr. Hope, now a who wrote " I am much grieved by the account of your health. You would confer on us the greatest pleasure, and would at the same time secure your doctor's object, if you would come and spend with us three or four months. You can say Mass at your own hour, observe your own ways in everything, and feel all the time, I hope, perfectly at home." The Cardinal spent five weeks at Abbotsford. Mr. Hope-Scott's reception into the Church, took place with Archdeacon Manning's on Passion Sunday, 185 1, at the Jesuit Church in Farm Street. Mr. Gladstone wrote to him on
Catholic,
:

* In

that occasion

"
:

Were

more estranged

Separated we are, but I hope and think not yet estranged. I should bear the separation better. Why should I

388

CARDINAL NEWMAN,

Walter Scott, that it would delight me to see his place. When he was dying, I was saying prayers (whatever they are worth) for him continually, thinking of Keble's words, " Think on the
minstrel as ye kneel."

BROTHERS.
To
the

Very Rev. H.

E. \now Cardinal]

Manning.*

Dr. Manning, On this day, when you are celebrating the opening of your new Church and Mission at Bayswater, I am led to hope, since I cannot give you my presence on so happy an occasion,
that you will accept from

My dear

me

this small

volume

instead, as

my
and

act of devotion to the great St. Charles, St. Philip's friend

your patron, and as some sort of memorial of the friendship which there has been between us for nearly thirty years.
I

am,

My

dear Dr. Manning,

Ever yours

affectionately,

John H. Newman,
Of
In Fest. B.V.M., 1857.
the Oratory.

be estranged from you ? seems to me as though,

done,' is

honour you even

'

in these fearful times, events

growing too large for our puny grasp.

:

think your error. It were more and more Thy kingdom come, Thy will be
in
I
;

what

the same prayer in the same sense still our prayer in common and a prayer which absorbs every other." Dr. W. K, Hamilton, Bishop of ** Few trials Salisbury, in a letter to Mr. Hope- Scott, said, some years later
:

have felt with such keenness as my separation from two such from whom I have learnt so much, and whom I have loved and love friends, so dearly as Manning and yourself." Bishop Philpotts Henry of Exeter in old days to say there were three men to whom the country had was wont Manning in the Church [of England], chiefly to look in the coming time Gladstone in the State, and Hope in the Law. [Ed.] * The Dedication of " Sermons Preached on Various Occasions" (Burns
of my
life I

&

Oates). [Ed.]

THE LETTERS OF HALF A LIFETIME.

"THE PASSAGE OF TIME
To
J.

389

IS

NOW
The

SAD TO ME AS WELL

AS AWFUL."
R. Hope-Scott, Q.C.
Oratory, Christmas Eve, 1857.

was

rejoiced to hear so
I

good an account of your health

full

and of

all

your party.

suppose you are

of plans about

Your sister tells me you your new property and your old. have got into your new wing at Abbotsford. As for the faraway region, of which I have not yet learned the name,* I
suppose you are building there either a fortress against evil Have you times, or a new town and port for happy times. for that seems the fashion. yet found gold on your estate ?

am

glad to

call to

mind and commemorate by a

letter the

pleasant days I passed in the North this time five years. Five years has a melancholy sound to me now, for it is like a passingI hope it is not wrong to knolling away time. say that the passage of time is now sad to me as well as awful, because

bell,

it

brings before

me how much
little
is

have to

do,

and how

ought to have done, how much time I have to do it in. I wonder

I
}

whether Badeley

We

a strange thing see each other as through the peep-holes of a show. had I last a peep at him or you }

with you

What

life is

When

ROMAN

versus

GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE.!

January 2, 1859. For myself, I have never set myself against the adoption of For a while I Gothic architecture in ecclesiastical structures.

thought of adopting
* Dorlin, the

it

for

the church which

have

built in

"new property" just referred to, now belonging to Lord Howard of Glossop. [Ed.] t Some admirer of Pugin at St. George's Cathedral, Southwark, had launched severe epithets against Dr. Newman's church in Dubhn, and had been taken to task by the writer of a pamphlet entitled "A Word to the Goths." The authorship of the pamphlet was assigned to Dr. Newman, who, while writing a dis-

claimer,

added what
V.

is

printed above.

[Ed.]

VOL.

F F

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Dublin
;

CARDINAL NEWMAN.
but
I I

cannot approve of the intolerance of some of

it

its
;

the most beautiful of architectural styles but I claim the liberty of preferring, for the purposes of worship
admirers.

think

and devotion, a description of building which, though not so beautiful in outline, is more in accordance with the ritual of the
present day, w^hich
is

more

cheerful in

its

interior,

and which

admits more naturally of rich materials, of large pictures or

mosaics, and of mural decoration
.

PIUS

IX.

To Viscount Feilding (now Earl of Denbigh).

Edgbaston, February
13, i860.

My Dear Lord Feilding,

cannot promise myself the pleasure of attending the public meeting over which you are to preside to-

Although

morrow,* on the subject of the Pope's present afflictions, I yield to no one in the feelings to which it proposes to give and I trust my handwriting may be allowed to speak utterance
;

presence with the Right Rev. Prelate and If ever there was a the Catholics assembled on the occasion.
for

me

instead of

my

a claim on our veneration by his virtues, on our affection by his personal bearing, and on our devotion by whose nature it is to show kindness, and whose his sufferings
Pontiff
;

who had

portion
If ever

it is

to reap disappointment,

it

is

his present Holiness.

a Pope deserved to live in the hearts of his own subjects, and to inspire at home the homage which he commands abroad, it is Pius the Ninth. From the hour that

he ascended the throne he has aimed at the welfare of his and up to this day he States, temporal as well as spiritual has gained in return little else than calumny and ingratitude.
;

But it is the lot of Popes, as of other great is his trial men, to receive in their generation the least thanks where they
!

How

* Held

at

Birmingham, February

14, i860.

[Ed.]

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deserve the most.
far better

391
be

However, these

reflections will doubtless

expressed in the eloquent speeches which will form the chief business of the evening, and I shall best consult for
the object they have in view

by bringing

this letter to

an end,

and subscribing myself, Dear Lord Feilding,

Very

sincerely yours,

John H. Newman.

"THE YEAR SEEMS STREWN WITH

To
J.

LOSSES."

R. Hope-Scott, Q.C.

The

Oratory, Birmingham, October

i,

i860.

My Dear
I
first

Hope-Scott,

value extremely the present you have made me ; "^ of all for its own sake, as deepening, by the view which it

gives

me of yourself,

the affection and the reverence which

I

I feel

towards you, and next

see your

feel
;

your kindness

in thus letting

me

intimate thoughts and I rejoice to know that, in spite of our being so divided one from another, as I certainly The do not forget you, so you are not unmindful of me.

march of time is very solemn now and to hear from you is losses
;

the year seems strewn with

like hearing the voice of

friend

on a

field

of battle.
I

am

surprised to find

you

in

Lon-

don now.

For myself,

have not quitted

this place, or seen

London, since last May year, when I was there for a few hours, and called on Badeley. If he is in town, say to him everything that is kind from

me when you

see him.

Ever affectionately yours, John H. Newman,

Of the
*
Oratory.

by Mr. Hope-Scott, concerning the great sorrow of the winter of 1858, when he lost, within a few weeks of each other, his wife {nde Charlotte Lockhart) and his two children. [Ed.]
copy of verses
-written

F F 2

392

CARDINAL NEWMAN,
"A SUPREME SATISFACTION."
To
the Editor of

The Globe.

Sir,

of a paragraph about me, which appeared in your paper of yesterday, to the effect that " I have left, or am about to leave, my Oratory at Brompton,
friend has sent

me word

of which

have been for several years the head, as a

preli-

minary, in the expectation of

to the
I

my

private friends, to

my

return

Church of England." consider that you have transferred

it,

this

statement into

your columns from those of a contemporary in order to give

me

the opportunity of denying

I lose

if

am

able to

do

so.

Accordingly,
you, which
public.
I

not an hour in addressing these lines to shall be obliged by your giving at once to the

The paragraph
1.

is

utterly

unfounded
years
I

in every portion of

it.

For the

last

thirteen
I

have been head of the

;

Birmingham Oratory.

am head
to be

still

and

have no reason

to suppose I shall cease

head unless advancing years

should incapacitate me for the duties of 2. On the other hand, from the time
Oratory,

my
I

station.

founded the London

Brompton, twelve years ago, I have had no and so far from being its head, jurisdiction over it whatever it so happens that I have not been within its walls for the last
at
;

now

seven years.
3.

have not had one moment's wavering of trust in the

I Church ever since I was received into her fold. hold, and ever have held, that her Sovereign Pontiff is the centre of unity and the Vicar of Christ and I ever have had,

Catholic

and have

still,

an unclouded

faith in her creed in all its articles;

a supreme satisfaction in her worship, discipline, and teaching ; and an eager longing and a hope against hope that the many

dear

friends

partakers of

whom I have my happiness.

left

in

Protestantism

may

be

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4.

393

This being my state of mind, to add, as I hereby go on to do, that I have no intention, and never had any intention, of
leaving the CathoHc Church and becoming a Protestant again, would be superfluous, except that Protestants are always on

the look-out for

some loophole or evasion

in

a Catholic's state-

ment of
tion, if I

fact.

Therefore, in order to give them full satisfaccan, I do hereby profess ex animo^ with an absolute

internal assent

and consent, that Protestantism

;

is

the dreariest

of possible religions

that the thought of the Anglican service

makes me shiver, and the thought of the Thirty-nine Articles makes me shudder. Return to the Church of England No! " The net is broken, and we are delivered." I should be a consummate fool (to use a mild term) if in my old age I left " the " land flowing with milk and honey for the city of confusion and the house of bondage.
!

am,

Sir,

Your obedient
(Signed)

servant,

John H. Newman.

The

Oratory, Birmingham, June 28 [1862].

THE ARGUMENT OF TRACT

To
the Editor of

90.

The

Times.
February
24, 1863.

