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f * V * « ♦ 4 P acific M essenger . 1 • s T » "GO YE, THEREFORE, TEACH ALL NATIONS.” MONMOUTH, OREGON; FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1881. VOL. XI. NO. 9. Faolflo nor is it of anti-Catholic or republican ous war instantly aroused in France vast multitude of " Jesuits of the i Evangelizing in the State. birth. It is of long standing, had its by this proposal. France had not short robe,” secretly affiliated male ' C hristian M essenger , origin under a Bourbon Catholic forgotten the past history of the anti female members of the Order, I Editor Messenger; Devoted to the cense of Primitive Christi monarch, has been once and again Jesuits. They knew also that this who escape public notice, “ who the in- I Please state throug gh ’ your paper anity, and the diffusion of general in confirmed by succeeding monarchs, Order was ever the same for evil. visible army ” of the Society, “ and i that the .Mi sionarv Board desire to formation. and has,- designedly, never been re The tremendous experiences of the invade every path of public and pri- ! procure the labors of-.brethrm in Price Per Year, in Advance, ♦2.50 . diff< rent paits of the State, s<> tar as All business letters should be addressed pealed. It is of first importance to past twenty-eight years were not lost vate life.” to T. F. Campbell, Editor, or Mary note this fact, The first a”t of the on the people of France ; the lessqjis M. de Salellis, in his Report to the practicable, witli the limited means at Stamp, Publisher, Monmouth, Oregon. abolition of the Society of Jesus in and the enjoyment of freedom they Council of Rousillon, says: command. It u> hoped that a--istance Advertisers will find this one of the best France was. iw. ioi'i. First, the had had made them only understand can be rendered in a more per The execrable Jesuit doctrine which mediums on the Pacific Coast^for making Jesuits were arraigned before the High better and hate more this order of aimi at th ’if- of king», comes to the sup manent t -i it liJnu-hi. nf th. .--u —t,y the business known. of tue privileges to which the Society I Courts' (Cours ¡SotCreraives) in the men, so deadly to freedom in ’its port is invariably atiacbed both by vows arul 1 bringing into r<<p;.siti«>n on more___ tAlCS Of AD/aHUSiNU provinces and at Paris, where the Re hostility and influence. To the sur bv interest. ■The Jesuits regard as their united strength, enli-titig all. the as a tyrant,' every prince who, by ; ports (Cornptrs Rendus) and the prise-of the Jesuit party, nreii sprang enemy, placing them on a level with other sub- I faithful, whether in pulpit, in Sunday 1 Inch......... »1 00 Ì2 50 f+ 041 $7 00 >12 (M) 20 00 opinions of the- first jurists of the up everywhere advocating with power jeers, would reign over them.' To assassin- I school, or privately from ].o;;se to 4 00 7 00 :2 io 2 5Ü 4. Col.......... 35 <0 4 00 7 00 12 00 20 00 k Col.......... a prince, with them, is only to make' v.erd^ heard; and these the justiceAnd necessity of the decrees ate » oo kingdom 7 00 12 00 20 00 85 00 S Cot.......... war against him ; to hire murderers, is house. To this end it fs uryntlv re- 120 00 35 10 05 00 20 00 1 Col.......... 12 00 sovereign judicial authorities pro against Jesuits, and the extreme peril only to take into-pay auxiliary troops. , qu<-ted that the e , (l a- Notices in local columns 10 cents per line for nounced the decree'of abolition. These to the liberties of France, and the very eacli insertion. _ A French priest, the Abbe Chau- tions atri Lr tLrea in d.uticni iatiijh- Yearly advertiBemente on lil<ral terms. acts of the French courts were about monarchy itself, in their restoration. v-.lin, in his Second Report made in boj^fOO'is re irj coritirugate exist Professional (’aids (1 wjuare) Ml per Himnm. the year 17605 This brought tlfe -The literature of the last century wid c»)if<spon<] wk I i tii- 1 Chairman or full Parliament, July -9, 1861, uses Mr. I. O. OavidrtB in oar AtlveniniiiR matter before the Government; the judgments of courts, decrees of kings, this language ; Agent In Portland. ! Srcietciry of the BoaiiT as early as ministry and the'sovereign concurred I bulls of Popes,'the testimonies of Ratend Ht the Post Office at Monmouth as Since the year 1578 the Jesuits have convenient, Ntnitir^ npctis pnrl re with- the court. Louis XV., by an j Catholic