Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

246 ANCIENT FREE HA80NRT 18 DK18V.
CHAPTER XL.
u Jtoefoei, That we regard the unhallowed substitution of the profane
orgies of Free Masonry, for the Christian religion, as fraught with more
danger to the peace of society, and the troths of revelation, than open
Deism, or avowed infidelity."—WM. WAXJSWORTH, Pft$<
I SHALL continue to study Free Masonry with the reader
in Esprit du Dogme. It is revolting to contemplate her,
impiety, and it would be very unjust to suspect the fraternity
in this country of consenting to it. They are little
aware of it, and I cannot but hope to deserve their hearty
thanks for presenting Free Masonry to them, as they once
wer» presented to her, neither barefoot nor shod, with a
cable tow about the neck ; her's was a night scene, when
she laughed in her heart, to see sober men groping after the
light which her own bandage had shut from thdir eyes;
ours is an atfair of the day.
The Deistical character of the institution is abundantly
proved, without meaning, now or at any time, that the fraternity
assume that character. In pursuing the subject, I
propose only to show the easy way Free Masonry has of
putting a most important construction upon rites senseless
and unmeaning in themselves. She says, in Esprit du
Dogme, p. 115., " We have many rites and degrees which
recall to mind our divine Master, Jesus, the supper, the passion,
and his resurrection;" but these must be rites belonging
to higher degrees than the master's, and I would only
observe, in relation to trjem,that they more clearly discover
the anti-religious ppirit of Free Masonry; she does not celebrate
the Lord, or his sufferings, with an honest purpose,
however honest her followers are: not she.