The Jesuits - James Aitken Wylie
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great show of humility and poverty, the silver and<br />
the gold of Christendom will in the end be theirs;<br />
they will be the lords of its lands and palaces, the<br />
masters of the bodies and the souls of its<br />
inhabitants, and nothing of all that the heart can<br />
desire will be withholden from them if only they<br />
will obey him.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Jesuits</strong> rapidly multiplied, and we are now<br />
to follow them in their peregrinations over Europe.<br />
Going forth in little bands, animated with an entire<br />
devotion to their General, schooled in all the arts<br />
which could help to further their mission, they<br />
planted themselves in a few years in all the<br />
countries of Christendom, and made their presence<br />
felt in the turning of the tide of Protestantism,<br />
which till then had been on the flow.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was no disguise they could not assume,<br />
and therefore there was no place into which they<br />
could not penetrate. <strong>The</strong>y could enter unheard the<br />
closet of the monarch, or the cabinet of the<br />
statesman. <strong>The</strong>y could sit unseen in Convocation or<br />
General Assembly, and mingle unsuspected in the<br />
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