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SO BOOK OF THE A. AND A. RITE.
ness of my neighbor will not submit to my wicked-
ness. Therefore deal faithfully, but patiently and
tenderly, with evil.
Remember that it becomes not frail and sinful
humanity to be vindictive towards even the worst of
criminals. Perhaps we owe it solely to a kind Provi-
dence having kept from us those temptations, under
which we, too, like them, would have fallen.
Finally, as a true Mason and Judge, always re-
member the injunction :
" Thou shalt not respect the
person of the poor, nor honor the person of the
mighty ; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy
neighbor."
Beware of injury to your neighbor. If you have
wronged another, you may grieve, repent, and reso-
lutely determine against any such weakness in future
you may, so far as it is possible, make reparation.
This is well. The injured party may forgive you,
according to the meaning of human language, but
the deed is done, and all the powers of Nature, were
they to conspire in your behalf, could not make it
undone ; the consequences to the body, the conse-
quences to the soul, though no man may perceive
them, are there—are written in the annals of the
past, and must reverberate throughout all time.
Kepentance for a wrong done, bears, like every
other act, its own fruit—the fruit of purifying the
heart and amending the future ;
but not of effacing
the past.
Even the pulsations of the air, once set in motion
;