Excerpt from Influence of the College in the Civilization of the World: A Sermon The Society of Jesus was formed in 1533, by seven young men of the Roman Catholic Church. It was with difficulty the society could get authorization from the Pope. The existing religious orders and societies were unwilling to receive them, or to recognize them as sup porters of Romanism. These zealous young men con tinned in their efforts for recognition by the head of the church, inspired by a zeal to counteract the spread of the Reformation, till they were successful in obtaining it. They then at once set themselves to obtain the control of the existing colleges, and to establish new ones. They became the school masters of Europe. Within a century the members of this society had a mighty in fluence in every court and cabinet of the Roman Catho lic countries of Eur0pe. In 1749, that is, in a little more than two centuries after their organization, the Jesuits had 669 colleges and 179 seminaries. Notwithstanding they have been at different times banished from every Roman Catholic country, and the organization has been sup pressed by the Pope, that organization has been restored to them, and they have got back into every country from which they have been banished except Germany: They have now the predominating influence on the R0 man Catholic Church in all parts of the world and the general of the Jesuit Society is popularly designated the Black Pope. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.