Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

ALL MASONS AGREE IN ESSENTIALS; 907
is a stranger; the unity and fellowship of the great body
has never been broken."
Now she assumes the mistress; Christianity is down;
Free Masonry is more than a match for discord.—Had she
ever any settled principles to divide upon? ever a consistent
body to break? Whether men, her votaries, worship
three millions of gods, with the Hindoos; or the family of
Saturn, with the Greeks; or the only living and true God,
with the patriarchs ; is it not all one to Free Masonry?
What can they divide upon ?
" Where there is no good
" For which to strive, no strife can grow np there
" From faction."—Mil Par. Lostyb. ii.
Free Masonry is any thing to suit her entertainers; a shameless
harlot, that vaunts, forsooth, her love to Immanuel, in
this Christian land, and, at the same moment, on the shores
of the Mediterranean, is courting the Musselmen with false
cries of "Allah ilia Allah! Mohammed resoul Allah"*
She, through her votaries, supplies the wants of the widowed
parent in this Christian land, and in Hindostan rears the
funeral pile to consume the living parent with the dead f
Oh what an one is Free Masonry, to boast the unanimity
of her members " in all holy essentials !" The essentials
of Free Masonry! These are, with Symmes* theory of
concentric spheres, in the brain of the believer; they have
no existence in nature. " Do you fall into the merciless
hands of the Turks ?" says Mr. T., " the shackles of slavery
are broken from your hands through the interposition of
a brother. Even the bloody flag of a pirate is changed for
the olive branch of peace by the mysterious token of a
Mason." (p. 160.) Pirates with their bloody flags, merciless
Turks, cruel savages, haughty Jews, and meek Chris-
The Lord is God, Mahomet is his prophet.