The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22
sUNDAY-NOTEs AND CHIMES.

The parsonic kissing habit which
went out of fashion all over the coun-
try after certain cause celebre in
Brooklyn, was very strong in old DIR.
Ripley, of Concord. He spared neith-
er maid, wife or widow. The ladies
say he went at it as if he was going
to take meal.-Gen. Sherman's Scrap
Book.
Pere Hyacynthe is no secessionist.
He believes in fighting it out in the
union. Although he has withdrawn
his VOW of celibacy and taken a wife !;
although he denies the doctrine of
papal infalibility; and although he
has opposed many of the church prac-
tlces as being corrupt, yet he insists
that he is still a regular priest, says
mass, and in other respects processes
loyalty to the church.
A man in Baltim ore stands at tn
corner of the principal thoroughfare
giving a detached leaf of the Bible to
each passer-by in the hope that some
passage will catch the eye of one of
the many persons to whom the scraps
of scripture are handed which may
arouse his conscience or move him to
serious reflection.
1t is reported that Mgr. Capel will
soon be appointed Archbishop of sgd
ney, and that his debts will be paid by
a wealthy Catholic peer. The Mon
signor's debts were chiefly contracted
in furthering benevolent enterprises,
and not in betting on horse-races, as
some people suppose.
1t is related that a clergyman who,
five years ago, was paid $4,000 year
by Brooklyn church, is now a COM
mon drunkard. This ought to bea pen
etrating warning to Austin congrega-
tions who pay their ministers such
high salaries.
DR.. MaSden, a Methodist minister of
st. Louis, is down on the dance and
the ballroom. In his sermon last SUM-
day, he SAID: "As method of physi-
cal exercise he saw nothing objection
able to it. If the mother danced with
the children, or the father turned boy
again and romped and Whirled with
the little ones, he did not consider
them backSliders. But the ballroom,
deprived of the presence of father and
mother, and filed with the gay, and
the thoughtless and the dissipated, was
the modern whirlpool of society which
dragged down the life, the beauty, the
health and the morals of the rising
generation. The ballroom was the
transition place between home and Ii
centiousness, between innocence and
defilement, virtue and dishonor. Those
who frequently crossed the threshold
Of the ballroom seldom preserved
their love for home, for purity and for
honor-they embarked upon the tide
of sensuality. The ballroom was the
abettor of pride, the instigator of
jealousy, the sacriticial altar Of health,
the avenue of lust, the defiler of the
SOUL"
Life, death, eternity-how vast, how
deep, how solemn these three words,
so familiar to US all! Who can meas
ure, who can fathom its meaning? In
the midst of life we are surrounded by
death and confronted by eternity with
its boundless prospects of veal and
woe. Life on earth ends in death,
and death is but the dark door of an
other which has no end. Astronomy
cannot tell whether this visible uni
verse has any boundaries or not, and
what lies beyond: Theology cannot
determine the locality of the invisible
uu1NOloO 1IO1u Wu1C1 AO CIdNC1OI IO-
turns, nor the direction and length of
that lonely passage which carries the
disembodied spirit to its future abode.
But this we do know-and it is
enough for our comfort-that in our
Fathers house are many mansions,
and that our Savior has prepared
place for all his disciples. There is an
abundance of room for all even with
in the limits of this universe, and for
aught we know, the spirit world may
may be very near and round about US.
There are exalted moments in our life
when we see the angles of God ascend
ing and descending. Life is a mys-
terry, glorious mystery with heaven
beyond, but terrible mystery with
annihilation or endless punishment in
prospect.-Ex.
Pere Hyacinthe Loyson, who ar
rived in New York on Sunday last,
will shortly deliver two lectures in
that city to raise funds in aid of his
church in Paris. In an interview he
said: GAS to my position, it is by no
means so vague as my opponents make
out. 1 am still a Catholic, for though
1 associate much with Anglicans, it is
only because they e nearest to my
ideal of a reformed ,'atholic church.
1 never had any intention of joining
them. L believe that reform within
the Catholic church is possible, and
more and more wished for by the
people of the lesser clergy. But the
reform required is great, though
chiefly in discipline, not in doctrine. l
wish to place before the American
public my idea of Christianity as
large and comprehensive system, re-
pudiating all narrowness. Yet 1 cling
to ancient Catholic doctrine, separa-
ting the Catholic church from it's
later Roman accretions. believe in
the sacraments, the episcopacy and
all the ancient doctrines of the church.
There will be nothing aggressive in
my lectures. I think that such violent
attacks as those of Pere Chirrigny are
imprudent and uncharitable." The
conversation was conducted wholly
in French, the Pere being unable to
speak any English.