PRINCE AND CARDINAL

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 14, 18 January 1892, Page 2

PRINCE AND CARDINAL

Two Notable Deaths,

Comments from the Pulpit.

ST. MATTHEW'S,

Theke was a very large congregation a fc St. Matthew's Anglican Church last evening. Immediately prior to the service, the congregation sang the hymn commencing «' Now the labourer's task is o'er;" the words of the last verse being as follows : — Earth to earth., and dust to dust, Calmly now the words we say, Leaving him to sleep in trust Till the Resurrection Day. Father, in Thy gracious keeping Leave we now Thy servant sleeping.

The sermon was preached by the incumbent, Rev. L. H. Outram, from Romans, chapter xii., verse 15 : " Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep." Mr Outram. having dealt with his subject in the abstract, in a very interesting discourse, said :—" An event has happened during bhe pasb week demanding our sympathy, which I, as a Briton, as a loyal subject) of Her Majesby the Queen, whom God long preserve—canno. help alluding to, since I am speaking here to fellowsubjects of thab augusb lady. 'Rejoice with those that do rejoice, and weep with those that weep.' Some few days ago the whole British race was rejoicing at the news of the betrothal of the young man who was expected come day to occupy the throne &f that country on whoso dominions the sun never sets, at his betrothal bo a young princess who is beloved by rich and poor alike; who is ever ready to give a helping harid in the alleviation of sickness, poverty, and suffering, and who, in addition to these humans qualities, possesses others which fit her admirably for the exalted position which seemed to be assured to her. The Royal Family of England rejoiced ; our honoured Sovereign rejoiced. We read how glad she was at the news of the betrothal of two, whom she loved with all that large-hearted affection ojE which we know her to be capable. The English people rejoiced too. They grumble and growl sometimes,, but I believe they love their Queen. I believe a thrill goes through the breast of every Englishman who is worth anything when he hears the sound of the old National Anthem pealing forth. I believe wo are loyal yet. When we have ceased so to be, then may we look for our speedy downfall as' a nation, ft is the fashion with some to run the Royal house down. Ib is the fashion wibh some to think it clover to keep their hats on when ' God Save the Queen' is being played ; to start stories without the .lightest foundation, concerning members of the Royal Family; to complain largely of the money they receive from the State ; to p.ofess their desire for their speedy extinction. I don't believe this class of people to be many. I am sure this class is not clever. I believe they are un-English. Some of them say they don't want to be English. Well, then, let them go and live in some land which is not English. While we are Britons let us bo Britons. Let us uphold the honour of our flag, and let us love our Queen. She sympathises wibh her people. There is no great accident, no shipwreck,, no mining explosion about which she does not tenderly inquire. Many and many a time has she lifted the latch of a humblo cottage, and, entering in and taking tho chair at the bedside, inquired sympathetically of the aged sufferer, and cheered him by reading to him the Word of Life. Many a time has she passed among her sick soldiers, wounded for he.r as they fought for the honour of her flag, and soothed them in their pain by her gentle expressions of sympathy. She has over and over again wept for those who weep; for she knows what sorrow is herself, poor thing. She knows what it is to bo a widow ; to have a husband, tender and kindly, cut off in a; week's time. She knows what ib is to lose a son, perhaps tho besb beloved of all the family, in the prime of his life. She knew what it was to lose a daughter v/hen the news came over the sea that the child who had been her great stay and comfort in her bereavement had been snatohed away whilst tending her little ones. She has led a domestic life, and has felfc the sorrows which beset such a life. She has seb a good example to her people in her joys and sorrows. She knows what bereavement is, and aa each blow descends upon her every truo Englishman sympathises with her. Another great bereavemen. has fallen upon our Queen during the pasb week. She has losb her grandson, to whom sne was devotedly attached. Her house is in mourning again. Her son and daughter are prostrated with grief at the death of their firstborn. It is well, known