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The Segeet Sooiefm
assessors and other members of the association who were present , repeated after him , as follows : — " I swear by the cord and dagger , to aid and co ^ opeTate , without rekxation , in the things belonging to the holy Vehm , to defend its doctrines and
institutions , against father ai ^ m and chid ; against fire , water , earth , and air ; against all that the sun enlightens ; against all that the dew moistens : ; against all created feings of heaven and earth , or the waters under the earth ; and I gw ^ ar to give m ^ xm 0 m to this holy court of judicature , of all that I know to be true , or inay hear repeated by credible tesfimony r which by the lavy $ and xegulations of the
holy Yehm , is deserving of animadversion or p not cloak , cover , or conceal such my knowledge , either for love , friendship , or family affection or for gold , silver , or precious stones neither will I associate ( knowing them to he such ) , with such as are under the sentences of this sacred tribunal , by hinting to a delincpent hi ^^ ^ hihi to escape , or by aiding , or supplying Mm with counsel ^ or means to
that effect : neither will I relieve such a culppt with fi shelter , though my father should require fc ^ heat of summer noon , or my brother should request to sit by my fire in the bitterest cold night of winter . And further I voyv an ^ this holy association , and to do its bete fully , and firmly , in preference to those of any other tribunal whatsoever . So help nie God and His holy evangelists . "
HorE . —The most valuable faculty ofthe intellect of man . Sorrow and trouble , m divers shapes , are man ' s heritage on earth ; gleams of true happiness may flash athwart his soul—but the burden of threescore years and ten will force the acknowledgment that there is in life much vanity and vexation of spirit . The path is rough and winding , and we constantly stumble against the obstructions which pride and self-conceit have planted . The staff which sustains us on the journey is p laced in the hand by hope , founded in a true faith—with it Ave may advance , not perhaps without some hesitation , for the taint of mortality is clinging to us , but
with sufficient boldness , to clear away opposition . In times of peculiar trialwhen amid physical pain and mental anguish , we are called upon to sustain steadfastly the truth , it is hope which gives to us the victory . Look on the long list of martyrs who , in successive ages , have sealed with their bio od , the cause which they felt to be true . To them , in the ecstasy of hope , the heavens have opened , ancl they have in anticipated raptures ' forgot the extremity of torture . What sustained Coustos , the Masonic martyr , when the hellish ingenuity of the inquisition devised each day a new mode of suffering- —the truths which Masonry had taught him—faith in God and a hope of His approbation if he remained constant ,
to the end . This then is one of the great truths , which Masonry seeks to engrave on the mind of her votary . She first teaches him to place his faith on God , and then to hope for His favour and protection , and thus , are beautifully interwoven the principle and duties . Let the mind become thoroughly imbued with faith , as exemplified in action , and we find the . other truths , with the resulting duties , naturally follow . We cannot believe in God , as a spirit , without hoping to $ njoy spiritually , his presence smcl favour . The purity of mind which such belief and hope engender must induce a corresponding purity of conduct ; and so the rough ashlar becomes a perfect ashlar , and the whole man a stone fitted for the temple not made with hands , eternal in the heavens , — A merican Mirror mid Keystone
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Segeet Sooiefm
assessors and other members of the association who were present , repeated after him , as follows : — " I swear by the cord and dagger , to aid and co ^ opeTate , without rekxation , in the things belonging to the holy Vehm , to defend its doctrines and
institutions , against father ai ^ m and chid ; against fire , water , earth , and air ; against all that the sun enlightens ; against all that the dew moistens : ; against all created feings of heaven and earth , or the waters under the earth ; and I gw ^ ar to give m ^ xm 0 m to this holy court of judicature , of all that I know to be true , or inay hear repeated by credible tesfimony r which by the lavy $ and xegulations of the
holy Yehm , is deserving of animadversion or p not cloak , cover , or conceal such my knowledge , either for love , friendship , or family affection or for gold , silver , or precious stones neither will I associate ( knowing them to he such ) , with such as are under the sentences of this sacred tribunal , by hinting to a delincpent hi ^^ ^ hihi to escape , or by aiding , or supplying Mm with counsel ^ or means to
that effect : neither will I relieve such a culppt with fi shelter , though my father should require fc ^ heat of summer noon , or my brother should request to sit by my fire in the bitterest cold night of winter . And further I voyv an ^ this holy association , and to do its bete fully , and firmly , in preference to those of any other tribunal whatsoever . So help nie God and His holy evangelists . "
HorE . —The most valuable faculty ofthe intellect of man . Sorrow and trouble , m divers shapes , are man ' s heritage on earth ; gleams of true happiness may flash athwart his soul—but the burden of threescore years and ten will force the acknowledgment that there is in life much vanity and vexation of spirit . The path is rough and winding , and we constantly stumble against the obstructions which pride and self-conceit have planted . The staff which sustains us on the journey is p laced in the hand by hope , founded in a true faith—with it Ave may advance , not perhaps without some hesitation , for the taint of mortality is clinging to us , but
with sufficient boldness , to clear away opposition . In times of peculiar trialwhen amid physical pain and mental anguish , we are called upon to sustain steadfastly the truth , it is hope which gives to us the victory . Look on the long list of martyrs who , in successive ages , have sealed with their bio od , the cause which they felt to be true . To them , in the ecstasy of hope , the heavens have opened , ancl they have in anticipated raptures ' forgot the extremity of torture . What sustained Coustos , the Masonic martyr , when the hellish ingenuity of the inquisition devised each day a new mode of suffering- —the truths which Masonry had taught him—faith in God and a hope of His approbation if he remained constant ,
to the end . This then is one of the great truths , which Masonry seeks to engrave on the mind of her votary . She first teaches him to place his faith on God , and then to hope for His favour and protection , and thus , are beautifully interwoven the principle and duties . Let the mind become thoroughly imbued with faith , as exemplified in action , and we find the . other truths , with the resulting duties , naturally follow . We cannot believe in God , as a spirit , without hoping to $ njoy spiritually , his presence smcl favour . The purity of mind which such belief and hope engender must induce a corresponding purity of conduct ; and so the rough ashlar becomes a perfect ashlar , and the whole man a stone fitted for the temple not made with hands , eternal in the heavens , — A merican Mirror mid Keystone