Grand Lodge Property.

GRAND LODGE PROPERTY .

LONDON , SATURDAY , JUNE 6 , 1863 .

A further step bas "been taken towards bringing about the arrangement of tlie Grand Lodge Property , Grand Lodge having , by a very large majority , adopted the recommendations of the Committee , and entrusted it with power to at once take the necessary steps for making such modifications in the plan

selected , which is acknowledged to be far from per . feet , as may be desirable ; and for proceeding w itk the building with all possible despatch , whilst the trustees of the general funds of Grand Lodge have been requested to realise them from time to time as

they may be required for the purpose of improving the property . As we stated last week the mottoes of the three selected plans , together with the names of their authors were known ; indeed they were published in several of the newspapers , in some instances as advertisements , a course which , we think , was far from

proper . Whether the information as to the successful plans came from the majority or the minority of the Committee , it is impossible to say ( the names of the architects acknowledging the mottoes we suppose came from themselves ) , but the publication was

evidentlyintendedto prejudice thedeeision of GrandLodge , and was so made use of by Bro . Sargood , who led the opposition to the reception of tlie report of the Committee , the only object of the opposition being , apparently , to delay the reception of the report , with a view

to ulterior proceedings at some future Grand Lodge . "What was to be the course of these proceedings it would be useless now to inquire , even if they had been decided upon , which we do not believe , the majority of Grand Lodge being so large as to evince that

any further steps in the way of opposition would be altogether useless ; and , indeed , the only eiFect on "Wednesday evening was to protract the business to an unusually late hour . "We trust that now that the Committee have full

power they will proceed vigorously with the work in hand , and that we may , at no distant date , have the pleasure of congratulating the brethren on the laying the foundation-stone of a new building which shall be alike an honour to the Craft , an and ornament to the metropolis .

Freemasonry In China.

FREEMASONRY IN CHINA .

We have great pleasure in referring our readers to a report of the proceedings of the jSorthem Lodge , Shanghai , which appears in another column , giving a most gratifying picture of the state of Ereemasonry in that distant part of the world . That the

Freemasonry In China.

brethren do not forget those who may be in distress at home is shown by the following resolution , which was adopted at a meeting in March last : — That as soon as the loan advanced by the brethren , for the erection of the building , has been paid off , the lodge shall annually remit to England the sum of £ 150 sterling

to be apportioned to the following charities ( provided always that the funds of the lodge are in a sufficiently flourishing condition to admit of it ) , say to the Royal Freemasons' School for Female Children , £ 50 ; Eoyal Masoniclnstitution for tbe Sons of indigent and deceased Freemasons , £ 50 ; Royal Benevolent Institution for aged Freemasons and their Widows , £ 50 .

This is a noble resolution , and one which we recommend to the consideration of a few of the lodges a little nearer home . If every English lodge would or could only do one fifth of what is proposed to be done by the Shanghai brethren , we should soon be in

a position to boast that no distressed brother or hiswidow had occasion to come to us twice to seek for that assistance which the Royal Benevolent Institution for Aged Masons and their "Widows , has in its power to bestow , or no Masons child need be without

the means of education . "We hope that the Shanghai Lodge may long continue to prosper , and that its prosperity may only be exceeded by that of its members .

Classical Theology, Lxvii.

CLASSICAL THEOLOGY , LXVII .

Xl . —JUS - Q ASD JANUABY . The pundits , or Hindoo masters , like the Rabbis , or Hebrew doctors , have ever kept secret their sacred mysteries , or so interpreted and interpolated , solved and adapted them , as they would to suit the dispositions of their own fixed purposes . But the master

key to the Jewish mysteries is the science of the hidden knowledge , whereas the master key to the Indian mysteries is the knowledge of the forbidden sciences . The Roman Priesthood of Christendom would separate the tares from the wheat , but they have not been behind the Levites in tampering with

the holy mysteries . The clergy , or ministers of the reformed church , profess no secret science but the revealed mysteries , and their master key is the word of God made manifest in spirit , truth and flesh , God in Christ and Christ in God . Of course there is no teaching for the welfare and

health of the soul and body , that can be compared with truly holy Catholic and Apostolic instruction , that is to say , Godly tuition , for there is a tuition that is not godly all the world over , for some , not a few , make their self-gratification , their self-aggrandisement , their self-importance , their base , bad , brutal , covetous ,,

vindictive passions , their Godhead , and humble themselves alone to some Genesa , Kali , or Kakodajmon , to consummate their invocation . It is ordered in the administration of the Holy Communion that any person bearing either malice , or hatred against another is not to be a partaker

person , of the Lord ' s Table until he " be content to forgivefrom the bottom of his heart all that that the other hath trespassed against him . " And it is further ordained , that " no adoration is intended , or ought to be