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Biblical Ethiopia, &C.
the Arabian peninsula adjacent to Gerar . The great number describee ! as being smitten , and the spoiling of the cities round about , render it impossible for the sacred historian to have intended to indicate" Gerar , " in the lot of the
tribe of Simeon . Again , in 2 Chronicles xxi . 10 , " the Arabians that wero near the Ethiopians " are spoken of . This could not have indicated Africans , from whom they were divided by the Red Sea and by Egypt , but must have applied to a nation settled to tho eastward of Arabia .
Bro . Higgins points out that in Habbakuk iii . 7 the words Midian and Cushan are used as synonyms , and that in Numbers xii . 1 " Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses , because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married : this woman being the daughter of Jethro , priest of Midian . "
He quotes also the opinion of Dr . Wells , that when in Ezekiel xxix . 10 , God threatens to desolate the land " from the tower of Syene to the borders of Cush , " he evidently means from one boundary of Egypt to the other . Syene
being its southern boundary ( by the African Ethiopia ) , the other must be tho other end of Egypt , bordering on Syria and Arabia . Many other passages of the Old Testament point to the same conclusion .
Herodotus says there were two Ethiopian nations ; one in India , the other in Egypt . It is maintained also by modern critics that the African Ethiopia is not anywhere named Cush in Scripture . Bro . Higgins adduced a mass of testimony in favour of the probability of an irruption of
Blacks proceeding from farther East in very early times into the region of the Euphrates , Syria , Arabia and Phoenicia , whence a settlement of the same nation obtained footing in Egypt—the Shepherd Kings ; to be afterwards
expelled by the harassed Egyptians into Iduroea or Arabia . These oppressors had made " Shepherds " an abomination to the Egyptians : they were doubtless migratory shepherd sheiks , and came in at or after the Fourteenth Dynasty , about 2500 years after Menes .
The old system of chronology is now exposed to the gravest doubt . It originated in the well-intentioned calculations of learned Rabbis and early Christian Bishops , from Biblical genealogies and vaguely recorded epochas . But who can tell what precious fragments of ancient
record have been lost , or what lacuna ) piously filled up ? From the vicissitudes of Jewish writings and traditions , undergone in the several destructions and captivities which befell them , their sacred books are most unlikely to have survived in their entirety . Where is the Book of the
Wars—and the Book of Jasher ? Let us be satisfied if the . essentials of religion have been mercifully preserved to us , without stultifying our reason and staking our faith in their grand doctrines , upon the mere tenure of an uncertain or misunderstood chronology .
No hardy sceptic , nor insidious infidel , but Professor Owen , the laborious palceontologist , says , — " With our evidence of the antiquity of the human species , 7000 years seems but a brief period to be allotted to the earliest civilised and governed community . That a race should have
risen so early to that high state , along the Nile , accords with the unique blessedness of the soil and climate . " Still , Bishop Russell , the latest writer of eminence on Sacred Chronology , which is mainly that of Hales and Jackson based on the Septuagint , dates the Flood at 5060 from the present year .
"The Hycksos ( or Shepherd Kings ) , said Professor Owen , in a recent discourse , " in the course of their 5 & 0 years' usurpation , accepted the civilisation and the arts of the higher race which they had partially subdued . When finally driven out—and they were pursued by the victorious
Amosis as far as Palestine—they took such accession of ideas as they had acquired in Egypt . One invasion is the parent of another—the subjugated becomes in turn the subduer . The Amenophises , the Thotmes , extended the conquests of Amosis . They overran Palestine , and pushed
on through Ccelo-Syria and by Carchemis , to the plains of the Euphrates and Tigris , bringing back such slaves as were required for their mighty works in Egypt . In that hard school were trained teachers of the neighbouring populations . But far above and beyond these glimpses of
the stream of Egyptian civilisation stands its native source , flowing through the first twelve Dynasties , 3000 years before Menepthar , the Pharaoh probably of Exodus . The commencement of the twenty-second Dynasty was contemporaneous with the reign of Jeroboam . "
Opening Of A New Lodge In York.
OPENING OF A NEW LODGE IN YORK .
