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that divine saying of our Lord , " A neAV commandment , I give unto you , that you love one another . " This performance , the first of the series , does high credit to the head and heart of Bro . Moody , and cannot fail to be read Avith interest by every Brother .
LECTURE II . — Genuine Freemasonry indissolubly connected with Revelation . By Bro . the Rev . MOSES MARGOLIOUTII , B . A . In our last number Ave took occasion to notice the first part of this Lecture as giving promise of much interest , and Ave have not been altogether mistaken . Our Rev . Brother folloAvs in the Avake of his predecessor , ancl traces the principle of Masonry to the dawn of Revelationits rise and fall dependent on the health or decline of the
, Church of God , and the frequent allusions to the science by the prophets , apostles , and early Hebrew divines ; but as we gave a copious extract in our last , Ave Avould only recommend the Lecture to the attention of the Craft . One thing Ave must say , that our Rev . Brother is rather pharisaical in his manner of treating the high and holy science of Masonry , which is the bond of charity and good-Avill to all men . In his conclusionhe makes use of the folloAving
ad-, monitory Avords : — "If our system be indeed so closely connected with Bevelation , what manner of men should not tho professing Brethren be ? * * * * Shall we , then , continue to lead a life of carelessness ? Do we not justly incur the reproaches and opprobriums which the ^ oor , " pitiable , uninitiated heap upon us ? We can afford to pity the iminitiated , and smile at then- ignorance as long as we walk worthy of our vocation . "
In another part of the Lecture , alluding to the Cowans , or uninitiated , he makes St . John , in his Apocalypse , identify them as " kunai , " i . e . clogs , a notion as undignified as it is far-fetched . Does our Rev . Brother mean to say that the path of religion ancl virtue lies only through the portal of' a Mason Lodge , and that the Avay to eternal life is shut out from an uninitiated Avorld ?—God forbid .
. LECTURE III . — The Symbolism of Freemasonry , from whence its Archetype ? By the Rev . Bro . P . C . NICHOLSON , B . D ., Chaplain of the Caledonian Lodge , and Member of the Loclge of Virtue . Our Rev . Brother , in folloAving up the views enunciated in the preceding Lectures , makes several felicitous observations on the sacred origin of Freemasonry . "In the book of Proverbs there is a sublime description of the Great
Architect of the universe : — ' I was set up from everlastmg , from the beginmng , or ever the earth was . AVhen there were no depths , I was brought forth ; when there were no fountains abounding with water . Before the mountains were settled , before the hills was I brought forth : while as yet he had not made " the earth , nor the fields , nor the Mghest part of the dust of the world . When he prepared the heavens I was there : when he set a compass upon the face of the depth : when he established the clouds above : when he strengthened the fountains of the deep : when he gave to the sea his decree that the waters should not pass Ms commandment : when he appointed the foundations of the
earth : then I was by Mm , as one brought up with Mm , and I was daily his delight , rejoicing always before him ; rejoicing m the habitable part of his earth , and my delights were with the sons of men . ' By the figure prosopopoeia , hochma ( the Hebrew for wisdom ) is personified , and made to display the attributes of the G . A . 0 . T . IT . in this celebrated passage of Holy Writ . Now , if wo have just read the delights of the Great Architect were at the beginning ' with the sons of men , ' it necessarily follows that he must have imparted to them a know-
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Literary Notices.
that divine saying of our Lord , " A neAV commandment , I give unto you , that you love one another . " This performance , the first of the series , does high credit to the head and heart of Bro . Moody , and cannot fail to be read Avith interest by every Brother .
LECTURE II . — Genuine Freemasonry indissolubly connected with Revelation . By Bro . the Rev . MOSES MARGOLIOUTII , B . A . In our last number Ave took occasion to notice the first part of this Lecture as giving promise of much interest , and Ave have not been altogether mistaken . Our Rev . Brother folloAvs in the Avake of his predecessor , ancl traces the principle of Masonry to the dawn of Revelationits rise and fall dependent on the health or decline of the
, Church of God , and the frequent allusions to the science by the prophets , apostles , and early Hebrew divines ; but as we gave a copious extract in our last , Ave Avould only recommend the Lecture to the attention of the Craft . One thing Ave must say , that our Rev . Brother is rather pharisaical in his manner of treating the high and holy science of Masonry , which is the bond of charity and good-Avill to all men . In his conclusionhe makes use of the folloAving
ad-, monitory Avords : — "If our system be indeed so closely connected with Bevelation , what manner of men should not tho professing Brethren be ? * * * * Shall we , then , continue to lead a life of carelessness ? Do we not justly incur the reproaches and opprobriums which the ^ oor , " pitiable , uninitiated heap upon us ? We can afford to pity the iminitiated , and smile at then- ignorance as long as we walk worthy of our vocation . "
In another part of the Lecture , alluding to the Cowans , or uninitiated , he makes St . John , in his Apocalypse , identify them as " kunai , " i . e . clogs , a notion as undignified as it is far-fetched . Does our Rev . Brother mean to say that the path of religion ancl virtue lies only through the portal of' a Mason Lodge , and that the Avay to eternal life is shut out from an uninitiated Avorld ?—God forbid .
. LECTURE III . — The Symbolism of Freemasonry , from whence its Archetype ? By the Rev . Bro . P . C . NICHOLSON , B . D ., Chaplain of the Caledonian Lodge , and Member of the Loclge of Virtue . Our Rev . Brother , in folloAving up the views enunciated in the preceding Lectures , makes several felicitous observations on the sacred origin of Freemasonry . "In the book of Proverbs there is a sublime description of the Great
Architect of the universe : — ' I was set up from everlastmg , from the beginmng , or ever the earth was . AVhen there were no depths , I was brought forth ; when there were no fountains abounding with water . Before the mountains were settled , before the hills was I brought forth : while as yet he had not made " the earth , nor the fields , nor the Mghest part of the dust of the world . When he prepared the heavens I was there : when he set a compass upon the face of the depth : when he established the clouds above : when he strengthened the fountains of the deep : when he gave to the sea his decree that the waters should not pass Ms commandment : when he appointed the foundations of the
earth : then I was by Mm , as one brought up with Mm , and I was daily his delight , rejoicing always before him ; rejoicing m the habitable part of his earth , and my delights were with the sons of men . ' By the figure prosopopoeia , hochma ( the Hebrew for wisdom ) is personified , and made to display the attributes of the G . A . 0 . T . IT . in this celebrated passage of Holy Writ . Now , if wo have just read the delights of the Great Architect were at the beginning ' with the sons of men , ' it necessarily follows that he must have imparted to them a know-