The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-12-12


The arrangements Were quickly made. In tbs
year 1851 thirteen lesuits, among whom wac
. LIE Jay himself, arrived at Vienna, where Fer
dnand instantly granted them a dwelling
chapel and pension, and shortly after incorporate
ed them with the university, and assigned them
the superintendent of ito
After showing the manner in which they es-
tablished themselves under the Emperors' pat
ronage, at first at Vienna, then at CologNe and at
Ingolstadt, the historian saws:
"From these Metropolitan settlements, the Jes-
uits now spread IN all directions From Vienna
they Immediately extended over the whole of
the Austrian dominions. In 1856, Ferdinand l.
removed them to Prauge, and founded a school
thrre, intended principally for the young nobility.
10 this he sent his own pages, and the order
found support and encouragement from the
Catholic portion of the Bohemian nobility &C."
1t would seem that you are now proceeding on
the same plan. You establish yourselves in the
large cities-in Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Charleston,
Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans, st. Louis,
Louisville, Cincinnati, Pittsburg; indeed you
are already oversprsadiAg the whole land and
with the noiseless step ,unning perse YER
anee and industry of ivour order, insinuating
your principles and your influence 1t has been
frequently charged that your priests exercised a
political influence, you are the first to organize
the power OF the church, and openly enter the can
vass as partisan of one of the candidates for
the Presidency. History is full of examples il
Illustrating the influence of the court over the
opinions of the people. We have seen that De
Tocqueville believes that Democracy is favor
able to the progress of Romanism. The two
last administrations clearly illustrate that there
is power in the Executive of this country to
control the opinions of men-a power of corrup-
ton, which might encourage hopes in those less
sangnine. 1t is therefore not surprising to find
the agents of the propaganda, whose zeal is
stimulated by the expenditure of so much money !;
and all the appliances of the church, acting with
confident expectation of the same success
which crowned their efforts in the sixteenth
century.
That it may be seen how closely you tread in
their footsteps proceed with my extracts:
Ranke tells us that one of the most consider
able men in Hungary was the archbishop of
Gran, and that
''At the time of general decline of Catholicism
in Hungary, he perceived that the only hope of
support for it was from the common people who
were not entirely ahenated. But here also Ca
tholic teachers were wanting; in order to form
them he founded college of Jesuts, at Tyrnau,
IN l56l, and gave them pension out fhis own
income, to which the emperor Ferdinand added
an abbey"
He then tells us how the Jesuits established a
college at Coblentz, at Mayence, at Spires
they penetrated Frankfort, Wurzburg, and
throughout Franconia. In the Tyr6l also, un-
der the auspices of the Emperor's daughters, they
established themselves at Inspruck. They made
great progress at Bavaria, and pronounced Mu-
mich the Rome of Germany. In the year 1868,
the Jesuits arrived at Dillingen, and took pos
session of the chairs of the university, and soon
thereafter they had an established mission in
| Augsburg. Ranlze proceeds:
Sin the year 1868, the Jesuits arrived in Dillin-
gen and took possession of the chairs of the uni
versity"
sfThis was most extraordinary progress of
the society in so short time. As late as the
year 1851 they had no firm station in Germany;
in 566 their influence extended over Bavaria
and Tyrol, Fransonia and Suabia, great part
of the Rhineland and Austria; had penetrated
into Hungary, Bohemia and Morovia The eff
feet OF their labors was already perceptible; In
the year 1861 the Papal nuncio affirms, that they
gain over many souls, and render great service
to the holy see! This was the first counteract-
ing impulse, the first ant-Protestant impression,
that Germany received.
"Above all, they labored at the improvement
of the universities. They were ambitious of ri
valing the fame of those Of the Protestants"
FsThe Jesuits devoted an equal degree of ASST
DUTY to the direction of Latin schools II was
one of the principal measures Of Lainez, that
the lower grammar schools should be pro-
vided with good masters. He maintained that
the character and conduct of the man were main
ly determined by the first impressions he rsceiv-
ed. With accurate discrimination, he chose
men who, when they had once undertaken this
subordinate branch of teaching, were willing
to devote their whole lives to it; for it was
only with time that SO difficult business could
be learned, or the authority indispensable to a
teacher acquired
F'Schools for the poor, modes of instruction
suited for children, and catechising followed
Canisius constructed his catechism, which sa-
tisfed the mental wants Of the learners, by its
well connected questions and concise answers.
"The children who frequented the Jesuits
schools in Vienna, soon renlarkab BILE for the
firmness with which they rejected the forbidden
viands onfast days, while theirparents partook OF
, them without scruple. In Cologne it was once
more regarded as an honor to wear the rosary,
while relics, which man dared for years to ex-
hibit publicly began more to be held in reve-
renee. In the year 1850 the youth Of the Jesuits
school at Ingolstadt walked two and two on
pilgrimage to Eichstadt at the time of their con-
firmation, in order that they might be strength
ened with the dew which dropped from the tomb
of st. Walpurgis. The sentiment of which
these acts demonstrations, thus carefully in
stilledin the schools,were disseminated through
the whole population by means of preaching and
: confession.
''I'his is case perhaps without parallel in
the history of the world, All the other intellec-
tual movements which have exercised an extern
siye influence on mankind have been caused Ell
Their by great qualities in individuals, or by the
irresistible fierce Of new ideasn .
/. Such a union of appropriate and sufficing