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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERY REVIEW. ← Page 3 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quartery Review.
It is to the credit of some of the Roman Catholic Clergy that they have sent a remonstrance to the supreme head of their church on the injudicious and uncharitable conduct exhibited against Freemasonry , to which , as yet , no answer has heen vouchsafed ; and some well-informed Roman Catholic Freemasons are of opinion that a similar remonstrance , numerously signed , should be presented to the Court of Rome—certainly ,
if such remonstrance were numerously signed , it would doubtless produce some good effect ; but unless it was so , it were better refrained from—many excellent Brethren might hesitate to append their signatures to a document which recriminated on persons professing the same religious tenets ; ancl again , the remonstrance of some of their clergy having as yet received no reply , woulcl probably dispose many to hesitate ,
lest they should become marks for ill-natured people to point at . Let the Mason ponder on this demon-like attack on his glorious profession , and derive consolation from the assurance that in proportion as the Order is persecuted by prejudice or intolerance , it will always triumph by the consequent proofs of its heaven-ward purity , which becomes the more effulgent by the moral assay to which it is subjected .
The Tablet rejoices in reproving others for calling names , and generally using bad language ; and , by way of parodying itself , indulges somewhat antithetically when discussing the debate on the Irish Colleges' Bill , at the expense of Lords Stanley and Brougham ; and on the same occasion even the Roman Catholic members of Parliament do not escape the pure moralist of the Tabletfor they are described as " an almost
^ unmitigated nuisance : " we have also such terms as " ne plus ultra of audacity , " " Irish fools , " " ne plus ultra of impudence , " & c , and this farrago is hashed and dished up for the edification of an intelligent community , in the year 18-15 , by the only recognised political organ of the Roman Catholic faith !
' * Qui vult decipi , uecipiaUir . '' A letter has subsequently appeared in the Tablet , under the signature of D . S . E ., containing temperate yet stringent strictures on its vituperative abuse of Freemasonry , to which the ajiostate replies , not by argument , but that sort of casuistry which is opposed to sense and reason . This reply D . S . E . was desirous of meeting , but no , the Tablet
is satisfied with inflicting the poison ; he has no intention of giving the antidote , which however was published by the Car low Sentinel on the lGth of August , under the head of " More Rejected Letters . " The editor of that journal thus observes on the excellent papers of D . S . E .: — THE TABLET V . FUEEMASONBY . — " We direct the attention of our Masonic readers to the correspondence which will be found in this clay ' s
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The Freemasons' Quartery Review.
It is to the credit of some of the Roman Catholic Clergy that they have sent a remonstrance to the supreme head of their church on the injudicious and uncharitable conduct exhibited against Freemasonry , to which , as yet , no answer has heen vouchsafed ; and some well-informed Roman Catholic Freemasons are of opinion that a similar remonstrance , numerously signed , should be presented to the Court of Rome—certainly ,
if such remonstrance were numerously signed , it would doubtless produce some good effect ; but unless it was so , it were better refrained from—many excellent Brethren might hesitate to append their signatures to a document which recriminated on persons professing the same religious tenets ; ancl again , the remonstrance of some of their clergy having as yet received no reply , woulcl probably dispose many to hesitate ,
lest they should become marks for ill-natured people to point at . Let the Mason ponder on this demon-like attack on his glorious profession , and derive consolation from the assurance that in proportion as the Order is persecuted by prejudice or intolerance , it will always triumph by the consequent proofs of its heaven-ward purity , which becomes the more effulgent by the moral assay to which it is subjected .
The Tablet rejoices in reproving others for calling names , and generally using bad language ; and , by way of parodying itself , indulges somewhat antithetically when discussing the debate on the Irish Colleges' Bill , at the expense of Lords Stanley and Brougham ; and on the same occasion even the Roman Catholic members of Parliament do not escape the pure moralist of the Tabletfor they are described as " an almost
^ unmitigated nuisance : " we have also such terms as " ne plus ultra of audacity , " " Irish fools , " " ne plus ultra of impudence , " & c , and this farrago is hashed and dished up for the edification of an intelligent community , in the year 18-15 , by the only recognised political organ of the Roman Catholic faith !
' * Qui vult decipi , uecipiaUir . '' A letter has subsequently appeared in the Tablet , under the signature of D . S . E ., containing temperate yet stringent strictures on its vituperative abuse of Freemasonry , to which the ajiostate replies , not by argument , but that sort of casuistry which is opposed to sense and reason . This reply D . S . E . was desirous of meeting , but no , the Tablet
is satisfied with inflicting the poison ; he has no intention of giving the antidote , which however was published by the Car low Sentinel on the lGth of August , under the head of " More Rejected Letters . " The editor of that journal thus observes on the excellent papers of D . S . E .: — THE TABLET V . FUEEMASONBY . — " We direct the attention of our Masonic readers to the correspondence which will be found in this clay ' s