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524 GENERAL PROPAGANDISM.tlon ; she exacts no confession of faith ; they are still heathensin all save the name • but the nominal submission ofthe parents gives her access to the children, and theseshetrains in thorough subjection to her authority. It will notbe the fault of Rome if there remains one individual in themost distant region of the earth who has not bowed theneck to her yoke. We see the Jesuits adopting all measures,and assuming every garb, to gain success in theirwork. Nor do they shrink from violence, when their objectcannot otherwise be attained.In the latter years of LouisPhilippe, the French ships of war were pressed into the serviceof the Propaganda. No one can yet have forgotten themassacre at Cochin- China inthe spring of 18-47, where theJesuit missionaries, mounted upon the French ships of war,dealt out grape-shot to the inhabitants. Nor is the sadstory of Tahiti forgotten, or ever will. The Jesuits foundit a paradise physically and morally, with a Christianityblossoming there as pure and lovely perhaps as ever bloomedon earth. They dethroned its queen, and ravaged the islewith fire and sword, because theinhabitants refused to embracean idolatry as foul as that from which they had beenrescued. Popery is as much the wolf as ever. To see itsreal dispositions, we must not look at it in Europe; wemust track it as it prowls along on the frontier of the heathenworld.* After centuries of massacre and persecution, itsthirst for blood is still unslaked.Previous to the revolutionof 1830, the funds of the French state were to a great degreeat the command of the Jesuits ; but since that eventthe French exchequer has been less accessible, and the missionaryoperations of the Romish Church have been supportedmainly by the funds of the Propaganda, the head*"There exists a papal com in their [the Jesiiits] honour, as domini'canes,'—the nolle hounds of heretics. The device is, a dog with a lightedtorch in his mouth, traversing a globe ;the motto,—' What will I, if it bealready kindled ?'" (The Jesuits as they were and are, by Duller ;Introduction.)