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Article TREVILIAN ON FREEMASONRY. ← Page 10 of 34 →
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
we find a Government commission reporting that the Freemasons' Girls' School , in London , was the best conducted of any they had visited ; and when we are able to affirm that , during the sixty years since its institution , there has not been one known instance in which a girl educated therein has disgraced herself ; we must be excused if we assert that it
will take better proofs than Major Trevilian has been able to adduce to convince us that Masonry is either a " Satanie wile " or worse than a delusion . We will notice one more charge against Freemasonry and then we have done ; its object is stated to
be" War against Christ and His altars ; war against kings and their urroues . "—P . 230 . To this we must ansAver , that it is just possible that in France , during the first revolution , the organization of the society might have been made use of for the purposes of rebellion : but is it just to charge an enormous
system like ours with having , in one instance , been used for an improper purpose , alien to its objects and in direct violation of its rules ? As well might we charge Protestantism with all the schisms and heresies that have sprung up under its name ; or the Catholic Church with all the iniquities that have been perpetrated , under pretence of « doing God service . " We said that rebellion was in direct violation of the rules of the Order : we quote from
authority"I am next to enjoin you to be exemplary in the discharge of your civil duties , by never proposing , or at all countenancing any act which may have a tendency to subvert the peace and good order of society , by paying due obedience to the laws , and , above all , by never losing sight of the allegiance due to the sovereign of your native land . "—( Charge . )
And , as a fact , when the late revolution seemed to threaten a war with England , the Freemasons at Lyons , Bordeaux , and Marseilles , sent letters to their brethren in Liverpool , Birmingham , and Manchester , respectively , urging them to do all in their power to preserve the peace between the two countries ; and we have heard it from an English Mason who
was residing in France through the whole of the late crisis , that in his opinion the efforts of the Freemasons were the main cause , under Providence , that the horrors of the first revolution were not again repeated ; nay , that Louis Philippe himself , who is a member of the Order , chiefl y owed his escape and safe arrival in this country , to the protection afforded him by several of his Masonic brethren , who never
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
we find a Government commission reporting that the Freemasons' Girls' School , in London , was the best conducted of any they had visited ; and when we are able to affirm that , during the sixty years since its institution , there has not been one known instance in which a girl educated therein has disgraced herself ; we must be excused if we assert that it
will take better proofs than Major Trevilian has been able to adduce to convince us that Masonry is either a " Satanie wile " or worse than a delusion . We will notice one more charge against Freemasonry and then we have done ; its object is stated to
be" War against Christ and His altars ; war against kings and their urroues . "—P . 230 . To this we must ansAver , that it is just possible that in France , during the first revolution , the organization of the society might have been made use of for the purposes of rebellion : but is it just to charge an enormous
system like ours with having , in one instance , been used for an improper purpose , alien to its objects and in direct violation of its rules ? As well might we charge Protestantism with all the schisms and heresies that have sprung up under its name ; or the Catholic Church with all the iniquities that have been perpetrated , under pretence of « doing God service . " We said that rebellion was in direct violation of the rules of the Order : we quote from
authority"I am next to enjoin you to be exemplary in the discharge of your civil duties , by never proposing , or at all countenancing any act which may have a tendency to subvert the peace and good order of society , by paying due obedience to the laws , and , above all , by never losing sight of the allegiance due to the sovereign of your native land . "—( Charge . )
And , as a fact , when the late revolution seemed to threaten a war with England , the Freemasons at Lyons , Bordeaux , and Marseilles , sent letters to their brethren in Liverpool , Birmingham , and Manchester , respectively , urging them to do all in their power to preserve the peace between the two countries ; and we have heard it from an English Mason who
was residing in France through the whole of the late crisis , that in his opinion the efforts of the Freemasons were the main cause , under Providence , that the horrors of the first revolution were not again repeated ; nay , that Louis Philippe himself , who is a member of the Order , chiefl y owed his escape and safe arrival in this country , to the protection afforded him by several of his Masonic brethren , who never