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Hospitallaria;
HOSPITALLARIA ;
- V on . A ' SSNOPSIS OF THE HISTORI OF THE ORDEIi OF
& niQi \ t $ ? l ) 054 JifitUctS . " God lias formed Mankind to be one mighty brotherhood ; Himself our Father , and the world our home . " The venerable and sovereign Order of Kni ghts Hospitallers of St . John of Jerusalem is the most
ancient and illustrious of all the degrees of knighthood instituted for the promotion of reli g ion , valour , and humanity . A \ ith a view to the revival in the British dominions of an Order once so potent and revered throughout Christendom , it may not be amiss to take a rapid
survey of those events which led to its formation . The general achievements of the Hospitallers occupy a wide space in the page of European history ; *—during the course of seven centuries they filled the car of empires , and will shed a long track of splendour through
time . In the beginning of the seventh century arose Mohammed , the most crafty and successful impostor that ever assailed the faith of Christ . His proscription by the magistrates of Mecca ( A . I > . G 22 ) having convinced him that eloquence alone would never
disseminate his doctrines with the rapidity he contemplated , lie ; resolved that the sword should aid their propagation . Informing his disciples that his ministering angel had brought him a scimitar from heaven , with injunctions to employ it for the subjugation of kis . enemies , he prepared to draw it boldly with a
persecutor ' s hand . Mecca shortl y confessed the supremacy of his arms , and in the course of time he made himself master of all the neighbouring c ' uies and strongholds . Within the space of three-ami-twenty years , all Arabia submitted to his yoke , and recognised the divinity of his law .
Actuated by a fanatical zeal and quenchless thirst for blood , the successors of this arch -impostor , who assumed the title of Kalifs or Vicars of the Prophet , made their conquests , and the creed of which they gloried in being the propagators , keep pace together . Arabia subjugated , they invaded Palestine and Syria ;
took Jerusalem , Damascus , and Antioch ; subdued Egypt , subverted the Persian monarchy , and extended their dominion over . Medea , Mesopotamia , and ithorassan . Even the terrors of the Lybian desert were defied by these restless warriors . The whole of Northern Africa acknowledged the invincibility of their
arms ; and the islands of Cyprus , Rhodes , Candia , Sicily , and Malta , were either partially desolated by their descents , or reduced to permanent bondage . In the heglnning of the 8 th century they carried their banner and creed beyond the Pillars of Hercules , and founded a new empire on the ruins of the Gothic Alonarchv of
Spam ; and , but for the valour of Charles Martel , the Pyrenees themselves would have presented but a feeble barrier to their aggression . The conquest of . Jerusalem by these barbarians filled Christendom with lamentation and dismay . For nearly three centuries the Cross had remained firmly
planted on its towers , protected by the Christian emperors of Byzantium , and the worshippers of the Redeemer knelt in consecrated temples built on the ruins of heathen shrines . From the time of Constantino the Great , both the Greek and Latin Christians had made Jerusalem their favourite place of
pilgrimage , and emulated each other in a devout anxiety to obtain remission of their sins at their Saviour ' s tomb . Prior to the capture of the Holy City by the Mohammedans , the access to it had been comparatively easy ; but the infidels , though they professed to reverence Christ as a prophet , scrupled nut to impose a tribute
on the votaries who flocked to his sepulchre ; while the constant struggles between the Kalifs of Bagdad and Egypt for the sovereignty of Judcsi rendered the pilgiimage intimidating and dangerous . Christian zeal , however , was rather fanned than smothered b y oppression and peril . A superstitious belief prevailed
throughout Christendom in the tenth century I hat the « nU of the reign of Antichrist was at hand , and the Archangel was about to sound his terribly trumpet ; and notwithstanding the cruel thrall to whieh the Holy City was subjected , crowds of pilgrims continued to visit it from all the countries of the ' West .
