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I'liorCSSIOXAL. MIL. LEE. D. M. RODMAN LEE & RODMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, No. 6 Court rinec, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY Will practice in .ill the Courts held in the City oj Louisville, in the Court of Ae:ils at Frankfurt, ami in the counties of liullitt, Spencer Shelby nml Oldham. Cullection promptly made nnd reniit- - aprl4-Cm- , JAMES P. HELM, Attorney at Law, E LIZ ABET UTO W X, K EXTUCK Y . Prompt attention given to all business entrus- ted to hid care. JAMES C. POSTOIT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELIZAB KTIITOWN K EXTUCK Y. Frompt attention paid to business entrusted to by care. March I MM. n. READ, J. MATTIIIS. lluilgcnvillu, Ivy. Eliz ibethtown, Ky. READ & MATTIIIS. Attorneys at Law, ELIZABETIITOWN, KENTUCKY. the iranlin Cii'.'u'. Lttit'-t- . Meh;j-t- f. M. II. Cofer. M. II. Marriott COFER & MARRIOTT, Attorneys at Law, EL IZA BE Til TO YN, KENTUCK Y. 'Will practice in all the Courts of Hardin county. TIM. NEEDHAm! Attorney at Law, ELIZABETIITOWN, KENTUCKY. After eleven months absence in the city of Louisville, as editor of the Kentucky .Templar, I have returned to this place to resume perma nently the practice of Law A renewal of pat- ronage is respectfully solicited, and promise faith- fulness and promptness in the collection of claims and the transaction of business, no!7 ly Wai. Wilson. Turner Wilson WILSON & WILSON, Attorneys at Law, ELIZABETIITO WX, K EXTUCK Y. Strict attention given to all business entrusted to them. J. W.MA TTHIS , Attorney at Law, ELIZABETIITOWN, K EXTUCK Y. Will practice in Hardin nnd adjoining countio nd in Court of Appeals. gS Prompl attention given to collections. A. M. BROWN. ROB T D MURRAY. BROWN & MURRAY, Attorneys;. 1 Iaw AND Notaries Public. Office Public Square, oppo- site Eagle House, Elizabcthtown, Ky. Practice in Hardin and adjoining Counties. Prompt attention given to collection of debts. WILL. F . BELL, Attorney at Law, ELIZABETIITO WX, KENTUCKY. Will practice in the Circuit Courts of Hardin, Hart nnd Larue. $J5"Col ections proinpt'y made and remitted DR. R. P. McMURTRY, Physician, ELIZABETIITO WX, KENTUCK Y. OFFICE on the Northeast side of the Public Square. D:R. E. W AR FIELD, ELIZABETIITOWN, KENTUCKY. Tenders his professional services to the citizens of Hardin County. Office at G. V. JlaUhis .t Co's Drug Store.. al2:ly. Dr. SAM. ANDERSON, Jr. Physician and Surgeon, ELIZABETIITOWN, KENTUCKY. Office in East corner Public Square whero he will btall times be found, unless j'rofession al- ly absent. al2:ly. tiftlTSSTRY. gjrme Would inform the citizens generally fTf t'iat e UIS 'OCfltc in Elizabethtown tijrt X f ftn ls prepared to do all kinds of jnochanical and operative dentistry, artificial teeth if surpassing beauty inserted from one to sin set, at favorable prices. Teeth filled wfch lino Gold, so a3 to entirely arrest the progress of decay, irregularities of the teeth successfully trca,- - ed, provided the treatment is instituted prior to yuiberty. Office ou Main Cross Street, over Cisel 4.t Slack's. Apr7-6- EAGLE HOUSE, North-Ea- corner Public Square, ELIZABETIITOWN, KENTUCKY Proprietor. The BAR i supplied with the best of Liquors, Cigars and Tobacco. Feb.lT-Gm- . Market St. Architectural Foundry AND IRON WORKS. SNEAD&CO., Market Street, bet.. Eighth aad.Xinth,. Louisville, Kentucky. Aug.20-ly- . iff , m i 19 VOLUME I.) '3s AN ADDRESS BEMVEBEI) BY SASIUKIi 3IMMOXM AT A MAWXIC CHLEB!5AT!()N HfU.I) ONT ST. JOHN'S DAY, JUXH 2 mi, i.:o. at ttu: pa imx j,u ct SPlilXGS, NE.4U SIIKPJIEKDS-V- I LLC, KV. To the Brethren, Friendly Greeting; to the friends, both Ladies and Gentle- men, welcome to a reception, not of and feasting, but to the meeting of the mystic brethren whose noble call- ing is the amelioration of mankind; for our meeting is on the Level, our action on the riunib, and our parting ou the Square. Our Order, though mystic in its operations, is no covenant with Satan, no bague with hell. Grand in its con- ception, noble in its operation, and beau- tiful in its application, it has no cause to blush iu its origin, having Wisdom, Strength and Beauty as supports, and purpose of aption, when understood, to cause the admiration of the high and the low, the rich and the poor. From the brilliant sky of intelligence and the re- fulgent lights of civilization , it has passed into the darkness and gloom of super- stition, unaffected, unalloyed, refusing the commingling of its precious truths and difine sentiments with the wicked- ness of the world and the falsehood of each age; and y the whispering messages are received aud given as when the Masonio Eye can Bee her Kings iu tho Orient, iu generations by these friends forgotten. She has no cause to blush for inipotency of actinn, for, like the stalwart oak of the forest, majestic iu bearing and lofty in action, she is the wonder and the admiration of the world. Her operation is as universal as her bans are perpetual, piercing depth, penetrat- ing space, and overshadowing immensity. She ha3 no cause to blush for her mem- bership, iu that Kings and Potentates have bowed where tho publican aud poor way-farin- g man, whose light is dark- ness, 'are wont to go. Crowned heads have been unsceptcrcd, measured by the plumb, and put within the quarrys, hon- ored by the fellowship of the brethren, and exalted for their noble doings. Gi- gantic intellects have beeu made noblo stones and fit ornaments for the build- ers' use. Behold here rough ashlars, taken from the mountain quarries, no mean subjects of our order. In addressing you on this occasion, at tho request of the brethren, it is not pre- sumed, neither is it neccssa'y, that 1 should, in the necessarily short time al- lotted to me, enter into the minutia of the grand conceptions, grand operations, and grand developments of Free Masonry. Every masonic mind looks with pleasure and delight to her historic lore, and their hearts are made glad at her pro- gressive steps in each successive ago and generation. We shall in our feeble manner notice first, and negatively, that Masonary is not a political organization; secondly, and negatively, that it does not claim to be a christian organization; and thirdly, what Masonry is, and what it claims to be. When we fay Masonry is not a polit- ical organization, we mean by this, in contrasting the order with government it partakes not of its nature. True we have government in the constitution of cur lodges, in the election of its officers, and the regulation of its affairs; but we havo law in its grand conception, a rule of action as immutable and unchange- able ns the fiat of Jehovah, or tho laws of nalure. J'olitieal organizations are despot'c, as in Turkey, where the Sultan exercises all tho powers of sovereignty; are monarchical, as Austria, Prussia, and England, aud are republican, as the United States, former Athens, Venice, and Genoa. Masonry has her existence and identity in all of these. Yes, we have landmarks by which we stand and which are not subject to mutability by the whims and caprices of men and leg- islators. Its decrees are submissive to the political laws in which it has its po- litical being, teaching great fundametal truths, thereby giving unto Cresar what belongeth to him, reserving those moral canons that no government can interfere with. As an incontrovertible evidence that it is not a body politic, with polit- ical intentions and aims, as a corporal body it has no with politi- cal orders in the policy or expediency of government; and, liko the church, stands separate and apart. To illustrate: What may be a crime, or a violation of duties belonging to society, or duties belonging to individuals, may not be a violation of duties of Masons, and "vice versa." Crime is a political term, signifying not a moral wrong, but a legal wrong. In- temperance and falsehood are Masonic prohibitions, but not crimes under tho political laws. So, many crimes are not Masonic wrongs; but there are none here who would confound the two or imagine that a political organization could remain in harmony and unity more than two thousand years. Secondly, we uotiee "that Masonry claims no church authority and is no Christian organization." Immemorially Masonry has been erected to God, and christians have dedicated and hold it forth in memory of the Holy Johns, the Bartist and the Evangelist. Jews have held it in honor of Solomon. There have been but three divine religious dis- pensations iu the world since Adam and Eve, arm in arm, wandered in the Para- disical garden: the Patriarchal, the Jew- ish, and the Christian; and these three divine developments of roligion all con- centrate themselves upon the fact that Jesus roso from the dead, ascended to heaven, and was there received as the sou of God. (- - 11 b f ELIZABETIITOWN, KY.. THURSDAY, JULY U, 1S70. We would dwell upon the difference- - of the two, Masonry nnd the church, bo cause so many charge that we claim appointment and divine organiza- tion. We wish to show in establishing the Jewi.