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actions b y the commandments contained in the Hol y Book of God ; may the structure which we now humbly and reverently raise to the name of the Most Hi gh find acceptance in His si g ht ; and may our hearts and minds be so dedicated
to His service that when the great and awful hour of our departure from this perishable scene clraweth ni gh we may find blessed repose and joy for ever in the presence of the triune God , to whom be ascribed all honour and glory , world ¦ without end .
Third Decade Of Masonic Precepts.
THIRD DECADE OF MASONIC PRECEPTS .
' { From Bro . PCJRTON CoorER ' s Manuscript Collections . ) XXL—THE BANQUET . Brother , thou art wrong to condemn the banquet unreservedly . Does it not attract lukewarm Masons , and are they not many ? XXII . —TUB WHOLE HUMAN EACH .
Brother , desire the happiness of thyself , of thy family , -of thy country , and , more than all , desire the happiness of the whole human race . XXIII . —OLD MAX or THE SEA . Brother , take courage . Thy destiny , as thou call ' st it , has assigned thee two very different existences . In
thy first existence , it is true , thou art condemned to ¦ carry on thy shoulders an old man of the sea ; but in thy second existence thou wilt walk freed from this burden .
XXIV . —AXGEE . Thou art angry with thy brother who has offended thee . Dost thou desire that thy anger should cease ? Then name thy brother in thy morning and evening prayers to the Great Architect of the Universe for the happiness of all his creatures , and bo assured thy anger will speedily subside .
XXV . —THE Mrsnc PANTHEIST . Brother , the mystic Pantheist is enthusiastically pious ; A late German theological writer has called a famous mystic Pantheist of the 17 th century , a " God-intoxicated " man . Thou may ' st , if thou desirest it , make a mystic Pantheist thy friend , but thou may ' st not receive him into thy English lodge .
XXVI .-GRIEF . Brother , such is the elasticity which the Great Architect of the Universe has imparted to the human mind , that grief for misfortunes not brought about by couduct vicious , dishonest , or dishonourable , rarely lasts long .
XXVII . —TUE ETHICS AND THE THEOLOGY OF CHRISTIANITY . Brother , understand the ethics of Christianity , as the Holy Jesus taught ; and understand its theology as thy Church understands it . *
Third Decade Of Masonic Precepts.
XXYIIL—LIFE . Brother , life is a blessing ; but it is a blessing to him only who does good . XXIX . —THE MORAL LAW . —HUMANISING A B ARBAROUS EACE . Brother , the moral law is eternal , and when man can
reason rightly it is universal . Begin thy task of humanising a barbarous race by measures fitting for the abolition of customs which are most opposed to the moral law . XXX . —THE SUITER . Brother , to him who has smitten thy right cheek ,, neither natural religion nor rightly understood Christianity , enjoins thee to present thy left cheek .
Masonic Notes And Queries.
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .
NOTIONS 01 ? EKEEJIASONEY . A correspondent has sent me a singularly unintellig ible letter . Are his notions of Freemasonry iu truth so strangely unlike the popular notions ? It is not possible to believe that they are ; and there is , I suspect , in much that he has written a desire to
mystify . However , I answer that Freemasonry is a relig ious and moral system , formed for the city and not for the desert ; and that it requires the exercise of social and not of ascetic truths . The qualities which contribute a good Freemason are those of a working parish priest , and not of a monk of the papist order . —CHAELES PURTON COOPEE .
MORAL EVIL . —LIBEETY . Dear Brother , the experience of a long life has confirmed the conclusion to which I came at Oxford , more than half a century ago , that moral evil has its source in the abuse of our liberty . —G . P . COOKEE .
BOYS' SCHOOL . "Would it he legitimate to pay off the debt of the Boys' School by a bazaar to be held iu our Hall ? Would it be unbecoming or un-Masonic ? Many of the wives of our members would contribute . —P . M . AND A SUBSCEIBEE .
A GENERAL TRUTH . Brother , our Institution offers not the example of an exception to the general truth that , where the good has not its dwelling , there the evil ever enters and fixes its abode . —C . P . COOPER .
IN A HURRY . Ought the officers of a lodge to come into the robing room at the exact time fixed in the summons , or five minutes before . It appears to me that they scarcely observe punctuality iu coming at the summons time , for preparation takes up minutes , and the business is adjourned . —PUNCXUALITAS .
