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Colonial.
Masons , apply the rule ancl the line , and the square and the level to our lives and actions , that thereby we may be enabled to raise up spiritual mansions to our everlasting happiness . E . W . Sir , I feel more than I can well express ; aud never was so deeply imbued with a reverence for our institution than when installed by you this day into the chair of my mother Lodge for the second time . The principles inculcated in the impressive charges which you delivered and which I trust I never shall forget , were so clearly ancl forcibly conveyed to my mind , that I felt mortified at my own unworthiness . These chargesSirwere inferior only
, , in solemnity to those services , in which our Eev . Brother is so well qualified to engage , whether in the sanctuary as a preacher of the Word , or in our regular assemblies as a teacher of the principles which we profess ; and I rejoice , Sir , that we are privileged to call him our Brother . I fear that I have been trespassing too long upon your patience , but by your kind forbearance I was unwittingly urged onwards . I cannot , however , conclude without expressing my congratulations at the high state of prosperity in which are the Lodges under
your control . That prosperity cannot fail to be heightened by the countenance which our Eev . friend ancl Chaplain may give us in the working ofthe subordinate Lodges , and I am sure that his heart is too generous to withhold the benefit of his talents , if his engagements will permit him to enlighten the minds of the Brotherhood ancl make clear their path . There is nothing whicli I see to mar our prosperity , and as we are about to close another period of time in the long existence of Masonry , let ns continue in the bonds of Brotherly love , relief , and truth , so that the ancient and honourable Fraternity shall only decay with the wreck of
material existence , ancl when all human institutions shall have perished amid the crumbling monuments of Art—Masonry shall linger on the verge of time . The Brethren then drank the health of the Eev . Chaplain with great enthusiasm , ancl full Masonic honours . Brother ABAMSON returned thanks in his usual felicitous manner , and expressed his willingness to give a course of scientific and Masonic lectures whenever the Brethren wished it .
Interesting Discovery At Jerusalem.
INTERESTING DISCOVERY AT JERUSALEM .
WE take the following extract from a letter dated Jerusalem , 16 fch May , 1853 , which cannot but be of great interest to tbe Craft : — " I was spending a couple of days in Artas , the hortas clusns of the monks , and probably the ' garden enclosed' of the Canticles , when I was told there was a kind of tunnel under the pools of Solomon . I went and found one of the most interesting things that I have seen in travelsand of which no one in Jerusalem appears
my , to have heard . I mentioned it to the British Consul , who takes great interest in these matters , and to the Eev . Mr . ISficolayson , who has been here more than twenty years , and they had never heard of it .
"At the centre ofthe eastern side ofthe lowest ofthe three pools , there is an entrance nearly closed up ; then follows a vaidted passage some fifty feet long , leading to a chamber about fifteen feet square and eight feet high , also vaulted ; and from this there is a passage , also arched , under the pool , and intended to convey the water of a spring , or of the pool itself , into tbe aqueduct which leads to Jerusalem , and is now commonly attributed to Pontius Pilate . This arched passage is six feet high , and three or four feet wide . Each of the other two pools has a similar arched way , which has not been
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Colonial.
Masons , apply the rule ancl the line , and the square and the level to our lives and actions , that thereby we may be enabled to raise up spiritual mansions to our everlasting happiness . E . W . Sir , I feel more than I can well express ; aud never was so deeply imbued with a reverence for our institution than when installed by you this day into the chair of my mother Lodge for the second time . The principles inculcated in the impressive charges which you delivered and which I trust I never shall forget , were so clearly ancl forcibly conveyed to my mind , that I felt mortified at my own unworthiness . These chargesSirwere inferior only
, , in solemnity to those services , in which our Eev . Brother is so well qualified to engage , whether in the sanctuary as a preacher of the Word , or in our regular assemblies as a teacher of the principles which we profess ; and I rejoice , Sir , that we are privileged to call him our Brother . I fear that I have been trespassing too long upon your patience , but by your kind forbearance I was unwittingly urged onwards . I cannot , however , conclude without expressing my congratulations at the high state of prosperity in which are the Lodges under
your control . That prosperity cannot fail to be heightened by the countenance which our Eev . friend ancl Chaplain may give us in the working ofthe subordinate Lodges , and I am sure that his heart is too generous to withhold the benefit of his talents , if his engagements will permit him to enlighten the minds of the Brotherhood ancl make clear their path . There is nothing whicli I see to mar our prosperity , and as we are about to close another period of time in the long existence of Masonry , let ns continue in the bonds of Brotherly love , relief , and truth , so that the ancient and honourable Fraternity shall only decay with the wreck of
material existence , ancl when all human institutions shall have perished amid the crumbling monuments of Art—Masonry shall linger on the verge of time . The Brethren then drank the health of the Eev . Chaplain with great enthusiasm , ancl full Masonic honours . Brother ABAMSON returned thanks in his usual felicitous manner , and expressed his willingness to give a course of scientific and Masonic lectures whenever the Brethren wished it .
Interesting Discovery At Jerusalem.
INTERESTING DISCOVERY AT JERUSALEM .
WE take the following extract from a letter dated Jerusalem , 16 fch May , 1853 , which cannot but be of great interest to tbe Craft : — " I was spending a couple of days in Artas , the hortas clusns of the monks , and probably the ' garden enclosed' of the Canticles , when I was told there was a kind of tunnel under the pools of Solomon . I went and found one of the most interesting things that I have seen in travelsand of which no one in Jerusalem appears
my , to have heard . I mentioned it to the British Consul , who takes great interest in these matters , and to the Eev . Mr . ISficolayson , who has been here more than twenty years , and they had never heard of it .
"At the centre ofthe eastern side ofthe lowest ofthe three pools , there is an entrance nearly closed up ; then follows a vaidted passage some fifty feet long , leading to a chamber about fifteen feet square and eight feet high , also vaulted ; and from this there is a passage , also arched , under the pool , and intended to convey the water of a spring , or of the pool itself , into tbe aqueduct which leads to Jerusalem , and is now commonly attributed to Pontius Pilate . This arched passage is six feet high , and three or four feet wide . Each of the other two pools has a similar arched way , which has not been