"That Great, A Wful, Tremendous And Incomprehensible Name.''

lessons were taught , would come among us and do honour to our Craft . Your correspondent has given us a great and g lorious truth , but he has put it before us in the shell : let us try to obtain the kernel . It is a very hard nut to crack ; but if I can only

produce a fissure in the shell , some more expert hand than mine may perfect the cleft and obtain the fruit . Among the ancients , the word NAME had a different signification to that of the present age and generation . They understood the word

name in no other sense than to contain the essence of the thing expressed . Each property or name in nature has a constituent part in man ' s creation . To say a man is brave is to designate him as a lion ; that he is a glutton , call him a hog ; that he is cunning , call him a fox ; that

he is firm , that he is a rock ; and so through all nature , animate and inanimate . This is the language of allegory or correspondence , and was deeply studied by the ancients , and always used by them in their sacred writings , and thus the name or quality of J ehovah is the "Lord's divine

human , ' and the manner in Avhich it was communicated to Moses is most strikingly sublime . The children of Israel , from their long state of captivity and degradation , were in a state of semi-civilization ; they were tyrannized over by the most learned and cultivated nation then known

upon the earth ; they had ( and the nations of the earth long after them ) gods many and lords many . It is in the nature of man to contemplate God as a Being of like passions as himself . The Pantheon at Rome was a fit illustration of this . The devotee could enter this Temple and

select from the number a god best suited to his proclivities for his worship and devotion ; he made it his penate . It is so now-a-days ; one idol after another engrosses the public mind . At present , it seems to be the worship of Reason , and a most bewildering goddess she is . AAHiat

is truth ? was once asked ; but the querulous enquirer waited not for the reply . AVhat is reason ? may now be asked ; but the most patient enquirer will have to wait long enough , and not receive a satisfactory reply . If we make Reason the object of our adoration , we must worship a .

finite abstraction , as the depths of our worship must be limited to our finite conceptions of her , and must sink to the level of the worst idolatryself-esteem and self-sufficiency . But to return to our subject . The Almighty , in His divine love and wisdom , was about to restore to man the knowledge of His divine essence

and the immortality of the soul , and He made Moses His ambassador for that purpose . Moses had , by a Divine Providence , been reared in the college of the Egyptian priests , for we are told "he was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians , " and no doubt had been a conspicuous member of the School of the

Hierogrammatists ; possibly , while brooding over his own extraordinary lot in life , and the hard fate ofhis tribe under the slavery and wrongs they Avere enduring , the Almighty made the wonderful manifestation , and gave him the command to stand before Pharoah . Moses , no doubt conscious that this was a supernatural appearance , demanded to know the name—that is the

essence , the property , and attribute of his visitant—and was no doubt surprised to hear only a declaration of His divine essence , and that Abraham , Isaac and Jacob were still in existance , though not on this earth , and that He was then their God as He had been aforetime , that there had

been no cessation of life , hut only of state . But Moses , true to his traditions , yearned to know the name of that mysterious Being , under whose guidance he felt he was . The Egyptian mythology was full of theophanies , and although he had witnessed the bush on fire yet not destroyed

, the scientifices of which perhaps he knew something , yet he could not rest satisfied till he should be in full possession of the attributes of this Being who had so wonderfully appeared to him . As the faith and importunities of the

S yro-Phcunician woman prevailed , so did the Almighty grant the prayer of Moses , or so much ° f it as he could endure in the body of this clay . " No man can see Me and live ; " but the sacred and mysterious name—His essence—was de-

"That Great, A Wful, Tremendous And Incomprehensible Name.''

clared " Jehovah , Jehovah God , merciful and gracious , long-suffering , and abundance in goodness and truth . " This is His NAME , His attributes , and who can comprehend them ? They are as high as heaven ; what canst thou know ? They are deeper than hell ; what canst

thou discovsr ? AVe may know more of them by-and-bye ; " we now see through a glass darkly . " We are in the cleft of a rock , and covered by the hand of Jehovah's care . AVe know now in part , but then we shall known even as we are known . AV . B ., 742 .