ON Monday last ( Rank holiday ) a ceremony took plac > in the old City of Y . 'fk , frnmjht with the greatest interest to a'l brethren of the Eoyal Art . This was nothing Ipsa than the condonation and constitution of a now Masonic Lnd « o , a ceremony which had not been witnessed within the walls of York for ninetv-iiino yars previonsly , the last occasion being the consecration of tho York Lodge , No . 230 , in tho year 1777 . York ia , in its history and associations ! ,
very closely linked with Freemasonry . Traditionally ifc has been tho scene of mnch that is interesting to tho Order . Ifc was , according to the cherished legends , in York that tho Athelstane ( barter was grant' d , in the year 926 ; it was in the ancient crypt of York Cathedral that the ancient brethren met for the celebration of the i r rites and ceremonies , and from that time to the present tho history of York
has been more or less interwoven with that of Freemasonry . Several years ago the propriety of tho promotion of a movement for a second Lodge in York was discussed , but it was not until the commencement of the current year that a nnmber of brethren , all deeply interested in the progress of Masonry and the welfare of the Craft , forwarded a petition to the Grand Lodge of England for a warrant for a second
Lodge in York , to be called the Eboraenm Lodge . In rlno course the petition was granted and tho warrant issned , tho nnmber of the Lodsre on the grand roll of England being Ifill . The Right Worshipfnl Provincial Grand Master , the Earl of Zetland , appointed Monday , the 7 th August ., as the day for the consecration ceremony , and accordingly every preparation was made by the brethren for liio
snocessfnl celebration of tho event . We are happy to know thn 1-. t ! i .-ir efforts were crowned with success , and that thedny passed off wit' out a single drawback , the R . W . P . G . Master and his Depnty both expressing their great satisfaction at everything connected with tho ceremonial . The Lodge Room ia attached to the Qneen's Hotel , Mick ' egafcc
and is a very handsome apartment , eminently snited for the purpose . Ifc is lofty and spacions , and its decorations , which have been executed by Messrs . Hartley and Son , are tasteful in the extreme . The chairs and pedestals , which are remarkably handsome , and executed with minnte correctness in the style of three principal orders of
architecture , have been made from designs from the studio of Mo-srs . Knowles , of the Mediooval Arfc Works , Stonegate . The carpet has been supplied by Mr . T . G . Turner , Parliament-street , and a very handsome pedestal , in the form of a doub e cnbe , of old oak , together with the dias , are from the workshops of Messrs . Keswick and Sons .
At 2 . 30 p . m ., the brethren assembled , and the members of tho Provincial Grand Lodge having been formed into processioa in an adjoining room , the Lodge room was entered , and Provincial Grand Lodge opened in ample form by the Right Worshipfnl Prov . G . M . In addition to the Earl of-Zetland thero wero present , members of tho Prov . Grand Lodge , Bro . J . P . Bell D . Prov . G . M ., Bro . the FTon .
W . T . Orde-Powlett Prov . S . G . W ., Bros . W . Waller P . G . J . W ., M . C , Peek Prov . G . Sec , Rev . W . Valentine P . Prov . G . Chaplain and S . W . 236 , Woodall ( Searbro' ) P . P . S . G . W ., R . G . Smvth ( Hull ) Prov . G . Director of Ceremonies , C . H . Hunt Prov . G . Org ., J . Todd P . Prov , G . O . and Sec . 236 , G . Bamford P . Prov . G . O ., T . Sissons P . Prov .
G . R ., T . Cooper P . P . G . S . W . and D . C . 236 . J . Ward Prov . G . Parsnivant , and many others . Tho ceremony of consecration was then proceeded with , the musical portion of tho service being most ably performed by a choir of Masonic vocalists from Leeds and Bradford , nnder the direction of Bro . Thornton Wood , the music being the composition of Bro . Atkinson .
Bro . Thomas Cooper P . M . 236 , was then duly installed First Master of the Eboracum Lodge , and he appointed and invested his officers as follows : —Bros . T . B . Whytehearl , 1338 and 236 Senior Warden , -T . S . Cumberland 178 Junior Warden , G-o . Balmford P . M . 23 G Treasurer , James Kay 1010 Secretary , T . Tnke 236 Senior Deacon , C . G . Padel 236 Organist , Seller 235 Inner Guard , J . Redfare Tyler pro tern .
