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Masonic Reminiscences.
whether in the Lodge when impressively delivering the charge to a newly initiated brother or when with gaze of rapt ecstacy piercing the ceiling of salon , seeming in the intensity of his abstraction to be in communion with the brotherhood of other worlds , and concluding a manly and sailor-like address * , with his usual and never failing BENISON .
And from our lofty perch in mighty Babylon ( lofty enough mayhap uneven the son of an Irish king , and in truth somewhat nearer heaven than ive ever supposed our merits could have entitled us at this side of the grave ) , in answering kindness we , even a child of thine who fondly acknowledges his Masonic father , breathe back unto thee , Br . George , o ' er land and sea , that fervid BENISON in which we so often shared when poured forth in thy fraternal aspirations .
And we feel no greater pleasure than indulging , the hope that ivhen our probationary pilgrimage and wanderings in other lands shall cease , like " the bird that seeketh its mother ' s nest , " ive may be once more gathered under thy wing , and again mid old familiar faces receive that paternal blessing ere our wearied spirit wing its flight to that better land where the ' " heavy-laden" of this world have hope of rest .
But the lion of the night , and one of the chief pictures in the gallery " of our Masonic memory was a newly initiated brother whose adventures and " hah breadth scapes" in foreign lands in connection with Ereemasonry ' were so wild and romantic as to induce in all present the wish to hear from himself his " strange eventful histoiy , " a gratification which he promised . at the next reunion , excusing himself for that evening on the score of
want of preparation , and the novelty of the scene around . So whilst awaiting the convenience of our brother , we shall wile away the time by placing before our readers the promised sufferings of poor Phil Simpson when he fancied he was made a Mason .
CHAPTER V . —PHIL SIMPSON—PRELIMINARY PARTICULARS OF THE SIMPSON EAMILY—COL . B . VISITS THE HALL —DOMESTIC CHITCHAT—ARRANGEMENTS FOR PHIL ' FUTURE—EVIL EFFECTS OF NEGLECTED EDUCATION . THE Phil Simpson class would seem to be nearly extinct , though not many
years since there were few towns or districts in Ireland which could not produce its specimen ; but what with steam and electricity ( those vigorous agents of onward progress ) ' in short , the general intermeddling of that great reforming busybody , the schoolmaster , who seems slyly creeping into the bosom of families , shedding his slow influence over fond , foolish mothers and doting fathers , the disjecta membra of the village innocent ( the gentle term
, applied in certain parts of the sister isle to what ruder people call a fool ) will at no very distant future be sought for mid the debris of ages past , and perhaps ranked among the wonders of the pre-adamite world , to be restored to their proper place in the human family by the learning and ingenuit y of some Owen of the time to come .
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Masonic Reminiscences.
whether in the Lodge when impressively delivering the charge to a newly initiated brother or when with gaze of rapt ecstacy piercing the ceiling of salon , seeming in the intensity of his abstraction to be in communion with the brotherhood of other worlds , and concluding a manly and sailor-like address * , with his usual and never failing BENISON .
And from our lofty perch in mighty Babylon ( lofty enough mayhap uneven the son of an Irish king , and in truth somewhat nearer heaven than ive ever supposed our merits could have entitled us at this side of the grave ) , in answering kindness we , even a child of thine who fondly acknowledges his Masonic father , breathe back unto thee , Br . George , o ' er land and sea , that fervid BENISON in which we so often shared when poured forth in thy fraternal aspirations .
And we feel no greater pleasure than indulging , the hope that ivhen our probationary pilgrimage and wanderings in other lands shall cease , like " the bird that seeketh its mother ' s nest , " ive may be once more gathered under thy wing , and again mid old familiar faces receive that paternal blessing ere our wearied spirit wing its flight to that better land where the ' " heavy-laden" of this world have hope of rest .
But the lion of the night , and one of the chief pictures in the gallery " of our Masonic memory was a newly initiated brother whose adventures and " hah breadth scapes" in foreign lands in connection with Ereemasonry ' were so wild and romantic as to induce in all present the wish to hear from himself his " strange eventful histoiy , " a gratification which he promised . at the next reunion , excusing himself for that evening on the score of
want of preparation , and the novelty of the scene around . So whilst awaiting the convenience of our brother , we shall wile away the time by placing before our readers the promised sufferings of poor Phil Simpson when he fancied he was made a Mason .
CHAPTER V . —PHIL SIMPSON—PRELIMINARY PARTICULARS OF THE SIMPSON EAMILY—COL . B . VISITS THE HALL —DOMESTIC CHITCHAT—ARRANGEMENTS FOR PHIL ' FUTURE—EVIL EFFECTS OF NEGLECTED EDUCATION . THE Phil Simpson class would seem to be nearly extinct , though not many
years since there were few towns or districts in Ireland which could not produce its specimen ; but what with steam and electricity ( those vigorous agents of onward progress ) ' in short , the general intermeddling of that great reforming busybody , the schoolmaster , who seems slyly creeping into the bosom of families , shedding his slow influence over fond , foolish mothers and doting fathers , the disjecta membra of the village innocent ( the gentle term
, applied in certain parts of the sister isle to what ruder people call a fool ) will at no very distant future be sought for mid the debris of ages past , and perhaps ranked among the wonders of the pre-adamite world , to be restored to their proper place in the human family by the learning and ingenuit y of some Owen of the time to come .