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RATES FOR LEGAL ADVERTISING: Sher if Sales, per square * 4 00 Mortgage Ji-fa. sales, per square 7 00 Tar Collector's sales, per square 4 00 Citation for Letters Administration and Guardianship 4 00 Application for Letters Sismissory from Administration and Executorship. .. <1 50 Application for Letters Diemissory from Guardianship 6 00 Application for leave to sell land, per sqr 4OC Notice to debtors and creditors 5 00 Land sales, per square 4 00 Sales of perishable property, per square 200 Estray notices, sixty days 6 00 Notice to perfect service 7 00 Rules ni Ato foreclose mortgages,per sqr 400 Rules to establish lost papers, per square . 5 00 liietes compelling-titles 6 00 Rtitss to perfect service in divorce cases 10 00 Application for Homestead 2 00 Obituary Notices , per square #1 00 Marriage Notices 1 00 AN ADDRESS, Delivered by Rev. James M. Cross, be fore Scevcn Dodge, No. *4B, F. A. M., on St. John’s Day, June ltta, 1873. CORRESPONDENCE : Lawtonville, Ga., Juno 25th, 1873. Rev Jas. M. Cnoss— Hear Sir and Brother: Wo havo been appointed a committee to solicit of you a copy of tho able, eloquent, and instruct ive address delivered by you before Screven Lodge, No. 248, F. A. M., on St. John’s day, tho 24th inst, and respectfully request that you place a copy at our disposal for publication. Wo havo the honor to bo, with fraternal re gard, yours, very respectfully, E. A. Perkins, 1 S. B A. Wallace, >Committee. S. E. Cl*.rk, ) Bethanv, Ua., June 30th, 1873. Messrs E. A. Perkins, S. B. A. Wallace and S. E. Clark — Gentlemen : Yours, of the 25th inst. requesting a copy of my Masonic address, delivered at Jlillen, the 21th instant—St. John’s day—is received; and I herewith send you a copy, as requested. Yours, fraternally, James M. Cross. Brothers and Friends: I shall not, on this occasion, attempt an elaborate history of Masonry. Abler minds have attempted the task and have, at least, given a partial history to the world. Suffice it to say, that Masonry speaks to day for itself as a benevolent institution of the highest order; and as such it has claimed in all ages, since its institution, the attention of the ablest and best minds of earth. .While it lias had enemies of misguided judgments, its friends have been legion. And its friends have been many tor the reason that its influences, where its teachings have been understood and practiced, have always been elevating in ten dency and often sweetening the asperi ties incident to this life. If antiquity renders a system respectable, Masonry is certainly entitled to our considera tion. That “temple” built at Jerusa lem, once the pride of the Jewish com monwealth. over which Israel now weeps and longs to mingle their dust with its ruins, marks the rise of Masonry. Long anterior to the advent of Christianity, | the mountains of Judea, and the plains of Syria, the deserts of Tudia, and the valley of the Nile were cheered by its presence and enlivened by its song.- More than a thousand years before the coining of the “Son of.Man” a little company of “cuimiug workmen” from the neighboring eity of Tyre were as sembled on the pleasant and beautiful mount of Moriah, at the call of the ‘ wise King of Israel,” and there erect ed by their great skill a mighty edifice, whose splendid and umivalled perfeo turn, and whose grandeur and sublimity j have been the admiration and theme of all succeeding ages. This was the craft work of a fraternity to whose genius and discoveries and to whose matchless skill and ability the wisest men in all ages have bowed with profound respect. And having finished that great work and filled all Judea witli temples and palaces and walled cities; hav ing enriched and beautified Azor, Gozan and Palmyra with the results of their genius, these “cunning workmen,” in after times, passing through the Es senian Associations, and finally issuing fiom the mystic halls of the “Collegia Artificum” of Rome, burst upon the “dark ages” of the world like a bright star peering through a dark cloud, and under the patronage of the church pro duced those splendid monuments of genius which set at defiance the highest attainments ot modern art. Hencefor ward for eight centuries Masonry con tinued an operative fraternity, produc ing both in England and on the conti nent those grand and unapproachable specimens of art, which are the pride of Central Europe and the admiration of the traveler. Masonry has, in all ages since its institution, been a tower of strength as well as beauty, holding in fraternal bands brethren cemented with one of the strongest ties known to the human heart, “brotherly love.” While operative Masonry teaches us properly to apply the useful rules ot architecture, whence a structure will derive figure, beauty, and strength, and furnishes us with dwellings to protect us from the inclemencies and viscisitudes of seasons, it displays the effects of human wisdom in the choice and arrangement of the sundry materials of which an edifice is composed, and demonstrates that a fund of science and industry is implanted in man for the best, most salutary and beneficent purposes. Speculative Ma sonry teaches us to subdue the passions, act upon the square, keep a tongue of good report, maintain secrecy, and prac tice charity. And here Masonry is so far interwoven with religion that the mind looks to Deity with that rational homage due from an intelligent creature to the Creator. It leads