Several Kalifs granted their special protection to the pilgrims , and insureil them accommodation within the walls of Jerusalem : but in the lapse of years these privileges came to In ; abrogated or forgotten . At length , in the middle of the eleventh century , some Italian merchants , natives of Amalfi , a rich
commercial city in the kingdom of Naples , who had experienced the inhumanity of both Greeks and Arabians , undertook to provide an asylum for the Latin devotees .. Commerce curried them frequentl y to Kgypt , where , by means of presents , they obtained access to the Kalif Monstaser-billah . and won him to consent to the erection of a Latin church within the
Hospitallaria;
Holy City . A chapel was accordingly built , in 1048 ( Fuller ) , near the Holy Sepulchre , and dedicated 1 to the Virgin under the title of St . Mary . ad Latinos ; and at the same time two Hospitals , or houses of reception , for pilgrims of both sexes , were erected in the same quarter , and placed tinder the protection of
St . John the Almoner and St . Mary Magdalen . ( Subsequently , when the Order became military , the Kni ghts renounced the patronage of the Almoner , and placed themselves under the more august tutelage of St . John the Baptist . ) Several pious pilgrims , abandoning the idea of
returning to their native country , devoted themselves to these establishments for the service of the destitute and sickly wanderers who were continually arriving from the West . The expenses of the Hospitals were defrayed chiefly by arms annually collected in Ital y by the benevolent founders , and all Latin pilgrims were
sheltered and relieved without distinction of nation or condition . Those whom robbers had plundered were re-clothed ; those whom disease had debilitated were tended with skill and tenderness ; and those who died were buried with Christian rites . The . Hospital of the Almoner thus became the cradle of the illustrious
brotherhood whose martial exploits are known throughout the world , and who , as Kni ghts of St . John of Jerusalem , of Rhodes , and of Malta-, continued to be , for upwards of seven centuries , the sword and buckler of Christendom in Pavnini war .
The Latins had enjoyed the security and comfort of this humane institution nearly seventeen years , when a new enemy burst into Palestine . In 1065 , the Turcomans chased the Saracens out of Jerusalem and massacred the Egyptian garrison . The barbarities inflicted on the inhabitants of the ILil \ City are too
horrible to be told . Many were put ' to the sword , the Hospital of St John was despoiled , and oven the Holy Sepulchre itself would have been subjected to the foulest sacrilege had not avarice suggested its preservation . The conquerors augmented the tribute exacted from the Christian pilgrims , and those who had the
good fortune to survive the perils of the pilgrimage , carried back to Europe lamentable reports of the cruelties and oppression to which Christians were exposed At length , Peter the Hermit , a poor ascetic , applied himself to accomplish an enterprise which the most puissant princes dared not undertake . Fortified by
recommendatory letters from Simeon , the Greek patriarch of Jerusalem , and Gerad , rector of the Hospital of St . John , he threw himself at the feet of Pope Urban the Second , and adjured him to rouse the princes of the West to the deliverance of the heritage of Christ . In a short time the spirit-stirring orations
of the Hermit were crowned with signal success . Lnrope resounded with his pious appeals—oppressions and profanations were his theme—and a flame was kindled which oceans of blood , spilt iu the course of successive centuries of ferocious warfare , could scarcely extinguish . The chivalry of the West armed for the conquest of
Palestine . Prince and peasant alike burned with pious impatience to hasten to the East ; and whatever opinions may be entertained as to the causes which gave rise to the Crusades of a later period , it cannot be doubted that the early followers of the Cross were pronrited by feelings of the purest devotion to reseuo
from the infidel those , p laces which had beer consecrated by the Presence and Passion of the Redeemer . If the desolation of the once all-destroying Babylon—the ruined condition of Porscpolis and Palmyra — the awful silence now reigning around the gigantic Pyramids of Egypt—anil the decay that is gradually
stealing over the beauteous temples of Greece and Rome , afford to the contemplative mind of the modern traveller many a train of profitable reflection , cold indeed must have been the philosophy that could steel the heart against the emotions produced by the Hermit , as in glowing terms he described the desolation of
Jiiden—a html whieh so lately " had seen a great sight , for the giory of the Lord had risen upon it , "—and dwelt on the prostrate condition of that City which was once " the beauty of holiness and the glory of the whole earth . " Encouraged by Bohcmond , Prince of Tarentum , to
direct the martial energies of Europe , Urban decreed the assembly of two grand councils , one at Plaeentia in Italy , the other at Clermont in Auvcrgnc . Both of these august meetings he honoured with his presence , and personally exhorted the enthusiastic multitudes who composed them to join in a league for the expulsion
from Palestine of the enemies of Christ . At Clermont , where the whole chivalry of France was congregated , the assembly answered his forcible address by shouting , "God wills it ! Goil wills it ! " words which were afterwards used by the crusaders as a battle-cry on many a hard-contested field .
