. 'Twixt the old and the new; a study in the life and times of John Henry, Cardinal Newman. call upon him to comeforward and he lost no time. It was in the month ofNovember, the year before he died, a time of thicksnow and thaw, which obliged him to walk somelittle way to the works ; but he would not hearof any delay, and drove to see the masters. . .The masters received what he put forward withkindness and respect, and they said they wouldtalk the matter over by themselves. Anticipatingsuccess, the Cardinals first words on re-enteringhis carriage came with pleased briskness : If Ican but do w
. 'Twixt the old and the new; a study in the life and times of John Henry, Cardinal Newman. call upon him to comeforward and he lost no time. It was in the month ofNovember, the year before he died, a time of thicksnow and thaw, which obliged him to walk somelittle way to the works ; but he would not hearof any delay, and drove to see the masters. . .The masters received what he put forward withkindness and respect, and they said they wouldtalk the matter over by themselves. Anticipatingsuccess, the Cardinals first words on re-enteringhis carriage came with pleased briskness : If Ican but do work such as that, I am happy and con-tent to live on. A few days brought the goodnews that all difficulties had been got over by aroom having been set apart for the (Roman) Catho-lics to meet in for prayer by themselves. * (iv.) The last ten years of the Cardinals life passedvery quietly. There are no burning controversiesto record, no fresh tasks undertaken, but they arefull of good works, they were spent in the service* Father Neville, Recollections, quoted Ward, ii., pp. 534, Cakuinal a drawing by Jane Fortescue {Lady Coleridge).To fate p. 230.] Newmans career as a roman catholic 231 of God and of his fellow men. He wrote letters ofspiritual counsel and advice upon difficult was able to supply information to Dean Churchfor his well-known history of the Oxford Move-ment, and also to advise upon what he had daughter of a friend wrote a religious storyand sent it to him for criticism. He tells her whathe thinks of it, praising the good points, and suggest-ing details in which there was room for meant to die in harness, he would workwhile it was day. He did not fear death, for himit meant the Vision of God, an eternity in Godspresence. It is the thought of God, he wrotein 1880, His Presence, His strength, which makesup, which repairs all bereavements. * Death camesuddenly, he passed away on August ii, 1891, afteronl
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