Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

218 FREE MASONRY AND NATURAL RELIGION.
call the grand chaplain and his coadjutors to account for
the scandal the grand chaplain's book has brought upon the
charitable character of the institution, is extremely doubtful;
since ten years have elapsed, and no stir has been
made; and, indeed, they have no right to interfere with the
grand chaplain's religion—that would be a breach of masonic
charity: the only remedy they have, is, each nation
to put out a treatise of its own, proving that Free Masonry
has, through all [Turkey] " the same* co-eternal and unshaken
foundation, contains and inculcates, in substance, the
same truths, and proposes the same ultimate end, as the
doctrine of [the Koran] taught by divine inspiration/'
(Town's Spec. Free Masonry, p. 13.)
N. B. Substitute Shaster for Koran, among the Brahmins,
and for every other people, its peculiar name for the
Patta-pala; stoutly assert in every copy, that " Free Masonry
embraces, in body and substance, the whole duty of
man as a moral being." (Town, p. 23.) Say," Here we
view the coincidence of principle and design between the
•'• * scheme and speculative Free Masonry, with that
pleasing admiration which satisfies inquiry, and clearly
proves our system based on the rock of ages. Such are
the deep mysteries of the divine ( ,) in whom all the
fullness of the ( ) dwells bodily:" (Town, p. 24.) and
after pursuing this line of declamation until out of wind, or
to the number of forty distinct points of divine original,
conclude by observing: " Such are a few of those numerous
excellencies found in the system of speculative Free
Masonry. On these are indelibly fixed the seals of imperishable
worth. If such, indeed, Were not the facts, no man
of sense and independence of mind, could in any shape
become attached to the institution. If all were a mere
specious form-, a shadow without substance, a name with-
* Mr. Town- says, Christian : every people will fill up the blanks with
the name appropriate to their own.