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Two or three young 'uns asked me to give 'em something to put on at the time. And I see they've got another subscription list on now. I met one of Newman's children yesterday and she showed it to me. It's for an entertainment and a Christmas Tree for all the children what goes to the Sunday School, so I didn't mind giving just a trifle for anything like that....
Such words were not the words of wisdom. It is easy to imagine the feelings of Monsignor Talbot. 'Newman's work none here can understand, he burst out to his friend.
And so Kingsley pushed forward the drainage improvements in his parish, and considered it, what in very truth it was, a fitting subject for the energies of a parish priest, at work night and day for the betterment of the souls and bodies of his parishioners. I cannot avoid quoting here Francis Newman's own strongly expressed views on drainage of the land:
'Do you know what time he will be home? inquired Nicholas, tapping at the door of Newman's front neighbour. 'Ah, Mr Johnson! said Crowl, presenting himself. 'Welcome, sir. How well you're looking! I never could have believed 'Pardon me, interposed Nicholas. 'My question I am extremely anxious to know.
I do not at all believe in the painful pinching and pulling together of a particular bit of work. Take such a book as Newman's Apologia, written in a few weeks, a piece of perfect art but then it was written in tears." "But on the other hand," said I, "look at Ariosto's Orlando; it took ten years to write and sixteen more to correct and there is not a forced or a languid line in the whole of it."
He contributed during this period a paper upon Newman's 'Grammar of Assent' to 'Fraser's Magazine'; and he wrote several articles, partly the product of the Metaphysical Society, in the 'Contemporary Review' and the 'Nineteenth Century, both under the editorship of Mr. Knowles.
The ablest of Newman's young friends and disciples, such as Mark Pattison and J.A. Froude, were now in the opposite camp, full of anger and disgust at the seductive influences from which they had just escaped. Newman, as might be expected, was anxious to protect Catholic students from similar dangers, and accepted the post of Rector of the proposed Catholic University.
Indecision had not hitherto been one of Newman's weaknesses, and in this case it was not of long duration. For three days after this he did not, or at least he tried not to, think of the Bellegardes. He dined with Mrs. Tristram, and on her mentioning their name, he begged her almost severely to desist. This gave Tom Tristram a much-coveted opportunity to offer his condolences.
It was only natural that at such a moment his thoughts should return to Oxford. For some years past proposals had been on foot for establishing there a Hall, under Newman's leadership, for Catholic undergraduates. The scheme had been looked upon with disfavour in Rome, and it had been abandoned; but now a new opportunity presented itself some land in a suitable position came into the market.
Hence, I was not too early in telling my friends that since at the age of fourteen I became a Conscious Christian, no unbelief has made my hymns less precious, mutato saltem nomine.... My change more than fifty years ago was on Historical arguments mainly." To return to the subject of Newman's last years at Weston-super-Mare.
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