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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
TREVILIAN ON FREEMASONRY .
WE are exceedingly sorry for Mr . Trevilian , though by no means sorry that his extraordinary publicatiou * should have seen the light . We are sorry , we say , for Mr . Trevilian because he is evidently labouring under an exceedingly uncomfortable impression that he has perjured himself , and because this idea having once taken hold of himhas led him to
, write a great deal that is foolish , much that is directly untrue , and not a little that is monstrously uncharitable and unchristian . Our regrets do not extend to his published Letter , because every Mason will at once perceive the ignorance of the writer himself on the subject of Freemasonry , and the utter worthlessness of the authorities he calls to
up support his case ; while those who are not Masons will immediately detect the illogical character of the whole book , and will , moreover , be very much inclined to suspect the vaunted sincerity of one , whose evident interest it is to make out the worst possible case against those whom he imagines he has so deeplinjured .
y The origin of the letter was this : "In the company of several gentlemen , among whom were two young Freemasons , on his denouncing Freemasonry as anti-Christian , in that it presumptuously puts forward pretensions and rules subversive of the reign of our Lord , and on his saying that he never again would condescend to consider himself as one
of the Fraternity , although he had been initiated , he was told in plain terms that he had perjured himself" The meaning of the accusation is , " as on the one hand you swear , at your initiation into Masonry , never to speak " evil of the institution ; and as on the other by denouncing it thus strongly as anti-Christian , and seceding on that account
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
TREVILIAN ON FREEMASONRY .
WE are exceedingly sorry for Mr . Trevilian , though by no means sorry that his extraordinary publicatiou * should have seen the light . We are sorry , we say , for Mr . Trevilian because he is evidently labouring under an exceedingly uncomfortable impression that he has perjured himself , and because this idea having once taken hold of himhas led him to
, write a great deal that is foolish , much that is directly untrue , and not a little that is monstrously uncharitable and unchristian . Our regrets do not extend to his published Letter , because every Mason will at once perceive the ignorance of the writer himself on the subject of Freemasonry , and the utter worthlessness of the authorities he calls to
up support his case ; while those who are not Masons will immediately detect the illogical character of the whole book , and will , moreover , be very much inclined to suspect the vaunted sincerity of one , whose evident interest it is to make out the worst possible case against those whom he imagines he has so deeplinjured .
y The origin of the letter was this : "In the company of several gentlemen , among whom were two young Freemasons , on his denouncing Freemasonry as anti-Christian , in that it presumptuously puts forward pretensions and rules subversive of the reign of our Lord , and on his saying that he never again would condescend to consider himself as one
of the Fraternity , although he had been initiated , he was told in plain terms that he had perjured himself" The meaning of the accusation is , " as on the one hand you swear , at your initiation into Masonry , never to speak " evil of the institution ; and as on the other by denouncing it thus strongly as anti-Christian , and seceding on that account