DISCOURSES 



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FATHER HYACINTHE. 



SPEECH BEFORE THE PEACE LEAGUE AT 

 PAEIS, JULY 10, 18G0. 



Ladies axd Gentlemen : I have only a few Avords 

 to add to the learned and eloquent speeches to wliieli 

 you have been listening. After such voices, mine can 

 have but little weight in these matters. Its sole im- 

 portance is, that it more directly represents among you 

 the gospel. 



The Permanent Liternational Peace League pro- 

 ])oses to act on public opinion 1)y every means ; and 

 resorts accordingly to whatever light may illuminate it, 

 and whatever force is competent to guide it. Among 

 these lights and fiu'ces it must place in the front rank 

 the gospel, a liglit so pure, a force so potent, that not 

 even the feebleness of our w^ords nor the humbleness of 

 our persons can weaken or obscure it. 



For my part, then, I bring to the peace movement 

 flie gosjycl ; not that gospel dreamed of by sectaries of 

 every age — as narrow as their own hearts and minds — 

 but my own gospel, received by me from the Church 

 and from Jesus Christ, a gospel which claims authority 

 over everything and excludes nothing — [s€)i^ation\— 