-- h religion, and Christia p, we can have no claim to cither (although ty- pical of the latter and representative of the former.) Then, first, As evidence of the truth of the Jewish religion, only one postu-latun- i is required, and that is, that relig- ion is predicated upon matter of fact, not conjecture or opinion. This boiiig true, if the fact upon which it is predicated be true, then, logically reasoning, tho religion must bo true. Wc will have re- spect to the Jewish, i'jr i.i that dispensa- tion it is said Masonry became specul- ates upon an operative system. The fact upon which this religion is predicated are these: It is recorded that in the days of Moses the children of Is-r- amounted to six hundred thousand fighting men; that they passed out of Egypt and walked through the Red sea, reached Mt. Sinai, and there saw the visible manifestations of God; that they heard his voice proclaiming the decalogue; that they were fed with manna in the wilderness forty years; that they had a pillar of fire by night to guide them, and a cloud by day; that they drank limpid water from a rock of flint smitten by the rod of Moses, and that they passed through tho river Jor- dan as on dry land. I have hastened over these facts hjstory records, and within the Bible you have read them. Xow if these facts be true, and proven so, the religion upon which is predicated is also truo. We have the testimony of the Bible, which ail should admit as ad- missible, but we would address the in- credulous as to church and Masonry and prove to them, outside ot divine revela- tion, not diroctly tho existence of a Su preme Being, but the authenticity of the Scriptures, which teach us of the Father and of the Son. We return to hasten the proof of the facts stated above, and iu order to prove them we must lay "down certain criteria by which we are enabled to decide with out doubt or uncertainty all questions of historic fact. Were it not for these cri- teria by which we are enabled to appre- ciate the value of testimony, we would, iu the ordinary intercourse ot society, be liable to constant deception, inasmuch as tho cousciencious speaking of the truth is not the distinguishing virtue of the pres- ent age; and before we accept as truth every doctrine taught by men, we should test its verity and prove its dictum, wo will iu this instance be governed by the injunction: These criteria are various, but whenever there is a perfect consistency and accordance between the fact reported and tho testimony adduced to prove it, conviction of the verity of that fact ne- cessarily follows. The facts under con- sideration are encrusted with the vonor-abl- e rust of antiquity a rust that has been accumulating for four thousand years. It will be our purpose therefore to establish the criteria which will satisfac- torily demonstrate as true, facts report- ed to have occurred four thousand years ago. Some author has resolved thein in- to four particulars, and as follows: First, The facts relied upon were sensi- ble; secondly. They were facts of remark- able notoriety; thirdly, There now exists standing monuments in perpetual com- memoration of these fact, aud Fourthly, These comme-jaora'iv- e attestations have continued from the very period in which the facts transpired up to the present time. This criteria, when appliej, pro- duces salutary effects. Wo have said that six hundred thousand men are said to have walked through the lied sea as on dry land. In consequence of the rod of Moses being extended over it, the Egyptians, following, were drowned, while they on the opposite sJioro looked on and beheld it all. Was not this a sensible fact? Yrct another to embrace the first particular criteria: In tho same history, the night preceding this depar- ture of the Israelites out of tho land of Egyptian bondage, you remember the plagues sent upon Egypt that Pharaoh might relent, that tho children of Abra- ham might go. In vain was the visita- tion of Jehovah's wrath until at last the Angel ot Death, the pale horse of revela- tion, passed over the fertile plains and crowded cities, taking the first-bor- n from each family. Tho lamentation and des- olation of that Empire makes it sensible indeed. Were these sensible facts pub- licly exhibited, and facts of remarkable notoriety, in open day and in tho pres- ence of witnesses? When the monsoon of death plucked the idol of your house- hold and gloom came within, could sun- shine ever erase it from your memory, and drive it from tho paths of retrospec- tion? Every one who has knowledge of these events know that Egypt, when this occurred, was the realm of letters and the Empire of enlightenment, and that Pharaoh's court was crowded with statesmen aud scholars learned in the arts and sciences. Yea, publicly wit ncssed by no laggards, but by the wis- dom of the world. Are there any com- memorative institutions now existing in attestation of these sensible and public facts? The Masonic mind delights iu the evidences thereof, for in its proof lies the truth of the Order; though a science of morality, 'tis developed and inculcated by the ancient method of symbolism which we shall notice in its order. We aflirm that there are commemorative in- stitutions attesting this fact. Notwith- standing all the mighty Empires of an- tiquity which once Uourished in history aud in their respective turns controlled the temporal destinies of tho world, have sunk. cue by ouo iuto Uubt; (the Jewish I if A . STEP nation exists to this day);Tave so cruii. bled to atoms as to lea no trace behind tliein, not even a livii7; man who can claim within his veins lone drop of llo-ma- n or Grecian blood; whose continental language has become a conventional tongue; whose superiority aud priority, like Petra and jN'incvab, gone, gone. One nation yes, monumental nation of antiquity yet remains, who can trace their lineage to its source, and with monumental institutions evidence and prove thorn to bo tho legitimate seed of Abraham, and which stamp the seal of verity upon tho histori'- facts recorded of this people. Their f rcumeision and passover exists TVy'i aud last proposition we dOiLc7Tt7 .v.miOLhora-tive monuments, instituted simultane- ously with the transpiration of the facts to bo preserved and perpetuated, havo never been out of existence from that period up to the present hour. This can be at- tested by many proofs, one of which I will only mention here, and which will es- tablish the proof of 'the proposition af- firmed: Moses tells the Israelites on the night preceding their departure from the land of Egypt to take a lamb, to be called the Paschal lamb, to dress, prepare aud eat it in a peculiar manner. The festivalwas to be observed iu that night aud under circumstances calculated, ou every return of its anniversary, to excite the recollection of tho fee ings of the Jewish nation. This festival, you, who aro acquainted with this history, know was the celebration of the passiug over of the Angel of Death, sparing tho first- born to tho bosom of the mother, giving joy to the heart ot the lather, causing anguish, lamentation and bereavement to the Egyptian poople it was in honor of their exodus from servile slavery to glo- rious liberty. What must have been the feelings of their hearts when they knew that the God of their Fathers had done this, so that when the clouds of discom- fiture should hang over them, lest they should forget this great love, they are told on every anniversary of this festival to eat the passover with a strict observ- ance of all rites and circumstances. Cocsult the Rabbi of Iiv.c! and you find there has never been an interval, from that period to this, in which the anni- versary of the passover has not beeu sol- emnly celebrated. We could dwell longer in proof of these questions upon which hangs the symbolic teachings of our order, but the postulatuiu admitted, the criteria established by. which to prove any historic hct- - though encrusted with the age of antiquity, wo see tho only conclusion, tho truth of the Scriptures aud the verity of the Jewish religion, predicated and based upon the facts proven. With like reasoning and the ex parte testimony of Paul, and the facts that Jesus died, arose agcin, and ascend ed unto tho Father for the redemption of the world, and similar criteria, we could establish the truth of the Christian religion; but we wish your particular at- tention to the fact that Masonry docs not take hold of the first, and, in part, only prefigures the second, in that the tabernacle in the wilderness came after the deliverance of Israel and before the death of Christ, commemorative of the former, foreshadowing tho latter. That we have a commemorative institution w'ithiu the sanctum of our lodges, every Mason knows; that tho solemn striking of the bell points to Mt. Moriah, reach- ing to the Son of God in the resurrec- tion morn, every Mason feels. But we hasten: Masonry, as I have said before, is a science of morality developed and inculcated by the ancient method of sym- bolism. My Brethren, symbolism is dear unto us all. There is no science so ancient as this, and no mode of instruc- tion has ever been so universal as was the symbolic in former times. The wis- dom of the Chaldeans, Pheniciaus, Egyptians, Jews; of Zoroaster, Sancho-niatho- Pherecydes, Syrus, Pythagoras, Socrates, and Plato, of all the ancients that has come to our hands, is symbolic. The first religions were evidently sym- bolical, because, as the great philosophical historian, Grote, has remarked, at a time when language was yet in its infauey, visible symbols were the most viyid means of acting upon the minds of the ignorant hearers. Mor 'who was skilled in all the learning aud