The Mystic Beauties Of Masonry.

matter , the vegetation of plants , the life and instinct of animals , to which is superadded reason , to remind us of the unerring law by which we are to regulate our lives , govern our actions while on earth . From the number of days which the

Creator was pleased to take to bring this world from chaos to perfection , which he might have commanded by a single fiat , Ave are taught this grand and important lesson , namely , to be industriously employed in our several vocations .

"Six days" for the attainment of those comforts which our families may require , and on the seventh to enter His holy temple , and there to offer up the sacrifice—praise and oblation of a true and contrite heart—and with unfeigned gratitude to worship and adore the benevolent Author of every good . —Pomeroy's Democrat .

Masonic Jottings, No. 78.

MASONIC JOTTINGS , No . 78 .

BY A PAST PROA ' INCIAL GEAND MASTER . ELEMENTS OF TRUE MASONRY . When reason was first infused by the Great Arobrtect of the Universe into the human mind , the elements of true Masonry had already an abode there .

CliAFT PRAYERS IX SCOTLAND . Bro . Hughan , in his Prayers of the Craft , "Freemasons' Magazine , " vol xx ., page 387 , says , that in Scotland , even down to the present time , many lodges still preserve the reference to " our

Saviour " in all their approaches " to the Throne of Grace , " and would as soon renounce Masonry as change their system of worship .

OFFICE OF STEWARD . Grand Lodge , December , 1727 . —Upon the motion of Doctor Desaguliers , tlie ancient office of Steward was revived to assist the Grand Wardens in preparing the feast .

SOLOMON—ZERUBBABEL . See a communication from the Past Provincial Grand Master for Kent , "Freemasons' Magazine , " vol . xxi ., page 506 , PRINCIPLE OF A UNIVERSAL CHRISTIANITY . Brother , you are wrong in supposing that Desaguliers and Anderson had no principle of

Universality . They undoubtedly had their principle of Universality . But their principle of Universality was not , as you imagine , the principle of a Universal Natural Religion , but of a Universal Christianity .

UNIVERSALITY OF THE 1723 CHARGES . If a brother will take the trouble of looking into the point , he will find that Christianity , and not Natural Theology , was the basis ofthe Universality of the 1723 Charges . CONCLUSION OF BRO . HUGHAN'S FIRST PART OF

HIS ANALYSIS . An Entered Apprentice should read the conclusion ofthe First Part of Bro . Hughan ' s Analysis . This conclusion consists of a few examples of the Christian character of the Craft . He cites

first , the commencement of the Constitutions of the German Masons of Strasburg , A . D . 1459 . Next , tho introduction to the Constitutions of Masonry , A . D . 1704 . Thirdly , the first charge of the old York Constitution ; aud lastly , what he justly calls the abundant proof of the prayers of the Craft .

LECTURES OF 1720 . A Brother asks some questions respecting these Lectures , whieh I am unable to answer , many years having elapsed since an entire copy was within my reach .

THE LECTURES OF 1720 . Would Desaguliers and Anderson , if they had been Founders of a Universal Freemasonry , have framed the Lectures of 1720 ? A BLAZING STAR .

Our first written Lecture states that Prudence in a Mason ' s Lodge is depicted by a blazing star ; and then adds , that we apply this emblem to a still more reli gious import : it may be said to represent the star which led the wise men to

Bethlehem , proclaiming to mankind the nativity of the Son of God , and here conducting our spiritual progress to the author of our redemption

OUR OLD MASONIC AVRITERS . Brother , the error of our old Masonic writers , was not the supposition that there existed Masonry in the mysteries of ancient nations , but the supposition that the Masonry was true Freemasonry .

LORD COKE . A young lawyer , who is a fellow craft , will find that there is a tradition of old Masons " that this most learned judge belonged to the antient lodge , and was a faithful brother . "