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THERE are two forms of Masonry upon which I will
speak to-night — the speculative Sin<\ the operative^ which
are not united. The operative one was tlie primary force
of Masonry, while the speculative is now the most prom-
inent. How came they to he separated ? And will they
ever again he united ? I want to show you to-night how
they came to he separated, and how Masonry itself origi-
nated, and in connection therewith, to turn your attention
to the great Pyramid, for there are secrets connected with
this structure that will throw some light on our Masonic
conduct and ideas.

You will understand that when the world was overflown
by the flood, men had been living from i,6oo to 2,000
years. The average of the life was about 400 years. Now,
a man could pick up considerable information in 400 years
if men were as smart as we now are. Only eight persons
were left from the destruction caused by the flood. What
became of all the sciences, of the advancement and know-
ledge which the people prior to the flood gained ? Is it to
be entirely lost ? Shall there be no ke}' to the scientific
attainments, and the progress of these ante-diluvians for
those 2,000 years ? Will Providence start the luuiian race
anew and blot out all that has gone before ? I think not.
But how will this knowledge be preserved to us ? I
believe it was arranged in the order of divine Providence
that Shem should be the one to embody all tlie scientific,
geometrical, sociological, and every other kind of know-
ledge that would be profitable to the new world, and that
God ordered Shem to construct, after the flood, the Great
Pvramid for this purpose — that is the Great Pyramid.

There are five hundred others, but all are mere imitations
of this the largest which was built about 2,170 B.C., and
which is situate a short distance from Cairo on the western
banks of the river Nile. The builders located the immense
structure on a limestone rock. Shem was a very proper
person to be entrusted with such a charge, as he was born
one hundred years before the fiood, and lived for at least
five hundred after it ; in fact, he lived some fifteen years
after Abraham was dead and gone ; he. lived, too, long
enough to instruct the new world by bringing the know-
ledge of the old to I'^em. By a kind Providence he was
directed *:o put all tliis knowledge into one building.
Having thus stored away these scie'.ices, a specidati\)e
Masonry was then formed. Whenever the world should
want any truth of a mechanical, geometrical, astronomical
or commercial kind it could go to this stone monument,
unlock the door and there find the secrets necessary for
its further progress. You are to understand that that
building contains all the sciences to whvh we will ever
attain. There is not a single truth that we have yet
arrived at which is not embodied in that building, but
when Masonry became speculative, men in some way
degenerated and thus lost the key to the great building, pre-
venting them from entering it, and without this key it was
very difficult to mterpret the great systems of tru^h that
are contained therein, in fact, we know but little concern-
ing it now, and what we do know has come to us by the
ripest scholars who had instruments to test and geometrical
skill to measure and scientific knowledge to lay it before
us, and as we increase in science and knowledge we will
increase in the power to interpret the great f\ind of know-
ledge stored up in the vast stone building.

The diagram given elsewhere shows the Pyramid cut
in two from north to south, and we are looking west. The
interior, or sectional view is thus shown. When complete

tlic pyramid covered 13A acres, and rose to a iieijjjht of 468
feet and a fraction. The outside casinpj stones were of white
marble, twelve feet in length, five feet in depth, and eight
feet in breadth — 25 feet altogether, which is the sacred
cubit of the Scriptures. When complete, it rose like a sort
of diamond mountain with no entrance apparent at an}
point, yet there was a stone which the pressure of the hand
would have turned on a swivel. The secret entrance was
not found until a few years ago, when John Taylor, a
London (Eng.) merchant, gave special study to the great
building, and came to the conclusion that it was measured
off astronomically. His studies enlisted the interest of
astronomers like Prof. Herschel and Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth.
These studied certain stars and conjunctions of stars,
and discovered tliat when their inclination would strike
the earth, they would strike Egypt ; another minute cal-
culation brought them to the Pyramid, and still another
to its north side, 300 inches east of the centre and forty-
nine feet from the ground. Thus was discovered the
door and thereby produced positive proof that the build-
ers of the Pyramid understood what the}' were doing
and were regulatmg things on earth according to the law
which regulates things in the heavens. There could be no
chance in a thing like that. The 300 inches east of the
centre, or the axis of the Pyramid, is just that which the
earth's axis is askew 'from the plane of its orbit, so they
symbolized the very rotation of our earth in that structure.
The door being placed forty-nine feet from the ground
corresponds with the inclination. Looking out at the stars,
once a year when the north star is at its lowest culmination,
30ir will see that star in line with one of the passageways ;
another time of the year when that star is at its highest
culmination, it is in line with another passageway, so the
very stars were made to point an entrance to this great
JSTasonic Temple.

