Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-12-23
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The Academy IF Musie lass ,gsttiug
was filed ~ it's utmost capacity, by M
apdiencs comprising large representa-
ton ~ the wealth and intelligence ~ the
city, assembled ~ hear tbe lertute If
Psrs Hyaeipthe On the platform were
Horace Greeley, James Parton. John
Bigelow, Judge Bosworth. jas. w Gerard
and many other distinguished gentlemen.
In the absence If Mons Condrst, the
President Of the French Benevolent So
ciety. Pere Hyaointhe was introduced by
M. Caylu-, formerly q distinguished
journalist in France. and for many ycars
u prominent merchant in this city. NJ.
Csylus, in introducing the speaker. said
that he NJ. Caylu-) came to represent and
not to replace Mons. Coudert. the Presi-
dent Of the French Benevolent Society
The Americans and Germans, and Irish
had each heard their great orators in the
Academy of Music, and il was now the
turn of the French. With few more
graceful and eloquent remarks he for
mally introduced the reverend lecturer.
On rising to speak. on entering, per
feet storm of applause greeted Father
Hyacinthe. He seemed sen-ibly affected
by The warmth of this greeting Calmly
surveying the immense audience before
him, the celebrated divine said -
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, too, re-
quire to give some explanation of my
presence here tonight. | came 10 seek
in this country a few weeks of repo-e be-
tween the struggles of yester eve and
those of the morrow. / came resolved to
be silent. | came to behold that grand
nature bearing an impress Of the Deity,
the more profound a- the hand Of man Is
less apparent upon it. / came 20 look up
on that young and vigorous nation,
which, if 1t weakens not, will realize in
the future the greatest and the la-t inten.
tions of God on our race. | came here to
listen and not to speak. 1t happen ned
however, that in this cosmopolitan city /
found France, and was appealed to by the
charitable in behalf of suffering France
The members of the S0ciete Francai5e de
Bienla3apce asked me to oome to aid
now that a severe winter is about Is
set in my suffering compatriots in New
York. The French population in this
great city is not numerous, but its mem
ories are many and glorious. Since the
time of Washington and Lafayette no
cloud has darkened the friend -hip of the
two countries they respectively represent.
/ should have shown but "a slender sym pa
thy FIR France had | not responded to the
appeal made to me on behalf of It's suffer
ing children. This will account for my
presence before you thiS evening. The
question | would speak on tonight s.one |
of the most important, yet one of the least
| speak of Charity. The
of Life, is. however. the real
subject of my lecture, and Charity a
element. In this practical age
science is studied for its application to
the practical purposes of life rather than
for its own excellence. The fact par eccel-
'eRce is truth, and from this comes the |
great question Of what use is it for man
to conquer the universe if he loses his /
soul, his life 1t is a grand thing for this
great continent to be governed by the
people, but it is greater thing
for man to be governed by his con-
science. The motive power in life is the
more imperative, impulsive pow
er than the conscience, from which. TO ox-
ever, it ia not TO be separated. l have the
light, so to speak,, a priest of Jesus
Christ, addressing you-to say. guard
thine own heart. Every man hath his
own heart in his keeping. The three
powers of the soul and the body
ire the reason, the senses and the heart.
Neither of the first two mentioned are
.eal powers. By the senses, man ia as
'imilated to the brute creation, and some
lines degraded below its level. He reas-
ms on truth under u dim shadow, while
he heavenly hosts behold it in it's full
'adiance. Nothing, however. IL more ex
'lusively, more essentially human than
he heart, for man cannot live or find any
principle that will inspire him
n life without its aid l have lived life
# ideas, shut out from the world. / have
owed, and still love, ideas; but have
lever found in them absolute certainties
r consultations and joys What is, the
leart It is the flesh it is an organ that
blood and life. Moses said -
The soul is the blood" The hear. is al
most the man, for in it all motion aud life
ommencasI and ends. It is the first or
AN awaking to life in the infant in the
nother's womb; it the last that beats on
he deathbed: The material heart is the
mage of the moral heart; and the heart
, love-the power of loving. Man is not .
Thought sentiment, but he is love.
his love is the source of all moral acts
or in every man you will find a good or
bad love, the weight of which will de- i
ide his after life. st. Augustine has ,
aid, ''My love is my weight; where it ,
ears me thither 60" l may recite to !
on German legend have heard. 1t l
eals with young man in love. He is 4
ketching an admirable landscape. Be- I
ind him is the fiend in human semblnnce,
his every movement. Satan
nally, after watching him for awhile.
ries to the youth, You are in love-"
And how do You know that REPLIES the i
outh. II can see it." The fiend was n
ght. Love expresses itself by means
70 most foreign to it. In man it il, as |
ave before said, at the root of every act !
tho heart is ct the foundation of all. .
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