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Article TREVILIAN ON FREEMASONRY. ← Page 6 of 34 →
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Trevilian On Freemasonry.
" submit ? " Does he mean seriously to have us believe that he was in such an after-dinner state at the time of his initiation as not to know that he was about to enter a " secret" society ; and how does he suppose that it would continue secret unless an oath were taken not to reveal the secretsand yet this is a " wile of Satan . "
, Another grave charge against the society is—¦ " I have made the discovery that the practice and principles of the society are anti-Christian , and because I declare this all-important fact to the world , these simple words are found to braud me with the foul crime of perjury . "—P . 14 .
This is certainly the most remarkable instance of penetration we ever remember to have heard of . Mr . Trevilian was once in a lodge , thirty years ago , and after lying dormant for that long period , the conviction suddenly flashes across his intellect , that Freemasonry is " anti-Christian !" One naturally asks why this discovery was not made before
that eventful night thirty years ago ; the same data were in his possession then as now , for he surely would not have the world believe that one night had given him such an insight into the practice at any rate of Freemasonry as to warrant such a charge : and why wait for thirty years to propound this astounding intelligence ? But here again we must
, however reluctantly , step in with a little honest truth , ancl prevent Mr . Trevilian's heroic act of self devotion ; the good gentleman must be kept back from his darling object , and be saved from "the foul crime of perjury . " There is not the slightest objection to his declaring as many " all-important convictions" as ever he likes ; as we have before stated
he never took any oath not to do so . How unfortunate it is that he is perpetually being thwarted ; we wish with all our hearts that the truth would allow us to indulge him in his fancy . We have heard of misers who insisted on dying of starvation amidst their hoarded bags of gold ; and of Hindoos who would hook themselves up by the skin of their
backs in honour of some favourite deity : but that a worthy man , of average intellect , and supposed sanity , should persist in being perjured , is the funniest fancy we ever met with —however , there is no accounting for taste . We now come to the second of the three charges"The religious worship of the society is pure Deism . "—P . 16 . Now if Mr . Trevilian means by this that we teach Deism as a religious system , we beg to meet , the charge with as
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Trevilian On Freemasonry.
" submit ? " Does he mean seriously to have us believe that he was in such an after-dinner state at the time of his initiation as not to know that he was about to enter a " secret" society ; and how does he suppose that it would continue secret unless an oath were taken not to reveal the secretsand yet this is a " wile of Satan . "
, Another grave charge against the society is—¦ " I have made the discovery that the practice and principles of the society are anti-Christian , and because I declare this all-important fact to the world , these simple words are found to braud me with the foul crime of perjury . "—P . 14 .
This is certainly the most remarkable instance of penetration we ever remember to have heard of . Mr . Trevilian was once in a lodge , thirty years ago , and after lying dormant for that long period , the conviction suddenly flashes across his intellect , that Freemasonry is " anti-Christian !" One naturally asks why this discovery was not made before
that eventful night thirty years ago ; the same data were in his possession then as now , for he surely would not have the world believe that one night had given him such an insight into the practice at any rate of Freemasonry as to warrant such a charge : and why wait for thirty years to propound this astounding intelligence ? But here again we must
, however reluctantly , step in with a little honest truth , ancl prevent Mr . Trevilian's heroic act of self devotion ; the good gentleman must be kept back from his darling object , and be saved from "the foul crime of perjury . " There is not the slightest objection to his declaring as many " all-important convictions" as ever he likes ; as we have before stated
he never took any oath not to do so . How unfortunate it is that he is perpetually being thwarted ; we wish with all our hearts that the truth would allow us to indulge him in his fancy . We have heard of misers who insisted on dying of starvation amidst their hoarded bags of gold ; and of Hindoos who would hook themselves up by the skin of their
backs in honour of some favourite deity : but that a worthy man , of average intellect , and supposed sanity , should persist in being perjured , is the funniest fancy we ever met with —however , there is no accounting for taste . We now come to the second of the three charges"The religious worship of the society is pure Deism . "—P . 16 . Now if Mr . Trevilian means by this that we teach Deism as a religious system , we beg to meet , the charge with as