Table Of Contents.

TABLE OF CONTENTS .

PAGE R EVIEWS 4 o O RDER OF ST . J OHN OF J ERUSALEM IN ENGLAND 403 F REEMASONRY AND ISRAELITISM 403 & 404 PROV . GRAND LODGE OF KENT 404 & 405 G RAND LODGE OF ROYAL ARK MARINERS 405 & 406 THE

CRAFTMetropolitan 407 Provincial . 407 ORDERS OF CHIVALRY — Red Cross of Constantine 407 Knights Templar ... 407 INSTRUCTION .. 407 MASONIC FESTIVAL AT ULVERSTON 407

BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS 40 S THE GRAND LODGE OF QUEBEC 40 S THE PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND 40 S MULTUM IN PARVO 4 O 9 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE — Visit of American Freemasons to Europe ... 409

What is the Supreme Grand Council of the 33 410 POETRY 4 r 0 WHAT is SPURIOUS MASONRY ? ... 410 , 411 , & 412 ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS ... 412

THE AMERICAN K . T . TOURISTS ... 412 , 413 , & 414 MASONIC MEETINGS FOR NEXT WEEK 414 MARK MASONRY 414 ADVERTISEMENTS 401 , 402 , 414 , 415 , & 416

Reviews.

Reviews .

—«—Bailey ' s Series of Practical Masonry . We have read these works with great care and attention , and cau unhesitatingly pronounce them to be all that can be

desired . To the officers for whose especial benefit they are penned , viz ., the W . M ., the Secretary , and the Senior Deacon , they must be truly invaluable , while all—even the most experienced Masons—will gain

instruction from their pages . The minuteness with which every detail is studied by our American brethren has frequently been the theme of our praise , and we may now

add that in Bro . Bailey system and order have found a most eloquent interpreter . These volumes should be in the library of every Mason who studies the true interests of the Craft .

Piper on Poultry , & c . Messrs . Groombridge , the enterprising publishers , of Paternoster-roiv , have done good service by the publication of these excellent handbooks , which may verily be

said to exhaust the subjects upon which they treat . No pigeon-fancier or poultrykeeper can dispense with the knowledge to be gained from Mr . Piper ' s recorded

experience , while "Carving made Easy " almost reconciles us to an attempted manipulation of the formidable delicacies depicted in this handsome and useful little volume .

Order Of St. John Of Jerusalem In England.

ORDER of ST . JOHN OF JERUSALEM IN ENGLAND .

The services in the Chapel Royal Savoy , in celebration of the festival of St . John the Baptist , took place on Saturday last , at eight and half-past eleven o ' clock . The preacher was the Rev . George Raymond Portal . The work of the Order in London during the past year was reported as follows : —

Patients Relieved and Visited . King's College Hospital ... ... ... 8 4 Charing Cross Hospital ... ... ... 100 Diets Issued . Charing Cross ... ... ... ... 1210 King ' s College ... ... ... ... zioo

The following stand over ( ill next week : —Grand Lodge of New York , " Subordination in the Higher Degrees ' , " Reply to Bro . Howard ' s Leiter , ttcport of Banquet to ( lie American K . T . ' sat Glasgow , St . Andrew ' s Red Cross Conclave , No . 15 , " The High Grades in Ireland , " Notes of the Templar ' s Tour , and several reports of lodge meetings .

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FREEMASONRY & ISRAELITISM .

BY BRO . WILLIAM CARPENTER , P . M . & P . Z . 177 .

VI . We have traced the descent of the Anglo-Saxon race up to those peoples who dwelt in the countries bordering on the Euxine , and who , 500 years before the Christian era ,

were invaded by Darius Hystaspes ; and who subsequently made a descent on the Roman Empire , and thence spread themselves throughout the greater part ofEurope , including the British isles . The hasty glance

which I have been compelled to take of their conquests and settlements , will not , as a more ample description would do , impress the mind with a sense of the vast benefits conferred on the nations by these

migrations of the northern tribes . Herodotus , as we have seen , speaks of the Goths as a very superior people , in their moral character and habits , compared with the peoples by whom they were surrounded .

