, 1879-01-12

SUNDAY. JANUARY IL.
whose real headquarters is Rome, whence the
JeSalts, with other religious orders. have been
banished for some time. Fatle. Higgins was
particular in emphasizing this latter fact: and it
Is Tor this reason The Information, matter of
common history, Is repeated here: The new
provincial will hare his permauent residence in
ST. Louis, the central station Tor the Jesrits OF
the Western country, and has already assumed
the duties OF Ills position. The order, it IS we'll
known. is the most powerful! Que ~ the Catholic
Church, welding great deal OF 1nlluencc and
growing with steady pace In this country. In
Missouri alone it has numerous missions, be-
sides having Two large churches here in this c:ty,
and an extensive novitiate near Florissant, where
young men are trained anu educated to
the profession. Father Higgins Jurisdiction COW
the States Of Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wiscon-
sin, Nebraska, aud Missouri i-etnbracing iu all
an entire membership OF $50 priests, Professors,
and lay brothers, into which classes the Order
is subtiiyided. In Ohio they have Que church
and college in Cincinnati, with community OF
church and new College iii Detroit, employ
ing twelve priests and Professors; in Illinois,
Chicago has two churches and one college,
with membership OF about ifty; in Wisc0n-
sin there are two churches, ono QUILT recently,
and q residence in which there arc fourteen
members; in Nebraska they llayc the Creighton
College, just started ut Omaha, aud which was
endowed by and named utter Edward Creign-
ton, where five Professors and priests are found
sufficient; while inkansas there Is the ccc-
brated ST. Mary's Mission, couiprislng church
and college having over 100 boarders and a
community Of twenty members, aud the Usage
Mission, an academy for bows, where the com
munity is about OF the same strength as that Of
ST. Mary's. The Order IN Missouri numbers
some fifty members, most OF whom are at the
college, corner of Ninth street and Washington
avenue; some few are ut the several missions
in the interior of tue State, mud the remainder
at the st. Stanfsiau6 Seminary, or Noyitiate,
near Ftorissant. This institution is .rctnarlsa-
bc one in many respects, aud its dai!y routine
Of life is capable Of furnishing food for much
astonishment to those who are unacquaintcd
with the modes Of life Of the Jesuit Father.
The institution now holds in the ncighborlood
Of forty students, who have devoted their lives
to study and religion. They enter the place at
an age when other young men arc going out
into the world to build up regulations and for
tunes for themselves, with the stern and unin-
be years, many long years, before they eau
attain the summit Of their ambition.
They must, on entering, have already ac-
qnired the knowledge which a college
graduate possesses, and :. be ready to
1akc hold Of higher studies. The first
discipline, the severity OF which is calculated to
wean them from all hope that the life they are
seeking is TO be d gilded or luxurious one, and
the other two years, while OF almost equally nm
relcntiug and untiring discipline and study, are
intended to prcpar3 them for still harder aud
more undesirable labor, for when they have
completed tic course Of study designated at the
St. StauisIaus Seminary they are only on the
threshold OF their real studies. They are then
sent to Woodstock College, near Baltimore
Md. from which Institution the, provinces OF
the United States receive their reinforcemcuts.
Woodstock College is the general supply depot
for Jesuit fathers in this country; here tney
finish their ante-ordination studies, and it Is
hence they. are anointeti into their chosen pro-
fessiop The number prested each year does
not exceed more than dozen, but besides these
there are many received FROM European
scminares, whittier they have Dcensent by their
respective colleges. At Woodstock the course
embraces seven years OF continuous applica-
tion, the first three Of which .;,are deyotcl
to the stuuy of philosophy, and the other four
to theology Thus it will be seen that the Young
man Of IL, who starts in at Florissant to become
Jesuit, has actually eleven. yeags Of noviate
before hitn, and trequcntlythe noyices are much
older. There is a general impression existing
among the public that man canuor become d
jesuit priest under the age OF q, but there is
no law Of the order establishing such contin-
geucy; still it is nevertheless d fact that few
ever become priests under 80, aud the majority
are many years in advance Of this Agc when they
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