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The Mystic Tie.
THE MYSTIC TIE .
Xcadbyflr . 0 . T . Corliss , at the Annivcrsavi / of Mystic Tic Lodge , No . 39 S , Nov . 24 , 1873 . ' All ties try which this universe is held , Are Mystic Ties , The atom ' s to its atom hound as well As earth to slues .
The waters in old ocean ' s bed are kept liy tliis same law , The hills rock-ribbed ami old as time have slept In silent awe . Ot Him who holds the ocean in His hand , The Mystic Tie , Buns through all nature e ' en to the utmost bound
Of sympathy . The soul that tenements in mortal clay , Was born to die , When it has tilled the measure of its day , The Mystic Tie , That erst-had bound it to this earthly sphere Is snapt in twain
, It reasserts its kindred to the sk y And lives again . AH tics are Mystic Ties . The human heart Throbs with delight AVhen joy surrounds it , or with inward smart When sorrows blight .
Around these altars , drawn by Mystic Ties , We fondly meet , Grasp the warm hand ; the warmer heart that lies Beneath , we greet . Within this mystic realm—the widow si ghs , Her hopes and fears Are g ; , rae . red up , —And -wiped from orphan ' s eyes
The scalding tears . Wide as the world our Order stands confessed , The corner-stone , Deep laid in charily and love it rests In every Zone . AVe come not here to-night as strangers come , This festal eve—Brings us as kindred'to a common home AVhere none deceive .
AA e eome to-night with music and with song , Come to rehearse Of Brotherhood and Craftsmen fresh and strong , In measured verse . The year has past , but leaves its types and forms , And at its close This Mystic Circle's still as fresh and warm
As when it rose . Tho Scpiare and Compass still tho rule and guide Of life appears . Tried by the Plumb and Level may we bide The coming years . And when the Grand Master of the Lodge above Shall summons all
To meet around the altar of llis love In that Grand Hall-May we as Craftsmen in the Mystic Tie Assemble there—Tried by the Plumb and Level , part no more Upon the Square .
Puzzles.
PUZZLES .
ISY into , JACOB XORTOH . That " the world is a puzzle , " is an old adage . Of all creation , man is tho only creature who endeavours to solve puzzles . The intelligent child delights in solving
riddles , or puzzles over some puzzling toy , or over a rebus in his book . The philosopher puzzles about tho laws that govern nature iu her various departments . The political economist puzzles over tho laws of trade and the science of government . The
historical critic puzzles how to eliminate truth from a mass of rubbish iu which former writers buried it . And the theologian puzzles about the red dragon with seven
heads m the Apocalypse , borne prove from it the destruction of tho world in the year eighteen hundred and something , while others with ecpial reason learnedly deduce therefrom , tint the last ten tribes of Israel have been transmogrified into Hottentots ,
American Indians , or the Anglo-Saxon race . And wo as Masons have also our puzzles to solve . Disraeli says , that eleven books are generally filled with lies , and the . twelfth tries to correct the eleven . When such
twelfth book appears , the adherents of the eleven—seriously known as Tories , Conser- - vatives , Old School , Orthodox , or Ultramontane — invariably raise a clamour against the poor twelfth , and he is assailed with such adjectives as infidelsceptic
, , porvertor , innovator , & c . . But if Disraeli ' s statement about one against eleven on ordinary subjects is correct , I think I may safely say , that in Masonry we have at least eleven multiplied by eleven who have written very absurdly to one who tries to
correct then- errors . And let mo here point out the advantage which the child has in its endeavour to puzzle out , say , a rebus , over his ciders in their puzzlings . Tho child , when it sets about its task , has nothing to unlearn , and as he is not the twelfth in his line of puzzling , he need not
fear of being rebuked by the learned with their usual adjectives ; but how is it with the man who happens to he the fortunate or unfortunate twelfth ? Let us look back at our so-called Masonic histories before "Bro . Findel's history appeared in an English garb , and let us also call to mind the abuse heaped upon him
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The Mystic Tie.
