Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-11

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Il mighty force, Professor and philosophical
e Thought has done much work in the
E world, and had infinitely more influence
r on the destinies of the human race, than
IL all the eonquerors upon battle-fieids, put
y together. Your own church is indebted
to Philosophy for many Of its great arti-
I cles Of belief; and the metaphysics OF
q the ancients are reproduced in the The
II oIogies Of the Christian world.
| Surely, Philosophy helps to fit US for
that nobler and better life that is to
come that life, our hope OF which it
assists religion in strengthening; that
4 life beyond the grim portals of the tomb,
d into which we can carry none
e of the hatreds and enmities, the
uI-will snd heart burnings, the jealousies
. and envies, and grudges of tnis portion
of our Immortality. We must leave
these miserable membranes, as we
: must leave our gold and silver and pre-
=, cious stones, heaped up behind US on the
verge of Time, as we step over into Eter-
2 nity. Tt teaches us to walk peaceably
the paths Of life, without wrangling and
: dissensi0n, TO cultivate all the humane
and social virtues, and to obey the man.
Z dates which but express the pure and
/ / perfect nature Of the great Author of the
, / Universe, so thst, when it comes TO us 70
. die. it may be said of US that we did good
: in our day and generation. Under its
> infiueneets tsmiles mingle with tears, joy
! laughs amid desponding sorrows, the arch
OF Hope and Immortality spans the
yawuing grave. With the dark holly,
the ivy, the funereal cypress and the
yew, it mingles the myrtle, cheerful en-
blem of the delights of love and the
ardour Of devoted affection, and the
magnolia with its imperial flowers and
EFfar an HAM of r.
tality than the lotus. Its truths
fall upon the doubling and desc
late heart like soft rains upon parched
places, gladdeniDg them as the sweet
dews gladden. the green leaves, and give
new beauty 70 the thirsting flowers. The
true Philosophy inculcates Truth, Love,
and ToleratiOn. Truth, it tells, US, alone
can produce. A lie, like the chatf, is
barren. AS the Earth, our great mother,
rejects the chat, so the soul Of uni
versal humanity revOlts at falsehood- AS
the grain alone sustains the body, so
Truth alone Yields fruit and nourishment
to the soul, while falsehOod, rotting and
corrUptiDg wastes TO nothing. Sown IN
whatever barren and rocky soil, Truth |
I springs up, and yields an hundred fold, /
for use and blessing. Love, of which the
sweet spring-dOWers are aH apt and Mt I
ting emblem, is the great gift and bless
ing of Gcd, Light to the Soul, joy to
/ the Heart Ike the Light and Warmth /
OF the sun to the hungry earth and the /
soft accents Of affection cheer and con-
sole the bruised and wounded spirit, as
the fragrance Of flowers is sweet in the /
chamb of sickness.
And surely Philosophy does much to /
assure US, that if we honestly endeavOr /
to live well, and to perform the duties of
this life, the Angels Of God, when we lie |
down to our last sleep in the narrow
grave, viii crown our spirits with sweet
flowers, fresh gathered from the lmmOT-
tai trees Of Paradise.
H.-You told me, the other day, that /
before | went away, you would read me
the Greed Of Hope, as you had written 1t
in Masonry.
Cit is read in one Of the degrees Of
the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite 1
Of Free Masonry, as the candidate, halt
ing in succession at twelve columns in
scribed with the names Of the twelve /
/ Tribes, makes twelve symbolic circles 1
round the Lodge.
JUDAH shall return to bis first estate, .
/ when the Empire Of Evil ends. Light, |
and not darkness, is eternal. Truth, and |
not Error, is immortal.
'ISsACHAR shall once more be free, |
when Sin and Suffering are known no
longer. Far in the Future unto US, that
day Of Light is NOW, to God. Time is
succession Of points, each in the centre
of Eternity. Evil lasts only during
Time. The Reign Of God is measured by
Eternity.
'ZEB1LoN shall fnd peace as ships
| that come out of great storms, and furl
their sails, and let drop their anchors IN
quiet harbours. For peace shall be the
universal law to all the children of a
common Father.
REUBEN, like all mankind, has wan
I dered far into the darkness. The steps
I of the Ages ring, in their stately march,
down the long slopes Of Time; and ever
/ the dawn draws nearer. Men are Gods
! instruments to accelerate its coming.
Work, Brother Be patient Wait
tSIME0N shall he reconciled to God,
when intolerance no longer persecutes,
and bigotry no longer bates; when man,
! brother of man, shall no longer be his
Z torturer, his dread, bis Fate. The waves
OF Eternity roll ever nearer to US, on the
narrow sands of Life, that crumble un-
! der our weary feet. Those on whose ears
the roar of the same surges smiles, and
whom the next wave will engulf to-
Rether, should have in their hearts a
prayer TO God, and not hatred Of their
brother.
CAD shall overcome at last; though
troop Of Evils long overcome him, as
they overcome US all. The Serpent is
stiil unclaimed. The Giants Still assail
the battlements of Heaven, and scarce
recoil before Jove's lightnings. Typhon
and Ahriman march with the port of
conouerors. But with them march the
Ages, majestic in their silence, and calm
as Fate. Centuries are the moments of
Truths twilight.
'EPHRAIM hath strayed from home,
He shall return, in tears, and penitent,
and find eternal rest. From God all
souls have emanated, and to Him all re-
turn. The wahderings Of none can be
eternal for then would evil be immortal
and God and pain and sorrow,
misery and crime would possess by alb
soiute title a portion of Gods SoYer-
eighty. -
TMANAssEH shall be restored to sight.
We are all blind swimmers in the cur
rents of a mighty sea that hath no shore.
We see, as in dream, the effects, and
not the causes. The simplest things are
miracles to US. We do not see the flower
within the seed, nor the oak enveloped
in the acorn, DOrl the colour or perfume
in the air and limpid water from which
the flower extracts them by its myste-
rious chemistry nor the soul Of her we
love, nor the WOndrous sympathies that
make humanity one. When the Divine
Light cometh we shall see and know.
'BENJAMIN shall be redeemed. and
come back from exile and captivity.
For these, like pain and sorrow and pow
erty, are blessings. Without them there
would be little excellence and heFoism in
human nature. Our exile from the
presence of the Deity, our captivity by
Sin and sorrow, are the means offered
Us by God, to purify the heart and emo
Bile the soul.
DAN shall obey the new Law, the
Low Of Love. All things, all souls are
but the tones Of one great harmony, in
which Sin and Suffering and Sorrow
miDgle as its discOrds, that only add
grandeur to the anthem they and the
concords leading BY infinite modulstioDs
10 the grand, final, perfect chord, that is
to resound through all the infnities Of
space, forever.
" ASHER shall pluck the fruit of the
Tree Of Life, that towers above the golden
spires aud overlooks the jasper walls Of
the New Jerusalem. For be and all !
shall learn to know the True God, Per- /
feet and Infinite; not angry and Jealous
nor impIacable and vindictive, but kind p,
and indulgent TO human feebleness and
frRilty; loving and forgiving, a benefac- ,
tor, friend, father.
dNAPTHALI believes and hopes. Be- ,
Iieves, that all death is new life that ali !
destruction and dissolution Is recomb bina-
ton and production; and all evil and ,
affiictiOn only the mO6e Of this great
Genesis, that shall not be eternal I
Hopes, for the time when this incessant ,
flux and change shall cease, and the ,
new Law OF Love and Light rule in all ]
spheres and over all existences and