New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-08
An AMERICAN WOMAN IN PARIS. No. XIV.

NV elbow looking the tops OF the tree IN the garden
and had perched my carrier doves OF Tevey on the cross
of Notre Dame dc Lcrete which lifts up its arms above
the buildings across the way The doves few away back
10 Holy Week. and had returned with messages from
the Madeleine and St. Roeh telling me of tenebral pos
Of the SoJut Mater the scarlet draperes, the aPes the
cruciixon and the entombment. Another came from
No,rc Dame and said that its gloom duped the swallows
to believe il night-ihat tie Archbishop, in the name of
Jesus was preparing the Passoverhat the sacrifice was
approaehing-that the cross the nails tie spear, were
ready. Another driving at my window, singing,
Easter bells ringing JOY JOY to the world! The
"vai is rent! The Lord is risen indeed
Greenville snatches me away from all this symbolzed
reality and despite Of its true name, Rousseau Dream
il dags TO the distractions OF Professionalism ana
then on to the spiritual Journalism of Puritansm and Tor
get the StoJot Mater the TeneJres the G1oro E1cef
tbe Kyrie Eleon the Dies Ire, and the TIE De"n and,
wrapping my Bible and Sunday School book in my pocket
handkerchief walk my imagination properly up the path
wav to the village church. and shut myself up in high
backed pew and cape at the blank walls around me- and
admire the young preacher in dress coat and white ca-
vat who the pulpit staircase and pulls down the
Bible from the desk slip in his sermon, and, without
thinking to pray first silently for himself raises HE hands
TO invoke blessing on his congregation.
Then hear the Do-do, nj, SOL do-of the smart girls
and boys in the gallery behind pagan organs and
hOOles ulte. lntn young pito'he' Pi"y
the rule aid down at Andover and mngng his knowledge
of Catholics and Feces begs that papaey preacy doatry
pacanism and all other rcligon, may base an end We,
respectable od-school people, do not say Amen Then
another tune lie "pitched'-and Ihear Gently-Lord,
gently lead u.s. through this vale OF tears-
we youngngs all straighten up and sing Greenvie IL
was the first " tune picked out on the piano,
and now almost the marks Of the rattan our knuck-
les for presupg to play it instead of the scales But
such mentions only added JUNCTION to the strain
gently lead Us"
The hond-organ has ceased, and, after all, kind OF
"Gently Lord strain fingers in my heart for my Catholic
friend-for there are some do love devouty. havea
Jesuit friend for whose conversion never think OF pray
nC 1t is a constant oversight in my affection, which
cannot feel guilty for.
We see our Lord in Heaven, at the right hand of the
Father and to give passing glance at the stations
along his human pathway to the heavenly throne We
have laid aside every weight and the sin that both must
easily beset us and racing to the goal high But
my Catholic father and sister weary on the way, and
halt here and there to mediate upon the road and the
thorns and the nails and if we arrive first at the celestial
city, let us hold to them the glorious crowns prepared
for all those who love Lord If they stop to srew
palm branches along the way to Jerusalem, to eat the
last supper relieve the weight Of the cross to soohe
the agony Of Maryto weep at the bleeding ee OF MN
crcifed-to kris his weunds-to wrap his body in clean
linen to ebalm it, and lay in new omb-if they as
tonsh the sepulcher-forgvc them, for they love
much-forgve, jesus, that he stood behind Mary Mag
delen-forgve me, that sometimes think it is only the
gardener behind Let us all join the disciples who
talked as they walked with Jesus to Emmaus.
live, with prying curiosity like Peters enter into the
sopucher and only the linen clothes laid by themselves
and the napkin that about The head not lying with
the linen Clothes but wrapped together in place by ITSELF
let us not dsrus Mary who wept without the sepucher
and looking in, saw the two angels in white.
Mary Magdelene and Johanna, and Mary the mother of
James told things TO the Apostles that seemed to them as
idle tales But Christ became known TO all sin breaking OF
bread and standing in the midst OF them his first greet
ing was, Peace be with YOU Let US all 60 out TO-
pether with him "as far as to Bethany, nd receive his
blessing and when he is parted from let us rest con-
tinually in his temple, praising and blessing Cod
At that time when first the bridegroom went away,
there TO have been little occupation with Platforms
fundamentals the length of coat-tals the side the pulpit
should be on the manner of elections and the solving of
the equation" Three in equal to one in three
Puritan may live in Catholic France, visiting the
"faherless and widows in their affection, and keeping
himself unspotted from the worldbut he risks becon-
ing forgetiu of dogmas and he sometimes finds himself
from very sympathy bowling falling his knees at the
elevation of the Host saying Amen to the Deus
" coliseum.
Forgetting himself for moment he listens TO the in
strpetops of Father Raycnan with much spiritual edit
cation as he would TO those of Dr. Bushnell of Hartford
or of the Beechers of Brooklyn and Wamburgh and il
he dares to say it, heaven deliver him from the thought
of casmpy and Dr. Bushnell from the oduIn inflicted on
him by the report that his Book was bound in England
in the same cover with something of Theodore Psrkers
Heaven knows that Ravgnan, Dr. Bushnell and Theodore
Parker are fully enough grown 10 stand aone de per-
eey,s spiritual likeness between the jesuit Ravignan and
the indep.ndent Protestant Bushnell. Both preach with
fervor sferuc6xon-both exort the holy joy of pen-
tence-both send away 10 hide ourselves IN Ohrsooth
cheese harmonious words not for their music only but as
strong vehicles that will bear heavy loads of food for the
soul drawn by the .teeds of the spirit guided by faith and
curbed by reason.
Rsvgnan is only Jesuit but logican philoso-
pher Christian and withal an orator Ravgnan is to
the pulpit what Rachel is to tragedy.
Revgnan has preached several Cartmes at Notre Dame
His conferences for men, in which philosophy and religion
were hamonized thronged by the savans of Paris
Women considered the thin soil on which such prec
ious seed would spring up but to wither away.
All Notre Dame was crowded with men, An Acaie
mcian told me that he his at o'clock in the
morning TO guard chair for him in the aernoonhe
time of the sermon.
These efforts at Notre Dame probably undermine the
health of lie Pere Revgnan, and now account of pull
monary affection he is not allowed TO preach During the
past Lent he gave instructions in the chapel of the Convent
of the Sacred Heart There he addressed only
devout woman-who came TO learn of him. could not
but feel that the great orator felt much inspiring sympa
,by from his female listeners in former times he did from
his learned auditoes at Nore Dame. He presented Mary
as an example of tender devouf, submissive female
Cbr;stian-and the patient suffering aoning Savior as
tbe model of all human and divine perfection taa
usf sisear