Jottings From Masonic Journals.

Jottings from Masonic Journals .

—»—We are indebted to the July number of The Mason ' s Rome-Book ( Philadelphia , ) for the folio vi ing beautiful extracts : — THE eye of God is in everyplace , for the purpose of talcing a strict and impartial cognisance of all human actions . This expressive emblem will remind you that

the Deity is watching over all mankind , and will weigh in the balance of truth , every action , thought , and word . FORTITUDE . —By fortitude we are taught to resist temptation , and encounter danger with spirit and resolution . This virtue is equally distant from rashness and cowardice ; and he who possesses it , is seldom shaken , and never overthrown , by the storms that surround him .

ENVY . —None should discover envy at the prosperity of a brother , nor supplant him , or put him out of his work , if he be capable to finish the same , for no man can finish another ' s work so much to the lord's profit , unless he be thoroughly acquainted with the designs and draughts of him that began it . —Ancient Charges . DEFAMATION . —To defame our brother , or suffer

him to be defamed , without interesting ourselves for the preservation of his name and character , there is scarce the shadow of an excuse to be found . Defamation is always wicked . Slander and evil speaking are the pests of civil society , are the disgrace of every degree of religious profession , and the poisonous bane of all brotherly love . Defamation is never absolutely , or indeed at all , necessary ;

for suppose your brother has faults , are you obliged , because you speak of him , to discover them ? Has he no good qualities ? Sure all have some good ones ; make them then , though ever so few , the subject of your conversation , if ye must talk of him ; and if he has no good qualities , speak not of him at all . —Inwood . DEPORTMENT . —Since many of our forms and

operations are necessarily secreted from common inspection , the generality of mankind will make up their opinion of the society from the deportment of its members . This ought to serve as a very powerful call to every one of us , uniformily and openly to display those qualities and virtues so strongl y inculcated and warmly recommended in the lodge . To little purpose shall we commend the

institution , and boast the excellence of its principles and purposes , if our lives give not corroborative evidence to our assertions , and prove not the propriety of our encomiums . If we appear neither wiser nor better than the uninitiated , the world will begin to suspect the efficacy of our tenets ; and if no good effects are apparent , they will doubt whether any are produced . —Harris .

DIAMOND OF THE DESERT . —Sir Walter Scott , in one of those splendid tales of fiction which have immortalised his name , describes a small spot of verdure amidst an arid waste , which was figuratively denominated the Diamond of the Desert . Amongst Irishmen , too long estranged by political feuds and sectarian contentions , Freemasonry may be esteemed as the moral Diamond of

the Desert , within whose hallowed precincts are united men of worth of every class , holding the most antagonistic principles—united by a mysterious and iinrcvcalable bond —joined by a tie of brotherhood which tends lo the subjugation of prejudice , the development of charity , and the masterdom of those absurd and irreligious antipathies , which array in hostility creatures of the same God , for all

of whom , without distinction , the great sacrifice of Calvary has been consummated . —0 Ryan . DOUBTS . —It is a good rule in all doubtful matters to suspend our opinion at least till positive proof is obtained on which to found it . Until wc have fully ascertained the real state of the case , let us always be willing to put the fairest construction it will admit ; and even to hope the best of a thing when appearances are against it .

Where doubt hesitates , let candour prompt ; and where justices balances , let mercy prevail . Even where we find ourselves obliged to blame the principles of a certain sect or party , let us not be so uncharitable as to confound all its adherents and followers under one general and indiscriminate censure . Especially let us not charge them with such consequences of their tenets as they disavow . —Harris . EDEN . —When God created the first man He

placed him in the Garden of Eden , to dress it and to keep it . Horticulture or gardening is the first kind of employment on record , and that in which man was engaged while in a state of perfection and innocence . Though the garden may be supposed to produce all things spontaneously , as the whole vegetable earth certainly did at the creation , yet dressing and tilling were afterwards necessary lo

maintain the different kinds of plants and vegetables in their perfection , and to repress luxuriance . Even in a state of innocence we cannot conceive it possible that man could have been happy if inactive . God gave him work to do , and his employment contributed to his happiness ; for the structure of his body , as well as of his mind , plainly proves that lie was never intended for merely a contemplative Wfe . —Adam Clarke .

