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Fairy Tales Utilised For The New Generation.
civility , comfort , convenience , adulation ; the world is a very good world , after all , why not leave it alone ? Why bother our heads with plans and proposals for alteration , and for amelioration , which seem very doubtful , and are certainly not needed ! And so we float on with the tide
down that great River which is always carrying on to the Eternal Sea the drifting boats , great and small , of men 1 If some one has sung , with some truth , each one can and must " paddle his own canoe , " so be it ; but let the skilful oarsman in " Rob Roy " remember that there are dangerous
quicksands and treacherous currents , and fatal maelstroms in that broad expanse of water , and that too often the cranky outrigger is submerged , and the ill-directed skiff goes down ! I never like then to hear people talking to-day , as you may often hear them ,
in disparagement even of the inexperienced fervour of the unworldly faith , and the living trust of youth , There is just now a cold scepticism , which , like the famous " Upas Tree , " of Gladstouian simile , poisons all on whom it casts its berries or its shade .
Youth has many errors , and not a few shortcomings , but it has a fine instinct often , a love of the beautiful , a reverence for the true ! Youth cannot believe in the colder counsels and calmer appreciation of age . The world is before it gay , smiling , inviting—it believes in it . It has
not proved that it is full of deception and tricks , and lures ! yea , and lies ! It does not know how soon its blue sk y is overcast , and the hurrying clouds tell of the impending tempest , of the destroying tornado . Youth often laughs at you when
you tell it these green meadows will not be always green , these flowers will not always bloom , these songs will not always sound pleasant to the ear , Circe ' s draught will not always appear agreeable to the taste , or that blight and decay , aud grief and desolation
will one day make the scene before you grievous to the sight . Youth laughs on ! It has promises and hopes , and dreams and fancies , and trust and sympathy of its own ; why should it mind the gloomy vaticinations of some prophet of ill ? It'dark days will come
they will come , none can stoji them , or avert them ; and wheu they come each will be prepared for them 1 And here is just the mistake of youth . Those years do come ,
Fairy Tales Utilised For The New Generation.
and those changes do come , and foreboding fears and punishing memories do come ; but we are not prepared for them when they do come . No , Life and the world have surrounded us with their illusions and deceits , and we have forgotten both the past and the future in the present !
But if , like as with Jack , the jirogress of years has destroyed our fairy ladder , our higher hopes , our heavenward aspirations , his mythic tale still whispers to us all of courage , perseverance , and trust . Life may leave us , as life does leave us
all ; but life , happily , is not everything . The world deceives and deserts us , but the world is not our all in all . Time and the world , life aud humanit y itself must one clay pass away , but beyond the dull , sad plains of earth He the
" everlasting hills ; " and once we have gained the ascent , once we have crossed the dark intervening river , earth and the world will look like specks in the distance . We have left folly , deceit , baseness , and sorrow all far behind ; the fog has lifted , and all is clear in the brilliancy of God ' s own unfading light , to those who at last have reached the better country far away .
The Origin And References Of The Hermesian Spurious Freemasonry.
THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCES OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY .
BY REV GEO . OLIVER , D . D . ( Continued from page 35 . ) CHAPTER X . THE REFERENCE TO A LAWGIVER . " The crowd with silent admiration stand
And heard him as they heard theii god ' s command ; While he discoursed of heaven ' s mysterious laws , ' The world's original and Nature ' s cause ; And what was God , and why the fleecy snows In silence fell , and rattling winds arose ; What shook the steadfast earth , and whence hegtm The dance of planets round the radiant sun . 0 happy monarchsent by heavento bless
, , A savage nation with soft arts of peace . To teach religion , rapine to restrain , Give laws to lust , aud sacrifice ordain . " DEYDEN ' OVID . IN every religious institution , whether true or false , the covenant between the creature and the Creator has uniformly
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Fairy Tales Utilised For The New Generation.
civility , comfort , convenience , adulation ; the world is a very good world , after all , why not leave it alone ? Why bother our heads with plans and proposals for alteration , and for amelioration , which seem very doubtful , and are certainly not needed ! And so we float on with the tide
down that great River which is always carrying on to the Eternal Sea the drifting boats , great and small , of men 1 If some one has sung , with some truth , each one can and must " paddle his own canoe , " so be it ; but let the skilful oarsman in " Rob Roy " remember that there are dangerous
quicksands and treacherous currents , and fatal maelstroms in that broad expanse of water , and that too often the cranky outrigger is submerged , and the ill-directed skiff goes down ! I never like then to hear people talking to-day , as you may often hear them ,
in disparagement even of the inexperienced fervour of the unworldly faith , and the living trust of youth , There is just now a cold scepticism , which , like the famous " Upas Tree , " of Gladstouian simile , poisons all on whom it casts its berries or its shade .
Youth has many errors , and not a few shortcomings , but it has a fine instinct often , a love of the beautiful , a reverence for the true ! Youth cannot believe in the colder counsels and calmer appreciation of age . The world is before it gay , smiling , inviting—it believes in it . It has
not proved that it is full of deception and tricks , and lures ! yea , and lies ! It does not know how soon its blue sk y is overcast , and the hurrying clouds tell of the impending tempest , of the destroying tornado . Youth often laughs at you when
you tell it these green meadows will not be always green , these flowers will not always bloom , these songs will not always sound pleasant to the ear , Circe ' s draught will not always appear agreeable to the taste , or that blight and decay , aud grief and desolation
will one day make the scene before you grievous to the sight . Youth laughs on ! It has promises and hopes , and dreams and fancies , and trust and sympathy of its own ; why should it mind the gloomy vaticinations of some prophet of ill ? It'dark days will come
they will come , none can stoji them , or avert them ; and wheu they come each will be prepared for them 1 And here is just the mistake of youth . Those years do come ,
Fairy Tales Utilised For The New Generation.
and those changes do come , and foreboding fears and punishing memories do come ; but we are not prepared for them when they do come . No , Life and the world have surrounded us with their illusions and deceits , and we have forgotten both the past and the future in the present !
But if , like as with Jack , the jirogress of years has destroyed our fairy ladder , our higher hopes , our heavenward aspirations , his mythic tale still whispers to us all of courage , perseverance , and trust . Life may leave us , as life does leave us
all ; but life , happily , is not everything . The world deceives and deserts us , but the world is not our all in all . Time and the world , life aud humanit y itself must one clay pass away , but beyond the dull , sad plains of earth He the
" everlasting hills ; " and once we have gained the ascent , once we have crossed the dark intervening river , earth and the world will look like specks in the distance . We have left folly , deceit , baseness , and sorrow all far behind ; the fog has lifted , and all is clear in the brilliancy of God ' s own unfading light , to those who at last have reached the better country far away .
The Origin And References Of The Hermesian Spurious Freemasonry.
THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCES OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY .
BY REV GEO . OLIVER , D . D . ( Continued from page 35 . ) CHAPTER X . THE REFERENCE TO A LAWGIVER . " The crowd with silent admiration stand
And heard him as they heard theii god ' s command ; While he discoursed of heaven ' s mysterious laws , ' The world's original and Nature ' s cause ; And what was God , and why the fleecy snows In silence fell , and rattling winds arose ; What shook the steadfast earth , and whence hegtm The dance of planets round the radiant sun . 0 happy monarchsent by heavento bless
, , A savage nation with soft arts of peace . To teach religion , rapine to restrain , Give laws to lust , aud sacrifice ordain . " DEYDEN ' OVID . IN every religious institution , whether true or false , the covenant between the creature and the Creator has uniformly