the contem plative mind to view with wonder and admiration the glorious works of crea tion, and inspires him with the most ilr tisxffsMft. B Y FROST, LAWSON, CORKER OJtAY. VOL. III.! exalted ideas of the perfections of his divine Creator. Masonry, then, im presses reverently upon the mind the existence of a Goo in the display of His wondering working power exerted upon the “void immense” and in the creation of man, a being of exquisite workman ship “a little lower than tho angels,” and peculiarly endowed. And thus en dowed, coming under the influence of Masonry, man is made sensible of his obligations to love and serve God and his obligations to aid the needy and to relieve tho distressed of mankind where ever dispersed. Masonry, then, not only elevates the mind and gives us exalted ideas of the divine perfections of Deity, but it comes to us with the “olive branch” of peace and inscribed upon it “good will to man,” and with it intel lectual and moral light, dispelling the night of ignorance hovering over our race, and guiding us to the great source of Masonic light, which light shedding its mellow rays upon the human heart divests it, in part at least, of the “vices and superfluities of life,” and gives to us moral conceptions to the new and grand, and fits us for the high duties of social life. We take the position, then, that Masonry is emphatirafly a benev olent institution, having at interest the claims of God upon man and the ameli oration of the condition of our race.— Systems have risen, flourished and died; nationalities have changed, and many revolutions of society have marked the cycles of the past three thousand years; but, Masonry has remained the same, with no advocate but the influence of its principles upon the human mind.— It was then erected upon a most solid basis, without a single objectionable feature, “comely in all its parts,” and wonderfully adapted to every clime and soil. How else can we account for its existence, unchanged by the decay of age and the mildew of time? To arrive at some fair estimate of the influence of Masonry wo have mainly to look to the nature of its principles, for in this, as in other things, it must hold’good that “as the tree is, such will be its fruits” —“Wherefore, by their fruits ye shall know them,” is the great test given by Zion's Head and Law-giver, as the un erring rule by which all systems arc to be tried. By this test Ma-oury has been tried, and lekel has not been writ ten against it. The confirmation of well attested facts are conclusive evidence that its fruits are good, most salutary, and beneficent. If would be a work of cupererrogation for me to discuss anew at an}’ length the principles of Masonry; but it is necessary, perhaps, to advert to the fact that Benevolence is one of the most prominent among them, while Truth, Virtue, and Honesty are, also, qualities absolutely demanded of every true Mason. All these virtues are almost sure to be found united; for the Benev olence that may appear to exist in sepa ration from, or hostility to, Virtue will invariably be found, on close examina tion, to be a false and spurious imitation of the noble original. Benevolence, as understood in Masonry, is coextensive with Christian Charity, and not limited as this phrase, in its accepted significa tion. It means, then, not alone the be stowal of money or other assistance in relief of distress, but the exercise of Brotherly Love and good will to our fellow beings in every phase and scene of life—to comfort the widow and sup port the fatherless, to bring consolation to the house of mourning, and to cheer the heart full of its own bitterness. — These, indeed, are duties imperatively demanded of Masonic Benevolence; but no less so are the apparently minor ones of bearing and forbearing with one an other’s faults, and weaknesses, and of doings in all things, even in the smaller matters of the daily intercourse of life, to each brother as we would he should do unto us. Strife and contention, de ceit, and hypocricy arc unknown among true Masons \ but “plain dealing” and universal benevolence distinguish them —in short, it is in no degree presump tuous, but simply in accordance with fact and truth to assert that, in the duties thus demanded of its followers by the law of Masonic Benevolence, we find an exact parallel to those enjoined upon his disciples by the blessed Founder of the Christian Religion, and by that blessed disciple whose name is so dearly associated with the history and tradi tions of our order. As the former said, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,'do ye even so to them,” so did St. John, the divine, no less em phatically declare, and in so doing he enunciated the most essential and uni versally acknowledged principle of our order, “Wc know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren.” “He ihat loveth not bis brother abideth in denth.” “Hereby wo perceive the love of Gon, because “BALUB POPULI BT7PBEMA LEX ESTO.” WAYNESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1873. He*laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” “But whoso hath this world’s goods and seeth his brother havo need, and shutteth up his bowels of compas sion from him, now dwelleth the love of God in him ?” “And this command ment have we from Him that he who loves God loves his brother also.”