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To The Printer Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
TO THE PRINTER OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
RELIGION beinsr the Basis of Free Masonry and FAITH one of the principal tenets of the Profession , you will perhaps consider any obser-2 aris in ..- from those subjects as not incompat . bie with the nature If your undertaking ; if then you should believe they might be acceptable to some of your readers , I submit to you for insertion a lew CURSORY THOUGHT S ON HAPPINESS ,
f \ J ? which ^"^ " Each has his share ; and who would more obtain « Shall find—the pleasure pays not half the pain * . " As it is essential to the order of sublunary things that Riches ( too often termed the good things of this world ) should be unwiselto have ordainedthat
ecii ' a'Iy distributed , Providence seems y , they should not be indispensably necessary to our Happiness . _ Happiness , like the Passions , is implanted in all ; it 1 ? best derived from Hope , and seems indeed incompatible only with i << wr .- I know not if I should err were I to say , that true-Happmess can only . subsist in the hope of something / irf «« ; it is very certain , however , that a the of the present moment
superficial kind only attends on gratification . Since , ' then , Happiness is not confined to any condition or circumstance of life ; but " The Learn d is happy Nature to explore , " The Fool is happy that he knows no more , foe Rich is happy with the plenty
iven" g , ^ „ " The Poor is happy w ith the care oflleavn f ;" the plain inference is , that every one must look for it within his own breast . If we would enjoy it unallayed with Care , we had best seek it in that moderate proportion winch is called Content ; for the supreme degree , however fascinating in prospect , is seldom durable , and never to be depended on ; but Content may be the lot of the princeLet
of whosoever seeks it , of the peasant equally as . this suffice to prove my first position , and indulge me in a few more observations . _ _ . 1 _ ¦ I have thought much on this subject , Mr . Printer , and from no other did I ever derive such full conviction . In whatever light I bco-an my argument I ever found it tend to one grand point , beyond which I neither had power nor desire to pursue it : this conclusion was * that Happiness could in no degree be enjoyed by man but through
AN UNLIMITED FAITH IN THE POWER , THE WISDOM , AND THE GOODNESS OF GOD . Thanks to that God ! the proof does not require my arguments of tire actual existence of such a Being , nor does it remain with me to-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
To The Printer Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
TO THE PRINTER OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
RELIGION beinsr the Basis of Free Masonry and FAITH one of the principal tenets of the Profession , you will perhaps consider any obser-2 aris in ..- from those subjects as not incompat . bie with the nature If your undertaking ; if then you should believe they might be acceptable to some of your readers , I submit to you for insertion a lew CURSORY THOUGHT S ON HAPPINESS ,
f \ J ? which ^"^ " Each has his share ; and who would more obtain « Shall find—the pleasure pays not half the pain * . " As it is essential to the order of sublunary things that Riches ( too often termed the good things of this world ) should be unwiselto have ordainedthat
ecii ' a'Iy distributed , Providence seems y , they should not be indispensably necessary to our Happiness . _ Happiness , like the Passions , is implanted in all ; it 1 ? best derived from Hope , and seems indeed incompatible only with i << wr .- I know not if I should err were I to say , that true-Happmess can only . subsist in the hope of something / irf «« ; it is very certain , however , that a the of the present moment
superficial kind only attends on gratification . Since , ' then , Happiness is not confined to any condition or circumstance of life ; but " The Learn d is happy Nature to explore , " The Fool is happy that he knows no more , foe Rich is happy with the plenty
iven" g , ^ „ " The Poor is happy w ith the care oflleavn f ;" the plain inference is , that every one must look for it within his own breast . If we would enjoy it unallayed with Care , we had best seek it in that moderate proportion winch is called Content ; for the supreme degree , however fascinating in prospect , is seldom durable , and never to be depended on ; but Content may be the lot of the princeLet
of whosoever seeks it , of the peasant equally as . this suffice to prove my first position , and indulge me in a few more observations . _ _ . 1 _ ¦ I have thought much on this subject , Mr . Printer , and from no other did I ever derive such full conviction . In whatever light I bco-an my argument I ever found it tend to one grand point , beyond which I neither had power nor desire to pursue it : this conclusion was * that Happiness could in no degree be enjoyed by man but through
AN UNLIMITED FAITH IN THE POWER , THE WISDOM , AND THE GOODNESS OF GOD . Thanks to that God ! the proof does not require my arguments of tire actual existence of such a Being , nor does it remain with me to-