from revelation, to
speak generally, I do think, but not necessarily through the Jewish
Dispensation," &c. (Dec. 1850, J.H.N.) Mozley, _Corr._ ii. 479.]

[Footnote 59: _Loss and Gain_, pp. 282-286.]

The irrepressible Bateman has Gothic and Gregorian on the brain: and
in another place goes "on boldly to declare that, if he had his will
there should be no architecture in the English churches but Gothic,
and no music but Gregorian. This ... gave scope for a very pretty
quarrel, Reding said that all these adjuncts of worship, whether music
or architecture, were national; they were the mode in which religious
feeling showed itself in particular times and places. He did not mean
to say that the outward expression of religion in a country might not
be guided, but it could not be forced; that it was as preposterous to
make people worship in one's own way, as to be merry in one's own
way.'... Bateman: 'But surely ... you don't mean to say that there is
no natural connection between internal feeling and outward expression,
so that one form is no better than another?' Reding: 'Far from it,
but let those who confine their music to Gregorians, put up crucifixes
in the highways. Each is the representative of a particular locality
or time.'... Campbell: 'You can't be more Catholic than Rome, I
suppose, yet there's no Gothic there.' Bateman: '... Rome has
corrupted the pure Apostolic doctrine, can we wonder that it should
have a corrupt architecture?' Reding: 'Why, then, go to Rome for
Gregorians?'"[60]

[Footnote 60: _Loss and Gain_, p. 277.]

The foregoing would probably open out, in the eyes, say, of the
accomplished author of the _Vesper Psalter_,[61] a wide field for
further discussion, but so much may be fairly gathered, viz., that the
Cardinal's musical views were sensible ones, even if open,
theoretically, to some differences of opinion. _Omnia probate_, he
seems to say, _quod bonum est tenete_. He had, of course, no sympathy
with extravagances. His was a cultured, at any rate a refined taste,
_sui similis_, and when it was said in April, 1886, that Niedermeyer's
B minor Mass was "elaborate," he observed: "Well, I like a medium in
music, although I may be wrong in that." All was well, we suppose,
provided the best gifts of Catholic masters in their art were in good
faith proffered to Almighty God. In the words herein of St. Gregory
the Great: _Mihi placet ut, sive in Romana, sive in Galliarum, sive in
qualibet ecclesia, a