Sir,

would be great impertinence in me to say one word on the subject of the Oxford controversy which has lately occuIt

pied your columns, nor do

I v/rite this

But Mr. Maurice has thought fit criticisms on Dr. Pusey, and to cast imputations on me, which,
as a matter personal to myself,
I

with any such intention. to introduce my name into his

think you will in fairness

allow
I

me

to repel.

would rather be judged by my own words than by Mr. Maurice's interpretation of them. I distinctly repudiate his

394
accusation that
I

CARDINAL NEWMAN,
maintained either in

Tract 90

or elsewhere

the right of a .man's subscribing the Thirty- nine Articles in a

Nor ought he to speak from mere memory, as he seems to confess he did, when making a serious charge I maintained in TRACT 90 that the against another. Thirtynon-natural sense.
" nine Articles ought to be subscribed in the literal and grammatical sense ;" but I maintained also that they were so drawn

up as

to admit, in that grammatical sense, of subscription

on

the part of persons who differed very much from each other in the judgment which they formed of Catholic doctrine.
I

ask your permission to quote the passage to which Mr.

refers
:

Maurice
"

those

Their framers constructed them in such a way as best to comprehend who did not go so far in Protestantism as themselves. Anglo- CathoHcs, are but the successors and representatives of those moderate Reformers ; then, and their case has been directly anticipated in the wording of the Articles. It follows that they are not perverting, they are using them for an express purpose, for which, among others, their authors framed them. The interpretation they take was intended to be admissible, though not that which the authors took themselves. Had it not been provided for, possibly the Articles never would have been accepted by our Church at all. If, then, their framers

have gained
let

their side of the compact in effecting the reception of the Articles, Catholics have theirs too in retaining the Catholic imterpretation of Tract 90, pp. 81 and 82 (first edition, February^ 1841). them."

After illustrating my position from Burnet, I end the with the following allusion to M. Guizot and M. Thiers

Tract
:

" What has lately taken place in the political world will afford an illustration in point. French Minister, desirous of war, nevertheless, as a matter

of policy, draws up his State papers in such moderate language that his successor, who is for peace, can act up to them without compromising his

The world, observing this, has considered it a circumstance principles. for congratulation, as if the former Minister, who acted a double part, had been caught in his own snare. It is neither decorous, nor necessary, nor
own
altogether
fair,

to urge the parallel rigidly

but

it

will explain

what

it

is

here

meant

Protestant confession was drawn up with the purpose of including Catholics, and Catholics now will not be excluded. What was an economy in the Reformers is a protection to us. What would have been a perplexity to us then is a perplexity to Protestants now. could not then have found fault with their words ; they cannot now repudiate our meaning."
to convey.

The

We

-(P.

83.)

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I will

395

take this opportunity of adding that I never held that persons who subscribed the Thirty-nine Articles were at liberty to hold all Roman doctrine but I aimed in TRACT 90 to open
;

the Articles as widely towards all Roman doctrine as was con" " literal and grammatical sense sistent with that which, at

page 80, I professed to be maintaining. I have wished to confine myself in the above to matters of
bound, in justice to Dr. Pusey_, to state, what perhaps no one but myself is in a position to testify viz., that he had no responsibility in the publication
fact
;

and with the same view

am

of the Tract, and has no responsibility in regard to it to this day, except so far as he has in writing committed himself to

He defended me, portions of it, or to certain of its principles. when it excited notice, from the generosity which is his characteristic but I am quite certain that he did not like it as a
;

whole, and

in all its parts.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

John H. Newman.
The
Oratory, Birmingham,

THE ANGLICAN CHURCH "A SERVICEABLE BREAKWATER."

To
the Editor of

The Weekly

Register.

The
Sir,
I

Oratory, Birmingham,

November

19, 1865.

beg leave to call your attention to a passage in your It admirable Review"^ last week of Dr. Pusey's recent work.
is

there asserted

by

implication that
is,

"

the statement that the the great bulwark originally enunciated by

Church of England

in

God^s

hands,
"

against infidelity in this land," was Dr. Newman."

I

have written
*

in

my

lifetime a great deal

more than

can

From

the pen of Father Lockhart.

[Ed.]

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CARDINAL NEWMAN,

remember, but I neither know where I have made this particular statement, nor can I conceive I ever made it, whether in print,
in private letter, or in conversation.

And

I
it

am

sure

should

does not express my real judgment concerning the Church of England. Nor have I any reason to think that Dr. Pusey ascribes it to me.
not have
it

made

deliberately.

Certainly,

" Doubtless the Apologia" was this National Church has hitherto been a serviceable breakwater

What

said in

my

"

against doctrinal errors more fundamental than its own." The words " serviceable " and " breakwater " both convey the idea of something accidental and de facto ; whereas a bul-

wark

an essential part of the thing defended. Moreover, in against doctrinal errors more fundamental than its saying
is

"

own,"

truth in
errors,

simply meant that, while one respect, nevertheless

I

it

happens to serve Catholic

another
it

in

has doctrinal

and those fundamental.

am,
Sir,

your obedient Servant,

John H. Newman.

POETRY AND LAW.

To

Edward Badeley.
The
Oratory, December 21, 1867.

My
to

dear Badeley,
I

dedicating a number of poetical compositions,"^ I should hardly be you making a suitable offering to a member of a grave profession, which is especially employed in rubbing off the gloss with

have not been without apprehension

lest, in

which imagination and sentiment invest matters of every-day and in reducing statements of fact to their legitimate life,
dimensions.

And, besides this, misgivings have not unnaturally come over me on the previous question mz., whether, after all,
;

* " Verses on Various Occasions."

[Ed.]

THE LETTERS OF HALF A LIFETLME.

the

397
to

contents of the volume

it

are of sufficient importance

make

an acceptable offering to any friend whatever.

I

And

certainly

must frankly confess, as to the latter difficulty, that it never would have occurred to me thus formally to

bring together into one effusions which I have ever considered ephemeral, had I not lately found from publications of the day, what I never suspected before, that there are critics, and they
strangers to me,
tions

who

think well both of some of

my

composi-

my power of composing. It is this commendation, bestowed on me to my surprise as well as to my gratification,

which has encouraged me just now to republish what I have from time to time written and if, in doing so, I shall be found, as is not unlikely, to have formed a volume of unequal merit,
;

and of

my

excuse must be, that

despair of discovering any standard

I

by which

to discriminate aright

and another.

Accordingly,
I will

between one poetical attempt am thrown, from the nature of

the case, whether

or no,

upon

my own

judgment, which,

biassed by the associations of memory and by personal feelings, and measuring, perhaps, by the pleasure of verse-making, the

worth of the verse,

to put

is

disposed either to preserve them

all,

or

them all aside. Here another contrast presents art and the science of law. Your
to determine

itself

between the poetical

its

profession has

definitive

authorities, its prescriptions, its precedents,

and

its

principles,

by which
attention
;

the claim

of

its

authors on

public

of taste,
different

but what philosopher will undertake to rule matters or to bring under one idea or method works so

Pindar
is

from each other as those of Homer, ^schylus, and What court of Terence, Ovid, Juvenal, and Martial ?

sitting,

and what code

is

received,

for

determination of the poetical pretensions day ? Whence can we hope to gain a verdict upon them, except from the unscientific tribunals of Public Opinion and of

the satisfactory of writers of the

Time

In Poetry, as in Metaphysics, a book

is

of necessity a

venture.

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CARDINAL NEWMAN.

now. coming to the suitableness of my offering, I know well, my dear Badeley, how little you will be disposed to criticize what comes to you from me, whatever be its intrinsic
value.

And

Less

still

in this case, considering that a chief portion

of the volume grew out of that Religious Movement which you yourself, as well as I, so faithfully followed from first to
last.

And
poor

least

of

all,

when

I tell

you that
of

wish

it

to

be

the

expression,

long-delayed,

my

gratitude,

never

intermitted, for the great services

which you rendered to

me

years ago, by your legal skill and affectionate zeal, in a serious matter in which I found myself in collision with the law of the
land.^

Those

services I

have

ever desired in
;

some

public,

however inadequate, way to record and now, as time hurries on and opportunities are few, I am forced to ask you to let me
acknowledge
would.

my

debt to you as

can, since I cannot as I

We
many

are now, both of us, in the decline of

life

may

that

warm attachment which has

years,

lasted between us inviolate for so

be continued, by the mercy of God, to the end of our earthly course, and beyond it I am, my dear Badeley, ^
!

Affectionately yours,
J.

H. N.

A MEMORABLE MEETING.
To Sir John T. CoLERiDGE.f
Rednall, September 17, 1868.

Dear

Sir
I

John Coleridge, must begin by apologizing

for

my
;

ledging your letter of the loth. stances my time has not been
length I write, I fear
I shall

and now, when at disappoint you in the answer which

Owing my own

delay in acknowto accidental circum-

* The Achilli Case. [Ed.] " t For publication in his Memoir of Keble" (Parker

&

Co. 1869). [Ed.]

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alone
I

399

It almost seems to me as can give to your question. if you were so kind as to wish me to write such an account of " my visit to Mr. Keble as might appear in your Memoir ;" but, as

you will see, my memory is too weak to allow of my putting on paper any particulars of it which are worth preservIt was remarkable, certainly, that three friends he, Dr. ing.
I think

Pusey, and myself who had been so intimately united for so many years, and then for so many years had been separated, at least one of them from the other two, should meet together just

once again

and, for the

by themselves. And by chance they met all three

dine together simply the more remarkable, because not only

first

and

last time,

together, but there were positive

chances against their meeting. Keble had wished me to come to him, but the illness of his wife, which took them to Bournemouth, obliged him to put

me

off.

On

their return
visit,

to Hursley, I wrote to

him on the

and fixed a day for it. Afterwards, hearing from Pusey that he^ too, was going to Hursley on the very day I had named, I wrote to Keble to put off my visit. I told him, as
subject of

my

had not seen either of them for twenty years, and to see both of them at once would be more, I feared, than I could bear. Accordingly, I told him I should go from
I think,

my

reason.

