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yond which none is firm and secure , will appear to the seeker , if he lays his hand upon the Bible , which is the "Word of God , on vrhich the Order rests as on a firm foundation . If we remain on this ground , within these limits , in this circle , the spirit of the Order will enlighten us to recognise the truth ; it

will warm our hearts , and enoble the whole of our life . If we abandon this ground the Order will cease to exist little hy little , and dissolve itself in the great life of mankind as a drop of water in the ocean , and with it will disappear all activity , and the blessing which it bestows upon its adepts . " —CHAELES PUETON COOPER .

" SOME THINGS WHICH AEE INCONSISTENT WITH THE LEEEMASONET WHICH IS TJNIVEESAL ABSOLUTELY . " * It is not meant to question the propriety of considering the transmission of a communication to our " Magazine " as a special request for insertion . Still , lest the remark appended to the communication

should give rise to erroneous notions , it must be stated that the communication is simply an enumeration of facts , of which passages in the " Freemasons' ' Magazine alleging our Freemasonry to he absolutely universal had taken no notice whatever . —CHAELES PUETON COOPEE .

THE TJNINSTEHCTED . A Brother thinks that the uninstrueted , resolved to reject , seantly blameahle if they do not read . For what profits it those to read who cannot understand ?—A PAST PEOVINCIAL GEAND MASTEE .

IGNOEANCE AND VAHITX . Ignorance and Vanity , though joined with good intention and zeal , draAv much ridicule and effect no good . —A PAST PROVINCIAL GEAND MASTEE . ANCIENT CIIAEGES . — MANNON OEECTJS . Who was Mannon Grecusmentioned in the

, ancient charges of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century ? As he lived under King Solomon , and worked under the G . M . Hiram , and yet taught Masonry to Charles Martel in France , he must have been the longest lived man in the Avorld , beating Methusaleh and perhaps the Wondering Jew ,

and there id no reason why Mannon Greeus may not he alive noiv , together with the Wandering Jew . If so , he will he in a happy position to give information as to the antiquity of Masonry to all those Avho believe what is printed in old books . According to some accounts , Mannon Grecus was in England in the reign of King Athelstan , and helped to set up the Grand Lodge at York—S . W . S .

MASONIC PEESECUTIONS AND MASONIC REVOLUTION . H . H . the Khedive of Egypt shares with H . I . M . the Shah of Persia the distinction of being the great persecutors of Masonry in the East , as the Pope is in the West . Nevertheless all the adult members of his family except himself are Masons , and he is likely

to take a wiser course than Pio Nono . That Hol y Brother having forgot his Masonic duties , has lent his name to the Cardinals for the denunciation of Masonry . The Khedive finding that persecution has not shut up Masonry , but caused his eldest and beloved son and intended successor , II . H . Tevfik

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Pasha to he initiated in an English Lodge at Constantinople and now his ^ father ! is ambitious he shall attain the honour of D . G . M . in Egypt , which , when he is of age , he may perhaps acquire . So much for persecution .

Masonic Sayings And Doings Abroad.

MASONIC SAYINGS AND DOINGS ABROAD .

Eight Commanderies of Knight Templars assembled for a grand encampment at Camp de Molay , in Norwich , Connecticut , on the Sth inst . A battalion drill was held in the afternoon , closing with a dress parade .

There are now nineteen chartered bodies of the four different divisions of the A . & A . S . Rite in existence in California , and several others recently organized in Oregon . The Kilburn City ( Wis . ) " Mirror " states that one

of the most respected citizens of that place has been expelled from the Baptist Church for belonging to the Masonic Order . In the Grand Lodge of Washington Territory , charges being preferred against one David Cooper , he was triedjin open Grand Lodge , and expelled . Upon

this the Committee on Foreign Correspondence of the Grand Lodge of New York , make use of the following language , which is sound and to the point : " Might we be allowed to suggest , that however aggravated the case , the Grand Lodge was not the place to try it ; and that the absence of the

accused , even in disobedience of a summons , did not add anything to the dignity of the proceeding . A Special Committee to hear evidence , and know why the summons was disobeyed , and action on their report , Avould have been , to our taste , infinitely more proper .

A full compliance with all the forms of laAV may require a little more patience , but the result , when attained , will prove the source of more satisfactory reflection . "

The "Masonic Advocate , " Indianapolis , Ind ., says : " We learn that a movement is on foot to organize another Eoyal Arch Chapter in this city . With twelve lodges , embracing some twelve hundred Masons in the country , and only one Chapter , there must he

a flue opening for a new Chapter . If it serves to put a little life into this branch of Masonry , in this vicinity , some good will have been accomplished . " The first Chapter of Eoyal Arch Masons of Indiana , was organized , May 13 , 1 S 20 .