Table Of Contents.

TABLE OF CONTENTS .

PAGE REVIEWSA General Register of all the Lodges and Grand Lodges of Freemasons in North . America 3 Old Merry ' s Monthly 3 The Commercial and Domestic Diary and Almanac for 1 S 72 ... ... ... ... 3

}' REEJIASONRY AND ISRAELITISM 3 & 4 GRAND MASONIC BALL AT ROCHDALE 4 & 5 CONSECRATION OK TIIEGLADSMUIR LODGE , No . 13 S 5 5 FREEMASONRY IN LEEDS e

FREEMASONRY AT N ' EWPORT 5 FREEMASONRY AT SOUTHPORT 6 BANQUET OF THE TYNWAI . D LODGE , ISLE OF MAN * 6 & 7 FESTIVAL OF ST . DAVID ' S LODGE , NO . 393 ... 7 BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS S ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS ... . 8

MASONIC- PROGRESS IN ENGLAND S & 9 MULTUXI IN PAUVO 9 THE FOOTSTEPS OF MASONRY 9 & 10 THE GREAT MISSION OF WOMAN n POETRYGod Save the Prince of Wales .. ... ... 11 Lines by a Voting Daughter , on the Death of

her Mother u THE CRAFT 11 , 12 , & 13 ROYAL ARCH 13 MARK MASONRY 13 & 14 MASONIC MEETINGS FOR NEXT \ VKI : K 14 ADVERTISEMENTS 1 , 2 , 14 , 15 , & 16

Reviews.

Reviews .

—*—A General Register of all the Lodges and Grand Lodges of Freemasons in North America . I 3 y j . FLETCHER BRENNAN , editor of tho American Freemason , & c .

Cincinnati , 1871 . This is not only a very useful book of reference , but contains much valuable information as to the ori gin , history , and progress of the several Grand Lodges in

North America , . of which forty-two are situate in the United States and five in the Dominion of Canada . The magnitude of the work , which , although compendious , is complete , may be imagined when wc state

that the names of more than 8 , 000 lodges are given , together with the number of their members , names of Secretaries , and places of meeting . The names of the principal Grand Officers of each supreme body are

also given , and the Register , so far as it goes , appears to us to have been compiled with laudable care , and attention to

important details . The introduction of similar information into our English Masonic Calendar would be of great service to the Craft .

Old Merry ' s Monthly , Part 1 , January , 1 S 72 . Warnc and Co ., London . Under a new name an old favourite serial , " Merry and Wise , " appears to claim the support of the reading public ; and judg ing

from the varied and interesting character of the contents of this first part , we may safely predict a prosperous future for " Old

Merry s metamorphosis . Need we say more than that the talcs are capital , the illustrations really graphic , while the priceis but—sixpence .

J he Commercial and Domestic Diary and Almanac for 1 S 72 . This really handy and useful almanac is issued by Messrs . Moses and Son , the eminent clothiers , whose establishments in

the City , aswell as those in Oxford-street and Tottenham Court-road , are so well known to our ' •country cousins , " as well as to the general metropolitan public . This little

work is replete with valuable information , and is not to be confounded with the ordinary " new-year" trade circulars . The price is only one penny .

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xxv . It is now time that I should bring these —too long , perhaps , extended—papers to a close . Not that the subject is by any means BY BRO . WILLIAM CARPENTER , P . M . & P . Z . 177 .

exhausted , for the further it is pursued the more evident is is that many points of history , at first passed over unnoticed , have more or less relation to the subject of ouv

enquiries , and furnish collateral proofs of the descent of the Saxon race from the ten captive tribes of Israel , and of their being the people . to whom pertain the

promises , which , in so many forms , and given under so many circumstances , are to be found in the sacred writings , from the days of Moses to those of the last of the

Hebrew prophets ; and a due understanding of the bearing of which invests those writings with much additional interest , linking them , as they do , with our own times .

If the Israclitish history were , as I believe it was , a typical representation of the history of God ' s church and people in all time—if

the derelictions of duty and lapses into idolatry , and the repeated chastisements and manifold restorations to the Divine

favour of that people , pourtray , as I believe they do , the chequered course of all men in this their mortal career , then do the pages of sacred and profane history throw a flood

of light on the Divine government , and enable us to read , in unmistakeablc language , many of the things that shall come to pass , as the descendants of Israel proceed in the fulfilment of their mission in the world .

