The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-07 00:00:00

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'Fe understand that his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Pro
tincial Grand Master for the County of Derby, has appointed
the Right Honourable Lord Viscount. Tamwortb, his Deputy
Proiincial Orma

IRELAND.
SUBSTANCE of a CHARGE, delivered by Brother
LAHEE, P. M. of No. 118; at the closing of that Lodge,

on the 31st of July 11123, et Carlow.
Woas'nrreul. SIR, 'ANY.IBRETHREN —ft has been report.
ed to us, through the. Public Papers, that an Act of Perliement.
, . . .
has passed, at it' for the Suppression of ellSeeret,Socleties. tin
irelandl. I need not tell you, that, as Freemasons, we must
alwayswhatever feetlhait t
iii4ybe,
Imperative on usw ev to
er obey
repugnant,
i 6
aint aw, in or
some the
castes,and
and
however
to our private feelings. As Loyal' men, we must deplore the
oi.igtei
necessity that reOders such. A law expedient.ln,'lreland ; but
'l46{' earth—our
sanctioned,meriand
aatirowneisehdabvey e
thveere
'MAO account
own most greciousSoVereign, we may find it
reeteitne'stbilYiotiniaree
, wisest
• to operate against lawless.
ed, Measure intended on nand best cf
be our
.under esieting, wenn-I-stances, it appears to
inelud-
for having been, though not
present,
yotniraltniieetelt,ings
as a
Society,
duty to discontinue, for the
and_
order
of our 'Lodge till better times, and a more. ameliorating
again
of things shall enable us or our children to usher it once
ie lock up our ancient and li mourable 'Warant in the Ark
• • •
into meridian tight !
of ever' Member present, she inestimable.value of that Sacred
Before we part ; it may be proper to itiipiese upon the mind
Treasure which has been committed to our care; let sty guard
it well, arid never risk the uncertainty of seeking Ili the world
at large fur that ivirich we should always carry in the secret.
heart.
The of dieheatt.
The three operative degrees into which Masonry is divided.
seem to have an obvious and apt coincidence with the three
progressive states 'of mankind, from the creation to the end of
unee,
•The first is erribleintitic of Man's suite of natnre, from hii
original Disobedience, to the time of God's Covenant with
Abraham, and the establidiment of the. Jewish Economy.
The second, from that period, to the tern of the last, full, and
perfect Revelation from Heaven to Mankind, made by our Great
itedeemere
The ti fild comprehending the glorious interval of She Chris=
tian Dispensation, thiWn to the Consumniation of all Things.
'Pile state of darkness, or obscurity of the first degree, strongly
figures one the darkness of chaos before man's creation ; or the
night into which his &dulls faculties were plunged by the fall
consequent upon his original transgressiiin. it is also forcibly
emblematic of the darkness antecedent to inan'e natural birth;
and the pain inflicted at his initiation, aptly represents hie
pangs, and bitter sensations, on his entrance into the Lodge of
this chequered life. Like a woeful and benighted traveller,
found in a dreary
feeding the hun and hopeless desert, his indigent astidition
suggests to him the forlorn and helpless situation of man in a
state of nateee; teacheS him the value of niutual goeilsiffices;
and-directs him to extend that relief it to others, which
he then so much wanted biniself—by comfortin_g the allotted,
merit lie is brought to the light of the world, and the
grY, and covering the .naked with a gar-
light ,or knowledge, by the help of others. His. Investiture
it strongly significant of the hrst r.loathing of the bunion
race, and marks out the modest purpose of primeval 0104--
His tools are the rough implements of uninstructed 4eniui
and the rude emblems of the lumpiest morals truths, pointing
out the hard labour which human industry must undergo, when
unassisted by the Cunning and compendious devices of mid.
vated art. His Lodge is described to him as an universal wile
derness wherein he Antifamily associates with his brother men,
upon the highest hills, or iu the lowest willies s die green grass
its pavement ; the canopy. of Heaven its covering..
As the darkness of heetheeiiin, or natural religion, precede 4
the divine revelation vouchedsafed to the favourite people of
Geld; so, by. our initiation the) .the second degree we advance
still farther into the dawn figured out by the Mosaic dispenea.
don; which preceded the more perfect Light of Christian Day.
Here the novichite is brought to behold and handle tools of a
more artificial and ingenious construction and emblemitic of
sublimer moral truths. By these ke.learns to reduce rude mate
ter into due form and rude manners into the more perfcct shape
of moral and yeligious rectitude ; becoming thereby a more
harmonious *dished stone in the structure of hurnen 'eociety,
until heels made a glorified and lively Steno in the Temple of
God, nuide without hands, eternal in the Heavens.
..
IlenCe, therefore, be it understoede that a Free Meson should
consider the whole Terrestrial Globe as his Lodge, end thereby
instructed, consider all Mankindas Mit Brethren.—embracingthe
whole human race, without distinction of Religion or Country, in
the Arms of Universal Benevolence. Hence lie learns to view the
Earth as one great Temple of the Deity—with its length due East
and West, as marked by the sun's course in the Zodiac; and to
conteniplai-e every human heart, as an Altar burning with incense
to the Grand Architect of
.the Universe. Brethren, you are
all wise Mester Builders—your foundStion Is on the Rock of
Agei—learti therefore to apply. the square of justice teal
your actions, the level of humility to your brother men: and
by the plum line of fortitude to support yourselves through all
the dangers and Affliction* of this mortal state.
We ate too apt to fall short of our duty e It is therefore the
Inure necessary that we should have the rule of our life cone
stantly in vjew—we should never lose sight of' the ancient land
marks of our order ; lest confusion should overtake us, as it.
once did the unskilful builders of old ; but let each of us pree
serve" the white Stone and the new name written on it, which
none knoweth save he that receivedi it."
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- - This is the outline, of the, Alasonic Economy ; of that argon
which hai been justly Compared to the Equilateral triangle-7
the perfect en)lijem of universal harmony,_ and the mastsll-
Mime synibol of the incomprehensible Deity ; whose radiant
throne may we ull heretifier encircle with Bongs a Praise> in
that .Ikage iihiCh Shall never be closed 2
It is, perhspi, a singular coincidence that on the same even-
ins, at the Methodist Chapel of this town, the Rev, Mr.
without the least previous arrangement, preached a most ex-
cellent sermon on the above subject; we believe Mr. (Mire is
not a Freemason but every good man builds upon the td
foufoundation..{e imi
arlow ilforitiog Post, dugue 4.) -