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Notes On Literature, Science And Art.
0 f South Africa , this project has the support of Lord Carnavon , who has written that he feels much interest in it . The promoters of the Exhibition , merchants and members 0 f the Legislative Assemblies , do not sin on the side of ambition in the programme have forth is made to
they put . No attempt cause the Exhibition to bo an art gathering . Utilitarian objects , and such as are usually soug ht in the infancy of a vigorous colonial community , are pursued . " The building , now in course of erection , is of iron and iod from that of Sir h
"lass , cop Bro . Josep Paxton , well known as the " Crystal Palace , " of 1851 . The " Athentenm " says : — " There is no nreater error than to stigmatise the Spanish as a lazy nation . Spain has her idlers and her loafers , but not in a larger proportion
than other civilized nations , while much of the daily labour in August is finished before the travelling Briton is awake ;" and ' adds : — " The resources of the country are considerable , and the people naturally frugal and industrious . "
A small volume has just been published , entitled " ' Friendly ' Sketches : Essays Illustrative of Quakerism , " by John W . Steel , in which those readers who have paid little or no attention to the literature of the Society of Friends , will find much to
instruct as well as to interest them . For no religious community , considering the smallness of its numbers , has exercised so muchinfluence during the last two centuries . In two important points the Quakers must he admitted to have kept their fingers cleaner than any other religious body of modern times . I allude to war—the worst
of all methods of settling national disputes —and to negro slavery , which John Wesley very properly described as " the sum of all villanies . '' When the drunken tragedian told the inhabitants of Liverpool that " the very bricks of their houses were cemented with the blood of the slave" the truth of
, the denunciation was as patent as its boldness . Like Charles Lamb , I must confess to a strange liking for the Quakers , considering that I never did , and never can , unless a great change takes place in me , belong to their fraternityfor a fraternity
; it undoubtedly is , in which I believe the true bond of Friendship to be much better carried out even than in our dear old Craft . With the truth or untruth of peculiar tenets
of the Society of Friends , a Masonic Magazine is not the place to enter into any discussion ; but to glance at the Society and its most important members in an historical or a philosophic manner is not to infringe that glorious neutrality which
enables the Mason to meet as a brother the good man of a widely-different religious sect or political party , and thus renders each lodge a refreshing oasis in the wilderness of party strife and sectarian jealousy . Indeed the true Freemason , more than any other man , ( whilst never forfeiting his fealty to his own religious and political convictions , ) can elevate his mental vision above the
boundary lines of sects and parties , and not imagine for a moment that he or his possess a monopolyof wisdom . Thus , I too have my admiration of that leather-suited Leicester cobbler , the son of a poor weaver , whose corn-age and disinterestedness make Mm shine more conspicuously than all the ' great
men who have borne the name of Fox , —the Martyrologist and the Statesman , clever men though they were , dwarfing much beside honest George , the " great central figure in a glorious company , " as Mr Steele expresses it , " who poured forth their blood as water ,
and counted their lives as dust , if they could but serve the interests of Truth . In troublous times moved he ; in days when crowns were shaken from the heads of those who had worn them ; when a nation revolted , and churches were changed ; when a' brewer ' became head of England , and swayed a rod
of iron ; when a king ' came to his own again , ' and his people went delirious with joy ; in years when , alternately , court , camp , and courtezanruled . Through all theseyears , George Fox lived unmoved by the political passions of the day—swerving not from his workturning neither to the right nor left .
, From that period when he felt there was One 'that can speak to thy condition , ' and his heart did leap for joy , down to his latest days , when , after he ' appeared in testimony before God , ' at White Hart Court , and could say , ' I am clear , I am fully clear ;'
no hnrnan life could be more fully devoted to one eternal object than his was . In all his years and yearnings ; in palaces and prisons ; hi populous cities and on barren hill-sides ; on land and sea , in Europe and America , for many a year , this ' man in leather breeches , ' this ' inspired cobbler , ' forsaking home joys aud earthly happiness ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Notes On Literature, Science And Art.
