The true Democrat., 1857-01-27

when the expanding wings of our American eagle extend from sea to sea; when, moreover. the combined powers of the great dragon, seem to pray upon the bird of liberty, the hail of distress might serve as a sentinel upon the walls of the nation, to sound the Masonic ga- vel at the approach of evil.
 Amidst scenes of national calamity, where the deep waters of confusion fling the high waves of overwhelming ruin, she holds bea- con light, Pharas upon the boisterouS seas, which, as star of hope, points to the haven of rest. Dark and lowering clonds have some- times risen upon her disk, to obscure the burn- Ing brightness of her untarnshed escutcheon; yet, as the golden beams of the emerging sun, breaking upon the bosom of the becalmed ocean, she rises in the majesty of day glory, and while the proud waves of boiste- rous seas crowd upon her with the noise of overwhelming waters stately Rock in the midst of the troubled ocean, she noblv lifts her towering crest high above all the beating storm of its flashing confusion! The God of our fathers sustain her helm.!
 Ladies, our feelings prompt us to make a few remarks to you. The pen of the poet, the soquence of the orator, the prouder bearings of the statesman, even the martial valor of the warrior, are all cast in tributary submission at your feet And Masonry, with all the majesty of her lofty powers shall bow in submission to the smile or the frown of woman.
 There is one trait in the character Of woman. which l regard as peculiar. Man, when his better half departs from the path of virtue, can readily forsake and ultimately abandon her, who recently had been the object of devot- ed affections. When woman yields her affec- tions however she becomes invunerable.- Adverse winds may blow, poverty and even degradation itself, with all its train of squalled misery, the object of her affections may be- come incorporate, impoverished and even hope lessly sunk in the pollutions of crime. Yet the noble soul of woman, cleaves to the very a0reck and shado,o of him she once loved l. And though yiely abused by the wretch him. self, still, as the sun that relumes and brghtens when the vanishing clouds disappear the notice of his eye cheers her d,Ooping heart amidst the very horrors of despair.
 Brethren of Ashley Lodge, No. 66, I hail you happy upon your onward march in the laudible mark of moral reformation. Our cause Is good; we tread in the footsteps and follow the name of many of the most learned and distinguished statesmen, warriors and divines who have lived or died. The glowing light of their brilliant stars still gleams in the train of departed shades The ultimate design of all moral wok is, to fit ourselves and others for admittanco into the Grand Temple above!
 Permit me, however, to assure you brethren, that Masonry abstractly considered, does not fit us for admltance there. Your white aprons and white gloves, apt emblems of innocence, cannot stand before Him that sittet tn on the throne! Nay, not all the jewelry hung about you will entitle you to the true password there No Tyler stands to give you entrance No slsn or token; nay not even the Masonic voice Of distress can be regarded there. Masonry herself, with all her dignity of silvered age, reels and iauters at the tomb. She hath no garments, no robes to fit her subjects for the presence of Him, before whom the Heavens and earth fled away! Your transit Is to a diff ferent kingdom under a grand worshipful-in the city of the New Jerusalem. Nothing will avail here my bretbren, save the |" seal of tie ptrTf' by Him whose garments are died in blood. Lamentable and awful will he the state of that brother, who has worked as an acceptable craftsman in the earthly temple, who lays down his gasel in full acceptance with all worthy Masons; and yet, a the sanctum sanctorum of the Holy City, he finds no admit tance
 When fully invested with the signet of our captain general, however, fear not Though with our grand Master, you may be buried in the ruins of the temple, or cast beneath the sands of the ea,shore-the sound of Mesiah's gavel will wake you in that morn.!
 Tidings from the throne of the Lamb inform us that the lion of the tribe of Judah hath prevailed. He is able to take the book and loose the seals and read thereon! Yea, when there is no one found either in Heaven or on the earth able to raise your dead body. when all other grips have failed lie that called forth the body of Lazarus shall raise you from the ruins of the earthly to the undying glories of the Heavenly Temple.
 To you, my companions, also have word in conclusion. Your grand object is to enter through the veils into the higher sanctum sanc- forum, whither our high priest is gone. Here you cannot have admittance without the virtues of that blood, shed on Calvary. Truly, your motto must be "Holtness to the Lord"
 You have some account showing how the earthly temple was filled with the glory of the Lord. In the temple of the New Jerusalem, companions, DO lighted taper, no flame on the altar will be needed, for the Lord God and the Lamb are the light thereof.
 St. John, our distinguished patron, while exalted by the entrancing visions of the Isle, exclaims in the exalted strains of prophetic dction-"I, John sasS tie holy city-New Je- rusalem coming down from God out of Heaven; 1 looked and To! A Lamb stood on the Mount Zion, and with Him hundred and forty and four thousand"
 These are they, my companions, which have come out of great tribulation. Their bodies have long been dissolved and laid in smoIder- ing ruins, with the broken walls of the temple. Hollow winds have howled for ages OCT the ruins of the earthly Land of Canan. The cap- tive prisoners lead away have not yet been full ly ransomed from the tomb
 But fear not, companions, when our Grand High Priest shall issue an edict for the rebuild ing of these smoldered temples-a greater than Hezekiah is there. And our patron hath faithfully recorded what he saith. To Him that overcometh will give to eat of the hid den mama, and will give him white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth, saving he that receiveth it.