Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1849-08-24

ri of and
To this description Select Society exactly
uniting OF these purposes and advantages that
nignides every individual
are collected from every nation under heaven 1t invites to
meet them BY OF eternal amity sacred
mutual and general advantage. Blending
pe o each e b n y m makes the pO
the whole the object of each individual The Order although
prevent men from running into coherent masses
yet seems to be one body acuated by soul Thousands and
tens Of thousands have heart hand the heart of benevo
ienee, the hand Of charity.
My Brethren do you recognize
Ancient and honorable Society, which you voluntarily
with cheenes5 enrolled yourselves Members found worthy of
admission deserving the appreciation the the
protection of the world! anticipate your affirmative and
closes to the word aborng with such ends those pn
uptus that agtate mankind IN s no7c I eaons citations
any degree its lam
guage its practice beneficial its peeep viuoul Per-
haPs in this enquiry find that the absence of perception and
acknowledgment Of the virtue and beauty veneaed Order
the of the unintited world less be depored the
inactivity if absolute neglect the
love 70 Man Venenbje in its ontio,r trsoied from pnoe
and in its spreading through all and cme
with its signs and It's symbols unimPared in substance Masonry
proudly looks back that period when Masters uni
ted their magnificent labor of love. erecting the
Lord The division of labor in the construction of Temple
the thousand bearers Of buhen the eighty thou
sand craftsmen and the three thousand three hundred work
vduas Of such mass We're enabled to distinguish each other and
profound wisdom great grand Masters Masonic trad
of history brought speculative Masonry at
this day. that which operative Masonry than three
thousand and Symbolic Lodges the Repositories
the working TOOLS the Jewels movable and mmovabe ana all
Masonic Lodges of day and under the Christian Dis
highest hills and in lowest valleys by wohpPng pro-
genor1 still the great principles as neucsd in all remain the
The great antiquity Of the Order undenable its landmarks
and mysteries derived and
utons Of the aneents and some Of them from the 9otest
It's morality deduced from the nazims the recian Philosophers
and perfected by the Christian Rvelti Our distinguished
God of professions worship
the Deity under the Jewish law described in the second
last and highest orders Man under the christian doctrine saved
considering which
pescrbe how rcby Brother be impressed with the
wisdom the moral and social virtues which pervade its part
BY Masonry Brethren taught act with ProPrey in
allied ideas God and trained the Of the pure and
of all around m and risino rs sane[ior to eyery selfish view or
Uay prejudice fills the heart With an unlimited good Will to man
all plans pacific; opees with blessed religion in
regulating the restraining the passions swetenng the dis
bosom flows the milk of human kindness and its heart expands
with love to all manknd in one hand holds out the Olive branch
Of peace and in the other the liberal donation Charity and while
10 moral ooigaon II promotes Puoic hapPiess by eI5olng
ready submission to the wholesome laws and regulations OF c
directed exercise justice and Impair
Discouraged Discrimination reprobad, political
strife avoided; taught be faithful speak
the words truth and whatsoever PROMISE to relgiouy
FORM the tools and implements of labor the
work of Mason Lodge lis splendid and celestial
contains no point part secret which does not convey fund of
valuable the world,
Masonic capable exploitation,
and Mason his full clothing striking emblem of
perfect model OF wisdom, strength and beauty.
My Brethren doubtless recognize and the truth of
picture of your Order. exhibited you the
world beautiful lovely and bearing
wisdom deiineaon To
greater needed for practice those of
wisdom than
with whom delight within without
Of duties and the
the world body of who have placed their
hill Should that world ask calculation
Lodges, shall
days gone BY filled the Oriental Chair have left
their have eaped
Lodge made with hands, eternal heavens
They truly that Masonry hearts with phan
fe and dssenlon and
friendship social insucts
SENSUAL walk uprghy informs that chill
Father that inim short lived who
like shadow; that he that place where
and distinctions conSdered where the
will be have
instructed, profess that the only proper
We riches
hono ourselves with humility; cordescend
friends of whatever rank find it
the and
in
characer rank Brethren level; and
consider the abject wretch belonging the
mankind, when
the distressed and the neglected
ourselves confined bIgoed
religious disputes Lodges and worship
of believe
fears righteousness accepted of Him. All Ma
therefore, whether Christians Jews Mahomedans who TO-