The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-10-23

H0tn0h 11y00k1tAG IA AO~ ASHAs
Theysxrival of Fasher Hya0ipthe at
New York seepas to hass created quite q
sensation in that city.S The newspeper
''inteSviewers'' were somewhat troubled
by the fsct that the fevesend father could
only converse in the French language.
The New York Tribune. however, thus
refers to an interview held with him at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel soon after his
arrival:
A number of visitors called during the
day to pay their respects to the great
preacher, but only few had the pleasure
of being admitted. The father was great
" fatigned by the voyage, and desired to
retire at an early hour.
Father Hyacinthe is entirely frank
about his intentions and his present stu
alton. He desires 1t TO be understood
that he is still Roman Catholic. He
has never been, he says, an Ultramon.
tame; is not now, and never will be. But
he denies that there is any reason for
identifying Uitramontanism with the Ca
tholic Church. He induiges the firm
hope that the Council will not, as iBrom-
monty anticipated. consolidate the Ultra
montane theories, and constitute them
the creed Of the church; but that, on the
contrary, it will leave the door wide open
for those who. like himself, have been,
throughout life, the devoted champions
of more liberal construction of the
Catholic doctrines. and who, in particu-
lar, have defended the entire harmony
between the Christian religion and the
great achievements of the civilization of
the nineteenth century.
Father Hyacinthe expressly declares
his full concufrence in the sentiments of
Father Lacordeire, who died, according
to his own words, ''an impenitent liberal
and Of Count Montalembert, who recent
ly from his sick bed (which he expects to
be soon his dying bedl sent stirring
letter to the 'liberal priests and laymen
of Germany" exhorting them to have
courage, as without the courageous pro-
fession of the liberal Catholics the
"Church would soon be lost in the
senseless triumph of fanatical bigot-
ism. +" Father Hyncinthe expresses his
admiration of the wise and moderate
words of the German bishops lately as
sembled Mt Fulda, which he thinks can
not fail to exert a most salutary influence
To the question what course of action he
would pursue if, as the common anticipa-
ton 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 repndiate
these theories, the Father replied that
this question will not come up for cou-
sideration until the resolutions of the
council shall be known. he has no fixed
programme yet as to his movements in
the United States. He has come over to
see and to study the country of which he
has been so long an ardent admirer In
bia Qd1raccao ha hoo nfton in -
eloquence traced the greatness of this
country to its open Bible and it's popular
and free religion, and he wants to see
with his own eyes whether the actual
picture corresponds with his idea. After
few weeks or months he expects to re-
turn to France he may or may not go to
the Gcumenical Council beyond that
no programme has been laid out for the
future. But the strong basis of his reli-
gious belief, on which he dwells with
particular emphasis, is the belief in the
divinity of Christ, in the inspiration Of
the Scriptures, and the excellence of the
Christian civilization of the nineteenth
century.
Father Hyacinthe is now in the prime
of his manhood. He was born in 1927,
at Orleans, studied Mt Pau, where his
father ives rector Of the academy. Hav-
ing, ut the age of eighteen, entered the
Seminary of Saint Sulpice, he was. after
four years of theological studies. ordain-
ed priest, and soon after called as profes-
sor of philosophy to the Seminary of
Avignon. Later he became professor of
theology at Nantes. After that he was
for several years connected with the
parish of Saint Sulpice in Paris. Feel
ing vocation to the monastic life, he
spent two years in the novitiate of the
Carmelito Convent of Lyons, then joined
that order, and ut onco produced a sem
sation by his brilliant sermons. He
preached the advent sermons at Bor-
deaux in 1868, the lent sermons at Peri
genX in 1864, and in the summer of the
same year went to Paris, when, at the
Church of Madeleine, and later Mt Notre
Dame, he achieved great and brilliant
success. Every successive year increased
this success, and his reputation rs one
of the greatest living pulpit orators, not
only of France but of the whole Chris
tian world, was undispuel in any quar-
ter. No great journal of this country or
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