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College Musings.
vcritablement , " he replied . " Then , I presume , my good sir , you have studied our learned metaphysician , Dr . Berkley , on the powers of the imagination . " This was a poser , as my reader may suppose , to the worthy man , and the only reply was a vacant and ludicrous stare . Man is yet the greatest mystery in creation , and difficult as it is to know yourself , it is immeasurably more difficult to know another . The hypocrisy of the world is to censure each other , and condemn the
vices and follies of your compeers , as if immaculate yourself , and quite unconscious of any demerits or misdemeanors of your own . This error , like the rest of the world , I find myself continually falling into . I can only account for it on the ground of the general frailty of human nature , and an innate aversion to acknowledge personal delinquencies . O world , how empty are thy attractions ! O pleasure , how delusive thy garb ! Bear with me , benign reader . A sudden fit of retrospection has seized me . 1 am led to contemplate the events of only the past week . What a variety of incidents are crowded into that brief period ! Peccadilloes repented , resolutions of amendment passed nem
con—mentally—atonement for manifold offences earnestl y intended , errors of conduct again renewed , poor weak mortality bemoaned , disgusted by the hauteur of certain parvenus , sympathising , with most benevolent complacency of feeling , in the distresses of an unfortunate fellow-countryman , despising the treachery and dishonesty of others , who pass for reverend and honourable seignors , tired and chagrined with myself and the world , and determined to emancipate myself from its ignoble and enslaving
customs . These are the troubles of the man of feeling . Well says our royal Grand Master Solomon— " All is vanity and vexation of spirit . " Nothing is certain on this side of the grave but death and taxation . 'Ifailh I'll turn ranter . Seriously , my good genius could not have suggested a better method of mending my shattered fortunes . When trade fails , a call , or an academy , is the last expedient . Preach unto the multitude . Pretend to deliver them from the thraldom of secular cares , and involve them in others of a spiritual metaphysical nature . This is the practical wisdom of man ! ( To be continued . )
Remarks On The Symbolical Nature Of Jeavels As Connected With Freemasonry.
REMARKS ON THE SYMBOLICAL NATURE OF JEAVELS AS CONNECTED WITH FREEMASONRY .
BY MRS . COLONEL MARY ANNA HARTLEY . As Freemasonry has the pious honour and glory of first commencing the predicted Milennium by perfecting peace , good will , and brotherly love upon ' earth , so the fraternity in their joint fellowship allegorically continue the true and first precious jewel that shone in the Urim and Thummimwhose dictates were invariablfollowed by the Israelites
, y before the veil of the covenant was lifted to the eyes of humanity . Some eastern writers affirm that there were two precious stones added to the other twelve , by the extraordinary lustre of which God marked his approbation of a design , and by their dimness his disallowance of it . Others , that the name of Jehovah was inscribed upon a plate of gold
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College Musings.
vcritablement , " he replied . " Then , I presume , my good sir , you have studied our learned metaphysician , Dr . Berkley , on the powers of the imagination . " This was a poser , as my reader may suppose , to the worthy man , and the only reply was a vacant and ludicrous stare . Man is yet the greatest mystery in creation , and difficult as it is to know yourself , it is immeasurably more difficult to know another . The hypocrisy of the world is to censure each other , and condemn the
vices and follies of your compeers , as if immaculate yourself , and quite unconscious of any demerits or misdemeanors of your own . This error , like the rest of the world , I find myself continually falling into . I can only account for it on the ground of the general frailty of human nature , and an innate aversion to acknowledge personal delinquencies . O world , how empty are thy attractions ! O pleasure , how delusive thy garb ! Bear with me , benign reader . A sudden fit of retrospection has seized me . 1 am led to contemplate the events of only the past week . What a variety of incidents are crowded into that brief period ! Peccadilloes repented , resolutions of amendment passed nem
con—mentally—atonement for manifold offences earnestl y intended , errors of conduct again renewed , poor weak mortality bemoaned , disgusted by the hauteur of certain parvenus , sympathising , with most benevolent complacency of feeling , in the distresses of an unfortunate fellow-countryman , despising the treachery and dishonesty of others , who pass for reverend and honourable seignors , tired and chagrined with myself and the world , and determined to emancipate myself from its ignoble and enslaving
customs . These are the troubles of the man of feeling . Well says our royal Grand Master Solomon— " All is vanity and vexation of spirit . " Nothing is certain on this side of the grave but death and taxation . 'Ifailh I'll turn ranter . Seriously , my good genius could not have suggested a better method of mending my shattered fortunes . When trade fails , a call , or an academy , is the last expedient . Preach unto the multitude . Pretend to deliver them from the thraldom of secular cares , and involve them in others of a spiritual metaphysical nature . This is the practical wisdom of man ! ( To be continued . )
Remarks On The Symbolical Nature Of Jeavels As Connected With Freemasonry.
REMARKS ON THE SYMBOLICAL NATURE OF JEAVELS AS CONNECTED WITH FREEMASONRY .
BY MRS . COLONEL MARY ANNA HARTLEY . As Freemasonry has the pious honour and glory of first commencing the predicted Milennium by perfecting peace , good will , and brotherly love upon ' earth , so the fraternity in their joint fellowship allegorically continue the true and first precious jewel that shone in the Urim and Thummimwhose dictates were invariablfollowed by the Israelites
, y before the veil of the covenant was lifted to the eyes of humanity . Some eastern writers affirm that there were two precious stones added to the other twelve , by the extraordinary lustre of which God marked his approbation of a design , and by their dimness his disallowance of it . Others , that the name of Jehovah was inscribed upon a plate of gold