Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-10-03

~ Ivy ohoSt ueScenued upon
hln as dove, and birdlike accom- panied
him in his wauderings. How far the Di-
vine Spirit may have worked in him, and
for him, it is not for US in these ,lavs 10
determine. II was said that miraculous
gilt OF tongues was vouchsafed 10 him. ,ha,
he raised the dead, and performed other
prod'g'es- he was too truthful, too
real a man to favor the growth Of errors
which the whole Catholic world was only
TO" willing to accept; and il would be the
viest injustice TO fix upon the first Jesui,
missionary the charge Of dishonesty and
insincerity, because among his followers
have been liars and hypocriles OF the wors,
class.
The proselytes of Francis Xavier are
numbered by his followers, not by tens
but by hundreds, OF thousands. He is
SAID to have converted seven hundred ,hou.
sand uneelievers 10 the Christian fai,h.-.
His converts were draw from all classes.
from princes to pariaLs. That the dis
honesty or crednity Of his bioerapbers
have greatly magnified his succe>se. is no,
to he denied; but, making large deductions
on this score, there still remains fcrmi-
dab'e balance Of nominal Christianity to be
carried to the account OF tie apostle. His
super-human energies seem to have been
attended ilh slmo>t miraculous results
Idols fell at bis approach churches rose
at his bidding and the sign of the cross
became the recognised symbol of fellow
ship among the inmates OF entire villages.
From Goa he travelled southwark TO the
rear'-fsheries Of Cape Ccmorin, and after
succoring the poor people who had been
driven thence to the shores of the Straits
OF Manaar, returned TO The western coast
and commenced his lators, with exlraor-
binary energy ahd success, in Travancore.
According TO his own sccoun, he baptised
ten thousand heathens in "a single month
carrying on the holy work ill he could
no longer arlicula,e the words of the for
m"'a, or raise hi, hand TO perform the Of
fce. Then he took ship for the Eastern
Isles, visited Malacca, Amboyna, Terna,e,
Java: and after while, returned 10 visit
his churches in Southern India, and to
prepare himself for IA grea, crusade against
the Bonzes Of Japan. More than two
years were spent in this holy war many
strange adventures he encountered, many
converts he made, and many churches he
established; but bis career was now draw
ing to close. He returned TO Goa, and
there in council with one Iagn P.reira,
captain OF the vessel which had carried
the apostle on his strange ard perilous
voyage from Japan, formed the magnifi.
cen, design OF converting the Chinese En-.
| pire. But he never reached the nowe.y
land. Difficulties beset the enterprise
| The apostle of the Je<uits was landed a,
the Island OF Sancl.ian; and there as he
was about TO join, full If heart and hope
Siamese embassy OF which he had gain
ed ,idings, and thus aided to penetrate in
to the interior of the Celestial Empire, th,
hand o! God was put forth 10 stay his tri
umphant career; the Divine mandate
"thus far shalt thou go, and no further,
was issued TO that lowly, well prepare,
servant of God he met the summons will
rapture, and on the bare beech, or benea,l
a miserable she'd, which sheltered him nei
ther from the heat by day nor the cold by
night, he closed life of agony aud bliss
humiliation and of.riumph, with scarce
ly parallel ia the history of the world.
! Such briefly told in few paragraph
was the career Of Francis Xavier. FL
died on the % day of December, 1852, a
the portals Of the Chinese empire. Iii
mantle descended upon none worthy TO b
associated with the memory Of such man
In the history OF the jesuits' missions il
India, Franci. Xavier stand, out in solita
ry grandeur, as the one apostolic man. -
Beside him all his successors were bu
monntebanks and i'npo>tors. He wa
too earnest, too assiduous in his minis,ra
tions to busy himself about the doctrine
of other Christian teachers, and too large
hearted and charitable 10 sink into bigot
0, be goaded into persecution. He wen
about his own work. and the Syrian priest
tended their hocks in security and peace
Before his death the Franciscan friar> ha
underworld silently and secretly TO under
mine the Malabar Churches; but had re
sorted TO no acts of violence Soon, how
ever, the overbearing policy Of Rome be
gan openly TO a,>er! itself; and the Chris
tians of ST Thomas saw their independents
threatened t'y men whom they regarded a
little better than idolaters in religion an
buccaneers in active life.
THE FoRREsr Divorce CAsE.--An ap
plication has been made by Mrs Elwi
Forrest to the Supreme Court of thi
State, for an injunction to stay Mr. For
rest from further prosecuting his actio
for a divorce il. tie State Of Pennsy ylvanis
or in any other jurisdiction than that q
this State and from disposing of or en-
: numbering his real estate in this State
and also from oh'rnding himself into he
presence Oh the allegation that she appre
: henhs violence at his hands. After
hearing before Judge E!monds, in whlc
5 Me>sr> Howland and Chase appeared iu
E the plaintiff, the injunction was granite
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