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College Musings,
vanities and follies which , they have sworn to abjure ; while the poor curate who executes all their functions , acquires not a minimum proportion of those proceeds which were bequeathed solely to support the duties lie performs upon a vegetating pittance : what an awful and solemn account must they not one day give at the judgment seat of their Master , for such irreparable detriment done in paralysing the purposes of His religionto convert and enlighten the souls of menby winning them
, , to the gospel . Tbe corruptions of the Jewish and Romish priesthood were punished by a New Dispensation , ancl a Protestant reformation : why should the church of England expect to escape a just retribution ? This digression , gentle reader , was forced upon me b y the spontaneous indignation which the sight ancl knowledge of abuses ever raises in the breast of men eager for the promotion of that " pure and undefiled religion , " which our national establishment not only teaches , but which
its heads profess to inculcate . Bidding adieu to this sweetly retired haven of nature ' s choosing , ive pursued our way homewards along the shores of Crummock-Water , — crossing it to visit an extraordinary fall of a perpendicular column of water from a lofty height of many fathoms . At some periods the mist created by the dashing spray is so dense and humid , that the traveller cannot penetrate to the foot of the fall ; but the opportunity being then
favourable , I approached so close , as to be able to look upwards to the orifice above , through which the torrent had excavated a passage in the rocky-top of the fell . We tried by a circuitous track to reach the summit , but being up a very steep acclivity , literally covered with large masses of stone tumbled one upon another , from which it is necessary to leap ancl scramble like the chamois-hunter , we found it too fatiguing , and relinquished the effort . The day , too , was fast waning ; and by the
time we arrived at my friend ' s snuggery , from which we had been absent a week , night had closed in , revealing only the starry-spangled arch of heaven ' s high vault above . ( To be Continued . )
The Prussian Freemasons.
THE PRUSSIAN FREEMASONS .
WJE observe that the alleged imposition of a reli gious test by the Prussian Lodges , involving the exclusion of all but professing Christians , has led to remonstrances from the Brotherhood in various parts of the world , against what is called a " violation of the fundamental principles of Masonry , " by a secret society , taking its name unwarrantably . Such are the terms in which the Masonic press of this country repudiates the illiberality ascribed to the Prussian Lodges . It appears , that the "
Masonic bodies of France , America , Hamburgh , Sweden , and Holland , have all protested against this infraction of the principle of universality , as an integral part of Masonry , and the Masonic press is appealing to the heads of the Craft in Great Britain , to take up a similar position . "Voice of Jacob . Liverpool , 1 st June . — "It has been lately asserted in some of the foreign journals , that the Freemasons of Berlin have discouraged the ' admission of members of our religion among thc fraternity . The con-
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College Musings,
vanities and follies which , they have sworn to abjure ; while the poor curate who executes all their functions , acquires not a minimum proportion of those proceeds which were bequeathed solely to support the duties lie performs upon a vegetating pittance : what an awful and solemn account must they not one day give at the judgment seat of their Master , for such irreparable detriment done in paralysing the purposes of His religionto convert and enlighten the souls of menby winning them
, , to the gospel . Tbe corruptions of the Jewish and Romish priesthood were punished by a New Dispensation , ancl a Protestant reformation : why should the church of England expect to escape a just retribution ? This digression , gentle reader , was forced upon me b y the spontaneous indignation which the sight ancl knowledge of abuses ever raises in the breast of men eager for the promotion of that " pure and undefiled religion , " which our national establishment not only teaches , but which
its heads profess to inculcate . Bidding adieu to this sweetly retired haven of nature ' s choosing , ive pursued our way homewards along the shores of Crummock-Water , — crossing it to visit an extraordinary fall of a perpendicular column of water from a lofty height of many fathoms . At some periods the mist created by the dashing spray is so dense and humid , that the traveller cannot penetrate to the foot of the fall ; but the opportunity being then
favourable , I approached so close , as to be able to look upwards to the orifice above , through which the torrent had excavated a passage in the rocky-top of the fell . We tried by a circuitous track to reach the summit , but being up a very steep acclivity , literally covered with large masses of stone tumbled one upon another , from which it is necessary to leap ancl scramble like the chamois-hunter , we found it too fatiguing , and relinquished the effort . The day , too , was fast waning ; and by the
time we arrived at my friend ' s snuggery , from which we had been absent a week , night had closed in , revealing only the starry-spangled arch of heaven ' s high vault above . ( To be Continued . )
The Prussian Freemasons.
THE PRUSSIAN FREEMASONS .
WJE observe that the alleged imposition of a reli gious test by the Prussian Lodges , involving the exclusion of all but professing Christians , has led to remonstrances from the Brotherhood in various parts of the world , against what is called a " violation of the fundamental principles of Masonry , " by a secret society , taking its name unwarrantably . Such are the terms in which the Masonic press of this country repudiates the illiberality ascribed to the Prussian Lodges . It appears , that the "
Masonic bodies of France , America , Hamburgh , Sweden , and Holland , have all protested against this infraction of the principle of universality , as an integral part of Masonry , and the Masonic press is appealing to the heads of the Craft in Great Britain , to take up a similar position . "Voice of Jacob . Liverpool , 1 st June . — "It has been lately asserted in some of the foreign journals , that the Freemasons of Berlin have discouraged the ' admission of members of our religion among thc fraternity . The con-