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 THERE are two forms of Masonry upon which I will 
 speak to-night — the speculative Sin<\ the operative^ which 
 are not united. The operative one was tlie primary force 
 of Masonry, while the speculative is now the most prom- 
 inent. How came they to he separated ? And will they 
 ever again he united ? I want to show you to-night how 
 they came to he separated, and how Masonry itself origi- 
 nated, and in connection therewith, to turn your attention 
 to the great Pyramid, for there are secrets connected with 
 this structure that will throw some light on our Masonic 
 conduct and ideas. 
 
 You will understand that when the world was overflown 
 by the flood, men had been living from i,6oo to 2,000 
 years. The average of the life was about 400 years. Now, 
 a man could pick up considerable information in 400 years 
 if men were as smart as we now are. Only eight persons 
 were left from the destruction caused by the flood. What 
 became of all the sciences, of the advancement and know- 
 ledge which the people prior to the flood gained ? Is it to 
 be entirely lost ? Shall there be no ke}' to the scientific 
 attainments, and the progress of these ante-diluvians for 
 those 2,000 years ? Will Providence start the luuiian race 
 anew and blot out all that has gone before ? I think not. 
 But how will this knowledge be preserved to us ? I 
 believe it was arranged in the order of divine Providence 
 that Shem should be the one to embody all tlie scientific, 
 geometrical, sociological, and every other kind of know- 
 ledge that would be profitable to the new world, and that 
 God ordered Shem to construct, after the flood, the Great 
 Pvramid for this purpose — that is the Great Pyramid. 
 
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 There are five hundred others, but all are mere imitations 
 of this the largest which was built about 2,170 B.C., and 
 which is situate a short distance from Cairo on the western 
 banks of the river Nile. The builders located the immense 
 structure on a limestone rock. Shem was a very proper 
 person to be entrusted with such a charge, as he was born 
 one hundred years before the fiood, and lived for at least 
 five hundred after it ; in fact, he lived some fifteen years 
 after Abraham was dead and gone ; he. lived, too, long 
 enough to instruct the new world by bringing the know- 
 ledge of the old to I'^em. By a kind Providence he was 
 directed *:o put all tliis knowledge into one building. 
 Having thus stored away these scie'.ices, a specidati\)e 
 Masonry was then formed. Whenever the world should 
 want any truth of a mechanical, geometrical, astronomical 
 or commercial kind it could go to this stone monument, 
 unlock the door and there find the secrets necessary for 
 its further progress. You are to understand that that 
 building contains all the sciences to whvh we will ever 
 attain. There is not a single truth that we have yet 
 arrived at which is not embodied in that building, but 
 when Masonry became speculative, men in some way 
 degenerated and thus lost the key to the great building, pre- 
 venting them from entering it, and without this key it was 
 very difficult to mterpret the great systems of tru^h that 
 are contained therein, in fact, we know but little concern- 
 ing it now, and what we do know has come to us by the 
 ripest scholars who had instruments to test and geometrical 
 skill to measure and scientific knowledge to lay it before 
 us, and as we increase in science and knowledge we will 
 increase in the power to interpret the great f\ind of know- 
 ledge stored up in the vast stone building. 
 
 The diagram given elsewhere shows the Pyramid cut 
 in two from north to south, and we are looking west. The 
 interior, or sectional view is thus shown. When complete 
 
