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PRINCE OF MERCY. 375
Masonic light, second emanation from the Deity,
can discern the golden threads, God's hieroglyphics,
written when time began ; and read them aright, as
they were read by our ancient brethren in the early
ages!
S.'. W:. Thus in all ages the word of God, his
thought, not uttered in a voice audible to mortal
ears, has spoken in the souls of men, and taught
them the great truths of reason, philosophy, and
religion. Fortunate the Mason to whom that word,
the Deity manifest, is audible, intelligible, signifi-
cant ; God's thought, that made the stars and all
that is, and the great laws of harmony and motion
31.'. E.\ Thus in all ages rosy gleams of light,
piercing the dark clouds of error, have taught man-
kind that truth and light, perfect and glorious, linger
below the horizon, in time to rise to fill God's uni-
verse with light and glory, at the dawn of his pro-
mised day. Fortunate the Mason, who with firm
faith and hope accepts these struggling rays that
gild the clouds, as ample evidence that in God's good
time his dawn of day will come, and be eternal.
CHANT.
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You have assumed the name of Constans, and thus
profess yourself firm, intrepid, and persevering. This
Lodge represents a Lodge of Christian Masons held
at nighiv in the gloomy catacombs under Rome, va
!