Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

270 " SPIRIT Or THE DOCTRINE OF FREE MASONRY. 1 *
thousand lodges of Master Masons in these States, in all the
lodges of Master Masons in the world, the Books of Constitutions
reject " Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom
of God," 1
u The foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the
weakness of God is stronger than men." 2 But Free Masonry,
which is less than man, puts forth her Coptic prints
to instruct pupils not to believe in a God that was horn*
presuming to be wiser than the apostles of ImmanueMhan
the teachings of the Holy Spirit " When the fulnes? of
the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman
;" 3 and " the sign" eight centuries before, promised
of God through Isaiah; " Behold, a virgin shall conceive,
and bear a son, and call his name Immanuel," 4 was manifested
in the coming of " God with us ;" 5 whose name was
called Jesus, because.he should save his people from their
sins. 6
u Not to believe in a God that died." Notwithstanding.
Che inspiration of the Almighty speaks in this wise,
" Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many," having
appeared in the end of the world, " to put away sin by
the sacrifice of himself;" 7 the Lord himself, in glorious
vision, declaring to his disciple, that had fallen at his feet
as one bereft of life: "Fear not; Iam the first and the
last: I am he that liveth, and was dead, and am alive for
evermore, " 8
And by his death, " Christ is the end of the law for
righteousness to every one that beheveth ;" 9 He who was
glorified with the Father before the world was ; 10 " Who is
the image of the invisible God, the first born of every creature
; (for by Him were all things created, that are in hen-
1 1 Cor. i. 24.
2 Idem, i. 25.
3 Gal. iv.4.
4 Isaiah, vii. 14.
5 Mat. i. 23.
6 Mat i. 21.
7. Heb.ix.26.28.
8 Rev. i. 17 and 18.
9 Rom. z. 4.
10 John, xvii. 5.