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malediction ? " Thou son of the perverse and rebellious woman , do not 1 know that thou hast chosen the son of Jcsso to thineown confusion ?"—( 1 Sam . xx . 30 . ) Still Jonathan held Iris faith inviolate to tho last . Many chapters of this book abound with expressions of great beauty , illustrative of this warm attachment : and hero it may not bo irrelevant to remark , that the modesty of demeanour which ever accompanies true merit first attracted Jonathan to David . Ho evinced no pride , —no feeling of superiority , for having performed a prodigy of valour , and , stripling as he then was , encountered and slew the fierce
champion of the Philistines , " who defied the armies of tho living God , " and before whose spear the choice warriors of Israel quailed and fled . We read , when " Saul said to him . Whose son art thou , thou young man % " ( 1 Sam . xvii . 58 ) , David simply replied , "I am the son of thy servant Jesse . " "And it came to pass , when he had made an end of speaking unto Said , that tho soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David , and Jonathan loved him as his own sold" ( 1 Sam . xviii . 1 . ) And again : "And Jonathan caused David to swear again , because he loved him : for ho loved him as he loved his own soul . " —( 1 Sam . xx . 17 . ) And againat parting with Mmwhen David
, , fled from Naioth to avoid the continued persecution of Saul . How touching is the parting of these true friends : — " And they kissed one another , and wept one with another , imtil David exceeded . "—( 1 Sam . xx . 41 . ) Then how simply sad and truly melancholy is David ' s lamentation at the untimely fate of his much-loved friend and brother : — " I am distressed for thee , my brother Jonathan : very pleasant hast thou been unto me : thy love to me was wonderful , passing the love of woman . "—( 2 Sam . i . 26 . ) But even in this distressing hour , David did not forget that charity of tho heart of which I lately spoke ; for even then he speaks with forgiving kindness of his greatest
enemy , one who banished him from his home and happiness , deprived him of his most loved wife , — "But Said had given Michel , his daughter , David ' s wife , to Phalti , tho son of Laish" ( 1 Sam . xxv . 44 ) , —and exerted every nerve for his destruction . Still Saul is also included in the lamentation for Jonathan . " And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son : The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are tho mightv
fallen ! " Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives , and in their death they were not divided . " "How are the mightyfallen ! 0 Jonathan , thou wast slain in thine high places . How are the mighty fallen , and the weapons of war perished . " ( 2 Sam . i . 17 , et seq . ) ( Great applause . ) In the 1 st Thessalonians , iv . 9 , we also see , " But as touching brotherly love , yo need not that I write unto you : for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another . " There is one more charming allusion to brotherly love mado by "the sweet Psalmist of Israel , " which even at the risk of being thought prolix I cannot omit . In Psalm exxxiii , " Behold how good and how pleasant
it is for brethren to dwell together in unity ! It is like the precious ointment upon the head , that ran down upon the beard , even Aaron ' s beard : that went down to the skirts of his garments . As the dew of Hermon , and as the clew that descended upon the mountains of Zion . " When David compares brotherly love to this ointment , it is with a view of proving its great value and importance ; tho ointment was the sweetest , the most prized , and the most expensive compound , and never used but in the consecration of the priesthood ; and greatly venerated , as we learn in Exodus xxx . 31 , ot seq . It was prepared by the express direction of the Great Architect of
the universe , communicated to his servant Moses ; it was '' most holy , " and any person making " any like imto that , to smell thereto , " was cut off from his people . Permit me to explain the concluding verse , as it is rather obscure . The Hill of Hermon formed the summit of God ' s Hill , or the Hill of Zion : it was co- 'ered with perpetual snow , and upon the genial rays of the sun molting those snows , the water flowed down the sides of Mount Zion , and fertilized and cheered the plain below , as brotherly love cheers and delights the heart of man . It was , indeed , my Brethren , a most flattering compliment paid to our Orderand fully proves the high estimation it so deservedlenjoys
, y , that when all other secret societies wore suppressed , Masonry alone remained intact . Even that magnificent chivalric Christian order of the Templars , established in 1118 ( with the noble intention of rescuing tho Holy Sepulchre from the infidel ) , fell under the ban of intolerance and superstition ; and after undergoing tho most fearful torments that human ingenuity could invent and