that the Royal Family of England are most affectionate one to the other. Not a week passes when any of the Queen's children are away that they do not write to her. The same affectionate spirit has been maintained ra the family of her eldest son. Those who stay in his house are ever loud in their praises of the domesticated character of his family, of the love ho and his wife bear to their children, of the unaffected esteem the different members of ib b_2ir to one another. My brethren, the details of the story we al! read during the week are very touching and very instructive. The young man shortly* to be married ; the wedding presents showering in upon him from all parts of the world. Ah 1 how mutely eloquent they will be as they staEd upon the table in the darkened house. His sovereign rejoicing at the choice he, the heir to the English throne, had made. He is summoned away suddenly by death ; happiness is turned into sorrow, joy into mourning. The brido, who had prepared her robes of white, will walk about in crape. The father and the mother—and there were never kinder parents in the world—stand with trembling lips beside the death-bed of their firstborn, crushed by the fatal waft of the wing of the destroying angel, weeping as of old Egyptian parents wept on the night when Israel started for the land of promise. I followed the accounts of our poor young prince's illness with the more interest in that I was a contemporary of his at college, a*nd used often to see him going to his lecture in his cap and gown, or rowing on the river,\pr playing hockey in the field. How he was looked at then a3 the future King of England, some of his compeers possibly envying his exalted lot. Bub 'man proposes, God disposes.' Kings and princes are not spared from the dart of death. They have to die. I said the story o. the Prince's death was touching; it is also instructive. It teaches us to prepare ,for death; it teaches us that no.thing can keep us from having some day to pay the debt of nature; that rank, riches, and power cannot keep a man alive when God has said to him 'Come.' God gives us sharp lessons to teach us this principle sometimes. He has given one to the world during the past week. He has shown us the uncertainty of life; that ib is His will sometimes to tako away one who appears to be on the threshold of life, and how again He wills to let a man far outstep the span of three-score years and ton, and lead a long life of usefulness. Yes, we, though of a different church, w.ll allow Henry Edward Manning to have worked hard and well, to have been a,-great lover of mankind, to have rejoiced with those who do rejoice, and to have wept with those who weep ; though he left the ancient Church of his fathers and his race, to join an alien Church, ruled over nob by a Briton, but by an Italian. But de mortuia nil nisi bonum. Let us remember the good deeds of the celebrated Cardinal, while we regret, the differences which separated us and him. Let us look

upon\ the solicitude with which he ». garded the illness of the young _?rin_« who died in the faith of the ancient cathj. lie and British Church, as an omen of bettej things, 'of dajs to come when differences n» longer divide tho Churol. of God, when eh, may indeed be considered one fold undet one shepherd. May these sad occurrence! teach us to be humble, to remember that God can do very well without us, that the man is not indispensable; that tho world will go on very well indeed with, out you or me; that when we die there may be a certain sensation in our t>wi. little* circle, but that aftor a whilj ib will die away even _as the circle diet away in the pool which has been d_. turbed for the moment by a stone being thrown* into it. May these deaths teach us to live, not for this life, but for ..j* next; so thab when pur burn comes to cross bhe sea of deabh add bo land upon the shores of the next world we shall not he cast upon ib like poor shipwrecked sailora upon a barren reef, bub shall be landed upon ib genbly, quietly, like men who have been for some time in a far country, but who have at length, by tho grace of God, been permitted to drop their anchor and rest in the harbour of their everl__'_g home." As the voice of the preacher ceased, the large congregation rose to its feet, and the magnificent strains of the " Dead March in Saul" pealed through the church in solemn grandeur, moving many of those present to tears. Mr Arthur Towsey played the march admirably, and at its conclusion tha congregation sane tho first stanza of the "National Anthem." The very impressive one. ST. STEPHEN'S.

