The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-06
HYACINTHE.
His Letter to the American Branch of the.
EvnnGe lical Association.

His Letter to the :, American Branch of the
TO Rec. Leonard W. Bacon, Brooklyn.
REVEREND SR:-I 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
time and place which l fear win have no interest
for American readers The Others more important
Conferences instituted at Notre Dame by the Bishop
OF Paris are eXtant only in detached parts, taken
down hastily in shorthand and thegsps alled by an
acknowledge, If could have brought to America
something less unworthy of the sympathy with which
have been received here and which shall always
reckon among the great honors and the purest joys
Of my life. Such as they are, however, / commit
readers. Frenchman and Catholic as / am, pre-
sent them. through your hands, to that great Amer-
merous and nourishing Protestant churches of which
you are minister. am proud of my France,
contributed to the independence of this noble
country, which it has never ceased to love, and
with whom liberty is something else than barren
theory or bloodyEpractce; with whom the cause of
and never divorced from that OF religion; and who,
rearing under all forms and all denominations lts
finance, crowns its noisy and productive week with
the sweetness and majesty OF its Lords day. "And
has done, and rests the next from all its work
which which it has made / remain ga faithful to my
against the excesses which dshonor it and
seem bent on its ruin, you may measure the in
| lamentation. When He who is in all things our
| Master and our example armed Himself with
be Tempe His III epes ha L wS
written-"The zeal of Thy house hath eaten me up"
continue faithful to my Church, but am none the
other churches In what may say or do within the
pale Of Catholicism Furthermore, have never
denied that the Christian communiOns separated
from Rome were disinherted of the Holy Ghost, and
without part in the immense work OF the prepara-
ton OF the kingdom OF God In my relations with
some OF the most pous and the most learned OF their
members, have experienced in those depths OF the
soul where Illusion is impossible the unutterable
blessing OF the communion of saints. Whatever
divides us externally 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
onder the eye of God who seeth what we cannot see
under His hand, which leadeth us whittier would
not go, we are all laboring In common for the up
building of that Church OF the future which shall be
the Church of the past in its original purity and
analysis the breadth Of its synthess the experience
OF its tois,sits struggles, and its grefs through all
these centuries In the sad days OF schism and cap
tivy the word of the Lord came to the Prophet Eze-
Rel, saying, "Thou son of man, take thee stick
of Israel, his companions;' then take another and
and all the house OF Saul, his companion and
they shall become one in thy hand. ."-Eze-
kiel xxxyii, 16-l7. To me likewise, who am the
the soul which never refused TO our devout asp
rations, the Lord hath spoken. He has placed in my
Rome and the children of Israel who follow her;
the churches OF the Reformation and the nations
that are with them. / have pressed them together
on my heart, and under the Outpourlng Of my tears
and prayers have so joined them that henceforth
they might make but one tree. But men have
laughed TO scorn my effort, seemingly so mad, and
have asked me, of that ancient seer, "Wl
thou not show US what thou meanest by these
things?" Ezekiel XXXyi 1s.) And /, looking upon
that tree, that seems still barren and mublated,
eyennow behold the brilliant dover and the savory
fruit.
zone God, one fah one BAPTISM"
"And there shall be one flock and one shepherd"
BROTHER HYACINTHE.
Highland Falls, All Souls Day, Nov. O. 1869.