A SPLIT IN THE WALL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 5, 22 May 1885, Page 19

A SPLIT IN THE WALL.

Thb Prince of Wales, who succeeded Lord Bipon as Grand Master of the English Free Masons, recently wrote a letter to one of his eminent French brethren in the sect, in which he said that " English Free Masons have always held to the belief that God is the first and great landmark of genuine Free Masonry." The Continental Free Masons will, doubtless, regard this assertion as British hypocrisy. La Chaine d ' Union, of Paris, is a Masonic authority. In its January number it points a discourse in which the chief object of Masonic war is announced to be the priests. " Yes," writes another contributor to the Chained" Union, "we are revolutionists, like the Albigenses, the Huguenots', the Descartes; the Sp'inosas'; like the Saint- Justes, fife Bobespierres ; like the Fenians and the Jacobins." A cert£u Masonic Brother Courdaveaux delivered a discourse on original sin— which is, according to this. Masonic organ, a base falsehood, invented for the delusion of Catholics. "It iB unnecessary to say," remarks the Chaine cPLnwit— the organ, let us remember, of that sect which dedicates public monuments in Christian countries— " it is unnecessary to say that the profound erudition of Brother Courdaveaux had but little trouble in showing his auditors how unworthy of belief was 1 this invention of original sin, which had only entered the world about four hundred or five hundred years after Jesus Christ ; for His coming we have no other reason (at least according to the Scriptures) than to save us from this sin. ?1 ~ \ - - - -* ■ -- The facts and the reasoning of the Chaine d? Union are very Ingersolliam— New York Freeman. " ~ ' " " • '