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Article RIZPAH, THE DAUGHTER OF AIAH, OR WOMAN'S DEVOTEDNESS. ← Page 2 of 2 Article TO ITHURIEL. Page 1 of 2 →
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Rizpah, The Daughter Of Aiah, Or Woman's Devotedness.
that were hanged , were gathered by David ' s express command , and buried with due honours in the sepulchre of Kish the father of Saul , which was in the country of his tribe ; and thus that fearful ignominy , so revolting to an Israelite , the denying burial to the dead , was removed from the house of Saul by the devotion of a woman . Who , then , will assert that the purest and best feelings of our nature find no place in the Word of God ? Who can seek to make religion trample on the most sacred feelings of humanity , by asserting that , if we truly love the Lord ,
we can never grieve , nor be afflicted ? How painfully mistaken are those who would thus instruct , and how sadly deceived those who would banish all feeling from woman ' s nature ! Who would guide her by rule and measure ? Who would check every enthusiastic impulse , every kind sentiment , every sympathising emotion , every imaginative glow , all because it is so unfitted for this unromantic world ; and therefore destines its possessors to more pain than pleasure ? Oh , if wg believe the Word of the Lord divine let us come there , and we shall find guides for feeling as well as for action . There we find the emotions , which God in His mercy gave , encouraged not subdued ; feeling , devotedness , affection ,
enthusiasm , all that can lift us up from the mere petty concerns and thoughts of a day , are there brought forward ; and why then should the sweet emotions of the Israelite in the past , be deemed folly and romance , and so unworthy of the Israelite in the present ? Oh . ' as women , women of Israel , let us cultivate every emotion which can refine and elevate , and prepare us for that Future whieh has been so long our promised heritage . ' We are but strangers and sojourners in the land of our captivity ; but our destiny is laid up with our God for that day when in the face of the whole world , we shall be acknowledged as His own . — Women of Israel .
To Ithuriel.
TO ITHURIEL .
" One whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish like enchanting harmony . " Love ' s Labour Lost .
MILTON well notes this memorable reply— " Not to know me argues thyself unknown . " There were many admiring friends panting to know your precise whereabouts in the gentle Craft , when lo ! bonnie Willy Tucker , of that ilk , of Coryton , has ventured the word of promise to the ear , which of course he will not break to the hope . But as it has heretofore occurred that those most in danger of the Avalanche are
the last to perceive it , I feel it my duty , as a Master Mason , and not altogether among the unknown , to advise that you step aside for awhile , and let danger pass by . Do not venture to put out thy foot , for as the slightest obstruction to a huge man of bluster and rigmarole may endanger the great perpendiculars of Bro . Tucker and his fidus Achates the Rev . St . John , I hope you will forbear and be merciful . But to the point . At the late Prov . Grand Lodge of Dorset , the R . W . Prov . Grand Master , in Grand Lodge , delivered a very pleasing address . But there is a vast difference in some men " before and after
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Rizpah, The Daughter Of Aiah, Or Woman's Devotedness.
that were hanged , were gathered by David ' s express command , and buried with due honours in the sepulchre of Kish the father of Saul , which was in the country of his tribe ; and thus that fearful ignominy , so revolting to an Israelite , the denying burial to the dead , was removed from the house of Saul by the devotion of a woman . Who , then , will assert that the purest and best feelings of our nature find no place in the Word of God ? Who can seek to make religion trample on the most sacred feelings of humanity , by asserting that , if we truly love the Lord ,
we can never grieve , nor be afflicted ? How painfully mistaken are those who would thus instruct , and how sadly deceived those who would banish all feeling from woman ' s nature ! Who would guide her by rule and measure ? Who would check every enthusiastic impulse , every kind sentiment , every sympathising emotion , every imaginative glow , all because it is so unfitted for this unromantic world ; and therefore destines its possessors to more pain than pleasure ? Oh , if wg believe the Word of the Lord divine let us come there , and we shall find guides for feeling as well as for action . There we find the emotions , which God in His mercy gave , encouraged not subdued ; feeling , devotedness , affection ,
enthusiasm , all that can lift us up from the mere petty concerns and thoughts of a day , are there brought forward ; and why then should the sweet emotions of the Israelite in the past , be deemed folly and romance , and so unworthy of the Israelite in the present ? Oh . ' as women , women of Israel , let us cultivate every emotion which can refine and elevate , and prepare us for that Future whieh has been so long our promised heritage . ' We are but strangers and sojourners in the land of our captivity ; but our destiny is laid up with our God for that day when in the face of the whole world , we shall be acknowledged as His own . — Women of Israel .
To Ithuriel.
TO ITHURIEL .
" One whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish like enchanting harmony . " Love ' s Labour Lost .
MILTON well notes this memorable reply— " Not to know me argues thyself unknown . " There were many admiring friends panting to know your precise whereabouts in the gentle Craft , when lo ! bonnie Willy Tucker , of that ilk , of Coryton , has ventured the word of promise to the ear , which of course he will not break to the hope . But as it has heretofore occurred that those most in danger of the Avalanche are
the last to perceive it , I feel it my duty , as a Master Mason , and not altogether among the unknown , to advise that you step aside for awhile , and let danger pass by . Do not venture to put out thy foot , for as the slightest obstruction to a huge man of bluster and rigmarole may endanger the great perpendiculars of Bro . Tucker and his fidus Achates the Rev . St . John , I hope you will forbear and be merciful . But to the point . At the late Prov . Grand Lodge of Dorset , the R . W . Prov . Grand Master , in Grand Lodge , delivered a very pleasing address . But there is a vast difference in some men " before and after