With how much more interest will the history of the Israclitish people , and the prophecies and promises pertaining to them ,

be read , when we discern in them , not what relates to a people long since passed away" lost "—and living only in their history , but

to a people now living—a people of whom wc form part , and a people who arc destined by God ' s special providence to be the instruments of bringing the whole world into

the fold of the Great Shepherd , and of sowing the seeds of civilization , with all its attendant blessings , throughout the four quarters of the globe ! And has not such

a reading of the Hebrew history and prophecy a tendency to impress us with a deeper and more abiding sense of those obligations which devolve upon us , as a

portion of the privileged instruments thus employed , and into which , as Masons , we have voluntarily entered , to promote the great and sacred principles of brotherly

love , relief , and truth ? Throughout our ceremonies , especially in the Master ' s degree and in the Royal Arch , wc identify ourselves with Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob , and

weclaim them as our forefathers . What life would it infuse into our ceremonies , if wi realised this as a truth , and with what life should we ourselves be animated , ifwc 1 . new ,

muecd , that we formed part of that race which is to be employed by the Almight ) in turning men from darkness to light , and transforming a world of ignorance , and vice .

and misery , into a world of knowledge , and virtue , and righteousness , and happiness Then shall " a king reign in righteousness , and princes shall rule with equity ; and a man shall be as a covert from the storm , as

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a refuge from the flood ; as streams of water in a dry place ; as the shadow of a great rock in a land fainting with heat : and him the eyes of those that see shall regard , and the ears of those that hear shall hearken .

Even the heart of the rash shall consider and acquire knowledge , and the stammering tongue shall speak readily and plainly . The fool shall no longer be called honourable , and the niggard shall no move be

called liberal . The wilderness shall become a fruitful field , and the fruitful field be esteemed a forest : and judgment shall dwell in the wilderness , and in the fruitful

field shall reside righteousness ; and the work of righteousness shall be peace , and the effect of righteousness perpetual quiet and security . " ( Isaiah xxxii . )

I have traced , very briefly , and therefore very imperfectly—for , to do so fully would occupy volumes—the migration and history of the Goths , or Gctaj , or Scythians , or Saxons—Arg ' es and Jut ; s—that is ,

Anglo-Saxons—from the north-eastern parts of Europe and southern parts of Asia—the very regions into which the Israelites were deported by the Assyrians , about 725 P . C . — to their settlement in these our

islands"THE ISLES OF THIS SEA ; " and , subsequently , their missions , colonising and religious , into every quarter of the globe ; and , in this , their fulfilment of the mission which it was predicted should be that of

Israel—to occupy the Isles , to raise up a standard for the nations , and to make known the true God and His salvation to the ends of the earth . Throughout these enquiries I have endeavoured to keep

constantly in the mind of my readers the distinction , very markedly made in the prophecies , between Judah and Israel , the head or leading tribe of the latter being Ephraim , the descendant and inheritor of

the birthright of Joseph , and of whom the God of Abraham declared , by the prophet Jeremiah , "I am a Father unto Israel , and Ephraim is my first-born "—that is , possessing the privileges and possessions of the

first son . Writing for the columns of Tins FREEMASON , in which I have been compelled to avoid everything of a sectarian character , and everything that might throw an obstacle in the way of my Jewish brethren

following me in a truly Masonic or catholic spirit , I have been deprived of many arguments and proofs , of which I should have availed myself , had I been writing for those only of mv own faith . Nevertheless , I

think I have shown , even in the brief and imperfect sketch I have given of the recorded prophecies , promulgated many years ago , and of the literal fulfilment of many of them as written on the pages of ancient

and modern history , that it would demand a great amount of credulity to believe that the exact agreement , in so many particulars , between the one anel the other , was the result of mere chance , or that it only

exhibits a series of coincidences winch , though the like is not to Vie found elsewhere , constitutes the only rational solution of the problem . The reading of a scries of arguments in detached portions cannot possibly

produce the impression which they would be likely to produce if they were made the subject of uninterrupted rending and stvdy .

Still , I venture to hope , that , even under the disadvantages necessarily incident to such a reading , no one can have followed me in these brief sketches , and have failed

to perceive that there is at least a great weight of evidence in favour of the Israclitish origin of the Saxon race , of which our own island may be regarded as the cradle and the home , whence have gone forth the progenitors of those vast populations which