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Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
to the editor oe the fkeemasons' monthl y magazine . Sir , I SHALL feel obliged by your allowing me to make some remarks on two letters by B . C . V ., dated from Bath , which appeared in the last number of the Freemasons ' Magazine . Those letters are characterised by a peculiar , and by no means commendable assertion of influence and power , which , if really possessed by the writer , would have been announced with at least some real or assumed modesty . Also by a statement that " the 18 th and other Degrees" are " perfectly impious . " It
[ Tub Editor does not hold himself responsible for any opinions entertained by Correspondents . ]
is evident that B . C . V . is not a member of those Degrees , or he would not have made such a charge ; if ignorant of them , he had no claim to make it ; and if he has made it on surreptitiously acquired information , I leave him to settle the account with his own conscience , fully assured that in every society where honour and virtue are prized , he will meet with well-merited censure . B . C . V . believes " Masonry to be the prototype of Christianity , for every symbol has a direct reference to our religion . " In a word , to Christians Masonry is veiled Christianity , so also is the 18 th and other Degrees above it . The Three Degrees of Craft Masonry are essentially Christian ; and the brightest jewel in the diadem of
Craft Masonry , is the chief in * the coronet of Christianity , namely , Charity ; a word which ill described the extent and full fervour of the original ayairi \ , which is a purely Christian word , and no example of its use occurs in any heathen writer , and which is the only word descriptive of what ought to prevail throughout the Masonic brotherhood . The combination also of F . H . and C . is derived from Christianity , besides many other points spoken of very distinctly . On the ground that none but Christians are admissible to the Higher Degrees , B . C . V . declares them to be exclusive , and tending to destroy the universality of Masonry . Though limiting the admissions to the Higher Degrees to a certain class be exclusive , the principles of those Degrees are universal ; and as the Great Head of Christianity expiated
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Bohn ' s Scientific Library : Handbook of Domestic Medicine , 5 a . John ' s Standffcrd Library : Smyth ' s Modern History , new edition , Vol . I ., 3 s . 6 c £ . Clark ' s ( W . ) History of British Marine Testaceous Mollusea , 15 s . Clytemnestra and other Poems , by O . Meredith , fcp . 8 vo . 7 s . 6 c ? ., cloth . Colenso ' s ( Dr . ) Ten Weeks in Natal , fcp . 8 vo . 5 s ., cloth . Banvers , and Friend of the Family , by T . Hook , new edition , Is . 6 d .
Doomed Ship , by William Hurton , fcp . 8 vo . Is ., sewed . English , French , Turkish , and Russian Vocabulary , 18 mo . 2 s ., sewed . Fowler ' s ( George ) History of the War , fcp . 8 vo . 2 s ., sewed . Inez , a Tale of the Alamo , cr . 8 vo . 6 s . Gd ., cloth . Kinghorn ' s ( Joseph ) Memoir , by M . Hood and S . Wilkin , 8 vo . 8 s . Lund ' s ( Rev . T . ) Geometry as an Art , 12 mo . 2 s ., sewed . Nature and Human Nature , by the Author of " Sam Slick , " 2 vols . 24 s .
Royle ' s Fibrous Plants of India fitted for Cordage , & a , 8 vo . 12 s ., cloth . Thomson ' s Military Forces and Institutions of Great Britain , 15 s . Thomey Hall , by Holme Lee , cr . 8 vo . 6 s ., cloth . Traveller ' s Library : De Foe and Churchill , by J . Forster , 2 s ., cloth . —Autobiography of Francis Arago , Is ., sewed . Vicar of Wakefield , 32 Illustrations by Mulready , sq . 8 vo . 10 s . 6 d . Woman ' s Educational Mission , 8 vo . 3 s . 6 d ... cloth .
Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
to the editor oe the fkeemasons' monthl y magazine . Sir , I SHALL feel obliged by your allowing me to make some remarks on two letters by B . C . V ., dated from Bath , which appeared in the last number of the Freemasons ' Magazine . Those letters are characterised by a peculiar , and by no means commendable assertion of influence and power , which , if really possessed by the writer , would have been announced with at least some real or assumed modesty . Also by a statement that " the 18 th and other Degrees" are " perfectly impious . " It
[ Tub Editor does not hold himself responsible for any opinions entertained by Correspondents . ]
is evident that B . C . V . is not a member of those Degrees , or he would not have made such a charge ; if ignorant of them , he had no claim to make it ; and if he has made it on surreptitiously acquired information , I leave him to settle the account with his own conscience , fully assured that in every society where honour and virtue are prized , he will meet with well-merited censure . B . C . V . believes " Masonry to be the prototype of Christianity , for every symbol has a direct reference to our religion . " In a word , to Christians Masonry is veiled Christianity , so also is the 18 th and other Degrees above it . The Three Degrees of Craft Masonry are essentially Christian ; and the brightest jewel in the diadem of
Craft Masonry , is the chief in * the coronet of Christianity , namely , Charity ; a word which ill described the extent and full fervour of the original ayairi \ , which is a purely Christian word , and no example of its use occurs in any heathen writer , and which is the only word descriptive of what ought to prevail throughout the Masonic brotherhood . The combination also of F . H . and C . is derived from Christianity , besides many other points spoken of very distinctly . On the ground that none but Christians are admissible to the Higher Degrees , B . C . V . declares them to be exclusive , and tending to destroy the universality of Masonry . Though limiting the admissions to the Higher Degrees to a certain class be exclusive , the principles of those Degrees are universal ; and as the Great Head of Christianity expiated