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THE EXETER'THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1930
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Rector of Trivitt
Memorial Preaches
on Cardinal Newman
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We give an outline sketch—not
a verbatim report—of the second of
the series of sermons on great
British preachers which was deliver
ed in Trivitt Memorial church a week
ago Sunday night. Although the
weather was very cold there was a
good attendance at the evening ser
vice. The Rector of Trivitt Memor
ial stated that Newman belonged to
that ismall hut influential class of
men whose magnetic, personality ex
ercises a profound and wide influ
ence during their lives, and many of
them continue to exercise that pro
found influence after death. The
variety of the human appeal which
he made to his own day and genera
tion was due. to the fact th\t he
was not only a many-sided but also
a myriad-minded genius; he was ex
actly the type of man to hypnotise
some people and to be misunderstood
by others, lie was worshipped and
denounced at one and the same time.
The high spots in the life of John
Henry Newman were then pointed
out, He was born in 1801, the sou
of, Evangelical parents, members of
the Church of England; and he was
brought up in the strong Protestant
Evangelical teachings of the time.
He was educated at Oxford Univers
ity,, where he formed friendship with
some of the leading men of the day,
among them Archbishop Whately;
from whom Newman derived many
religious notioils which he after
wards modified if not actually op
posed. There was French Huguenot
blood in his veins; and this fact is
worth remembering 'and emphasising
because the splendid mastery which
Newman obtained over English
prose—he was one of the greatest
English stylists of the nineteenth
century—was an inheritance from
hi.s French ancestors; the French
being the greatest and most skillful
prose writers in the whole world. A
few years after he had been ordain
ed to the ministry of the English
Church he began to exercise a quiet
but deep influence upon his con
temporaries. The times were strange
ly out of joint from an ecclesiastic
al standpoint. The Church of Eng
land was being aroused from the
deep slumbers of the early years of
the nineteenth century; everywhere
there were cries for reform; hut
the Bishops turned an unhearing if
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not a deaf eax* ti) those popular clam
ours. Newman did not very well
know what to do at first. t He waa
still largely under the Influence of
his early Evangelical traditions. But
he was gradually breaking away
from those traditions, and lie soon
joined that body of young Qxoujans
of whom perhaps the most /remark-
able member, >and with whom* the
English Reformation of the (Sixteenth
Century had suddenly became very
unpopular. The strange theological
literature which is associated with
the “Tracts for the Times” now be
gan’to be circulated through Eng
land. Newman himself contributed
ed to the “Tracts” and he soon be
came their leading writer. The .sus
picions of Protestant England were
now thoroughly aroused and those
suspicions swelled into a loud roar
pl’ anger when Newman wrote and
published Tract Ninety—-the last, of
the series. Never before was re
ligious England so convulsed by a
mere pamphlet. Protestantism now
openly unsheathed its sword; and
Newman and his party7 had to bow
before the storm. He had main
tained in Tract Ninety that the
Thirty-Nine Articles did not' openly
condemn certain authorized Roman
Catholic teachings; ho claimed that
they only condemned certain popular
conceptions of those teachings; and
his laguago meant—-if language
meant anything at all—that an Eng
lish Church clergyman could hold
many Roman Catholic doctrines (if
not the whole round of them) and
yet subscribe to the Articles and. re
main in the Church of England.
Newman himself was as ranch upset
by TractNinety as anybody else.
He retired tfo Littlomore, in the vi
cinity of Oxford; and there for a few
years he lay on what he called his
Anglican death-bed. A death-bed
it was. It gradually dawned on him
that his. whole position was an im
possible one; and the terrible ques
tion now confronted him—what was
he to do? He had lost the confi-
of English Protestants; could he win
and hold the confidence of Roman
Catholics? He docided to cross the
Rubicon; and in October 1845 ho
formally miade his submission to the
Roman Catholic Church. He was- by
fax’ the most brilliant convert thift
Rome had captured since the Re
formation. He was the* most influ
ential Anglican clergyman ‘ of
day; axxd when he went over
Rome lie left all that influence
ever behind him.
The Roman authorities were
lighted to receive Newman; bpt
fore very long they discovered that
they had somewhat of a Tartar
oxx theix» hands. The Roman Church
is a masterpiece of discipline; it has
never been partial to the dissemin
ation of what are called, “ideas.”
