Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-20
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE.
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10y ABUSING Mrs. McCune on the stree
md McCune revenged himself by endeav-
ring to kill Annie As nearly all thea
bloody afffays disgracing this locality
iuring the past few months, occurred
,litSide, instead of inside, the theater, thaS,
complain lgiofA AfhT aY5RaRfI
\ necessity for man. All men must OF
necessity adore either the True or the
/ False Con either GOD or an Idol OF the
hands or mind, Without supreme
/ Intelligence to direct it, the Universe
would but whirl and DRIFT helplessiy
/ through the immensities Of space u u
were possible either that II Is seH-e
| ent, that is, eternal and Without DeBin-
/ ming, or that at some remote period u
! sprang spontaneously into existence from
nothing. -,..,,,,
any iTreligious believer De perInl,lsleu 20
/ beeOfne one, Masonry is OF no Chufchi
/ hut IL respects all, so far and 50 long as
/ they only teach and persuade, and allow
! freedom of thought and freedom OF con-
/ science, and the right Of private Juug-
ment.
Therefore the Scottish Freemasonry
owes it to itself to declare that II dlsoWhs
anarchists in religion as it disoWns an
arehists in politics, not deciding upon or
( discussing the merits or dement's
of rival and contending creeds.
God, Religion and Worship, are
not for it hateful or Indifferent WORDS
and those who deny all these and auda-
ciously declare al Atheistic Independence
Of all religious faith, cannot be OF us
household.
To pronounce that God is but a meta
physical and useless hypothesis, and that
Z loo fu re- Ia
contrary to the dignity of humanity Is
to announce a creed as hideous as to ex-
clude from the social question the inter-
vention Of all authority and govern
ment.
not to Religion, but TO Superstition
and Spiritual DespOtisn, Masonry ls hos
tile. ANY creed whatever that declares
the existence and watchful providence of
one GOD, Supreme Reason and Supreme
Intelligence, is to il, compared with the
worship termed Atheism, the negative
of a GoDi as Light is to the outer DARK
ness. One is day and the other night TO
it. So, equally, are Authority Law and
Government opposed TO anarchy mis-
rule and popular tyranny.
FreemasOnry cannot IN the least I'M
fere with the religious faith, duties and
Iobseryances Of its members. 1t cannot
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to renounce one or disregard or neglect
the Others. Ifit were TO require them to
agree that they would not receive, upon
their death bed, the last eOnsolations OF
religion, il would commit crime against
its own laws, and be guilty OF hideous
outrage against the hOliesJ instincts OF
humanity, by interpOsing its hand to
keep the dying soul from rep0sing on
the bosom Of the GOD Of Love.
If ever such a tyranny should be at
TEMPTED to be established over the SOUL
in the name of FreemasOnTy, those who
ATTEMPT it will have been guilty OF
treason against the Order. To order It's
members not to worship GOD, not TO
seek the holy consultations OF Faith and
Hone upon the bed Of sickness and when
overshadOwed by the dark wings oi
AZrael, would be an inhuman atrOeity
not surpassed by the most abominable
acts of despotism Of the brutalest super
stitiOns.
It is true that free inquir always
. tends and too often leads 70 irreligiOn,
as freedom and democracy degenerate
into license and anarchy, and the crueltles
and baseness and eOrruptiOns of popular
rule: that sects multiply and wander
farther and farther away from the truth
that the worship Of Reason, as opposed
. taFaith, in the end becomes more ira
: tional than Pagauismi as ii is at last
, but a step from the despQtism Of the mol
and its chief to the desf9ism OF Ctesar.