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Masonic fraternity has been composed of good men . We can add * that bad men neither would , nor could , have transmitted Masonry hi its purity ; and there is nothing at this day about the Institution but what is of perfect purity in principles and morals . Wolves would have made poor shepherds . When good men unite , the cement o
Brotherly love grows stronger and stronger with age , until one spirit gives animation and movement to all . They organise for good , and not for evil . Such is not the nature of the principle which brings the bad together . What passion brings into contact , passion severs * The gratification of the ever present and imperative I , in some one of the forms of selfishness , will always furnish subject for discord . It
is under the banner of JSgotism , and not that of Tuism , that they fight Bad men will never undertake to organise for good ; they cannot remain united for evil . Wherever malice , hatred , and distrust reign , there is a repulsive , separative principle , which prevents all but the most temporary association . It is an attempt to build with untempered mortar !
In the antiquity , then , of the Order of Ancient Craft Masonry of the York Site , we present what appears to us , conclusive evidence , not only of the unexceptionable nature of the objects which the Fraternity are labouring to attain ; that the members , in the main ,
are worthy of the confidence of the church , people and government ; but , that the Institution of . Freemasonry was founded in the wisdom , and has been and still is , sustained , by its having been erected in accordance with the only true laws of Architecture , revealed by the Grand Architect of the Universe .
Hope.
HOPE .
" Hope , thou hast told me lies , from day to day , for more than twenty years . Vile flatterer . "—Young . Let us ask whether he , to whom the ahove sentence is attributed , could have lived through those said twenty years without Hope ' s ministration . Whether any wretch , buffeted about by the world , wronged , spurned , insulted , or disappointed , could live on from day to day , without a ray of hope . To know that day
must succeed day , in penury , toil , anguish , or despair , and that to-morrow will be like to-day , and another , and another appear , like links of a heavy chain , binding him to earth . To the fond mother , who grieves for an absent child ; to the wife , who watches by the bedside of him who is the light and comfort of her existence ; to the poor man who toils unceasingly , with weary limbs and aching heart ; and to the over-tasked seamstress , whose eyes grow dim and dimmer as she bends above her work . To these Hope comes like an angel . A ray of sunshine , flashing through the lead-coloured prospects before them—an angel ' s whisper to their sore ,
tried spirits . The sorrowing mother hears it , and though her heart be faint and sick with its heavy burden , smiles through her tears as she listens . The wife , patiently watching by the couch of pain , or worse , far worse , linked for life to an inebriate , grasps at a shadow when she hopes ; and yet how sweet , how soothing to her sad heart , is its faintest whisper . Messed Hope , thy presence is golden ; a bright light follows thee ; a halo surrounds thy head ; and thy wings are like the roseate clouds that herald the sun ' s approach . God has implanted thee in the human heart for a wi « e purpose , and given thee as a beacon to cheer him when tossed on the wild waves of doubt and uncertainty .
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Masonic fraternity has been composed of good men . We can add * that bad men neither would , nor could , have transmitted Masonry hi its purity ; and there is nothing at this day about the Institution but what is of perfect purity in principles and morals . Wolves would have made poor shepherds . When good men unite , the cement o
Brotherly love grows stronger and stronger with age , until one spirit gives animation and movement to all . They organise for good , and not for evil . Such is not the nature of the principle which brings the bad together . What passion brings into contact , passion severs * The gratification of the ever present and imperative I , in some one of the forms of selfishness , will always furnish subject for discord . It
is under the banner of JSgotism , and not that of Tuism , that they fight Bad men will never undertake to organise for good ; they cannot remain united for evil . Wherever malice , hatred , and distrust reign , there is a repulsive , separative principle , which prevents all but the most temporary association . It is an attempt to build with untempered mortar !
In the antiquity , then , of the Order of Ancient Craft Masonry of the York Site , we present what appears to us , conclusive evidence , not only of the unexceptionable nature of the objects which the Fraternity are labouring to attain ; that the members , in the main ,
are worthy of the confidence of the church , people and government ; but , that the Institution of . Freemasonry was founded in the wisdom , and has been and still is , sustained , by its having been erected in accordance with the only true laws of Architecture , revealed by the Grand Architect of the Universe .
Hope.
HOPE .
" Hope , thou hast told me lies , from day to day , for more than twenty years . Vile flatterer . "—Young . Let us ask whether he , to whom the ahove sentence is attributed , could have lived through those said twenty years without Hope ' s ministration . Whether any wretch , buffeted about by the world , wronged , spurned , insulted , or disappointed , could live on from day to day , without a ray of hope . To know that day
must succeed day , in penury , toil , anguish , or despair , and that to-morrow will be like to-day , and another , and another appear , like links of a heavy chain , binding him to earth . To the fond mother , who grieves for an absent child ; to the wife , who watches by the bedside of him who is the light and comfort of her existence ; to the poor man who toils unceasingly , with weary limbs and aching heart ; and to the over-tasked seamstress , whose eyes grow dim and dimmer as she bends above her work . To these Hope comes like an angel . A ray of sunshine , flashing through the lead-coloured prospects before them—an angel ' s whisper to their sore ,
tried spirits . The sorrowing mother hears it , and though her heart be faint and sick with its heavy burden , smiles through her tears as she listens . The wife , patiently watching by the couch of pain , or worse , far worse , linked for life to an inebriate , grasps at a shadow when she hopes ; and yet how sweet , how soothing to her sad heart , is its faintest whisper . Messed Hope , thy presence is golden ; a bright light follows thee ; a halo surrounds thy head ; and thy wings are like the roseate clouds that herald the sun ' s approach . God has implanted thee in the human heart for a wi « e purpose , and given thee as a beacon to cheer him when tossed on the wild waves of doubt and uncertainty .