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The Charge.
Collecting the whole of our duty into one point of view , th & mention of that alone will be sufficient , I flatter myself , to engage your judgments and your feelings . ° The altar of this edifice ( if I may so express myself ) should always burn . with tiie cheering and purifying flame of charity , comprising all the offices of love and benevolence hearts
. Our should never be unwarmed by this sacred principle . ' The sight or relation of misery suffered by our fellow-creatures thr ' ough ° life ' s . thorny maze , should always cause it to burn with increasing ardour in our breasts . Sweet , inexpressibly sweet , are the vibrations which the chords of his heart feel , who sympathises with the sorrows of virtue in distress ; but they swell into a hi gher degree of extacy if lie but the
can cause voice of mourning to change its note , and the tears from affliction ' s fountain cease to flow . Let but the FAITHFUL LODGE be marked by this lovely character , and its perrnanency is secured : when this immortalizing principle burns with freedom , fervency , and zeal , every other that can , strengthen , support , and adorn , will most certainl y be found , ' .
To The Printer Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
TO THE PRINTER OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
SIR , If you think , as I do , that the following Narrative illustrates in a striking manner the Masonic Pictures tof FAITH 4 HOPE , and PERSEVERANCE , you will have the goodness to give it to your Readers in the next Number of your agreeable Miscellany . I am , & c . S . J ,
A Narrative Of The Sufferings Of Lieutenant George Spearing,
A NARRATIVE OF THE SUFFERINGS OF LIEUTENANT GEORGE SPEARING ,
WHO LIVED SEVEN NIGHTS IN A COAL-PIT , WITHOUT ANY SUSIE" ? NANCE , EXCEl'T SOME RAIN-WATEK . ON Wednesday , September 13 , 17 6 9 , between three and four o ' clock in the afternoon , 1 went into a little wood called Northwoodside ( situated between two aiid three miles to the N . W .
of Glasgow ) with a design to gather a few hazel-nuts .. I think that I could not have been in the wood more than a quarter of an hour , npr have gathered mpre than ten nuts , before I unfortunatelyfell into an old coal-pit , exactly seventeen yards deep , which had been made through a solid rock . I was some little time insensible * Upon recovering my recollection , I found myself sitting ( nearly
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The Charge.
Collecting the whole of our duty into one point of view , th & mention of that alone will be sufficient , I flatter myself , to engage your judgments and your feelings . ° The altar of this edifice ( if I may so express myself ) should always burn . with tiie cheering and purifying flame of charity , comprising all the offices of love and benevolence hearts
. Our should never be unwarmed by this sacred principle . ' The sight or relation of misery suffered by our fellow-creatures thr ' ough ° life ' s . thorny maze , should always cause it to burn with increasing ardour in our breasts . Sweet , inexpressibly sweet , are the vibrations which the chords of his heart feel , who sympathises with the sorrows of virtue in distress ; but they swell into a hi gher degree of extacy if lie but the
can cause voice of mourning to change its note , and the tears from affliction ' s fountain cease to flow . Let but the FAITHFUL LODGE be marked by this lovely character , and its perrnanency is secured : when this immortalizing principle burns with freedom , fervency , and zeal , every other that can , strengthen , support , and adorn , will most certainl y be found , ' .
To The Printer Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
TO THE PRINTER OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
SIR , If you think , as I do , that the following Narrative illustrates in a striking manner the Masonic Pictures tof FAITH 4 HOPE , and PERSEVERANCE , you will have the goodness to give it to your Readers in the next Number of your agreeable Miscellany . I am , & c . S . J ,
A Narrative Of The Sufferings Of Lieutenant George Spearing,
A NARRATIVE OF THE SUFFERINGS OF LIEUTENANT GEORGE SPEARING ,
WHO LIVED SEVEN NIGHTS IN A COAL-PIT , WITHOUT ANY SUSIE" ? NANCE , EXCEl'T SOME RAIN-WATEK . ON Wednesday , September 13 , 17 6 9 , between three and four o ' clock in the afternoon , 1 went into a little wood called Northwoodside ( situated between two aiid three miles to the N . W .
of Glasgow ) with a design to gather a few hazel-nuts .. I think that I could not have been in the wood more than a quarter of an hour , npr have gathered mpre than ten nuts , before I unfortunatelyfell into an old coal-pit , exactly seventeen yards deep , which had been made through a solid rock . I was some little time insensible * Upon recovering my recollection , I found myself sitting ( nearly