Ill the ninth century an Aral* Cinel untlcrlook [o cilccl
an entrance and du*; for two years. He too starteil on tlie
north side, showinj^ tliat tradition had correctly come down
to him on tliat line. The Pyramid was desij^ned to emboely
all the astronomical and scientific kiiowledge of the ante-
diluvians for our <(ood. The jeight survivors of the flood
would not want to practise all the sciences. What would
eight men want to do with a railroad, or a telephone ?
These antediluvians were, I have no doubt, as wise as we
are to-day, and had their railways and telegrapiis and tele-
phones. Vou may say there would not be a sufficient
number of them to require these things, but there were
more living then, at the lowest calculation, than now,
though 1 would not go as high as Dr. Buck when he says
they were eighty times as numerous as we are. Make some
standard — say you take Abraham's family. In 430 years it
would number two millions, on the basis of their lives
averaging fifty years, but how many persons would you
have in two thousand years when life's average was 4(;o
years ? Vou would find as many living then as now.

People are wonderfully astray in their ideas as to the
ante-diluvian world. Adam, as the son of God, was well
educated, thoroughly prepared to train his children, and
thoroughly familiar with the heavens and earth and all
the great secrets of nature. The knowledge given to him
was stored up in the Pyramid — kncwvledge which if we hail
known would have enabled us to have made a railway
engine long ago ; to have made an astronomical chart long
ago, and to have prepared a standard of weights and
measures long ago. There is not a scientific fact we have
attained unto that is not confirmed by the Great Pyramid
which was constructed, as I have said, for the special
purpose of embodying the knowledge of the ante-diluvian
world therein, until the inhabitants of the earth after the
flood had so increased as to require this knowledge. The

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comicclion was diuiiij,' tliis time lost between the operalivt-
and the speculative in Masonry, antl since tlien it has been
chiefly on tlie hne of the speculative. I believe we can
trace the origin of the three degrees of Masonry to the
construction of the Tower of Babel when there was ron-
fusion of languages and the dispersion of the peopl« I
believe that the three sons of Noah then created a Masonic
language that should be a sign to all their descendants
wherever they might wander. The ability to speak this
tongue would be a sure indication that they were of the
same race, of the same father and of the same brotherhood,
and in this sense, Masonr}- stands to-day as one of the
finest proofs of the unity of the liuman lace in this world.
Savage nations have had this institution among them from
time immemorial, and how would you get it around the
world if you did not start it with those who were dispersed ?
If you object to that conclusion you have a greater diffi-
'culty to account for this fact otherwise than by believing
that the three sons of Noah were directed by Sheni,
their great Grand Master. 1 w^as told by Dr. Lang, a
member of the Queensland Parliament, of an exploring
expedition he made into the interior of Queensland. After
travelling two or three days without encountering any
natives, his party at last met a tribe whose langrige
neither he nor his native interpreters could understand.
The wild tribe were showing signs of hostility when the
traveller and his white companion, as a last resort, gave
them the signs of the first three degrees of Masonry
when several of the blacks responded intelligibly enough
to be understood in the Masonic language, and they were
thus protected and saved. The question is : How did these
natives get these secrets ? They had no knowledge of
an3'one living in the world but themselves, and had lost
the traditional idea of white men. They must have got
this Masonic language b}' descent from the dispersion of

the sons of Noali. Thai is tlie easiest way to answer the
(juery, and if you try and answer it otherwise you will
certainly have more trouble. You remember that General
Fremont in his overland route, was attacked by Indians^
and was only saved by crying out in this Masonic language,
when he at once got protection. Some of the Indian (Chiefs
seemed to have a sufficient though imperfect intelligence of
the language to be understood.

