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directed to a matter of individual opinion , but to a matter of fact , in respect of which the board had already pronounced its decision ; and therefore I maintain that although any member of the board in the exercise of his discretion might decline to answer it , lie was not prevented doing so either by his oath or by any other moral obligation . One word more and I have done : I do not complain that niy question was not
answered , because I know that it was very ihconvenient to do so , but what I complain of is , that a Brother' so erudite in Masonry , so exalted in Masonic rank , and of such reputed Masonic influencejr as the Brother I have before referred to , should rise in his place in Grand Lodge , and deliberately pervert ( I will not say ignorantly ,, because I will not insult
Ins understanding , I cannot say knowingly , because he is a Brother , but I may say under the influence of some extraordinary hallucination ) the real meaning and purport of an obligation which he , of all men , must have perfectly well understood . I remain , Sir and Brother , Yours fraterhally , 125 , Oxford Street , J . Whitmoke ,
Passing Away . —A man lay on his sick bed—the pulse had almost ceased to beat- —his breathing , which was at long intervals , was scarcely perceptiblefriends stood around him with watchful , anxious , and woeful countenances , as if they would arrest , if it were possible , and prevent , the approaching dissolution and separation of the spirit from its earthly tenement . Who that has witnessed the death-scene was not impressed with the impotence of man ? 'How-. futile - and fruitless the effort to oppose the grim monster ! His approaches , are steadily and certain , he will gain his end , and will not be thwarted . As death advances
and finally secures his victim , sorrow and grief fill the hearts of those around him . They look astounded to see the form onoe active with life , now lie helpless , inanimate , before them . From the beginning of the world such scenes have been witnessed , and yet man has not accustomed himself to the passing away from the earthly life . Friends near and dear , loved ones , are continually falling around us , yet , each one as they go , feelings of a similar nature arise . Why is it that we cannot accustom ourselves to an occurrence so common , from which no one cau be exempt , according to the laws of nature ? We see the approach of
winter in its appointed season , the trees stripped of their foliage , the decay of all vegetable matter , yet we know that in another season the trees will again appear clothed in all the beauty of the foliage , the peculiar dress which distinguishes each , and earth will be arrayed in its manifold coloured carpet , ornamented with bright , gay , and beautiful flowers . Nature appears in renewed life after the passing away of the cold season of death , and shall it not be so also with the spirit after , in its appointed season , it is divested of its earthly dress ? The spirit is a higher creation than earth , and when the cold winter of death has laid its icy fingers upon the tenement of clay , the spirit , in its proper ethereal
element , will appear with renewed life , as the flowers in the spring , and each one in the distinctive character which characterized his individuality while in the earthly form . The oak and the maple , no more than the rose and the lily , change their organization . They may be cultivated to develope more highly and more distinctly their individuality , and in proportion to their cultivation they develope a more perfect organization , but the distinctive peculiarities of each are always retained . So is it and so will it be with man . He developes in the earth form his individuality . He may progress to the ultimate of perfection , yet as he progresses tins individuality will be move distinctly and clearly defined . —Noel , 4 n
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directed to a matter of individual opinion , but to a matter of fact , in respect of which the board had already pronounced its decision ; and therefore I maintain that although any member of the board in the exercise of his discretion might decline to answer it , lie was not prevented doing so either by his oath or by any other moral obligation . One word more and I have done : I do not complain that niy question was not
answered , because I know that it was very ihconvenient to do so , but what I complain of is , that a Brother' so erudite in Masonry , so exalted in Masonic rank , and of such reputed Masonic influencejr as the Brother I have before referred to , should rise in his place in Grand Lodge , and deliberately pervert ( I will not say ignorantly ,, because I will not insult
Ins understanding , I cannot say knowingly , because he is a Brother , but I may say under the influence of some extraordinary hallucination ) the real meaning and purport of an obligation which he , of all men , must have perfectly well understood . I remain , Sir and Brother , Yours fraterhally , 125 , Oxford Street , J . Whitmoke ,
Passing Away . —A man lay on his sick bed—the pulse had almost ceased to beat- —his breathing , which was at long intervals , was scarcely perceptiblefriends stood around him with watchful , anxious , and woeful countenances , as if they would arrest , if it were possible , and prevent , the approaching dissolution and separation of the spirit from its earthly tenement . Who that has witnessed the death-scene was not impressed with the impotence of man ? 'How-. futile - and fruitless the effort to oppose the grim monster ! His approaches , are steadily and certain , he will gain his end , and will not be thwarted . As death advances
and finally secures his victim , sorrow and grief fill the hearts of those around him . They look astounded to see the form onoe active with life , now lie helpless , inanimate , before them . From the beginning of the world such scenes have been witnessed , and yet man has not accustomed himself to the passing away from the earthly life . Friends near and dear , loved ones , are continually falling around us , yet , each one as they go , feelings of a similar nature arise . Why is it that we cannot accustom ourselves to an occurrence so common , from which no one cau be exempt , according to the laws of nature ? We see the approach of
winter in its appointed season , the trees stripped of their foliage , the decay of all vegetable matter , yet we know that in another season the trees will again appear clothed in all the beauty of the foliage , the peculiar dress which distinguishes each , and earth will be arrayed in its manifold coloured carpet , ornamented with bright , gay , and beautiful flowers . Nature appears in renewed life after the passing away of the cold season of death , and shall it not be so also with the spirit after , in its appointed season , it is divested of its earthly dress ? The spirit is a higher creation than earth , and when the cold winter of death has laid its icy fingers upon the tenement of clay , the spirit , in its proper ethereal
element , will appear with renewed life , as the flowers in the spring , and each one in the distinctive character which characterized his individuality while in the earthly form . The oak and the maple , no more than the rose and the lily , change their organization . They may be cultivated to develope more highly and more distinctly their individuality , and in proportion to their cultivation they develope a more perfect organization , but the distinctive peculiarities of each are always retained . So is it and so will it be with man . He developes in the earth form his individuality . He may progress to the ultimate of perfection , yet as he progresses tins individuality will be move distinctly and clearly defined . —Noel , 4 n