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SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1809.

NO. 32

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VINCENNES LODGE, July 3rd, A. L. 5S09. OliDEREp, THAT Brothers John Gibson, and John Caldwell, wait on Brother General W. Johnston, and return him the thanks of this Lodge for the Oration he delivered (agreeable to requett) on the An. niverfary of St. John the Baptitt, and requett of him a copy for the prefs. A Copy Tefte P. BECKES, fccy. p. t. July 3rd, A. L. 5809. Brethren, I CONSIDER the vote of the Lodge as highly honorary ; and permit me to thank you for the polite manner in which you have communicated it to me. The addrefs, with pleaiure I acknowledge, was heard with indulgence : I hope it will be criticifed with candour: and under the impreflion of this fentiment, I commit it to your difpofal. GENl. W. JOHNSTON. To the Committee of the Vincennes Ledge. 3

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MOSONIC ORATION DELIVERED BY GENl. W. JOHNSTON, Esc. At the Court House in Vincennes, on the 24fA June last, in presence of the. Members of the Lodge t and a respectable collection of citizens. BRE TH REN, IT-IE novelty of the prefent aficmblage in this remote and initiated quarter of the world, will no doubt create in the breads of our prefent audience amotions of iurprifc and enquiry but with us, Brethren, the emotions which now occupy our hearts, arc of a quite different natureas members of one great family, we this day with our chriQian brothers throughout thr world, between the north and the touth, and ene from the Orient to the Occident, are i lf-ring up our adorations to the Supreme Grand Architect of the Heavrr.s and the Earth, of things finite and infinite, icen and unfeen, for Lis fcreat and. unbounded mercies to ourfrlves in particular and the relr of huGod-like creation, and ctrlebtating as a Fete that day on which our Jmly and angelic like frirnd and brother, faint and i.ge, the immortal Saint John the li,!ptiU came into cxillance, and who now enjoys a ferphic welcome at the right hand of our Omnipotent -Matter in that I.rdge above, not m-devith hand:, etrrnal if. the Heaven of lieavens : our prefer r.t otii-r-ings tho' fet!)lr, and the rxtenfion of the l."iif r.lcnt i: -.uLitncc and riilts of cur inttitution to Ii,dijua, is a taule ol real j r.o oi.l) to oui 'elvers, but to all our lellow l ib' mic r in the unbouiidcd iield of cliaritv Lr.d Lrotl.ci'y love. It vi tv i-c X' -cl; d hv our aucirr.ee on the I- nt relation, ti r t Lrej', th;t they Ihoiil ! r ( ri vr fome account ot the oiigr.j !i! r Yr(; (t I 'rrr-Mjfont v however 5.'e !.!r !;-v ta'.rntr, and :nd'(Mmy to thr t ft l! :rv til i! C fu h a'.r ll V.tU, I))V. LO 'lc(r-?- i !. t!:r Irrvirr of tl e i;nMt I AM, w i' hot; meidiraMy VftitV:. Ti,' n to oM M!'- hf-e-Mfon'y -.: enr. rj, ','.,'va J;at orst ilnrr-t ni:d o:n-!i'tp'''-t'-llt f; c:,,o hy h.i t" '1 lit lp.:L1. nn! t,I ilVirt.'. ( .-ViS of ?iri:-tc'.! na'.uic intu t:..ttv! tr, U. i:!jr:ibciicl v. cihli

for their accommodation and convenience, and who, by his tingle thought, can anhiliate all created nature into its priltme chaotic ftate ; for it is well known by our Craft, that unlefs God makes Man a Mafon, man cannot make man fuch, ergo et a fortiori; Free-Mafonry is of Divine origin Independent of this mannerof raciocination, its Divine origin is farther and indifputably proven, even to the mind of a fieptic and a cenforious word, by the miraculous manner in which the feccis of our order have been handed down pure and ur. fnl lied from the primitive ages, thro' a long'ferics of barbarifm, ignorance an anarchy (occafioned by centuries of warfare) to the piefent time.: Yet it h;h witiittood the moth of prejudice, and the ravages of lime ; like a cololfus of adamant it hath withttood the rod of tyrants and the grafp of fools, and will.fo continue to do until time fball be no more, until the great overfeer (hall de mand an account of his ftewards of their ttewardfljip in this life, and at that awful hour, fliall caufe the concufiiou of elements and the aiihiliation of nature ! Its a great confolation, O I my Brethren, that the power and charity of this one puifiant being, is not limited to the regions of humanity ; he inhabited) eternity ; and his power and beneficence are as extenfive as the operation of his hands he can and will bear us up, and properly conduct our earthly tabernacle in the fmiles of profperity, and the frowns of adverfity, in danger and in the hour ot death how pleating then mutt it be to the faithful & the virtuous to contemplate with ferenity their future and ultimate reception in that celettial and eve; letting Lo ge, by the pafs-word of grace ! yet a little while, and we mutt all, Ma Con s and Cowiiis, appear in hisaugutt prefence to receive our feveral rewards according to our merits and demerits how dreadful then, O Lord my God ! mutt it be to thofe who may be led into thy holy tabernacle unprepared, to hear thee exclaim to the good and virtuous, ' well done thou good and faithful frrvatit, enter thou into the fervicc of thy I.oid," but to the unaccepted Sc unworthy, depart thou from my prefence, the place wherein thou now art is holy !" lielieve me my audience this is not unmeaning adulation ; it will one day or other be realized in its fullctt extent; does it not ' therefore awaken in your hearts tlie mod fcrious reflections of your pre fent lituation, and your eternal doom hereaftei ? turn then ye weary and heavy hden of thr faithful and worthy and ye Hull hve rett feck, and yc (hull find knock, and it Ihall be opened unto ycu. Having faid thus miuh as to the origin, it; which, if I hac impioperly digr-fled, the known charity of rr.y brethren 1 hepe will brar me out Mifotiry is a theme. to me the nn ft coniolaiinr? and pleafing, in which I rouU Troll v beer fully foet.d my every hour of r c ti 1 emrn" I therefore feel a felfconvicVi'Mi that 1 (land excufrd ; :.d lhail now rrroned to ei.uiiirfate and dilate uon fume of thr reat and unparrallcd objects anJ elT Oil oi our eri'.er. The primary rh f of our inttituti on rr thr cultivaticiu ri the mental fatultit? luciI intriconrir. tho in ? Ui-iuge j" i.uliar to Maloiiij 'r.d rrder, :.d :e . rA trnevo!-pcr. A: d m i-Tciii -rr : I a t wr befrn?", or ou.'ht lo t , true citii'Iit,,!, irnuriv'is Kbrurrr" isi !m-: '': ol rur hives and tamrhr, and a uirti.arf I Jutv in atfU of f luniv, an; hot.crsry d!rs m iocictv Hiving prrrnrl-il i'i02 u.ik