tlic pyramid covered 13A acres, and rose to a iieijjjht of 468 
 feet and a fraction. The outside casinpj stones were of white 
 marble, twelve feet in length, five feet in depth, and eight 
 feet in breadth — 25 feet altogether, which is the sacred 
 cubit of the Scriptures. When complete, it rose like a sort 
 of diamond mountain with no entrance apparent at an} 
 point, yet there was a stone which the pressure of the hand 
 would have turned on a swivel. The secret entrance was 
 not found until a few years ago, when John Taylor, a 
 London (Eng.) merchant, gave special study to the great 
 building, and came to the conclusion that it was measured 
 off astronomically. His studies enlisted the interest of 
 astronomers like Prof. Herschel and Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth. 
 These studied certain stars and conjunctions of stars, 
 and discovered tliat when their inclination would strike 
 the earth, they would strike Egypt ; another minute cal- 
 culation brought them to the Pyramid, and still another 
 to its north side, 300 inches east of the centre and forty- 
 nine feet from the ground. Thus was discovered the 
 door and thereby produced positive proof that the build- 
 ers of the Pyramid understood what the}' were doing 
 and were regulatmg things on earth according to the law 
 which regulates things in the heavens. There could be no 
 chance in a thing like that. The 300 inches east of the 
 centre, or the axis of the Pyramid, is just that which the 
 earth's axis is askew 'from the plane of its orbit, so they 
 symbolized the very rotation of our earth in that structure. 
 The door being placed forty-nine feet from the ground 
 corresponds with the inclination. Looking out at the stars, 
 once a year when the north star is at its lowest culmination, 
 30ir will see that star in line with one of the passageways ; 
 another time of the year when that star is at its highest 
 culmination, it is in line with another passageway, so the 
 very stars were made to point an entrance to this great 
 JSTasonic Temple. 
 
Ill the ninth century an Aral* Cinel untlcrlook [o cilccl 
 an entrance and du*; for two years. He too starteil on tlie 
 north side, showinj^ tliat tradition had correctly come down 
 to him on tliat line. The Pyramid was desij^ned to emboely 
 all the astronomical and scientific kiiowledge of the ante- 
 diluvians for our <(ood. The jeight survivors of the flood 
 would not want to practise all the sciences. What would 
 eight men want to do with a railroad, or a telephone ? 
 These antediluvians were, I have no doubt, as wise as we 
 are to-day, and had their railways and telegrapiis and tele- 
 phones. Vou may say there would not be a sufficient 
 number of them to require these things, but there were 
 more living then, at the lowest calculation, than now, 
 though 1 would not go as high as Dr. Buck when he says 
 they were eighty times as numerous as we are. Make some 
 standard — say you take Abraham's family. In 430 years it 
 would number two millions, on the basis of their lives 
 averaging fifty years, but how many persons would you 
 have in two thousand years when life's average was 4(;o 
 years ? Vou would find as many living then as now. 
 
 People are wonderfully astray in their ideas as to the 
 ante-diluvian world. Adam, as the son of God, was well 
 educated, thoroughly prepared to train his children, and 
 thoroughly familiar with the heavens and earth and all 
 the great secrets of nature. The knowledge given to him 
 was stored up in the Pyramid — kncwvledge which if we hail 
 known would have enabled us to have made a railway 
 engine long ago ; to have made an astronomical chart long 
 ago, and to have prepared a standard of weights and 
 measures long ago. There is not a scientific fact we have 
 attained unto that is not confirmed by the Great Pyramid 
 which was constructed, as I have said, for the special 
 purpose of embodying the knowledge of the ante-diluvian 
 world therein, until the inhabitants of the earth after the 
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 and the speculative in Masonry, antl since tlien it has been 
 chiefly on tlie hne of the speculative. I believe we can 
 trace the origin of the three degrees of Masonry to the 
 construction of the Tower of Babel when there was ron- 
 fusion of languages and the dispersion of the peopl« I 
 believe that the three sons of Noah then created a Masonic 
 language that should be a sign to all their descendants 
 wherever they might wander. The ability to speak this 
 tongue would be a sure indication that they were of the 
 same race, of the same father and of the same brotherhood, 
 and in this sense, Masonr}- stands to-day as one of the 
 finest proofs of the unity of the liuman lace in this world. 
 Savage nations have had this institution among them from 
 time immemorial, and how would you get it around the 
 world if you did not start it with those who were dispersed ? 
 If you object to that conclusion you have a greater diffi- 
 'culty to account for this fact otherwise than by believing 
 that the three sons of Noah were directed by Sheni, 
 their great Grand Master. 1 w^as told by Dr. Lang, a 
 member of the Queensland Parliament, of an exploring 
 expedition he made into the interior of Queensland. After 
 travelling two or three days without encountering any 
 natives, his party at last met a tribe whose langrige 
 neither he nor his native interpreters could understand. 
 The wild tribe were showing signs of hostility when the 
 traveller and his white companion, as a last resort, gave 
 them the signs of the first three degrees of Masonry 
 when several of the blacks responded intelligibly enough 
 to be understood in the Masonic language, and they were 
 thus protected and saved. The question is : How did these 
 natives get these secrets ? They had no knowledge of 
 an3'one living in the world but themselves, and had lost 
 the traditional idea of white men. They must have got 
 this Masonic language b}' descent from the dispersion of 
 
