New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-05
TIE CAREER or FATHER HT1CLNTHE.
From The London Telegraph.


Although still comparatively young, Pere
Hyacinthe stands among the chief pulpit forces OF inc
Romsh Church Joining the orGgr UI b
and his culture less than by MS eAtaoIuhay poMS
star to the galaxy of French pulpit eloquence Bu from
the time of his first utterances no was Regarded Win
was seen TO be tainted with liberalism His words had
not that tone of absolute submission to the Holy See
priests Of france on France, almost as much as
ireland the Utramontane party has laid its grasp Much
n that country they have back. Such doceses as
that of Orleans ruled with rod of iron, in accord
he Dreates who represent the old Liberalism Of France
inspire in men like Bishop Dupanoup much the same
hostility with which the extreme High Church dgntles
of England regard their extreme Broad Church rivals
Ultramontane party however have been forced to
had to contend with band OF men to whom nature had
given extraordinary intellectual gifts and whose piey IL
impossible for the jealousy OF orthodoxy ltse 70
impugn. Such men as Lammenas. LacOrdaire and
MOnalembert fanced that they could bridge oyer tne
century the political creed OF the nineteenth In the
encounter Lammcnas utterly everthrowh py the
which bound him, not only Rome, but to revealed re-
lgiOn itself Lacordae died while the struggle was yet
its hottest and MOntaemberts record has yet 10 DC
written To the same band Of enthusiasts although he
occupies less exalted place, belongs the present Arch
bishop OF Paris, MOnselgneur DarbOy An ardent Liberal
as well as an ardent Catholic MOnsegneur DarbOy has
than been the object OF Papal suspicion ana
has been forced 10 rearm his devotion TO the Holy See
But his chief offense was the admission OF Pete Hya-
cinthe to Cathedral OF N6tre Dame TO that historic
church the intellect and the religious feyor OF PARIS
ocked when attracted by such eoquence that OF the
barefooted Carmee. And the oager crowd was not dis
6cers felt the fascination OF the brilliant preacher
After the great church had been filled in every part
face would ascend the pulpit and address tho expectan
multitude. His oratory was srikngly natural 1t was
ferred to the sanctuary, aud made holy by
the infusion Of sacred themes; 1t was the re,
ecclesiastical About the Church the Father did
not say much about doctrines he said still less; and
about the clergy he said little that was not rebnke On
tho other hand lie made the aises OF NOtre Damo re-
sound with the most incorporating Liberalism. Ia
words OF burning elOquence he taught men that they
Of families they were lowered with rights which even
the Church could not take away The claim OF the clergy
to direct the conscience Of the wife, and to set aside the
authority OF the husband, Yves pretenson when fere
Hyaenthe denounced with that peculiarly cutting; be-
cause personal elOquence, which men can weld when
assang the members Of their own order lie asserted
the right of the husband TO be supreme IN
to obey the laws Of his own country. I'm.
moved by the threats OF Rome he raised IA, up
scribed devotion TO the family and to the nation with
out directly Gssang the pGss o t1o oa S
those prctensOns null and void. Hence the men OF
rapture. religious creed which did not compel them
20 break off oil visible connection with Rome, and yet
Of their own country was the very thing for which they
paris were unions against the dscourses of tho Carmel
ite All his eloquent denuncations OF the vices which
proving the life OF France we're poweress TO stl
the erce cry of heresy The preacher assaed with
that cry and at last the geOus Archbishop OF
Paris before the storm that he put end 70 tho
OF Carmete dIscOurses and invited the rival
Of PeTe Hyacnthe TO fill the pulpit OF NOre Dame The
preacher Perc Felix, strOve hard 10 undo the mis-
chief wrought by his gifted predecessor Jesuit, and
lowered with the graces OF his most accomplished
order he lent all riches OF his rhetoric TO Witty Prot
estantism, and 10 preach the duty Of uncompromisng
submission TO Holy Church. as represented by It's cef
bishop But the effort in vain. The echoes OF ya-
cinthe's eoquence sui fingered on mems ears AT last
however tic words of calumny 10 the side OF
his foes the chief dignary OF his order who had before
encouraged great preacher with loving words In
letter Hyacinthe the FaherGenera OF the bareOOed
Carmetes blamed him for doing the very things which
he had previously encouraged him 70 PERFORM and COM
mauded him to a language, 20 preserve silence,
which would not be the loyal expression OF conscience
OPPOSITION IN TIE COUNCIL
The correspondent Of the Berlfier hrets Zcn writes
from Rome follow The Pope Is said to be much
concerned by the reports made 70 him by Cardinals Nard
and Merode respecting the forthcoming Ecumenical
Council Hitherto his Holiness has entertained the be-
lief that I'm all important political and social questions
submitted the Council the prelates would be unanl
nous In their opinions, whereas II would now SEEM from
the latest reports that such unanimty by no means 70
be calculated The opposition OF the German Bishops
is more especially dreaded in the Vatican, while the be-
raj opinions Of some OF the English and Belgian preates
give very little satisfaction IL stated here that Dr.
Manning Archbishop OF Westminster, Is AT the head OF
those Bishops who demand the separation or the church
from tho State while others again go still further, and
wish, Ike CaYOur for a free Church In a free State