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doing good is quite as joy-yielchug as getting good . Indeed , the Great Father has said , ' It is more blessed to give than to receive . ' The work of beneficence promotes our happiness . It places us in harmony with nature . The plan of nature is that of giving . The sun gives his rays

constantly , generously , joyously ; the ocean gives its vapours to the skies ; the skies give their rains to the earth ; the earth warms and waters each seed within her bosom , and sends it up in greeness and richness , and nourishes and cherishes it

that it may give bread to the eater . The animals give their strength and swiftness to man , or lay down their lives for his sake . There is no chest for hoarding in all God ' s works ; no magazine for saving sunbeams or air or rain drops or fountains . If the sun or old ocean or mother earth should turn miser , we should soon have universal death . He who is a self-centred

self-contained ego is , in the nature of the case , wretched . The sun must shine and warm and light on their way a brotherhood of planets or be consumed by its own ardours . He who shuts up his bowels of compassion , how dwelleth the love of God in him ? The grandest heart would be choked with aneurism did it not send the

crimson tide to the remotest artery of the body . "' That man may last but never lives , Who much receives but nothing gives ; Who none can love , none can thank , Creation's blot , creation ' s blank . ' " If then , for no other purpose , I engage

in this Masonic Charity , I am compensated by being blessed in the deed . And though j have congratulated myself on the prospect of competency while living , and independence for my family when dead , I ' m not insensible to the fact that the fickle goddess of fortune may make my ' expectation vain and disappoint my trust . ' No man has a lease on life . We cannot

tell what a day may bring forth . The spark of accident , the brand of the incendiary may light to destruction our dwellings ; the worm , the cheat , the rust , may destroy our crops ; the most trusted of financiers may fail and involve us in ruin . Riches can , in various ways , take to themselves wings and fly away 1 a breath of mephitic air , a grain of feculant pus , a moment of exposure , may plant the seeds

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of sure and speedy death , and ere a year the most prosperous and vigorous among us may be bankrupt of wealth , or laid low in the grave . Already in our ' Home ' are those whose ancestors were clad in purple , and who feasted ou the fat of the earth . There are those under its hospitable shelter who bear historic names . 1 know

not in doing this work for others but that I may be providing a ' Home' for my own loved . I glory in belonging to an Order as widely diffused as the race—a brotherhood of philanthropic men—a fraternal band who will encourage me in the right , gently admonish me when wrong , protect

my fair name from foul breath of evil calumny , who will watch by my pillow when my head is aching with fatal pains , who will tenderly close my eyes when death shall put out their light , who will gently bear me to burialplant the

em-, blematic Acacia in the enfolding turf that overwraps my throbless breast , and take to their ward and protection the dear ones that I might otherwise leave in this cold and unfriendly world , uncared for and alone . "

The speaker knew not that he spoke prefiguring words . Called East , in an important case of litigation , he was returning to his home on the fated train that went down in the death-gorge of Ashtabula . The charred remains were received and

committed to the earth with Masonic rites , and in the bright morn of manhood , and when beginning to reap the first fruits of a promising professional career , he was cut down , leaving a wife and two children dependent . In a short time they were sheltered beneath the roof of the

" Home , ' and the young widow nightly thanks God , as she gathers her two fatherless boys to her knee , that her loved and lost Harry was led by a love of " the true , the beautiful , and the good " to the altars of Masonry .

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