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therefore tho religious principle has been wanting . The averment that Freomasonry is a uon-religious body , because ifc is not Roman Catholic or Trinitarian is a fallacy , and I am surprised Bro . Norton should havo taken it as showing that the charge against Freemasonry of being without a sense of religion has not been refuted .

So long as wo admit only men who havo a religion , we , ipso facto , refute this charge . When wo admit thoso who havo not , wo olimiuato from our principles tho religious element or basis , and tho chiirgo becomes trno . I need not write further . I am nob ashamed of finding myself

serving under the same banner as Aristotle aud Cicoro , who were both religions men , nor do I think ifc detracts from tho morifc of David , that though I described him as an inspired writer , thero is no such word as " iuspirod" iu tho Hebrew language . I used the word as it is commonly used , for I am no Hobrew scholar , aud therefore could not havo known whether there was or was not such a word

iu that language . I remaiu , Dear Sir aud Brother , Yours fraternally , TOLERANCE .

" Urim" And "Thummim."

" URIM" AND "THUMMIM . "

rilHESE words , which signify lights aud perfections , have never been JL satisfactorily explained , they have nowhere been describe , perhaps a few opinions respecting them will not bo unacceptable . In Brown's Dictionary of tho Biblo I find tho following : — " Urim and Thummiin signify lights nnd perfections , and aro mentioned as in tho High Priest ' s breast plato , bufc what they were we cannot

determine " Some think they were two precious stones , added to tho other twelve , by tho extraordinary lustre of which God marked his approbation of a design , and by their dimness his disallowance of it ; others think these two words wero written on a precious stone , or plato of gold , fixed in the breast plato , others will have the name

JEHOVAH incribed on a plato of gold and therein fixed ; others think the letters of the names of tho tribes were the Urim and Thummim ; and that tho letters by standing out , or by an extraordinary illumination , marked such words as contained tho answer of God to him who consulted this oracle . Le Clere will havo them to bo the names of two precious stones ,

set in a golden collar , and coming down to his breast , as the magistrates of Egypt woro a golden chain , at tho end of which hung the figures of justice and truth engraven on precious stones . Weems thinks they wero some ornament formed by God himself , aud given to Moses . Hottinger thinks they might mean no moro bufc that Moses was to

chooso the most shining and perfect stones of the various kinds to bo put into tho breast plate . Prigeaux thinks the words chiefly denoto tho clearness of the oracles dictated to tho High Priest , though perhaps the lustre of tho stones in his breast plate might represent this clearness . When this oracle of Urim and Thummim was to bo consulted it is

said tho high priest pnt ou his golden vestments , and in ordinary cases went into tho sanctuary , and stood with his face to the Holy of Holies , and tho consulter stood as near him as tho law allowed ; but how tho answer was given , whether by an articulate voice from tho mercy seat , or by the outstanding or lustre of tho letters in the breast plato , wo know not .

This oracle was never consulted in matters of faith , as in these the Jews had tho written law for their rule ; nor was ifc consulted in matters of small moment ; and ifc is even said—I snpposo without ground—that none but sovereign judges , kings , and generals consulted it . Ifc i 3 certain David consulted the Lord in this mauner before ho camo to the throne .

While Moses lived there was no occasion to consult this oracle , as tho Lord spake to him face to face . After his death , it was consulted till the age of the temple and prophets , tho latter of which seem to have supplied its room ; for wo read not of ono single instance of the people then consulting it . Nor did Josiah when terrified with the threatenings of God , consult it , but Huldah tho prophetess , in order

to know tho mind of God . Josephus will havo tho stones of the Urira and Thummim to have retained their lustre till about A . M . 3890 ; but it is certain the oracle was wanting some ages before , in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah . Nor do I know of tho least ground to believe that it existed under the second temple . The Jews pretend that tho Bathcol ( or the daughter of a voice ) supplied its

place , whose oracles , they say , were otten attended with a clap of thunder ; and ifc seems from Luke xii . 29 , "tho people , that stood by , and heard ifc , said that ifc thundered ; others said , an angel spake unto him . " Bonar , on Leviticus , savs , " It has beon suggested bv one who is

already a scribe in the law of his God , that the stones of the breasfcplato were arranged in the manner iu which tho tents were pitched round the ark "— - ( this , I believe , was a brother Mason ) . It is followed by a sketch , showing the glory in the centre ( supposed to bo the Urim and Thummim ) surrounded by threo stones on each of the four sides of the breast plate , tho effect of which is very beautiful . W . P . I .

