The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-04-25
JesuitisDu Unveiled.

JSSu4LASLu OuVe1leds
In the London Coatemporary Re
i. rtelc, for March. Goodwin Smith has
| a paper on the Irish question. The
chief difficulty to a settlement, he
thinks, lies with the Jesuits, whose
craft he thus eloquently exposes;
/ Rome is making what Protestants
believe to be about her last great eff
| fort to crush modern civilization,
and regain her lost supremacy over
the reason and conscience of the
world. The principal organ of this
effort is Jesuitism. Jesuitism is
dominant in the councils Of Rome.
Jesuits dictated the syllabus and the
encyc1eaL Jesuitism called the
Ecumenieal Council and framed the
dogma Of infallibility, which is the
dogma OF Jesuit supremacy. Jes-
/ ultlsm IS at work in every country,
organizing movement, the object of
(which is the extinction of Protest
antism and Of modern Civilization.
This movement has made oreat
'lprogress in some European conn
ltries, especially, as we learn on the
lbest authority, in Belgium, where i'll
lis getting hold of education, of the
lpolls, of the judiciary, Of all the o.
lgans of national life. 1t is advane-
ling in Italy; moral jailors of the
Bourbon dungeons, while Bourbon
Idespotism lasted, have now received
orders to play the demagogue, and
throw themselves into the elections.
1t is advancing in Lower Canada, as
we saw the other day, when the veil
was lifted by the Jesuit orator. Faith
er Brown; and if our marty organs.
are silent on the subject. or try indif- !
Iferently to divert the national mind
from it, this is merely an instance Of
the manner in which Jesuitism gains
political influence and paves the way
to its ends. The Jesuit comes in
time to the polls, the legislature, the
Judiciary, the executive; but he first
lays hands on education. In French
Canada he is now working for the
establishment of a university Of its
own order. He was checked for q
moment by the resistaRce of the |
Gallician clergy, but in the end he
will succeed; and the Jesuit Univer-
Isity of Montreal will become, like
Ingoldstadt in former days, the cen
ter of crusade against liberty and |
truth. Now Catholicism is q relig- /
ion; and under the Law of religious
Equality we are bound as citizens to
treat it as we would any other relfg-
ion, giving it free course and a fair |
share in all the advantages of the |
state. As Christians we are bound |
to regard it with charity and to over
come it not with evil, but with good. |
But Jesuitism is and always was /
conspiracy Itconspired ofold with
Catholic despots for the overthrow
of Protestant governments and of the
liberty in which Professionalism has
its being. 1t conspires for the same
purposes now. When Bismarck ex
PEELED the Jesuits, we are told that
he had cruelty banished a set Of
pious men, entirely engaged in per
forming the offices of religion, minis
tering to the sick, and educating the |
poor. In which of these pious Of |
|iices were the Jesuits engaged when !
they secured by their intrigues the |
arms of Philip IL, and prepared the
way in England for the Armada;
when they dictated to Louis XIV, |
the revocation of the edict of Nantes /
and the elimination of the French |
Protestants; when they instilled In
to English Catholics the reasonable
sentiments which led to the conspir-
acy of Guy Fawkes; when they filed
the Swiss Confederation with malig-
nant jealousies, brought it at last to
civil war and compelled a republic |
in which Catholic and Protestant
have long dWelt together at peace to
send the order over the frontier;
when the other day they instigated /
the French invasion of Germany for
the purpose of destroying great
Protestant power? Those maehina-
tions against German unity which
they we're continuing to carry on,
and which brought down Bismarck's
heavy hand upon the authors of
them, did they belong to the duty
of performing religious offices or Of
the poor or of ministering |
to the sick? The Jesuit has no
country, no tie or restraint of patri-
otism, no regard for the nation on
which he operates; no compunction
in bringing on itWar orRny other ca
lamity, provided he can quench its
free life and turn it into one of those
living corpses which Loyola enjoin-
ed his disciples to be. He strangles
free communities as offerings to his
Spanish deity, as human beings have
been inundated by those fanatical
Eastern sectaries, whose devotion Of
body and soul to their secret society
or chief equals that of the Jesuit to
Loyola. The very mystery with
which he shrouds himself is q proof
that he is a conspirator; honesty,
even honest fanaticism, never
from the light Of day.
The dangerous illness of Pope Plus
has caused the revival of many al
most forgotten stories about his
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