Channel Islands.

Sec . ; J . T . ' du Jardin , P . M . ; H . L . Manuel , P . M . ; J . Dure !' , P . M . ; Ph . Binet , P . Jl . ; Ed . D . Le Couteur , P . M . ; N . Le Goupillot , Treas ; Ph . Starck , & c , & c . The deputations having arrived , were received by the P . M ., Deacons , and Dir . of Ceremonies , and by them conducted into the lodge , where the AV . M . and

the brethren upstanding hailed them with honors due to the representatives of our French sister lodge . The W . M . then addressed the visitors , saying that he was proud to have the honor of cordially welcoming and receiving them . The president of the deputation briefly and feelingly returned his thanks for the hearty and fraternal welcome they received .

Ph . J . Le Gros and Ph . Howard , Esqs ., being candidates for initiation , and well known to the whole Jersey community as to respectability and moral character , were balloted for and unanimously admitted . The ballot was also taken for Bro . A . Duvignaud , of Lodge " La parfaite Union ( Rennes ) , and was declared unanimous in favour of his admission as a joining

member . Ph . J . Le Gros , being in attendance , was duly initiated into the order . At tbe request of the Secretary , Bro . L . Guillot delivered an improvised address , in which he enlarged on the beauties of JIasonic principles , and enjoined on the brethren the duty of carrying out their principles before the world , and in every station of life . The

charge was a beautiful exposition of the tenets which should guide and actuate the members of our Grand Universal Family at all times—and it was most enthusiastically applauded . Bro . L- Guillot was unanimously elected an Hon . Member and the lodge was then closed , and the brethren adjourned to the banqueting room , where a most enjoyable evening was spent .

Presentation To W. Bro. J. Daniel Moore, M.D.

PRESENTATION TO W . BRO . J . DANIEL MOORE , M . D .

P . M . & Z . 1051 . ; P . P . G . Surr . OP AVORKS . WEST LANCASHIRE . On Friday Evening last , Bro . Moore delivered a lecture at the Mechanics' Institute , Lancaster , which was received with great applause , and opportunity

was taken at the close of the lecture by the members of the Science Classes to make a presentation to Dr . Moore , of a handsome 21 days' dining-room clock in marble case , of very superior workmanshi p , supplied by Messrs . Bell and Atkinson , for the doctor's very arduous duties in connection with his office as secretary

of those classes , and as a mark of the esteem and regard in which they held him . The inscription on the testimonial was as follows : — "Presented to J . D . Moore , Esq ., JI . D ., F . L . S , by the students of the Science Classes as a mark of their appreciation of his valuable services as Secretary of the Science

Committee . Oct . 18 G 9 . " Bro . Moore is a hi ghly esteemed member of the Craft , and was chosen as one of the Grand JIaster ' s Stewards at the Inauguration Festival in April last , which is , we trust , but a prelude to those hi gher honours which Dr . Jloorc very richly deserves .

AA E learn from thc Athenaeum that one of Pro . Morton Edwards' busts of the Earl of Zetland . M . W . G . M ., has been placed in the British Museum . AVE are requested to state that the Meetings of thc Macdonald Craft I odgc , are now held on the second AVednesday in each Month—not on the first as hitherto .

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has wc understand , agreed to preside at the 205 th Anniversary Festival of thc Scottish Hospital , at the Freemasons ' Tavern , on St . Andrew ' s Day . The New V . ade Jlecum ( invented and manufactured by Charles H , Vincent , optician , of 23 , Windsor-street Liverpool ) consists of a telescope well adapted for tourists ,

& c ., to which is added au excellent microscope of great power and first-class delinitioii , quite equal to others sold at ten times the price . Wonderful as it may seem , the prico of this ingenious combination is only 3 s . Gd ., and Jfr . Vincent sends it ( carriage free ) anywhere , with printed directions , upon receipt of post-olfico order or stamns to the amount of 3 s . 10 d . —AUVT .

THE BLOOD IN OLD AOE —As age advances , the blood becomes thin and cloudy—or , in a full habtt , thick and cloudy . The failing of tlie powers of life requires extra nutrition and support , and the blood yielding the excess required is soon overcharged with carbon , which gives to it tlie cloudy appearance . Being then impure , day by day the vitiated matter increases , and tho body sutlers from a "

thousand ailments . "Ihe Wood Purifier" —Old Dr . Jacob Townscnd'a Sarsaparilla—supplies the extra nutrition to tlie blood , ami restores to it its ( lorid hue , and then the progress of decay is arrested , and the ailments disappear ; man lives out his days , and the sunset of life is unattended with sutlering . Testimonials with each bottle from the Hon . the Dean

Of Lismore , General Wm . Gilbert , of the Indian Army ; and Rev . Francis Monck , of " Thc Gospel Kvangclist . '' Ordered also by tho Apothecaries' Hall , London . Sold by all Druggists , in bottles it . 6 d ., 4 s , 4 s . Gd . 7 s . 6 d ., Its . Pills and Ointment each in boxes Is . 1 jd ., 2 s . 3 d ., 4 a . Gd . —Caution . Get the red and blue wrappers , with tho Old Doctor ' s head in the centre . No other genuine . —Auvr .

