The Mystic Beauties Of Masonry.

3 . On the third period , God saicl , " Let the waters under heaven be gathered together into one place , and let the dry land appear . The dry land , earth , and the gathering together of the waters , called he seas . " The earth being

cultivated , God spoke the Avord , and nature clad her universal force Avith green—the herb of every leaf , that sudden flowered , opening their various colours , and made gay her bosom , smelling sweet . Forth flourished the the thick clustering vine , the

humble shrub , the lofty tree , to adorn the forest and beautify the plain , and every herb before it greAv on the green stem . 4 . On the fourth period , the Omnipotent said , f " 'Let there be light in the firmament of heaven , to divide the day from the night ; and let them be

for signs , and for seasons , and for days and years . " First in the east the glorious sun was seen regent of the day ; less bright the moon revolving on heaven's great axle , and her reign with thousand lesser lights dividual holds , with thousand

thousand stars that there appeared , his plowing the hemisphere . 5 . On the fifth period , the Great Creator said , " Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creation that hath life , and fowl that may

fly above the earth , in the open firmament of heaven ; " and he commanded them ( f tobe fruitful and multiply . " Forthwith birds , through extensive fields of liquid air , by quick transition , sported on the wing , and sung in various notes their Maker's praise .

The streams prolific poured the finny race , while mightly ocean with new monsters teemedthe whale , of bulk enormous to behold , behemoth , and the great leviathan , with every species of the rolling deep .

6 . The sixth , and of creation the last , God said , "Let the earth bring forth the living creatures after his kind , cattle and creeping things , and beast of the earth , of his kind . " The earth obeyed , and straight opening her fertile womb ,

innumerable living creatures , perfect formed , limbed and full-grown , out of the ground uprose , as from their lair . At once came forth whatever creeps the ground , insect or worm ; then wave their limber fans for wings , and smaller lineaments

exact , decked in all the liveries of summer pride , in spots of blue , and purple and scarlet and gold . Now heaven in all her glory shone , and rolled

her motions , as the first Great Mover's hand first Avheeled their course- Earth in her rich attire , consummate lovely , smiled ; air , water , earth , by fowl , beast , fish , was swam , was walked frequent . Of the sixth period that remained , there wanted the

master work—the end of all yet done—a creature , but endued with sanctity of reason , erect of stature , and upright , with front serene , to govern the rest ; self-growing and from thence magnanimous , to correspond Avith heaven , but grateful to

acknowledge whence his good descends ; thither , Avith heart and voice , and eyes , directed to worship in pure devotion , and adore God supreme who made man chief of all his works ; therefore tho Omnipotent Eternal Father thus audibly

spoke : " Let us UOAV make man in our image , after our likeness , and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea , and over the fowl of the air , and over all the earth , and over every creeping thing on the earth . " This said , He formed him

out of the dust of the ground ; into his nostrils he breathed the breath of life , and man became a living soul . Here the Father of Mercy accomplished the sixth period : yet not till He , from His Avork desisting , to the heaven of heavens , His high

abode , returned , thence to behold this new created world . " Creation and the six periods , " heaven sang , great are Thy works , Jehovah 1 infinite Thy power ; to create is greater than , created , to destroy . Witness this new-made world—another

heaven , from heaven ' s gate not far . Thrice happy man , and sons of men , whom God bath thus advanced—created in his image to worship him , and to multiply a race of worshippers holy and jnst ; thrice happy if we knew our happiness and

persevered upright . The further we inquire into the works of our great Creator , the more evident marks we shall discover of His infinite power , perfection , and glory , and , perhaps , in none more remarkable than in that wonderful chain of beings with which this terrestrial srlobe is furnished .

The earth is filled with innumerable orders of being superior to each other , in proportion to the qualities and faculties which God has thought proper to bestow upon them ; for instance , in plants we find all qualities of mere matter ,

the only order beloAV them , solidity , extension and gravity , with the addition of vegetation ; in animals all the properties of matter , together with the vegetation of plants to which is added life and instinct ; and in man we find all the properties of