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A New System Explanatory Of Terrestrial Phaenomena, &C.
happened luckily to be of the Craft , The suspected citizens were frequently committed to the charge of Major Sandes , Provost Martial ( in Dublin ) , a Freemason , and rather a zealous one , and was known to be so by a poor prisoner then in jeopardy . This man was suspected of knowing somewhat of the misdeeds of ' his acquaintance , and being examined , and cross-examined , to no purpose , was , by some summary jurisdictionordered to the halbertsor triangles" to whip what he
, , , knew out of him . " In vain he protested his innocence , ancl at last said he would speak with Major Sandes in private ; this would not be allowed , ancl at last he appealed to the Deity in that manner , best known to the true Craftsman , even in the midst of a crowded room , ancl concluded by saying , " Is it possible that an innocent man should suffer this for nothing ? " Brother Sandes stood astounded , no one present but the Provost Martial ancl his prisoner understood its import ; and on the
moment he said , " Confound you ! why did you not tell me that before ?" He countermanded , on his own responsibility , the punishment abou _ to be unjustly inflicted ; and after a very few moments' conversation with his new found Brother , being satisfied of his innocence , Brother Sandes absolutely procured the release of the man , who told the narrator this Masonic anecdote , which restored a father to a very distressed family .
Some forty or fifty years past , a frail member of the Craft happened to make free with the sister of a Roman Catholic clergyman , then residing in the north of Ireland . The priest was , as he ought to be , much incensed with the man who hacl so disgraced his family , ancl sought many modes of obtaining redress to no purpose ; but being one day in conversation with a member of the Craft , he asked if they really conceived that they were considered in the lig ht of Brothers in every
respect , both in and out of Loclge ; and being answered in the affirmative , was perfectly satisfied , and there the matter dropped . His reverence was , in some short time after , proposed and admitted a member of a Lodge in the vicinity , and became shortly an expert Mason , and was promoted to office in his Lodge . When , one day , he requested to know of the Loclge , if all Masons were alike Brothers ; and receiving the answer in the affirmative , he related the disgrace imposed on his family
by one of the Order , that he joined the Craft to try if they were thus virtuously bound , ancl concluded by asking if the man who had seduced his sister , her paramour , at the moment was not guilty of incest . There was but one opinion in the matter—every man of the Lodge , so forcibly struck with the virtuous endeavour to see a sister righted , made common cause with the Priest ; ancl though he lived in a Protestant neihbourhoodwith not Catholicsyet man of the
Fraterg , many , every nity , to whom the matter became known , beset the defiler of a sister ' s honour with * such effect , that to have peace , and wipe away both the stain ancl the sin , he was obliged to make an honest woman of his worthy and inestimable Brother ' s sister—this was as it ought ever to be .
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A New System Explanatory Of Terrestrial Phaenomena, &C.
happened luckily to be of the Craft , The suspected citizens were frequently committed to the charge of Major Sandes , Provost Martial ( in Dublin ) , a Freemason , and rather a zealous one , and was known to be so by a poor prisoner then in jeopardy . This man was suspected of knowing somewhat of the misdeeds of ' his acquaintance , and being examined , and cross-examined , to no purpose , was , by some summary jurisdictionordered to the halbertsor triangles" to whip what he
, , , knew out of him . " In vain he protested his innocence , ancl at last said he would speak with Major Sandes in private ; this would not be allowed , ancl at last he appealed to the Deity in that manner , best known to the true Craftsman , even in the midst of a crowded room , ancl concluded by saying , " Is it possible that an innocent man should suffer this for nothing ? " Brother Sandes stood astounded , no one present but the Provost Martial ancl his prisoner understood its import ; and on the
moment he said , " Confound you ! why did you not tell me that before ?" He countermanded , on his own responsibility , the punishment abou _ to be unjustly inflicted ; and after a very few moments' conversation with his new found Brother , being satisfied of his innocence , Brother Sandes absolutely procured the release of the man , who told the narrator this Masonic anecdote , which restored a father to a very distressed family .
Some forty or fifty years past , a frail member of the Craft happened to make free with the sister of a Roman Catholic clergyman , then residing in the north of Ireland . The priest was , as he ought to be , much incensed with the man who hacl so disgraced his family , ancl sought many modes of obtaining redress to no purpose ; but being one day in conversation with a member of the Craft , he asked if they really conceived that they were considered in the lig ht of Brothers in every
respect , both in and out of Loclge ; and being answered in the affirmative , was perfectly satisfied , and there the matter dropped . His reverence was , in some short time after , proposed and admitted a member of a Lodge in the vicinity , and became shortly an expert Mason , and was promoted to office in his Lodge . When , one day , he requested to know of the Loclge , if all Masons were alike Brothers ; and receiving the answer in the affirmative , he related the disgrace imposed on his family
by one of the Order , that he joined the Craft to try if they were thus virtuously bound , ancl concluded by asking if the man who had seduced his sister , her paramour , at the moment was not guilty of incest . There was but one opinion in the matter—every man of the Lodge , so forcibly struck with the virtuous endeavour to see a sister righted , made common cause with the Priest ; ancl though he lived in a Protestant neihbourhoodwith not Catholicsyet man of the
Fraterg , many , every nity , to whom the matter became known , beset the defiler of a sister ' s honour with * such effect , that to have peace , and wipe away both the stain ancl the sin , he was obliged to make an honest woman of his worthy and inestimable Brother ' s sister—this was as it ought ever to be .