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The Freemasonry Of The New Testament.
but is greater than his achievements . When we look upon somo magnificent pile , reared by humau skill , the product of human art , we find ourselves bowing in reverence to the personality behind it , to the exalted soul in which it lived and breathed , a spiritual thing , before it stood forth in all
its grand proportions to be seen of men . At the edge of the dreary sands of tho quiet desert stands the Great Pyramid , guarded by tho mysterious
sphynx , so calm , so eternal in its solitude , seemingly as true a part of the solid earth as mountains toweriag upward from its bosom . This is the largest architectural achievement of the race .
Coming down the grand highway of time from the distant age in which that " miracle in stone " was achieved , we trace the onward march of the race in the development of architecture . Pelasgian , Doric , Ionic , Corinthian , Tuscan , GothicRoman , and Composite are so many studios along
, the world ' s advance . The marvellous cities of Babylon and Nineveh , the Temple of Solomon with all its mystic Masonic lore , the magnificent fane at Ephesus dedicated to the goddess Diana , the Parthenon at Athens , the Coloseum and Pantheon at Rone , the Cathedral of Saint
Mark at Venice , the great Christian temple at Cologne , a thousand years in building , the palace of Versailles , St . Paul ' s in London , and St . Peter ' s in Rome , mark the ages that produced them . Iu these masterpieces we read
tho growing conception and expression of man s deeper instincts , realising more and more fully those dreams born in the inmost recesses of the soul . Man builds these outward forms , because within he builds with the immortalities and constructs homes and temples ont of the
materials of the unseen . Ralph Waldo Emerson , in the " Problem , " gives expression to the profoundest truth , that every line and proportion that entrances the beholder in Assyrian hall or Egyptian pyramid , was native to the human mind , begotten by some silent , soft , yet mighty impulse from the
nnseen . For ont of thought ' s interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air . These noble thoughts of men , the music of their souls , Btaud in these lasting monuments like petrified harmony ,
long to endure . Let the mind of man , studying these impressive monuments of human achievements , ofttimes realise that these , be they never so grand , are but rude representations of those visions of beauty which arise in the silences of the interior life . What arohitect ever
realised in his achievements the dream he sought to attain in the structure he had reared ? When he beheld the vision of what ho ivould achieve , it was faultless , but when that vision began to take shape , he saw the limitations set by the material he must employ , and tho imperious laws of matter , which do not prevail in the soul .
Only a few men can build great and admirable monuments out of the materials of earth , but all are architects building in the secret places of the soul . Few can rear the mighty fabrics for time , yet all can build those imperishable abodes of the soul , which shall adorn for ever
the golden streets of the New Jerusalem above . In great moments of men ' s lives they behold the columns and pilasters which they are placing in their own holy temples of character , rising one by one to strengthen and adorn
the structure . This work is theirs . By faithful endeavour and holy sacrifice , men endowed with tho grace of God are rearing eternal habitations that shall outlast these temples of earth , outlast the flood of years , outlast the rolling earth itself .
The spiritual body or organism which is to be the soul ' s abode in the world to come , it is the work of our earthly life to rear . That this is so was a more impressive fact rar ' ^ ° ^ ones " * * nr 3 t hours than that ho was to create a Winchester Cathedral , and thus hand clown his name to tho praise of posterity .
It was moro vital to the soul of Sir Christopher Wren when he reached the close of his earthly life that he had omit its eternal house in heaven than that ho bad given to the world and glory of God a St . Paul ' s Cathedral . So is it , aud so it must be in the life of every man , it is not
some mighty achievement in war or peace , it is not a woe stroke of state policy , it is not some lasting and worth y contribution to literature , it is not some valuable discovery of sconce , it is not some masterpiece of art , or some towering and imposing achievement in architecture mat cau secure'to man a permanence of his glory . If you
The Freemasonry Of The New Testament.
have not built np meanwhile that imperishable character founded upon faith in tho Lord Jesus Christ , you shall die , and with the mouldering ruins of your work you
shall pass for ever from the land of the living and from the memory of men . This eternal structure rises with evory holy act of yours , and every wicked deed you do takes away from its adornment or its strength .