wisdom vof the Egyptians (which was symbolical), brought with him from tho cradlo of all the sciences a perfect knowledge of this science, as it was taught bytho Priests of Isis aud. Osiris, aud applied it to the ceremonies with which he invested the purer religion of the chosen people of God. Hence we learn from the Jewish historian that in constructing the taber- nacle, which gave the first model for the temple at Jerusalem, and afterwards for every Masonic lodge, he applied this principle of symbolism to every part of it. lie divided it into three parts to represent the three great elementary di- visions of tho Universe the land, the sea, and the air the first two accessible to tho priests and the people, symbolic of the land and the sea, which all men might inhabit; while tie third, or inte- rior division, the Holy of Holies, whose threshold no mortal dared to cross, and which was peculiarly consecrated to God, was emblematical of heaven, His dwell- ing. With the tabernacle tho Temple of King Solomon is closely connected the one was the archetype of tho other, and this magnificent Temple, with all its re- gal splendor, has become the type of the great Temple of God above, its courts and throuo symbolic of the Great White Throne and "Temple Courts of Heaven. We have endeavored to show that Ma- sonry, as an organisation, is neither po- litical or. Christian. We now return to the thoughts con nected with the objects of our present convocation Masonry and its profes- sions. A Free Mason is a man, free, born of a frco woman, a brother to kings, and a companion of princes, if they be Masons. The name which we hold, and wnich wc cherish, originated in the buil- ding of the Temple of Jerusalem. Our ancient brethren, who were employed by King Solomon to work: at this famous edifice, were declared free, and exempted from all imposts, duties, and taxes for thorn and their descendants. At the destruction of the Temple by Nebuehad-nezze- r the posterity of these Masons were carried into captivity by the Jews, but wheu tho ti tn .f their humiliation was expired, by I. - good will of Cy.u:. .hoy were permitted to erect a second Temple, being declared freo for that purpose. Hence we are called Free Masons. Far- ther, wc cannot accept as candidates auy but the sons of freo women. This dates its origin to a much earlier period, even from the time whou Abraham held a sol- emn festival at tho. weaning of his son Isaac. When Ishmael amused himself teasing tho young child, wo know how Sarah had him removed with Hagar the bond woman, saying they were not com- petent to inherit with the free born. She spake by divine inspirat'on, a she knew that. from Isaac's loins would spring a great and mighty people who would serve the Lord with freedom, fervency and zeal. And these two persons, Ish mael and Isaac, are typical of the law and the gospel, the one given by Moses and the other by Christ. Hence, we are ac- cepted Masons. This circumstance has been embodied in Free Masonry to show that although a pirson may have been born of . a free woman, ahhough he may have been made a Mason, and entitled to all the privileges of initiation, yet if he undervalues the privileges and neglects- to improve his mind by an application tion of the doctrines and precepts which he hears in the Lodge, instead of profit- ing by his freedom as Isaac did, he will be no better than a profane bond-slav- e like Ishm .el, who was cast out from his father's house as unworthy any show in the inheritance. It was by the same carelessness and inattention that the Jews forfeited tiieir freedom aud suffered their privileges to be transferred to others. By their wilful rejection of the Messiah they have been excluded from the cove- nant of Grrce; have taken tho place of the sons of slavery; havo been cast out of the vineyard of promise, and are aliens from the true Israel of God; In man there are threo ages: youth, manhood, and old age; in the adorable God-head- , three persons : Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and in Masonry there are threo degrees: the first representing the outer court of the Tabernacle of Moses, and the court of the Gentiles iu the Temple situated at Jerusalem, for in either case, the Tabernacle or the Temple, the could enter no farther. The rite or sacrament of baptism, which in- troduces the penitent intp the vau of the church, corresponding with the privilege that enabled a Jew to enter into the second division of the Taber- nacle, is represented by the degree of a Fellow Craft, which qualifies him to en- ter iuto the holyT place and be invested with tho highest honors and privileges of Masonry. It was denominated by Paul a worldly sanctuary, aud therefore at this step of your progress you become eligible for instruction in worldly knowl- edge and receive the rudiments of scien- tific acquirements. But it is only when a Masou has been raised to the third and sublime degree that ho can form an ac- curate judgment of the real tendency of our mysterious association. Up to this point all has been preliminary and con- sequently, superficial. But now the whole scheme of Masonry becomes re- vealed to the enlightened eye of the Mas- ter Mason. Like the High Priest of Is- rael entering the Sanctum Sanctorum of the Tabernacle and Temple, ho beholds with steady gaze the Shekinah of Glory; tike the perfect Christian admitted to communion with his God and Saviour, he enters the church Triumphant and beholds insuperable things which it is not lawful for him to reveal, and like Paul in the third heaven, he hears unspeak- able words which to utter would he death. Speculative Masonry, which is but ano- ther name for Free Masonry, in its mod- ern acceptation, is technically and brief ly defined as tho application, or, perhaps more worthily, expressed, tho religious consecration of the rules and principles, the language and implements of opera- tive Masonry to the veneration of God, the purification of the heart, and the preservation of certain profound dogmas of mystical philosophy. Bearing in mind that speculative or modern Free Masonry dates its origin from the build- ing of King Solomon's Temple by Jew- ish and Tyrian artisans, the first impor- tant fact that attracts our attention is that the operative Masons at Jerusalem were engaged in tho construction of an earth- ly and material Temple to be dedicated to tho service 'and worship of- - God, a house in which Jehovah was to dwell visibly by his Shekinah, and whence he was by the Urim and Thummim to send forth His oracles; now, tho operative art having for us csased, we, as speculative Masons, symbolize the labors of our pre- decessors by engaging in the construction of a moral temple in cur hearts, dedicated to the honor of Him who is tho author of purity, and whence every evil thought and unruly passion should bo banished as tho sinner and, the Gentile wero ex- cluded from the sauctuary of the Jewish templo. As Masons we have three vir- tues, Faith, Hope and Charity. This is the theological ladder w hich Jacob in his vi-i- w.w, reaching up into heaven, NUMBER 48 ' and admonishes us to have faith iu God, hope of immortality aud charity to all maukind. This part of our system has the Holy Bible for its basis; Faith, Hope and Charity for its supporters; Jehovah for its President, and lieuven for its end. Tho true Masonic Philosopher sees in all things an ever present Deity as the gov- ernor and director of those magnificent works which proceeded from His hand, all guided by the celestial dictates of these theological virtues. If the trees .of the field bud and blossom under the in- fluence of a genial sun; if tho teeming earth is irrigated with geutle showers; "If fleecy flock the hills a.lorn . Ami valley smile with wavy corn;" it is the h;..r jd ordinate., c.f a benign Divinity: if the great ruler of the day rie in the morning to call tho inhabi- tants of tho earth from their slumbers and commence their labors; if the ruler of the night move majestically through the heavens, partially enlightening the darkness with her "silver light; if the stars and the phnets with which the firmament is studded like an azureicano-p- y charged with sparkling knobs of burnished gold, pursue their accustomed courses, century after ccutury, without the slightest deviation, it is to display the power and gooduess of the great Ar- chitect and His provident care, in maki ng all the works of the creation subservient to ono object the comfort and happi- ness of His creatures; aud wo ought rev- erentially to bow tho knee and with our ancient Grand Master, King Solomon, exclaim, "Lord, what is man that Thou art mindful of him, or the son of mrn that Thou visitest him." Wo might with pleasure talk of the threo great lights of Masonry, the Bible, the Squaro, aud the Compasses, but tinie.hurries us on. Masonry has no principle but what might still more ornament tho purest mind, nor any appendage but what might giv3 additional lustre to tho brightest character. By the exercise of tho duties of Masonry the rich may add abundantly to the fund of their eternal inheritance; the wise may increaso their knowledge of the nature of God iu all His best per- fections and thereby daily grow still more wiso unto eternal salvation; the puie in heart may be always advancing in the divine likeness, and they who walk in this path of the just, with zeal aud activity, will find