The Rev. T. F. Robertson, in the morning service, made reference to the bereave' meat in the Royal Family, and to ; the heartfelt sympathy throughout the British Empire, and the hymns sung wer. suitable for the occasion. In speak. ing of Christ. compassion for the many bereaved hearts in the world at the present hour, Mr Robertson said deeper thoughts and feelings in presence of death at Bethany than we could utter moved our Redeemer to tears. Some light might be cast upon His state of soul iv the indignant moan against the misery death brought to loving relatives a_4 friends found in our greatest song of humsi. sorrow, "In Memoriam." Still, His tears' were tears of tender hunian sympathy., When He saw the bereaved Bister weeping and her friends weeping, "Jesus wept." This sympathy, then, felt through the Empire was Christlike, It gave a proof of growing Christian feeling, A friend in darkest Africa, sitting with a breaking heart in a lonely home by this side of his beloved dead, had written to say that a new hope for Africa had dawned in his soul from the sympathy of a heathen chief. Thab chief sat before his house a whole day in silence, tasting neither bread nor water, bo show his sympabhy with th» bereaved. Thiß human sympathy, sanctified by Christ's tears, gave tho sorrowing-: servant of Christ fresh" hope for the Dark Continent. The present sympathy, not official, bub really genuiuo, so widespread, might cheer us with brighter hopes for our British Empire, and ib might do more than any harsh lecturing of princes to remember their latter end, to increase a generous love for the people and 'uprightness of life round the throne of England. We need nob be afflicted with any fears about the lack of a long line of kings, and some of us may nob build our hopes for the future upon any dynasty of earth. It was the loss of the grandson of our Queen and thai son of the Prince and Princess of Wales we, mourned, and our heart's prayer should,! ascend that the sympathy of Christ may* become precious at this hour to the whole. Royal Family and to the betrothed Princess so- 1 suddenly bereaved amidst bright.-, hopas, for the future. Mr Robertson thenspoka of Christ's compassion for the many feuffe*. ' ing ones at the present hour as precioui' from-Chrisb'e own experience of bhe keenest' mental and physical agony. That facb. helped us amidst the mystery of human suffering better than any harsher common-, place consolation. His tears and prayeraj and suffering senb us. bo God in our day oftrouble. In speaking of Christ weopiug*; over Jerusalem he referred to the death of, Cardinal Manning. We might learn lessons, he said, from Manning's and Newman's and Keble'a and Pusey's connection with the Tractarian Oxford movement,;, From their longing bo find the one his, torical authoritative church, not content with the authority of the historical Christ and the historical Scriptures and the historical circle of Christians found everywhere, so opposed to High Church and Romish opinions and .ritual, we mighn admire his suffering* of scorn and reproach for victions, for his" self-denial, however ascetic, as a noble testimony again6t the shameless luxury of London. Bub ib was the Christlike feelings of thi. man over the sins and sorrows of the great city, and his noble effort to see fair play between fche rich and poor, that gave him real grandeur. And this Christlike spirit was our hope for}- the Christianity of tha future. It was' not to the scholastic and"_cclesiastici to church union and revision of creeds, however needful, v. looked. But give'us OhristMkemen, feeling keenly the misery that grovels round the Vatican in Rome and Westminster _ in, London, and that grows in all our cities, and we would honour them, to whatever communion they belonged. If our. hearts* are hard and cold in regard to the oppression of the poor, we should bring them to Christ to be made bender and compassion: ate. - • ST. PETER'S. Ab the services held yesterday in.Sfy Peter's Presbyterian Church, Surrey Hills* •passing reference was made by «■? Rev. R. Sommerville to the deatis ot the lat6 two nooable3 of the earth, tha Duke of Clarence and Cardinal Manning. Mr Sommerville dwelt on the thema thab death was no respector. ot persons, and commented in a / manner on the mourning into which tha. nation had been thrown by the early demise of the Prince of Wales' son. A. the morning and evening services we " Dead March in Saul" was played by mjss Farrell, who is acting as organist in tn. absence of Mr McKerras. BERESFORD-STREET CHURCH. _ A special service was held last night io the Beresford-streeb Congregational Cburcc