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Article TREVILIAN ON FREEMASONRY. ← Page 18 of 34 →
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
A collection of such disinterested eulogy would have been more consistent with the " Christian" character which the Major so arrogates to himself , and more likely to effect his purpose , than the kind of puff to which he has appended his name . Still , however , the writer is consistent with himself in respect of good feeling and good tasteboth in the circumstances of the
, publication of his volume and of his advertisement , and equally happy in the delicacy of feeling which governed his selection of the time . The thesis of the former was the public funeral of a Mason in 1838 , and its main argument was derived from the part taken by Dr . Carwithen in that ceremony . One would have thought that ,
desiring to convert the Doctor from the error of his ways , and , as the advertisement hath it , produce in him " the repenting effort of the departing Christian , " the Major would have expedited the publication of his work , to give the Doctor the opportunity of considering , and , perhaps , answering it while in the full vigour of his bodily and mental faculties ; but nothis did not suit the peculiar
, Christian views of the gallant writer , he delays some dozen years his attack upon the Reverend Doctor , till he sees the hand of death upon him , till bodily weakness and mental decay have united to deprive him of the power of defence . The Fabulist of old , traced
such ungenerous character in ONE only of the whole catalogue of beasts . The recalcitrant heels thus yerked against the grey head iu its weakness , now tramples rampant on the grave , —the tomb has hardly closed over the departed , before his memory is insulted by the arrogant assumption that the silly publication , or , to use the Major ' s own expression" the ridiculous stride of self-sufficiency " of
, Maurice Ceeley Trevilian , effected in his last hour the conversion of a Gospel Minister of nigh fifty years' standing , to the true faith of Christ ; and the crushed feelings of his sorrowing widow and children are to be further wounded by as indecent and scandalous an attack as ever disgraced a reckless libeller . Dr . Carwithen did read Major Trevilian's last year ' s publication ,
undeterred by the tasteful motto which , as eminently characteristic of the work within , the Major appropriately selected to adorn his title-page , —lie read it with a full anticipation of the impertinences which alone could be expected from a writer in utter ignorance of his subject ; and it produced only its natural effect , of mingled scorn and pity for one who could so dealas the writer professed to
, do , with a deliberate promise , together with the most profound contempt for the work itself , ancl it never for a moment disturbed his love for the Order which for thirty years he had advocated aud adorned .
. The Major says there must have been some special reason why Dr . Carwithen , in his last illness , tendered his resignation of his Masonic office , and asks , — " Will any Freemason tell him what it
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Trevilian On Freemasonry.
A collection of such disinterested eulogy would have been more consistent with the " Christian" character which the Major so arrogates to himself , and more likely to effect his purpose , than the kind of puff to which he has appended his name . Still , however , the writer is consistent with himself in respect of good feeling and good tasteboth in the circumstances of the
, publication of his volume and of his advertisement , and equally happy in the delicacy of feeling which governed his selection of the time . The thesis of the former was the public funeral of a Mason in 1838 , and its main argument was derived from the part taken by Dr . Carwithen in that ceremony . One would have thought that ,
desiring to convert the Doctor from the error of his ways , and , as the advertisement hath it , produce in him " the repenting effort of the departing Christian , " the Major would have expedited the publication of his work , to give the Doctor the opportunity of considering , and , perhaps , answering it while in the full vigour of his bodily and mental faculties ; but nothis did not suit the peculiar
, Christian views of the gallant writer , he delays some dozen years his attack upon the Reverend Doctor , till he sees the hand of death upon him , till bodily weakness and mental decay have united to deprive him of the power of defence . The Fabulist of old , traced
such ungenerous character in ONE only of the whole catalogue of beasts . The recalcitrant heels thus yerked against the grey head iu its weakness , now tramples rampant on the grave , —the tomb has hardly closed over the departed , before his memory is insulted by the arrogant assumption that the silly publication , or , to use the Major ' s own expression" the ridiculous stride of self-sufficiency " of
, Maurice Ceeley Trevilian , effected in his last hour the conversion of a Gospel Minister of nigh fifty years' standing , to the true faith of Christ ; and the crushed feelings of his sorrowing widow and children are to be further wounded by as indecent and scandalous an attack as ever disgraced a reckless libeller . Dr . Carwithen did read Major Trevilian's last year ' s publication ,
undeterred by the tasteful motto which , as eminently characteristic of the work within , the Major appropriately selected to adorn his title-page , —lie read it with a full anticipation of the impertinences which alone could be expected from a writer in utter ignorance of his subject ; and it produced only its natural effect , of mingled scorn and pity for one who could so dealas the writer professed to
, do , with a deliberate promise , together with the most profound contempt for the work itself , ancl it never for a moment disturbed his love for the Order which for thirty years he had advocated aud adorned .
. The Major says there must have been some special reason why Dr . Carwithen , in his last illness , tendered his resignation of his Masonic office , and asks , — " Will any Freemason tell him what it