New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-06-06

his dictatOn rapid but he returns hsa os every line
the first draft Of book, and coiI rsp IN despar
infinitely. Publishers and printers arc W vepty proofs
when they find that ho wants ss uot6i%S but the pro
dieious sale of his writings when thus ia,h1r 20 do
ished would reconcile them dawn often tn deep into
the night he tolls increasingly; anu WIZ for sunnort
oyerahes him at last hS he banks of the Loire. II his
mental fatigue resiss this rOugh u,t ~ bis native
fonTnev IN Switzerland. aud seeks healtn III S hi
JVuio ~ I'm" about on foot among the Alps Wnele nus
renufaon has gone before ~ form
M tbess pedestrian tours he was bemghVeu u ohI
o,ld MOI ret shelter at curates mousse WI nc nau
assured the worthy man that he was LUG p'S"op " "'
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IIvocinthe. whom he regards as for the moment the
most nrominent man in France. In his view, the
courageous Father is both righteous man and
great man. No one, he aflirms, can look into his
honest ewes OF hear the sound of his voice ringing
with Christian eanestness and not feel that here Is
a preacher who might be trusted TO guide men any
where. His teaching is drawn not from the Christi
anty of cOnclaves episcopal courts, but from the
doctrine of Christ himself, and is intended for the
comfort and enlightenment Of men. not for the en-
slayement of their minds in priestly bondage. In
his eloquence he is less polished than Dupanloup'
less fiery than Ravignan, and less ecstatic
than Lacordaire, but his voice penetrates
and melts the heart. His lectures in Notre Dame
in 1867 filed the vast cathedral with an audience
composed of all classes of persons. The simple
hammered monk spoke TO this motley throng as they
had never been spoken to before. He did not give
them abstruse controversy dashed with Tose-water
religion but tried to the soul from its dream
of sensuality, or its abiect terror of the devil lie
was pitiless in exposing the shams of everyday
life He denounced hypocrisy He told his hearers
that their consciences were better guides to them
than the precepts of any priest. BE resisted the
influence of the confessOr opposed TO that OF the
husband and father His position as retormer III
the bosom of the church is set forth as follows:
FATHER HYAcINTHE A.
Father Hvacnthe best knows by What means tne
cause he has at heart should served but he must GER
tainy be that there Is not country IN 1hsIe
i'm France In Spain Of his parts might have Ell
fected schism in Italy he would have rallied sIrohs,
or at least dmonstratiye. party round him In Germany
he would have proved valuable ally TO Prince BIS
marck in that satesman's warfare against Jesmtsn,
But IN France he could expect hIte sympathy ana no
support; neither has he obtained any. For religious
purposes the French may he roughly divided neo Two
paties the bigOs, and those who do not DeleYe any
thingthe latter being much the larger seCOn nousu
subdyded INTO the t TapSns se Who profess 70
believe everything for peace ana prOpIley eS rTo
bigot ban the idea as basphemy; the freethnkers dis
mass 10 as not worth their attention.; me PocOcWdHN
majority would much rather not hear ecelesasuca mat
tiers discussed at ALL To these last the Church is
necessary ornament; they send their wives ana Gh1n
10 it, they themselves are influenced neither pOhUcy
nor socially by edicts and they deprecae almost say
agely any controversy tending to revive topics whch
Hyacnthe rather 10 have overlooked TINS 1act
the Catholic Church, at present managed Is
represents antagonsn 10 AL tAat men can PTogs ~
Is the enemy OF science, free discussion ana human fe
SON BY the fundamentally OF the confessional and by
enforced cebaey of priests (which Is nut the prop
ping stone to the cOnfessOna IL huds IL can exercise
more prestige over weak minds than could by liberal
concessions. And so long as this - the case u VIII n0i
abae jot Of its pretensons No doubt the time wlii
come when thanks the spread of education, men viii
take the sensible view OF fath and look upon IL as
thing OF the heart not OF outward Observance In tnat
day there will be majority OF men Who rejecting the
confortless conclusions OF atheism, VIII ask Tor
religion which Will be IN ntuaI simple IN u0Sha5
tolerant, IN charity universal Ihen the fapai
See, in order to be left high aud dry by the
flood Of human enlightenment when mas aIeauy
begun 10 roll ahead OF it, may fling itself into the stream,
throw of its incumberng superstluOns ana once more
take the lead IL hed Wnen IL louSht Ine NcoIlous I'M
against Pagansm, and earned that proud title OF Cath
and generations must eapse before that time and
meanW lille those who, like Charles Loyson endeayor 10
pared tor harder treatment than the Churchs worst
enemies, Happily the efforts of Church Retormers are
longer sealed in blood nowadays they need only
be watered with tears Let it, at all events be COM
Father Hyacnthe 10 know that any tears wrung
from him by the cruel aspersiOns which are being poured
upon bis head at hs moment by all those OF his country
men whom he had been training TO love, will not be
thrown away affection entaed by the conscientious
advocacy Ola worthy cause ever Is.
One of the most suggestive papers IN the volume
presents a sngularly clean-cut sketch of NJ. Louis
Blanc in which the admirable virtues of that emf
nent man are depicted in the spirit of just appreca-
ton, though without any color of attery NJ. Louis
Blanc is set down as a thinker sometimes dreamer,
but no man of action If he is chaFgeable with not
a little of the terror which prevented Republican
ideas from taking root in 1913, he has made ample
amends by his high-principed attitude throughout
his long exile during the Empire One could not
wish to any country more conscientious body OF
politicians than those of whom he is a type. They
are upright and good men, however impracticable
may be some of their theories They have testified
the sincerity of their convictions in the simplest and
grandest way, by suffering on their account. But
in becoming apostles of a system which men must
be forced to endure rather than taught to love- they
only lend point to the remark that Republic will
never be possible in France until there are no more
Republicans left"