the sons of Noali. Thai is tlie easiest way to answer the 
 (juery, and if you try and answer it otherwise you will 
 certainly have more trouble. You remember that General 
 Fremont in his overland route, was attacked by Indians^ 
 and was only saved by crying out in this Masonic language, 
 when he at once got protection. Some of the Indian (Chiefs 
 seemed to have a sufficient though imperfect intelligence of 
 the language to be understood. 
 
 Some begin Masonry with Solomon, but that is a great 
 mistake. Both Solomon and Hiram were as familiar with 
 Masonry as I am. Solomon sent to Hiram, his brother 
 Mason, to come to his help in building the Temple. Nor 
 did Masonry begin two hundred years ago as some writers 
 claim. They mistake lapses and re-reformations for crea- 
 tions just as some people begin the Church of England 
 with the Reformation. Not at all. The Church of England 
 begun in the first century in Britain, and has had an 
 existence ever since, though it has sometimes been up and 
 sometimes down. So Masonry has sometimes been almost 
 crushed by antagonistic rulers but only to rise to view 
 again. It is as old as the Pyramid, and its three degreeSr 
 I repeat, originated at Babel, and were spread through the 
 world by the dispersed people. Masonry as a system is 
 peculiar, and yet conservative; it tends to the real interest 
 of the individual as well as to the interests of society 
 collectively. As an organization it accepts certain great 
 principles — principles that are Christian in their very 
 practice. (Applause) I make bold to answer the objection 
 of some that Masonry is placed before the Church. Now^ 
 my friend, what do you understand by '* the Church," and 
 by Christianity ? What is Christianity ? That which is 
 right in practice and in experience. Christianity is " twice 
 two makes four," and that, in dealing with a man, you deal 
 with him on that line ; it is truth in every department, and 
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 or that, is a Christian. The troul)lc is that pooplt- <om- 
 found the organization with the Church. The Church of 
 the hving (iod is conijMjsecl in its lar<(est sense of all who 
 are saved by the covenant mercies of God in Christ Jesus 
 that have lived, are now livnif^s or who have passed on to 
 heaven. Another nieaninf^ is that called the Chnrcii nidi- 
 tant, composed of those who are now living ; others a|L(ain 
 attach the meaninj^ to the particular or<(anization with 
 which they may be connected, while the building itself is 
 called a Church. The Church can always be divided into 
 two — the spiritual and the temporal, but you must not 
 confound the two. This stone building does not constitute 
 the members of Hond Street C'hurch. ]Ve, its members, 
 are the real Church ; even the characteristics which dis- 
 tinguish the Congregational Church are not the Church, but 
 the Christians back of all that constitute it. We are 
 Christians (if we are right) ix-fore we are Congregation- 
 alists, and because we are Christians we seek some organ- 
 ization througli which to work. Tiie true Church is 
 spiritual, and its ideas and principles are truth. Now, the 
 Masonic body is an organization, and so far as it practises 
 the great truths of the Gospel is as much a Church as 
 Bond Street Church. It is the practice of the truth that 
 makes a Christian whether he is in this organization or 
 that. Masonry as an organization does practise some. of 
 the great principles and truths that Christians do. What 
 Church therefore is before it ? Will you tell me of one 
 virtue or grace that Masonry does not enforce or teach ? 
 Masonry asks you to be industrious, temperate, benevolent, 
 and charitable. If we are true Masons, and if we practise 
 the virtues that every Church teaches, why do yor. say 
 we are not a Christian organization ? I can say ^hat the 
 Masonic body is not a Congregational, a Methodist, or an 
 Episcopalian organization, but to say that Masonry is not 
 Christian is to say what is not tr-ic. (Applause) If any 
 
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 Church makes man more sacred to himself, his family and 
 his country than Masonry does, pray let me know. 
 
