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back to us on * the wind—an age of breathless watching— and then , through the clouds of dust and smoke , to our horrified vision was dimly perceptible a sudden struggling fighting torrent of red coats , pouring over the wall , down the abattis , till it was lost in the ditch .
As for me I had seen enough . I put away my glass : I could not endure to look at that suffering mass , for which I could do nothing . ( To be continued . )
Three Steps In Freemasonry.
THEEE STEPS IN FEEEMASONEY .
AN ADDRESS , BY W . P . M . BEO . SCHOLEFIELD , GIVEN AT HIS FIFTIETH JUBILEE . Du : rik "& the Mosaic dispensation , Freemasonry was the sole religion , and is one which gives a distinct refutation to the infidel , and this without a reference to any peculiar forms or modes of faith . Yes ; to the properly initiated and well-informed Freemason , it furnishes a series of direct evidences which silently operates to establish the great and general principle of religion , and points to
that triumphant system which has been the object of all preceding dispensations , as being the only one in which the all-absorbing point is most clearly developed . A person of any religious denomination may attend our Lodges , without a fear of hearing his peculiar doctrine or mode of faith called in question by a comparison with others , which might be repugnant to his own creed , because the permanent and unalterable landmarks of Freemasonry are total abstinence and positive exclusion of all religious or political controversy , each Mason practising that system of morality best suited to the sanction of his own religion ; which , emanating from the primitive system of Divine worship , and bearing a resemblance thereto , can therefore hear moral precepts inculcated
such as are or ought to be frequently brought under our notice , and this without imputing a designed reference to any peculiar mode of faith . All our charges , all our regulations , assume as a foundation , which cannot be moved , a belief in the being of a Gk > d , and a future state of rewards and punishments , and inculcate the necessity of moral purity as a qualification for future happiness . This , in my opinion , forms the ground-plan of all religion in its universal acceptation .
I hold that real Freemasonry is the excellency of the fear of G-od , and that the Freemasons' Lodge , if properly conducted , is the School of Truth s to all who wish to learn its precepts ; and every Mason must , according to his sincerity in the mystic art , fear and obey the God who made him , who redeemed him , and every moment provideth for him . The true Freemason is not only instructed in all those principles which lead him to fear and obey his Glod , but to manifest
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back to us on * the wind—an age of breathless watching— and then , through the clouds of dust and smoke , to our horrified vision was dimly perceptible a sudden struggling fighting torrent of red coats , pouring over the wall , down the abattis , till it was lost in the ditch .
As for me I had seen enough . I put away my glass : I could not endure to look at that suffering mass , for which I could do nothing . ( To be continued . )
Three Steps In Freemasonry.
THEEE STEPS IN FEEEMASONEY .
AN ADDRESS , BY W . P . M . BEO . SCHOLEFIELD , GIVEN AT HIS FIFTIETH JUBILEE . Du : rik "& the Mosaic dispensation , Freemasonry was the sole religion , and is one which gives a distinct refutation to the infidel , and this without a reference to any peculiar forms or modes of faith . Yes ; to the properly initiated and well-informed Freemason , it furnishes a series of direct evidences which silently operates to establish the great and general principle of religion , and points to
that triumphant system which has been the object of all preceding dispensations , as being the only one in which the all-absorbing point is most clearly developed . A person of any religious denomination may attend our Lodges , without a fear of hearing his peculiar doctrine or mode of faith called in question by a comparison with others , which might be repugnant to his own creed , because the permanent and unalterable landmarks of Freemasonry are total abstinence and positive exclusion of all religious or political controversy , each Mason practising that system of morality best suited to the sanction of his own religion ; which , emanating from the primitive system of Divine worship , and bearing a resemblance thereto , can therefore hear moral precepts inculcated
such as are or ought to be frequently brought under our notice , and this without imputing a designed reference to any peculiar mode of faith . All our charges , all our regulations , assume as a foundation , which cannot be moved , a belief in the being of a Gk > d , and a future state of rewards and punishments , and inculcate the necessity of moral purity as a qualification for future happiness . This , in my opinion , forms the ground-plan of all religion in its universal acceptation .
I hold that real Freemasonry is the excellency of the fear of G-od , and that the Freemasons' Lodge , if properly conducted , is the School of Truth s to all who wish to learn its precepts ; and every Mason must , according to his sincerity in the mystic art , fear and obey the God who made him , who redeemed him , and every moment provideth for him . The true Freemason is not only instructed in all those principles which lead him to fear and obey his Glod , but to manifest