— These are, we repeat, the essential principles of Masonry, nor could any one who rejected or denied them ever be allowed to claim the title of a true Mason. A Mason’s charity must tri umph over distance and difficulties and reach far beyond the little circle of his daily life to earth’s remotest bounds. We might here call your attention to acts and scenes in the past, and which are occurring daily, illustrative of the power of Masonic bencvolenjc under the most trying circumstances. The last sad and bloody struggle is full of them. Suffice it to say here that from iucontestible proofs already furnished, in the midst of carnage and death, Masonic benevolence avails to the relief of the distressed where all else fails— and binds by indissoluble ties all man kind in one common brotherhood. All the most philosophical writers, ancient and modern, are agreed that humanity is one of the truest tests of the progress of civilization. Tliis is forcibly illus trated in the comparison drawn between the present time and nearly two hun dred years ago. It is a (act well known to exist that all orders of society, and especially the lower, have derived incal culable benefits from the mollifying in fluences of civilization upon the national character. There is scarcely a page of history, or the lighted literature of the the seventeenth century, which does not contain some proof that our ancestors were less humane than their posterity. Nowhere could be found that sensitive and restless compassion which has in our time permeated all the ramifications of society, and extended a powerful pro tection to those eveu in the humbler walks of life, the poor, the depraved, and the degraded —which winces at every lash laid upon the guilty culprit which will not suffer the felon in his confinement to be overworked —and which has repeatedly interposed in its efforts to save the murderer and lighten the burden of the felon. The discipline of workshops, of schools, of private fam ilies one hundred and sixty years ago, though not more efficient than at pres ent, was infinitely harsher. The master was a tyrant, pedagogues knew no way of imparting knowledge but by ! eating their pupils, husbands of respectable station were not ashamed to beat their wivc3. The implacability of hostile faction was such as we can scarcely conceive; Macauly tells u., in his his tory of England, “That the whigs were disposed to murmur because Stafford was suffered to die without seeing his bowels burned before his face. Tories reviled and insulted Russel as his coach passed from the tower to the scaffold in Lincoln’s Inn Field. As little mercy was shown by the populace to the suf ferers of an humble rank. If an offend er was placed in the pillory, it was well if he escaped with his life from the shower of brickbats and paving stones. Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure to Bridewell on court days for the pur pose of seeing the wretched women who beat hemp there whipped; a man press ed to death for refusing to plead; a woman burned for coining excited less sympathy than is now felt for a galled horse or an overdriven ox. Fights, com pared with which a boxing match is a refined and humane spectacle, were among the favorite diversions of a large part of the people. Multitudes assem bled to see gladiators hack each other to pieces with deadly weapons, and shouted with delight when one of the combatants lost a finger or an eye.— The prisons were hells upon earth, sem inaries of every crime and of every dis ease. At the Assizes the lean snd yel low culpits brought with them from their cells to the dock an atmosphere of stench and pestilence which some times avenged them signally on bench, bar, and jury. Bat on all this misery society looked with profound indiffer ence.” That last paragraph conveys a sad and terrible picture of the inhu manity by which civilized England was debased even less than two hundred ! years ago. Bi#t we have only to look arcund us, in tho familiar walks of daily ! life, to find ample evidence of the wide -1 spread existence of the same spirit of cruelty, although under less offensive and revolting forms. Inhumanity, par adoxical as it may seem, is, alas ! all too na’tural to the human heart. To day, as long ago, it is all too true that Man’s inhumanity to man i • Makes countless millions mourn." The value, then, of a world-wide or- I TWO DOIiLARS A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. ganization whose leading principle and object is to cultivate the very opposite feeling—that of meroy and love in the hearts of its members, must without doubt bo of incalculable benefit and blessing to society. In this respect, Freemasonry goes hand in hand with Christianity, nor amongst the philan thropic agencies that have arisen for the practical support of Gospel prin ciples can any other for a moment com pare in substantial results, with the in dependent yet powerful auxiliary action of Masonry. Asa promoter of human ity, then, kind feeling, universal benev olence, Masonry is permanently a bene factor of society. And how many to day all over this land and country, and everywhere, where the light of civiliza tion has touched and enlightened and enlivened the heart of mau—if called upon for their verdict—would rise up and call it “blessed.” Tbeir name is legion who would hail it as the morning star of hope—the sacred depository of the dearest rights of man. In the same connection, though in a somewhat lower point <}f view, there is no doubt that society in America and in every country where Masonry prevails to any great extent is largely indebted to it in a financial point of view. In every com munity there is a certain amount of poverty which has to be relieved either by public legislation or private charity, for “the poor shall be in the land.”