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toAvn , largely exporting timber and importing goods from England . On arrival the first person we saw was Bro . Richard Lidstrom , who happened to be the broker of the steamer , ancl whose attention and kindness to us Avas very great . Bro .

Lidstrom showed us over the Masonic rooms and exhibited to us some of the Craft regalia . The arrano-ements for the various Masonic meetings o o

Avere most excellent , and it was evident that our Ancient Order had many true friends in the toAvn . Underneath the lodge rooms Ave dined at the " Frimurare Restauration , " or Freemasons'

Restaurant , and were much pleased , with the viands and attendance . It Avas unfortunate for us that the long passage of the steamer—the longest on record—prevented our reaching Gottenburg in time to attend a lodge meeting , but Ave hope we

may have another opportunity of meeting our brethren . Herr Rudolf Leffler , of Gottenburg , told us that he had an uncle Avho was a Craftsman , and Avho , being wrecked on the coast of China , was left bereft of everything but bare life . He , however , sousht out a brother Mason with whom he had no

previous acquaintance , but Avho fed , clothed , and equipped him for his omvard journey . " So mote it be . " " Let brotherly love continue . " J . A . H .

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introduced into the Order by Gerard de Ridefort , * a certain bad Grand Master , AVIIO was imprisoned b } Saladin , and conlcl only obtain his liberty upon swearing to establish that form of reception in his Order , and to compel all Avho Avere received to

deny Christ—and ( a curious thing to come from a Mahometan ) to deny him three times , in memory of the three denials of St . Peter . In spite of this reason , De Goneville persisted so

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positively in his refusal , that the Grand Prior received him Avithout compelling him to make the renunciation , upon condition that he should never speak of the thing afterwards . This condition he had kept , in spite of the remorse which his

silence had occasioued him ; but the fear of the Templars had sealed his lips . He hacl been often tempted to divulge these crimes to the King , but he feared if he did so he should be deprived of his benefice , which was very rich .. He had

confessed to a chaplain of the Order . He had never heard of the idol . He afterwards revoked this confession , notwithstanding which Imbert forced him to put his signature , along wifch others , to the following interrogatory : — " Interrogates , utrum vi vel metu carceris aut tormeutoruni

immiscuit in sua depositione aliquam falsitatem , dicit quod non ? " Albert de Romecourt deponed , that he had refused to make the renunciation , and that seeing him determined , the others desisted , on account of his advanced age . * Such is an outline of the examination of the

hundred ancl forty Templars arrested afc Paris , obtained , as the inquisitors had the audacity to say , "by just measures and mild arguments . " A sorry extract it was , purchased at the expense of every noble and pious emotion , by butchers in

mind , and heathens in faith . A single spark of Christianity never enlightened the hearts of these ruthless Dominicans , who , in their torture-room , resembled more the wild and brutal heathen , slaup-htering their victims at the shrine of some dull god , than the followers of the all-suffering Jesus . The crimes confessed under torture were

not only untrue , but in many instances contrary to all history , such as the charges of being in league with the infidel , of denying the Savour , ancl Avorshipping Mahomet . The confessions contradict each other , and prove that some Templars knew

nothing at all about the crimes , and others of only one in particulrr . Further on , we shall have occasion to hear the Templars speak of the manner in which these confessions were rung from them , and how , Avhen they were brought away from

tormentors , they denied the existence of crime in the Order , and recanted all the previous statements . Phili | D accused them furthermore of having robbed the royal treasury , and leagued with the infidel against St . Louis , on the occasion of his Crusade in 1248 . This latter charge was not only false ,