Freemasonry And The New Synagogue At Quincy.

FREEMASONRY AND THE NEW SYNAGOGUE AT QUINCY .

We have great pleasure in reproducing the following thoroughly Masonic letter , which has been addressed to our esteemed contemporary , the Jewish Chronicle . It is a matter of importance that the public acts of Masons , as such , should not be confounded in the minds of the

public with the positions they may happen to fill in what we may term the secular world . * ' A Master of a Lodge , " has done the Craft good service in this instance , and we hope to hear more of him .

To the Editor of tha Jewish Chronicle . SIR . —Iu your paper of the 10 th inst ., appears an account of the laying of the corner-stone of a Jewish synagogue at Quiney , Illinois , from which it appears that a clergyman of the D nitarian Church of Quiney delivered a prayer previously to the stone being

raised to its position . Appended to the notice , you , Mr . Editor , make the following observation : It is singular that a Christian clergyman should assist by prayer in the laying of the first stone of a Jewish synagogue . But " Minhag America" is very advanced .

It will be naturally implied from this ironical remark that you disapprove of the proceeding . I venture to surmise , Sir , that you are not a Freemason , and to suggest that owing to your not being a member of the Craft you have misunderstood the account of the proceedings . It appears from the

narrative that the ceremony commenced by hymns and psalms being chanted by a choir , and a prayer in German being delivered by the Jewish minister . It also appears that after this the corner-stone was laid with Masonic riles by the M . W . M . and the grand officers of the order ; the prayer , therefore ,

recited by the Rev . Mr . Hunting was delivered in his capacity of Grand Chaplain to the Grand Lodge of Masons , and not iu his capacity of minister of a Christian church . Now , there not existing any authorised Jewish Minhag for the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of a synagogue—such

ceremony being always partly secular—whatever may be the purposes for which tbe intended building is being erected : it follows that there cannot be the slightest impropriety in the fact referred to in your editorial comments ; nor ought it to bo deemed displeasing to the most orthodox Jew , for the stoue

having been laid with Masonic rites , the delivery of the prayer was part of those rites , and not part of the Jewish ceremonial . You admit , Sir , that the prayer was beautiful and appropriate . This would naturally result from its being a Masonic prayer , and therefore from its very nature not possible to

contain any anti-Judaic sentiments . But to have objected to its delivery by the Grand Chaplain because he was not a Jew , would have been anti-Masonic ; and it is to avoid any misapprehension amongst Masons ( which your remarks may unintentionally occasion ) as to the feelings and

opinions of Jewish Masons on this cardinal point , that I have ventured to address you . At the laying of the foundation-stone of the Now Portland-street Synagogue a speech was delivered hy Baron Rothschild , gold and silver coins and copies of newspapers were placed under the stoue , and the

ceremony concluded with three hearty cheers . \ ou , sir , would term this " Minhag English , " and undoubtedly you would bo correct in so designating it . But the matter you animadvert upon in the universal Minhag of Masons , and can only cause surprise amongst those who do not know that one of the fundamental principles of the Craft is thenon-rcco"

nition of difference of creed . If my views beorroneous , it is gratifying to me as a Jewish Mason to know that as the ecclesiastical head of the Sephardic Congregation in London is a distinguished Mason , they can be corrected cv-calhcdra , and we could learn from him whether there is any impropriety iu laying the foundation-stone of a synagogue with Masonic

rites . I have the honour to be , sir , yours truly , THE MASTER or LODGE .

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Saint Andrew,

SAINT ANDREW ,

THE PATRON SAINT OF SCOTLAND . Br CIPES . St . Andrew the apostle is the Patron Saint of Scotland . His festival is ou the 30 th of Novenber , being the anniversary of the day on which he died , after two days' suffering on the cross . It is still

observed by Freemasons in Scotland , and by many Scotchmen in foreign lands , as well as a number of Scottish Lodges in various places . The Grand Lodge of Scotland , since its formation , now over a hundred years ago , has also always celebrated it with a festival , and on St . Andrew ' s Day , as it is termed ,

her Office-Bearers aro elected and instalfed . Those who have witnessed the Installation Service in Grand Lodge of Scotland must have been impressed with its solemnity , aud its teachings of purity and morality . St . Andrew was a native of of Betlisaida , a town

of Galilee on the shore of the Lake of Gennesareth . He was the son of Jonas , or John , a fisherman , and was himself a fisherman . He was the brother of the apostle Simon or Peter , but whether au elder or younger brother is not exactly known . He was supposed to , " have been the younger brother , but

