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Show Swedish Protestants Ask Recall of Jesuits. The famous Norwegian poet, lecturer and author, au-thor, Ivar Soeter, is touring his country delivering a series of lectures in which he advocates a repeal of the laws excluding the Jesuits from Norway. Mr. Soeter, who is a Protestant, has had his eyes opened by visiting the educational centers of Europe Eu-rope and America. In a lecture in Christiania, he said that never among the representatives of any other religion had there been anything to equal their work for civilization in North America, India, In-dia, China, Japan, Madagascar and other countries. coun-tries. St. Francis Xavier and Father Marquette came in for a large share of praise, as well as St. Ignatius. He headed his . lecture, with- an appeal to the youth to take St. Ignatius and his sons as their models to become great characters wholly penetrated pene-trated with the great aim of their lives. He said that it was a great injustice to forbid the Jesuits entrance into Xorway. Of all the different religious reli-gious bodies and congregations they were the only ones who were still banished, and to this injustice the Xorwegians must for their own sakes put an end. The Jesuits claimed only three things for themselves knowledge, truth and light. The lecture lec-ture was received with warm approbation. As a result of the lectures the cry "Bring back the Jesuits" is ringing throughout the land where the followers of Gustavus Adolphus were once so powerful. |