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has fearlessly embodied , are sharp but salutary . We have not room for the whole—but take the concluding observations . "" If then , it be the Master ' s province to instruct others , he must be conscious that ignorance in himself is totall y inexcusable . He cannot enforce on the younger brethren the necessity of ruling and governin" * their passions—of keeping a tongue of good report—of practising all the duties of morality and social order—unless he exhibit
an example of these virtues in his own person . If he be insincere , his praise of Truth will stand for nothing ; if he be not charitable , he cannot consistently recommend the practice of Relief ; nor if he be factious , can he dilate with any effect , on the exercise of the most beautiful feature in the Masonic system , Brotherly Love or Charity ; that glorious emanation ot the Deity , divested of which , Freemasonry would be unworthy of attention . Without these essential qualifications , the Chair will l > - nereft of its influencethe Master '
; s authority will be disregarded by the brethren ; and disorder and disunion , though delayed , will not be the less certain to ensue . "—p . 223 . Having prescribed a series of rules , by the use of which a Lodsre may be wisely and successfully governed ; tlie Dr . proceeds to the conclusion ol the whole matter ; and has brought forward a vast variety of interesting subjects with which every Mason , who wishes to comprehend tlie true design of the Order , ought to be acquainted . In fact , almost all the technicalities of Freemasonry are here satisfactorily elucidated , and much additional information has been introduced into the present
The institution of Freemasonry is founded on Silence , and the mind is instructed and improved b y meditating on a variety of visible objects . 1 hey are all invested with a moral reference , and read him a lecture by which he is made a wiser and consequently a better man Ihe true Mason , wherever he may be , finds himself ahvays surrounded by objects which forcibl y draw his attention to the science into winch he has been initiated . If he survey the heavens , the sun in his apparent motion majesticall th h the
y rolling roug expanse , the moon and tlie planets performing their accustomed courses with order ancl regularity , the golden stars thickly studded in the blue waste of liquid ether all are included in his system of Freemasonry , whence he is directed by his speculation on the glorious works of nature up to the Great First Cause , the bountiful Creator of immeasurable space and all that it contains . If he take a view of the productions of nature and art on thc lace or tlie planet which inhabitthe result follows
we , same AU is I-reemasonry , all is replete with the divine principles of the Order . I here is not a mountain or valley ; a tree , a shrub , or a blade ot grass ; there is not a magnificent structure of polished marble rich in fit , r COrate , S ° rSeous architecture , or a refuse stone rejected from the quarry ; there is not an object , animate or inanimate in universal nature but it is instinct with the genius of Freemasonry ; ami the learned brother find instructive Masonic
may an lecture in the win-Jlsss aS "' aS the moti ls f the au ° ust Iights of heave " - " — "Behold these instruments of labour , the Square , the Compasse <* v Jlii 7 7-1 ° !\ Inch llu . * "'hen I hole ? up the Sgua ^ wtat mason h V nTT' 'V " " T" M a " l » Penda Se to an operative mason , it is indeed used merely to try and adjust all irrejnilar andes arid to assist in bringing rude matter into due form . Buf as a slecu-
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Signs And Symbols.*
has fearlessly embodied , are sharp but salutary . We have not room for the whole—but take the concluding observations . "" If then , it be the Master ' s province to instruct others , he must be conscious that ignorance in himself is totall y inexcusable . He cannot enforce on the younger brethren the necessity of ruling and governin" * their passions—of keeping a tongue of good report—of practising all the duties of morality and social order—unless he exhibit
an example of these virtues in his own person . If he be insincere , his praise of Truth will stand for nothing ; if he be not charitable , he cannot consistently recommend the practice of Relief ; nor if he be factious , can he dilate with any effect , on the exercise of the most beautiful feature in the Masonic system , Brotherly Love or Charity ; that glorious emanation ot the Deity , divested of which , Freemasonry would be unworthy of attention . Without these essential qualifications , the Chair will l > - nereft of its influencethe Master '
; s authority will be disregarded by the brethren ; and disorder and disunion , though delayed , will not be the less certain to ensue . "—p . 223 . Having prescribed a series of rules , by the use of which a Lodsre may be wisely and successfully governed ; tlie Dr . proceeds to the conclusion ol the whole matter ; and has brought forward a vast variety of interesting subjects with which every Mason , who wishes to comprehend tlie true design of the Order , ought to be acquainted . In fact , almost all the technicalities of Freemasonry are here satisfactorily elucidated , and much additional information has been introduced into the present
The institution of Freemasonry is founded on Silence , and the mind is instructed and improved b y meditating on a variety of visible objects . 1 hey are all invested with a moral reference , and read him a lecture by which he is made a wiser and consequently a better man Ihe true Mason , wherever he may be , finds himself ahvays surrounded by objects which forcibl y draw his attention to the science into winch he has been initiated . If he survey the heavens , the sun in his apparent motion majesticall th h the
y rolling roug expanse , the moon and tlie planets performing their accustomed courses with order ancl regularity , the golden stars thickly studded in the blue waste of liquid ether all are included in his system of Freemasonry , whence he is directed by his speculation on the glorious works of nature up to the Great First Cause , the bountiful Creator of immeasurable space and all that it contains . If he take a view of the productions of nature and art on thc lace or tlie planet which inhabitthe result follows
we , same AU is I-reemasonry , all is replete with the divine principles of the Order . I here is not a mountain or valley ; a tree , a shrub , or a blade ot grass ; there is not a magnificent structure of polished marble rich in fit , r COrate , S ° rSeous architecture , or a refuse stone rejected from the quarry ; there is not an object , animate or inanimate in universal nature but it is instinct with the genius of Freemasonry ; ami the learned brother find instructive Masonic
may an lecture in the win-Jlsss aS "' aS the moti ls f the au ° ust Iights of heave " - " — "Behold these instruments of labour , the Square , the Compasse <* v Jlii 7 7-1 ° !\ Inch llu . * "'hen I hole ? up the Sgua ^ wtat mason h V nTT' 'V " " T" M a " l » Penda Se to an operative mason , it is indeed used merely to try and adjust all irrejnilar andes arid to assist in bringing rude matter into due form . Buf as a slecu-