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UNIVERSALITY OF FREEMASONRY . TO THE EDITOR OF THE I REEMA . SONS MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Sm aku Brother , —Your correspondent , " Sit laix , " has taken so long to reply to my former letter ^ that I think I had a right to ex ^ more than a mere assertion that "I cannot belong to the Christian Church , "
[ The Ebitor does not h ^ any opinions entertained by Correspondents . ^
as an answer to Avhat I there said respecting the universality of Freemasonry . I do not intend to allow myself to be drawn into a controversy as and Avhat is not Christianity , for I do not regard your pages as a proper place for a theological discussion ; but I must ask leave to set " Sit Lux" right as to the doctrines which any tyro in Masonry might have taught me .
What I said was , that " Masonry does not teach- . that the Redeemer is the G . A . O . T . UA ; not ^ did teach it . If " Sit Lux " can show me any such teaching since the meeting of the Lodge of Reconciliation ( which I presume is r in all Masonic matters , our present guide ) , I shall gladly receive the information and be obliged to him for it ; but I protest against passing over the lectures as regulated by the Lodge of Reconciliation , and of going back toDesaguliers and the revival of 1717 .
If fallacies so transparent , as " SitLux supposes , abound in my letter , it Avould have perhaps been better to have pointed out some of them as it is , I am quite at liberty to suppose that the easiest way of answering some arguments is , to ignore their existence . I take leave also to observe , that the question as to the divinity of Christ has nothing to do with the
main question on which I Avrote ; and that such an argumentum ad hominem is unworthy of this subject , and unbecoming , under the circumstances ofthe case , where , an individual ' s personal opinions should not be made use of to prejudice the value of his general argument . I am , Sir and Brother , yours fraternally ,
Tidy 15 , 1858 , A Universalis'
CHRISTIANITY v . UNIVERSALITY . TO THE EDTIOR OF THE EREJEMASOJNS > MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Dear Sir and Brother , —Several letters have appeared in the Freemasons' Magazine on Christianity and Freemasonry ; Avill you permit me to
add a few Avords ? Is not our universality to he maintained without sacrificing a point which forms the essential of religion to most men in England V Take the proportion of Christians to non-Christians , especially in the country , it is about twenty to one—and surely discretion should be left to Brethren and Masters of Lodges , Avhether they Avill or will not systematically reject
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UNIVERSALITY OF FREEMASONRY . TO THE EDITOR OF THE I REEMA . SONS MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Sm aku Brother , —Your correspondent , " Sit laix , " has taken so long to reply to my former letter ^ that I think I had a right to ex ^ more than a mere assertion that "I cannot belong to the Christian Church , "
[ The Ebitor does not h ^ any opinions entertained by Correspondents . ^
as an answer to Avhat I there said respecting the universality of Freemasonry . I do not intend to allow myself to be drawn into a controversy as and Avhat is not Christianity , for I do not regard your pages as a proper place for a theological discussion ; but I must ask leave to set " Sit Lux" right as to the doctrines which any tyro in Masonry might have taught me .
What I said was , that " Masonry does not teach- . that the Redeemer is the G . A . O . T . UA ; not ^ did teach it . If " Sit Lux " can show me any such teaching since the meeting of the Lodge of Reconciliation ( which I presume is r in all Masonic matters , our present guide ) , I shall gladly receive the information and be obliged to him for it ; but I protest against passing over the lectures as regulated by the Lodge of Reconciliation , and of going back toDesaguliers and the revival of 1717 .
If fallacies so transparent , as " SitLux supposes , abound in my letter , it Avould have perhaps been better to have pointed out some of them as it is , I am quite at liberty to suppose that the easiest way of answering some arguments is , to ignore their existence . I take leave also to observe , that the question as to the divinity of Christ has nothing to do with the
main question on which I Avrote ; and that such an argumentum ad hominem is unworthy of this subject , and unbecoming , under the circumstances ofthe case , where , an individual ' s personal opinions should not be made use of to prejudice the value of his general argument . I am , Sir and Brother , yours fraternally ,
Tidy 15 , 1858 , A Universalis'
CHRISTIANITY v . UNIVERSALITY . TO THE EDTIOR OF THE EREJEMASOJNS > MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Dear Sir and Brother , —Several letters have appeared in the Freemasons' Magazine on Christianity and Freemasonry ; Avill you permit me to
add a few Avords ? Is not our universality to he maintained without sacrificing a point which forms the essential of religion to most men in England V Take the proportion of Christians to non-Christians , especially in the country , it is about twenty to one—and surely discretion should be left to Brethren and Masters of Lodges , Avhether they Avill or will not systematically reject