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public grand honours of our Order . Let them show—first , it is from the altar of our hearts ; second that this offering goes upward towards heaven ; third , and by its sincerity the earth beneath us is hallowed . Join me , my Brothers , in exhibiting the public grand honours of Freemasonry . "
The public grand honours were then given as before . Three candles were lighted and placed upon the temporary table , and the presiding officer proceeded : — "In all ages the bodies of the Masonic dead have been laid in graves east and west , with their laces towards the east . This practice has been borrowed in general usage until it has become almost universal . It implies sh
that when the great day shall come , and He , who is death ' s conqueror ^ all give the signal , that his ineffable light shall first be seen in the east . That from the east he shall make his glorious approach , shall s ^ eastern margin of these graves , and with his mighty power , that grasp , irresistibly strong , which shall prevail , shall raise the bodies which are slumbering therein .
" We shall have been long buried , long decayed . Friends , relatives , yea , even our nearest and dearest , will cease to remember where they have laid us . The broad earth will have undergone wondrous changes ; mountains levelled , valleys filled . The seasons will have chased each other in many a fruitful round . Oceans lashed into fury by the gales of to-day , will to-morrow have sunk like a spoiled infant to slumber . Broad trees
with broader roots , will have interlocked them , hard and knobbed as they are , above our ashes , as if to conceal the very fact of our having lived ; and then , after centuries of life , they too will have followed our example of mortality , and long struggling with decay , at last will have toppled down to join their remains with ours , thus obliterating the last poor testimony
that men had ever lain there . So shall we be lost to human sight . But the eye of God will nevertheless mark the spot , green with the everlasting verdure of faith ; and when the trumpet ' s blast shall shake the hills to their very bases , our astonished bodies will rise impelled upwards by an irresistible impulse , and we shall stand face to face with our Kedeemer . "
The procession was then conducted along the north side of the area to the north-east corner , where the seiwiees were concluded with the following exhortation and benediction by the presiding officer : — "To all the glorious hopes this day reviewed and symbolized , we commend you , dearest Brethren and friends . Our work as men and Masons
is sweetened by the expectation of reward and rest . Go to your pleasant homes . Renew the labours to which you are called . Do the part of men while life lasts , and have ever within you the comforting assurance that He , whose eye is upon you , and whose ear is never closed to your prayers , will faithfully mark your good deeds , and in his own good time reward and bless you .
" And now may the blessings of heaven be upon us , and all regular Masons . May peace and harmony prevail , and every moral and social virtue cement us . Amen . So mote it be . " The procession returned in good order to the room in which it had
been organized , and the Lodge was closed . All united then in the homely but ample cheer which from a hundred capacious baskets was spread upon every log , stump and grass plot around , and it was easy to gather from , the conversation uttered amidst the fury of attack ^ that a deep and powerful impression had been made that day upon
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Mi&Ao-W ¦¦ ¦:: :: S
public grand honours of our Order . Let them show—first , it is from the altar of our hearts ; second that this offering goes upward towards heaven ; third , and by its sincerity the earth beneath us is hallowed . Join me , my Brothers , in exhibiting the public grand honours of Freemasonry . "
The public grand honours were then given as before . Three candles were lighted and placed upon the temporary table , and the presiding officer proceeded : — "In all ages the bodies of the Masonic dead have been laid in graves east and west , with their laces towards the east . This practice has been borrowed in general usage until it has become almost universal . It implies sh
that when the great day shall come , and He , who is death ' s conqueror ^ all give the signal , that his ineffable light shall first be seen in the east . That from the east he shall make his glorious approach , shall s ^ eastern margin of these graves , and with his mighty power , that grasp , irresistibly strong , which shall prevail , shall raise the bodies which are slumbering therein .
" We shall have been long buried , long decayed . Friends , relatives , yea , even our nearest and dearest , will cease to remember where they have laid us . The broad earth will have undergone wondrous changes ; mountains levelled , valleys filled . The seasons will have chased each other in many a fruitful round . Oceans lashed into fury by the gales of to-day , will to-morrow have sunk like a spoiled infant to slumber . Broad trees
with broader roots , will have interlocked them , hard and knobbed as they are , above our ashes , as if to conceal the very fact of our having lived ; and then , after centuries of life , they too will have followed our example of mortality , and long struggling with decay , at last will have toppled down to join their remains with ours , thus obliterating the last poor testimony
that men had ever lain there . So shall we be lost to human sight . But the eye of God will nevertheless mark the spot , green with the everlasting verdure of faith ; and when the trumpet ' s blast shall shake the hills to their very bases , our astonished bodies will rise impelled upwards by an irresistible impulse , and we shall stand face to face with our Kedeemer . "
The procession was then conducted along the north side of the area to the north-east corner , where the seiwiees were concluded with the following exhortation and benediction by the presiding officer : — "To all the glorious hopes this day reviewed and symbolized , we commend you , dearest Brethren and friends . Our work as men and Masons
is sweetened by the expectation of reward and rest . Go to your pleasant homes . Renew the labours to which you are called . Do the part of men while life lasts , and have ever within you the comforting assurance that He , whose eye is upon you , and whose ear is never closed to your prayers , will faithfully mark your good deeds , and in his own good time reward and bless you .
" And now may the blessings of heaven be upon us , and all regular Masons . May peace and harmony prevail , and every moral and social virtue cement us . Amen . So mote it be . " The procession returned in good order to the room in which it had
been organized , and the Lodge was closed . All united then in the homely but ample cheer which from a hundred capacious baskets was spread upon every log , stump and grass plot around , and it was easy to gather from , the conversation uttered amidst the fury of attack ^ that a deep and powerful impression had been made that day upon