Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-17

I congregations, ana ferVent prayer Is
Offered for the sick Episcopalian. When
sorrow visits the homes Of any Of these
men, deep Is the sympathy Of the Others
for him. When the rector goes abroad,
one OF the three Roman Catholic priests
addresses him with 3 kind proposal to
provide q gift Of q stout horse for his
comfort. The same priest (nOw a Ro-
man Catholic prelate) recommended to
his people always to show marked re-
spsct to the ladies Of this rector's family
when they met them walking. Another
priest writes courteous letters, and
makes the best delineatiOn in his power
OF his own church. Another priest
wRylays this rector on his return
from paroohial visitations, and asks
him, with hearty good will, to
refresh himself with cake and
wine. The Roman Catholic parish
toners delight to send fish, new potatoes
and bulky caulifiOwers to this rural rec
tor. When anv of his family are sick,
great Is their concern. When q daugh-
ter, who loved them all, and even min
istering to the sick and poor, was dying,
last year, prayers were offered up IN the
Roman Catholic houses iu her behalf
Nay. "tell It not in GATH" when the
rector was some time since dangerously
i'll, prayers were offered up for his recoV-
cry in the Roman Catholic chapel Of the
priest. The reader may be anxious to
know the name Of the parish and the
rector, and so, not to prOlong s mystery
which ought to be no mystery, the par
ish is LOughinisland, and the rector is
DR.. Drew, Chaplain to his excellency,
Chaplain To the Right Honorable the
I Earl OF EnniSkilleB, and Honorable
Grand Chaplain to the Grand Lodge OF
Ireland.
"a RROTHERe" THE AsTOETsHED
/ AHAR CRIED
I" Dog the neHce victor cried, "racelvs thy
Fpvpt's i've vultures be thy only tombl"
! The auce was raissd--oniy one hope re NAMED
With iigh uound MS Ieet letliOsl sl-e s kel.Si
Ana oer MS brow high traced the MYSTIC
The baGEe OF PKAcE-of CHARITY divine.
Z. BRO her? " the astonisned Arab cried
! 81 own The ils-sreely my tent divide"
/ The up "a illed, the sOftest mat prepared;
! The esert > rude repast wss 'ranSly shared
I The waudarer .gu. .ded, the returning day,
] To v ere his Gallo friends encampmel Il lay
I He live TO bless the 9 eat Masonic tie
! OF g BROTHERHOOD, RELIEF and CHARITY"
Pure Masonry teaches no creed but
| that of the universal religion, and what
ever of sectarianism is now apparent in
its rituals and monitors Is the work OF
innovators who have succeeded to q
greater or less extent in impressing their
OhAl HtEulla4 lNiEe VI bEAiEA OA AAA1 AANAeA
istic ohservanees Of the craft, and by
constant tseration have made the phrases /
so familiar that to question them is by |
many deemed rank heresy. We object !
to them, nevertheless, because we know |
that Masonry was never intended to /
usurp the offices OF religion, nor to be- /
come the arena in which sectarian differ /
ences are to be taught or fought about 1
MuItitudes Of Masons believe in a state I
Of future and endless punishment as |
peculiarly fitting to the idea Of a just l
God and fallen man; multitudes believe |
the very reverse doctrine, that God VIII |
have all men TO come unto HIM, and |
finally make ali holy and happy; but 1
their beliefs or their differences have /
nothing to do with Masonry, nor can /
they have, for when such matters can he 1
csnvassed and voted upon in our assem- |
hlies, Masonry will have closed its Ia 1
bOrs and scared 20 3 higher and better I
sphere.
We think that the social feature of 1
Masonry needs better cultivation than I
has been accorded to it for many years 1
past. You, of course, understand that to
be social we need net necessarily be con-
vivial; or in other words, that /
there are other means Of enjoy 4
memo besides eating and drinking, I
not that such things are 10 be despised,
Tor they are exceedingly good in their
way, but that they can be soeiable ana
social apart from other considerations.
In too many Of our Lodges kFe main idea
is to create q heavy mem bership, In 4
others 10 hoard up large fund, in very
few to bring together men OF assimi-
lating ideas, and by the aid o. the
mystic tie unite them as brethren in
deed as we'll as in name. In large
body Of men this idea will be to great
extent impraCticable, because, from
various causes, no fair proportion OF the
whole will be constant attendants at the
meetings; many, indeed, will only ap-
pear at rare intervals; and this mere ac-
quaintsnoeship, to say nothing OF the
closer relation of friends and BRETHREN Is
never fully formed. The members OF
such Lodge msy pass each ether IN the
street as strangers, not from any lack OF
cordiality, but because they have no
opportunity 10 become well and int
mately acquainted. While We are so
largely occupied in initiation, the soul OF
Masonry il, so to speak, kept in allegiance,
and many heBrt grows cold because
il finds in the mere forms no congenlai
response to its own lODgings, no tueI 10
feed the flame upon its own altar. Too
many of our Lodges are, in certain
sense, like great hotels, where the luxu-
ries and glitter Of life abound, but where
the gentle influences Of quiet home are
unknown. Our Lodge ought to be our /
Masonic home, and We should attend It's .
communications with the same feeling /
that makes it so pleasant to enter the /
domestic circle. When u man enters his I
house he knows that the pleasure spark /
ling in the eye OF the good wife and |
the more demonstrative joy Of the I
little ones is purer and more free from /.
guile than anything else on earth 4; be |
puts aside the cares OF the world, and /
feels for the time that kings might envy |
him. Masonry is peculiarly calculated /
10 engender and foster kindred spirit |
aud we ought all to strive 50 to arrange /
our affiliations that We could go to Lodge I
to find not only brethren in the general
acceptation OF the term, but warm, per
sonal friends, aud leave it as We leave |
home to 20 about our svOcatiOns, long |
ing TO renew the happy scene" When |
the brethren appreciate this idea, and |
act upon. IL, Masonry will be, perhaps,
less popular, but certainly more useful
than 50 present. National FreeD1dSOH. !
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