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The Union Of Love To God And Love To Man:-A Masonic Sermon.
ynen ; two things which , as I have shewn , cannot be separated . No evil design against either the church or the state , or against the peace and good order of families , or of society , ever did , or ever could , arise from the principles of MASONRY . It is surprising , that an institution coeval with the first rise of society among the human kind , and which none of even its enemies has ever yet been able to shew that it hath a tendency to hurt the morals
of mankind , or to disturb the peace and good order of society , should ever have been unpopular in any country , or have met with the public resentment . 1 can say , with great truth , that the prejudices entertained against it by some , are altogether the effect of their total ignorance of its nature and design .
That relief to distressed objects of every country , and of every religious persuasion , which cometh from the funds of this most ancient of all charitable institutions , ought to be considered as an argumentin its favour by all the humane . The charitable funds ofthe MASONIC . SOCIETY are , for the most part , managed with more care , and with a more strict ' attention to the characters and real necessities of those who applto them for reliefthan perhaps any other charitable funds
y , whatever ; which arises not from Masonic Brethren being superior in character and virtue to those gentlemen who manage other ' charitable funds , but from the mode of distribution and enquiry . Many worthy noblemen and gentlemen , who have presided in the several degrees of office in the grand lodge of Scotland , can well attestthat a very large sum is disbursed annually and . quarterly from
, their funds , and distributed among the poor of various classes . So great has been the attention of some of those worthy characters to the state of poor and distressed objects , that upon them will come the blessing of the widow and tbefatberless , and " of him thai was ready ty . perish !"
An Address To The Mason Brethren*.
AN ADDRESS TO THE MASON BRETHREN * .
Allow me to address myself , in particular , to you , the Brethren of the GRAND LODGE of SCOTLAND , and the Brethren of the other " Lodges of this very ancient and respectable city of Edinburgh , and all those Brethren from the country , who have this day assembled with you . _ ¦ . ¦ In reflecting upon your most ancient and noble Institution , ye cannot fail to be struck with the great singularity of its having
descended , both in its principles and forms , pure and unadulterated , to you , even from the first age of the world . Amidst the successive revolutions of kingdoms , and the alterations of forms of government , and the many changes of laws and customs , MASONRY has always re- , mained the same , except in the case of a few improvements made upon it by the great and the wise King SOLOMON . Its permanency hath arisen from its being built , not upon mutable and perishing circumstances of an exterior nature , but upon some of the best affections of
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Union Of Love To God And Love To Man:-A Masonic Sermon.
ynen ; two things which , as I have shewn , cannot be separated . No evil design against either the church or the state , or against the peace and good order of families , or of society , ever did , or ever could , arise from the principles of MASONRY . It is surprising , that an institution coeval with the first rise of society among the human kind , and which none of even its enemies has ever yet been able to shew that it hath a tendency to hurt the morals
of mankind , or to disturb the peace and good order of society , should ever have been unpopular in any country , or have met with the public resentment . 1 can say , with great truth , that the prejudices entertained against it by some , are altogether the effect of their total ignorance of its nature and design .
That relief to distressed objects of every country , and of every religious persuasion , which cometh from the funds of this most ancient of all charitable institutions , ought to be considered as an argumentin its favour by all the humane . The charitable funds ofthe MASONIC . SOCIETY are , for the most part , managed with more care , and with a more strict ' attention to the characters and real necessities of those who applto them for reliefthan perhaps any other charitable funds
y , whatever ; which arises not from Masonic Brethren being superior in character and virtue to those gentlemen who manage other ' charitable funds , but from the mode of distribution and enquiry . Many worthy noblemen and gentlemen , who have presided in the several degrees of office in the grand lodge of Scotland , can well attestthat a very large sum is disbursed annually and . quarterly from
, their funds , and distributed among the poor of various classes . So great has been the attention of some of those worthy characters to the state of poor and distressed objects , that upon them will come the blessing of the widow and tbefatberless , and " of him thai was ready ty . perish !"
An Address To The Mason Brethren*.
AN ADDRESS TO THE MASON BRETHREN * .
Allow me to address myself , in particular , to you , the Brethren of the GRAND LODGE of SCOTLAND , and the Brethren of the other " Lodges of this very ancient and respectable city of Edinburgh , and all those Brethren from the country , who have this day assembled with you . _ ¦ . ¦ In reflecting upon your most ancient and noble Institution , ye cannot fail to be struck with the great singularity of its having
descended , both in its principles and forms , pure and unadulterated , to you , even from the first age of the world . Amidst the successive revolutions of kingdoms , and the alterations of forms of government , and the many changes of laws and customs , MASONRY has always re- , mained the same , except in the case of a few improvements made upon it by the great and the wise King SOLOMON . Its permanency hath arisen from its being built , not upon mutable and perishing circumstances of an exterior nature , but upon some of the best affections of