^ 3 / . ( TMS / ^ ^>-- - a,JOUt tll° l'»rge library on Judaism written I and the confidence in God's infinite Justice riab and Malachi , the holy= spirit ieft adopted instead. The passage occurs In ^|

^r^i ^h,^^

.j > -"}&- by Gorman authors from Moses Mendels- and grace, ft Is the 'faith in truth and Israel ; still they' Are communicating with Bala Mezia, .59 6. There was a hot eontio- j¦y^ $^^^ ti^i ^^~

r soh n to Dr . Geiger, it being " all Dutch" to goodness, which will Anally triumph over the Bath Kol." Herjj the Bath J£ol \s an versy curried on between Babbi Elk-ser and ;l'i^¥f- ' i'iEBi<: fc'r

lS - ¥l^

¦% ^*1P£' ! thonl .anynow- But for an editor of a met- all errors and wrongs. It is tlje code of inferior substitute for the holy spirit which Rabbi Joshua , the two heads of the aaide-I.V'&VM'1 XxJ ^SLr^K^M^&is ]; ropolitnn paper, to be astonished by the morals centering id the great precept: Inspired the prophets. This becomes still my. The audience did not know how to j

BJ^' ' ^ ^ ^ ^ 'i' ' " traiislatiotf .bf.jii bopTcj irWi^eti i^ubzens of " Love thy neighbor a« thyself"; the dlota. more 'evident from the.sequel of the same decide. Two astounding miracles wen? i

y ^ST^Xf^ ^.'ViJ^^* - German j ournals, and to confess with ami- of justice, and the inalienable boon of hu- passage, which rends thus : "Once they- wrought in favor of the opinion of '

' ^ '• able lialvlty, I have never seen any thing man freedom. These are the elements of ithe students) were sitting in. the upper Rabbi Eliezer '; but they did neither eon- !- ----------- .. , .. —r-r.r - like it, and did not dream that such a thing Christianity which satisfy the religious hall of Beth Guria in Jericho, and there vinco nor' change the opinion of RabbiD f / X ' l l A CO., : : : : : Pr-imisimns. , exists ; for an editor of a metropolitan jour- wants of the men of the nineteenth century , was given upon them a Bulk Kol from Joshua. Then Babbi Eliezer rose and

CINCINNATI , FBIDAY , FEBRUARY 1, 1BG7. 1lal to revicAv a. book which it can not help and these elements are the property of Ju- heaven. There is ono here who is worthy said : "If I am ri ght let the walls of the- — respecting, without having to say ono daism. Take nwi\y your Gospel story, | that the holy spirit [Sechinah) should rest academy decide." The walls bent , it ^ns

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terms OF subscription*. word that has even a scientific ov scholar- your miracl es, your fabric of redemption, upon him, as it did upon Moses; only that there, nud began to fall. Then Rabbiir^iKJiiATi

1!" pc 'r *n"a,"l""I"""II"^I« ""!r"imiI""."^II 2 oo liko sound—is a disgrace. It is no wonder and the dogmas bns,ed thereon , since iutel- his generation Is. not worthj - enough. The Joshua rose and rebuke^the walls to stand!s,"Jr!' iTF sTiiVf^o* ^".?.?.?..!!.™™!!' i<ic! tbut ' on t,le otboJ' side of tbe 0ewin . wo are li gent inquirers believe them no longer af- sages looked upon Hillel the Elder," <fcc. erect , and erect they .stood. Theu Rabbil i t . iK .ru ii T ' " .'.'..'. .~.....:...J.."'".Z'. s<\ considered very poor journali sts, when we tor all, and what remains of Christianity is "And once they were sitting in the upper Eliezer said , let heaven himself decide. 'ir iwrT (''i'ror 'U.i«H-«'i|

t ' l° * At. . oticks ieavc the province of politics. It iho lnde- the essence of Judaism. We could justly hall at Jamiiia, and there was given upon "There came forth a Bath Kol and said:\vK

K 'r .tsv^T%'^^ pcw/cj inias no better reviewers than

the expect so much

theological knowledge of them the Bath .Kol from heaven. There is Why are you against Rabbi Eliezer. whose 'unirs M iip i;u-c* ti * hh former, i\j wen a* the prpvmt. ' one who wrote the notice under considera- the Independent , and honesty enough to tell one here who Is w orthy that the holy spirit decisions are always correct? Rabbi loslnm !IIkj ki tki i M.i s-cscHinB.—We will not rr -turn rc-i ... , , , , , , . , j , . #¦,, i ¦, -i 'iu>j ..«uit ;ctk 'I iiuun isi iipia. ¦'¦ tion ; we would advise its managers to con the truth ; but we are disappointed. should rest upon him. The sages looked rose upon his ieet and said : 'It is not in

RAT ES OF ADVERTISING. tinue their lists of broken merchants, as in Nothing can be easier than to ignore upon Samuel the Lesser," ifcc heaven,' 1. e., we pay no attention to theTM< . wimvin s are the established ratos ror'ihe Ih- times past, harp away on politics and com- haughtily, and with a piteous smile, that We translate literally, " there was given Bath Kol; the law given on Sinai ordains ;

ri.i ti .iTu- a n merce, preach and declaim on religion and which wo can. not overcome. It gives ono upon thorn the Bath Kol from heaven j" 'Thou shall deride according to the ma-i < ,) ininn ,i)or >ear , . . . . . wsioS.' prayer-books, and let books and science the air of superiority and magnanimity, hence it can not possibly be understood to jority. '" The miracles and the Math Kol '.-¦.|ii.-irf .i ii ) iin i> s , i mnrini , . .

^4,0ff. alone ; in order not to ridicule the American Precisely so the Independent behaves in this be the vox poj ntli. It is no less evident wore set aside, nnd Rabbi Joshua was sus- '

• ' • "' " roar " ' so'ot)" ' press" * ' particular matter. "It would be a useless from the above passages that the Ba th Kol tained.

^ ._.. i • '* '' "' t , '. i^

i , '¦, :¦« What astonishes the Independent is, to waste of time and space," it observes, " to is considered inferior *o the Shechinah or We must quote two more passages : The~ Thon !nrrir>aI Hqi^ O r tmnnf

meet witl1 a volumo whosu aim isi l0 •snow point out the weakness of the author's ar- holy spirit, and precisely so Kabbenu Bath Kol afterwards became a common 'I nSOlOp^lCul U6p.Cu ZITlGilli the superiority of Judaism over Christ- guments." 'By no means, sir, the nrgu- Bechai understands the matter. This very superstition. The Talmud informs us.that.--^.--^- . '. •-—==^ ianity. If that editor had been accustomed ments of a man with the literary fame of Samuel the Lesser, it says in the. same Samuel, head .of a -Babylonian academy, j

UNIVERSAL ISBAELIT1SH ALLIANCE. to reason, he might have easily discovered Dr. Geiger, deserve attention , time, and passage df the Talmud, prophesied before , fell sick. Resh Lnkish and Habbi Jocha- ju "V if this : The Jews have all the time protested space. They demolish' many priestly pre- his dying hour the misery which the Em- nan went to nay him a visit. Thev resolved iWe call on all our brethren , in behalf of against Christianity and the Islmn. They tensions, and arguments can be met with peror Hadrian was to inflict on Israel. to ask the Bath Kol how Samuel was j

