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Article PRETENDED MASONIC REVELATIONS. ← Page 6 of 8 →
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Pretended Masonic Revelations.
around him its shield . " We of course are deeply sensible of the sustaining power of religion in the hour of danger ; but as a fact we must beg to assert , that the " savage men " would in all human probability soon make themselves acquainted with the cerebral formation of their unhappy victimnotwithstanding his Christianity ; whereasif they
, , recognized him as a Mason , he would be safe . In this instance , therefore , there would be a link between Barbarian and Christian , supplied by Masonry and not by Christianity . And it is simply because Masonry is intended to be a link between men of all creeds , that it is impossible to introduce the Saviour ' s name into the authorized formularies ; if it were
done , of course none but Christians could be Masons , which would defeat the whole object of the Order ; and , indeed , few would care to belong to a society , which stopped short with the exclusion only of those who were not avowedly Christians , in the vague sense of that ill-defined word . To make it useful as an exclusive societywe should soon want
, other tests . " Wherever Masonry exercises its influence with success , there Christianity can have , or should have , a more powerful effect" But does it have , even among Christians ? and why should it have , or how can it have , with those who are not ? We should have thought that even our Yankee
perjurer ' s intellect would have been sufficiently developed to enable him to perceive , that among Christians generally , the utmost sectarian rancour prevails , each thinking it a point of religion to oppose the other . In Masonry , on the contrary , one of the foundation stones of the edifice is , that all religious differences are suspended .
" How , again , can Mahommedans and Christians ever interchange acts of friendship and mutual confidence , without endangering their reputation for steadfastness in their own belief ? " In Masonry , on the contrary , the road is as clear as day . The Order was founded for the very purpose . As to any argument drawn from , the quaintness of its
rites , Masonry may fairly say , that she is not the only institution in which the language of antiquity has seemed unsuitable to the modernism of parvenus . It may seem absurd that judges should wear wigs , and that kings , who " never die , " and " can do no wrong , " should give their assent to an English act of Parliament in Norman French . We have , however , already dwelt too long upon this pretended Masonic revelation ; but there is one topic which is so
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Pretended Masonic Revelations.
around him its shield . " We of course are deeply sensible of the sustaining power of religion in the hour of danger ; but as a fact we must beg to assert , that the " savage men " would in all human probability soon make themselves acquainted with the cerebral formation of their unhappy victimnotwithstanding his Christianity ; whereasif they
, , recognized him as a Mason , he would be safe . In this instance , therefore , there would be a link between Barbarian and Christian , supplied by Masonry and not by Christianity . And it is simply because Masonry is intended to be a link between men of all creeds , that it is impossible to introduce the Saviour ' s name into the authorized formularies ; if it were
done , of course none but Christians could be Masons , which would defeat the whole object of the Order ; and , indeed , few would care to belong to a society , which stopped short with the exclusion only of those who were not avowedly Christians , in the vague sense of that ill-defined word . To make it useful as an exclusive societywe should soon want
, other tests . " Wherever Masonry exercises its influence with success , there Christianity can have , or should have , a more powerful effect" But does it have , even among Christians ? and why should it have , or how can it have , with those who are not ? We should have thought that even our Yankee
perjurer ' s intellect would have been sufficiently developed to enable him to perceive , that among Christians generally , the utmost sectarian rancour prevails , each thinking it a point of religion to oppose the other . In Masonry , on the contrary , one of the foundation stones of the edifice is , that all religious differences are suspended .
" How , again , can Mahommedans and Christians ever interchange acts of friendship and mutual confidence , without endangering their reputation for steadfastness in their own belief ? " In Masonry , on the contrary , the road is as clear as day . The Order was founded for the very purpose . As to any argument drawn from , the quaintness of its
rites , Masonry may fairly say , that she is not the only institution in which the language of antiquity has seemed unsuitable to the modernism of parvenus . It may seem absurd that judges should wear wigs , and that kings , who " never die , " and " can do no wrong , " should give their assent to an English act of Parliament in Norman French . We have , however , already dwelt too long upon this pretended Masonic revelation ; but there is one topic which is so