 There are certain things about Masonry that seem very 
 peculiar to some. It has made a chief point of its chari- 
 ties, and to avoid abuse of our generosity, it was found 
 necessary to protect ourselves to a certain extent, because 
 we all know that there are the providential poor — those 
 who alter having done their l)est need help — and the 
 wilful poor, and a discrimination between these two classes 
 is essential. We soon learn to know whether a member is 
 worth}' or not, as we become so intimately connected with 
 him and his habits and business, and if he demoralizes and 
 wastes himself and his means, he loses that strong Masonic 
 grip upon the charities of a Masonic Lodge. We can dis- 
 pense our charities equally as fairly and equitably as any 
 institution in the world if we choose to exercise our intelli- 
 gence, thus bringing the really worthy cases to the front. 
 But if a member becomes unworthy of help we are under 
 no further obligation to him than to seek his reformation. 
 A good Mason aims to keep a firm Masonic hold on the 
 fraternity by being worthy, and then, should legitimate 
 misfortune overtake him, Masonic benevolence will surely 
 break the force of that misfortune. 
 
 Yet a view of Masonry that takes in only its charities 
 is meagre and limited. Our real work and mission is to be 
 found in our preventative rather than in our benevolent 
 policy. Cioing back to the origin of Masonry every man 
 had to be qualified in some trade, and he must therefore 
 be a competent man ; he must not be a slave, a cripple or 
 an imbecile. He would not be admitted unless he had the 
 ability to earn his own livelihood. That is why Masonry 
 prevents, to a certain extent, the need of charity ; in other 
 words. Masonry hononirs itself more in its non-charities, 
 when rightly conducted, than in its active charities. To 
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as wise as to punish it. A man cannot l)e a j^ood Mason 
 without helping himself oij the lines of industry and care 
 for his own welfare. ( Applause.) I do not like to liear 
 Masonry judged as to how much it gives. We ought to 
 be very seldom called upon to give. If I am a true Mason 
 I should be so sober, industrious and careful as seldom, if 
 ever, to make a demand for lielp upon ni}- brotlier-Masons, 
 and Masonry ought to mspire such virtues as will help a 
 man to take care of inmself. If, then, povertv overtakes 
 him and he suffers, that is a fine opportunity for the exer- 
 cise of our charity. 
 
 I will now read you a letter I recently received, the 
 writer of which is really a very fine person : in fact, 1 have 
 had several letters of a similar kind from persons who have 
 most extraordinar}' ideas of Masonry. The letter reads : — 
 
 Toronto, December 15, 1888. 
 
 Dear Dr. Wild, — In your sermon of November 25 you were plead- 
 ing for secret societies, Freemasonry 1 suppose in particular. You said 
 that it taught a belief in God, and honesty, etc. If so, why were you 
 not honest enough to tell what else it taught ? That you were to reject 
 the Saviour, and dishonour Him by not even being allowed to mention 
 His name in your prayers. That it taught that you were bound by 
 oath to defend a Brother whether he was right or wrong. That the 
 oaths which they are compelled to take are unlawful, profane, bar- 
 barous, blasphemous and murderous. 
 
