The Freemason's Monthly Magazine, Volume 12Tuttle & Bennett., 1853 - Freemasonry |
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Page 120 - To gentle offices of love His feet are never slow ; He views through mercy's melting eye A brother in a foe. " Peace from the bosom of his God, My peace to him I give ; And when he kneels before the throne, His trembling soul shall live. " To him protection shall be shown, And mercy from above Descend on those who thus fulfil The perfect law of love.
Page 70 - And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren ; why do ye wrong one to another...
Page 55 - ... burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole. What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found ; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice ; Forever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Page 63 - That as a testimony of respect for the memory of the deceased, the members and officers of this House will wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.
Page 84 - ... fairly restored ; Yet he prayed for the moment when Freedom and Life Would no longer be pressed by the sword. Oh, his laurels were pure ; and his patriot name In the page of the Future shall dwell, And be seen in all annals, the foremost in fame, By the side of a Hofer and Tell...
Page 30 - He was cut down in the prime of life and in the midst of a bright career of usefulness.
Page 77 - confess my guilt, which consists in having, to my shame and dishonour, suffered myself, through the pain of torture and the fear of death, to give utterance to falsehoods, imputing scandalous sins and iniquities to an illustrious order, which hath nobly served the cause of Christianity. I disdain to seek a wretched and disgraceful existence by engrafting another lie upon the original falsehood.
Page 140 - through the report of the committee on foreign correspondence of the Grand Lodge of...
Page 153 - Freemasonry annihilates all parties, conciliates all private opinions, and renders those who, by their Almighty Father, were made of one blood, to be also of one heart and one mind ; — Brethren bound, firmly bound together by that indissoluble tie, the love of their God, and the love of their kind.
Page 118 - Sir, if you cannot conceive the rest, it is to no purpose that you conceive the seventh. But to those who cannot comprehend, it is necessary to explain. Why, then, sir, we will begin with Temperance. Sir, if the joys of the bottle entice him one inch beyond the line of sobriety, his life or his limbs must pay the forfeit of his excess. Then, sir, there is Faith. Without unshaken confidence in his own powers, and full assurance that the rope is firm, his temperance will be of but little advantage...