CHURCHMEN'S TRIBUTES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 66, 19 March 1943, Page 4

CHURCHMEN'S TRIBUTES

THE LATE CARDINAL HINSLEY

LONDON, March 17. Eeligious leaders pay tribute to Cardinal Hinsley, for whom Solemn Requiem Mass will be sung in Westminster Cathedral on Monday. The body will be taken to the cathedral from Buntingford on Sunday afternoon. The Archbishop of Canterbury, broadcasting, said: "Cardinal Hinsley was a devoted citizen to his country. The note of patriotism in his speeches was always strong and clear, but he was convinced that his best service to his country was to help it to follow faithfully that natural law which is the law of God for His creation. He was eager to co-operate with other Christians, whether or not they were of his communion. He served nobly the cause of co-operation in Christian witness."

The Rev. Dr. J. S. Whale, Moderator of the Free Church Council, said there was warm humanity, moral directness, and fine Christian simplicity about Cardinal Hinsley which made itself felt far beyond the bounds of his own communion. His Eminence, in private as well as in public, spoke with deep moral passion against persecution, and especially against the ghastly persecution of the Jews in Europe.

The Chief Rabbi, Dr. Hertz, said no one felt more deeply than Cardinal Hinsley the outrage of the Nazi onslaught on humanity, and no one gave nobler utterance to England's horror of the well-planned and systematic slaughter of myriads by the ghouls of Berlin.