HOLLOWAY ' S O INTMENT Asi ) P ILLS . —Sores , Wounds aud "Ulcers . — "Every variety of sore , ulcer , eruption , boil , unci carbuncle is safely stopped in its destructive course by the : timely implication oE this healing Ointment . It arrests unhealthy and substitutes liosilthy action , thus curing tlio intlamed , irritable find spreading diseases affecting the s ' : iu . Hollowuy ' s Ointment lias gained au imperishable fame lor ii . s ncxilit . y in lieuHng old mtliiinm . itory sores about the shins and ancles , and for bud legs and old wounds it caunor , bo equalled ; nor is it less efficacious in gathered breasts and abscesses . When tho complaint lias been of long continuance , Holloway ' s Pills will expedite recovery , it' taken in those doses which act as alteratives on the stomach , and tonics on ' the constitution .

Old Warrants

Old Warrants

— . v . — No . 122 . No . 31 "Ancients ; " No . 47 A . D . 1814 , ( at the "Union ; " ) No . 40 A . D . 1832 , and No . 34 from A . D . 1863 .

ATHOLL , GRAND MASTER . LAU . DERMOTT D . G . M . WILL - TINDALL S . G . W . Tnos . CARTER J . G . W . ( to all fui ^ oiu it mag ronctru . WE , tho Grand Lodgo of tho most Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Freo and Accepted Masons ( according to the Old

Constitutions granted by His Royal Highness Prince EDWIN , at York , Anno Domini Nine hundred twenty and six , and in tho year of Masonry Four thousand Niuo hundred twenty and six ) , iu ample form assembled , viz ., The Right Worshipful and Mosfc Noble Prince John , Duke , Marquis and Earl of Atholl , Marquis of

Tnllibardino , Earl of Strathtay and Strathardle , Viscount of Balquidder , Glonalmond and Glenlyon , Lord Murray , Belveny and Gask , Horitablo and Captain Constable of the Castle of Kincleaven , Hereditary Keeper of tho Palace of Falkland , aud in that part of Great Britain called England and Masonical Jurisdiction thereunto belonging

GRAND MASTER OF MASONS , Tho Right Worshipful Lan Dormott , Esq ., Deputy Grand Master , The Right Worshipful William Tindall , Esq ., Senior Grand Warden , and tho Right Worshipful Thomas Carter , Esq ., Junior Grand Warden ( with the approbation and consent of tho Warranted Lodges held within the Cities and Suburbs of London

and Westminster ) , Do hereby authorize and impower our Trusty and Well-beloved Brethren , viz ., The Worshipful Jonathan Mathows , one of our Master Masons , the Worshipful Alexander Aitken , No . 31 his Senior Warden , and the Worshipful Henry Spencer , his Junior Warden , to form and hold a Lodge of Free

and Accepted Masons aforesaid , at the Ship aud Anchor , Gnu Dock , Wapping ( or elsewhere ) , in London , upon the Second and Fourth Wednesday of each Kalendar Month , and on all seasonable times and lawful occasions . And in the said Lodge ( when duly congregated ) to admit and mako Free Masons , according to the most Ancient

and Honourable Custom of the Royal Craft , in all Ages and Nations throughout the known world . And wo do hereby further authorise and impower our said Trusty and Well-beloved Brethren , Jonathan Mathews , Alexander Aitken , and Henry Spencer ( with the consent of tho Members of their Lodge ) , to nominate , chuse , and install their

Successors , to whom they shall deliver this Warrant , and invest them , with their Power and Dignities as Free Masons , & c . And such Successors shall in liko manner nominate , chuso , and install their Successors , & c , & c , & c . Such installations to bo upon ( or near )

every ST . Jons ' s DAY , during the continuance of this Lodgo , for ever . Providing tho above named Brethren , and all their Successors , always pay due Respect to this Right Worshipful Grand Lodge , otherwise this Warrant to bo of no Force nor Virtue .

Given under our Hands and tho Seal of onr Grand Lodgo in London , this Twenty-fifth day of March in the year of onr Lord Ono thousand Seven hundred and Sevcnty-five and in tho year of Masonry Four thousand Seven hundred Seventy and Five . WILLIAM DICKEY ,

Grand Secretary . NOTE . —This Warrant is Registered ") in the Grand Lodge , Vol . 1 , f Letter A ., and boars date Jany 9 , C 1754 , 5751 .. )

Renewed March 25 th 5775 . Tho present Title , No ., & c . are , The Mount Moriah Lodge , No . 34 , Freemasons' Hall , London .

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