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the fubjel connectedly, that is, the object andefTect ; leaving to the fatyrical talte of criticifm the talk of an anylitical feprration. We derive, as I have before obferved, our inttitution from the Great Architect of the Univerfe ; and fiiould we in this be taxed with preemption ? Do not the great truths of morality and reTgion, and all the moral and focial virtues, emanate from the divine .mind ? were tiny not intended to give dignity to cur nature, to render us h.ippy in this world, and prepare us for a glorious reception in the next? Surely an inttitution, founded in morality and religion, as unfolded to us in the Scriptures, and in the works of creation, derives not its ime didlates from the invention of man whofe primeval fituation was very fclitary, , uncultivated and hazardous, although endowed with a mind capable of difcrimination, able to diflinguilh between good and ; evil, inclination and duty ; yet.dcflitute of experience, & expofed to a variety of wants his mind was at firft almott exclufivcly drawn to the nature and properties of material objects, which we denominate operative M-lonry ; necefiity at length obliged mankind to divide their labour, fome atten- -ding to the fufion of metals, fome the conttrudion of the implements of, war, while others erecttd habitations, Sc cultivated the earth ; in the rerfuit ol which, the neceffity of union was gradually manifctted ; experience convinced them that their wants were numerous, and tjrt the means of gratification were principally derived from a focial intrrcourfe with each other, to which was owing mny of the fine arts, in the progrellive ttages of which, the rules, of proportion were fugett'd to the mind, and ln-nt.- vifdom to contrive, ftrength to execute and beauty to fidorn, were difcovered to be tlfential tufts in all tht operative perfuits of men ; the gratification of thefe: wants, the Jtquifition of the mctns of fafety itnd a partial knowledge of the vifible Treat ion, awakened the attention rf the human -race to intcllrdiul obj-cl, which we call fpecuUtive Mafonry ; The exiftcner of a Supreme-Hring, th.c m g: itude of his pow. er, his iiatred of vice, and love of virtue, Sc a future fbte of retribution, are doctrines co extrnfivr with mankind, and the truths of tl :cm were illuttrated in the earliell Lodges ; no winder therefore, that fpecuUtive Mafot ry' has ever beni cultivated or neglected in proportion to the expanfion, or limitation of the human intellect ; it employs the mind on moral and other ahP.ract difquifitions it enables us the more fully to mvettigatc the fublime and adorable attributes of the Supreme Architect-it ferves to unfold rur duty as men ann1 as f hrittirJ3 embles us to rliimare :11 the actions of moril rgtnts, as either iifrful, injurious or indiir-rrnt 'lid to ron.'uct onrf Ivs ?s rational creature;. Their .tc fome of the traits originally perceived by M-fur." to be inhf rrrjt in ihrir militution ; av.: the proiTtf they mde iri the aits c ft irricea. partitulaily in the fci'-ncr of mor-ls, and the knorvledr they obtained 1 I th- hum iri niinJ ol its various powers and crn;bininj r, harerr.rited the'alionill m-nt ot more iv!iz'd a.s : n erC now sre th- Druids f arnier ! i.nrppe, oifr tljr f-iifhlul depofit ir ir , r i i -Tiiiiv and thr art. and on v:n;n hi- ri ; flic I) vedrlcem!cd ? thev hivrgors thu. n I.kr itars in the inai.fnu.j vt tl e . -. i I Wl.-ie now is the ernaritlate k ir.fj Srhi. n nn, whole wttdoni aid i-.-rdn-f knew r.t) o;nu!, ? Where row i the grr.t and worthy Hiram, the iJwWsibn, whole inven-

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