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that the only real incentive to excellence must be one which , passing beyond the present , draws its efficacy from the highest law of our duty in regard to an eternal future . The exercise of our mental powers , the practice of charity , the appliances to intellectual improvement in the arts and sciences , which Masonry , as a loving mother
encourages and would develop , are all founded upon our relation as immortal beings to an eternal destiny , and the text-book which she exhibits as a guide is the volume of the Sacred Law . For a brother , therefore , to rest contented with merely the shadowy types of Masonry , and not endeavour to lift the mystic veil of allegory—to become acquainted with the great truths , not alone in science but in
morals , which Masonry points at , is to rob her of her diadem , and himself of sound improvement . "We rejoice , indeed , to hail great alterations for the better in the Fraternity , from our first and consistently-repeated efforts to assert the true dignity of Masonry since our entrance upon the management of this periodical , now twelve months ago . We have constant proof that our endeavours
have been successful , from finding the usage now becoming common of good lectures upon scientific and ennobling subjects being given under the presidency of Lodges . If we speak of the wonders of Nature allegorically , shall we not , in the true spirit of Masonry , teach , men " to look through nature up to nature ' s God" really , and thus set forth the glory of the Gr . A . O . T . TL , as well as promote the intellectual advancement of mankind , in accordance with
our principles to encourage knowledge in the true spirit of brotherly love ? The fiction of the types in Masonry can never equal the moral and mental realities of the antitypes ; and draped Truth in outline is less ethereal than the chaste figure which stands in all the purity of knowledge—and yet knows no shame ! The appetency of
mind is for knowledge , each repetition of its impulses imparts additional earnestness to its craving for more light ; and who but a cowan would rest in the dim obscurity of Masonic allegory , with the lofty tower of Truth before him , and not count his trouble and toil well repaid if he be but permitted to reach the top , and see the extended horizon of Almighty goodness in morals , art , and science projected before him ?
Notes Of A Yacht's Cruise To Balaklava.
NOTES OF A YACHT'S CRUISE TO BALAKLAVA .
( Continued from page 97 . ) August 24 dth . —No time for entries in my journal during our stay at Constantinople . I will therefore jot down my memories while they are fresh .
Landing at GUlata , in order to reach the sultan ' s city , is a terrible disenchantment . Semi-barbarism , and demi-semi-civilization , here conspire to produce the most unpleasant results . The narrow ,
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that the only real incentive to excellence must be one which , passing beyond the present , draws its efficacy from the highest law of our duty in regard to an eternal future . The exercise of our mental powers , the practice of charity , the appliances to intellectual improvement in the arts and sciences , which Masonry , as a loving mother
encourages and would develop , are all founded upon our relation as immortal beings to an eternal destiny , and the text-book which she exhibits as a guide is the volume of the Sacred Law . For a brother , therefore , to rest contented with merely the shadowy types of Masonry , and not endeavour to lift the mystic veil of allegory—to become acquainted with the great truths , not alone in science but in
morals , which Masonry points at , is to rob her of her diadem , and himself of sound improvement . "We rejoice , indeed , to hail great alterations for the better in the Fraternity , from our first and consistently-repeated efforts to assert the true dignity of Masonry since our entrance upon the management of this periodical , now twelve months ago . We have constant proof that our endeavours
have been successful , from finding the usage now becoming common of good lectures upon scientific and ennobling subjects being given under the presidency of Lodges . If we speak of the wonders of Nature allegorically , shall we not , in the true spirit of Masonry , teach , men " to look through nature up to nature ' s God" really , and thus set forth the glory of the Gr . A . O . T . TL , as well as promote the intellectual advancement of mankind , in accordance with
our principles to encourage knowledge in the true spirit of brotherly love ? The fiction of the types in Masonry can never equal the moral and mental realities of the antitypes ; and draped Truth in outline is less ethereal than the chaste figure which stands in all the purity of knowledge—and yet knows no shame ! The appetency of
mind is for knowledge , each repetition of its impulses imparts additional earnestness to its craving for more light ; and who but a cowan would rest in the dim obscurity of Masonic allegory , with the lofty tower of Truth before him , and not count his trouble and toil well repaid if he be but permitted to reach the top , and see the extended horizon of Almighty goodness in morals , art , and science projected before him ?
Notes Of A Yacht's Cruise To Balaklava.
NOTES OF A YACHT'S CRUISE TO BALAKLAVA .
( Continued from page 97 . ) August 24 dth . —No time for entries in my journal during our stay at Constantinople . I will therefore jot down my memories while they are fresh .
Landing at GUlata , in order to reach the sultan ' s city , is a terrible disenchantment . Semi-barbarism , and demi-semi-civilization , here conspire to produce the most unpleasant results . The narrow ,