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™d Sve sunnoTto th?" AllHnce°"

hnVG pr0Ved by ft^*rihW find SACrhlM arguments only. We understand the! In- ; According to the Talmud, King David '.Passing' a schoolhouse they heard a bov

Two dollarsTper'annum or more makes one of centuries' th.it their protest was not a dependent to say, that the attempt to point heard the ' Bath. Kol. When he said to :renfllng -from the Bible:, " And Sanmel

. iiinember of the "Alliance," and entitles transitory whim or a stubborn caprice ; it 0ut the . weakness of the author 's argu- . ^ Mefibosihetb , the son of. .Jonathan, "thou died ," hiul they understood the Sort Jfottohim to all its Reports. All ' monies and must, have been . the .-offspring ofconviction, ments is therefore a useless waste of space and . Zeba, thy servant, shall divide the have informed them, that Samuel died ,names for the " Alliance " may ho sent to It could not be ..the fruit of ignorunce or and time, because it .can di^coverany iyeak - field,"' the. Bath Kol said, "Jeroboam and and they- returned to their respectiveModi *fc Cto.j whose Book-keeper will keep tho.ughtle'ssness.'hecauaej .'n'ot only in al\ points: ?The ' sentence! TeaW abmewhat to Rehabeam shall divide thy kingdom " homes,accounts , forward money and names to tho conimon walks of life the Jew betrays tins' effect. But if it ¦know'sjof any . weak ;.- (Sabbath , -53). In this ease again the -Bath The Bath Kol of the Talmud, is also ex-Paris, and publish both the members ' a strong common sense, but also in alL points, let them be held'.up tff the judgment; Kol prophesies. , King Solomon' also, the- teriHuly like the ''Holy Ghost " of themimes and the receipts. . -.You.cannot spend branches of science and art, he Constantly ¦ of the world, that we know Geiger and the Tallmud maintains, received a - ' Beak.'- Kol New Testamentv It is the dove' in 'whichtWn * £ ™ ^ «nn t o S F

distinguishes himself. These

few premises Jews

are wrong, and why they are wrong. (Ibid- 14) ; but it was only a voice Of appro- the "Holy Ghost" comes down from heaveu^¦ 'idd^ xm^btmUi

'BtehAQ, would have od-him to the conclusion, the- Magnanimity ,is not in its proper place, bation, after he had obtained certain ritual up01i Jesus, «s iu the following passage, of J

or-to ' ' - ' ISAAC M. WLSE. ' JA^?ih-- ^ft^ uHWSihey^ust.always. where arguments wull do. It is perfectl y laws. The.Tahmid^rings.tho Bath Kol as . the Talmud (Berachoch , 3 a.): -: '*Rabbi .. ...._.- ^w ¦ '¦ . - "¦ ; . ', ' . . ¦¦ ' havemain^medthesupQrion^^ high .up as the Israelites in tlie idldern^^^

TS2 MEW YOEK INDEPENDENT AND DR. over Christianity,: or else they,must have server discov>r9,the weak poi.nt behind*¦ ;: - CtEISER'S BOOK. . embraced theJaUer^ tfi ei - *¦.*¦ «.':¦*¦', * and I 'heard there- a ':

i The Jfeiv York JMepmdenU in noticing aayf-SO'decldedly^ .. . ; We Will hearken l' (understand) the^w^ ¦¦. < < . /I the book of Dr. Geiger, "Judaism mid its affaita,:v ^?ing-al^aj^. iitahwjl- . thls. . " Tho tono ofthe work iscalmand scM^ Wo^- to the children , on :accotiM^f ; whoseH "¦ . u,l u b ¦' . .. ¦-.. - superiori tv. and haviug had a host of wri-- arly. and it shares somewhat, in the plnl- ¦¦ .( .n -^ii.rtftiiaioii tiTa ' conVot K<* ?i;'o- -,«in«ator. " • : - t -i i • ^

¦ -i v - ' r1 history," passes the followmg remarks : te^ th^ juust ;Cei^ain^ sins . I have destroyed, my - house,- have

: ' " Wo are hot uccustotned to look foruny : JpreSfreouSy^evidence of vitality in the Jewish religion ^pressed frequ^ntly ;aua lepca edly before . Geman mmd. -As : a-.stotenient of .the previous c^e^the^fl^'Jvroi conies, directly among the Gentiles." • ' ' ;-. " -:'- ' of tht! present day beyond a passive resist- Dr. teiger wrote , this book. Therefore, I yiews of ailin^lhgent o«d sincere Hebrew, fr0m the Deity. ' " .' ' ' * . :¦.:. : ^Without iliultiplvln* oubtatiohs we be- ,:¦¦ ¦: , iHfllg^S ff^^ ' - =

. ¦ : . thb pen of a learned Jew, whose aim is "to ' "iaKe a *™1. ^.

lyseiVi:an , say I"?lcL. "°6 This innoceiif^ possibly" is a dangerous Jflst and John the Asmoriean, heard the m'un iCati0n with Hie^MA.^ra3 the: rabbis- - ¦ <

-¦ ¦¦.: sho^v the superiority ofJudaism over Chris- kiiow.that a. thing'existed,which-actually witneg3:to the effect , that.the; writer was. Bath Kol.: .The latter was iufbrmed, vhile 0^{he Pharisees <M^ Bnth Kol could-hot i

.. . in the nineteenthTcentury, is rather iv diffi^ . ? ^' " ap aia.not reason, imd out came a the mQral fconra.ge to give .. u„r . , openly,.. Atonement, m the- temple at Jenisalem,, the "Holv Ghost " was adopted ill its place. :' !' - '. . ¦-¦ ¦ : cult tiiak, arid ft would 'be ' a' tf ael ess waste touy, .tae astomsumenf.or-a baby seeing it- fmikIy; ftnd Maiifully. It is ofparamdunt tli'd't the Hebrew host had ehgaged.-the: Sy- . Biu the two thiucs ai-e identical, -'it was a ' ¦

. .. of time and space to point c-uttheiweakjiess seH for the flrst time in a looking-glassv importance, however, that^eaitors^elLttie rians the

same dayman* had-routerl.them ereat step ^ iu advance On the part 'of' the ^ '

, of the author's arguments ¦ . Not behig accustomed to reason , that gen- t^. ^,1y.in:taatt^-

:6if^ii^bSfii:nU- conipletay,- e!?Rr. tloch; - -

Thte. iB^kiri to- fi£w5" thoT^l^iff UlSrS

e ¦'. ^» Wep cmtcnl is. not accustomed

to proTO;

h ca^ iSi.thk^ 5^: prophecy,

^-- \- - - • >

' ' V thfSSS^oSSS '. ., look for any evidence:^ vltality in the sounds awfully bad)that Judaism

is a re- m( feel^ ; beaten: by th#argum^tB' of l)r. Thev^<A: Z:also sp;oke-:to umvoi:Uiy ^S^ S^SS^^- 1

' ¦ '- . Jewish reiigion ; which looks exactly hke ligmn adapted o;thO_wantsr of meu,m the G<j ,^ - Q? ,{i fe&^beenso P«W%: . e ^'^Bachlm^^^tlie semi-polittcal and dernvreligiaus shee nineteenth century,: is rather a difficult uia^imous, and - tr^t^rgm^^¦

. that hn, not tiihe^e^^ m'm^mZolvt y io

iMt wicked^ah

^Su^fth^ffi Se^ o^ht''from want ofprac ice.can iio

usedto' «ome to know'this:: In this, nineteenth cen-. ^.

