The Doctrines Of Jesuitism.

ment of Avhich giants like Leo X . and Loyola , iad so egregiously failed . We are far from overrating the importance of this order in our time . Jesuitism has , in past ages , Avielded a considerable power and done much

-mischief , though it was never able to arrest progress to more than a very limited extent . But at the present day even their poAver to do mischief has almost ceased ; it has dAvindled doAvn to such diminutive proportions , that their very existence

has become all butunknoAvn in Protestant countries . ¦ Still they do exist , and have not resigned their -privilege of handling the dagger and the torch , ad majorem Dei gloriam . No doubt the recent massacre of Barlefcta has been but a caricature of

their Saturnalia in the night of St . BartholomeAv ' s ; but by such dark deeds , the eyes of the civilised Avorldare from time to time directed to that hotbed of crime and assassination , and due caution is imposed on . Society against that " criminal sect that

hates the light . " They have shoAvn once more how they put into practice their fundamental axiom : " Eteignons les lumieres , et rail-unions les fcux . " They are still dangerous to Society , as enemies of light and civilisation , but infinitely

more dangerous to their employers , Avhose utter ruin , though it be only a question of time , cannot -fail to be accelerated by the doings of their branded auxiliaries . If the heads of the Roman Catholic

Church had but an instinct of self-preservation , they Avould hasten to disembarrass themselves of such assistance and try to uphold their cause by fair and legitimate means : — 2 Ton tali auxilio noe defensoribus istis Tempus eget .

But the accursed of God , stricken AA'ith blindness , are steadily pushing on toAvards the unavoidable jorecipice ; and their nominal chief continues a willing and obsequious organ and mouthpiece of Lis dangerous associates . Like the wicked

depicted by the Psalmist , "He hath said in his heart , I shall not be moved ; his mouth is full of cursing , and deceit , and fraud ; under his tongue is mischief and vanity . " And his confederate , the instigator of crime and murder , the disciple of

Loyola , how could he be better- characterised than 'b y the words of the same authority— " He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages ; in tho secret p laces doeth he murder the innocent ; he lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den , he lieth in Avait to catch the poor ; and he doeth catch the poor AA'hen he draAveth him into his net . " *

The " secret injunctions " that furnish the cue to the understanding of all doings of the Society of Jesus have been published heretofore in this country as Avell as in Germany and France . *

But sincel 850 no English translation of them has appeared , and they are no longer accessible to the public through the usual literary channels . We have deemed it our duty to lay these Monita Secreta before our readers in a new translation which has

been prepared in strict accordance Avith the original Latin , and Ave have abstained from all enlargement of , or comment on this literary curiosity ; Ave give them in their hideous nudity , and AA'ill leave the public to judge , on such

evidence , AA'hich of the two societies is the " imjjious and criminal" one , and AA'hich of them deserved most the anathemas and maledictions that have been so laAnshly bestowed on us by the Sovereign Pontiff .

MONITA SECRETA SOCIETATIS JESU . SECRET IXJUNCTIOXS or THE SOCIETY or JESUS . Preface . Let the superiors zealously guard these secret injunctions , and use them discreetly ; they are to be communicated to a feAv of the " professors , " but some