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brethren firmly bound together by that indissoluble tie—the love of their God , and the love of their kind . In the words of Bro . Sir W . Scott : —

It is the secret sympathy , The silver link , the silken tie , With heart to heart and mind to mind , In body and in soul can bind . " All its plans arc pacific . It cooperates with our blessed religion in regulating the tempers , restraining the passions and harmonizing the discordant interests of men ; breathes a

spirit of universal love aud benevolence ; " adds one more thread to the silken cord of evangelical charity which binds man to man , and seeks to entwine the cardinal virtues aud the Christian graces in the web of the affections and the drapery of the conduct . " Religion is the golden cord which unites man to God ; Masonry the silver line which runs from

man to man ; in its bosom flows cheerily the milk of human kindness and its heart expands with love and charity . It wears the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit , at peace with God , itself , and the world . With one hand she extends the peaceful olive branch , with this she administers succour to the distressed . The morn it

is examined the more beautiful it appears ; the more a Mason searches into the science , the more he loves his Craft ; ib is like the humble fly , which , viewed with the naked eye of the woriding appears dull , commonplace , and of uniform character , but which when narrowly examined bythe eyeof science and understanding , displays beauties far exceeding the utmost expectation . Masonry has met with many persecutions aud enemies , but like the silver seven times tried in the fire , it rises each time more brilliant and more worthy of our esteem .

Freemasonry'' . Is like the ladder in the patriarch ' s dream , Its foot on earth , its height above the skies . Diffused its virtue , boundless is its power ; 'Tis public health and universal awe , Of heavenly manna 'tis a second feast , A nation ' s food , aud all to every taste . "

Pii ton . Where is the Mason whoso heart is not alive to that exquisite satisfaction which may bo derived from our institution ? No societies that ever did or over will exist , can be el' such unbounded advantage to the community as those of Free Masons . Spread over the surface of the globe , they

diffuse virtue aud science through all the world , like the glorious sun whose benign influence enlivens every part of animated nature . Oft has it been reviled , and many are the frivolous objections brought against it b y the ignorant—but if ( ill the words of the illustrious Bro . Dalcho ) to acknowled ge aud adore that supreme and eternal Godto whom all

, nature bends—if to obey with cheerfulness the laws of our country—if to stretch forth the hand of relief to the unfortunate—if to enlighten the mind by the bright principles of science—if to cultivate peace and goodwill with all mankind , are acts of criminalit y , then , indeed , we are deeply culpable , for these principles are the ground work of our

edifice . ^ And long , very long may the superstructure raised upon this imperishable foundation continue to proclaim to all the people of the earth , that virtue , science and religion are the happy cements of the mystic institution . In conclusion , Freemasonry has a foundation , and so has religion—let the foundations be united , and the bases will be

broader , their respective spheres of usefulness will be extended , and they will be two compartments of one great fabric reared to the glory of God . Let Masonry be the outer—reli gion the inner court of this glorious temple . In the one , as in its great prototype of King Solomon , let all look and admire and adoroin the otherlet those who have

; , faith kneel in prayer and praise . Let the one be the sanctuary where Masonry may present its richest incense as an offering to God ; and the other be the Iiolyjof Holies , separated ± rom it by the veil now rent asunder , in which at the feet

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of the Most High we may bring the praise , love and adoration of a reconciled heart in charity with all men , and hear the oracles of the living God . R . B . W .

Archæology.

ARCH ? OLOGY .

THE LATE COUNT BORGHESI . NKWS of the death of Count Bartolomeo Borghesi , the patriarch of archxohglans , whose name was venerated throughout Europe as the . father of the most venerable science of arclneology , has reached us . He lived to the ripe age of eighty-two , which shows that science is not inclined , like Saturn , to the destruction of all her sons , whatever poets may say . Borghcsi had for years

condemned himself to the hardest solitude of all , that of the intelligence for the sake of study , and had retired to the little republic of San Marino in order to be entirely free from the visits of idle curiosity . lie was chosen in 18-12 as Plenipotentiary of the Republic , and the journey he then took to Rome was the only occasion on which he ever left the retreat he had chosen . He was correspondent of every learned society in Europebut had

, resisted every tem 2 " > tation made to him to reside in any other place . Both at Paris and Berlin , at various periods of his life , had made him the most advantageous offers of income and honours , if he would but consent to remove into cither of those places , but all persuasiou was useless . Ho has died in the midst of the pursuit he loved best , in the solitude he adored , and surrounded bthe monuments of industry and research of his long

y and well employed existence , lie has left behind him a complete collection of medals , by which the whole history of the world is made clear and manifest to the historian and antiquary . The British Museum , for many years , has endeavoured to strike a bargain with the count for this unique collection—perhaps it may now be easy of acquisition .

The Fraternal Element.

THE FRATERNAL ELEMENT .

On that man would cultivate within himself a fraternal feeling for his brother man , and be governed in his communions , his social relations , his sympathies , by the principle of love , and not by impulses , according to circumstances or accidental surroundings . Life on earth is necessarily brief , and why should man , in violation of the laws of the heavenly principle of love implanted in his nature by the Father of all , harbour animosity , be unkind ,

deceive or injure his brother man . Every act , word and thought go to make u ]> the constituent elements of the man , aud is it nob better to cultivate and develop the good , the heavenly , the God in man , than the evil ? The unkind word spoken can never be recalled , its effects upon ourselves may not be wiped out in time , so with anger , deception , wilful wrong , —while these arc a perfect barrier to our progress onward aud upwardthey render us

in-, capable of enjoying the 2 'tu'c delights of communion with the immortal spirit . Nor do the effects cease with the spirit's entrance into another sphere . The deception , the wrong , the evils of anger and unkindness remain , aud are not obliterated because of the separation of the body and spirit , aud the necessary change of condition from the visible to the invisible , from the earthly to the spiritual sphere . That must be a work of progress , spiritual

progress , from out of the sphere in which wc arc to a higher , and higher , and better;—a progress which has no termination . The law is as immutable and fixed as the existence of the Creator , that in order to progress heavenward , we must endeavour to attain the good , aud divest ourselves of all evil . It is neither impossible nor impracticable to attain the highest degree of perfection our nature is capable of , if wc only cultivate the germs of

those principles implanted in us by the Creator , and develop all that is good , and true , and just of the living spirit within us . Our relations to our fellow man render it not only necessary but obligatory upon every human being to aid the designs of the Father of all ; to jiromote a kindly , generous , fraternal fellowship , and to harmonize the variety of individualities , aud unite them by the golden bonds of love into one great fraternal

brotherhood . To effect this every man must begin with himself . If in consequence of education , association , or from any other cause , the elements of an antagonistic disposition to the law of love and fraternity control , the greater the necessity to work a reform ; and it only needs application , a severe and rigid scrutiny into his own interior life , an unceasing vigilance , and an earnest and sincere desire to improve and perfect himself in order to subject the grosser passions of his nature to proper discipline , and however difficult all this may seem , yet man has the power with-