The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-09-05
rmputsa SAYING Of the Jesuits.

The parrotlike method with which false
sayings and imputed expressions become cur
rent, may be daily noticed in the periodical
press Imperceptibly even the undesigning
and honest imbibe the evil habit, and unw1t-
tingly are made instruments in perpetnating
SANDER. In vain is the falseliood exposed
generation after generation so on perpetnating
a convenient phrase, because the individual
looses his sense of responsibility in the menda-
cious crowds with which he is associated We
have been led to make these reflections by OBJ
serving the following in the last London
Register: III
For some months past the Inastrated london
Netrs has published every week a column OF
tNolhin q in the Papers" This contribution, as
is well known to every one in London, is wit,
ten by Mr.. Shirley Brooks, and, as general
rule, does honor to the facile pen OF that most
amusing writer. Last week one of the para
graphs treats of the late :" Jewish abduction
case" it is called, in Wales, and IN It the
writer saws, off Jesuits had managed thus
there would have been dreadful outcry
though the Jesuit would only have been acting
up to his ayowed rule about means and end
Now, was Mr.. Shirley Brooks ever acquainted
Jesuit say that to justify the means by the emu
was his avowed rule Did Mr.. Shirley brooks
ever read i in any beck OF any SCI q T nae4
bad mer--men who have forgotten their VOWS
and left the Ordcr-afnongsS the Jesuits-npt
many, certainly, but the1e have been some few.
Did any of them ever say that the detestabte
doctrine which Professionals lay to their charge
respecting tho end jnstifying the means was
their tsavowed rule n There are many Jesuits
In England. Mr.. Shirley Brooks--even II
less noted man, or less gentiemanly man than
he is-wonld not be inhospitably received at
Stonyhurst or Beaumont. Can he not, during
the present vacation, make it his business TO
inquire whether this accusation against the
illustrious Society shat. has done SO much for
the Church and for education is true or notf
Had Afr. Whalley;or Mr., Eewdegate, or q Mid
dlesex magistrate, or q Marylebone guardian,
or HammersWith yestfyman written sem
tence like this, we should have passed 1t over
in silence for nothing is more useless than to
throw pearls before swine. But Mr.. Shirley
Brnnka Is q nxeg sinan Of whom eyery journalist
Hike 10 see him throw the weight OF BIS pen
aud his Influence into the scale of pig headed
bigotry. lie iss moreover, in the best sense OF
the word, gentleman, and as such must we
are sure, feel sorry for having written tho
words we have quoted above. Mr.. Shirley
Brooks must have many acquaintances among
the Catholic nobility, gentry and professional
men of England. Let him ask them what
they think about the Jesuits, and he will find
their reply to be very much what Simon the
syl0ver,, in Sir Waller Scotts = Fair Maid OF
Perth said of Father Clement: I" IT You Judge
OF Father Clement by what you see him do
and hear him say, you,win think of him as the
best and 1zintfcst man IN the worid-w1th q
comfort for every mans grief, a counsel for
every MANS difficulty, the rich mans surest
guide, and the poor mans best friend"