"Sam": or The history of mystery./ By C. W. Webber.

PART II.
CHAPTER XVII.
A newt mystery-The rise of Luther and Protestant wars-Advent of the
mystery of Jesuitism.
THOUGH Sam was in himself a mystery of the New World,
yet was he not the only clouded Force to which these portentous times gave birth, and which was to become alike his
foe and the terror of the old world as well as the New.
A mysterious Force! yes, a terrible mystery!-the mystery of spiritual annihilation!-the mystery of "walking
corpses": of humanity demonized to the greater glory of
God!
Momentous years were those (1537 and 1620) which
gave birth to the order of Jesuits and to Sam. Memorable
forever will they be in the record of human struggle.
Strange that out of the mighty travail of the Protestant
Revolution of the sixteenth century in Europe should have
sprung these two births, the one so eventful to the death, the
other to the life of hope for humanity! that to the smiting
of the powerful wands of Luther and Calvin, upon the
shadowy turmoil these giant foes stepped forth, the one beneath the sun of day, the other beneath the umbrage of
deep night.
But as we have looked upon the birth of Sam, seen something of the stormy contrasts and opposing traits which constituted the majestic elements of the formative period of his
career; have, in a word, regarded his prodigious infancy at
* P i ac eater-The last words of the founder of the order of Jesuits.