 If you were honest and a faithful watchman you would have told 
 them these things. A gentleman asked the late S. J. Hunter, a few 
 days before he preached for the Masons in Elm Street Church, how he 
 could consistently preach for them, knowing ;':^ i e did that their oaths 
 were profane and murderous. He said that ;i'cir oaths were profane. 
 Yet after making such a confession he preached for them, and lauded 
 them up by saying that they pointed towards heaven, when he knew in 
 his heart that they pointed towards hell, that it is of the devil from top 
 to bottom. If you take out the 15 or 20 per cent, of the money which 
 they receive by misrepresentation which they give to the poor, there is 
 not another streak of good in it. " But he loved the praise of men and 
 popularity more than the approbation of God," and I fear the same 
 might be said of you. () Watchman of Zicm, what an account you 
 will have to give ! 
 
 How you can unite in a religion in which all men can agree. Infidel, 
 Pagan, Mormon and Unitarian, and kneel before a pagan altar and say 
 Christless prayers, leaving Christ outside of the lodge as you leave your 
 over-shoes and coat, and then putting Him on when you come out, is 
 something I can't understand. You know that the Masons of France 
 
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 have expunged the name of ("hrist and God from their ritual, and you 
 also know that all the mysteries of Masonry are borrowed from pagan- 
 ism. And you know that your Grand Master, Hiram Abiff, is a pagan 
 god. Then you must of necessity be a servant or slave, or both, of a 
 pagan god. You know you have in your lodge a column which represents 
 Baal-peor of the Moabites, called Thallas. You also know that the 
 Masons of New York two years ago last June passed a number of their 
 children before or through the fire to their Masonic Moloch, which is 
 said in the Bible to be an abomination even for pagans to practise. 
 And yet you have the face to stand up in a Christian church and plead 
 for it. Shame ! 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 R. 
 
 There is hardly a single truth uttered in this letter. 
 (Applause) Indeed, I do not know anything that is more 
 blasphemous than some of his utterances, and yet it no 
 doubt arises from ignorance. Of course none of the New 
 York Masons ever passed their children through the fire ! 
 Masonic rules obligate upon us those graces and virtues 
 that make us live pe.iceably with all men, and that makes 
 us loyal to our Queen, and our Country. (Loud cheers) 
 And a man cannot be a Mason and a stirrer up of strife, 
 and an inciter of rebellion, or disloyal to his Queen. 1 say 
 again to the writer of that letter, who is present to-night, 
 yon are greatly mistaken, my friend. Can you believe me 
 when I vouch with my very iife that you have not a streak 
 of truth in your whole letter ? (Cheers) Some no doubt 
 will tell you the opposite, but I tell you what I know. We 
 may be defective as Masons in the practice of the virtues 
 imposed upon us, for we are like all men and organizations 
 in that we are imperfect. I say positivel}^ to you that 
 Masonry is not atheistical, and a man atheistically inclined 
 could not become or remain a Mason unless he were ver}' 
 hypocritical. Masonry is not unchristian ; it is not opposed 
 to Christianity or Christian organizations ; on the contrary 
 we fraternize with them ; but we are not sectarian. That is 
 the point where we receive the greatest amount of criti- 
 cism. We are not Congregationalists or Baptists or Metho- 
 dists, but we are Masons. It is because we are not 
 
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 sectarian that many think we arc not Christian iu our 
 practice and constitution. My correspondent objects tiiat 
 we leave out Christ's name in our prayer. Why do we 
 leave it out in the first three decrees ? Because these three 
 degrees were organ i;?ed thousands of years before our Lord 
 appeared on earth when neither men nor the prophets 
 prayed through Christ but directly to the great God. You 
 might as well destroy the Old Testament because it has 
 not the name of Christ in it as to sav that Masons are 
 Christless because His name is not in the first three 
 degrees. (Applause) Being an old and unchangeable 
 institution it has come down to us as it was. capable of 
 taking in all races of men who believe in one true God and 
 in His overrulmg Providence. But, my friend, in the 
 higher degrees the sacred name of our Saviour comes m as 
 sweetly and reverently as in our Church services, but these 
 are degrees that have come in force (or most ot them) after 
 our Saviour sojourned on the earth. Masonry* soon recog- 
 nized His divine presence, and soon pleaded with Hnn 
 when He became the Way, the Truth and the Life. Can I 
 set you right on that point ? What does a Mason see 
 when he goes into his Lodge ? One thing is certivin, he 
 would see Gods word, and (I'll tell you this secret) as a 
 mace is used in Parliament, in a Masonic Lodge not one 
 iota of work can be done until the Bible is laid open at a 
 certain page directing them in their work. Do you suppose 
 an infidel could be there if he were honest ? A Mason lias 
 no authority to act in Lodge without the open Bible before 
 him, and God above him, symbolized by the all-seeing Eye 
 watching every movement made in that secret inclosure. 
 Of course you can repudiate all I say, and from time 
 to time men will be injudicious enough to believe mere 
 tattlers instead of those who understand what they say. 
 Pope Leo, in his Encyclical letter two years ago, charged the 
 Masons with iiienacing the homes, the altars of the Church 
 
