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Article TREVILIAN ON FREEMASONRY. ← Page 28 of 34 →
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
man must be very sanguine indeed who anticipates any glory in a contest with Major Trevilian for his antagonist ; but , passing that , I again appeal to the judgment of your readers which of the two is justly chargeable with a love of " false glory , " / , who merely defend myself and insulted friends against gross and unfounded calumny , or the Majorwhose GLORY consists in his having taken a " solemn
, oath" with " mock sanctity of manner , " and then deliberately broken it 1 Your obedient servant , W . DENIS MOOBE . Exeter , 22 tirf May , 1850 .
SIR , —It is only iu self-defence , ancl with a feeling the reverse of pleasure , that I beg to call the public attention , once again , to the above-named subject . I cannot let pass unnoticed the extraordinary perversion of the common sense of words , in Mr . Denis Moore ' s letter which was published in your last Number but one ; whereby he would make it appear that it is " my boast to have treated a
solemn oath with mock sanctity . " A very moderate attention , given with sincerity of purpose , woidd have shewn to Mr . Moore—and , I am persuaded , did shew to every other one of your readers—that the passage from whence he deduces his authority for this assertion , will yield no such meaning , excepting under a process of the most extravagant distortion . Aid I think I shall best consult the convenience of your readers , as well as shew my own contempt , by dismissing the subject with this brief notice ; persuaded , as I am , moreover , that we have in this incident a genuine inspiration from the Pagan cell , manifesting itself in perverseness of understanding
and hatred of light . This leads me to make a remark of very great importance as regards the subject before us ; it is this—that this high Masonic functionaryhas made no attempt whatever , in his letters , either to controvert , or to call in question , the interpretation I have given of that clause of the Masonic oath ( however it may happen to be worded ) which I glory in having flung to the winds . Had Mr . Mooreinstead of being
, so intent on vituperation , had more at heart to demonstrate the agreement of Masonic principles with Christian Truth , he would have felt the necessity of proving to his Christian brethren that I was totally in error in my view of this clause , both as to its working and its design ; but no !—and the clause now stands out before the world an irrefragable factand in all its hideous and disgusting
de-, formity ; forbidding a disciple of the Lord Christ to speak to the disparagement of Masonic principles , however Deistical he may find them ;—and what more base and blasphemous than Deism 1 And let every one . under temptation to become a Freemason ( Fra-Alasoun , as Layard has it ; a- term which he literally found to designate an
To the Editor of the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette .
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
man must be very sanguine indeed who anticipates any glory in a contest with Major Trevilian for his antagonist ; but , passing that , I again appeal to the judgment of your readers which of the two is justly chargeable with a love of " false glory , " / , who merely defend myself and insulted friends against gross and unfounded calumny , or the Majorwhose GLORY consists in his having taken a " solemn
, oath" with " mock sanctity of manner , " and then deliberately broken it 1 Your obedient servant , W . DENIS MOOBE . Exeter , 22 tirf May , 1850 .
SIR , —It is only iu self-defence , ancl with a feeling the reverse of pleasure , that I beg to call the public attention , once again , to the above-named subject . I cannot let pass unnoticed the extraordinary perversion of the common sense of words , in Mr . Denis Moore ' s letter which was published in your last Number but one ; whereby he would make it appear that it is " my boast to have treated a
solemn oath with mock sanctity . " A very moderate attention , given with sincerity of purpose , woidd have shewn to Mr . Moore—and , I am persuaded , did shew to every other one of your readers—that the passage from whence he deduces his authority for this assertion , will yield no such meaning , excepting under a process of the most extravagant distortion . Aid I think I shall best consult the convenience of your readers , as well as shew my own contempt , by dismissing the subject with this brief notice ; persuaded , as I am , moreover , that we have in this incident a genuine inspiration from the Pagan cell , manifesting itself in perverseness of understanding
and hatred of light . This leads me to make a remark of very great importance as regards the subject before us ; it is this—that this high Masonic functionaryhas made no attempt whatever , in his letters , either to controvert , or to call in question , the interpretation I have given of that clause of the Masonic oath ( however it may happen to be worded ) which I glory in having flung to the winds . Had Mr . Mooreinstead of being
, so intent on vituperation , had more at heart to demonstrate the agreement of Masonic principles with Christian Truth , he would have felt the necessity of proving to his Christian brethren that I was totally in error in my view of this clause , both as to its working and its design ; but no !—and the clause now stands out before the world an irrefragable factand in all its hideous and disgusting
de-, formity ; forbidding a disciple of the Lord Christ to speak to the disparagement of Masonic principles , however Deistical he may find them ;—and what more base and blasphemous than Deism 1 And let every one . under temptation to become a Freemason ( Fra-Alasoun , as Layard has it ; a- term which he literally found to designate an
To the Editor of the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette .