Wearing The Masonic Emblems.

1 on wear the Compass ! Do you keep Within that circle duo , That ' s circumscribed by law divine ? Excluding hatred , envy sin , — Including all that's true ! The Moral Compass draws the line , And lets no evil passions in !

You wear the Trowel ! have you got That mortar , old and pure , Made on the recipe of God , As given in His ancient Word , Indissoluble , ' sure ? And do you spread , ' twixt man and man , That precious mortar as voir can ?

You wear the Oriental G ! Ah , Brother , have a care ! He , whose All-seeing eye surveys Your inmost heart , with open gaze . Knows well what thoughts are there ! Let no profane irreverent word Go up t'insult tli' avenging God !

Dear Brother ! if you will display These emblems of our Art , Let the great moral that they teach Be deeply graven , each for each , Upon an honest heart ! Then they will tell , to God and man , Freemasonry ' s all-perfect plan I

You wear the Cross ! it signifies The burdens JESUS bore , Who , staggering , fell , and bleeding , rose And took to Golgotha the woes The world had borne before ! The Cross , —oh , let it say , Forgive , Father forgive , to all that live ! [ The last stanza refers to Templary , not to Craft Masonry . —Ed . ]

Symbol Language.

SYMBOL LANGUAGE .

BY It . E . E . To all the Craft , greeting , we come with our story ; The finest and greatest , our pride and our glory , Is the Book of the Law , bequeathed by the Sages AVhose precepts are jewels adorning its pages ; More valued and lasting than all of earth ' s treasures ,

Dividing our sorrows , increasing our pleasures ; Our base and our outpost ; our strength when we falter ; Our friend and our teacher—the Book on the altar .

Symbol Language.

The square shapes our morals ; it squares all our actions ; It sanctions no classes , sects , parties , or factions ; And , capped by the compass , whose points when extended Inform us what tenets with friendship are blended ,

The trio is perfect . Our faith is well founded , Our morals are guarded , our passions are hounded . The great lights—behold them—to Masons reminding Of lessons most sacred , of ties the most binding . The pavement Mosaic , whose beautiful border Illustrates the comforts surrounding the Order ,

Is brought to our view ; and this it discloses , — That life ' s chequered pathway to none is all roses ; And further , the vision of Craftsmen who enter , The star of the wise men , which guarded from danger , Their course while in search of the Child in the

manger . We meet on the level , by plumb lino we travel , The vices of life we divest with the gavel ; The lamb skin to every true Mason allotted , Should be tike his honour , for ever unspotted . And when in the sanctum our steps are directed ,

Our duties assigned us , our work all inspected , The trowel is given with due circumspection , For spreading the cement of love and affection . The mind of the student is clear when beholding , Our well-beloved symbols their beauties unfolding . And is amply repaid , while onward he travels ,

By many a secret his labour unravels . Then let all good Brethren remember the token , And cherish for ever the truths that are spoken By emblems Masonic , that , section by section , Their conduct through life pass the Master ' s inspection —Masonic Rwiew .

Freemasonry As A Conservator Of The Arts And Sciences.

FREEMASONRY AS A CONSERVATOR OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES .

BY BRO . A . 0 . JIACKEV , M . D . One of the most important missions that Masonry has been called upon to fulfil in the world ' s history is as a conservator and teacher of the arts and sciences . If we

would properly appreciate the influence which , in this respect , has been exerted by the institution , we must begin by viewing it in its two distinct aspects as an operative and speculative association ; for the influence of each has been entirely distinct ,