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TABLE OF CONTENTS .

PAGES FREDERICK THE GREAT AS A MASON 546 FREE ; . IASOMRY AND ISRAELITISM ... 547 & 54 S THE NEW CONSTITUTIONS OF GRAND LODGE

OF IRELAND ' ... 549 & 550 COMMITTEES OF TASTE 530 AHERDEEN RECORDS 55 ° & 551 GRAND LODGE 551 ORDERS OF Cm . vAr .

RvRed Cross of Constantino 551 BUSINESS TO ISE TRANSACTED IN GRAND LODGE 552 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT 553 MULTU . M IN PARVO 553

OBITUARYR . W . Bro . Colonel Bowyer 554 Bro . William Anderson 554 & 555 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE"Freemasonry and Judaism" ... ... ... 555 Antagonism in the High Decrees 555

Buncombe ... ... 555 & 556 ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS ... 556 LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF A NEW SCHOOL AT WOR . MHILL 557

POETRYThe Last Lodge 557 THE PLAIN OF PHILISTIA 557 MASONIC MEETINGS FOR NEXT WEEK 558 ADVERTISEMENTS 545 , 546 , 55 S , 559 , & 5 G 0

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FREEMASONRY & ISRAELITISM .

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

xv . _ . Tn my last paper I glanced at the extent to which the Anglo-Saxon race inhabiting these islands had possessed themselves of

the desolate places of the earth , and had there p lanted more or less prosperous colonies , encompassing the two hemispheres . The achievement has been a marvellous

one , and it has so struck foreigners , some of whom , even of our own race , doubting whether we had not thus been exhausting our own population . Emerson , describing

the " spawning power" ofthe Anglo-Saxon race occupying the British islands , says " It has sufficed to the colonisation of great parts ofthe world ; . yet , it remains to be

seen whether they can make good the exodus of millions from Great Britain , amounting , in 1 ^ 52 , to more than 1000 a / lav . " Yes . thev have made it good , for

whereas the population in iS-u was •2 7 . S 25 . 274 . it was , in 1861 , 28 , 927 , 485 , and in 1071 . is 3 1 , 8 ! 7 , 1 08 ; the increase since 185 I having been 3 , 99 1 , 834—that is , 1 .-4 .-13 per

rent . The prophecies run , that the :: ccd of Abraham not only were to become nations a . id inherit the earth ; they were to become great and powerful nations , not exhausthu >'

themselves by sending their children forth into other regions . To Jacob it was said ( Gen . xxxv . 11 ) . " A nation and a company of nations shall be of thee ; " but of Ephraim

it was said ( k / eii . xlviii . 19 ) , " Mis seed shall become a multitude of nations . " In the margin of the English Bible , multitude is rendered fullness , which is the better

translation , the Hebrew being ine / n , which primarily signifies , to fill , or , to fill up . As applied to a nation . the idea is that of ' apopulous one—a considerable one—nut a pettv state .

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And where shall wc find such nations as those planted by the Anglo-Saxon race ? This " right little tight little island , " too , is , with one exception , the most densely populated in the world . With a territorial area of

Jess tnan one-third of trance ( before the late war ) , it has a population equal to sevenninths of hers . France had a population of 175 to the square mile , while England

has 397 to the square mile , and though but " a little spot , " she has withstood the world in arms . Then , look at the nations she lias planted—the United States , the Canadas ,

and other . North American States , the peninsula of India , the Australian continent and islands , South Africa , & c . Look , also , at the nations of North Germany , now

consolidated , and bidding fair to become the strongest of the Continental powers . And although some other nations which are of Anglo-Saxon origin have not such large

territorial possessions , they arc powerful in proportion to their numbers . They do not consist of puny peoples , who bow their heads and crouch down in the presence of

hostile powers , albeit they may be of much greater prowess than themselves . Let this fact be noted , that the British colonics , alone —that is , the States which Great Britain

has planted—without taking into consideration lands and countries in which she has settlements , or exercises political influence —embrace about one-third of the surface of

the globe , and nearly a fourth of its population . If to this we add those independent nations which are of Anglo-Saxon origin , as North Germany , Belgium . Holland ,

Switzerland , part of France , Norway . Denmark , Sweden , and those parts of the Turkish Empire west of the Black Sea . which have so far thrown off the yoke of

Turkey as now to be little more than the nominal subjects of the Sultan , it may be said that the seed of Jacob already possesses one-half of the earth , and rules the world .

