Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

176 REVIEW OF
CHAPTER XXIX.
Containing the Great Evangelical Outlines of Free Masonry.
" When Folly's sons arise,
" Masonry to despise,
a Scorn all their spite;
" Laugh at their ignorance,
" Pity their want of sense,
44 Firmer unite."—-Mcmmic Chart.
Town's Speculative Free Masonry. Chapter lst.~" The
great Outlines of Speculative Free Masonry A
" THAT speculative Free Masonry is wisely calculated,"
says Mr. T., " to irradiate the understanding, enlarge the
capacity of the mind, and improve the heart, no man can
doubt who has been correctly taught in its principles. These
are facts capable of as positive proof as the nature of moral
fitness will admit. We are, therefore, bound by that
benevolence and charity we profess, to adopt every laudable
expedient, to remove error, prejudice, or misconception
from the public mind. On the accomplishment of this desirable
object depends much of the celebrity of the institution,
and a great accession to human happiness.
" That our minds may be refreshed on this subject, let us
turn our thoughts on some of the more prominent features
of the masonic institution." (P. 23.)
" Speculative Free Masonry, as a system," says Mr. T.,
" evidently embraces, in body and substance, the whole
duty of man as a moral being, comprising a summary of
principles conformable to the very nature and fitness of