Unluckily .for himself Newman was
possessed of ideas, -and was also de
sirous to propogate thenx. It would
never do for the Roman Church to
openly repudicate him—had that
been done, .a deatli-iblew would have
beexx struck at the reviving Roman
prospects iix England. But the Ro
man authorities always placed ob
stacles in his path; all of his .schemes
for the advancement of religion in
Englaftd were still-born, oi* as good
ag sjill-born; and lie never became
a “persona grata” at the Vatican.
JThe real secret of Newman’s troubles
with the Roman Catholic authorities
lay in the opposition of Manning, who
beeanxe Archbishop of Westminister
in 18 65 and Cardinal in 1875. Man
ning was in almost every way the
opposite of Newman. Like Newman
he had. been an Anglican clergyman;
he rose to be the Archdeacon of Chi
chester; he married and his wife
died; so that lie had no domestic
difficulties on his hands when he
went over to Rome, 'There was a
low cunning in Manning’s character
which contrasts .strangely with the
high seriousness .of his religious pro
fession. He never understood New
man; he was a son of the Tiber
while Newman was a son of the.
Thames. To make matters worse.
Manning always had the ear of Pope
Pius. IX, a Pontiff whose whole na
ture was saturated with the spirit
of Italian ecclesiasticism, who nilg'lit
indeed bS described Tis the counter-
paX't of Manning himself. Newman
nevex*. got anywhere in the Roman
Catholic world while Pope Pius liv
ed. But he achieved in his lonely
isolation the one solitary triumph of
his life.
cwn; .the Roman • authorities had
. nothing to, do with bringing it about.
'Charles Kingsley, a well-known Eng
lish' writer and novelist of that day,
had .attacked the accuracy and “love
of truth" of - Roman Catholics in
general and of Newman In particu-'
lai*. Newman pub'licly • protested;
and Kingsley repeated hik charges
in aiioitlx$r attack. A great oppor
tunity to redeem himself in the eyes
Of England and the -world Was. now
giveji Newman. True to the li'teral'y
instincts of his French ancestors' he
vindicated himself in a book which
has ever since been recognized as a
masterpiece—“perhaps the mastexv
pieces—of its kind in English. New
man’s “apology” will live as long as
the English language. It professes
to be a history of his religious opin
ions since lie was first capable of
thinking on religious matters at all; i
but ft leaves the careful reader in
sqme doubt as to the exact nature
of the Roman Catholic appeal to
Newman. One thing the book cer-
itaiiily. does—it blows. ;tq pieces the
Iflfftisy structiii'e of .Anglo**Gatholi<r-
{isfp which New mail hlmsdlf and,the
'Tractarians had Wilt hfe.'..... -.a*.,..
his
to
for
de-
be-
by the j'jumxt. intellects of latei1 gen
erations of priestlings. Newman- -
again true to the best traditions of
his French ancestry—-was logical
and could always see much further
than his nose; well would it be with
the internal peace of the Church of
England if others could be logical
too! Canon Barry’s delightful criti
cism Pusey is applicable to the
whole Anglo-Catholic, tribe. “They
• have cbnfnsed minds”; and what can
we expect from confused minds but
a confused religion? From that last
disaster, Newman’s logical intellect
—more French than English—cer
tainly saved him.
Though Newman was made a Car
dinal by Pope Leo XIII in 1879 it
has been his destiny that the parent
age of Roman Catholic Modernism
should be largely attributed to him.
If such really is the case—-and there
are some strong reasons for believ
ing that such is actually the case—■
then a just Nemesis has overtaken
the misunderstanding if not perse
cution „of Newman by the Roman
Catholic -authorities. That the au
thor of Tract Ninety in the forties
should he the literary fathex* of Fa
ther Tyitell in the nineties is a hap
pening which would be a real joy to
such -a man as Dean Swift. Yet why
should we wonder at such rf phenam-
e'non? Voltaire was trained and ed
ucated by the Jesuits; he was pro
bably shown how casuistical subtle
ties could get around—if not. get
over—the damaging onslaughts of
Pascal; he was very likely able to
balance not merely millions of an
gels but even millions of Jesuits
themselves as the pin-point of ta
needle; yet in spite of all this schol
astic training 'and spiritual nurtur
ing he became the Voltaire that wo
all know—the terrox* of priests and
priestlings' everywhere, the sworn
foe of all despotism in the spiritual
world. {Many people doubt whether
Newman ever really understood • the
true 'character of the Roman Cath
olic Church. Certain it is that if
his writings have led people to Rome
they have also led people away from
Rome; and- those whom they Imve
led from Rome have not gone to An
glo-Catholicism for shelter—one
does not leave an old house like tlxe
Roman, strong as well as hoary with
age, for a make-shift affair put to
gether hastily yesterday or the . day
before and inhabited by intellectual
rabbit s w’ho .fly from the world’s
difficulties instead of facing thenx,
Newman certainly was not an intel
lectual fabbit;- though Carlyle, on
one occasion when the Sage of Chel
sea was seized with -a fit of splene
tic ill-humor, described him as such.
