Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-10-30

he was leaving he knew whittier nc was
going. He was not led away by any
youthful enthusiasm. In the calm coup
sells of a mature manhood he deliberately
ehosa 10 be loyal to his conscience, aud
to take as the consequences Of that loyalty
the loss of place, the accommodation
from his church, aud all the disgrace.
Misrepresentation, misconstruciion, and
persecution which the church could in
aict BY going over to the Protestants
he would have gained the proudest hon
crs Pro,estantism had to give. This he
knew, and this did not move HIM. No,
he would stand alone, cliuging to his own
Church though spurned. aud laboriDg for
reform in his own Church and the liberty
of those whose necks were under its yoke
though they might slay him.
This was the man who in 1866, stood
day after day, and preached in Notre
Dame to througs so great that some
could only sec him from afar, and catch
those utterances on love and fraraiage
and home which seemed to be almost di-
vinely inspircd-that thrilled through the
very heart of Paris. We do not believe
that there exists in human language so
noble a tribute to the nature and influence
of true marriage and home as is to be
found in these discourses 1t was In
France where love is by-word, and
marriage prudential arrangement, aud
home dream without name, that such
words are spoken
+" Love! This is the word which we
must have courage to pronounce, 1t we
would express the essence of the conjugal
.relation, its inmost principle and Law. j
know we'll that this word is exposed to the I
sncers of skeptism, which knows no great
er chimera-next to God than love.
, [ know, too wretched and miserable
fact that wakens in the mild the recof
lection of numberless abnses, and unequal
ed dissertations. But what matters the
shame of the sinner Thank God, my heart
has remain ed pure, my reason has cchtin-
ued sound, aud preacher of the Gospel
! as | am, teacher of the understanding
3 an1 heart OF man, it is my right, my duty /,
4 to speak of love. Yes, love. And if our
morals are going to run, if the basis OF
the family is undermined, if domestic So
y ciety leans and totters like ruined edifce,
it is because men have forgotten to put
love at the foundation of the house, the
}, love Of two beings who love each other in
a honor, in respect, in holiness"
o ~ " *
K 81 proclaimed thee, o my God as the
e type of the great fellowship of mankind. j
hail thee now, veperate and | adorn thee
(. as the especial type of the society of home.
1t Yes, the Lord is God, he is the ia
st ther, and within himself is his own glory {;
N for 'the Word is the glory of God." He
e. thinks of his glorious Word, in substance
st and in person, this beautiful and living
Sc Reason, his Son. He contemplates his
Of Word and in this meditation, from the
m the meditation, from the two, the Father
ut and the Word, prcceedith the Holy Spir
us it-that is, love--love in substance and
n in person. And the Father and the Wo'
he abide in it! The cycle of divine life il
e- consummated God is complete. God i
nd bl ssed. And there are three that bea
ad witness in heaven, the Father, the Word
1t, and the Spirit and these three are ope
nd =" Now there are three also that hea
no witness Oh earth. Man Is not satis6e,
Or with his own solitary personality he ais
mt must have his glory and, like Gcd, h
m. must have his word, his beautiful reaso
en-, made visible, bis sweet and strong con
,ed science to surround him with its sweet
pure light. And with this blessed image
ig- called, ike the Word, the express imag
ing of his person. the stainless mirror OF h
ent beauty, with her he begets his son. athil
hat self-a third term common to the husbal
led and wife, in which their love becomes j
eut carnate, and fixes itself and abides Lii
his God in heaven, so man is complete al
nil blessed on earth, and there are three tn
had bear wtness-the father and the wife a
1me the child, and these three agree in one.
'een Thus we arrive at our hero's idea
and love and marriage, long before maria
heir was contemplated by him, or seemed ev
pon ultimately possible to him. Driven
an the encroachments of Rome upon the ]
| to erty of his conscience, he leaves his q
lred vent, and then follow three years Of To-
,ong illness and prescription. No man, whe
hat, er under vows of celibacy or not, v
|, he could utter these words in Paris, CO.
|, If fail to entertain the opinion that arbit
have and enforced celibacy was u horrible or
,ffort against the God of human natnture.
h to meets q woman whom he loves. The VOL
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