Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1898-02-03
heaven, urging to purity In this life
and pointing to q home beyond the
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and pointing to q home beyond the
clouds.
The three principal tenents of Free
masonry are brotherly love, relief and
truth. Freemasonry teaches Us to
regard the world as one family. II
extends world wide. From the plain
Of the Jordan to the isles of the sea,
from Indus TO the poie-in every
CLINE you may meet q brother Mason
When away from home, from family
and friends, weary and worn, no sighl
or sound FAMILIAR, how sweet TO greet
that mystic sign, how dear the CLASP
of brother's hand. His words you
may not understand, but you may
recognize brothers. hand. II il
serve no other purpose than to
fraternize the world, it would merit
the commentator OF all good men,
but it goes further; it relieves distress.
Wherever human suffering il felt OF
human tears may fall, there charity
may tender its aid and bestow it's Gym
pathy. II is the precious link that
ties our hopes to a better world. aFor
faith is lost in sight, hope ends in
fruition, but charity extends beyond
the grave to the boundless realms OF
eternity" 1t is aspark from the holy
altar Of the infinite one; aportion OF
the divinity in man, which escaped
tho xurork ~ nur honoo ord A.. yr,;v,
Of the fall. When all OF good besides
had fed the earth charity still fingered
around the desolation of the scene,
soothing, comforting and relieving the
nard fate of a fallen race. 1t is the
one beautiful trait of heavenly origin,
whose footprints can be seen about
our affairs all along the past. Never
lose sight of this tenet. It will beau
tify and eunoble your lives and take
from death its dreaded sting. For
charity, next to a belief In God, lies at
the foundation of Masonry.
The next tenet is truth. Truth
is divine attribute and a founda-
tion of every virture. To be good
and true is the first lesson we are
taught in Masonry. No suspicion of
falsehood or deceit should tarnish the
splendor of a Mason's integrity.
Every Mason is bound by the tenet
of his faith to obey the moral law.
Having ascended that winding STAIR
way to learn important truths, will
You forget to keep holy the seventh
day? Will you come from the quar-
ries to claim from your fellows that
which you have not honestly earned3
Do you gather the import OF that low
twelve tolling and then 60 out with
cursings on your lips and blasphemy
in your hearth Not 60, for the true
Mason, with humility and reverence,
looks to him who is and was and ever
shall be. A Mason's work is a search
after truth, whether he labor In the
clay ground between succoth and
Zeredatha, or fell cedars In the
mountains of Lebanon; whether toll
ing with burdens up that mysterious
and winding stairway, or wandering
perils OF the unfinished holy OF holies;
wherever be his journey and how
ever 1t be accomplished, this, and this
alone, is the Mason's work.
Yet there are some good men who
object to Masonry because it was
without Christ. True, it does not
claim to be a Christian organization,
yet it is so interviewer with religion
as to put every Mason upon his in
quiry. The light from the Ma
sonic order is but the guide to high
or and brighter light. The life that is
moulded by Its precepts may reason
ably hope to be led IN that way they
know not. What means that mys-
terious power in the lion of the tribe
of Judah? What is this priceless,
though rejected stone, which became
the head of the corner? What name
is this upon that white stone which nc
man knoweth save him that receivett
it7 It is not Christianity, but it points
to it as the needle to the pole, and
every Mason may look from the resur
rection of the body to the new tomt
of Joseph; from the sprig of acacia ts
the place of the skull; from the key
stone of the arch to the cross oil
Christ. So
In this age of business, some woult
ask: Does Masonry payf In dollar
and cents, no. In glitter and show
no. But it will pay in the fraterna
friendship of the good and true. It vii
pay in the consciousness of vel
spent life, in the glorious hope OF I
blessed Immortality.
Then, my brother, press on th'
plumb hne of duty; for the time vii
come, and the wisest know not hov
soon, when the golden bowl viii b
broken; when the darkness Of dealt
shall shut out the light OF our brie
day. Oh, it will pay them when 20,
catch the gleam OF that everlasting
light from the altar of the celestis
lodge. Il will pay to regain that los
word, which will bring light and liz
eternal.
4 May it be yours and mine, whe
this fitful life IL ended, when the whit
tapron and evergreen shall be place
with our remains beneath the sod,
be permitted with all the good an
true to eat of the hidden mama
that lodge whose maker and builde
is God.
Il Treloar Trocha.
/ From the Moberiy Monitor.
The Cuban trouble is forgotten
Mexico in the more important posi-
office fight. 1t 10 the opinion Of th
Mexico LEDGER that crisis has bee
reached (whatever that may NEAR
, and that something awful is liable
, happen any time. Filley 10 said to
moving on Mexico with his typewrit'
', and will camp at Salt River bridge
, noon to-day. There is fire In the o
. mans eyes and spirit OF reveni
/ controls him. His typewriter b