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Article TREVILIAN ON FREEMASONRY. ← Page 11 of 34 →
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
lost sight of him from the moment of his leaving Paris , to his embarkation at Havre . But every one is wrong who does not agree with Mr . Trevilian ; for the sake of a sneer he consents to be guilty of an attempt at a joke . In a late effusion we find the
following"Shame ! Shame ! to the Dons of Oxford . I learn from a relation of my own , now there , that an enormous proportion of the present undergraduates have been inveigled into the deistical lodge . —Look at Jackson ' s Oxford Journal , February , 16 th . " We have turned to the newspaper alluded to , and find that no less than four clergymen , besides a considerable proportion
of graduates , were present on the occasion of the installation of the worshi p ful master ; and yet the university authorities ( whom the funny major calls Dons ) the aforesaid clergymen , and the graduates , are all followers of Beelzebub , because they consent to a society , which they find promotes the best feeling between the university and the town , being , besides ,
productive of much good in various ways , but which , alas ! Major Trevilian has been p leased to pronounce blasphemous . We pity the major ' s " relation , " and do not envy him the voluminous correspondence on the subject of Masonry in general , and perjury in particular , with which he is , doubtless , not un frequently favoured . We cannot congratulate Mr . Trevilian either upon the occasion he has
chosen for again bringing himself and his crotchets under the notice of the public , or upon the manner in which he has thought fit to vindicate his own peculiar views of the rights of Christianity . We publish the correspondence in extenso , at the end of this paper , that the public may form their own judgment upon the good taste of Mr . Trevilian ' s philipics .
It will be seen that the widow and the orphan are not secure from the attacks of this Christian gentleman . The " days of mourning" are not allowed to pass in quiet , but the bereaved family are forced by the impertinent interference of this meddling ex-Mason to defend the character of him they held most dear upon earth , in the public journals .
The real cause of all this appears in Mr . Trevilian ' s letter of the 15 th of May . In reference to the remark that his letter was "indelicate and ill-timed , " he says , " ought I to have deferred the repl y for six or eight months in deference to the relatives of the deceased ? or should I accept the occasion as it was offered ? " It is , then , this supreme admiration of his own powers of writing that makes Mr . Trevilian
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
lost sight of him from the moment of his leaving Paris , to his embarkation at Havre . But every one is wrong who does not agree with Mr . Trevilian ; for the sake of a sneer he consents to be guilty of an attempt at a joke . In a late effusion we find the
following"Shame ! Shame ! to the Dons of Oxford . I learn from a relation of my own , now there , that an enormous proportion of the present undergraduates have been inveigled into the deistical lodge . —Look at Jackson ' s Oxford Journal , February , 16 th . " We have turned to the newspaper alluded to , and find that no less than four clergymen , besides a considerable proportion
of graduates , were present on the occasion of the installation of the worshi p ful master ; and yet the university authorities ( whom the funny major calls Dons ) the aforesaid clergymen , and the graduates , are all followers of Beelzebub , because they consent to a society , which they find promotes the best feeling between the university and the town , being , besides ,
productive of much good in various ways , but which , alas ! Major Trevilian has been p leased to pronounce blasphemous . We pity the major ' s " relation , " and do not envy him the voluminous correspondence on the subject of Masonry in general , and perjury in particular , with which he is , doubtless , not un frequently favoured . We cannot congratulate Mr . Trevilian either upon the occasion he has
chosen for again bringing himself and his crotchets under the notice of the public , or upon the manner in which he has thought fit to vindicate his own peculiar views of the rights of Christianity . We publish the correspondence in extenso , at the end of this paper , that the public may form their own judgment upon the good taste of Mr . Trevilian ' s philipics .
It will be seen that the widow and the orphan are not secure from the attacks of this Christian gentleman . The " days of mourning" are not allowed to pass in quiet , but the bereaved family are forced by the impertinent interference of this meddling ex-Mason to defend the character of him they held most dear upon earth , in the public journals .
The real cause of all this appears in Mr . Trevilian ' s letter of the 15 th of May . In reference to the remark that his letter was "indelicate and ill-timed , " he says , " ought I to have deferred the repl y for six or eight months in deference to the relatives of the deceased ? or should I accept the occasion as it was offered ? " It is , then , this supreme admiration of his own powers of writing that makes Mr . Trevilian