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Article MASONIC MISSIONS. ← Page 11 of 11 Article PRIESTLY INTOLERANCE. Page 1 of 6 →
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Masonic Missions.
classifying them . When wo consider how few men there are ill this country widely acquainted with English and foreign Masonic literature , printed and MSS ,, and with its oral traditions and its practice , and then , how few of these have the literary training and the time aud opportunity to qualify them for the requisite critical labours—we may
feel convinced that the task Bro . Binckes has proposed is a difficult one , and his motion premature , as we have pronounced it . Within a few years , with the men now joining the Order , and more and better opportunities of acquiring knowledge , we trust many will be found competent to effect the laudable design Bro . Binckes has taken in hand .
At present we do not wish the Grand Lodge of England to be made as preposterous as some of the American Grand Lodges .
Priestly Intolerance.
PRIESTLY INTOLERANCE .
BUT a very short space of time has elapsed since we had occasion to notice an . ebullition of priestl y spleen displayed by the most reverend . Archbishop Culleu iu bis last Lenten Pastoral . In that very singular production , tho Masonic Order was stigmatized b y the archiopiscopal pen as a secret society of the same character with the atrocious Ribbon associations which have for so many years been a curse
to the sister island ; and the pursuits of the Craft were classed with tho infamy of drunkenness and the " immorality" of the polka and such like indecent and heretical saltatory evolutions . All persons affiliated to Freemasonry , or who iu any way countenance its atrocities , were , by this benevolent Christian "Father in God , " informed that they aro
excluded from the pale of Holy Church , and all the ri ghts , privileges , aud hereditaments thereunto appertaining ; and we have little doubt that when the archbishop can again spare sufficient time from his hol y avocations to resume the goosequill on the subject of those offenders against reli gion and decency , he will excommunicate the whole brotherhood , and perhaps , even , proceed withheld , book , and candle to objurgate the Masons—aprons , banquets and all—in the same way that a
former hierarch banned the poor little jackdaw at Rheims , and thus dispose of Freemasonry satisfactorily , at once and for over . Stimulated by the example of this redoubtable leader , some of the subalterns in the papal legions have since been endeavouring to reap laurels in the same field ; and in the north of England the brazen ,
trumpet has been lately sounded with a warlike twang , At New-
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Masonic Missions.
classifying them . When wo consider how few men there are ill this country widely acquainted with English and foreign Masonic literature , printed and MSS ,, and with its oral traditions and its practice , and then , how few of these have the literary training and the time aud opportunity to qualify them for the requisite critical labours—we may
feel convinced that the task Bro . Binckes has proposed is a difficult one , and his motion premature , as we have pronounced it . Within a few years , with the men now joining the Order , and more and better opportunities of acquiring knowledge , we trust many will be found competent to effect the laudable design Bro . Binckes has taken in hand .
At present we do not wish the Grand Lodge of England to be made as preposterous as some of the American Grand Lodges .
Priestly Intolerance.
PRIESTLY INTOLERANCE .
BUT a very short space of time has elapsed since we had occasion to notice an . ebullition of priestl y spleen displayed by the most reverend . Archbishop Culleu iu bis last Lenten Pastoral . In that very singular production , tho Masonic Order was stigmatized b y the archiopiscopal pen as a secret society of the same character with the atrocious Ribbon associations which have for so many years been a curse
to the sister island ; and the pursuits of the Craft were classed with tho infamy of drunkenness and the " immorality" of the polka and such like indecent and heretical saltatory evolutions . All persons affiliated to Freemasonry , or who iu any way countenance its atrocities , were , by this benevolent Christian "Father in God , " informed that they aro
excluded from the pale of Holy Church , and all the ri ghts , privileges , aud hereditaments thereunto appertaining ; and we have little doubt that when the archbishop can again spare sufficient time from his hol y avocations to resume the goosequill on the subject of those offenders against reli gion and decency , he will excommunicate the whole brotherhood , and perhaps , even , proceed withheld , book , and candle to objurgate the Masons—aprons , banquets and all—in the same way that a
former hierarch banned the poor little jackdaw at Rheims , and thus dispose of Freemasonry satisfactorily , at once and for over . Stimulated by the example of this redoubtable leader , some of the subalterns in the papal legions have since been endeavouring to reap laurels in the same field ; and in the north of England the brazen ,
trumpet has been lately sounded with a warlike twang , At New-