Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-11-02


covenant was guarded by the angels of
the Most High; ages before Nebuchad-
nezzar swung the gardens of Semiramis
in the air, or herded with the beasts on
Chaldean plains, whose brazen pillars
held the deposits of the craft before the
wolf sucked twins laid the foundations
Of the Roman empire, or meditated the
Sabine rape to crafty the lust Of their
ick-necked followers, whose glitter
minarets pointed to the pleiades ceLtur-
les before the egotistical Xerxes welded
the ocean waves in his pride or ,scourged
them in his disappointment and fury;
whose "Holy Of Holes" was flied with
the glory of Divine presence, while the
material for the Sphinx still slum bered
IN the mountains, which guarded the val
ley Of the historic Nile and before Thebes
opened her hundred gates to the armed
hosts of Ramases. Applause.I n
It seems to gratify thh inlnost nature
Of the pessimist to note the failings Of
humanity. He scornfully points the
skeleton finger Of his criticism at the
professed Christian, who in moment Of
weakness s1ccum bs to the wilas Of the
ungodly and inWardly thanks the gods
that he is not as other men. He remarks
with evident satisfaction that Masons are
not always patterns OF morality anil vir-
tue "as they should be and cohdems the
mystery Of religion and Masonry as un-
worthy Of esteem; he fails to see "ser-
mons in stones" and good in: everything,
but sets himself up as judge Of the
frailties of his brother man, forgetting
the charitable instincts of the human
heart, which admits thnt man never yet
attained perfection and fails 10 remember
with reverential awe that Divinity has
said "judge not" Applause.
I acknowledge with sorrow that Masons
and Christians alike, being human, are
liable to err, neither the one nor the other
will deny the fact. Lucifer was an angel
Of light, but he fell. Men have led good
and pure lives, walking uprightly before
God and man, till age bleachsd their locks
and bent their forms and then ended
their days in felon's cell. Il
Women have attained motherhood, led
prattling children to the feet of the Saw
ior, guided their tender feet through the
intricate paths Of the world till their
years and experience fitted them for
the cares and duties Of life and then weak
humanity gave way to the tempter and
the erstwhile Christian wife and mother
departed from the paths Of virtue. But
why should the frailties of the few be
nu mau who ava,n,,l;+v IL ~ az daiiy 1inas
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