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Symbol Of Glory*
attended with success . " Our esteemed author need not for a moment be apprehensive of the verdict of fair and impartial criticism . Ho need not fear lest " his hard-earned fame molt away like an icicle in the sun . " There is something very touching and beautiful in the spirit that dictated the following appeal . " Yet I shall not complain if youmy dear brethren , pronounce
, it to be your deliberate opinion that my late severe indisposition has impaired my faculties , and disqualified me for a Masonic writer . It is rather late in life to divest myself of habits of thinking and acting which I have fostered for nearly half a century , and which have constituted almost the only source of pleasure and gratification in which I have freely indulged during that extended period ; but I
shall endeavour to lay them aside in cheerful acquiescence with the decision of those who are better judges than myself , if the opinion should prove to bo unfavourable . I entertain , however , a sanguine hope that you will consider the covering to be at least equal to the rest of the fabric , ancl that the cope-stone adds beauty rather than deformity to the work . Should my anticipations be correct , your
approval will be a cheering reflection at the latter end of a life spent in the service of the Fraternity . " How gladly do we confirm tho best anticipations of the author . "Finis coronal opus '' Those pages , so full of fine wisdom , large experience , of mature erudition , of kindness not untenipered with the serene gravity of a good old age ,
we recommend cordially to all readers , Masonic and general . This volume deserves not merely to find a place in the library , but to be well read and studied . We can bear witness to the happiness it has caused us in the perusal . There are twelve Lectures , each preceded by an epistolary dedication to one of the celebrated Lodges to which the author ' s name and services have made him an honorary member . AVe especially recommend to the study of Masons the second
Lecture , " On the Poetry and Philosophy of Freemasonry , " in whicli the author expatiates on the prejudices current in the profane world on the character and tendencies of the Order , attributable in no small degree to the indifference and short-comings of many of the Brethren , who can give no account of the Fraternity , nor any reason for their attachment to an institutionto which they
pro-, fessedly , but loosely and ignorantly , adhere . '" It is for want of being thus deeply versed in the poetry of Freemasonry , that so many even of the Fraternity themselves differ in their estimate of it . But they draw their opinions from their own private feelings and propensities , rather than from any inherent property of the Order . While the bon mvant considers it to be a society established for
the purpose of social convivialities , and the man the of world throws it aside as frivolous and useless , the more studious differ in opinion whether it be Christian or Jewish , moral or religious , astronomical or astrological and all this confusion arises from a confined view of its nature and properties , which limits them to one particular
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Symbol Of Glory*
attended with success . " Our esteemed author need not for a moment be apprehensive of the verdict of fair and impartial criticism . Ho need not fear lest " his hard-earned fame molt away like an icicle in the sun . " There is something very touching and beautiful in the spirit that dictated the following appeal . " Yet I shall not complain if youmy dear brethren , pronounce
, it to be your deliberate opinion that my late severe indisposition has impaired my faculties , and disqualified me for a Masonic writer . It is rather late in life to divest myself of habits of thinking and acting which I have fostered for nearly half a century , and which have constituted almost the only source of pleasure and gratification in which I have freely indulged during that extended period ; but I
shall endeavour to lay them aside in cheerful acquiescence with the decision of those who are better judges than myself , if the opinion should prove to bo unfavourable . I entertain , however , a sanguine hope that you will consider the covering to be at least equal to the rest of the fabric , ancl that the cope-stone adds beauty rather than deformity to the work . Should my anticipations be correct , your
approval will be a cheering reflection at the latter end of a life spent in the service of the Fraternity . " How gladly do we confirm tho best anticipations of the author . "Finis coronal opus '' Those pages , so full of fine wisdom , large experience , of mature erudition , of kindness not untenipered with the serene gravity of a good old age ,
we recommend cordially to all readers , Masonic and general . This volume deserves not merely to find a place in the library , but to be well read and studied . We can bear witness to the happiness it has caused us in the perusal . There are twelve Lectures , each preceded by an epistolary dedication to one of the celebrated Lodges to which the author ' s name and services have made him an honorary member . AVe especially recommend to the study of Masons the second
Lecture , " On the Poetry and Philosophy of Freemasonry , " in whicli the author expatiates on the prejudices current in the profane world on the character and tendencies of the Order , attributable in no small degree to the indifference and short-comings of many of the Brethren , who can give no account of the Fraternity , nor any reason for their attachment to an institutionto which they
pro-, fessedly , but loosely and ignorantly , adhere . '" It is for want of being thus deeply versed in the poetry of Freemasonry , that so many even of the Fraternity themselves differ in their estimate of it . But they draw their opinions from their own private feelings and propensities , rather than from any inherent property of the Order . While the bon mvant considers it to be a society established for
the purpose of social convivialities , and the man the of world throws it aside as frivolous and useless , the more studious differ in opinion whether it be Christian or Jewish , moral or religious , astronomical or astrological and all this confusion arises from a confined view of its nature and properties , which limits them to one particular