The New York herald., 1873-08-16

"Popes VIII listen, because they have gratifled the
basilisk OF st. Martin with thousand favors with
o thousand privileges, and because the baslisk OF
st. Martin has given pontins to the Church Of
Rome.
"Bishops will hearken, because St. Martin was the
glory OF their orders because he is inscribed az the
first among the diptychs OF the Church, and Is the
mead Of the Pontin confessors.
'Prlests will lend their ears because who was ever
80 bold az st. Martin to raise the dignity OF the
sacerdotal character before the great OF the earth
(and to say, All power Is Of God y
"Young maidens will listen from their chambers
and their bowers, because st. Martin (being
Frenchman) refused all other presents, save those
made to him by virgins, which he avsrrsd posstb!y
upon French grounds) carried with them peculiar
blessing Sculp. Seu., De Vita b Martin.
BY the bye, the slang phrase
Its all my eye and Betty Martin,
came from the usual form of invocation to this
saint; though 1t is q matter which has nothing to
do with the narrative at present In hand.
"All classes of society will hear" concludes this
terrible Bishop Pie who Is as aiburning brand in the
Church OF France, much vllifed by the luKewarm).
"The poor, because they would like to give
O half.penny OF least (alne obole) to q saint
who gave one of them the skirts OF his cloak
The army, because st. Martin by his dtsin
terestedness French soldiers have small pay, and
this was hitting them home) was the first type OF
the French soldier before he became the type of
monk and bishop; he Offers, therefore, tho most
perfect model OF the solderprlest. evidently no
intention here Of laying exclusive claim to St. Mar
TINS virtues, set up by Bishop Pie.)
'Tf any Christian CHURCH or any member OF any
Christian Church." says the bishop, ''refuses an
offering the shrine OF st. Martin 1t must abdicate
Its name and deny Its etymology. All the world
(well, not quite all the world MY Lord,) knows
that the cape of st. Martins cloak gave It's name
to the oratores Of our kings and hence the origin
OF the word chapel"
WHAT PILGRIM SAW.
Having now endeavored to show what is the
shrine Of St. Martini why 1t is worshipped and that
pilgrimages to this shrine are not crack-brained,
newfangled thing Of yesterday or the day before,
but that they represent the outward and visible sign
Of belief which has lasted unimpalred for 1900
years, proceed to tell what saw and heard as q
pilgrim there.
THE ALTAR OF ST. MARTIN
was hung with the votive offerings OF the '-Iful,
and the new church erected for his worship was
hung with banners OF silk and gold. There, as at
other shrines to which pilgrimages are made,
| might be seen, moved by the breath OF hymns,
which called on God in the sweetest language
which creatures can utter the voIette orltan,nae
Of Troyes and the nag Of the immaculate Virgin Of
| branches of Our Lady Of LOrette, and the Ace
Maria, on cleth Of gold which is the spiritual cog
nizance Of Anglers. There, too, emblazoned on .
field OF AZURE was the sacred heart OF st. Philip Of
Marseilles ana near 1t waved In stately folds the
| Cypher OF Rochelle. Many OF these banners OF the
| Church Of Rome have occult and mystic sgniQca.
| tions.
The painted glass Of the church windows,
| through which came, as 1t were, bowed down
and sauting, the garish light Of the Summer
noon, had each its story for the eye Of faith. It
was in this scene and with these surroundings
that the Grand Vicar OF the Archdiocese stood up
before the altar and preached to US. There was no
| hating between two opinions In what he said He
| told US that "Christ is the resurrection and the
lfe," very simply and plainly, with certain stern
! grandeur as II there could be dispute on that
subject. Then one by one the pilgrims knelt be.
fore the rails OF the altar and each received little
scarlet cross-a poor thing in ITSELF (Merey q
bit OF red flannel sewed TO bit Of canvas, and
not worth penny, my stock jobbng friends go you
had better have nothing to do with it, Yet there
were some who kissed 1t reverently as the outward
| and visible sign OF an inward and spiritual grace
1t pretty thing, too, neatly sewed with white
silk round the edge, and II 1t were not excluded
from commerce" might be sold with advantage to
all Gethamites Alter this, each pilgrim, with his
cross upon his breast descended to the tomb OF st.
Martin, which is under ground. There such Of his
relics as remain are kept and there chaplets were
blessed amidst prayer and thanksgiving.
| PILGRIMS DINNER.
So, having worshipped at this shrine we remem.
bered that we were earthly creatures with appe-
tites and that We thirstcd and were hungry
There is not so much nonsense, after all about the
Roman Catholic Church; and one Of the directors
Of the pilgrimage not seeing why those who had
rod Cnd fnv uto Aovnao
should not enjoy His gifts comfortably seated at
table dh0te, conducted us to the Hotel de rUnivers
q clean refreshing place, where we had q wonderful
| dinner for three francs. And what q dinner |
Soup salmon, toied beef, stewed veal, rsast fowl,
French beans, salad, pudding, wine at discretion,
! and oil the fruit In the gardeners calendar then
ripe.
Hooked demurely up at priest beside me, and l
| said:
"Surely, Your Reverence, this is good living for
| pilgrim Isee reason why it should not suit
an alderman
"sir," replied the priest, reluctantly setting
down glass OF wine he was about to raise to his
lips, "to overtask human strength and endurance
is to ask OF God new miracle every day, in order
| to repair wnat our folly has DONE"
"Je uous consele," said the French Duke, driv-
the nail we'll home, "never to measure tongues
with Clergyman"
| The Hotel de rUnivers was served by cool
pretty girls, in the snowy caps OF Touraine. I
| liked them better than hot walters.
walked about the town some time after
| dinner. Everywhere new churches were build
ing. One, the Church Of st. stephen, had been
stopped awhile by the Republic, but It's walls were
now rising fast again. 1t was built OF soft stone,
very easily worked and not unlike that used at
| Sebastopo; and 1t reminded me of Mr.. Bright the
English tribune-a man for whom have q hiQh
esteem, and who once tried to render me q great
service, but could not do 1t, being, he said, too
busy-not having time, In short, to do his duty,
| which Is the with most OF u.s. We have either
too much to do or nothing at all.
ANEcD0TE OF MR.. BRIGHT
Well 1t happened that once dined with the most
eloquent o! the English orators 1t was during the