Birmingham to friends in the Isle of Wight, in the first place, and thence some day go over to Hursley. This was on September 12, 1865. But when I had got into the Birmingham train for Reading, I felt it was like cowardice to shrink from In spite of my the meeting, and I changed my mind again. having put off my visit to him, I slept at Southampton, and

made my appearance

expected. did not know me, and asked

derful, since I

Hursley next morning without being Keble was at his door speaking to a friend. He
at

my
it

name.
his

had purposely come to

What was more wonhouse, I did not know

I

him, and

feared to ask

who

without speaking.

When

gave him my card at length we found out each other.

was.

400
he
said,

CARDINAL NEWMAN.

with that tender flurry of manner which I recollected so well, that his wife had been seized with an attack of her

complaint that morning, and that he could not receive me as he should have wished to do, nor^ indeed, had he expected me " " is in the house, as you are aware." for Pusey," he whispered,
;

Then he brought me
affectionately,

into his study

and embraced

me most

and

said

he would go and prepare Pusey, and

send him to me.

I

think

four or five

got there in the forenoon, and remained with him He was in and out hours, dining at one or two.

room all the time I was with him, attending on his wife, I recollect very little of the conand I was left with Pusey. versation that passed at dinner. Pusey was full of the question
of the

of the inspiration of Holy Scripture, and Keble expressed his joy that it was a common cause, in which I could not substantially differ

from them
to

and he caught
I said

at such

words of mine

as

seemed
been

show agreement.
of,

Mr. Gladstone's rejection at

that I really thought that

Oxford was talked

I
still

and

had

University I must have voted against him, because he was giving up the Irish Establishment. On this, Keble gave me one of his remarkable looks, so earnest
a of the

member

and so sweet, came close to me, and whispered

in

my

ear
"

(I

cannot recollect the exact words, but I took them to be), And " is not that just 1 It left the impression on my mind that he

had no great sympathy with the Establishment in Ireland as an Establishment, and was favourable to the Church of the
Irish.

time for going, Pusey went to read the Evening Service in church, and I was left in the open air with
Just before

my

Keble by himself.

He

said

he would write to

me
I

in the Isle of

Wight

as soon as his wife got better,

and then

should come

over and have a day with him. walked a little way, and stood looking in silence at the church and churchyard, so beautiful and calm. Then he began to converse with more

We

THE LETTERS OF HALF A LIFETIME.

than his old tone of intimacy, as and soon I was obliged to go.
I
if

401
parted,

we had never been

his

remained

in the

island

till

had

promised

letter.

It

was

to the effect that his wife's illness

had increased, and he

I

must give up the hopes of my coming to him. Thus, unless had gone on that day, when I was so very near not going, should not have seen him at all.

He

wrote

me many

notes about this time

lines in
"

in
:

he made a reference to the

Macbeth

"

one of them

When When When

This
vivid
is

shall

we

three meet again

the hurley-burley's done. the battle's lost and won.

visit

all I

can recollect of a

of which almost the sole

is

memory which remains

I

with

me

the image of Keble

himself.

am, dear Sir John Coleridge, Yours faithfully,

John H. Newman.

"IN A STATE OF PUNISHMENT."

To
J.

R. Hope-Scott,

Q.C
Rednall,

March

31, 1868.

My dear
not

Hope-Scott,
!

What a heavy, sudden, unexpected blow '^ I shall see him now till I have crossed the stream which he has

crossed.

How

dense

is

ness which can be

felt,

our ignorance of the future a darkand the keenest consequence and token
!

of the Fall.
state of

punishment such
!

Till

we remind

ourselves of what
surprises

we

are

in

make

us impatient, and

almost angry, alas

But

my

blow

is

nothing to yours, though you had the great

* The death of Mr. Badeley. [Ed.]

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CARDINAL NEWMAN.
by
his
side,

and being with him to the What a fulness of affection he poured out on you and last. yours and how he must have rejoiced to have your faithful This is your joy and presence with him when he was going.
consolation of sitting
;

your pain. Now he has the recompense

perpetual

for

that steady, well-ordered,

I

course

of devotion
felt

and obedience which

ever

admired
reach.
this

be so much above anything I could All or most of us have said Mass for him, I am sure,
in

him, and

to

morning

certainly,

we two have who

are here.

not write to you during the past fortnight, thinking it would only bother you, and knowing I should hear if there
I did

was anything to tell. But you have been as much surprised as any one at his sudden summons. I knew it was the beginning of the end, but thought it was only the beginning. How was
it

his medical
I

men
!

did not
is

know

better

suppose the funeral

on Saturday.

God

bless

and keep

and sustain you

Ever yours, most

affectionately,

John H. Newman.

TROUBLES OF AUTHORSHIP.

To

J.

R. HoPE-ScOTT, O.C.

January

2,

1870.

My dear
and
I

Hope-Scott,
you and
all

A happy new year to

all his.

yours,

and

to Bellasis

knows, in cutting across the Isthmus of Suez,''^' and though I have got so far as to let the water into the canal there is an awkAvard rock in mid-channel
engaged, as
Bellasis

am

near the mouth, which takes a great deal of picking and blasting,
" * In allusion to difficulties in the The composition of on which Dr. Newman was then at work. [Ed.] Assent,"

Grammar

of

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and no man of war
it.

403

will

be able to pass through

for the opening.

till

get rid of

Thus

I can't

name a day

Ever yours

affectionately,

John H. Newman.

"I

HAVE NO BUSINESS HERE MYSELF."

To
J.

R. HoPE-ScOTT, Q.C.

The

Oratory,

March

3,

1870.

My

dear Hope-Scott,
After writing a conversational letter to Bellasis* yesterheard at night so sad an account, which I had not

day, I
that I

anticipated, of his pain

and his weakness and want of sleep, was distressed that it had gone, and felt that it would

harass

him

to receive a second letter so soon, and, as

he would
I

anticipate, as unseasonable as the former.

Therefore
let

enclose

with this a few lines to him, which you can you think right.
I

him have when

do not undervalue the seriousness of your first letter about but I did not him, and have had him constantly in my mind
;

I thought it would contemplate his pain, or his sudden decline. be a long business, but now I find that the complaint is making
its

way.
!

What a severe blow it must be to you own way, it is very great too for, though
;

But
I

to me, in

my

am

not in his con-

stant society as you are, he has long been pars magna of this place, and he has, by his various acts of friendship through a

succession
*

of years,

created

for himself

a presence
"

in

my

The Grammar Cardinal Newman dedicated, in this very year, " To Edward of Assent," in the following words Bellasis, Serjeant-at-Law, in gratitude for in remembrance of a long, equable, sunny friendship

To him

continual kindnesses
trust in

me

unwearied zeal in my behalf, for a me, which has never wavered, and a prompt, effectual succour and
to for
trial.

shown

suppport in times of special

From his

affectionate, J.

H. N."

[Ed.]

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CARDINAL NEWMAN,

thoughts, so that the thought of being without him carries with it the sense of a void, to which it is difficult to assign a limit.

Three aequales I have lost Badeley, H. Bowden, and Bellasis and such losses seem to say that I have no business here
;

myself.
life.

It is

the penalty of living to lose the great props of

!

What

a melancholy prospect for his poor boys

When

you have an opportunity, say everything kind for me to Mrs. I shall, I trust, say two Masses a week for him. Bellasis. He
is

on our prayer lists. under one's touch

!

What

a vanity

is life

How

it

crumbles

hope you are getting

strong,

and that

this

does not weigh

too heavily on you.

Ever yours

affectionately,

John H. Newman.

SIR
To
J.

WALTER

SCOTT.
The

R. HOPE-ScOTT, Q.C.
Orator}',

May
I

14, 1871.

My dear
I

Hope- Scott, Thank you for your book.*

I

In one sense

deserve

it

have ever had such a devotion,

a boy, in the early
"
"

may call
I

it,

to

Walter Scott.

As
and
I

summer mornings, Guy Mannering in bed, when they

was time
to get up.

read "Waverley"

first

came
I

out.

At
when

five it

And

long before that,

eagerly to
"

think

was eight years

old, I listened

The Lay

of the

Last Minstrel/' which my mother and aunt were reading aloud. When he was dying I was continually thinking of him, with Keble's words

**

If ever floating

from

faint earthly lyre."

It

has been a trouble to

me

that his works seem to be so forlittle

gotten now.

Our boys know very

about them.

think

* Mr. Hope-Scott's abridgement of Lockhart's " Life of Scott." [Ed.]

THE LETTERS OF HALF A LLFETLME.

F.

405

Ambrose had to give a prize for getting up " Kenihvorth." Your letter to Gladstone sadly confirms it. I wonder whether
there will ever be a crisis and correction of the evil
?

It arises

from the

of publication. Every season bears its own crop of books, and every fresh season ousts the foregoing. Books
facilities
all

annuals, and, to revive Scott, you must annihilate the existing generation of writers, which is legion. are
If
it

so fares with Scott,

still

more does

it

so fare with

Johnson, Addison, Pope and Shakespeare. Perhaps the comYou should get petitive examinations may come to the aid.

Gladstone to bring about a list of classics, and force them upon I do not see any other way of mending matters. candidates.
I

wish

heard a better account of you.

Ever yours

affectionately,

John H. Newman.

FRIENDSHIP FOR THE FROUDES.

To William Froude, F.R.S.*

August

I, 1

87 1.

To you, my dear William,

dedicate these miscellaneous

compositions, old and new, as to a true friend, dear to

me

in

your own person and in your family, and in the special claim which your brother Hurrellf has upon my memory as one, who,

" * The Dedication of " Essays, Critical and Historical (Pickering). [Ed.] t Brother also of James Anthony Froude, who began his serious life by joining the Oxford Movement. William Froude, too, gave his heart to his brother Hurrell's work at Oriel, though, as Mr. [Mozley tells us, " his turn even then was for science, and his lot was eventually cast in railway engineering and naval construction. He was the chemist as well as the mechanist of For many years before his death, he was laboriously and the college.

anxiously but successfully employed in experiments upon the respective resistance which various forms of vessels meet with when in motion through water, and also upon flotation and oscillation." He died in communion with
the Catholic Church.

