 | Samuel Lawrence - 1860 - 252 էջ
...His statutes to do them." This duty the ancient Charge we are considering etijoins in these words : " A Mason is obliged by his tenure to obey the moral law." The moral law, in all its essentials, is the same with every people who acknowledge the existence of... | |
 | Leon Hyneman - 1860 - 600 էջ
...unchanged, and which are not subject to change, declare in the commencement of the first article : "A Mason is obliged, by his tenure, to obey the moral law." That is the standard by which every Freemason is to be judged — by that standard every Freemason... | |
 | Jeremiah How - 1862 - 468 էջ
...to the first two clauses of the ancient charges, as set forth in the Book of Constitutions : — " A Mason is obliged, by his tenure, to obey the moral law ; and if he rightly understand the art, he will never be a stupid atheist nor an irreligious libertine. He, of all men,... | |
 | George Oliver - 1866 - 212 էջ
...Creator ; to esteem him as the chief good, and to implore his aid in all laudable undertakings." — "A Mason is obliged, by his tenure, to obey the moral...law ; and if he rightly understands the art, he will neither be a stupid atheist nor an irreligious libertine. But though in ancient times Masons were charged... | |
 | John W. Simons - 1869 - 340 էջ
...them in the order here named. SECTION L-MASONIC OFFENCES. The first of the Ancient Charges informs us, that : "A Mason is obliged, by his tenure, to obey the moral law ;" and this may be said to be the key to all the requirements for the conduct of the brethren. The moral law... | |
 | 1867 - 394 էջ
...unfit to be a Mason. In the Ancient Charges it is laid down as a fundamental rule that "a Freemason is obliged by his tenure to obey the moral law ; and...will never be a stupid atheist nor an irreligious hbertine." Here the word implies a person who rejects all religious truths, ie, an infidel. LODGE.... | |
 | Freemasons - 1867 - 194 էջ
...in the Neighbourhood. THE CHARGES OP A EKEE-MASON, ETC., ETC. i I.— Concerning GOD and RELIGION. A MASON is obliged, by his tenure, to obey the moral law ; and if he rightly understand the art he will never be a stupid atheist nor an irreligious libertine. He, of all men,... | |
 | 1860 - 422 էջ
...all minds, that there is, perhaps, no reproach from which men shrink more. The Old Charges declare that a mason is obliged by his tenure, to obey the moral lawn, and, if he rightly understands the art, he will never be a stupid atheist. A belief in God is... | |
 | 1868 - 532 էջ
...We also cited tho following extracts from the " Book of Constitutions " of English Masonry : — " A Mason is obliged by his tenure to obey the moral...understands the art he will never be a stupid atheist or an irresponsible libertine. He of all men should best understand that God seeth not as man seeth,... | |
 | 1868 - 532 էջ
...make it more capable, and more earnest to know the more it knows. CONCERNING GOD AND RELIGION. — A Mason is obliged, by his tenure, to obey the moral law ; and if ho rightly understands the art, he will never bo a stupid atheist, nor an irreligious libertine. But... | |
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A mason is obliged, by his tenure, to obey the moral law; and if he rightly understands the art, he will never be a stupid atheist, nor an irreligious libertine. 
