DEVOTED CITIZEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1943, Page 4

DEVOTED CITIZEN

AND BRAVE CHAMPION OF THE OPPRESSED LATE CARDINAL HINSLEY. TRIBUTES BY BRITISH CHURCH LEADERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, March 17. Relgious leaders pay tribute to Cardinal Hinsley for whom Solemn Requiem Mass will be sung in Westminster Cathedral on Monday. The body will be taken to the cathedral from Buntingford on Sunday afternoon. The Archbishop of Canterbury, broadcasting, said: “Cardinal Hinsley was a devoted citizen to his country. The mote of patriotism in his speeches was always strong and clear, but he was convinced that his best service to his country was to help it to follow faithfully that natural law which is the law of God for His creation. He was eager to co-operate with other Christians, whether or not they were of his communion. He served nobly the cause of co-operation in Christian witness.” The Rev. Dr. J. S. Whale, Moderator of the Free Church Council, said there was warm humanity, moral directness and fine Christian simplicity about Cardinal Hinsley which made itself felt far beyond the bounds of his own communion. His Eminence, in private as well as in public, spoke with deep moral passion against persecution, and specially against the ghastly persecution of the Jews in Europe. The Chief Rabbi, Dr. Hertz, said no one felt more deeply than Cardinal Hinsley the outrage of the Nazi onslaught on humanity, and no one gave nobler utterance to England’s horror of the well-planned and systematic slaughter of myraids by the ghouls of Berlin. “The death of Cardinal Hinsley will cause a deep sense of loss in this country,” says the “Evening Standard” diarist. “His appointment was a happy choice for Rome and for England, for there has been no more formidable voice raised against the iniquities of the Nazis and Fascists than that of the sturdy cardinal from Yorkshre.” Requiem Mass for the late Cardinal Hinsley will be celebrated in Wellington at St. Mary’s, Boulcott Street, next Monday morning.