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The Freemasons' Repository.
THE FREEMASONS ' REPOSITORY .
A SERMON , PREACHED AT CHELMSFORD , ESSEX , MAY 15 , 1 797 , AT THE INSTALLATION OF THE R . W . GEORGE DOWNING , ESCL . PROVINCIAL CRASH MASTER OF THAT COUNTY .
' BY THE REV . WILLIAM BROOK JONES , GRAND CUAI'LAIN . fCONcmPED FROM PAGE 2 () 2 . ] ' He that bull tall IhingsisGod . ' ' HER . iii . v . 4 .
HERE , as in all other buildings , some fashioning is necessary to every component part ; the asperities of nature should be removed by relig ious education . Then may faith place us on the true foundation , and Christian love or charity will cement us together . The greatest building known to man , and the greatest work of God , is . this sacred structure of the Christian society . When we survey it we
may take up the words of Christ ' s discip les when the temple of Jerusalem was before their eyes ,- and exclaim as they did , ' Behold what manner of stones and buildings are here . ' The created world , wonderful as it is , was made for the natural life of man ; this for his spiritual ; the one is built for time , the other for eternity . When we consider God as the grand architect , it ought to be
remembered with gratitude , that for the benefit and comfort of mankind , he laid the foundation of civil society in the natural form of a family . And this is the meaning of those words in the Psalm , ' Except the Lord build the house , their labour is but lost that build it . '
Society is founded , multip lied , and supported in the worldbythe goodness of God , as the common father of all . When any civil society shall be found to cast off its relation to God , it must lose its strength and stability . Where . will be its foundations , its pillars , its bond of union ? Are not mankind best united to each other by being first united to God ? An atheistical society can be of no long duration ; it never was , it never will be . In God we live and move and ' and what will be the
haveour being : take away his power , conse- . quence ? Man returns to his dust , and the world falls to atoms . Human society , independent of God , however instituted , must , in like manner , sink into a chaos . But there are those in this world who seem to prefer the chaos to the creation : no good mason can ever do that . In his judgment Jerusalem will always be preferable to an heap of stones . Society dissolved is a building in ruins ; and when a stately structure falls , many are crushed to death ; if the ruin
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Repository.
THE FREEMASONS ' REPOSITORY .
A SERMON , PREACHED AT CHELMSFORD , ESSEX , MAY 15 , 1 797 , AT THE INSTALLATION OF THE R . W . GEORGE DOWNING , ESCL . PROVINCIAL CRASH MASTER OF THAT COUNTY .
' BY THE REV . WILLIAM BROOK JONES , GRAND CUAI'LAIN . fCONcmPED FROM PAGE 2 () 2 . ] ' He that bull tall IhingsisGod . ' ' HER . iii . v . 4 .
HERE , as in all other buildings , some fashioning is necessary to every component part ; the asperities of nature should be removed by relig ious education . Then may faith place us on the true foundation , and Christian love or charity will cement us together . The greatest building known to man , and the greatest work of God , is . this sacred structure of the Christian society . When we survey it we
may take up the words of Christ ' s discip les when the temple of Jerusalem was before their eyes ,- and exclaim as they did , ' Behold what manner of stones and buildings are here . ' The created world , wonderful as it is , was made for the natural life of man ; this for his spiritual ; the one is built for time , the other for eternity . When we consider God as the grand architect , it ought to be
remembered with gratitude , that for the benefit and comfort of mankind , he laid the foundation of civil society in the natural form of a family . And this is the meaning of those words in the Psalm , ' Except the Lord build the house , their labour is but lost that build it . '
Society is founded , multip lied , and supported in the worldbythe goodness of God , as the common father of all . When any civil society shall be found to cast off its relation to God , it must lose its strength and stability . Where . will be its foundations , its pillars , its bond of union ? Are not mankind best united to each other by being first united to God ? An atheistical society can be of no long duration ; it never was , it never will be . In God we live and move and ' and what will be the
haveour being : take away his power , conse- . quence ? Man returns to his dust , and the world falls to atoms . Human society , independent of God , however instituted , must , in like manner , sink into a chaos . But there are those in this world who seem to prefer the chaos to the creation : no good mason can ever do that . In his judgment Jerusalem will always be preferable to an heap of stones . Society dissolved is a building in ruins ; and when a stately structure falls , many are crushed to death ; if the ruin