having reference to the decease of the JJut-a of Clarence, Cardinal Manning and others. In addition to suitable hymns the following anthems were sung, " Days and Moments QuicklvFtying" (Rev. J. B. Dykes), Sleep Thy Last Sleep "(J. Barnby) and "W Spark." During the offertory the. l-« aa March in Saul" was nicely played ny Mr W. J. Cousins, who officiated in ens absence of the organist. Moir's funeiai march was also played at the close of «■ service. Miss Walker also sang tna sacred solo, " 0 Rest in the Lord, f n-J Rev. James Chew preached from Lcclfeiastes. Bth chapter, verses 7 and °f "For ho knoweth not that which shall ne, for who can tell him when it shah »• There is no man hath power overi" spirit, to retain the spirit, neither Daw he power in the day of death ; and there" no discharge in that war; neither stiau wickedness deliver those that are giveni i it." In opening his remarks the i -ove gentleman said that all must die was uniw . Bally acknowledged, bub too often was. pr* tically ignored. The vast majonty V mankind appeared 'to proceed as it im were immortal, therefore it was " e f ssa '-5 occasionally to remind them that the en draweth nigh to all. He referred to «f unexpected death of the Khedive °* which had .-nr.si-d considerable apprehend' at Home, as is needed but a apaii*ignite the yreat powder magazine

r~~~*ne eminently pious had also Europe, lie *£ re f e rred to Cardinal passed away. eaJled „ pr j nC e of the fcanniag, »™ c came ran k nnd Chun*. -A no Kirf f but Cardinal Mauntfgion had'«£■ ore familiar. He was Bin y„ nameiw» a prinCß) for hls worth b elD £ on nnncely. His energy «fo h f *r had been wonderful, on and chanty •?*■", tho humble maid Sehalf oi little cJ«J c ». dnrine the lat _ rr%-i*liteta any church, high .trite. iNO .Tr, b0 supposed, so univerby psop.'e outside of all •ally u re^ r ! cardinal Manning. Should Churches " % in h a a man teach a lesson wt . tb tu*.t charity, and also that death «* brothe fj a l no matter how valued or wa3 near to all, n Thi(j wa _ algo what ,T_ by the araentable death of the r P fS,al Any further remarks Puke , B ° shortb. the ringing of tho firerSwffiause'd the speaker to close the * rf HT_.STREET WESLEYAN. lMt fZke'i'n moving terms of the deaths ftdS Manning and the Duke o of owmu* onda * 0 the Prince Albert liSned mostly, he hoped, with honour. C.were in many respects a contrast . y «___i_r for one was just commencfold his On-3 _aa called to high posifitfbfe, the other by grace, gifts and S_Bt.y. Both were deeply mourned, and „ rds of their deaths would stand while wSd stood. In touching terms Mr walluded to the sorrow of the Princess IndHer Majesty, whose affections had b en centred so strongly on the dead prince. Sty heart would be toucned by the pieInn of the mother and the bride-elect Stalling, and to witness another illustration that neither on the highest or in the Krart.po.iUon could the arrow by day or the pestilence in darkness be turned aside, -The heir presumptive was the child Of the nation. His loss was a national event It was only for them to hone that the very obvious lesson taught by this death would be taken to heart by the voun» men and women ot the day. It co Albert Victor would not have lived in vain Mr Berry then passed to Cardinal Manning, and Baid it was forty years Bince tho Cardinal had left the English church. Mr Berry then spoke as follows: - " For fifty years or more ho has been a prominent figure in English lifo His name i. known every whore, and everywhere with respect. You know how the avor-BO Englishman dislikes priests and hates Cardinals, yet tho average En-,l*_h_an roveie-J the name of Manning. Hi., position in the affections of hi. countrymen h not the result of his ecclc-ia.Lical position, butha3 been secured ii: spite oi' it. Cardinal Manning was a Roman Catholic Lord Shaftesbury, a pitiiotic Englishman, a lover of childr.cn, a eonsistens i.e_t_ll.r and an ardent temp_ar.ee reformer* a friend of every cause ..<'.. had at.heart the welfare of the pciplo. In the great dock strike he did I _._. to secure justice for the workingrnan arid Vo restore peace, than any other. _-;oh a position as that lias to bo earned aud won by __.it; and Cardinal ..uanrriiig c .m.d and won it. Ib is not neeKMiry for me to »ay that I do not for a moment 6iido_e Cardinal Manning's reli-fii-iis opinions, ftly position hero is ovitlevic. enough ot that. It is, however, a part of my religion to look for g00..! in those from whom in-opinion I am obliged to 'ditier, and when I. find it, to chunk tho , Giror of All Good. Manning was tolerant otdilferenco. of opinion, and charitable in ihe construction of motive, to a remarkable degree, and that is-a- grace in which bo man, Roman Catholic or other, 'shall surpass my if lean help it. Let us guard against that dreadful state of mind ' which !