Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

VOWV'S SPECULATIVE MASONRY. 185
The concluding sentence of our author's first address to
his hearers is as follows: " Finally, my brethren, in view of
this whole subject, we see what a great mystery is involved
in Speculative Free Masonry."
So, a benighted philosopher, seeing a lantern attached to
a kite tail;
" Bless us! quoth be, what dreadful wonder
u Is that appears in Heaven yonder ?
" A comet, and without a beard ?
" Or star that never before appeared f
" It roust be supernatural.*
CHAPTER XXX.
Containing Free Masonry's Parallel between her Excellent
Self and Divine Revelation.
" What are these,
" So withered and so wild in their attire;
" That look not like the inhabitants of the earth,
" And yet are ont?*—Macbeth.
THE work of Mr. Town, now under consideration, has
attached to it, besides the names of its sponsors, a list of
subscribers' names, from Canada to Georgia: among them
twelve M. E. Orand High Priests and M. E. Grand Deputies;
ten M. E. Orand Kings; six M. E. Grand Scribes,
&c.; twenty-five most excellent High Priests; twentythree
Excellent Kings; and twenty-three Excellent Scribes;
four gentlemen styled Reverend; one hundred and eleven
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