Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-06-22
THE POPE AND FIR Il :
MASONRY.

places of the Catholic Church
against the Order of Freemasonry,
and against the free school system
of the United States. The first is
letter written by the Pope to the
Bishop of New Orleans, congratu-
lating the latter upon the pamphlet
he has written in denunciation of
Masonry; and the second is an ex-
tract from a very incorporate SER
mon delivered in New York City
by the Rev. Father Walker, of the
st. Lawrence Roman Catholic
Church in S4th street. Walker is
said to be a very jealous Irish
Jesuit priest, recently from the
South, and the extract is in refer
ence to the public schools of New
York. In speaking of the pam
phlet and Masonry, the Pope says:
1t is useful, because the nefari-
Gus character of the sect being
known, there is no honest man who
must not turn from it with horror,
and perhaps many members who
do not know the secret mysteries,
will yet withdraw. What is par
ticularly useful is the perspicacity
with which you demonstrate to all
attentive minds the real tendency
of the taking words, Fraternity
and Equality which have deceiv-
ed and seduced so many, and the
true origin and object of the much
boasted liberties of conscience, of
public worship and of the press.
After reading your work nobody
can doubt that all this came from
Ereemasonry to overturn civil and
religious order, and consequently
the Church has wisely condemned
those who practice and defend such
liberties We therefore wish you
many intelligent readers, for it is
no small advantage to perceive the
snare, and as pledge of Divine
favor and our special good will, we
give you, venerable brother, from
the bottom of our heart, to you
and your diocese, our apostolic
benediction.
1t would be impossible to con-
ceive a more slanderous structure
than this against an Order whose
origin dates back for hundreds of
years, and the knowledge of whose
charities and virtues, as an Order,
extend over the entire world. We
need go into. no eulogy of the
Masonic Order to prove the utter
unfairness of this pronunciamento
from the lips of an infirm and
imbecile old man, whose heart, il
we Judge from his utterances, is
stepped to the core in vindietive
ness and hatred toward everybody
and everything not bearing the
sealiof "our most Holy Church.
To the ears of one neither Cath
Ollie ora Mason, but who possesses
reverence for the professions o.
both, the language of the Pops
CRATES harshly. To us, Pho Nino i.
a great and good man; and to us
also, he is no more nor less thai
man. From great men we natural
ly expect great, liberal, expansive
utteranoes. What, then, shall oul
disappointment be when we reaG
the narrow, sectarian, unjust and
unnecessary structures of the great
head of great church, consignine
to perdition all those who may SEE
in the Masonic Order a great, noble
brotherhood; fold into which are
gathered the tried and true of al
lands and all nationalities; haver
of safety for the homeless wander
err; a nurse in time of sickness, an(
a burial for the corpse that ha
fallen by the wayside among
strangers. There are false ant
true everywhere on earth; there
are good Masons and bad Masons--
there are good Catholics and ba.
Catholics. To be q good Catholic
one must of necessity be goo'
man; to be . true Mason, just a
surely entails the necessity O
being a good man in moral sense
How strange the comparison of tn
language of the great priest an
the SAVIOUR, whose representativ
on earth he claims to be! Will
the Prince of Peace has mercy TO
all and lore. for the, meanest an,
lowest Of His creatures, and is eve
speaking the great, liberal, god
like thoughts of his heart, tn
Priest, His servant, sits high an,