New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-19
FATHER HYAOINTHE.
HIS ARRIVAL IN NETWORK.

control bis church, and even bnfeaten 10 cOhoi INC
asonmenical Council. is a present guest of our
city, Father Hyacinthe, whose departure for the
United States was recently announced by cable, ar
rived Yesterday in the French steamer Pereire and
now stays at the Fifth Avenue Hotel A number of
visitors called there during the day TO pay their re-
speess 10 the great preacher, but only few had the
pleasure Of being admitted. The Father was greatly
fatgued by the voyage and desired TO retire at an
early hour. Among those who had q protracted IN
terview with him was o representative oil IHE
Tribune.
The conversation was partly Of private and per
senal character, and not suited for publication.
Father Hyacinthe is however, entirely frank about
his intentions aud bis present situation He desires
it to be understood that he still is Roman Catholic
He has never been, he says ultramontane; Is not
new and never will BE- But he denies that there is
any reason for identifying INSTRUMENTATION with the
Catholic Church. He indnlges the frm hope that
lAe Council win not, ss is commonly anticipated.
consolidate the Ultram0ntane theories and constitute
them the creed of the Church but that, the con.
ary il viii leave the door wide open Tor those who.
kke himself have been throughout life the devoted
shasnpions of o more liberal construction of the
Catholic doctrines and who in particular have de-
Tended the entire harmony between the Christian re-
gion and the great achievements Of the civilization
Of the nineteenth century Father Hyaenthe express
~ declares his full concurrence il the sentiments
Of Father Laeordare. who died, according to bis own
words "an impenitent liberal, !" aud Of Count Mon
talembert, who recently from his sick bed (which he
expects to be soon his dying bedl sent stirring
letter to the liberal priests and laymen OF Cor
many" exhorting them 10 have courage ss without
the courageous profession of the liberal Catholics the
Church woad be lost in tho senseiess triumph
OF fanatica hjgotism." Father Hyacinthe expresses
HE admiration of the wise and moderate
words Of the German bishops lately assem-
blod at Falda which Ihe thinks cannot fail
TO exert most sanitary influence. 10 the
anestion what course of action he would pursue II,
ss the common anticipation now is, the majority OF
the Bishops assembled in Rome should expressly
sanction the ultra-Papal theories Of the Roman See,
and leave no room in the Church for any who utterly
repudiate those theories the Father replied that this
question will not come up for consideration vnti the
resolutions af the Council shall be known. He has
no fixed programme yet as to his movements in the
United States He has como over to see and to study
the country of which he has been long an ardent
admirer. In his addresses he has often in mastery
eoqueDce traced the greatness of this country to its
open Bible and ite popular and free religion, and he
wants to see with his own eyes whether the actual
picture corresponds with his idea After few weeks
months he expects to return to Franco; ne may
or may not 20 to the Ecumenical Council; beyond
that no programme has been laid out for the future
But the strong basis Of his religious belief on which
he dwes with partieulaElemphasis. is the belief in
the divinity of Christ in the inspiration of the
Scriptures and the excellence of the Christian civil
iEation of the nineteenth century.
Father Hyacinthe is now in the prime Of his man.
hood He was born in 1927 at Orleans studied at Pau.
where his father was rector of the academy Having
ut the age of eighteen entered the Seminary of Saint
splpce he was. after four years of theological stud
les ordained priest and after called as Professor
Of Philosophy to the seminary Of Avignon. Later be
became Professor of Theology at Nantes After that
nc was for several years connected with the parish OF
Saint Sulpice IN Paris. Feeling vocation to the
monastc life he spent two years in the nOvitate of
the Carmelte Convent of Lyons, then joined
hat ORDER and at once produced a SEN
Eation by his brilliant sermons He preached
khe Advent sermons at Bordeaux in 1868
the Lent sermons at Perigeux in 1864, and in the
Summer of the same year went to Paris when, at
at the Church of Madeleine and later at NOtre Dame
ne achieved great and brilliant success. Every
successive year increased this success and his repu
tation as one of the greatest living pulpit orators
not only OF France but of the whole Christian
world, was updisputed in any quarter. No great
journal of this country or of Europe has failed to
tell its readers about the brilliant oratory of Father
Hyacinthe, and long before his bold protest filed
the world with amazement Father Hyacinthe's
name was known in every part of the Christian
world.
Father Hyacinthe, according to his own state
mcnts has always been Liberal, and opponent of
UtramOntane theories. Now that his Liberalism
has become so conspicuously known, the French
papers. with what truth we have not yet learned
publish some interesting particulars about his Lib
sral beginnings We find it stated that in the year
1879 Eatl invitation
Society of St. Vincent de Paul, for the first time
assembled the pulpit of the Church of st. Nzier, at
Lyons. as substitute for Father Hermann, who en-
joyed considerable fame preacher, but was then
attacked by illness Father Hyacinthe confined him
self at first entirely within the limits of the instruc
lions given him by his superiors the commencement
of his discourse was cold and unimpassioned. and
failed to excite any enthusiasm in his audience; sud-
denly however, he followed his own inspiration, and
uttered an eloquent apostrophe the want OF
brotherly love in the present assembly and in the
Church, and the universal selfShness which pre-
vailed in its place This latter portion of his discourse
caused no little surprise, and was the subject of
much comment. la a second sermon he announced
quite plainly preference for morality over dogma
II have wandered over the world he said, land
have everywhere found only germs of intelligence
and atoms Of understanding. ] have entered the
cloisfer and have there only met with abortive
SANTA The Archbishop of Lyons, Cardinal Bonald,
heard this sermon preached and was highly offended
at it, In the rst burst Of his indignation be sent for
Father Hyacinthc and forbade him 10 preach in any
church Of his diocese The urgent representations OF
the highest society in Lyons induced him TO with
draw this prohibition. He again sent for Father Hy-
semitic, aud ia Bild and uncommonly f0rbearing
manner put before him the harm he would do 10 the
Church II he went on with his violent attacks upon
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