GOOD MASON . -The good Mason is an example to his neighbours , and his name and character are proverbial . Those who are younger venerate him , his companions love him , his superiors extol him . In his family he is high without severity , and condescerd ' mg without meanness ; his commands are gentle—indeed his wishes are his commands ; for all are equally ready to answer his desires . To his wife he is the tender husband , not the

Usurping lord ; to his children he is the kind , the providential father , not the domineering tyrant ; to his servants he is equally the friend as the superior . Thus ruling , he is obeyed with cheerfulness ; and thus his home , whether a cottage or a palace , is , while he is present , the habitation of peace ; when there he leaves it with reluctance , and when absent his return is expected with a pleasing avidity . —Imuood ,

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METROPOLITAN MASONIC MEETINGS

For the Week ending August 20 , 1570 . MONDAY , AUGUST 15 . Lodge 720 , Panmure , Loughboro' Hotel , Brixton . Sincerity Lodge of Instruction ( 174 ) , Railway Tavern , Fenchurch-street Station , at 7 .

Wellington Lodge of Instruction , White Swan Tavern , Deptford , at 8 . Camden Lodge of Instruction ( 704 ) , Adelaide Tavern , Haverstock-hill , at 8 ; Bro . T . A . Adams , Preceptor . Eastern Star Lodgeof Instruction ( 95 ) , Royal Hotel ,

Mileend-road , at 7 . 30 , Bro . E . Gottheil , Preceptor . British Oak Lodge of Instruction , Bank of Friendship Tavern , Mile End , at 7 for 8 .

TUESDAY , AUGUST 16 . Board of General Purposes , Freemasons' Hall , at 3 . Lodge 435 , Salisbury , 71 , Dean-street , Soho . Chap . 186 , Industry , Freemasons' Hall . Metropolitan Chapter . of Instruction , Portugal Hotel , Fleet-street , at 7 ; Comp . Brett , Preceptor .

Domatic Lodge of Instruction , Palmerston 1 a v ., Grosveuorpark , Camberwell , at 7 . 30 . Royal Union Lodge of Instruction ( 382 ) , Hotel de Cologne , 60 and 61 , Haymarket , at 8 ; Bro . T . AAdams , Preceptor . Faith Lodge of Instruction , Metropolitan Railway , Victoria

Station , at 8 ; Bro . C A . Cottebrune , Preceptor . Yarborough Lodge of Instruction , Green Dragon , Stepney , at 8 ; Bro . Isaac Saqui , Preceptor . Priiice Fredk . William Lodge of Instruction ( 753 ) Knights of St . John ' s Tavern , St . John ' s-wood ; Bro . F . G . Baker , Preceptor . Prestonian Club of Instruction ( for M . M . ' s only ) , Lyceum Tavern , Strand .

WEDNESDAY , AUGUST 17 . Lodge 619 , Beadon , Greyhound , Dulwich . Pythagorean Lodge of Instruction ( 79 ) , Prince of Orange , Greenwich , at 8 ; J . Robt . Nash , Preceptor . United Strength Lodge of Instruction ( 228 ) , Bull & Gate , Kentish Town-road , at 8 ; Bro . J . N . Frost , Preceptor . Israel Lodge of Instruction , Rising Sun Tavern ,

Globeroad , at 7 . 30 ; Bro . Isaac Saqui , Preceptor . Strong Man Lodge of Instruction , The Grapes Tavern , Duke-street , Manchester-square , at S ; Bro . T . A . Adams , P . G . P ., Preceptor ^ New Concord Lodge of Instruction , Rosemary Branch Tavern , Hoxton , at 8 .

Sydney Lodge of Instruction ( 829 ) , Cambridge Hotel , Upper Norwood , at 7 . 30 . Peckham Lodge of Instruction , Maismore Arms , Parkroad , Peckham ; Bro . David Rose , Preceptor . Temperance in the East Lodge of Instruction , George the Fourth , Catherine-street , Poplar .

THURSDAY , AUGUST 18 . House Committee Girls' School , at 4 . Lodge 733 , Wcstbourne , Lord's Hotel , St . John ' s Wood . Fidelity Lodge of Instruction ( 3 ) , Goat and Compasses , Euston-road , at 8 ; Bro . T . A . Adams , Preceptor . Finsbury Club of Instruction , Jolly Anglers' Tavern , 42 , Bath-street , City-road .

United Manners Lodge of Instruction , Three Cranes , Mile-cnd-road , at 8 ; Bro . T . J . Barnes , Preceptor . St . George ' s Lodge of Instruction ( 140 ) , Globe Tavern , Royal Hill , Greenwich , at 8 . Burdctt Coutts Lodge of Instruction ( 1278 ) , Approach Tavern , Approach-road , Victoria-park , at 7 . 30 ; Bro , lohn Saunders , Preceptor .

