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Masoney In The Isle Of Wight
Brother to his duty and with instructing the Lodges in the most efficient way by personal surveillance and information , the lastnamed indefatigable Mason attaches the external world to the Craft
by the delivery every month of lectures upon various interesting scientific subjects , to which Masons are privileged to invite their friends , and which Bro . Pullen illustrates by the requisite machinery , in a way to instruct and entertain the most apathetic auditor . We attended once a lecture delivered by him upon pneumatics , and were delighted with the originality and beauty of his illustrations , produced by a most complete apparatus and accompanied by appropriate verbal explanation . As a necessary issue , the Craft is honoured for the Brother ' s sake ; in him it is seen not to produce qerebral paralysis and only abdominal activity , as the doctors would say ; but to become , as of old , the cogent spring to social light and grateful intelligence of creative wisdom , strength , and beauty .
We take no credit to ourselves for having evoked in our worthy Brother this active exercise of Masonic principles , since he practised it spontaneously long ago ; but we point to the province so managed , by himself and Bro . Fleming , to attest the good resulting from the pursuance of the system we recommend . We have
Lodges of railway engineers , who give no instruction to their Brethren nor the public , through open Lodges , upon locomotion or steam ; of physicians , who tell us nothing of the secrets of our own vitality ; of artists , who treat not of colour , order , form ; of chemists , who touch not upon electricity ; of astronomers , whose stars shine not , but set , the instant they enter a Lodge ; of masons , who in the world practical can evoke architectural beauty , and can all but say to the stone "live ! " yet will not devote even one hour occasionally to irradiate with their knowledge that Order , which teaches them emblematically , by the very instruments of their art , that they live not for themselves alone , but that every one is bound , like the ancient phosphori in the race , to light up his Brother ' s torch , whence the rays of truth and knowledge may illuminate endless generations !
Woman.
WOMAN .
, woman ! not for thee the living tomb , The harem ' s splendour , or the consent ' s gloom : Not thine to bend at fear ' s unhallow'd nod , And scorn the world , to please creation ' s God ; To see , to feel , that earth , that life is fair , Yet weep to think thou hash no portion there . JSTo , child of ioy ! a holier task is thine ,
A brighter prospect , and a purer shrine : 'Tis thine to curb the passions' rnadd ' ning sway , And wipe the mourner ' s bitter tear away ; 7 Tis thine to soothe , when hope itself is ( led , And cheer with angel smile the suff ' rer ' s bed ; To give to earth its charm , to life its zest ; One only task— to bless and to he blest .- J . ( t * * .
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Masoney In The Isle Of Wight
Brother to his duty and with instructing the Lodges in the most efficient way by personal surveillance and information , the lastnamed indefatigable Mason attaches the external world to the Craft
by the delivery every month of lectures upon various interesting scientific subjects , to which Masons are privileged to invite their friends , and which Bro . Pullen illustrates by the requisite machinery , in a way to instruct and entertain the most apathetic auditor . We attended once a lecture delivered by him upon pneumatics , and were delighted with the originality and beauty of his illustrations , produced by a most complete apparatus and accompanied by appropriate verbal explanation . As a necessary issue , the Craft is honoured for the Brother ' s sake ; in him it is seen not to produce qerebral paralysis and only abdominal activity , as the doctors would say ; but to become , as of old , the cogent spring to social light and grateful intelligence of creative wisdom , strength , and beauty .
We take no credit to ourselves for having evoked in our worthy Brother this active exercise of Masonic principles , since he practised it spontaneously long ago ; but we point to the province so managed , by himself and Bro . Fleming , to attest the good resulting from the pursuance of the system we recommend . We have
Lodges of railway engineers , who give no instruction to their Brethren nor the public , through open Lodges , upon locomotion or steam ; of physicians , who tell us nothing of the secrets of our own vitality ; of artists , who treat not of colour , order , form ; of chemists , who touch not upon electricity ; of astronomers , whose stars shine not , but set , the instant they enter a Lodge ; of masons , who in the world practical can evoke architectural beauty , and can all but say to the stone "live ! " yet will not devote even one hour occasionally to irradiate with their knowledge that Order , which teaches them emblematically , by the very instruments of their art , that they live not for themselves alone , but that every one is bound , like the ancient phosphori in the race , to light up his Brother ' s torch , whence the rays of truth and knowledge may illuminate endless generations !
Woman.
WOMAN .
, woman ! not for thee the living tomb , The harem ' s splendour , or the consent ' s gloom : Not thine to bend at fear ' s unhallow'd nod , And scorn the world , to please creation ' s God ; To see , to feel , that earth , that life is fair , Yet weep to think thou hash no portion there . JSTo , child of ioy ! a holier task is thine ,
A brighter prospect , and a purer shrine : 'Tis thine to curb the passions' rnadd ' ning sway , And wipe the mourner ' s bitter tear away ; 7 Tis thine to soothe , when hope itself is ( led , And cheer with angel smile the suff ' rer ' s bed ; To give to earth its charm , to life its zest ; One only task— to bless and to he blest .- J . ( t * * .