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reward merit and ability , yet that no eminence of rank or station should ever cause us to forget that wc are brethren , and that he who is placed on the lowest spoke of fortune ' s wheel is entitled

to our regard with him who has attained the highest , since a time will most assuredly come and the best and wisest of us knows not how soon , when all distinctions , save those of piety

and virtue , must cease , and death , the great leveller of all human greatness , shall reduce us all to the same state . Thc plumb rule , which , like Jacob's , ladder , forms a line of union

between heaven and earth , and is the criterion of moral rectitude and truth , teaches us that to walk with humility and uprightness before God , neither turning from the right or to the left ,

from the strict path of virtue , is a duty incumbent on every Alason . Not to be an enthusiast , persecutor , slanderer , or reviler of religion , not bending towards avarice ,

injustice , malice , or envy and contempt of our fellow creatures , but laying aside every selfish propensity which may tend to injure others , and steering the bark of this life over the rough seas

of passion , without quitting the helm of rectitude , is the highest degree of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining . As the builder raises his column by the level

and perpendicular , so ought every mason to carry himself in this life , as to observe a due medium between avarice of profession , to hold the scales of justice with an equal poise , to make every

passion and prejudice coincide with the strict time of his duty , and in every pursuit to keep eternity in view . Hence , the square teaches us morality , the level , equality , and the plumbline ,

justice and uprightness of life and actions , and thus by square conduct , level steps , and upright actions , we hope to ascend to those immortal mansions where the just will assuredly meet with their reward . " '

Such , my brethren , are the genuine tenets and jirincijiles which , as you will remember , I said was not religion itself , but a helpmate and a handmaid to it , since we hold that faith as well

as works are necessary to make uji religion ; and when I add that the Holy Bible is always open in our Lodges during our meetings ; that every ceremony is begun and ended with prayer ; and

that jnety , loyalty , and brotherly love prevail amongst us , I think we may safely say in the words of our text , that when wc make a man a Freemason , we " build a house in the name of

the Lord our God , to dedicate it to him ; " and that if the Alason tries to carry out the precepts which Alasonry teaches "him , lie becomes that which he is told he ought to be . " So that when

a . man is said to be a mason , the world may know that he is one to whom the burdened heart ma )' pour forth its sorrows , and find consolation ; to whom the distressed may prefer his suitand

, find relief ; that he is one whose hand is guided by justice , and whose hand is expanded by benevolence .

Aly brethren , God , the Great Architect of the Alansion alone can help us to be all this , but if we pray to him for help we may be this , ancl more than this , for our Redeemer ' s sake .

Captain MARSHAL ! ., of Cardiff , writes : — "I have used Perry Davis ' s Pain Killer in all climates , and have founel » of gicat service , and can safely recommend it in any cases , however bad , of cholera , cramps , and pains in the stomach diarrhcea , colds , coughs , bronchitis , headache , neuralgia , and ctrer similar diseases , having used it repeatedl y in such cases , and always successfully . "

Multum In Parbo, Or Masonic Notes And Queries.

Multum in Parbo , or Masonic Notes and Queries .

THE ANGLO-SAXON RIDDLE . Dr . Arnold has said that although "the Briton and the Roman dwelt in our country , they are not our fathers . " Professor Grimm , of Berlin , who also looks upon the Anglo-Saxon as the predominant element in our race , ventures

to assert that there is no language so well suited for a world language as the English , it having the Teutonic foundation , with the marvellous capacity of adapting to itself the beauties of other languages . And these forecasts of the future ubiquity of

the English language , by Professor Grimm , have been neatly seconded in a comparative view , by a British poet , of the beauty , power , and future influence of the different languages of the ruling nations of the past , and the present , in the following words : —

Greek ' s a harp we love to hear ; Latin is a trumjiet clear ; Spanish like an organ swells ; Italian rings its bridal bells . France , with many a frolic mien ,

Tunes her sprightly violin ; Loud the German rolls his drum , AA'hen Russia ' s clashing cymbals come , But Britain ' s sons may well rejoice , For English is the human voice .

But , perhaps , thc most striking testimony that was ever rendered towards the future ubiquity of the Anglo-Saxon ra : e and language , is , that of a clever Frenchman , the lateAI . Prevost Paradol . He says— " Neither Russia nor United

Germany , supposing they should attain the hi ghest fortune , can pretend to imjiede that current of things , nor prevent that solution , relatively near at hand , of the long rivalry of European races for the ultimate colonisation and domination of

the universe . T . he world will not be Russian , nor German , nor French , alas ! nor Spanish . For it can be asserted that , since the great navigation has given the whole world to the enterprise of the European races , three nations were

tried , one after another , by fate , to play the first part in the fortune of mankind , by everywhere propagating thci ' i lung ue and blood , by menus of durable colonies , and by transforming , so to say , the whole world to their own likeness . " These

were Spam , then France . " Lastl j ' , England came forward ; she definitel y accomplished the great work ; and England may disappear from the world without the Anglo-Saxon future of the world being sensibly changed . "

