The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-09
THE LATEST FROM HYACINTHE.
The E1-Monk Defines his Views.

The following letter from Father Hyacinthe
to the reverend translator OF his published SER
mons was read at the session Of the Evangelical
Alliance in New York on Thursday last:
To Rer. Leonard W. Bacon, Brooklyn:
REVEREND SIR am as much gratifed as sur
prised at the honor you are disposed to do to the
few discOurses have published in Europe. Some
Of them are actually the production OF my pen,
but these are very few, and relate to circum-
stances OF time and place which l fear will have
no interest for American readers. The others,
more important In their subject, since they are
part OF the course Of conferences instituted at
Notre Dame by the Archbishop OF Paris are ex-
tant only In detached parts, taken down hastily
in shorthand, and the gaps filled by an Imperfect
summary.
could have brought to America something less
unworthy OF the sympathy with which nave
been received here, and which shall Away reckon
among the greatest hOnors and purest Joys OF my
lile
Such as they are however commit these rude
productions to the indulgence OF your readers,
Frenchman and Catholic as am, present them.
through your hands, to that great American re-
public OF which you are citizen, to those nume-
rous and flourishing Protestant churches OF which
YOU are minister
am proud OF my France, but deem it one OF
it's most solid glories to have contributed TO the
independence OF this noble country, which 1t has
never ceased to love, and which 1t shall some day
learn to initiate. A people with whom liberty Is
something else than barren theory or O bloody
practice; with whom the cause OF labor is never
confounded with that OF revolution, and never d.
vorced from that Of religion; and who, rearing
under all forms and all denominations Its houses
OF prayer amid its houses OF commerce ana
finance crowns its noisy and productive week
with the sweetness and majesty OF Its LORDS day.
..And on the seventh day 1t ends the work Wnlch
it has DONE and rests the seventh day rom all lts
work which 1t has made"
remain faithful to my church, and If have
lifted up my protest against the eXcesses WMcn
dlshonor ii and seem bent on Its ruin, you may
measure the intensity OF my love Tor II by the
bitterness OF my lamentation. When he VINO Is
In all things our master and our example armed
himself with the scourge OF cords against the
profaners OF the Temple, His disciples remember.
ed that 1t was written, "The zeal OF my mouse
hath eaten me up" I continue faithful to my
church, but am none the less sensible OF the In
terest which will be taken In other churches In
what may say or do within the pale OF Catholl-
cism. Furthermore, ! have never denied that
the Christian communions separated from Rome
were dsinherited OF the Holy Ghost, and with
out part In the immense work OF the pre-
paratOn OF the kingdom OF God., In my reia-
tions with some OF the most pious and the
most learned OF their members / have ex-
perienced In those depths OF the soul, where ilu-
sion Is impossible the unutterable blessing OF the
communion OF saints. Whatever divides US ex'
ternally In space and time vanishes like dream
before that which unites US within-the grace OF
the same God, the blood OF the same Christ, the
hopes Of the same eternity. Whatever our prelu-
dice our allenatlOnS OF our lTTltatlonsi unuei he
eve OF God whoseeth what VIC cannot see, under
His hand which leadeth US whittier we would not
90, we are all lab0rlng In common for the upbulid-
Ing OF that church OF the future which shall De
the church Of the past IN It's original purity and
beauty: but shah have besides the depth OF lts
analysis, the breadth Of its synthesis, the expert
ence OF its tolls, its struggles and its griels
through all these centuries.
In the sad days OF schism and captivity the
word OF the Lord came to the prophet Ezekiel
saying: "Thou son Of man, take thee one STICK
and write upon 1t, for Judah and for the children
OF Israel, his companlons; then take another
stick and write upon II, For Joseph, the STICK
OF Ephraim and all the house OF Israel, his com
panions;' and join them one to another into one
stick, and they shall become one In thy hand'
Ezekiel XXXvii, 1917.
| To me likewise, who am the least OF Christians
In those visions Of the soul which are never reius
| ed to our devout aspirations, the Lord hath
spoken. He has placed In my hands these two
| sundered and withered branches-Rome and tht
children OF Israel who follow her; the churches O.
the Reformation and the nations that are Will
| them. | have pressed them together on my
heart, and under the outpouring OF my tears ant
prayers have so joined them that henceiorti
| they might make but one tree. But men have
| laughed to scorn my effort, seemingly SO mau
| and have asked Of me, as OF that ancient seer
| "Wilt thou not show us what thou meanest BY
these things ~ Ezekiel Xxxvll, 49, And
looking upon that tree that seems still barren ant
mutilated, even now behold The brilliant no"e
and the savory fruit.
zone God, one faith, one baptism"
"And there shall be one flock and one shep
herd" BROTHER HYAcINTHE.
Highland Falls, All Souls Day, November /. 1869