A noble impulse , a generous deed , a holy devotion aud unselfish sacrifice will raise columns of beauty and stability in this temple of the soul . " A wicked passion , like a sharp chisel in unskilful hands , will ruin tho costly frieze , and cut away the loftiest column of manhood with its
gleaming edge . " A sin , liko a great hammer , may bijeak the soul ' s faith in powder , and crush its peace forever . Lust aud intemperance will bring decay into all its unseen parts and silently but surely consume its strength . An evil temper will insert into tho unsullied splendour of a
generous life the rotten wood of the swamp , will place above the ascending star of promise the broken p ledges through which death looks , and will wreck the brightest mind in the moment of its greatest hope . Some gonerous principle quarried from tho mountains of God ' s
grace , polished with faithful hands , bearing the marks of an honest and loving hop 9 , will be placed for the adornment and strength of tho noblest life . A truth of Christ ' s religion , placed where the greatest strain will come , will settle never an inch , but will bear up throngh all eternity
the hopes of your immortal sonl . Thus is every man a builder , on shifting sands of unbelief , on the etornal adamant of faith in Christ , with cowardice , or with courage , with doubt or with faith , with selfishness or sacrifice , with tbe wastes of hell or the wealth of heaven , men muBt build
that which the fiery ordeal may consume or that enduring house not made of corruptible things , which shall withstand all the destructive forces of the Universe . But he who builds for eternity " must take heed , " says St . Paul ; he
must be faithful , he must be honest , he must love God and his fellow men , otherwise will he build of " hay , wood or stubble , " and his work will not endure , for fire shall try every man ' s work of what sort it is .
My brethren , let us remember that this work is ours , that every act we do tends to the up-building of the soul ' s eternal abode , or to its destruction . Let us , therefore , take heed how we baild upon the Rock of Ages , that when the day shall come , when every man ' s work shall be tried with
fire , ours may be fonnd indestructible and may endure throughout all ages . It may not , my friends , be given to us to raise some noble structure upon earth to stand as a monument of our genius , but it is our privilege , by the
grace of God , to build those holy temples of the soul whose capstone will not be laid with the applause and acclaims of men , but at the completion of which , after the plan drawn by the hand of God on the divine trestle baard , the morning stars shall sing together and all the sons of God shall shout for joy . —American Tyler .
The sixth annual Masonic Ball , which is given under the auspices of the Lodge of Freedom , No . 77 , and with the sanction and patronage of Earl Amherst Prov . G . M . Kent , took place at the New Public Hall , Gravesend , last Monday , with considerable success . Indefatigable exertions on the
part of the Committea brought together a large number of brethren , accompanied with their sisters and their cousins and their—sweethearts , to dance to the lively music by the string band of tho Roval Engineers , from Chatham . A
dispensation to wear Masonic clothing was granted , so that the sombre colour of tbe gentlemen ' s evening dress was greatly relieved , and harmonised well with the pretty tints of the ladies' dresses . Among those who must be mentioned for their exertions in connection with the gathering are
Bros . J . Solomon W . M ., F . Hitchens I . P . M ., T . Nettlemgham S . D ., R . C . Fowle , J . A . Whitfield , G . Masters , and J . 0 . Biggs Hon . Secretary .
IIoLLOWiv ' s TILLS . urn OINTMENT exert a rapidly favourati ' e effoct in alt those diseases which arc induced by exposure to damp or by great changes in temperature . They will therefore lie found eminently serviceable to those who vrork iu iron foundries , copper mines and collieries . These well-known remedies present manifest advantages in respect to use and effectiveness , beinjc
entirely compounded of vege'able drugs selected with the greatest care and regardless of price . When used in accordanco with the ample printed directions which accompany them , they act surely but mildly , and do not interfere with tho daily work . There ore but lew diseases which are not capable of cure—or , at all events , of great relief—if Holloway ' s remediej are perseveringly used .
