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The Feeemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
THE FEEEMASONS 'QUARTERLY MAGAZINE AND REVIEW .
JUNE 30 , 1851 . PERSECUTION OF FREEMASONRY . NOTWITHSTANDING the greatest architectural monuments
of antiquity ivere reared by the labours of Masonic guilds , and the Church of Home owes the structure of her magnificent cathedrals , her exquisite shrines , and her most splendid palaces , to the skill of the wise master builders of former ages , she has been , for the last four centuries , in antagonism
to the principles inculcated by the Craft . Swayed by the perverseness of her dogmatic teaching , she has striven to annihilate the freedom , Avhich marks all its proceedings , and to obliterate the benefits Avhich it has achieved . Although every institution , which has graced the world
by its scientific discoveries , and illumined its dark passages by the discovery of Light , has progressed Avith an advancing civilization , the church of Rome continues to stand stillnay , not only stands still , but strives to perpetuate her decrees by the same violence of party hatred , and by the same spirit of persecution , Avhenever she has the poAver to put vor .. ii . r
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Feeemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
THE FEEEMASONS 'QUARTERLY MAGAZINE AND REVIEW .
JUNE 30 , 1851 . PERSECUTION OF FREEMASONRY . NOTWITHSTANDING the greatest architectural monuments
of antiquity ivere reared by the labours of Masonic guilds , and the Church of Home owes the structure of her magnificent cathedrals , her exquisite shrines , and her most splendid palaces , to the skill of the wise master builders of former ages , she has been , for the last four centuries , in antagonism
to the principles inculcated by the Craft . Swayed by the perverseness of her dogmatic teaching , she has striven to annihilate the freedom , Avhich marks all its proceedings , and to obliterate the benefits Avhich it has achieved . Although every institution , which has graced the world
by its scientific discoveries , and illumined its dark passages by the discovery of Light , has progressed Avith an advancing civilization , the church of Rome continues to stand stillnay , not only stands still , but strives to perpetuate her decrees by the same violence of party hatred , and by the same spirit of persecution , Avhenever she has the poAver to put vor .. ii . r