The Pope And Freemasonry.

SIXTH TRUMPET . SIXTH VIAE . Loose the four angels which Aud the sixth angel poured are hound in the great river out his vial upon the great river Euphrates . . . and the Euphrates . . . that the four angels were loosed , ivhieh way of the kings of the East were prepared , & c . ix ., 13—21 . might be prepared , xvi ., 12 , 16 .

SEVENTH TRUMPET . SEVEXTH VIAE . There were great voices in There came a great voice out 'heaven . . . lightnings , of the temple of heaven . . and voices , and tlninderings , voices and thunders , and lightaud an earthquake , and great nings , and a great earthquake , hail , xi ., 15—19 . and .... a great hail . xvi ., 11—21 .

It will be observed that m the last the identity includes the word "voices" twice repeated in each . I cannot believe that Babylon is Rome , because the great city referred to as Babylon , is expressly

specified as being that Avhere also our Lord Avas crucified , xi . 8 , and in which was found the blood of prophets ii . xvih ., 24 . " Presbyter" Avill find that it is the same city which is called also the holy city , and I may remind him of the passage

in St . Matthew : " Oh ! Jerusalem , thou that killest the Prophets , " xxiii ., 37 . I cannot believe that the Pope is the predicted Antichrist , for Antichrist is to be an individual , and not a succession of individuals . I do not

expect to be rewarded Avith a Cardinal ' s hat for refusing to believe this on evidence Avhich Avould have failed to convict eA en a ferociously grinning negro if tried by court martial immediately after the massacre in Jamaica .

In conclusion , I cannot fail to express my surprise that any clergyman in Ireland can be found to adhere to the exploded system of interpretation first started by Mede , and folloAved up by Faber , Elliott , & c , after having read Dr . Todd ' s "Donnellan Lectures . "

Account Of A Pantomime Entitled "Harlequin Free-Mason."

ACCOUNT OF A PANTOMIME ENTITLED "HARLEQUIN FREE-MASON . "

BY BEO . ALI-EED WALLACE . Several inquiries having been made respecting the production of a pantomime bearing the above title at a London theatre during some part of the last century , considerable pains have been taken to obtain from the ephemeral publications of the

period , an account of the manner in which so difficult a subject could be treated theatrically ; and we have been successful in ascertaining that the pantomime of " Harlequin Free-Mason" was produced at Covent Garden Theatre , on the 29 th December , 1780 , on a scale of considerable grandeur and commensurate expense . The arrangements of the opening were of the most Avhimsical

character , having been ( to quote from a neAVspaper paragraph ) " conformable to the opinion held by all Freemasons , that the original of architecture is taken from that great building , MAN . Agreeable to this idea , three Masons are discovered at work on a figure representing a man , composed of the different orders of architecture . "

The " Freeholder s Magazine contains the foi loAving song which was incidental to this scene : — " Behold the model of our art , AA ork on whatever plan , Masons must borrow still some part JProm that great structure , man . Here well to captivate the siht

g , The Orders all agree—Proportion , strength , and force unite AA'ith ease and symmetry . But see 1 the sun rides down the west , And hark ! our sign from work to rest . "

The newspaper continues : — " On the Masonic signal for leaving off AVOI-IC , they depart , when the shade of Hiram Abiff ( Grand Warden to King-Solomon , and his assistant in building his temple ) rises ; ancl from the stone figure produces an harlequin , instructs him in the use of tools , and

endues a trowel with magic power , which ( like the customary sword or Avand ) is to assist him in all his difficulties . Hiram , after this ceremony , leaves him . " The transformations effected by means of the magic trowel appear to have been very brilliant , and particular mention is made of a frost scene in

Holland , Avith skaters , Avhich was changed into a tumultuous sea . Of the first scene , the neivspapers described it " forming one of the most beautiful , correct , and finished stage pictures ever exhibited in a theatre—a picture Avhich will bear the closest examination of the eye of the connoisseur , through the best opera-glass that ever Avas made by Dollond . "

The pantomime closed Avith " the installation of a Grand Master (!) which naturally introduced a procession of the Principal Grand Masters , from Enoch to the present time . Thus , the antiquity , advancement , and dignity of Masonry ai-e illustrated in a pleasing and instructive manner . "

The order of this procession , extracted from the play bill , is subjoined : — Order and explanation of the procession of the Grand Masters , from the creation to the present century , in the grand

procession—First banner . Enoch . —Two men bearing two pillars The first Mason , Enoch , son of Jared , erected tivo pillars , one of stone , the other of brick ; on ivhieh he carved the arts of geometry and Masonry . A . M . 987 , Josephus affirms that the stone pillar remained in Syria until his time .

Second banner . Nimrod . —TAVO hunters . Four men bearing the Toiver of Babel . Grand Master Nimrod , the son of Cush , built the stately city of Babylon , and its tower Babel , the largest work the Avorld ever saAv . . . . The