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THE POWER OF MASONRY

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · BATTLE CREEK, MICH. · Jan 17, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 5.

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THE POWER OF MASONRY.

A few days ago, the newspapers published a citation issued by the Masonic Lodge of the Orient of Paris, against Rev. Bro. William, king of Prussia, as a traitor to Free Masonry. The king took no notice of this citation; so he was tried as contumacious, and condemned to excommunication. In connection with this, M. Victor Hugo’s newspaper, the Rappel, publishes the following: “Bro. William is now out of the pale of the law. All Free Masons are authorized to assault him and to inflict capital punishment.” It remains to be seen how the sentence will be carried out. A Free Mason, in whose presence a doubt was expressed as to the seriousness of such a condemnation, replied, “Do not laugh; the sentence of the Masonic tribunal is of such a dreadful nature that Bonaparte undertook the Italian war solely to retrieve himself from the excommunication pronounced against him by the lodges of Naples and Milan. Pianori and Orsini were Free Masons.”