Red Cross Of Constantine.

and No . 44 in particular . The ballot was then taken for the election of the officers for the ensuing year , when Dr . Haycroft , as M . P . S ., and Sir Kt . S . S . Partridge , as V . E ., were unanimousl y elected , Sir Kt . Sculthorpe being also unanimousl y re-elected Treasurer . Sir Kt .

Partridge expressed his acknowledgments for the honour conferred upon him . SirKt . Toller stated that he had suggested to the authorities the desirability of holding movable provincial assemblies of the Grand Conclave in the manner

so successfully adojited in the Alark degree , and that Sir Kt . ll . AV . Little had engaged to bring the matter forward at the annual assembl y in March . It was , after some discussion , [ unanimously resolved that the Grand Council be invited to hold a Provincial Grand Conclave in

Leicester , on AVednesday the 14 th of Alay next ( being the day ofthe installation of the M . P . S . ) , or at such other time as they may apjioint . It is hoped that if the invitation be accejited , it may

result in a large gathering of members of the Order from all parts of the kingdom . This can scarcely fail to be advantageous to the interests of the degree , whicii has hitherto suffered from want of some such means of intercommunion

between its members . Ave tiust that the Red Cross Order , having now established friendl y relations with the other AIasonic jurisdictions , has before it a long career of even increased success and usefulness .

Scotland.

Scotland .

GLASGOW .- —St . Andrew ' s Chajiter ( No . 69 ) . — The regular monthly meeiing of this chapter was held on Tuesday , the 1 ith instant . Comji . J . D . Humphries , M . E . Z ., presided . There was a large attendance of visitors , amongst whom were Comps . Balfour , P . Z . 73 ; G . AV . Wheeler , 11 . 73 ;

and J . Kay , R . Kay , R . Skinner , 97 . 5 ; T . J lalket , Z . 11 3 ; J . G . Park , Z . 122 , and Gunn , Mc . Kennan and Boyd of 122 . A Lodge of Mark Masters was opened by Ooniji . Humjihries as M . M . ; | . Balfour , P . Z . 7 ; , acting as S . W . G . AV . AVheeler , IL , ; 3 , acting | . W . ; liro . R .

Gregory , of Camjibclton , was dul y advanced to the degree of Mark AIaster . A Lodgeof Excellent Masters was then formed with the same ollicers when Comp . Halket , Z . of 1 1 : ,, worked that degree at tho request of the '/ ,., and thc Royal Arch Degree was also conferred

upon him , Comp . Halket acting as Z ; Comp . Humjihries filling the chair of IL , and T . M , Campbell , P . Z . 69 , that of J . With such stall of officers it is needless to say the ceremony was vcry efficientl y rendered , for the work of Comp ,

Halket is known and appreciated throughout the province ; and it is one of the best features of Masonry in Glasgow that the brethren are always read y to assist in any capacity any Lodge or Chapter that they may be visitng .

GLASGOW . — Glasgow Chapter ( No . - ) . — Thursday , February the 131 I 1 , was a red letter day amongst thc companions ofthe Arch in Glasgow , for Comp . J . Crabb , AI . E . Z of No . 30 , had invited most of the Principals in the city to attend a special meeting lo exalt into the degree Bro .

AV . M . Neilson , P . G . M . ofthe province , and three other gentlemen of hi g h social standing , and the call was well responded to , for on the dais , beside the Principals of the Chajitcr Glasgow No . 50 , we observed T . A . Barrow , P . G . Z ; A . Mc . Taggart , M . A . the P . G . Scribe , E . ; J . Crabbe ,

P . G . S . N . ; [ . Balfour , P . G . ist . S . jT . D . Hump hries , Z of 6 9 , P . G . 2 nd S . ; G Ale . Donald , Z , 7 3 , P . G . S . B ; T . Halket , Z ; 113 , P . G . T ; T . Duthie . Z ., 67 ; J . J . Tweed , D . C . K . T . A Lodge of Mark Alasters was ojiened , J . Crabb , '/ ,, ol 30 , as R . W . M . M . who selected the following Comps .

