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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Freemasonry and Israelitism 287 Aids to Study , 28 S Conversations for Freemasons 28 9 Obituary 288 Visit of the Festival Stewards to the Girls' School ... 290

Freemasonry in Constantinople 291 Thc American Knights Te nip lar 29 r Annual Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls 292

CRAFT MASONRY : — Metropolitan , 294 Instruct ion 295 Provincial 295 MARK MASONRY : —

Provincial 29 ( KNIGHTS TEMPLAR : — Provincial Grand Conclave of Bengal 296 Masonic Tidings—British , Colonial and Foreign 297

POETV : — Masonic Ode 297 Ode on the Dedication of St . Alban ' s Lodge 297 Masonic Meetings for next week 298 Advertisements 28 * - * , 2 S 6 , 208 , 299 , s ° o

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FREEMASONRY AND ISRAELITISM .

AN KI ' ITOME OF HRO . CARPENTER S ARTICLES ON THIS SUBJECT . BY \ V . E . N „ NO . 7 66 . CConti 11 uciljYom Pas ; e 212 . J

No . XVIII . Sept 23 , 1871 . —In the Anglo-Saxon Race the very opposite -qualities arc united in the same person . You will find a hero of indubitable courage , with the sympathy and

tenderness of a woman . A people who unite in themselves these qualities are not formed to be subdued or conquered . It was predicted that Israel , after the dissolution

of the kingdom , was to become a powerful people- * overcoming all who should rise up against them _ compelling all to acknowledge their superiority . while they evinced an all-embracing sympathy

and benevolence . These predictions are fulfilled in the progress of the Geta-, or Goths , from the Euxine westward , their conquests in the Roman Empire , and their settlement in these

islands . Ihe Getse were to be terrible in their anger when attacked . They were to be exposed to vicissitudes of success and loss , but not to be finally conquered . Israel was not onl y to be

invincible , but he was to subdue peoples , and bring them into subjugation to him . ( Isa . xii . rj , 16 . ) It was foretold that Israel was to possess the gate of his enemies , and that nations should bow

down to him . Long after , ( when they were i n captivity ) it was declared of the Israelites , tha they should trample on princes , like the mortar even as the potter treadeth out the clay . ( Isa . xii

¦ 25 . ) Jeremiah says ( Ii . 29-23 ) "Thou art my battle-axe and weapons of war , for with thee will I overthrow kingdoms , " & c . Iu the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and

in the history of India , these prophecies and promises have been fulfilled in the Anglo-Saxon race . Again , with the progress and issue of the late terrible war between the Germans and

French , these same people , the Geta-, ( Israel ) against whom the Romans so long fought in vain and were ultimatel y broken in pieces , "thrust down their enemies and trampled on

those who rose up against them . " The Romans subdued all peoples and nations except the Goths , or Germans , who extorted the fear and respect of the Romans b y their valour and independence . For ages tlie power of this

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race was dreaded ; nations bowed down to them , and kings submitted to them . The Gothic race of Norway and Denmark vexed all Western Christendom , and a large

province of Northern France was ceded to them , and they became tho civilised chivalry of Normandy . This is the people that was carried captive b y the Assyrians to those regions in Asia

and Europe , whence their westward progress liad been traced by the marks left by them , and which exist at this day . They have subdued many nations , but they are not to be subdued . The

prophetic promises iu Jer . xxx . 16 , and elswhere refer to Israel and not to Judah , and have been fulfilled in thc history of the Saxon race . The Norman conquest of England presents no

difficulty , as both were of the same Saxon race , and ultimately they amalgamated . But England , to maiatain her position , must be mistress of the seas

She is situated " in the midst of the nations " and has to guard her shores , and while promoting and maintaining peace among other nations , she has to be on the alert to protect herself .

It is a remarkable fact that Israel . to the exclusion of Judah , was educated in maritime affairs , and there is no doubt that they were trained with

the Phoenicians , and some of them sailed with Hiram ' s servants to Ophir , to fetch gold in the time of Solomon .

