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The Days To Come.
as unfortunately placed , and having quite as just a claim to sympathy as ourselves . Generally speaking it may be said that never was the outlook more discouraging for rich and poor alike than just now , and yet it will be found that somehow we
manage to get along from one day to the other and to make Saturday night find Monday morning just as was the case in more prosperous days . There may bethere is closer shaving , a more persistent holding on to the last quarter , but somehow
it conies about that when that is gone another takes its place , and proves that the Father has not forgotten us , and is
still a strong tower and defence to those who trust in Him . Trust there brethren , but at the same time forget not that there is a work for you to do , and that each of you may unconsciously be an instrument to do the work of benevelence assigned to usand to
, make strai ght the way for those who are to come after us . Gird up your loins to do this work and he who is faithlul to the end shall not only receive the reward , but have the consciousness of due preparation for the clays to come .
Grumble Not, Brother.
GRUMBLE NOT , BROTHER .
GRUMBLE not , brother , though dark be the night , Gloomy the shadows of life to the sight ; Others have braved them , and scaled with a cheer , The hill that divides us from sunnier sphere . Over the hill ! Over the hill !
Sunlight is glowing for ever—be still Grumble not , brother though stormy the way Others have travelled it many a day ; Foot sore and weary they journeyed along , List ' ning each day to the echoing song : Over the hill ! Over the hill !
Sunlight is glowing for ever—be still \ Grumble not , brother , the journey is short , Flitting the seasons that over us sport ; Autumn and winter bring shadows that stay Summer undying lies over the way . Over the hill ! Over the hill ! Sunlight is glowing for ever—be still !
The Origin And References Of The Hermesian Spurious Freemasonry.
THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCES OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY .
BY REV . GEO . OLIVER , D . D . CHAPTER XII . THE REFERENCE TO A TRIAD OF DEITY .
{ Continued from page 242 . ) " JAMBLICHUS , in his celebrated book , De Mysteriis , professing to give a genuine account of thetheological opinions propagated by Hermes , " writes as follows
" Hermes places the god Emeph as the prince and ruler over all the celestial gods . Now , Emeph is no other than Cneph , who piroduced in the manner before mentioned , the deity Ptha , whence the famous word Emp-Pha , denoting their relation and
indissoluble union ; before which Emeph however he tells us the same Hermes placed one primordial source of all being ; him whom he calls Eicton , in whom is the first intelligences , and the first intelligible , and who is adored only in silence . " After these two , Hermes places the Demiurgic
mind , which , in the Egyptian language , he says is called '' Amnion , but is sometimes denominated Ptah , the Vulcan of the Greeks , and at other times Osiris , according to its various operations and energies . But what is very remarkable , as being
entirely consonant with the Hebraic notions on this subject , Jamblichus adds , as comparisons to the Demiurgic Mind , and the guardian of Truth and Wisdom , the Cochma of the Hebrews , which he supposes forms the triad of Egypt . " *
" According to Jablouski , the good genius of Egypt was called , in the language of that country , Ich , or lkhnouphi , from ich , demon , and nouphi , good . Such is the interpretation which this learned writer ives of the name which the Greeks wrote
g Cneph and Knouphis . Again , Jablouski contends that Phtha was the same with Cneph . Strictly speaking there was a distinction between these deities ; Phtha
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The Days To Come.
as unfortunately placed , and having quite as just a claim to sympathy as ourselves . Generally speaking it may be said that never was the outlook more discouraging for rich and poor alike than just now , and yet it will be found that somehow we
manage to get along from one day to the other and to make Saturday night find Monday morning just as was the case in more prosperous days . There may bethere is closer shaving , a more persistent holding on to the last quarter , but somehow
it conies about that when that is gone another takes its place , and proves that the Father has not forgotten us , and is
still a strong tower and defence to those who trust in Him . Trust there brethren , but at the same time forget not that there is a work for you to do , and that each of you may unconsciously be an instrument to do the work of benevelence assigned to usand to
, make strai ght the way for those who are to come after us . Gird up your loins to do this work and he who is faithlul to the end shall not only receive the reward , but have the consciousness of due preparation for the clays to come .
Grumble Not, Brother.
GRUMBLE NOT , BROTHER .
GRUMBLE not , brother , though dark be the night , Gloomy the shadows of life to the sight ; Others have braved them , and scaled with a cheer , The hill that divides us from sunnier sphere . Over the hill ! Over the hill !
Sunlight is glowing for ever—be still Grumble not , brother though stormy the way Others have travelled it many a day ; Foot sore and weary they journeyed along , List ' ning each day to the echoing song : Over the hill ! Over the hill !
Sunlight is glowing for ever—be still \ Grumble not , brother , the journey is short , Flitting the seasons that over us sport ; Autumn and winter bring shadows that stay Summer undying lies over the way . Over the hill ! Over the hill ! Sunlight is glowing for ever—be still !
The Origin And References Of The Hermesian Spurious Freemasonry.
THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCES OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY .
BY REV . GEO . OLIVER , D . D . CHAPTER XII . THE REFERENCE TO A TRIAD OF DEITY .
{ Continued from page 242 . ) " JAMBLICHUS , in his celebrated book , De Mysteriis , professing to give a genuine account of thetheological opinions propagated by Hermes , " writes as follows
" Hermes places the god Emeph as the prince and ruler over all the celestial gods . Now , Emeph is no other than Cneph , who piroduced in the manner before mentioned , the deity Ptha , whence the famous word Emp-Pha , denoting their relation and
indissoluble union ; before which Emeph however he tells us the same Hermes placed one primordial source of all being ; him whom he calls Eicton , in whom is the first intelligences , and the first intelligible , and who is adored only in silence . " After these two , Hermes places the Demiurgic
mind , which , in the Egyptian language , he says is called '' Amnion , but is sometimes denominated Ptah , the Vulcan of the Greeks , and at other times Osiris , according to its various operations and energies . But what is very remarkable , as being
entirely consonant with the Hebraic notions on this subject , Jamblichus adds , as comparisons to the Demiurgic Mind , and the guardian of Truth and Wisdom , the Cochma of the Hebrews , which he supposes forms the triad of Egypt . " *
" According to Jablouski , the good genius of Egypt was called , in the language of that country , Ich , or lkhnouphi , from ich , demon , and nouphi , good . Such is the interpretation which this learned writer ives of the name which the Greeks wrote
g Cneph and Knouphis . Again , Jablouski contends that Phtha was the same with Cneph . Strictly speaking there was a distinction between these deities ; Phtha