The So-Called Exposure Of Freemasonry.

two Wardens took mo under each arm and conducted me from darkness into lio-ht passim' through two rows of the Brotherhood , who stood mute , to the upper end of the room , from whence the Master wont clown the outside ot one of the rows , aud touching a young Brother on the . shoulder , said , ' Who Iiave we hero ' to which he answei-ed , ' A gentleman who desires to be admitted a which he and asked it 1

member of this Society . ' Upon came up again , _ me , came there thro' my own desire or at the request or desire ot another ? J . said my own . He then told me , if I would become a brother of their Society I must ' take the oath administered on that occasion . " Then follows a description of fcho manner in which the ceremony was supposed to have been carried ancl the " —far the writer's serves him—of the oatli

on " purport so as memory that was said to have been administered , ancl an explanation of the word " cloathino ' . " Two more questions , with notes appended , complete the catechism . the ° first enquiring how the Master was clothed , the answer being "In a yellow jacket and blue pair of breeches , " aud tbe other as to what the candidate was ' doing " while the oath was tendering . " As to the modes of recognition which form the concluding portion of BroGould ' s versionthese are

. , wanting iu mine , while a part of what I have been latterly describing is referred to in his introduction . This completes the list of tho points of agreement and divergence as between these two " exposures , " and show , as Bro . Gould has said , that there is a strong " family likeness " to each other . G . B . A .

Freemasons And Nihilists.

FREEMASONS AND NIHILISTS .

BY THE EDITOR . FOOLISH French writer has recently amused himself by asserting that

A " Freemasons are Nihilists , and Nihilists Freemasons ; " that in fact they are a " secret society conspiring against order , society , and theories , " etc . Indeed , there is no crime ivith which such just ancl accurate Avriters do not credit Freemasons and Freemasonry . As Freemasonry proper , ancl as Freemasons in Great Britain , in its Colonies , aud its Dependencies , and Canada , or India , ancl at the Antipodes , as well as in the United States , constitute prelaw hostile to all lots and

eminently a peaceful , and a loyal bocly , obeying " p conspiracies against the State , " never mixing up iu political movements or watchwords of any kind , one is at a loss at first to understand ivhy such charges should be ' recklessly asserted in 1881 , or invidiously persisted iu when the answer is clear ancl ready to hand , so to say , and when , as all experience tells us , they are deliberately false . I have thought it- ivell , therefore , to try " in this whit is that

ancl point out . moderately . I hope , justly I trust , paper , y our loyal , ancl peaceable , and orderly Fraternity is still mentioned ignomimously in the same breath as Nihilists , Carbonari , ancl the Abe . It is possible , I admit , that something in respect of this evident delusion on the part of some writers may be set down to the rash words and untoward deeds of some sections of foreign Freemasons . People read violent speeches , hear of extraordinary movements , and not discriminating , and going as they