FATHER HYACINTHE ON IMMORTALITY.
The “Opera Court’’ for March contains a character sketch of Father Hyacinthe Loysou by the editor, to which is appended a translation of Father Hyacinthe’s last discourse on “Marriage,” delivered in rgn, when he was 85 years of age. At the close of this lecture he said “I have drawn from my Christian laith, from the meditations of the deepest philosophers, Leibnitz and Renouvrer among others, from the study of the mortal laws ol human nature as irrefragable as those of physical nature, the certainty that death is not annihilation but transformation. What disappears is the phantom of man, the transitory being, the breath of a day. . . . Yes, this physical, and even to a certain point intellectual, phantom has vanished into the black whirlwind, but the personality which thinks, which wills, which suffers, which is exalted and whicn loves—l swear it by human nature, at least such as I bear within myself—this essential being is called to a still higher training; this being is immortal.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1057, 15 June 1912, Page 4
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169FATHER HYACINTHE ON IMMORTALITY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1057, 15 June 1912, Page 4
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