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it comes from some whose brains croak . It is said here that the King should say , if he could tell where to find him , unless he made good presently his proffer of gold , lie would hang him up at the Court gates ; whereby it seems he is latent aud
undiscovered , and meant so to be ; but use a child for his minister and messenger , whose innocency and age might secure him from his usage , as himself the jirincipal was like to find . Some think it is somebodwhose brains are cracked ; others a
y p lot to have got access unto the King in private for discovery of some matter against the duke ; others otherwise as fancies lead them . " *
Sermon
SERMON
Preached by Dr . COSENS , P . G . C . for Worcestershire , before the P . G . Lodge at St . Thomas ' s Church , Dudley , June 10 th , 1876 . ST . MATTHEW xxii . 36—40 verses , : — " Masterwhich is the great
com-, mandment in the law 1 Jesus said unto him , thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart , aud with all thy soul , and with all thy mind . This is the first and great commandment . And the secondis like unto it , thou shalt love
thy neighbour as thyself . " A great father of the ancient Christian Church laid down this rule : — "fn necessary things unity , in doubtful things liberty , in all things charity . " This is , in truth , a general maxim , and each will be using it in
a different way . A certain class of people make so many things necessary that there is no room left for liberty ; another class makes so many things doubtful that no room is left for unity . But in one point in this saying there can' be no misinterpretation ; no room for cavil— " in all things charity . " It seems to imply this —See the best of your neighbour in all
things , and try to imitate it . See what is good , and just , and true , and beautiful in others ; and though firm in your own ojunlon , and strong in your own faith , yet admit all that charity ought to admit for others ; they have their rays of light
perhaps-not as bright and pure as their own , but light for all that . When the Great Teacher spake the parable of the Good Samaritan , He did not say that the Jew should cease to be a Jew and become a Samaritan ; nor that the Apostles should
leave Jerusalem and join Samaria , because there was a good Samaritan . But what he did say was , that the Jew should feel that the Samaritan was his neighbour , and might be h is example . The great principle of charity isin factthe only
abiding-, , reality amid all the transient and evanescent creations of this changeable world . Charity belongs to the immaterial part of our nature , and when we fail in it , it is because the material part of our nature has . the preponderance . " For the
corruptible body jiresseth down the soul , and the earthly tabernacle weigheth clown the mind that museth . " Our material nature , our intellectual powers , our mere moral
powers may be enviable ; they may exalt us far above all other men : just as the lofty peaks of the Alps far transcend the broad valleys stretching at their base . Men look up and wonder at their height , but they think not that they must bear the rude blasts of the elements upon their
snow-crowned heads , and their sides be furrowed with the storm . They are of an amazing loftiness , but they are removed far away in an atmosphere of their own , where all is chilly aud cold ; while in the lowly valleys and upon the mountain
slopes the grass grows green , and all seems bright , and lovely , and gay . The mind is great and noble ; truth and justice are sublime ; wealth confers comfort , and sometimes satisfaction ; but love is dearei than them all , more transcendant , more
omnipotent . Now , the injunction of the Great Master in my text , is one without reservation or qualification . It is not a command for any country , or people , or creed . To love one another , as Chris gave the commandment , was new , in that it became a moral obligation laid upon the nations of the world . It was a stumbling block to the Jew in the exclusiveness of
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Masonic Archaeological Notes And Queries.
it comes from some whose brains croak . It is said here that the King should say , if he could tell where to find him , unless he made good presently his proffer of gold , lie would hang him up at the Court gates ; whereby it seems he is latent aud
undiscovered , and meant so to be ; but use a child for his minister and messenger , whose innocency and age might secure him from his usage , as himself the jirincipal was like to find . Some think it is somebodwhose brains are cracked ; others a
y p lot to have got access unto the King in private for discovery of some matter against the duke ; others otherwise as fancies lead them . " *
Sermon
SERMON
Preached by Dr . COSENS , P . G . C . for Worcestershire , before the P . G . Lodge at St . Thomas ' s Church , Dudley , June 10 th , 1876 . ST . MATTHEW xxii . 36—40 verses , : — " Masterwhich is the great
com-, mandment in the law 1 Jesus said unto him , thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart , aud with all thy soul , and with all thy mind . This is the first and great commandment . And the secondis like unto it , thou shalt love
thy neighbour as thyself . " A great father of the ancient Christian Church laid down this rule : — "fn necessary things unity , in doubtful things liberty , in all things charity . " This is , in truth , a general maxim , and each will be using it in
a different way . A certain class of people make so many things necessary that there is no room left for liberty ; another class makes so many things doubtful that no room is left for unity . But in one point in this saying there can' be no misinterpretation ; no room for cavil— " in all things charity . " It seems to imply this —See the best of your neighbour in all
things , and try to imitate it . See what is good , and just , and true , and beautiful in others ; and though firm in your own ojunlon , and strong in your own faith , yet admit all that charity ought to admit for others ; they have their rays of light
perhaps-not as bright and pure as their own , but light for all that . When the Great Teacher spake the parable of the Good Samaritan , He did not say that the Jew should cease to be a Jew and become a Samaritan ; nor that the Apostles should
leave Jerusalem and join Samaria , because there was a good Samaritan . But what he did say was , that the Jew should feel that the Samaritan was his neighbour , and might be h is example . The great principle of charity isin factthe only
abiding-, , reality amid all the transient and evanescent creations of this changeable world . Charity belongs to the immaterial part of our nature , and when we fail in it , it is because the material part of our nature has . the preponderance . " For the
corruptible body jiresseth down the soul , and the earthly tabernacle weigheth clown the mind that museth . " Our material nature , our intellectual powers , our mere moral
powers may be enviable ; they may exalt us far above all other men : just as the lofty peaks of the Alps far transcend the broad valleys stretching at their base . Men look up and wonder at their height , but they think not that they must bear the rude blasts of the elements upon their
snow-crowned heads , and their sides be furrowed with the storm . They are of an amazing loftiness , but they are removed far away in an atmosphere of their own , where all is chilly aud cold ; while in the lowly valleys and upon the mountain
slopes the grass grows green , and all seems bright , and lovely , and gay . The mind is great and noble ; truth and justice are sublime ; wealth confers comfort , and sometimes satisfaction ; but love is dearei than them all , more transcendant , more
omnipotent . Now , the injunction of the Great Master in my text , is one without reservation or qualification . It is not a command for any country , or people , or creed . To love one another , as Chris gave the commandment , was new , in that it became a moral obligation laid upon the nations of the world . It was a stumbling block to the Jew in the exclusiveness of