United Colleges - Vox Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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THE COLLEGE OF TODAY IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW (Continued from page 9) discover the humanistic setting, the scholarship aim, and the apti¬ tude bent? Education, cultural and practical, can never be obtained by endless sipping through Coca-Cola straws or through nice choices of favorite nut-bars! No, my dears, life is more strenuous than that. Nothing less than classroom instruction, and library research, and home and community and church experimentation will suffice in the College of Today if we are to be the leaders of or even citizens of the World of Tomorrow. KENNEDY BROS, butchers CHOICE MEATS, FISH, POULTRY -r » SAUSAGE OUR SPECIALTY 569 Ellice Avenue Phone 33 213 A Memory of Graduation Day A GIFT FROM FLEDSTED’S WILL MAKE PERMANENT THE HAPPY MEMORIES OF GRADUATION. A fine Watch, Ring or Brooch will always be cherished. Come in and see our complete line of Quality Jewellry. fftmsrifr Quality Jewellers Enjoying the Confidence of those who know. 447 Portage Ave., Opp. the “Bay” Phone 26 224

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IGNATIUS LOYOLA A GENERAL OF THE CHURCH MILITANT By Robert Harvey, M.A., B.D., D.Th., Bruce Publishing Co., Milwaukee, 1936, 26 5 pp. By W. A. McKAY “ ' AN THE eve of the Annunciation, March 24th, 1522, he carried out a project that had formed in his mind. When it it was dark he divested himself of his rich raiment and gave it later on to a beggar. He clad himself in coarse, sacklike clothing that he had previously bought, and took his place before the altar of Our Lady. There throughout the night he kept his vigil, alternately kneeling and standing in prayer. ‘He had read that the knights of the new chivalry kept in the church an all-night watch over their armor, and he desired to imitate them.’ Christ was indeed calling him as captain in his sacred army and his life of holy warfare had begun.” If one is safe in saying that few world-wide organizations have been so powerful as the Society of Jesus, one may also say that few organizations have been so misunderstood. Most Canadians when asked what order of churchmen did the first missionary work among the Indians in Canada will reply unhesitatingly, the Jesuits. The truth of the matter is that the Jesuits were preceded in Canada by the Recollet fathers, and did not come to Quebec until 1625. How¬ ever, they soon supplanted their predecessors, and within a few years were in undisputed control of the spiritual life of Canada. Champlain’s approval did a great deal to strengthen their position. He assisted them to the utmost of his ability and at his death be¬ queathed to them a part of his estates. They set aside a definite part of the Canadian wilderness, which they called Huronia, in which to protect the natives from a too sudden contact with foreign influ¬ ence. This project which had succeeded to a degree in Paraguay, was signally unsuccessful in Canada, a result no doubt of a combina¬ tion of circumstances, chief among which may be placed the Iroquois raids upon the peaceful Jesuit colonies. In spite of the fact that a too rigid adherence to a method wrecked their plan for Christianizing the natives, the spirit in which they endured hardships for their cause, and their work of exploring the St. Lawrence and Mississippi basin has reserved them a place in the Canadian Saga. Brebeuf, Chaumont; Rageneau, the discoverer of the falls at Niagara; Le Jeune and Vimont, the chroniclers of Nicolet’s voyage to the upper reaches of Lake Superior; Fathers [ 27 ]

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Jogues and Raymbault, who tried in vain to save the French colony by Christianizing the Iroquois themselves, all these are names known wherever Canadian History is read, and wherever deeds of heroism are admired. In most European countries of Roman Catholic persuasion and in England, th e Jesuits are remembered mainly for their political and religious intrigues, which culminated their final expulsion from these countries in the nineteenth century. Their position has only been partly recovered with great difficulty. The English attitude is summed up in Borrow’s “Lavengro” and the “Bible in Spain,” the attitude of a large body of French citizens in Eugene Sue’s “The Wandering Jew.” For a century the reorganized Society of Jesus has been trying to live down the evil results of adopting the attitude that “the end justifies the means.” The supreme driving force behind the fathers was their sense of duty and of dedication. In his book “Ignatius Loyola” Dr. Harvey has brought this phase of the Jesuit ministry into bold relief. The book is moulded on a definite plan which draws the attention of the reader to the fact that the Jesuit order was a military order, founded by a man who was aristocratic in the ancient sense of the term, an aristocrat when to be one meant being continually at the service of the state. Ignatius was reared at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella, spent his youth fighting against the French, and turned to religion after being wounded in an engagement at Pampeluna. Dr. Harvey describes in some detail the events of Ignatius’ con¬ version. Almost every page of Dr. Harvey’s book is haunted by ghosts of a bygone age, spirits known to the early days of the Jesuits come often to his aid in giving a lifelike and authoritative picture of the beginnings of the movement. However, other ghosts sometimes come to life and these, alas, are not so welcome to the reader. The use of ancient oblique construction and archaic words, “divest,” “raiment,” are scarcely to be met in any work of the last century, and, while they introduce at times a pleasing sense of the ancient, and a flavor of the original in Dr. Harvey’s work, one does feel after a continued repetition of these archaisms that a more modern style and language would appeal to a wider circle of readers. AAnnvo ’q Open all night IVIOOTG S including Sunday [29]