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Article THE PAPAL ALLOCUTION AGAINST FREEMASONRY. ← Page 16 of 16
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The Papal Allocution Against Freemasonry.
The Papacy dare not trifle thus with any kingdom in Europe , but in hurling its missile against Freemasonry it does not attack any nationalty , any centre of unity that could take action upon it , but it cautiously singles out our society to throAv out its feeler , and see hoAv the Christian world will be
affected by the reiteration of those assumptions of Divine infallibility , which the world thought it had forgotten , but have only been stored in its arsenal , to bring forward Ayith increased virulence against an association Avhich has no political mode of expression , and for whom no Government could embroil
itself . Before Popes were , Freemasons Avere Christians . After Popes shall have passed away , may we be Christians still . Freedom in act and thought is our inheritance . Freedom of worship
is our right , and whilst admitting the Bishop of Eome to be the first Bishop in the West , so long as he confines himself to his OAVII diocese , Ave respect him and acknowledge his rights therein , but Avhen he claims to speak Avith the authority of GOD and , of his OAVII Divine poAver , to pronounce upon our
Order a judgment of pains and penalties , Ave remember our martyrs of old , Ave call to mind the noble sacrifices our brethren have made , the glorious Eeformation they helped to secure , and rest satisfied that Ave , of the Christian degrees of Freemasonry more especially , shall never yield submission to
one Avhose very claim is opposed to our national lo \ e of freedom , the veneration Ave OAVC to our OAVII beloved branch of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church , or the innocent and praiseworthy precepts and practices of cosmopolitan Freemasonry .
OiD AGE . —Beautiful is old age , beautiful as the slow drooping mellow autumn of a rich , glorious summer . In the old man nature has fulfilled her work ; she loads him with the fruits of a well-spent life and , surrounded by his children , she rocks liim away softly to the grave , to which he is followed by blessings . There is another life , hard , rough and thorny , trodden with bleeding feet , and aching brow ; a battle which no peace follows this side of tho grave ; which the grave gapes to finish before the victory is won and , strange that it should be—this is the highest life of man . Look back along the great names of history , there arc none whose life has been other than this .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Papal Allocution Against Freemasonry.
The Papacy dare not trifle thus with any kingdom in Europe , but in hurling its missile against Freemasonry it does not attack any nationalty , any centre of unity that could take action upon it , but it cautiously singles out our society to throAv out its feeler , and see hoAv the Christian world will be
affected by the reiteration of those assumptions of Divine infallibility , which the world thought it had forgotten , but have only been stored in its arsenal , to bring forward Ayith increased virulence against an association Avhich has no political mode of expression , and for whom no Government could embroil
itself . Before Popes were , Freemasons Avere Christians . After Popes shall have passed away , may we be Christians still . Freedom in act and thought is our inheritance . Freedom of worship
is our right , and whilst admitting the Bishop of Eome to be the first Bishop in the West , so long as he confines himself to his OAVII diocese , Ave respect him and acknowledge his rights therein , but Avhen he claims to speak Avith the authority of GOD and , of his OAVII Divine poAver , to pronounce upon our
Order a judgment of pains and penalties , Ave remember our martyrs of old , Ave call to mind the noble sacrifices our brethren have made , the glorious Eeformation they helped to secure , and rest satisfied that Ave , of the Christian degrees of Freemasonry more especially , shall never yield submission to
one Avhose very claim is opposed to our national lo \ e of freedom , the veneration Ave OAVC to our OAVII beloved branch of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church , or the innocent and praiseworthy precepts and practices of cosmopolitan Freemasonry .
OiD AGE . —Beautiful is old age , beautiful as the slow drooping mellow autumn of a rich , glorious summer . In the old man nature has fulfilled her work ; she loads him with the fruits of a well-spent life and , surrounded by his children , she rocks liim away softly to the grave , to which he is followed by blessings . There is another life , hard , rough and thorny , trodden with bleeding feet , and aching brow ; a battle which no peace follows this side of tho grave ; which the grave gapes to finish before the victory is won and , strange that it should be—this is the highest life of man . Look back along the great names of history , there arc none whose life has been other than this .