To

his father,

dedicated one of his earliest works.

[Ed.J

Archdeacon Froude, Cardi.ial

Newman

VOL. V.

G G

406
amid unusual
never unkind

CARDINAL NEWMAN.

trials

as

of friendship, has always been fair to me, one who has followed the long course of

controversy, of which these volumes are a result with a large sympathy with those engaged in it,

and

record,

and a deep

sense of the responsibilities of religious inquiry and the sacredWhatever may be your judgment of ness of religious truth.
portions of their contents, which are not always in agreement

know, give them a ready welcome when offered to your acceptance as the expression, such as it is, of the author's wish, in the best way he can, of connecting his
with each other, you
will, I

name with

yours.
I

am,

my

dear William Froude,

Most

affectionately yours,

John Henry Newman.

*'MY
To
the

DEAR DEAN."
M.A.,
of St. Paul's.*

Very Rev. Richard William Church,

Dean

My DEAR
this

Dean,
I lately

When
Volume
I

asked your leave to prefix your

name

to

of Sermons, preached before the

I

Oxford,

felt

University of had to explain to myself and to my readers

it

why

had not

offered

to

you on

its first

publication rather

than now, when the long delay of nearly thirty years might seem to have destroyed the graciousness of my act.

For you were one of those dear friends, resident in Oxford (some, as Charles Marriott and Charles Cornish, now no more),
who, in these trying five years, from 1 841 to 1 845, in the course of which this volume was given to the world, did so much to comDedication, dated Advent, 1871, of preached before the University of Oxford.

New

Edition of Fifteen Sermons

(Rivingtons.)

[Ed.]

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fort

407

and uphold

me by

their patient, tender kindness,

and their

zealous services in
I

my

behalf.

cannot forget how, in the February of 1841, you suffered

me day by day to open

successively elicited

you my anxieties and plans, as events them, and much less can I lose the memory
to

of your great act of friendship, as well as of justice and courage, in the February of 1845, your Proctor's year, when you, with another now departed, shielded me from the " clvium ardor

prava jtibe^tium" by the interposition of a prerogative belonging to your academical position.

H
/

your generous conduct towards me at the time, those very circumstances which gave occasion to it deprived me then of the power of acknowledging it. That was

Much

as

felt

doing now, when an association with any work of mine v/ould have been a burden to another, not a service nor did I, in the volumes which I published during
I
;

no season to do what

am

those years, think of laying it upon any of my friends, except in the case of one who had had duties with me at Little-

more, and overcame

me by

his loyal

and urgent sympathy.*

Accept then,
sion of

my

dear Church, though it be late, this expresgratitude, now that the lapse of years, the judgment

my

passed on me by (what may be called) posterity, and the dignity of your present position, encourage me to think that, in thus
gratifying myself, I
I

am

not inconsiderate towards you. am, my dear Dean,

Your very

affectionate friend,

John H. Newman.
* The Rev. W. J. Copeland, B.D., who passed away only while these pages were preparing for press. He edited from Farnham Rectory some volumes of Cardinal Newman's Anglican Sermons, one of which had been first published in 1843, and was inscribed from Littlemore by the author: "To William John Copeland, B.D., Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. The kindest of friends, whose nature it is to feel for others more than they feel
for themselves."

[Ed.]

G G 2

4o8

CARDINAL NEWMAN,
LOOKING BACK.

To

the

Rev.

Henry Arthur Woodgate,

Worcester.

B.D., Honorary Canon of

January^ 1872.

My dear Woodgate,
Half a century and more has passed since you first allowed me to know you familiarly, and to possess your friendship.

Now

in the last

decade of our

lives, it

is

pleasant to

me

to

look back upon those old Oxford days, in which we were together, and in memory of them^ to dedicate to you a volume,* written, for the most part, before the currents of opinion and
the course of events carried friends

away

in various directions,

and brought about great changes and bitter separations. Those issues of religious inquiry I cannot certainly affect to
lament, as far as they concern myself as they relate to others, at least it is left to me, by such acts as you now allow me, to testify to them that affection which time and absence cannot
;

quench, and which

so old.
I

is

the

more

fresh

and buoyant because

it is

am,

my

dear Woodgate, Your attached and constant friend,

John Henry Newman.

IRISH reminiscences.
To
the

Rt. Rev. David Moriarty, D.D., Bishop of Kerry.f

My dear

Lord,

have not asked your Lordship for your formal leave to dedicate this volume to you, this has been because
If I

* " Discussions and Arguments on Various Subjects." (Pickering.) [Ed.] t The dedication of " Historical Sketches," dated from Birmingham, October, 1872. (Pickering & Co.) [Ed.]

THE LETTERS OF HALF A LIFETIME.

409

one part of it, written by me as an Anglican controversialist, could not be consistently offered for the direct sanction of a Catholic bishop. If, in spite of this, I presume to inscribe your name in its first page, I do so because I have a freedom
in this matter

which you have not

because

covet

much

to

be

gain your a somewhat violent proceeding, on the plea that forgiveness for I may perhaps thereby be availing myself of the only opportunity given to me, if not the most suitable occasion, of securing

associated publicly with you,

and because

I trust to

what

I so earnestly desire.
it,

I desire

because

I desire to

acknowledge the debt

owe

to your kindness

and

services rendered to

me

through a course

of years.

All along, from the time that the Oratory first came to this place, you have taken a warm interest in me and in my
doings.

out twenty-four years ago on our first start in the narrow streets of Birmingham, before we could well

You

found

me

be said to have found a

home

or a church.

And you

have

never been wanting to me since, or spared time or trouble, when I had occasion in any dififiiculty to seek your guidance or cause to remember the help you gave me, by your prudent counsels and your anxious sympathy, when I was called over to Ireland to initiate a great Catholic institution.
I

encouragement. Especially have

others also, ecclesiastics and laymen, I received a hearty welcome and a large assistance, which I ever bear in mind ;

From

but you, when

position
zeal

would

fill

the

Professors' chairs,

were in a

to direct

me

to the

men whose

genius, learning

and

became so great a part of the life and strength of the University and even as regards those whose high endowments I otherwise learned, or already knew myself, you had your part
;

appointments, for I ever tried to guide myself by what I had gained from the conversations and correspondence which
in

my

you had from time to time allowed me. To you, then, my dear Lord, more than any other, I owe my introduction to a

4IO

CARDINAL NEWMAN.
who
faithfully

large circle of friends,

worked with me

in

the

seven years of connection with the University, and who now, for twice seven years since, have generously kept me in mind, though I have been out of their sight.
course of

my

more intimately associate with my life in Dublin than your Lordship and thus when I revive the recollections of what my friends there did for me, my mind naturally reverts to you, and again in making my acknowledgThere
is

none, then,

whom

ments to you, I am virtually thanking them. That you may live for many years, in health, strength and
minds, a blessing to the Irish people, and a light in the Universal Church, is, My dear Lord,
usefulness, the centre of

many

The fervent prayer of Your affectionate friend and

servant^

John Henry Newman.

THE MASSACRE OF
To

S.

BARTHOLOMEW.
Times.
Septejnber, 1872.

the Editor of

The

Sir,

your article on the Massacre of S. Bartholomew's Day, thrown down a challenge to us on a I have no claim to speak for my most serious subject.
lately, in

You have

brethren

but

speak

in default of better
evil

men.
has any power has imprinted

No Pope

can make

good.*

No Pope

over those eternal moral principles which God If any Pope has, with his eyes on our hearts and consciences.
appear to be very elementary Catholic teaching, and not worth but readers in this year of grace must remember that in 1872 the minds of men here and there had been a little bewildered by certain writers, and these not always outside the Church. [Ed.]

* This

may

iteration

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411

open, approved treachery or cruelty, let those defend that Pope who can. If any Pope .at any time has had his mind so

occupied with the desirableness of the Church's triumph over her enemies as to be dead to the treacherous and savage acts

by which that triumph was achieved,

let

those

who

feel disoffice of

posed say that in such conduct he acted up to his high

maintaining justice and showing mercy. Craft and cruelty, and whatever is base and wicked, have a sure Nemesis, and eventually strike the heads of those who are
guilty of them.

had a share
his defence

in

Whether in matter of fact Pope Gregory XIII. the guilt of the S. Bartholomew Massacre must
before I believe
it.

be proved to

me

It is

commonly

said in

had an untrue, one-sided account of the This matter presented to him, and acted on misinformation. But involves a question of fact, which historians must decide.
that he

they decide against the Pope, his Infallibility is in no respect compromised. Infallibility is not Impeccability. Even Caiaphas prophesied, and Gregory XIII. was not quite a

even

if

Caiaphas.
I

am,

Sir,

your obedient servant, John H.

Newman.

PAPAL INFALLIBILITY.
To
the Editor of

The Guardian.
September, 1872.

Sir,

cannot allow such language as Mr. Capes uses of me in yesterday's Guardian to pass unnoticed, nor can I doubt
I

that you will admit

my

answer to

it.

thank him

for

having

put into print what doubtless has often been said behind my back I do not thank him for the odious words which he has
;

made

the vehicle of

it.

412
I will

CARDINAL NEWMAN.
not dirty

my

ink by repeating them

that I have all along considered mildly stated, is this the doctrine of the Pope's Infallibility to be contradicted by the facts of Church history, and that, though convinced of this, I
stance,

but the sub-

consequence of the Vatican Council forced myself to do a thing that I never, never fancied would befall me when I
in

have

became a Catholic
heart
tion
I
I

viz.,

forced myself by

some

unintelligible

quibbles to fancy myself believing

what

really after all in

my

could not and did not

its

believe.

