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Article TREVILIAN ON FREEMASONRY. ← Page 14 of 34 →
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
reviewer belongs , form a judgment from one side in place of two , we are not surprised at the conclusion at which he has arrived . We wish Mr . Trevilian joy of his champion ; we would rather he were on his side than ours , being well aware that , since the days of John Pym to the present time , insufferable bigotry and astounding ignorance have ever
gone hand in hand . We now take leave of Air . Trevilian and his writings , and merel y trust that every honest man as well as every Mason , will show Mr . Trevilian what , their opinion is of the man " Avhose glory , " in the words of Mr . Denis Moore , " consists in his having taken a solemn oath with mock sanctity of manner , and then deliberately
broken it . " It is no fault of his that he is not " a wilfully perjured individual . " Would that we could conscientiousl y say that we think he stands acquitted , of the imputation at any rate , of " being void of all moral worth , and totally unfit to be received into the society of men who prize honour and virtue above the external advantages of rank and fortune . "
THE LATE REV . W . CAEWITHEN , D . D . To the Editor of the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette . SIE , —In the Masonic panegyric upon the late Dr . Carwithen contained in your last paper , I observed the following singular passage : — " Shortly after the first attack of what has proved his fatal illness , he tendered his resignation of that office " ( that of D . P . G . M . ) " to
the Provincial Grand Master . " It was not , you add , accepted . Now , I avow at once my strong impression , that this was the repenting effort of the departing Christian , to put from off him the withered and withering hand of that impious Institution . Last year , I wrote and published a Letter to Dr . Carwithen ( which perhaps you have seen ) , on the Anti-Christian character of Freemasonry ; and I have
the satisfaction of knowing that it was read by Dr . Carwithen ; which , I confess , is more than I expected on the part of so zealous a Mason , seeing that the Title-page contains the accusation , " The spirit of whoredoms hath causeth them to err . " ( Hos . iv . 12 . ) Lest it should be thought a ridiculous stride of self-sufficiency in me to suppose that this publication may have had the effect with Dr . Carwithen of making him wish to sever himself from the
The following Correspondence has appeared in JVoolmer ' s " Exeter and Plymouth Gazette" of May 4 , and the folloioing respective days , 1850 .
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
reviewer belongs , form a judgment from one side in place of two , we are not surprised at the conclusion at which he has arrived . We wish Mr . Trevilian joy of his champion ; we would rather he were on his side than ours , being well aware that , since the days of John Pym to the present time , insufferable bigotry and astounding ignorance have ever
gone hand in hand . We now take leave of Air . Trevilian and his writings , and merel y trust that every honest man as well as every Mason , will show Mr . Trevilian what , their opinion is of the man " Avhose glory , " in the words of Mr . Denis Moore , " consists in his having taken a solemn oath with mock sanctity of manner , and then deliberately
broken it . " It is no fault of his that he is not " a wilfully perjured individual . " Would that we could conscientiousl y say that we think he stands acquitted , of the imputation at any rate , of " being void of all moral worth , and totally unfit to be received into the society of men who prize honour and virtue above the external advantages of rank and fortune . "
THE LATE REV . W . CAEWITHEN , D . D . To the Editor of the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette . SIE , —In the Masonic panegyric upon the late Dr . Carwithen contained in your last paper , I observed the following singular passage : — " Shortly after the first attack of what has proved his fatal illness , he tendered his resignation of that office " ( that of D . P . G . M . ) " to
the Provincial Grand Master . " It was not , you add , accepted . Now , I avow at once my strong impression , that this was the repenting effort of the departing Christian , to put from off him the withered and withering hand of that impious Institution . Last year , I wrote and published a Letter to Dr . Carwithen ( which perhaps you have seen ) , on the Anti-Christian character of Freemasonry ; and I have
the satisfaction of knowing that it was read by Dr . Carwithen ; which , I confess , is more than I expected on the part of so zealous a Mason , seeing that the Title-page contains the accusation , " The spirit of whoredoms hath causeth them to err . " ( Hos . iv . 12 . ) Lest it should be thought a ridiculous stride of self-sufficiency in me to suppose that this publication may have had the effect with Dr . Carwithen of making him wish to sever himself from the
The following Correspondence has appeared in JVoolmer ' s " Exeter and Plymouth Gazette" of May 4 , and the folloioing respective days , 1850 .