0 f South Africa , this project has the support of Lord Carnavon , who has written that he feels much interest in it . The promoters of the Exhibition , merchants and members 0 f the Legislative Assemblies , do not sin on the side of ambition in the programme have forth is made to
they put . No attempt cause the Exhibition to bo an art gathering . Utilitarian objects , and such as are usually soug ht in the infancy of a vigorous colonial community , are pursued . " The building , now in course of erection , is of iron and iod from that of Sir h
"lass , cop Bro . Josep Paxton , well known as the " Crystal Palace , " of 1851 . The " Athentenm " says : — " There is no nreater error than to stigmatise the Spanish as a lazy nation . Spain has her idlers and her loafers , but not in a larger proportion
than other civilized nations , while much of the daily labour in August is finished before the travelling Briton is awake ;" and ' adds : — " The resources of the country are considerable , and the people naturally frugal and industrious . "
A small volume has just been published , entitled " ' Friendly ' Sketches : Essays Illustrative of Quakerism , " by John W . Steel , in which those readers who have paid little or no attention to the literature of the Society of Friends , will find much to
instruct as well as to interest them . For no religious community , considering the smallness of its numbers , has exercised so muchinfluence during the last two centuries . In two important points the Quakers must he admitted to have kept their fingers cleaner than any other religious body of modern times . I allude to war—the worst
of all methods of settling national disputes —and to negro slavery , which John Wesley very properly described as " the sum of all villanies . '' When the drunken tragedian told the inhabitants of Liverpool that " the very bricks of their houses were cemented with the blood of the slave" the truth of
, the denunciation was as patent as its boldness . Like Charles Lamb , I must confess to a strange liking for the Quakers , considering that I never did , and never can , unless a great change takes place in me , belong to their fraternityfor a fraternity
; it undoubtedly is , in which I believe the true bond of Friendship to be much better carried out even than in our dear old Craft . With the truth or untruth of peculiar tenets
of the Society of Friends , a Masonic Magazine is not the place to enter into any discussion ; but to glance at the Society and its most important members in an historical or a philosophic manner is not to infringe that glorious neutrality which
enables the Mason to meet as a brother the good man of a widely-different religious sect or political party , and thus renders each lodge a refreshing oasis in the wilderness of party strife and sectarian jealousy . Indeed the true Freemason , more than any other man , ( whilst never forfeiting his fealty to his own religious and political convictions , ) can elevate his mental vision above the
boundary lines of sects and parties , and not imagine for a moment that he or his possess a monopolyof wisdom . Thus , I too have my admiration of that leather-suited Leicester cobbler , the son of a poor weaver , whose corn-age and disinterestedness make Mm shine more conspicuously than all the ' great
men who have borne the name of Fox , —the Martyrologist and the Statesman , clever men though they were , dwarfing much beside honest George , the " great central figure in a glorious company , " as Mr Steele expresses it , " who poured forth their blood as water ,
and counted their lives as dust , if they could but serve the interests of Truth . In troublous times moved he ; in days when crowns were shaken from the heads of those who had worn them ; when a nation revolted , and churches were changed ; when a' brewer ' became head of England , and swayed a rod
of iron ; when a king ' came to his own again , ' and his people went delirious with joy ; in years when , alternately , court , camp , and courtezanruled . Through all theseyears , George Fox lived unmoved by the political passions of the day—swerving not from his workturning neither to the right nor left .
, From that period when he felt there was One 'that can speak to thy condition , ' and his heart did leap for joy , down to his latest days , when , after he ' appeared in testimony before God , ' at White Hart Court , and could say , ' I am clear , I am fully clear ;'
no hnrnan life could be more fully devoted to one eternal object than his was . In all his years and yearnings ; in palaces and prisons ; hi populous cities and on barren hill-sides ; on land and sea , in Europe and America , for many a year , this ' man in leather breeches , ' this ' inspired cobbler , ' forsaking home joys aud earthly happiness ,