New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-20
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The Masonic Trowel," Little Rock. says: 1T WIS
quite pleasant 10 look upon the class. in The Scot,
and 4th Of this month. The Rev. Bro Gass
Christian minister and the pastor OF the largest
kDscopal Church in the State. and the Rev Bro
Rubenstein Hebrew. and the pastor OF the largest
Hebrew congregation In the state, went side by
the thirty second degrees. These brethren are both
small in stature but large in mind and pure in
character They close observers or all they
saw and heard, and doubtless enjoyed IT,
II would seem TO follow that If the Doctors OF
has devoted the duty or determinilg tne question:
have not with all their profound learning and OPP
iihemseIyes as 70 the exact text Of revelation az
originally given. or TO protect II from error In
does not profess 10 be either learned or dogmatic.
and which at last gets it's Bible from the Church.
10 undertake 10 prescribe the exact measure OK
faith required IN its contents and that its full duty
10 itself and IT'S membership Is discharged when
creator and Father OF US all. and 10 recognition
OF revelation Of His divine will a. being embraced
within the volume which il lays before him as Its
Great Light
Some things In Masonry necessarily un-
en-, Ss DTl The true andmarks are embedded
deep in the ideas on which Masonry is built. and
OF the system and reputation or the essentials
OF Masonry. Is mater OF small moment OF h
rules OF grammar but it is OF vital Importance that
he correctly understand the great truths ana SUB
teach II a failure Is made here the entire work
i A no int Intended for parade ad display
but Tor the performance CT ennobling deeds Ritual
s a means to an end and in so far as IL secures
It's end is worthy Of place Better far poor ritual
and practical Masonry than all the robes and
pomp which wealth can procure. II pomp and cere-
mony be the end We need the thought constantly
Impressed that IL is the internal and not the
ternal qualifications which make true Masonry.
A ritual f. a work OF art. and like all works Of
art Is valuable not merely for what IL represents.
but mainly for what II suggests 10 the mind. This
is true. whether the work be a poem painting.
niece OF music or statuary The material represen-
tation may be good. and the technique beyond
criticism but II no thought feeling f. suggested
hut little value attaches. and soon tire OF them:
hut little picture OF two poor peasants In rough
deld pausng In their work. with bowed heads. at
the cali OF the bell In the little church beyond. tells
The whole story OF a life OF toll hardship and de-
votion. Men do not tire OF such pictures and the
grand lessons taught by them. SO OF our ritual
II suggests TO our minds great thoughts, in SIM
nile hornely words. To the humbiest mind there In
lesson that II can understand. and 10 the noblest
OF men grander truths yet TO be learned clearly
taught DO not change IL by word. No matter
II some OF our phrases are quaint and perhaps
passing out OF current use. hold TO them. fix them
in the memory Let our entered apprentices and
craftsmen hear them again and again until they
And them fixed indelibly In the mind. and ever
after 10 influence their daily life and conduct
Allow no novelties TO intrude themselves IN any
part of the ritual.