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and fellowmips founded. Thefe are fpreading and 

 multiplying themfelves from day to day, and furnifh 

 the fanctuary with priefts and levites, and the towns 

 and villages with miffionaries and apoftles. 



This is confirmed by a fmall publication which came 

 out in France, in the year 1778. under the title of: 

 Explication d'une embleme fymbolique de la fociete. 

 The myftjcal engraving accompanies the book, and is 

 explained in the following manner: I. The firft finking 

 object is two hearts in union furrounded with rays of 

 glory ; they are the hearts of Jefus and Maria, from 

 whence flames of fire arife. They occupy the principal 

 place in the picture, and all the reft of the figures 

 have relation thereto. II. The three divine perfons 

 over the hearts, who are pointing to them, and feem 

 to take great interefi: in the fortunes of the furroundirig 

 Jefuits. III. God's mother Mary, with the founder 

 and other chiefs of the fociety, who prefents them to 

 God the father. Her extremely forrowful vifage 

 feems to exprefs lamentation at their unhappy lot. 

 IV. A multitude of Jefuits on either lide, in act of 

 adoration to the two hearts, and appear who to have built 

 all their hopes of re-eftablifhment on the fuccefs of 

 their prayers. V. A fhip in the back-ground of the 

 picture, violently agitated by foaming billows, iignifl- 

 native of the tofTed and mattered fociety, with the epi- 

 graph ; Eritis odio omnibus propter nomen meum, to 

 comfort them, as a prophecy of our Saviour, whofe 

 name they bear. As an additional confolation, they 

 are certified of their reftoration by another infcription, 

 Qui autem perfeveraverit ufque ad finem, hie falvus 

 crit. To this alfo relate two other fentences which 



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