Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1901 — One on the Cardinal. [ARTICLE]

One on the Cardinal.

The story of the cyclist who found over the door of a Cheshire church the cheerful text, “This is the gate of Heaven,” with the modifying postscript, “This door Is closed In the winter months,” recalls to the “The Tablet” another Incongruity of a rather similar kind. Cardinal Manning went one day to his publishers for a copy of a book of his own, “Confidence In God.” The order was shouted down to the stock room, whence came the reply, “Manning’s ‘Confidence in God’ all gone.” The cardinal heard and smiled'. It happened that he was just then in a very pessimistic mood, owing to the apathy, as he thought it, of his clergy about an agitation (of Mr. Stead’s) with which he sympathized and they did not. The cardinal took the reply as an intended lesson, and he left Orchard street a wiser and a happier man.