According to William of Mahnesbury , " there was no nation so remote , no people so retired , as did not respond to the papal wishes . " The Hermit , at the head of an undiscip lined multitude of sixty thousand persons , led the way . The knights and their martial
attendants , amounting to a hundred thousand lighting men . followed . The pilgrims able to bear arms , about six hundred thousand , closed the rear . " A more glorious army , " says Fuller , " the sun never beheld . " ( To he continued . )
Papers On Masonry.
PAPERS ON MASONRY .
BY A LEWIS . XV . —MASONRY IN AMERICA . "AVl 1 . 1 t profltetH the graven image that tbo maker thereof hatb graven it ; the molten image , and a teacher of
lies that the maker of bis work trusteth therein , to niako dumb idols . " IlabaMuk , ii . 18 . The death-bell of overstrained exertions H ringing The nations have raged , and a vain thing h : is been
imagined . Here in England we are face-to face with a giant sorrow—one for which our little ones will rise up in judgment against us . But the terrible result may be mitigated , perhaps averted . It is fortunate for the good sense of the middle and upper classes of this land that the fearful issue about
to be tried—the universal and continual strife existing between ri ght and wrong—may culminate in a crisis . Elsewhere , and sadly , it has done its work . Man , whether under one form of political administration or another , is ever the same . Of this tie United States , as they are called , are a signa ™ example . Denuded of an hereditary titled class , educated by a
superficial system , and stunned by an official arrogance only comprehensible to those who have seen it , the people of the Northern American continent instinctively turn to that which the short-sighted politicians who convened a meeting of the Plantations and called it Freedom , desired to eradicate—that'love and respect for a lord which republicans only can realize to the fullest , extent .
Thus prevented , they sought at one time for social rank in imaginary generalships and " bogus" commands . These became the laughing-stock of the world ; and they must so continue . In many points the government of the States is admirable—in others
to speak in mild terms , it is somewhat indefensible . But , really , in Freemasonry—the main issue now at the bar—the vanity of the United States' Masons is something to raise the hands at . One side of their singular views is to insist oil a common indivisible
country , capable ( if the doctrine of Monroe were to be carried out ) of co-existent continental extension ; on the other , as many Grand Lodges and office-bearers as possible . To read their Masonic literature is an amazing task for a bookworm , and while we neither can hor
ought to deny that their Masonry is a mattcrof enthusiasm , should-we close our eyes , as enlightened men , to the enormity of Republicans , who deny all titles , being so at variance with their deliberate decision as to greedily assume " anything with a handle to it" in the Craft of Equality !
The present writer means no mischief , but he observes very closely , and objects to men with high aims lowering the standard of their position . I am aware that recruiting is forbidden ; and this country seeks only the real lovers of the Art , wherever it can
find and protect them . I expect , if the American Masons go on as they do , that every loghouse will become a Grand Lodge . J ^ nd yet in the face of State Grand Lodges , there is to be no freedom , no secession !
How a nation can bo one and indivisible and yet divided as it is , - seems , to say the least , singular . To maintain the doctrine of State right in a non-political institution such as Freemasonry , is a puzzle in the face of the energetic attempt of Grant anil others ' at centralisation . Surely , even in that free country ,
you need not serve two masters . I have in a former paper expressed my views as to the American Masonic Press . I adhere to them . But I protest against that feeling of knocking about rough ashlars for the purpose of talking about it afterwards as Past Grand this and Past Grand that .
Theatrical exhibitions effectively got up , fill pockets and increase assumption , but they contribute bss than nothing to real fame . Some will say that these remarks are beyond my function ; none can say they are beside the question . No one can , or dare to assert , that mere office-seeking
is the proper thing for which so many persons have banded themselves into societies with defined objects . AH they have to do in their several spheres is to be true to those objects in a commensurate proportion to their development . No 1 . we must not make idols of ourselves . Wo
shall be teachers of lies innumerable , and insufferable to ourselves and our companions—and dumb idols eloquent , indeed—if we regard the empty dignity more than the end to be attained by unity and real Masonic fraternity . CRYPTONYMUS .
KNOWM ' . DOE is progressive , and is the reward of the efforts made to advance Christianity and civilization . Knowledge as it relates to art , science , wants , language , etiquette , dress , & o ., is imitative , and may be taught , learned , copied , and practised to
the extent ol all seeming refinement ; but where there is such civilization without Christianity in its simple truths , there will slavery , tyranny , assassination , injustice , theft , and other signs pointing out the difference between unrcgenerated and Christian man .- — A' //* .
