. The gems of masonry : emblematic and descriptive . tl. .This emblem is a type of the good man when fitted, bydivine grace, for the temple above, having practised the dutiesof a mason, and a christian on earth, and being transformed fromthe depravity of nature to the perfection of grace; a work whichis completed by death, the grand tyler of eternity.—Mon. ^ . As the TRESTLE board of the master achitect contains th€various designs from which the operative workmen learn their re-spective tasks; so does the book of natural and revealed religionprescribe the whole duty of man. In this book,
. The gems of masonry : emblematic and descriptive . tl. .This emblem is a type of the good man when fitted, bydivine grace, for the temple above, having practised the dutiesof a mason, and a christian on earth, and being transformed fromthe depravity of nature to the perfection of grace; a work whichis completed by death, the grand tyler of eternity.—Mon. ^ . As the TRESTLE board of the master achitect contains th€various designs from which the operative workmen learn their re-spective tasks; so does the book of natural and revealed religionprescribe the whole duty of man. In this book, we find preciselythe designs which are to adorn the celestial temple.—Mon. 38. Of w E I say unto you, That many shall come from theeast and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, andJacob, in the kingdom of heaven.—Matt, viii, 11. .This emblem may remind us of the rise of all the sciencesin the East, and their progress to the West, leading civilizationand happiness in their train.—Hutch. Lec. xiv. THIRD SECTION. P. .1 John, was in the isle tliat is calledPatmos, for the word of God, and for thetestimony of Jesus Christ.—Bev. i, 9. Inthose days, came JoIhi tlie Baptist, preachingin the wilderness of Jiidea, and saying, Re-pent ye : for tl^ie kingdom of lieaven is athand.—MatL iii, 1. There was a man sentfrom God who
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