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Article FREEMASONRY UNDER AN INTERDICT. ← Page 3 of 4 →
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Freemasonry Under An Interdict.
The Archbishop of Malta , the Archbishop of Mechlin , an archbishop in New South Wales , and in India , Cardinal Manning , and Irish Bishops and Archprelates , have all alike declared Freemasonry an illegal and injurious society , and Freemasons to be alike irreli gious and immoral .
And all this Avithout the sli ghtest shadow of justification , the slightest pretence of reality , the slightest claim to truth . No more loyal , no more enthusiastically loyal body exists anywhere than the vast aggregation of Anglo-Saxon Freemasons , and whether under a Monarchy or in a Republic , whether in India , NBAV
Zealand , Canada , or New South Wales , whether in Great Britain or the United States , they are always foremost in upholding peace and order , in paying due obedience to the civil magistrate , in givinounto " Csesar " the " things which are Cassar ' s , " and to " God the things which are God ' s . "
As a large section of the human race , their intelligence is very great , their respectability very marked , and with very few exceptions they are an example for good to all around them . Therefore the explanation of this " paradox " must be sought elseAvhere .
Freemasonry , to the average Roman Catholic mind , and much more to the rulers of that astute body , represents three great principles with which Rome is ever at war . One is the principle of toleration ; another the principle of the sanctity of the human conscience ; t he third is the inalienable and sacred right of private
judgment . It is said that the Catholic rulers make an exception as regards Anglo-Saxon Freemasony . And so they do , but only to strengthen their own position in regarding all Freemasonry as religious Nihilism . I must admit here , I fear , that many Freemasons abroad , by most
injudicious words and most unwarrantable acts , have given a sort of colouring to the angry criticisms of heated and unreasoning opponents . Far be it from me to seek to defend assertions and acts equally repugnant to Anglo-Saxon Freemasons , and Roman Catholics objectors , and , which like them , all Anglo Saxons pointedly condemn on the truer
principles of Masonic teaching and practice . But Roman Catholic controversali sts in their ardour of incrimination , put the part for the whole , and make English Freemasonry and foreign Freemasonry convertible terms , which they are not , and never will be ; and therefore , while we must fairly allow that there may be some
fair grounds for the Roman Catholic indictment of the perverse development here and there of foreign Freemasonry , we may also rest assured that however difficult the line of attack may be as regards ourselves , Rome is " semper eadem , " and will never forgive
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Freemasonry Under An Interdict.
The Archbishop of Malta , the Archbishop of Mechlin , an archbishop in New South Wales , and in India , Cardinal Manning , and Irish Bishops and Archprelates , have all alike declared Freemasonry an illegal and injurious society , and Freemasons to be alike irreli gious and immoral .
And all this Avithout the sli ghtest shadow of justification , the slightest pretence of reality , the slightest claim to truth . No more loyal , no more enthusiastically loyal body exists anywhere than the vast aggregation of Anglo-Saxon Freemasons , and whether under a Monarchy or in a Republic , whether in India , NBAV
Zealand , Canada , or New South Wales , whether in Great Britain or the United States , they are always foremost in upholding peace and order , in paying due obedience to the civil magistrate , in givinounto " Csesar " the " things which are Cassar ' s , " and to " God the things which are God ' s . "
As a large section of the human race , their intelligence is very great , their respectability very marked , and with very few exceptions they are an example for good to all around them . Therefore the explanation of this " paradox " must be sought elseAvhere .
Freemasonry , to the average Roman Catholic mind , and much more to the rulers of that astute body , represents three great principles with which Rome is ever at war . One is the principle of toleration ; another the principle of the sanctity of the human conscience ; t he third is the inalienable and sacred right of private
judgment . It is said that the Catholic rulers make an exception as regards Anglo-Saxon Freemasony . And so they do , but only to strengthen their own position in regarding all Freemasonry as religious Nihilism . I must admit here , I fear , that many Freemasons abroad , by most
injudicious words and most unwarrantable acts , have given a sort of colouring to the angry criticisms of heated and unreasoning opponents . Far be it from me to seek to defend assertions and acts equally repugnant to Anglo-Saxon Freemasons , and Roman Catholics objectors , and , which like them , all Anglo Saxons pointedly condemn on the truer
principles of Masonic teaching and practice . But Roman Catholic controversali sts in their ardour of incrimination , put the part for the whole , and make English Freemasonry and foreign Freemasonry convertible terms , which they are not , and never will be ; and therefore , while we must fairly allow that there may be some
fair grounds for the Roman Catholic indictment of the perverse development here and there of foreign Freemasonry , we may also rest assured that however difficult the line of attack may be as regards ourselves , Rome is " semper eadem , " and will never forgive