The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-21

"nu M ii.Shu WHO SPEAKS 10 you with u heart bro
Ken Ken, with sorrow. With this view you would do
well to retire to one OF the converts in the Pro.
vince or AVignon, there to repose yourself and
perform the retreat which dispensed you from
last year ON account of your duties. Metiiiate In
solitude ON the great truths OF religion. not to
light from Heaven with a contrite and humble
@ nSaft. Address Yourself to the Holy Virgin, to
cur ST. JOSEPH and to our seraPhc moth
words W, to his son, although he be great orator
~ Is very serious question for you and for us aI
YOU Ills light and grace reconmetId myself to
your prayers and give you my bcnediction, and
am your very humble servant,
FIR. DOMINIQUE DE SAINT JosErII
Superior General.
The reply Of Father Hyacinthe-a reply
which he seems to have deeply pondered over
before trusting 1t to paper-dated the goth of
September, has already been published to the
world, and its contents are therefore suffi-
cientiy well understood. To this letter tho
superior general replied on the goth uItimo,
expressing his deep aficton ut the continued
frowardness Of Father Hyacinthe. His letter
is as follows:
ROME, September 20.
reached me yesterday. You will easily imagine
how deeply II AFFLICTED me, and with wiiat bitter
you to iali to such n depth. therefore nv heart
bieeds with grief, and is filled with an immense
pity for you, and raise my humble applications
TO the God or oil mercies that He muy enlighten
you, pardon you, and lead you back from that de-
plorablc and fatal path on which you have en-
during the last five years IN spite OF my personal
opinions, which are In general contrary to yours
on many religious questons-aS have more than
once expressed to you-in spite Of the counscis
have given to you on several occasions relative to
your your preachings, nnd TO which, excepting in the
case or your Lent sermons ut Rome, you
paid but little attention, so long as yon did
not openly depart from the limits imposed by
Christian prudence on priest, and especially oil
monk, always manifested toward you scntl-
ments Of esteem nnd friendship, and cncouraged
ls It that, from the moment In which perceived
thst !i you were beginning to go beyond these lim
10 @ so was y rSgGeh tnnn to 5eS on my side TO sXprsss
ther, that dld 80 especially Inst year, about the
relative to letter addressed by you TO club III
Paris then expressed to you what annoy yance
lished In Italy were also very painful to me, and
also drew on you from me observations anil re-
nroaches 1on when y9u last visited Rome; Lastly,
your presence aud your speech Mt the Peace
League filed up the measure of my apprehension
and my grief, and forced me to write to You the let
ed you In future not to print any letter or speech,
to speak in public elsewhere than In the churches,
the Peace League, or any other meeting, the oh.
lect OF which was not exclusively Catholic AMI re-
iiglous. My prohibition, as you sec, did not In
tue leaSt refer TO your sermons In the pulpit. On
the contrary, desired You in future to devote
solely and entirely your talents aud your
se1uently, it was with painful ,Hih; surprise that that
read In your letter that "you could not reascend
ed by dlctation or mutiIateI by rcticenccn You
must be aware, reverend father that have never
forbidden you to preach that have never given
you any order or imposed any restrictions on
your teachings. only took the liberty OF giving
TO you some counscls, and on addressing to you
your last lectures rs In my quality Of Superior 1t
was my right and my duty TO do. You were, con
my letter Of tho 22d July last; and II yon have re-
solved not to reappear In the pulpit OF Notre Dame
will, and not by virtue OF measures adopted by me
toward you. Your letter OF the Goth announces to
Paris. learn, indeed, by the journals lou % and by e
private letters, that you have already left 1t, and
ma nave cast on your gown without any
true, would remark to you, my reverend father,
that you must be aware that the monk who quits
the regular permission from the competent au-
thorIty, is considered as a real apostate,
and consequently lncurs the can5nIcai penal,
ties mentioned In Cap. pericutoso. The punish
mcnt Is, as you are aware the greater eycommu.
nIcati1n, .Gt9 seatentiG; and according to our
chapter XXSv No. 12 those who leave the com.
munity without authorization incur the greatest
fanny out a Congregations recedumt, prefer
Gpostdsldm, tpso Htcto ercomn,unfcattonen ct
d,E1mfG 1 p, ,,otan. t,cu,raat. AS your superior,
and In accordance with the prescriptions OF the
apostolic DEGREES, which order me to employ even
censure to bring you back to the bosom of the
order you have so dcplorably abandoned, I am
under the necessity OF calling on you to return to
the monastery in Paris which you have quilted,
Within VII ten days from the dateo OF the present let
order within the time stated you win be deprived
economically OF all the charges You hold In the Or
der OF Barefooted Carmelitcs. land Will remain
under the censure established by the common
law and by our rules. May you, my reverend
father, listen to our voice aud to the cry OF Your
conscience; may you promptly and seriously de-
scend within yourself, see the depth OF your fnll
and ny an heroic resolution manfully recover
yourself, repair the great scandal you ave caus-
ell, and by that means console tile church. your
mother, You have SO much afflicted. That is the
most sincere and ardent desire OF my heart; It is
self, your father ask,.wih oil the fervor or our
souls, OF God Almighty, Of God, SO full OF mercy
and goodness.
FIR. DOMINIQUE DE SAINT JOSEPH.