THE CARDINAL HIMSELF.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 38, 20 September 1900, Page 27

THE CARDINAL HIMSELF.

A traveller lying ill and in danger of death at a hotel in Dublin sent for a priest. It was a stormy night. Through the rain and wind and the muddy streets the priest came on foot, saw the sick man, and administered the sacrament. The landlord, who was a Protestant, pleasantly asked the priest to come into his own room and have some refreshments before going back into the night and storm. Then by way of convernation, the landlord began to talk about the high Catholic clerey and the comfortable life they usually led. ♦i. ' N T' i0 l inptance '' he said > ' wbile you were walking through the mud and rain, I am sure hia Eminence, the Cardinal wan enjoying a pleasant fire and drinking his punch in the Dalace •' ' Do you think so V asked the priest. ' Indeed I do,' said the man. ! LL a ümu m £ fra i d J ou have a wron £ opinion of the Cardinal.' ' Why V asked the man. ' Because, my friend, I am Cardinal Cullen ' <»,* lUOel UOe ?e? c land l°J d r °? e to hiß fee t, full of humblest apologies. Should he get a coach for his Eminence, and so on ' No,' said the Cardinal. ' I shall return as I came. lam used to it. The example of the Cardinal so impressed the man that he the Church m 10D m £alth aQd WM lloon after reoeived in *