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The Freemasonry Of The New Testament.
but is greater than his achievements . When we look upon somo magnificent pile , reared by humau skill , the product of human art , we find ourselves bowing in reverence to the personality behind it , to the exalted soul in which it lived and breathed , a spiritual thing , before it stood forth in all
its grand proportions to be seen of men . At the edge of the dreary sands of tho quiet desert stands the Great Pyramid , guarded by tho mysterious
sphynx , so calm , so eternal in its solitude , seemingly as true a part of the solid earth as mountains toweriag upward from its bosom . This is the largest architectural achievement of the race .
Coming down the grand highway of time from the distant age in which that " miracle in stone " was achieved , we trace the onward march of the race in the development of architecture . Pelasgian , Doric , Ionic , Corinthian , Tuscan , GothicRoman , and Composite are so many studios along
, the world ' s advance . The marvellous cities of Babylon and Nineveh , the Temple of Solomon with all its mystic Masonic lore , the magnificent fane at Ephesus dedicated to the goddess Diana , the Parthenon at Athens , the Coloseum and Pantheon at Rone , the Cathedral of Saint
Mark at Venice , the great Christian temple at Cologne , a thousand years in building , the palace of Versailles , St . Paul ' s in London , and St . Peter ' s in Rome , mark the ages that produced them . Iu these masterpieces we read
tho growing conception and expression of man s deeper instincts , realising more and more fully those dreams born in the inmost recesses of the soul . Man builds these outward forms , because within he builds with the immortalities and constructs homes and temples ont of the
materials of the unseen . Ralph Waldo Emerson , in the " Problem , " gives expression to the profoundest truth , that every line and proportion that entrances the beholder in Assyrian hall or Egyptian pyramid , was native to the human mind , begotten by some silent , soft , yet mighty impulse from the
nnseen . For ont of thought ' s interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air . These noble thoughts of men , the music of their souls , Btaud in these lasting monuments like petrified harmony ,
long to endure . Let the mind of man , studying these impressive monuments of human achievements , ofttimes realise that these , be they never so grand , are but rude representations of those visions of beauty which arise in the silences of the interior life . What arohitect ever
realised in his achievements the dream he sought to attain in the structure he had reared ? When he beheld the vision of what ho ivould achieve , it was faultless , but when that vision began to take shape , he saw the limitations set by the material he must employ , and tho imperious laws of matter , which do not prevail in the soul .
Only a few men can build great and admirable monuments out of the materials of earth , but all are architects building in the secret places of the soul . Few can rear the mighty fabrics for time , yet all can build those imperishable abodes of the soul , which shall adorn for ever
the golden streets of the New Jerusalem above . In great moments of men ' s lives they behold the columns and pilasters which they are placing in their own holy temples of character , rising one by one to strengthen and adorn
the structure . This work is theirs . By faithful endeavour and holy sacrifice , men endowed with tho grace of God are rearing eternal habitations that shall outlast these temples of earth , outlast the flood of years , outlast the rolling earth itself .
The spiritual body or organism which is to be the soul ' s abode in the world to come , it is the work of our earthly life to rear . That this is so was a more impressive fact rar ' ^ ° ^ ones " * * nr 3 t hours than that ho was to create a Winchester Cathedral , and thus hand clown his name to tho praise of posterity .
It was moro vital to the soul of Sir Christopher Wren when he reached the close of his earthly life that he had omit its eternal house in heaven than that ho bad given to the world and glory of God a St . Paul ' s Cathedral . So is it , aud so it must be in the life of every man , it is not
some mighty achievement in war or peace , it is not a woe stroke of state policy , it is not some lasting and worth y contribution to literature , it is not some valuable discovery of sconce , it is not some masterpiece of art , or some towering and imposing achievement in architecture mat cau secure'to man a permanence of his glory . If you
The Freemasonry Of The New Testament.
have not built np meanwhile that imperishable character founded upon faith in tho Lord Jesus Christ , you shall die , and with the mouldering ruins of your work you
shall pass for ever from the land of the living and from the memory of men . This eternal structure rises with evory holy act of yours , and every wicked deed you do takes away from its adornment or its strength .