A Sermon

A SERMON

Preached by Bro . the Rev . C HAELES LEE , M . A ., Vicar of Holy Trinity , Jlaverstock-hiU , and Chaplain of St . John ' s Lodge , No . 167 , ) , at the church of St . John , Hampstead , on the occasion of the Centenary of the Lodge , October bth , 1869 .

" One is your Master , even Christ , and all ye are brethren . "—Matthew xxiii . 8 . Freemasonry , Worshipful Master and worthy Brethren , is of all human institutions , at once the

most ancient and the most progressive , the mosfc local likewise , by virtue of the association of every brother with his own lodge , and yet , also , the most universally diffused ; for that throughout the compass of the whole known world , a brother may

everywhere find a brother , and , whether in the daylight of one half the globe or in the darkness of the other half , receive from some kind brother ' s hands the help and brotherly sympathy of which he may stand iu need .

Now , although this fraternal and most charitable loving-kindness be not itself Christianity , it is certainly of nearest relationship , of dearest kith and kin , to it , for what can be more agreeable to the very essence of Christianity itself , which poin ts us all to a common Father and to the same divine Redeemer ,

than those holy principles of love and brotherhood professed—alas I too generally only professedamongst all Christians , but which do really practically operate amongst all true masons" The well-known sign we mark ; and fly—The wound to heal , to still the sigh ,

And wipe the tear from sorrow ' s eye . " And especially will this correspondence between Masonry and Christianity be more fully admitted , when I remind you that Masonry , too , knows no narrow-minded exclusiveness , for itnot only welcomes the poor as well as the rich , the peasant as well as

the prince to its lodges , but in every age it has conferred unnumbered blessings on mankind at large . AVitness—whilst yet Freemasonry was synonymous with operative masonry—the temples , the churches , the sacred fanes and domestic hearths and homes , the princely palaces for the monarch , and public

buildings for the people , everywhere erected by it , as for the good of the human race , so also for the glory of Him who is the Great Architect , the Grand Geometrician , and Supreme Ruler of the World . AVitness also—since Freemasonry became speculative rather than operative ( albeit still more operative than ever iu good works)—the very many

charitable exertions , sometimes for the good ot its own poorer members , or sometimes made ( as is for instance the case with our collections of to-day ) for the relief of distress at large . Herein our Masonic practice is precisely in accordance with the like Christian principles , "Do good unto all men , specially unto them that are of the household of faith . "

Indeed , no good Mason , I suppose , can possibly learn the divine arts of liberality and benevolence , albeit , specially to his brethren , without acquiring at the same time kindlier and more generous feelings than ever he bad before towards all his fellow Christians , and even towards thc whole human race .

It were delightful to reflect at greater length upon the charitable excellency of our Masonic principles , and perhaps I may be permitted again to revert to this attractive part of my subject by-aud-bye , but their antiquity also prominently offers itself to our notice to-day ; for , celebrating as wearethecentenary

of our lod ' , e ( a lodge which , although it has existed a hundred years , is nevertheless but of yesterday only , compared with the grave and venerable history of the Craft iu general ) , wc cannot but cast a retrospective glance , as at the past 100 years , so also at the centuries upon centuries beyond , and the ages of

ages with which , iu the growth of Masonry , the St . John ' s lodge , No . 167 , is thus iu God's goodness , like ns the addition of another polished stone to the spiritual building , adjusted , cemented , and conjoined . In speaking of the antiquity of JIasonry—more

ancient as is its distinguishing budge than the Golden Fleece or Roman Eagle , more honourable than the Star and Garter , or any other Order in existence—1 shall not allege any institution of tho Craft ( which it must absolutely be impossible to substantiate ) coeval with Adam or Eve ; much less shall I fancifully , as

somo have done , climb the dizzy heights or descend into tho awful depths of pre-Adamite worlds . It seems to me to be sulHcient here to observe—first of all , that from tbe first moment that tho necessities of mankind led them to construct houses for habitation , instead of sheltering themselves any longer in

the hollows of trees or in dens and caves of the earth , from that inventive moment operative masonry may fairly date its incipient institution ; and then after that , immediately man advanced a step further , from tbat which is material to that which is spiritual , and associated , as undoubtedly he very soon came to do ,

