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cannot contradict or disprove . The simple fact that clergymen of spotless reputation and statesmen of known patriotism , who are devoted to the Church and the State , are numbered among the Craft , ought to induce Mr . Pandi to open his eyes and look at Freemasonrynot through the coloured

, glasses of Monseigneur Dupanloup but by the lig ht of reason and common sense . The circumstance that Freemasonry has existed for ages and that the world is not yet destroyed ought also to have persuaded him that Freemasonry , after allis not the

, heinous crime described in certain quarters . It is of no use telling us that Freemasonry is responsible for the growing inclination on the part of some to look upon saints as " Egyptian mummies , " and to denounce " the worship of images . "

These things may be vexatious to the pious Mr . Pandi , but he must not blame the Craft for it . He might as well tell us that the Reformation was the work of scandalous Freemasons , and that the Protestant world is the den of evil , and its

children the children of darkness . If the reverend gentleman is fond of saints and a connoisseur in pictures , and wishes to preserve both , let him combat the spirit of the age , the tendency of science ; let him try and extinguish the light that modern

thought has thrown upon all things , religious and civil . When the wind is southerly , Mr . Pandi knows a hawk from a handsaw .

Somebody wrote an article in the " c / xov ?; of Corfu , ia which he combats the theories of the priest , declaring at the same time that he is not a Mason . But his reverence was not to be caught with chaff , He did not live " fifty years" in the world , i . e ., in Corfuand not know better . He can see

, through a brick wall when he likes . Did not the anonymous writer affix three stars to his article 1 Very well ; how then can he say that he is not a Mason , that being the form of signature adopted b y all Masons time out of mind . And how could

the ignorant scribbler aver that Freemasonry is " universal , " when Mr . Pandi does not belong to it ? If it is universal , it must contain all mankind—men , women , and children—whereas "Freemasonry , at most , can only boast of one thousand lodges and a million of faithful members . There are others besides , but they are Masons by

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name only . " This gives an average of one thousand faithful Masons to every lodgenot a bad number , all things considered . Let it , however , be clearly understood that in Mr . Pandi's charitable soul a " faithful Mason " is synonymous with a rascal , and

that " the others " are the just , honest and virtuous individuals who are Masons b y name only . We do not disguise our joy that this gentleman has not succeeded in becoming Bishoj ) of Corfu , an honour to which he aspiredotherwise he might have

, created some mischief . The people of Corfu , however , are too sensible , good natured and enlightened to enter into religious squabbles . At present the field is entirely in the possession of a priest on one side , with the children of superstition

behind him , and one or two journalists on the other , with a modest following . The people look on amused at the capers of the combatants . AVe venture to hope that Mr . Pandi will see his error . He has identified Freemasonry and its teachings with the Commune and its doctrines , and the brethren of Corfu cannot do better than

quietly go on with their Masonic duties , regardless of attacks , and without deviating for a moment from the strict rule of Freemasonry , thus demonstrating to the detractors of the Craft , who either in ignorance or by design , persecute it , that Freemasons have no other desire at heart but to see mankind prosper and the sum of human suffering reduced .

Wonders Of Operative Masonry.

WONDERS OF OPERATIVE MASONRY .

From the " Keystone . " OPERATIVE Masonry has enriched Great Britain and the Continent of Europe with numerous architectural splendours which no one beholds without having his emotional nature deeplmoved . Every

y fine old cathedral or abbey is a supreme work of imagination—a poem in stone . It possesses grandeur and beauty for the eye , and it stirs the heart by the historical associations it suggests — memories of