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Article THE BOOK OF THE LODGE.* ← Page 6 of 7 →
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The Book Of The Lodge.*
lost in its perusal . Tlie remainder of the book is devoted to labour and refreshment , and the duties of the three chief officers of the lodge , which are no every day performances . Talk of water gruel , or the teetotaller ' s pure element ! These will never stimulate the officers of a lodge to the due performance of their arduous undertaking ! Stamina , both moral and physical , must be called into requisition . O Jupiter ! It would be worth a Jew ' s eye to see a Master of a lodge drivelling away upon such thin potations , and boasting at the end of his official
year" Jamque opus exegi , quod nee Jovis ira , nee ignis , Ncc potent ferrum , nee edax abolere vestustas . " As the vision of Sir Walter Scott said to Dr . Dryasdust , " I want no scandal broth , no unideaed woman ' s chatter . Fill the frothed tankard —slice the fatted rump—I desire no society but yours , and no refreshment but what the cask and the gridiron can supply . I must eat and drink as an Englishmanto qualifmyself for taking lace at one
, y my p of the most select companies of right English spirits , which ever gurgled in , and hewed asunder , a mountainous sirloin and a generous plum pudding . " And yet a female Muster would be more vigorous , and suit our fancy better than a squeamish milksop ! Give us rather the Joll y Nose who
" all down his surplice gown , When he was an Oxford scholar J " Things look better at Radley ' s ! There we have energy , fire , genius ! The officers are up to tlie mark , and the brethren a pattern to the fraternity . The actual duties of the Wardens are not much less onerous than those of the Masterthough not perhaps burdened with an equal
re-, sponsibility . Btiljunctajuvant , if they act together , and afford every necessary assistance to the W . M . in the due execution of his office , the lodge will prosper ; if not , "confusion worse confounded" will be the certain result . They are bound to keep tlie secrets ol the W . M . as strictly as the fairies ,
who" A tell tale in their company They never could endure ; And whoso kept not secretly Their mirth , was punished sure ; It was a just and Christian deed To pinch such black and blue ; O how the common welth doth need Such justices as you . " The lectures on the Tracing Boards are usuallpopular amongst the
y brethren , if delivered by the W . M . in a pleasing and graceful manner . And when Bro . Harris published his new arrangement of these necessary appendages to a lodge , which is a decided improvement on all former compositions of the same nature , several Masters objected to their introduction , because they destroyed the uniformity of the customary lecture , lf there be any soundness in this reason , which we always doubtedit is fullobviated in the " Book of the Lod" Chap
, y ge . - ters 10 and II are devoted to a consideration of these new Tracing Boards ; and they contain not merely a few hints on this comprehensive and most useful subject , but a series of continuous observations which would form of themselves an excellent lecture on the floor cloth of each degree .
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The Book Of The Lodge.*
lost in its perusal . Tlie remainder of the book is devoted to labour and refreshment , and the duties of the three chief officers of the lodge , which are no every day performances . Talk of water gruel , or the teetotaller ' s pure element ! These will never stimulate the officers of a lodge to the due performance of their arduous undertaking ! Stamina , both moral and physical , must be called into requisition . O Jupiter ! It would be worth a Jew ' s eye to see a Master of a lodge drivelling away upon such thin potations , and boasting at the end of his official
year" Jamque opus exegi , quod nee Jovis ira , nee ignis , Ncc potent ferrum , nee edax abolere vestustas . " As the vision of Sir Walter Scott said to Dr . Dryasdust , " I want no scandal broth , no unideaed woman ' s chatter . Fill the frothed tankard —slice the fatted rump—I desire no society but yours , and no refreshment but what the cask and the gridiron can supply . I must eat and drink as an Englishmanto qualifmyself for taking lace at one
, y my p of the most select companies of right English spirits , which ever gurgled in , and hewed asunder , a mountainous sirloin and a generous plum pudding . " And yet a female Muster would be more vigorous , and suit our fancy better than a squeamish milksop ! Give us rather the Joll y Nose who
" all down his surplice gown , When he was an Oxford scholar J " Things look better at Radley ' s ! There we have energy , fire , genius ! The officers are up to tlie mark , and the brethren a pattern to the fraternity . The actual duties of the Wardens are not much less onerous than those of the Masterthough not perhaps burdened with an equal
re-, sponsibility . Btiljunctajuvant , if they act together , and afford every necessary assistance to the W . M . in the due execution of his office , the lodge will prosper ; if not , "confusion worse confounded" will be the certain result . They are bound to keep tlie secrets ol the W . M . as strictly as the fairies ,
who" A tell tale in their company They never could endure ; And whoso kept not secretly Their mirth , was punished sure ; It was a just and Christian deed To pinch such black and blue ; O how the common welth doth need Such justices as you . " The lectures on the Tracing Boards are usuallpopular amongst the
y brethren , if delivered by the W . M . in a pleasing and graceful manner . And when Bro . Harris published his new arrangement of these necessary appendages to a lodge , which is a decided improvement on all former compositions of the same nature , several Masters objected to their introduction , because they destroyed the uniformity of the customary lecture , lf there be any soundness in this reason , which we always doubtedit is fullobviated in the " Book of the Lod" Chap
, y ge . - ters 10 and II are devoted to a consideration of these new Tracing Boards ; and they contain not merely a few hints on this comprehensive and most useful subject , but a series of continuous observations which would form of themselves an excellent lecture on the floor cloth of each degree .