Ail'd there are some keen critics of
liis career who contend that his true
heirs are neither the Anglicans
whom he led to Rome nor the Anglo-
Catholics who, in the biting critic
ism of Pope Pius IX, are like
the church bells—ever ringing the
people to church dud never going in
to the church themselves—but ra
ther that great unorganized body
of religious thinkeds, often outside
all 'Christian churches themselves,
who are to-day the most interest-
■ing if not the most potent factors in
the (Spiritual world. The Mannings
have never contributed .anything
really worth while to the pi-ogress’ of
humanity; the majority of the A11-
glo-Catholics have contributed even
less.; it is not an alliance between
incense and nonsense that wi'll <save
this poor perishing world. New
man was crucified in his own day;
he is canonized—and not always by
Roman Catholics—to-day. One les
son we can learn from Newman’s
strange career is that no 'party in tile
Anglican churh, iliowever correct and
legitimate its Anglicanism may be,
must be allowed to monopolise the
whole Church; sane and sober Ang-
licans-^-and thank' God tlieir number
is still much largei’ than some people
think—must resist -.all attempts to
drive out the Evangelicals to-day as
‘ ‘ ’ resisted all at-
0111 the High
could only mul-
Brigliton by the
Letter irom California
Mr. 0« WRds, of Daslnvood, ivjic
with JRrs. Wilds is speniling’ the
winter in Ualit'oriiia, writes a se
cond interesting letter tlmt will
be, read with pleasure by our many
readers,
Dear Mr. Editor;
a.' ex-
Since we aiTived in California we
have visited some of the show places^
the most interesting of which I shall
try to describe;
Wo have visited some of the fruit
orchards where oranges, lemons,
grape fruit and tangerines are grow
ing in abundance, the choicest of
which are packed for Eastern and
Northern shipment. It . is an inter
esting fact that fruits4 are
pensive here as at (home in Canada
for practically only culls
fruit) is retained’ for . this market,
and while culls are cheaper, the bet
ter fruit brings the same price as at
home. Many of the .orchards coveiN
several acres of land and .thousands*
of crates are, yashed, ; sterilized^
dried, sorted, wrapped and 'crated
each day in a specially equipped,
plant neai- where we live. All, of
the work except inspectionand
packing is done by machinery. One-
girl ordinarily packs a large crate in
one minute. The trees bear the-
year around.
It is quite warm at all times ex- ■
cept in the evening, and oux- lawn,
is covered with
every
share
(small
green grass, and.
rose bush is laden with its
of blossoms.
Ostrich Farm
went through the Ostrich-
which is approximately one-
We
Farm
mile from our house and it-was a-
revealation to witness those giant
birds carrying a 175 pound man on.-
their backs with the ease of a
Percheron and the grace of a swan.
These birds attain an age of 70
years. They reach maturity at five-,
years at which time they mate. Old
l\Ir. Ostrich seems to be one step-
ahead of Man in sociology at least,,
for he seems5 to have "solved .the “Do
mestic relations” , problem. An
Ostrich nevex* gets a divorce—once*
mated* they remain iso 'until death..
The young average, about a pound
in weight when hatched and their
eggs are approximately 6 by 8 inches
and almost the same shape as hen
eggs, When ostriches are in fear,...
they stick their heads in a hole iir
the ground about four or five inches -
deep and feel they are hidden
view.
from.
nextr.
from.
their predecessors
tempts to drive
Churchmen. If we
tiply Roberston of
thousand and by the ten thousand'!
