Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York

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Side 246 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the People to establish Government presupposes the duty of every Individual to obey the established Government.
Side 246 - All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force — to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful...
Side 246 - They serve to organize faction ; to give it an artificial and extraordinary force : to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small, but artful and enterprising minority of the community ; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and • incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans, digested by common counsels, and modified...
Side 16 - neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And, lo! Creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun? or who could find, Whilst fly and leaf and insect stood revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind? Why do we then shun Death with anxious strife? If Light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life?
Side 244 - Up with our banner bright, Sprinkled with starry light, Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore. While through the sounding sky Loud rings the Nation's cry, Union and Liberty! One Evermore!
Side 147 - What then is man ! What then is man ! He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before the moth. Yet in the being and in the working of a faithful man is there already (as all faith, from the beginning, gives assurance) o something that pertains not to this wild death-element of Time ; that triumphs over Time, and is, and will be, when Time shall be no more.
Side 3 - A lodge of free and accepted masons duly chartered by and installed according to the general rules and regulations of the grand lodge of free and accepted masons of the state of New York; 2.
Side 251 - In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of a statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people in all his plans of administration.
Side 203 - ... superstition, but may have the liberty of embracing what faith he shall think proper, provided at all times he pays a due reverence to his Creator, and by the world deals with honour and honesty, ever making that golden precept the standard rule of his actions, which engages to do unto all men as he would they should do unto him.
Side 49 - ... may behold it and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests. We wish that labor may look up here and be proud in the midst of its toil.

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