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To The Editor.
we are not as yet in possession of your circular , most cheerfully place our votes , ancl that of the lodge to which we have the honour to belong , at your entire disposal , in support of your measure , and earnestly pray that the Great Architect of the Universe may crown your efforts with complete success . We remain , Right Worshipful Sir and dear Brother , Yours faithfully ancl fraternally , E . G . Papell , P . M . and W . M ., 326 , I S . Boyd . Off . S . W ., 326 , H . Rennet , P . M ., 326 , J . G . Lawrence , J . W ., 326 . H . Clarke , P . M ., 326 , |
Collectanea.
COLLECTANEA .
MONEY AND TIME . — " Many people take no care of their money till they have come nearly to the end of it ; and others do just tlie same with their time . Their best days they throw away—let them run like sand through their fingers—as long as they think they still have an almost countless number of them to spend ; but when they find their days flowing rapidly away , so that at last they have but very few leftthen they will at once make a very wise use of them ; but , unluckily , they have by that time no notion how to do it . "
GOODNESS ETERNAL . — " The pains we spend upon our mortal selves will perish with ourselves ; but the care we give out of a good heart to others , the efforts of disinterested duty , the deeds and thoughts of pure affection , are never lost ; they are liable to no waste ; and are like a force that propagates itself for ever , changing itself , but not losing its intensity . In short , there is a sense in which nothing human dies ; nothing , at least , wbich proceeds from the hi gher and characteristic part of man ' s
nature ; nothing which he does as a subject of God ' s moral law . Material structures are dissolved , their identity and function are gone , but mind partakes of the eternity of the great parent spirit ; and thoughts , truths , emotions , once given to the world are never lost ; they exist as truly , ancl perform their duty as actively , a thousand years after their origin as on their day of birth . " A SECRET . — It is a secret known but to a few , yet , of no small use in the conduct of life , that when you . fall into a man ' s conversation , the first thing you should consider is , whether he has a greater inclination to hear you , or that you should hear him . —Steele .
DOOMSDAY BOOK . —This book , in two volumes , was the tax-book of all England , except Cumberland , Westmoreland , Durham , and Northumberland , which may have heen in a volume by itself , now lost . The work was drawn out in the reign of William the Conqueror , and was seven years in completion . It contains an exact account not only of all cities , towns and villages , but also of families , and what every one possessedeither in land or money ; ancl when any difference arose
con-, cerning such things , or the taxes , & c , this book cleared the point , and the Sovereign coulcl not be defrauded : it obtained , therefore , the name of " Doomsday Hook , " ancl it is now kept under two locks and keys . It may be consulted on payment of six shillings and eightpence , and any portion of it transcribed at fourpence a line . —Sehomberg ' s " Elements ofthe British Constitution . ' '
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To The Editor.
we are not as yet in possession of your circular , most cheerfully place our votes , ancl that of the lodge to which we have the honour to belong , at your entire disposal , in support of your measure , and earnestly pray that the Great Architect of the Universe may crown your efforts with complete success . We remain , Right Worshipful Sir and dear Brother , Yours faithfully ancl fraternally , E . G . Papell , P . M . and W . M ., 326 , I S . Boyd . Off . S . W ., 326 , H . Rennet , P . M ., 326 , J . G . Lawrence , J . W ., 326 . H . Clarke , P . M ., 326 , |
Collectanea.
COLLECTANEA .
MONEY AND TIME . — " Many people take no care of their money till they have come nearly to the end of it ; and others do just tlie same with their time . Their best days they throw away—let them run like sand through their fingers—as long as they think they still have an almost countless number of them to spend ; but when they find their days flowing rapidly away , so that at last they have but very few leftthen they will at once make a very wise use of them ; but , unluckily , they have by that time no notion how to do it . "
GOODNESS ETERNAL . — " The pains we spend upon our mortal selves will perish with ourselves ; but the care we give out of a good heart to others , the efforts of disinterested duty , the deeds and thoughts of pure affection , are never lost ; they are liable to no waste ; and are like a force that propagates itself for ever , changing itself , but not losing its intensity . In short , there is a sense in which nothing human dies ; nothing , at least , wbich proceeds from the hi gher and characteristic part of man ' s
nature ; nothing which he does as a subject of God ' s moral law . Material structures are dissolved , their identity and function are gone , but mind partakes of the eternity of the great parent spirit ; and thoughts , truths , emotions , once given to the world are never lost ; they exist as truly , ancl perform their duty as actively , a thousand years after their origin as on their day of birth . " A SECRET . — It is a secret known but to a few , yet , of no small use in the conduct of life , that when you . fall into a man ' s conversation , the first thing you should consider is , whether he has a greater inclination to hear you , or that you should hear him . —Steele .
DOOMSDAY BOOK . —This book , in two volumes , was the tax-book of all England , except Cumberland , Westmoreland , Durham , and Northumberland , which may have heen in a volume by itself , now lost . The work was drawn out in the reign of William the Conqueror , and was seven years in completion . It contains an exact account not only of all cities , towns and villages , but also of families , and what every one possessedeither in land or money ; ancl when any difference arose
con-, cerning such things , or the taxes , & c , this book cleared the point , and the Sovereign coulcl not be defrauded : it obtained , therefore , the name of " Doomsday Hook , " ancl it is now kept under two locks and keys . It may be consulted on payment of six shillings and eightpence , and any portion of it transcribed at fourpence a line . —Sehomberg ' s " Elements ofthe British Constitution . ' '