The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-03-28
From the North Carolina Standard.
MASONIC SEMINARY.

ES0.- frncipai ol "ai- HN"S''! :" VIZ" f/
on the subject of the Masonic Seminary. pro,
posed To be established. This Report is signed
hy Mcssrs. J. +. Sp"ight, William Colt. Z. W.
d. Hu,chings. W. H. Mead, ]. +. Rhodes: j..
M. .Lovcioy, w. F. Collins. and w. u. H"l;
and it gives cheering evidence that the conie'n'
plated wodk is in fair way 10 he accom-
plished. : -.t ."
We have read the Speech Of Mr.. Lovel"y,
delivered before the Grand Lodge, at the late
Annual Communication, on the subject ot f'du-
cation, with unalIoyed pleasure. We quote
the fallowing. as furnishing specimen OF The
style nf the Speaker: ........,
81 have often been askrd,hr question, "what
will the poor of our order do, if educaed. when
they become mrn?' What will they do, if un-
rduratrd, when they become men? But the
unedncatpd never become men; the ignorant
are always chiIdren-children are they in re.
sppct to the works Of God and the creations ot
mind. But what do the educated poor? They
do all that is done. They become great law.
yers. great architects, great painters, great
mechanics, great statemen, great poets, great
philosophers, aye great in every thing. Pow
er,y tells her children when educated, they are
rich. She stands still hefore them in her rags,
arm is still gaunl, but has the strength OF H.
,an's to rend the barriers which impede The
course of her sons to fame and power. She is
no longer like an angel Of death cold and shi.
vering as the North wind, hut is rather good
spirit and teaches her children thousand
things. She points them TO the wealth and
treasure of. the world, and bids them reach
forth the hand and take it. Poverty, when her
children are educated, shows then many things.
She learns them how 10 cut mountains into
beautiful columns and TO fashion the rude rocks
into magnificent temples, that they may tell The
grandeur Of nations Ia distant times. She has
shown them how to pen up FIRE and water in
ribs of steel, which speed the commerce of
States over The globe, and how to take hold of
lightning, and chain our thoughts to his car.
Poverty teaches her educated children many
things. She points them hack through pre-.
existent time, and shows that the IT ighly men
and demigods Of old; ,ha, they were poor, yet
nevertheless formed savage hordcs into civilized
and gigantic States, became the lords of song.
of eloqnence and philosophy, and thus won
their way to Immortality. She points them 10
the great men of modcrn date-to Shakespear,
Napoleon, Milton and Washington, the four
giants of thought and action, who have written
their names in letters OF fire upon the black
wing of time; and says iha, they were poor
She shows them WASHINGTON, ,raversing fnrests
and wading through swamps, surveyor of land
in his early manhood. But she shows him in
differen. picture, struggling with that monster
and terrible thing, called tyrant, wrenching
his hand from the throat of Liberty and placing
his broad, brave bosom between her and her
lornentor; lifting up a State which had fallen,
wasted and bleeding, and placing her feet upon
foundation 50 strong and deep that she has
grown up the glory and wonder of the world.
But | have moi time to tell all the educated
poor have done and can do. They teach all
our schools, fill all our colleges with professors,
and our churches with The ministers Of God
They build our towns and villages, all our yes.
sells of commerce, and navies of war. Bu,
what does Wealth. Nothing, nothing at all;
she stands with her arms folded upon her bosom,
trcked out in h.r jeweIry and golden pelticoaIs,
and looks on to see Poverty woik. But she
pours into the lap Of Poverty her gold, surren-
ders her possessions, gives up her houses and
her lands and her pellicoals also. How does
Poverty serve her uneducated children! She
stands before them, stern and terrihe-she
will give them no aid, no comfort, no cheer.
She pushes them into every hole and every
ditch; she pIucks their rags, and tells them that
the North wind is storny aud fierce, and cold,
and that no body cares. She talks to them all
day Of want, of hunger, and hauns their pillow
at night; she tells them OF gros shops, Of rum
and of crime, and makes them believe the very
Devil is their best friend Thus talks Poverty
in two ways. Thus talks Poverty with her
double face and Janus mouths she tells
up 10 fame. and power, and distinction; hut
leave them uneduca,ed, aud will crush them
and crowd them down to ruin"
Abiding TO the importance OF such Semi.
nary to the destitute children Of the Masonic
Order, Mr.. Lovej"y says: ....
at may he said that the destitute of our order
are educated. But how, ask? Are they edu
Gated as a Mason, who has the means, wishes
TO educate and does educate his own children!
They are, perhaps, sent to school one year,
two months another year, three another, two,
again. and thus ends their instruction. No
child ever was or can he thus educated. con.
slider education to he that discipline of the nor.
al and intellectual faculties which fits an indi.
vidual TO discharge any duty which society
imposes upon lis members. Doubtless this
fraternity has some children growing up in
perfect ignorance, without even a knowledge
Of the Bible. May the Father OF mercies save
aud project the poor ignorant children in the
desert which stretches before Has it come
To thus! Shall it be said tina, the Masons of
North Carolina will suffer any child who has
claiuIs upon them to grow up without know.
ledge of the Bible! The Bible? ~ hat is the
Bible! The voice of God, the philosophy of
creation, the fountain OF all wisdom the source
Of all good; the pivot on which swings the
needle of hope, ha, PORTS the earth born hea.
yenward; the wing Of the itnauinaiinn. which