The gems of masonry : emblematic and descriptive (1859)
Sherer, John · Cincinnati : The Author · leaf 14
so thoroughly ap-probated by the highest judicatures of Freemasonry, and ena- PREFACE. iii bling the intelligent reader to elucidate Masonic ceremoniesand doctrines as with the light of a noonday sun. With grateful returns to my patrons for their past kindness,and an earnest solicitation that they… … F-PRAYER. j^... At first, man was permitted to converse with his Maker,face to face. But since the fall, a new mode of communicationhas been divinely instituted between the soul and its Creator.And, surely, no rational man should enter upon any importantundertaking without first invoking the…
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