Southern shield., 1851-03-08
HELENA. ARKs, SATURDAY. MARCH B. ls51

Iu they shall thy walls salvation and thy gates praise"
 Come, with into the door of the Temple of Masonry. Behold, stand the herald at the porch, 10 announce to you its beauties and 10 disclose youits goe You will there find Order whose great object 1t is to curb incorporate passions, and reconcile conflicting interests To destroy the pride of conquest and the pomp of To auish from tho world every of enmity and hostility ato introduce those mild and social virtues which ges xii me9lated to preserve peace, than penal laws or ,hes Primer s To introduce the reign of peace upon o no ambitious yrant, din of arms garments rolled in blood shall disturb the universal harmony 'When they shall beat their swords into plough shares and their spears into pruning hooks when nation shall lift sword against nation, neither shall they learn any more" The charity that ncucaed by order of the expansive kind Along the bleak and dreary of life, how few the flowers that gd the scene how scattered the spots that fertile happiness? But the weary and benghed traveller the rays of charity cheer the solitary gloom its smiles enlghten the darksome prospect When the wanderer far removed from home from country, and from friends, is ready sink beneath accumulated woes and stands aghast mse haggard he then cheered by the consolaions of philanthropy and by the attentions of friendship, balm which Giead afforded, medicine which physician there could administer And IS not the recoectons of such institution pleasant the Suerer Yea, more fragrant than fields of Araby's spicesmore precious than the gold of Ophir But that charity which forms the bond o union, the of edce not crcumscribed within the bounds of feeding the hungry and clothing the naked Its influence in the social circle is far extensive and important. It teaches canddy appreciate the motives and actions of others and to record their virtues in marble, their vices in Its giving spirit calculated beneficial influence the present moment of the dscord of sections which agates society," by curbng the turbulence of ungovenabIe passions It is the moral rainbow, 'he token of everlasting covenant" which extending its luminous arch the whole social hemisphere tnges every object with it's mild and mellow radiance at attendant upon the tempest and pledge of its departure. is the Corin hian pillar of order The enabaure which gives grace and strength and beauty to the fabric of Masonry Upon this rock of ages may safely bud and bid defiance to the of caumny and detracton that exhaust their feeble rage around us
 have neither time inclination to say much in reply the objections that have been urged against Masonry Surely institution that has existed than four thousand years, dispensing good and aevaeng human utferng need not at the present day display any great senzueness the remarks of the censoous the cious As general and summary reply 10 all objections, have bot unro records and point long list of venerable and iIustrious men, whose have added ustre to our Order. To American n is only necessary point to the name of Washngon that is synonomous with illus; riouS merit.
 "A combination and a form indeed
 Where every God did seem set his seal
 To give the world assurance of a man.
 Did say that Washington American? Perhaps should rather say with the celebrated Irish orator that country claim, cline appropriate such Washington. The boon of Providence to the human race, his fame eternity, his residence creation" Washington adorned his column in the temple of Masonry, and Master of Lodge the time of his death He has passed from that earthly Lodge to the celestial Lodge high. The ightnngS may flash and the thunderS may rattle:
 He needs not, he hears he's free from all pain,
 He has fought his last fight, he has his last battle,
 No sound awake him 10 glory again.
 We can point Franklin, to Montgomery, to Greene, Putnam and host of ustrous patriots and sages of the revolution; must omit the immortal Warren, upon whom death served the of the Supreme Grand Master upon Bunker awful mount and who sealed with his blood his devotion those principles which society ncucate and he protesed We point in triumph to an innumera be host of iustrious who performing their parts with applause upon the great theatre o e tor the purity and of principles Are not united to by the ndiSsoube bonds o affection and consanguinty that bind our fellow citizens? Is country nea and her rights dear those who and msepresen u Away then with these unlound ed charges these groundless surmSes.
 But is objected to that secret society," To this reply that the veil which the mysteries ot Masonry never has been and will be drawn aside gray idle or an impertinent curiosity. We pearls before swine nor give the chidren's bread dogs and strangers But the good and the vrtuous hearts open, will they be detained at the door of the Temple. Let them knock, and found worthy, with joy and pride will receive them, till in the East they hail the gores of the rising But should display mystic signs gaze the multitude and reveal those characters which wisdom has established and time rendered sacred would destroy the most distinguishing criterion of our Mo- wisely has been directed that sacred language should be concealed from the word and shall the Masonic veil be in twan the glory depart from between the pillars, till the Supreme Grand Master shall close this earthly Lodge, and everlasting Lodge in that "houe made with hands eternal in the heavens
 Ladies' permit now in behalf of my Masonic brethren to express the high qualification feel having splendid and fascinating array of female beauty and oveness grace festive ceremonies Tho admitted by ancient rules participation in the knowledge of the mysteries of Masonry by excluded from it's benefits high regard for female character and sacred respect for womans position in society, whether mother, sister, wife, is strictly inculcated great Masonic duty. have said that Masonry at first principally operative. Your delicate hands and slender frames wholly unfit to handle and manage the rude and ponderouS materials which b,I ;,h dipr Nouy were herofo