FRIDAY , AUGUST 19 . House Committee , Boys' School . Rose Croix Chapter , Invicta , Masonic Hall , Woolwich . St . Luke ' s Lodge of Instruction ( 144 ) , Pier Htl ., Chelsea , Unions Emulation Lodge of Improvement for M . M . ' s , Freemasons' Hall , at 7 . Domatic Chapter of Instruction , Metropolitan Railway ,

Victoria Station , at S j Comp . Cottebrune , Preceptor . Pythagorean Chapter of Instruction ( No . 79 ) , Prince ol Orange , Greenwich-road , at S ; Comp . W . West Smith , Preceptor . Metropolitan Lodge of Instruction , Portugal Htl ., Fleetstreet , at 7 ; Bro . Brett , Preceptor . United Pilgrims' Lodge of Instruction , Duke of

Edinburgh , Shepherd s-lane , Brixton . Belgrave Lodge of Instruction , Duke of Wellington Htl ., Spring-gardens , Charing-cross ; Br . Pnlsford , Preceptor Doric Lodge of Instruction , Three Cranes Tavern , Mile end-road , at S ; Bro . Isaac Saqui , Preceptor . Duke of Edinburgh Lodge of Instruction , . Silver Lion ,

Penny-fields , Poplar , at 7 ; Br . D . S . Potts , Preceptor . Temperance Lodge of Instruction , Victoria Tav ., Victoriaroad , Deptford , at 8 . Charterhouse Club of Instruction , Hat and Feathers Tavern , 25 , Goswcll-road , at 8 ; Bro . J . Mather , P . M . 65 , Preceptor .

SATURDAY , AUGUST 20 . Lodge 1185 , Lewis , Nightingale Tavern , Wood Green . ,, 132 S , Granite , Consecration and Installation , Freemasons' Hall , at 4 . Star Lodge of Instruction ( 1275 ) , Marquis of Granby , New Cross-road , at 7 .

MR . J AMES BARRETT , Chemist , Smithfield , Birmingham , writes , June 3 , 186 9 : — ' •Your Pain Killer is gaining many friends in this section . Among the many cures effected by it which have come under my notice , I may mention the case of a lady , who , after suffering long with neuralgia , and trying many reputed remedies without benefit , was at length cured , and that almost instantly , by the first application of your Pain Killer . —To Perry Davis & Son , "

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EAVESDROPPER . —In the lectures used at the revival . of Masonry in 1717 , the following punishment was inflicted on a cowan . "To be placed under the eaves of the house in rainy weather , till the water runs in at his shoulders and out at his shoes . " The French rather extend this punishment . "On le met sous une gouttiere , une pompe , ou une fontaine jusqu ' a ce qu'il soit mouille depuis la tete jusqu ' aux pieds . " Hence a listener is called an evesdropper .

THE BLOOD IN OLD AGE . — As age advances the blood becomes thin and cloudy—or , in a full habit , thick and cloudy . The failing of the powers of life requires extra nutrition and support , and the blood yielding the excess required is soon overcharged with carbon , which gives to it the cloudy appearance . Being then impure , day by day the vitiated matter increases , and the body

suffers from a thousand ailments . "The Blood Purifier , " old Dr . Jacob Townsend ' s Sarsaparilla , supplies the extra nutrition to the blood and restores to it its florid hue , and then the progress of decay is arrested and the ailment disappear—man lives out his days , and the sunset of life is unattended with suffering . Testimonials with each bottle from the Hon . the Dean of Lismore , General Wm .

Gilbert , of the Indian Army ; and Rev . Francis Monck , of "The Gospel Evangelist . " Ordered also for Apothecaries' Hall , London . Sold by all druggists , in bottles 2 s . 6 d ., 4 s ., 4 s . 6 d ., 7 s . 6 d ., lis . Pills and Ointment , each in boxes is . i ^ d ., 2 s . 9 d ., 4 s . 6 d , —Caution : Get the red and blue wrappers , with the old Doctor ' s head in the centre . No other genuine . —[ Advt . ]

