LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF FREE-MASONRY

CONSISTING OF MASONIC TALES, SONGS, AND SKETCHES

Never Before Published

BY ROB MORRIS K. T.

Lecturer On The Landmarks And Work Of Freemasons

LOUISVILLE, KY.

Published by J. F. Brennan, for the author 1852


 


 

PREFACE

 

DEATH ON THE SIERRA NEVADA

 

THE MASONIC BREASTPIN

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

 

THE EASTERN STAR DEGREES

 

GOLD; SILVER; BRASS; IRON OR FOUR MASONIC VALUES IN THIE EUCLID LODGE

 

FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH

 

HOW WILL OUR BODIES BE FOUND?

 

PALIMPSESTS

 

BURNS' FAREWELL TO MASONS

 

DESECRATION OF MOUNT MORIAH

 

CHEERFUL HOURS AT THE GRAND LODGE

 

FEMALES, THEIR CONNECTION WITH MASONRY

 

LIBERALITY OF THE JEWS

 

THE CHURCH TRIAL OR LYNCH THE MASONS

 

CATHARINE WILLIAMS OR HUSBAND AND WIFE

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

 

THE UNIVERSALITY OF FREEMASONRY

 

THE BIRTH LIFE, AND DEATH OF STONE-SQUARERS' LODGE, NO. 91

PART FIRST

PART SECOND

PART THIRD

 

THE NARROW ESCAPE - A REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENT

 

THE CUT DIAMOND

 

THE VEHICLE, WITH ITS THREE PASSENGERS

 

MYSTERIOUS ABDUCTION - MASONIO MURDER

 

OLD WILLIAM WALLACE LODGE NO. 19

 

WE ARE BROTHIERS ALL

 

THE MILITARY CHEST

 

THE CEDAR OF THE TEMPLE

 

THE PEEPING COWAN AND THE TRUSTFUL DOG
A Bserio Comic Poem In Nine Parts

 

JOHN CALLIS, THE FREEMASON, OR THE TURNING OF THE SCALE

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

 

THE BROKEN TESSERA - AN ANECDOTE OF THE REVOLUTION

 

ALL HAIL TO THE MORNING - MAN KNOWETH NOT HIS TIME

 

THE THREE BUDS OF THE SWEET BRIER - A TALE OF THE DYING GIRL

 

THE SHORTER CATECISM OF MASONRY

 

MASONIC OLLA PODRIDA - LIFE ASSURANCE

 

A NIGHTS ADVENTURE

 

QUOTATIONS

 

BUENA VISTA

 

ACTIVE BENEVOLENCE

 

RUINS OF BAALBEC

 

LOCAL TESTS - A LATE CASE - MISCELLANEOUS

 

THE ECHO AND THE FLUTE; A TALE OF SPECULATIVE MASONRY

CHAPTER FIRST

CHAPTER SECOND

CHAPTER THIRD

 

A MASONIC TALE BY AN ACACIAN

CHAPTER FIRST

CHAPTER SECOND

CHAPTER THIRD

CHAPTER FOURTH