A noble impulse , a generous deed , a holy devotion aud unselfish sacrifice will raise columns of beauty and stability in this temple of the soul . " A wicked passion , like a sharp chisel in unskilful hands , will ruin tho costly frieze , and cut away the loftiest column of manhood with its
gleaming edge . " A sin , liko a great hammer , may bijeak the soul ' s faith in powder , and crush its peace forever . Lust aud intemperance will bring decay into all its unseen parts and silently but surely consume its strength . An evil temper will insert into tho unsullied splendour of a
generous life the rotten wood of the swamp , will place above the ascending star of promise the broken p ledges through which death looks , and will wreck the brightest mind in the moment of its greatest hope . Some gonerous principle quarried from tho mountains of God ' s
grace , polished with faithful hands , bearing the marks of an honest and loving hop 9 , will be placed for the adornment and strength of tho noblest life . A truth of Christ ' s religion , placed where the greatest strain will come , will settle never an inch , but will bear up throngh all eternity
the hopes of your immortal sonl . Thus is every man a builder , on shifting sands of unbelief , on the etornal adamant of faith in Christ , with cowardice , or with courage , with doubt or with faith , with selfishness or sacrifice , with tbe wastes of hell or the wealth of heaven , men muBt build
that which the fiery ordeal may consume or that enduring house not made of corruptible things , which shall withstand all the destructive forces of the Universe . But he who builds for eternity " must take heed , " says St . Paul ; he
must be faithful , he must be honest , he must love God and his fellow men , otherwise will he build of " hay , wood or stubble , " and his work will not endure , for fire shall try every man ' s work of what sort it is .
My brethren , let us remember that this work is ours , that every act we do tends to the up-building of the soul ' s eternal abode , or to its destruction . Let us , therefore , take heed how we baild upon the Rock of Ages , that when the day shall come , when every man ' s work shall be tried with
fire , ours may be fonnd indestructible and may endure throughout all ages . It may not , my friends , be given to us to raise some noble structure upon earth to stand as a monument of our genius , but it is our privilege , by the
grace of God , to build those holy temples of the soul whose capstone will not be laid with the applause and acclaims of men , but at the completion of which , after the plan drawn by the hand of God on the divine trestle baard , the morning stars shall sing together and all the sons of God shall shout for joy . —American Tyler .
The sixth annual Masonic Ball , which is given under the auspices of the Lodge of Freedom , No . 77 , and with the sanction and patronage of Earl Amherst Prov . G . M . Kent , took place at the New Public Hall , Gravesend , last Monday , with considerable success . Indefatigable exertions on the
part of the Committea brought together a large number of brethren , accompanied with their sisters and their cousins and their—sweethearts , to dance to the lively music by the string band of tho Roval Engineers , from Chatham . A
dispensation to wear Masonic clothing was granted , so that the sombre colour of tbe gentlemen ' s evening dress was greatly relieved , and harmonised well with the pretty tints of the ladies' dresses . Among those who must be mentioned for their exertions in connection with the gathering are
Bros . J . Solomon W . M ., F . Hitchens I . P . M ., T . Nettlemgham S . D ., R . C . Fowle , J . A . Whitfield , G . Masters , and J . 0 . Biggs Hon . Secretary .
IIoLLOWiv ' s TILLS . urn OINTMENT exert a rapidly favourati ' e effoct in alt those diseases which arc induced by exposure to damp or by great changes in temperature . They will therefore lie found eminently serviceable to those who vrork iu iron foundries , copper mines and collieries . These well-known remedies present manifest advantages in respect to use and effectiveness , beinjc
entirely compounded of vege'able drugs selected with the greatest care and regardless of price . When used in accordanco with the ample printed directions which accompany them , they act surely but mildly , and do not interfere with tho daily work . There ore but lew diseases which are not capable of cure—or , at all events , of great relief—if Holloway ' s remediej are perseveringly used .