Fifteen years ago , Emerson , to give an idea ofthe Anglo-Saxon power of only England and America , said : " The British Empire is reckoned to contain 222 , 000 , 000

soulsperhaps a fifth of the population of the globe ; and to comprise a territory of 5 , , 000 square miles . Add the United States of America , which reckon , exclusive

of slaves , 20 , 000 , 000 of . people , and a territory of 3 , 000 . 000 square miles , and in which the foreign element , however considerable .

is rapidly assimilated , and you have a population of English descent . and language of 60 , 000 , 000 , and governing a population of 24 ^ , , 000 souls . "

Another thing to be noticed here is the likening the horn of Joseph ' s posterity to the horn of the unicorn ( llccni ) , with which horn he is to " push the people together to

lhe ends of the earth ; and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh " ( ver . 17 ) . What doc .- , this mean ? livery reader of the Bible knows that the

horn is often the symbol of strength—the strength of most horned animals being in their horns . To exalt the horn is to augment the strength , power , or importance of

an individual or of a people ; and , in like manner , to cut off the horn is to bring them down , or prostrate them . We are ' by no means certain of the animal Moses calls

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the " Reem . " Amongst the conjectures that have been put forward , that which supposes it to be the rhinoceros appears to me to be the best sustained . The Scripture references to the animal show it to be one

possessing great strength , and the horn of the rhinoceros , which stands erect , at a right angle with the os frontis , unlike the horns of other animals , possesses , as a

consequence , a greater purchase , or power ! as a lever , than a horn could have possessed in any other position . To this the psalmist , no doubt , alludes , when he says : " My horn shalt Thou exalt like the horn of a

Rccm . " Mr . Bruce ( Travels , vol . v ., p . 95 ) describes the rhinoceros as being so strong in this horn that he thrusts it into the trunk of a large tree , near the ground , and so tears it up as to reduce it to thin pieces ,

like so many laths . Well , then , the strength of these descendants of Joseph was to be exceeding great , so great as to be

comparable with that of the strongest animal known ; and with this strength they were to " push the people together to the ends of the earth . " A similar idea occurs in Psalm

xliv . : "Through Thee will we push down our enemies . . . for I will not trust in my bow , neither shall my sword save me . " These sons of Israel , then , are to " push the peoples to the ends of the earth . "

Wherccver they locate themselves , they are thus to drive the aborigines to the ends or extremities of the land ( or earth ) . How markedly this has been done by the Anglo-Saxons is known to all . In these islands ,

the Britons were driven to the " ends , taking refuge in Cornwall and Wales . In North America , India , Australia , Tasmania , New Zealand , and other settlements , there has been the same " pushing . " The

aborigines have been pushed further and further away from the Anglo-Saxon settlementswould I could add , that in thus pushing them to the ends of the lands , we had always evinced the humanity upon which

we so greatly pride ourselves . But the fact remains . With our " horn , " or power , we have pushed them away from our dwellingplaces , and have-too often treated them as if they had been wild beasts ; as , indeed ,

they have sometimes shown themselves to be , in cunning , treachery , and ferocity . Nevertheless , the fact , as I have said ,

remains : that the Anglo-Saxons ( Israel ) , whatever places they have colonised , there , as with the horn of the reem , they have " pushed " the natives far away .

But Israel was not only to people many lands , and to encompass the earth , giving birth to powerful nations , but also to give birth to kings . This was the promise to both Abraham and his wife : "Kings shall

come out of thee , said the Lord to the father of many nations ( Gen . xvii . 6 ) ; and the promise was repeated in chap . xxxv . 11 ; while of Sarah it was said : " She shall be a mother of nations ; kings of

people shall be of her" ( chap . xvii . 16 ) . And so closely were they to be identified with monarchs , that kings were to be their foster-fathers , and queens their nursing mothers ( Isa . xlix . 23 ) . How completely ,

and almost peculiarly , this has been fulfilled in the Anglo-Saxon race every one knows . liven while , as Goths , they dwelt in the wildernesses on the Euxine , they elected a king ( Alaric ) , who became the terror ofthe

Roman world , and under whom and his successors the Goths made settlements throughout Europe . •After they had founded manv well-ordered communities in

North Germany , they took possession of these islands , and here established seven separate kingdoms , under so many kings , which ultimately ' oceanic one groat § tat « ,