prelates, and of .eminent been Meottd elans matter. conspiring in Portugal to take away sources, circuMiRtnnc- pud what as edict of November, 1764, suppressed writers and statesmen, were called I (he regency from the Tpi—n ; in Germany surancu of M-coruling the ,'fi’nts of their plots date ffom 158»; in Paris they The French Government and — the ---- the Qtdeiv and..banished .it forever into life again, ami read by thepeople. held in tin'ir College in 1589 the meetings 'any one who will vi-if them with Jesuits. from France. This royal edict was The effort to bring about a legal of the League ; they attempted the life of the above obj ¿’s” in view. Please Uenry IL, by the plot ¿1 Barriere. and a BT PRES. CUA8. LOOM LOOS. reiterated and’confirmed by another restoration failed. Neither the year afterwards by the baniL cf John J)gte that it is not WiAaiuwfiile spend of Louis XVI. in May, 1777. These government of Louis XVIII, nor of' Chatel. - Notice that this last attempt' was ing time and means unless there’ is a ^UMBK* OKJL. by their expulsion from France; were the acts of Catholic courts antE his bigoted brother Charh s X., who - JallpWejl by the decree of December 29, 1594 ; and determination- on the part ortho The attention of the Christian Catholic monarchs; no Protestant, was largely under the influence of the this expulsion is confirmed by an edict of resident brotherhood, not only, to Henry JV., dated January 7, 1795. In world has been for some time directed, Voltairian) or Republican mind Jesuits, whose fata! advice finally England plots of al) kinds were hatched assist immediately but to continue, with much interest and with divided dictated, or hand wrote, these judicial effected his downfall; nor the govern- by distinguished Jesuits who overran that perseveringly the work to ultimate from 1580 to 1586. They entered «ympatby, to the attitude of the judgments and royal decrees. The ment of Louis Philippe,. public of kingdom into new conspiracies in 1593, 1594, 1597 success. This is a general call and it French Government towards the University of France, the Old Sor 1848, or of the-Second rite—de .and 1603 ; and finally in 1605 was dis is desirous to enlist the brotherhood covered the famous Powder Plot. Other Jesuits; first, by the articles of the bonne, bishops, and other eminent sired or ventured, by any act, to le- ’ conspiracies the State. The or projects of revolution were i throughout — ---- — Board ” —— '■v do propoaerh-"'Ferry law,” which took men of the French clergy, illustrious establish the society. Catholic France, exposed tn Holland against lire Prince of WR feel warranted-in pledging the full J ....... j-VUj.Uj; t„C 1U the work of Jesuit intrigues aDd , f r - t away from the Jesuits and the other statesmen and scholars, all royalists since 1764, had seen no good reason Orange, anyone for for holding holding meet- meet- manneuvers, in 1498 and 1590; and still i «upg^t • Wr 1 of Anyone unauthorized teaching " congrega and Catholics—vied with the courts for reversing the judgments and de others in Bavaria, Poland, Styria, Corinth- i ing* in the various Ibca.ities, butLiil« guarantee for the present one-half of tions ”—generally affiliated to them— and the government in exposing and crees of French courts and French la and Carmola. M. de Montclar, an eminent noble-1 the compensation, providing the ’ , the right of teaching; and secondly, denouncing this famous aud fatal monarchs against this order. when the “ Ferry law ” failed by its, Society. It is therefore unhistorical to attri man, in his Report, draws this por-1 brethren will pledge the remaihder. These royal decrees were again con bute the decree against the Jesuits to trait oi tue Jesuits : . Our religious interests in this State ‘ rejection in the Senate, by the deter mination of the Government to revive firmed by the first Napoleon (Messi- republican hostility to the Jesuits Political conaptera of every govern- i are of prime importance at.the present flatterers of the great and their .