LETTER OF FATIIKR IIYACINTIIE TO THE 

 GENERAL OF HIS ORDER. 



To the ReverouL the (leueral af the Order of Iktrefuoted 

 Can)i elites, Jiniiie: 



Very Revekkxd Eatheh: — 



During the live years of my ministry at Notre 

 Dame, Paris, notwithstanding the open attacks and 

 secret misrejpresentations of which I liave been the ol)- 

 ject, your confidence and esteem have never fur a 

 moment failed me. I retain numerous testimonials of 

 this, Avritten l)y your own hand, and which relate as 

 well to my preaching as to myself. "Wliatever may 

 occur, I shall keep this in grateful remembrance. 



To-day, however, by a sudden shift, the cause of 

 which I do not look for in your heart, but in tlie 

 intrigues of a party omnipotent at Rome, you find fault 

 with what you have encouraged, blame what you have 

 approved, and demand that I shall make use of such 

 language, or preserve such a silence, as would no longer 

 be the entire and loyal expression of my conscience. 



I do not hesitate a moment. With speech falsified ])y 



an order from my superior, or mutilated by enforecd 



i'es, I could not again enter the pulpit of Noire 



