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BY-PATHS or HISTORY. 219
suffered from a dislocated shoulder. A child was killed, a woman
carrying an infant was knocked down, but the rest escaped lightly. The
scene, however, became so wild that the Riot Act was read, and the
mounted police were permitted some rough riding.”
The Gordon riots warn us that this scene is fiction founded
on fact. Ignorant or deluded Protestants of all classes and
shades oi belief or unbeliei are as the powder magazine which
may be exploded at any time by some foolish or fanatical person
who is willing to throw into it the firebrand-cry of “Jesuits!”
The series of“ Jesuit Relations,” in some sixty-eight vol-
umes, is nearly finished. It will go into libraries, but it will
not be read by those whom it most concerns. Mr. Cofiin’s book
will still be read. It is recommended for reading in the public
schools, by their superintendent, Mr. Brooks. What, then, has
Mr. Coffin to tell us about them? He indulges in the usual
lofty rhetoric in describing their incomparable missionary zeal
in all the waste places of earth. In this connection we are.
treated to such phrases as “deserts of Africa,” “ jungles of
India,” “ steppes 'of Asia,” “ banks of the Amazon,” “ peaks of
the.Andes.” They are, indeed, everywhere. Their courage,
privations, sufferings, patience, are but a copy of those features
which St. Paul declared, in glowing terms, to have character-
ized his own missionary travels. As Mr. Coffin remarks, the
Jesuits are
"to die of hunger, thirst, cold or heat, disease or violence, to labor
without reward except that which the Virgin Mary [here beginneth
the lamentation of Mr. Coffin] would extend to them, through their
sacrifices to save souls from the clutches of the devil.” (P. 49.)
The well-known motto of the Society of Jesus is, “ Unto the
greater glory of GOD.” I presume Mr. Coiiin has detected the
“Jesuitry” of the motto. For, as it now seems, they do not
look to God for their reward, but to “ the Virgin Mary.” It
was a skilful stroke of Mr. Cofiin’s, to set things straight before
descending from his “ peaks of the Andes” to encounter the
Jesuits in the plain walks of daily life. The sublimities of
Jesuitical self-sacrifice are idolatrous extravagances, after all;
and we accordingly become prepared for the more minute and