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 and the State. It does nothing of the kind. On the other 
 hand it conserves the sacredness and purity of the home ; 
 that we know as Masons. There is not a wife or child of a 
 Mason that is not covered by the Masonic mantle of 
 charity. (Cheers) The idea of Masonry •' menacing the 
 altars of the Church," when the altar is the most sacred 
 piece of furniture in every Masonic Lodge, and the very 
 tont and centre from which radiates all our acts ! and 
 instead of degrading it we honour it ! Nor do we menace 
 the State. If we do, we become very un-Masonic in our 
 conduct. We are taught to uphold the peace, to honour 
 the King, to love the Brotherhood, and to be loyal to the 
 interests of the country in which for the time-being we are 
 placed. (Applause). 
 
 There are many things m Masonry that ma}- seem 
 peculiar. The All-Seeing Eye is to indicate, as I have 
 said, that the Divine Providence encloses us and the 
 Divine Eye seeth all our conduct. The letter " G " is also 
 very significant, and teaches great and wholesome truths. 
 This letter begins the word " Geometry," which is said to 
 be one of the most perfect of sciences ; it is the seventh 
 letter, and illustrates the perfect number ; it is a perfect 
 geometrical figure in itself, the only perfect one, in fact. 
 As God IS the great geometrician, therefore the most 
 perfect way to represent Him is by the geometrical letter 
 *' G." The whole alphabet in its form is geometrical. 
 *'A" — quantity and quality; "B" — that quantity and 
 <juality divided ; " C " — that enclosed quantity opened up. 
 You need never go any further than " A," " B " and " C," 
 because they contain all the curves and lines of the other 
 twenty-three letters. " D,"' for instance, is part of " B." 
 As " A, B and C " contain all the curves and lines, " G " 
 has^them all in itself; it means the circle squared and that 
 you work from the centre. It is a remarkable fact that the 
 Pyramid is on the land centre of the earth, latitudinally 
 and longitudinally. • 
 
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 Voii find many tilings connected with the Israehtes that 
 had very nmch of a Masonic turn, and Masonry comes 
 down to us through thesa old patriarchs. Let me read a 
 few verses from the 20th chapter of the First Hook of 
 Kings to those who have not mucli faith in Masonry. 
 Ben-hadad, the King of Syria, came to fight Ahab, but 
 lost the battle. Ben-hadad then escaped and hid in an 
 inner chamber. 
 
 And his servants said unto Ben-hadad, Behold now, we have 
 heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings : let us, I 
 pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and 
 go out to the king of Israel ; peradventure he will save thy life. 
 
 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their 
 heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben-hadad 
 saith, I pray thee, let me live. .\nd he said. Is he yet alive ? He is 
 my brother. 
 
 He here saw the Masonic sign and acknowledged it. 
 
 Now the men did diligently observe whether anything would 
 come from him, and did hastily catch it ; and they said. Thy brother 
 Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him Then Ben-hadad came 
 forth to him ; and he caused him to come up into the chariot. 
 
 The words " Merciful Kings," means " Secret (Hebrew, 
 chesed) Keepers " ; in other words, " Masons," hence the 
 two Kings were made friendly. 
 