; thouts0ffie; degree of voiue.i (Nehuchadnezza^rwheh he sKid, 'I.vilF t^am^e S^ot

' \ * '- look ftr any ^ing subst^tmrm

any di-

tiiry, a^out^ fo^; millions'' of Jews live 0\ily .sa e them:the.trouL of it coufes- ascend ! • ;A ction.- The^d^c/^ tradesinpohtics, among the.moat; civilize* natipus ori - tbo aion; ,i make it for thorn. - . liken,myseIf tQ Most,High ,? : Tbere: XLKiSffgSEdeals in religion, offers literature for sale, globe. They .are also men with religioue , . : .. . ^^^—^ , went

forth a Bath Kol and ^

aid to him, "13 / »leases the merchants,, annoys the orthodox wants. As welll as. Judaism is adapted to ¦ TEE ACTS . OP. THE APOSTLES ; . ' Wicked- man, son of a wicked on&, scion'' . .p, ° ,^fL Sf S;. . Christian , and offends the philosophical their, religious wants, it may be adapted to

rflmrAIjr^EVIEWED of the wicked... Nimrod, who caused all ^ « 1

and eni.cVd the book m the

thud;- mind, speculates in letters and oh the vul- the wants of others. It appears that these OKiitCAi1iJ x_K Xu\j .j i,wxi. ij,.

under ;h.s govemme^t t0 rebel against lne cen?l"y\ . . ¦ - ¦' . , . ' :. , . .

grt'r-lawnoss of the millions to think for Jews are fully satisfied with their Judaism, CHAPTER- ii.-(Concluded.) howmSny aretheyears of maii ? Soventv • f^06

" ?' . amn:ia i

^tn6

/m'rnnS

themselves or^ read any thing that requires . because all thV allurements offered by . —- - ¦ 'and^^^e stfeeightv ' 1« thought ; and it does all that in a metro- pyinces and^ rulers,, and all the money the holy fiHOST. ,_ . earth^ t^'ii&ve^-if %a ^isfeffiS^BC 500

^aalsirL s^P^rtted -darections.¦

-¦ ; " politan .8tyle, taking .a;widerange and long speut by missionary societies, did not lead If . after a Careful e^mmatioi^nto the yeara. tvavelVtt^ifeBs of eachheaven The apostles hko Babbler hen Hark,

strides: Therefore,' as a matter of ootirse, them tq, embrace Christianitv. Further- statements made by the author of "The corresponds t0 ^he same distance and the ^

^^oj he^

m^nnmeles;"W e are not accustomed' to look for any more, it appears, that they ,loVe their re- AW«." we mu?1 ooniow that .-in regard to

^^ lhetweea eacli heaven (of the seven) ^

the cabins, like Rabbi loahua , re- . 1 .evidence" in any thing, that writer ought hgion, because they erect splendid monu- the first acta of the apostles and theTente-

j ^^^ i Thou shalt go downtdMei/ J ted bot11-^^ ." l,to-their laws of exe- ,

to have added , as it is quite natu ral with meuts of piety, elegant houses of worship, cost, miracles, he has not given us hj stori- to the sides of the pit., „ ^ili3 pa93a«e.

«es? and t^e decisions

^ of the majority, .j .

any Jack of all trades. hospitals, asylums for widows, orphans, cftl ™fc«s/> ,we ra«st «on *!? ,at * * ??£* carried out at length in Hagigah II. .This is toe first historical point in the ori- j

We sny all that , on account of the high the deaf and dumb, the invalid , <fcc„' timV

hat'm'regttrf .

t0 1HolyCTijost

V^ . „ A.m - u , -I. tone of auaiority which the Independent 8ehofita| colleges, theological seminaries, ^ood upon some h j s ovical ground Paul very age*

of ti^ apoetleSj also heard a f Here, however, begins the - .difficu Ity of ,

, assumes on this and nearly all other occa- wbieb. cost money, which the Jew like the alul the P"™*™ Chnstums maintained, J ,VRet^u.n al{ vQ f

the honest critic. The authors of the Tal- Isions, to which it is not entitled. For the Gelltile i0vesv,Besides all this, it appoflis ,l3at M °elievei£ in the new dispensation ren ^ Acher,wh<) mT ciorv-aud

mUd' nS wel1 "S t!lQ & * — "l ilast live years,, we have- not seen in that .that their reflgion exercises a deep and P03Sesse<1 the " Holy Ghost" among the reb^ed ^alnst ; e „ ( HaEi„.mf- ^ Testament claim , that certam persons stood |

sheet any critical , scientifio, philosophical moralizing influence on them; thev are not {5i«8 of grace, only that the apostles pos- AYmt me

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de_ in direct coiimiunication. with the .Deity. ,or thoologica-L^rticle that deserves preser- gunty 0f any of the brutal crimes which 3essed {t in *¦ ll^

hQV ^^ Th?re

can be cia^the^ooritro versy in lefrhf :matter^-?b^

througli the Bath Kol or the " HolyOhost;" |.

vatiou, or that entitles that paper to a tone aro now of almost daily occurrence, nor do no doubt that the apostles alleged "to be in- t,veen the schools of Hillel and Shammai that such persons prophesied and wrought ;ofsuperiorlty In any province of letters, they send their quota to the penitentiaries spired by the "Holy Ghost." This allega- in favor. Qf tue form6j The nassaae in ^iracles- Both point to the same time and ,Thereforo, if the editors , of that sheet say ltnd other houses of correction ; thev beg tiou was neither new nor isolated in the Talmud Erubin reads thus • ''The House Place* nll(i li^ve the same object i» vieAv, j" We are not accustomed to look for any not ( 8teal 110t> gamble not) keep n^ bad timos of the aP0Stles. aa is avident ftom of Shammai and tho ^

House of Hillel dis tbe suPl101,t of **HS laa * precepts. , The j

evidence of vitality in the'Jewish religion" company, and live comfortably. Again , passages in Josephus, Philo and the New ^a\&t^iionfy rthree yc> ars - tke

crit;P must either decide that both are

or in any other , department of the rniiid we must state, if the writer of that notice Testament, itself.. .. But, these passages hav- mai&tailied our interpretation of the law is rigW'' °x both HTO WVOng' pr °ne Sid° iS !they certainly tell us the truth,-although was accustomed to reason, he would hare ing been frequently quoted and discussed , coV$c£i.and^ the' other claimed ' thV same riSht:and the other \n-oug ; or he must findthey might have added instead of " the .Jj een led by these promises to the conclu- WG win 1uote from tbe Tal,llud pnssages

prefere'nce Then went forth „ a *. .-' another woy of explaining the . matter, iJewish religion," any other religion , sci- si0n,Judalsm is a religion adapted to the which explain the whole matter. and told them, this and that are the words The claims are preseuted with equal force Ifiicoj or art ; or , they might have omitted wants of men in the nineteenth century. Thp Talmud. in man F Plnces, notices a of th-Q - iy ing God t the law ghaU be

and authority, at least to the critic who jtho worc! " vitality" altogether, and have if wo can not expect extensive lore or supernatural voice, called Sip m Bath Kol, praoticed.,accordi*igSo the interpretations looks UP0U lj 00ks with the Gye reasou !said : " Wo are not accustomed to look for profound reasoning of a theological editor , " the daughter of a voice ," for which we 0f the Hoiise of HilleU If both are the al,<i "ot with the predelictions of religious- iany evidence" in any quarter. But that it boing his avowed profession to clog the have no proper equivalent in the English , words of the Living God why did the fl^*'

