The Irish standard., 1913-01-18
THE SECRETS" OF
THE jEsU|TS
Father Bernard Vaughan's Lecture
in San Francisco on The Jesuit
in Fact and Fiction
Draws an Immense Crowd Sunday,
January 5, to St. Mary's Cathe-
dral, That City.
His Description of the History, Work
and Aims of Great Order Deep
ly Impresses All.

ly mpresses All.
Bernard Vaughan delivered his prom
ised address on 1.-THE Jesuit il Fact
and Fiction" at st. Mary's Cathedral.
rarely, indeed, has an orator and
teacher, whether cleric or lay, at
tracted such congregations as have
filled to overflowing the vast Cathed-
raj every Sunday and Wednesday eve
ming during the past Advent season,
but the crowds that were turned back
on Sunday evening, unable even to
gain admittance, bore witness to the
fact that San F'rancisca.ls as yet, have
not by any means wearied Of Father
Vaughan and his remarkable dis
courses, says the Monitor of the 11th.
Starting with a brief description of
the establishment Of the Order by the
illustrious Ignatius of Loyola in the
year 1884, to be approved six years
later by Pope Plus III, the speaker
described the founder in a few words
saying:
''St. Ig:1atius of Loyela in every best
sense Of the word was magnanimous.
sttxetsrae ae.is.efgfa Will, God, .saas-
unanimous to his friends aud nlagnani-
! ]. m tDs HIS enel,i Ths formula
with which he speeded his sons on any
mission reveals the mag:1animous
man.. Go forth and set the world on
f1re!'
1.-THE soldier priest inspires tho rule
and the constitution Of the Society
which he founded. The characteristic
note Of the Society being to be guards
men in Gods service with the prin-
ciplc: Theirs not to reason Why
with the sanction of the worlds un-
ending hate to be their test and
Z guarantee of loyalty to- their cause
Father Vaughan went on to describe
the Government of the Order. The
Chief Superior of. the Society Of Jesus
is called Father General, He governs
by his own authority though of
course his ruling must be in keeping
with the constitutions of the Society
the DEGREES. Of the General Congrega-
tions and the Traditions of the Or
der. The General is elected by a
General Congregation ard so are the
Five Assistants, who form his Coun-
ci; and are his advisers, but not his
dictetors.
The General is elected FOR life. With
him rests the appointment of the
Provincials and the Rectors of Col
leges. whose diplomas usually hold
good from three to six years.. The
ordinary Jesuit has very little direct
~ to do with the General; his sphere
Of action being determined by his
Provincial.
Here it may be we'll to observe -
said the preacher, "that there arc no
Jesuits patrolling the various walks
of life as plain clothes mem nor are
there any other specimens of the
crypto-Jesuit as recognized members
OF our Order. With the exception OF
our Lay-Brothers, who do our domes-
tic work, every Jesuit IS either: a
priest or on his way to..be one. This
statement with one fell blow crushes
out of existence all those wandering
Jews all those 'adorers OF Jesus,
s those Fathers Of the Faith together
with the Sisters of the True Faith
and other corporations. which play
the villains part in the literature, moi
OF fact and history about Jeguits, but
Of fable and romance.
"The Jesuit as he is in real life
would be voted by the fiction write,
as deadly dull Accordingly he is
left severely alone and in his place is
created some arch-flend.. whose dis.
EIsting performances are pretty sure
te whet the jaded appetite Of gros:
livers. ~. :,
I, 'But for the fact it is not my busi
. ness to give them a cheap advertise.
ment, might run. you :oue.a, list -ol
some twenty books. .vieing with, .o1e
another in their attempts 10: tinker
up the Jesuit Bogy and Scarecrows
Father Vaughan took his hearers
through the fifteen years Of prcpara.