The Jesuits - James Aitken Wylie

wealth secured, the smaller places will be easily
occupied.
Should any one ask on what errand the good
Fathers have come, they are instructed to make
answer that their "sole object is the salvation of
souls." What a pious errand! Who would not strive
to be the first to welcome to their houses, and to
seat at their tables, men whose aims are so
unselfish and heavenly? They are to be careful to
maintain a humble and submissive deportment;
they are to pay frequent visits to the hospitals, the
sick-chamber, and the prisons. They are to make
great show of charity, and as they have nothing of
their own to give to the poor, they are "to go far
and near" to receive even the "smallest atoms."
These good deeds will not lose their reward if only
they take care not to do them in secret. Men will
begin to speak of them and say, What a humble,
pious, charitable order of men these Fathers of the
Society of Jesus are! How unlike the Franciscans
and Dominicans, who were want to care for the
sick and the poor, but have now forgotten the
virtues of a former tune, and are grown proud,
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