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PERE HYAcINTHE.
Who He Is and What---Ris Lecture on
Charity"

the most eager and enthusiastic audi
ences with which New York ever
hOnOred an orator, and which pro-
duced such q demand for seats at eX-
travagant prices as had never been
known, even for the most fashionable,
or the most admirable, musical or dra-
matte entertainments, was not an IN
terest in the subject TO be treated, nor
in the thoughts to be expressed. 1t
was rather the expression at once OF Il
curiosity TO see and hear the man who
was TO speak. and of a generous sym
uathv with his character and position.
Charles LoysOn, or Father Hya-
cin-he. as he is called in his order OF
Caru1,elite Friars, has been for many
years the most effective preacher in
Paris. the one pulpit orator OF the
Catholic Church who, In the mldst OF
q worldly and frivolous society, mas
been able TO bring together throngs OF
the people. and impress them ueepiy
with the doctrines OF Chrlstlanlty.
But his devotion has always been to
his faith, as a power for regeneratlng
the heart and guiding the life, ana not
10 his church, as an organization. Ills
aioouence has been an important ally
.offatholicism i'm Paris, and therefore
he bas been treated with fOrbearance
by his superiOrs, whom his liberty Of
s1apcb offended. But his own course
has gradually become more and more
liberal, until, in July last, he openly
Ta.,gnized Protestant Christianity as
a ~ TaIirious communion" for which,
a. well as for Catholicism, There Is
roon in the daylight Of the civilized
world"
This was an open defiance Of the eX-
clusiVe assumptions Of Rome, and
couId rot pass without rebuke. 1t
lad IN an open breach between Father
Hyacinthe and his Order; he boldly
protested. "as a Christian and q priest,
AGAINST those doctrines and practices
which call themselves Roman, but are
not Christian;" abandoned his con-
vent and the garb Of his Order, and
early in October sailed for America, in
order. As he intimated last evening, TO
rest for a time from conflict, ana 10
gather strength for the struggles 10
come.
On being introduced by Mr.. CaTm6,
Vice President of the French Society
of New York, the Father commenced
his lecture:
The question ! would speak on to-
night IS one Of the most important,
vet one of the least understood. L
speak OF charity. The government of
lite IS, however, the real subject Of my
lecture. and charity a subsidiary eie-
ment. In this practical age science Is
studied for its application 10 the prac-
ticaI purposes OF life, rather than for
its own excellence. The fact par eX-
cellence Is truth, and from this comes
the great question:: OF what use j. II
for man TO conquer the universe if he
loses his sOul-his life? 1t is grand
thing for this great continent 10 be
governed by the people, but II Is q
greater thing for man 70 be governed
by his conscience. But before proceed
ing further let me define the meaning
/ attach to the expression.
The old sch0lastcs, after Aristotle,
referred 10 life 2s q moVemenJ-Uitd
fp nOtl. In each movement three
parts are discernable-the point Of de-
parture, the line traVersed, and the
point of arrival. It is thus in life
The motive power in life Is the heart
"a more imperative, impusive power
t6Qn the conscience, from which, how
eyer. Il is not TO be separated. / have
the right. so To speak, q priest Of
Jesus Christ addressing You. Guard
thine own heart; every man hath his
own heart in HE keeping. The three
principal powers Of the soul and the
body are the reason, the senses and
the heart. Neither Of the first two
mentioned are real powers. By the
senses man is assimilateG TO the brute
creation and sometimes degraded be-
low its level. BY reason he is aSsimi-
lated 10 the angels. He reasons on
sruth under dim shadow, while the
heavenly hosts behold it in ali its full
radisnce. Nothing, however, is more
exclusively, more essentially human
than the heart, for man cannot live or
find any permanent principle that viii
inspire him in life without Its aid. /
have loved and sill love, ideas, but /
have never found in them absolute
certainties, or consultations and joys. Z
What is the heart? 1t is the flesh; it
j. m organ that commands blood and 1
life. Moses said: 1.-The soul is the
blood" The heart is almost the 1
man, for i'm it all motion in lie I.
commences and ends. 1t is the first 4
organ awaking to life in the infant in
the mothers womb; it is the last that /.
heats on the death-bed. The material /
heart is the image Of the moral heart. F.
And the heart is love, the power Of [
loving. Man is not a thought, SEN
timent, but he Is love. This love is
the source of sll moral acts, for in
every man you viii find a good or a
bad love, the weight Of which viii de-
eide his after life. st. Augustine has
said: MY love is nay weight;
where it bears me, thither ! GO" ]
may recite 10 you a German legend
/, we heard. II deals with a young
no In love. lie is sketching an ad-
mir, Ne landscape. Behind him is
.ba fe,. d in human substance watch
mo bie q, very movement. Satan, after
Wstchjng, i'm for awhile, cries to the
ro,1tb. t7N-o u are IN love" "And how
III Tnn l,noy, that?" replies the youth.
= 7 con - Il ;, The hend was right.
love evnre.sses 'tself by means the
most foreign 10 il La man it is as
ave before said-at the root Of every
heart is at thu Jouhdalloh oi
all. Let Us, then, be L9el. VI neell'
Let US bear our hearts into L'Vli NE,
into social life, into domestic lie Let
rs be men of heart in city ano IN
State. Let US love country, family, /
loyalty, prObity. Let US love the I
Church of Christ, but not as the church 1
Of any particular sect. Let US respect /
the letter, but not as an eXtinguisher; /
the letter kills-the spirit gives life. I
Loud applause Let US, then, re-
peat, start a. men Of heart. Your I
great poet, LOngfellOw, whose ac- /
quaiutance it was my great privilege I
10 make a few days ago, has written in
one Of his verses-the force of which
is but poorly rendered in French
lines which have been my motto
through life:
let US then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate,
still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn TO labor and to wait"
Tremendous applause Now would
sneak Of the direction TO be given TO
life. and of the region il should ira
,erse. We have often heard OF two
= ids opening before man, each d.
y " ,ing from the other. Humanity
,ee 1esitated between the two for
laS as, les. Shall heaven or earth be
.6aSen Shall man give TO his exist
80 an impulse that will separate
I'm from the world that bears him
Ia -,d taor i, from all that the Creator
- ,. made h is basis-family affections,
- -,'t, tarasrs su derings, OF shall he cast
,1sv All ide.N Of loving heaven, and
: aoncentr,te a% upon earth his faith, his
b"ne bis love? Man, say, hesitates
hefUeen the two roads, and the most
-esb rush 10 one or the other. Ma
terislists saw that heaven is nothing,
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