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miserable specimen of a Grand Master , was succeeded by C . D ., who was infamously worse . AVhen Jesus took a penny in his hand and Inquired , " whose image ancl superscription are these ? " the "image" was this which we see before us . The " superscription , " or as we would now term it , inscription , was HIP TI CAESAR DIVI AVG P AVGVSTVS

that is , " Imperator Tiberius Cassar , Divi Augustus Filius Augustus , " meaning in English , « The Emperor Tiberius Cassar Augustus , the son of the deified Augustus . " The preceding Emperor Augustuswho bad been deified bthe

, y Senate , had adopted Tiberius as his son , ancl this explains the allusion . On the opposite face of the coin ( the side which we call the reverse ) the words are ,

PONTIFF MAXIM that is , PONTIFEX MAX 1 MUS or "The Hi gh Priest . " As a general rule the Emperor filled the office of the Hi gh Priestas being at the

, head of the religious college . This is on the princi ple that the crowned heads of some European countries at the present day are the heads of the church , though they may have no personal religion whatever .

The figure of Tiberius is seated upon a chair to the ri ght , having in his left hand a branch of some kind ( olive , most probably ) , in his right a headless spear . The second idea to be impressed upon your readers' minds is , that the value of

the penny ( fifteen cents ) was in the country and age to which the parable refers , good wages . Fifteen cents a day may not at first si ght appear much ; but we must consider that the value of money consists in what it will purchase , and that

the value of money is the most fluctuating thing in the world . Twelve years ago my dollar bought but two yards of calico ; today it buys eight or nine . Twenty-five years ago my dollar would buy five bushels of meal ; to-day it will not for two .

pay In the fourteenth century one doUar ( or say one ounce of pure silver money , which is about the same thing ) , would buy as much meat and grain as a gold eagle ( 20

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dollars ) will now . At this rate , a penny in the time of Jesus was worth at least two dollars ( comparing values then and now ) , and perhaps three . This was good wages , as most of the class called common labourers at the present day , if they

merely had to pick grapes and tread them out , would acknowledge . Let me now recapitulate : 1 . The penny referred to in the Mark Master ' s degree is silver . 2 . The silver penny in the parable was

good in purchasing 2 or 3 dollars worth of the necessaries of life . In a future article , if . you like , I will write you concerning the "half Jewish shekel of silver , " which plays so important a part in the same Mark Master ' s degree .

One thing all ought to know , viz ., that at the time of building the Temple of Solomon there was no coined money . Gold and silver were used by weight , not by count . The first coined money was made nearly three hundred years after Solomon had been gathered to his fathers .

Freemasonry In France.

FREEMASONRY IN FRANCE .

BY BRO . J . H . GABALL , ( Continued from page 448 . ) THESE articles were verbally agreed to , so that it should not be mentioned in the

Convention that the Act of Union was anulled . In consequence , in the Statutes of 1806 , the Grand Orient instituted the Grand Directory of Rites , in which the Scottish Rite was represented , ancl the Supreme Councilon its partpublished on

, , the 27 November , 1806 , an organic decree , from which it will be well to quote articles 3 , 4 , 7 . " Article 3 . The degrees above the 18 th , up to and including the 33 rd , will not be conferred in the futureuntil the

, Organization of Councils , Tribunals , Colleges , and Chapters , except by the Supreme Council of the 33 rd degree , or in virtue of a special and particular delegation emanating from it . "

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"DYBOTS." Article 1
Untitled Article 2
Monthly Masonic Summary. Article 3
EXTRACTS FROM THE MINUTES OF THE ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER OF CONCORD ATTACHED TO THE ANCHOR AND HOPE LODGE, No. 37, BOLTON. Article 4
SONNET. Article 8
LETTER OF BRO. W. J. HUGHAN, OF ENGLAND, TO THE GRAND LODGE OF OHIO. Article 8
AN OLD, OLD STORY. Article 13
THREE CHARGES. Article 14
WONDERS OF OPERATIVE MASONRY. Article 14
ON FATHER FOY'S NOTES. Article 18
A TRIP TO DAI-BUTSU. Article 19
THE HAPPY HOUR. Article 21
NOTES ON THE OLD MINUTE BOOKS OF THE BRITISH UNION LODGE, No. 114, IPSWICH. A.D. 1762. Article 21
THE QUESTION OF THE COLOURED FREEMASONS IN THE UNITED STATES. Article 24
THE JEALOUS SCEPTIC. Article 25
THE LADY MURIEL. Article 27
THE MASSORAH. Article 29
THE BRIGHT SIDE. Article 32
HOPE. Article 33
ON THE EXCESSIVE INFLUENCE OF WOMEM. Article 34
Our Archaeological Corner. Article 39
FREEMASONRY IN FRANCE. Article 40
THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCES OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY. Article 43
NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND ART. Article 46
A MASONIC ENIGMA. Article 50
BORN IN MARCH. Article 50
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Our Archaeological Corner.

