Identifier: gemsofmasonryemb00sher (find matches)
Title: The gems of masonry : emblematic and descriptive
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Sherer, John
Subjects: Freemasonry
Publisher: Cincinnati : The Author
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ehe expects to arrive by the aid of that ladder which constitutesthe way by the door into the sheepfold.*—Mon, 36.—FreeMas. Lib. 251.— Cal. 18.—Hutch. Lec. iv. F.. The three rounds of this symbolic ladder, which is anemblem of that, seen in vision by the patriarch Jacob, ascendingto heaven, on which angels ascended and descended continually,are Faith, Hope, and Charity ; teaching us that we must reposefaith in God, cherish a hope of immortality, and practise charityto man.—Free Mas. Lib. 151. F. .. And he dreamed, and, behold, a ladder set upon theearth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold, the an-gels of God ascending and descending on it.— Gen, xxviii, 12.And now abideth Faith, Hope, Charity, these three ; but thegreatest of these is Charity.—1 Cor. xiii, 13. For we know thatif our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have abuilding of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in theheavens. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be
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10 ENTERED APPRENTICE. absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Where-fore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be ac-cepted of him.—2 Cor, v, 1, 8, 9.—xxi, 1, andxxii, 17.

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