New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-26

!. ;,s poverty and mcanness az 'e''s .andors
""s Its lack OF everything 'nal reiuers
-, snlendid only brings INTO n',s
's,,ortions the strength and earnes'nc', VI 80
~ofs T,,;no sacrifice of oil that frencnnieh nun
WHO j. :" . mower, yuxury. mpgn'hcence'
w. w.. neb a preacher should occupy sucn p"is''
lh"' sue" ,onoo streaming from the tawdry
DIS pons"e" Ivory Of en- old Radcal meeting
eoo0"-'a0e 800 nroclaims that the former mighty
hoa'.' ~ sS.res 70 the later religious dogmas vi
ouip'o'an che, tho Catholic world has all out
DIS i"'u',% that the Protestant world has never
torso''c" ~" ~. aocesson: and that the world OF
s,sn"' '-.ioh is neither Catholic nor fro'eS'ah',
FRANCE ,,a.s NAYS little heed to his voice, aad
~ former glory or present. neeas. ne 70 S'ni,
'one 10 BIO as II the Universal Exhibition had
ply 'snoI ,,itbarawn itself from the Champs de
'e'eh'.'o'y tbe Eidel Tower alone in the land
war; ro6ts extinguished, its machinery dere-
""F, lint crumbled OF, its iron rusty us TALL
100 is fearless and pathetic to the Sky, JUS
.''"os decaying and moss covered
very like those one sees in any Roman
S~ro church. are busily arranging the altar
I'D uniting the little sanctuary in order. There
-" Nv tall lights three on either side OF the
.ohsrpacle: n crucifx surmounts IT. The orna-
~s.o,s an the altar shelves are poor and few. The
..sa,es little chapel in the slums of London or IN
49, rSning regions OF Colorado is not more woe
..ronc Meanwhile the congregation is filling the
,sats Only in Paris can such human motley
80 discovered Frenchmen, small, swarthy,
ne,vous in shiny broadcloth, most of them old, a
g.. ,o,n, and full OF verve; Frenchwomen, all
LA so FAR rs one sees, poorly but neatly dresseu,
the,r faces wrinllled and scanned their expression
anxious or cynical. Enghshwomen, plump, OILY
ont i'm
not anncaring 10 be able clearly 10 follow the
preacher but satisfied that he has taken the righC
stcn A few Italians, Spanlards, RUSSIANS, IN Iof
sightseeing, not caring at an Ior lle no"srtv
the OCCASION Americans who smile AT the PoNeIg
of the church are aghast at the uncanny elements ,
in ihe heterogeneous congregation. AihaLIeu W w.
Vicor and unguency of the preacher they TURN
htfuIlv from him to scan the numerous huihah pis
"a +bS no. The actual membership of the church
cannot exceed 80 or 200, frlend says Iiao
there is no stable congregation to speak OF uns
seats are filled by bransients chiefly Americas anu
ihat such a preacher should be isolated one pie
cannon fail to lament. We have not hedru n,s
text il indeed he used one. But IL - "pPar . Of
that his discourse IS TO DC pioao ~ feeling.
he world, sympathetic IN It's huhan oS that
',hyistisn in its ethics. The sermon is vi t tv
classic quality rarely heard OUTSIDE tnG con-
pulpits Of France IL IS q flcl, rhe. uart finely
iri,'ancc carefully planned in each part my
nronortioned and balanced and oNeriild WIN - IN
menu harmonious with It's stuctuHIe, ~ nrotest
effect an appeal for millennium III - d Pi0 VAS
AGAINST the brute force when ne cld II r,;os
n9coning The only force in the wOrlu-"HhCo
menacing the peace of the human TaoG i;f 'V of
PASSIONS degrading individual men 10 tv i III
oruteS governments ignoring mora, ppod reed
politics a science Of mcndacoushesS anu fiSo11
,ectnrianiSm usurping the place OF ",rocnedcJ
founded on universal love Thence ne {o',aht
20 indicate the truer civil socleWii r,nr5csnS
free but Christian and some OF the aneIlc"iie
smiled it is in the Republic Of the Unlted nldtes
all science Ieaping and darling and springnS over
the globe TO bring nations closer o. Papa,n1
he mentioned NJ. De Lesscps and the iahain'
Canal Some French shoulders were sirusS.u.
The true Christian spirit bringing an On IIo
INTO church. the latrlarch OF Gtnr
he Pope of Rome and the Archbishop oil O ahteIII
,ury being the triad for this new unlncauon-"n"
Iome of the Engshwomen 1rowned; -. ,u;oo,
The defect of the sermon consisted III lts losio"d
harrenneSs The rhetoric so fine thar one
Mas carried away in admiration. The MODE 0l
Ipeech was dignifed, unctuouS, highly rehne1.
So would any of the great recters on ti@ frehcn
stage have delivered discourse by fenel9h'
The diction was scholarlikc, the phrasing mcloe
dious The rounding of periods the perfection OF
style lie paused toward the peroratloh drains
glass of water, or POSSIBLY VINE r'nttu not n
Instant or two and set out toward eliminating
hurst which was the finest dellverance nave
.ver heard from human lips Tor style OF speech
md beauty OF enuncation, for ardor ana lhtenslS,
But when he had left the pulpit ana the energy
Of his own temperament impaired through ms
burning lips had begun 20 subslde, the question
remained-What will come OF ltY The only
One can imagine the influence BosSuet,
Iacordare exercised in France from pulpits out
pf which they appealed to nation that stlll
insisted upon calling itself Christian; Had pere
Hyacinthc n similar world TO address. surely
ne would move IT TO great enterprise. But the
,ges have changed. France is not the France OF
Louis Pere Hyacinthe, by his own change, mts
listanced even such France as may still care Tor
aogmatic religion. He clings in his catechlsm
and his creed to all the fundamental doctrines
of the Roman Catholic Church except Papal
He passes beyond the pale Of that
church in accrcditng 10 the See OF Canterbury
, special ecclesiastical importance which no Angll-
ran has ever claimed for il. His friendship with
Dean Stanley whose charming nature won every
nan who came much in contact with HIM, no
iouht had much to do with this equalizng OF
the greet old see with that Of the Patriarch
of the East and the Primate Of the Roman com.
munon But men have grown cOntemptuons OF
such diplomacy of religion. 1t was melancholy
thing to see the fine figure descend from the
moor pulpit and into the still poorer sanctuary
understand that he and his family are now
wholly dependent upon the offerings OF those
who attend the little Westinghouse in the Rue
DArras Their son, q bright and graceful boy
about fifteen years old is the prize student
in of the Jesuit lyceums in Paris, and his