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Sermon,
shall be disclosed , ancl the God of truth shall deal with us according to their tendency , and the use we have made of them . To you , my brethren in particular , I need only recommend the assiduous cultivation of those . Masonic precepts which redound to the perfection of our Work , the stability of" our Order , and the glory of the Most High . To brethren in general brethren in a still higher ancl
you , my , my more enlarged sense of the word , I submit this practical inference ; that , as you are exhorted by the Apostle to judge nothing into whicli you cannot fairly penetrate , till the time come when it shall be brought to light , your duty towards us is , either to qualify yourselves for judging of us " according to knowledge , " or to refrain from judging of us by what you do not know . " There is one that seeketh and judgeth , " and His judgment alone is just : for tie alone knoweth all things ,
and " from Him no secrets are hidden . " Now unto the King eternal , immortal , invisible , the only wise God , be honour and glory for ever and ever—Amen .
Freemasonry, Past And Present.
FREEMASONRY , PAST AND PRESENT .
TO THE EDITOR . Irr a former number of tbe TF . Q . Ii ., I complained of the annoyance I felt , in common with others , at what 1 conceived to be unwarrantable charges against our Order , and proposed to make inquiry into the probable causes ; in fact , " there is an alarm , " and the Masonic custom in our part of the world is to " inquire the cause . " I have since
devoted as much of my time as I could conveniently spare to the subject , and now communicate the result , though I cannot possibly do so in the space of one letter . My object , however , is to provoke some controversy upon the subject , as that may tend to bring others into the field , ancl something like a knowledge of the truth may be the result . In looking into the Masonry of the present day , ancl comparing it with the past , I do not find that we had so many objectors among the This
respectable ranks of society as we have in the present day . * naturally leads me to inquire whether there have been any material alterations introduced into our regulations ancl ritual since the last century . I find that such has been the case , and very extensively too ; and they are of such a nature as may reasonably account for the scrupulous objections which 1 know many highly respectable persons have made against joining our Society , and would , no doubt , operate very powerfully upon the minds of the ministers of the Christian religion , under whatever denomination , whether it be the Anglo-Indian clergy alluded to by
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Sermon,
shall be disclosed , ancl the God of truth shall deal with us according to their tendency , and the use we have made of them . To you , my brethren in particular , I need only recommend the assiduous cultivation of those . Masonic precepts which redound to the perfection of our Work , the stability of" our Order , and the glory of the Most High . To brethren in general brethren in a still higher ancl
you , my , my more enlarged sense of the word , I submit this practical inference ; that , as you are exhorted by the Apostle to judge nothing into whicli you cannot fairly penetrate , till the time come when it shall be brought to light , your duty towards us is , either to qualify yourselves for judging of us " according to knowledge , " or to refrain from judging of us by what you do not know . " There is one that seeketh and judgeth , " and His judgment alone is just : for tie alone knoweth all things ,
and " from Him no secrets are hidden . " Now unto the King eternal , immortal , invisible , the only wise God , be honour and glory for ever and ever—Amen .
Freemasonry, Past And Present.
FREEMASONRY , PAST AND PRESENT .
TO THE EDITOR . Irr a former number of tbe TF . Q . Ii ., I complained of the annoyance I felt , in common with others , at what 1 conceived to be unwarrantable charges against our Order , and proposed to make inquiry into the probable causes ; in fact , " there is an alarm , " and the Masonic custom in our part of the world is to " inquire the cause . " I have since
devoted as much of my time as I could conveniently spare to the subject , and now communicate the result , though I cannot possibly do so in the space of one letter . My object , however , is to provoke some controversy upon the subject , as that may tend to bring others into the field , ancl something like a knowledge of the truth may be the result . In looking into the Masonry of the present day , ancl comparing it with the past , I do not find that we had so many objectors among the This
respectable ranks of society as we have in the present day . * naturally leads me to inquire whether there have been any material alterations introduced into our regulations ancl ritual since the last century . I find that such has been the case , and very extensively too ; and they are of such a nature as may reasonably account for the scrupulous objections which 1 know many highly respectable persons have made against joining our Society , and would , no doubt , operate very powerfully upon the minds of the ministers of the Christian religion , under whatever denomination , whether it be the Anglo-Indian clergy alluded to by