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Article TREVILIAN ON FREEMASONRY. ← Page 32 of 34 →
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
are as follows : — ' A Society which is not only inimical to the principles of our religion , but does , in fact , set itself up above it . ' These words exactly set forth the issue to which , I conceive , the statements in my book , if fairly received , must conduct ; and I do hope you will allow me to make use of them , even in print , if need should be . " Believe me to remain , " Yours very faithfully , ( Signed ) "M . C . TREVILIAN . "
" Oth August , 18-10 . " MY DEAR TREVILIAN , —I cannot have the smallest objection to your making any use you please of the note which I wrote to you on the 9 th of last May , in acknowledgment of the presentation copy of your book on Freemasonry , & c , & c . "Yours , very faithfully , ( Signed ) "T . HILL LOWE . "
The following remarks by the editor of Woolmer ' s " Exeter and Plymouth Gazette , " are so pertinent to the purpose , and take such a common sense view of the whole of this correspondence , that we feel we should be guilty of an act of injustice to the Craft , were we to omit to give it as a fitting conclusion to the entire subject .
WE have been quiet , but not uninterested , observers of the tilting which has been going on between Mr . W . D . Moore and Major Trevilian , upon a subject of considerable importance to Masonry . It will be recollected that some time ago the Major published a work condemnatory of the Order , which he described as one at variance with the principles of Christianity , and with an inevitable tendency
to Deism . The pamphlet pretended to be an expose" of a system which the writer was pleased to denounce as "blasphemous , " and as such it took the public by surprise , ancl with none was that feeling so strongly felt as amongst the Masons themselves , who were not a little puzzled to discover whence the writer had derived his authority . It subsequently appeared that he had some thirty years ago
been initiated at Edinburgh , and that single occasion was the only opportunity he ever had of knowing anything whatever of the constitution of that body which he has so extensively vilified and abused . It is not our purpose on the present occasion to take up the advocacy of Freemasonry , —the system upon which it was founded is proved by the experience of ages to have worked well , —
the Order numbers amongst its members all ranks and conditions of men , —its adherents are to be found in every clime and country , — and its extent ancl usefulness has progressed , pari , passu , with civi-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Trevilian On Freemasonry.
are as follows : — ' A Society which is not only inimical to the principles of our religion , but does , in fact , set itself up above it . ' These words exactly set forth the issue to which , I conceive , the statements in my book , if fairly received , must conduct ; and I do hope you will allow me to make use of them , even in print , if need should be . " Believe me to remain , " Yours very faithfully , ( Signed ) "M . C . TREVILIAN . "
" Oth August , 18-10 . " MY DEAR TREVILIAN , —I cannot have the smallest objection to your making any use you please of the note which I wrote to you on the 9 th of last May , in acknowledgment of the presentation copy of your book on Freemasonry , & c , & c . "Yours , very faithfully , ( Signed ) "T . HILL LOWE . "
The following remarks by the editor of Woolmer ' s " Exeter and Plymouth Gazette , " are so pertinent to the purpose , and take such a common sense view of the whole of this correspondence , that we feel we should be guilty of an act of injustice to the Craft , were we to omit to give it as a fitting conclusion to the entire subject .
WE have been quiet , but not uninterested , observers of the tilting which has been going on between Mr . W . D . Moore and Major Trevilian , upon a subject of considerable importance to Masonry . It will be recollected that some time ago the Major published a work condemnatory of the Order , which he described as one at variance with the principles of Christianity , and with an inevitable tendency
to Deism . The pamphlet pretended to be an expose" of a system which the writer was pleased to denounce as "blasphemous , " and as such it took the public by surprise , ancl with none was that feeling so strongly felt as amongst the Masons themselves , who were not a little puzzled to discover whence the writer had derived his authority . It subsequently appeared that he had some thirty years ago
been initiated at Edinburgh , and that single occasion was the only opportunity he ever had of knowing anything whatever of the constitution of that body which he has so extensively vilified and abused . It is not our purpose on the present occasion to take up the advocacy of Freemasonry , —the system upon which it was founded is proved by the experience of ages to have worked well , —
the Order numbers amongst its members all ranks and conditions of men , —its adherents are to be found in every clime and country , — and its extent ancl usefulness has progressed , pari , passu , with civi-