THE MYSTIC TIE .
Xcadbyflr . 0 . T . Corliss , at the Annivcrsavi / of Mystic Tic Lodge , No . 39 S , Nov . 24 , 1873 . ' All ties try which this universe is held , Are Mystic Ties , The atom ' s to its atom hound as well As earth to slues .
The waters in old ocean ' s bed are kept liy tliis same law , The hills rock-ribbed ami old as time have slept In silent awe . Ot Him who holds the ocean in His hand , The Mystic Tie , Buns through all nature e ' en to the utmost bound
Of sympathy . The soul that tenements in mortal clay , Was born to die , When it has tilled the measure of its day , The Mystic Tie , That erst-had bound it to this earthly sphere Is snapt in twain
, It reasserts its kindred to the sk y And lives again . AH tics are Mystic Ties . The human heart Throbs with delight AVhen joy surrounds it , or with inward smart When sorrows blight .
Around these altars , drawn by Mystic Ties , We fondly meet , Grasp the warm hand ; the warmer heart that lies Beneath , we greet . Within this mystic realm—the widow si ghs , Her hopes and fears Are g ; , rae . red up , —And -wiped from orphan ' s eyes
The scalding tears . Wide as the world our Order stands confessed , The corner-stone , Deep laid in charily and love it rests In every Zone . AVe come not here to-night as strangers come , This festal eve—Brings us as kindred'to a common home AVhere none deceive .
AA e eome to-night with music and with song , Come to rehearse Of Brotherhood and Craftsmen fresh and strong , In measured verse . The year has past , but leaves its types and forms , And at its close This Mystic Circle's still as fresh and warm
As when it rose . Tho Scpiare and Compass still tho rule and guide Of life appears . Tried by the Plumb and Level may we bide The coming years . And when the Grand Master of the Lodge above Shall summons all
To meet around the altar of llis love In that Grand Hall-May we as Craftsmen in the Mystic Tie Assemble there—Tried by the Plumb and Level , part no more Upon the Square .
Puzzles.
PUZZLES .
ISY into , JACOB XORTOH . That " the world is a puzzle , " is an old adage . Of all creation , man is tho only creature who endeavours to solve puzzles . The intelligent child delights in solving
riddles , or puzzles over some puzzling toy , or over a rebus in his book . The philosopher puzzles about tho laws that govern nature iu her various departments . The political economist puzzles over tho laws of trade and the science of government . The
historical critic puzzles how to eliminate truth from a mass of rubbish iu which former writers buried it . And the theologian puzzles about the red dragon with seven
heads m the Apocalypse , borne prove from it the destruction of tho world in the year eighteen hundred and something , while others with ecpial reason learnedly deduce therefrom , tint the last ten tribes of Israel have been transmogrified into Hottentots ,
American Indians , or the Anglo-Saxon race . And wo as Masons have also our puzzles to solve . Disraeli says , that eleven books are generally filled with lies , and the . twelfth tries to correct the eleven . When such
twelfth book appears , the adherents of the eleven—seriously known as Tories , Conser- - vatives , Old School , Orthodox , or Ultramontane — invariably raise a clamour against the poor twelfth , and he is assailed with such adjectives as infidelsceptic
, , porvertor , innovator , & c . . But if Disraeli ' s statement about one against eleven on ordinary subjects is correct , I think I may safely say , that in Masonry we have at least eleven multiplied by eleven who have written very absurdly to one who tries to
correct then- errors . And let mo here point out the advantage which the child has in its endeavour to puzzle out , say , a rebus , over his ciders in their puzzlings . Tho child , when it sets about its task , has nothing to unlearn , and as he is not the twelfth in his line of puzzling , he need not
fear of being rebuked by the learned with their usual adjectives ; but how is it with the man who happens to he the fortunate or unfortunate twelfth ? Let us look back at our so-called Masonic histories before "Bro . Findel's history appeared in an English garb , and let us also call to mind the abuse heaped upon him