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we believe that there is room for both , and both may find much to uphold their dogmat a m the ancient symbolism and teaching of Freemasonry , as preserved in Anglo-Saxon lodges everywhere . A fourth charge is the open opposition to the Christian doctrine of the Trinity by our use of the

formulary , " In the Name of the Great Architect of the Universe . " This charge is based on a work professedly by " Margiale Reghelin da Schio , " and on a letter said to have been written in 1816 by Prince Frederick of Orange . This letter we have never seen , and if it is genuine

has nothing to do with Craft Masonry . It relates to the Rose Croix Grade and teaching alone . We need only add that such a charge is too puerile and illogical to require the trouble of confutation . The fifth charge is that of the " blankest infidelity , " because , forsooth , a

German writer of the well-known name of Eckert has put forward some peculiar Eckertian views , but which are not , never were , and never will be Masonic . The sixth charge is opposition to the Church generally , made out by the speech of a Bro . Bello , very fit name for a combatant in this

internecine controversy , by an unwise remark of "Edgar Quillet , " by an oration of our very worthy brother the Lord Mayor , as well as by an after dinner address . delivered by our worthy Bro . J . C . Parkinson . We believe that the writer has completely misunderstood the

purport of both these speeches , which merely went to prove that the present claim of the Roman Catholic Church to condemn Freemasonry everywhere is alike irrational and untenable , and that the principles of ultramontanism were—who can deny it ?—opposed alike tolibertvand to peace ,

to the rights of conscience , and the well being of this or any other land . The Lord Mayor is we know a loyal member of the Church of England , but we are not aware of Bro . Parkinson ' s religious opinions . Sure we are that two more tolerant brethren do not exist anywhere .

The writer goes on to say that the constitution of Freemasonry is democratic and its operations revolutionary . These two last charges are entirely founded on foreign periodicals , and on an oration of a Bro . Peigne . Such is the attack . With us in England it has after all only a partial

concern , as it is mainly foreign Freemasonry which is thus inveighed against . These accusations of irreligion and revolution can only raise a smile in the Anglo-Saxon fraternity , as no more religious or loyal body exists than the Masonic body in England , Scotland , and Ireland ,

and the Dominion of the Canadas j and no more God-fearing or law-abiding one than in the United States . We regret to read such deliberately continued attacks upon our Order , because they too evidently display the real animus alike

of Ritualist and Romanist , that virus of intolerance and persecution which still lingers in the latter powerful organization , and forms part of the programme of its ritualistic imitators , in everything great and small , mighty and mean . It is a proof of what both would do

if only they could do it , and we fear that all this vituperation and violence against our loyal and religiously minded brotherhood fully justifies those , who look on the Church of Rome and the ritualistic party in the Church of England as inimical to progress , liberty , and religious

toleration . " Una est injusti caerula forma maris , " sang the poet of old , and here is the Church of Rome , " semper eadem , " at home and abroad , in all climes and continents , ceaseless in her opposition to everything which

tends to advance universal toleration , and to acknowledge the sanctity of the religious conscience ; while the Ritualists , following blindly her dangerous dogmas , seem even to be out-Heroding Herod in the violence of their language , and the childishness of their

denunciations . Freemasonry has , however , nothing to Jea r from such animosity or such accusations , but goes on its way like Una , strong in its innocence , its humanity , its utility , its charity , and > ts truth .

Bro. Caubet's Reply To The Bishop Of Orleans.

BRO . CAUBET'S REPLY TO THE BISHOP OF ORLEANS .

. We have perused this pamphlet with much interest , not only on account of the controversy "self , but because our worthy Bro . Caubet is a

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Freemason of long standing and much eminence , the able editor of the " Monde Magonnique " and is the highly respected Grand Secretary of the Grand Orient of France . We wish , however , that we could fairly say , that his skilful defence is a full and satisfactory reply to his

vivacious opponent . But interesting as it is in itself , and clearly stated , and admirably expressed , it fails , we think we are bound to say , as regards the main allegations of the Bishop , though it undoubtedly has shaken the effect of the whole attack considerably , by some very effective

rejoinders on sundry points and topics . For instance , we think that Bro . Caubet clearly proves , that Monsignor Dupanloup has misunderstood the quotation he adduces from the "Monde Magonnique . " Bro . Caubet undoubtedly demonstrates that the expression " would cover

them withhonte , of which the Bishop makes so much , does not refer to the affirmation of Deism , but to the exclusion of the " Non-contents " from the Grand Orient . The Bishop may say , " This is after all quite a minor point , " and so relatively it is , but still it is one scored to Bro .

Caubet . Bro . Caubet points out also clearly , that happily Felix Pyat is no Masonic authority , being an irregular Mason , and that Louis Blanc ' s views of " hier , " are not necessarily those of " lendemain . " We greatly admire Bro . Caubet ' s eloquent and appreciative view of the true

position of Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry , for which we cordially thank him . Bro . Caubet also successfully invalidates the Bishop ' s argument against Freemasonry generally , by pointing out how he condemns 10 , 000 lodges , according to his own statement , for the offences of 350 , plus 16 in

Belgium and France , and he has therefore argued from a particular to an universal , a great " laches " in so skilled a controversialist as Monsignor Dupanloup . We called attention to this very weak point in the Bishop ' s " Etude " originally , and we are glad Bro . Caubet has treated

it so lucidly and so incisively . We are also of opinion that Bro . Caubet is fully justified in protesting , that the views of " le Loge I'Avenir " are not those of the Grand Orient of France , and also against the Bishop ' s habit of making individual opinions and individual speeches the

representation of Freemasonry proper in France or Belgium . Freemasonry , like all other human institutions , has its " weak brethren , " its perverse speakers , and its perverse adherents , but Freemasonry can only be fairly judged by its authoritative explanations , and its official documents .

