The Late Cardinal Vaughan

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 34, 20 August 1903, Page 6

The Late Cardinal Vaughan

The whole of our Home exchanges by the last mail contain long obituary notices of Cardinal Vauehkn r£°Ki£d£f %r dd f g ? 6ral regret throughout th^uSfc ceased n g r P ?^ ft 'J hIS f , eehng . WaS not confined to * he *>- »™r« pr , elate ' s co-rehgionists, but was shared by many KSS22? eaderS denominations 7 His ! flV £ °5 Of Westmins ter. 'Whatever judgment Sv ™S Pa f Cd UlJ ° n his life (says the ' Catholic TimTs ') Jpnl! n VICWS f n - d P rinci Ples were alien from his, him Jf 7 Tr u ** m *gnglY grant that he spared not £«»£ V i 0i 0l u l^ for the cause which ne held to be the greatest and holiest on earth. He was, emphatically and i« fj 1 ? 6 ?. 1 + gr^ at Churchman - and in his eyes that was the highest and sublimest title which man may claim. Whether as simple priest, laboring in London, as a missionary among the negroes of Baltimore or as organiser of Mill Hill Missionary College, as Bishop of Salford, or finally as Cardinal - Archbishop of Westminster, he was consumed with zeal for the service of God. His eye ever looked across the honors and trials of this world. and rested in faith and hope upon the next. Those who knew him intimately were the first to bear witness to his deep spirit of personal piety, and to his possession I'L the .ever-enduring charm which springs from following the paths of a fervently religious life. The purple of Imperial Rome, the outward symbol of his elevated rank did but cover a heart humble, simple, unselfish, devoted to the service of God and man. That all must say or him ; and when history sums up his character it will do so in these words : He was a great Churchman.' The remains of the late Cardinal Vaughan were removed to Westminster Cathedral, and on Thursday morning, June 25, a Pontifical Requiem was celebrated, the solemn service being presided over by his Eminence Cardinal Logue. The sacred edifice was crowded with an immense congregation, which included many members of the nobility, representatives of Royalty and of foreign States, and men of note in all statecraft, letters, trade and commerce, while the humble classes in an unostentatious, but not less earnest, way were not behind in offering their tribute to the memory of the dead Prelate The panegyric was preached by the Right Rev. Dr. Hedley, Bishop of Newport. The remains were removed from the Cathedral to St. Joseph's, Mill Hill, on Thursday evening, where on the following morning they were interred.