The Knights Templars.

reth , and after they had proceeded a short distance from the Castle of La Feno , they met a brother of the Temple on horseback , AVIIO gallopped up to them at a furious rate , crying out , " Bad neivs ! bad news ! " and ho informed them IIOAV that the

Master of the Hospital had had his head cut off , and IIOAV of all the brothers of the Temple there escaped but three , the Master and two others , and that the Kni ghts ivhom tiie King had placed in garrison at Nazareth Avere all taken and killed . If

Balian had marched straight to Nazareth ivith his Knights , instead of halting to hear mass at Sebaste , he would have saved his brethren from destruction . As it ivas , lie arrived in time to hear the funeral service read over their dead bodies by

William , Archbishop of Tyre . Gerard de Ridefort lay for some time at Nazareth , suffering severely from his Avounds ; but having received reinforcements from the castles of the Templars , he , along ivith Lord Balian aud the

Archbishop of Tyre , proceeded to Tiberias to have an intervieAv with the Count of Tripoli . Hoivever , Gerard would not trust himself in the hands of

Raymond , wisely considering that the Count would havo few scruples in ridding himself of such a determined enemy as the Grand Master had proved both to himself and Saladin ; aud De Ridefort , after seeing the two envoys a certain distance ,

returned to Nazareth , where his half closed Avounds broke afresh , ancl he AA'as once more confined to a sick bed . The envoys had an intervieAv ivith the Count , AVIIO , although he had entered into a solemn league ivith Saladin , pretended to repent of his

conduct , and consented to do homage to Guy de Lusignan aud Sybilla , and to forget his private injuries , and to use every effort in his power to repair the misfortunes he had , by his league ivith

the Sultan , brought upon the kingdom . For this jDiirpose Raymond at once set out for Jerusalem ; and the meeting betiveen the King and the Count took place at Jacob ' s Well , near Naplous , in presence of the Templars , Hospitallers , the clergy ,

and nobles " of the kingdom . The Count knelt upon one knee , and did homage ; whereupon the King raised him up and kissed him , and they then both returned to Naplous , there to concert measires for the defence of the kingdom . This

reconciliation on the part of the Count Avas doubtless insincere , and he appears to have only consented to it to gain a surer opportunity of again betraying his brethren . ( To be continued . )

Nintii Decade Of Masonic Precepts.

NINTII DECADE OF MASONIC PRECEPTS .

( From Bro . PURTOX COOPEICS Manuscript Collections . ) LXXXL—DEMXSTF-. ATIOX or THE ATOIUL LAW . Brother , the moral law maybe sufficiently demonstrated philosophically ; but it is not correct to sny that it can be demonstrated geometrically . LXXXIL—Sisxi-iis IS Anom-ivi - FUEHMASOXHY . ,

Adoptive Freemasonry being altogether foreign to English Freemasonry , sisters in adoptive Freemasonry arc our sisters only in tho sense in which all men , although , not Freemasons , avc our brothers .

LXXXIII . —AltCIHTECTUJlE . Brother , architecture being one of the fine arts , forms part of the new science esthetics . LXXXIV . —BEAII AXD FORBEAR . Af ^ xov imi aitexov bear mid forbear . This , brother , is tho celebrated precept of Epictotns . It needcth . no

paraphrase . LXXXV . —DtsruT . vnox . —THE IGXORAXT MAX . Bi-o' . hcv , clispntatir . il with the ignorant man , philosopher and prudent Freemason alike avoid . LXXXVL— A AXCIEXT PHILOSOPHER .

Brother , it was tho jnst pride of an ancient philosopher that , notwithstanding his great ago , ho continued his labours for tho increase of the knowledge stored in his mind .

LXXXVII- —XATUUAL EELIGIOX . —CHRISTIANITY . Brother , in tho midst of the darkness by ivhich thou art sun-omidctl . thou hast searched and thou hast found a light — thou hast found Natural Religion . Search again , and thou wilt find another and greaterlight—fcliou iviltfind Christianity .

LXXXVIIL—E QUALISATION . Brother , in life there is commonly a sort of equalisation of the good and tho bad . LXXXIX . —CS ; XTXXMIY . Brother , thou observesb the centenary of the foundatho of tho

tion of thy lodge . Observe , also , centenary birth of a worthy parent . XO . —ETUBXITV . Brother -, "Eh ! savoz vous CO quo cost quo I'Ecernite ? Cost cine pcndule dont le baiancier dit ot rcdit ces deux mots settlementdans lo silence

sans cesse , dos tombcaux . Tovjnurs ! Jamais ! Jamais ! Tovfmrs ! Et toujours pendant cos cfli-oyablos revolutions un rupronve s ' ecric ; Qwl heitre cst-il ? ct la voix d'un autre miserable lui repond—VEternitcA

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

TUB HELTO . oy OF FEE E MASONRY SLUMBERS ; IT AWAKES ; IT ISSUES FORTH . A . learned brother Avrites as follows . - — " In the nature worshipper , tho Polytheist , the Pantheist , the religion of Freemasonry slumbered . In certain Greek hilosophers it ceasedto slumber ; it awoke ,

p , but it still remained wiih them . In other Greek philosophers it awoke , and remained not ivith them , hut issued forth , and threw its lig ht on the western world . " —C . P . COOPER .