THE ENGLISH LODGE . The English lodge is G-od ' s House , and there neither he who denies Grod nor he who reviles God ought to come .. —From a manuscrip t volume in Bro . Purton Cooper ' s Masonic collection , entitled " Freemasons' Table Talk . "
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actions b y the commandments contained in the Hol y Book of God ; may the structure which we now humbly and reverently raise to the name of the Most Hi gh find acceptance in His si g ht ; and may our hearts and minds be so dedicated
to His service that when the great and awful hour of our departure from this perishable scene clraweth ni gh we may find blessed repose and joy for ever in the presence of the triune God , to whom be ascribed all honour and glory , world ¦ without end .
Third Decade Of Masonic Precepts.
THIRD DECADE OF MASONIC PRECEPTS .
' { From Bro . PCJRTON CoorER ' s Manuscript Collections . ) XXL—THE BANQUET . Brother , thou art wrong to condemn the banquet unreservedly . Does it not attract lukewarm Masons , and are they not many ? XXII . —TUB WHOLE HUMAN EACH .
Brother , desire the happiness of thyself , of thy family , -of thy country , and , more than all , desire the happiness of the whole human race . XXIII . —OLD MAX or THE SEA . Brother , take courage . Thy destiny , as thou call ' st it , has assigned thee two very different existences . In
thy first existence , it is true , thou art condemned to ¦ carry on thy shoulders an old man of the sea ; but in thy second existence thou wilt walk freed from this burden .
XXIV . —AXGEE . Thou art angry with thy brother who has offended thee . Dost thou desire that thy anger should cease ? Then name thy brother in thy morning and evening prayers to the Great Architect of the Universe for the happiness of all his creatures , and bo assured thy anger will speedily subside .
XXV . —THE Mrsnc PANTHEIST . Brother , the mystic Pantheist is enthusiastically pious ; A late German theological writer has called a famous mystic Pantheist of the 17 th century , a " God-intoxicated " man . Thou may ' st , if thou desirest it , make a mystic Pantheist thy friend , but thou may ' st not receive him into thy English lodge .
XXVI .-GRIEF . Brother , such is the elasticity which the Great Architect of the Universe has imparted to the human mind , that grief for misfortunes not brought about by couduct vicious , dishonest , or dishonourable , rarely lasts long .
XXVII . —TUE ETHICS AND THE THEOLOGY OF CHRISTIANITY . Brother , understand the ethics of Christianity , as the Holy Jesus taught ; and understand its theology as thy Church understands it . *
Third Decade Of Masonic Precepts.
XXYIIL—LIFE . Brother , life is a blessing ; but it is a blessing to him only who does good . XXIX . —THE MORAL LAW . —HUMANISING A B ARBAROUS EACE . Brother , the moral law is eternal , and when man can
reason rightly it is universal . Begin thy task of humanising a barbarous race by measures fitting for the abolition of customs which are most opposed to the moral law . XXX . —THE SUITER . Brother , to him who has smitten thy right cheek ,, neither natural religion nor rightly understood Christianity , enjoins thee to present thy left cheek .
Masonic Notes And Queries.
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .
NOTIONS 01 ? EKEEJIASONEY . A correspondent has sent me a singularly unintellig ible letter . Are his notions of Freemasonry iu truth so strangely unlike the popular notions ? It is not possible to believe that they are ; and there is , I suspect , in much that he has written a desire to
mystify . However , I answer that Freemasonry is a relig ious and moral system , formed for the city and not for the desert ; and that it requires the exercise of social and not of ascetic truths . The qualities which contribute a good Freemason are those of a working parish priest , and not of a monk of the papist order . —CHAELES PURTON COOPEE .
MORAL EVIL . —LIBEETY . Dear Brother , the experience of a long life has confirmed the conclusion to which I came at Oxford , more than half a century ago , that moral evil has its source in the abuse of our liberty . —G . P . COOKEE .
BOYS' SCHOOL . "Would it he legitimate to pay off the debt of the Boys' School by a bazaar to be held iu our Hall ? Would it be unbecoming or un-Masonic ? Many of the wives of our members would contribute . —P . M . AND A SUBSCEIBEE .
A GENERAL TRUTH . Brother , our Institution offers not the example of an exception to the general truth that , where the good has not its dwelling , there the evil ever enters and fixes its abode . —C . P . COOPER .
IN A HURRY . Ought the officers of a lodge to come into the robing room at the exact time fixed in the summons , or five minutes before . It appears to me that they scarcely observe punctuality iu coming at the summons time , for preparation takes up minutes , and the business is adjourned . —PUNCXUALITAS .
THE ENGLISH LODGE . The English lodge is G-od ' s House , and there neither he who denies Grod nor he who reviles God ought to come .. —From a manuscrip t volume in Bro . Purton Cooper ' s Masonic collection , entitled " Freemasons' Table Talk . "