miserable specimen of a Grand Master , was succeeded by C . D ., who was infamously worse . AVhen Jesus took a penny in his hand and Inquired , " whose image ancl superscription are these ? " the "image" was this which we see before us . The " superscription , " or as we would now term it , inscription , was HIP TI CAESAR DIVI AVG P AVGVSTVS

that is , " Imperator Tiberius Cassar , Divi Augustus Filius Augustus , " meaning in English , « The Emperor Tiberius Cassar Augustus , the son of the deified Augustus . " The preceding Emperor Augustuswho bad been deified bthe

, y Senate , had adopted Tiberius as his son , ancl this explains the allusion . On the opposite face of the coin ( the side which we call the reverse ) the words are ,

PONTIFF MAXIM that is , PONTIFEX MAX 1 MUS or "The Hi gh Priest . " As a general rule the Emperor filled the office of the Hi gh Priestas being at the

, head of the religious college . This is on the princi ple that the crowned heads of some European countries at the present day are the heads of the church , though they may have no personal religion whatever .

The figure of Tiberius is seated upon a chair to the ri ght , having in his left hand a branch of some kind ( olive , most probably ) , in his right a headless spear . The second idea to be impressed upon your readers' minds is , that the value of

the penny ( fifteen cents ) was in the country and age to which the parable refers , good wages . Fifteen cents a day may not at first si ght appear much ; but we must consider that the value of money consists in what it will purchase , and that

the value of money is the most fluctuating thing in the world . Twelve years ago my dollar bought but two yards of calico ; today it buys eight or nine . Twenty-five years ago my dollar would buy five bushels of meal ; to-day it will not for two .

pay In the fourteenth century one doUar ( or say one ounce of pure silver money , which is about the same thing ) , would buy as much meat and grain as a gold eagle ( 20

Our Archaeological Corner.

dollars ) will now . At this rate , a penny in the time of Jesus was worth at least two dollars ( comparing values then and now ) , and perhaps three . This was good wages , as most of the class called common labourers at the present day , if they

merely had to pick grapes and tread them out , would acknowledge . Let me now recapitulate : 1 . The penny referred to in the Mark Master ' s degree is silver . 2 . The silver penny in the parable was

good in purchasing 2 or 3 dollars worth of the necessaries of life . In a future article , if . you like , I will write you concerning the "half Jewish shekel of silver , " which plays so important a part in the same Mark Master ' s degree .

One thing all ought to know , viz ., that at the time of building the Temple of Solomon there was no coined money . Gold and silver were used by weight , not by count . The first coined money was made nearly three hundred years after Solomon had been gathered to his fathers .

Freemasonry In France.

FREEMASONRY IN FRANCE .

BY BRO . J . H . GABALL , ( Continued from page 448 . ) THESE articles were verbally agreed to , so that it should not be mentioned in the

Convention that the Act of Union was anulled . In consequence , in the Statutes of 1806 , the Grand Orient instituted the Grand Directory of Rites , in which the Scottish Rite was represented , ancl the Supreme Councilon its partpublished on

, , the 27 November , 1806 , an organic decree , from which it will be well to quote articles 3 , 4 , 7 . " Article 3 . The degrees above the 18 th , up to and including the 33 rd , will not be conferred in the futureuntil the

, Organization of Councils , Tribunals , Colleges , and Chapters , except by the Supreme Council of the 33 rd degree , or in virtue of a special and particular delegation emanating from it . "

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