<__>» so many to doubt even the sincerity of tho.o who cannot see eye to eye | with themselves! One great result of the I' life of these two great Cardinals—.Manning \ and Newman-will be that fair-minded Englishmen will see that it i 3 possible for learned and saintly and deeply prayerful ' men to be sincere and honest Roman •Catholic.?. Newman applied tho dissecting knife to his own heart; he so laid bare to the eyes of the world the motive that actuated him in every, step he took Romeward, as to make it simply impossible to doubt that he was as sincere in the conclusions to which he came as was Luther, or Knox, or Wesley. If thab were nob so, tho Apologia''would bo tho most lying book ever printed. If.ever a good man prayed head, Kindly Light,' ib was the writer of that hymn, and he believed that he was ant-ivered by being led to Rome. There could be uo suspicion of a sinister motive here, for hi. every worldly interest was against the step ho took, « were all the dear ties of family and friendship. Cardinal Manning did not, to the same extent take the world into the innermost snrino of his most sacred conMenoe, but we know enough to know that in this step he was actuated by whab he behoved to be, his duty. Those who cloubt wiis either cannot have thought, or are incapable of understanding whab ib means lor i__". "V. 3 P° Bition . and at his time of we, to publicly acknowledge himself in the v-iong as to his spoken and published teaching. Here men like Newman and Manning mistaken in their conviction of duty? That s a difficult; and very delicate question. It "a question the answer to which had _™£ p P ? a . S be lefb 'tween them and nf .°:_- lf we B B * s down t0 fche bedrock Llm\ hl3at 1 least is certain, thab men equally learned and logical and saintly, v/_ 5. T of knowin S and _-__,_;* a , reled t0 » iff er-nt and even .opposite conclusions. Some would say, wan prayer is oi no use, and learning and __«■ n WlnfclineM a delusion and a ??_.-!"■ Perha P s the explanation hv-i__,°? C . Urch - The time ™*V a_ 9B . m n f °_ fchat - Spurgeon.it may be, g B« ve God better a. a Baptist, and Price SS a - 3 a Mefchod ist. and Dykes as a 5 n - an ' and Liddon as an Anglican, 6 a ?'a Catholic. Church •Sn _ bo> the world is not wSSy yet. I 2 i.nu ° r6 _ SUre of than I am 'of thS. C £ nroh wi " "Otconsi.b of any one ■L £ - at _ U1 embrace i[l . wav £Lp m - aIL Thafc Church will, I S; C ( .°i. nSlBt ° f tbo ' ,e who lo ™ God ™ d 2* r ' snd wh ° in thab love a ■oStwT n , , , nß^rabiontoband them in tion o In °_ al Sln ' and in the ameliorao fol • 9ug ? I ; !n K* I could no more think lovehi, 6r '_ b . t X can "admire him, and liv-i-?_',f nd thank God '<»■ l"o he th-r' w " 10 >'°°d he accomDlished. ' Ho Ood 'Tn.. V 8 b -° rn ot Uod "' and knowo.th W e ; Wl., Mannin R was a j_rea. -onl_ / i a fche bl "ofcherhood in -.vhich I KhVhood n r e * h * Umble P' acs -not the dub - w?_ K opi _ nioll » for that isonl y a service tW fl 6br ° therhood of love - and the true l f . 1 t ° WB r,° L ut of love - for that is the ffloSf A_.L y ° hUrch 0f Chrisfc '" The BAPTIST TABERNACLE. in? S ervl S e P H r ft ge °, n, 1 a , b Tabernacle even-io-b tal_f_ d6Vo , t ? d hi 3 Bermon t0 thQ sub " ■fevateft "" texb " Voicea from ft Coring v° d L Ha f l uotßd from lßb ' man. vn- ' • chaD - V6rso 10 > " Th ere are •noS- w?th_ B f thi * 3 World ' and there » 'toW v . I "*" If there were so nothin. »i?, of _ VOICM in the world, and said r_,_. " voice ' whab a voice, he Borrow f r COme {rom a scene of which th_v X S i U u b a deat hbod as that of oyea lWi been wading wibh tearful waa"v»h7, wa L s . co mmon enough, but it their hlffh «._**"_*. {011 - whon princes in o "W.hpl. Ma i eU that our hearts .ad

eyes were opened, and our thoughts were reached, and our hearts touched.. Concerning the faebs of the death of bho prince, Mr Spnrgeon said he could teil the congregation nothing beyond what bhey already know through the pross ; it was with, them rather a spiritual than a personal matter. Here " was a prince " fallen in high places," an amiable prince. He wished they knew more about his life and character ; whab bhey did know was satisfactory, so far. He was spoken of as an amiable prince and as of an open character. The victor (for his name was Vicbor) was a victim, for death had climbed to his high seat and hurried him to the tomb. Mr Srjurgeon invited the congregation in thought and sympathy to surround the