The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1857-05-14

celFed the orders OF Their master. Clad II
the habiiments of pilgrims they set out. ig
norant of the object or the end Of their jour
ney. But master mind directs their foot
steps. Two years after, by different routes
they arrive at Venice, amid whose marbl,
palaces, and perhaps TO the song Of III,
gondolier, Loyola forms his company. BE
sides the master, there are eight simple
hearted men, whom he has taught the vir
tue of obedience. The organization was il
Its essence military, and, according to tn,
custom of the times, took the name of it
captain, the Company Of Jesus. Jesus i,
our captain!' said Loyola: it was himself
however, that led them to the onset.
The company being formed, it only re
| manned to secure the sanction and consecra
ton ofthe pope. Loyola sends his disciples
Fearing to show the mark of omnipotence
upon his own brow, he dares not 90 him.
SELF. In the humble, obedient, disciples. the
pope thinks he sees mere instruments with
which he may work out his own designs
lie has felt The blow of the Reformation
and has trembled for his power. 1t is as a
terrible momentl :. Catholicism
embraces Jesuilism, and finds itself entan.
gled in network which binds it to corpse
"a corpse instinct with mysterious vital
action, yet dead in all that renders life
beautiful or valuable!
Like octavius, having reached the goal of
his life, Loyola seems to repulse ii. When
ms society Is about 10 name its general. he
declines. He wishes TO be the last-the
honor is too great for him. But he yields
at length 10 the entrea,ies Of his disciples,
and retires 10 chuckle over his sue
cess. a few more years. and the anchorile
OF Manrezza, from his villa at ivoIi, dicta
ted to trembling popes ard kings; and it
had become higher honor to be an hum
BILE disciple OF aoyola than "a cardinal of
Rome!
Thus came upon the stage of human af
fairs that terrible phantom Of the six
teenth century. As Minerva sprapp fully
armed from the brain of Jove, SO it sprang
from the aPocalyptic mind of Loyola, bear.
ing from IT'S birth the impress of his mighty
genus. From the cradle it met with oppo
Siilon, but only 10 overcome it. The public
voice WAS raised in vain. Lovoa PASSED
away, but the spirit which he raised lived.
and still lives, to blight and to destroy.
LoyoiaS last advice 10 his disciples was a
treatise on the virtue of obedience, in which
he tells them they should be in the hands
OF Their superjors "pe,inde ac cadaver"-as
n corpse! They followed his advice. Their
colleges We're soon spread over the greater
part OF Europe, and enthusiastic missiuna.
r'eS carried the words of Loyula to the most
distant parts of the earth. Intricate and
my sterious policy marks every step Of their
2 ogreSs. Not satisfied with the neonle
they seized upon the consciences of kings
and within palace walls proclaimed the
most fearful doctrines. The history of the
sixteenth century affords the mos, appalling
Instances OF the power Of the order BE,
nina each king we see Jesuit priest, in
whose hands the king is but "A machine
Lake a grim phantom, it plants itself beside
every mouldering dynasty wooinp it
to destruction. Father Nuhard stand, con.
lessor TO the last Austrian king of Spain:
ValoiS has It's Father Auger aud England.
House OF Stuart its Father Peters. While
France remembers the splendid reign of
Louis NV, she will not cease TO remember
Father lie Teller, under whose finger she
scarcely recognised her old king.
And what is the history of their mis-
slons? 1t is history Of mysterious desola.
N"ns' Where are ihe empires they reared
IN ASIA andi III South Americal A lucu
brous, mysterious silence reigns over japan
and Paraguay, which speaks, louder than
words, OF the death OF all the vital eneroies
ot people! In our own country. they
marched into the wilderness Far i'm advance
OF civilization. They wore the dress. and
coniormed 10 the manners and customs of
The Indians They followed him. in his
canoe, through the windings of unknown
rivers, and slept with him in the wild forest
They wove the story of Christ into his wild
traditions Without knowing it. they pre-
pared the way for the Anglo Saxon spirit
,t enterprise. When our Atlantic colonies
'egan 10 enroaeh upon their forest domain
hey sent the savage to roll back the tide
'f emigration. And now their catechism
changed with the occasion. or this one
'f our old authors gives an examnle
Who killed Christi" The ready answe,
't the catechumen was, "The bloody Enc.
lSh!" Such was the method they every. !
where used TO convert the savage.
In Europe, almost every country has had |
Is struggle with the Jesuits. 1t was but
'esterday that France woke to find herself
au2ht i'll their tolls. Selling upon the .
institutions Of education and the confession. |
j, they struck for power at the fountain.
ead. Forty thousand pupils were in their
choois, and an hundred thousand confes /
lon"Is were scattered throughout France.
rance, by powerful effort, threw of their
Are there Jesuits in our own countryl
his question was common one i'm France. /
'hen their power WAS at its height. That
here are ramifcations of the order here
annot be doubted; but they work in the
ARK and strike when least expected. With
ur Tree institutions, where is the power
"aV can suppress or destroy theml Our
my nope is IN an enlightened public senti
nent; and here we find new confirmation
u the ume honored political maxim, that
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