By-Laws Of An Old Lodge.

England , but it is far from a general custom . It is adopted , however , in the ancient "Lodge of Antiquity , " London . Ride 10 we like , and is as follows : — " That a Brother of the Lodge may be appointed to act as Hospitaller who is specially charged—( a . ) To visit all sick and needy Brethren .

( b . ) To enquire personally into aU applications for relief , and to report thereon to the Lodge . ( c . ) To distribute the alms ancl other relief voted by the Lodge . The duties of the Treasurer and Secretary are well defined in two other rules , and certainly if these two important officers ever failed in that Lodge , it would not he from any lack of suitable instructions .

The other regulations do not call for mention at this time , save that the twentieth is one that should always be inserted in the by-laws of Lodges , and strictly adhered to . " That it being the imperative duty of every member to make himself acquainted with the rules and regulations of the Lodge , as contained in these by-laws , that none may plead ignorance thereof ; it is resolved that they shall be plainly transcribed in a minute-book of the Lodancl that each presentas well as future membersshall attach

ge , , , his name to them , in token of his full acquiescence in then- import . " These Laws were approved duly by Bro . L . H . Deering , D . G . Secretary of Leland . We may refer to other by-laws shortly .

The Great Pyramid.

THE GREAT PYRAMID .

BY J . CHAPMAN . No . I . . .. ¦ .... THE symbolism of the Great Pyramid is a topic of great import to the ethical student . While it deals with cosmic truths , it also grasps those higher spheres of science which teach man wisdom . The Masonic student will find in the symbolism of this mountain of the grandest corollary to the Scriptures which the world

masonry has yet revealed . . That " peculiar system of morality , illustrated by symbol , " with which the Craft is so richly adorned , will receive from the teachings of this , the noblest pile of masonry , truths not only relating to the history of man and his future destiny ; but it also opens out those scientific facts which will remove the doubts and errors of the scientists who have striven in the past to work out some of the greatest problems which their ripened labours have failed to solve .

The reader will be introduced to three divisions of the subject , which may help to fasten upon the mind the several truths the Great Pyramid is intended to reveal . -They are the Scientific , the Historic , and the Prophetic . It is not intended to introduce any new-fangled crotchet , or theory , for the . sake ot exciting the interest of the reader ; but to give the fruit of those researches which have marked , the course of some of the most distinguished scholars who have travelled the intricate

paths of science . It would hot effect that good which the subject is calculated to offer , if the writer was to launch into' any wild speculations , or copy the gyrations of the fanatical enthusiast who flies off at a tangent , with a f ^ a force that 1 , emincl ° ne of a pyrotechnic device , which strain the attention or the observer in following its course , ancl only leave a few lurid sparks to indicate « s premature extinction . In prefacing our remarks 011 the teaching of the Great Pyramid , it will naturally e expected that some statement should be made as to who built it , This is a point