20S repose nnd relief of iliosc who nrc gathe1·ed un 11er its branches. Charity, when given with a willi 11 :;, .,. IJand, is glorious as the beams of the morning, in lVhose beauty thousands rejoice; it opens the hcnt·t to the divine effusions of unlimited sympathy aJI(l bene,·olencc, rubs ofF that rnst which would gnthcr around it, aud corJ•ode every exquisite sens:ltion. Eut it is a ''irtae of l'Cilection as well as feeling ; iu the due exercise of it, reason, no less than impulsr.• l1as its dnty to perform; these should be properly t.empere and balanced; for while on the one han()~ cold •·cflcction oug1It not at all times to benumb the ·generous exertions of an amiable impulse, so, on the other, ought not an ardent sensibility to stitnU·· late to an improper lavishment of tbat which might be wanted for more fit occasions. Another duty which a Mason imposes upov. himself, is temperance-an inattention to wlticb, frequently leads to the prostration of every other virtue. Intemperance when it becomes a settletl )u,ijit is attended with innumerable evils ; it palsies all those :fine qualities of the mind which elevate man to the similitud-e of the So preme Being ; it ob· literates all those sublime rirtue!!l and excellences which ha\'e distinguished man as the noblest work of God; it sinks him below the inanimate brute; for the latter pursues tlte design of his creator, whereas mao, by wantonly deprh·ing himself that reason wberewith he is endowed, entirely disappoints the views of his creator. . Can there be a more melancholy object than a human being in this degraded state, where a dark and gloomy Yeil is drawn over the faculties of the min<l; where the ~
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