First Sentence

"AT frequent intervals now for nearly two hundred years, the heads of the Roman Catholic Church have been launching their papal thunders against Freemasonry, alleging that it is not only anti-Christian, but Atheistic in its constitution; that at its doors lie the many wars which have taken place during that period ; and that it has been responsible for the innumerable revolutions that have disturbed nations, and the myriads of seditious plots which have been hatched, particularly since 1717, when the Mother Grand Lodge of the World was first organised."