...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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,...

...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...

...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,...

...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...