bier, to listen to the voices that came from the dead, from their sorrowing relatives, and from all those who wept about his resting place. There was a voice from the prince himself that seemed to say, "All are of the dust, and all turn to the dust again. It is true I have been a prince, it is true that royal blood coursed in my veins, but death cornea down wibh reckless footsteps to the hall as well as to the hut. I am'a prince, but I have nob been spared. Death is no respector of princes, and here, from my bier, I tain would speak to the great ones—to the princes of the earth — and say, nobles though you are, great ones though you seem to be, you must come to tins." Mr Spurgeon also pictured the grief of his royal father, bhe Prince of Wales, possibly saying, " My son, my son, would God I could have died for thee." He thought he could see his mother, whom all delighted to honour, sftying " All these things are against me; if I am bereaved, I am bereaved." There was another in thab chamber of sorrow, a young, lair woman, a bride-elecb ; could any wonder bhab she waa weeping ? If her voice could be heard ib would, he thought, be something like this, "My heart is turned to mourning." It was the unexpected that happened. Side by side with joy came some great blow. He would say, " Make your plans by all means, enter into your arrangements, but whatever theso plana are write D.V. after them, before them and between them." They should sympathise! with the bereaved and pray for them, remembering that there was a message from tha Lord from this deathbed. .ST. LUKE'S. St. Luke's, Mount Albert, expressed in a small way the sympathy felt _n that district with the Royal Family. Owing to the indisposition of bhe Rev. F. Larkins, Mr Haigh, the Avondale lay-reader, took the servico, reading an appropriate sermon. At the conclusion, Mr Conder played the "Dead March," tho congregation standing during its performance. ST. ANDREW'S. In St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church tho Rev. A. _l. McCallum, who occupied the pulpit, referred in feeling and suitable terms to the deaths of the eminent personage, whose removal the nation mourned. Raying a tribute of respect to Cardinal Manning, the preacher said thab the hymns chosen for the day they owed to members of tho communion to which that distinguished Christian had belonged. During the service tho "Dead March in Saul" was played by the organist. DE V ON PORT RHESB YTE BI AN. Reference was made to the death of the Duke of Clarence ab both services of tho Dovonporb Presbyterian Churcli yesterday, the Rev. James Hill expressing sympathy for the bereaved Royal Family. ■ Ab the conclusion of each service, the "Dead March" was played by Mr J. F. Bennett, the congregation remaining standing until the solemn strains had ceased. NEWTON CONGREGATIONAL. Tho Rev. H. J. Lewis, at the morning servico of the Newton Congregational Church yesterday, referred to the death of the Duke of Clarence, and spoke feelingly of tho Royal House bowed clown by a great" sorrow. He said that perhaps the chastening attliction might have the effect of oven hotter titfing the Prince oi Wales for the duties devolving upon his high . osition. Mr Lewis also spoke eulogi.tically of the late Cardinal Manning. ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL. Naturally, at all tho Catholic churches yesterday some form of expression was made regarding the deaths of Cardinals Manning aud Simeoni. At St. Patrick's Cathedral, the prayers of the congregation wore asked for the repose of the son Is of both deceased prelates, lb was announced that masses would be offered this (Monday) morning on behalf of Cardinal Manning, and on Thursday, at 7.50 a.m., on behalf of Cardinal Simeoni. The "Dead March in Saul " wa>"s played by the organist, Mr Hartweli, and the orchestra, under the direction of bhe Rev. Dr. Egan. Last night the Rev. Father Hackor.t spoke of the two Cardinals, taking his text from bhe Gospel of St. John, " You shall give testimony, because you have been with Me from the beginning." Referring to Cardinal Manning, he said that the spirit of Christ reigned in his heart long before he entered the Catholic Church, for be was a man who practised every virtue, who sought after the truth by earnest investigation, who listened to the spirit of Jesus Christ as it spoko to his heart and inte-llecb, with the result that though he had been brought up in Protestantism, thab spirib conducted him from error to truth, and led him to embrace the doctrines of the Holy Church. Heedless of what men would say, heedless of the ridicule heaped upon him on every side, he