Entertainment To The American Knights Templar In London.

Eminent sir , that this is the first time in the history of Vne world that such an honour has been conferred , it is impossible for us to express our high appreciation of your kindness . . Eminent sir , the very eloquent and able manner in ivhich you have spoken of the . American people , ancl the settlement of those differences which seemed to threaten difficulty betAveen two of the greatest nations in the world , has brought us under great obligations . I can assure youEminent sirthat the

, , American people no less appreciate the amicable settlement of those difficulties , aucl I have no doubt that the principles of Masonry ivhich exist in Europe and America , tended no little to tiling about this happy state of things . Eminent sir , I have neither time nor ability to make such a reply as your very eloquent address ivould demand . Again I thank you in the name and 011 behalf of American Masonsand on their behalf allow me to

, give you a pressing and cordial invitation to pay us a visit to the United States , and Ave will give you such a reception as American Masons can give . Only in this way can ive hope to manifest our appreciation of your brotherly treatment to us . Masonry recognizes the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood oi man . May the nations of Europe and America over continue on the same fraternal and brotherly terms . Sir , it has

aiforded us great pleasure to travel through your dominions and read the ancient landmarks of our beloved order . Having received the Older of Masonry from you wo are glad to be permitted to come back as the representatives of Masonry in the C ' nited States , and learn amid the graves and monuments of our fathers that AVC have preserved the ancient rites committed to ns unimpaired . I trust , sir , when ive cease to labour in this mundane sphere that ib may be our happy prii- 'lege to meet , from both sides the water , in that house not made with hands eternal in the heavens .

The usual routine toasts having been given and responded to , the remainder of the evening was spent in social conversation and interchange of civilities . The American Sir Knights then expressed their hearty thanks individually to G .

WC . Tinkler , and Assistant G . Dir . of Cer . Starkey , for their indefatigable efforts to render their reception agreeable . As the Sir Knights had to leave early on the following day for Antwerp , in order to continue their tour ou the Continent , they

regretted they Avere compelled to decline many offers of hospitah ' fcy , until their return to England , in some six weeks or two months hence , ivhen it is believed a reception on a large scale will be offered to them by the Craft Masons of England .

The banquet and wines , supplied by Bro . Hart , received the highest enconiums from all who partook thereof , especially the American brethren , who frequently expressed their great gratification , declaring it ivas the best entertainment Avhich had as yet been offered to them .

The American Sir Knights , accompanied by Sir Knight P . Smith , 0 G ., ; Avere conducted by Sir Patrick Colquhoun , Q . C , over the Temple Church , and public buildings , and expressed the greatest satisfaction at being enabled to visit the ancient head-quarters of the Old Knihts of the Temple

g of the Anglican Laugue . We understand the Grand Master of the United States of America has sent an autograph invitation to our Grand Master to be present afc the Triennial Grand Encampment to be held in the City of Baltimore in September .

Masonic Jottings, No. 77.

MASONIC JOTTINGS , No . 77 .

BY A PAST PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER . A CONFESSION OF FAITH . —CHARGES OF 1723 . My answers to a Correspondent ' s two questions are as follows : 1 st— . The Masonry of the brother ,

who builds his Faith on our Charges of 1723 exclusively , is necessarily a Christian Freemasonry . 2 nd . — -The Charges of 1723 did not bring Christianity into our Freemasonry ; Christianity Avas already in our Ereemasomy . It had been in our Freemasonry from time immemorial ; first as Roman Catholicism , after wards , as Profcesfcanism . *

A CALVINIST AND THE PASTOR OF A PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH . Brother , —The proposition is that in the years 1717 to 1723 , a Calvinist and the Pastor of a Presbyterian Church founded a celebrated institution , and that they made its Religion a pure Theism .

OUR PATRONS . A Correspondent thinks that Desaguliers and Anderson , had they meant to establish a Universal Freemasonry , in which case , Natural Theology must have been its religion , Avould at once have made two Greek Philosophers its Patrons .

CHURCH OF ENGLAND CHRISTIANITY AND ENGLISH FREEMASONRY . It is the just pride of Church of England Christianity that it tolerates other Christianities ; and of English Freemasonry as a- Particular Freemasonry , that in 1738 it made itself a Universal Freemasonry also .

SCRIPTURE QUOTATIONS . Our American brethren use an abundance of Scriptural quotations in the opening and the conduct of the Third Degree , particularly that sublime observation of King Solomon recorded in Ecclesiastes xii ., 1—7 . —Dr . OLIVER . GRAND LODGE OF IRELAND . —PRAYER AT

INITIATION . Bro . Hughan in his Prayers of the Craft , " Freemasons' Magazine , " vol . xx ., page 387 , says that the Grand Lodge of Ireland permits , aud in fact arranges for the prayers being presented " through

our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ , or not , according to the desire of the Worshipful Master , two forms being given for each degree—the one Christian , the other Jewish .