Some begin Masonry with Solomon, but that is a great
mistake. Both Solomon and Hiram were as familiar with
Masonry as I am. Solomon sent to Hiram, his brother
Mason, to come to his help in building the Temple. Nor
did Masonry begin two hundred years ago as some writers
claim. They mistake lapses and re-reformations for crea-
tions just as some people begin the Church of England
with the Reformation. Not at all. The Church of England
begun in the first century in Britain, and has had an
existence ever since, though it has sometimes been up and
sometimes down. So Masonry has sometimes been almost
crushed by antagonistic rulers but only to rise to view
again. It is as old as the Pyramid, and its three degreeSr
I repeat, originated at Babel, and were spread through the
world by the dispersed people. Masonry as a system is
peculiar, and yet conservative; it tends to the real interest
of the individual as well as to the interests of society
collectively. As an organization it accepts certain great
principles — principles that are Christian in their very
practice. (Applause) I make bold to answer the objection
of some that Masonry is placed before the Church. Now^
my friend, what do you understand by '* the Church," and
by Christianity ? What is Christianity ? That which is
right in practice and in experience. Christianity is " twice
two makes four," and that, in dealing with a man, you deal
with him on that line ; it is truth in every department, and
whoever practises truth, whether under this organization

or that, is a Christian. The troul)lc is that pooplt- <om-
found the organization with the Church. The Church of
the hving (iod is conijMjsecl in its lar<(est sense of all who
are saved by the covenant mercies of God in Christ Jesus
that have lived, are now livnif^s or who have passed on to
heaven. Another nieaninf^ is that called the Chnrcii nidi-
tant, composed of those who are now living ; others a|L(ain
attach the meaninj^ to the particular or<(anization with
which they may be connected, while the building itself is
called a Church. The Church can always be divided into
two — the spiritual and the temporal, but you must not
confound the two. This stone building does not constitute
the members of Hond Street C'hurch. ]Ve, its members,
are the real Church ; even the characteristics which dis-
tinguish the Congregational Church are not the Church, but
the Christians back of all that constitute it. We are
Christians (if we are right) ix-fore we are Congregation-
alists, and because we are Christians we seek some organ-
ization througli which to work. Tiie true Church is
spiritual, and its ideas and principles are truth. Now, the
Masonic body is an organization, and so far as it practises
the great truths of the Gospel is as much a Church as
Bond Street Church. It is the practice of the truth that
makes a Christian whether he is in this organization or
that. Masonry as an organization does practise some. of
the great principles and truths that Christians do. What
Church therefore is before it ? Will you tell me of one
virtue or grace that Masonry does not enforce or teach ?
Masonry asks you to be industrious, temperate, benevolent,
and charitable. If we are true Masons, and if we practise
the virtues that every Church teaches, why do yor. say
we are not a Christian organization ? I can say ^hat the
Masonic body is not a Congregational, a Methodist, or an
Episcopalian organization, but to say that Masonry is not
Christian is to say what is not tr-ic. (Applause) If any

Church makes man more sacred to himself, his family and
his country than Masonry does, pray let me know.

There are certain things about Masonry that seem very
peculiar to some. It has made a chief point of its chari-
ties, and to avoid abuse of our generosity, it was found
necessary to protect ourselves to a certain extent, because
we all know that there are the providential poor — those
who alter having done their l)est need help — and the
wilful poor, and a discrimination between these two classes
is essential. We soon learn to know whether a member is
worth}' or not, as we become so intimately connected with
him and his habits and business, and if he demoralizes and
wastes himself and his means, he loses that strong Masonic
grip upon the charities of a Masonic Lodge. We can dis-
pense our charities equally as fairly and equitably as any
institution in the world if we choose to exercise our intelli-
gence, thus bringing the really worthy cases to the front.
But if a member becomes unworthy of help we are under
no further obligation to him than to seek his reformation.
A good Mason aims to keep a firm Masonic hold on the
fraternity by being worthy, and then, should legitimate
misfortune overtake him, Masonic benevolence will surely
break the force of that misfortune.

