Lodge Officers, Their Powers And Duties.

any such conduct on the part of the Ty ler . It is his business to know the business of every person in the anteroom . If they desire to visit he should at once furnish them with card and pencil , and send the name iu , that the A'isitor may be admitted

if known , or examined if not . He should soe that there be no unnecessary loitering or loud conversation in his apartment , and especially that it be not used as a club-room for the discussion of talk and tobacco ; but , withal , he should be a gentlemen ,

and command respect by firm but urbane discharge of duty . Finall y , I may renew the advice to select the best men for every station in the lodge . Many brethren are placed in office because of their genial

natures ; aud yet their geniality does not enable them to second the efforts of the Master in such manner as to be of real utility . In the selection of officers , then , it may be safely adopted as a rule always to put " the ri g ht man in the ri g ht p lace . "

Monita Secreta Societatis Jesu.

MONITA SECRETA SOCIETATIS JESU .

SJECHET IXJUXCTIOXS 01 ? THE SOCIETY OP JESUS . ( Continued from page .-1-Jo . J CHAPTER XIV . On reserved , cases , and reasons for expelling a member from- the Society . 1 . Besides the cases stated iu the Constitutionsin

, Avhicli the Superior on his OAVU authority , or an ordinary confessor by permission of the superior , may grant absolution , there arc sodomy , licentiousness , fornication , adultery , rape , illicit contact betAA-cen male and female , besides making any kind of moA e against tlie Society , its honour or utility , under the pretence of y . eal ov for the sake of the opportunity—all just causes of dismissal .

2 . If anyone owns to anything of this kind in confession , ho is not to receive absolution , unless ho promises to make a similar statement to the superior , either himself or through the instrumentality of the confessor . The superior Avill tlms be enabled to judge Avhafc may

appear most conducive to tho good ol the SocietA 7 , and if there be a well-founded hope of concealing the offender , he is only to be visited Avith commensurate penance ; otherwise he is to be dismissed as soon as possible . But in- the meantime the confessor is to take great cave that the penitent does not become avfai-e of his being booked ( pcridilari ) for expulsion .

3 . If any confessor of ours should have learnt from a person , being a stranger , that the latter had committed something shameful Avith any member of the Society , such person is not to receive the absolution unless he makes knoAvn the name of the member in question , besides his confession ; and , e \ -en after having stated it , he is to be absolved onlif he promises on oath never

y to reveal such fact to any mortal , save ivith tho acquiescence of the Society . 4 t . If two of our members have carnally sinned , the ono lvho ivas the first to make the statement is to bo kept in the Society , the other to bo dismissed ; but the one Avho is retained should thereafter be mortified and ill-used in every possible manner , so as to furnish , by

his bad temper and impatience , a just cause for dismissal , AA'hich is to be carried out Avithin a short time . 5 . The Society being a noble and eminent body in the-Chuvch , may also free itself in the same manner of such persons as may appear to be less appropriate for the carrying out of our Avorks , though they have given satisfaotian at the commencement . A suitable

opportunity may easily be found . They should bo teazed continually , treated in a manner most repugnant to their feelings , submitted to severe superiors , kept aloof from studies and posts of honour , & c , until they commence to grumble . G . Those should by no means be retained ivho openly show themselves refractory to the superiorsor make

, complaints , openly or in secret , to companions or even strangers ,- neither thoso who animadvert Avith either onthe proceedings of the Society through AA'hich it secures the possession or administration of temporal goods , or on its other modes of acting , i . e ., crushing ( conculcandi ) and oppressing those Avho are ill affected to the Society , or AA-ho have been expelled , & c . ; also those AA'ho in

conversation support or defend the Venetians , French , and others Avho have ejected the Society , and at whose hands it has received great injury . 7 . Previous to the dismissal , those booked for

expulsion are to be treated most severely ( acerrime ); they are to be removed from their habitual offices , and put to one thing or another , hoAvever well they may discharge their duties ; they are to be censured , and upon suek pretext put to a different occupation again . Should they commit any slight fault , they aro to be visited with severe punishment . They are to be confounded iu

public , till they become impatient , and then they may be , dismissed as being pernicious to others , but at a time when thoy expect ifc least .

, , , affected to the Institute of the Society , and speak well of it ; noA'cr to employ any confessor but one belonging to the Society , and to take no step Avhatever of any importance , unless he has heard the opinion of the Society previously . Cardinal Toledo not having observed this prescription , tho Society obtained from the Holy See an order that in future no descendant of Jews or

Mahometans ( perfidice judaicoi aut raahomeliccc lucres ) should be admitted , unless he consent to take this vow , but should be expelled as an enemy of the Society , however great his ronoAvn may be .

CHATTER XV . JIoic wins and pious women are to be treated 1 . Confessors and preachers should be very careful uot to offend nuns , or afford them any temptations incompatible ivith their vocation . On the contrary , they are to secure tho goodwill of the respective lady superior , Avith a vieAV to elicit ( evci ) some extraordinary

conpera fession from the nuns , and they may preach to the latter if they find that they are Avelcome . Noble , and chiefly wealthy abbesses , may indeed do a great deal of good to the Society , cither on their ovm account or through their parents and relations , so that it may readily secure the attention and friendship of a whole city through its acquaintance with the chief nunneries .

2 . The pious Avomen of our flocks should , hoAvever , be prevented from visiting those nunneries , lest they might take a fancy to the mode of life in use therein , and thus the expectations of the Society , with reference to their goods , be frustrated . Still they should be induced tomake to their confessors the vow of chastity and obedience ; they are to be taught that this mode of life is in

keeping ivith the manners of the primitive Church , that its light is of a homely kind ( lucentamin clomo ) , and concealed iu a bush , and that the soul may derive great edification and benefit from it . It should be impressed