The gems of masonry : emblematic and descriptive (1859)
Sherer, John · Cincinnati : The Author · leaf 51
men, as a thing of no value, though■infinitely better adapted to the condition of man, in his fallenstate, than the tables of stone given to the prophet on the mount.And happy will they be, who shall be delivered from the law ofMoses by the gospel of grace, and celebrate in a song of triumphthe… … B. , .To give this emblem a more impressive forcethan the experience of the sons of light can well as-cribe to it, is beyond the power of human language.It may remind us of that instrument in the handof death, which shall ere long cut the thread oflife, and launch our earthly ark upon the ocean of…
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