ad whom we think of, perhaps,
every day--and find it easier to be brave and hopeful, even when we
are sad. It is not a faith to be taken lightly, but deeply and in the
quiet of the soul, if so that we may grow into its high meanings for
ourselves, as life grows or declines.

/P
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
P/

FOOTNOTES:

[173] _As You Like It_ (act ii, scene ii). Shakespeare makes no
reference to any secret society, but some of his allusions suggest that
he knew more than he wrote. He describes "The singing Masons building
roofs of gold" (_Henry V_, act i, scene ii), and compares them to a
swarm of bees at work. Did he know what the bee hive means in the
symbolism of Masonry? (Read an interesting article on "Shakespeare and
Freemasonry," _American Freemason_, January, 1912.) It reminds one of
the passage in the _Complete Angler_, by Isaak Walton, in which the
gentle fisherman talks about the meaning of Pillars in language very
like that used in the _Old Charges_. But Hawkins in his edition of the
_Angler_ recalls that Walton was a friend of Elias Ashmole, and may
have learned of Masonry from him. (_A Short Masonic History_, by F.
Armitage, vol. ii, chap. 3.)

[174] _Some Problems of Philosophy_, by William James.

[175] In 1877 the Grand Orient of France removed the Bible from its
altar and erased from its ritual all reference to Deity; and for so
doing it was disfellowshiped by nearly every Grand Lodge in the world.
The writer of the article on "Masonry" in the _Catholic Encyclopedia_
recalls this fact with emphasis; but he is much fairer to the Grand
Orient than many Masonic writers have been. He understands that this
does not mean that the Masons of France are atheistic, as that word is
ordinarily used, but that _they do not believe that there exist
Atheists in the absolute sense of the word_; and he quotes the words of
Albert Pike: "A man who has a higher conception of God than those about
him, and who denies that their conception is God, is very likely to be
called an Atheist by men who are really far less believers in God than
he" (_Morals and Dogma_, p. 643). Thus, as Pike goes on to say, the
early Christians, who said the heathen idols were no