¡m„ i „ n . * * . and execute the old decrees against dor, year 12). No law or decree of and the Catholic church.. What the ment; passions; promoters of despotism in order ■HDe an * W1H ever and everywhere the Jesuits, which forbid the existence reinstatement has been passed by any republic holds in its hands to-day, is j . to stifle reason and to seize power; be dear to the people of God Cor- , legislature or government to the pre only the legitim»>! inheritance from enemtaa of kings who oppose their per- i ’of their institution in France. is SO.leited. solicited. verse designs ; calumniators of all tiiose rC9Pon,’enCC W Tho discussion and the action of the sent hour. Nor was this because of a line of Catholic monarchs, a law left who sincerely love the prince and the In Christian love, ¿rc., German and French Governments in indifference or, because these judg intact by all the nine preceding State, they put a scepter of iion into the J. W. C owls , hand of kings, and a dagger into those of suppressing this Society lias excited, ments or decrees were forgotten, or governments, covering a period of their subjects ; they counsel tyranny, and Chairman. q« snit« is not only every way of great interest regarded dead.— -On the contrary,-soon more than a hundred years. —------ teach tyranpicide : they nnit^ their interests, the most cruel it.toler^nce and consequence in itself, as involving after the restoration of the Bourbons, 2. What were the grounds of the with the most scandalous indifference to I —When your minister prays, pray directly the great question of the in 1815, the question of the re-estab- action of the French courts and true religion and morality ; they forbid controversies about words, etc. with him. -Don’t stare at hitn as if right of governments to interfere, for lishment of the Jesuits became a sub governments against the Jesuits? he was a stone image. Mo good ever The University of Paris and the their own protection, with the free ject of public agitation in France. This will be seen best by quoting ■ ttfw« of that. No good ever wilK—If Sorbonne expressed themselves at the activity, and indeed the very exis The partisans of the Jesuits, thinking from the language of the reports, the '• you don ’t say the words, that doesn’t same time in the same tenor. The tence, of such bodies as the Jesuits ; that this period of general reaction judgments and decrees, of councils, matter. Have it all in your hearts, Portugal, in his decree < f the but it is also very opportune, as tend would be very favorable for such a courts, parliaments and cabinets. that it may have free course and lie bamshment of the Jesuits, September ing in a very immediate and effectual measure, were already moving to ask The judgments arrets) w ere render- •glorified in the word he is to preach. way to call attention again to the the Chamber of Deputies to pass a ed against the Order by the parlia 3, 17.5b, declares them to be notori Pray with him and sing. It is worth character aud workings of this famous law to restore the order. What gave ments of Paris—in the presence of all ous rebels, traitors, rtai enemies and ' one hundred more people in a big Order, in our day; especially at a them, above all, high hopes of success, the Chambers; the first, August 6, aggressors, as much by their past as | church every Sunday, to have folks period when it is extending and de was the complete rehabiliation of the 1761 ; the second, August 6, 1762 by their present, against his ro)a! fairly holler, if you can do no better. veloping its activity in an extraor Order by the Pope, August 7, 1814. The decree of the letter filled seven person, his States, the public peace, Oh ! I have such a longing to get that took away one of the potent full pages, 4trt. 1 take from it the his kingdoms and lordships, and the dinary manner over the world. I folks to king. It does seem to be so common welfare of Iris subjects. ” My object at present is not to write arguments against the Jesuits with following passages: The decrees of Louis XV. and g'>od to have them make a joyful as an advocate, in defense of the action Catholics. For in the bull of their The aforesaid institution (of the Jesuits) Louis XVI., based on the grounds set | noise unto the Lord, if. it lie nothing of the French Government; but simply re-establishment, the Pope had, under can not be tolerated in any well goverued State (etut police), as lieing contrary to na forth in the judgments of the Courts but a noise. If they don’t get the to explain this action, by recalling the the most awful penalties, forbidden all ture, dangerous to all authority, spiritual and of Parliaments, both declared that tune it don’t make any difference_ history of this controversy of France "judges" of the earth, “with whatever and temporal, teoding to introduce into the Church and the State, under the veil the suppression and expulsion of the not to seme—but sing. It is a grand with the Jesuits, and setting forth power they might be clothed ” to oppose of a religions institution, a political body Order was. " perpetual and irrevoc thing, and does so help the prefer briefly the grounds that have led the the jestoration of the Jesuits. This who.