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Excerpt from University Subjects Lord! Dispose of me as will best promote thy glory, but give me resignation and contentment. The next few years were years of steady growth in power and influence. Newman took orders for the church, was appointed tutor in Oriel, and became Vicar of St Mary's, preaching there his Parochial Sermons and others which the undergraduates flocked to hear. The year 1832 marked a turning point in Newman's career. He went on a journey to Italy and various other southern countries. After wandering in many places for many months, he finally returned to Sicily alone and fell ill there with a fever. Recovering at length from this sickness which had been so severe that his life was despaired of, he was pos sessed with the one idea that he must go back to Eng land immediately for it had come to him in his fever, like a vision from heaven, that he had a great work to do there. While waiting for a ship to carry him home and while still very weak, he would say over and over, I have a work to do. To this strong prepossession may be traced the beginning of a great movement, which, according to Professor Saintsbury, changed the intellectual as well as the ecclesiastical face of Eng land. After many delays Newman secured passage on a ship bound for France, but, as if to try his patience still further, he was becalmed for some days in the Mediterranean. In profound homesickness for Eng land, for the faces of his friends, and in an emotional ferment to undertake his work, the nature Of which was yet hidden from him, he wrote Lead, Kindly Light, a hymn which has become a Pilgrim hymn for men of every faith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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