The New York herald., 1874-12-29
THE JESUITS IN EUROPE.

ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR WILLIAM WELLS OF
UNION COLLEGE, SCHENECTADY, BEFORE THE
METHODIST PREACHERS.
Disagreeable as yesterday morning was the
Mission chapel. where the Methodist ministers
are accustomed TO gather every Monday morning
for social and intellectual intercourse, was
crowded. Professor william Wells, Of Union
College, who has recently returned from an ex-
tended tour In Europe, had been announced to
address the meeting on q subject now Of almost
universal interest-namely, "The Jesuits in Eu-
ropes. His address showed the growth OF the
Order in different countries in Europe and their
expulsion from many OF them. 1t showed also
by historical evidences that the Order is not
religious only bus is also POLITICAL and that one OF
the cardinal articles OF It's faith and constitution
is the temporal as well as the spiritual
sovereignty of the popes The address, however,
dealt more largely with recent events which are
fresh In the minds Of the public. The Short sharp
and decisive war between Austria ana Prussia
over the Danish provinces OF Holstein and
Schleswig the war between Austria and Italy
and the struggle between France and Prussia
all these he claimed were ecclesiastical wars
rather than political or territorial wars. The
conflict now being waged by Bismarck against the
Church OF Rome the Professor insisted was forced
upon Bismarck by the Pope and the Jesuits. The
policy OF the Church he showed mad been to keep
PROTESTANT Prussia and Germany 50 dlsunited that
the Pope could assert as own IN
fact OF history he declared, that the present Pope
in his earlier years favored Italian unity in the
stS as the head d. Of the church. u vSen he dscov
cred that The Italians did not want him and would
not nave s% g. SRGssov vos ssn uny aa
Professor Wells explained the force Of this majof
excommInieatlon cat upon on kings Or pleoeians and
and others have not got over It, In regard to the
Church laws and the school laws which have given
written and spoken, Professor Wells gave brief
history OF those laws and their bearing upon all
ciassea The High Church Lutherans are as much
offended, he said, at Bismarck and as much op-
posed to those laws as the Catholic hierarchy are
or can be; and It Is simply question OF the lne
and sedan overthrow the Latin Power in Europe
and cleared the way for German unity, and when
az the same time french Dayonets were with
BONE AND THE DOGMA OF NTAMIBIIrrr
was wtn hs s keen pe9
national unity would be stirred up by the Church
or In the Church. Hence he sought to conciliate
pleted. But the reception that Cardinal Prince
hohenlohe had from the Pope assured Bismarck
that the Church would not be conciliated but that
German unity, II accomplished at all, would be
secured against the int1sues and Opposition OF
W,,,am 70 ASK his n aid! IN the restoration
OF His Holiness to his temporal sovereignty
and received negative answer IN we he be-
OF the Church was set IN motion against Bismarck
and Emperor William and against the unity OF the
Fatherand. And, as the Catholic Orders had con-
troll OF the schools and universities and In many
provinces held all the civil ofces, they had ample
facilities to create trouble for the Kaiser and his
Premier. At the same time they were receiving
stipends from the government and scheming to
overthrow II, and to give the predomtnance IN
European politics 10 Catholic Power Bismarck
then had laws passed which were designed to
subordinate these teachers and schools and the
ecclesiastics OF the Empire generally TO the state.
And, finally, he had to
EXPEL TIE JESuITS.
But in going, Professor Wells declared they had
lett their plans and their power to other orders,
male and female, which were not lnterfered with.
And the result has been that these Orders have
secured the return TO the imperial Parliament OF Q
band OF ultramontanes who are determined to
prolong the strife between the Church and she
State. The Church opposes civil marriages In
Germany, but permits them, as 1t is well known.
III France. Professor Wells admitted that some OF
the recent laws OF the German Parliament did ap-
pear to be tyrannical but he justified them on tho
ground tnat tyranny can be met and combated
only by tyranny. In looking over the statistics OF
the expelled Jesuits MT. Wells said that o greas
many OF them have come TO the United states, and
under other names, and that the question OF Ger
many to-day will be the question or America by
and BY. The Professors address was frequently
auplauded.