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Hospitallaria;
HOSPITALLARIA ;
- V on . A ' SSNOPSIS OF THE HISTORI OF THE ORDEIi OF
& niQi \ t $ ? l ) 054 JifitUctS . " God lias formed Mankind to be one mighty brotherhood ; Himself our Father , and the world our home . " The venerable and sovereign Order of Kni ghts Hospitallers of St . John of Jerusalem is the most
ancient and illustrious of all the degrees of knighthood instituted for the promotion of reli g ion , valour , and humanity . A \ ith a view to the revival in the British dominions of an Order once so potent and revered throughout Christendom , it may not be amiss to take a rapid
survey of those events which led to its formation . The general achievements of the Hospitallers occupy a wide space in the page of European history ; *—during the course of seven centuries they filled the car of empires , and will shed a long track of splendour through
time . In the beginning of the seventh century arose Mohammed , the most crafty and successful impostor that ever assailed the faith of Christ . His proscription by the magistrates of Mecca ( A . I > . G 22 ) having convinced him that eloquence alone would never
disseminate his doctrines with the rapidity he contemplated , lie ; resolved that the sword should aid their propagation . Informing his disciples that his ministering angel had brought him a scimitar from heaven , with injunctions to employ it for the subjugation of kis . enemies , he prepared to draw it boldly with a
persecutor ' s hand . Mecca shortl y confessed the supremacy of his arms , and in the course of time he made himself master of all the neighbouring c ' uies and strongholds . Within the space of three-ami-twenty years , all Arabia submitted to his yoke , and recognised the divinity of his law .
Actuated by a fanatical zeal and quenchless thirst for blood , the successors of this arch -impostor , who assumed the title of Kalifs or Vicars of the Prophet , made their conquests , and the creed of which they gloried in being the propagators , keep pace together . Arabia subjugated , they invaded Palestine and Syria ;
took Jerusalem , Damascus , and Antioch ; subdued Egypt , subverted the Persian monarchy , and extended their dominion over . Medea , Mesopotamia , and ithorassan . Even the terrors of the Lybian desert were defied by these restless warriors . The whole of Northern Africa acknowledged the invincibility of their
arms ; and the islands of Cyprus , Rhodes , Candia , Sicily , and Malta , were either partially desolated by their descents , or reduced to permanent bondage . In the heglnning of the 8 th century they carried their banner and creed beyond the Pillars of Hercules , and founded a new empire on the ruins of the Gothic Alonarchv of
Spam ; and , but for the valour of Charles Martel , the Pyrenees themselves would have presented but a feeble barrier to their aggression . The conquest of . Jerusalem by these barbarians filled Christendom with lamentation and dismay . For nearly three centuries the Cross had remained firmly
planted on its towers , protected by the Christian emperors of Byzantium , and the worshippers of the Redeemer knelt in consecrated temples built on the ruins of heathen shrines . From the time of Constantino the Great , both the Greek and Latin Christians had made Jerusalem their favourite place of
pilgrimage , and emulated each other in a devout anxiety to obtain remission of their sins at their Saviour ' s tomb . Prior to the capture of the Holy City by the Mohammedans , the access to it had been comparatively easy ; but the infidels , though they professed to reverence Christ as a prophet , scrupled nut to impose a tribute
on the votaries who flocked to his sepulchre ; while the constant struggles between the Kalifs of Bagdad and Egypt for the sovereignty of Judcsi rendered the pilgiimage intimidating and dangerous . Christian zeal , however , was rather fanned than smothered b y oppression and peril . A superstitious belief prevailed
throughout Christendom in the tenth century I hat the « nU of the reign of Antichrist was at hand , and the Archangel was about to sound his terribly trumpet ; and notwithstanding the cruel thrall to whieh the Holy City was subjected , crowds of pilgrims continued to visit it from all the countries of the ' West .
