The Masonic Token: A Gift BookWilliam T. Anderson Masonic Pub. and Manufacturing Company, 1868 - 289 pages |
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altar ancient beautiful bishop bonds BOUBEE brethren brother called candidate captain cere ceremonies charity Christian Church court Craft DADD darkness degree divine Duchess of Bourbon duty earth emblem faith feel Fraternity Freemasons George Oliver glorious glory Grand Lodge Grand Master Grand Mistress hand hath heart heaven HENSINGHAMS Holy HOLY of HOLIES honor human important Institution JOSEPH BRANDT judge jury King King Solomon Knight Templar labors LACONSTONE lady light Lodges of Adoption look Lord Lord MOIRA Lordship Madame Masonic Masonry of Adoption mind Mittau moral Moriah Mount Thabor mysteries mystic nature never o'er poor present principles prisoner purse PYTHAGORAS remark reply returned rich rite RUPERT sacred secret smile society solemn SOLOMON soul Speculative Freemasonry STEELE symbol Temple tetractys thee things thou thought tion triangle true truth virtue voice WHITTENBURY words Worshipful Worshipful Master WORTHAM ZILLETT
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Page 56 - And he spake three thousand proverbs : and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall : he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 226 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, "Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Page 101 - For he is good ; for his mercy endureth for ever : that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord; so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud : for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
Page 201 - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, With pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; Calamus and cinnamon, With all trees of frankincense; Myrrh and aloes, With all the chief spices: A fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And streams from Lebanon.
Page 217 - ORDER is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 190 - I live for those who love me, Whose hearts are kind and true, For the heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit, too; For all human ties that bind me, For the task by God assigned me, For the bright hopes left behind me, And the good that I can do.
Page 112 - Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father; and to my God and your God.
Page 101 - But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth ? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee ; how much less this house which I have built...
Page 106 - Therefore, no private piques or quarrels must be brought within the door of the Lodge, far less any quarrels about religion or nations or State policy. We being only, as Masons, of the catholic religion above mentioned, we are, also, of all nations, tongues, kindreds and languages, and are resolved against all politics, as what never yet conduced to the welfare of the Lodge, nor ever will.
Page 101 - ... hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for...