Jottings From The South Of Ireland.

Thus corrected , the text would read , He who gives to the clergy lends , to the Lord , ' which , no doubt , is the proper and undoubted scripture . " ¦ The words of the text are thus settled , and you have heard my explanation of it all .

" NOAV for the application . Last Thursday Avas a Aveek since the fair of Bartlemy , and I went down there to buy a horse , for this is a large parish , and mortification and fretting have puffed me up so , that , God help me , 'tis little able I am to Avalk about to answer all the sick calls , let alone

the stations , weddings , and christenings . Well , I bought the horse , and it cost me more than I expected , so that there I stood Avithout a copper in my pocket after I had paid the dealer . It rained cats and dogs , and as I am so poor that I can't afford to buy a great coat , I got Avet to the skin in less

than no time . There you were , scores of you , in the public-houses , with the Avindows up , that all the world might see you eating and drinking , as if it AA'as for a Avager . And there wasn't one of you Avho had the grace to ask , ' Father Tom , have you a mouth in your face ? ' And there I mi ght have

stood , in the rain , until this blessed hour ( that is supposing it had continued raining until now ) , if I Jhadn ' t been picked up by Mr . Tom Jones , of Ballysoggart , an honest gentleman , and a hospitable man I must say , though he is a Protestant . He took me home with him , and there , to your eternal disgrace , you villains , I got as full as a ¦ tick , and Tom Jones had to send me home in his

-own carriage , Avhich is an everlasting shame to all -of you who belong to the true church . NOAV , I ask which has carried out the text—you who did not give me even a poor tumbler of punch at Bartlemy , or Tom Jones AVIIO took me home , ¦ and filled me Avith the best of eating and drinking , and sent

. me home after that in his OAVII elegant ¦ coach ? Who best fulfilled the Scriptures ? Who -lent to the Lord by giving to his clergy ? Remember a time will come Avhen I must give an account of you . What can I say then ? Won't I have to hang doAvn head in shame

my on your account ? J Pon my conscience it would not much surprise me , unless you greatly mend your Avays , if Tom Jones and you won't have to change places on that occasion . —he to sit alongside of me , as a friend Avho had treated the poor clergy well in this world , and in

you a certain place Avhich I won't particularly mention now , except to hint that 'tis little frost or cold you'll have in it , but quite the contrary . HOAV--ever , "tis never too late to mend ; ' aud I hope that by this day Aveek ' tis a different story I'll have to tell of A'ou all . Amen . "

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WE must love our friends as true amateurs love paintings ; they have their eyes perpetually fixed on the fine parts , and see no others . LOVE and friendship are the two last roses of life , but too » iany thorns lurk in thein ; they draw our blood and give us poison .

Masonic Constitutions.

MASONIC CONSTITUTIONS .

Masonry is one and universal ! This is the boast Ave often hear ; and yet Ave hear brethren continually speaking of English Masonry , of Scotch Masonry , or of Irish Masonry , as if there were tAvo or three different kinds of Masonry , instead

of one great whole . Now Ave maintain that it is wrong to use these terms , because Masonry , Avhether worked under the English , the Irish , or the Scotch Constitutions , is in all essential particulars the same . That there are diversities in

the constitutions of the different Grand Lodges is only too true ; but this in no way interferes with our assertion that Masonry is essentially the same all over the Avorld . It is our present purpose to examine those

points in Avhich the constitutions , under which our lodges in Bombay Avork , differ from each other , and to show that after all they are but trifling compared with the great principles on which we all agree . In the preamble to the English " Book

of Constitutions , " Ave read " By the solemn act of union betAveen the tvvo Grand Lodges of England , in December , 1813 , it was declared and pronounced that pure antient Masonry consists of three degrees , and no more , viz ., those of the

Entered Apprentice , the Fellow Craft , and the Master Masons , including the Supreme Order of the Holy Royal Arch . " In the Scotch Constitutions , cap . ii ., 1 , AVe are told that " the Grand Lodge of Scotland practises and recognises no

degrees of Masonry , but those . of Apprentice , FelloAV Craft , and Master Mason , denominated St . John ' s Masonry . " Thus Ave see that the Royal Arch Degree is recognised by the English Grand Lodge , but not by that of Scotland . We have

not the Irish Constitutions by us , but Ave believe that there the three Craft degrees , the R . A ., the degree of K . T ., and some others , are recognised .

The next point of difference is in the constitution of the several Grand Lodges . Under the English Constitutions , "every brother regularly elected and installed as Master of a lodge , under the constitution of the Grand Lodge of England , Avho has executed that office for one year , shall , so

long as he continues a subscribing member of any lodge , rank as a Past Master , and be a member of the Grand Lodge . " " The Grand Lodge of Scotland , " hoAvever , vide cap . i ., 1 , Scotch Constitutions , " consists of the Grand Master , Deputy Grand Master , Substitute Grand Master , Senior and Junior Grand Wardens , all Past Grand Masters , the Master and Wardens of lodges in the