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of Masonry . No special allurements have ever induced her to overstep her ancient landmarks and parade her beauties ostentatiously before an indifferent world ; but the world nevertheless feels the benefits of her labours , like gentle dew falling in the stillness of the midnight hour . She encompasseth not sea and land to make proselytes , but exerts an unobtrusive influence upon the

hearts of men , which prompts them to seek admission within her temple walls ; she presents no allurements to those who have no higher motive than to forward selfish aims and selfish ambitions , but those who drink in her pure spirit she elevates in the scale of morality and virtue , and proves indeed a fostering mother . ' Happiness is what Freemasonry seeks to confer upon

her votaries , and happiness is what God designed for man by endowing him with mental and moral power and making him lord of creation , spreading out before him nature in all her profusion , and inviting him to explore her to her most concealed recesses . She invites to the study of astronomy , that he may learn to admire the starry heavens , and take in and comprehend the

beauty of that faultless dome , studded with those beautiful gems of the night , compared with which all man's ingenuity and skill , even in the palmiest days of Grecian and Roman Architecture , sink into insignificance . She invites to the study of mathematics , by a proper knowledge of which he may be made to feel fche insignificance of all human calculations compared with the calculations

of Him whose problems are beyond the possibility of human solution . His attention is called to the five senses of human nature— -hearing , seeing , feeling , smelling , and tasting—that the world of wonders by which he is surrounded may contribute to his happiness , enabling him to find ' tongues in trees , books in the running brooks , sermons in stones , and good in everything . ' He looks abroad upon the varied fields of nature , and . althousrh ooor . rjerhans , compared with those whose

mansions glitter in his sight , calls the delightful scenery all his own— ' his are the mountains and the valleys his ; and thc resplendent rivers his by a peculiar right , and by an emphasis of interest his , whose eyes they fill with tears of holy joy , whose heart with love , and whose exalted mind with thoughts of that unwearied One who planned and formed , ami still upholds , a world . '

" From these scattered reflections we turn and ask ourselves the question , what are our duties as individual members of Princeton Lodge No . 38 ? Ifc is our privilege to make this one of the first in the State , and , working directly for that object , and that without the violation of any Masonic duty , but , on the contrary , in perfect accordance with a command enjoined upon us ,

* to manifest a noble contention , or rather emulation , of who best can work and best agree . ' It is our privilege to so conform to the precepts and privileges of the Order as to mark our distinction among men and Masons . It is our privilege , by the exemplification of Masonic virtues in our family circles , to lead them to feel that the white apron is nofc a meaningless badge ; bufc an

emblem of all that is lovely and noble in human character ; and while it is our duty to watch with a jealous eye that no innovations are suffered to creep in and destroy or mar the harmony and beauty of her proportions , yet we must nofc forget that we live in an age of progress unexampled in the history of the world , where the means for the improvement of the mind lie scattered around us like

leaves in autumn weather ; and that duty to onr God , to ourselves , and the claims society has upon us , alike demand that we should not let these golden opportunities pass unheeded and unimproved . It needs no laboured argument to prove that Masonry demands intellectual development at the hands of her chosen disciples . At the very outset of a Mason ' s career , she puts on the yoke of mental discipline , for the purpose of inducing intellectual culture , and makes ifc , to a cerfcaia extent , a pre-requisifce to his standing before

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men and brethren as a Free and Accepted Mason ; and if this be necessary afc the very outset , how much more necessary to his advancement if he desires to understand tbe principles which have kept a society together in one unbroken mysterious chain running back for more than four thousand years— -if he wishes to understand ' the secret sympathy , the silver link , the silken tie ,

which heart to heart and mind to mind , in body and in soul , can bind '—if he wishes to hold sympathetic communion with a ' Bob Morris , ' whose soul stirring productions seem in unison and harmony with the music of the spheres , he must study as he has , breathe the spirit of our glorious institution , which entertains no narrowcontracted views of the principles which it

in-, culcates ; but , on the contrary dispersing sectionalism , and bigotry like mist before the beams of the morning sun—teaching man that catholic and liberal view of duty which embraces all mankind , wherever located , as having one destiny—teaching him solemn lessons of morality , and impressing him with the truth that'Leaves have their time to fall , and flowers to wither at the north

wind ' s breath , and stars to set ; but thou , thou hast all seasons for thine own , oh , death ! ' an institution eminently calculated to exercise in harmonious union all the capacities of the intellect and all the most exquisite powers ofthe soul ; filling man with a high sense of his duty to God , to his neighbour , and the various relations he sustains to his family : enabling him to delight in the

soul kindling flashes in the eyes of his children , indicating an ardent desire for more light , and qualifying him to nurture the budding thought to bloom aire ! ripen for immortality , ennobling and enriching everything with which he comes in contact ; developing and enlarging the powers with which a beneficent Creator has endowed him ; levelling , plumbing , and squaring him for that upper and glorious temple , where the Supreme Architect of the universe presides .

Notes On Literature, Science, Music Drama, And The Fine Arts .

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE , MUSIC DRAMA , AND THE FINE ARTS .

An equestrian statue of the present Emperor of the French has just been fixed over the new gateways that lead beneath the great gallery of the Louvre into the Place du Carousel . The work is by the able sculptor , Baryc , whose talent is well known . The Echo , the forthcoming evening paper , to he published at one half will be printed btwo of

penny , y Marinoni ' s machines , just- erected at the Echo office , capable of producing 80 , 000 perfect copies per hour . They are , wo believe , the first of their kind introduced into this country , although they have been used for some time to print Le Petit Journal , tho halfpenny eveninn * paper of Paris , which has a circulation of over 250 , 000 copies per day .

Some soldiers , occupied recently in making a trench near Hildesheim , discovered a mass of vases , cups , candelabra ? , etc ., about 50 in number , all in massive silver , and of which the workmanship and design give reason to suppose that they were produced in the time of Augustus by Greek artists . One cup is decorated with a charming chasing in reliefrepresenting the infant Hercules

, strangling the snakes , and another with satyrs , bacchantes , and attributes pertaining to Bacchus . Another new serial work is announced by Messrs . Cassell , Better , and Galpin , under the title of "Illustrated Travels , " to be edited by Mr . H . W . Bates , Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society . The first part will appear in December .

Bro . Nelson Lee , the celebrated pantomime writer , has been engaged to write a new and original pantomime , entitled £ s . d-, for the Australian colonies ; three of his dramas have also been accepted .