CHAPTEK
III.
JESUITISM THAT RUNS THE CHURCH OF ROME.
To
write the history of Jesuitism is to give in de the record of sanctified scoundrelism, as with the face of a saint and the heart of a devil it has lived and wrought in this world, to do its worst against tail
manhood and rightness. an awful charge. But it is also an awful failure of language when the attempt is made to tell the truth concerning this monster of iniquity. Jesuit ism proves that, in human debasement, incarnate fiendishness and devilish capacity for being bad, man Christianity, brotherly love,
This
is
in the nineteenth century
acter that
may have
is equal to any horrid char figured on the historic page.
THE ORIGIN OF THE
JESUITS.
A
cannon-shot hit the leg of a scoundrel instead of his head, as in Spain he stood before Pampileuno s walls. For religion, catholicity and man, that was for the unluckiest cannon-shot recorded in history when the tibia of the wounded patient knitted they marvelously supported the body of a man who with the heart of a devil has been permitted to masquer ade in the robes of a saint. Those familiar with jail philosophy can well appreciate the impulse which drives the criminal, convicted of thieving or burg lary, or murder, and on the verge of the tomb, to indulge in fancies of huger thieving, or a crueler and more infamous murder, and to long for life or un shackled arms that he might become pre-eminently ;