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could not fail tfe be to check , in all pure and right-minded Brethren , the tendencies towards excessive devotion to the comforts of the table , while it would foster a love for the higher and purer occupations which should engage the attention of a Mason . In the worst and most degraded it . would do something , at any rate , to modify external appearances—to make vice and excess , at least , pay outward homage to virtue and temperance .
" Begging Masons" is the theme of one of the most interesting and instructive chapters in the volume . It should be studied attentively , as it will do much to place the Brethren on their guard against impostors of all descriptions . The lesson it teaches ,. if
properly adhered to , is alone worth fifty times the price of the volume . It is comprised in a single sentence which was uttered by a successful impostor— " Take care who you admit as candidates , and you will have fewer legging Masons 1 "This witness is true , and we commend his testimony to all whom it may concern .
The regime of the Rev . Jethro Inwood , forms the subject of the next chapter ; and that which follows it is devoted to the "Lady Masons "—full of good sense , valuable fact , and logical argumentation . An important conversation , which took place at a Lodge meeting , is next related ; and here , as throughout the volume , there are copious references to the divers Masonic publications which have
from time to time appeared . We very much question , indeed , whether the majority of our readers , particularly those who are young in Masonry , will not be greatly astonished at the vastness of the extent of Masonic literature which issued from the press , during the period referred to . Towards the close of this conversation , one of the Brethren gave a very curious and amusing account of the female
Preemasons in Prance . They had all the scenic appliances of the theatre . The young lady candidate was conducted through the usual trials of fortitude , and reached the summit of the symbolical mountain . She was now told she must prove her constancy by plunging from the precipice into the abyss below , where a double row of sharp steel pikes were plainly visible . At the given word , the young lady in question plunged off the precipice ; but the JPrere
terrible , who had charge of the machinery , so transformed the scene , that when she got to the bottom of the dark abyss , she lighted on a piece of velvet herbage , beneath which was a bed of the softest down to receive the body of the fair one . All around her , the darkness had changed into an Elysium of green fields and shady trees , bubbling fountains and purling streams . If she faints , she is restored and tranquillized by the application of essences and perfumery . The
Jb & . W . M . and the ( Jrand Mavtresse occupy two gorgeous thrones , and the ladies are clad in white , with aprons and scarfs of sky-blue . Still the thing did not take , and the ladies attended but thinly , except on occasions for special display . lne Square goes on to relate the various measures which paved the way for the healing of the breach , and the union of all the Lodges under the present Grand Lodge . It describes the mode in which
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could not fail tfe be to check , in all pure and right-minded Brethren , the tendencies towards excessive devotion to the comforts of the table , while it would foster a love for the higher and purer occupations which should engage the attention of a Mason . In the worst and most degraded it . would do something , at any rate , to modify external appearances—to make vice and excess , at least , pay outward homage to virtue and temperance .
" Begging Masons" is the theme of one of the most interesting and instructive chapters in the volume . It should be studied attentively , as it will do much to place the Brethren on their guard against impostors of all descriptions . The lesson it teaches ,. if
properly adhered to , is alone worth fifty times the price of the volume . It is comprised in a single sentence which was uttered by a successful impostor— " Take care who you admit as candidates , and you will have fewer legging Masons 1 "This witness is true , and we commend his testimony to all whom it may concern .
The regime of the Rev . Jethro Inwood , forms the subject of the next chapter ; and that which follows it is devoted to the "Lady Masons "—full of good sense , valuable fact , and logical argumentation . An important conversation , which took place at a Lodge meeting , is next related ; and here , as throughout the volume , there are copious references to the divers Masonic publications which have
from time to time appeared . We very much question , indeed , whether the majority of our readers , particularly those who are young in Masonry , will not be greatly astonished at the vastness of the extent of Masonic literature which issued from the press , during the period referred to . Towards the close of this conversation , one of the Brethren gave a very curious and amusing account of the female
Preemasons in Prance . They had all the scenic appliances of the theatre . The young lady candidate was conducted through the usual trials of fortitude , and reached the summit of the symbolical mountain . She was now told she must prove her constancy by plunging from the precipice into the abyss below , where a double row of sharp steel pikes were plainly visible . At the given word , the young lady in question plunged off the precipice ; but the JPrere
terrible , who had charge of the machinery , so transformed the scene , that when she got to the bottom of the dark abyss , she lighted on a piece of velvet herbage , beneath which was a bed of the softest down to receive the body of the fair one . All around her , the darkness had changed into an Elysium of green fields and shady trees , bubbling fountains and purling streams . If she faints , she is restored and tranquillized by the application of essences and perfumery . The
Jb & . W . M . and the ( Jrand Mavtresse occupy two gorgeous thrones , and the ladies are clad in white , with aprons and scarfs of sky-blue . Still the thing did not take , and the ladies attended but thinly , except on occasions for special display . lne Square goes on to relate the various measures which paved the way for the healing of the breach , and the union of all the Lodges under the present Grand Lodge . It describes the mode in which