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For The Freemasons' Magazine.
For the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
SIR , THE following is part of a Letter . which was addressed a short time since by a Companion of the GRAND CHAPTER OF HARODIM to a Gentleman of that ORDEU , who is eminently distinguished among the Fraternity as a zealous and able instrument in the
dissemination of Masonic Knowledge . If you should think it contains any observations that may fend to promote the Institution of Masonry , or add to it ' s estimation , 1 think there is nrj hazard of displeasing the Author by communicating it . I am , Sir , Your kind Friend and Brother , A MEMBER OF THE LODGE OF ANTIQUITY ,
SEPT . 7 , 1792 . " SIB , - " ^ II ^ O your valuable instructions in the Science of MASONRY , - JJL I should do great injustice , if 1 did not frequently make them the subject of serious reflection '; their manifest tendency being to improve the understanding , and amend the heart ,
" Contemplating the interesting picture disclosed ; to the view of the investigating MASON , I frequently regret that I am restrained from developing to some of my mo ' i-t valued friends , among theunitiated , so much of it's beauty , of displaying such , of it ' s most striking features , as would serve to counteract the effects of those , erroneous ideas of our Institution , which we find too prevalent among mankind .
" The MASONIC SYSTEM , to my eye ,- . exhibits a . stupendous and beautiful fabric , founded on Universal Piety , - unfolding it ' s gates to receive , without prejudice or discrimination , the worthy professors of every description of genuine Religion ; concentrating , as it were ; in one body , the just tenets , unencumbered by the disputable peculiarities , of all sects and persuasions ; and storing up the most approved schemes of Ethics ; adopted by the different
. nations of the world where Civilization has impressed her footsteps * " This System orig inated in the earliest ages and among the wisest of men ; and on it the effect of time ( contrary to the usual course ) has been to ' meliorate , not to impair ; to conduct it to perfection b y improvement ad infinitum , not to accelerate it ' s progress to decay ; a System-I must say ( whether morally or
religi-, ously considered ) , more excellent than any , because partaking- of the chief excellencies of all others ; more practicable , more productive of effect on it ' s professors , because , free from the austerity , yet comprising the best' precepts of religion , it removes ths .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
For The Freemasons' Magazine.
For the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
SIR , THE following is part of a Letter . which was addressed a short time since by a Companion of the GRAND CHAPTER OF HARODIM to a Gentleman of that ORDEU , who is eminently distinguished among the Fraternity as a zealous and able instrument in the
dissemination of Masonic Knowledge . If you should think it contains any observations that may fend to promote the Institution of Masonry , or add to it ' s estimation , 1 think there is nrj hazard of displeasing the Author by communicating it . I am , Sir , Your kind Friend and Brother , A MEMBER OF THE LODGE OF ANTIQUITY ,
SEPT . 7 , 1792 . " SIB , - " ^ II ^ O your valuable instructions in the Science of MASONRY , - JJL I should do great injustice , if 1 did not frequently make them the subject of serious reflection '; their manifest tendency being to improve the understanding , and amend the heart ,
" Contemplating the interesting picture disclosed ; to the view of the investigating MASON , I frequently regret that I am restrained from developing to some of my mo ' i-t valued friends , among theunitiated , so much of it's beauty , of displaying such , of it ' s most striking features , as would serve to counteract the effects of those , erroneous ideas of our Institution , which we find too prevalent among mankind .
" The MASONIC SYSTEM , to my eye ,- . exhibits a . stupendous and beautiful fabric , founded on Universal Piety , - unfolding it ' s gates to receive , without prejudice or discrimination , the worthy professors of every description of genuine Religion ; concentrating , as it were ; in one body , the just tenets , unencumbered by the disputable peculiarities , of all sects and persuasions ; and storing up the most approved schemes of Ethics ; adopted by the different
. nations of the world where Civilization has impressed her footsteps * " This System orig inated in the earliest ages and among the wisest of men ; and on it the effect of time ( contrary to the usual course ) has been to ' meliorate , not to impair ; to conduct it to perfection b y improvement ad infinitum , not to accelerate it ' s progress to decay ; a System-I must say ( whether morally or
religi-, ously considered ) , more excellent than any , because partaking- of the chief excellencies of all others ; more practicable , more productive of effect on it ' s professors , because , free from the austerity , yet comprising the best' precepts of religion , it removes ths .