The Keys Identified.

which at length enabled him to rescue the longlost knowledge of the Masonic mysteries from oblivion . That man is Bro . Melville , who , in the prop hetic language of Volney can "instruct his age

in many thing which its vanity has no notion of . " It has been from time to time believed by many learned men , that " light" would shine from the East to enable them to elucidate the Biblical mysteries , * but strange , surpassing strange , the

" light" shone in the West , not in Rome , but in England , upon the Masonic keys , revealing that they are de facto the mystic keys of the Bible , that opera the heavenly volume when it requires demonstration , and that shut it , by the AvithdraAval

ofthe keys , so that none can thereafter re-open the same without the re-application of the keys , vide Rev . Ill , vs . 7 .

Nil nisi Claris de est . si talia jmgero fossis sit tibi scien satis . In what bold relief do the two Masonic keys stand out from the historic canvas , bearing stern , solemn witness that the mystic keys are Masonic worn by the Order of the Royal Arch , and not

Romish by divine authority , vide Matthew XVI , vs . 19 ! 0 tempora , 0 mores ! what a multitude of reflections crowd upon the mind at this unexampled priestcraft , this truly sensational denouement ol

the history of the Romish church before whose gigantic power , spiritual and temporal , kings and nations knelt in adoration , in ignorance , in superstition , in fear , in trembling , even in wisdom . No wonder the accomplished author of Eothen , speaking of the Romish church , exclaims , " she

is of all nations and of all times , that Avonderful church of Rome . ! " Yet time changes all sublunary things . The predominance of the Anglican church is not only about to be extinguished in Ireland , but the

predominance of the Romish church has just been extinguished in Spain by the Cortes at Madrid resolving in favor of " equality of creeds . " In Avriting on this subject a contemporary thus concludes an able article . "There is evidence to shew that

humanity is weary of the Tiara and the Keysthat the priestly empire enthroned in the city of the Seven Hills is coming to its inevitable end .- " The evidences that the power , the prestige of the Romish church is perishing are doubtless

every where apparent . Nevertheless some more powerful cause must be assigned , must be found , for her " inevitable end " than the puerile one that " humanity is weary of the Tiara and the Keys , " otherwise she may hereafter , phceuix like , rise

from her own ashes , even in the mother country . That cause has providentially been found . The Keys of her spiritual authority , proven to be fallacious , fall to the ground , and Avith them fall the Tiara never again to be reassumed by celestial

authority . Their fall is indeed , the fall of the curtain at the virtual close of the MatQcia drama of " Thq Romish church , '

It is important to notice that the Romish church in assuming the two Masonic or mystic keys for her badge , craftily transformed their astronomical type into two ordinary keys , for public or exoteric exhibition , and as craftily transformed the Masonic

mysteries into spiritual and temporal agencies for her own aggrandisement . The allusion in Bro . Melville ' s 7 paper , published in the MAGAZINE , to the Papal Triple Taw as combining the celestial movements of both the Masonic trip le taw and double triangle , further shews that the Romish church by craftily trans-