Several Kalifs granted their special protection to the pilgrims , and insureil them accommodation within the walls of Jerusalem : but in the lapse of years these privileges came to In ; abrogated or forgotten . At length , in the middle of the eleventh century , some Italian merchants , natives of Amalfi , a rich
commercial city in the kingdom of Naples , who had experienced the inhumanity of both Greeks and Arabians , undertook to provide an asylum for the Latin devotees .. Commerce curried them frequentl y to Kgypt , where , by means of presents , they obtained access to the Kalif Monstaser-billah . and won him to consent to the erection of a Latin church within the
Hospitallaria;
Holy City . A chapel was accordingly built , in 1048 ( Fuller ) , near the Holy Sepulchre , and dedicated 1 to the Virgin under the title of St . Mary . ad Latinos ; and at the same time two Hospitals , or houses of reception , for pilgrims of both sexes , were erected in the same quarter , and placed tinder the protection of
St . John the Almoner and St . Mary Magdalen . ( Subsequently , when the Order became military , the Kni ghts renounced the patronage of the Almoner , and placed themselves under the more august tutelage of St . John the Baptist . ) Several pious pilgrims , abandoning the idea of
returning to their native country , devoted themselves to these establishments for the service of the destitute and sickly wanderers who were continually arriving from the West . The expenses of the Hospitals were defrayed chiefly by arms annually collected in Ital y by the benevolent founders , and all Latin pilgrims were
sheltered and relieved without distinction of nation or condition . Those whom robbers had plundered were re-clothed ; those whom disease had debilitated were tended with skill and tenderness ; and those who died were buried with Christian rites . The . Hospital of the Almoner thus became the cradle of the illustrious
brotherhood whose martial exploits are known throughout the world , and who , as Kni ghts of St . John of Jerusalem , of Rhodes , and of Malta-, continued to be , for upwards of seven centuries , the sword and buckler of Christendom in Pavnini war .
The Latins had enjoyed the security and comfort of this humane institution nearly seventeen years , when a new enemy burst into Palestine . In 1065 , the Turcomans chased the Saracens out of Jerusalem and massacred the Egyptian garrison . The barbarities inflicted on the inhabitants of the ILil \ City are too
horrible to be told . Many were put ' to the sword , the Hospital of St John was despoiled , and oven the Holy Sepulchre itself would have been subjected to the foulest sacrilege had not avarice suggested its preservation . The conquerors augmented the tribute exacted from the Christian pilgrims , and those who had the
good fortune to survive the perils of the pilgrimage , carried back to Europe lamentable reports of the cruelties and oppression to which Christians were exposed At length , Peter the Hermit , a poor ascetic , applied himself to accomplish an enterprise which the most puissant princes dared not undertake . Fortified by
recommendatory letters from Simeon , the Greek patriarch of Jerusalem , and Gerad , rector of the Hospital of St . John , he threw himself at the feet of Pope Urban the Second , and adjured him to rouse the princes of the West to the deliverance of the heritage of Christ . In a short time the spirit-stirring orations
of the Hermit were crowned with signal success . Lnrope resounded with his pious appeals—oppressions and profanations were his theme—and a flame was kindled which oceans of blood , spilt iu the course of successive centuries of ferocious warfare , could scarcely extinguish . The chivalry of the West armed for the conquest of
Palestine . Prince and peasant alike burned with pious impatience to hasten to the East ; and whatever opinions may be entertained as to the causes which gave rise to the Crusades of a later period , it cannot be doubted that the early followers of the Cross were pronrited by feelings of the purest devotion to reseuo
from the infidel those , p laces which had beer consecrated by the Presence and Passion of the Redeemer . If the desolation of the once all-destroying Babylon—the ruined condition of Porscpolis and Palmyra — the awful silence now reigning around the gigantic Pyramids of Egypt—anil the decay that is gradually
stealing over the beauteous temples of Greece and Rome , afford to the contemplative mind of the modern traveller many a train of profitable reflection , cold indeed must have been the philosophy that could steel the heart against the emotions produced by the Hermit , as in glowing terms he described the desolation of
Jiiden—a html whieh so lately " had seen a great sight , for the giory of the Lord had risen upon it , "—and dwelt on the prostrate condition of that City which was once " the beauty of holiness and the glory of the whole earth . " Encouraged by Bohcmond , Prince of Tarentum , to
direct the martial energies of Europe , Urban decreed the assembly of two grand councils , one at Plaeentia in Italy , the other at Clermont in Auvcrgnc . Both of these august meetings he honoured with his presence , and personally exhorted the enthusiastic multitudes who composed them to join in a league for the expulsion
from Palestine of the enemies of Christ . At Clermont , where the whole chivalry of France was congregated , the assembly answered his forcible address by shouting , "God wills it ! Goil wills it ! " words which were afterwards used by the crusaders as a battle-cry on many a hard-contested field .
