Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-11-23
NfsJupeKp FRANCE.


Let me, continued the speaker, ask
your 81 npathy for France that dear
country from which your ioreiathers,
the HpSuenots, we're forced to Tee.
They were made 10 choose between
France and the Gospel, and, dearly as
they loved their country, they chose
the Gospel. But their nationality did
not depend upon the soil upon which
rested their feet. They carried away
their country with them in their
hearts. This patriotism is evidenced
by the fact that many Of you, their
descendants, speak the Language Of
your forefathers in all its native puri-
", despite the fact that you have
lived surrounded BY that noble Eng
fish tongue, whose accents have been
borne forward and have re echoed in
every por on Of the globe.
l appeal to your sympathetic love
for France because it Is so often as
serted nowadays that she is in her de-
cadence. Her grandeur, her power,
her dignity and the spirit Of her public
morals are brought int, question. She
is of,en judged BY the standard Of GER
tain Of. her dramas aud her boots.
These books and these plays, the gu
breaks Of the ultramon sne and Of t e
dem rogue, and the product Of the
academlcian, by Which France is so
often misjudged-thsse s-e not
France. france is larger than tht 70,
and must be judged b. larger stand
ard. France to day, however, is OPP
pressed BY two curses-the one I in
cd Catholicism, Cs''olicism Of cor.
ruption; tho other a vile spirit oil
DEM Sogism. If France passes in be-
wilderiDgly rapid succession from
monarchy to empire, frsm empire To
republic it is not that she is in the
throes o extremit =, or that she is in
her deca lence. No; it shows rather
that she impatien ly active; that she
feels that ler condition demands q
change; that a crisis is approaching
aud she is gathering herself together
to meet it.
AMERICAS GREATEST DANGER,
The greatest danger that | see fol
this country is that, in the pride o.
her well filled granaries, her fabu'
lousy rich mines, her fertile soil arc
the wealth which rolls in to her iloir
the two vast oceans by which she i
encompassed, sue may become forget
| full of her God. This mrst not be, OIL
you will surely fall into decadence
Be firm in your allegiance to God
You must be Catholic and Protestan
at the same time-Catholic in tbt
affirmation Of that religion which, il
its primitive purity, was handed dow
from Christ; Protestant in that yoI
protest against error ard against thu
substitution of dogma for true re
ligion. Not that it so much natter
whether you follow out the doctrine
as laid down by Calvin or the Pope
| The true method of religion lies il
the following out of the dictates o
your conscience and acting aoOordinI
to the light given by God unto ever,
man that cometh into this world.
TWO CoUNTERBALANoING FORCES
As watch the heavens on clear
Doonlit night. the thought comes t
me as to how they are governed by tw
forees-tbe one the force OF attrac
ton, the other tn, force Of resistance
the centrifugal aud the centripets
force. The one Of these forces attract
the planes to common center, tn
other maintains them in their sepl
rate course So in this world Their
are two forces-authority and libert
Of judgement. The church exercis
authority, and the liberty Of judgmen
serves as a healthy counterbalanein
centrlirsal force. Destroy the OF
| sing forces in the heavens, and thi
planet must drop into unfatbomabl
chaos. Destroy these counterbal
ancing influences Of authority and Til
erty Of judgment on earth aud direfr
results must ensue.
AS | close this address thrill {
joy passes through me as the though
Aasnes into my Tind that no matter {
what denomination we may belong, n
matter what our differences Of opin
ion may be, the New Jerusalem
built as city in which we may al
participates city over which Go
shall reign and in which all men shal
be joined 10 band Of common citizen
ship.
At the close Of the services larg
portion Of the congregation passed u
to the altar rails and PERSONAL
greeted Pere Hyacinthe.