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night , that one fears to meet it . I will send before me some confidential person whom I will direct to confer with you , but I hope and flatter myself to , see you Thursday evening . Tours faithfully ,

Jo . STUART . " Monday nig ht , — . Addressed to James Young , Esq ., R . W .. M . of St . Mungo , Glasgow . "

"Hamilton , 1 st August , 1806 . "Right Worshipful Sir , —I this morning received a letter from Lord Archibald Hamilton , now 'in London , enclosing your letter to him of 24 th nit ., acquainting his Lordship of the procession to

¦ take place in Glasgow this day , at laying the foundation stone of a monument in memory of ¦ Lord Nelson . Lord Archibald Hamilton desired me to acknowledge that letter , and say that he certainly would have attended the procession of

'Masons had he been in the country , and he only ¦ deputed me to write the answer , because he could not read your signature .

I have the honour to be , with much respect , Right Worshipful Sir , Your most obedient Servant , JOHN - BOTES . " Addressed , —James Young , Esq .,

R . W . M . of St . Mungo Lodge , Glasgow . " The foregoing is all that is said in reference to the procession , no account of how it came off being g iven in the Minutes ; however , by turning to

pages 171 to 173 of Lawrie's History of Freemasonry , we find that there were thirty lodges present , and in all it was calculated there were about 80 , 000 persons assembled on the Green This same Sir John Stuart , of AUanbank , we also

learn in 1804 presented a very elegant jewel to be worn by the Grand Master on all public Masonic . occasions . ( To he continued . )

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THE VAITJE OU A TKUE BEOTIIEB . —Have we a true brother , upon whom we can rely under all the vicissitudes of human life ? Then liow cruel , yea , worse than the assassin , to destroy by treachery the trust ancl confidence that brother "bestows upon us . In duty to Mm , to ourselfj to the principles of right , we should love and cherish him with all that pure aud holy friendship that renders him so worthy ancl truly noble . The one who has never known , the kind offices of a brother ' s care may not he

blamed for cold ingratitude . But the one who has felt the confident tokens of love from a confiding brother's heart , whose soul is sunk in your welfare , if he betray and sacrifice you upon the altar of dishonesty , is a murderer .

The Bible And Masonry.

THE BIBLE AND MASONRY .

Many professing Christians verily think the Bible and Masonry are antagonistic , and that the institution of Freemasonry is at war with the Bible and its institutions ; and as the Bible is of divine origin , and consequently fraught with divine and

only important instruction , they cleave to it , and regard all else as being opposed to divine truth , and the divine government . Hence their opposition to Masonry is very natural , and becomes to them a religious duty . They are not , therefore ,

blameable . They only need to be enlightened on this subject , and one of the most forminable objections to our noble order will be set aside . ould we but make them know that the Bible is

one of the great lights in Masonry , that portions of it are read , or rehearsed in every convocation of the lodge , its divine precepts and injunctions enforced in an earnest and solemn manner upon the members at every meeting , as well as every

parting of the brethren — that the lodges are usually both conducted and closed with earnest prayer to the God of all grace and the Father of our spirits , that devotional exercises are as indispensible in the lodge as in the regular meetings

of the churches , where could they look for further objections to our noble institution ? When the above objection is removed , it is very sual for them to fall back on the immoralities of

some individual members . But they can very easily be silenced by comparing notes , for they are by no means as perfect as they could be , and when they discover that there is a beam in their own eye , they may forbear to seek for the mote

that is in their brother's . But with what confidence can we plead innocence while we are conscious of a mote in our own eye ? This brings the subject home to our own hearts , and if we would see our order occupy the rank in the

Christian world , to which it is properly entitled , it becomes us to reduce its precepts to a more thorough practice , and avoid all things which in their natures are calculated to bring our principles into disrepute .

Every brother knows he is instructed in the lodge to revere the teaching of the Bible as sacred , and to be governed out of the lodgo by its precepts . Every brother knows the great teacher said , " he that is not for me , is against me ; aud he that gathereth not with me scattereth . " And we see the fitness of its application to our