A Sermon

a significant symbolism with the material structure , and to give a moral and reli gious significance to the . form and the adornment ot whatever buildings he erected , especially for relig ious worship ; from that poetical moment , though still only as from a germ , might the origin of speculative Freemasonry also be deduced . The Priests , who were usually the most

learned , and the Architects and the Builders , who were the most scientific men of the times they lived " in , would , almost as a matter of course , be intimately associated together , they would quickly come to understand each other upon the practical construction of their temples of religion , and as the circumstances of the times might require they

would soon come to agree upou the significance of signs and symbols , associated as well with the buildings themselves , as with their own mutual relationship and subordination to each other . As a matter of historical verity , Institutions , which whether you choose to ' call them Masonic or not , were truly and really Masonic in fact , what J

ever then * Egyptian or Greek or Phonician names might be , existed for a certainty more than 3000 years ago . The Dionysiatis of Asia Minor , 150 f > years B C , possessed the exclusive privilege of building all Temples and other stately and superb edifices . Their chief mysteries aud most important secrets - were precisely similar to those which are known to

ourselves at the present day ( upou these , however , ' in the presence of so many who have not the happi- ' ness to be numbered with us , it is my sacred duty to _ observe the most awful and solemn silence ) . At the time of the migration from Attica into Ionia ( only ; a few years before the erection , be it remembered , of . King Solomon ' s Temple ) , the Dionysian Masons ' .

had attained considerable reputation , and were known to each other throughout all Asia aud as far as India by appropriate , sigus and symbols . They * were moreover formed into what we now call lodges , which were presided over by masters and assistant wardens , and it was their regular practice also to assist and relieve their poorer brethren .

Flourishing as they did at the time I speak of , m the immediate neighbourhood , too , of Judeaitisnot at all unlikely that they would labour along wifch the Jewish Masons in the construction of Solomon's Temple . I have alluded specifically to one of the most venerable , because it is at the same time one of the

most historical forms of Ancient Masonry ; it were interesting to discuss in the like view the Orphic and more especially the Eleusinian mysteries , I must , however , advance rapidly on . Pythagoras who in common with all Ancient Masons had purer and far sublimer notions of the Deity than were common amidst the surrouiidinn- darkness of his

timesto whom the grand saying is ascribed , " God is one , the light of all powers , the beginning of all things , the Torch of Heaven , of mind , of life , :-nd til ' s motive force of the universe "—is mentioned in documents , venerable for their age , as having framed a great lodge at Crotona , in Italy . This eminent philosopher had undoubtedly learned the ancient

secrets of something very like the Masonic art , as it existed in those ages , from tho Egyptian Priests . He , too , had travelled to the east iu search of knowledge , and certainly the more I have pondered the matter , the mire I am persuaded that whether from Crotona or not . yet at least through an Italian , that is to say , a Roman channel the institutions of

Masonry were introduced into England . 'I do not here refer to the Druidicnl mysteries ; our country was conquered , as we all know , by the mighty powers of Imperial Rome . Well , Masonic corporations , under the names of " Collegia " and " Curpora , " had for ages beforehand been recognised and regulated in tlio Roman

Empire . Numa , 700 nc , under the title of "Collegia Fabrorum " and * ' Collegia Artiticum , " established after the models of the Greek societies , various Masonic lodges ; they continued throughout the whole range of Roman history . They were introduced into England by the Roman generals aud Governors of Britain . Under the patronage of

Caransius Albanus , who with strong probability has been identified with St . Alban , our first Christian martyr , held a General Council of Jlasons in England . Declining during the confusion which subsequently reigned , owing to the successive irruptions of Picts and Scots , the Craft revived again under the patronage of St . Augustine tho Jlonk , in

whose time the fraternity of Jlasons erected to the honour of the Supreme Architect , no less n fane than that of Canterbury Cathedral . I am mentioning only definitely ascertainable facts when I mention tho systematic assembling of the brethren in the middle ofthe 9 th century , under the zealous protection of King Alfred the Great , ns also in the reign of his

successor King Edward . The celebrated Grand Lodge of our brethren at York was established b y Royal Charter iu 92 G , the very origiualof thatChurter remains , I believe , to the present day . King Edward the 3 rd studied and revised the Ancient Charges and Constitutions of the Order . Even the Popes of Rome were uot always antagonistic to the Craft , many Indulgeiicies and Bulls were granted by them