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PAGES "FREEMASONRY AND ISRAELITISH 595 & 596 LAUNCH OF THE " FREEMASON " LIFE-BOAT ... 596 LAYING THE FOUNDATION-STONE OF A TOWN HALL FOR WIRKSWORTH 596 & 597
CONSIICRATION OF THE DORIC CHAPTER , NO . 933 597 THE MISSION OF FREEMASONRY 59 8 MULTUM IN PARVO 593 THE RITE OF MEMPHIS 599 LODGE OF BENEVOLENCE 600
POETRY—Sonnets 600 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCEThe Rite of Misraim ... ... ... ... 600 The Transactions of 1717 : Were they , or were they not , the "Revival" of Freemasonry ? ... ... 600 & 601
" A Masonic Student" on the Master Degree and the Royal Arch ... ... ... ... 601 THE CRAFTProvincial ... ... ... ... ... 601 India 601 "MARK
MASONRYProvincial ... ... ... ... ... ... 601 SCOTLAND ... 601 & 602 IRELAND 602 MASONIC MEETINGS FOR NEXT WKF . K 603 ADVERTISEMENTS 593 , 1 : 94 , 60 ^ , & 604
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FREEMASONRY & ISRAELITISM .
BY BRO . WILLIAM CARPENTER , P . M . & P . Z . 177 .
XVIII . One is sometimes startled at seeing the very opposite qualities that are united in the same person or the same race . In the Saxon race , this is especially noticeable .
You shall sometimes , and not unfrequently , find a noisy boasting bully sneak away , if but a comparative child bravely rebuke his brutality ; and you shall find a hero of indomitable courage exhibiting the
tenderness and sympathy of a woman . Who forgets Falstaff ? Who remembers not Havelock ? As Emerson says , " The English delight in the antagonism which combines in one person thc extremes of
courage and tenderness . Nelson , dying at Trafalgar , sends his love to Lord Collingwood , and , like an English school-boy that goes to bed , says , ' Kiss me , Hardy , ' and turns to sleep . Lord Collingwood , his
comrade , was of a nature the most affectionate and domestic . Admiral Rodney ' s figure approached to delicacy and effeminacy , and he declared himself very sensible to fear , which he surmounted only by
considerations of honour and public duty . Clarendon says tlie Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on him , until they found that this modesty and effeminacy was
only a mask for the most terrible determination . And Sir James Parry said of Sir John Franklin , that if he found Wellington Sound open , he explored it ; for he was a man who never turned his back on a danger ;
yet of that tenderness that he would not brush away a mosquito . Even for their highwaymen the same virtue is claimed , and Robin Hood comes to us described as the gentlest thief . " A people who unite in
themselves these qualities , arc not formed to be conquered and subdued . They know , as the writer just quoted says , " where their war clogs lie . Cromwell , Blake , Marlborough , Chatham , Nelson , and Wellington are not
to be trifled with , and the brutal strength which lies at the bottom of society , the animal ferocity of the quays and cockpits , the bullies of the costcrmongers of Shoreditch , Seven Dials , and Spitulfields , they
know how to wake up . " Was anything like this predicted of Israel ?¦ Was Israel , after its dissolution as a kingdom . to become a ^ powcrful people , in the presence of all the nations , withstanding and overcoming all who should rise up against them , and compelling an
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acknowledgment of their superiority , while tliey evinced an all-embracing sympathy and benevolence ? We have seen that it
was thus predicted ; and we have seen , 111 part , the fulfilment of those predictions , in tracing the progress of the Get-E , or Goths , from their settlements on the Euxine
westward , their conquests in the Roman Empire , and their settlement in these islands . They were to be " terrible" in their anger , when attacked by others . They were to be exposed to great vicissitudes of success and
loss , but they were not to be finally conquered . It was said to them , several years after they had been carried into captivity , "Fear them not , for I am with thee ; be not dismayed , for I am thy God : I will
strengthen thee ; yea , I will help thee ; yea , I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness . Behold , all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded ; they shall be as nothing ;
and they that strive with thee shall perish . . . . . They that war with thee shall be as nothing , and as a thing of nought " ( Isaiah xli . 10-12 ) . I know that many revolt from the idea , that God , in his moral
government of the world , uses peoples , as He does His angels , to execute His judgments , and to effect those changes in the condition of nations recorded on the pages of history , and which the devout student
discovers to be indispensable to the fulfilment of His final purpose , which is the happiness of the creation . In fact , I think it is impossible to-read history , with a mind open to conviction , and not to discover in it
the hand of God . No doubt much will be inexplicable and irreconcilable with our imperfect ideas of His justice and mercy , but the historical facts remain , and if they arc properly weighed , and their results
carefully gathered up , and estimated in their relation to thc world at large , there are few cases in which it will not be seen , that , however startling and distressing the occurrences in themselves may appear to have
