Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

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ing to circumstances, purely with a view " to her own profit
and praise."
P. S. " Piety—enforced-
" As a Mason, you are to study the moral law, as contained
in the sacred code/' (Preston, b. 2. sec 3.) And a
note, referring to code, adds: " The Bible; and, in countries
where that book is not known, [and where Mr« Preston's
book is,] whatever is understood to contain the wiU or law of
God."
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
" So much wrought still within them the desire
" To found this nether empire, which, might rise <
" By policy, and long process of time,
" In emulation, opposite to Heaven."
Jtftt.b.U.295. '
u THE word Mason," says the Sovereign Inspector Ge*
neral, Dr. Dalcho, (second Oration, p. 11.) is derived from
the Greek, and literally means a member of a religious
sect, or one who is professedly devoted to the worship of
the Deity."
I shall not stop to inquire of the Dr.—I beg pardon—
of the sovereign inspector general, what that pretended
Greek word is; nor to take notice of the vanity, which,
reckless of truth, would induce the unlearned reader to believe,
that the plain English word Mason, a man of wholesome
brick and mortar, originally meant, " a member of a
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