-e essence consists in a continual activity to attain, by all sorts of direct and able. ’ And in 1777, when a Councilor and the sermon. Seldom find any • Government of ihff liepublic to execute as was everywhere understood, em indirect ways secret and public, to an ab of State declared before the Parlia fault with your minister, but when the old decrees against this Order. 1 braced not only courts, but also parlia solute independence, and then' gradually to the usurpation of all authority. ment that the Jesuits were agaiu try yOu do, don’t tell him o.i Monday, do desire, I confess, to free the French ments, and all governmental power, ing covertly to re-establish them then he feels blue; don’t tell him on In tne same decree the order is de Ministry, which is composed of the legislative and executive. The Jesirit Tuesday, he Ls just pulling out; don’t selves, in order to calm the fears of clared to be *' pet verse, destructive of liberal and enlightened men in France, paity, encouraged and supported thus | tel! him cn Wednesday, he is getting the people, the government and the every principle of religion and even of from the charge ef unreasonable con- by the general religious and political 1-eady ^r his sermon ; don’t tell hirn magistrates, the king issued a new rectitude ; injurious to Christian reaction, and the mighty power of the , duct in this case. on I liursday, he is writing it; don’t tell decree, in which ho declared that morality ; pernicious to civil society ; It will be impossible, within the Roman Pontiff, felt sure of victory. < I him on Friday, he is finishing his ser “ ’ the Society being abolished every seditious, dangerous to the rights and limits allowed me, to cite the docu desire the reader to note this histoi ical where, it was so. without hop« of mon ; don ’ t tell him on Saturday, be mentary proofs, historical and other fact; it has a most important weight the nature of the royal power, to the cause he is getting rested for Sunday ; restoiation, aud its re-establishment wise, upon which the statements in in deciding the general question before safety even of tho sacred persons of and if you don ’ t tell him before Sat is henceforth impossible. ” In this kings, and to the obedience of sub this exposition of the case rest. These us. urday night you never will tell him. decree he calle the edict of Louis XV. But the very first intimation of a jects ; and finally calculated to excite proofs are abundant and at hand ; and — Rev. Robert Collyer at Installation "a wise precaution for the extinction movement to r«-establish the Jesuits the greatest disturbances in the when necessary can be brought forth. of Rev. G. C. Miln. of the Society in the kingdom. ” In my statements I will be as brief aa at «nee excited a storm of opposition States, and to form and keep alive the What has beku c.ted is sefiicient to A very plain minister once «aH is consistent with the fullness and on all sides. I have lying before me deepest corruption in the hearts of show what grounds the French that some folks talked like Christians clearness necessary to enable the some of the pamphlet literature of men.” The French Parliaments of that day Catholic monarchs of lest century bad at Church, and like devil« at home. reader to come to a correct under that day, called forth by this Jesuit knew . the Jesuits well. President for suppressing the Jesuit«, and the movement,—old, faded brocAures, but Of a miserly man somebody standing of the case. Bollard, in his Report to the Parlia later governments for confirming wrote : “ Hi« head gat e way, but hie 1. The decree against the Jesuits by far the best witnesses of the spirit, which the French Government is now the passions and arguments of the ment of Taris, April 2, 1762, demon their decrees, or refusing to revoke hand never did. Hi. brain softened, but hia heart couldn’t,” enforcing did not originate with it. hour, testifying of the fierce, tumultu- strates tho existence in France of a them.— Christian Standard. r k f» I t ■s