Such are AL P . Paradol ' s anticipations regarding the future ubiquity of a race long antagonistic to his own . A race now occ . ipying the strongest and most defensible positions on the surface of the globe , from which they issue forth conquering and to conquer—with tlieir free

institutions , their open Bible and the most beautiful Liturgy in existence . A race running far ahead of the Latin nations—increasing at a ratio far beyond them , numbering at present 72 millions in all parts ofthe globe , with every probability of their rising up to 200 millions in seventy

yearsin short , as far as this present world is concerned , "the Coming Race . " And , as we have no example in history of any power of colonisation onsuch a grand scale , ancl of such a multitudinous increase of one race over others , it may be permissible to ask is there any prescient forecast in

Scripture of the possibility of such a thing . There is nothing so marked in this subject as the death-bed of the departing Jacob , as represented in Genesis and Deuteronomy . There the old patriarch , with his hands on the heads of the two sons of Joseph , points a destiny for them

distinct from that of Judah and the other tribes , allotting to them in the distant future " blessings unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills , " representing them as eventually becoming a " multitude of nations , " as blossoming and budding , and " pushing the peojile together to theends of the earth . "

Ihe learned Dr . Abbadic , the antagonist of Bossuet , in his work , " Le Triomphe de la Providence , " published in Amsterdam , in 1723 , was the first to apply those splendid predictions to the

Multum In Parbo, Or Masonic Notes And Queries.

Teutonic nations that overran the Roman empire , pointing out the distinction between the ten tribes and the Jews—the former were for a long period to be only politically lost , and become " Lo Ammi , " as the prophet ITosea predicted ; whereas the Jews were to be for ages a marked race , a

well-known people , under a long penalty of political degradation , from which they were only finally to emerge , and be restored to the divinefavour again . Several modern writers have taken the subject up , and endeavour to allot to the Anglo-Saxon

race those multitudinousblessings showered upon thc head of Ephraim * ; attempting to prove that there is much in onr ancient customs , language , ancl ancient religious rites , to correspond with such an origin . Moreover , the fact that Sharon

Turner traces the Anglo-Saxon to Aledia ancl Assyria , the very place the ten tribes were taken captive to , ancl lost long before the Jews were taken captive to Babylon , and not lost , but , after a seventy years' captivity , restored again for a

time . It seems strange to attempt to identify ourselves with such an origin ; but if there should happen to be truth in it , it would only be an additional evidence that the decadence of our race

is not yet set in , and an additional call to us to preach the Gospel to all nations , beginning at Jerusalem , as the vigilant sentinel of libertycivilisation—and religion throughout the whole world . " A > rriauARY . "

* See J . AA ilsnn on " Our Israelitish Origin , ' Alacintosh & Co ., 4 th Edition : a stamiard work on this subject ; also the " Watchman of Ephraim , ' " by the same author .

AVe read in the "Boletnu official do Grtncle Oriente Lusitano" that the Lodges of the Irish constitution that had existed till now in Portugal have made its alliance to the Grand Orient Lusitano , thus the union of Portuguese Alasonry

is effected , which is to be ruled by only one Great AIasonic authority under the title of Grande Oriente Lusitano unido Supremo Conselho da Alaconaria Porttigueza" beiag the actual Grand Alaster Bro . Count de Paraty .

On the iStii , the Commercio Alasonic Lodge of the Grand Orient of the Benedictines celebrated the conferring of its dignities with a festival , at which many ladies were present .

The A ' enerable gave liberty to a slave boy , and the festal committee presented 11 benefits for willows and distressed Alasons . —Anglo- Brazilian Times .

Ihe General Assembly of the Alasonic People has published its manifesto in defence of Alasonry against Jesuitism and Ultramontanism , and its

protest against the Bishop ' s act in silencing Father Alartins as a AIasonic member . The manifesto is temperate in its language , eloquent , and free from personalities . —Ititl .

The reconstruction of the Scotch Post-office Department has now been finally determined upon . The General Post-office at Edinburgh is

to be reduced to the character of a mere district office , like that at Leeds or Alanchester , and thc saving to the Exchequer is estimated at .-i ? 101 , 000 a year .

liitEAKi'AST . —Erp . vs COCOA . —Gn . vrErtL AND COMreiiiTisc . — " I 3 \ - a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern tlie operations of digestion anel nutiition , and by a careful application of tlie fine propeitics of well-selected cocoa , Mr . Epps has provided our bieakfast tables with a delicately-flavoured beverage whicii may saie us many heavy doctors' hills . "—Cirii ' . Service Gazette . Made simply with Boiling Water or Milk . Each packet is labelled" J AMES EPPS & Cf ) ., Homoeopathic Chemists , London . '

HOLLOWAY ' I ' ILLS . —Confusion am ! pain of ihe Head . These premonitory signs of coming illness should have early attention before tlie Summer ' s high temperature accelerates the circulation , or palpitation and uneasy feelings about the heait will succeed , and be followed in their turn hy more serious symptoms . I lolloway ' s Pills display tiieii most constant anel happiest effects in dispelling these

disagreeable feelings , clearing the furred tongue , rousing the torpid bowels , and removing languor and flatulency often oppressive after taking food . No medicine is so well calculated to restore the digestive functions , so potent to soothe the nervous system , to tranquilise an overwrought brain , to raise bright gleams of hope and to dispel thc dark shadows of despair . —Anvr .