it'as tho shining light which shineth more and more unto the perlect day. Whilo we have showed that Masonry is neither a political or christian organ.iza.lion, we havo also en- deavored to prove it not merely a moral edifice, for every degree throw light on the nature and attributes of the true God. The preservation of His name is its great- est honor; the promulgation of truth its greatest glory. It claims but one book out of all the libraries of the world, that book is the Holy Bible. This will re- move wonder that a society whose secrets, neither Papal tortures, Spanish Inquisi- tions, despotic powers, riches nor elo- quence could eyer penetrate, has been preserved so many centuries, and is per- petually increasing. The reflection is solemn to a thoughtful mind. Mysteri- ous characters are traced in the Inner Chamber, and the light of day shines upon them, and they arc the name of God in whom we live,, move and have our being. For many ages we held the keys of knowledge while the Barbarians were desolating everything that was fair and beautiful iu society, aud Masonry is probably destined to be one of the, mighty instruments in tho hands of Providence, to spread the sacred word among all na- tions who know not God and whose ig- norance has a claim on tho children of humanity. Under the blessings cf a good government and beneath the broad light of Christianity, wc little know the sufferings of a large portion ot our race in remote coun- tries. Tho funeral fire that consumes some widowed mourner, still burns on the banks of the Gauges; the unhallowed Turk still pollutes the holy laud of Pal- estine; the dark African still looks to hoiven iu the agony of despair, and there are multitudes who live in wretchedness, without comf'ji't or hope hereafter, while the great Masonic family aro bound to diffuse that light which cheers all that see it and carries gladness in every ray. Whatever opinions may be entertained on the subject of ovangelizing the multi-tudiuou- s nations of Asia, and circulating the sacred word through their wide aud sorrowful dominions; whatever may be thought of those innumerable societies, actuated as by a divine impulse in this grand and holy object, yet, ought not Masons to take a deep interest in the restoration of that ancient realm of our Hebrew brethren whence all our light first dawned to peace, to comfort, and to joy. Tho mountains of Lebanon where the ftones wore hewn, squared and num- bered; the heights of Joppa where thi materials for the building were conveyed; the Mount of Moriah where the Temple of Solomon was erected; the garden of Gethsemane, whero lay tho sepulchre of our Lord and Master; tho villages of Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Bethany; the sea of Galileo, and the river of Jordan; all these spots arc still existing, rendered dear to every Mason by a thousand asso ciations: and tho land of Palestine is still beautiful as ever, but whero are the gen- erations that ouco were there beholding the star in the East, and receiving the glad tidings from above, and listening to tho voice of our beloved and departed brother, John the Baptist (cruelly be- headed by tho treacherous Herc4 at the blood thirsty request of ti.o daughter) wdioso festival wo this day celebrate? The ruins of Jerusalem will answer. Deep dark net's oviTsliad.,,'s their m!ler-ily- , a sorrowful people tr-- ; uv ailing the hour of deliverance. Though the time when Jehovah will gather together the scattered Israelites we know cot ;, though the prophesies are unsearchable and can only be understood in their fulfillment, yet, the melioration of their lot, who cling to 'the beloved fields of Palestine, may bo effected by a diffusion of light, and knowledge once more a'mong them, and is it unreasonable to suppose that Masonry might again cheer up'the heart, of sorrow in that unhappy region to which the Eastern realm of a new world now owes their joyous day? We might speak of the Four Cardicr.1 Virtues, Temperance, Fortitude, Pru- dence and Justice; we might talk to you of the Bibb;, Square, and Compasses, and many privileges belonging unto us as ail order, but we close our remarks with Charily an apple of "old basketed iu silver, a di; imond chanceled with rubies, ail opal clustered with pearls, for when Faith hath changed to sight and Hope to fruition, Charity goeth to the end of tim When harps have chanted a requic over 'lenarteu i aitu and Hope, .an choristers shall attend Charity in c less ages thereafter. lis tho Star to our noble order. Faith first, Hope is a concomitant and f( but greater than all is Charity. I. the brethren and kindness to all kind; fear God and keep his coi incuts is tit whole d':'y of lie ,;. I he a, in bibti.rcij, lei us nut on breast-plat- o of Faith, the armor of Hope, and tho helmet of Charity, going about doing good, that our works redounding to the honor of the order may evidence likeness unto divine morality, thatothers may feel and know that our callingis good, that our order is noble. Let us be among those who are working the amelioration of mankind, not only where the ds-w- of righteousness ascend, where the light of civilization exists, where the Bible, the inestimable gift of God to man, can be found, but also iu the secluded shades of Hindoo, iu tho pestiferous groves of Af- rica, and in the Mohamedan regions o Asia. No longer the Koran should tako upon its unconsecrated pages the Imple- ments of our order.. So longer should the land of Solomon's wisdom, our Grand "aster, bo travailing in sorrow, lament- ing in darkness; but let us with banners upon every breeze herald the speedy ap- proach of light from whence darkncs3 doth depart; let our names be iu the mouths of babes a synonym oPswectucss and of gladness; let no widow's cry came up as a memorial against us; no orphan ask and receive no bread. Finally, ho- of one mind; live in charity to all mankind, and especially the brethren, the house- hold of the faithful. Muti imonal. Married pcOlo vrill please read as written. Single ones can read the llrst line, then iiie third, then the second, and finally the fourth in each verse:. That man must lead a happy life, Who's freed from matrimonial chains, Who is directed hy his wife, Is suro to sutler for his pains. Adam could find no solid peace When Eve was giveo for a mate; Until ho saw a woman's face Adam was in a happy stato. In all the female face appears Hypocrisy, deceit and pridcl Truth, darlin-.- ' of a heart sincere, Ne'er known in woman to reside. AVhat tonge is able to unfold The fahchood that in woman dwells; The worth in woman we behoid Id lulmost imperceptible. Cursed he the foolish thiCj, I say, Who changes from his singleness; Who will not yield to woman's sway Is sure of perfect blessedness. Cutting Hay. Many planters in gathering hay let it lie in the field until it is entirely dry. To accomplish this, it i8 usually exposed, night after night to heavy dews, and not infrequently to rains, which greatly in- jure tire appearame as well as the qual- ity of tho hay. The proper way to cure hay is to cut it early in the morning, aud spead it carefully over the ground; turn- ing it up to the sun aud wind onco or twice during the day with a raks or fork, aud hauling it under shelter just before night. If the sun is bright, almost any hay will be sufficiently cured in a single day to keep, and it will be bright in color, and much moro palatable to the stock, as well as more nutricious than when deadened by two or three days ex- posure. In putting it away, arrange- ments should be made to spread the cut- ting of each day over a covered mow pen, to tho depth of one or two feet, and sprinkle salt freely over it. It is well to have two or three pens for depositing the hay, so that each day's cutting may in two or three days before more is add- ed to it. This precaution is not neces- sary whero tho grass is mown in thi morning, and has ouo bright sun upon it. Watering l.ocumoiivcs Fast trains ou railroads can only Lc .. run when the stoppages to take in.wter,,-ar- at long intervals. One of the Eng-.- . lish methods of feeding locomotives is very effective, and is about bebg intro- duced iu this country. At tho Mojitrese station the Hudson river, railroad has. laid down in. the center of the track a perfectly straight' trough', lined with pointed sheet -- iron, 1,200 feet long, 15 inches deep,' .and IS inches wide. This trough, holding 10,000 gallons, constantly supplied with water- from e4 spring. To tho tender of the loeomo- - tive between the hind trucks is attached a semi-circula- r pipe, with a no'zalo so arranged as to drop down iutq the trough at the will of tho engineer. The nozzle is directed towards tho point tho iocoT. motive is going and sinks to a depth of two inches in the trough. It is stated that when the train is running at, tho, rate of" thirty miles an hour, and nozzle is dropped in the rough, l.G.'fl gallons oi water will be forced iuto the tender before the entire length of. th.i trough has- been passed over. JO"J)aniel WcUtcr ohco-sti- "If we work upon marble it will perish; if upon brass, timo will efface il; if wo i car tem- ples they will crumble into dust: but if wo work upon our immortal minds if, we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and! h.ve of our fellow-me- n we engrave on those tablets .some thing w Inch, u JI br.ighleu. .'nro.;,'h. cUmitv." a