 There are scores of passages that are not understand- 
 able without a knowledge of the Pyramid and Masonry. 
 Take, for instance, Jeremiah xxxii. 18 and 19: — 
 
 Thou showest loving-kindness unto thousands, and recompense the 
 iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them : The 
 Great, the Mighty God, the Lord of Hosts is his name. Great in counsel, 
 and mighty in work : for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the 
 sons of men : to give every one according to his ways, and according 
 to the fruit of his doings : \\'hich hath set signs and wonders in the 
 land of Egypt even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men. 
 
 The word set means, in Hebrew, " which has built some 
 
 wonderful signs in E;^/pt, which endure unto this day," 
 
 and there it is in the Great Pyramid. Isaiah xix. 19-20: — 
 
 In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the 
 land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord, and it 
 shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of Hosts in the land 
 ol Egypt. 
 
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 Where is that pillar, and sign, and altar and vitness ? 
 It is in the Pyrarnid, the witness of God. 
 
 Take a Nev/ Testament idea : The Egyptians were 
 reat on mysteries and had Masonry in many forms. Paul 
 refers I think to one of these, the Eleusinian mystery, or 
 the Secret Order of the Prudent. The Temple in which 
 candidates were initiated had a peculiar floor with flues at 
 certain points through which flames of fire couid be turned. 
 Tlie candidate for admission into the Order was sent into 
 the Temple to be tested on three points : his wisdom, skill, 
 and benevolence, and lie had to build something which, if 
 erected over the flues would of course be destroyed, and 
 and his lack of wisdom proved in not selecting a good 
 foundation, his skill by the thing he constructed, and his 
 benevolence by the material, gold, silver, hay or stubble — 
 a very neat way of proving a candidate's worth. When 
 the testing day comes every man is ordered to stand b)' 
 his own work, ihe masters looking on. Now read i Cor. 
 iii. 9-17 : 
 
 For we are labourers together with God : ye are (iods husbandry 
 yc arc God's building. 
 
 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise 
 masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. 
 But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 
 
 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is 
 Jtsus Christ. 
 
 Now if any build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, 
 wood, hay, stubble : 
 
 Every man's work shall be made manifest ; for the day shall 
 declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire ; and the fire shall try 
 every man's work of what sort it is. 
 
 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereon, he shall 
 receive a reward. 
 
 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall sufter loss: but he 
 himself shall be saved ; yet so as by fire. 
 
 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of 
 (iod dwelleth in you ? 
 
 If any man d'ifile the temple of God, him shall God destroy ; for 
 the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. 
 
 How would you understand a passage like that without 
 getting this mystery in your mind ? And how could yoU 
 
 
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 Ivnowledge of the material ? 
 
 Let us feel as the following Masonic poem expresses it ; 
 
 O Thou Clreat Architect ! whose laws 
 Supremely move effect and cause, 
 Through whom the seasons go and conu-. 
 () I try our actions by the Plniiih. 
 
 Admonish us upright to walk, 
 To live, to work, to act, to talk ; 
 So may our lives with Thine aj<ree, 
 And ever on the Level be. 
 
 Teach us our every path to guide. 
 That we may never turn aside ; 
 Abroad, at home, and everywhere 
 To meet our Brother on the Square. 
 
 Pillar of fire by night to lead 
 Where most our neighbour stands in need 
 And with the Ark and Anchor prove 
 Our faith in Thee, to man our love. 
 
 Remind us, Lord, where'er we go 
 Through scenes of joy, or scenes of woe, 
 The lessons taught us by our art, 
 The sword upon the naked heart ! 
 
 Perfect our life, so be our end, 
 To Thee may we by steps ascend. 
 By Thee to live, by Thee to die 
 Under Thine own " All-seeing Eye." 
 
 May I sa}', in closing, that the Masonic degrees stand 
 out to us in the whole compass of our existence. Life is 
 the apprentice time ; it is here we are taking our first 
 degree, when death comes we pass on to the second 
 degree, and through the resurrection we take our last and 
 third degree, and rest as saints with God. 
 
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