Description - The Patriarchal Order, Or, True Brotherhood; The Time, Place and Manner of Its Marvelous Commencement, Its Rapid Progress, Its Rare Beauties, and Its by John Shoebridge Williams
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... Commencement Of The Order. 3 all the facilities for progressing in and with the Order, I feel bound in "conscience, in my religious views," to make a proposition for a renewal of the Order upon its proper basis as far as I may be capable, under the circumstances that surround me. Of the utility of this, the reader will be better able to judge when he is made acquainted with the Order and the proceedings in it. All will see that the present Assembly has left the true Order, and that unless it be through this poor instrument no true Order will be likely to exist. Pure water flows not from impure fountains, as a common occurrence. That the Order must have a new start and put forth another bud, or else go into oblivion, every well discerning mind will be likely to see. Can the same men who admitted and sanctioned such rules, by tacit consent at least, be ever likely to bring forth harmony from discords or wisdom from ignorance? Yet I know all that any of us can do at this, is by strength and means received from that which is higher and better than ourselves. COMMENCEMENT OF THE ORDER. Among the many extraordinary occurrences of the times is the springing up of a new Order among us, or the renewal of an ancient order of things, called the Patriarchal Order of True Brothers. It seems from its name as well as from the fundamental laws of the Order, that it is intended to be a powerful instrument in the hands of Almighty God to bring about the regeneration of the human family from selfish discords, into fraternal harmony, and from the tyranny of man over man, the strong over the weak, the many over the few, into those paternal and filial relations, and proper care of and regard for each other; or in other words, that each and every part of...
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