The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-12-13
DAILY PRESS,
PORI'LAND
Monday Morning, December 13, 1869.
CharIty and ,he Go1erumen, ef Life.

| On"HAty anu tno government OF Lie.
This was the subject of Pere Hyacinthe's
address at the Academy of Music in New
York on Thursday night. The house was
densely crowded, and on the platform were
Horace Greeley, John Bigelow and others
We make an extract from the address to sat
isfy the curiosity of some of our readers who
may wish to obtain clear idea of the literary
style of the man who has filled so large a
share of the public attention of late
Love expresses itself by means the most
foreign to it. In man it is, as have before
| said, at the root of every act-the heart is at
the foundation of all. Let us then hem he men n Of Of
heart; let us bear our hearts into civil life, in
to social life, into domestic life let us be men
of heart in city and in State let us love coun-
try, family, loyalty, probity; let us love the
Church OF Christ but not as the church of
any particular sect; let US respect the letter,
but not as an extinguisher-the letter kills,
the spirit gives life. loud applause.) Let
US, thep' l repeat start as men Of heart. Z
We have often heard of two roads openipe
before man, each diverging from the other.
Humanity has hesitated between the two for
centuries. Shall heaven or earth be chosen
Shall man give to his existence an impulse
that will separate him from the world that
bears him and tear it from all that the Crea-
tor has made its basis-family, affections, in
terest, sufferings, or shall he cast away all
idea Of loving heaven and concentrate upon
earth his faith, his hope, his love? Man,
say, hesltates between the two roads, and the
most rash rush to one or the other. Material
lists say that heaven is nothing and see but
the earth, giving themselves to that dust
which forms our planet, and to that troublous
ana neeung hour-hfe. Mystical minds, land
no one respects earnest minds more than 1
do,! 1aise, mystical MINDS set aside all earthly
duties ana enJoyments, change life into an
aspnation lowaro heaven, ~ instead OF STRIVING
" meriI :nat heaven. ihey seek TO scale
tneir way lnto heaven IN hot haste. Now my
experience has convinced me that between
the greatest moral and religious progress man
can make, and trodden by men who can rec
oncile heaven and earth, the present life
with future existence, task to be accom-
plished in these times as it was accomplished
by Christ dying on the cross to reconcile
the things of heaven to the things of earth.
1 open the Bible and read in it that God
made man out of dust and placed him in a
beauteous garden, which, by material aid, he
before him the animals, THAT inferior race
which is intended to supply slaves to man,
Man then, the work of God, as the king, the
owner, the manager of the universe. The
part we have to act now is unchanged. We
have to continue in these ages the work of
Adam. Instead OF small part of Asia Mi
nor, though, we have whole planet. God
has given us steam and electricity and dis
tance is annihilated. This globe, say, is
our Eden, and by our labors on it we gain
heaven ana earth. Applause. After the
nrst man came family and society. Adam
was alone, and God thought it not good that
ne should be, Tor ne knew what Adam only
felt that ne lacked. "Let there be light" God
said, and light was made, and He beheld il
and said it was good; and He created stars
animals and plants and saw that all were
very good. But when He made what He ad-
judged His masterpiece, and the edifice was
| crowned by man, He perceived His work was
incomplete. So God made Adam a
companion and saved him from egotism.
Thus was the organization of the family per-
fected In modern society celebacy EXISTS
for the sake of God, but this exception, if YOU
make it rule, is against God and against ma
ture. Celibaacy is cowardice if it does not
glorify marriage. The apostles have said
| marriage is honorable, marriage is spotless
before God and man. The great object in
view is the reconciliation Of heaven and
earth, and of the present life with the future
| and to secure union on earth. Union in the
| city, in the nation and in humanity was tbe
thought of Jesus Christ. who first proclaimed