The Masonic Advocate: Being a Concise Exposition and Full Defence of Free Masonry. With an Appendix Containing an Abridgement of Mackey's and Oliver's Lexicons of Free Masonry. By L. Carroll Judson, R.A.S.M. Author and Compiler.

Second  Edition. Published by the Author, Philadelphia, 1859.

Embossed cloth hardcover. Approx. 9.5" x 6". Contains portraits of Judson and Mackey, protected by tissue. Tight binding, all pages intact, no rips or tears. In one photo you can see a page edge protruding past the other pages - that's not a loose page - the tissue protecting Mackey's portrait is oversized and extends beyond the fore edge. Tanning and foxing throughout. Cover has wear to edges and corners. Cover is somewhat lighter in color than the camera shows - I would describe it as cocoa colored on the spine and front.

"In presenting the Masonic Advocate to the mystic family and to the general reader, it is my most anxious desire to increase the zeal of the former, and merit the approbation of the latter. It is more particularly designed for those who have advanced no further than 'Ancient Craft Masonry,' on which all other is based, and to which, alone, a large majority of the brethren belong.

"I have presented some matter no previously suggested by any Masonic writer, and have deviated from the old beaten track in the arrangement of the subjects treated...

"The historic facts are collected from the best authorities: Oliver, Preston, Clavel, Mosheim, Mayo, Josephus, Moore, Mackey, and others.

"In abridging Mackey's and Oliver's Masonic Lexicons, I have selected those articles which I believed would most benefit the greatest number: a large portion of those useful and elaborate works being devoted to the higher degrees of Masonry, and to a history of the various rites that have been practiced at different periods and places."

Chapters:

Objects of Masonry

Principles of Masonry

Persecutions of Masonry

Objections to Masonry Answered

Origin and Progress of Operative Masonry

Origin of Speculative Masonry

Antiquity of Speculative Masonry

Progress of Speculative Masonry

The Science of Masonry

Testimony of Eminent Men in Favor of Masonry

Masonic Institutions of Relief

Masonic Institutions of Learning

Universality of Masonic Language

Power of Masonry Over the Human Mind

Abridgment of Mackey's Masonic Lexicon

Abridgment of Oliver's Lexicon

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Book will be carefully packaged and shipped in a cardboard box.