Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

186 FREE MASONRY PARALLEL WITH THE BIBLE.
Most Worshipful Masters; one hundred and eight Worshipful
Senior Wardens, and one hundred and seven Worshipful
Junior Wardens. And so popular is the work with
the subscribers, that seventy have set to their names from
10 to 20 copies; 18 from 20 to 30 copies; and seven
above 40 copies each. And a note at the end of the subscription
list informs, that " the whole number of copies
subscribed for, as far as come to hand, is 4353."
This work, so far as I have means of judging, did not
disappoint the subscribers; and now, after having been ten
years before the public, remains in full Credit, a book of appeal
from the taunts of enemies; a triumphant exposition
of the pure principles apd tenets of Masonry.* It is a
book for which Free Masonry is justly answerable; recommended
by her highest authorities, supported by a numerous
band of her officers, and appealed to by a multitude
of her followers; she cannot separate herself from its common
fate, with the Monitor, the Chart, Preston, and the
Book of Constitutions. These books are much occupied
with the details of ceremonies; Town's is purely didactic,
and being excellently adapted to the overthrow of the institution
it was intended to build up, I shall continue to give
copious extracts, with concise remarks. It is fit that so foolish
a quack as Free Masonry should die of her own drugs.
Town's Speculative Free Masonry, chap. iii. p. 45.—" The
general nature and design of the Masonic Institution.
Summary of Duties. Principles in the abstract.
" The %N way is now prepared to speak of the nature and
design of the Masonic institution. Its real, as well as pro*
Tested object is, to promote the highest possible good of rational
intelligences. To inculcate the sound doctrines of
morality and virtue, and deeply impress on the heart those
* In 1092, a second edition WM published in New-York.