Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

230 FREE MASONRY.
were an oversight, that were a very different case from the
present. Christian worshippers, that is, men using the
forms of Christianity in their usual services, and bred up to
no other, except as they were taught in the lodges, did not
leave out this glorious name in our worship by an oversight
No, no; much as I would rejoice to light upon the slightest
palliation of this treason against their Lord, in our grand
chaplains, I must believe the omission is not accidental,
is not made by a momentary forgetfiilness of the promise,
" Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name,
he will give it you," (John, xvi. 23.) but in obedience
to the stern laws of Free Masonry, which level all distinctions
of religion as well as rank, and hail the Arab,
the Mohawk, and the Tartar, as brethren of the same devotional
family with the Christian and the Jew. The worship
compiled in the Books of Constitutions of Free Masonry,
is modelled on the principles of Free Masonry, and
not on the doctrines of the cross: it is made subservient to
the laws of a mystical society, and contrary to the precepts
of the gospel; it is published for the honour of the mystery,
and is a reproach upon Him who came down from Heaven,
and now has the government there.
Reader, let not a doubt check the rising of your indignation
against this deep scheme of infidelity; against
this new mode of attack upon the religion in which we have
been bred. Under the influence of Christianity, our country
has risen from a feeble band to be a mighty nation; and
the district school and the Christian temple, rise on every
hand, where our fathers have seen the hut of the savage
and the beast of prey. No lover of his country, no demagogue
of a party, can wish to see the religion of his country
and of his fathers trampled upon and despised, however
secretly it may be done, whether in a lodge-room, or in the
vault of the royal arch, or in the masonic tabernacle.
And is it not trampled upon, when the very name
of its founder, protector, and head, is banished from the religious
ceremonies of the lodge-room? When in the fre-