New-York tribune., 1912-02-10

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! founding new church. He was born at
! Orleans. on March 10. 1927. the son of the
I principal Of an academy. At three years
! old his father took him to Pau and there
personally educated him. He was a singu-
/ larly brilliant scholar. At the age OF six
teen he published a poem OF decided merit.
and at nineteen he easily passed the en-
J trance examination at the Seminary Of St.
| Sulpice. in Paris, where he was to prepare
| for the priesthood.
| The year 1851 saw him ordained I'm Notre
! Dame. and then for eight years lie was a
| professor OF theology. Then he entered.
as Brother Hyacinthe," the order Of Bare
footed Carmelite Friars, at Broussey, near
Bordeaux. This is the most austere and
self-denyng OF all religious orders and
after two years Of its rigorous discipline
he seemed inspired with the ardor of a
prophet. His preaching instantly created
| such a sensation as France had not known
for many a year. First he was heard at
Lyons, then at Bordeaux. In 1864 he went
to Paris. preached at the Madeleine. and
set the city wild with enthusiasm.
Attacked Atheism and Vice.
li' D'Sdu pulpit campaign against tne
atheism and vice OF Paris with six Advent
sermons at Notre Dame on "A Personal
God" No words can adequately describe
the impression created by him. His elo-
quence, scholarship. tervor and magnetism
served 20 attract throngs that even the
vast cathedral could not hold. Year after
year he preached there. and was the one
great preacher OF Paris. The Archbishop
OF Paris went TO hear every sermon. Ma
polcon TIT invited him 10 preach before him
at the Tuileries. Pio Mono himself sent
for him to come to Rome and repeat his
diScourscs
Then envy began 10 strike at him Some
or his remarks in favor OF freedom Of con-
science brought upon him rebuke from
Nh" head Of tho Carmelite Order. Next he
criticised the policy OF bolstering up the
Church by tho power OF corrupt politics
and Of bloody wars This won him the dis
pleasure or tho Pope. Father HyaCinthe
defended himself by quoting the Pope's 3
cwu words 10 exactly the same effect. But
this only angcred Pho Mono the more. so
that when the head OF the Carmeltes went
10 Rome and asked the Pontihcal blessing
FOR the order Pho Mono replied: Yes for
all tho urder-eNcopt for HyaCinthe"'
Hearing OF this Father Hyacinthe went TO
Rome. sought an interview with the Pope
and came 10 an entirely amicable under
standing with him. But Father Dominique
the general Of tho Carmelites. seemed de-
termined to make mischief. and ha per-
N"rtcd an address made bv Uyaciuthe be.
fore the Peace Society in July. 1850 into
70 ha 4 he ,,bn
montane party Joined in the hue and cry
Hyacinthe boldly turned upon them with
an indignant protest.
1T is my most profound conviction" he
sald. that II France In particular and the
Latin races In general are delivered over
to anarchy moral and religious-thc
principal cause Of 1t is to he found not
certainly I'm Catholicism itself. but in the
way in which Catholicism has for a long
tine becn understood and practisad"
That ended il. Dominique summarize"
commanded the contumaCious friar 10 re
turn TO the convent within ten days.
IIvacinthe declined TO do so. Then on Oc-
tobcr 10. 1869 the Order ~ Carmelites
solemnly expelled and communicated him
a an apostate. Thenceforward his history
and that Of the gifted woman who was to
become his wife are one.
Nine. loyson an American.
Nine. Loyson. or Emily Jane Buttcrfeld
as she was named i'm childhood. came Of
sturdy New England stock. She was born
tEr seventh child of her parents. at Oswego
n. Y. in 1898. Soon after that date the
family removed to Ohio. then wild West"
region. ard there her father became con
spicuous among the builders Of the COM
monwealth. Emily Jane inherited literary
talent and romantic religious fervor. At
eight years of age she taught sunday
school class When only ten years old she
resolved TO become nun. With two other
girls Of the same age, she went out into
tho woods and built a hut. In which they
purposed to live as hermts, hut the next
day they returned to their homes. Four
years later she planned 10 become a for
eign missionary. At sixteen she published
a number "f poems Of real merit. and AT
twenty she was a popular writer on relg
ious. social and philosophical themes
At the age Of eighteen she was married.
her husband being Captain +. r. Morriman.
She frankly confessed that II was n pain
FIJI struggle to give up hor IDEAS of leading
solitary life. devoted to religious duties.
Her marriage proved happy one, but she
continued to give most OF her thoughts 10
spiritual affairs. She was restless and
dissatisfied with the Church to which she
belonged Presently she went to Brooklyn
TO live and attended Henry Ward Beecher's 3
church. TO him one day she spoke frank
lv Of her doubts and unrest and said that
she was often prompted to leave the faith
of her fathers and seek rest within the
Church Of Rome. Does that horrify you?'
she asked. NO" replied Beecher. ut does
not. II my own son should tell me the
same ! should give him my blessing"
When she was about thirty years old
Mrs. Merriman went to Europe She
wanted to see what the Roman Church was
in Rome itself Her Impressions were re-
lated by herself I'm a letter to a friend I'm
these words:
| have stood to-day for the first time in
St Peters. and. Puritan as I am. l never
felt so much AT home as in this great Cath
Ollie 0asiica. a. | there for the first time
in my life made the sign of the cross on
heart and brow and vowed TO God that II
ever ] could help in the regeneration OF
Rome would do IT,
few years later she was left a widow,
and then she made the change she had long
contemplated. She first had several con-
ferences with Archbishop Darboy, OF Paris.
and with Father Hyacinthe She told them
frankly that she could not accept the
Gro cd Of Plus VII. The Nicene creed was
sufficient Nor would she abjure Protes-
.,ntism. as converts to the Roman Church
arc usually required to do. She said frank
ly: Holding. as by the grace Of God