Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-10-21
The Ecumenical Counell-Lettcr from
Father Myaelnthe.


By mail from Europe we have tho CON-
plete text of the letter which Father Hya-
cinthe addressed to the general Of his order
in Rome, on the subject Of his present atti-
tude towards the Holy See, Of which We
had reports by cable telegram. Il reads
thus
the five years Of my ministry at Notre
Dame do Paris, despite the open attacks
and secret accusations Of which have been
have never failed me for moment. pre-
serve numerous testimonials Of them writ
ten by your own hand, and which were ad-
dressed as much to my preaching as to my
self. Whatever may happen, shall hold
them in grateful remembrance. To-day,
however, by sudden change, the cause Of
which do not seek In your heart, but in
the intrigues of party all powerful at
Rome, you arraign what you encouraged,
you censure what you approved and you
require that should speak language or
preserve silence which would no longer
DO the entire and loyal expression
Of my conscience. do not hesitate an in
slant. With language perverted by .
command or mutilated by reticence I shall
not ascend the pulpit Of Notre Dame. I
express my regret for this to the intelli.
gent and courageous Archbishop who has
given his pulpit to me and sustained me
there against tho bad will of mon Of whom
shall speak at tho proper time. Iexpress
my regrets to the imposing auditory who
surrounded me there with its attendance,
its sympathies-I was nearly going to say
its friendship. Iwould not be worthy Of
the auditory of the Archbishop, of my con-
science, nor Of God, if I would consent to
act before them in such role. Iseparate
myself at the same time from tho convent
in which have resided, and which under
the new circumstances that have happened
to me renders it for me prison OF the soul.
In acting thus l am not unfaithful to my
VOWS. l have promised monastic obe-
dience, but limited by the honesty Of con-
science, tho dignity Of my person md my
eft OF that superior law Of justice and Of
royal liberty which is, according to the
Apostle st. James, the proper law Of the
Christian. a.. 49,
III is for the: moro perfect practice Of this
holy liberty that, 4 came to ask at the
cloister,; now moro than ten years ago, In
the dd1lsof ansnthusiasm ffeeOf all hunan
cA1dhlation-I shall not venture to add ftee
of m tho Illusion of youth-if, in exchange
fdr my sacrifices, am to-day offered
CHAINS. L have NOT only the right, but the
duty to reject them? The present hour is
solemn. Tie Church passes through one
OF the most Violent, dark, and decisive
crisis Of il existence here below. For the
first time in three hundred years IN Ecu
menical Council is not only convoked, but
declared necessary; such is the expression
Of the Holy Father. It 10 not in soch a
moment that preacher Of the gospel,
were lie the last Of ALL: cdri consent to re-
main a. the mute dogs Of Israel, uniaithful
guardians, whom the prophet reproaches
as unable to bark. Canes snuti, non. ralen-
tes latrays.S The saints were never silent
am not one Of them, bnt nevertheless I
belong to their race, fill sanco1um s,snus,
and have always been ambitious to place
my steps, my tears, and, if necessary, my
blood, in the tracks which they haGa- left.
I: raise, therefore, before the Holy
Father and tho, Council my protestation
as Christian and preacher against
these doctrines and practices, calling them
selves Roman, but which are not Christian.
and which in their encroachments, always
most audaoious and most b6neful, tend to
change the constitution qf the Churchs the
basi1 ~ well as the form Of: hcf teachings,
hlU 0VC1A SI'5 0RAAAV VI AC4 RA0tys \ p1VtS0k
against the divorce, a. impious Is Il Is in
s(n.Syhieh it Is sought to accomplish &C.
tween Sths Church, Who ii our mother ac-
cording Is etelnity, sand the society Of the
nineteenth. century Of. whom we are The
sons according to tie times, and toward
whom We also have some duties and attach
ments. I protest against this more radical
and dreadful opposition to human nature,
which il attacked and made to revolt by
these false doctrines in it's most indistruc.
tible and hottest >aspitation. III protest
above all against the saorilegious perver-
tion:of the Word Of the Son of God him
sell, stha spirit andths letter of which are
equally trodden under foot BY the phAsisa.
ism of the new law. 1t Is my most pro-
found conviction that ii France in par
ticular and tho Latin races il general arc
delivered over to to social, moral and reli-
gious anarchy, the principal cause III with.
out doubt not in Catholicism itself, but
in the manner which Catholicism has
during long time been understood and
practised. appeal TO the Council about
to meet to seek for remedies for the excess
of our evils, and to apply them with Oh
much force Us gentleness. But If fears in
| which do not wish to share come to be
| realized, it the august assembly has not
more liberty in its deliberations than it hos
already in its preparation; if, in a word, it
il deprived of the essential characters OF
an Ecumenical Council, 1 will cry to God
and men to call another truly united in the
Holy Spirit, not the spirit Of party, and
representing really the Universal Church,
not the silence of some men. the oppression
of others. For tho heart Of the daughter
of my people nm hurt; am black; as
| al haiti tnGAS, hn01 S,aA T.
there no balm in Gilead? Is there no ply
stefan there? Why then is not the health
Of the daughter Of my people recovered9'
jeremiah viii In fine, appeal to your
tribunal, O Lo,d Jesus! Adj iuuns Domino
,jesu tribunal appello. 1t il in your presence
that l write these lines; it il at your feet,
after having prayed much, reflected, suffer-
ed and waited much, that sign them. !
have confidence that if men condemn them
on earth you approve them in heaven. That
il sufficient for mo living and dying.
En-. HYACINTHH,
Superior Of tho Barefooted Ca1melites OF
Paris, second preacher Of the order in the
province Of Avignon.
PAn1s-PAssY, Sept. 20, 1860.
A SCULPTOR SAvHD.-The father Of Har-
riet Hosmer, the sculptor, was an intelli-
gent and skillful physician Of Watertown.
When this daughter was some twelve or
fourteen years Of age. he had just buried
hia wife and two sons, all dying with con-
sumption. Ills other daughter had begun
to droop, and was going the same way, and
he found her caso already hopeless; but he
said he had determined, if possible, to save
this daughter from like fate. For
this purpose he separated hor from hor sis
ter, that sho might not receive the infection
from her breath. He took herfrom school,
and furnished her with a gun and fishing
rod, that she might find amusement and
exercise III tho open air. And when subse-