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Brother Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M. P.
perhaps I do not state strongly enough , is alone abundantly sufficient to prevent any serious Christian from belonging to that body . "My name having been dragged before the public on this subject , it is , I think , my duty to prevent any person supposing that he was following my example in taking oaths which I now certainly would not take , and consequently becoming a Freemason , which I certainly would not now do . " I have the honour to be your faithful servant , " DANIEL O'CONNELL . "
It is our pleasing duty to promote our Brother from the Masonic Chit-chat to a more distinguished position in this Review , an advancement which he will doubtless the more readily appreciate , inasmuch as he has himself courted it . The pilot generally directs the steersmanand we but emulate our gifted Brother in the course he has pointed out ; we shall be careful that our good humour , although it cannot exceed his own , shall at least follow in his wake . The letter to the Pilot containsas abovevarious paragraphswhich
, , , we shall notice seriatim , merely desiring the reader to reperuse our former observations at pageS 5 . Par . 1 . This in no manner alters the case . Tar . 2 . Requires no comment . Par . 3 . The great point is substantiated ; Mr . O'Connell is a Freemason , arid has passed the Chair . However it may be regretted that the ecclesiastical censure of his
church has visited an institution of so truly sacred a character , and that the warm-hearted feelings of a youth of promise have submitted to a domination of any kind , we cannot but feel that our Brother knows , and knows right well too , that the "late Dr . Troy" was too politic a pastor not to have counselled the counsellor against taking the step alluded to , had he thought the same was seriously contemplated . But " tempora mutantur . "
Par . 4 . Freemasonry is here placed in opposition to Temperance Societies . If this be intended as a joke , it is a poor one ; if as satire , it is unworthy the Brother who has hazarded an experiment to little purpose . Indeed , it is pretty clear , that in taking aim , our Brother winced at the target , and his shot fell far a-field from '' the point in the centre . " He had forgotten , for a moment , the beautiful lesson of his youth .
Par . 5 . Certain words that are printed in italic , have , we fear , an end and aim not easily seen through . AVhy taunt Masons with mockery and derision of God ? the rather let the principles of peace and good-will which they inculcate , be impressively disseminated through the millions of his countrymen , and let them become sensible of the inestimable value of a society whose principal aim is to humanize the heart of man . Ministers of God are Brethren of the Order ; sovereigns of Europe ,
Catholic and Protestant , are Brethren of the Order ; and the monarch to whom our Brother O'Connell owes the dutiful homage of a subject , is the Patron of the Order . * Par . G . In reply to this paragraph we claim the acknowledgments of our Brother for having been the unintentional means of furnishing him with an opportunity of declaring himself . That persons hitherto did not become Freemasons as following Mr . O'Connell ' s example , may be inferred from the general ignorance of his being one .
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Brother Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M. P.
perhaps I do not state strongly enough , is alone abundantly sufficient to prevent any serious Christian from belonging to that body . "My name having been dragged before the public on this subject , it is , I think , my duty to prevent any person supposing that he was following my example in taking oaths which I now certainly would not take , and consequently becoming a Freemason , which I certainly would not now do . " I have the honour to be your faithful servant , " DANIEL O'CONNELL . "
It is our pleasing duty to promote our Brother from the Masonic Chit-chat to a more distinguished position in this Review , an advancement which he will doubtless the more readily appreciate , inasmuch as he has himself courted it . The pilot generally directs the steersmanand we but emulate our gifted Brother in the course he has pointed out ; we shall be careful that our good humour , although it cannot exceed his own , shall at least follow in his wake . The letter to the Pilot containsas abovevarious paragraphswhich
, , , we shall notice seriatim , merely desiring the reader to reperuse our former observations at pageS 5 . Par . 1 . This in no manner alters the case . Tar . 2 . Requires no comment . Par . 3 . The great point is substantiated ; Mr . O'Connell is a Freemason , arid has passed the Chair . However it may be regretted that the ecclesiastical censure of his
church has visited an institution of so truly sacred a character , and that the warm-hearted feelings of a youth of promise have submitted to a domination of any kind , we cannot but feel that our Brother knows , and knows right well too , that the "late Dr . Troy" was too politic a pastor not to have counselled the counsellor against taking the step alluded to , had he thought the same was seriously contemplated . But " tempora mutantur . "
Par . 4 . Freemasonry is here placed in opposition to Temperance Societies . If this be intended as a joke , it is a poor one ; if as satire , it is unworthy the Brother who has hazarded an experiment to little purpose . Indeed , it is pretty clear , that in taking aim , our Brother winced at the target , and his shot fell far a-field from '' the point in the centre . " He had forgotten , for a moment , the beautiful lesson of his youth .
Par . 5 . Certain words that are printed in italic , have , we fear , an end and aim not easily seen through . AVhy taunt Masons with mockery and derision of God ? the rather let the principles of peace and good-will which they inculcate , be impressively disseminated through the millions of his countrymen , and let them become sensible of the inestimable value of a society whose principal aim is to humanize the heart of man . Ministers of God are Brethren of the Order ; sovereigns of Europe ,
Catholic and Protestant , are Brethren of the Order ; and the monarch to whom our Brother O'Connell owes the dutiful homage of a subject , is the Patron of the Order . * Par . G . In reply to this paragraph we claim the acknowledgments of our Brother for having been the unintentional means of furnishing him with an opportunity of declaring himself . That persons hitherto did not become Freemasons as following Mr . O'Connell ' s example , may be inferred from the general ignorance of his being one .