Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-29
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classes. First are the sprofessed,' who
have passed through all the preparatory |
stages, usually Occupying ten or twelve
years, and have taken the full and final
vows of the order. 1t is from this class
alone that the higher officials of the or
der, including the general, are taken.
{ Second are the "coadjutors," spiritual
and temporal. The former are designed
to assist the '.professed, in preaching,
teaching, and the direction of souls; to
the latter are assigned various lay duties
of an, apparently subordinate character.
Third are "scholastics, who are schol-
ars or teachers. Fourth are movies"
who, after short trial as ''postulants,"
are engaged for two years exclusively in
spiritual exercises, prayer, meditation,
ascetic reading, or ascetic practices, and
generally in course of disciplinary
training. The administrative and exec
utive government of the society, through
out the various countries into which it
is divided, is intrusted, under the gen.
eral, to provincials who are named by
the general, and who hold Office, as do
all the other officials, for three years.
In each separate province there are three
kinds of communities professed houses
or residences. colleges, and novitiates.
Not only the superiors of these houses,
but also all the various, Office bearers in
each, are appointed by the general, who
receives at stated intervals detailed re-
port of the character, conduct, and posi-,
ton of each member of the society.
Two features characterize the system
thus OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES obedience and
perfect system of espionage. Its true
that the rules of the order prescribe obe-
dience 'unless where the superior should
command what is sinful" But since as
sassination, and thefts, and intrigues
innumerable have been carried out un-
der this VOW of obedience, the Protestant
is at least excusable for regarding the
reservation with suspicion. Obedience
is enforced by system of espionage
which is almost absolutely perfect. 4 Ev-
cry officer of the order has his shadow.
The higher his office the more closely is
he watched. And the general has not
only the monthly or quarterly reports
from every subordinate, but also reports
concerning him from spies who watch
with alert suspicion every act and move
ment.
1t is the combination of these TIVE
principles which has made the order o
Jesuits such power in the church, ant
not unfrequentiy such menace to soci
ETY. and government. The operations o
all its members are secret and their al
legience is avowedly first to the society
afterwards to the government unde
which they live.
, 1t needs very little reflection to per
| ceive the danger to any nation of larg
and well-organized secret society, who's
members, inspired by misplaced enthusi
> asm, which amounts to fanaticism, an
trained by years of ascetic discipline t
habits of absolute obedience, are boun
by the most solemn vows to obey any OF
5 ders, whatever the consequences to then
selves or others, which they may receiy
: from general, who owes no allegianc
: to the country, and who is Indifferent
. its welfare or even its existence.
, 1t should be added that the Jesuit
: are not distinguished by any peculi;
dress or peculiar practices. They al
permitted to mix with the world and
y conform to its habits, if necessary, f
the attainment of their ends. The
. widest influence has been exerted in D
litical circles. where, as laymen, the
have attained the highest political pos
! tions without exciting any suspicion
their connection with the Society of
. sus, and in education, where they ha
I been eminent as teachers, in which .
. sition they have exercised an incalculat
. influence over the church by instillil
into the minds. of the young the prime
:" pie of absolute obedience to ecclesiastic
: superiors, in opposition to the princiI
: of the Reformation, of freedom to VIZ
~ ship God according to the individual CO
y science.-Chrtstiaa Weekly lIy
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9 John Smith, who entered Emanr
us College, Cambridge, England, in 165
III and afterwards became tutor, in one
e his eloquent, polished, and highly sp
u itual discourses, as quoted in The CO
"a temporary Review of May last, by Pr
H. cipal Tullock, says =
nc "Such as men themselves arc, su
ne will God Himself seem to be. That il
~ which men generally have of God
y; nothing else but the picture of their o
10 complexion that archetypal notion
On Him which hath the supremacy in tn