The Depnty Prov . G . M . then gave a long and elaborate address , in the course of which he traced the history of Freemasonry iti its connection with the City of York , and expressed his satisfaction at the very auspicious manner in which tho Eboracum Lodge had come into existence , anticipating for ifc a very prosperous future . The
W . M ., Bro . Cooper , then proposed a vote of thanks to the R . W . P . G . M ., the D . P . G . M ., the P . G . Sec , and the P . G . Officers who had attended on the occasion , and announced that , R . W . P . G . M . the Earl of Zetland , the D . P . G . M . Dr . Bell , the P . D . P . G . M . Bro . G . Marwood , and the P . G . Sec , Bro . Peck , had been elected Honorary Members of the Lodge .
The Lodge was then closed , and the brethren adjourned to the De Grey Rooms , were a sumptuous banquet had been prepared by Mr . J . Toes , in his well known style . The W . M . presided , and was sup . ported by the Prov . G . M ., the Deputy Prov . G . M ., the Prov . G . S . W ., the Prov . G . Sec , & c , & o . ; and the following toasts were duly honoured : — " The Qneen and Craft , " " H . R . H . the Prince of Wales M . W . G . M . of England , with the other members of the Royal Family , "
" The Right Hon . the Earl of Carnarvon M . W . Prov . G . M ., with tho Grand Officers , " "The Right Hon . the Earl of Zetland , R . W . Prov . G . M . of North and East Yorkshire . " "The W . Bro . J . P . Bell . Esq . M . D ., J . P ., Past Senior Grand Deacon of England , Deputy Prov . Grand M . of North and East Yorkshire , " " The W . M . of the Eboracum Lodge , " "The Visiting- Brethren , "" The Masonic Charities , " " The Tylers' Toast , " " The York Lodge , 236 , " " Prosperity to the City of York , " & c .
An object of great attraction to the brethren in the Lodge room was an interesting Masonic relic in the shape of an ancient Bible , bearing on its fly-leaf the following inscription : " This Bible belongs to the Freemasons meeting at Mr . Howards' 1761 . " This valuable memento of the Craft and of a Lodge now extinct has been generously presented to the Eboracum Lodge by Mr . Carter , of Stonegate , is whose possession ib has remained for many years ,
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Biblical Ethiopia, &C.
the Arabian peninsula adjacent to Gerar . The great number describee ! as being smitten , and the spoiling of the cities round about , render it impossible for the sacred historian to have intended to indicate" Gerar , " in the lot of the
tribe of Simeon . Again , in 2 Chronicles xxi . 10 , " the Arabians that wero near the Ethiopians " are spoken of . This could not have indicated Africans , from whom they were divided by the Red Sea and by Egypt , but must have applied to a nation settled to tho eastward of Arabia .
Bro . Higgins points out that in Habbakuk iii . 7 the words Midian and Cushan are used as synonyms , and that in Numbers xii . 1 " Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses , because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married : this woman being the daughter of Jethro , priest of Midian . "
He quotes also the opinion of Dr . Wells , that when in Ezekiel xxix . 10 , God threatens to desolate the land " from the tower of Syene to the borders of Cush , " he evidently means from one boundary of Egypt to the other . Syene
being its southern boundary ( by the African Ethiopia ) , the other must be tho other end of Egypt , bordering on Syria and Arabia . Many other passages of the Old Testament point to the same conclusion .
Herodotus says there were two Ethiopian nations ; one in India , the other in Egypt . It is maintained also by modern critics that the African Ethiopia is not anywhere named Cush in Scripture . Bro . Higgins adduced a mass of testimony in favour of the probability of an irruption of
Blacks proceeding from farther East in very early times into the region of the Euphrates , Syria , Arabia and Phoenicia , whence a settlement of the same nation obtained footing in Egypt—the Shepherd Kings ; to be afterwards
expelled by the harassed Egyptians into Iduroea or Arabia . These oppressors had made " Shepherds " an abomination to the Egyptians : they were doubtless migratory shepherd sheiks , and came in at or after the Fourteenth Dynasty , about 2500 years after Menes .
