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Far Away From The Land And The Sea.
Al'bere naught can be seen from this world of ours , Nor can mortals conceive what will be—The joys of the best in those heavenly bowers—Far away from the land and the sea ! I dreamed , in the pride of a parent ' s first love , Of blessings that never could be ; But I thought not of death , nor the realms above
, Far away from the land and the sea ! Now holy and bright is the place of thy rest , AV'hatsoever my feelings may be ; Thou art numbered in heaven along with the blest , Far away from the land and the sea ! Haddington . G . TAIT ,
Brother Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M. P.
BROTHER DANIEL O'CONNELL , ESQ ., M . P .
IN justice to our readers and to ourselves , we feel compelled to insert the following letter to the Editor of the Dublin Pilot which subsequently appeared in the Morning Herald , Times , and other London papers of the 27 th of April . 3 IR . O ' CONNELL Vei'SUS FREEMASONRY . To the Editor of the Pilot .
London , April ] 9 . "Sir , —A paragraph has been going the rounds of the Irish newspapers purporting to have my sanction , and stating that I had been at one time Master of a Masonic Lodge in Dublin , and still continue to belong to that society . " I have since received letters addressed to me as a Freemason , and feel it incumbent on me to state the real facts .
" It is true that I was a Freemason and a Master of a Lodge . It was at a very early period of my life , and either before an ecclesiastical censure had been published in the Catholic church in Ireland prohibiting the taking of the Masonic oaths , or at least before I was aware of that censure . I now wish to state , that having become acquainted with it , I submitted to its influence , and many , very many years ago , unequivocally renounced Freemasonry . I offered the late archbishop , Dr . Troy , to
make that renunciation public , but he deemed it unnecessary . I am not sorry to have this opportunity of doing so . " Freemasonry in Ireland may he said to have ( apart from its oaths ) no evil tendency , save as far as it may counteract in some degree the exertions of those most laudable and useful institutions—institutions deserving of every encouragement—the temperance societies . " But the great , theimportant objection is this—the profane taking in
vain the awful name of the Deity—in the wanton and multiplied taking of oaths—of oaths administered on the book of God either in mockery or derision , or with a solemnity which renders the taking of them , without any adequate motive , only the more criminal . This objection , which
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Far Away From The Land And The Sea.
Al'bere naught can be seen from this world of ours , Nor can mortals conceive what will be—The joys of the best in those heavenly bowers—Far away from the land and the sea ! I dreamed , in the pride of a parent ' s first love , Of blessings that never could be ; But I thought not of death , nor the realms above
, Far away from the land and the sea ! Now holy and bright is the place of thy rest , AV'hatsoever my feelings may be ; Thou art numbered in heaven along with the blest , Far away from the land and the sea ! Haddington . G . TAIT ,
Brother Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M. P.
BROTHER DANIEL O'CONNELL , ESQ ., M . P .
IN justice to our readers and to ourselves , we feel compelled to insert the following letter to the Editor of the Dublin Pilot which subsequently appeared in the Morning Herald , Times , and other London papers of the 27 th of April . 3 IR . O ' CONNELL Vei'SUS FREEMASONRY . To the Editor of the Pilot .
London , April ] 9 . "Sir , —A paragraph has been going the rounds of the Irish newspapers purporting to have my sanction , and stating that I had been at one time Master of a Masonic Lodge in Dublin , and still continue to belong to that society . " I have since received letters addressed to me as a Freemason , and feel it incumbent on me to state the real facts .
" It is true that I was a Freemason and a Master of a Lodge . It was at a very early period of my life , and either before an ecclesiastical censure had been published in the Catholic church in Ireland prohibiting the taking of the Masonic oaths , or at least before I was aware of that censure . I now wish to state , that having become acquainted with it , I submitted to its influence , and many , very many years ago , unequivocally renounced Freemasonry . I offered the late archbishop , Dr . Troy , to
make that renunciation public , but he deemed it unnecessary . I am not sorry to have this opportunity of doing so . " Freemasonry in Ireland may he said to have ( apart from its oaths ) no evil tendency , save as far as it may counteract in some degree the exertions of those most laudable and useful institutions—institutions deserving of every encouragement—the temperance societies . " But the great , theimportant objection is this—the profane taking in
vain the awful name of the Deity—in the wanton and multiplied taking of oaths—of oaths administered on the book of God either in mockery or derision , or with a solemnity which renders the taking of them , without any adequate motive , only the more criminal . This objection , which