The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-08-01
THE JESUITS.

1854 by Ignatius Loyola. He was a
Spanish cavalier; was wounded in battle !;
was by his wounds, which impaired the
use OF one Of his legs, deprived of the
qualification of his military ambition, and
during his long subsequent confinement
found employment and relief in reading
life of Christ and lives of the saints.
This enkiHdled new ambition for a life
of religious glory and religious conquest !;
he threw himself, with all the arder of
his old devotion, into his new life car
ried his military spirit of austerity and
self.denial into his religious career; hung
up his arms at the shrine of the virgin !;
exchanged his rich dress for beggar's
rags; lived upon alms; practised austeri
ties which weakened his iron Frame but
not his military spirit ; and thus he pre-
pared his mind for those diseased fancies
which characterized this period of his
extraordinary career. In one of these
visions he saw the hosts of Babylon, the
world, the flesh, and the devel, fighting
against Jerusalem, the holy city, and he
resolved to form sanity brotherhood
tN the rescue and deliverance of the
church. He possessed none of the intel
lectual requirements which seemed to be
necessary for the new leadership which
he proposed to himself. The age despis
ed learning and left it to priests and
this Spanish cavalier,at the age of thirty
three, could do little more than read and
write. He commenced at once, with en-
thusiasm, the acquisition of those elements
Of knowledge which are ordinarily &C.
CURED long before that age. He entered
the Lowest class Of the college at Barcelo
ma, where he was prosecuted and derided
by the rich ecclesiastics to whose luxury
his self denial was perpetual reproach &.
He fled at last from their Vaccinations to
Paris, where he continued his studies
under more favorable auspices Prom
nent among his associates here was Fran
CHS Xavier, a brilliant scholar, who at
first shrank from the ill,educated soldier,
yet gradually learned to admire bis en-
thuslasm, and then to yield allegiance to
it and it's possessor. Several other Spar
Iards were drawn around the aseetic. At
length, in 1884, Loyola and five associates
in q subterranean chapel in Paris, pledged
themselves to religious life, and with
solemn rites made sacred their mutual
| plTdSCc W CaC4l OLbCl GLACl dO OOds
This was the beginning of the order
of the Jesuits. The original design was
pilgrimage to the Holy Land and q
mission for the conversion of infdels
| But us all access to the Holy LAND was pre-
Guided by war with the Turks, Loyola
and his associates soon turned their
thoughts to a more comprehensive organ
ization, specially Designed to meet those
exigencies which the Reformation had
brought upon the church. For to under
stand the history of Loy0la, we must re-
member that Luther was eight years his
senior. To comprehend the organization
of the order of the Jesuits we must re-
msmber that it was born of the troub
lous times which produced the Reforma-
ton. The awakening heart and con-
science of Eur0pe strove to cast off the
letters of ecclesiastical bondage the
Jesuits sought to bind them more firmly
than before. Luther preached liberty
LOyola replied with the doctrine of sub
mission. The sword of the Reformation
was an open Bible the shield of tbs
Romish church was secret society. n
Loyola therefore introduced into tn,
new order of which he was the founde
the principle Of absolute obedience, which
he had acquired in his military career
The name given to its chief was the mill
tary title OF General" The organization
was not perfected so as to receive til,
sanction of the pope until l541. It's mot
to was cad sjorem Del gloriam,'
ITO the greater glory Of God" It.
vows embraced not only the obligation
of chastity, poverty, and obedience, bu
also pledge on the part of every mem
Der TO go as missionary to any countr!
which the pope might designate. Loyols
himself was the first general of the new
order. It's constitution, due to him, il
practically that Of an absolute monarchy
The general is elected by general con
gregation selected for the purpose by tht
whole body of protested members in The
various provinces. He holds his office
for lite. A council of assistants aids him
but he is not bound by their vote. Ht
may not alter the constitution of the SD
ciety and he is subject to deposition ii
certain contingencies, but no instance o
the deposition Of general has ever oc,
cured. Practically his will is absolute
law, from which there is no appeal. This
body over which this general presides
consists of four classes. First are the
"professed," who have passed through all
the eparatory stages, usually occupying
ten or twelve years, and have taken the
full and final vows of the order. It is
from this class alone that the higher eff
Gals of the order, including the general
are taken. Second are the "coadjutors, y
spiritual and temporal. The former are
designed to assist the "profesaed" in
preaching, teaching, and the direction OF
souls to the latter are assigned various
lay duties of an apparently subordinate
character. Third are "scholast;cs," who
are scholars or teachers. Fourth are "nov-
ices" who, after short trial as postu'
lants,' are engaged fer two years exclu-