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-fcion , called "Freemasons'Table Talk , " that "from the third century to the end of the seventeenth century the English Freemason was always a Christian . " —See _ further in connection with this subject the following communications : — " True Freemasonry and Pure Christianity , " " True Freemasonry is pure Christianit

y's not unworthy handmaid , " vol . xv . p . 186 . — " Christianity and Freemasonry , " Ibid , p . 289 . — "The Christian Missionary and the English Freemason , " Ibid , page 309 . — " The Christian and the Freemason , " Ibid , page 330 . — "Union of Freemasonry and Christianity , " p . 348 . — T-npao-Ka au -KOKKO . SiUa- KO ^ , vol . xvii . p . 106 . — " Be a Christian and be a Freemason , " Ibid , p . 487 . —C . P . COOPEE .

DIE . OP GEES . Among the lodges where a P . M . is Dir . of Cers . is a centenarian lodge , the Burlington . Those who have seen "W " . Bro . W . Hutton perform his duties in lodge and afc banquet can appreciate the advantages of such an appointment . —VISITOE .

BIBLE IN THE ENGLISH LODGE . A communication , made by me to the Freemasons ' Magazine nearly two years ago , states my opinion upon the subject which a brother , who is a Theist , discusses in a very long letter . See the communicationentitled " Christianity and English

Free-, masonry , " Freemasons' Magazine , vol . xiv ., p . 391 . My brother will there find these words . " The Bible will ever keep its place in the English lodge ; the Sacred Volume will ever be seen there open before the Worshipful Master . "—C . P . COOPEE .

SIE E . STEACHET , BAET . Is not Sir E . Strachey , the archaeological author , a Mason and Deputy Grand Master for Norfolk ?—A READEE . " ENGLAND , AMEEICA , SEMI-BAEBAEOTJS , ANDBAEBAEOT / S NATIONS .

To "J . H . P ., " neighbourhood of Shrewsbury . Dear brother , I say , be not too much discouraged by -what you have seen in another country . Doubt not ¦ that Cristianity , with diminished theology , and with increased toleration , and therefore with , increased charity—for toleration is bufc one kind of

charity aud true Freemasonry , where from any unsearchable cause Christianity cannot act , the Freemasonry which announces the existence of the glorious Architect of Heaven and Earth , which announces his Providence , and which teaches that the good man will be rewarded and the bad man will be punished in another

lifedoubt not , I say , that these , Christianity and true Freemasonry , are the instruments by which England and America ( another England ) will in God ' s good time civilise the semi-barbarous and barbarous nations -of our globe . —C . P . COOPEE .

SHEEE SLUGGISHNESS . I cannot admit a Lancashire brother's excuse . His lodge possesses a copy of the Freemasons' Magazine , and , as he will find , if he will take the trouble to examine the indexes , the seventeen volumes furnish ample information upon the point respecting which he lately inquired . His ignorance is discreditable . It is voluntary ignorance . It has its root in sheer sluggishness . —C . P . COOPEE .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

BASTAEDS . Is there any Grand Lodge that holds bastards eligible for Freemasonry ? or is the very Constitution of the Order opposed to their admission ?—A P . M . OE AN ENGLISH LODGE . MASONS' SECEET SIGNS .

Masons' secret signs are not supposed to have been used in Germany until the year 1452 . —From a bundle of Masonic memoranda in Bro . Purton Cooper ' s manuscript collection . EEOGS . Can our R . W . and learned Bro . C . P . Cooper tell

us whether frogs are ever served at banquets in France . This will determine a dispute , and oblige AN INQUISITIVE BBOTHEE .

OUB OLD LECTUEES AND ¦ CHAEGES . Our old lectures were first published about 1720 , and our old charges about 1723 . —From one of Bro . Purton Cooper ' s Masonic INbte-books . CENTENARIES . I ifc must be rather a difficult matter to

presume give an exact reply to the query of " X . ' on the above head in your issue of the 29 th ult ., for though it is a comparatively easy task to ascertain the particular lodges whose one hundredth anniversary of their foundation will fall due in the present year , it must be hard to tell collectively which of them purpose

celebrating such an interesting epoch . Thus I glean from the "British , Irish , and Colonial Masonic Calendar'' for this year , that in Scotland during 1868 three lodges arrive at their hundredth year , viz .: —St . Andrew's , 110 , Aberdeen ; St . John ' s , 111 , Hawick ; and Sfc . John's , 112 , Fisherrow , Musselburgh ; whilst last year no less than six Scotch lodges reached the venerable age of a hundred . BUTE .

Correspondence.

CORRESPONDENCE .

The Editor is not responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents . H . R . H . PRINCE SKANDERBEG .

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present occasion waive any attempt to lay before the readers of your magazine a history of the numerous insurrectionary movements which have taken place through a long course of years—in fact , ever since the accomplished independence of Greece—to subvert the Ottoman power in Albania , Epirus , Thessaly , Macedonia , and other portions ofthe north of Greece and the adjacent provinces . We profess to know