No flkle Prodllces any Pai'tlcularall this mid that is said in the tone of au- understanding ; we are certaiulv entitled except, probably, the echo. Ho at least the Bath A'oi .decide in favor of the House of evidenco ltl «"fetimtiatlon of its claims ;thori ty, :w though one could expect of that to the expectation, that he know something glossarists to the Talmud (Sanhedrin 11 a) Hillel ? Becausethey were mild andmeek - th& alloSfttions ar0 made and presented t.» rpaper a correct and impartial judgment on about theology, and knowing it , that lie be understood it. They remark this: "Some they not only repeated the words of the us wituollt any P1'001': hence there is non lit .M- iuy work beyond the common run , is aiao honest enough to tell it. What is the maintain that those who hoard the Bath Shammaites with theirs but even placed Sround for a ^'W'ou that the one side isan error whidi must bo corrected , an as- element of reUgion in Christianitv, that Kol did not hear a direct voi< o from them always in advance ' * » * * * to rlSl,t alid the other wrong. Where, with |sumption without the least right , a claim satisfies the religious wants of men in ilm heaven ; it was like the secondary voice teach ,thee: whosoever lowers himsel f God eqUal Protcnsions 0l" allegatlous, no proowithout any foundation. nineteenth century ? If ono has the co m-- which is heard at a distance if one strikes will elevate ;' mid whosoever elevates him- iS °ffei"ed 0U ftlly Side' caPriee only, and

It is not astonishing to us at all , that the age to iook firmly upon the affairs as thuv forcibly the tree of n forest. It was this self, God will lower. Who is eager after n0t cl'iticism' C,U1 ' credit the one and re-writers of the Independent Are so little ac- are, he must be convinced , that the Chris- voice which they heard , therefore they greatness, greatness willllec him - and who- Ject the otho1'- The comparatively intrinsic jquawted with the literature " of the Jewish tian story is no longer be]ieved ]jV nie) i nf , 0^ied it " the daughter of a voice ."" . soever flees greatness <watness' will seek VOlue °f the Now TeSt,mient ancl tllG Trtl " i

I

religion of the present day" (what sort of a reaoarcb< Thousands of chnreh-moml .f.ra i Moses Landau, in his rabbinical lexicon , him, Whosoever presses the hour for wealth nUld' aS P1'0*1"0'* of tbe liuman milld - '* !tiling is that present day religion?) that g0 to church on Sunday without believin g ' and others, main tain the Both Kol was (time is monev), time will press him- and not finaliy-deci'leli ''3' any meaus ; some .tln -y found nothing in i t " beyond a passive one iota of the Gospel story, miracU-s , ; similar to the vox populi.* This may have Whosoever lea'ves the hour in the hands of maiutain the Body of Doctrine contained I

I resistance to the attacks of Christianity." mode of redemption and salvaUou , mid all i been the case some times and in suiue Providence, the hour will favor him." The in th S N'ew Testament, is chiefly taken ;

| U i- .-unircs lmt little attention in reading the dogmas based thereon. Beside i !•- ,, • ' places, for the ideas connmed with the ' Talmud Jerushal mi gives great authority {r0In Ule aureus whore the Talmud tookthai i , s].!!!, to be convinced , that its ; writers unboliUvin g church-members, t li. -re ., : - .. Bath. Kol Aiiierad widely at various times to this decision of the Bath Kol. It is the Bame- Aside, however, of this, theliavi- no very extensive knowled ge of any thousands again who belong to no cliui. :li \ and places. >'0 less a ra.bbiniuU authority stated in Berachoth : " Before this Bath Kol lnh,i"si<! value ot' « book is no evidence for ;ethe r bran . h ViOyoWO0 the 1 VJelletristic litera- and attach themselves to no sect , simply : than Rabbenu Bechai states : " Thoro aru went forth , whosoever wished could do like °" *the ataloments made therein ; or elselu r.- . N«r b. ) dy wiir:fexpefct o f ' them any because they can not persuade the ii isL lvJs J our degrees of inspiration : the Bath Kol , the House of Hillel or like the House of the alleged miracles and divine oommuni-kuuwledge nfihuSpanj sh-Jewish literature , to believe in your Christology. A l l iho. s . . ¦ t in- Urim and Thumim, the hr dy sj iirit and Shammai; but after this Bath Kol went °ations of Mohammet and Zoroaster mustbeenuse ihey nm noi read 'either Hebrew church-niembers and those outsiders , ui . l propheoy itself. This is iho i-Uing scale of forth , whosoever transgressed the words of alBO bo ^

caPleu as truths. sinc0 tllL' !or Arabh - . It would certainly bo unjust , to they are by far the majority of the Amen- ' j- rfoction." Heovidontly did noi " consider the House of Hillel was guilty of death " intrinsic value of the Koran and the Zen- jsuppose that editors of a metropolitan re- can people, find no satisfaction in f luSi- the . BnthKol to be the n,x j. op n ii. l ie must , The Jernshalmi supposes that this decis-1.davesta can n0t l-oaaonttbly be de»ied. I

j - \\ ligious jmn nnl should have read the works ianity . Still they have religion, a relig 'n .n have considered it to be n direct or indirect ion by the Bath Yi'oMvas proclaimed in the Neither the Christian nor the Jew can be j f

mU 0f ,Salvador' M",lk - frank , Cah n, Hess or which gives them satisfaction , and it i-s Ui.- i s ; w,u-< - from heaven, l i i s ( * |iinioii i., based A cademy of Jnmnia . In the same acade- williuS Lo »tlmit. ^at the pretensions U)

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Alexander Weil , when those Frenchmen portion of Christianity which is adopt -.! ni ..,n several passages in ihe Ta lmud. ' Wu my, however, and a short time afterwards supernatural communication of both the J^^Wffir? ) wow imprudent , enough to write their j without change from Judaism. It is iho ; n in,w one which occurs several times iSuu - the Bath Kol was forover rejected as a le- apostles and the rnbbis are correct ; for LJ>

%nfK iKj oks in l'-ronc-h. It would be no less t in- . l,elief in God, His love , justice, wisdom , : h»,h-in 1] , <): " The Kal .l .iN iwi. -h . with the gitimate decision in jmiins of legal contro- ln tbiB case U,c cbrisUlln muat om,' j foj

UV&K '!«"» . t0 exP°ct oi tUcui l0 kll(nv wimslhliiR j and power. It is the hope t ,f i m i n o r l a l i i y . . l. - .-uh s of the last proph eis . Haggni , /.echa- | versy, and the voice uf the majority was b,ace tbe lnrBl '8t Portl0" °f the '&ll'nml' *%£&

