Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

44 SPIRIT OF THE DOCTRINE OF FREE MASONRY." J2ti9
midst of a world sunk in idolatry, singly sustained the doctrine
of thfe Unity against every foe; and her priests do not
believe in the God who was born, and died, and rose again;
that is certain ; although the devils believe and tremble.
** But this is not American Free Masonry."
Can the objector be sure of that ? Free Masonry is a
secret: does he know that secret ? Men climb to a giddy
height, and yet the thing is beyond them.—Suppose it is
not American, yet it is Free Masonry; and the day our
lodges are sufficiently trained, to receive the odious impiety
which has gone over France like a flood, that day will make
this infidelity-, American Free Masonry. It is right to know
what fruit she has produced in other countries, whether of
doctrine or example, that we may form some reasonable
expectation of the harvest to be reaped from her unprecedented
expansion (I will not say growth) in this country.
And what is the harvest we are to expect from her instructions
in the two thousand lodges of this country, being
once made acquainted with her falsehood, her doctrine of
temporal expediency, her acknowledged Deism, her perfecting
men without the aid of fear or hope? In other
countries she has trifled with the holiest rites of religion;
has burlesqued its sublimest mysteries; has despised the
blood which was shed for the remission of sins; and it is in
the character of this people, and not in the character of
Free Masonry, that the same things remain to be done
here.
" The Word that was made flesh, and dwelt among us,
(and we behold his glory," says the apostle,* " the glory as
of the only begotten of the Fathfer, full of grace and truth,")
is uniformly rejected by the Books of Constitutions of our
lodges. Let none attempt to evade this charge, by calling
up to mind the doctrines of the higher degrees. I do not
undertake to say what is taught in them, but within the two
* John, i. 14.