been , mankind has , upon the whole , been benefitted by them , in the foundation they have laid for an improved condition of things . It will be difficult for those who deny the moral government of the world to
account for this fact , while those who admit t ' le moral government of the world , find no small consolation in wading through the darker pages of history . Well , then , Israel was to be not only invincible , putting to
shame all who might contend with her ; she was to subdue peoples , and to bring them into subjection to her . " Behold I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument ; a new corn-drag armed with pointed teeth
thou shalt thresh the mountains , and beat them small , and shalt reduce thc hills to chaff : thou shalt winnow them , and thc wind shall bear them away ; and the whirlwind shall scatter them : but thou shalt
rejoice in the Lord ; in thc Holy One of Israel shalt thou triumph" ( Isaiah xli . 15 , 16 ) . From the beginning it was foretold that they were to possess the gate of their enemies ; and subsequently it was said that
nations should bow down to them ( Genesis xxii . 17 , xxiv . 60 , xxvii . 29 ) . And then , and long after , even while they were in captivity , it was declared that they should " trample on princes like the mortar , even
as the potter trcadeth out the clay " ( Isaiah xli . 25 ); and still more emphatically , and with more particularity , Jeremiah says , " Thou art my battle-axe and weapons of
war : for with thee will I break in pieces thc nations ; and with thee I will overthrow kingdoms ; and with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider ; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and
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its rider ; with thee also will I break in pieces man and woman ; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young ; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maiden ; I will also break in pieces
the shepherd and his flock ; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen ; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers" ( chap , li . 20-23 ) .
Let any one read " The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire , " "The great European Battles , " and the " History of India , " and see in them how far these prophecies and promises have been accomplished in the Saxon race . And let him also look at the
progress and issue of the late terrible war between tlie Germans . and the French , and therein see how , " Through Thee , they shall thrust down their enemies , and in Thy name trample on those who rise up against
them . " These arc the same people , descendants of the old Getse ( Israel ) , against whom the Romans so long fought in vain , and who , after a war of centuries , was broken to pieces by them . In the old empire , the
rumour ran , that there was never any that meddled with them that repented it not . The Roman legions , during the last century ofthe commonwealth , and in the first ofthe empire , assailed and subdued Gaul , Britain ,
Rhcetia , Vindelicia , and Pannonia . One nation alone of all the European nations that Rome attacked , maintained her independence . These Goths , or Germans , as they came to be called , conquered and
dismembered Rome ' s Western Empire ; but it was still more to their glory that they resolutely withstood her , when in the very zenith of her power ; when there went forth a decree from Caesar Augustus that " all the world
should be taxed ; " and when the earth seemed almost void of independent nations . Thc Germans extorted the respect as well as the fear of Rome , by their indomitable valour in maintaining their independence ,
not less than by their domestic virtues , and thc free , but orderly , spirit of their internal governments . For ages , the power of this race was dreaded ; nations bowed down to them , and kings submitted to them . Long
after their conquests in the Empire , the fleets of Norway and Denmark grievously vexed all Western Christendom ; and after Charlemagne ' s death , a large province in the north of France was ceded to them , and
they became thc civilised and Christianized chivalry of Normandy . This is the people that was carried captive by the Assyrians into those regions in thc north of Europe where we first found them , and whence we
have traced them coming westward , by the marks they left in their progress , and which exist at this day . They have subdued many nations , but they are not to be subdued . Nations may make war upon them ,
but they are not to fall . The Lord their Redeemer says , " Whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall , for thy sake ; no weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper . " " All they that devour thee shall
be devoured ; and all thine adversaries , every one of them , shall go into captivity ; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil ; and all they that prey upon thee shall be a
prey" ( Jcre . xxx . 16 . ) These prophetic promises , be it remembered , have reference to Israel , and not to Judah ; and they have been to a considerable extent fulfilled in
the history of thc Saxon race . The Norman conquest of England presents no difficulty for the Normans were of the same Saxon
race . But England , to maintain her high position , must be mistress of the seas . Situated in the midst of nations , some of whom envy
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Table Of Contents.
TABLE OF CONTENTS .