The old system of chronology is now exposed to the gravest doubt . It originated in the well-intentioned calculations of learned Rabbis and early Christian Bishops , from Biblical genealogies and vaguely recorded epochas . But who can tell what precious fragments of ancient
record have been lost , or what lacuna ) piously filled up ? From the vicissitudes of Jewish writings and traditions , undergone in the several destructions and captivities which befell them , their sacred books are most unlikely to have survived in their entirety . Where is the Book of the
Wars—and the Book of Jasher ? Let us be satisfied if the . essentials of religion have been mercifully preserved to us , without stultifying our reason and staking our faith in their grand doctrines , upon the mere tenure of an uncertain or misunderstood chronology .
No hardy sceptic , nor insidious infidel , but Professor Owen , the laborious palceontologist , says , — " With our evidence of the antiquity of the human species , 7000 years seems but a brief period to be allotted to the earliest civilised and governed community . That a race should have
risen so early to that high state , along the Nile , accords with the unique blessedness of the soil and climate . " Still , Bishop Russell , the latest writer of eminence on Sacred Chronology , which is mainly that of Hales and Jackson based on the Septuagint , dates the Flood at 5060 from the present year .
"The Hycksos ( or Shepherd Kings ) , said Professor Owen , in a recent discourse , " in the course of their 5 & 0 years' usurpation , accepted the civilisation and the arts of the higher race which they had partially subdued . When finally driven out—and they were pursued by the victorious
Amosis as far as Palestine—they took such accession of ideas as they had acquired in Egypt . One invasion is the parent of another—the subjugated becomes in turn the subduer . The Amenophises , the Thotmes , extended the conquests of Amosis . They overran Palestine , and pushed
on through Ccelo-Syria and by Carchemis , to the plains of the Euphrates and Tigris , bringing back such slaves as were required for their mighty works in Egypt . In that hard school were trained teachers of the neighbouring populations . But far above and beyond these glimpses of
the stream of Egyptian civilisation stands its native source , flowing through the first twelve Dynasties , 3000 years before Menepthar , the Pharaoh probably of Exodus . The commencement of the twenty-second Dynasty was contemporaneous with the reign of Jeroboam . "
Opening Of A New Lodge In York.
OPENING OF A NEW LODGE IN YORK .
ON Monday last ( Rank holiday ) a ceremony took plac > in the old City of Y . 'fk , frnmjht with the greatest interest to a'l brethren of the Eoyal Art . This was nothing Ipsa than the condonation and constitution of a now Masonic Lnd « o , a ceremony which had not been witnessed within the walls of York for ninetv-iiino yars previonsly , the last occasion being the consecration of tho York Lodge , No . 230 , in tho year 1777 . York ia , in its history and associations ! ,
very closely linked with Freemasonry . Traditionally ifc has been tho scene of mnch that is interesting to tho Order . Ifc was , according to the cherished legends , in York that tho Athelstane ( barter was grant' d , in the year 926 ; it was in the ancient crypt of York Cathedral that the ancient brethren met for the celebration of the i r rites and ceremonies , and from that time to the present tho history of York
has been more or less interwoven with that of Freemasonry . Several years ago the propriety of tho promotion of a movement for a second Lodge in York was discussed , but it was not until the commencement of the current year that a nnmber of brethren , all deeply interested in the progress of Masonry and the welfare of the Craft , forwarded a petition to the Grand Lodge of England for a warrant for a second
Lodge in York , to be called the Eboraenm Lodge . In rlno course the petition was granted and tho warrant issned , tho nnmber of the Lodsre on the grand roll of England being Ifill . The Right Worshipfnl Provincial Grand Master , the Earl of Zetland , appointed Monday , the 7 th August ., as the day for the consecration ceremony , and accordingly every preparation was made by the brethren for liio
snocessfnl celebration of tho event . We are happy to know thn 1-. t ! i .-ir efforts were crowned with success , and that thedny passed off wit' out a single drawback , the R . W . P . G . Master and his Depnty both expressing their great satisfaction at everything connected with tho ceremonial . The Lodge Room ia attached to the Qneen's Hotel , Mick ' egafcc
and is a very handsome apartment , eminently snited for the purpose . Ifc is lofty and spacions , and its decorations , which have been executed by Messrs . Hartley and Son , are tasteful in the extreme . The chairs and pedestals , which are remarkably handsome , and executed with minnte correctness in the style of three principal orders of
architecture , have been made from designs from the studio of Mo-srs . Knowles , of the Mediooval Arfc Works , Stonegate . The carpet has been supplied by Mr . T . G . Turner , Parliament-street , and a very handsome pedestal , in the form of a doub e cnbe , of old oak , together with the dias , are from the workshops of Messrs . Keswick and Sons .
