St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-17

/ progress in some parts OF the country, thu
pair, that is, Hyacinth and Nine. Loyson
thought they would like to go home.
But the way isn't bit rosy for perverts in
that seductive land of France-if we take
the recent experience of poor, deal
Hyacnth. Having no pulpit, no follower;
of his own, he is forced to ask these various
denominational bodies for theirs. Al
Neuilly, near Paris, quite recently he pro-
posed to give discourse, but nowhere could
he find admission.
The English rector, OF a small American
church just built, refused the Hyacinthine
request as sternly as the rest. But prom
| ised panegyric on Luther won him over,
and Pere Hyacinth had the consolation OF
comparing himself to the reformer before a
congregation of Seyen, according to a state
ment in the New York Sun.
The old saying like Mauhomet's coffin
'twixt heaven and earth, is only humorous
suggestion of the anomalus position of few
| of these converts and peryerts between the
old and new professions.
Surely the man is 10 be pited
who has renounced his faith, aud is regarded
with doubt by the brethren with whom he
freshly afiliates--for the reason that they have
no guarantee that he may not become q re
vert That is the lurking distrust in the
bosom of otherwise readest reception, and
with good cause for the suspicion, if we are
influenced by many noted examples Fol
one may be cited that of Thomas Arnold,
fh.4r # ha a1v IF
ness and light, Matthew, who joined the
Catholic church, and was one Of Cardinal
Ncwman's professors in the University OF
Ire land. Afterwards he went back to the
English church, and finally returned to Cath
Ole belief once more.
There are lots of in stances like his. Nat
urally such Taeilating brethren are
regarded with some uneasines, if not
with open distrust. That Is why
Pere Hyacinth finds it difficult TO secure a
pulpit and hearers. The morning sun may
| lind him changed, although in justice to
most Of the other sincere but doubling souls,
it ought to be stated that the scheme of their
conversion" did not, like his, spring from
a desire TO marry. When vanity, and an In
ordinate belief in ones self are the remain
ing factors Of conversion, it is quite evident
that Pere Hyacinth's mission is discourag-
| ing, and that ultimately it may contract int
| special interest and action for his own indi-
yidual SELF There is hope for men who
change their minds.
A German histologist "a student Of human
tissues) figures out that the human brain
contains 800, 100000 nerve cells, five mill
ions of which die and are succeeded by new
ones every day. In sixty days, at this rate,
there is an entirely new brain.
We have no clue to the way this change
affects spiritual matters, nor are we informed
| that 1t brings about a change of heart Before
! leaving Pere Hyacinth in his scarcity Of
pulpit privileges, it may be interesting &c
advert to a gentleman ambitious of posing Il:
Dreary Anomaly. 1t is Mr.. Huntin gton
In New York, who has taken VOWS of celibacy,
poverty and obedience in the order of the
| Holy Cross, recently founded in America,
Of which he and one other mau are the only
mem bers. The order can be truly called ex
elusive and select. 1t may be cheerful, bu
/ it ia lonesome, with decided symptoms Of
monotony. The assistant bishop, Potter
who administered the VOWS, is severely criti'
czed by bis brethren of the Protestant
Episcopal church for his his officia
recognition OF medavalism and
monasticism. There Is stag.
gering array of opinions from interviews
with the various prominent ministers on the
subject.
They are mostly all alarmed at a step
which is "a return to the dark days before
! the reformation, - and the amused vision
sees that lonesome pair of meu who are go
ing TO do all their balefu mischief, and
play hob in the Protestant Episcopal rank:
with the two membered monasticism de-
structiveIy intrenched in the order of tht
Holy Cross.
Tue Keely motor and other mysteriou:
agencies are too Insignificant for mention
besides such two-bodled power as Turks
In the recently founded order Of the Holy
Cross.
Besides says the Rev. Arthur Brooks, o
the Church of the Incarnation, 'in admin
istering these VOWS the bishop
acted In an altogether unofficial capacito."
Spirit, of Sir Joseph Porter, X. c. B. Il
Is time that Bishop Potter learned from thu
"ruler Of the queens nayeen how TO manage
such ominous -oflicially--as ad-
ministering VOWS to the portentous order o
tie Holy Cross, numerically consisting o
two strong.
Perhaps, after all, DIR. Rylance, Of st
Marks church, spoke wiser than the othe
brethren in saying: ~ care very little To-
eccirsiasticism. Its fancies aud follies, IT,
loiblos and weaknesses are matters Of I'm
difference to me. am not affected by II
retrograde toward medievalsm, by its turn
ing back the hands upon the dial plate o
time, by its insult to the spirit of the age
For all this care very. little. 80
Aud the more discreet public not in tn,
cloth can respond with bated breath "ditto'
to DR.. Rylance concerning toe 'mouas,i
cism" of the Holy Cross, numerically twl
strong. Mr.. Joseph Prudhomme laid dowi
this great truth: Remove man from so
ciety and you isolate him" 1t must be tn
heartfelt sentiment OF the two lone repre-
sen tativcs of Protestant Episcopal mouastl
cism in the recently founded order OF th
Holy Cross
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mems association at ST. Cloud ". B. Mitch
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