The world: historical and actual . otto, The end justifies themeans. It was and is a secret society with won-derful adaptation to the exercise of influence. Bya subtle process of insinuation and percolation, as ;c I»2 THE PAPACY AND MODERN CHRISTIANITY* one might say, the Jesuits gained control of thereins of government, the institutions of learning,and the great agencies of power in many being a protector of Rome the order grew in-to a vast and dreaded empire. In 1773 a papalbull was promulgated for the dissolution of the en-tire order. This was done at the request of France,Sp
The world: historical and actual . otto, The end justifies themeans. It was and is a secret society with won-derful adaptation to the exercise of influence. Bya subtle process of insinuation and percolation, as ;c I»2 THE PAPACY AND MODERN CHRISTIANITY* one might say, the Jesuits gained control of thereins of government, the institutions of learning,and the great agencies of power in many being a protector of Rome the order grew in-to a vast and dreaded empire. In 1773 a papalbull was promulgated for the dissolution of the en-tire order. This was done at the request of France,Spam, Portugal, Parma, Naples and Austria. The self-sacrifice of the order in carrying the gospel tothe heathen, especially in America. Jesuit missionsdid much to Christianize the aborigines of this con-tinent, more particularly in South America and onthe Pacific coast; also to establish pioneer churchesin many parts of the far Orient. It was in 1854 that the Immaculate Conception ofthe Virgin Mary was proclaimed as a divine dogma,. ST. PETERS AT KOMj!, WITH COLONADES. order could only exist as a recognized institution inRussia, thanks to the sufferance of Catharine ILFor several years the society seemed powerless, ifnot dead. But after the terrible upheaval of theFrench Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, theJesuits were looked upon with more favor, and in1814 the order was re-established in its original forniby a papal bull. Since then Jesuitism has ?een lesspowerful than formerly, but to its influence _a largemeasure may be attributed the Syllabus of Error5and the dogma of Papal Infallibility. The latestblow at the Jesuits was struck by the Republic ofFrance in the secularization of French chief credit and boast of Jesuitism is the heroic and the Vatican Council of 1870 declared the popeto be the infallible bishop of bishops. In theyear 1864 the pope issued the Syllabus of Errors,a general bull against, or condemnation of, moderninnovations in the name of ocieat
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