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Article THE CANADIAN MOVEMENT. ← Page 11 of 11 Article THE QUARRYMAN OF ST. POINT. Page 1 of 1
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The Canadian Movement.
them to be legitimate and true Masons , and worthy of the name ; law-abiding men ; men whom we esteem for their manliness and their virtues ; men with whom it is our pleasure and our pride to exchange the right hand of fellowship , and from an association with whom no bull of excommunination—come it whence
it may—will ever be able to separate us . The Masonic course of their predecessors , more than forty years ago , and when the unfortunate cloud of war hung over our respective countries ,, is not unfamiliar to me . Some of its unpublished annals have survived , and are in my possession , preserved and transmitted to me by that most worthy Grand Master who preceded me in the oriental chair . Those annals show the same honourable , exalted and brotherly spirit , which characterizes our Canadian Brethren of the present hour . In sustaining such men , and their lawful Masonic acts , we sustain the Order in its purity , and strengthen the foundation on which rests the Doric column of American Freemason
The Quarryman Of St. Point.
THE QGARRYMA ^ T OF ST . POINT .
FKOM THE PBEHCH 01 ? LAMARTINE . Loisra or short , Time is only time j-Once pass'd away , As tho'it had not been :
Yet tho' it be All vanity , 'Tis pleasant to ourselves to say , " My work will aye be seen , When I am only clay , "
Who writes books , Thinks of unborn eyes To pore and read , Which for a thousand years
Will not see light ; Yet he will write , With trustful hope he may be read And studied carefully Long after he is dead .
He who plants Acorn or chestnut , Has a small seed Between his fingers twain ; Yet its husk holds In its thin folds More life , more time , than does the breed Of man , born and unborn , For ages to succeed .
But he who cuts Hlone from the quarry Of God's own world ,
Leaves graven into it A mark to last When time has pass'd Away , at the great judgment day , The impress of his hand Will reach eterniiy . From Lc Tcdlkuv de Pierres da St . Point . —Ch . viih
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Canadian Movement.
them to be legitimate and true Masons , and worthy of the name ; law-abiding men ; men whom we esteem for their manliness and their virtues ; men with whom it is our pleasure and our pride to exchange the right hand of fellowship , and from an association with whom no bull of excommunination—come it whence
it may—will ever be able to separate us . The Masonic course of their predecessors , more than forty years ago , and when the unfortunate cloud of war hung over our respective countries ,, is not unfamiliar to me . Some of its unpublished annals have survived , and are in my possession , preserved and transmitted to me by that most worthy Grand Master who preceded me in the oriental chair . Those annals show the same honourable , exalted and brotherly spirit , which characterizes our Canadian Brethren of the present hour . In sustaining such men , and their lawful Masonic acts , we sustain the Order in its purity , and strengthen the foundation on which rests the Doric column of American Freemason
The Quarryman Of St. Point.
THE QGARRYMA ^ T OF ST . POINT .
FKOM THE PBEHCH 01 ? LAMARTINE . Loisra or short , Time is only time j-Once pass'd away , As tho'it had not been :
Yet tho' it be All vanity , 'Tis pleasant to ourselves to say , " My work will aye be seen , When I am only clay , "
Who writes books , Thinks of unborn eyes To pore and read , Which for a thousand years
Will not see light ; Yet he will write , With trustful hope he may be read And studied carefully Long after he is dead .
He who plants Acorn or chestnut , Has a small seed Between his fingers twain ; Yet its husk holds In its thin folds More life , more time , than does the breed Of man , born and unborn , For ages to succeed .
But he who cuts Hlone from the quarry Of God's own world ,
Leaves graven into it A mark to last When time has pass'd Away , at the great judgment day , The impress of his hand Will reach eterniiy . From Lc Tcdlkuv de Pierres da St . Point . —Ch . viih