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<^ ^ ^TM-& mmAEMTM^^ ^^ Jill. -H- and the Jew, of the New Testament, as Such, my friend , was the case in ancient over his "/f ee born " condition? And if Counsel B. " How was the earliest lee- It may be hard to assign exactly the dif £ ' '

¦ divine revelations. Nevertheless both Rome and Greece ; in ancient Israel the that danger is tbe product of a domineer- ^re used midor the sanction of the G. L.

ference, bot weou " oldest" and •' eldest' ' . - * '" 'might bo true notwithstanding the opposi- state and conditions of society were not tfng, tyrannical Individual , whose aim is 0; ?.Sl> john wlB nlluded to ln tlsc flll . of idtomatlo ^™

b?,;,,i^«t ,?i^ iUI?tte'

tion of either party ; If It were not that altogether the same. While the former the subjugation of the human Intellect , lowing manner : . any distinction »!i ' the Words (heii'Llve"1

these oracles from the same Deityradically nations were jbased and erected on the would you not stand up against such an f"|Q. Whence came you ? Utit that there is a difference, may in adiffer and' contradict each other in vital princlplefpf granting «« privileges to one individual, using all your strength to sub- , KS^^,yS- -teS ^points. To mention one instance which class, and {none to another class of society, due him, thus keeping your fellowmen iu- ngullers and Anderson a low years later, wo must say "the offi Mn Zit ™covers the whole ground, the Bath Kol de- Israel did not know anything of such a tact from all injury and disagreeablenoss? It is here stated that the Lodges were called lived." A gain , It would hardly bo naturaleided in favor of the interpretation of the distinction. It is true, slavery was per- And if vou do so7 for and against one la- St. John 's Lodges because ho was the bap- to say, "his father's oldest horn ,"" if womt as the Ho«s

°e of Hillel advocated /t; «*«** but not only was the law on slav- dividual , would you do less for the whole j ^^^T "L^i SJ Xof?Z^^\ *rf™

! tho same time and in the same country the ery most wisely regulated and restrictive, , human societ y against the despotism and 1 which taketh away the sins of the world/ his oldest son ," ' wo should iVinv"v t hoi " Holy Ghost " declde'd that all rabinnical 80 much so as to give the slaves the cer- i tyrannv of a certain class which tries to I We now come to Rev. Bro. Dunckerley 's impression that that son was not the eld! and biblical laws nreabolished. Therefore tainty of their release and freedom at a I impose their *«, as binding ta„ upon their

| j e j wg^ ^Wh^ft ^A^^ ^Za^^both can not bo right. ^ certain period ; the law had also provided fellowmen? Of course you would do so ; ! Maftiu chu.0< Iu thi9 ritual thu s|uno „„. [() ,)rf m ft klnd of JnVlghttnto the Idlmn

\ Nor have we a right to maintain that both for the impossibility' of mercenary dealing | your "Liberalism " exercises its beneficial j soveratlou is repeated ; and more than thin , nth- difference. "Eldest ," implies not onlyj are imposters, and alleged to have direct in human flesh , by tho condemnation of I influence over vou, the arbitrary innova- I <«. John was now introditccdiato tho style of more years, but also priority of ri ght ; nay! communication with God, when they knew certain criminals to slavery, wherehy^such I tors must be weakened and put to shame, lh|£u?uror. ,. You bav0 been kl not3 duSiTlltoTA

0 ttS * wh°li it was riot true ; for we have no more proof individuals who had to serve as slaves had the innovations must disappear, and the thus far of only one St. John. When was died an infant was yet the eldest son If

for one than the other decision . There are the chance of being received again iu soei- I society must be saved ; who will call you the other introduced ?" all mankind were assembled , Methuselahbefore us statements of men. We know ety, both physically and morally. This I an Innovator , or your "Liberalism" do- O- "In a catecbtoiiii used a little later w.,,dd be the eldest ; but Aduin would be

. ... .. , , , , ^, „ than the middle of tue century the two the eldest , ol men. Whether any other np.not the men , hence we can not impeach institution was of course pervaded by the stmetive? Saints John occupy a prominent situation, count is to be given of this, than the' ea-their statements from personal reasons, spirit of liberalism ; and if we did not Well , my friend , in my next letter I will It was then given in this way. First, price of usage, l ean not sav, 'but must leave ' ¦''¦'¦¦<¦ '

'AH we have a right to maintain is, that the know anything else of the legislation in try to point out and delineate to you the field Lodges were dedicated to Noah , and Ma- the question to those who'aro better versedstatements are not true , but we can not Israel, we could by this one instance be on whi.h .'Liberalism" haS

^fought many a -ns were

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,X¦™Sp0aSprove that the authors knew them to be convinced of the fact that the lawgiver was battl e, is still fighting, and will have to iiusons were then kuOwn as Dionysiuns, to inquire into tbe archroology of the coin-¦: false. au " ingenium liberate " and the govern- fight , many a day before the thorough Geometricians, or Masters in Israel. From age.

Therefore we are forced to accept the in- m'ent an " iniperium liberate:' There are, completion of its holy work. Adieu! Solomon the patronage of Masonry passed Connected with this inquiry about "old- ,terpretation adopted by Mr. Wisiicerfus however, other and more striking ffln.tr- - „,, ";- - ^ X^^o^Z^Ta^ which'fwill X

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and alsoby Mr. Renan, viz: thatthe-npos- tions of '* Liberalism " iu the Mosaic law, LAW INTELLiaBNCS. teets, or Freemasons. Lodges were dodi- •'Sir —When I came on deck tho otherties (as wtill as the rabbis we add) believed t0 which I .would direct your attention , in ¦

^.M rf ,f,v.nT nrT^VIf,prBLlt.0.,.VI0N eated to the Baptist, because he was the „,Qrulng iu the Red Sea (very near the !

in a state of intense ecstacy. that they re- order, to .prove to you at the same time, how ^p.blmecoi rt 01 M^OMOPtm.tt oiiMo> . r^ot^

^^n^o^^e llhu!0 „? which Moses ami tho -Israelite-

ceived direct communications from the' erroneous certaiu conceptions are of a cer- Before Chief-Justice >• Common SW." the Evangelist was his equal ," and 'thus- ".y Sm™ i^,pn^.tljj J

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Celty, through the "Holy Ghost" or the tain clo,ss. of society. - ¦ Bhexhkkn , S ahebican fbbb- 17^° ¥c°M

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a. s X hZZ™l£¦ ^^and-stated sc-in^ool moments. The Pentateuch tells you, my . friend, that ". . m asoxhy. "i,fthe ritual practiced by the Lodges SWlffSM V

, The revelations were altogether Subjective "Klohirn "' ¦ f: e. the perf ect power of all , , Fifth Session. in tho Xorth of England they used to say :' -p oint o "Mm the lmagination and not iu roility. ' . jj 6'«>^, (hence a God whom all nations may Counsel B. " T have the honor to iutrd- 'St. John obtains our dedication as being i't seems, was his lather 's eldest sou :uid hoThis view of ' the matter is by no' means adore and worship, aud not a certain. God *?c° % TO notice Bro. Geoi|;e Oliver, ' ^.{ "chrtat In the name of sf i .^^^

