THE INFINITUDE OF THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES
Introductory Note. This and other typical addresses
are comprised in Discourses to Mixed Congregations.
The unerring taste of Newman employs the grave, dignified style suited to the subject-matter, which, however, never loses the simplicity and charm we expect in him.
218: 28. The elements. Earth, air, fire, and water were believed primal elements by the ancients.
220: 27. This season. Lent, which commemorates the Sacred Passion of Christ.
221: 21. He seems to say: to the end. An illustration of Newman's sweet, impassioned eloquence. His sentences roll on like music of indefinable tenderness and beauty. What wonder if men "who came to scoff remained to pray," when the tones of that voice Matthew Arnold could not describe—for its singular sweetness—fell upon their listening souls?