AN ANTI-MASONIC CRUSADE.
. _ One of the cardinal beliefs of the age , ia that every evil, real or imaginary can ; be best combated by a congress or oonferenoe. The latest evidence of this is the holding of an international anti. Masonio conference at Trent, Id Austria. This new " Connoil of Trent " was or* ganieed by devout Catholics, and received the special commendation of the Pope ; for, as moat people are aware, the Church of Rome has taken a hostile etand in relation to Freemasonry ever since it was denounced by Benedict XIV. The Congress was attended by nearly a thousand delegates, and whs presided over by Prince Lowensteln. A sample of the kind of work it ia doing has been published. It ia stated tbat a committee of the Congress had under consideration a treatise on Freemasonry, written by Miss Diana Vaughan. This mythioil woman is described as of English extraction, of gentle birth, belonging to a family in which the worship of Satan has been hereditary for centuries. Miss Vanghan describes how at an early age she was initiated into Freemasonry. She affirms that in American Lodges, principally at Charlestown, she has had repeated interviews with Lucifer, who, she says, ia both' handsome and young. She informs her readers that a follower of his Satanio Majesty named Bltru announced at a Masonic sitting at Borne tbat on September 29, 1806, a woman residing in Paris would give birth to a relative of the Evil One himself. Tbe book gives fao-elmUaa of the signature of Bltro. and of several other minor demons. Dr Kratzfeld, the delegate of tbe Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne, protested against an; serious diuouadon of such a blasphemous and fantastio work, but several French priests declared that Mlas Diana Vaughan reallj existed, and that Mgr. Fava, Bishop ol Grenoble, in France, knew her, and aould vouoh for her character. They even added that Cardinal Paroechi had congratulated her on her conversion and on her book, Direot evidence of her real existence was, however, absent. It would be a valuable corroboration of her story if these credulous French clerios could produce the infant ' relative of the Hlvil One,' who ought to have been borne a Paria two months ago. The antl-Maaonio crusade is a Quixotic undertaking, and must, in the nature of things, prove futile.
AN ANTI-MASONIC CRUSADE.
Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10465, 21 November 1896, Page 5
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