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MIL. LEE. D. M. RODMAN

LEE & RODMAN,ATTORNEYS AT LAW,

No. 6 Court rinec, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKYWill practice in .ill the Courts held in the City oj

Louisville, in the Court of Ae:ils at Frankfurt,ami in the counties of liullitt, Spencer Shelby nmlOldham. Cullection promptly made nnd reniit- -

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MM. n. READ, J. MATTIIIS.lluilgcnvillu, Ivy. Eliz ibethtown, Ky.

READ & MATTIIIS.Attorneys at Law,

ELIZABETIITOWN, KENTUCKY.the iranlin

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M. II. Cofer. M. II. MarriottCOFER & MARRIOTT,

Attorneys at Law,EL IZA BE Til TO YN, KENTUCK Y.

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TIM. NEEDHAm!Attorney at Law,

ELIZABETIITOWN, KENTUCKY.After eleven months absence in the city of

Louisville, as editor of the Kentucky .Templar,I have returned to this place to resume permanently the practice of Law A renewal of pat-ronage is respectfully solicited, and promise faith-fulness and promptness in the collection of claimsand the transaction of business, no!7 ly

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ELIZABETIITO WX, K EXTUCK Y.

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Attorney at Law,ELIZABETIITOWN, K EXTUCK Y.

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AND

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set, at favorable prices. Teeth filled wfchlino Gold, so a3 to entirely arrest the progress ofdecay, irregularities of the teeth successfully trca,- -ed, provided the treatment is instituted prior to

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VOLUME I.)

'3sAN ADDRESS

BEMVEBEI) BY SASIUKIi 3IMMOXMAT A MAWXIC CHLEB!5AT!()NHfU.I) ONT ST. JOHN'S DAY, JUXH2 mi, i.:o. at ttu: pa imx j,u ctSPlilXGS, NE.4U SIIKPJIEKDS-V- I

LLC, KV.

To the Brethren, Friendly Greeting;to the friends, both Ladies and Gentle-men, welcome to a reception, not of

and feasting, but to the meetingof the mystic brethren whose noble call-

ing is the amelioration of mankind; forour meeting is on the Level, our actionon the riunib, and our parting ou theSquare. Our Order, though mystic inits operations, is no covenant with Satan,no bague with hell. Grand in its con-

ception, noble in its operation, and beau-

tiful in its application, it has no cause toblush iu its origin, having Wisdom,Strength and Beauty as supports, andpurpose of aption, when understood, tocause the admiration of the high and thelow, the rich and the poor. From thebrilliant sky of intelligence and the re-

fulgent lights of civilization , it has passedinto the darkness and gloom of super-stition, unaffected, unalloyed, refusingthe commingling of its precious truthsand difine sentiments with the wicked-ness of the world and the falsehood ofeach age; and y the whisperingmessages are received aud given as whenthe Masonio Eye can Bee her Kings iutho Orient, iu generations by thesefriends forgotten. She has no cause toblush for inipotency of actinn, for, likethe stalwart oak of the forest, majestic iubearing and lofty in action, she is thewonder and the admiration of the world.Her operation is as universal as her bansare perpetual, piercing depth, penetrat-ing space, and overshadowing immensity.She ha3 no cause to blush for her mem-bership, iu that Kings and Potentateshave bowed where tho publican aud poorway-farin- g man, whose light is dark-ness, 'are wont to go. Crowned heads havebeen unsceptcrcd, measured by theplumb, and put within the quarrys, hon-

ored by the fellowship of the brethren,and exalted for their noble doings. Gi-

gantic intellects have beeu made noblostones and fit ornaments for the build-ers' use. Behold here rough ashlars,taken from the mountain quarries, nomean subjects of our order.

In addressing you on this occasion, attho request of the brethren, it is not pre-sumed, neither is it neccssa'y, that 1

should, in the necessarily short time al-

lotted to me, enter into the minutia of thegrand conceptions, grand operations, andgrand developments of Free Masonry.Every masonic mind looks with pleasureand delight to her historic lore, andtheir hearts are made glad at her pro-

gressive steps in each successive ago andgeneration. We shall in our feeblemanner notice first, and negatively, thatMasonary is not a political organization;secondly, and negatively, that it doesnot claim to be a christian organization;and thirdly, what Masonry is, and whatit claims to be.

When we fay Masonry is not a polit-ical organization, we mean by this, incontrasting the order with governmentit partakes not of its nature. True wehave government in the constitution ofcur lodges, in the election of its officers,and the regulation of its affairs; but wehavo law in its grand conception, a ruleof action as immutable and unchange-able ns the fiat of Jehovah, or tho lawsof nalure. J'olitieal organizations aredespot'c, as in Turkey, where the Sultanexercises all tho powers of sovereignty;are monarchical, as Austria, Prussia,and England, aud are republican, as theUnited States, former Athens, Venice,and Genoa. Masonry has her existenceand identity in all of these. Yes, wehave landmarks by which we stand andwhich are not subject to mutability bythe whims and caprices of men and leg-

islators. Its decrees are submissive tothe political laws in which it has its po-

litical being, teaching great fundametaltruths, thereby giving unto Cresar whatbelongeth to him, reserving those moralcanons that no government can interferewith. As an incontrovertible evidencethat it is not a body politic, with polit-ical intentions and aims, as a corporalbody it has no with politi-cal orders in the policy or expediency ofgovernment; and, liko the church, standsseparate and apart. To illustrate: Whatmay be a crime, or a violation of dutiesbelonging to society, or duties belongingto individuals, may not be a violation ofduties of Masons, and "vice versa."Crime is a political term, signifying nota moral wrong, but a legal wrong. In-

temperance and falsehood are Masonicprohibitions, but not crimes undertho political laws. So, many crimesare not Masonic wrongs; but there arenone here who would confound the twoor imagine that a political organizationcould remain in harmony and unitymore than two thousand years.

Secondly, we uotiee "that Masonryclaims no church authority and is noChristian organization." ImmemoriallyMasonry has been erected to God, andchristians have dedicated and hold itforth in memory of the Holy Johns, theBartist and the Evangelist. Jews haveheld it in honor of Solomon. Therehave been but three divine religious dis-

pensations iu the world since Adam andEve, arm in arm, wandered in the Para-disical garden: the Patriarchal, the Jew-

ish, and the Christian; and these threedivine developments of roligion all con-

centrate themselves upon the fact thatJesus roso from the dead, ascended toheaven, and was there received as thesou of God.

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ELIZABETIITOWN, KY.. THURSDAY, JULY U, 1S70.

We would dwell upon the difference- -

of the two, Masonry nnd the church, bocause so many charge that we claim

appointment and divine organiza-tion. We wish to show in establishingthe Jewi.-- h religion, and Christia p, wecan have no claim to cither (although ty-

pical of the latter and representative ofthe former.)

Then, first, As evidence of the truthof the Jewish religion, only one postu-latun- i

is required, and that is, that relig-ion is predicated upon matter of fact, notconjecture or opinion. This boiiig true,if the fact upon which it is predicatedbe true, then, logically reasoning, thoreligion must bo true. Wc will have re-

spect to the Jewish, i'jr i.i that dispensa-tion it is said Masonry became specul-ates upon an operative system.

The fact upon which this religion ispredicated are these: It is recorded thatin the days of Moses the children of Is-r-

amounted to six hundred thousandfighting men; that they passed out ofEgypt and walked through the Red sea,reached Mt. Sinai, and there saw thevisible manifestations of God; thatthey heard his voice proclaiming thedecalogue; that they were fed withmanna in the wilderness forty years;that they had a pillar of fire by night toguide them, and a cloud by day; thatthey drank limpid water from a rock offlint smitten by the rod of Moses, andthat they passed through tho river Jor-dan as on dry land. I have hastenedover these facts hjstory records, andwithin the Bible you have read them.Xow if these facts be true, and proven so,the religion upon which is predicated isalso truo. We have the testimony ofthe Bible, which ail should admit as ad-

missible, but we would address the in-

credulous as to church and Masonry andprove to them, outside ot divine revela-tion, not diroctly tho existence of a Supreme Being, but the authenticity of theScriptures, which teach us of the Fatherand of the Son.