' cx »eeeaaitate iyoUiiSanew. or orieinal with either Mr Wisllce- «/ „ —,.<».• t - \ „..„ .. i n ,1 , • ' * D. D„ .Past Provincial G. M. 01 Lincoln- coming 01 Jurist, in tiie naine 01 bt. Han himself. I11 speaking of the oldest ofnew, oi original wun either sir, w snee of a certain naiton ,) created '- 'man ," which shire, Past D. G. M. of theG. L. of Massa- John the Evangelist, we acknowledge the tilese four . h0-called him ' mv elder l.rn- 'nus or MrvRenan , or the German rational- (eyen in Sansciit) mean.s a creature with in- chusetts, Tni Mimstek, The DisciPtl, testimonies which ho gives and the "divine therVml which the Frenclinmii iid ' I, ists ; it has been .advancecTby Moses Miii- tctigctUal powers , without distinction as to The Freemason whose vigorous intellect loyos which ho makes manifest.' Ami' thought you were-your father 's eldest son.'monides, at. the beginning of the 13th ceu- the nationality or i-elimon_tliBPe.Wfinph bas prenetrated the lu-cana of Masonry, "S41111 ;. Our beauty is such as adorns a 1 'So l am, ho replied ; ' but I spoko of theturv He states in his ohilosonhical work

;n€n™allty 01 iell810U~Weutateuch,. brought foi.th Us invaluable, treasures, ami pur actions ,,is hewn out ol the rock which t-Uar of mi/ brothers. I am not one of mytury. lie states 111 ms philosophical woik, 18ayrtells us so, beginning in this way its restored its holy vessels; whose enlarged ? Christ, raised upright with; tho plumb- «\va bioth^ers, and tliereforo whoiilsneafcMoreh -Nebuchun, Port 11. Chapter 42; communications' with the highest and most mind has shed brighter rays around the line1 0I the '.Gospel , and .squared and leveled' of my elder brother, I don 't iiiclndemvself"Whereyer.in Sacred Scriptures, the ap- deveibped'priuciple of unlimited "Liberal- Masonic altar, and is beaming with invig- to, thci -hori?outal of Gods will In the holy n0 1 spoke -of Is tho oldest of my brothers " .

, :. pparmg or speaking: of ah angel is^en- ismi»' / &&& om ;.,his f^^tai. &S „ S£S produce any old Tr^^SX^^TLi '

turned, it is a, prophetical -vision , or .dream, truth, tbesahie holy^^l?ook proclaims Noah,, leadeth to the Holj ^of.Holies." . - . . . manuscripts to connect Saints. John with goodliest of hy sons since?bor7i the lairest -. -.- , . only, .whether4t is explained or; not, it is .the representativo " of' -humanity', after the ¦ WThile the witness was.' being conducted: Mii,som7r,? ' « -n ' - ' ,.¦. ?. ¦• v' •¦ '• 1 , o1' her . daughters, Eve.' that , however; wo' /- . i : always. ^^-^fte*.-i*p^-,iW,; deluge,:- Vmright: ^MM . ^ffi SSS grmid pSroh offiouS ^ ^i' Tf ^&^^S^ '-

'-doctnne to differen t passages of Script \™£ L^a^iiS^^T y ¦ '

he concludes': " Hagar, the Egyptian, was Ahraham, who receives boundless bless- pompous peroratioil frbm .aud was answer-' document states.that the Masters ol the Or- rogt , yet, according to Commoii aka 'tii tho ;. . no pr6phetess, n6r; were Menoah and- his; ings : from the same God, and who is fd that %u Oliver , and ;Coimsel ,;B. be- der took thei namo ol in tlatpd Brothei-H of expression employed by him was calou- V' -

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. , .;heard, or imagined to have heard, are hke Kappy:by time blessings. The oppressed na-^ the order of the . day. Another brother dedicatedto holySt. John.isnot .a bra ucliof constructed

¦¦ii..|!nimte 'Sftr»n ; -; the Bath Kol which the - sages:-of. old fre*; tion of Israel is.calied'f«ie rti-s( born son-vf whispered . .that it. was ; copied verbatim. the.Temple, nor . ol'any spiritual or. tempo- forin to its rules - and hinted that iii. Riis- v '*

quently mention;, , it , is the attributidn of god " whereby all othe'f nations certainly trdnv E-rp; Charles. W. .Moore's magazine, ml order ^

neither sit united to.the one Or Hiil „0 siicli liberty of the subject would bo^ ¦ '

< . - . 'snokon.matterto a riei^onwbo iR V,nt nor,, ' ^" v

y ai^°™ ¦*:i na"c ' „ V .Icau notj hOwevey, disguise my. views,;that, . to tho^

other, v peithpr^has it . doriyed i s porhiitted-that \Vliou laws wore made. v ' •.'spoken ;matter,toa .persQn,w;hO ^ are. understood ;to be the "other, sous" :of notwithstanding thevenerable. appearance origin from them j nor has it the. ldast com- people wero expected 1" thei 1 • aiui ;

ally present, and:the,. error, m. the matter ,is God f and the ten atticles of its theocratic; 'of the. -witness^' there-is; something about muniou with them, in any .shapo or .man- that a man who talked bad grammar would : ; 'its connection with God." . Constitution (decaloauel -prove '-ev identlv hislooks that^deudtes gar'r.ulosity and ego- nor . whatever; but it te more ;auciont.,than ,bo in danger.of the knout. ' . '

The listener mLyiiiw ' atten tion ' ,iWn u ¦ • ,vl > , ;l ¦ i .:V °», VT tisnV As a collector oi ancient documents,. all,tho3e .order&^t-knlghthoo.dHvnd-exi.stcd will you be sO cood as tell us in your

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V v ' ' \^: and l realVty by their being adopted as the- amoDg ti great deal of rubbish, it cah riot in Palestiue^and Greece, as well asin both naxt^ ednion wnetner lib ul sslm or thoally to his own internal discourse be- fundamental- law among all nations of the be denied that he brought forth some in- divisions ;ot the /Roman empire before the Frenchman was right, and whether vou "

lieyes . to be < addressed ;by an angel or civilizedr wof Id, that they were ..given, in-; ' formation' that .is.Useful to'the student and crusades.'' . . , :¦• . . ' . : . ¦ ' approve of liiy ruiins. , ' ' . .

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^^ ,, .. Jthe imagination . ol that person. The. race, -Who is so blind, my friend , as not to,, uestjudBe froih histestimony. One; great that-w0 should . • . - ¦ . ¦• * ¦' - .Bath Kol connects no speaking person behold in this foundation-stone.of Mosaism evil, however, resulted from his iufluence. Christihii.saiiits, though the institution has It was somewhat curious that the Rus-with the wolds spoken ,'so doth the (i Holy ¦ the doctriner: of ' Liberalism", in all its ex- -Xt gave1 rise, t© 4 class of ambitious imita-- formoidy;heen differently dedicated ?'? sum should have blamed us for in'c-oiisis-.fihost " and imamnes words only ifc 1, n„ f . T * ? -r « 1 r V tors, who. not clearly knowing the origindf O. " Now this, arrangement of changing teucy i: for surely ny elder brother " mint, .