And so speak all the writers who have devoted themselves to the study of the history of this branch of the Teutonic race . Their frugality , justice , honour , and chastity are preferred bv a learned Roman to those of

his own country ; and their civil institutions were , as we should say , very advanced . Mr . W . F . Collier ( Great Events of History ) says , " In spite of their rude dresses of skin , and their clattering brogues ,

over which fell in clumsy folds their wide trousers , strapped round the ankle with a leather thong , we recognise in the Goths a race of men capable of high polish , and fitted for great deeds . They were honest

and freehearted ; and among them the Romans saw what they looked for in vain among themselves—modest and virtuous wives , each the centre and light of a home , where parents and children lived united in

sweet domestic love . Let us thank God that many lands of modern Europe have inherited the good old Gothic home . " Russell ( Modern Europe ) says they were " simple and severe m their manners , unacquainted

with the name of luxury . Hardened by exercise and toil , their bodies seemed inaccessible to disease or pain ; they sported with dangc 1-, and met death with expressions of jov . Though free and independent ,

they were firmly attached to their leaders . Nor were these their only virtues . They were remarkable for their regard to the sanctity of the marriage vow , their generous hospitality , their detestation of treachery

and falsehood . " Their institutions , too , were eminently adapted to foster and secure personal and political liberty . Their primitive government was a kind of military democracy , under a general or chieftain , who

had sometimes the title of king . But the authority of these chieftains was extremely limited . They led the people in time of war , but , that over , they sank down to the level of other chiefs ; or , at most , their

authority consisted rather in the privilege of advising than in the power of commanding . In looking at their government and customs , wc are strongly reminded of the Israelites , in the time of the Judges .

" Wherever they seated themselves , " says Sir William Temple , " they left a constitution , which has since been called , in most European languages , the States , consisting of three orders—noble , ecclesiastic , and

popular—under the limited headship of one person , with the style of king , prince , duke , or count . " Feudalism universally prevailed .

The land was public property , for which services were due to the State—to the king as the representative of the State by the great holders of land , in the first instance ;

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and then , through them , by the subordinate holders ; every one rendering his services to him who was immediately above him , until it reached the throne , which itself was supposed to be held by the grace of God ,

as expressed in the voice of the people . Robertson ( Hist . Europe ) says , " It was a fundamental system of feudal policy , that no free man could be subjected to new laws or taxes , without his own consent . In

consequence of this , the vassals of every baron were called to his court , in which they established , by mutual consent , such regulations as they deemed most beneficial to their small society ; and granted their

superiors such supplies of money as were proportionate to their abilities , or to his wants . The barons themselves , conformably to the same maxim , were admitted into the supreme assembly of the nation , and

concurred with-the sovereign in enacting laws , or in imposing taxes . " According to the early policy of the Anglo-Saxons , each of

their villages was divided into ten wards , or petty districts , called tythings or decennaries , as their leader was denominated a decanus or tything-man .

The Teutonic orders of knighthood were orders of men who , sacrificing personal ease and all expectation of personal gain , went forth to avenge wrong and relieve the oppressed ; and cherishing the most

courteous and chaste regard for women , and reverence for religion . With them , the sword was consecated . by religion , to be wielded by the most punctilious honour in support of morality . Nor was the Teutonic league less remarkable for the furtherance and

protection of commerce . Spreading its ramifications throughout Europe , it brought together the productions of India , the manufactures of Italy , and the equally useful commodities of the North . Itcleared

the rivers and all other great thoroughfares of the predatory bands that had invested them , and made their alliance to be courted and their power to be dreaded by the greatest of monarchs . To them we owe

also the guilds 111 town and city , in which those of the same craft or occupation associated together for mutual assistance and

protection ; several guilds being again combined in burgh-corporations , in which again we find the representative principle that characterised all their institutions .

Unlike the Celts and most other peoples , the reflective faculty of the Anglo-Saxons predominates over the imaginative . Deliberate and cautious , but progressive , they have steadily advanced in political , civil , and

religious freedom . With them , discovery and invention have gone hand-in-hand ; and the arts and sciences of civil life , as also the fine arts , which minister to the craving of

the imagination , and so tend to refine and elevate the taste and manners , are by them being introduced into all the nations of the world .

"From such ancestors , " says Sharon Turner , " in the course of twelve centuries , a nation has been formed , which , inferior to none in morals and intellect , is superior to all others in the love and possession of

useful liberty , a nation which cultivates , with equal success , the elegancies of art , the ingenious labours of industry , the energies of war , the researches of science , and the richest productions of genius . . . .

. . . . The invasions of the German

nations destroyed the ancient governments , and political and legal systems of the Roman empire , in the provinces in which

they established themselves A new literature and manners , all productive of great improvements , in every part superseded the old , and gave to Europe a