Catholic life and letters of Cardinal Newman : with notes on the Oxford movement and its men . he Oldrather than the new, the Catholic rather than the insular,the Eternal rather than the temporary—in short, theDivine father than the human. It was a debt to thestarved and persecuted Church of those days due from theOxford which had been founded and endowed by thatsame Church centuries earlier, in the hour when kingswere its fathers and queens its nursing mothers. Rightroyally that debt was paid, and England is generousenough not to regret the day of restitution. It seems, therefore, that some l
Catholic life and letters of Cardinal Newman : with notes on the Oxford movement and its men . he Oldrather than the new, the Catholic rather than the insular,the Eternal rather than the temporary—in short, theDivine father than the human. It was a debt to thestarved and persecuted Church of those days due from theOxford which had been founded and endowed by thatsame Church centuries earlier, in the hour when kingswere its fathers and queens its nursing mothers. Rightroyally that debt was paid, and England is generousenough not to regret the day of restitution. It seems, therefore, that some little memento of theevent of October, 1845, after the lapse of forty years, maybe fittingly made, especially in the form it here takes, bythe employment of as few words as may be on the partof the compiler, and the presentment of as many as maybe from the pen of Cardinal Newman himself, or fromthe pens of those who have been drawn to him in anespecial manner—have felt the inspiration of his person-ality, and have followed him, some as strangers and afaroff, with a life-long love. ( 8 ). o THE NEWMAN FAMILY GROUP* It was in 1823 that Newman was elected to a Fellowship at Oriel; andit was always a comfort to him that he had been able to give his fatherthis good news at a time of great sorrow and embarrassment. Thefather died not long after, and the family may be said then to have had no home In the summer of 1829 the Newman family took a furnished cottage in a very out-of-the-way spot at Horspath, of whichDr. Ellerton, a well-known Fellow and tutor of Magdalen College, hadcharge: This was pleasant enough in the summer; but when Domford,a Fellow of Oriel, who was serving Newnham Courtney, and had the useof a cottage there, offered it to the Newmans, they were glad to availthemselves of the opportunity, though the change did not bring themnearer Oxford. It was said to have been intended for the parsonage,but was by no means a picturesque building. Indeed in the Midlandsit would
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