I GJiost, ana imagines worcis only, 1t 1s.no tension? And if then you goi to work-to the history of tile Order, have' adopted the the grand patrons; of Masonry along' with mean " the. older brother of me," fust aserror to imagine the speaking, angel or per- examihe'the particular laws in this great wise views of 'M'opsy," who in ignorance the systems of religion :by \ Yhicli It is prae- " >ny better half! ' means "the better'liidf of . -son, who is after all ah imagined reality ; 0id Kobk of this ancient Deonle there is of her ever 'having been' born: arrived at' ticed, is perfectly,consistent -with ordinary me." We may also hereby illustrate what /. -'¦the error is'iri the belief, that the beine- t« <<t u T- V - i ' 1c 'ii ' 'i^ 'V the inevitable cohcldslon thati she ". grow-, usage iri other . importautL .matters. Before was just now srtid .about "oldest" and "eld-„ne error is m tne oeuei tnat tne bemg ,is "Liberalism'? on each and all pages, of that, ^.'"imay uere addthat, in^^ ehufnemting : the legation, of„- Moses it wss .'dedicated to est" ;. ".my eldest brother" could iievor bo - .an angei 01 tne ueity, diylne; revelation, '¦'Thy servant .thy, maid- , the titles of thereTerendlwitness^ Gbusel li. Noah and Abraham (laughter), after that said by tliei first-born of a family, seeing •~^

e could finish this Latin nroverb of senvan Whycaitlei and thy stranger; (i. e. the; omitted mention ;the positimi tlie rever- advent, the legit.imato .system^

of (hith was ^ I J f ^&^

Mmidone^UvvoMwe coma nmsn mis .uaun piq-v ei o of v ,.M . , ,, . .,, ,-. ., : end brother, holds in the new-fangled "A. no longer patriarchal but Jewish, and was when "my oldest brother" is said , he ox- ¦ . -.

" Vox populi," {Balk Kol Hm m), etc.j by n.°n-israeiHej snau enjoy atntft wee tne rec-,; andAi Rite »- and other orMniaatiOns mls^- ^accordingly dedicated to Moses and 'dudes himself, and. indicates th'u-brothernrir lnm the much snoU-en J ' « TnT™,, " „f ™a\wn oj - the Sabbath;'' "thoushall i mf, op caued "Masonry," as '.'Chief-Justice Com- : Aarom". (Ihcreased laughter ; oveii the next to.him in ago. .aaamg ice mucn spoken pi Ao^ia ol gM the stranger ;'' "if thou meet thine mou Seiise ?' acknowledges; no institution ehief-lustice could not refrain smiling). , ^ »'n asked why wo say « dependents,"thei .Septuagmt, instead of "Holy Ghost," ¦

„ieMV,/t ov &c „oin„ „„w,„ bvina it hack "Masonic 'niiat is: based on .aristocratic, "And ffom'the advent of -the Messiah , but " Independent of" 1 The answer isoi- even instead of "logos," and which rhns T\? °;> ,

c- > f f o u 's. as"ay' ?nn9 "¦ oa moharchicah.or s'ectaridn principles. . mankind are expected by Almighty to em- surely not • difficult. When wo make " do-

InHebrew n' -ii Sin the voice of tho mouth <Q hl™ >' V thou see his ass i ng under las . counsel R. " Bro., Ollveivyoil are the au- brace Ghristianity, ; as the only efficient pendent" into "independent;" we not only» ' '" J 'yui' % 0 »-e-Ui ';ne uipuiin 0Urdent thou shall help Mm;''; "the seveiith ,thor\>f tho * Antiquities of Masonry.' Can means of salvation ; and it was dedicated deny that which "dependent" asserts, but

of God ; thus, " Vox poj mli, Vox Dei," is in year thou shall lei thii land rest for the p oor :>> you give us some information on the sub- to Christ, the Son of God, as a light to jvo construct n different word ;. ditfereut inHebrew • r t-

hm . hn m "thou ilidlt lavk thv iicioMor M^twf-»'v Je'et before the-cottrf ?''•>¦'' lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of Israel, t« reference and .Us govomiiient. ; Thelieorew.n j .;?ip .7ip nj. then MMt iove thy ncig/iOoi as thysetf. J

ihQ revei.end brother, evidently misun- of Whom St. John the Baptist was tho her- " o«," which wo use alter " dependent ,". lto BE.coxTrsuKD. i the . wholo^ 19th chapter of Leviticus and - dersi;andiDg the object of the question, aid, and St. John the. Evangelist, the b6- implies attachment and sequence;, as in .

»^_ --- chapter 25, as well as the greater part of thought he "must begin with the origin loved disciple." "hanging on ," "waiting on,": tho " of, "LETTERS ON LIBERALISM ' Deuteronomy, abound with such ihdis- of tholOrder, and went on thus: Counsel- B. "Have you any other cogent which we use after '- " independent ," ex- ,na 1 i aaa w u.o&aaui.i iW.. jj eureionomj , auoumi wuu sum muis (<A f ft th flrst G d Master.and reason for the connection of Saints John presses merely the relation of the thing fol-

' BY mTIiAYER putable principles of true "Liberahsm," so waB succeeded in the grand direction o'f the with the Order?71 . "T ' lowing, as when we say " inclusive of," •] _1_L_ that you may take it as granted that what- craft by Seth, Enoch, Kainan, Mahalaleel, O. "There is another reason why St. "exclusive, of." In this case, the variation

„ . soever the civilized world calls "civiliza- and ' Jared, whose son, godly Enoch,, died John the Baptist w said to have been con- of prepositions might .be still further ex- -, . „ 1 ' - i, > : . ' i. 1, not. He Wad exnert and brisht in tho sidered tho natron1 of Masonry, from the emplineu; we say " pendent f ro m," ,l de- ¦ • - -

Knowing, as we now do, my friend , the tion" now-a-days, is the very fi-uit of ihe ^^ ^^r^^X^ - fa"!ftlmi iii passing through tliVo Essenes' l^.Ident on ," "inllependent of. " A some-signification attached to the word Liberal- spirit of "Liberalism," which gives tho ted twolai^e pillars, the one of stone aud by whom Freemasonry was undoubtedly what similar Instance may be found iu

