Lost.

a husband ancl father , and the honored Commander of one of the most zealous and active Cominanderies of Knig hts Templar west of the Mississipp i river . His generous smile that spread around the homo circle , the happy wife and prattling children , tho

eloquence with which he discharged the duties of Knighthood , will ever be pleasing memories , and now thrill the soul with charms that have long rested in the past . But the finality in his career sends a shudder that chills Ihe remotest chambers of the

heart . " He is lost ! " cried a Knig ht that saw him fall . It was not through coldness and neglect of wife , it was not through the difference of Masonry , or the rigidness of employers , it was the sweepingtornado of unnatural living . With all his acquired learning in the academies , and his keen

comprehension of Masonic teachings , he had not taught himself the lesson of restraint , and the necessity of subduing his passions and improving himself in Masonry . Prudence was pushed aside , caution was ignored , and ruin stalked through home and temple , and desolation

now reigns where once was domestic peace , and generous pxxblic prosperity . The wife with a heroic spirit that commands the united admiration of the Masons of that growing state , holds fast to tho integrity of her vows , ancl in the faith ancl purity of

her noble soul clings to him through the hopeful innocence of their blended being , in two growing beauties that bear his name , that when all else that man can claim fails , and from the depths of his living tomb he may look over the rugged and dark pathway of the past and behold three faithfulhopefulvi

gi-, , lant watchers ; and as tho light , brilliant and pure from the fountain of their love , flashes over to him , illumes his gloomy abode , tears the darkness from his fettered minded , lie will take new spirit , revive and rerurn to bless and adorn all that now mourn his loss . That wife will ever be the pride of Masons in

that stato , however much they may deplore the erring husbsnd . And whether he returns to his former proud estate or not , her example will exhibit the fact that a man may fall , but a true and noble woman never . These instances do not detract Masonrythe

prin-, ciples are stedfast , and all Masons have to do to enjoy their blessings , as to work unfalteringly up to them , then there can be no doubt , whether life be long or shore , that all will bo well with the workmen and those who depend upon them .

BEAUTII-UI , THOUGHT . —Tho same God who mounted the sun and kindled the stars , watches the flight of the insects . He who balances the clouds and hung the earth upon nothing , notices the fall of a sparrow . He who gave Saturn his rings aud placed the moon like a ball of silver in the broad arch of heaven , gives the rose leaf its delicate tint . And the same being notices the praises of cherubim and prayers of little children .

Masonic Jottings.—No 38.

MASONIC JOTTINGS . —No 38 .

Br A PAST PROVINCIAL GKAITD MASTER .. THE PYRAMID OF CHEOPS . A learned Brother writes that there axe few philosophic and reflecting readers of the history of civilization and architecture , wdio must not think

that the men of science , the priests and the 100 , 000 workmen who for thirty years ( some conjecture for more than half a century ) were employed in building the Pyramid of Cheops , had their Lodge and their Masonry ,

KLOSS'S BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FREEMASONRY . Kloss is said to have been more than fifteen years in collecting the necessary materials for this work . DEVELOPMENT . Should not those who suggest that Speculative Masonry is the natural development of Operative

Masonry show why there was this development in England whilst there was ( as far as it appears ) no such development in Scotland ? NOT DEVELOPMENT FROM WITHIN , BUT CAUSES

' FROM WITHOUT . X . T . Z . is wrong . The German theory finds the ori g in of oxxr eig hteenth century Freemasonry not iu development from within , but in certain stated causes from without .

EARLY AGES . First came civilization , the village , the school , education . Afterwards , and when the occasion arose , came the Lodge and Masonry . OUR "MYTHS AND LEGENDS . " So plentiful and precious is the fruit which our

myths and legends produce unceasingly , that did they not exist already we should strive to invent them . THE HERMETIC BOOKS . A very enthusiastic "Brother must be mistaken . The Hermetic Books are indeed said to contain all

knowledge , human and divine . Nevertheless I cannot learn that aught Masonic has been found in the Hieratic Papyri . *

THE JEWS , 1782 . A Brother infers from the words describing the alterations in the Lectures made by the Eev . Martin Clare in the year 1732 that Jews were then members of our Lodges . See "Freemasons' Magazine , " vol . 9 , p . 34 : ' 'The Jewish Brethren ' s peculiarities of

faith were taken into account . " ORGAN OP THE CRAFT . Brother 0 . L . P ., it is Doctor Oliver who , somewhere iu one of his numerous works , has , with much fitness , entitled the "Fremasons' Magazine" "tho Organ of the Craft . "