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Article TREVILIAN ON FREEMASONRY. ← Page 2 of 34 →
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
from it , you do speak evil , and show contempt of it , you therefore perjure yourself . " It might reasonably be expected that , the man who has taken upon himself to expose the princi ples of Freemasonry , who has branded us with every name under the sun that could gratif y the worst passions of an evil nature , or afford a
stronger excuse for leaving a society , from which he was evidentl y afraid he might be expelled , would prove to be a Mason of many years' standing , thoroughly acquainted with all the princi p les and practices of the Order , and every way competent to give a decisive opinion on the subject ; but fortunately this is not the case ; we are spared the pain of
defending our principles and practice against one whose opinion is of the sli ghtest value . Air . Trevilian was never more than an E . A .
" The writer begs to state for himself , that he knows as little as possible of the mysteries of Freemasonry , never having- crossed the threshold of a lodge except on the night of his initiation , nearly thirty years ago . " And this is the man who has the effrontery ( for we can call it nothing else ) , to come forward and announce himself as
" an ex-Mason , " and by such a ( practical ) falsehood obtain an ephemeral notoriety , ancl a dishonest sale of a very worthless publication—we say worthless , for whatever may be Mr . Trevilian ' s merits as an author , or his candour as a controversialist , his work , as a Mason , is no more worth , according to his own showing , than if it had been the
production of the Great Mogul . If Mr . Trevilian had paid the slightest attention to the solemn oath at which he professes to have been so much startled and horrified , he would have known what Ave now tell him , and what he Avill doubtless hear with some little surprise , that with every intention to commit what he seems to consider the scriptural and
Christian act of perjury , he has failed in doing so for the very simple reason that he never took any oath " not to speak against the Order . " The wholeof his tirade , therefore , against the Satanic wiles which bind men by an oath never to speak evil of an institution of which they know nothing , falls to the ground ; his quotations of Hol y Scripturesuch as , " a discile of the
, p ever-free and free making Gospel , "—which , by the way , might just as well be adduced in favour of his repudiating an oath in a court of justice , his allegiance to his sovereign , or his marriage vow—all this is blown to the winds , and all
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
from it , you do speak evil , and show contempt of it , you therefore perjure yourself . " It might reasonably be expected that , the man who has taken upon himself to expose the princi ples of Freemasonry , who has branded us with every name under the sun that could gratif y the worst passions of an evil nature , or afford a
stronger excuse for leaving a society , from which he was evidentl y afraid he might be expelled , would prove to be a Mason of many years' standing , thoroughly acquainted with all the princi p les and practices of the Order , and every way competent to give a decisive opinion on the subject ; but fortunately this is not the case ; we are spared the pain of
defending our principles and practice against one whose opinion is of the sli ghtest value . Air . Trevilian was never more than an E . A .
" The writer begs to state for himself , that he knows as little as possible of the mysteries of Freemasonry , never having- crossed the threshold of a lodge except on the night of his initiation , nearly thirty years ago . " And this is the man who has the effrontery ( for we can call it nothing else ) , to come forward and announce himself as
" an ex-Mason , " and by such a ( practical ) falsehood obtain an ephemeral notoriety , ancl a dishonest sale of a very worthless publication—we say worthless , for whatever may be Mr . Trevilian ' s merits as an author , or his candour as a controversialist , his work , as a Mason , is no more worth , according to his own showing , than if it had been the
production of the Great Mogul . If Mr . Trevilian had paid the slightest attention to the solemn oath at which he professes to have been so much startled and horrified , he would have known what Ave now tell him , and what he Avill doubtless hear with some little surprise , that with every intention to commit what he seems to consider the scriptural and
Christian act of perjury , he has failed in doing so for the very simple reason that he never took any oath " not to speak against the Order . " The wholeof his tirade , therefore , against the Satanic wiles which bind men by an oath never to speak evil of an institution of which they know nothing , falls to the ground ; his quotations of Hol y Scripturesuch as , " a discile of the
, p ever-free and free making Gospel , "—which , by the way , might just as well be adduced in favour of his repudiating an oath in a court of justice , his allegiance to his sovereign , or his marriage vow—all this is blown to the winds , and all