It is obvious from the prophecies that Israel , after their captivity , was to become a maritime people , and to have possession ofthe islands , and also colonies in both hemispheres . Is is said of

Charlemagne , that seeing a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean , he was tilled with forebodings of the evils they would bring on his posterity . The Anglo-Saxons took after their

kindred Norsemen . Emerson says , as soon as this land ( England ) got a hardy people settled in it , they became the sailors and factors of the globe .

It has been remarked , in explanation of the wealth of England , that as early as the conquest " its merchants traded to all countries . "

No . XIX ., Sept . 30 th , 1871 . —Notwithstanding the small extent of their home territories , and the inferiority of their military strength , the Anglo-Saxon race have achieved great conquests

aud hold extensive possessions . What they have lacked in numerical strength , they have made up in pluck and endurance . Their kindred in Germany and America exhibit the same qualities .

One of the desires of Napoleon was to secure the alliance of England , believing that France and England united , might rule the world . Rut his

pre-eminence was-reserved for the Saxon race . England , Germany and America , now rule the world .

Israel was selected to diffuse and preserve the truth , for which purpose , power and independence were indispensable , and England has acted this part . The Abbe Milot , a French Roman Catholic ,

in his "Elements ofthe History of England , " sets forth the occasions in which the English nation has triumphed over social and political difficulties , and has waxed stronger and stronger .

During the last , and the beginning ofthe present century , political corruption and rotteness arrived at such a p itch as threatened to

decompose the State , but through all political and religious corruption , through wars , conspiracies and insurrections , the nation has been preserved ; one

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by one , all the buttresses which have been raised to preserve misrule and corruption are being removed , and the foundations of that edifice ( the

Constitution ) are being enlarged and strengthened ( See Isa . Iiv ., 11 , 17 . ) No . XX ., Oct . 14 th , 1871 . —The money power of the Saxon race is a noticeable trait in their

character . The creation of wealth in England during the last century is a main fact in modern history , and the wealth of England determines prices all over the globe . A great part of

England ' s wealth is spent in philanthrophic objects but having dispensed largely in this way , so much remains that- she can supply the world with all the money it requires . This wealth is

derived chiefl y from manufacturing and mercantile industry , and amounts to between seven and eight hundred millions sterling per annum . The exports in our foreign commerce alone amount tu

* fe 22 o , ooo , ooo per annum . The accumulated savings of England , Germany , America , and the other Saxon nations , total up to amounts absolutely bewildering . Foreign Stocks , that is money

lent to foreigners , amount to no less a sum than ^ 3 , 800 , 000 , 200 , and they are continuaJlycoming for more . The Saxons never go to the Celts or Franks

to borrow money , although they sometimes borrow among themselves . Germany and England are large creditors of America , and sometimes England lends to Germany . Although

considerable amounts of British Stocks are held by foreigners , it is because they have such great confidence in British honesty and rectitude . Any slipperinessorcrookedness on the part of the

Government in matters of finance , would bring down the whole nation on the delinquents . Emerson ( the American ) says of the English , they hate shuffling and equivocation . The French

feel the superiority of this probity . In the ancient prophecies we have intimations of the wealth and monetary power of the Israelitish race , and we have found this to be

characteristic of the descendants of the GeUe , and of no other people on the face of the earth . The prophet Hosea , after exhorting Israelii ! their calamities to return to the Lord in prayer , that he would

take away their iniquities , pronounces ( Hosea xiv . 11—16 ) the divine promise of spiritual and temporal blessing . In ( Isaiah Ix ) , we find along description of Israel's future prosperity and

retoration , uttered while they were yet in captivity . Many of these promises have yet to receive their fulfilment , as the description stretches onwards to the restorations of the tribes and their

reestablishment in their own country . The history of the world shows that all things are brought about by human agency and in a gradual manner . There are few sudden changes

in the history of nations ; they rise and fall by degrees . The chosen people are destined to advance gradually , and their growth in numbers , power , and wealth , will furnish the means for

effecting the divine purpose in their final exaltation . The wonderful progress of the Gothic race , its mighty achievements , and its advancing position in the world , indicate that it is destined for

some great purpose in the divine economy . Israel , with his wealth , was to unloose the bonds of oppression , to give slaves their freedom , to clothe , feed , and house the destitute poor , in