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Review Of New Publications.
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS .
'Tie Spirit of Masonry , in Moral and Elucidatory Lectures . By William Hutchinson . The second Edi i n % vo . 7 / . Carlisle , frintedb y F . Jollie . CONCLUDED FROM VOL . VIII . P . 420 .
JN his Lecture on the nature of tbe Lcd ^ e will found much pleasing and instructive disquisition , expressed in chaste and appropriate language , and with all that peculiar delicacy which the subject , requires . Lecture V . is an illustration of the furniture of the Lodge , in which the following remarks on the ^ oo ; - of the Lodge are neat and ingenious . ' As the steps of man tread in the various and uncertain incidents of life ; as our days are ciiequered with a strange contrariety of events , and our
passage through this existence , though sometimes attended with prosperous circumstances , is often beset by a multitude of evils : hence is the Lodge furnished with Mosaic work , to remind us of the precariousness of our state on earth : —to-day our feet tread in prosperity , to-morrow we totter on the uneven paths of weakness , temptation , and adversity . Whilst this emblem is before us , we are instructed to boast of nothing ;—to have compassion and ive aid to those who are in adversity ; —to walk uprightlyand with
hug , mility;—for such is human existence , that there is no station in which pride can be stably founded : —all men in birth and in the grave are on the level . —Whilst we tread on this Mosaic work , let our ideas return to the original which it copies : and let every Mason act as the dictates of reason prompt him , to live in brotherly love . ' I
This is followed by an elucidation of the apparel and jewels of Masons , which cannot be read without moral improvement by him who has any just sense of the institution whereof he is a member . _ The seventh Lecture is on the temple at Jerusalem , in which we are sorry to see little that is new on so interesting a subject . The eighth Lecture is on Geometiy , which is liable to the same objectior as the preceding .
• We are better pleased , however , with the next Lecture on ' the Master ' s Order , ' wherein we meet with some very sagacious observations on a very intricate topic . For extracting the following remarks we are sure of meeting with the approbation , of our Masonic readers . ' ' The Master Mason impvses a duty on himself , full of moral virtue and Christian charity , by enforcing that brotherly love which every man should
extend to his neig hbour . ' First , That when the calamities of our brothers call for ou ' r aid , we should not withdraw tiie hand that might sustain him from sinking ; but that we should render him those services , which , not incumbering or injuring our families or fortunes , charity and religion may didtate for the saving of our fellowcreature . ' Second , From which purpose , indolence should not persuade the foot thalt , or wrath ' nun our steps out of the way . tutt forgetting injuries and tlfish fiehn . es , and remembering that man was bom for the aid of his gene » VOL . ix . F
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Review Of New Publications.
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS .
'Tie Spirit of Masonry , in Moral and Elucidatory Lectures . By William Hutchinson . The second Edi i n % vo . 7 / . Carlisle , frintedb y F . Jollie . CONCLUDED FROM VOL . VIII . P . 420 .
JN his Lecture on the nature of tbe Lcd ^ e will found much pleasing and instructive disquisition , expressed in chaste and appropriate language , and with all that peculiar delicacy which the subject , requires . Lecture V . is an illustration of the furniture of the Lodge , in which the following remarks on the ^ oo ; - of the Lodge are neat and ingenious . ' As the steps of man tread in the various and uncertain incidents of life ; as our days are ciiequered with a strange contrariety of events , and our
passage through this existence , though sometimes attended with prosperous circumstances , is often beset by a multitude of evils : hence is the Lodge furnished with Mosaic work , to remind us of the precariousness of our state on earth : —to-day our feet tread in prosperity , to-morrow we totter on the uneven paths of weakness , temptation , and adversity . Whilst this emblem is before us , we are instructed to boast of nothing ;—to have compassion and ive aid to those who are in adversity ; —to walk uprightlyand with
hug , mility;—for such is human existence , that there is no station in which pride can be stably founded : —all men in birth and in the grave are on the level . —Whilst we tread on this Mosaic work , let our ideas return to the original which it copies : and let every Mason act as the dictates of reason prompt him , to live in brotherly love . ' I
This is followed by an elucidation of the apparel and jewels of Masons , which cannot be read without moral improvement by him who has any just sense of the institution whereof he is a member . _ The seventh Lecture is on the temple at Jerusalem , in which we are sorry to see little that is new on so interesting a subject . The eighth Lecture is on Geometiy , which is liable to the same objectior as the preceding .
• We are better pleased , however , with the next Lecture on ' the Master ' s Order , ' wherein we meet with some very sagacious observations on a very intricate topic . For extracting the following remarks we are sure of meeting with the approbation , of our Masonic readers . ' ' The Master Mason impvses a duty on himself , full of moral virtue and Christian charity , by enforcing that brotherly love which every man should
extend to his neig hbour . ' First , That when the calamities of our brothers call for ou ' r aid , we should not withdraw tiie hand that might sustain him from sinking ; but that we should render him those services , which , not incumbering or injuring our families or fortunes , charity and religion may didtate for the saving of our fellowcreature . ' Second , From which purpose , indolence should not persuade the foot thalt , or wrath ' nun our steps out of the way . tutt forgetting injuries and tlfish fiehn . es , and remembering that man was bom for the aid of his gene » VOL . ix . F