, 1876-07-02
PEKE uYACINTHE.
AN ADDRESS IN LONDON.

The London Times Of the 18th has the follow
in- account Of q recent address by Perc Hy-
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aciuthe
Lc perc Hyacinthe Loyson delivered IN address
OIL 1.-THE Prospects Of Christendom y yesterday
Athoush it W wus known SSat the discourse VAS to be
in French, the large hall area and galleries alike,
was well filed, the majority OF the audience being
sented, especially BY eleTgynen Of various denom
inntions On the platform were the Bishop Of
Winchester the Deans Of WcstminsteEnnd Chester,
the nu1e Of Ar + g. Ind lofa av ESnry E9fo 9e
mantle, the 1T. Hon. NV. 'nwper- Temple and
alr. J. ". Probyn. The 'B'shop Of Winchester
was IN the chair Father c hyaGn.ne was rei
when he began his address, and on the delivery OF
its most eloquent passages as well as at the close
The Bshop Of t hayng @ Hn @ deo
voton, DR.. Stanley simply offered up the LORDS
Prayer, the effect being most impressive: The
H. ey a; lis kolshp IN a
they were met to hear, not him, but Father Hya-
ci,,the, with whom the English people, who $50
themselves none the worse for it in either moral
and social OF in religious point Of view, would no
DOUBT heartily synpathike. He regretted much
inc that chair, as it had been hoped he would
do. His Grace, however, had written expressing
his entire sympathy with the demonstration and
was merely detaincd by important official engage
1ncnts. lie then introduced Father Hyacnthe to
tI,c ,ncctin1 ,rho at once addresscl the audience
from the chair which the Bishop vacated for the
nnrnosc. The reverend Father began by expressing
Es rrarif1catou ut the meeting having been opened
by tic Dean of Westminster With Our Lords own
n1ovcr and at ifs bcing presided over by the Bishop
r. Wnstminstcr. who It the Cologne Congress had
shown 20 friendly q spirit towards the Old Catho
lics His subject was the gigantic crisis now stir
rir the nations in the South Of Europc in eccesias
t;rsl % aff,frs Thnt which in the Middle Ages took
th.. form Of r great struggle between the Church
ami The Emnirc nov assumed the shape
of a struggle between tho Church and
MODERN snc7e:ty. For the solution Of the
aroiiano thrce rnethods Ind been pro-
pnsei The rst was that OF science, az represented
H. thc Posit;v;sts Of the day After IN eloquent
oocr;ntnn nj the Poeitiyist theory OF the develop
S4sn1t " +ha hnnnan mind Father iIyacinthe point
- nnt - +hnt tb;s theory il 1l in contradiction to
LII 1nrrr facts and in fol inadcnuate to meet
te rcV;ra1 If RELIGIOUS prnciple which in our day
~; III ~ cosnmnn;tirs hoih within and without
i ~ ~ r1;stnrdnn In str;E;ne nassuge be
dro,r The contrast between the noble monotheism
~ tna Io,sish nation and even the purer super
~ ~ 49, h;ch II, nmr fa rr1igjOn had At times
5s,na+o1 n,hn oncnnd soluttGn WIS advocated
~ 7,o1;t;cana and statesmen. who proposed the
~ ,ppr"t;nn nf c,urc1, and State lie anayzet with
gEeae @ a;ntnI ouf re ahsurity into which
plase aa anu xr;tc1 ~ Tnet had fallen In recon-
,cm1;D5 In f,,at the state should ignore the
t1hMrnh7 and that the Church shoGld ignore
~ e+S+o 1;n n1sn showed hoy even in the
sdarw ean and more sunerf1cial meaning of the
;tbdrnHof ~ Stair cndnwmcnts md Stale nouli-
t;o ~ nf1,ccs The mower OF lie Church und the
tcnencv m the part OF the church to fight against
tnas1n society ,rouId not be diminished thereby.
M ;tad ~ illustrative Of this Insertion, the ex
a,s,Ios nf Ire1an and the United States The third
a,p.:s -, na n1.r mo nronnundei hy the po;iti-