FREEMASONRY.
Feeemasonby is considered by many people a harmless form of an oath-bound secret society. Its utility is held up on account of the benevolent aid rendered to members in distress, no matter of what creed. Specious and delusive fustian !
Has Christianity proven a failure when secret societies must be organised to teach men to "do to others as they would that men should do to them ?" or has the " Good Samaritan" failed to let men know who is their "neighbor?" Pure Christianity does not require the proofs of secret society, as its sacred maxims are in themselves grand principles of action and heaven-born philosophy Neither has genuine liberality any foundation so secure as that which flows from the practical application of the injunction of the Gospel and the teachings of the Church. This is the unmixed liberality which is in harmony with the Divine will, the pure source of all truth.
It is well known, besides, that Masonry ia not the harmless dove its votaries represent it to be. It has been implicated in the acts of the Carbonari in Italy, and the wild horrors of the impious Commune in Paris. It is the friend of the revolution and the foe of religion. — ' Catholic Sentinel.'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 189, 10 November 1876, Page 12
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206FREEMASONRY. New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 189, 10 November 1876, Page 12
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