"Freemasonry, a beautiful system of morality, veiled in allegory, and ilustrated by symbols." The most ancient society in the world; its principles are based on pure morality, its ethics are the ethics of pure religion; its doctrines, the doctrines of brotherly love; its sentiments, the sentiments of exalted benevolonce. It encourages all that is good, kind, and charitable; and reproves all that is vicious, cruel, and opperssive.