Yet a view of Masonry that takes in only its charities
is meagre and limited. Our real work and mission is to be
found in our preventative rather than in our benevolent
policy. Cioing back to the origin of Masonry every man
had to be qualified in some trade, and he must therefore
be a competent man ; he must not be a slave, a cripple or
an imbecile. He would not be admitted unless he had the
ability to earn his own livelihood. That is why Masonry
prevents, to a certain extent, the need of charity ; in other
words. Masonry hononirs itself more in its non-charities,
when rightly conducted, than in its active charities. To
stay disease is as good as to cure it : to prevent crime is

as wise as to punish it. A man cannot l)e a j^ood Mason
without helping himself oij the lines of industry and care
for his own welfare. ( Applause.) I do not like to liear
Masonry judged as to how much it gives. We ought to
be very seldom called upon to give. If I am a true Mason
I should be so sober, industrious and careful as seldom, if
ever, to make a demand for lielp upon ni}- brotlier-Masons,
and Masonry ought to mspire such virtues as will help a
man to take care of inmself. If, then, povertv overtakes
him and he suffers, that is a fine opportunity for the exer-
cise of our charity.

I will now read you a letter I recently received, the
writer of which is really a very fine person : in fact, 1 have
had several letters of a similar kind from persons who have
most extraordinar}' ideas of Masonry. The letter reads : —

Toronto, December 15, 1888.

Dear Dr. Wild, — In your sermon of November 25 you were plead-
ing for secret societies, Freemasonry 1 suppose in particular. You said
that it taught a belief in God, and honesty, etc. If so, why were you
not honest enough to tell what else it taught ? That you were to reject
the Saviour, and dishonour Him by not even being allowed to mention
His name in your prayers. That it taught that you were bound by
oath to defend a Brother whether he was right or wrong. That the
oaths which they are compelled to take are unlawful, profane, bar-
barous, blasphemous and murderous.

If you were honest and a faithful watchman you would have told
them these things. A gentleman asked the late S. J. Hunter, a few
days before he preached for the Masons in Elm Street Church, how he
could consistently preach for them, knowing ;':^ i e did that their oaths
were profane and murderous. He said that ;i'cir oaths were profane.
Yet after making such a confession he preached for them, and lauded
them up by saying that they pointed towards heaven, when he knew in
his heart that they pointed towards hell, that it is of the devil from top
to bottom. If you take out the 15 or 20 per cent, of the money which
they receive by misrepresentation which they give to the poor, there is
not another streak of good in it. " But he loved the praise of men and
popularity more than the approbation of God," and I fear the same
might be said of you. () Watchman of Zicm, what an account you
will have to give !

How you can unite in a religion in which all men can agree. Infidel,
Pagan, Mormon and Unitarian, and kneel before a pagan altar and say
Christless prayers, leaving Christ outside of the lodge as you leave your
over-shoes and coat, and then putting Him on when you come out, is
something I can't understand. You know that the Masons of France

have expunged the name of ("hrist and God from their ritual, and you
also know that all the mysteries of Masonry are borrowed from pagan-
ism. And you know that your Grand Master, Hiram Abiff, is a pagan
god. Then you must of necessity be a servant or slave, or both, of a
pagan god. You know you have in your lodge a column which represents
Baal-peor of the Moabites, called Thallas. You also know that the
Masons of New York two years ago last June passed a number of their
children before or through the fire to their Masonic Moloch, which is
said in the Bible to be an abomination even for pagans to practise.
And yet you have the face to stand up in a Christian church and plead
for it. Shame !

Yours truly,

There is hardly a single truth uttered in this letter.
(Applause) Indeed, I do not know anything that is more
blasphemous than some of his utterances, and yet it no
doubt arises from ignorance. Of course none of the New
York Masons ever passed their children through the fire !
Masonic rules obligate upon us those graces and virtues
that make us live pe.iceably with all men, and that makes
us loyal to our Queen, and our Country. (Loud cheers)
And a man cannot be a Mason and a stirrer up of strife,
and an inciter of rebellion, or disloyal to his Queen. 1 say
again to the writer of that letter, who is present to-night,
yon are greatly mistaken, my friend. Can you believe me
when I vouch with my very iife that you have not a streak
of truth in your whole letter ? (Cheers) Some no doubt
will tell you the opposite, but I tell you what I know. We
may be defective as Masons in the practice of the virtues
imposed upon us, for we are like all men and organizations
in that we are imperfect. I say positivel}^ to you that
Masonry is not atheistical, and a man atheistically inclined
could not become or remain a Mason unless he were ver}'
hypocritical. Masonry is not unchristian ; it is not opposed
to Christianity or Christian organizations ; on the contrary
we fraternize with them ; but we are not sectarian. That is
the point where we receive the greatest amount of criti-
cism. We are not Congregationalists or Baptists or Metho-
dists, but we are Masons. It is because we are not

