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Article To the EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. ← Page 2 of 2 Article ANECDOTE. Page 1 of 1
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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
rates the sense of pain , exaggerates offence , and gives negligence or inattention the semblance of determined malice . Casting a cloud over the fair face of nature , blotting the sun from the firmament , and letting loose the dasmons of dark disorder , she alarms us with images of horror and misrule . Thus we carry the disease in our bosoms : no change of condition relieves us ; nor fortune , nor power , nor -eminence . Let us flto the remotest corners of the world
pre y , and breathe the air of a thousand regions , the fury pursues us , frowns on our hopes , and blasts our enjoyments . But we expect deliverance in the grave : vain fallacious expectation i We lay aside the clayey vesture , but anxiety cleaves to tlie soul . Our bodies moulder and are consumed , but the spirit remains unaltered : our passions continue vehementour desires unallayedour habits adhere
, , tenacious , tenacious as the envenomed robe of the Centaur adhered to the limbs of Alcides . Objects maybe changed , and even the mode of our existence varied , but the temper of the mind will continue permanent and immutable . Fair is this world , arrayed with lig ht and adorned with beauty , abounding in pleasures , ancl yielding enjoyment to every natural desire . But if the soul pines amid
this variety , and scorns the proffered blessing , incapable through discontent of enjoying them , anxiety will pursue thee to the grave , will disturb thy repose , will haunt thee even in Elysium , and , in the bowers of bliss , will sting thy soul with anguish . " Thou will fly from light to the glooms and horrors of Tartarean darkness , to wail and howl with malignant spiritsand curse thdeplorable being . O examine
, y thine heart , summon thine opinions before the tribunal of reason , nor let imagination aggravate the evils incident to thy condition . Stay yet a little while , ancl heaven of its , own accord will relieve thee heaven will send the messenger of death to lay thy grey hairs peaceful and respected in the grave . Thus thy memory shall be revered : men will sa }' he sustained adversity with resdlutionhe maintained
, , the dignity of his nature , and death coming at the appointed time , found his mind unimpaired and undaunted . O have meny on thy soul ! the hour is fast on the wing , when all that breathe , all that are troubled and afflicted , shall enjoy repose .
Anecdote.
ANECDOTE .
ABOUT the time of the Restoration , when , according to-Mr . Baxter ' s account , i Soo Clergymen were deprived for nonconformity , a Fellow of Emanuel College , Cambridge , was representing to a friend the great difficulties of conformity in point of conscience , and concluded with these words—but we must LIVE : his friend replied , in a like number of words—but we must DIE .
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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
rates the sense of pain , exaggerates offence , and gives negligence or inattention the semblance of determined malice . Casting a cloud over the fair face of nature , blotting the sun from the firmament , and letting loose the dasmons of dark disorder , she alarms us with images of horror and misrule . Thus we carry the disease in our bosoms : no change of condition relieves us ; nor fortune , nor power , nor -eminence . Let us flto the remotest corners of the world
pre y , and breathe the air of a thousand regions , the fury pursues us , frowns on our hopes , and blasts our enjoyments . But we expect deliverance in the grave : vain fallacious expectation i We lay aside the clayey vesture , but anxiety cleaves to tlie soul . Our bodies moulder and are consumed , but the spirit remains unaltered : our passions continue vehementour desires unallayedour habits adhere
, , tenacious , tenacious as the envenomed robe of the Centaur adhered to the limbs of Alcides . Objects maybe changed , and even the mode of our existence varied , but the temper of the mind will continue permanent and immutable . Fair is this world , arrayed with lig ht and adorned with beauty , abounding in pleasures , ancl yielding enjoyment to every natural desire . But if the soul pines amid
this variety , and scorns the proffered blessing , incapable through discontent of enjoying them , anxiety will pursue thee to the grave , will disturb thy repose , will haunt thee even in Elysium , and , in the bowers of bliss , will sting thy soul with anguish . " Thou will fly from light to the glooms and horrors of Tartarean darkness , to wail and howl with malignant spiritsand curse thdeplorable being . O examine
, y thine heart , summon thine opinions before the tribunal of reason , nor let imagination aggravate the evils incident to thy condition . Stay yet a little while , ancl heaven of its , own accord will relieve thee heaven will send the messenger of death to lay thy grey hairs peaceful and respected in the grave . Thus thy memory shall be revered : men will sa }' he sustained adversity with resdlutionhe maintained
, , the dignity of his nature , and death coming at the appointed time , found his mind unimpaired and undaunted . O have meny on thy soul ! the hour is fast on the wing , when all that breathe , all that are troubled and afflicted , shall enjoy repose .
Anecdote.
ANECDOTE .
ABOUT the time of the Restoration , when , according to-Mr . Baxter ' s account , i Soo Clergymen were deprived for nonconformity , a Fellow of Emanuel College , Cambridge , was representing to a friend the great difficulties of conformity in point of conscience , and concluded with these words—but we must LIVE : his friend replied , in a like number of words—but we must DIE .