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Article THE PORTRAIT GALLERY, No. 3. ← Page 2 of 4 →
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The Portrait Gallery, No. 3.
Our Brother Dr . Crucefix has been for upwards of twenty years a memher of the Fraternity . He did not enter the portals and lift the sacred veil ( as many do ) from a prurient curiosity , and then abandon a further prosecution of its objects . No : our brother saw at once that Masonry was a practical religion : he perceived the moral excellence and holiness of its principles : that we are united in an universal
brotherhood , from which , strength and beautiful hopes are poured into the soul : that , — " All are but parts of one stupendous whole , ¦ Whose hody Nature is , and God the soul . "
He saw in the poetry of Masonry that we escape for a time from the dull round of cares and troubles of this toilsome world , and that by the exercise of the virtues of our Order , " pleasure as well as profit must be the result . " He felt the necessity and advantage of elevating Masonry —to raise its routine and practice above the mere technicalities of the Gilkes ' s and the Thompsons , and to make it a speculum , by which man might look through nature up to nature ' s God !
These are some of the merits of Dr . Crucefix , Past Grand Senior Deacon . It will be said , against such a man—such a Mason , —how can the shafts of malice be hurled ? Our answer must of course be conjectural , as falling short of absolute proof ; but enough has transpired to warrant the conclusion that envy , hatred , malice , and all uncharitahleness , have found their way even amongst professing Masons .
Our talented brother is among the oldest members of the Royal College of Surgeons , and a regularly educated medical man . In the exercise ofhis late professional duties , it is well known that under the name of a Firm , he practised with great success , that particular part of the healing art alone , which the medical profession include amongst their general duties . Surely this ought not to have been considered a crimeunless
, jealousy could make it so ? As long as vice and physical infirmity be inseparably interwoven in our nature , so long must medical aid be tendered to remedy evils which by the laws of our animal economy , are ordained to be of frequent occurrence . Yet for the existence of this state of things , —for devoting his practice to this disease solely—which our Brothers Havers or Bossy , or any medical purple would readily
treat as a part of their own practice , —yet for this , our Brother Crucefix has been held up as an object to be avoided , —for this , the " sweltering venom " of a clique has been poured forth ; and in the pharasaical language of their ancient prototypes they exclaim— " Stand from me , I am holier than thou . " We confess that looking with the most scrupulous nicety , we can
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Portrait Gallery, No. 3.
Our Brother Dr . Crucefix has been for upwards of twenty years a memher of the Fraternity . He did not enter the portals and lift the sacred veil ( as many do ) from a prurient curiosity , and then abandon a further prosecution of its objects . No : our brother saw at once that Masonry was a practical religion : he perceived the moral excellence and holiness of its principles : that we are united in an universal
brotherhood , from which , strength and beautiful hopes are poured into the soul : that , — " All are but parts of one stupendous whole , ¦ Whose hody Nature is , and God the soul . "
He saw in the poetry of Masonry that we escape for a time from the dull round of cares and troubles of this toilsome world , and that by the exercise of the virtues of our Order , " pleasure as well as profit must be the result . " He felt the necessity and advantage of elevating Masonry —to raise its routine and practice above the mere technicalities of the Gilkes ' s and the Thompsons , and to make it a speculum , by which man might look through nature up to nature ' s God !
These are some of the merits of Dr . Crucefix , Past Grand Senior Deacon . It will be said , against such a man—such a Mason , —how can the shafts of malice be hurled ? Our answer must of course be conjectural , as falling short of absolute proof ; but enough has transpired to warrant the conclusion that envy , hatred , malice , and all uncharitahleness , have found their way even amongst professing Masons .
Our talented brother is among the oldest members of the Royal College of Surgeons , and a regularly educated medical man . In the exercise ofhis late professional duties , it is well known that under the name of a Firm , he practised with great success , that particular part of the healing art alone , which the medical profession include amongst their general duties . Surely this ought not to have been considered a crimeunless
, jealousy could make it so ? As long as vice and physical infirmity be inseparably interwoven in our nature , so long must medical aid be tendered to remedy evils which by the laws of our animal economy , are ordained to be of frequent occurrence . Yet for the existence of this state of things , —for devoting his practice to this disease solely—which our Brothers Havers or Bossy , or any medical purple would readily
treat as a part of their own practice , —yet for this , our Brother Crucefix has been held up as an object to be avoided , —for this , the " sweltering venom " of a clique has been poured forth ; and in the pharasaical language of their ancient prototypes they exclaim— " Stand from me , I am holier than thou . " We confess that looking with the most scrupulous nicety , we can