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John Henry Cardinal Newman, onetime hope of the Anglicans, then convert to Roman Catholicism, finally acknowledged prince of his adopted church, author of the "immortal" Apologia pro vita sua, is now little more than a dusty document, even, at Oxford University where his fame was brightest. Author May, sympathetic archivist, here takes out the dossier and with reverent breath blows off some of the dust...
...Dublin, and was thwarted; was promised a bishopric, which never came; was asked to make a translation of the Bible, and the plans fell through. But when Charles Kingsley, famed author of Westward Ho!, attacked him, calling him Jesuitical, Newman's series of replies (the Apologia pro vita sua) not only demolished Kingsley but reestablished Newman's reputation as the most important religious figure in England. He wrote the Apologia in seven weeks, sometimes working for 22 hours at a stretch. Says Biographer May: "It has been proclaimed a classic?which means that it is one of those books' which...
Pastor John Roach Straton hastened to write out a 5,000-word apologia pro sua vita. There was no Pentecostalism rife in Calvary Bapist Church; the woman of Lindbergh Monday was a victim of the general Manhattan hysteria or was ill; the five deacons were fractious and had better have resigned; they were "making a grandstand play for publicity." He concluded: "In closing I wish to say that I was duly elected as the engineer of this Gospel train here at Calvary Baptist Church. And throughout the ten years of my leadership the overwhelming majority of the officers...
Collegi Yalensis Praesidi Sociisque, hos libros, quos sua manu scriptos reliquit Professor ille Yalensis Guilelmus Dwight Whitney, a discipulo eius Carolo Rockwell Lanman, alumno Yalensi, professore in Coll. Harv editors, sumptibus alumni Harv., Henrici Clarke Warren, prelo subjects feriis A. post Coll. Yalense conditum CC. celebrandis D. D. L. L. Praeses Sociique Collegi Harvardiani...
Cinxerunt. Falcem et in manu sua tenuit curvam...