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Masonry Founded On Scripture.
sect , * as it has been ignorantly called , is almost everywhere spoken against ;* and on the other hand , it must be difficult thoroughly to vindicate it in the opinion of ignorant and over-curious men , without divulging those secrets , which must be ever kept sacred in a Mason ' s heart , and can never be revealed tp any person but to a true and lawful brotherand that upon a proper occasion .
, ' ¦ But , however licentious the present age maybe ; however apt to ridicule every thing that is serious and praise-worthy , or that they themselves are unacquainted with ; yet when 1 consider the sacredness of this place , where we are met before God , a place more immediately set apart for Divine Worship , and for the instruction of God ' s people , in knowledge and in truth ; 1 , as God ' s minister , whose tongue should
never lie , much less in the instruction of his people , despair not to meet with some credit , even from those , who , not knowing that we have a good conscience , now speak evil of us , as of evil doers , and to make them ashamed , who have falsely accused our good conversciiion in Christ , f And first I would observe that Christianity itself no sooner made
its appearance in the world , than , it was immediately attacked ; and its great minister St . Paul was , on preaching Jesus and the resurrection , accursed as a pestilent fellow , and a mover of sedition among all the Jews : | and yet when its doctrines came to be fully known , and the indecency and simplicity of its professors to shine before wise ' and discreet men , it daily gained ground , and Christians increased so'greatly ,
¦ that in a i ' eiy ages the name of Christ was gone out into all lands , and the sound of Christianity was heard even at the ends of the world . § [ TO BE COSTIN'UED . J
Royal Cumberland School.
ROYAL CUMBERLAND SCHOOL .
XO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS ; REPOSITORY . SIR , IN periodical publications likeyour ' s , it is a very common thing for a writer to beffin a short essay , with stating the great advantage the world derives from the easy method he has , by such means , to communicate his se itiments respecting any public benefit ; as well as
' the propriety of such a channel to convey either pleasure , information , or to be useful to mankind . Trite as this remark is , I confess I feel its truth with irresistible force ; and also the expediency of s-jlicicing your aid in a peculiar manner , to call upon our Masonic . Brothers to support their own excellent institution—the School in St . George ' s Fields for the female children of our indigent and distressed fraternity .
Man is naturally a benevolent creature ; and I am inclined to think , that if there exists a description of persons who endeavour to inculcate this principle in an higher degree , and to a greater extent than others ,
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Masonry Founded On Scripture.
sect , * as it has been ignorantly called , is almost everywhere spoken against ;* and on the other hand , it must be difficult thoroughly to vindicate it in the opinion of ignorant and over-curious men , without divulging those secrets , which must be ever kept sacred in a Mason ' s heart , and can never be revealed tp any person but to a true and lawful brotherand that upon a proper occasion .
, ' ¦ But , however licentious the present age maybe ; however apt to ridicule every thing that is serious and praise-worthy , or that they themselves are unacquainted with ; yet when 1 consider the sacredness of this place , where we are met before God , a place more immediately set apart for Divine Worship , and for the instruction of God ' s people , in knowledge and in truth ; 1 , as God ' s minister , whose tongue should
never lie , much less in the instruction of his people , despair not to meet with some credit , even from those , who , not knowing that we have a good conscience , now speak evil of us , as of evil doers , and to make them ashamed , who have falsely accused our good conversciiion in Christ , f And first I would observe that Christianity itself no sooner made
its appearance in the world , than , it was immediately attacked ; and its great minister St . Paul was , on preaching Jesus and the resurrection , accursed as a pestilent fellow , and a mover of sedition among all the Jews : | and yet when its doctrines came to be fully known , and the indecency and simplicity of its professors to shine before wise ' and discreet men , it daily gained ground , and Christians increased so'greatly ,
¦ that in a i ' eiy ages the name of Christ was gone out into all lands , and the sound of Christianity was heard even at the ends of the world . § [ TO BE COSTIN'UED . J
Royal Cumberland School.
ROYAL CUMBERLAND SCHOOL .
XO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS ; REPOSITORY . SIR , IN periodical publications likeyour ' s , it is a very common thing for a writer to beffin a short essay , with stating the great advantage the world derives from the easy method he has , by such means , to communicate his se itiments respecting any public benefit ; as well as
' the propriety of such a channel to convey either pleasure , information , or to be useful to mankind . Trite as this remark is , I confess I feel its truth with irresistible force ; and also the expediency of s-jlicicing your aid in a peculiar manner , to call upon our Masonic . Brothers to support their own excellent institution—the School in St . George ' s Fields for the female children of our indigent and distressed fraternity .
Man is naturally a benevolent creature ; and I am inclined to think , that if there exists a description of persons who endeavour to inculcate this principle in an higher degree , and to a greater extent than others ,