sectarian that many think we arc not Christian iu our
practice and constitution. My correspondent objects tiiat
we leave out Christ's name in our prayer. Why do we
leave it out in the first three decrees ? Because these three
degrees were organ i;?ed thousands of years before our Lord
appeared on earth when neither men nor the prophets
prayed through Christ but directly to the great God. You
might as well destroy the Old Testament because it has
not the name of Christ in it as to sav that Masons are
Christless because His name is not in the first three
degrees. (Applause) Being an old and unchangeable
institution it has come down to us as it was. capable of
taking in all races of men who believe in one true God and
in His overrulmg Providence. But, my friend, in the
higher degrees the sacred name of our Saviour comes m as
sweetly and reverently as in our Church services, but these
are degrees that have come in force (or most ot them) after
our Saviour sojourned on the earth. Masonry* soon recog-
nized His divine presence, and soon pleaded with Hnn
when He became the Way, the Truth and the Life. Can I
set you right on that point ? What does a Mason see
when he goes into his Lodge ? One thing is certivin, he
would see Gods word, and (I'll tell you this secret) as a
mace is used in Parliament, in a Masonic Lodge not one
iota of work can be done until the Bible is laid open at a
certain page directing them in their work. Do you suppose
an infidel could be there if he were honest ? A Mason lias
no authority to act in Lodge without the open Bible before
him, and God above him, symbolized by the all-seeing Eye
watching every movement made in that secret inclosure.
Of course you can repudiate all I say, and from time
to time men will be injudicious enough to believe mere
tattlers instead of those who understand what they say.
Pope Leo, in his Encyclical letter two years ago, charged the
Masons with iiienacing the homes, the altars of the Church

and the State. It does nothing of the kind. On the other
hand it conserves the sacredness and purity of the home ;
that we know as Masons. There is not a wife or child of a
Mason that is not covered by the Masonic mantle of
charity. (Cheers) The idea of Masonry •' menacing the
altars of the Church," when the altar is the most sacred
piece of furniture in every Masonic Lodge, and the very
tont and centre from which radiates all our acts ! and
instead of degrading it we honour it ! Nor do we menace
the State. If we do, we become very un-Masonic in our
conduct. We are taught to uphold the peace, to honour
the King, to love the Brotherhood, and to be loyal to the
interests of the country in which for the time-being we are
placed. (Applause).

There are many things m Masonry that ma}- seem
peculiar. The All-Seeing Eye is to indicate, as I have
said, that the Divine Providence encloses us and the
Divine Eye seeth all our conduct. The letter " G " is also
very significant, and teaches great and wholesome truths.
This letter begins the word " Geometry," which is said to
be one of the most perfect of sciences ; it is the seventh
letter, and illustrates the perfect number ; it is a perfect
geometrical figure in itself, the only perfect one, in fact.
As God IS the great geometrician, therefore the most
perfect way to represent Him is by the geometrical letter
*' G." The whole alphabet in its form is geometrical.
*'A" — quantity and quality; "B" — that quantity and
<juality divided ; " C " — that enclosed quantity opened up.
You need never go any further than " A," " B " and " C,"
because they contain all the curves and lines of the other
twenty-three letters. " D,"' for instance, is part of " B."
As " A, B and C " contain all the curves and lines, " G "
has^them all in itself; it means the circle squared and that
you work from the centre. It is a remarkable fact that the
Pyramid is on the land centre of the earth, latitudinally
and longitudinally. •

Voii find many tilings connected with the Israehtes that
had very nmch of a Masonic turn, and Masonry comes
down to us through thesa old patriarchs. Let me read a
few verses from the 20th chapter of the First Hook of
Kings to those who have not mucli faith in Masonry.
Ben-hadad, the King of Syria, came to fight Ahab, but
lost the battle. Ben-hadad then escaped and hid in an
inner chamber.

