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Show . A Jesuit Exhibit. I .Father Martin, the superior gener.i! of-Jesuits, of-Jesuits, has granted American Jesuit , ,r. ,. - l'" to have an exhibit at the World's Fair i sV "1"U next year. There could be no more apL" '.'ui'i exhibit. The Jesuits were the true pionccrl"1"11'0 territory which a hundred years t, w;1 rfvi", th United States by Xapoleon. Tiny ji j 1 ll ered the Mississippi, and they had p., 'j'v'v-unknow11 'j'v'v-unknow11 wilderness beyond the Father ,,t' - e years before a Puritan had caught fl i.a'"''s the Alleghenies. The Protestant hi..rj;,.,'''0 man, has told in glowing language th.'-' Vt,-iUK"-their struggles and their triumphs. 5 "I ot It is interesting to picture in imaginHti.,n .vi f the final outcome of the Jesuit heroic ,.ff'li't j would have beeen if their work in behalf ,,f tianity and civilization had not been rudely j,' rupted. The red man might have Keen ve.l f .' extermination and his descendants ChrKri- '""I and civilized, and today might be learner ' ' and contented lives in territory rrunu fv t',,. and fraud from the aborigines of the irn :.t M,.lf But this was not to be. The Indian' wa- ct ' nated and the noble ambition of the .b -.tit "j?" neera was not realized. 0 It is well, however, that the memorv of !,. I Father Marquette and other Sons of Si, Loiariu accomplished should be revived on the occ'j, of the hundredth anniversary of the ac-rimt;.!" of territory which extended the frontier of the r'" public from the Mississippi far toward the ,f,t" ting sun. As ex-Congressman Glynn, who have charge of the Catholic educational e.hi!m the coming St- Louis World's Fair, puts it; "Here are men whose missionaries Jinrf. tramped through the virgin forests of America from Hudson bay to the remotest district-; of the region along the Mississippi. We have nor hvr, yet to see Marquette given that honor which 1 deserves of this country. The Jesuit exhihir wjj teach this lesson that this notable l.od.v of rr. ligious men have beeen a great factor in the uj,. building of the American republic." The Jesuit exhibit is to be divided into rinip; and sections in such a manner that visitor, ,x j, able to see just what the Jesuits have done iin,J are still doing in behalf of the higher educ;:ri,,n. The first group will occupy three section-, the exhibit being furnished by the seven Je.-uit institutions insti-tutions in the Province of St. Louis. The first section sec-tion will deal with the labors in this country the Jesuit missionaries and teachers from as earlv a period as 1623. The second division will represent repre-sent the work of the twenty-four Jesuit collegia in the United States. The local institution's ev hibit will include maps, sketches, designs, paintings paint-ings and everything of historic interest bearin? on the labors of the Jesuit missionaries in the Hud son bay region, and scenes from the old Jesuit' missions. The third division is to be devoted entirely en-tirely to the work of St. Louis university and its associate institutions, Milwaukee. Chicago. Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, Omaha, Detroit and St. Mary's. Kan. By far the most striking feature of the exhibit ex-hibit will be the gallery of immortals, contniniiiji 'sculptured busts, old paintings, etchings and drawings draw-ings of celebrated men who received their early training from Jesuit teachers. Among the notables no-tables will be the poets Tasso, Calderon. Mo'icrn and Corneille; scholars such as Galileo, Descartes. Vieo and Maratori; such distinguished generals as Tilly, Conde. Wallenstein, and several Roman pontiffs, including the late Pope Leo XIII. It is expected the Jesuit exhibit will prove to be one of the marvelous educational features of the fair. Freeman's Journal. I |