Classical Theology.—Vi.

penetrate into passages unknoAvn , and viciv objects long lost sight of , remote from ordinary investigation and the more common sense of the world . Prophetical indeed of the reign of Christ upon earth , or tho real government of his established laws , are tho versos which follow , as translated from Virgil , whicli may be found

more beautifully adapted in Hcbor ' s Palestine : — " Then dire debate , and impious Avar shall cease And the stern age be softened into peace ; Sivcefc banished faith shall once again return , And vestal fires on hallowed altars burn ; The Remus AAith Quirinus shall sustain The rihteous laiA-sand fraud and force restrain

g , ; Janus himself shall in his temple ivait , And keep the dreadful evil from his gate ; Imprisoned Fury , reft of her domains , With fell Ilellona , bound in endless chains , High on a trophy raised of usetess arms , Shall sit the mockery of their dread alarms . "

Here the twofold delineation of Janus is again made to designate two kings , Reruns and Quirinus , otherwise Itoiuu-Irrs , under one reign , one administration and one person . In these verses likewise Virgil alludes to the shutting of tlie temple of Janus , because being opened in thc time of war , that all might pray the assistance of Janus as the god of

peace , for the restoration of his blessings , those who made war ivere ever to be reminded that its grand object and triumph was in accomplishing a peace , and the quick return of armies into their native country . Ovid , too , in a distich , refers to the surnames of Janus with a like corresponding inference : —

"Nomina ridebis , niodo naniquc I'atulcius idem , Et modo sacrifice Clusius ore vocor . " " Thc priest but noiv calls me by name Patujcius , Then o ' er again next moment names mc Clusius . " And so in the Fasti lie proceeds to narrate among other particulars respecting himself that his power is great and his

offices many . Over all that is visible iu the heights of the heavens , in the depths of the earth , in the air , iu the sea , is the exercise of his dominions : lie guards their portals , and they open and shut under his supervision . " . For , " says lie , "the march of tho hours , of the seasons , of the year , are at my disposal . The glorious luminary of day , aud Jupiter ,

from whence it sprung , move not forth nor return without mj' ministration . AVhy is it that at your most strict ceremonies , sacrifices , and oblations , before all other deities you proffer your first act of obligation and worship to me ? The motive is that you may propitiate mo in your favour to throw wide the celestial gates to give the messengers of your prayers free access to those gods to whom they were addressed . "

GEMS ov TIIOUCUIT . —There is a ladder in heaven , whose base God has placed in Human affections , tender instincts , symbolic feelings , sacraments of love through ivhicli the soul rises higher and Higher-, ripening as she goes , till slie outgems the summer ' , and changes , as she rises , into the image of the Divine . At the very top of this- ladder—afc the threshold of paradise—blazes , dazzling and crystalline , that celestial grade , where the soul knows self no more , having learned , throu"h a long experience of devotionhow blest it is to lose herself in that

, eternal love and beauty , of ivhich all earthly fairness and grandeur are but the dim type—the distant shadow . —New York Masonic Chronicle . A CASE TOR Smp . iTHr . —A AVorcester journal lias been handed io us containing an appeal on behalf of three sisters , deaf and dumb AVIIO from a condition of comfort and respectability Have been reduced to Tlrey are the daughters of JtrAVilliam Devereuxof

penury . . , Bromyard who died in 1829 , leaving nine children , including the three daughters ' who are suffering under' the double calamity alluded to . The youn « esfc of these females is forty-seven years of age . Till recentl y they have been caved for by relatives , but their means of maintenance have failed their last support being removed by the sudden death of a sister under whose roof they had been sheltered . The call upon the public appears likelto meet ivith a Heart Afr ' Alderman

y y response . . Lea appears in the list , with a donation of i' -lO . ]•' . It . Nicholas , . tfscj ., of Bewcllcy , the Hev . , 1 . liearcrolt , and Martin Curlier , Kscp , each give £ 10 . The two Lodges of Freemasons in AVorcester have given . £ * > us . each , and there are not a feiv other donations of £ ;> and under . I

Freemasonry And Its Institutes.—Iii.

FREEMASONRY AND ITS INSTITUTES . —III .

( Continued from page S 3 ) . WE ivill noiv proceed to take a brief survey of thc religions or superstitions of tlie ancient nations of the world , ivho , Avith the exception of the Jews , ivere all idolaters . Tlie Jews them selves indeed , as a nation , often lapsed into idolatry , for which they were severely punished by Codhut wo find there was

, always a remnant who maintained the true faith as delivered them from God by Moses ; as oven in the time of Ahab , when their national reli gion mi ght be called the worship of Baal , there still remained ' ' seven thousand mon who had not bowed

the knee to Baal , " ( 1 . Kings , xix . IS ) . After the Babylonish captivity , hoivever , we do not read that the Jews again fell into idolatry . Among the earliest institutions of all nations are those whicli regard religious worship . The sentiment of religion is deeply rooted in the human mind ; among all nations some traces of a religion are found , for even tho

aborigines of Australia , who are considered in tlie lowest grade of the human species , and ivho are said to be without ¦ a religion , even they endeavour to propitiate an evil spirit . A savage ivould most naturall y seek to propitiate that being to whom he oived his most apparent benefits , and from the general order and plan of nature Avould infer the existence of

a God ; even the temporary irregularities of tho seasons lead him to a veneration of the unknown poiver which occasions them ; the North American Indian terms thunder " the voice of the great Manitou . " Wai-burton ( Divine , Leg ., b . iii . s . 4 ) says , " The Avorship of superior powers , the supposed causes of extraordinary events and the authors of good and

evil , is natural to man in his rudest condition , and necessarily proceeds from hope and fear , the two mainsprings of the human soul" Man in his original state was endowed with a nature in harmony with all the conditions of his existence ; his abode was Paradise ; peace reigned within , and around him . As the unruffled waters give back the placid image of

tho heavens above them , so man iu his ori ginal state reflected the divine tranquillity of the Creator ; but sin estranged him from his Maker , selfishness became his ~ master passion , and , prompted liy thc DoA'il , brought envy , hatred aucl malice into the world , to bo followed by discord and blood , " for God created man to be immortal , and made him to be an image of

his own eternity . Nevertheless , through envy of the Devil , crime death into the Avorld , " ( Wisdom ii . 23 ) . Of this , Cain furnished an early and terrible example , when , of the first tivo brothers that over were on earth , one fell a victim to tlie envious fury ofthe other , and demonstrated that new passions had inflamed the human breast . 'Hie ties of brotherhood

and love being thus rudely snapped , there now arose two races among men ; the sons of God , or children of light , aud the sons of men , or children of darkness ; the former were the descendants of Seth , who framed their lives upon that divine system given them by the Almighty ; the latter sprang from Cainwhodriven out from God ' s presence "fugitive

, , and vagabond , " sought by their own . contrivance to supply what seemed irreparably lost . The descendants of Seth at last became infected by tho profaneness and immorality of tlie sons of men . Iniquity prevailed , and in tho waters of an awful deluge we see the proof of the divine displeasure ,

then"Tlie south ivind rose , and with black wings AVicle hovering , all the clouds together drove From under heaven ; the hills to their supply A ' apour and exhalation , dust and moist Sent up amain ; and now tbe thickened sky Like a dark ceiling stood ; down rushed the rain Impetuous ; and continued till the earth

No more was seen . " . A . fter the dispersion from Babel , Nimrod" Of proud ambitions heart , ivho , not content AVit . li fair equality , fraternal state , Did arrogate dominion undeserved Over his brethren , and quite dispossess Concord and law of nature from the earth '¦' —