Chapter X.

one of the brethren closed all the doors opening into the cloister , so that no one within the chambers could get out , and thus they remained till daylight . What was done iu the church the witness did not know ; but the next clay he saw De

Pokelington clothed in the habit of a Templar , ancl looking- very sorrowful . De Nafferton also declared , that he had threatened to peep through a secret door to see what was going on , but was warned that if he did so , it would be inevitable

death to him . He added , that the next morning , on going into the chapel , he found the books and crosses all removed from the places in which he had left them , after saying- mass . De Nafferfcon ' s evidence , while perhaps correct , is easily explained .

By his own testimony , he was in the temporary employment of the Order , and , not having taken the vows , was not admissible to the private business of the Chapter . The chaplains and the serving brethren were not only admitted to these ,

but in the election of the Grand Master himself , eight Knights , four serving brethren , and one priest , were the electors , so that the charge against the Knights , was equally good against the chaplains and serving brethren , ancl was held so in France .

The witnesses against the Order were not confined to Ecclesiastics ancl Knights ; women of the most abandoned character , whose oaths were worthless in a civil cause , were examined by the Inquisitors , and their absurd testimony listened to

by the most learned men of the age . A specimen of this evidence may not be uninteresting : — " Agnes Lovecote dixit quod fratres aperuerunt quandam voltam et perduxerunt de illo loco monstrum quoddain ad forman sen

imaginem diaboli , habens loco ocnlorum lapides rutilantes et illuminantes capitulum , cujus culum osculabantur omnes , primo Magister , et postea alii , et postea ponebant uuam crucem nigramad culum dicti monstri , et spuebant omnes in crucem , . !

Deponit se audivisse a quadam domiml Agnete qute dicebat se audivisse a sororo cujusdam Templarii , quod cum ipsa soror deuudasset fratem suum post mortem , credens invenire signa salutis , invenit in braccis dicti Templarii fratis sui crucem pendentem contra amun !"—Concilia Magna Britannia , Torn . II ., pp . ooO-oGL .

METROPOLITAN FKEF . HOSPITAL , " DETOKSITIBE SQUAHE , Clir . —Tlie aggregate number of l'sitiL-iits relieved during the week ending . Nov . 28 ( 11 , was Medieal t ) 55 , Surgical 653 , Total 1608 , of which C 57 were new cases . ^^ ^^ .

The Six Days' Work Of Creation In Honour Of Masonry.

THE SIX DAYS' WORK OF CREATION IN HONOUR OF MASONRY .

( Continued from page 427 . ) THE CEEATIOS - OE THE SUX MOOST ASD STAKS ,, TEE WORK OB GOD OX THE FOURTH DAY . The sun and moon , their light shall both decay , And stars and planets will dissolve away ;

But God , the first great intellectual light , Still perfect , pure , eternal , will shine bright . The New Jerusalem , far beyond the sky , Its splendour hid from every mortal eye : That holy Temple , glorious to behold , Eternnl light illumes the streets of gold .

In that Sanctum Sanctorum * nothing unclean is found ;; All pure within , the place is holy ground . When darkness far had wing'd its dreary way , The bounds He set between the night and day ; To rule the day He made the greater light ; The lesser light to rule the shades of night .

Far distant stars he hung in boundless space ; By him they were assigned their proper place . Around their spheres they all obey his will ; And the grand purpose of bis plans fulfil . First of the sun , that shining orb , we know , When days , and months , and seasons , come and go ,.

The welcome spring , no sooner it appears , Than blooming smiles all languid nature cheers ; While fragrant flowers bedeck the verdant fields , The earth again her fertile increase yields . Both man and beast the great Creator good , With liberal hand , supplies them still with food-Each flvinsr fowl aud bird that wines the air .

He makes the object of his watchful care . Say what was earth when sable night prevail'd , Obscure in darkness every ray was vail'd . The earth would languish , and all nature mourn , If back to us the sun did not return ; No summer months , or the returning spring

Of smiling plenty , would glad tidings bring . View the bright sun pass round our northern clime ; . And constant keep exact the rules of time . In summer months the crimson roses bloom , And painted flowers diffuse a sweet perfume . Such is that orb , form'd round with light and heat ,.

Makes Nature in her summer-dress complete . The year declines ; then comes the harvest morn ,. And fields are clad with yellow waving corn ; Spring , summer , autumn months , in number nine .. The sun then passes far beyond the line , To other climateswhere he sheds his

, rays , Around the globe conveys his Maker's praise .-Each shining ray from that great orb of light Proclaims a God , and all His ways are right . While thus I sung of light divine above , Which shows the way to mansions of pure love , My soul was melted with the heavenly fire . —

Oh , could my fingers touch the angelic lyre Or golden harps , the highest notes to raise , Heaven's lofty arch would echo with his praise ! A voice I heard then whisper in mine ears , Blest is the man who his Creator fears ; Thrice happy those who walk upright and just , In God aloue put all their hope and trust .