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q ^ HE FREEMASONS' LIFE BOAT . — J- Committee Room : Bro . FOSTER ' S , Railway Tavern , Londonstreet , E . C . COMMITTEE : Bro . A . E . Harris , P . M . i + 1 > Bro . Thos . White , W . M . 22 . President . ,, Chas . Davis , 223 . „ S . Davis , 141 , the Promoter „ Jas . Wyld , 511 , Prop . Lie and Treasurer . Vict . Guardian . „ E . Gottheil , P . M . 141 , Hon . „ Mann , P . M . and P . Z . 186 , Secretary . W . M .-desig . 1306 , & c . , John Thomas , P . M . 507 , ,, T . Bartlett , W . M . 813 . P . G . D . C . „ S . Mellish , 188 . „ Jas . Stevens , P . M . 720 . ,, H . F . Isaacs , 188 . ,, M . Manns , 188 . ,, Lacey , P . M . 174 . „ J . Kcnnett , 141 . „ Alex . Levy , P . M . 188 . „ H . M . Levy , P . M . 188 . ,, Wm . Carter , P . M . & Treas . ,, N . Gluckstein , 141 , P . M . 51 , 141 . P . P . S . G . W . „ J . G . Dickie , P . M . 45 , P . Z . „ C . C . Taylor , J . W . 141 . j , P . G . P . ,. B . Salmon , 141 . ,, J . R . Stebbing , P . M ., and . „ T . S . Mortlock , P . M . 174 . P . G . D . Finland . „ Rev . M . B . Levy , P . M . „ J . L . Mather , P . M . 6 5 l S . W . 1017 . 1267 . HANKERS . London and Westminster Bank , Eastern Branch . The following brethren who are not on the Committee have promised their support : —Br . Col . Maletde Carteret , P . G . M . Channel Islands ; Br . Prosser , P . M . 244 , Jersey : Br . Gardiner , W . M . 84 , Guernsey ; Br . Ashley , P . M . 254 , Coventry , P . G . J . W . Warwickshire ; Br . De Grute , Birmingham ; Br . Woolf , P . M . 223 , Plymouth : and others . The Committee meet at their Room on the first Thursday in every month at 8 p . m . All subscriptions , together with the names of the donors , will be acknowledged in THE FREEMASON . In order to ensure success , it is hoped that every Brother will personally interest himself in the movement . Bro . E . GOTTHEIL , P . M . 141 , Hon . Sec ., Z 20 , Mile End Road , E .

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COD LIVER OIL . PUREST NEWFOUNDLAND . '"THE BEST IN THE WORLD—Pale , Taste-A less , Odourless . EIGHTEEN PENCE PER PINT BOTTLE . L . SEAMAN AND CO ., 116 , LOWER THAMES STREET , LONDON . amp for Pamphlet , " Cod Liver Oil : its Varieties and Use * , Test of Purity , Mode of Preparation , " & c .

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Bro , WILLIAM PLATT , Manufacturer of Masonic fi-vels , Clothing , Banners , Furniture , Embroideries , & -v ., 6 , II 1 CAUFOK . T BUILDINGS , STRAND , LONDON , ( Established 1848 ) , Lodge and Chapter Furniture supplied at the lowest prices . A single article at the Wholesale Price . Terms Cash .

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Bro . R . N . FIELD , Silversmith , Cutler , and Electroplate Manufacturer . Strong Plated Dinner Forks and Spoons , 19 s . 6 d . : Dessert do ., 13 s . : Tea Spoons , 7 s . 6 d . doz . ; I ' alance Ivory-handle Dinner Knives , from 10 s . 6 d . dor . ; Carvers , 4 s . 6 d . per pair : ljiitler Coolers , Tea and Coffee Sets , Cruet and Egi ; Stands , Dessert Knives and Forks , Fisheating do ., etc . 2 S , CHEAPSIDE , LONDON .

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"TRUTH MUST PREVAIL . " —Common Sense . Lam / s , Baths , Cutlery , Brushes , Fenders and Fire Irons , Fln-irophie and Nickel-Silver Goods . R . D . PARR , General House-Furnishing Ironmonger , 42 , BLACKMAN STREET , BOROUGH , OFFERS nothing extraordinary , but REALLY r . oon Articles at fair and reasonable prices . He docs n » t keep an " Immense Stock , " but SUFFICIENTI-V I . AK <; H for any person to select from . lie docs not sell " cheaper than every other house in the Trade , " hut quite as cheap as ANY . . •/visit wilt , at alt times , le very much appreciated .

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WEAK OR DEFECTIVE SIGHT .-SPECTACLES scientifically adapted to remedy impaired vision by Mr . ACKLAN'D , Surgeon , daily , at Home and Thornthuaite ' s , Opticians to the Queen , 122 and 123 , Newgale-street , London . Send eight stamps for " Auckland ' s Hints on Spectacles , ' which contains valuable suggestions to sufferers from imperfect sight .