Th' widow's grief, the tears of orphans,

These have claim'd their kindred sigh

From that noble band, who never

Pass a suffering brother by.

5.

They will stay the widow's anguish,
They will dry the orphan's tear;

In the darkest hour of sorrow
Will the helping hand be near.

6.

And the man of after-years

Shall bless those guardians of his youth,
And shall link his father's memory,
Too, with Friendship, Love, and Truth.

Brothers! raise to heaven your hands,
The links that bind the heart!
Consecrate anew the bands

Of faith, before we part;

Then, in heavenly peace and trust,
Part in Friendship, Truth, and Love,

Till, released from earth and dust,
We meet again above.

Part Fourth.

TO THE UNINITIATED.

REASONS FOR THIS ASSOCIATION.

HE experience of every considerate mind must teach the fleeting and transitory nature of worldly possessions, and the uncertainty of health, to all the greatest earthly blessing that can be enjoyed, and the deprivation of which, to the greater portion of mankind, is the suspension of the necessary means of existence.

The frugal ant, guided by a benevolent instinct of unerring Nature, improves the sunny hour to husband up its store ere the approach

of barren, cheerless winter: and the impulse which here prompts this petty member of the brute creation to action in its own behalf, is the same impulse which gave our Order birth; brought by process of intellect to that admirable system which distinguishes the first of God's creation when exerted in a noble and righteous cause.

The condition in which man finds himself placed on

as both an individual and a member of the