Show arm I Lost Last hook Book Gordon Rend Read in Khartoum uJ a tt I good son lion of ot St SL Philip Nerl Ned friend of oC and founder of or ortho tho the Oratory that Invented the tho oratorio Cardinal Newman loved loell mu ec sir Hn Un himself played the tho fiddle an accomplishment In him nt ne unexpected as liS his horsemanship or ns lIa Ills his wine wille tn tasting tinK for tor fastidious dons dotta tit lit Oriel One of the tho few fow fol overate events which tempted him In his hili old nn ngn to t descend Into Br from his hl solitary P peak ak nt ot vas tho the I where wh rp the Ihl old aliI ecclesiastic looking the he Image IlIIn of I In III a n Roman collar UR easily recognized In bt the III stalls Lit Littie Littie tie tle did he then Imagine that the Iho libretto to would one day be bo of oC his hla own osen crt creat trig that nn nil Anglican cathedral would resound to of at his and that thi tho Iho hoking king and 1111 queen would woul t hoar hear them in to inthe Inthe the national opera house heUM The dream ot of haB had a triumph fur far be beyond beyond beyond yond any of or Newmans Hut ul at nt the tho end Pond of lit his lire the poem had hal n II glory of ot another kind kin A little duodecimo copy cop of It was Wall bought by 1 l iJ t a v 1 n den Oen mad and wee was ne taken by him to Khartoum DailY Dally he ho faced death and tho book was his ghostly counselor anti and congenial friend At Jt the close of things hinge he hi gave IllO It tp Frank Prank rower Power the III Ill fated correspondent of ot tho Times who sent Kent It homo home to hs hits sister hr Mrs fI Murphy In Dublin 1 II telling her nt at tin tho samp same time that the tho deep Incisive pencil murk marks were a own The rho scored pas passages 1111 sages anger curried their own story Pray for me mo oil ch my lilY friends Till Tie death oh Jh I loving friends your hoHo ho lie lieSo hoSo So Ho pray for mo flue my friend who hmo have nut not strength to Use irso I well itch tie tho t Interval Now Nol tint th the hour haS hat some come my nay fear fearIs Is III liedThe lied Th The lost last words word untie by before lie hue nave gave tho the book hook lo tit poor young Power loiter were those these Farewell but not forever brother dear clear dearlie He lie bravo brave null patient 1 on Oil thy bed of ot sorrow I IMra MM Mra Murphy when what she ulin th little volume had the tho thought to send scud It to the tho aged cardinal In homo ham An n early post t brought ht her h r the ther reply r pl reproduced here hero April 7 1853 1883 Dear Bear Mrs Murphy Your letter anti Its Ill contents can ten t took lok away II my 11 ni breath h I IWas With Was deeply moved to find lint n a 1 book bank of at mine had boll been in ill Oen Gordons hands mid and that thai the tho description of it n soul preparing for death I send it It l back ck to you ou with my nay heartfelt thanks by this post III Hi registered cover It If hI additionally proclaim precious as us u having Mi Sir Powers lowers writing In It Most Mod truly tidy trul yours JOHN JOliN It If All NEWMAN Ng NE S l Another and the th brief briefest r est eel Louie Who was Willi then nt at heard h hu hll culls calls In a n letter 10 lor lying before me the pathetic tale of C OIlton and ard Newman Hut But hla hie hl added comment ron lit is splendidly concise How oita o la envied tho Iho cardi cardinal tall nal nn I may tho ho filet fact that the line poem 11 was Willi dedicated by hy to the tho Hov John Gordon of t flu tho tram who was u II brother of ot tho the late luto Hev Hel William Gordon Cordon of the tho Oratory oth these priests who ho were belonged to 10 the tho of ot I Aberdeen I MF NELL i London Sketch |