According to William of Mahnesbury , " there was no nation so remote , no people so retired , as did not respond to the papal wishes . " The Hermit , at the head of an undiscip lined multitude of sixty thousand persons , led the way . The knights and their martial
attendants , amounting to a hundred thousand lighting men . followed . The pilgrims able to bear arms , about six hundred thousand , closed the rear . " A more glorious army , " says Fuller , " the sun never beheld . " ( To he continued . )
Papers On Masonry.
PAPERS ON MASONRY .
BY A LEWIS . XV . —MASONRY IN AMERICA . "AVl 1 . 1 t profltetH the graven image that tbo maker thereof hatb graven it ; the molten image , and a teacher of
lies that the maker of bis work trusteth therein , to niako dumb idols . " IlabaMuk , ii . 18 . The death-bell of overstrained exertions H ringing The nations have raged , and a vain thing h : is been
imagined . Here in England we are face-to face with a giant sorrow—one for which our little ones will rise up in judgment against us . But the terrible result may be mitigated , perhaps averted . It is fortunate for the good sense of the middle and upper classes of this land that the fearful issue about
to be tried—the universal and continual strife existing between ri ght and wrong—may culminate in a crisis . Elsewhere , and sadly , it has done its work . Man , whether under one form of political administration or another , is ever the same . Of this tie United States , as they are called , are a signa ™ example . Denuded of an hereditary titled class , educated by a
superficial system , and stunned by an official arrogance only comprehensible to those who have seen it , the people of the Northern American continent instinctively turn to that which the short-sighted politicians who convened a meeting of the Plantations and called it Freedom , desired to eradicate—that'love and respect for a lord which republicans only can realize to the fullest , extent .
Thus prevented , they sought at one time for social rank in imaginary generalships and " bogus" commands . These became the laughing-stock of the world ; and they must so continue . In many points the government of the States is admirable—in others
to speak in mild terms , it is somewhat indefensible . But , really , in Freemasonry—the main issue now at the bar—the vanity of the United States' Masons is something to raise the hands at . One side of their singular views is to insist oil a common indivisible
country , capable ( if the doctrine of Monroe were to be carried out ) of co-existent continental extension ; on the other , as many Grand Lodges and office-bearers as possible . To read their Masonic literature is an amazing task for a bookworm , and while we neither can hor
ought to deny that their Masonry is a mattcrof enthusiasm , should-we close our eyes , as enlightened men , to the enormity of Republicans , who deny all titles , being so at variance with their deliberate decision as to greedily assume " anything with a handle to it" in the Craft of Equality !
The present writer means no mischief , but he observes very closely , and objects to men with high aims lowering the standard of their position . I am aware that recruiting is forbidden ; and this country seeks only the real lovers of the Art , wherever it can
find and protect them . I expect , if the American Masons go on as they do , that every loghouse will become a Grand Lodge . J ^ nd yet in the face of State Grand Lodges , there is to be no freedom , no secession !
How a nation can bo one and indivisible and yet divided as it is , - seems , to say the least , singular . To maintain the doctrine of State right in a non-political institution such as Freemasonry , is a puzzle in the face of the energetic attempt of Grant anil others ' at centralisation . Surely , even in that free country ,
you need not serve two masters . I have in a former paper expressed my views as to the American Masonic Press . I adhere to them . But I protest against that feeling of knocking about rough ashlars for the purpose of talking about it afterwards as Past Grand this and Past Grand that .
Theatrical exhibitions effectively got up , fill pockets and increase assumption , but they contribute bss than nothing to real fame . Some will say that these remarks are beyond my function ; none can say they are beside the question . No one can , or dare to assert , that mere office-seeking
is the proper thing for which so many persons have banded themselves into societies with defined objects . AH they have to do in their several spheres is to be true to those objects in a commensurate proportion to their development . No 1 . we must not make idols of ourselves . Wo
shall be teachers of lies innumerable , and insufferable to ourselves and our companions—and dumb idols eloquent , indeed—if we regard the empty dignity more than the end to be attained by unity and real Masonic fraternity . CRYPTONYMUS .
KNOWM ' . DOE is progressive , and is the reward of the efforts made to advance Christianity and civilization . Knowledge as it relates to art , science , wants , language , etiquette , dress , & o ., is imitative , and may be taught , learned , copied , and practised to
the extent ol all seeming refinement ; but where there is such civilization without Christianity in its simple truths , there will slavery , tyranny , assassination , injustice , theft , and other signs pointing out the difference between unrcgenerated and Christian man .- — A' //* .