to assist him , J . Balfour , P . Z . of 75 as S . W .-, G . W . Wheeler , li . 73 , as J . W . ; T . ' Halket , Z . of 113 , and G . Me . Donald Z . of 73 as S . and J . Deacons , Comp . Miller , R . W . AI . of 113 , as Organist . Letters of apology were read from Councillors Steel , and S . More , AI . D ., regretting that professional engagements had prevented

them Irom attending . Bros . 1 . J . Sinihe , R . W . M . of 3 A St . Johns , and Win . Crawford were then separatel y introduced and regularly advanced to the degree of Alark Master . GI . ASOOW . —A lodge of Most Excellent Masters was then formed , with the same ollicers , when

Scotland.

the same two gentlemen were entrusted with the secret of that degree , and jiassed through the veils . A chapter of tlie Holy Royal Arch was then ojiened , Comp . J . Crabb , Z . 30 , P . G . S . N , as ist P . ; f . Duthie , Z . 47 , as li . ; J . Frazer ,

Ii . of -jo , as f . ; C . Halket , Z . 17 ; G . AV . W . AVheeler , 11 . 73 ; and G . McDonald , Z . of 73 , 11 s thc three Sojourners . Bros . Smilie and Crawford were then duly exalted as Royal Arch Alasons . At the close ofthe lengthened ceremonies , Comji . Crabbe , as Z . of so tendered , the

thanks ofthe chajiter to all the visitors for their attendance , and more especiall y to those Prineijials who had kindly taken subordinate jiositions under him , in order to more efficiently render tlie various ceremonies . He also thanked the Provincial Grand Superintendant . Conip . Barrow ,

for his kindness in attending to grace the occasion with his jiresence . F . A . Harrow iu reply , said he thought that he , in common withthe rest of Comjianions rather might to return thanks to Comji . Crabb , and the rest of the comjianions who had so abl y assisted him in working all these three degrees so admirably ; il had

indeed been a rich intellectual treat , and while they had such workers in the jirov ince , and they continued lo be actuated bv the same fraternal sjiitit that that had jirompted them that day , they need have no fears for the progress of Arch Masonry in Glasgow . The chajiter was then closed , all having been well jileased wilh the day ' s |> roceedings .

Reviews.

Reviews .

The Science of Theo / nxi / , or the Order if Citiversiil Uistori /; Established h y Scrifitural and Uiilorical Data , and illustrated b y a Char / and Tables . By Roiii . ni-GRIOOOKV , Svo . jip . 428 . London , Nisbett .

ft is seldom that a volume embodying the result ol so much labour and research on a hi g hand noble subject , and written in a style as clear and attractive as the one before us , falls under our notice . The object of the author we may describe as being an exhibition and illustration ol

the unity of the Divine plan and the w isdoiu of the Divine government , in relation to mankind and the world they inhabit , for the juupose of moral , intellectual , and sjiiritual training , and the develo | nnent of their faculties as a | iivj ) aralion for that hi g her slate of existence which the Beneficent Creator has destined for them .

Neither sacred nor jirolane history , nor both combined , will enlighten the understanding of a careless or siqierlirial reader on these high subjects . On the contrary , he will meet with much to jierjilex him , much that seems inconijiatible with any Divine plan or purpose of the

Great Architect of the I . ' inverse , much thai u ill ajijiear contradictory to all its ideas of a moral Government , designed and unceasingly exercised for the jiresent and future welfare of mankind . The pages of history jiresent us with constant scene :-of apparent disorder -mil confusion—individuals

and nations striving to distinguish ihemvelves by deeds of violence and cruelly , relentlessly waging war upon others , ami devastating the fairest portions of the earth , in purstiit of objects to which a false ambition or a base desire of predominance has jiromoled them . Wherever we look , we

find an ajijiarent absence of that order and hajijiiness which all our ideas of a wise and beneficent Being suggest , as characteristic of His wisdom and jiowcr . As our author observes , " In connection wilh the nuni-rons changes which have transjiired , in the ji . ist oi mankind , there remains no difficulty in detcctine' ihe

intrigues of ambitious sjiints , the rule of injustice , and the train of hum . 111 dcpiavily and misery , whicii is certain to follow in their wake ; bul in all this , history fails to discover the working out of great princip le-, or the existence ol any jilau tending to the general emancipation and regeneration of the human race . ''

If we survey the material tumctse , we Iiml a different slate of things . There , all is found subject to law ; everything exhibits part of nil orderly plan and jiurpose . All eniergoneies are jirovided for , and even those occurrence :. ; which wc call accidents are ihe results ol laws which ojierate witlt unerring truth .

