# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1853 12 06_S57
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Der Lutheraner.
Revelation of John, chap. 14, vv. 6, 7.
"God's Word and Luther's doctrine pure shall now and evermore endure."
Published by the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States.
Edited by C. F. W. Walther.
Volume 10.  St. Louis, Mo., December 6, 1853.  No. 8.
Terms: Der Lutheraner appears once every two weeks at the yearly subscription price of One Dollar for out-of-town subscribers, who are to pay for it in advance and bear the postage. — In St. Louis each single number is sold for 5 cents. Only those letters which contain communications for the paper are to be sent to the editor; all others, however, which contain business matters, orders, cancellations, money, etc., are to be sent hither under the address Mr. F. W. Barthel, care of C. F. W. Walther, St. Louis, Mo.

Jesuitism.

(Continuation.)

That the Jesuits cherish immoral principles is, as we have seen, stated so unambiguously even in the brief of a pope, of which we furnished an excerpt in a literal translation in the last number, that only impudence can deny it. If now the St. Louis "Herold des Glaubens" nevertheless acquits Jesuitism of the guilt of cherishing immoral principles, it has thereby placed us, a Lutheran, in the remarkable position of having to prove to it, a servant of the pope, that its pope did not lie and slander in that "apostolic brief." Little as we are otherwise inclined to defend a pope against the charge that he has lied, yet in the present case we do so without hesitation, and confidently leave it to the "Herold des Glaubens" to communicate this to its readers as a new testimony of a Protestant for the papacy.

Before we give, however, the proofs from their writings for the truth of the accusation that the Jesuits cherish the most godless principles and act accordingly, we must bolt a back door through which the friends of the Jesuits commonly seek to slip away when it is held before them in black and white, and so the front door, through which honest people go out, is barred. A common evasion of the advocates of the Jesuit order is, namely, this: those godless propositions, they say, were set up only by individual members of the order, by individual degenerate sons of Loyola, but the order itself stands wholly clear of such guilt. To this we could, to be sure, again answer briefly that this is contrary to the decision of their own infallible pope himself, who evidently held the whole order guilty, since he not only condemned individual Jesuits, but abolished the whole order for all time to come as a pernicious institution, indeed forbade ever again entrusting the direction of any institution to a former Jesuit. By the latter the pope declared every Jesuit, simply as such, to be a man whom one may never trust, however blameless he may appear outwardly, and into whose hands one may therefore never again give any power. But since the Jesuitical-Roman Christians believe that in this something merely human befell even their holy father speaking de cathedra (according to the old proverb: Errare humanum est, that is, to err is human), we must indeed forgo this summary proof here as well. But, alas, we do not need this proof either. It is only too clear that not merely individual members cherish those principles which overturn all Christian, yes, all natural morality, but that these have always been, and still are, the principles of the whole order. The first ground for this is that every writing of a Jesuit must first pass the censorship of the order and therefore always comes out with its approbation. For thus it is said, among other things, in the Institutum of the Jesuit order: "Divers doctrines are not to be permitted, whether orally in sermons or public lectures, or in writing in books; and these shall not be able to be published without the approbation and consent of the superior General, who shall commit the examination of them to at least three persons who are endowed with sound doctrine and sharp judgment in the sciences concerned." (See: Institutum Societatis Jesu auctoritate congregationis generalis XVIII recusum. Pragae 1757. fol. Vol. I, fol. 372 373.)

The second ground why the infamous doctrines which many Jesuits have openly professed are to be ascribed to the whole order is this, that the order has expressly not condemned Probabilism, but rather has officially permitted and recognized it. Probabilism is, namely, the