PAGES "FREEMASONRY AND ISRAELITISH 595 & 596 LAUNCH OF THE " FREEMASON " LIFE-BOAT ... 596 LAYING THE FOUNDATION-STONE OF A TOWN HALL FOR WIRKSWORTH 596 & 597
CONSIICRATION OF THE DORIC CHAPTER , NO . 933 597 THE MISSION OF FREEMASONRY 59 8 MULTUM IN PARVO 593 THE RITE OF MEMPHIS 599 LODGE OF BENEVOLENCE 600
POETRY—Sonnets 600 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCEThe Rite of Misraim ... ... ... ... 600 The Transactions of 1717 : Were they , or were they not , the "Revival" of Freemasonry ? ... ... 600 & 601
" A Masonic Student" on the Master Degree and the Royal Arch ... ... ... ... 601 THE CRAFTProvincial ... ... ... ... ... 601 India 601 "MARK
MASONRYProvincial ... ... ... ... ... ... 601 SCOTLAND ... 601 & 602 IRELAND 602 MASONIC MEETINGS FOR NEXT WKF . K 603 ADVERTISEMENTS 593 , 1 : 94 , 60 ^ , & 604
Freemasonry & Israelitism.
FREEMASONRY & ISRAELITISM .
BY BRO . WILLIAM CARPENTER , P . M . & P . Z . 177 .
XVIII . One is sometimes startled at seeing the very opposite qualities that are united in the same person or the same race . In the Saxon race , this is especially noticeable .
You shall sometimes , and not unfrequently , find a noisy boasting bully sneak away , if but a comparative child bravely rebuke his brutality ; and you shall find a hero of indomitable courage exhibiting the
tenderness and sympathy of a woman . Who forgets Falstaff ? Who remembers not Havelock ? As Emerson says , " The English delight in the antagonism which combines in one person thc extremes of
courage and tenderness . Nelson , dying at Trafalgar , sends his love to Lord Collingwood , and , like an English school-boy that goes to bed , says , ' Kiss me , Hardy , ' and turns to sleep . Lord Collingwood , his
comrade , was of a nature the most affectionate and domestic . Admiral Rodney ' s figure approached to delicacy and effeminacy , and he declared himself very sensible to fear , which he surmounted only by
considerations of honour and public duty . Clarendon says tlie Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on him , until they found that this modesty and effeminacy was
only a mask for the most terrible determination . And Sir James Parry said of Sir John Franklin , that if he found Wellington Sound open , he explored it ; for he was a man who never turned his back on a danger ;
yet of that tenderness that he would not brush away a mosquito . Even for their highwaymen the same virtue is claimed , and Robin Hood comes to us described as the gentlest thief . " A people who unite in
themselves these qualities , arc not formed to be conquered and subdued . They know , as the writer just quoted says , " where their war clogs lie . Cromwell , Blake , Marlborough , Chatham , Nelson , and Wellington are not
to be trifled with , and the brutal strength which lies at the bottom of society , the animal ferocity of the quays and cockpits , the bullies of the costcrmongers of Shoreditch , Seven Dials , and Spitulfields , they
know how to wake up . " Was anything like this predicted of Israel ?¦ Was Israel , after its dissolution as a kingdom . to become a ^ powcrful people , in the presence of all the nations , withstanding and overcoming all who should rise up against them , and compelling an
Freemasonry & Israelitism.
