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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY MAGAZINE. ← Page 3 of 4 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine.
their power and destroy their influence . It is no matter that Roman Catholics , when they haA r e become Freemasons , attend as regularly as formerly to their religious duties . Another authority seems to their priestly guides to be set up , antagonistic to their own—a kind of imperium in imperio which they cannot withstand ; and since Rome can endure no rival near
her throne , she never fails to visit those of her children with denunciation , anathema , and excommunication , who hesitate at once to repudiate then- O . B ., and refuse to yield their Masonry , as well as submit then" conscience , to the dictates of the imperious and tyrannical system by which they are enchained . Erom some cause , not fully explained at present , the system
of the Roman Catholic Church has of late been put into more active operation than usual , and Freemasonry seems to have become a butt against which the shafts of its intolerance are especially to be levelled . In this publication it is impossible for us to enter into the political and religious motives , which induce the Roman Catholic priesthood , at home and abroad , at the present moment , to assail the civil and spiritual
liberties of our countrymen and colonists . There is no doubt . that the desire to regain the power and influence , which once belonged to the Church of Rome in these islands , is most prevalent in the Vatican , and that every engine is put in motion to accomplish that object . Whether the people of this country will ever again submit to an exercise of priestly domination , so
utterly repugnant to the spirit of the age , we do not propose to discuss . But so far as Ereemasonry is concerned , we feel it incumbent upon us to warn our Brethren against the assaults of priestcraft , and to urge them to come at once to the relief and assistance of the persecuted members of the Order . We know that in Ireland , the nominee of the Bishop of Rome has
denounced Freemasonry , and issued anathemas and excommunications against all wdio are members , or shall be members , of that Fraternity . The consequence has been , that Ereemasonry has increased in valuable members through the illiberality and perverseness of the Irish Roman Catholic hierarchy . Tlie same result may happen at the Mauritius ; but whether it be so or not , it is the bounden duty and obligation of every English Brother to stand forward at once in defence of the persecuted and oppressed Roman Catholic Ereemasons of that island .
It will be remembered that the United G . L . of England , a few 3 'ears ago , warmly took up the cause of ¦ their Prussian Jewish Brethren , and , through steady perseverance and unflinching assiduity , obtained for them the restoration of their undoubted privileges . What the G . L . did for the Prussian
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine.
their power and destroy their influence . It is no matter that Roman Catholics , when they haA r e become Freemasons , attend as regularly as formerly to their religious duties . Another authority seems to their priestly guides to be set up , antagonistic to their own—a kind of imperium in imperio which they cannot withstand ; and since Rome can endure no rival near
her throne , she never fails to visit those of her children with denunciation , anathema , and excommunication , who hesitate at once to repudiate then- O . B ., and refuse to yield their Masonry , as well as submit then" conscience , to the dictates of the imperious and tyrannical system by which they are enchained . Erom some cause , not fully explained at present , the system
of the Roman Catholic Church has of late been put into more active operation than usual , and Freemasonry seems to have become a butt against which the shafts of its intolerance are especially to be levelled . In this publication it is impossible for us to enter into the political and religious motives , which induce the Roman Catholic priesthood , at home and abroad , at the present moment , to assail the civil and spiritual
liberties of our countrymen and colonists . There is no doubt . that the desire to regain the power and influence , which once belonged to the Church of Rome in these islands , is most prevalent in the Vatican , and that every engine is put in motion to accomplish that object . Whether the people of this country will ever again submit to an exercise of priestly domination , so
utterly repugnant to the spirit of the age , we do not propose to discuss . But so far as Ereemasonry is concerned , we feel it incumbent upon us to warn our Brethren against the assaults of priestcraft , and to urge them to come at once to the relief and assistance of the persecuted members of the Order . We know that in Ireland , the nominee of the Bishop of Rome has
denounced Freemasonry , and issued anathemas and excommunications against all wdio are members , or shall be members , of that Fraternity . The consequence has been , that Ereemasonry has increased in valuable members through the illiberality and perverseness of the Irish Roman Catholic hierarchy . Tlie same result may happen at the Mauritius ; but whether it be so or not , it is the bounden duty and obligation of every English Brother to stand forward at once in defence of the persecuted and oppressed Roman Catholic Ereemasons of that island .
It will be remembered that the United G . L . of England , a few 3 'ears ago , warmly took up the cause of ¦ their Prussian Jewish Brethren , and , through steady perseverance and unflinching assiduity , obtained for them the restoration of their undoubted privileges . What the G . L . did for the Prussian