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Masonic Processions.
wholesome assuager of excitations , what more consoling promise of reconciliations , than to see brethren sundered by the accidents of birth , the conventional and titular distinctions of rank ancl station , or by the more perilous and obstinate barriers of wealth ancl privilege , met together at least once a year , on the inviolable ground of a common and equal brotherhood ? We have personally
witnessed the striking benefits of these gatherings on neutual ground , of rich and poor . Nothing more effectual to soften the inevitable antagonisms of wealth and want ; to appease the jealousies , the misunderstandings , the heartburnings of classes not opposed but divided , and by human , not by divine institutions .
Doctor Oliver after alluding to " the good old custom so strongly recommended and assiduously practised by the Masonic worthies of the last century , ancl imitated by many other public bodies of men , of assembling the Brethren of a province annually under their own banner , and marching in solemn procession to the House of Gocl ,
to offer up their thanksgivings in the public congregation for the blessings of the preceding year ; to pray for mercies in prospect , and to hear from the pulpit a disquisition on the moral and religious purposes of the Order , " proceeds to say : —
" This custom is sufficient of itself to ensure the popularity of the Order , and create a respect for its holy principles in the public mind . I much regret that a practice so consonant with the original design of Masonry should have been discontinued in my own province , and exchanged for other public observances which , though they may lie innocent , are a novel introduction ; andin my opinionan application of divine Masonry to purposes
, , that were never contemplated at its original institution . The hint may not be without its use in other localities ; and if the one must needs be done , let not the other be omitted . " The above custom would also be a means of promoting and encouraging that great attribute of the Order—Equality . "
Lest in this much abused word Equality , there should be scandal to certain ears polite , let us hear Doctor Oliver on the Masonic doctrine of Equality . " The system of Equality observed in a Mason ' s Lodge , teaches the doctrine of mutual wants and mutual assistance , and destroys the unsocial
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Masonic Processions.
wholesome assuager of excitations , what more consoling promise of reconciliations , than to see brethren sundered by the accidents of birth , the conventional and titular distinctions of rank ancl station , or by the more perilous and obstinate barriers of wealth ancl privilege , met together at least once a year , on the inviolable ground of a common and equal brotherhood ? We have personally
witnessed the striking benefits of these gatherings on neutual ground , of rich and poor . Nothing more effectual to soften the inevitable antagonisms of wealth and want ; to appease the jealousies , the misunderstandings , the heartburnings of classes not opposed but divided , and by human , not by divine institutions .
Doctor Oliver after alluding to " the good old custom so strongly recommended and assiduously practised by the Masonic worthies of the last century , ancl imitated by many other public bodies of men , of assembling the Brethren of a province annually under their own banner , and marching in solemn procession to the House of Gocl ,
to offer up their thanksgivings in the public congregation for the blessings of the preceding year ; to pray for mercies in prospect , and to hear from the pulpit a disquisition on the moral and religious purposes of the Order , " proceeds to say : —
" This custom is sufficient of itself to ensure the popularity of the Order , and create a respect for its holy principles in the public mind . I much regret that a practice so consonant with the original design of Masonry should have been discontinued in my own province , and exchanged for other public observances which , though they may lie innocent , are a novel introduction ; andin my opinionan application of divine Masonry to purposes
, , that were never contemplated at its original institution . The hint may not be without its use in other localities ; and if the one must needs be done , let not the other be omitted . " The above custom would also be a means of promoting and encouraging that great attribute of the Order—Equality . "
Lest in this much abused word Equality , there should be scandal to certain ears polite , let us hear Doctor Oliver on the Masonic doctrine of Equality . " The system of Equality observed in a Mason ' s Lodge , teaches the doctrine of mutual wants and mutual assistance , and destroys the unsocial