Epiphanius says that he was the elder . At the time to which the gospel history chiefly refers , he resided with his brother at Capernaum , and Jesus sometimes lodged in their house . He became a disciple of John the Baptist , but for a time continued to attend to his calling as a fisherman , until Christ sent

him forth to preach the gospel unto men . He was one of the two disciples who were with John the Baptist , when , as we read in the Gospel according to John ( John i . 35-37)—John " looking upon Jesus as he walked , " said , " Behold the Lamb of God ! " and the two disciples " followed Jesus . "

The remainder of the narrative may be best given in the simple words of the Evangelist : —" Then Jesus turned , and saw them following , and said unto them , AVhat seek ye ? Tliey said unto'him , Rabbi ( which is to say , being interpreted , Master , ) where dwellest thou " ? He said uuto them , Come

and see . They came and saw where he dwelt , and abode with him that day , for it was about the twelfth hour . Andrew soon found his brother Simon , and told him of the great discovery which he had made , saying : — " AVe have found the Messias ;" and " he brought him to Jesus . " From this time

forth Andrew was a disciple of Jesus . Like the other disciples he afterwards baptized by authority of Jesus . The gospel narrative does not inform us if he accompanied Jesus to Jerusalem , and was present when the sellers of oxen and sheep were driven out of the temple , and the tables of the

money-changers were overthrown ; and the next thing we read of him is that when Jesus returned from Jerusalem to Galilee , he found Peter and Andrew fishing upon the Sea of Tiberias , where he fully satisfied them of the greatness and divinity of his person , by the convictive evidence of that

miraculous draught of fishes which they took at his command . And he then told them he had other work for them to do ; that they should no longer deal with fish , but with men , and called them to be fishers of men ; whereupon they left their nets and followed him , from that time more closely and

constantly than before . It was at the house of Peter and Andrew in Capernaum that Jesus cured Peter's wife ' s mother of a fever . Andrew was present when the multitude , " in number about five thousand , " were miraculously fed . For we read ( John vi . 8 , !)) , that

it was he who said , " There is a lad here , which hath five barley-loaves and two fishes : but what are they among so many V" Again we read of Andrew ( John xii . 20 , 22 ) , that he took part with Philip in introducing to Jesus certain Greeks who desired to sec him .

St . Andrew took Scythia and tho neighbouring countries for his province . He travelled through Cappadocia , Galatia , and Btthynia , and instructed the people in the faith of Christ , passing all along the Enxiiie Sea ( formerly called Axenus , from the barbarous and inhospitable temper of the people

thereabouts , who were wont to sacrifice strangers , and of their skulls to make cups to drink in at their feasts and banquets ) , and so into the solitudes of Scythia . He first came to Aminsus , where , being entertained by a Jew , he went into the Synagogue , discoursed to the people concerning Christ , and from

the prophecies of the Old testament proved him to be the Messiah and the Saviour oftho world . Having here converted and baptized many , ordered their public meeting , and ordained them priests , he went next to Trapezus , a maritime city upon tho Euxinb Sea , whence after many other places ho came to Nice , wherehestayed two years , preaching with great

success , thence to Nicomedia , aud so to Chalcedon , whence sailing through the Propontis lie came by the Euxine Sea , to Ileraclea , and from thence to Amatris , in all which places he met with great difficulties and discouragements , but overcame all with an invincible patience and resolution . He next came to Sinope , a city situate upon tho same sea ; here he met with

