CARDINAL NEWMAN MEMORIAL FUND.
[To THY EDITOR 01 THE " BPSCTATOB." J SIR,—As the support accorded to the third object of the fund originally chosen,—viz., " To promote and perpetuate the study of Cardinal Newman's works by the endowment of a scholarship or prize, or otherwise,"—does not promise to be sufficient to ensure its success, the committee of the fund, at a meeting held last Wednesday, resolved to abandon that project.
And it appearing that a strong feeling exists in many quarters in favour of a church at the Birmingham Oratory as a memorial to Cardinal Newman, the committee further resolved to adopt that as the third object of the fund.
The committee trust that the response to the appeal for a memorial church will be such as to justify them in putting it before the friends and admirers of Cardinal Newman.—I am,
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