FREEMASONRY AND ATHEISM.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 11, 3 July 1885, Page 7

FREEMASONRY AND ATHEISM.

The Bishop of Nottingham in the Nottingham Daily Exprtss publishes the translation of a passage from a recent number of the Lanterne. It is as follows :—: — The Prince of Wales, in his character of future Pope of the Anglican Church, cannot repudiate the Grand Architect, we well understand. The Grand Architect is a part of the constitution, like the king or the queen. Like them, he is a peg (cheville). He plays no other part therein. But a peg presumptive cannot expel its fellow peg. The edifice of monarchy is not very solid on the other side of the Channel . An unsettlment has come so quickly. The Prince of Wales replies like the iimperor Joseph II : My - business is to be royalist ! And, in his particular situation, he adds :. My business is to be deist 1 But all the Freemasons of England do not find either the monarchy, or the divinity, absolutely necessary. They have not all the good reasons of the Prince of Wales for sharing his opinions. When Bradlaugh lately came to Paris, he put himself in communication with the Grand Orient of France. He explained to them the situation. A great meeting of English Freemasons will be held in London to protest against the decisicn of the Grand Lodge, aud 10 renew the relations of English with French Masonry. The Prince of Wales will be dismissed along with the Grand Architect. Would he like us to give him a piece of good advice, very generous in a republican ? Don'c let him mix himself up too much with the last named. He is so worn out !