our conftitutions, and none will fear who fee our conduct. REMEMBERING, my beloved brethren, that "PIETY TOWARDS GOD the glorious mafter-builder of the univerfe, and LOVE TO MANKIND, are the two grand immoveable pillars which fupport the fabric of Mafonry,' may your hearts ever glow with the warmeft emotions of piety and the nobleft fentiments of benevolence. I SALUTE the officers and brethren of the lodge this day publicly organized, with fraternal affection. "Peace be unto you, and peace to your helpers." Pleasant be your hours of private intercourfe; bleft be their tendency and happy their effects. UNDER the peaceful fhade of your flourishing OLIVE BRANCH may you find refreshment. Fair be its promifing flowers, and plentiful its rich fruits! And may the falutary oil it distils, heal all the wounds which care, trouble, or calumny may make in your hearts; and, like the precious ointment on • Antient Masonic Conftitutions, Chap. 1. §. 2. † 1 Chron. xii. 18. the head of Aaron, make your face to fhine with gladness, and diffufe far around you the grateful and reviving perfume` of honor, praise, and glory! PEACE be within the walls, and profperity to the interests of every lodge! Peace to the brethren And "may the God of peace himself give us peace always by all means !" AMEN! "Bleft are the SONS of PEACE, Whofe hearts and hopes are one, Whofe kind defigns to love and pleafe Through all their actions run.” WATTS DISCOURSE III. DELIVERED AT WRENTHAM, OCTOBER 10, 1798, AT THE CONSECRATION OF MONTGOMERY LODGE OF FRANKLIN, ROMANS XIV. 19. "LET US, THEREFORE, FOLLOW AFTER THE THINGS WHICH MAKE FOR PEACE, AND THINGS WHEREWITH ONE MAY EDIFY ANOTHER." THE Apoftle, perceiving that some diffenfions had arifen between the jewish and gentile converts with regard to the perpetuity of the hebrew ritual and the obfervance of its ceremonies, in this chapter affumes the office of peace-maker. He attempts to allay the uncharitable spirit they difcovered, and warmly recommends to the brethren the exercife of mutual forbearance, candor, charity, and love. And to reftrain their cenforioufnefs, and fhew them the impropriety of judging and condemning each other, he reminds them that they must all ftand before the judg |