Of some of our 'clerics ‘a variaiotn of
the story of the Prodigal Sbn has
been told. When the Prodigal came
home they kille/l for him the fatted
calf. When the Canadian soldiers
came, from from France they ’shot
for them the bull. Gut when the
priestlings began his ecclesiastical
That triumph was all liis^ capers, in the parish they presented
him with an—ass! Did the animal
“Speak with a man's voice?” If he
did, he was. pfbbabiy invited into
the pulpit to deliver .the Ohly in
telligent sqrm'on that had ever been
inflicted, on the congregation. New-
One of his ■ sermons was memorized
by' Macaulay, who memorized every
thing even Milton/ 1 have never yet
heard .of any literary celebrity per
forming a similiar.’feat for the pul
pit utterances of .any. modern Angli
can. We hate not wasted our time
by this discussion on Newman to
night. Next Sunday night we will
deal with Spurgeon, a preacher who
Was already famous at the age of
£wenty-two, and who was in almost
•.every way a complete contrast to
Newman,.
maii was .a inighty preacher himself.
The death occurred while motor
ing Jo Parlthill f.hcent.lv of Nell Mc-
.KlUon of W. W’U'ams. Mr. McKil-
lop /Was hn his wav to Parkhill to
meet a relative-and his car became
stalled in the .snow anf1 whexx.Iie |*ot
out of ’the. oar nt _____„
n hdai’t nttaekfahil died a few bpm-
................ .. , enp \lat0D /'. XU. ifii; survived ..byj one,,
stiilXlidld up for oul*'adiiiiration| btother;aiicFone slater/’
Alligato»' Farm
The Alligator Farm came
where we viewed specimens
three months to 225 years of age.
They are kept in pens with convent-
lent pools of water. They feed '.dux--
ing 6 iponths of the year and then;
hibernate. They lay eggs in great
piles of leaves 'and other rubbisht
which they heap up near the water’s*
edge and let the sun hatch them 0>u.1;o.
As high as 300 “"gators” are in one
pen at once.
A very interesting day was spent,
at the ocean, where- everyone wass
swimming and gamboling in the-
warm sunshine. Here we saw many
different species of water fowl; and’
fish, and on a quiet stretch of beach.:
gathered many odd and interesting
kinds of sea-shells. The most pe
culiar ‘of the birds is the pelican-
whose beak is as long as his body
and in which he can hold a three •
pound
whole,
fish. He swallows the ‘fish
head first.
Pageant of Roses ,
Pageant of Roses, held an-
| honest living.
• portant- pai't
uw uuuj/Gal D'iehds,
io ,W.aA sfrie'Ren >ylth | ihg, give me
the year;
The
nually here in Pasadena is really -be
yond description. There were bun- -
dreds of floats bearing every sort
of inxage and all made of roses. For
instance, there was a float built to
resemble the sunset in the moun
tains. The different colors of roses -
making it a most natural picture,.-
and one to do credit, to a painter.
Trip in the Air
The writer has enjoyed the pleas
ure of an* air voyage from Los An
geles to San Francisco and return, a.
total’flying -distance of 875 miles,,
and the entire time in the air wa;s
a trifle less than six houi’s. The.'
trip was made in a tri-motor Fokker*
capable of seating 12 passengers and
carrying their luggage. On the trip-
going we flew mostly.over the ocean
but in plain view of the shore, and
rtbout 3,000 feet high. It was a-
clear day, and the U. S', battleships:
appeared like little toy boats beneath,
us. On the return we flew ovex* the-
mountainous shore but in view of .
the ocean. In highex’ mountains,,
we could- see .the snow and clouds-:
beneath us, There was anpthei'"
plane directly ahead of us and fly
ing the- same coui'se, and as oux”
speed was greater we gradually rose-
higher and higher until safe and',
oyertook it by flying
seemed, , -after all, a
world as we looked
much distance. The
Francisco 'Costs $21.50
$38.50 round trip, and
planes each way daily ,
way every night,
, So far, California is the pnost
beautiful place the writer has evei”
seen or hopes to see, but. for a good'
, and for that most ini—
of real living, namely,,
and fbi’ albround farm-
Old Dntai’io any -day er
ovei‘ it. It
very small,
about at so
trip to Saxr
one way and"
there are two-
and one each
Yours respectfully
I<\ 0. Wild