Masonic Notes And Queries.

" Every member of this lodge shall provide for himself , and have during his attendance in the lodge , a clean ancl respectable apron , under the penalty of one shilling for every omission . " No person may be admitted into the lodge after it had been closed , to ( or for ) refreshment , who was not present at an earlier period of the meeting .

" No member of this lodge , or visiting brother , shall be admitted after a candidate has been proposed for a degree , nor until such candidate shall have received that degree . « - "No visiting brother ( members of the Grand Lodge and non-residents excepted ) shall be allowed entrance into the lodge , unless his moral character be vouched for .

"No motion for a new rule or by-law , or for the alteration or repeal of an old one , shall be made until it be first handed up to the W . Master in writing ; and after having been perused by him , it may be moved publicly . It shall then be read by the Secretaryand if secondedshall he over until the next

, , regular meeting for consideration and decision . " It shall be the duty of the Secretary to read the rules of this lodge on the first regular meeting in each month

" The Tyler shall be entitled to five shillings for every night ' s service in that capacity , five shillings for summoning the lodge , five shillings for each initiation , two shillings for the degree of F . C , and two shillings for the degree of Master Mason . "No brother may be re-admitted to membership but by regular ballot , except in case of forfeiture , provided for by Rule 6 , but no fees shall be required for readmission .

"It shall be the duty of every member of this lodge to find refreshments in regular rotation . That such refreshments shall not cost less than fifteen shillings . " No Entered Apprentice or Fellow Craft shall be entered to higher degree or degrees until all fees or due bhim settled untilb

arrears y are , nor , y a majority of members present , he is declared worthy ' of progressing in the mysteries of Freemasonry . " That in testimony of our concurrence and full approbation of the foregoing laws , w e do hereby repeal all the former by-laws of this lodge , and declare the same null ancl void ; and we do further herebratif

y y ancl confirm the present revised code . "That no brother , refusing to concur iu the foregoing confirmation of the rules of this lodge by signing his his name thereto , be considered a member of the same after such refusal .

" That , as it appears the protracting of the business of this lodge to a late hour is injurious to the interests of Masonry , ancl inconsistent to many worthy members , no business shall detain this lodge after the hour of eleven in the evening of each night , except by an express affirmative of at least two-thirds of the

members present . " CHEONOLOGT 01 ' SOME EVENTS 01 ? INTEEEST TO EOYAL ARCH MASONS . " The temple on Mount Moriah was begun in the fourth year of the reiof King Solomonwhich was

gn , A . ii . 2992 . "In the year A . M . 3092 , Solomon died , and Rehoboam was crowned King of Israel . The tribes of Israel , however , were divided , because of the refusal

of Rehoboam to redress some grievances , and ten of the tribes unite under the banner of Jeroboam , and elect him their King , under the title of King of Israel . The tribes of Judah and Benjamin , however , remained loyal to Rehoboam , and he is thenceforward called King of Judah . " The tribes were thus dividedand remained under

, two distinct governments , two hundred and fifty-four years , when the ten tribes fell a prey to Salmanezer , King of Assyria , who utterly extirpated their government . The subsequent history of the ten tribes of Israel is involved in mystery . The two tribes , under the Kings of Judahdwelt in the cities of Judah and

, Benjamin . "A . M . 3033 , in the fifth year of the reign of Rehoboam , Shishak , King of Egypt , pillaged the temple at Jerusalem , and carried off the holy vessels . "A . M . 3063 , Asa brought into the temple the golden vessels which he and his father had prepared

and dedicated . " A . M . 3380 , Josiah orders the temple to be repaired , and finds a copy of the book of the Law . " A . M . 8416 , Nebuchadnezzar , King of Babylon , conquers Jerusalem , destroys the city and temple , carries away the vessels of gold , silver , and brass , and carries captive to Babylon all who were not slain by the sword .

"A . M . 3466 , Babylon is taken by Cyrus , King of Persia . " A . M . 3463 , Cyrus issues his famous edict , according to which the Israelites returned to Jerusalem . "A . M . 3884 , Joshua and Zerubahel , incited by Haggai and Zechariah , go on with the work , by order of Darius , which had been interrupted in consequence of tbe jealousy of the Samaritans . " A . M . 3489 , the second temple was finished . "LE . HUNT .

THE TEACHINGS OT IltEElIASONET . A brother once having been asked What were the teachings of Freemasonry ? replied : — " Freemasonry is not confined in the range of its duties by the narrow barriers which the conventialities of men in every land have created . It has no particular creedno reliious dogmasand neither is

, g , it confined to any nation , tongue , or people . It recognizes God , the Creator of the Universe , as the Father of all men , the people of the whole earth as His children , and therefore that all men are brothers . It teaches that virtue , goodness , and truth belong to no particular heinisjiherethat these are not the

in-, heritance of any one . people , nor have any nation , tribe or sect exclusive right , by divine or natural laws , to these attributes of Deity to the exclusion of others . It follows as a consequence that as virtue , goodness , and truth belong to the whole world , and all mankind are brothersthat the duties of humanity

, ought not be circumscribed , hut that every child of the good Father has a claim to their exercise without regard to the accidents of birth or of education . It is these comprehensive and enlarged views of humanity , and the practical benevolence which Freemasonry imposes that constitutes its superiority over all

associations of men , whatever the principles may he which binds them together , or the banner under whose ajgis they may be united . " Charity looks not at nation nor creed , it is the divine image which constitutes the claim to sympathy .