Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-07-27
MAsoNTC INTELLIGENCE.
THE EDUCATION THAT FITS MES TO
BE FREE.


Cheap knowledge for the million, and
lectures that give smattering Of Inform
alton in science, physics and OtheI
branches Of knowledge, go but little
way to fit people 10 be free. The Swiss
maintained their independence and theil
freedom for centuries, without popular
education and the philosophers ol
Athens were the true teachers 20 whom
the Athenians owed their love for lib.
erty.
To educate the people truly, is to teach
them their rights as men, and their du-
1 ties as citizens. The pulpit would be the
/ best teacher, II the priesthood would be
content with its old office of Instructor.
/ To be able to read, Is but to possess the
means Of obtaining knowledge and the
4 knowledge tine people need is not OF
chemistry or geology, astronomy or
| physics, but Of their own nature and dig
| nifty in the scale of creation, Of the char
] acter of true and rational liberty, and OF
the means by which il can be acquired
and maintained. To people
already free, the knowledge that
will enable them TO detect the
| charlatan and impostoT among those who
seek their suffrages, and to discover the
wise and able man among those who do
or do not seek them, is the most valuable
of all. To eradicate false ideas and gross
errors in regard to religion and govern
ment, and replace them with SQUAD and
true notions, is the education which the
people need. and Masonry would fain
give them. II this could be achieved,
DespOtism would be dethroued every
where, and no more republics suffer ship
wreck; and the trade of the Tyrant, the
Hyprocrite and the DemsgOgue eeasing,
every child Of God would possess that
share in his inheritance to which his in
tellect, his virtues and his conduct should
entitle him.
From the Masonic Review and Keystonel
THE MASONIC DECALOGUE.
TRANsLATED PROM THE FREScH BY BROTHER
ALERT PIKE.
Masonry has its Decalogue, which is q
law to its Initiates. These are its Ten
Commandments
God is the Eternal, Omnipotent, Immutable
WISDOM, and supreme INTELLIGENCE and
Thou shalt adore. revere. and love HimI
Thou shalt honor Him, by practising the
Virtues !
Thy re igiOn shall be 70 do good becA-4se It Is
a pleasure 20 thee, and not merely because Il is
a duty.
wise man, thou shalt obey his precepts-
Thy soul is immortal Thou shalt do no.
thing TO degradeit!
M
Thou shalt increasingly war against vice!
Thou shalt not DO unto others that which
thou wouIdst not wish them 10 DO unto theel
Thou shalt be submissive 70 thy fortunes, and
keep burning the light Of wisdom!
Thou shalt honor thy pareutSl
Thou shalt pay resPeca and homage 10 the
Thou shalt instruct the voungl
Thou shalt protect and defend infancy and
innoeeueei
Thou shalt cherish thy wife and thy children
Thou shalt love thy country, and obey It's
laws!
Thy friend shall be TO thee a second self
Misfortune shall not estrange thee from him
Thou shalt do for his memory whatever thou
wouldst dOfor him Il he We're living.
VII.
Thou shalt avoid and Zee from insIneere [
= Thou shalt in everything refrain from ex-
Thou shalt fear to be the cause of stain on
VIII
Thou shalt allow no passion to become thy |
Thou .halt make the passions Of others profit
able lessons to thyselE
Thou shalt be indulgent to error!
TX.
Thou shalt hear much Thou shalt speak |
little Thou shalt act well
Thou shalt forget Injuries
Thou shalt render good for evilt
Thou shalt not misuse either thy strength or 1
thy superiority
Thou shalt study to know men; that thereby .
thou mayest learn TO know thyseli
Thou sualt ever seek after virtue!
Thou shalt re just
Thou shalt avoid idleDess!