Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-03-16
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The Secret Of being Hap.
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Tie good old Masonic charge,
of being happy aud communica-
ting happiness,' is to us one of the
most philosophical and sensible of
them all, for after we shall have
reduced the whole end and u1m
OF our existence to a given and
practical point, it results in the
fact of the above charge.
Happiness is the direct oppo-
site of unhapriness, and unhap-
piness i; hell. Everybody wants
to escape hell, therefore the only.
way to do it is 10 be huppy, anG
!, TO be happy. one must be conten-
led. Perfect contenIment is the
highest human IDEAL of heaven,
therefore to enjoy heaven, one
must possess the .pirit of perfect
ease in body and mind. In the
human state, this is physically
impossible; ts:at is, IL its absolute
Sense, but if any freemason will
only live up to the exact Princi-
piles of our institution, he will
come as near that ideal as it is al
lowed for mortality TO approach.
FreemasOnry teaches a perfect
, equilibrium in all things-it is
strictly and absolutely cosmopoF-
itan, therefore no Mason can
consistently be excessively intern
perate in anything. This is u
, most wonderful secret-it is one
of the mysteries of the Institution
which only obout one mason, even
in a hundred ever discovers. II
l is sad, but it is true. This is equal
l ly true, mentally, as we'll rs phys
p ically. A man who NEEDLES, in
! every body else's business has
undertaken more than God as
signed him and he will never get
through with it, either to his own
or any body else satisfaction.
i A man who sets himself up az
T a censoa of other peoples
thoughts has assumed the prero,
: gatives of God, and he will make
an awful botch uf it before he grt+
half Through with it. A man who
1Iscts himself up as chef mourner
t and wears O Grape like counten-
lance Because all the world does
not think os he does, will finally
dies, and not a soul be left to shed
O tear over Ills own grave. A man
gossips about a2d sows dis
cord amung the brethren Is one
of thcse miserable creatures who
have evidently been sent on ea-ulr
inst as brirrs were, to teach men
that there are ranle places where
seven angels cannUt tread without
being stuck. The BlSle has plac-
led angles everywhere except in
a briar bush-we never find thC::u
among gcssips-uobody wLs c.
liver yet known to SANDER au an
,lgle-angles, even summed a COS
Ever since the creation OF
, the world, God has been trying
to teach men that lie made them
and the world, but they won
believe it, and are eternally try
, ling to make it all over again.
,IThank God, they cannot do it, or
else we would have a word in
which nobody could live and then
, the FREEMAsoN would have no
seekers after the light. .
! Brethren: the secret o. harpi-
ness is to take the world as God
, made it, and if you find anywhere
that men are trying to undo His
work and to reduce it to a state
of darkness and barbarism, let
your own light SO shine, "that
they seeing your good works. may
glorify u Father who art in
Heaven E5r .ar
1t is not exactly possible that
any of US will have the imper-
Thence to set lights up as
the world; therefore, the best we
can do, is to do the best we can.
Love the Lord thy God with all
thy hear, with all thy soul and
with all thy strength, and love
thy neighLor [brotbcr as thyself.
lis a Commandment on which
"hauss all the law and the pro-
phets," and it will not hurt some
of our freemasons much to try
and live up to it, A brother
was heard some time ago-after
delivering a most ungenerous
TRADE against certain other brett
eren in which he brought the
name of Heaven as a part of bis
apostrophe,--that he hoped his
companions would forgive him
for 'nsing that name lightly be-
fore the alter lie had much
better pray to Almighty God to
forgive for not loving his breth-
rem as much as he did himself.
sIfye love not your brother whom
re have seen, how can we have
love for God Whom We have not