CARDINAL NEWMAN AND THE VICAR OF ST. JAMES', BATH.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 520, 23 March 1883, Page 9

CARDINAL NEWMAN AND THE VICAR OF ST. JAMES', BATH.

The following letters have recently appeared in the Bath Journal) England : — Sic, — At the Assembly Booms, on Monday evening last, the Bey. W. Jay Bolton made the following statement : " I was last week in Bristol, where a committee meeting was being held in one of the Protestant High Schools, and what was the subject of it ? It had been discovered that Cardinal Newman had been writing to young girls of sixteen years of age in one of the Protestant schools, recommending them to go to the Jesuit Fathers in Clinton, and to do so without the knowledge of their parents." I have received the inclosed letter from His Eminence with regard to this statement, and beg that you will publish it. — I am yours, F. E. Louqhnan. St. Mary's Bectory, Burlington street, Bath, December, 22nd,. 1882. Deab Canon Lottghnan, — Few days pass without my having letters from strangers, young and old, men and women, on the subject of the Catholic religion. 1 answer them that it is the one and only true and safe religion. But as to the personal duty of the par* ticular applicant I decline to determine it at a distance, and advise him to address some one in his own neighborhood. If I know of a priest who has experience of converts I name him. This, I have no doubt, is what I wrote in the cases which you bring before me. As to.,she Clinton High School, I am not aware that any special religious creed, to the exclusion of others, is professed in that institution. — I am, yours very truly. JohnH. Cabd. Newman. December 11, 1882.