"Taught To Be Cautious."

We have also seen actors on the public stage , when pourtraying distress , make signs which , though few but brethren could recognize , should never have been shown in such places . We have seen travelling brethren enter a strange commercial room , and , after well scrutinizing the company try for a response . One itinerant dealer in many wares always enforces the recommendation of his

goods by a masonic sign , totally irrespective of the presence of his brethren or of the outside world . These things ought not to be . Masters of lodges ought strenuously to exhort the brethren to be cautious . True , they are " taught to be cautious , " but it should be carefully instilled into the mind of eveiy brother that the caution he exercises in the

lodge should be doubly observed when in mixed company , or suddenly endangered by a hasty attempt to extort recognition by a stranger . We ought to be all glad that the lecturer , above quoted , has been good enough to- declare his modus operandi of attack . We ought all to be move than ever careful now , and on our guard

against surprise . It would be ungenerous to say that the Roman Catholic priesthood are likely to adopt such means towards an end , nor will Ave insinuate that , with them , the end is held to justify the means , but die Papal Allocution has roused the Ultramontane party in that communion and the result may be guessed . Once more , and for the last time here , let young and old , as

well as high and low , rich and poor , brethren ever bear in remembrance that once , at all events , in their lives they were " Taught to be cautious . "

Secresy.

SECRESY .

j _ j 5 ECEESY is the cement of friendship . When Ulysses departed to repaii t £ §» to the siege of Troy , in his charge to his friends in respect to theii J j P & Care of Telemachus , who was then in his infancy , he among other ffi & thus entreats them , " above all forget not to render him just , beneficent , " sincere , and faithful in keeping a secret . And it is afterwards made a jjart in the character of Telemachus , that ho knew how to keep a secret without telling airy untruthand yet could

; lay aside that close mysterious air , which is so common to people that are reserved . Ho did not seem oppressed with the burthen of the secret which ho kept ; he always seemed easy , natural , open , as one that carried his heart up on his lips . But at the same time that he would tell you everything that was of no consequence , he knew how to stop just in the proper moment , and without proceeding to those things which might icionand ive hint of his secret

raise some susp , g a . By this means his heart was impenetrable and inaccessible ; nay , he never communicated , even to his best friends , but just so much as he thought was necessary , in order to have their good advice . He did indeed place a confidence in some other friends , but then he observed different degrees of confidence , according as he had met with proofs of their friendship and discretion . He that discovers secrets , says Solomon , is a traitor , and he that conceals them is a , faithful brother . I 3 flO . WELIINS UAIILCOTT .