acknowledgment of their superiority , while tliey evinced an all-embracing sympathy and benevolence ? We have seen that it
was thus predicted ; and we have seen , 111 part , the fulfilment of those predictions , in tracing the progress of the Get-E , or Goths , from their settlements on the Euxine
westward , their conquests in the Roman Empire , and their settlement in these islands . They were to be " terrible" in their anger , when attacked by others . They were to be exposed to great vicissitudes of success and
loss , but they were not to be finally conquered . It was said to them , several years after they had been carried into captivity , "Fear them not , for I am with thee ; be not dismayed , for I am thy God : I will
strengthen thee ; yea , I will help thee ; yea , I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness . Behold , all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded ; they shall be as nothing ;
and they that strive with thee shall perish . . . . . They that war with thee shall be as nothing , and as a thing of nought " ( Isaiah xli . 10-12 ) . I know that many revolt from the idea , that God , in his moral
government of the world , uses peoples , as He does His angels , to execute His judgments , and to effect those changes in the condition of nations recorded on the pages of history , and which the devout student
discovers to be indispensable to the fulfilment of His final purpose , which is the happiness of the creation . In fact , I think it is impossible to-read history , with a mind open to conviction , and not to discover in it
the hand of God . No doubt much will be inexplicable and irreconcilable with our imperfect ideas of His justice and mercy , but the historical facts remain , and if they arc properly weighed , and their results
carefully gathered up , and estimated in their relation to thc world at large , there are few cases in which it will not be seen , that , however startling and distressing the occurrences in themselves may appear to have
been , mankind has , upon the whole , been benefitted by them , in the foundation they have laid for an improved condition of things . It will be difficult for those who deny the moral government of the world to
account for this fact , while those who admit t ' le moral government of the world , find no small consolation in wading through the darker pages of history . Well , then , Israel was to be not only invincible , putting to
shame all who might contend with her ; she was to subdue peoples , and to bring them into subjection to her . " Behold I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument ; a new corn-drag armed with pointed teeth
thou shalt thresh the mountains , and beat them small , and shalt reduce thc hills to chaff : thou shalt winnow them , and thc wind shall bear them away ; and the whirlwind shall scatter them : but thou shalt
rejoice in the Lord ; in thc Holy One of Israel shalt thou triumph" ( Isaiah xli . 15 , 16 ) . From the beginning it was foretold that they were to possess the gate of their enemies ; and subsequently it was said that
nations should bow down to them ( Genesis xxii . 17 , xxiv . 60 , xxvii . 29 ) . And then , and long after , even while they were in captivity , it was declared that they should " trample on princes like the mortar , even
as the potter trcadeth out the clay " ( Isaiah xli . 25 ); and still more emphatically , and with more particularity , Jeremiah says , " Thou art my battle-axe and weapons of
war : for with thee will I break in pieces thc nations ; and with thee I will overthrow kingdoms ; and with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider ; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and
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its rider ; with thee also will I break in pieces man and woman ; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young ; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maiden ; I will also break in pieces
the shepherd and his flock ; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen ; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers" ( chap , li . 20-23 ) .
Let any one read " The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire , " "The great European Battles , " and the " History of India , " and see in them how far these prophecies and promises have been accomplished in the Saxon race . And let him also look at the
progress and issue of the late terrible war between tlie Germans . and the French , and therein see how , " Through Thee , they shall thrust down their enemies , and in Thy name trample on those who rise up against
them . " These arc the same people , descendants of the old Getse ( Israel ) , against whom the Romans so long fought in vain , and who , after a war of centuries , was broken to pieces by them . In the old empire , the
rumour ran , that there was never any that meddled with them that repented it not . The Roman legions , during the last century ofthe commonwealth , and in the first ofthe empire , assailed and subdued Gaul , Britain ,
Rhcetia , Vindelicia , and Pannonia . One nation alone of all the European nations that Rome attacked , maintained her independence . These Goths , or Germans , as they came to be called , conquered and
dismembered Rome ' s Western Empire ; but it was still more to their glory that they resolutely withstood her , when in the very zenith of her power ; when there went forth a decree from Caesar Augustus that " all the world
should be taxed ; " and when the earth seemed almost void of independent nations . Thc Germans extorted the respect as well as the fear of Rome , by their indomitable valour in maintaining their independence ,
not less than by their domestic virtues , and thc free , but orderly , spirit of their internal governments . For ages , the power of this race was dreaded ; nations bowed down to them , and kings submitted to them . Long
after their conquests in the Empire , the fleets of Norway and Denmark grievously vexed all Western Christendom ; and after Charlemagne ' s death , a large province in the north of France was ceded to them , and
they became thc civilised and Christianized chivalry of Normandy . This is the people that was carried captive by the Assyrians into those regions in thc north of Europe where we first found them , and whence we
have traced them coming westward , by the marks they left in their progress , and which exist at this day . They have subdued many nations , but they are not to be subdued . Nations may make war upon them ,
but they are not to fall . The Lord their Redeemer says , " Whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall , for thy sake ; no weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper . " " All they that devour thee shall
be devoured ; and all thine adversaries , every one of them , shall go into captivity ; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil ; and all they that prey upon thee shall be a
prey" ( Jcre . xxx . 16 . ) These prophetic promises , be it remembered , have reference to Israel , and not to Judah ; and they have been to a considerable extent fulfilled in
the history of thc Saxon race . The Norman conquest of England presents no difficulty for the Normans were of the same Saxon
race . But England , to maintain her high position , must be mistress of the seas . Situated in the midst of nations , some of whom envy