And his servants said unto Ben-hadad, Behold now, we have
heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings : let us, I
pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and
go out to the king of Israel ; peradventure he will save thy life.

So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their
heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben-hadad
saith, I pray thee, let me live. .\nd he said. Is he yet alive ? He is
my brother.

He here saw the Masonic sign and acknowledged it.

Now the men did diligently observe whether anything would
come from him, and did hastily catch it ; and they said. Thy brother
Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him Then Ben-hadad came
forth to him ; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.

The words " Merciful Kings," means " Secret (Hebrew,
chesed) Keepers " ; in other words, " Masons," hence the
two Kings were made friendly.

There are scores of passages that are not understand-
able without a knowledge of the Pyramid and Masonry.
Take, for instance, Jeremiah xxxii. 18 and 19: —

Thou showest loving-kindness unto thousands, and recompense the
iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them : The
Great, the Mighty God, the Lord of Hosts is his name. Great in counsel,
and mighty in work : for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the
sons of men : to give every one according to his ways, and according
to the fruit of his doings : \\'hich hath set signs and wonders in the
land of Egypt even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men.

The word set means, in Hebrew, " which has built some

wonderful signs in E;^/pt, which endure unto this day,"

and there it is in the Great Pyramid. Isaiah xix. 19-20: —

In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the
land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord, and it
shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of Hosts in the land
ol Egypt.

Where is that pillar, and sign, and altar and vitness ?
It is in the Pyrarnid, the witness of God.

Take a Nev/ Testament idea : The Egyptians were
reat on mysteries and had Masonry in many forms. Paul
refers I think to one of these, the Eleusinian mystery, or
the Secret Order of the Prudent. The Temple in which
candidates were initiated had a peculiar floor with flues at
certain points through which flames of fire couid be turned.
Tlie candidate for admission into the Order was sent into
the Temple to be tested on three points : his wisdom, skill,
and benevolence, and lie had to build something which, if
erected over the flues would of course be destroyed, and
and his lack of wisdom proved in not selecting a good
foundation, his skill by the thing he constructed, and his
benevolence by the material, gold, silver, hay or stubble —
a very neat way of proving a candidate's worth. When
the testing day comes every man is ordered to stand b)'
his own work, ihe masters looking on. Now read i Cor.
iii. 9-17 :

For we are labourers together with God : ye are (iods husbandry
yc arc God's building.

According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise
masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon.
But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is
Jtsus Christ.

Now if any build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones,
wood, hay, stubble :

Every man's work shall be made manifest ; for the day shall
declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire ; and the fire shall try
every man's work of what sort it is.

If any man's work abide which he hath built thereon, he shall
receive a reward.

If any man's work shall be burned, he shall sufter loss: but he
himself shall be saved ; yet so as by fire.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of
(iod dwelleth in you ?

If any man d'ifile the temple of God, him shall God destroy ; for
the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

How would you understand a passage like that without
getting this mystery in your mind ? And how could yoU

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understand the beautiful spiritual lesson taught without a
Ivnowledge of the material ?

Let us feel as the following Masonic poem expresses it ;

O Thou Clreat Architect ! whose laws
Supremely move effect and cause,
Through whom the seasons go and conu-.
() I try our actions by the Plniiih.

Admonish us upright to walk,
To live, to work, to act, to talk ;
So may our lives with Thine aj<ree,
And ever on the Level be.

Teach us our every path to guide.
That we may never turn aside ;
Abroad, at home, and everywhere
To meet our Brother on the Square.

Pillar of fire by night to lead
Where most our neighbour stands in need
And with the Ark and Anchor prove
Our faith in Thee, to man our love.

Remind us, Lord, where'er we go
Through scenes of joy, or scenes of woe,
The lessons taught us by our art,
The sword upon the naked heart !

Perfect our life, so be our end,
To Thee may we by steps ascend.
By Thee to live, by Thee to die
Under Thine own " All-seeing Eye."

May I sa}', in closing, that the Masonic degrees stand
out to us in the whole compass of our existence. Life is
the apprentice time ; it is here we are taking our first
degree, when death comes we pass on to the second
degree, and through the resurrection we take our last and
third degree, and rest as saints with God.

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