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Article TREVILIAN ON FREEMASONRY. ← Page 12 of 34 →
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
lose sig ht of all that which gentlemanl y feeling would otherwise force upon him ; with him it seems to be self first , self middle , self last . No one ' s feelings are to be consideredno pain is to be spared if only Major Maurice Ceeley Trevilian may have a chance of saying ov writing that which he considers to be something " smart . " We confesstoothat
, , it is with pain that we have arrived at the conclusion , from the perusal of these letters in conjunction with the larger work which we have noticed , that Major Trevilian allows himself a latitude in dealing with facts which cannot be justified even by the zeal of a controversialist . He first of all implies that Dr . Carwithen had renounced Masonry in
consequence of having read his book ; this is flatly contradicted by Dr . Carwithen ' s own son . Abandoning this ground , Major Trevilian quotes an extract from the Dean of Exeter ' s letter ; he is immediately challenged to produce the whole letter , and it is pretty plainl y insinuated that the extracts he produced were garbled ; he shirks the question , and declines to do so . * He then states that he was "
meditating ' the publication of a letter in an Oxford paper , and leaves it to be supposed that , for some reason best known to himself , he afterwards thought it unadvisable , the truth being ( as we happen to know ) that he did write an elaborate tirade for publication , but the editor of the paper thought it so objectionable that he declined to insert it in his paper .
We shall make one more remark on these letters , and then leave them to the judgment of the public . Mr . Trevilian says , " I should in vain endeavour to cope with Mr . Denis Moore in scurrilities , seeing I have not access to the source to draw from—the deep and hidden fountains of Masonic charity . " That fountain being closed , the onl y one
left to Mr . Trevilian is the Christian charity of which he boasts so much—here is a specimen : " One word at parting with Mr . Denis Moore ; anybody that is not blind can see , and I can see , that one-tenth onl y of this gentleman ' s exasperation is raised on account of my' indecent attack , ' as he calls it , on his departed friend , and nine-tenths on account of my strictures on the degenerate heathen Order of Masonry , which
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
lose sig ht of all that which gentlemanl y feeling would otherwise force upon him ; with him it seems to be self first , self middle , self last . No one ' s feelings are to be consideredno pain is to be spared if only Major Maurice Ceeley Trevilian may have a chance of saying ov writing that which he considers to be something " smart . " We confesstoothat
, , it is with pain that we have arrived at the conclusion , from the perusal of these letters in conjunction with the larger work which we have noticed , that Major Trevilian allows himself a latitude in dealing with facts which cannot be justified even by the zeal of a controversialist . He first of all implies that Dr . Carwithen had renounced Masonry in
consequence of having read his book ; this is flatly contradicted by Dr . Carwithen ' s own son . Abandoning this ground , Major Trevilian quotes an extract from the Dean of Exeter ' s letter ; he is immediately challenged to produce the whole letter , and it is pretty plainl y insinuated that the extracts he produced were garbled ; he shirks the question , and declines to do so . * He then states that he was "
meditating ' the publication of a letter in an Oxford paper , and leaves it to be supposed that , for some reason best known to himself , he afterwards thought it unadvisable , the truth being ( as we happen to know ) that he did write an elaborate tirade for publication , but the editor of the paper thought it so objectionable that he declined to insert it in his paper .
We shall make one more remark on these letters , and then leave them to the judgment of the public . Mr . Trevilian says , " I should in vain endeavour to cope with Mr . Denis Moore in scurrilities , seeing I have not access to the source to draw from—the deep and hidden fountains of Masonic charity . " That fountain being closed , the onl y one
left to Mr . Trevilian is the Christian charity of which he boasts so much—here is a specimen : " One word at parting with Mr . Denis Moore ; anybody that is not blind can see , and I can see , that one-tenth onl y of this gentleman ' s exasperation is raised on account of my' indecent attack , ' as he calls it , on his departed friend , and nine-tenths on account of my strictures on the degenerate heathen Order of Masonry , which