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' Ihe very law that moulds a tear , And bids its trickle from its source , Preserves the universe a sjihere , And guides the jilanets in their course

It may be safel y inferred , that similar order governs the moral and intellectual condition of mankind ; and to discover this is an object worthy of the highest order of mind . As our author

writes—, ; ft would have been altogether incompatible with the character of the Almi ghty had mankind been left lo the uncertain issue of a train ol fortuitous circumstances . The jiresence of God , as the Soverei gn Ruler of the Universe , is o f itseli a sufficient guarantee for the existence of order

and design in all that relates to mankind . It cannot be sujiposed that the Infinite mind was without a purjiose when man was lirst made , nor cau we for a moment entertain the idea , that the circumstance of the fall of our first parents arose through any disorganization in those laws whicii

had been instituted , from the lirst , for the government of the whole creation . It is doubtless true , that all creation , and the different laws by which il is governed , the primary slate of mankind , and the order of disjioiisaiions which have subsequently trausjiired , were all founded by

(¦ od , in accordance v . itli the laws of truth , and that I ' m- one great and eternal jiurjiose . ft therelore billows , that all creation and its laws must harmonise with the character of God Himself , Irom whom , as the source of all existence , they radiate , and to whom , as the first and eversustaining ( lower , thev must of necessity

conerge . It was to work out and devclope this great problem , with respect both to man ' s present and future state , as this forms jiart of the Divine jiurpose , that the author undertook the laborious task , ol whicii we bate the result in the volume

belore us , consisting of twenty-nine chajiters , in addition to a " prospectus , " in which the object ofthe work is judiciously indicated . Beginning with an enquiry into the nature of man , in his relation lo both worlds , Mr . Gregory leads us through the wide regions opened up in the pages

ol sacred and profane history , and concludes with " a lull and complete solution' of the apoealyjilie visions , as they pourtrav the future of man in both the worlds to which he is related . Snch of our readers as have taken au interest iu tite series of papers on the Israelites and the Anglo-Saxons

with which Brother Carpenter fatoured us , and which have since been re-published in the form ofa book , will lind iiiueh in thc work before us in accordance with the views which onr lirotlur Carpenter had propounded , 011 a subject that is exciting enquiry and study ainoiig . st students and thoughtful men generally .

It can hardly be exjiecled that 111 re \ lewiug ; i work of so multifarious and comprehensive a character , and treating of topics so far out ofthe ordinary course of reading and study , as this " Science of Theology , or liie ( > rder of Universal History" is , we should be able to say thai we concur in all the authar ' s conclusions , or lh . it we

deem all his reasoning aud alleged prouls alike happy . We do not ; but , taking ihe work as a whole , we can heartily commend il to our readers , as one in which they will lind much lo in- ; truct in those , hidden mysteries of nature and science which y ield such gratification to the diligent student .

The Lifeboat , Feb . 1 st , 1873 . This useltil "Quarterly" is again a candidate for our best wishes , and deserves every success . Oi course many of ils accounts are most saddening , but withal , its report foi - the last quarter contains many points which should stimulate and cheer its iu aiding - •• o noble an enterprise .

' iVe notice that during 1872 the work ol the Lifeboat Institution may be summarised as follows :--Lives sa \ ed from shipwreck by Lifeboats ... ... ... ... 369 liy shore boats , \ -e ., for whose services rewards have been granted b y the Institution ... ... ... ... 170

/ . - -9 We give our wannest thanks to ihe committee and ollicers of litis most valuable Institution , ami unite wilh them in pra \ ing thai this year nul may