And

that this opera-

and

had given me a considerable amount of pain. could say much, and quote much from what I have
result

comment upon this nasty view of me. But, not to take up too much of your room, I will, in order to pluck it up " " by the very roots (to use his own expression), quote one out
written, in

of various passages, in which, long before the Vatican Council was dreamed of, at least by me, I enunciated absolutely the
" It is in my doctrine of the Pope's Infallibility. Discourses It on University Education," delivered in Dublin in 1852.

runs as follows
"

Deeply do I

feel,

ever will

I protest,

for I

ca7i

appeal

to the

ample testimony of history to bear me out, that, in questions of right and wrong, there is nothing really strong in the whole world, nothing decisive and operative, but the voice of him to

whom

have been committed the keys of the kingdom and the

That voice is now, as ever it has oversight of Christ's flock. been, a real authority, infallible when it teaches, prosperous when it commands, ever taking the lead wisely and distinctly
in its

own

province, adding certainty to

is
;

what
it

persuasion to what
saintly

certain.

Before
it

probable and speaks, the most

is

may

mistake

must obey

has spoken, the most gifted If there ever was a power on earth who had

and

after

an eye for the times, who has confined himself to the practicable, and has been happy in his anticipations, whose words have been deeds, and whose commands prophecies, such is he

THE LETTERS OF HALF A LIFETIME.

in the history of

413

ages who sits on from generation to generation in the chair of the Apostles as the Vicar of Christ and

Doctor of His Church. to this hour Did he,

.?

.... Has
in

he

failed in his successes

up

with Joseph of Germany a greater name and his dependent kings another kind of fight, he should fail in ours }

our fathers' day, fail in his struggle and his confederates with Napoleon
;

that,

though

in

are on
eagle's,

the head

of Judah,

whose youth

is

grey hairs renewed like the

What

whose

feet are like

the everlasting

arms?"

the feet of harts, and underneath

pp. 2228.

Father Cardella in 1867 or 1868 to reprint in a volume which he published at Rome. My reason for selecting it, as I told him, was this because in an abridged
I suffered

This passage

reprint of the discourses in

1859

had omitted

it,

as well as

other large portions of the volume, as of only temporary interest, and irrelevant to the subject of University education.

same purpose passages from my "Essay on Development," 1845; "Loss and Gain," 1847; " " Discourses to Mixed Congregations," 1 849 Position of "Church of the Fathers," 1857. Catholics," 185 I I underwent, then, no change of mind as regards the truth
I

could

quote

to

the

of the doctrine of the Pope's Infallibility in consequence of the It is true I was deeply, though not personally, Council. pained both by the fact and by the circumstances of the

was in contemplation, I wrote a confidential letter, which was surreptitiously gained and lished, but of which I have not a word to retract. feelings of surprise and concern expressed in that letter nothing to do with a screwing one's conscience to profess
definition
;

and,

when

it

most
pub-

The
have

what

one does not believe, which is Mr. Capes's pleasant account of He ought to know better. me.

John H. Newman.
*^*

On

man

also wrote as follows on the

nearly the day on which the above letter was written, Dr. same subject to the editor of the

NewPall

414

CARDINAL NEWMAN,
DID NOT WISH TO JOIN THE JESUITS.
To the Editor of

The Daily Telegraph.

October 20, 1874.

Sir,
I

am

in the

number of those who,

"

have read in your paper with I have sought admittance into the Society of Jesus. I write at once to say that such a statement is altogether without
foundation.
It is true that I

as you anticipate, astonishment that before now

"

have ever held

in veneration,

and

regarded with affection and gratitude, various members of that but at no time, since I have been a wonderful society
;

Catholic, have

I for

moment

entertained the idea of belong-

ing to

it.

As

have never asked admission into

it,

it

follows that
is

admission has never been denied to me.

at all for saying so.

There

no ground

take this opportunity of thaking you for the kind and flattering terms in which from time to time I have been menI

tioned in your paper.

I

am,

Sir,

your obedient servant, John H. Newman.

have inserted in your columns of yesterday some remarks made on me by Mr. Capes, which, to use a studiously mild phrase, He assumes that I did not hold or profess the are not founded on fact.
:

Mall Gazette

" You

doctrine of the Pope's Infallibility

whereas

till the time of the Vatican Council have committed myself to it in print again and again, from 1845 to 1867. And, on the other hand, as it so happens though I hold it as I ever have done I have had no occasion to profess it, whether in print or otherwise, since that date. Any one who knows my writings will recollect that in
;

so saying

and distress I felt at the definition was no personal matter, but was founded on serious reasons, of which I feel the force still." Nobody, it may well be supposed, is more [Ed.] willing now to make retractation and to express regret.
state the simple fact.

The

surprise

THE LETTERS OF HALF A LIFETIME.

DR. BOLLINGER.
To
the Editor of

415

The Liverpool Daily

Post.
1874.

Sir,
I

beg you to do

me

the favour of allowing

me

to con-

tradict absolutely the assertion of one of your correspondents " at one time I was on the point of uniting with Dr. that

Dollinger and his party, and that suasions of several members of the
to prevent

it

required the earnest perRoman Catholic Episcopate

from taking that step." This statement in both its clauses, and from beginning to And it is a crime in an end, is utterly and ridiculously false.
another of a anonymous writer to make allegations against nature to damage him in the eyes of his brethren, without a tittle of evidence to bear them out.

me

YourSj &c.,

John H. Newman.

"LOSS AND
the

GAIN.*'
President of

Very Rev

C.

W. Russell,

Maynooth

College.

The

Oratory, February 21, 1874.

My

DEAR Dr. Russell,

the step of printing my name in the title-page of this volume, I trust I shall not be encroaching on the kindness you have so long shown to me if
I

Now

that at length I take

venture to follow
to
it,

it

up by placing yours

in

the page which

thus associating myself with you, and recommending myself to my readers by the association. Not that I am dreaming of bringing down upon you, in

comes next

whole or part, the criticisms, just or unjust, which lie against a literary attempt which has in some quarters been thought out of keeping with my antecedents and my position but the
;

41 6

CARDINAL NEWMAN,
interest

warm and sympathetic

which you took in Oxford matters thirty years ago, and the benefits which I derived from
that interest personally, are reasons
fixing your

name

desirous of preto a tale which, whatever its faults, at least

why

am

is

a more intelligible and exact representation of the thoughts, sentiments, and aspirations then and there prevailing, than was

to be found in the pamphlets, charges, sermons, reviews,

and

story-books of the day.

These reasons,
its

too,

must be
in its

my

apology, should I seem to

be asking your acceptance of a volume which over and above

intrinsic defects
is,

very subject and

it is

style,

hardly

commensurate with the theological reputation and

station of the person to
I

ecclesiastical

whom

presented.

am,

my

dear Dr. Russell,

Your

affectionate friend,

John H. Newman,
Of
the Oratory.

A NEOPHYTE.
To Georgiana, Lady Chatterton.*

The

Oratory, September 20, 1875.

My dear Lady
You
letter this

Chatterton,
understand

will easily

morning.
for

You

read your will be rewarded abundantly, do not

I rejoiced to

how

the pain, anxiety and weariness you have gone through in arriving at the safe ground and sure home of peace

doubt

it,

where you now

*
that she
!

are.

Lady Chatterton had written from Baddesley Clinton to tell Dr. Newman had become a Catholic, adding that his hymn, "Lead, Kindly " had helped her much in her time of mental struggle and of broken Light " health, when she had been wont to repeat it during the dark, painful nights." (See her "Memoirs" by her second husband, Edward Heneage Bering. Hurst and Blackett. 1878.) [Ed.J

THE LETTERS OF HALF A LIFETIME.

I

417

congratulate,

with

all

my

heart,

the

dear friends
their

surround

you upon so happy a termination of anxieties and prayers. May God keep you ever in the narrow way, and
from
those temptations and souls are wrecked.
all

who own

shield yo^

trials

by which so many earnest

This

is

the sincere prayer of yours, most truly,

John H. Newman.

"PASSING THE LOVE OF WOMEN.

To Edward Heneage Bering.*

The

Oratory,

My dear
I

Mr. Bering,
have
felt for

the spirit

you very much. There are wounds of which never close, and are intended in God's mercy

Him, and to prevent us leaving Him, by their very perpetuity. Such wounds, then, may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for humble trust, that God
to bring us nearer to
will give us the great gift of perseverence to the end.

As
ford,

she

has

now passed

the awful stream which

we

all

have to

and

is safe, so in the fact of having been taken from you, she seems to give you an intimation that you are to pass it safely also, when your time comes, and you are to meet her again then for

ever.

Your

losing her here

is

thus the condition of your meet-

ing her hereafter. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements. I never I lost, last year, my dearest friend unexpectedly. f

had so great a

loss.

He had

been

my

life,

under God,

for

I don't expect the wound will ever heal, but thirty-two years. heart I bless God, and would not have it otherwise, from my for I am sure that the bereavement is one of those Divine

the death of his wife in 1876. [Ed.] t Father Ambrose St. John of the Oratory. [Ed.]

On

41 8

CARDINAL NEWMAN,
for

Providences necessary

my

attaining that

Heavenly Rest

through God's mercy, has already secured. So cheer up, and try to do God's Will in all things according to the day, as I pray to be able to do myself.

which

he,

Yours, most sincerely,

John H. Newman.

"LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT!"*

To Mr. Greenhill.

The

Oratory,

January

i8, 1879.

My dear

Mr. Greenhill, You flatter me by your question but I think it was Keble who, when asked it in his own case, answered that poets
;

were not bound to be

critics,

or to give a sense to

what they
meaning,

had written

and though
I

am

not, like him, a poet, at least I

may

plead that
it

am

not bound to remember

my own

whatever

was, at the
there

end of almost

fifty

years.

Anyhow
verse, or
it

must be a

statute of limitation for writers of

if,

would be quite a tyranny

in

an art which

is

the

expression not of truth but of imagination and sentiment, one were obliged to be ready for examination on the transient state
of
in

mind which came upon one when home-sick,

any other way
sensitive or excited.

or sea-sick, or

Yours most

truly,

John H. Newman.
*

The two

last lines of this

"

hymn
morn those angel
since,
this

And

with the
I

faces smile

Which
would appear
to

have loved long

have puzzled

correspondent. [Ed.]

and

lost

awhile

'*

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AUSTRALIAN FRIENDS.
To
the

419

Hon. W. Bede

D alley.