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malediction ? " Thou son of the perverse and rebellious woman , do not 1 know that thou hast chosen the son of Jcsso to thineown confusion ?"—( 1 Sam . xx . 30 . ) Still Jonathan held Iris faith inviolate to tho last . Many chapters of this book abound with expressions of great beauty , illustrative of this warm attachment : and hero it may not bo irrelevant to remark , that the modesty of demeanour which ever accompanies true merit first attracted Jonathan to David . Ho evinced no pride , —no feeling of superiority , for having performed a prodigy of valour , and , stripling as he then was , encountered and slew the fierce
champion of the Philistines , " who defied the armies of tho living God , " and before whose spear the choice warriors of Israel quailed and fled . We read , when " Saul said to him . Whose son art thou , thou young man % " ( 1 Sam . xvii . 58 ) , David simply replied , "I am the son of thy servant Jesse . " "And it came to pass , when he had made an end of speaking unto Said , that tho soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David , and Jonathan loved him as his own sold" ( 1 Sam . xviii . 1 . ) And again : "And Jonathan caused David to swear again , because he loved him : for ho loved him as he loved his own soul . " —( 1 Sam . xx . 17 . ) And againat parting with Mmwhen David
, , fled from Naioth to avoid the continued persecution of Saul . How touching is the parting of these true friends : — " And they kissed one another , and wept one with another , imtil David exceeded . "—( 1 Sam . xx . 41 . ) Then how simply sad and truly melancholy is David ' s lamentation at the untimely fate of his much-loved friend and brother : — " I am distressed for thee , my brother Jonathan : very pleasant hast thou been unto me : thy love to me was wonderful , passing the love of woman . "—( 2 Sam . i . 26 . ) But even in this distressing hour , David did not forget that charity of tho heart of which I lately spoke ; for even then he speaks with forgiving kindness of his greatest
enemy , one who banished him from his home and happiness , deprived him of his most loved wife , — "But Said had given Michel , his daughter , David ' s wife , to Phalti , tho son of Laish" ( 1 Sam . xxv . 44 ) , —and exerted every nerve for his destruction . Still Saul is also included in the lamentation for Jonathan . " And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son : The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are tho mightv
fallen ! " Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives , and in their death they were not divided . " "How are the mightyfallen ! 0 Jonathan , thou wast slain in thine high places . How are the mighty fallen , and the weapons of war perished . " ( 2 Sam . i . 17 , et seq . ) ( Great applause . ) In the 1 st Thessalonians , iv . 9 , we also see , " But as touching brotherly love , yo need not that I write unto you : for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another . " There is one more charming allusion to brotherly love mado by "the sweet Psalmist of Israel , " which even at the risk of being thought prolix I cannot omit . In Psalm exxxiii , " Behold how good and how pleasant
it is for brethren to dwell together in unity ! It is like the precious ointment upon the head , that ran down upon the beard , even Aaron ' s beard : that went down to the skirts of his garments . As the dew of Hermon , and as the clew that descended upon the mountains of Zion . " When David compares brotherly love to this ointment , it is with a view of proving its great value and importance ; tho ointment was the sweetest , the most prized , and the most expensive compound , and never used but in the consecration of the priesthood ; and greatly venerated , as we learn in Exodus xxx . 31 , ot seq . It was prepared by the express direction of the Great Architect of
the universe , communicated to his servant Moses ; it was '' most holy , " and any person making " any like imto that , to smell thereto , " was cut off from his people . Permit me to explain the concluding verse , as it is rather obscure . The Hill of Hermon formed the summit of God ' s Hill , or the Hill of Zion : it was co- 'ered with perpetual snow , and upon the genial rays of the sun molting those snows , the water flowed down the sides of Mount Zion , and fertilized and cheered the plain below , as brotherly love cheers and delights the heart of man . It was , indeed , my Brethren , a most flattering compliment paid to our Orderand fully proves the high estimation it so deservedlenjoys
, y , that when all other secret societies wore suppressed , Masonry alone remained intact . Even that magnificent chivalric Christian order of the Templars , established in 1118 ( with the noble intention of rescuing tho Holy Sepulchre from the infidel ) , fell under the ban of intolerance and superstition ; and after undergoing tho most fearful torments that human ingenuity could invent and