St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-07
ROMAN,NOT CATHOLIC
Nine. LoySon, Wife Of Pere
Hyacinthe, Talks Infor-
mally.
ALittle Pleasant Temperance
Talk Neatly Woven
Through.
ProhibitiOnists Are Not Out
in the Cold for Official
Martyrs.
Both County and Congress
sional Conventions to
Occur Tomorrow.

The lecture room of the Peoples
church was well filled last night with
an audience who listened with great in
terest TO the talk of Nine. Loyson, Pere
Hyacinthe's wife. Nine. Loyson does
not lecture. She talks Informally and
easily, now and then straying into a
side path in most delightful fashion.
She reviewed briefly the history of the
Gallican church, the old Catholic. now
Roman church, which she represents.
1t was founded at Lyons in III A. ID. by
the disciples of st. John. and even at
that date the Gauls were at variance
with Rome. Tracing the history OF in
justice through the centuries to
the edct of Nantes and the
actions of the grand monarch,
Nine. LOySon came to the concor-
dat of Napoleon l. He gave Plus VII.
all the churches of France. and the pope
gave to him the naming of the bishops.
All the church property in France be-
longs to Rome. The French people
support this foreign rule, while the
GailicanS have but one little chapel,
under the shadow of Notre Dame in
Paris. The GallicanS are struggling to
elect men to parliament who will re-
peal or modify this concordat. France.
the government, supports in its own
state and in Its provinces, six eStab-
liShed churcheS-the Roman, the two
Protestant churches, Presbyterian and
Lutheran. the synagogue, the Mohamme-
dan,mOsques and the temples of Buddha.
The Gallican church is supported for
the most part by friends in Flanee and
i'll England. The government. in some
cases, SympatniZeS with the Gallican
church, but is forced by the law to treat
1t unJuStly because all the churches
and church property are Rome'S. Of
the 36,0O0,00O nominal Romanists all
but 2, 00O, 900 are practically ex-communi-
Gated by their own act of not attending
communion eacE year. Notre Dame is
deserted, the little Gallican chapel
crowded, and the old Catholic church
asks the help of America to carry on its
fight.
Nine. Loyson detailed the modern
work of her church. and told of its Won
derful work. Much more can not be
done, however, till justice is secured in
France. Nine. I.oyson's talk was ear
nest and Instructive in the extreme.
Speaking of temperance, in the course
of her talk, she said: Il have seen more
drunkards in London in fifteen minutes
than i'll France in twenty-nine years. |
never saw but one really drunken man
i'll France. Drunkards are not made by
alcohol, but by appetite. Americans
live TOO high-have too many dainties."
And the speaker told how on being
asked privately what she would like at
banquet to be given her, she said:
''Mush and milk and apple pie"
Hearty breakfasts" she continued,
''are pernicious. | never knew French
dyspeptic. and | never knew an Ameri-
can who was not dyspeptic.'
Nine. Loyson spoke with abundant
charity and love for Roman Catholics,
but with antagonism for their errors.
Her plea for aid was spirited and ear
nest, and was literally responded to
when the collection was taken up. Nine.
LOySOn'S whole soul is in her work, and
TO hear her one cannot fail to be i'm
pressed both with what she says and the
way she says it.