My dear

Sir,
to

The newspaper has come

me

with a notice of the

honour you and your friends have done me by your public meeting on my behalf, and of the additional great goodness of
your proposing, by a splendid
future time, your
gift,

to record, for present

and

warmth of

feeling for

me, and your favourable

view of

my

services to the Catholic cause.

Highly gratified shall I be by your extraordinary generosity, and it will abide in the Oratory after me, to be preserved with care, and shown with pride as a memorial both of your good opinion of its founder and of its good fortune.
have not omitted to say Mass for your friend whom you have so unexpectedly lost, and who was intending so zealously,
I

to co-operate with

you

in

my

favour."^

Offering you

all

towards me,
[1879.]

am,

my best my dear

thanks for your surprising kindness

Sir, sincerely yours,

John H. Cardinal Newman.

ELECTED HONORARY FELLOW OF TRINITY.

To
the

Rev. Samuel William Wayte, B.D., President of Trinity

College, Oxford.

February

9,

1878.

My dear
will

President,
special
interest

Not from any

which

anticipate
feel

you

take in this volume,! or any sympathy you will

in its

to

* This was the Hon. E. Butler, Q.C., who joined heartily in the movement make a presentation from the Antipodes to the new Cardinal but who died before it was carried out. Mr. Bede Dalley, whose name is now so wellknown in connection with the Australian Contingent sent to the Soudan, was chairman of the Presentation Committee. [Ed.] t "An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine." (Pickering,
;

i878.)-[Ed.]

420

CARDINAL NEWMAN,
in

argument, or intrinsic fitness of any kind and your Fellows with it

:

my

associating you

But because
of

have nothing besides

it

to offer you, in token

sense of the gracious compliment which you and they have paid me in making me once more a Member of a College dear to me from Undergraduate memories.

my

Also because of the happy coincidence, that whereas its first publication was contemporaneous with my leaving Oxford, its
second became, by virtue of your
act,

contemporaneous with a

recovery of my position there. Therefore it is that without leave of your responsibility I take the bold step of placing your name in the first pages of what, at

my

age, I

must consider the

be engaged.

last

print or reprint on which I

shall ever
I

am,

my

dear President, Most sincerely yours,

John Henrv Newman.

GENERAL GORDON AND THE "DREAM OF GERONTIUS."

CURIOUS little relic linking the name of the late Mr. Frank Power, the Times correspondent, with that of the hero of the Soudan, General Gordon, reached Dublin in the form of a tiny book, a duodecimo copy of Cardinal Newman's " Dream of Gerontius," with handwriting and marks inside. On the fly-leaf is an inscription " Frank Power, with kindest regards of " C. G. Gordon. i8 Feb. '84," and lower, across the same page Dearest I send you this little book which General Gordon has given me. The pencil-marking throughout the book is his. Frank Power, Khartoum." The book has been forwarded to Mr. Power's sister, Mrs. Murphy, for whom his affectionate remembrance had destined the precious souvenir. The deep incisive pencil-marks drawn under certain lines, almost all of which name death, and cry for the prayers of friends, are " " " 'Tis death touchingly interesting to see. Pray for me, O my friends O loving friends, your prayers 'tis he " " So pray for me, my friends, who have not strength to pray " " Use well the interval " " Prepare to meet thy God " " Now that the hour is come, my fear is fled " with many other longer passages all bearing on the supreme moment at hand. The last words underlined before he gave the book to poor young Power are these
:

"

Farewell, but not for ever, brother dear ; Be brave and patient on thy bed of sorrow
is

''
!

A further
Cardinal

given to this memorable incident by a letter written by Mr. Power's sister, who had sent the tiny well-thumbed volume to the author of the " Dream of Gerontius "
interest

Newman

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Cloud of Witnesses.

T^EDICATIONS may be said to form a little ^^^ literature of their own. In point of composition the dedication of a volume is often Its most elegant page.
It has, besides,

a dual

human

Interest
:

for

It is

at once

autobiographical and biographical first, of the writer of the dedication and second, of the person to whom the And If a man may be judged, as has dedication Is made.
;

been

said,

by the

letters

addressed to him by his friends,

Is

so also

may

he be judged by the dedications In which

offered the

The homage of intellects and of hearts. Biography of Cardinal Newman, to be complete, will need

a Chapter devoted to these literary offerings, of w^hich so many, and such Intimate ones, have been addressed to him

by

his contemporaries.

And

to the compilation of such a

Chapter the following contributions

may now be made.

The Blessed

Sacra7neiit.

By Father Fabek.

(Richardson. 1855.)

To MY

]\IOST

DEAR FATHER

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN,

To WHOM, IN THE MeRCY OF GOD, I OWE THE Faith of the Church, The Grace of the Sacraments, And the Habit of St. Philip, With much more that Love knows and feeds Though it cannot tell in Words, But which the Last Day will show.

upon,

A CLOUD OF WITNESSES,
Panegyric of
St.

423

Philip Neri.

By Cardinal WISEMAN.

(Richardson, 1856).

To THE Very Rev.

F.

NEWMAN,
F.

D.D.,
.

Superior of the

Birminghain Oratory,

And to the Very

Rev.

FABER,

D.D.,

Superior of the Lo7idon Orato?y.

Very Rev. and Dear Fathers,

dedicate this discourse to you jointly, because a common bond you to one another and to me ; the love of the holy St. Philip. If I have been his elder, either of you has been, by far, his better son.
I

unites

You have made him known, you have made him loved in this country, You have naturalized him in as dearly almost as he is in liis own.
English hearts^ you have given him a second

an English home.

you have done much more. Though apparently the paths you have trodden may have seemed different, they have been parallel and concurrent, and have formed a single road. One has brought the resources of the most varied learning, and the vigour of a keenly accurate mind, power of argument, and grace of language, to grapple with the intellectual difficulties, and break down the strongly
But under
his auspices built prejudices of strangers

to the Church.

The

other has gathered

within her gardens sweet flowers of devotion for her children, and taught them, in thoughts that glow and words tliat burn, to prize the banquet

which love has spread for their refreshment. Thus can you truly say, " In domo Domini ambulavimus cum consensu." Hand in hand you have walked together, the one planting, and the other watering, while
has given to your united work increase. My share in it and ardent hopes as may must be confined to such grateful recollections

God above

be expressed in a short panegyric. Anything done by me for St. Philip's sake could not be separately offered to either, but must go to the common stock of what belongs to
him.

Words

of praise, or rather of affection, spoken concerning him,

however worthless, belong to him, and if they have his blessing on them, are so absorbed and appropriated by this, that they must go where it goes,
impartially

and equally

to all his children.

H H

424
Let
this

CARDINAL NEWMAN,
Panegyric receive some additional value from the sentiments

of affectionate regard and friendship which liave prompted this dedication; additional, that is, to what may result from that love of "the
Saint
"

which

in

it
it

otherwise render

struggled so poorly to express itself worthy of your notice.

This only could

Earnestly recommending myself to your pious prayers, and to your I am ever, love in St. Philip,

Dear and Very Rev. Fathers, Your affectionate servant in Christ, N. Card. Wiseman.
Lofidon,

June

i,

1856.

Public Lectures delivered before the Catholic University of Ireland.

By

Professor

J.

B.

ROBERTSON.

(Dolman. 1859.)

To THE Very Rev.

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN,

Superior of the

D.D.,

Birmingham

Congregatio7i of the Oratory,

In Token of Gratitude for many Favours Received, and of Profound Admiration for his Genius and Virtues, the following Lectures are Respectfully Inscribed BY his obliged Friend,

The Author.

Historical Notes of the Tractarian Movement.

By FREDERICK

Oakeley, M.A.

(Longmans. 1865.)

To THE Very Rev.

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN,

This Volume
in
is

D.D.,

Priest a?id Supe?-ior of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri,

Inscribed

Token of

Deep and Grateful Reverence.

A CLOUD OF WITNESSES.
A
Review of Dr. Ptisefs Eirenicon,
B.A.,
Priest

425

By William Lockhart,
Diocese
of Westminster.

Oxon.,

of the

(Longmans.

1866.)

TO

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN,

AND

D.D.,

EDWARD BOUVERIE

PUSEY,

D.D.,

TWO VENERABLE AND BELOVED NAMES THAT ONE LOVES IN THOUGHT TO ASSOUATE TOGETHER.

Translation,
linger's

by the Rev. H. N. OxENHAM, M.A., of BolFirst Age of Christianity and the Church."
**

(Allen

&

Co.

1867.)

To THE Very Rev.

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN,

IS

D.D.,

WHOSE ILLUSTRIOUS NaME

ALONE A Passport to the Hearts

AND a secure Clalm on the Intelleciual Respect OF his Countrymen both within and without the Church,
this Translation of a

Work

BY A GREAT CaTHOLIC DiVINE OF THE CONTINENT IS, WITH HIS KIND PERMISSION, VERY RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED By THE Translator.

Florence Danby.

By Edward Heneage Bering.

1868.)

(Richardson.

To THE Very Rev. DR. NEWMAN

The following Pages are

Inscribed as an

Unworthy Tribute

OF Reverence, Affection and Gratitude.

426

CARDINAL NEWMAN.

Sermons by the FatJiers of tJie Society of Jesus, Vol. 11. By the Rev. Thomas Harper. (Burns & Gates. 1872.)

To THE Very Rev.

J.

H.

NEWMAN,

D.D.,

Ffvvost of ike Bir7ningham Oratory.

Very Rev. and dear Father,

publication should be dedicated to you, as a very feeble yet sincere token of my deep gratitude for the incalculable benefits which, in the good providence of our God, I have received from you. The peculiar nature of my volume on " Dr. Pusey's Eirenicon," and many circumstances connected with its
I

have had a lasting desire that

my

first

appearance, induced

Order to which
has given

it

me is my

to

dedicate

it

to the

Holy Founder of the

privilege to belong.

