Cursory Remarks On Freemasoney.-Iii.

better Freemasons , makes us better men , better citizens , better patriots , better cosmopolitans , better p hilosophers , and ( if we so choose ) better Christians . If ever labour be worship , as some affirm it is , certainly the labour of a Free and Accepted Masons' Lodge is true worship to the brother who understands it aright—worship ; not to

be brought forward as a substitute for the public assembling of ourselves together every Sabbath in the consecrated temples of our hi ghly favoured Christian land ; worship , not to be substituted for the private supplications and thanksgivings , which we are each , in our own closets , and in our own mannerto offer up to the Most Hih ; yet worship

neverthe-, g less , which we hope will , ere long , ascend like pure incense every Lodge night from Masonic halls , consecrated to our pure rites , in every market town in Britain ; so that every "brother of the mystic tie , " from the Land ' s End to John o' Groats , may be enabled to sing with the poetess , —¦

" Pause not to dream of the future before us ; Pause not to weep the wild cares that come o'er us ; Mark how creation ' s deep musical chorus , Uniiitermitting , goes up into heaven ! Never the ocean wave falters in flowing ; Never the little seed stops in its growing ; More and more richly the rose heart keeps glowing , Till from its nourishing stem it is riven .

" ' Labour is worshi p ! ' —the robin is singing ; 1 Labour is worship ! ' —the wild bee is ringing ; Listen ! that eloquent whisper upspringing , Speaks to thy soul from our nature ' s great heart . From the dark cloud flows the life giving shower ; From the rough sod blows the soft breathing flower ; From the small insect the rich coral bower ; Only man , iu the plan , shrinks from his part .

" Labour is life!— 'tis the still water failcth ; Idleness ever despaireth , bewaileth ; Keep the watch wound , for the dark night assaileth ; Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon . Labour is glory!—the flying cloud lightens ; . Only the waving wing changes and bri ghtens ; ¦ Idle hearts only the dark future frightens ; Play the siveet keys , lvouldst thou keep them in tune .

- Labour is rest;—from the sorrows that greet us ; Eest from all petty vexations that meet us ; Rest from sin promptings that ever entreat us ; Rest from world syrens , that lure us to ill . Work—and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow ; Work—thou shalt ride over care ' s coming billow ; Lie not down weary hicath woe ' s weeping willow ; Work with a stout heart and resolute will .

' Droop not , though shame , sin , and anguish are round thec ; Bravely fling off the cold chain that hath bound thee ; Look to yon pure heaven , smiling beyond thee ; Eest not content in thy darkness , or clod Work for some good—be it ever so slowl y ; Cherish some flower—be it ever so lowly ; Labour , true labour , is noble and hol y ; Let labour follow thy prayers to thy Cod . "

LIPES IIAITII-ST P-Euioi ) . —Kingsley , the author of " Alton Locke , " & e ., gives lus evidence on this disputed point . He thus declares 'There is no pleasure that 1 . have ever experienced like a chv . ld ' s inid-¦ siiininoi- holiday . The time , I mean , when two or three of us used to go away up the brook , and take our dinners with us and como home at Might tired , dirty , happy , scratched beyond recognition , with a great nosegay , three little trout , and ono shoe , tho other one having been Used for a boattill it had clone with all hands out of

, gone ; soundings . How poor our . Derby days , our Greenwich dinners , our evening- _ iarties , where there are plenty of nice girls , are after that ! Depend upon it , a Wan never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen as lie does ytore , unless in some cases in his first love-making , when the sensation w new to him . " -Rnroirc—The sound of the Master's hammer reminds each brother ' | the sacrod numbers which ht to induce

« , a thing oug us readily and olieerftdl y to acknowled ge and obey his commands . Ho who wishes ro -iain admittance amongst us must remember tho saying , " Knock and it -. nan be opened unto you . " It is only then ho can enter with a sanctified i --m ,- ~ ,-ffadtchc .

Masterpieces Oe The Akchitecture Of Diffekent Nations.

MASTERPIECES OE THE AKCHITECTURE OF DIFFEKENT NATIONS .

BY J " . G . LEGKAND . St / Oil : a particular kind of architectural sculpture as the tomb at Beringapatam and the tomb of Taj Mehal , owes its orig in to the primitive habitation of natural grottoes enlarged by degrees and rendered more fit for dwelling in by fresh modes of ingress and egress , or by additional excavations . They were then subsequentlimitated in immense works

undery taken out of the mountainous mass itself , which , not being perforated by natural grottoes , seemed nevertheless adapted , from the advantages of its position ancl the nature of its materials , to be converted into a habitation , or be made a monument of for relig ious worship , or for tombs . The first successes of the Hindoos in undertakings of this description )

caused them to be ambitious of tho glory of leaving behind them monuments which should rival those of nature , and ivhich should be executed with so much skill , perseverance and care during a series of ages , that succeeding generations could not but admire them without ever forming tho project of equallingmuch less surpassing them .. The principal

, pagoda of Vilnour is a lofty square pyramidal tower , having ] ' ts ° foundation on a low building under ground , and rising to a heig ht of twelve storeys , with flights of steps on each of these storeys there is a very conspicuous has relief representing the figures of gods and the ceremonies of their worship . The most famous temples are raised to SeevaVishnuand

, , the son of Seeva ; the others are smaller . Pollear , though one of the most powerful , of the Hindoo gods , has no temple , but only a chapel in the temples of Seeva * his statues , always of stone , are placed in the open , air on all the roads or in niches in the streets and in the fields .

The images of tho Hindoo gods may be of stone , copper , or gold , but never of silver and other metals ; they are always double , one external , before which . the people present theii offerings ¦ the other internal , to which alone the Brahmins have access . "With regard to the natural grottoes , it may be allowable to think that nature , which in the most vast

productions of this kind takes a delight in displaying a rich grandeur of exquisite finish and astonishing variety by forming petrifactions and crystallizations of , at the same time the hardest , the most brilliant and the most precious materials , often even , disposed with boldness and symmetry or with the most picturesque and astonishing contrasts in

. natural columns or arches , and vaults hollowed out in a hundred ways , would have furnished the model of the most delicate workmanship to be subsequently applied to all that was rough hewn in those gigantic masses ; and that after her . example , the numberless pillars of thoso subterranean grottoes , -their roofs or vaults , their domes even , would have been

clothed with all that the labour of art can produce that is most light , most rich , and most delicate . The principal openings to these subterranean , temples or grottoes have been set towards the north , the east , and the west , in order to preserve for them the benefit of a circulation of fresh air , and to p > rocuro for them beautiful masses of light without exposing them

to the burning breath of the winds from the south . There are some of them as hig h as fourteen and fifteen feet , with their roofs formed out of the massive block ; these roofs are supported by four rows of pillars , having regular intorcolumniatioiis also of fifteen feet . It is thus , at least , that Hunter describes one of the artificial grottoes situated in the small island , of Elephanta , to the east of tho port of . Bombay ; its situation is admirable from the elevation of the island above

the surrounding country , and from the magnificent terraces in amphitheatres , contrived in front of tho entrances to that temple , the length of which is one hundred and thirty , and the breadth one hundred and ten English feet . Those who aro desirous of knowing all tho details—to describe which would now lead me too much from my subject—may study the archceology , and the different collections of travels in India , aa well as the works of Niebulu" ,