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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 4, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 42.

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Jesuitism.

THE hand of the Jesuit is clutching the throat of Protestantism in England and America today. European nations, even Catholic countries like France, know what Jesuitism is and are on their guard against it, but England and America are so confident in the stability of their institutions that they imagine they can afford to despise the lessons of history which, if they teach anything, show the hand of the Jesuit ever raised against civil and religious liberty. "We claim liberty from you," said the late Louis Veuillot, editor of the Univers, the Papal organ in France, addressing England and America—"we claim liberty from you because it is your principle in civil and religious affairs to grant it to all; we deny liberty in these matters because it is our principle." Rome is consistent in this, believing her system of religion to be the only manifestation of the divine power on earth, and that Protestantism in all its forms is heresy and rebellion against God. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, but when indifference takes the place of vigilance the death of liberty is sure to follow.—Converted Catholic.