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that the triumph of Rome is paramount to every 

 other consideration, they labor for that one end. 



It would be a mistake to think of every Jesuit as 

 being uninfluenced by good motives. It would be 

 monstrous, if we had in the world an order of men 

 bearing the name of Jesus, who were all given to 

 evil. Many of them are better than the principles 

 of their order, and have shown and do show their 

 love of Christ and of men by their holy deeds. 

 The reeking dungeon, the distant mission post, the 

 lazar house, — the places most prejudicial to health 

 and life are visited by them in their errands of 

 mercy. Sometimes, in view of the noble lives 

 they live, and the heroic deeds they do, it is hard 

 to remember the errors of their belief. 



But all the zeal and devotion and craft of the 

 Jesuit order have not availed to recover the ground 

 lost by Rome at the Reformation ; and with the 

 advancing light of later days, her power has been 

 steadily waning, even though the fiery earnestness 

 of the Jesuits has added missionary fields to her 

 dominion. 



The separation of so many reformers from the 

 Roman communion did not bring quiet to that 

 body, for shortly after the Council of Trent there 

 began long continued controversies among the 

 Roman Catholics over such questions as the 

 authority of popes, the immaculate conception of 

 *.he Virgin Mary, and the general doctrines o/ 