But the present volume

unknown
it

the opportunity so long desired. Though personally until long after my admission into the Society of Jesus, you was the influence of your sermons and writings which, by the Divine
to

me

grace, led

me

to the

Church of Jesus

Christ, nor has this influence

diminished since that time.

You have
receive
for you,
it

as a proof of the veneration

Be pleased, then, to kindly consented to this dedication. and love which I have ever felt
years.

and which has increased with the progress of the

Believe

me

to remain,

Very Rev. and dear Father,

Yours most respectfully and afiectionately in the Sacred Hearts,

Thomas Harper,
Feast of the Epiphany, 1872.

S.J.

Persecutions of

Amiam.

By

the Very Rev.

Canon SiiORTLAND.

(Burns

&

Gates.

1875.)

To THE Very Rev.

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN,

Father
Superior of the

D.D.,

Oratory, Bii-nwighavi.

My
you

dear Dr. Newman, The privilege you have allowed me

is

of dedicating this
I

one that

I highly value.

In

many ways

book to owe you more than I

A CLOUD OF WITNESSES,
owe
to

427

any one else, and an expression of grateful feeling is to me most It was my most happy lot to be at Oxford when you were pleasant. there, and you did for me what you were doing for so many others removed the veil of prejudice which quite shut out from view the

Church of all nations, and made me capable of seeing her as she really is: It was you, too, who in later years brought her before me in all her beauty and dignity, and taught me to recognize in her the great Teacher
of

God

in the world.
is

carried

way in which that holy teaching is heathen lands, of the virtues, the successes, the In dedicating it to you I do not simply sufferings of her missionaries. satisfy my feelings, but I know that I am greatly benefiting myself by
a record of the

This book

on

in distant

placing

it

under the sanction of your name.

With many thanks for long-continued kindnesses, I am, my dear Dr. Newman, Gratefully and affectionately yours, John R. Canon Shortland.

The Formation of Christcfidom.

Part.

By

T.

W. Alijes.

Third

(Longmans. 1875.)
this

My

dear Dr. Newman,

I dedicate to

you

work so

far as

it

has

Formation of Christendom, for a double reason. The it arose out of my nomination to be Reader on the Philosophy of in the Catholic University of Ireland, which was made when History

gone, upon the first is, because

you were

its first Rector. The nomination, indeed, led to no more than the delivery of the Inaugural Lecture in your presence as Rector, before the University. For though the work which has followed was

originally intended to

be delivered

in like

manner,

I ascertained

on the

completion of the first series that no need had been felt for Lectures on the Philosophy of History, and my connection with the University
practically terminated with your Rectorship.
I

am,

therefore, offering

you the fruits of my appointment, peculiarly your own, since it ceased with you. And I may add that your counsels were not wanting to me
in the

choice and handling of the subject. My second reason is, that now in mature age I wish to give utterance to the profound gratitude which I have never ceased^ to feel towards you for the aid which your
first

42 8
writings gave

CARDINAL NEWMAN.
to discern the light of the Catholic Faith, example added to follow that light into the

me

and the

force

which your peace and

heighten

knowledge of

liberty of the

Catholic

Communion.

If anything could

my

gratitude

it

would be

my

sense of the value of those sub-

sequent works, by which you

the Hector of a doomed and country the Achilles of the City of Troy have become in your day God ; that power which in our own, as in every preceding age, advances

who were once

to victory out of defeat,

is

justified

and often converts the lance which aims at

champion.
I

through the calumnies of opponents, its life into the sword of a

am,

my

dear Fr.

Newman,
affectionately,

Yours
February
21, 1875.

T.

W.

Allies.

Lessons from Nature.

By

St.

George Mivart,

F.R.S.

(Murray. 1876.)

To THE Very Rev.

FATHER NEWMAN,
My
dear Dr. Newman,
It is with a special gladness

D.D.

you, the following chapters on Nature considered as one whole whereof tribute of respectful gratitude is indeed rational man forms a part. due from one so indebted as I am. Among the many obligations I owe

permission to dedicate to

who

that I avail myself of your kind love the natural world so. keenly,

to you,

the ability to unite in one the Theistic and the Naturalistic conceptions of the world about us conceptions a divorce between
is

which

To former obligations, however, the calamity of our age. you have now added yet another. As an Englishman and a Catholic, I thank you with all my heart for your recent noble vindication of the
is

rights of conscience
I

a vindication to which reference

and appeal

will,

persuaded, be made again and again in the times which are to come. That that voice which so lately stilled the storm may long be spared to speak words of peace and wisdom disarming prejudice and calming passion is the most earnest hope and prayer of Yours most respectfully and affectionately,

am

St.
Wihiishurst., Uckfield^

George Mivart.

December

8, 1875.

A CLOUD OF WITNESSES.
Life of St. Willihrord, Archbishop of Utrecht. (Burns & Gates. 1877.)^

4^9

To THE Very
J.

Rev. Father

H,

NEWMAN,

D.D.
series of the

It

was to you, Very Rev. and dear Father, that the

This Httle Life of the Lives of the EngHsh Saints owed its existence. Apostle of the Netherlands was written for you, to follow in the sequel of those Lives. It has lain dead and buried for the space of thirtythree years, and with your kind permission the resuscitated innocent would fain see public life under your auspices and patronage. It is,
therefore,

humbly and

respectfully dedicated to you.

Easter Eve^ 1877.

Order out of Chaos

Three Sermons preached

at All Saints',

Lambeth.
Allen

By FREDERICK GEORGE Lee, D.D.

1

(W. H.

&

Co.

88

1.)

TO HIS Eminence

HENRY EDWARD, CARDINAL-ARCHBISHOP OF

WESTMINSTER
TO HIS Eminence
;

JOHN HENRY, CARDINAL NEWMAN;

and to the Very Rev.

EDWARD BOUVERIE

PUSEY,

D.D.,
etc.
;

Canon of Christ Church, Oxford,

three venerated names long associated together; IN the earnest hope that they may each, or combinedly, do something more before they pass hence, FOR the restoration OF THEIR COUNTRYMEN TO VISIBLE INTERCOIMMUNION WITH THE REST OF CHRISTENDOM AND TO THE BLESSING OF CaTHOLIC OBEDIENCE AND A PERFECT FaITH.
*

By

the Rev. T. Meyrick, SJ., but published anonymously.

[Ed.]

430

CARDINAL NEWMAN.
By Aubrey de Vere.
1880.)

The Year of Sorrow, and other Poems,

(Kegan

Paul.

New
HIS

Edition.

To

Eminence

CARDINAL NEWMAN,
These Poems are once more dedicated with respect, affection, and gratitude.

Allocutions

and Pastorals

of the Right Rev. Dr.

MORIARTY,

Bishop of Kerry.

(Burns

&

Oates. 1884.)

TO HIS Eminence

JOHN HENRY, CARDINAL NEWMAN.

[Published after the
Bishop's death, and Editors, who say: ]

dedicated by the

a high honour to have the privilege of dedicating this volume to a Prince of the Church so distinguished for learning, piety, and love for Ireland. We are aware of the great affection the late illusit

We

deem

Bishop of Kerry entertained during life for your Eminence, and hence we determined to seek your permission to connect his most important utterances with your name.
trious

The Present State

of the

Church in England.

Seventeen

Paragraphs, by Lord Braye.

(Washbourne. 1884.)

Inscribed to

JOHN HENRY, CARDINAL NEWMAN.

translation of St.

In recollection of the summer day he visited Stanford to keep the Thomas of Canterbury, and to offer the Collect chosen
sin to

by the Church,
from

by the prayers of that Saint we may be translated sinlessness, and from the prison-house to the kingdom.
that

A CLOUD OF WITNESSES.
One

431
;

form poet has put his dedication into poetical and, appended to it, some other sets of verses fall properly
into place
:

To

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN,

When I peruse the teeming page My youth so dearly prized,
I say,

D.D.

By John Charles Earle, B.A.*

"

This foremost of his age

Is Plato's self baptized."

But kindling, weeping,

as I read

marvel at his pen, " This Newman is indeed I say,

Augustine come again."

And

The

sweet, sublime Athenian Bee,

And

Hippo's

seer,

who

ran
I see

Through every range of thought, Combined in this new man.

New modes, new powers, new aims, new New love, in him I view New piercing of the depths and heights,
;

lights,

Yet not more bold than

true.

Our

battles here

we

feebly fought,
field,

And scarce could keep the When like a god he rose and
Our armour and our
shield.

wrought

The clouds disperse to clear The land begins to own

his

fame

prophet in a car of flame

Is

mounting

to his throne.

My

father, Israel's chariot, look,

And,

ere thou reach the skies,

Smile once, once only, on

my

book.

And
*"
Gates.

it

has gained the prize.

Light Leading Unto Light."

1875.)

By John

Charles Earle, B.A.

(Burns

&

432

CARDINAL NEWMAN.
TO THE HAND OF A LIVING AUTHOR.
By
the Rev.

Edward Caswall,
!

of the Oratory.*

Hail, sacred Force

!

Hail, energy sublime Fountain of present deeds

And

manifold

effects in future

time

Through thee have spread Forth on their blazing way

Conceptions fiery-winged,

That

shall the destinies of ages

sway

Through thee this Isle, Long bound in Satan's chain.

To
Inclines

her original faith

beyond

all

hope an ear again,

And
With a

eyes askant.
half-wistful gaze,

The

Passing in beauty by, Vision of the Church of ancient days

!

Symbol august Here, on my bended knee,

I venerate the truth

And

multitudinous grace that speaks in thee.

Thou, drawing back

The

curtains of the night,

First

on

this guilty soul,

light.

Shut up in heresy, didst open

Through thee in her Eternal morning rose ;

O, how with all her powers Can she enough repay the debt she owes
* "
!

Hymns and

Poems/'

(Burns

&

Gates, Second Edition, 1873.)

A CLOUD OF WITNESSES,

433

MAY MEETINGS.
By Mrs. Leathley.*
Sf.

