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DR. DALCHO *S OPINION Of THE MASTER'S DEGREE. 97
fane history, written by men of integrity and tfdenH; and
that, too, in a minute after I have solemnly pronounced them
to he undeniable truths, even by that very Bible on which I
hone received their obligation"
The author informs us in a note, that at the time of delivering
this oration, he was Master of Symbolic Lodge, No,
8, South Carolina. He, as Master of the lodge, was called
at every initiation of a brother, to repeat to him this tradition
of the third degree, so much accounted of by the
Monitor and Chart, and ordinary Masons; and he candidly
confesses: il I feel a very great degree of embarrassment,
while I am relating to a minister of God's Holy
Word, or to any other gentleman, of science, a story founded
on the grossest errors of accumulated ages; errors
which they can prove to me to be such in a minute after I
have solemnly pronounced them to be undeniable truths,
even by that very Bible on which I have received their obligation.
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" A second Daniel come to judgment! Mark, Jew!"
It is my purpose largely to introduce the Orations
of Dr. Dalcho, Sovereign Inspector General, at a more advanced
stage of the work; when it will appear that his Masonic
knowledge, consequence, and authority, is sufficient
to eclipse that of the Monitor, Chart, and, perhaps, the
Book of Constitutions, put together. He is too honest to
solemnly pronounce, without embarrassment, as undoubtedly
true, what an intelligent gentleman