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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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