PEACE be within the walls, and prosperity 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!

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DISCOURSE III.

ON THE PEACEFUL GENIUS

OF

FREE MASONRY.

"Blest are the SONS of PEACE,

Whose hearts and hopes are one,

Whose kind designs to love and please
Through all their actions run."

WATTS.

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 Apostle, perceiving that some

dissensions had arisen between the Jewish and gentile converts with regard to the perpetuity of the Hebrew ritual and the observance of its ceremonies, in this chapter assumes the office of peace-maker. He attempts to allay the uncharitable spirit they discovered, and warmly recommends to the brethren the exercise of mutual forbearance, candour, charity, and love. And to restrain their censoriousness. and shew them the impropriety of judging and condemning each other, he reminds them that they must all stand before the judg