Masonic Notes And Queries.

so far as in his power ; courteous to all men , though servile to none . Ho -will feel sympathy for the distressed , and indignation at wrong and oppression . He will strive to control his passions , and bring his unsatisfied desires within due bounds . He will be

temperate-m the use of all Ins faculties , using , but not abusing , them . He will neither be a drunkard , nor a glutton , He -will be equally free from sordid avarice and lavish expenditure ; neither will he he fanatical in his views or feelings ; but , conscious of his own ignorance and shortsightedness , will ever be ready to allow as large a liberty to others as he claims

for himself . Nor will the true Mason stop here , hut will , in love and piety , combat error , and strive for the enlightenment of his fellows . Employing the talents entrusted to him , he will never rest satisfied with present attainmentsbutsearching and " examining

, , all things , and , testing them hy the standard of truth , will endeavour to advance , morally and intellectually , higher and higher , and Avill seek to inform and advance his less favoured brethren . "While being diligent in his business , he will not look upon the mere acquisition of wealth as the great object and

end of his life , but will aim to approach nearer , though at an infinite distance , to the throne of the Eternal , and to learn , so far as human faculties will allow , the Avonder-Avorking and lairs of the Supreme Artificer . Such are my ideas of what should be the character

of a perfect Mason . But , alas ! human passions and frailities beset and meet us at every turn . Hew , indeed , if any , can lay just claim to so high a title . But this consciousness of short-comings should not prevent us from striving to become as perfect us AA e can . —The Evergreen .

A MASONIC RELIC . A Correspondent has shown us a curious Masonic relic in his possession . It is a " list of regular lodges , according to their seniority and constitution . " The frontispiece represents the Chief Architect of the 1 st Temple , Avith tho Square in his right hand , pointing out to King Solomonroyally croAvnedand clothed

, , in the costume of a Roman soldier , the plan of the sacred building upon which he Avas engaged . Behind the king are two soldiers similarly arrayed , Avhile a youthful figure supports the board upon which the plan is displayed . The group stands before an arcade with round arches , and the background represents the

facade of a , Greek Temple . Below appear arms , supporters , and title of "The Right Honourable James Lord King , Baron of Kingston , in the Kingdom of Ireland , Grand Master , " together with the motto " Spes tulissima C ' oelis , " and the dates A . B . 1729 , A . E . 5729 . The designations of the Lodges are not

given , hut instead Ave have engraA'ings in miniature of the signs of the hostelries , and the names of the streets where they then held their meetings . For example , No 1 on the list exhibits a Goose and Gridiron , tho sign of the old locale of Lodge Antiquity ( now No . 2 ) in St . Patd ' s Churchyardbefore it

, removed to Great Queen Street . Tho Lodge , as Ave know , may justly boast of being constituted from time immemorial , hut the date given in the book before us in 1 C 91 , the very year when the great Sir Christopher Wren first saw the light of Masonry ,

according to an old MS . in the Royal Library , referred to by Hailiwell in his "Early History of Freemasonry in England . " Anderson is , therefore , clearly in error Avhen he states in his " Constitutions of the Grand Lodge of Englaud , " that "Wren was installed Grand Master in 1685 . His mistake has probably arisen from the fact that Wren superintended the

rebuilding of St . Paul's Cathedral from 1667 , and was , therefore , identified AA'ith operative Masonry , the basis of our modern Constitution , some years before he was actually admitted among the Brotherhood , lie was , Ave may mention , at onetime W . M . of Lodge Antiquity , then called St . Paul , which Avas

accustomed to meet regularly during the erection of the Cathedral , and , as we have seen , under its very shadow . The next three Lodges on our list are interesting if they represent , as Ave believe , together with Lodge St Paul , the four original London Lodges which met February , 1717 at the Apple-tree Tavernin Charles

, , Street , Covent Garden , and constituted themselves for the time being a Grand Lodge , the basis of our present governing body in England . Lord Kingston , whose name we . have mentioned above , succeeded Lord Coleraine as Grand Master in 172 S , the date of

the institution of Grand Stewards , and he was followed in his office by the Duke of Norfolk in January , 1830 . It may interest some of oar readers to know that it was during Lord Kingston ' s rule that Bro . George Pomfret was appointed the first Provincial Grand Master of Bengal . We do not deem it necessary to enumerate the various tavern signs ,

addresses , and dates of constitution of the lodges Avhich find a place in our book : suffice it to state that they number only 5-1 , thus offering a striking contrast to the goodly array now mustered under the English banner , Besides the purely London Lodges Ave find also others at EdgworthGreenAvichBathBristol

, , , , Norwich , Chichester , Chester , Carmarthen , Gosport , CoDgleton , Tottenham , Salford , Warwick , and even one in Madrid , the last meeting at the sign of the Fleuvs-de-lys on the . 1 st Sunday in the month . The list is followed by a neat table showing the number of lodges which met at that dale on the same day of the

week . For the student of Masonic history a waif from the dim past , like the work Avhich we have described , cannot fail to possess great interest . "We may therefore be pardoned for having brought it to the notice of our readers , amd indulged in a little harmless gossip . —Masonic Record of Western India .

BRO . ALAIABLE . Bro . Louis Amiable , an advocate , and eminent French Mason , is the author , according to the " Athenamm , " of a recent Avork Avhich maintains the responsibility of Bro . Louis Napoleon aud his ministers for their compiicitv in the late disasters of France .

—A . _ JERUSALEM AND GALILEE . " With its solemn doctors , its insipid canonists , its hypercritical and atra-bilious devotees , Jerusalem has not conquered humanity . The North has given to the Avorkl the simple Shunammitethe humble

, Canaanite , the impassioned Magdalene , the good foster-father Joseph , and the Virgin Mary . The North alone has made Christianity ; Jerusalem , on the contrary , is the true home of that obstinate