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of Apollo conducted our ceremonies , and taught all science and literature , going about effecting cures , doing all kind of good , and teaching their fellowmen to love God and man . Moses received his best education in Egypt ; in Memphis he was the first to organise the Jews , under science , letters , moral virtue , and justice . Now arose those grand structures the Pyramids—as a beacon for the traveller in the desert and the navigator on the Nile , to observe the rise and setting

of the sun , and other astronomical observations , to be diffused for the benefit of all travellers , as well as to intimate to the Egyptians the approach of an enemy . The Jews having become demoralised , and the sign , the misgovernment of their priests , lost their Masonic organisation ; hence Solomon , Hiram King of Tyre , and Hiram Abiff , re-organised the three Degrees : Hiram Abiff taught architecture in the first Degree ; Hiram , King of Tyre , geometry , in the second ; and Solomon inculcated the highest points of wisdom , justice , and spiritual things in the

third . The Jews still continued to be wise in these three points : first , with reference to the laymen , called " Israels ; " second , "Levites ; " and , third , the " priests ;" and no doubt the high priest was at the head of the Lodge , as they were engaged in everything relating to the teaching of the people , arranging , and conducting the government . Solomon divided the workmen at the Temple into day and night watchers ; hence the Knight Templars derive their origin from a corruption of the word , and not from the Saxon word , meaning servant . The destruction of

Jerusalem by the Babylonians was the first time when the Knight-Templars appeared under that title , being organised as a military body ; which was preserved until the great persecution of King Denis the First , and Jacques de Molay the Martyr , who , fearing for their order from this persecution , assumed the name of workmen or masons , and still later Freemasons . Masonry was thus proved to be an ancient and holy Order , instituted for hearing , teaching , and

doing good , to instruct us to love God and man . I fear that the principles of Masonry are not fully carried out , that the order is often degraded by men creeping in for the sake of the Society ' s use to them , and not for theirs to the Society . They thus trample under foot the solemn vow that has escaped their lips , and , with their hand on the Holy Bible , dishonour God and insult man ; in number they increase the Society , perhaps , on the principle that many hands make lighter work , but experience shows that many hands do not work at all .

DEVONSHIRE . Exetee . —A large assembly of Freemasons was held on Saturday , March 8 , at the Half-Moon Inn , Exeter , to receive and compliment Commander Huber Campion , R . N ., on his return from distinguished services in the Black Sea and Sea of Azoff . A large Masonic room was adorned with laurels and other evergreens , interspersed with flowers , and further decorated with Provincial Grand Banners and the respective flags of England and her allies .

The chair was taken by Brother William Denis Moore , Prov . G . J . W . and P . G . S ., Captain and Adjutant of the South Devon and Exeter Volunteer Rifle Corps ; Bro . William Cann , P . Prov . G . T ., acted as Senior Warden , and upwards of forty Brethren , in Masonic clothing , sat down to a superb banquet , provided by Bro . Routley in a style not to be surpassed . After the cloth was removed , and grace said , the usual loyal , grand , and provincial grand toasts were given with their proper acknowledgments . The " Army " having been drunk and responded to by Bro . J . Tanner Davy , Captain First Devon Militia .

Bro . W . D . Moore said it was now his pleasing task to refer to the other distinguished branch of the service , namely , < c The Navy . " This was a toast dear to the hearts of Englishmen , for if ever there was a nation of sailors , England was that nation . In the great roll of human fame the brightest names on record were those

of British seamen , hi the late war England had found her navy in a high state of discipline . It assisted at Alma in shelling those heights and also at Sebastopol . The Russian navy , which had formerly rode triumphant over the waters of the Black Sea , refused to meet the ships of the allies . Our admirals on approaching the harbour , instead of being met with a blaze of lire and the crash of iron missilos , found the Russian vessels retired behind the protection of . stone forts ; and