. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages;. ticise the authority of the Church. He was nofounder of a new order ; unlike his predecessors, Dominicand Francis, he never attempted to organize a society of saintsor preachers; unlike his successors, Caraffe the Theatine,and Loyola the Jesuit, he enrolled no militia for the defenseof the faith, constructed no machinery for education. Start-ing with simple horror at the wickedness of the world, he hadrecourse to the old prophets. He steeped himself in Biblestudies. He caught the language of Malachi and Jeremi
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages;. ticise the authority of the Church. He was nofounder of a new order ; unlike his predecessors, Dominicand Francis, he never attempted to organize a society of saintsor preachers; unlike his successors, Caraffe the Theatine,and Loyola the Jesuit, he enrolled no militia for the defenseof the faith, constructed no machinery for education. Start-ing with simple horror at the wickedness of the world, he hadrecourse to the old prophets. He steeped himself in Biblestudies. He caught the language of Malachi and became convinced that for the wickedness of Italy a judg-ment was imminent. From that conclusion he rose upon thewings of faith to the belief that a new age would dawn. Theoriginality of his intuition consisted in this, that while Italywas asleep, and no man trembled for the future, he alone feltthat the stillness of the air was fraught with thunder, thatits tranquillity was like that which precedes a tempest blownfrom the very nostrils of the God of hosts.—J. A.
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