At 2 . 30 p . m ., the brethren assembled , and the members of tho Provincial Grand Lodge having been formed into processioa in an adjoining room , the Lodge room was entered , and Provincial Grand Lodge opened in ample form by the Right Worshipfnl Prov . G . M . In addition to the Earl of-Zetland thero wero present , members of tho Prov . Grand Lodge , Bro . J . P . Bell D . Prov . G . M ., Bro . the FTon .
W . T . Orde-Powlett Prov . S . G . W ., Bros . W . Waller P . G . J . W ., M . C , Peek Prov . G . Sec , Rev . W . Valentine P . Prov . G . Chaplain and S . W . 236 , Woodall ( Searbro' ) P . P . S . G . W ., R . G . Smvth ( Hull ) Prov . G . Director of Ceremonies , C . H . Hunt Prov . G . Org ., J . Todd P . Prov , G . O . and Sec . 236 , G . Bamford P . Prov . G . O ., T . Sissons P . Prov .
G . R ., T . Cooper P . P . G . S . W . and D . C . 236 . J . Ward Prov . G . Parsnivant , and many others . Tho ceremony of consecration was then proceeded with , the musical portion of tho service being most ably performed by a choir of Masonic vocalists from Leeds and Bradford , nnder the direction of Bro . Thornton Wood , the music being the composition of Bro . Atkinson .
Bro . Thomas Cooper P . M . 236 , was then duly installed First Master of the Eboracum Lodge , and he appointed and invested his officers as follows : —Bros . T . B . Whytehearl , 1338 and 236 Senior Warden , -T . S . Cumberland 178 Junior Warden , G-o . Balmford P . M . 23 G Treasurer , James Kay 1010 Secretary , T . Tnke 236 Senior Deacon , C . G . Padel 236 Organist , Seller 235 Inner Guard , J . Redfare Tyler pro tern .
The Depnty Prov . G . M . then gave a long and elaborate address , in the course of which he traced the history of Freemasonry iti its connection with the City of York , and expressed his satisfaction at the very auspicious manner in which tho Eboracum Lodge had come into existence , anticipating for ifc a very prosperous future . The
W . M ., Bro . Cooper , then proposed a vote of thanks to the R . W . P . G . M ., the D . P . G . M ., the P . G . Sec , and the P . G . Officers who had attended on the occasion , and announced that , R . W . P . G . M . the Earl of Zetland , the D . P . G . M . Dr . Bell , the P . D . P . G . M . Bro . G . Marwood , and the P . G . Sec , Bro . Peck , had been elected Honorary Members of the Lodge .
The Lodge was then closed , and the brethren adjourned to the De Grey Rooms , were a sumptuous banquet had been prepared by Mr . J . Toes , in his well known style . The W . M . presided , and was sup . ported by the Prov . G . M ., the Deputy Prov . G . M ., the Prov . G . S . W ., the Prov . G . Sec , & c , & o . ; and the following toasts were duly honoured : — " The Qneen and Craft , " " H . R . H . the Prince of Wales M . W . G . M . of England , with the other members of the Royal Family , "
" The Right Hon . the Earl of Carnarvon M . W . Prov . G . M ., with tho Grand Officers , " "The Right Hon . the Earl of Zetland , R . W . Prov . G . M . of North and East Yorkshire . " "The W . Bro . J . P . Bell . Esq . M . D ., J . P ., Past Senior Grand Deacon of England , Deputy Prov . Grand M . of North and East Yorkshire , " " The W . M . of the Eboracum Lodge , " "The Visiting- Brethren , "" The Masonic Charities , " " The Tylers' Toast , " " The York Lodge , 236 , " " Prosperity to the City of York , " & c .
An object of great attraction to the brethren in the Lodge room was an interesting Masonic relic in the shape of an ancient Bible , bearing on its fly-leaf the following inscription : " This Bible belongs to the Freemasons meeting at Mr . Howards' 1761 . " This valuable memento of the Craft and of a Lodge now extinct has been generously presented to the Eboracum Lodge by Mr . Carter , of Stonegate , is whose possession ib has remained for many years ,