Correspondence.

CORRESPONDENCE .

The Editor is not responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents , THE LODGE OF GLASGOW .

TO TUB BOITOa OF THB FRRBMASONS' MAGAZINB AND MASONIC MIRROR . Dear Sir and Brother , —I see on page 339 of the Magazine a report of a meeting of " The Lodge of Glasgow ( No . 441 ) , " which should have been called the "Lodge Glasgow , No . 441 , " there being no lodge entitled to the name of " the Lodge of

Glasgow" but the descendants of " the Ludge of Glasgow , ' ' which signed the Eosling Charter in 1628 , 236 years before the Lodge Glasgow , 441 , was in existence . The representatives of the " Ludge of Glasgow " joined the Grand Lodge of Scotland eighteen years

ago , and which is now known as " The Lodge of Glasgow St . John , No . 3 bis , " that being the old name ( minus the number ) , which lodge can give an authentic chronological list of its Masters for about three hundred years back . I consider that some negligence has taken place

either on the part of Grand Lodge or of the Lodge of Glasgow No . 3 bis" or both , when a new lodge such as the above , was allowed to take a name so much approximating to that which its sister lodge had held and been known by for centuries previously , as to lead to confusionthere being lenty of other good

, p names to be had without encroaching upon ours . Yours fraternally , A MEAIBEE OE THE REAL "LUDGE OE GLASGOW . "

The Ancient Egyptians.

THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS .

TO IHE EDITOR OF THE FKEEMASOJfS' MAGAZINE AUD MASOKIO -tlREOH , Dear Sir and Brother , —As anything tending to show the learning of the ancient Egyptians , with whose usages and customs the annals of Freemasonry show a familiarity , I offer no excuse for forwarding you the enclosed paragraph , culled from the Glasgow

Daily Herald , which I think will prove of interest to your readers : — " ASTEO" 5 * 0 JIIOAL FACTS REPEESEHTED IN" THE GEEAT PxEAiiiD . —The favourite theory of what are called . ' advanced thinkers' iu the present day is , that mankind were oriinalla race of miserable

g y savages , akin to the brutes , who have raised themselves to civilisation and science by slow and painful efforts . It is true that secular history finds them in such a state but sacred history gives us the true original condition of man—after the Flood , a state of culture and civilisation sinking into the idolatry and

barbarism of early historians by rapid degrees . Now the abovenamed philosophers quietly ignore these sacred records ; or , at the utmost , treat their details as myths and allegories . But there is a silent and hitherto little known witness to such truth—a ' sign and wonder in the land of Egypt unto this day . ' The

latest researches into the proportions of the Great Pyramid , by Piazzi Smyth , William Petrie , and other mathematicians , have shown that in that unique structure are found the model proportions of the earth ' s size , weight , and time of rotation round the sun ; and , more wonderful still , the true distance of

The Ancient Egyptians.

the sun from the earth , that greatest difficulty of astronomical science not yet settled by observation , but in various computations by various savants ( from Herodotus , who reports it to be about ten miles off , and Anaxagoras , who thought it about the size of the Peloponnesus , and 18 , 000 miles away , to the latest

modern computation , a few months back , by Professor Simon Newcombe , of America , 92 , 380 , 000 miles ) , always coming closer to the distance represented by the Great Pyramid , 92 , 093 , 000 miles . Thus the wisdom of men , from the boasted classical commencement of science , has continually drawn nearer

to the primeval truth built up in the Egyptian wonder , before secular history commences her annals . Iu truth , she begins wben man had sunk from one of two conditions , either a pitch of physical science to which all our modern learning has not yet restored usor to a state of communion with the Divine

Archi-, tect of the Universe when he inspired cultivated men to write and construct things with which they could not otherwise have been acquainted . The details _ of these discoveries will soon be laid before the public ; meanwhile we must leave the advocates of apedevelopment and primeval i to choose

begnorance tween these horns of a dilemma presented to them by the Great Pyramid of Egypt . " Yours fraternally , > U M 30 ° .

The Tendency Of Some Late Correspondence.

THE TENDENCY OF SOME LATE CORRESPONDENCE .

TO THE ED . ITOE 01 ? THE raEEMASOHS' MAQAZISE AUD 5 IASO-TIC MIBBOB . Dear Sir and Brother , —Some weeks ago I wrote you on the above subject , and expressed my _ conviction that it was calculated to produce scepticism . I was pitied for my simplicity , and inferentially regarded as " a man from the country . " How

young will your correspondents characterise the Oxford Fellow-Craft ' s " pitiable perplexity ? " Our venerable Bro . C . P . Cooper tells us that he ( the Oxford F . C . ) " greatly distinguished himself in the schools , " and that , moreover , he possesses " intelligence " as well as learningIf the correspondence I have alluded to

. was ' perplexity" to such an one , what must it be to "the million ? " "Abon entendeur il ne faut que demie parole . " Yours fraternally , A LoTEB , OE THE CRAET .

Masonic Lifeboat Fund.

MASONIC LIFEBOAT FUND .

... TO THE EDITOR ON TKH FRKEMASON 3 ' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Dear Sir and Brother , —I am very sorry to see that our little efforts are not strong enough to cause the Masonic world to contribute their mite towards the Masonic Lifeboat . I must and do think that there are many professing , and only a few workers .

Now if Bro . C . P . Cooper , or Bros . W . J . Hughan , or A . O . Haye , had taken the good cause in hand , I have not the least doubt that the fund would prosper . Yours fraternally , A . WOODHOUSE . Carlisle , April 27 , 1868 .