Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

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and fall into the abyss of Atheism, would she' hold fast the
cable tow, brother Jew, or loose it from her hand ? What
think you, would she gently draw him out, remove the bondage
from his eyes, tenderly condole with him for the tremendous
hazard he had run, and advise him to return
home, and to pursue his inquiries after the true God, and
the way to happiness, in the midst of his family, morning
and evening, with the Bible in his hand, at the feet of Immanuel
? Or would she send after him a peal of curses, to
make the horrible abyss ring, and, if it might be possible,
to sink him two-fold deeper in wo!
Those who believe in a protecting Providence, need not
fear to believe in the reality of evil angels; those who do
not.believe in a protecting Providence, have every thing to
fear; and, if there exists in Christian lands a single specimen
of the handy work of God's adversary, and man's,
Free Masonry has high claims to be that one.
The reader who meets this conclusion, without arriving
at it through the argument, may think it uncharitable; if
so* this cdfhmon sense will meet him: the friends of a doctrine
which studiously conceals itself, only showing its features
more boldly, as people become more hardened to
them, have no right to complain, and cry, charity, charity,
upon honest efforts to hasten the monstrous birth, and fully
to learn its character, before the time for easily strangling
it has elapsed.