Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

IX THK ANCIENT SAMARITAN CHARACTERS. 215
To conclude with a short extract from our author's address
to lodges and chapters : -
" Brethren and companions, in the foregoing pages you
have seen some of the outlines of the great body of the
masonic system. Search deep into those hidden mysteries
to which your profession leads. Raise your admiring views,
and look abroad into the vast fields of masonic research.
You may view the collective excellencies of the whole moral
system, summarily comprised in the body of Speculative
FreeMatonry." (p. 205.)
Such is modern Free Masonry, according to Mr. Town,
and the grand chapter, and the grand officers. Such is the
work certified by the grand chapter to be " a most valuable
production on Speculative Free Masonry," and which
the grand officers say, " we do most cordially recommend
as a most valuable production, and, in our opinion, calculated
to advance the general interests of the masonic institution,
and open a field for individual improvement in masonic
knowledge, MORE than any WORK which, to ,our knowledge,
has appeared before the public." Excellent! And
all this under their own sign manual.
The Past Deputy Grand High Priest, the Most Excellent
Z. R. S. of 6. goes still farther. " I have examined Companion
Salem Towa's Addresses to the Grand Chapter
of New-York, and for extent of masonic research, correctness
of masonic principles, and fervency of piety, I consider
them UNEQUALLED."
" Reader, what think you of Speculative Free Masonry ?
—Vox et pretera nihil ?—
u In hoc est hoax, cum TEKCLet pretences,
" Et blindem, boastem, foolemque the folkses,
"Fee! faw! fam\"—Salmagundi.
P. S. To pass, without further notice, thirty pages of
Mr. Town's book, entitled, u Evidences that Masonry has
been the medium through which the Pentateuch, or five