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perchance of affluence , have been plunged into adversity , and who feci the distressing change in their social position i ' ai- more on account of thoir children than of themselves . But none can be insensible to the claims of defenceless innocence . All must feel the importance , I was going to say the awfulness , of tho position offemale childhood . There is a holy beauty and sacredness about it , from whose desecration—from the most distant idea of whose dcseci-ation—tho . mind shrinks with horror . Fathers and mothers ! with what anxiety you guard your own infant treasure—bow you watch over it—how protect it from e-il
you . and contaminating influences , and from all that might deface its bloom and spoil its loveliness ! Extend your solicitude just beyond tho circle of your own affections , and fix it upon those children for whom I would interest " } 'ou—the offspring of parents now in want , and without the means of spreading over them the watchful care they need . "
AVith one more extract we will conclude our notice of a discourse which deserves to be extensively read , and which cannot fail to find its way to the hearts of all who recognize the obligation imposed upon them of giving " Relief" to those in need , ami of manifesting " Brotherly Love " to all : —
" Yesterday the child was nothing ; but when will it cease to be % In coming into existence it has entered upon a course that is never to end ; it is an emanation from the Infinite ; immortality is graven upon it , and the inscription is indelible , for it is traced by the finger of ( jod . Its powers , its faculties , its instincts , its affections , are but just moving with incipient life : even the clods of the valley are of more ancient date . Centuries of history preceded its birth . History will go on recording its events , and the stars of heaven continue their revolutions , from generation to generationbut the child shall outlive them : there is an
eter-; nity before it . Now , if you can do aught to stamp happiness upon that eternity , —if you can contribute , in any degree , 'to save a soul alive , '—you will not , I am sure , neglect the pressing and sacred duty . In supporting this institution you do much—yon do almost everything—for the temporal welfare of the children taken to its fostering bosom : you do much for society , —you prepare materials out of which another generation is to be formed ; you protect female innocence from pollution , —and you all know the vast importance of female purity in securing domestic happiness and consolidating the social fabric . When we think of
mw mothers , sisters , wives , and daughters , we feel , as by a stream of light and conviction from God's holiness , that no gem of serenest ray—no treasure which the deep conceals—no gold and precious stone in oriental profusion—no combination of earth's choicest goods and gifts—can be taken in exchange for woman ' s unsullied virtue and stainless affections . "
Introductory Lecture on Freemasonry , regarded as a Holy and Universal System of Religion . By Dr . HENRY HOPKINS , VV . M . of St . Paul ' s Lodge , Birmingham . London . It . Spencer . The writer of this lecture bas zealously vindicated Freemasonry from the aspersions which its enemies have ignorantly bestowed upon it , and has also given as lucid and succinct an exposition of the origin , objects , and principles of the Order , as could be . well compressed within the
limits of a single lecture . " Our Sciences , " he justly remarks , " underwhatever name and in whatsoever country it has been known , under whatever form it has been practised , has always been understood to have reference to the worship of the one living and true God , and to the moral and intellectual improvement of the race . " Elsewhere he observes , " True , the signs and symbols and allegory have passed away ; the human race is in another phase of existence : but the peculiar system of morality which they symbolize will be as lasting as eternity ; and even
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Literary Notices.
perchance of affluence , have been plunged into adversity , and who feci the distressing change in their social position i ' ai- more on account of thoir children than of themselves . But none can be insensible to the claims of defenceless innocence . All must feel the importance , I was going to say the awfulness , of tho position offemale childhood . There is a holy beauty and sacredness about it , from whose desecration—from the most distant idea of whose dcseci-ation—tho . mind shrinks with horror . Fathers and mothers ! with what anxiety you guard your own infant treasure—bow you watch over it—how protect it from e-il
you . and contaminating influences , and from all that might deface its bloom and spoil its loveliness ! Extend your solicitude just beyond tho circle of your own affections , and fix it upon those children for whom I would interest " } 'ou—the offspring of parents now in want , and without the means of spreading over them the watchful care they need . "
AVith one more extract we will conclude our notice of a discourse which deserves to be extensively read , and which cannot fail to find its way to the hearts of all who recognize the obligation imposed upon them of giving " Relief" to those in need , ami of manifesting " Brotherly Love " to all : —
" Yesterday the child was nothing ; but when will it cease to be % In coming into existence it has entered upon a course that is never to end ; it is an emanation from the Infinite ; immortality is graven upon it , and the inscription is indelible , for it is traced by the finger of ( jod . Its powers , its faculties , its instincts , its affections , are but just moving with incipient life : even the clods of the valley are of more ancient date . Centuries of history preceded its birth . History will go on recording its events , and the stars of heaven continue their revolutions , from generation to generationbut the child shall outlive them : there is an
eter-; nity before it . Now , if you can do aught to stamp happiness upon that eternity , —if you can contribute , in any degree , 'to save a soul alive , '—you will not , I am sure , neglect the pressing and sacred duty . In supporting this institution you do much—yon do almost everything—for the temporal welfare of the children taken to its fostering bosom : you do much for society , —you prepare materials out of which another generation is to be formed ; you protect female innocence from pollution , —and you all know the vast importance of female purity in securing domestic happiness and consolidating the social fabric . When we think of
mw mothers , sisters , wives , and daughters , we feel , as by a stream of light and conviction from God's holiness , that no gem of serenest ray—no treasure which the deep conceals—no gold and precious stone in oriental profusion—no combination of earth's choicest goods and gifts—can be taken in exchange for woman ' s unsullied virtue and stainless affections . "
Introductory Lecture on Freemasonry , regarded as a Holy and Universal System of Religion . By Dr . HENRY HOPKINS , VV . M . of St . Paul ' s Lodge , Birmingham . London . It . Spencer . The writer of this lecture bas zealously vindicated Freemasonry from the aspersions which its enemies have ignorantly bestowed upon it , and has also given as lucid and succinct an exposition of the origin , objects , and principles of the Order , as could be . well compressed within the
limits of a single lecture . " Our Sciences , " he justly remarks , " underwhatever name and in whatsoever country it has been known , under whatever form it has been practised , has always been understood to have reference to the worship of the one living and true God , and to the moral and intellectual improvement of the race . " Elsewhere he observes , " True , the signs and symbols and allegory have passed away ; the human race is in another phase of existence : but the peculiar system of morality which they symbolize will be as lasting as eternity ; and even