196 APPENDIX. 



"Yes, Genllcmcn, let us love the cliiircli in every man, and 

 every man in the church. What matters his condition ? Rich 

 or poor, ignorant or learned, omnibus debitor sum, I am debtor to 

 every man, says St. Paul. What matters his nationality ? French- 

 man or foreigner, Greek or barbarian, omnibus debitor sum, I 

 answer with Saint Paul, — I am debtor alike to barbarism and 

 to civilization. In one sense, what matters it that we may love 

 the man, what is his religion ? If he be not a son of the Catholic 

 church according to the bod}' — tlie outward unity, perhaps he is 

 — I hope he is — according to the soul — the invisible unity. If he 

 be not a son of the Catholic church according to the soul, nor 

 according to the body — according to the spirit, nor according to 

 tlie letter — at least he is such in the preparation of God's coun- 

 sels. If he have not the baptismal water on his brow, I am 

 grieved; but nevertheless I behold there the blood of Jesus 

 Christ; for Christ has died for every man, opening to the whole 

 world his great arms on the cross! The world belongs to Jesus 

 Christ, and therefore the Avorld belongs to the church, if not 

 actually, at least potentially. Let me, then, love every man ; and 

 you also, with me, love every man, not only in himself, not only 

 in his narrow and earthly individuality, but in the great Christian 

 community, the great divine community which invites us all." 



The soul of a great orator is like an iEolian harp, not inert, but 

 quivering with intelligence and sensitiveness, vibrating with every 

 breeze that blows about it. The conferences of Father Ilyacin the 

 are more than an isolated manifestation ; they reveal a condition 

 of the public mind in the midst of which they are uttered. Fur- 

 thermore, the rage they excite, the vast disdain which the Uni- 

 vers affects to cast upon them, add still more to wlia^, we may 

 call their barometncal value. The Abbé Loyson, bro*,her of the 

 preacher of Notre Dame, brings to the chair of morals in the 

 theological ficulty at Paris, a very clear and highly respected 

 liberalism.* 



It is true that Father Hyacinthe is succeeded in tlic pulpit of 



* This article, altliough published in Octobci-, ISGO, wa? written considerably 

 before the protest of Father Hyacinthe, and the letter of E.\communication of 

 hip General, 



