Year: 1869

| On"HAty anu tno government OF Lie.


This was the subject of Pere Hyacinthe's


address at the Academy of Music in New


York on Thursday night. The house was


densely crowded, and on the platform were


Horace Greeley, John Bigelow and others
We make an extract from the address to sat
isfy the curiosity of some of our readers who


may wish to obtain clear idea of the literary
style of the man who has filled so large a
share of the public attention of late


Love expresses itself by means the most
foreign to it. In man it is, as have before
| said, at the root of every act-the heart is at


the foundation of all. Let us then hem he men n Of Of


heart; let us bear our hearts into civil life, in


to social life, into domestic life let us be men
of heart in city and in State let us love coun-
try, family, loyalty, probity; let us love the
Church OF Christ but not as the church of
any particular sect; let US respect the letter,


but not as an extinguisher-the letter kills,


the spirit gives life. loud applause.) Let


US, thep' l repeat start as men Of heart. Z


We have often heard of two roads openipe


before man, each diverging from the other.


Humanity has hesitated between the two for
centuries. Shall heaven or earth be chosen
Shall man give to his existence an impulse


that will separate him from the world that


bears him and tear it from all that the Crea-


tor has made its basis-family, affections, in


terest, sufferings, or shall he cast away all


idea Of loving heaven and concentrate upon


earth his faith, his hope, his love? Man,


say, hesltates between the two roads, and the


most rash rush to one or the other. Material


lists say that heaven is nothing and see but


the earth, giving themselves to that dust


which forms our planet, and to that troublous


ana neeung hour-hfe. Mystical minds, land


no one respects earnest minds more than 1


do,! 1aise, mystical MINDS set aside all earthly


duties ana enJoyments, change life into an


aspnation lowaro heaven, ~ instead OF STRIVING


" meriI :nat heaven. ihey seek TO scale


tneir way lnto heaven IN hot haste. Now my


experience has convinced me that between


the greatest moral and religious progress man


can make, and trodden by men who can rec


oncile heaven and earth, the present life


with future existence, task to be accom-


plished in these times as it was accomplished


by Christ dying on the cross to reconcile


the things of heaven to the things of earth.


1 open the Bible and read in it that God


made man out of dust and placed him in a


beauteous garden, which, by material aid, he


before him the animals, THAT inferior race


which is intended to supply slaves to man,


Man then, the work of God, as the king, the


owner, the manager of the universe. The
part we have to act now is unchanged. We
have to continue in these ages the work of
Adam. Instead OF small part of Asia Mi
nor, though, we have whole planet. God
has given us steam and electricity and dis


tance is annihilated. This globe, say, is
our Eden, and by our labors on it we gain
heaven ana earth. Applause. After the


nrst man came family and society. Adam
was alone, and God thought it not good that


ne should be, Tor ne knew what Adam only
felt that ne lacked. "Let there be light" God
said, and light was made, and He beheld il
and said it was good; and He created stars


animals and plants and saw that all were
very good. But when He made what He ad-
judged His masterpiece, and the edifice was
| crowned by man, He perceived His work was
incomplete. So God made Adam a
companion and saved him from egotism.
Thus was the organization of the family per-
fected In modern society celebacy EXISTS
for the sake of God, but this exception, if YOU


make it rule, is against God and against ma
ture. Celibaacy is cowardice if it does not
glorify marriage. The apostles have said
| marriage is honorable, marriage is spotless


before God and man. The great object in


view is the reconciliation Of heaven and
earth, and of the present life with the future
| and to secure union on earth. Union in the
| city, in the nation and in humanity was tbe
thought of Jesus Christ. who first proclaimed