Grand Conclave Of Knights Templar.

GRAND CONCLAVE OF KNIGHTS TEMPLAR .

The half-yearly meeting of Grand Conclave was held at Freemasons' Tavern , Great Queenstreet , on Friday , the 12 th inst ., and was A'ery numerously attended . Sir Kt . AA'illiam Stuart , M . E . and Supreme Grand Master , occupied the throne , and was supported by Sir Kts . Rev .

John Huyshe , D . G . M . ; Earl of Limerick , G . Prior ; Lord Eliot , P . G . C . Cornwall '; Sir P . de Colquhoun , G . C . ; AA ' . \ V . B . Beach , MP ., P . G . C . Hants ; Captain N . G . Philips , P . G . C . Suffolk ; J . Tepper , G . Treas . ; AV . Tinckler , G . V . C . ; F . Binckes , P . A . G . D . C . ; AV . Ganz , G . Org . ; Col .

Vernon , P . D . G . M . ; Col . H . Clerk , R . J . Spiers , Rev . G . Ross , and many other present and past officers . The conclave was duly opened , and the knights proceeded to discuss the report of the Committee of General Purposes , which included

a recommendation that Grand Conclave should enter into a treaty , offensive and defensive , with the Grand Lodge of Mark Masters and the S . G . Council 33 , to the exclusion of the popular and far more ancient Masonic body known as the " Red Cross of Constantine . " This produced a

warm debate , in the course of which the Rev . John Huyshe , D . G . M ., proposed that the report be sent back for reconsideration , averring that he had seen all the documents relating to the Red Cross Order when the Grand Council was held under the Duke of Sussex , and was perfectly

satisfied of their authenticity—in fact , the Order had as regular a basis as the Order of the Temple itself . Sir Kt . Huyshe ' s motion was supported energetically by Sir Kts . John Hervey , F . Binckes , Raynham AV . Stewart , and others , and

furiously opposed by Sir P . Colquhoun , Lord Limerick , and E . Holmes . As the arrival of the Prince of AVales was signalled in the midst ofthe discussion , it was adjourned , as some understood , until next Grand Conclave , but this proved to be an error .

The following ceremonial was then carried out in accordance with the programme : — His Royal Highness the Prince of AA ^ ales and His Highness the Prince John of Gliicksburg arrived at half-past four , ancl were received by the Aides-de-Camp Extraordinary , Major-General

Doherty , Lieutenant AV . C . Seymour , and thc Hon . \\ . AA arren A ^ ernon , Chamberlain ; Colonel G . A . Vernon , J . Tynte Agg Gardner , and E . P . Colquhoun , Chamberlain , at the door of Freemasons ' Hall . The Grand Prior , the Earl of Limerick , the Provincial Grand Commander for Cornwall , Lord

Eliot , the Grand Chancellor , Sir Patrick Colquhoun , and the Acting Grand Director of Ceremonies , Malcolm Ovans Sim , then conducted his Royal Highness and Prince John to the Grand Master ' s robing-room , and the Acting Grand Director of Ceremonies communicated the arrival of His Royal Highness and thc Prince to the Grand Master ,

upon which the two Grand Captains immediately marshalled the knights , who formed an arch of steel , leaving a passage of six feet wide , and on the entrance of His Royal Highness and Prince John thc Heralds sounded a Royal salute , and a inarch was played by the Grand Organist , Sir Knight W . Ganz . The procession entered in the following order : —

The Acting Grand Director of Ceremonies . The Grand Chancellor . The Grand Prior . The Grand Commander for Cornwall The Chamberlain . Banner-Bearer . Ilis Uoyal Highness the Prince of AA ales . Aide-de-camp . Aide-de-camp . The Chamberlain . Banner-Bearer .

