The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-10-21
Father Ryncinthe in New YOrk---FEis
views and Opinions---LiberaI Doc
trsncs OF the Catholic Churci,---Thc
General Council MT Rome, &c.

CONVERSE IN Inc French language The New
YORK Tribune. however, thus refers to IN
interview held with him ut the Fifth-Avc-
| nue. Hotel soon after his arrival:
A number Of visitors collcd during She
aay TO pay their respects TO the great
preacher, but only few hal the pleasure OF
beng admitted. The Father W as greatly
lstigued by the voyage, and desired TO re-
tire at an early hour.
Father Hyacinthe is entirely frank about
bis intentions and his present sit uation. he
desires it to he understood that he is still
Roman Catholic. He has neven been, he
says, an Ultramontane Is not now. and
| never Will be. But he denies that there is
any reason for identifying Utramontanism
with the Catholic Church. He INDUCES the
firm hope that the Council will not, as is
commonly anticipated, consolidate the u
'ramontane theories and constitute them
The creed of the Church; but that, on the
contrary, it will leave the door wide open
for those who, like himself. have been
throughout life the devoted champions Of
more liberal construction of the Catholic
doctrines, and who, in particular, have de-
ended the entire harmony between the
Christian religion and the ercst achieve
mcEt> Of the civilization Of the nineteenth
century.
Father IIyaciuthe expressly declares his
Lacordarc. who died. according to his own
| words, can impcnitcnt LIBERAL and Of
Count Montalcmbert, who recently from
| his sick bed (Which he expects 10 be soon
his dying bed) sent 4 stirring letter to the
liberal priests and laymcn Of Germany"
eXhorting them to have courage. rs without
| he courageous profession Of the liberal
| Catholics the Church would soon be lost
| n the senselcss triumph of tnnatical hieot-
| ism" Father Hyaciathc expresses his adj
miration of the wise and moderate words of
| the German bishops lately assembled nj
| Fulda, which he thinks cannot nil to exert
| i most salutary influence. To the question
what course of action he would pursue if,
| Is the common anticipation now IS, the mn
| iOrty Of the bishops assembled in Rome
! should expressly sanction the ultra-i'apal
| theories of the Roman See, andlcave no room
| IN the Church for any who utterly rcpudiatc
| those theories, the Father replied that this
| question will not come up for consideration
| until the resolutions OF the Council shall be
| known. He has no fixed programme yet ~
| to his movements in the United States. He
| has come over to see and TO study the coun-
| try Of which he has been so long an ardent
| ldnlircr In his addresses he has often. in
mastery cloQuencc. traced the greatness OF
| This country 10 its open Bible and its popu-
| lar and free religion, and he wants to see
| with hi own ewes whether the actual pic
| turc corresponds with his idea. After a
| lew weeks or months he expects to return
| 10 France he may or may not 90 to the
| Ecumenical Council; beyond that no pro-
| yrammc has been laid out for the future.
! But the strong basis Of his religious belief,
IN which lie dwells with particular cmpha-
>s. is the belief in the divinity OF Christ, in
the inspiration Of the Scriptures, and the
excellence Of the Christian civilization O!
! he nirptccnfh century.
Father Hvacinthc is now in the prime OF
his manhood. He was born i'll 1927 at Or
| leans studied at Pau, where his father was
rcctor of the academy. Having, at the age
Of eighteen. entered the seminary at Saint
| >ulpice, lie was, after four years of theolo-
ric;tl studies, ordained priest, and soon after
| .allcd rs professor OF philosophy to the
| professor Of theology 1t Nantes. Attcl
that he was for several years connected
| with the parish Of Saint Sulpicc in Paris.
| Feeling Il vocation to The mona>lic life,
ne spent two years i'll the noyltlate OF
he Carmeitc Convent Of Lyons, then
| Joined that Order. and at once produced
| sensation by his brilliant sermons. He
preached the Advent >ormonsat Bordeaux in
| 1863, the Lent sermons at pcri@cuX in 1861,
and in the summer Of The same year went t.
Paris, when. 1t the Church OF Madeleine.
and later at Notrc Dame, he achieved Il
| .srcat and brilliant success. Every success
>iyc year increased this success, and his re-
| mutation rs one Of the greatest living pulpit
orators. not only al France bat Of the
whole Christian world, was unGiSputed in
my quarter. No great Journal Of this COM
Try or of Europe has failed 10 tel is read
crS about the brilliant 0ratory Of Father liy-
acinthc, and long before hiS bold protest
filled the world with ama2cmrnl. Father
| Iiyariuf he's name WAS known Ill every parl
of the Christian world.
| Father iIvacinthe, according to lis own
statements, has always been Liberal, and
IN opponent OF Ultram0ntane theories.
Now That his liberalism has become 80 con-
>pcuoll~lv known, the French papers, with
what truth we have not vet learned, pub
liSh some interesting particulars about his
liberal beginnings. We find 1t stated that
in the year 1862 Father Hyacinthe, on the
invitation of the Society Of ST. Vincent de
Paul. for the first Time assembled the pulpit
Of the church Of St. NiZicr, at Lyons, a. n
substitute for Father Hermann, who en-
loved considerable fame a Il preacher, but
was then attacked by illness. Father llya-
rjnthe confined himself at first entirely
within the limits of the instructions given
him by his Supcriors; the commencement
Of his discourse was cold and unimpaS-
stoned, and failed to excite any enthu-
SiaSm in his audience. Suddenly, how
ever. he followed his own inspiration, and
uttered IN eloquent apostrophc on the
want OF brothcriy loia in the present as
>cmblv and in the Church, and on the uni
yerSal SclGishnesS which prevailed III lis
place. This latter portion OF his discourse
caused no little surprise, and was the SUD-
ect of much comment. Ina second sermon
| he announced quite plainly preference for
morality over dogma. . have wandered
over the world" he said, "and have every
where found only germs OF intelligence and
atoms of understanding. l have entered
the cloiStcr, and have there only met with
abortive saints" The Archbishop of Iy-
onS, Cardinal Bonald, heard this sermon
preached, and was highly offended at il. In
the first burst of his Indignation ho sent for
Father Hyacinthe, and forbade him to
preach in any church of his diocese. The
urgent representations OF the highest So
cietv i'm LYONS induced him to withdraw
this prohibition. He again sent for Father
Hyacinthc, and in Iliia and unco;nmonly
!; forbearing manner, put before him the harm
he would do to the Church if he went on
with his violent attacks upon it. Father
Iiyacinthe could not resist this friendly adj
: dress, and promised to control himself III
future. 1t was not until lately that he
found himself unable to keep this promise
any longer.
Father Hyacinthe has taken bold step.
Still wishing to remain II Roman Catholic,
: he has doiied the orders Of his Superior Ge-
neral.
THE ECuMENlCAL COUNC1L.-Among those
: who sailed from Baltimore yesterday on the
steamer Baltimore for Bremen as passcn-
gers are the Most Rev. NJ. j. Spaulding,
Archbishop of Baltimore and Primate Of the
. =, oh ti-hn Np-