The Knights Templars.

Infirm , and without a male child to succeed him , SB & de a will bequeathing his territories to the ff-smplars , the Hospitallers , and the Knights of fee Sepulchre , wisely supposing that they who fought so bravely against the Moslem in the Easfc

would fight as bravely against the Moors in the West . Alfonso fell the following year in the battle of Fraja , against the Moors ; and his nobles , setting aside his will , elected sovereig-ns ¦ out : of his family . The Orders did nofc deem ifc

prudent to dispute this , they being neither strong enough nor yet of sufficient standing to go to war with fcheir Christian brethren ; but the disposition of Alfonso towards them indicates the hio-h esteem in which they were held by all classes . ¦ ¦{ To he continued . )

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

MOEAI PRECEPTS . —TIIE GOSPELS . You say , Brother . . . that you have adopted 30 . 0 Positive Religion ; and you ask what is the source to which you ought to go for moral precepts . In a search for gold , you would , I presume , dig in the minewhere like precious metal was known to be the purest . Act analogously in your quest of moral precepts . Seek -thern in the Gospels . The precepts there belong to Christianity and Theism alike . —C . P . COOPEE .

SITE DOKtfATIC AND THE PURITY 01 ? CHEISTIANITY . My dear friends , the words of our brother , the Provincial Grand Chaplain for . . . were , that as , on the one hand , the Dogmatic of Chrisfciamfcy rwss increased , so , on the other hand , its purity has . decreased . —C . P . COOPEE .

THE PIOUS EEEEMASON . A correspondent desires an explanation of my words in the communication , "The Pious Freemason , " page 10 G of the present volume . Correcting an error •¦ of tbe press ( possesses should be pro / esses ) , the -words are these .- — " The pious Freemason who

pro-. Sesses no Positive Religion , I regard as the priest of the Great Architect of tbe "Universe . " In natural "religion , which is the religion of Freemasonry , as a - Lmiversal institution , there are prayers to the Great . Architect , but there is no body of men specially set . apart for this service . The pious Freemason supplies

'the clergyman ' s place . I recommend to my correspondent's consideration the ensuing passage , which . he will find in Professor Jules' sermons , " La Religion . Katurelle : " — " Tout superieur a le devoir de ramener ce grand nom ( tie Dieu ) dans les relations que sa

Situation lui impose ; un pure dans I ' mtimite de la ¦ vie domestique , un maitre en parlant a ses servitenrs . -Sous sommes tous en mi sens , des magistral's ; car II y a toujours ouelqu'un qui depend de nos paroles . efc de nos exemples . " —C . P . COOPEE .

SOCEAKBS—A PARTICULAR PEOVXDENC'E . Brother . . . Socrates believed not only iu tone God , Architect of the Universe , and in a general

Providence , but he also Believed hra particular Providence . Consult the lata Professor Garnier ' s " De la Morale dans- TAnticmite . "—C . P . COOPEE . NATTJEAL EEMGION . —TEtHS EEEEJIASONEY . Where natural religion existed , there true

Freemasonry was possible . —From a Manuscript volume in Bro . Purton Cooper ' s Masonic collections , entitled "Freemasons' Table Talk . "

THE MISSION AND THE IOB & E . Brother . . , Tou do well to compare the ' mission and the lodge in a semi-barbarous country to two lights in the midst of darkness . The mission is the greater light , the lodge is the lesser light ; but both lights come from God , Great Architect of the Universe . —C P . COOPEE .

NATUEAE EEHGION AND POSITIVE EELIGI 0 N IN AND OUT 01 ? IODGE . In answer to Z ., the discussion was respecting Freemasonry as a universal Institution ; my words were : •—In lodge Positive Religion sinks in Natural Reli * gion . Out of lodge Natural Religion commonly

sinks in Positive Religion . —See my communication , "Divers Positive Religions in Lodge , " Freemasons Magazine , vol . xvi ., page 208 . —C P . COOPEE .

MAlIOiniEDAir IODGE AND CHRISTIAN BEOTHEE . In answer to the question of " Mustapha , " I say that in a Mahommedan lodge the Christian brother would bo received , not as a follower of the Holy Jesus , but as a believer in the one God , creator and ruler of the world , and in a future state of rewards aud punishments , as a member of our Institution of Freemasonry in its universality . —0 . P . COOPEE .

The following extracts from Hugh Clark's celebrated " Concise History of Knighthood , " A . D . 1784 , may not be uninteresting afc a time when the cbivalrie degrees receive much attention and support ; and especially when one has of late been revived , under auspicious circumstancesin Londonby some

pro-, , minent members of the Red Cross Knights , ( whose antiquity and importance has been ably demonstrated in these pages by the accomplished Grand Recorder of the Order ) . WmiAsr J . HUGHAN .

THE OEDEE OE THE HOEY SEPULCHEE IN JEEUSALElt . " The Order , according to Favin , was instituted by Baldwin I ., King of Jerusalem , who made the regular canons ( which then resided in a convent adjoining to the Holy Sepulchre ) , Knights of the said Order ; the } 7- went to guard the Holy Sepulchre , to relieve

and protect pilgrims . The Patriarch of Jerusalem was appointed their Grand Master , with power for conferring the Order , and receiving the vow made by the Knights—which was of chastity , poverty , and obedience . Their habit was white , and ou their breast a gold cross potent , cantoned with four crosses

of the same , without enamel , pendant to a black ribbon . They wore fche cross of yellow embroidery on the left side of their robe . When the city of Jerusalem was taken hy the Saracens , the Knights retired to Italy and settled at Perugia , and were afterwards united to the Knights of St . John of Jerusalem . ( To he cmtimicd . )