— In either case the weight ultimately presses upon society at large. Now, Masonry largely and liberally relieves the necessities of its poorer members, so that a deserving Mason rarely be comes in any way a burden upon the community of which he is a member.— When, therefore, we consider the large number ot the Masonic body in towns, cities, and even rural districts, and that the whole of that number is to be sub tracted from the total population, upon which the proportion of pauperism, in cidental to all cities, is to be calculated, we shall understand tho extent to which Masonry is a public benefactor or re liever of the public purse. But it would be very erroucous as well as unjust to Masonry to suppose that its charity is confinedtoitsown members. In practical benevolence as in all other things habit has a most powerful influence. “Habit is a second nature,” and the Mason whose generous and charitable feelings have been fostered and promoted by the lessons of the Lodge and by the habit there acquired of being liberal in the relief of want and suffering, goes forth into the world all th*e more ready and willing to exercise the like benevo lence toward those who are only his “brethren of mankind.” We, as minis ters, know well that the giving to bo nevolcnt objects is confined for the most part to a certain number, and that the first and readiest to respond to aDynew call of charity are sure to be t’ ose who have already for years been the most liberal in their contributions. Of course natural generosity of disposition has much to do with this, but the cultiva tion of the spirit and the creation of the habit of benevolence, must also be taken largely into account. In demonstration of this influence of Masonry in promot ing generous and charitable feelings in the hearts of its members, we could easily point to many of the best and worthiest of our country, whose names rank high on the rolls of Masonic honors and are no less intimately indetified with eyery work of benevolenco and philanthropy by which our country is distinguished and adorned. And the same rule holds good in all countries and centres of Masonry. But, after all, the good conferred upon society by that broader spirit of benevolence or charity which has to do with what is higher and more important in many respects than almsgiving, gives Masonry the strougest claim to the title of “Public Benefactor.” Tho amount of suffering in this poor world of ours, resulting from physical destitution, great as it may be, and imperatively as it may call for relief, is incalculably less than that arising from the want of that chaiity of feeling—sympathy —with one another, which goes so far to cheer each strug gling heart. There is much of sad truth in the poet’s lines : “ How little and how lightly. We care for one another! How seldom and how slightly Consider each a brother! * For all the world is every man Ti his own self alone, And all beside no better than A thing ho doesn’t own, “ And, oh! the shame and sadness, To see how insincerely The heart that in its gladness Went forth to love men dearly Is chilled, and all its warmth repelled As but a low mistake, And half the cordial yearnings quelled It felt for others’ sake! The “charity” of Masonry, as we have said, sets itself in direct and determined hostility to this mutual inhumanity to man. Then who can deny that for our race it has done wonderful things? It has, indeed, smoothed the ragged path way of life, mollified and toned down tho “rough corners” of our nature, and combined with Christianity, it has pol ished the “rough ashler” after the simil itude of a palace. It has hushed tho widow’s sighs, wiped away the orphan’s tears—relieved their distresses, extend ed its sympathies, and cheered their hearts—and thrown all over this land tho hallowed influences of moral and in tellectual light. It has hushed conten tions and bitterness ero they ripened into settled dislike, and practically de monstrates the force and teachings of the Golden Ruld—“As you would that men should do to you do ye even so to them.” In fact, Masonry makes it its leading object to do away with suspi cions, and rivalries, arid jealousies, and misinterpretations of acts and words that cause so much confusion, disturb ance and misery, that is loss to the common treasury of happiness in society, and thus emphatically proves itself a “Public Benefactor.” A word to the ladies, in conclusion. Woman, last in her devotion at the cross and first at the sepulchre; womau. the richest and best gift of God to man, to soothe his sorrows, to sympathize in the troubles and perplexities incident to this life, to heighten bis joys aud to augment his happiness, Masonry throws around you its strong arm of protection and frees you from the bondage of bar barous custom, and places you in the honored social position you now occupy. If either sex should hail Masonry as a blessing more than the other, it should be womaD. Around her, like a mighty bulwark, tho strongest safeguards have been placed. By it hsr true position defined, her rights respected, and her interests scrupulously regarded. But I would not suffer you to bo your protection is not secured by the conferring, or the reception, of that in novation called “ Side Degress.” In