CARDINAL MANNING AND TRUE CHARITY.

New Zealand Tablet, 7 November 1918, Page 28

CARDINAL MANNING AND TRUE CHARITY.

Some of the most notable of the sermons and addresses of Cardinal Manning had charity for their subject. The great churchman considered charity as the source of all the virtues. He used to say that every Catholic clergyman should be so full of the theme as to be able, without a minute's preparation, to preach thereon quite a lengthy sermon. It was the worthiest subject in the world; it was self-explanatory; it was of universal application and non-controversial in its nature. The London papers once published a facsimile of the notes used by the Cardinal in one of his gem addresses on this ever-vital subject. They consisted of a few headings and half a dozen cue words and phrases, but which, nevertheless, provided him with sufficient material for a discourse of more than an hour's duration. The Cardinal always spoke kindly of a certain English publicist, a man of unsavory reputation. The keen spiritual philosopher had no misgiving as to the man's ultimate regeneration, aware, as he was, that his predominant virtuecharity—possessed extraordinary powers, and that the prayers of the succored availeth much. Later events fully corroborated tho Cardinal's view.