joined a despised Church, a Church thab had been persecuted for centuries in thab land. Although raised to tho Cardinalate, the highest dignity in the power even of the Roman Pontiff to confer upon him, he went abroad through bhe city of London and became the apostle of the poor, visiting their homes and consoling them in affliction. In his work amongst the poor,; Cardinal Manning saw that the greatest stumbling block to the progress of religion was the baneful vice of drunkenness, and to counteract the effects of this great evil he founded various branches of the League of the Cross, a temperance society that has rescued thousands from poverty and crime. • Father Hackett, speaking of Cardinal Simeoni, pointed out that he was tho centre around which the Catholic world turned. Next to bhe Pope in power, he was the man who had the care of bhe whole Catholic Church, in all parts of the world. The broubles and trials of the Chnrch belonged to Cardinal Simeoni. Notwithstanding thab he was personally unknown here, ho was known by his works ; for though bhe Maori mission had been established through the •.ealous efforts of Bishop Luck, to Cardinal Simeoni in Rome might bo attributed the success of thafc mission. ST. BENEDICT'S CHURCH. No reference was made at St. Benedict's to the death of the cardinals, bub last nighb" Miss A. Mcllhono, the organist, played tho "Doad March." CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART. Yesterday being the fifth anniversary of. the opening of the Sacred Heart, Ponsonby, the services were of a special char-' acter. Ab ten o'clock mass was celebrated by the Rev. Father Gillan, who, before the commencement of the sermon, asked the prayers of the congregation for the repose of the souls of the late Cardinals Manning and Simeoni. Hadyn's Imperial Mass was magnificently sung by the choir under the conductorship of Mr Baxter. The soloists were Misses Rita Tole and Hargreaves, sopranos ; Miss Dnrby, alto ; Mr J. A. Tole, tenor ; and Mr Parish, bass. i The choruses in the mass were made a special feature by tho 6pirit and heart I with which they were render.., Ac the

offerbory an Aye Maria was sung by Miss Darby and the Messrs T. and B. Darby. The " Dead March in Saul" was played by Miss Tole (organ) and orchestra at the close of the Mass, out of respect to the memory of the late Cardinal Manning. In the evening there was a procession of the Blessed Sacrament, in which a number of little children of the parish, twelve of the orphans from St. Mary's Star of the Sea, and the members of the Children of Mary'took part. The musical portion of the service was, as usual, of a very high order, tho principal item 3 being the Psalm, " Credidi," Zingarelli's Magnificat, and the Alma Redemptoris. During the Benediction a very grand " Tat)turn Ergo" was sung, and at the offertory Miss Rita Tole sang Mercadante's beautiful " Salve Maria." ST. FRANCIS', THAMES. Ab Sb. Francis' Roman Cabholic Church, Thames, Father O'Reilly spoke ab services held in the. morning and evening. He highly extolled the many admirable principles possessed by the late Cardinal Manning, saying he could think of no greater act of self-sacrifice than that of leaving friends and forsaking everything, so that he could work out the faith that was in him. He asked tho congregabion bo pray for bhe repose of the soul of so good and holy a man. PAI.MDRE AND HO WICK. Monsignore McDonald celebrated Mass this morning at St. Patrick's Church, Panmure, for the repose of the souls of Cardinal Manning and Cardinal Simeoni, late PreIfect of bhe Propaganda, Rome. He also asked the prayers of the congregations both ab Howick and Panmure yesterday for bhe same intention. Wellington, this day. At all the churches yesterday the services and sermons bore the impress of mourning which the deaths ol Clarence and Manning had evoked. The most solemn service was atSb. Mark's, where during the week the congregation had also to deplore the death of their organist, Mr Hardvvick. The church was draped in black and the organ was festooned wibh flowers. At all churches, without distinction of creed, Manning's death was deplored as the loss of a great Englishman. Chkistchurch, this day. The Cathedral waa draped in mournhig for the Duke of Clarence yesterday. The funeral march was played in the afternoon, and special anthems sung. The services at other churches bore reference to tho Duke's death. Sydney, this clay. Throughout the whole of the colonies special services were held in tho churches as a mark of respect to the late Duke of Clarence and Avondale, and tho majority of bhe buildings were draped in black.