Saint Andrew,

his brother Peter , with whom he stayed a considerable time at this place ; the chairs made of white - stone wherein they were wont to sit while they taught the people , were long shewn as a monument to his memory . The inhabitants of this city were mostly Jews , who partly through zeal for their

religion , partly through the barbarousness of their - manners , were quickly exasperated against the apostle , and contriving together attempted to burn the house in which he dwelt ; however , they treated him with all kinds of savage cruelty , throwing him to the ground , stamping upon him with their feet ,

pulling and dragging him from place to place , some - beating him with clubs , others pelting him with , stones , aud some the better to satisfy their rage , biting off his flesh with their teeth , till apprehend- ing they had fully dispatched him , they cast him out of the city . But he miraculously recovered , and

publicly returned into the city , whereby , and by some other miracles which he wrought amongst them , he reduced many to a better mind , converting them to the faith . Departing hence , he went to Aminsus , and thence to Trapezus , thence to Neocassarea , aud to Samosata , whence , after having baffled

the acute and wise philosophers of the place , he purposed to return to Jerusalem . After some time he betook himself to his former provinces , travelling to the country of the Abasgi , where at Sebastopol ,. situate upon the eastern shore of tbe Euxine Sea , between the mouths of the rivers Phasisand Apsarus ,

he successfully preached the gospel to the inhabitants - of that city . Hence he removed into the country of the Zecchi and the Bosphorani , part of the Asiatic Scythia or Sarmatia , but finding the inhabitants very barbarous and intractable , he stayed not long among them , only at Chersou , or Charsonesus , a

great and populous city within the Bosphorus , he continued some time , instructing and confirming them in the faith . Hence taking ship he sailed across the sea to Sinope , to encourage and confirm the churches which he had lately planted in those parts , and here he ordained Philologus , formerly one

of St . Paul's disciples , bishop of that city . Hence he came to Byzantium ( since called Constantinople ) , where he instructed the people in the knowledge of the Christian religion , founded a church for divine worship , and ordained Staehys , first bishop of that place . Nicephorus , who had at

that time usurped the government in Constantinople , banished him out of the city , but he fled to Argyropolis , a place near at hand , where he preached the gospel for two years together with good success , converting great numbers to the faith . After this he travelled over Thrace , Macedonia , Thessaly ,

Achaia , and Epyrus , in all which places for many years he preached anil propagated Christianity , and confirmed the doctrine that he taught ; at last he came to Patr , * e , a city of Achaia , whero he gave his last and great testimony to , and laid down his own life to ratify and ensure it .

- 'Egeas , Proconsul of Achaia , came at this time to-Patiw , were , observing that multitudes were fallen off from Paganism , and had embraced Christianity , he endeavoured by all arts , both of favour and cruelty , to reduce the people to their old idolatries . To him the apostle resolutely made his address ,

calmly put him in mind that he , being but a judge of men , should own and revere Him who was the supreme and impartial judge of all , that he should give Him that divine honour that was duo to Him , and leave off the impieties of his false heathen

worship . The Proconsul derided him as an innovator in religion , a propagator of that' superstition whose author the . lews had infamously put to death upon the cross . Hcreat the apostle took occasion to discourse to him on the infinite love and kindness

of our Lord , who came into the world to purchase the salvation of mankind , and for that end did not disdain to die upon the cross . To whom the Proconsul answered , that he might persuade them so that would believe him ; for his part , if he did not comply with him in doing sacrifice to the gods , he

would cause him to suffer upon that cross which he had so much extolled and magnified . St . Andrew replied , that ho did sacrifice every day to God , the only true and omnipotent Being , not with fumes and bloody offerings , but iu the sacrifice of the immaculate Lamb of God . The issue was , that the apostle

was committed to prison , whereat the paoplo were so em-aged , that they would have broken out iu insurrection had not the apostle restrained them , persuading them to imitate the mildness and patience of our meek and humble Saviour , and not to hinder him from that crown of martyrdom that now waited for him . ( To he continued . )

GEOROE AVASIIINOTON . — The Virginia Ahiman Rezon , of 1791 , was dedicated to Bro . AVashington in the following words : "To George AVashington , Esquire , President of the United States of America , the following work is most respectfully dedicated by his obedient and devoted servant , the author . "