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Review Of Literature, &C.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE , & c .
A Sermon . Preached by the Rev . Hugh Hatton , M . A ., at Birmingham , on the 21 st day of January last . Josiah Allen , Jun . Birmingham . This impressive discourse was preached on the melancholy occasion ofthe decease of a most estimable young man , Bro . Alfred Allen , who was initiated in the " Lodge of Light , " and who was also instrumental in the formation of the St . James ' s Lodge at Handsworth . He died at the early age of twenty-fivehihlesteemed and greatlbeloved by all
, gy y who knew him , and they were not few" He cometh forth like a flower , and is cut down . "—Job xiv . 2 . How appropriate is the text , ancl how beautifully did the pious preacher illustrate it ; well did he exhibit " the frailty ancl uncertainty of human life , typified by a flower . " This type pervades the sermon in its various points , both of divine revelation and human nature—the germ , the bud , the blossom , and the prematurely withered stem , weighed down with
its ripened treasures by the unsparing scythe—are all touched on in a spirit of peace , ancl the reader is taught how the good man may meet death . The symbolical allusions are powerful , and the course of the mysterious transition from life to death is traced by a master-mind in feeling , by an earthl y minister of the hol y word . The example of the youthful sufferer , as a son , brother , and friend , in piety and devoutness , is offered to the consideration of those who survive , and it must be a consolation to bis bereaved family , that his brief life of fervent and truthful holiness has but heralded liis acceptance at the throne of grace .
A Sermon . By the Rev . PI . Grylls , A . M . Spencer . This Sermon was preached on the 16 th of last April , in the parish church of Falmouth , at the installation of Sir Charles Lemon , Bart ., M . P ., F . R . S ., as Prov . Grand Master for Cornwall , to whom it is rledicnted .
" And let Zadolt the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him here king over Israel ; and blow ye with the trumpet and say , God save King Solomon . Then yn shall come up after him , that he may come and sit upon my throne ; for he shall , be king in my stead , and I have appointed him to be a ruler over Israel and over Judah . " 1 Kings i . 34—35 . As the text implies ( and a more appropriate one could not be chosen for the occasion ) , the discourse treated on the ceremonial of the day .
The reverend Brother , competent to his task , entered into the subject with that fervid ancl natural eloquence for which he is so deservedly , reputed . Himself a Master in Israel , he knew full well the inexhaustible source from whence to draw the materials of his sermon . The temple of Solomon furnished ample means . Freemasonry , with its grand attributes , was in the mind ' s eye , and found in Bro . Grylls a moral champion equal to his task . Speaking of Solomon ancl the temple , he
observes— " Piety contrived the plan , devotion laid the foundation stone , and religion raised the top stone . " AA ' e have perused former discourses of our reverend Brother with grateful attention , and the present yields to none of them in construction or effect .
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Review Of Literature, &C.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE , & c .
A Sermon . Preached by the Rev . Hugh Hatton , M . A ., at Birmingham , on the 21 st day of January last . Josiah Allen , Jun . Birmingham . This impressive discourse was preached on the melancholy occasion ofthe decease of a most estimable young man , Bro . Alfred Allen , who was initiated in the " Lodge of Light , " and who was also instrumental in the formation of the St . James ' s Lodge at Handsworth . He died at the early age of twenty-fivehihlesteemed and greatlbeloved by all
, gy y who knew him , and they were not few" He cometh forth like a flower , and is cut down . "—Job xiv . 2 . How appropriate is the text , ancl how beautifully did the pious preacher illustrate it ; well did he exhibit " the frailty ancl uncertainty of human life , typified by a flower . " This type pervades the sermon in its various points , both of divine revelation and human nature—the germ , the bud , the blossom , and the prematurely withered stem , weighed down with
its ripened treasures by the unsparing scythe—are all touched on in a spirit of peace , ancl the reader is taught how the good man may meet death . The symbolical allusions are powerful , and the course of the mysterious transition from life to death is traced by a master-mind in feeling , by an earthl y minister of the hol y word . The example of the youthful sufferer , as a son , brother , and friend , in piety and devoutness , is offered to the consideration of those who survive , and it must be a consolation to bis bereaved family , that his brief life of fervent and truthful holiness has but heralded liis acceptance at the throne of grace .
A Sermon . By the Rev . PI . Grylls , A . M . Spencer . This Sermon was preached on the 16 th of last April , in the parish church of Falmouth , at the installation of Sir Charles Lemon , Bart ., M . P ., F . R . S ., as Prov . Grand Master for Cornwall , to whom it is rledicnted .
" And let Zadolt the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him here king over Israel ; and blow ye with the trumpet and say , God save King Solomon . Then yn shall come up after him , that he may come and sit upon my throne ; for he shall , be king in my stead , and I have appointed him to be a ruler over Israel and over Judah . " 1 Kings i . 34—35 . As the text implies ( and a more appropriate one could not be chosen for the occasion ) , the discourse treated on the ceremonial of the day .
The reverend Brother , competent to his task , entered into the subject with that fervid ancl natural eloquence for which he is so deservedly , reputed . Himself a Master in Israel , he knew full well the inexhaustible source from whence to draw the materials of his sermon . The temple of Solomon furnished ample means . Freemasonry , with its grand attributes , was in the mind ' s eye , and found in Bro . Grylls a moral champion equal to his task . Speaking of Solomon ancl the temple , he
observes— " Piety contrived the plan , devotion laid the foundation stone , and religion raised the top stone . " AA ' e have perused former discourses of our reverend Brother with grateful attention , and the present yields to none of them in construction or effect .