The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-04-15

|nose. Tho most perfect hnd imElici'
obedience Ia owed TO him by NIL the mem
bafA. and he in his turn profnisea tho same
TO tho pope. But In order that he may bt
thoroughly acquainted with every depart~
ment OF tho vast body Entrusted to hif
guidance, lie receives every three years from
each province II catalogue of its members,
recording their names, ages, capabilittea,
talents ana progress in virtue. At stated
intervals each local superior must write III
the provincial to give him On account Of
tho house under his care; and at longer in
tervala he, in his turn, sends a similar re-
port TO the father general. The PROVINCES
are governed BY a provincial. who ID assist
ed by conanltors and by nj Hdmonitor
named by the general, and each house Ia
governed by q superior, who also has his
consultors and m admonitor. The great
law of obedience Ia the secret Of the perfect
discipline that porvades this vast ofganixa-
ton.
The coming election OF the father gem
eral p therefore. . very important event,
democratio n At the death Of
Father Anderledy his office was taken by
the vicar, Father Luis Martin, an accom-
plished t%heologian and writer of very high
repute and an able administrator He WAS
born in Spain in 1916, and has been rector
provincial Of CASTLE. He will aummon.
probably in May, q general congregation of
the order to meet ar the German Hungarian
college in Rome.
Tn delegates Of this convention will con-
slst Of the provincial and two associates
the society all over the world. The ascot
ate delegates will be previously elected in
each province at q convention made up Of
fifty members, including the rectors and
senior professed fathers. The p%tovincials
vote ex-oficio, AZ also do the vicar general
i mar 4 rVsrn saA rs H. 500 unJ At.- -.- u.l
the five assistants to the general. These
Inter are Father Grandidler, for France;
Father Hoevel, for Germany; Father de Ia
Tore, for Spain; III Father Witty. a
famous Irishnlan, for the English-spenking
provinces: Besides these assistants the
other protested fathers and ton conductors.
The provincial Of the New York Mary
land p ovince ia the Very Rev. Thomas j.
Campbell, one OF the ablest and most pop
ular and respected Of the younger genera
ton Of the American Jesuits. Flo was
born IL New York in 1S47, and was edu-
Gated at st. Francis Xavier's college, in
this city. where he graduated in the class Of
1866. lie Joined the society two years
later. n made his novitiate in CANADA.
After teaching some time in the college he
went TO Rochampton. near London, Eng
land, and after TO the Univels ity Of Lou
vain, Belgium, TO complete his studies.
Here he WAS ordained. On his return to
New York he Taught at st. Francis Xavler's
and at st. Johns, FordhnIn, and wal made
rector OF that college seven years ago. Ii
the summer Of 1883 he was provincial Of
the New York province, a very high and
unusual a for one 50 young. His ad-
mln1stratlon has boon so singularly sue
cessful that he has not be disturbed in the
Office at the end OF the usual term Of three
years. "ya=
The provincial of the Missouri province
is the Very Rev. John p. Frieden, S. j., of
st. Louis, and Of the New Orleans province
s%ociates. who. with these three, will make
up the full delegation of the United States,
will be chosen in n few days.
When the different delegations are all as
sembled in Rome the election will be pre-
ceded by prayer, fasting and corporal aus
others is forbidden by the %severest coolest
astical penalties.
The election is made after a general re-
ception Of the holy eucharist in communion,
each name being deposited in the flame Of
Jusus Christ before a %crucifx. Ihe general
may be Of any nationality and is not al
lowed to refuse the position to which he has
been elected. So far among the generals
there have been eleven Italians, five Span
lards, three Belgians and one German,
Swiss, Pole, Bohemian and Hollander-
twenty-four in all.
The Jesuits are not allowed to accept &C.
clesiastical diRnities. The progressed fathers
take an oath not to accept any b%ihhopric or
other post of honor in the church unless ut
the express command of the pope. Hence
the small number ever promoted from
their ranks. At the first sign of any dan
ger of this kind prayers are ordered all
over the society to prevent it. The most
notable honor lately received by u Jesuit
was perhaps the elevation to the college OF
Cardinals of one of their most famous the
ologians, Father Camilius Mazzella.
He 10 a citizen of the United States and
enjoys the distinction of being it's resident
representative in the college Of cardinals at
Rome. Cardinal Mazella was born near
Naples, in Italy, in 1888, and with his twin
brother Ernest and a younger brother,
Peter, devoted himself to the church. He
joined the Jesuits i'll 1857. When they
were expelled from Naples in 1850 by the
revolutionary. government he went to
sent here to the great house OF studies
which the society maintains for it's mem
beers at Woodstock, Md.
Here he was made professor of dogma
and published four luminous and exhaust
i've volumes Of his course of scholastic
theologs. 1t was during his stay there that
he became an American citizen. In 1878 he
was recalled to Rome to take the place of
FranZel:n, who had been made II
Much to the regret Of his fellow
member and against his own wish the pope
made him a cardinal also on June T.. 1856,
and he was thus lost to the order of which
he had so long been one Of the brightest
ornaments. He resides at the Gregorian
university, OF which he is the project of
The House Of tudies'' at Woodstock.
Md, is one of the chief educational ~institu-
tions Of the order in the wosld. Only mem
bers aSe trained there. The present num-
Der Of students includes fifty in the class of
philosophy and ninety in the class of the
ology. Thu order has two colleges in this
,ity-St. Francis Xavier's, in West Sixteenth
street, and st. Johns. in Fordham. 1T.
church, Eighty-fourth street
md Park avenue, ia also under the care of
5he Jesults. They also serve as chaplains
in the prisons and on the islands.
Deserving Praise. @
We desire to say to our citizens that for
years we have been selling DR.. kings New
Discovery for consumption, DIR. Kings New
Pills, Rucklen's Arnica Salve and
Ritters, and have never handIed