His Highness the Prince John of Glucksburg . Aide-de-camp . Aide-de-camp . Thc Grand Chancellor presented his Royal Highness the Prince of AVales and His Highness Prince John to thc Grand Master , who descended a step , and placed H . R . H . the Prince of AVales on his right , ancl H . H . Prince John of Glucksburg on the

Grand Conclave Of Knights Templar.

right hand of the Prince of Wales . The Grand Chancellor then presented to H . H . the Prince John of Gliicksburg the Grand Master ' s certificate ofhis incorporation into the English branch of the Order as an Eminent Commander . The Grand Chancellor presented and named the Provincial Grand

Commanders as they filed past , each saluting and retiring to his stall . He then presented the Grand Prelate , the Vice-Chancellor , the Grand Registrar , and Grand Treasurer . The other Grand Officers then filed past , saluted , and retired to their respective stations , after which the other knights filed past ,

wheeling , saluting , and retiring through the arch of steel , under the command and direction of two Grand Captains . During the ceremony all the knights stood " at order . " The Grand Officers of the year were then appointed as follows : —

Lord Skelmersdale ... ... Grand Seneschal . Earl of Limerick ... ... Grand Prior . Lord Lindsay ... ... G . Sub . Prior . Rev . E . Moore ... ... Grand Prelate . G . P . Brockbank ... ... Grand 1 st Captain . S . L . Foster ... ... Grand 2 nd Captain

Sir P . Colquhoun ... ... Grand Chancellor . AV . Tinkler ... ... G . A'ice-Chancellor J . Lavender ... ... Grand Registrar . J . Tepper ... ... ... Grand Treasurer . C . A . Newnham ... ... G . Chamberlain . George Cockle ... ... G . Hospitaller .

J . Lambert Sim ... ... G . Dir . of Cers . J . F . Starkey ... ... G . Asst . Dir . ofCers ' Colonel E . K . Morrey ... G . Supt . of AVorks C . Matthews ... ... Grand Constable . E . J . Leveson ... ... Grand Provost . Rev . J . F . Hardy ... ... Grand Almoner .

George Lambert ... ... G . AA " . of Regalia . H . Bulley ... ... ... Grand 1 st Expert . AV . H . Prince ... ... Grand 2 nd Expert B . T . Hodge ... ... G . 1 st Std . Bearer John Hervey ... ... G . 2 nd Std . Bearer T . Croxton ... ... G . 3 rd Std . Bearer

Lieut . Col . J . F . Grecnall ... G . 4 th Std . Bearer C . Truscott ... ... G . 1 st A .-de-C . F . H . AVilson lies ... ... G . 2 nd A .-dc-C . IT . Dubox ... ... ... G . 1 st C . of Lilies . Emra Holmes ... ... G . 2 nd C . of Lines AV . R . Mabey ... ... Grand 1 st Herald . J . R . Poulter ... ... Grand 2 nd Herald

AV . Ganz ... ... ... Grand Organist . D . C . M . Gordon ... ... G . Sword Bearer . G . Simpson ... ... G . M . Ban . Bearer . H . R . H . the Prince of AVales and his illustrious relative remained above an hour , and were reescorted on their departure with the same formalities , a large number of knights following their example soon afterwards .

The discussion on the tripartite treaty was then cunningly resumed , and the promoters of the scheme—the numbers present being greatly reduced—snatched a hard-fought victory by a majority of TAVO , as we understood in the

confusion which prevailed . " A few moi e such victories and we are ruined , " must have been the mental shriek of the " cohorts all blazing in purple and gold , " who followed their leader so swift and so bold , and found at the end they had almost been sold .

Another precious piece of legislation was then introduced to the effect that encampments should no longer have the right to choose their own members , but that every name proposed for installation should be subject to the veto of the Provincial Grand Commanders in the provinces ,

and to that of the sweet-tempered (?) Colquhoun in the metropolitan district . Shades of ye ancient Templars ! this monstrous proposition was actually carried , and henceforth the prosperity of an encampment and the liberty of the knights are at the mercy of one man , who , however estimable , may not be quite perfection .

After this let our English Knights Templar abandon the prefix "Masonic , " for they have now nothing in common with a body of / rarmen and free Masons . The force of folly could no further go , and so we left in shame the servile show , convinced of this , that nothing can surpass an Alpuleius turned into an ass ! 0 tempora I O mores !

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