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The Moral And Religious Origin Of Freemasonry:
of wisdom and the hammer of severity , in order to remove the defective points which prevent its co-ordination with others . You give him tools : he learns how to make use of them , to work , and knows that work is the heritage— the appanage of Society ; he knows that it is a tribute imposed on all its members ; he partakes afterwards of a fraternal banquet as an emblem of the advantages and the enjoyments attached to the acquittal of this sacred
liability . This brief explanation is doubtlessl y sufficient to show that the object of the olden initiation , of which our Masonic Order merely perpetuates the rites , has for motive the admission of man into Society and the study of all the virtues which social order imposes .
But what human institution is free from the vicissitudes to which all nature is subject ? This has been testified b y the common lot of all the works of mankind . How could such an institution have been propagated without alteration , in the midst of the persecutions of blind ignorance against philosophy ? How could it traverse the ages of barbarism which succeeded a wise and learned antiquity without participating in the pervading corruption ? Could it resist the torrents of revolutions , or the overthrow of empires ? ( To be continued . )
A Reverie By The Sea-Side.
A REVERIE BY THE SEA-SIDE .
A S I stood in silent sadness - £ * - On that far and fragrant shore , The bri ght waves in buoyant gladness Seemed to cheer me evermore . And the clouds above me , sailing In their vagabond career , Brought a message all unfailing In its language calm and clear .
"Bear thee up , " I heard them saying , " Poor desponding , lonely heart , Though mournful thoughts thy mind he swaying , Unforsaken still thou art . In God ' s Providence believing , March thou onward on thy way ; Passing sorrows , earthl y grieving Melt before His better day . "
As I reverentl y listen , Gentle tones float round me now , Loving eye ' s they seem to glisten , I see dear face and placid brow . So I turn to sacred duty , So I smile with chastened glee
At those scenes and forms of beauty Which greet me ever b y the sea . W .
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The Moral And Religious Origin Of Freemasonry:
of wisdom and the hammer of severity , in order to remove the defective points which prevent its co-ordination with others . You give him tools : he learns how to make use of them , to work , and knows that work is the heritage— the appanage of Society ; he knows that it is a tribute imposed on all its members ; he partakes afterwards of a fraternal banquet as an emblem of the advantages and the enjoyments attached to the acquittal of this sacred
liability . This brief explanation is doubtlessl y sufficient to show that the object of the olden initiation , of which our Masonic Order merely perpetuates the rites , has for motive the admission of man into Society and the study of all the virtues which social order imposes .
But what human institution is free from the vicissitudes to which all nature is subject ? This has been testified b y the common lot of all the works of mankind . How could such an institution have been propagated without alteration , in the midst of the persecutions of blind ignorance against philosophy ? How could it traverse the ages of barbarism which succeeded a wise and learned antiquity without participating in the pervading corruption ? Could it resist the torrents of revolutions , or the overthrow of empires ? ( To be continued . )
A Reverie By The Sea-Side.
A REVERIE BY THE SEA-SIDE .
A S I stood in silent sadness - £ * - On that far and fragrant shore , The bri ght waves in buoyant gladness Seemed to cheer me evermore . And the clouds above me , sailing In their vagabond career , Brought a message all unfailing In its language calm and clear .
"Bear thee up , " I heard them saying , " Poor desponding , lonely heart , Though mournful thoughts thy mind he swaying , Unforsaken still thou art . In God ' s Providence believing , March thou onward on thy way ; Passing sorrows , earthl y grieving Melt before His better day . "
As I reverentl y listen , Gentle tones float round me now , Loving eye ' s they seem to glisten , I see dear face and placid brow . So I turn to sacred duty , So I smile with chastened glee
At those scenes and forms of beauty Which greet me ever b y the sea . W .