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Article A VISIT TO THE ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS. ← Page 6 of 6 Article FREEMASONRY UNDER AN INTERDICT. Page 1 of 4 →
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A Visit To The Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
pleasures they will enjoy when their swimming-bath is constructed ; as a species of exercise there are few more exhilarating , so many good things are combined with the science of natation . Circumstances over which one has no control will prevent my ever passing a"eulogy
on the accomplishments in the new science taken up at the school , but this need not prevent the sterner sex offering prizes to the most expert swimmers . I am sure there are many more happy clays in store for the youny ladies at our school , and I hope that this , my first visit , will not be the last . I venture to hope that some young
Masons who live too far away to personally see over the school Avill feel more interested in it after my description of it , and will support this noble charity in a liberal and Masonic spirit . I shall ever take a great interest in it after the kind rece ] 3 tion accorded to me . For me the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children has a prior claim
on my time and affections , but the daughters of those who Avere my brethren must not be forgotten . I think it will be allowed after this visit , a good dinner , and an evening at the opera , I had solved the
question " How to spend a happy day . "
Freemasonry Under An Interdict.
FREEMASONRY UNDER AN INTERDICT .
BY AN OLD FREEMASON . Eppur il Muove ! TT may do us good to remind ourselves to-day , when we hear so
much of change in most things around us , ' that Freemasrony still only lies , through no fault of its own , under the ban of the Church of Rome , and all Freemasons are declared to be , ipso facto , excommunicate , if Roman Catholics , debarred from the services and sacraments of the Church ; if non-Roman Catholics , and even " in invincible ignorance , "
" booked , " as Sam Weller says , " for something uncomfortable . " This internecine struggle between the Church of Rome and Freemasonry , utterly needless , useless , and irreligious , which began in 1738 , and has been going on ever since , is still as keen and vivid as ever , and without the slightest shadow of excuse or the smallest show of reason , especially
in Anglo-Saxon communities ; while Freemasons ( even our loyal English Craft to wit , ) are regarded by Roman Catholics as dangerous
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Visit To The Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
pleasures they will enjoy when their swimming-bath is constructed ; as a species of exercise there are few more exhilarating , so many good things are combined with the science of natation . Circumstances over which one has no control will prevent my ever passing a"eulogy
on the accomplishments in the new science taken up at the school , but this need not prevent the sterner sex offering prizes to the most expert swimmers . I am sure there are many more happy clays in store for the youny ladies at our school , and I hope that this , my first visit , will not be the last . I venture to hope that some young
Masons who live too far away to personally see over the school Avill feel more interested in it after my description of it , and will support this noble charity in a liberal and Masonic spirit . I shall ever take a great interest in it after the kind rece ] 3 tion accorded to me . For me the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children has a prior claim
on my time and affections , but the daughters of those who Avere my brethren must not be forgotten . I think it will be allowed after this visit , a good dinner , and an evening at the opera , I had solved the
question " How to spend a happy day . "
Freemasonry Under An Interdict.
FREEMASONRY UNDER AN INTERDICT .
BY AN OLD FREEMASON . Eppur il Muove ! TT may do us good to remind ourselves to-day , when we hear so
much of change in most things around us , ' that Freemasrony still only lies , through no fault of its own , under the ban of the Church of Rome , and all Freemasons are declared to be , ipso facto , excommunicate , if Roman Catholics , debarred from the services and sacraments of the Church ; if non-Roman Catholics , and even " in invincible ignorance , "
" booked , " as Sam Weller says , " for something uncomfortable . " This internecine struggle between the Church of Rome and Freemasonry , utterly needless , useless , and irreligious , which began in 1738 , and has been going on ever since , is still as keen and vivid as ever , and without the slightest shadow of excuse or the smallest show of reason , especially
in Anglo-Saxon communities ; while Freemasons ( even our loyal English Craft to wit , ) are regarded by Roman Catholics as dangerous