The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-31
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The first to advocate the establish ment of a modern Jewish state in Palestine was pr. Theodore HerzI, in whose honor memorial mass meetings will be held today by zionists throughout the world. The father Of political Zionfsn' was a journal ist, and unu his thirty-ffth year he lived in a non-Jewish atmosphere It was while acting as Pars correspon- dent of Vienna newspaper that he was awakened to a realzaton of the prejudce that still persisted against even such thoroughly occidental Jews as Dreyfus. In 1896 Dr. HerzI pubIsh- ed his great pamphlet, "A Jewish State,' in winch the establishment of Jewsh commonwealth was pro- posed in detail as offering the only so1uton of the problems facing the Jews. That same year he called the first international Zionist convention in Basic, Switzerland, where the move ment of political Zionism, which now has it's advocates among the Hebrews of all nations, was formally launch ed.
 Catholics the world over will 1eIe- brate today the feast of St. Ignatus of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus. Few religious orders have ex- ercfsed so profound an influence on the world as the Jesuits. They plant ed the seeds of civilization in many parts of the Western Hemisphere, es- pecialIy in Canada and South Ameri- ca, and the New World is dotted with institutions that are monuments to the memory of the martyrs of the So- cietas Jesu. The history of their pioneer work in the wi1dernesses of the western world is a record of count less hardships, sacrifices, tragedies. With cruci6x and breviary the black T0h0d soldiers af Christ from Nova Scotia's barren shores to the mountains and prairies of the un- known and unexpfored West. Not a cape was turned, not river was entered" says Bancroft, "but a Jesuit led the way Sometimes alone, some times in parties, they travelled in ca noes or on foot, sleeping in wigwams, caves, or under the stars, eating nuts and fruits or the crusts of savage charity, and persisting in their mis- sion despite all the insults and tor lures that could be invented by. the diabohcaI imaginations of a cruel peo- pie. When one fell hv the wayside, giving up his life flor the glory of God,' another bIack-robed figure took his place in the ranks
 It was the spirit of St. IgnatfI1s that animated these soldiers of civilization. In their hour of martyrdom they re- membered how the founder of their order was loaded with chains and cast into prison, and how, when friend condo1ed with him, he replied, ''It is sign that you have but little love of Christ in your heart, or you would not deem it so hard a fate to be in chains for His sake. declare to you that all Salamanca does not contain as many letters, manacles and chains as long to wear for the love of Jesus Christi
 The founder of the Society of Jesus was born at Loyola, Spain, in 1491, and was a courier and soldier until his year. Wounded in battle, he turned his thoughts from worldly am bitions to religion, and in 1539 he laid before a chosen band of associates the plan of a new order, whose members, besides taking upon themselves the usual VOWS of obedience, poverty and chastity, also bound themselves to go without hesitation wherever the pope might send them to labor for the sal vation of souls. Tn 154O tho order was confirmed by Pope Paul III, and inn mediately began the work that has girded the globe with a trail of heroic endeavor. Besides their missionary work, they established colleges in many lands, and among their students were Descartes, Cornei1le, Bousuet, and irony of ironies-that arch anti-cleri- cal, Voltaire.
 Today's celebration of the festival solemn iridium, or three days devo- ton to the saint.
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