Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-08

real, sincere, profound, but It was not
the doubt that laughed and iested as
in the time of VOltaire, but a doubt
that reasoned and inquired. The true
! principle Of the mutual advances of
the enlightened members Of the DIFF.
ferent churches toward each other was
not Indifference, nor yet was it the de-
sire Of reducing al under the same
form Of doctrine and organization. It
was the conviction that no single
church had attained an adequate ex-
preston OF the whole truth.
IN FORMER TIMES EVERY CHURCH
ALIKE
/ the churches of their Protestant faith
ers and Of his Catholic fathers-be-
beved that every fOmula, every or
%ganization which they respectively
possessed, was precisely the same as
that which had existed in the Apps
tOlic age. This illusion had now al
most universally passed away from
the educated members Of all churches
equally. They had learned that there
was an objective truth larger than the
subjective truth, in all or in each
| church-that there,Was a God more vast
than the sanctuary which enshrines
Him. From the time that in the
tenth century the great scbism Of the
East and West produced face TO face
two great churches, both Catholic,
both orthodox, both aneient-stili
more from the time that in the six
teenth century the advent Of the Ref
OrmatiOn produced the yet further
/ schism in the West itself-frOm that
time it has been quite evident that
even the great Roman Catholic Church
itself, which he valued and to which
he belonged from its traditions and
its great capacities for the future, was
not the whole church, but is a partic-
ular church, the greatest If you will,
but n church amongst many.
France, it was said, represents Ca
thOlicism; but France was not all
Catholic. France produced Calvin,
and Calvanism represented perhaps
the most characteristic form of Prot
estanism. France produced Bossuet,
the GalIican; Descartes, the philOsO-
pher, and the POrtrOyalists. Neither
was Germany wholly Protestant. 1t
had many Catholics, and some Of the
most eminent and courageous mem
bers Of the late Council came from
that country. "As for myself said
Pere Hyacinthe), Notwithstanding
the trials of recent days and the scan
daIs Of the recent Council, I have re-
manned a Catholic, but on the cOndi-
ton of distinguishing between the
real principles of CathOlicity-and the
abuses of the Roman system"
A TENDENCY TOWAJ UNION
was, therefore, the character Of our
time, and of this he had seen an illus
tratiOn during a recent visit to Hell
Olics WOrshiped under the same roof,
separated not by a wall Of stone, but
only by a wood partition. The spirit
of enlightened and liberal CathOlicity
was represented in the name of the
iIlUstriOus and learned DOllinger.
With regard to the results Of the war,
he believed that there would be three.
Germany would have a political or
g~aniZatiOn, q body corresponding to
its intellectual and moral soul; she
would be a powerful focus to civiliza-
ton on the heart OF Europe, pacific
and liberal.
FRANCE WOULD BE RESTORED TO
HERSELF,
the legitimate promises Of her great
revolution accomplished, and the
reign of sOphists and c%ourtesans
abolished. In my conferences at
NOtre Dame, in the Advent Of 1867,
long before the war, I said: but 1
wish above all others to expose evils
which people are anxious to conceal.
Yes, while luxury is eating out the
entrails of the nation, while in the
midst Of this growing decay COurte-
are lifting their proud heads like
worms on the corpse that is nOUrlsh-
ing them, another hive of corruption
and death Is growing up, which is at
lacking not the heart, but the brain
sOphists, at once the COrTUptOrs OF the
reason and language, which is
its organ" And further, | said, 1.-The
enemy at our gates, our honor insult
ed, our Independence menaced-if this
be requisite to force Us from those
who are running US, God viii accom-
plish this, because He loves US and
wishes to save US in spite Of ourselves.
Come forth from the scabbard, sword
Of the Lord, and of France" I con-
Guided, do thy wOzk, do it quickly,
and do it completely" There were
THREE GOOD REsUL
which the hand of God might draw
from this wicked war-a powerful
center Of civilization in Germany,
which would be pacific and liberal;
France restored to herself, and the
legitimate promises Of her grand rev.
OlutiOn accomplished; the third re-
suit related to another country, which
was equally his-nOt the country of
his birth, but the country Of his soul
Italy. Rome was now free. The
temporal power Of the POpe-Useful,
he freely acknowledged, in its own
age, and for particular stages of Eu-
sOciety-had long Outlived its
time. Thrice had he visited Rome;
thrice had he seen that power close at
hand; thrice had he labOred to respect
it; but he saw absolutely that it rested
only on the bayOnets of France, and
when they were withdrawn it would
crumblet to pieces. 1t had crumbled
away; and he thanked God for an
event that would minister to the unity
Of Italy, to the regeneration of the
races, and above all, to the re-
form Of the Church always dear to
Catholic Church of Rome.
The reverend father was frequently
interrupted in the course of his adj
dress, the proceeds of which will be
applied to the relief the French peas. |
antry who have suffered Dy the war.