Mary's J Oxford : 1840.

Youth and
Thy
face,

its

dreams were with me, and the one

Strong yearning of

my heart was, Once to see Henry Newsman, and to be John

for

Thrilled by the magic of thy matchless tone.

Genius and Learning round mehushed

I

That wish was granted, and

one blest hour

in

awe

heard thy voice, thy countenance I saw. Speaking of Heaven, beneath St. Mary's tower.

Some virtue surely dwelt therein and so

That

Abyss of Peace," thou saidst ; those words alone Stayed with me, the crowd parted thou wert gone. But, on thy vestment, as it floated by, I laid my hand in faith O, happy I

" The

May we

met, and parted, forty years ago.

Lo7ido7i
:

The Oratory^

1880.

May comes
The

again, and all the world is changed, dear delusions from false teaching drawn Dropt from us, like a dream that dies at dawn ;
life

Sweet

grown penance,
fainter,

ancient loves estranged.

gifts

Hope grew still To see thee yet

To-day
'Tis the
I

unaskedas God's best Sudden

once more

through each hour of need, God's priest indeed ;

do come,

meet

thee, in St. Philip's

home.

same

As if The Abyss of Peace were nearer now ; The rich, the noble, for thy blessing bow.
Prince of our Holy Church I kneel aside To speakto touch thy robe not now I dare,

"

face, transfigured "

glorified

God
* Written

bless thee,
;

"

Pilgrim pale,"t alone

"

my

silent prayer.

in 1880

but not published until now.

[Ed.]

A pilgrim pale,

t I am found, with Paul's sad girdle bound." Newman's " Verses on Religious SubjictsP

434

CARDINAL NEWMAN.
To FR.

NEWMAN
the Cardinalate.
of the Oratory.*

On

his Elevation to

By Father H. Ignatius Dudley Ryder,

I.

All honours
Within that

are

honorem. deserved and give content

in

city's

Where

true awards all-righteous

And none may

Nor human

golden quadrature hands secure, doubt or question the intent

;

wills as

From the strict Or clashing interest

here are warped and bent line of right by selfish lure,

;

but doth aye endure

In each one's joy the unanimous consent.

Methinks the purple that hath crowned thy years Is thus accepted by the general voice As each man's good, because so just a thing.
aloof from selfish hopes and fears Strangers and friends with one accord rejoice. As they would antedate heaven's reckoning.
II.

High and

IN memoriam. Yes,
all rejoice
;

and

all

express their joy

But

but an idle boast, methought beside his grave whose joy should most Standing
this
is

Abound upon

this

day

whose
life

life's

employ
:

Had
Of

been to shield thy

from the annoy

daily burdens, never counting cost

In his enjoyment half thy joy is lost, And what thou hast, clogged with a dull

alloy.

He does rejoice, but it is far away He can no signal make that this is so No flowret breaks upon his grave to-day.
; ;

No
* "

This sad late spring-tide ; for the churchyards law but Nature's, till the Almighty stay
seasons in their solemn ebb and flow.
:

know

The

Poems

Original

and Translated."

(Gill

&

Son. 18S2.)

A CLOUD OF WITNESSES.
III.

435

IN VOTUM.

The verse wherein I would congratulate More genial ending merits than a sigh
;

So once again

To

my feeble fingers try twine some flowers whose cheerful hues might

mate

The goodly vestments

of thy new estate, With well-phrased wishes that should testify To all I feel ; yet there the flowers lie
:

wishes so each other emulate, God only could to peaceful issue bring

My

The
For

conflict of their contrasts

manifold

would wish new blessings with the

old,

And

all the old renewed, the flowers of spring In autumn's peaceful lap, and not one face Missed in thy circle from its wonted place.

Of
life,

Addresses, Cardinal Newman, In the last half of his has received a number that is almost without parallel

in the case of

an

ecclesiastic, holding, at least until lately,

no
at

official

rank.

To

print
fill

them
little

elicited,

would be to

and the replies they book, which may be done

all,

some

future time as an interesting chapter of contem-

porary history, but not now.

In the year 1864, the publication of Mr. Kingsley's attack gave the clergy of many dioceses the opportunity of expressing publicly their
sentiments of admiration and of affection, and brought from the Bishop of Birmingham a separate letter of

And what nearly six hundred priests did approbation. on that occasion was similarly done by a German Congress
at

Wurzburg, and by the Bishop and Clergy of Hobart

Town.

A little later,

some anonymous newspaper

attacks

were

436
the

CARDINAL NEWMAN.
means of provoking the CathoHc
laity of

London,

assembled at the Stafford Club, to present an address to which a reply was made by Dr. Newman in a letter to
Catholic University of Ireland addressed him, not only when he retired from the Rectorship,

Lord Emly.
also,

The

but

many

years

later,

v/hen he was raised to the

That happy event brought adpurple by Leo XII L dresses from the chapter and clergy of nearly every diocese
England from the Catholics of Ireland, who entrusted to Lord O'Hagan the expression of their thoughts from a meeting of the Academia, with the Cardinal-Archbishop of Westminster presiding from the Catholic Union, read by the Duke of Norfolk and from the Poor School
of
;

Committee, presented by the Marquis of Ripon, who attributed his own conversion, under God's blessing, to Eminence's writings from the Young Men's Catholic from the Catholic CongregaSocieties in Great Britain
his
; ;

tion worshipping in the

;

Church of

St.

Aloysius in his

own

Oxford and from the English-speaking Catholic residents and visitors in Rome itself, who surrounded him there in the May of 1879, and spoke by the lips of Lady Herbert
of Lea.
"

In his reply the Cardinal said

if

they do any good, die without knowing it ; but I call should be kept to my present age an age beyond the it age of most men as if in order that, in this great city, where I am personally unknown, I might find kind friends to welcome and to cl 'm
strange that I

Most men,

me

as their spiritual benefactor."

Such as he had been to them has he been to ma 13^ more Avho have never seen his face. And they that
bring many to righteousness shall shine like the stars for ever and ever.

437

The Landmarks
Born
in the City of
(of the

of a Lifetime.

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN,

London, Feb.
21, 1801,

son of Mr. John

Newman
and of

banking firm of Ramsbottora,

his wife
;

Newman &

Co.),

Jemima Fourdrinier, Bank of England.

from the baptized a few yards

Went

at

an early age to Dr. Nicholas's school at Ealing, to the head of which he rapidly rose. Proceeded thence to Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1820.

In 1823, was elected to a Fellowship at Oriel. In 1824, took Anglican orders and became curate of St. dementis, Oxford ; and was at this time secretary to local branch of Church
Missionary Society. In 1825, became Whately's vice-principal at St. Alban's Hall. In 1826, became tutor of Oriel ; and, in 1827, one of the examiners
the B.A. degree.

for

In 1828, was appointed vicar of

St.

Mary

the Virgin, Oxford, with the

outlying chaplaincy of Littlemore. In 1832, finished History of the Ariajis and went

abroad.

Made

acquaintance with Dr. Wiseman in Rome ; seized with fever in " I shall not die have a work to do in Eng^I Sicily, but said,

land
'

"
;

sailles,

returning homewards in an orange boat bound for Marand within sight of Garibaldi's home at Caprera, wrote

On

"Lead, kindly light!" July 13, 1833, t^^ Sunday after his return home, the Oxford movement was begun by Keble's sermon on National Apostacy. The issue of Tracts for the Times immediately followed ; and in 1834, Mr. Newman published a volume of Parochial Sermons^ to be followed by University Sermons, and Sermons on Holy Days, In 1841, meeting of Vice-Chancellor and heads of houses at Oxford, to censure Mr. Newman's Tract XC. In 1843, resigned St. Mary's, and spent most of his time at his "monas1 ,

"

tery

at Littlemore.
:

In a

letter,

he said

tience that

not from disappointment, irritation, or impaI have, whether rightly or wrongly, resigned St. but because I think the Church of Rome the Catholic Mary's,
is

" It

dated October 25, of that year,

VOL.V.

I I

438

'

CARDINAL NEWMAN.

Church, and ours not a part of the Catholic Church, because not in communion with Rome, and because I feel that I could not

On
On On

honestly be a teacher in it any longer." October 9, 1845, was received into the Catholic Church, at Little-

more, by Father Dominic. November i, 1845, confirmed at Oscott, by Cardinal Wiseman. February 23, 1846, left Oxford for Oscott, whither he was called

by Dr. Wiseman,

in

whose

vicariate

Oxford

lay.

On October

28, 1846, arrived in

priest.

Rome,

and, after a short period of study,

was ordained

On

Christmas Eve, 1847, returned to England from Rome, to found an Oratorian community ; proceeded in January, 1 848, to Mary vale.

removing thence

in the course of the

same year

to St. Wilfred's,

On

Cotton, Cheadle. January 25, 1849, entered into occupation, with part of his nity, of a house in Alcester Street, Birmingham.

commu.

In 1849, took up temporary residence at Bilston, to nurse the poor during a visitation of cholera.
In April, 1849, founded the London Oratory, in King William Street, with Father Faber as rector.

On

October

1850, released the London community "with much " from their obedience, and deputed regret and sorrowful hearts
9,

them

On

June

to erect a separate congregation. 21, 1852, the case of Achilli against Dr.

Newman came on

for

trial,

before

Lord Campbell, and

fine,

after several

days' duration,

resulted in a verdict of "guilty," Dr.

Newman

being unjustly

sentenced to a

and mulcted

in

enormous

costs.

In 1854, went to Dublin as rector of the newly-founded Irish Catholic University, but resigned that post in 1858, and subsequently
established a boys' school at Birmingham.

In January, 1864, in a review of Froude's Histo7'y of England^ Charles

the charges of untruthfulness against the Catholic clergy, which led to the writing of the Apologia pro Vitd Sud. In December, 1877, was elected an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College,

Kingsley

made

Oxford.

In 1879, created Cardinal Deacon of the Holy

Roman Church by

Leo XIII.

John Oldcastle.