We return to hasten the proof of thefacts stated above, and iu order to provethem we must lay "down certain criteriaby which we are enabled to decide without doubt or uncertainty all questions ofhistoric fact. Were it not for these cri-

teria by which we are enabled to appre-ciate the value of testimony, we would,iu the ordinary intercourse ot society, beliable to constant deception, inasmuch astho cousciencious speaking of the truth isnot the distinguishing virtue of the pres-ent age; and before we accept as truthevery doctrine taught by men, we shouldtest its verity and prove its dictum, wowill iu this instance be governed by theinjunction: These criteria are various, butwhenever there is a perfect consistencyand accordance between the fact reportedand tho testimony adduced to prove it,conviction of the verity of that fact ne-

cessarily follows. The facts under con-sideration are encrusted with the vonor-abl- e

rust of antiquity a rust that hasbeen accumulating for four thousandyears. It will be our purpose therefore toestablish the criteria which will satisfac-torily demonstrate as true, facts report-ed to have occurred four thousand yearsago. Some author has resolved thein in-

to four particulars, and as follows:First, The facts relied upon were sensi-

ble; secondly. They were facts of remark-able notoriety; thirdly, There now existsstanding monuments in perpetual com-memoration of these fact, aud Fourthly,These comme-jaora'iv- e attestations havecontinued from the very period in whichthe facts transpired up to the presenttime. This criteria, when appliej, pro-duces salutary effects. Wo have saidthat six hundred thousand men are saidto have walked through the lied sea ason dry land. In consequence of the rodof Moses being extended over it, theEgyptians, following, were drowned,while they on the opposite sJioro lookedon and beheld it all. Was not this asensible fact? Yrct another to embracethe first particular criteria: In tho samehistory, the night preceding this depar-ture of the Israelites out of tho land ofEgyptian bondage, you remember theplagues sent upon Egypt that Pharaohmight relent, that tho children of Abra-ham might go. In vain was the visita-

tion of Jehovah's wrath until at last theAngel ot Death, the pale horse of revela-tion, passed over the fertile plains andcrowded cities, taking the first-bor- n fromeach family. Tho lamentation and des-

olation of that Empire makes it sensibleindeed. Were these sensible facts pub-licly exhibited, and facts of remarkablenotoriety, in open day and in tho pres-ence of witnesses? When the monsoonof death plucked the idol of your house-

hold and gloom came within, could sun-shine ever erase it from your memory,and drive it from tho paths of retrospec-tion? Every one who has knowledge ofthese events know that Egypt, whenthis occurred, was the realm of lettersand the Empire of enlightenment, andthat Pharaoh's court was crowded withstatesmen aud scholars learned in thearts and sciences. Yea, publicly witncssed by no laggards, but by the wis-

dom of the world. Are there any com-

memorative institutions now existing inattestation of these sensible and publicfacts? The Masonic mind delights iuthe evidences thereof, for in its proof liesthe truth of the Order; though a scienceof morality, 'tis developed and inculcatedby the ancient method of symbolismwhich we shall notice in its order. Weaflirm that there are commemorative in-

stitutions attesting this fact. Notwith-standing all the mighty Empires of an-

tiquity which once Uourished in historyaud in their respective turns controlledthe temporal destinies of tho world, havesunk. cue by ouo iuto Uubt; (the Jewish

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nation exists to this day);Tave so cruii.bled to atoms as to lea no trace behindtliein, not even a livii7; man who canclaim within his veins lone drop of llo-ma- n

or Grecian blood; whose continentallanguage has become a conventionaltongue; whose superiority aud priority,like Petra and jN'incvab, gone, gone.One nation yes, monumental nationof antiquity yet remains, who can tracetheir lineage to its source, and withmonumental institutions evidence andprove thorn to bo tho legitimate seed ofAbraham, and which stamp the seal ofverity upon tho histori'- facts recordedof this people. Their f rcumeision andpassover exists TVy'i aud lastproposition we dOiLc7Tt7 .v.miOLhora-tive

monuments, instituted simultane-ously with the transpiration of the facts tobo preserved and perpetuated, havo neverbeen out of existence from that periodup to the present hour. This can be at-

tested by many proofs, one of which Iwill only mention here, and which will es-

tablish the proof of 'the proposition af-firmed: Moses tells the Israelites on thenight preceding their departure fromthe land of Egypt to take a lamb, to becalled the Paschal lamb, to dress, prepareaud eat it in a peculiar manner. Thefestivalwas to be observed iu that nightaud under circumstances calculated, ouevery return of its anniversary, to excitethe recollection of tho fee ings of theJewish nation. This festival, you, whoaro acquainted with this history, knowwas the celebration of the passiug overof the Angel of Death, sparing tho first-born to tho bosom of the mother, givingjoy to the heart ot the lather, causinganguish, lamentation and bereavement tothe Egyptian poople it was in honor oftheir exodus from servile slavery to glo-rious liberty. What must have been thefeelings of their hearts when they knewthat the God of their Fathers had donethis, so that when the clouds of discom-fiture should hang over them, lest theyshould forget this great love, they aretold on every anniversary of this festivalto eat the passover with a strict observ-ance of all rites and circumstances.Cocsult the Rabbi of Iiv.c! and you findthere has never been an interval, fromthat period to this, in which the anni-versary of the passover has not beeu sol-

emnly celebrated. We could dwelllonger in proof of these questions uponwhich hangs the symbolic teachings ofour order, but the postulatuiu admitted,the criteria established by. which toprove any historic hct-- though encrustedwith the age of antiquity, wo see tho onlyconclusion, tho truth of the Scripturesaud the verity of the Jewish religion,predicated and based upon the factsproven. With like reasoning and theex parte testimony of Paul, and the factsthat Jesus died, arose agcin, and ascended unto tho Father for the redemptionof the world, and similar criteria, wecould establish the truth of the Christianreligion; but we wish your particular at-

tention to the fact that Masonry docsnot take hold of the first, and, in part,only prefigures the second, in that thetabernacle in the wilderness came afterthe deliverance of Israel and before thedeath of Christ, commemorative of theformer, foreshadowing tho latter. Thatwe have a commemorative institutionw'ithiu the sanctum of our lodges, everyMason knows; that tho solemn strikingof the bell points to Mt. Moriah, reach-ing to the Son of God in the resurrec-tion morn, every Mason feels. But wehasten: Masonry, as I have said before,is a science of morality developed andinculcated by the ancient method of sym-bolism. My Brethren, symbolism isdear unto us all. There is no science soancient as this, and no mode of instruc-tion has ever been so universal as wasthe symbolic in former times. The wis-

dom of the Chaldeans, Pheniciaus,Egyptians, Jews; of Zoroaster, Sancho-niatho-

Pherecydes, Syrus, Pythagoras,Socrates, and Plato, of all the ancientsthat has come to our hands, is symbolic.The first religions were evidently sym-bolical, because, as the great philosophicalhistorian, Grote, has remarked, at a timewhen language was yet in its infauey,visible symbols were the most viyidmeans of acting upon the minds of theignorant hearers. Mor 'who was skilledin all the learning aud wisdom vof theEgyptians (which was symbolical),brought with him from tho cradlo of allthe sciences a perfect knowledge of thisscience, as it was taught bytho Priestsof Isis aud. Osiris, aud applied it to theceremonies with which he invested thepurer religion of the chosen people ofGod. Hence we learn from the Jewishhistorian that in constructing the taber-nacle, which gave the first model for thetemple at Jerusalem, and afterwards forevery Masonic lodge, he applied thisprinciple of symbolism to every part ofit. lie divided it into three parts torepresent the three great elementary di-

visions of tho Universe the land, thesea, and the air the first two accessibleto tho priests and the people, symbolicof the land and the sea, which all menmight inhabit; while tie third, or inte-

