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NTH ORATION

THE JESUITS (PART

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The attitude he assumed towards this order of mischie-
vous übiquity had its attendant annoyances and risks ;
but he had learned, from the dauntless spirit of Paul,

truth, and trampled in th

dust personal apprei

the ranks of organised treachery were to be-found un-
conscious agents and deluded dupes. These men were
put forward as a mask. Arrayed ostensibly as members
of the corporation, their individual character and plausi-
bility helped to disarm and to delude. Behind them

lurked the plotter and the cheat, and the foul type of
sanctified intrigule, the byeword for consecrated fraud in
the vocabulary of mankind. At his approach the balance
between good and evil, as far as the whole body is in-
volved, ceases to be doubtful. False appearances kick the
beam, and whilst the flimsy countorpoid is borne aloft,
the deep-laden scale of duplicity descends. For such a

man it would be better for the Church of God he pretends
to serve that a millstone should be tied round his neck to

sink him in the unfathomable sea. By what foul process
was such a being fabricated ? The cave of Menteza was
the dark laboratory of this Spanish fanaticism, and the
" spiritual exercises" its fitting Alcoran. A frightful
phantasmagoria was conjured up around the votary of
blind obedience, and the proudest attribute of the soul,
free will, was forcibly eradicated. The man who entered,
came forth a machine. Home, friends, kindred, coun-
try, he knew thenceforth no more. A spy on his con-
federates, he i 3 himself girt round by a gang of informers.
The heart that beats in a human bosom is dead to all

further emotion. The mind has abdicated its Godlike
functions. A dog, with its chain and collar, is scouted as
an apt embodiment of his new condition by the exponents
of the system. That implies vitality. A wooden stock or

a corpse, " baculus aut cadaver," Is put forth as the dis-
mal residuum precipitated by the alchemy of Loyola. The
intoxicating hemp, by the fumes of which the " old maa
of the" Syrian " mountains" lulled the senses of his mur-
derous emissaries, ere he sent them forth on his errands of

formidable agency of blind obedience. Poverty and chas-
tity were also vowed, but were held in theory and practice
as mere secondary appendages to the first and distinctive
badge of the tribe, unscrupulous execution of the superior's
mandate; and the speaker entered into copious details as
to their methods of acquiring wealth, and the sumptuous
palaces they contrived to appropriate in all the great towns
Europe; while he furnished not less forcible instances
r laxity in point of morals, drawn from notorious

occurrences, such as at Monte Putciano and Modena, in
Italy ; Montpellier and Marseilles, in France. He
exonerated their founder, Ignatius, from the imputation
of having planned, in its subsequent form of hideous

organization, which he traced to the Neapolitan Aquaviva,
during whose generalship of the order the crafty principles
of Macchiavelian policy were engrafted on the original
stock of stupid but energetic fanaticism. Their influence
on European cabinets, and the pernicious working of their
obstructive and retrograde industry throughout the world
he would reserve for separate animadversion : making but

a brief s

,Ilusion to a kind of Koph,

:y still treasured up

among the traditions of the order, " We entered Europe
as lambs, became formidable as wolves, were chased away
like dogs, but our youth shall be renewed like that of the
eagle." Aye, from Venice, from Portugal, from Spain,
France, and Germany, the hell-hounds were driven out
e jubilee of mankind ; but it is deplorably true that
ciety reappears under the cognizance of an eagle,
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s our land with its disastrous shadow, until the

avenging arm of the people shall be finally put forth to
crush the obscene phenomenon and bury in one grave the
carnivorous bird with the purveyors of its carrion. (Cheers.)
Thus far the orator seemed but to prelude by a few
preliminary touches on the general argument, which ho
now divided into two branches—the order considered as
auxiliary to the Popes individuality ; and next, as subsi-
diary to the general interests of the church ; to both which
parties he undertook to show it had proved a bitter bad
bargain. The original compact between this corps of
banded janissaries and the father of the faithful, involved
pretty much the same dependency as the Pretorian guards
imposed on their nominal masters in the decline of impe-
rial Rome ; the pontiffs ceased to be free agents; infalli-
bility became a puppet in the hands of these its upholders
and satellites, to the constant and ludicrous annoyance of
its ostensib

e possessor. In the great controversy about
divine grace, Clement VIII. had the hardihood to ques-

es of the Jesuit
eaning towards the old doctrine
kuuinas ; an independence unfavour

lolina, and showed a
of the Dominican
e to longevity as

el odore di veleno

His repugnance to canoni

Fathers Garnet and Oldcorn for their share in the powder
plot was doubtless intolerable, when his predecessor
had sung Te Deums for the kindred performance of
St. Bartholomew. The urgency with which the order,

down to this day, clamours for the canonisation of
Bellarmin3, and for the public recognition of his ultra-
montane creed, is felt to be a perpetual nuisance; in the
case of the venerable Palafox, their veto was found suffi-
cient to invalidate the acknowledged sanctity of an adver-
sary. In all the minor details of church government
their pressure is felt, and their ill-dissembled omnipo-

tence exhibited. As for services done the church, the
scandals and odiums they had brought on Christianity
vastly outweighed and fearfully counterbalanced any merits
of that kind, to illustrate which the Jesuit confessors of
kings were paraded in ghastly deformity before the moral
sense of the auditory ; Pere La Chaise, Pere Letellier,
and other panderers to royal profligacy in every European
court. In the foul department of casuistry they held an
unenviable eminence, Escobar, Busemhaum, and a host
of similar scribes, laboured to mystify the plainest pre-
cepts of morality; while the prurient Satiates had pro-
duced three folios on matrimony, of such revolting in-
decency as to be publicly burnt by the common hangman
in France, pursuant to a decree of. the Parisian parlia-