TO THE GENERAL OF HIS OllDKn. xliii 



Ami, linally, 1 ai)i)(,'al to Tliy tribunal, (.) L<>nl .I-'sus ! 

 Ad (iiuni, Do)}ii)ui Jrsu, irihioud appello. It is in 'I'liy 

 presence thai I write these lines; it is at Tliy i'fct, after 

 having jirayed much, pondered much, sulFered mneli, 

 and waited lon^^ — it isut Tliy feet that I suhscribe them. 

 1 have this confidence concerning them, that, however 

 men may condemn them n})on earth, Thou wilt a})prove 

 them in heaven. Living or dying, this is enough 

 for me. 



Brother Hyacinthe, 



Sx/perior of the Barefooted Carmelites of Paris, Seœnd 

 Definitorof the Order in the province of Avignon. 



Pakis— Passy, September 20, 18G9. 



The answer to this letter was everything that the enemies of 

 the preacher of righteousness desired. It was a peremptory sum- 

 mons from the General of the Order, to betake himself to one of 

 the convents of the Order in the south of France, within ten days, 

 under pai-n of excommunication from the Catholic Cliurch, 

 accompanied with " the mark of infamy." When the ten days 

 had expired, Father Hyacinthe was on liis way to the United 

 States of America. 



He has come hither an excommunicated member of the Roman 

 Church, but still a member. Tlie doctrines which he has learned 

 in lier schools and preached in lier pulpits, lie has not repudiated. 

 The conception of the future union of all Christian souls in the 

 organic and visible fellowship of her communion, he still clier- 

 islics with most filial affection. But from that communion he 

 himself is cast out. Before the law and the hierarchy of the 

 Church, he is an exconmiunicate. 



But before God and his own conscience ? Not at all. The doc- 

 trine of Poman theology, that al)Solution looses tlie stnil only 

 v.hen contrition is sincere (which the pric-t docs r.ut undertake 



