The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-05-06
KIMBALIA SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1904
The JESUIT ORDER

ALL OAOVx1 VxSOuN
Some interesting Information About
This Organization
So much interest was manifested in
the Catholic mission last week and
the work OF the visiting priests so
highly commended-esp the
eloquent sermons OF Father Mulconry
that brief sketch OF the Jesuit
order to which they belong may be OF
additional interest:
Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuit
Order in the year 1910. Its end and
aim IS, first, to sanctify and save the
souls Of its members; and, secondly to
help the church with Gods grace and
to save the souls OF others.
To sanctify the souls of it's members
each must spend two years in medita-
| tion on the life of Christ, initiate his
character as much as possible IN his
spirit of prayer, modification of the
passions, His love OF poverty, suffer
ing, retirement and even persecution,
without at the same time courting
persecution. II after two years the
spirit of Christ is thoroughly imbued
and the studies made are up to the
standard-six years of a college course
the applicant is permitted to take
three perpetual yows-Poverty, Chast-
ity and Obedience. He then has seven
years of the most severe course Of
studies ahead of him-the classics, the
sciences, philosophy and theology. In
the mean time the spirit of prayer
and meditation and modification is
kept up. Here is the daily order:
$50 to $3.50, an hours meditation on
the doctrine Of Christ. A visitor is
sent to each room to see that these
things are done. He then reports to
superior. Then mass is either SAID or
heard. After breakfast each has his
appointed work for the morning, eth
er in college house or church. There
are two self-examinations of con-
science daily, one before the dinner
hour and one before retiring. They
help to make ready the conscience for
confession twice week. The priests
say mass daily by rule. Those not yet
ordained must hear mass and receive
hhly communion three times week.
Recreation is kept in common twice
a day and is as sacred as any other ex-
ercise and no one exempt from it. All
) persons are visited in their rooms
twice before 10 D. M, the hour for re-
tiring, to see that they are at their
night devotions and that they are in
bed in time. No one can go in and
/ out after p. m.
Though young men enter the insti-
tuition about the age of eighteen, after
a college course, they are seldom or
dained before the age of thirty-thrce
not that there is rule to this effect |
but the curriculum followed will sell
dom be completed before this age.
Then all have to return to the home
where they started-the Novitiate-
and devote one whole year again to
their own sanctification. During
this year each must make thirty
days retreat in silence, meditating
four hours daily, saying their Office,
give some time to work that tends to
humble them-in the kitchen or din
ing room. A few months after this
year they renew the three VOWS max
ing them solemn, adding a fourth
| Obediance to the Pope.
A Jesuit can never-and never will
obey any superior, even the Pope, if
there be the least thing sinful in what
is commanded. He meyer goes against
any 'just law, human or divine-his
culminators to the contrary notwith-
standing.
| The Jesuits are governed by we'll
defined constitution. Each office has
its own rules to guide and govern the
person filling it. No one can go be-
I. Yond these, not even the general of
the order. He can neither be an
autocrat or a tyrant. His powers are
limited, and If he go beyond them he
is disposed by delegates from the
whole society. 1t is told that Archi-
bishop Carroll of Baltimore, once a
Jesuit and brother of the signer OF
the Declaration of Independence, had
hand in the writing Of the constitu-
tion Of the United States and that he
assisted largely in Incorporating in
that famous document some of the
fundamental principles which govern
the Jesuits. The general of The Jes-
uits is elected much after the manner
of electlng the president of the United
Estates, but he is elected for life. He
has his cabinet, one man from every
nation. Again there are provinces