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Masonic Musings.
MASONIC MUSINGS .
A // \ - >\ A // GRAND \ y \ Id : ! \ r U . LODGE r vA LIBRARY 1 % , VoV . ^/ ° / ^ O H ^
BY A YETEIUN .
IT has often occurred to me , though perhaps lam wrong , that we hardly eA er sufficiently realize the value and power of Freemasonry . It may be true , and indeed is , that " a great deal " is done " upon a very little "; that Freemasonry on a weak foundation , so to say , raises a goodl y building . Still Freemasonry , as it seems to me , to very many of us all , never becomes what it is meant to be , what it might be , what it should be . I am quite sensible
of that useful and oft needed caution in life , "don ' t be too enthusiastic , " or again , " don ' t reckon too much on anything or anybody . " No doubt , as wo all journey on in the Avorld ancl in life , we are often disappointed , ancl , as the French say , " disillusiones , " disillusioned . We find very often that what we care for much others care for very little ; that Avhat we think a great deal about , others reckon nothing hardly of ; and what we rate at a hi gh or e \ 'en heroic worth , others treat as very commonplace ancl matter of fact . Ancl thus in truth runs the world away . My masters , it is tbe old story over and
over again : what is " sauce for tbe goose is not always , despite the remark , " sauce for the gander , " ancl we often learn the trite but certain adage , be it noted , too , of experienced centuries , that " things are not what they seem , " and may be seen quite differently by two different persons in this queer , perverse , ancl perplexed world of ours , or rather that " way of the world " in which our life-long lot is cast . Keeping these monitory reminders before us carefullylet us go on with our thesis .
, Firstly—To bow many of us , for instance , is Freemasonry nothing but " sociality . " Its history , its ceremonial , its ethics , its benevolence , they are to them onl y its form , its husk ; its substance , its kernel , are the cheery symposium , the pleasant refreshment hour , the gay social circle . I am not going' here to say a word against the social side aud social duties of Freemasonry . Freehas themowns themuses themnot abusinglin inionancl
masonry , , , y , my op , A ery good ancl proper things they are at a coiwenient season . But to make , as some avowedly do , the Avhole framework of Freemasonry minister to its "social system , " to find no interest but in that "ineffable degree" Avhose L
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Masonic Musings.
MASONIC MUSINGS .
A // \ - >\ A // GRAND \ y \ Id : ! \ r U . LODGE r vA LIBRARY 1 % , VoV . ^/ ° / ^ O H ^
BY A YETEIUN .
IT has often occurred to me , though perhaps lam wrong , that we hardly eA er sufficiently realize the value and power of Freemasonry . It may be true , and indeed is , that " a great deal " is done " upon a very little "; that Freemasonry on a weak foundation , so to say , raises a goodl y building . Still Freemasonry , as it seems to me , to very many of us all , never becomes what it is meant to be , what it might be , what it should be . I am quite sensible
of that useful and oft needed caution in life , "don ' t be too enthusiastic , " or again , " don ' t reckon too much on anything or anybody . " No doubt , as wo all journey on in the Avorld ancl in life , we are often disappointed , ancl , as the French say , " disillusiones , " disillusioned . We find very often that what we care for much others care for very little ; that Avhat we think a great deal about , others reckon nothing hardly of ; and what we rate at a hi gh or e \ 'en heroic worth , others treat as very commonplace ancl matter of fact . Ancl thus in truth runs the world away . My masters , it is tbe old story over and
over again : what is " sauce for tbe goose is not always , despite the remark , " sauce for the gander , " ancl we often learn the trite but certain adage , be it noted , too , of experienced centuries , that " things are not what they seem , " and may be seen quite differently by two different persons in this queer , perverse , ancl perplexed world of ours , or rather that " way of the world " in which our life-long lot is cast . Keeping these monitory reminders before us carefullylet us go on with our thesis .
, Firstly—To bow many of us , for instance , is Freemasonry nothing but " sociality . " Its history , its ceremonial , its ethics , its benevolence , they are to them onl y its form , its husk ; its substance , its kernel , are the cheery symposium , the pleasant refreshment hour , the gay social circle . I am not going' here to say a word against the social side aud social duties of Freemasonry . Freehas themowns themuses themnot abusinglin inionancl
masonry , , , y , my op , A ery good ancl proper things they are at a coiwenient season . But to make , as some avowedly do , the Avhole framework of Freemasonry minister to its "social system , " to find no interest but in that "ineffable degree" Avhose L