The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1879-02-02
The Anti-Jesuit WhirIwlnd.

the storms of heaven are made use Of as
Instruments to scatter far and wide the
fruitful seeds of tree and shrub and grass.
Were it not for this agency each species of
vegetable creation would be chiefly con-
fned to the neighborhood of it's place Of
origin, and, indeed. nearly all the world
would be desert. But the tempest comes,
the ripe germ Is torn from its sheltering
pod, and creation is multiplied in myriad
shapes of varied leaf and flower and fruit.
Something Of the same agency is found in
the moral world, that is, an involuntary
propaganda of violence. The Barbarian in
vasions of the Roman Empire opened chan
nels of communication aud set in motion
currents of Intercourse that carried the
seeds of Christianity abroad throughout
all Europe. The armed enthusiasm of the
Crusades, though like the upheaval of q
volcano in its violence, scattered far and
wide the germs Of commerce and civiliEs-
ton. To-day Catholicity is rapidly ex-
tending its benign empire over America,
principally because a rude aud implacable
despotism at home has driven the faithful
Irish race by the hundred thousand into
IN involuntary mission Of religious con-
quest here.
But it is not enough that the world
should be Catholic; it must be intelligently
Catholic, it mnst be eminently Catholic.
The faith must not only be accepted, it
must be thoroughly realized and practical
ly acted out. Though a people may
be Catholic, its Catholicity can be of
lower order than elsewhere-1ess vital,
less jealous, more diluted with the
spirit Of the world. Such Catholics need
instruction in the subtler truths of the
spiritual life. They know the letter of the
law; it's spirit ia manifested to them but
dimly. Such people may be honest and in
perfectly good faith, without taint of will
full infdetity and diabolism among them.
They, then, merely need spiritualizing, and
they are in a condition to receive it. How
can that end be effected9
1t is conceded by all that the Jesuite are
among the greatest masters of the spiritual
life, as they are among the purest and
brightest profcients in its practical exer-
else. The fundamental principle of their
rule is obedience; the origin of all evil
was and is disobedience. Consequently
their very rule forces them to war upon
evil in its atronghold, and puts them cn
the shortest road to perfection. Obedience
is the only virtue necessary, for it fulfils
not only all the law but all the counsels.
An obedient man has conquered himself
and he has conquered the Devil. He has
climbed to an elevation from which he can
look down through purer and calmer
atmosphere upon the wide expanse of hu-
man temptation and human frailty urroll-
ed as q panorama at his feet. Such a man
is the true Jesuit-and they are all true.
He ia the living embodiment of self-abne-
CATION. His presence among people car
ries with it peace and wisdom and
unworldliness.
AS matter of course, the world is in
arms against suoh men, just as it crucified
their Master, and, therefore, we were not
surprised to find the following paragraph
in the New York San:
The moderate Republican pspers in France
are once more writing against the Jesuits.
The Journal Of n. Edmond About draws atten-
tion to the fact that the JesuitS now possess
in FrAnoe no fewer than ffty-nine houses
cry of alarm" under the Restoration, they only
possessed six. The Jesuits are. therefore, far
more formidable than when they were inter
dicted for the last time in France, and the
present Government is accused of weakness
bordering on completely" in tolersting this So
ciety. The question is: What will the Gov
ernment dot Will they make secular educa-
tion obligatory, and will they drive the Jesuits
ont of the country, as they were driven ont in
the reiguB Of Henri Nv. Louis XIV. and Charles
Xf n. Dufaure is @ Catholic so is III. Bar
dOux but most of their colleagues are Protes-
tants, and can, therefore, entertain no reli-
gious scruples about according the demand of
advanced and even moderate Liberals.
Formidable Jesuits Fifty-nine houses
Protestant Councillors of France! Let US
see what all this means. 1t means, fret,
that though France is Catholic nation,
and its Protestant population is bat an in
significant fraction of the whole, yet Pro-
testants have gotten control of the Govern
ment; they form majority of the national
Council, Notwithstanding which fact onlv