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The following letter from Father Hyaclnhc
TO the reverend translator OF his published SER
mons was read at the session OF the Evangelical
Alliance In New York on Thursday Inst:
To Rec. Leonard ". Bdc0n BroOHlDp:
KEyEhESD SIR am rs much gratlfed as sur
few scourscs have pIbshod IN Europe. Some me
but these are very few. and relate to eireum
no interest for American readers. The others,
more importan: In their subject, since they arc
Notre Dame by the Archbishop of Paris, urc en-
tant only III detached parts, taken down hastily
IN shorthand and the gaps filled 10y an imperfect
l should have been glad, l acknowledge, II |
couu have brought TO America something less
unworthy or the sympathy with which I hive
been received here AMI which shall nway reckon
among the greatest honors ana purest Joys OF my
Such as they arc, however. commit these rude
productions TO the Indulgence OF your readers
trenciman ami Catholic Ms am, present them.
through your hands, TO that great American re.
public OF which YOU are citizen, to those hume
rous and Gonrisiing Protestant churches OF Which
you are q minister.
am proud Of my France, but deem IL one OF
us most solid gl0rles to have contributed TO the
lndependenee Of this noble country, which II has
never ceased to love, aud which 1t shall same day
learn to initiate. people with whom liberty il
something else than barren theory or bloody
confounded with that Of revolution, and never ,l-
VOrccd from that or religion; and whO rearing
under all forms and all denominations Its houses
OF prayer amid Its houses OF commerce and
finance, crowns It's noisy and productive week
Win the sweetness aud majesty OF It's Lords day.
''And on the seventh day II ends the work which
1t has done and rests the seventh day from all It's
work which II has nader
u, ! remain faithful TO my church, and if have
lifted up my protest against the cXcesscs which
dishonOr 1t and seem bent OH It's ruin, you may
measure the intensity or my love for II by the
bitterness OF my lainentation. When lie who Is
m all thfngs our master and our example armed
himself with the scourge OF cords against the
cd that It was written, "Thc zeal Of Thy house
hath eaten me up" continue faithful to my
church, but am none the less sensible OF the III
tercst which Will be taken In other churches In
what may say or do within the pale or Cathoii-
cisnl. Furthermore, have never denied that
were dlsinheritcd Of the Holy Ghost, and with.
out part In the Immense work OF the pre-
paration OF the Kingdom OF God. In my rela-
ttonS with some OF the most pIous and the
most learned OF their members I have en-
pericnced In those depths OF the soul, where illu-
communion OF saints. Whatever divides US en-
ternaly In space and time vanshcs like O dream
before that Il which Gnites US wthln-tle grace OF
the same God, the blood OF the same Christ the
hopes OF the same eternity. Whatever our preju-
ulee our alterations or our irritations under the
eye OF Col who sccth what We cannot see, under
Ills hand which leadeth us whthcrwe would not
20, we arc al laboring In common for the upbuild.
the church OF the past in Its original purity and
beauty; but shall have besides the depth OF It's
analysis the breadth OF Its synthesis the expert
through oil these centuries
In tlrosad days or schism and captivity the
word OF the Lord came TO the prophet Ezekiel,
saying: "Thou son or man, take tlice one stick
ana write upon II, 'for Judah anu for the children
| OF Israel his companlons;' then take another
SLICK and write upon it, For Joseph. the stick
, OF Ephraim and all the house OF Israel his com
panions;' ami join them one to another into one
stick, and they shall become one In thy hand. n
| Ezekiel NXXvil, 1911.
To me likewise, who nm the least OF Christians
| In those visions OF the soul which are never refus
| ell TO our dcvout aspirations, the Lord hath
spoken. He has placed In my hands these two
| sandered and wlthered branches-Romc and tic
children OF Israel who follow her; the churches OF
the Reformation and the nations that IRE Will
them l have pressed them. together on my
| henrt, and under the outpouring OF my tears and
prayers thave so Joined them that henceforti
they might make but one tree. Hut men have
laughed to scorn my effort, seemingly so mad
| anil have asked OF inc, as OF that ancient seer
| "Wilt thou not show us what thou meanest by
these things 81 Ezekiel XxXviI, 1871 And /
looking upon that tree that seems still barren and
mutilated, even now behold the brilliant flower
and the savory fruit.
lone God, one faith, one baptism"
| herd.n BRoTuEp HYAcISTUr
Highland Falls, All Souls Day, November l. 1859