Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-11-02

and from HeliOpoliS, the city of the sun.
The next great triumphs of the Mason.
ic Art we're in Palestine, at the building
Of SolOmOn's temple, the stones Of which,
by Masonic craft, were SO prepared in
their distant quarres, that the editce a.
rose like an exhalaton, without the sound
of hammer or axe. The archives of Ma.
sonry contain authentic copies of the
original correspondence of King Solomon
with the king Of Tyre, and with the Great
Master Builder of the Temple, Hiram
Abyff.
The Masonic mysteries clung to the
mountains of Judea until the Roman i'll
vason and the fall of Jerusalem made
the land of the chosen people a Kissing
and a scorn. After this Masonry lived
in other lands..-She was on the shores Of
the Tyrrhean and the Egean seas. Along
with Christianity, she was prisoner and
a martyr al Rome. She was wanderer.
like a ghost, haunting the East, the was
ted land other birth. Long aftel Rome
was desolated by the FOOT of the barbarian,
the Crusaders found her, as she fed,
like a frightened dove, from hill TO hill,
and they clothed her with trappiugs of
grandeur, as she marched TO the wars
against the in6dels. Some Of her bright
er orders we're instituted in Italy and Pal.
sStine by the Paladins of England, under
the promptings Of fPeter the Hermit and
Richayd Ceur de Lon. From tbs wars
of the crusaders Masonry came to Eu,
rope, leaving her Templar! on tho island
of Malta TO bear lhs name Of Knights
HospitalerS, and the Order Of 81, john,
for centuries. Introduced by the lion.
hearted Richard and others into England
at this era, it was not till the time of
Elizabeth that its organization was the
mOsl perfect, since which it has pervaded
the Ango-Saxon race, aud been received
on every continent and island Of the sea.
On its moral platform, the King and his
noble, the commoner aud his lsborSr, il
free aud accepted Masons, all meet on a
level. Masonry knows not of political
dignilies, or the arbitrary distinctions of
life. 1t aliases the proud, it exalls the
humble.
This rapid and brief historical sketch
must suffice for this occasion. 1t has q
nobler historian, whose pen of fire hath
emblazon ed its deeds of charity and love
upon ten thousand hearts-the widows
and the orphans, the distressed and the
unhappy-those living spistlos Of benev-
olence from which the hand writing, in
praise ofhe Masonic brotherhood shall
never be eradicated.
Before proceeding to a consideration
of Moral Masonry, suffer me to play
with few trte objections 1T 10 secrst
society! This is true only tor the pur,
pose of self-preservation from the con.
tamnation of unworthy men. And thai
Masonry has her portion of the unworthy
is but too true; but in this respect she i:
not alone; and unworthy members car
no more dim the purity Of the Masonic
escutcheon than the conduct Of Judas
(who was a traitor and a murderer,) in
validates the glory ol the Apostolic char
acter.
The secrecy of Masonry iS its only
sybl voice prociaiming-Procul D Pro
eul! este profani. 1t is only the secrecy
Of the lawyer to his cIlent--of the minis
Ter TO The peniIent-of the physician lC
The patient-or of friend TO friend. The
trustworthy confidence is the glory O
man. Scandal dies like an echo on the
, shore, where the tongue is bridled BY
truth and honor. "Whers is no tale bear
or the strife ceaseth" Wrench from tho
hes7; Of Mason the secret Of his broth
er, and from that same heart you may bio
out The image Of his God, Tho vows mad'
10 coniding wife, or the duty he bwes Il
his children, 10 country, and to home
The bOtrayer Of secrets is 4 moral rene
: gade too foul for the atmosphere Of hon
. or;--he is the Judas Of friendship, ant
{ the assassin Of character.
:, Nor never may an honest, open-heartet
: Mason fear that the better part of crea
: tion will urge against his Order, to it
detriment, the circumstance that the la
uOt hHulIllOu W
: among free and accepted MaSons. lie
+ him tell, what is the fact, that Minerva
8 the Goddess Of wisdom, presides in tn
e Masonic Lodges, in which she wouI
: have indeed but a divided empire fth
o goddess of beauty were admitted aloni
l. with her. We surely could not trus
e Venus ond Minerva together in our lodg
}. es, lest we should become too much dis
v tracted by the Establishments ofBeauty
d hear at all the severer teschings Of Wis
D. dom. But it will be high time to attemT
le Iabored defence of this Masonic usag
it. when lady shall complains of it, {
n. when she shalt refuse TO make secre
ID keeping Mason the lord other affections
rn pillowing on her pure heart both the III
st locked casket and the secret which
Q. contains! All, could she make him
le renegade to honor, how would she loatF
m HIM! How unsafe in such hands ar
,s - ,,,oh Laan;n1 would she ever aft