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Not Knowing.
For perhaps the dreadful future Has less bitter than I think , The Lord may sweeten the waters Before I stoop to drink ; Or if Marah must be Marah ,
He will stand beside the brink . It may be He was waiting For the coming of my feet , Some gift of such rare blessedness , Some joy so strangely sweet , That my lips shall only tremble With the thanks they cannot speak .
Oh 1 restful , blissful ignorance 1 'Tis blessed not to know , It keeps me so still in those arms Which will not let me go , And hushes my soul to rest On the bosom that loves me so .
So I go on , not knowing , I would not if I might , I would rather walk in the dark with God Than walk alone in the light ; I would rather walk with Him by faith , Than walk alone by sight .
My heart shrinks back from trials That the future may disclose , Yet I never had a sorrow But what the clear Lord chose ; So I send the coming tears back With a whispered word " He knows . "
The True History Of Freemasonry In England.
THE TRUE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY IN ENGLAND .
A LODGE LECTURE . YOU will hare seen , by the Monthly Summons , that I propose to deliver on the present occasion , under the auspices of your W . Master , a Lecture on the True History of Freemasonry in England . That is in itself , perhaps , a somewhat presumptuous heading , and as such it may have struck some now present , but I yet hope , at the conclusion of
my lecture , you will agree with me that it is , after all , not far from what I had a right to use , or you have good reason to apjprove of . There are few of us who have ever taken any interest in Freemasonry—a true and earnest interest—who have not desired , and do not desire , to know what can be known , historicall y and archaiologically , concerning that really wonderful institution of which we are at the present day members . When , however , we turn our attention to the matter , as we sometimes do , we find , as 1 found , when I began my Masonic studies some years back , espe-C 1 % in our cm-rent Masonic Literature , the most conflicting views regarding the origin and
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Not Knowing.
For perhaps the dreadful future Has less bitter than I think , The Lord may sweeten the waters Before I stoop to drink ; Or if Marah must be Marah ,
He will stand beside the brink . It may be He was waiting For the coming of my feet , Some gift of such rare blessedness , Some joy so strangely sweet , That my lips shall only tremble With the thanks they cannot speak .
Oh 1 restful , blissful ignorance 1 'Tis blessed not to know , It keeps me so still in those arms Which will not let me go , And hushes my soul to rest On the bosom that loves me so .
So I go on , not knowing , I would not if I might , I would rather walk in the dark with God Than walk alone in the light ; I would rather walk with Him by faith , Than walk alone by sight .
My heart shrinks back from trials That the future may disclose , Yet I never had a sorrow But what the clear Lord chose ; So I send the coming tears back With a whispered word " He knows . "
The True History Of Freemasonry In England.
THE TRUE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY IN ENGLAND .
A LODGE LECTURE . YOU will hare seen , by the Monthly Summons , that I propose to deliver on the present occasion , under the auspices of your W . Master , a Lecture on the True History of Freemasonry in England . That is in itself , perhaps , a somewhat presumptuous heading , and as such it may have struck some now present , but I yet hope , at the conclusion of
my lecture , you will agree with me that it is , after all , not far from what I had a right to use , or you have good reason to apjprove of . There are few of us who have ever taken any interest in Freemasonry—a true and earnest interest—who have not desired , and do not desire , to know what can be known , historicall y and archaiologically , concerning that really wonderful institution of which we are at the present day members . When , however , we turn our attention to the matter , as we sometimes do , we find , as 1 found , when I began my Masonic studies some years back , espe-C 1 % in our cm-rent Masonic Literature , the most conflicting views regarding the origin and