# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1854 01 17_S81
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Der Lutheraner.

“God's Word and Luther's doctrine shall pass away nevermore.”

Published by the German Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States
Edited by C. F. W. Walther.

Volume 10.  St. Louis, Mo., January 17, 1854.  No. 11.

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 the same 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 addressed 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.

(Conclusion.)

So we have now proved incontrovertibly two things concerning the Jesuits: first, that the Jesuits really harbor not only the notorious principle that the good end sanctifies the evil means, but also, in general, the most abominable and ungodly moral principles; and secondly, that these principles are harbored not merely by individual bad members of the Jesuit order, but by the whole Order itself. After what we have communicated from the own writings of the most renowned writers among the Jesuits, from the bull of suppression of Pope Clement XIV, and from the Constitution of the Jesuits itself, the Jesuit papers published here must now either fall silent, or, if they would nevertheless take to denying, they can do so in no other way than the thief caught in the act, who protests his innocence while the ends of the goods stolen by him peep out of all his pockets and the undigested stolen figs are found, sure enough, in his slit-open stomach. We have cited the most horrible propositions from a great host of Jesuit writings. Similar propositions, and in part still filthier ones, we could bring forward from the writings of more than twenty names of the said Order not yet mentioned, did we not fear that the abhorrence of our readers at the testimonies of the immorality of the Jesuits has already turned into too great a disgust. The literature (the body of writings) of the Jesuits proves, to our horror, that, on the contrary, such Jesuits as did not regard conscience and morality as the juggling of narrow minds stand among them quite isolated;*) many of these finally left the Order and in part went over to the Lutheran Church. A glorious example of this is that of the Jesuit Reihing, whose conversion we related to our readers ten years ago in the first volume of the “Lutheraner.” As for the Institutum of the Jesuits, that is, that work which contains the Constitution, the fundamental statute of the Jesuit order, which every Jesuit must swear to on entering the Order, and on which the whole edifice of the same is built as upon its foundation, we have seen that the accursed morality which the individual Jesuits have brazenly and shamelessly presented to the world is already contained therein completely, though in the root. From this constitution of the Order we have seen that everyone who enters the Jesuit order, by swearing to that constitution, must at the same time solemnly swear to renounce all Christian, but also all human morality, and to defend and carry out the most immoral principles. There is no question that, if it occurred to the devil to organize in due form a society of men for the abolition of religion and morality on earth, he could devise no better constitution, more effective for his plans, than is already laid down in the “Institutum Societatis Jesu.” We must call our readers' attention to this repeatedly; for, especially here in America, so much is written against the Jesuits which, however true it may always be, misses its purpose, since men do not point back to that source from which the abominations of the individual Jesuits necessarily had to flow. Hence the Jesuits, when the disgrace of their fellows is held up to them, are always immediately ready with the answer that these are the doings of individuals, which the whole Order cannot answer for; while they know right well that precisely those Jesuits who have dared to defend all immorality on principle have been the boldest and most consistent defenders of their system and their most faithful members, and still are, who have sacrificed themselves for the cause of the Order

*) Thus in the time of Gonzalez, General of the Order from 1686 on, only three notable Jesuit writers could be found who had declared themselves decidedly against the shameful probabilism.