Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

236 DANGER IN THE DARK.
institutions. In addition to the usual vows taken by
monks and nuns, the Jesuit takes that of unlimited
submission, and unconditional obedience to the Pope.
Jesuits are a class of men, whose corrupt principles
lead them to become the curse of every land where
they are tolerated. In consequence of their political
intrigues, their immoral principles and practices,
they have bee~ expelled successively by all the governments
of Europe. ' Wearied at length,' says Dr.
Duff, 'and worn out by their unscrupulous rapacity
and all grasping ambition, their treachery and stratagems-their
seductions and briberies-their intrigues
and cabals-their laxation of public morals and disturbance
of social order - their fomentings and seditions,
disloyalties and rebellions - their instigating
massacres and parricidal cruelties, and royal assassinations
-the monks and courtiers, judges and civil
magistrates, churches and public schools, princes and
emperors of all nations, in Europe, Asia, Africa and
America - all, all, successively united their efforts in
sweeping them clean away, and causing their institute
to perish from off this earth, and from under these
heavens!'
"Pope Clement XIV, was constrained to suppress
the order in July 177S-an act which cost him his
life! For in a short period he was poisoned by these,
his implacable enemies. But in 1814, Pius Vll, reinstated
this dangerous order in all its privileges, and
now it is spreading its baneful influence over the
whole world.