But when we have said this . wefeel bound to add , if sorrowfully and regretfully , that we fear Bro . Caubet has not essentially shaken the Bishop ' s position in respect of many unwise , irreligious , and political speeches , by several individual Freemasons in both countries . We in England

cannot have . and should not have , the slightest possible sympathy with the expressions and addresses as regards religion and politics to which the Bishop calls attention . They are entirely opposed to all our traditions and all our teaching in England . We cannot therefore deny the right of

the Bishop of Orleans , or any one else , to call attention to such published evidences of the opinions of some Freemasons , though they be only those of individuals , and in no sense are calculated to bind or to compromise the Grand Orients of France or Belgium . But with these

evidences of indiscreet partizanship before us , and of unsound , most unsound , teaching profesedly from Freemasons , we can only as " amici curias" advise the French and Belgian Freemasons to fall back within the old lines of French Freemasonry , which were both theistical

and non-political . Let them give up at once any tampering with the strictness of true Masonic teaching , let them eschew once and for all alike political and religious questions . If they would only devote themselves to the pressing claims of Masonic Benevolence in various forms and

institutions , they would have no more time for these sterile discussions , which are a burlesque on the principles and injure the fair fame of Freemasonry . Owing to some unfortunate influences Freemasonry in France

and Belgium has latterly more or less identified itself with , " I . a Morale Independante , " and the views of modern doubt and unbelief , as if characteristic of freedom of the mind , and an exemption from " faiblesse , " Hence many of

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the addresses are dreary repetitions of a semi-Atheistic creed , the mournful utterances of a polished paganism . As we read some modern funeral orations in both countries , we are reminded of the lugubrious- heathen cry " Valeas inaeternum . " Such principles andsuchviews must

soon bring down Freemasonry anywhere . We wish that we could have more completely identified ourselves with Bro . Caubet in his able defence , but as we believe nothing is ever gained by a " suppressio veri , " so we feel sure that we

are right in upholding our Masonic dictum , that plain dealing , and fair speaking , and simple sincerity should always distinguish Freemasons , and , above all , those who write in the interests of absolute Masonic truth , justice , honour , and right .

The Close Of The London Season.

THE CLOSE OF THE LONDON SEASON .

London is looking empty , the streets are thinning , the legislative bodies have separated , and the Ministers have mostly departed for the grouse and their " otium cum dignitate . " A very large portion of our fellow citizens , male and female , is wendinsr its wav in various directions , some to

Brittany , some to Switzerland , some to tho Tyrol , some to the Rhine , some to the healing springs of Kissingen or Marienbad , and a still greater section is crowding to the bathing places and seaside localities of our own pleasant land . The London season is therefore over for 1875 ,

and for some time this great metropolis will have lost that sense of ceaseless crowds , and that block of thronging carriages , which has marked the brief season which has now past and gone . Some writers who are fond of moralizing on all occasions , or , as Mr . Sam Weller remarks , giving

" adwice gratis , " are always down upon the London season , and its waste of time , money , health , and even talents . Nothing , they contend , is worse in any way than that mass of assembled frivolity and extravagance which a London season displays each succeeding year . People

seem just now in a morbid state of mind , perhaps it is the heat of August , for nothing apparently goes right either with their tempers or their digestions . Our contemporary , "The Times , " which is evidently displeased with everybody and everything in this sultry weather , so much so even as

to run a muck , quite hopelessly however , at the mostgenial of Premiers , has recently made a great and alarming discovery , like the Eastern Potentate , that the women are the cause of everything that is bad , are at the bottom of all the criminality , all the bassesse all the extravagance ,

the Bohemianism of the hour . The wrier of this remarkable suggestion , evidently a married man , bases this most serious charge on the unconquerable love of dress , and show , and expense displayed by the " weaker vessels . " Oh ! most clear-sighted and just of mentors !

That women like dress and show and are not averse to expense , who denies ? but to heap on their devoted heads the criminalities , and follies , ana , " parade of the hour is too unjust , and too preposterous . Women are , in our humble opinion , for the most part what men make them ,

and if we see a general tendency to fastness , or undue expenditure , or license in any portion of the feminine world , we may feel assured it is because , and only because , the habits of the male section of society are re-acting injuriously upon them . For what can we say of our " nova

progenies , of horse-racing , pigeon-shooting , absinthe-imbibing , masculine youth ? To note the general decadence in manners and habits , to observe how the taste , the dress , the language of the ring have deteriorated the fine character of Englishmen , to realize their intemperate ways ,

their irregular habits , and , above all , their debased views of things generally whether of duty or responsibility , is somewhat saddening to the sympathising and the sober-minded . The attempt of "The Times" to make women responsible for the questionable habits and unworthy tone

of modern society is as ungenerous as it is unfair . We , therefore , do not take the same mournful view of the London season that many pseudocritics do just now . It is , we believe , neither better nor worse than the majority of the past . It may display more " nouveaux riches , "

and may see more " roturiers" within its mystic circle , but it is pretty much what it al-