rior division, the Holy of Holies, whosethreshold no mortal dared to cross, andwhich was peculiarly consecrated to God,was emblematical of heaven, His dwell-

ing. With the tabernacle tho Temple ofKing Solomon is closely connected theone was the archetype of tho other, andthis magnificent Temple, with all its re-

gal splendor, has become the type of thegreat Temple of God above, its courtsand throuo symbolic of the Great WhiteThrone and "Temple Courts of Heaven.We have endeavored to show that Ma-

sonry, as an organisation, is neither po-

litical or. Christian.We now return to the thoughts con

nected with the objects of our presentconvocation Masonry and its profes-sions. A Free Mason is a man, free,born of a frco woman, a brother to kings,and a companion of princes, if they beMasons. The name which we hold, andwnich wc cherish, originated in the buil-ding of the Temple of Jerusalem. Ourancient brethren, who were employed byKing Solomon to work: at this famousedifice, were declared free, and exemptedfrom all imposts, duties, and taxes forthorn and their descendants. At thedestruction of the Temple by Nebuehad-nezze- r

the posterity of these Masons werecarried into captivity by the Jews, butwheu tho ti tn .f their humiliation wasexpired, by I. - good will of Cy.u:. .hoywere permitted to erect a second Temple,being declared freo for that purpose.Hence we are called Free Masons. Far-ther, wc cannot accept as candidates auybut the sons of freo women. This datesits origin to a much earlier period, evenfrom the time whou Abraham held a sol-

emn festival at tho. weaning of his sonIsaac. When Ishmael amused himselfteasing tho young child, wo know howSarah had him removed with Hagar thebond woman, saying they were not com-

petent to inherit with the free born. Shespake by divine inspirat'on, a she knewthat. from Isaac's loins would spring a

great and mighty people who wouldserve the Lord with freedom, fervencyand zeal. And these two persons, Ishmael and Isaac, are typical of the law andthe gospel, the one given by Moses andthe other by Christ. Hence, we are ac-

cepted Masons. This circumstance hasbeen embodied in Free Masonry to showthat although a pirson may have beenborn of . a free woman, ahhough he mayhave been made a Mason, and entitled toall the privileges of initiation, yet if heundervalues the privileges and neglects-to improve his mind by an applicationtion of the doctrines and precepts whichhe hears in the Lodge, instead of profit-ing by his freedom as Isaac did, he willbe no better than a profane bond-slav- e

like Ishm .el, who was cast out from hisfather's house as unworthy any show inthe inheritance. It was by the samecarelessness and inattention that the Jewsforfeited tiieir freedom aud suffered theirprivileges to be transferred to others.By their wilful rejection of the Messiahthey have been excluded from the cove-

nant of Grrce; have taken tho place ofthe sons of slavery; havo been cast outof the vineyard of promise, and are aliensfrom the true Israel of God; In manthere are threo ages: youth, manhood,and old age; in the adorable God-head- ,

three persons : Father, Son and HolySpirit, and in Masonry there are threodegrees: the first representing the outercourt of the Tabernacle of Moses, andthe court of the Gentiles iu the Templesituated at Jerusalem, for in either case,the Tabernacle or the Temple, the

could enter no farther. Therite or sacrament of baptism, which in-

troduces the penitent intp the vau of thechurch, corresponding with the privilegethat enabled a Jew to enter intothe second division of the Taber-nacle, is represented by the degree of a

Fellow Craft, which qualifies him to en-

ter iuto the holyT place and be investedwith tho highest honors and privileges ofMasonry. It was denominated by Paula worldly sanctuary, aud therefore atthis step of your progress you becomeeligible for instruction in worldly knowl-

edge and receive the rudiments of scien-

tific acquirements. But it is only whena Masou has been raised to the third andsublime degree that ho can form an ac-

curate judgment of the real tendency ofour mysterious association. Up to thispoint all has been preliminary and con-

sequently, superficial. But now thewhole scheme of Masonry becomes re-

vealed to the enlightened eye of the Mas-

ter Mason. Like the High Priest of Is-

rael entering the Sanctum Sanctorum ofthe Tabernacle and Temple, ho beholdswith steady gaze the Shekinah of Glory;tike the perfect Christian admitted tocommunion with his God and Saviour,he enters the church Triumphant andbeholds insuperable things which it isnot lawful for him to reveal, and like Paulin the third heaven, he hears unspeak-able words which to utter would he death.Speculative Masonry, which is but ano-

ther name for Free Masonry, in its mod-

ern acceptation, is technically and briefly defined as tho application, or, perhapsmore worthily, expressed, tho religiousconsecration of the rules and principles,the language and implements of opera-

tive Masonry to the veneration of God,the purification of the heart, and thepreservation of certain profound dogmasof mystical philosophy. Bearing inmind that speculative or modern FreeMasonry dates its origin from the build-

ing of King Solomon's Temple by Jew-ish and Tyrian artisans, the first impor-tant fact that attracts our attention is thatthe operative Masons at Jerusalem wereengaged in tho construction of an earth-ly and material Temple to be dedicatedto tho service 'and worship of- - God, ahouse in which Jehovah was to dwellvisibly by his Shekinah, and whence hewas by the Urim and Thummim to sendforth His oracles; now, tho operative arthaving for us csased, we, as speculativeMasons, symbolize the labors of our pre-

decessors by engaging in the constructionof a moral temple in cur hearts, dedicatedto the honor of Him who is tho authorof purity, and whence every evil thoughtand unruly passion should bo banishedas tho sinner and, the Gentile wero ex-

cluded from the sauctuary of the Jewishtemplo. As Masons we have three vir-

tues, Faith, Hope and Charity. This is

the theological ladder w hich Jacob inhis vi-i- w.w, reaching up into heaven,

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and admonishes us to have faith iu God,hope of immortality aud charity to allmaukind. This part of our system hasthe Holy Bible for its basis; Faith, Hopeand Charity for its supporters; Jehovahfor its President, and lieuven for its end.Tho true Masonic Philosopher sees in allthings an ever present Deity as the gov-

ernor and director of those magnificentworks which proceeded from His hand,all guided by the celestial dictates ofthese theological virtues. If the trees .ofthe field bud and blossom under the in-

fluence of a genial sun; if tho teemingearth is irrigated with geutle showers;

"If fleecy flock the hills a.lorn .Ami valley smile with wavy corn;"

it is the h;..r jd ordinate., c.f a benignDivinity: if the great ruler of the dayrie in the morning to call tho inhabi-tants of tho earth from their slumbersand commence their labors; if the rulerof the night move majestically throughthe heavens, partially enlightening thedarkness with her "silver light; if thestars and the phnets with which thefirmament is studded like an azureicano-p- y

charged with sparkling knobs ofburnished gold, pursue their accustomedcourses, century after ccutury, withoutthe slightest deviation, it is to displaythe power and gooduess of the great Ar-chitect and His provident care, in maki ngall the works of the creation subservientto ono object the comfort and happi-ness of His creatures; aud wo ought rev-erentially to bow tho knee and with ourancient Grand Master, King Solomon,exclaim, "Lord, what is man that Thouart mindful of him, or the son of mrnthat Thou visitest him." Wo might withpleasure talk of the threo great lights ofMasonry, the Bible, the Squaro, aud theCompasses, but tinie.hurries us on.

