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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
ON FREEMASONRY . EVIDENCES , DOCTRINES , AND TRADITIONS .
BY THE REV . G . OLIVER , D , l > . ( No . 8 . )
WHEN the toils of Joshua were ended by the expulsion of the Canaanites , and the partition of their country amongst the favoured people of Jehovah , he deposited the Stone of Foundation beside the tabernacle at Shiloh , as a memorial to commemorate the goodness of God to the Jewish nation ,
in redeeming the people from captivity , and establishing them in a land flowing with milk and honey . Indeed , the country was so productive , and desirable as a place of residence , that many ancient writers have spoken of it in the language of rapture . Aristseas , who flourished in the time of Ptolemy Philadelhussays that it abounded in corn
p , , wine , and oil , with abundance of honey ; olive-trees , vines , and palm-trees , the latter of which were so fat , that the oil might be pressed out by merely treading on them with the foot . He further declares that it produced spices of all kinds , nuts and almonds , mines of various metals , gold and precious stoneswith salutary fountains and riversand that
, ; 60 , 000 acres of meadow ground were salubriously situated on the banks of the Jordan , which were rendered peculiarly fruitful and productive by the periodical overflowing of the river , like the Nile in Egypt .
Our Foundation Stone was subsequently made a support for the Ark of the Covenant , and accompanied all the wanderings and fluctuations of that holy utensil , which appears to have possessed little influence during the time of the Judges ,- for the people , having eaten and become full , as the prophet expresses it , of the good things of the land ,
almost universally abandoned themselves to the worship of idols , and the fascinations of the Spurious Freemasonry , or the mysteries of Thammuz and Adonis . We find the ark and tabernacle at Shiloh occasionally used by a few holy men and women ( although the college of priests itself was frequently corrupt and venal ) , viz ., Othniel and Deborah , VOL . vm . 3 E
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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
ON FREEMASONRY . EVIDENCES , DOCTRINES , AND TRADITIONS .
BY THE REV . G . OLIVER , D , l > . ( No . 8 . )
WHEN the toils of Joshua were ended by the expulsion of the Canaanites , and the partition of their country amongst the favoured people of Jehovah , he deposited the Stone of Foundation beside the tabernacle at Shiloh , as a memorial to commemorate the goodness of God to the Jewish nation ,
in redeeming the people from captivity , and establishing them in a land flowing with milk and honey . Indeed , the country was so productive , and desirable as a place of residence , that many ancient writers have spoken of it in the language of rapture . Aristseas , who flourished in the time of Ptolemy Philadelhussays that it abounded in corn
p , , wine , and oil , with abundance of honey ; olive-trees , vines , and palm-trees , the latter of which were so fat , that the oil might be pressed out by merely treading on them with the foot . He further declares that it produced spices of all kinds , nuts and almonds , mines of various metals , gold and precious stoneswith salutary fountains and riversand that
, ; 60 , 000 acres of meadow ground were salubriously situated on the banks of the Jordan , which were rendered peculiarly fruitful and productive by the periodical overflowing of the river , like the Nile in Egypt .
Our Foundation Stone was subsequently made a support for the Ark of the Covenant , and accompanied all the wanderings and fluctuations of that holy utensil , which appears to have possessed little influence during the time of the Judges ,- for the people , having eaten and become full , as the prophet expresses it , of the good things of the land ,
almost universally abandoned themselves to the worship of idols , and the fascinations of the Spurious Freemasonry , or the mysteries of Thammuz and Adonis . We find the ark and tabernacle at Shiloh occasionally used by a few holy men and women ( although the college of priests itself was frequently corrupt and venal ) , viz ., Othniel and Deborah , VOL . vm . 3 E