CARDINAL NEWMAN'S PROPOSED LAST VISIT TO LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3159, 13 August 1881, Page 3

CARDINAL NEWMAN'S PROPOSED LAST VISIT TO LONDON.

Cardinal Newman, who is in excellent health in spite of his four-score years, is about to pay another visit to London. It is to be made the occasion of another tribute of respect to him by the Church. Cardinal Manning will hold a reception in his honor, and several illustrious princes of the Church are expected over from Home to grace it. Cardinal Howard and Cardinal Jacobini, the diplomatist of the Papal Court, will probably be among the distinguished guests. During the visit Cardinal Newman will preach in the pro-Cathedral, and probably at Southwark. There is said to have been of late a singular charm in his sermons, and they have been more frequent. Each of them is taken in shorthand for the oratoiy, and the notes are carefully preserved for future use. They would be published at once if he did not shrink from further publicity. It was solely against his will that he ever got entangled in polemics, and he shudders at the thought of having anymore to do with them. His combative days are over, and he loves nothing better than to preach to a plain evei'y-day congregation at Edgbaston. His supposed rival, Cardinal Manning, is also a dilligent preacher, and ho is in frequent request for the opening of new churches. It is a sign of the times that Boman Catholicism should seem to be steadily encroaching, not on the English Church only, but on Presbyterianism. Cardinal Manning holds some original views on the latter subject. In a sermon which he preached recently at (3-lasgow he said ifc was a mistake to suppose that wo wero living in an ago of heresy, .because heresy implied belief. We were rather living in an age of materialism, which, rejected the belief in God.