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return false } </script--> <style> .adCenterClass{margin:0 auto} </style> <div id="tb_ad" class="adCenterClass" style="display:block!important; overflow:hidden; width:916px;"> <div id="ad_container" style="display:block!important; float:left; width:728px "> <script type="text/javascript"> if (typeof lycos_ad !== "undefined" && "leaderboard" in lycos_ad) { document.write(lycos_ad['leaderboard']); } </script> </div> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> if (typeof lycos_ad !== "undefined" && "slider" in lycos_ad) { document.write(lycos_ad['slider']); } </script> <!-- added 7/22 --> <div id="FooterAd" style="background:#DFDCCF; border-top:1px solid #393939; clear:both; display:none; width:100%!important; position:relative; z-index:999999!important; height:90px!important"> <div class="adCenterClass" style="display:block!important; overflow:hidden; width:916px;"> <div id="footerAd_container" style="display:block!important; float:left; width:728px"> <iframe id="lycosFooterAdiFrame" style="border:0; display:block; float:left; height:96px; overflow:hidden; padding:0; width:750px"></iframe> </div> </div> </div> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function TripodShowPopup() { // open the popup window. stick a timestamp to foil caching. var now = new Date(); var popupURL = "/bin/roadmap?"+now.getTime(); var popup = window.open(popupURL,"TripodPopup",'toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0,menubar=0,scrollbars=0,resizable=0,width=593,height=125'); // set the opener if it's not already set. it's set automatically // in netscape 3.0+ and ie 3.0+. if( navigator.appName.substring(0,8) == "Netscape" ) { popup.location = popupURL; } } TripodShowPopup(); // --> </script> <p align="center">&nbsp; &nbsp; <img src="Bible.gif" width="363" height="275"> <font size="7" face="Old English">Concerning God and Religion</font> <font size="5" face="Old English">A Mason is obligated, by his tenure, to obey the Moral Law; and if he rightly understands the Art, he will never be a stupid Atheist nor an irreligious libertine.&nbsp; He, of all men, should best understand that </font><font size="6" face="Old English"><b>God</b></font> <br> <font size="5" face="Old English">seeth; for man looketh at the outward appearance, but </font><font size="6" face="Old English"><b>God</b></font><font size="5"> </font><font size="5" face="Old English">looketh to the heart.</font> </p> <p><font size="5" face="Old English">A Mason is, therefore, particularly bound never to act against the dictates of his conscience.&nbsp; Let a man's religion, or mode of worship, be what it may, he is not excluded from the order, provided he believe in the Glorious Architect of Heaven and Earth, and practice the sacred duties of Morality.&nbsp;&nbsp; Masons unite with the virtuous of every persuasion in the firm and pleasing bond of fraternal love; they are taught to view the errors of mankind with compassion, and to strive, by the purity of their own conduct, to demonstrate the superior excellence of the faith they may profess.</font> </p> <p align="center"><font size="5" face="Old English">Thus Masonry is the centre of union between good men and true, and the happy means of conciliating friendship amongst those who must otherwise have remained at a perpetual distance.</font> <font size="5" face="Old English">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - From the First Printed Constitutions, <b>1723,</b></font> <font size="5" face="Old English">of the First Grand Lodge in the World</font> <font size="5" face="Old English">(England).</font> &nbsp; <img src="f2f-b.jpg" width="95%" height="75%"> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </p> </body> </html>