them there is no Masonry. They are an imposition so far as they pretend to be in any way connected with Masonry, and any encouragement given them by the ladies is only calculated to lessen the respect in which it is desirable the female character should be held by all nen of commofl sense. An attempt to make them Masonic is a departure from the fundamental principles of Masonry. The peculiar and enduring power of the Masonic institution is attributable in a great dcg’ec to its stability and conser vative policy. Innovations wyitbin its strict boundaries is generally'opposed by its friends, but to encourage outside structures, not making a part of the temple and yet recognizing them as nominal additions, is not only absurd in theory but would prove injurious iu practice. As it is, women are protect ed without their special agency. If we establish anew institution to be organ ized and sustained by the women, it is a virtual admission that they nro not protected by the Masonic institution and that they have more confidence in themselves than they have in their husbands and brothers as legitimate Masons. Every Master Mason knows that a woman cannot be made a Mason, he cannot assist in it, he is forbidden to do so, he has promised not to do so. It is a fundamental law which cannot be changed, modified, amended, or repeal ed. Is this any disparagement to woman? By no means whatever. Freemasonry provides relief, supports, guards, aud restraints for the benefit of a woman such as no human ingenuity has ever devised or ever will. Freemasonry, from the time of Solomon, has recog nized the power, goodness, tenderness, and loveliness of woman. Freemasonry, during all the ages of ignorance, intol erance, and barbarism maintained the equality of woman with man. So far as secrecy is concerned, if it were pro per to do so, we would as soon entrust women with the secrets of our order as men. The idea that women are more faithless than men, is a miserable slan der upon woman and an insult to Ma sonry. We hope that our daughters and our young female friends, if they should marry, may marry Masons. Wo shall feel more certaiu that they will be tenderly treated, woll provided for, and carefully nourished in sickness and in health. For a good and true Mason must and will make a good husband.— Something has been done and can be done for woman. Every Master Mason should be provided with a diploma at his raising, aud his widow and children should be provided with another at his death. “Side Degrees”, and all their illegitimate brood are the father anil mother of clandestine Masonry. Let RULES FOR LEGAL ADVERTISING: Sales of hmd, tie., by Administrators, Executorse nr Uum tlians ore required by lair to hr held on thv first Tuesday in the month, between the hours qf he in the forenoon and three in the qftemoon, at Uls rourt house in the rm.nty in trhhb the property i situated. Notice* of these sales must be given in a public gaxette in the ,there the land lies, if there be any. Notices for the sale of personal property must be given in like manner ten days previous to sale. day. Notices to Debtors and Creditors qf an estate must be published forty days. Noticsthot ap plication trill be miute to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell taml, ets., must be published onrr a week for four week . Citations for Letters nf Ad minis trutwn, Guardianship,,etcmust be published Hearty days. Nor dismission from Administration imi Ex- Senior, -ihip three, months—Dismission from Guard ianship, forty t lays. Pules for Foreclosure qf Atari gage must be published monthly for four months. Nor establishing lost papers, for the full space qf three months. Nor compelling titles frsm Adminis trators or Executors, where horn!*has been given by deceased, three months. Application for Tfomesteael must be published twice. PuldiceHtuns will always be continued according to these requirements unless otherwise order :d. 9kg" On* inch, or about eixhy words, is a square; fractions counted as full squares )NO. 48. them be abolished and destroyed, and let the good and worthy wives and widows and families of Master Masons be provided with tangible evideuce that the husband or father Was a worthy Master Master. The position of woman is one of nature, and not conventional, and here wo see her power, goodness, tenderness, and loveliness, beautifully attractive. Hence we cannot favor or ganizations which not only mislead the fair sex but actually stand in the way of their most sacred duties. We are ready to do everything calculated to increase the happiness of woman, but nothing to complicate her high mission with the miserable expedients of vanity and aimless schemes of a doubtful am bition. And now when Masonry shall have accomplished its high and holy office of “Public Benefactor,” and every heart shall feel its power, aud every hill and valley shall be enlivened by its song, and every tongue vocal with its praise, and every mind shall appreciate its merits— “Thon peace on oarth shall hold her easy sway, And man forgot his brother man to slay. To martial arts shall milder arts succeed, Who blesses most shall gain tho immortal meed. The eye of pity shall be pained no more With victory’s crimson banner stained with gore, And "angels view with joy and wonder joined The golden ago returned to bless mankind." GEORGE FATERSON, D. D. S., OFFICE NEXT TO PLANTERS' HOTEL, WAYNESBORO’, GA. 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