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The Freemasons' Repository.
cure a due attention to the respective religious persuasions of its various professors . It is of little importance to Masonry that its professors vary in their religious tenets ; but it is of importance- that they practise what they profess . The respect which the institution and its exemplary professors will always command , are a sufficient check against the introduction of politics or religion that might disturb its
harmony . To this the captious objector may be disposed to retort : There are individuals of various societies within the circle of my own acquaintance ; there have been whole bodies in a nei ghbouring country , of which I have heard and read much . If politics and religion are precluded , what can be theobject of their enquiries } Candid reader , when you improperly attempt to investigate the order and the ways of
Providence , or presumptuously demand his works to be laid open to your scrutinizing eye , wonder not if the veil be drawn . B . MASONICUS . N . B . The Tender will please to correct the following errors in our preceding Essay on tiie Masonic Character . Page 3 +, line 11 , for uygliph , read trygliphs . 24 , _/ "«¦ voliuis , read volutes ; and , for axanthus , read acanthus .
What Is The Order Of Freemasonry?
WHAT IS THE ORDER OF FREEMASONRY ?
ANSWERED , IN A DISCOURSE ,
BY" HENRY IBBEKIN , M . D .
MY BRETm-IEU , ( pALEDONIA , famed for Schools of Wisdom , has long beenthe *— ' seat of an Order , contemned by some , esteemed by others , and comprehended by few . The first of these three classes I see crouded by weak minds , and by men of sense . The former criticise and sentence what they never
saw , never heard , never read ; and thus act absurdly . The latter desire to have all their expectations answered at their entrance into the Order ; and being treated as novices , they deem themselves trifled with , and turned aside with a design to defame : —these act ungenerously . The second class is filled with men that love a jovial hour , and
with men that spy the cause of masonic meetings . The former have no views , no ambition ; seek nothing in the Order but recreation and amusement ; and when they get indulged with this , they are contend and leave it where they found it . The latter permit these gratifications to novices , but assist at the same time-to keep the mean , point in view , and guide the obedient forward on the road of truth to the
portico . The third class contains those few , who by long perseverance and intensive study penetrated the scientific part of the Order ; became
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The Freemasons' Repository.
cure a due attention to the respective religious persuasions of its various professors . It is of little importance to Masonry that its professors vary in their religious tenets ; but it is of importance- that they practise what they profess . The respect which the institution and its exemplary professors will always command , are a sufficient check against the introduction of politics or religion that might disturb its
harmony . To this the captious objector may be disposed to retort : There are individuals of various societies within the circle of my own acquaintance ; there have been whole bodies in a nei ghbouring country , of which I have heard and read much . If politics and religion are precluded , what can be theobject of their enquiries } Candid reader , when you improperly attempt to investigate the order and the ways of
Providence , or presumptuously demand his works to be laid open to your scrutinizing eye , wonder not if the veil be drawn . B . MASONICUS . N . B . The Tender will please to correct the following errors in our preceding Essay on tiie Masonic Character . Page 3 +, line 11 , for uygliph , read trygliphs . 24 , _/ "«¦ voliuis , read volutes ; and , for axanthus , read acanthus .
What Is The Order Of Freemasonry?
WHAT IS THE ORDER OF FREEMASONRY ?
ANSWERED , IN A DISCOURSE ,
BY" HENRY IBBEKIN , M . D .
MY BRETm-IEU , ( pALEDONIA , famed for Schools of Wisdom , has long beenthe *— ' seat of an Order , contemned by some , esteemed by others , and comprehended by few . The first of these three classes I see crouded by weak minds , and by men of sense . The former criticise and sentence what they never
saw , never heard , never read ; and thus act absurdly . The latter desire to have all their expectations answered at their entrance into the Order ; and being treated as novices , they deem themselves trifled with , and turned aside with a design to defame : —these act ungenerously . The second class is filled with men that love a jovial hour , and
with men that spy the cause of masonic meetings . The former have no views , no ambition ; seek nothing in the Order but recreation and amusement ; and when they get indulged with this , they are contend and leave it where they found it . The latter permit these gratifications to novices , but assist at the same time-to keep the mean , point in view , and guide the obedient forward on the road of truth to the
portico . The third class contains those few , who by long perseverance and intensive study penetrated the scientific part of the Order ; became