Masonry has no principle but whatmight still more ornament tho purestmind, nor any appendage but what mightgiv3 additional lustre to tho brightestcharacter. By the exercise of tho dutiesof Masonry the rich may add abundantlyto the fund of their eternal inheritance;the wise may increaso their knowledgeof the nature of God iu all His best per-fections and thereby daily grow stillmore wiso unto eternal salvation; thepuie in heart may be always advancingin the divine likeness, and they whowalk in this path of the just, with zealaud activity, will find it'as tho shininglight which shineth more and more untothe perlect day. Whilo we have showedthat Masonry is neither a political orchristian organ.iza.lion, we havo also en-

deavored to prove it not merely a moraledifice, for every degree throw light onthe nature and attributes of the true God.The preservation of His name is its great-est honor; the promulgation of truth itsgreatest glory. It claims but one bookout of all the libraries of the world, thatbook is the Holy Bible. This will re-

move wonder that a society whose secrets,neither Papal tortures, Spanish Inquisi-tions, despotic powers, riches nor elo-

quence could eyer penetrate, has beenpreserved so many centuries, and is per-petually increasing. The reflection issolemn to a thoughtful mind. Mysteri-ous characters are traced in the InnerChamber, and the light of day shinesupon them, and they arc the name ofGod in whom we live,, move and haveour being. For many ages we held thekeys of knowledge while the Barbarianswere desolating everything that was fairand beautiful iu society, aud Masonry isprobably destined to be one of the, mightyinstruments in tho hands of Providence,to spread the sacred word among all na-

tions who know not God and whose ig-

norance has a claim on tho children ofhumanity. Under the blessings cfa good government and beneaththe broad light of Christianity,wc little know the sufferings of alarge portion ot our race in remote coun-tries. Tho funeral fire that consumessome widowed mourner, still burns onthe banks of the Gauges; the unhallowedTurk still pollutes the holy laud of Pal-

estine; the dark African still looks tohoiven iu the agony of despair, and thereare multitudes who live in wretchedness,without comf'ji't or hope hereafter, whilethe great Masonic family aro bound todiffuse that light which cheers all thatsee it and carries gladness in every ray.Whatever opinions may be entertainedon the subject of ovangelizing the multi-tudiuou- s

nations of Asia, and circulatingthe sacred word through their wide audsorrowful dominions; whatever may bethought of those innumerable societies,actuated as by a divine impulse in thisgrand and holy object, yet, ought notMasons to take a deep interest in therestoration of that ancient realm of ourHebrew brethren whence all our lightfirst dawned to peace, to comfort, and tojoy. Tho mountains of Lebanon wherethe ftones wore hewn, squared and num-bered; the heights of Joppa where thimaterials for the building were conveyed;the Mount of Moriah where the Templeof Solomon was erected; the garden ofGethsemane, whero lay tho sepulchre ofour Lord and Master; tho villages ofBethlehem, Nazareth, and Bethany; thesea of Galileo, and the river of Jordan;all these spots arc still existing, rendereddear to every Mason by a thousand associations: and tho land of Palestine is stillbeautiful as ever, but whero are the gen-erations that ouco were there beholdingthe star in the East, and receiving theglad tidings from above, and listening totho voice of our beloved and departedbrother, John the Baptist (cruelly be-

headed by tho treacherous Herc4 at theblood thirsty request of ti.o daughter)wdioso festival wo this day celebrate?The ruins of Jerusalem will answer.Deep dark net's oviTsliad.,,'s their m!ler-ily- ,

a sorrowful people tr-- ; uv ailing the

hour of deliverance. Though the timewhen Jehovah will gather together thescattered Israelites we know cot ;, thoughthe prophesies are unsearchable and canonly be understood in their fulfillment,yet, the melioration of their lot, whocling to 'the beloved fields of Palestine,may bo effected by a diffusion of light,and knowledge once more a'mong them,and is it unreasonable to suppose thatMasonry might again cheer up'the heart,of sorrow in that unhappy region towhich the Eastern realm of a new worldnow owes their joyous day?

We might speak of the Four Cardicr.1Virtues, Temperance, Fortitude, Pru-dence and Justice; we might talk to youof the Bibb;, Square, and Compasses, andmany privileges belonging unto us as ailorder, but we close our remarks withCharily an apple of "old basketed iusilver, a di;imond chanceled with rubies,ail opal clustered with pearls, for whenFaith hath changed to sight and Hope tofruition, Charity goeth to the end of timWhen harps have chanted a requicover 'lenarteu i aitu and Hope, .anchoristers shall attend Charity in cless ages thereafter. lis thoStar to our noble order. Faithfirst, Hope is a concomitant and f(

but greater than all is Charity. I.the brethren and kindness to allkind; fear God and keep his coiincuts is tit whole d':'y of

lie ,;.I he a, in bibti.rcij, lei us nut on

breast-plat- o of Faith, the armor of Hope,and tho helmet of Charity, going aboutdoing good, that our works redounding tothe honor of the order may evidencelikeness unto divine morality, thatothersmay feel and know that our callingis good,that our order is noble. Let us be amongthose who are working the ameliorationof mankind, not only where the ds-w- ofrighteousness ascend, where the light ofcivilization exists, where the Bible, theinestimable gift of God to man, can befound, but also iu the secluded shades ofHindoo, iu tho pestiferous groves of Af-rica, and in the Mohamedan regions oAsia. No longer the Koran should takoupon its unconsecrated pages the Imple-ments of our order.. So longer shouldthe land of Solomon's wisdom, our Grand"aster, bo travailing in sorrow, lament-ing in darkness; but let us with bannersupon every breeze herald the speedy ap-

proach of light from whence darkncs3doth depart; let our names be iu themouths of babes a synonym oPswectucssand of gladness; let no widow's cry cameup as a memorial against us; no orphanask and receive no bread. Finally, ho-

of one mind; live in charity to all mankind,and especially the brethren, the house-hold of the faithful.

Muti imonal.

Married pcOlo vrill please read as written.Single ones can read the llrst line, then iiiethird, then the second, and finally the fourth ineach verse:.

That man must lead a happy life,Who's freed from matrimonial chains,

Who is directed hy his wife,Is suro to sutler for his pains.

Adam could find no solid peaceWhen Eve was giveo for a mate;

Until ho saw a woman's faceAdam was in a happy stato.

In all the female face appearsHypocrisy, deceit and pridcl

Truth, darlin-.- ' of a heart sincere,Ne'er known in woman to reside.

AVhat tonge is able to unfoldThe fahchood that in woman dwells;

The worth in woman we behoidId lulmost imperceptible.

Cursed he the foolish thiCj, I say,Who changes from his singleness;

Who will not yield to woman's swayIs sure of perfect blessedness.

Cutting Hay.Many planters in gathering hay let it lie

in the field until it is entirely dry. Toaccomplish this, it i8 usually exposed,night after night to heavy dews, and notinfrequently to rains, which greatly in-

jure tire appearame as well as the qual-ity of tho hay. The proper way to curehay is to cut it early in the morning, audspead it carefully over the ground; turn-ing it up to the sun aud wind onco ortwice during the day with a raks or fork,aud hauling it under shelter just beforenight. If the sun is bright, almost anyhay will be sufficiently cured in a singleday to keep, and it will be bright incolor, and much moro palatable to thestock, as well as more nutricious thanwhen deadened by two or three days ex-

posure. In putting it away, arrange-ments should be made to spread the cut-ting of each day over a covered mow pen,to tho depth of one or two feet, andsprinkle salt freely over it. It is wellto have two or three pens for depositingthe hay, so that each day's cutting mayin two or three days before more is add-ed to it. This precaution is not neces-sary whero tho grass is mown in thimorning, and has ouo bright sun uponit.

Watering l.ocumoiivcsFast trains ou railroads can only Lc ..

run when the stoppages to take in.wter,,-ar-at long intervals. One of the Eng-.- .

lish methods of feeding locomotives isvery effective, and is about bebg intro-duced iu this country. At tho Mojitresestation the Hudson river, railroad has.laid down in. the center of the track aperfectly straight' trough', lined withpointed sheet --iron, 1,200 feet long, 15inches deep,' .and IS inches wide. Thistrough, holding 10,000 gallons,constantly supplied with water- from e4spring. To tho tender of the loeomo- -

tive between the hind trucks is attacheda semi-circula- r pipe, with a no'zalo soarranged as to drop down iutq the troughat the will of tho engineer. The nozzleis directed towards tho point tho iocoT.motive is going and sinks to a depth oftwo inches in the trough. It is statedthat when the train is running at, tho,rate of" thirty miles an hour, andnozzle is dropped in the rough, l.G.'flgallons oi water will be forced iuto thetender before the entire length of. th.itrough has- been passed over.

JO"J)aniel WcUtcr ohco-sti- "If wework upon marble it will perish; if uponbrass, timo will efface il; if wo i car tem-ples they will crumble into dust: but ifwo work upon our immortal minds if,we imbue them with principles, with thejust fear of God and! h.ve of our fellow-me- n

we engrave on those tablets .something w Inch, u JI br.ighleu. .'nro.;,'h.cUmitv."

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