Masons' Marks.

MASONS' MARKS .

The following marks have been forwarded to us for insertion by Bro . Besant , the Secretary to the Palestine Exploration Fund . They were copied by Bro . Lieut . Warren , B . F ., in the course of excavations

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AWe are also under obligation to Bro . E . Shaw , of Farnworth , Lancashire , for the accompanying

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^AGAIX has the Prince of Wales declined to bo made a Freemason . That is a matter of course . He has seen the portraits of certain of his family in tho Masonic garb ancl that has sufficed a gentleman of taste . But I want to know how it happens that his Eoyal Highness has had the opportunity of declining . Any real Mason will ( without any infraction of that tremendous oath

which can never be repeated outside a lodgo , because the lions of King Solomon ' s temple roar and cause the words to be forgotten ) inform an outsider that solicitation is opposed to all the traditions of the Craft ; and that if any abject person has so far been oblivious of his VOAVS as to ask the Prince to join , that abject person is afc this moment in a jeopardy too dreadful to be written down

in a family journal . The topic ought instantly to be brought under tho notice of tho Grand Master ; audit isto be hoped that—amiable as he is in private life—he will not shrink from inflicting the terrible punishment which has been incurred , if tho newspaper paragraph bo accurate . Spero meliora—Illustrated London News . IT is the property of all true knowledgeespeciall

, y spiritual , to enlarge tho soul by filling it—to enlarge it without swelling it ; to make it more capable , and more earnest to know the more it knows . GREAT souls are not those whieh havo less passion mid more virtue than common souls , but only those which have greater designs .

COXCEEXIXG GOD AUD EEMGIOX . —A Mason is obliged , by his tenure , to obey the moral law ; and if he rightly understands the art , he will never be a stupid atheist , nor an irreligious libertine . But though in ancient times Masons were charged in every country to be of the religion of that country or nation , whatever it was , 'tis now thought moro expedient only to oblige them to thafc

religion in which all men agree , leaving their particular opinions to themselves ; that is , to be good men and true , or men of honour and honesty , by whatever denominations or persuasions they may be distinguished ; whereby Masonry becomes the centre of union , and the means of conciliating true friendship among persons that must have remained at a perpetual distance . —

Ancient Charges . THE word of a Mason is not stock-in-trade . The confidence it secures from the Graft is not reposed thafc profit may be made—it is not so much capital on which to do business as often as one can on the principle of " quick sales and small profits . " Not every culprit caught in flagrante delicto should be permitted upon his

sacred work to assert his innocence . No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline . To smile at the just which plants a thorn in another ' s breast , is to become a principal in tho mischief . LEVITY of behaviour is the bane of all that is good and virtuous .

that are now going on in and about Jerusalem . As many of our readers take an interest in such matters , we have much pleasure in giving them .

marks , which are copied from various parts of Glasgow Cathedral .