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three or four ladies and also eight or ten good-looking , intelligent youths , all , we should say , under fifteen years of age . This circumstance is merely adverted to in connexion with some vulgar allusions made by the lecturer to the evil effects which Freemasonry was calculated to produce upon women and boys . The young rogues were evidently prepared for a funny exhibition , and sincerely we pitied their
evident disappointment . Mere abuse could not please them , neither did absurdity gratify their minds , fitted for nobler purposes ; true , they coulcl not but laugh now and then , but the decorous sflence they observed at the too palpable allusions to the Supreme Being , as well as to the freedom of language in ivhich the name of Jesus Christ was most irreverently adverted to , must have impressed the unfortunate
man , who had attempted to mislead them , with a great moral lesson , if , indeed , his mind was capable of receiving such an impression . It was refreshing to observe that upon the ear of youth his malediction fell but as a coarse raving from the demented , and that the boy could pity , what as a man his stronger reason would have prevented . The assertion that the behaviour of Freemasons in Lodge was too
revolting and ( we dare not for decency ' s sake repeat another term the lecturer employed ) to be mentioned iu the presence of laches , was met , we are pleased to say , ivith a contemptuous silence , for no applause could be conceded to a violation of decency if true , and his audience felt that the nobility of nature can always protect itself . That the man failed in making his expected hit , arose from the nausea of his own
venom . The ministers of religion came in for an honourable mark of his execration ; liars and deceivers were they called in good set terms ; and even the arrest of the sword in piercing the breast of an enemy , or the relief given to an imprisoned captive Brother , afforded to this bright expounder of the evils of Freemasonry an opportunity to characterize the Fraternity as the protectors of MURDERERS and the abettors of
SWINDLING , LYING , BLASPHEMY , and SEDITION !! The very words , in this very sense , were used , and distinguished divines of the brightest reputation were by name-thus publicly slandered . Is it too much to say of this unhappy reviler ,
" QUEM DEUS VULT PERDERE , TOIL'S DEMENTAT . " * * - * -K- * * -X- - * - * Let it , however , be recorded of him , that as an intended contrast to the list of bright names he thus accused , he unconsciously invoked a blessing upon the immortal memory of Jenner , the discoverer of vaccination , aud other worthies ; that his audience fully went with him ; and when the applause had subsided , on the meeting being informed by an individual present well known in the Masonic Order that these glorious
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three or four ladies and also eight or ten good-looking , intelligent youths , all , we should say , under fifteen years of age . This circumstance is merely adverted to in connexion with some vulgar allusions made by the lecturer to the evil effects which Freemasonry was calculated to produce upon women and boys . The young rogues were evidently prepared for a funny exhibition , and sincerely we pitied their
evident disappointment . Mere abuse could not please them , neither did absurdity gratify their minds , fitted for nobler purposes ; true , they coulcl not but laugh now and then , but the decorous sflence they observed at the too palpable allusions to the Supreme Being , as well as to the freedom of language in ivhich the name of Jesus Christ was most irreverently adverted to , must have impressed the unfortunate
man , who had attempted to mislead them , with a great moral lesson , if , indeed , his mind was capable of receiving such an impression . It was refreshing to observe that upon the ear of youth his malediction fell but as a coarse raving from the demented , and that the boy could pity , what as a man his stronger reason would have prevented . The assertion that the behaviour of Freemasons in Lodge was too
revolting and ( we dare not for decency ' s sake repeat another term the lecturer employed ) to be mentioned iu the presence of laches , was met , we are pleased to say , ivith a contemptuous silence , for no applause could be conceded to a violation of decency if true , and his audience felt that the nobility of nature can always protect itself . That the man failed in making his expected hit , arose from the nausea of his own
venom . The ministers of religion came in for an honourable mark of his execration ; liars and deceivers were they called in good set terms ; and even the arrest of the sword in piercing the breast of an enemy , or the relief given to an imprisoned captive Brother , afforded to this bright expounder of the evils of Freemasonry an opportunity to characterize the Fraternity as the protectors of MURDERERS and the abettors of
SWINDLING , LYING , BLASPHEMY , and SEDITION !! The very words , in this very sense , were used , and distinguished divines of the brightest reputation were by name-thus publicly slandered . Is it too much to say of this unhappy reviler ,
" QUEM DEUS VULT PERDERE , TOIL'S DEMENTAT . " * * - * -K- * * -X- - * - * Let it , however , be recorded of him , that as an intended contrast to the list of bright names he thus accused , he unconsciously invoked a blessing upon the immortal memory of Jenner , the discoverer of vaccination , aud other worthies ; that his audience fully went with him ; and when the applause had subsided , on the meeting being informed by an individual present well known in the Masonic Order that these glorious