I ,

' ism, It is not difficult to show how and to "law of Moses" stich a superiority over all the other of brick ; and Methuselah, with preserved"—(great laughter* not unmixed "with respect to," and "irrespective o/."', - t . ,• , . ., . , ' . - / ,' 1 1 t • ¦ ' i-i 4., liis son Lamech and his crandson Noah." with a certain degree Of pity for his mi- the same correspondent who proposed

whom it was applied in the ancient classi- other moral and religious institutions. hi|sm1 L>miem ana ^^^^0 w^^^ ^ ?redulityVT' it was gov- the last question also asks, why wo .say

eal times, A man ol u noble and generous Thus you see, my friend , that "Liberal- laughter At first it was •suppres'sed.bwing erned ," ho continued,- "by this eminent " contemporary vrith," but ^' contemporaryi mind. free and upright in both his words ism." far from beiuK destructive, as the op- td 'the gravity andage of the witness ; but individual , St. John, as such a celebrated j <>f" 1 Tlio answer to this is to be sought

nnrt <PntinY (mt<. imrtm*Mni «nri t ,-i ,« n,„i 7 , ¦ -T ' " < i! ; the brotherhood and strangers, finally, character could; not long bo a member of . b-om a different source. In-" contempoi-aryj and sentiments, impai tial and ti tie, kind ponents assert, is as positive as possible, could not refrain from laughing outright' that community without arriving at tho I with;" tho "wiWl" simply carries on thoj to others and just to himself, desirous of extending, as it does, all its benefits, over The Chief-Justice wisely stepped him, and chief dignity of the Order." , I force of tho preposition " ami," or " cum,"i seeing on others the same privileges and all creature* alike, and qualifying itself as asked him to confine himself to tho ques- Counsel B. here stated that, he could hot i wit h which the adjective - is compounded,! benefits bestowed as he claimed for him- an inUiscensable element of true relieion tion, What he knew about the connection further fatigue the witness hy prolonging But when that adjective is made into a sub-I if ' » . u. , • , - ,. .: ,.;: an lnolsPensaoie element oi true leiigion. of tr\e s«i»ts Jolin witli Masonry. the examination , and moved the court for stantive , it then must bo connected with

sell—a man ot sell-uemiU, activity, clili- Its spirit is so much conservative that o. " There are numerous histories about an adj ournmont , which was grunted. But other substantives by tho customary pre-f gence, and education, who wished to see wheresoever theologians or politicians, that subject. Some contend that, tho bat-, the reader must be satisfied that, according r position "of, " indicating possession or re-I others occupy any lnlppy and useful posi- priests or statesmen introduced a law or a tie of Bannockburu having been fought on to Dr. Oliver's opinion, which opinion per- 1 latioii. , ' . . , ,i fi„« „„ i,^ i;i-„,i .„ t\ i c t - ,» . . \ , , . , , * , i St John's Dav and Freemasonry havinc vades the whole of his writings, especially 'V somewhat similar change takes piano - •tion, as he liked to be happy for himself principle by which one class of society was

^p^v^Yv^bort Br^inMtatoly hi« tetters on " Johnnite Masonrv,"' it »im- when subst.uitives which may l,e useJ 1,re-

and useful to others;- a man without egot- benefited , the Other part, however, preju- . after the victory, it was thence called St. ply amounts to this, that Masonry i-i, or dicalively, are used indicatively. Thus wej ism and haughtiness, who disliked both diced, it \vas always "Liberalism" which John's Masonry; and that the church of ought 0 be, a Christian institution , and the nj j - " neighbor to him," but, "a, neighbor of

. servileness and despotism; such a man rose to vindicate the right of true conservative^ ^^^^^^^S g*" ** «."' u ' ^^S&^^&^iiwas called "liberal ," and enjoyed all re- tism, and to light against both the minis,- that saint. Others say that the introduc- (to he continued. . the 'a wo cases, the phrase does not retainspect and love duo to a noble heart and ters of the Stat e and the ministers of the tion of the legend of !St. John into Mason- — ** the same meaning. "He Is neighbor togenerous soul. Such a character was sure church in case that one or the other or both ry was the work of-the Templars, or other ^1)0llt the Queen's Enflifih. 'w ln j ' "}^ ln J, ,, n^

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to oppose any and all useless innovations, introduced an uuj ustj fiable or partial In- «"•»«Laud - and that the"rwas mther an nv tuk deas of oaxtemckv, hnv . s to him in a neighborly manner."

therefore he was a Conservative in thepnre novation. Hence the hatred and the per- orde> of chivalry, \vhoso business it was to I am asked whether an expression which The question( at the end of the parable ofsense of the word ; on tho other hand , he seeution bv which heads of political or re- rebuild the churches which had been des- I had used , " the /iwt J oundalti/u," can be, i t lic 'food Samaritan, "Which of these ihi-c ,

¦ j opposed the upholdingofanyand aU forms , ligious societies not very seldom dis- * 3^* «JJ ffiK SuftnrSgnffl T^^y^ 't ! ^Z^^:| customs and laws contradictory to time tinguished themselves, though thoy never East under the protection of the Knigh ts ' sought in the general use of expletive, /. »-., | '-option to the rule first mentioned , butand the claims thereof; and therefore he succeeded in destroying a principle which of St. Joh n of Jerusalem ; and that tho ap- superabundant words , together with other* t nil her an example of it. For thu conr -lu -ion

. was the very great man of his acre , and a is altogether divine. pellation of St, John's Masonry was de- which already express tho meaning re- ' '¦•> > ' " drawn from the pambl .- is. t J i n i tho. , . ¦ . , . . K l rived from thence and over after retained, uu red. Thus wo have, " O that they woii l t ] n-n l claim lo the title ol neig lil i ' . r i-. hi sbenefactor even to his posterity. In such a I say, my frk-nd. altogether divine ! For othera araln ^ofevo?X uKiouilcS consider their latter end," when ." tlieir end" - who acts in a neighborly nmnn Vr. S- ilm tman lived , and through such a man worked, the divinity of miv reli gion consists in the eonstructlon of Our rites and coremonies, would , strictly speaking, have been sul l i - Hie question does not moan , wl i i r l i .n:' ihes othe Spirit of God ; unconcious , perhaps, of » liberal" "fundamental laws thereof - aud embracing tho hypothesis that Freemason- cient. Thus also we say " the utn.ost ej u l - Uireo acted in a neighberl .y maimer to Imii?h-m hitrh stfltidin o- n ,„i i, i ¦ , Lioeiat miiiwiiiciiwi laws tneteoi . aua .transmittod throuKh Pythagoras of tho earth ," "the first beginning of«:re.i . -but which of those three luel u nj rht to belas high stan ling and holy mission he ac- if these laws or princi ple consist in love to loa the ou"um. think they ^ve discover- tion"; the expletive prefix in each ea„. , -ailed his neighbor-neiglrhor to hinf ?

E eomplished deeds and things of such an God and to mankind , then it is beyond all ed the simple 'solution of tho mystery in tending to" give precision and emphasis , • Then the answer naturally .-..mies, "Heimportance as to secure him n name among doubt that , unless they get a practical ap- the god Jauus , of which they suppose John and showing that it is on the laot reasseried I t h a t showed me rev on h im/the men of blessed mbuioi-y . V n - l still in 7 !wl ,r if , ri Tihlr to-be a c-orrnp iio n , anr l that his two tofios by it , that the stress of the sentence is la ,d. , I his correspondent j , ho f.on.ts out the., . . . . ., •¦ .. lm ln plication Jj} uieini s of the spun of Liber- o symbolica l of the two Saints John , A notable and very solemn Instance ..f '-arioas difiereiice which is made m the

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inose ancient nines , tne conditions of socl- aii8m," there i.s nothing and remains and as Janus looked two ways at once, i. «., this usage is found in the title, " th ,- must ¦ meaning of one and the same word in aety were quite difierent from what they are nothing but hollownoss and lifolessness in to the old and the now vear, or to the sun Hig hest ," given to the Ahrj ilghty iu t l ie ! sentence , when variously introduced I.y !now ; slavery was considered ,i ot-cessity, Rlu.h a fabric ot sh-.m-relidon Why mv above and below the equinoctial , so the fes- Prayer-book version ot tha FHa7,,V

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Why, my yt, Johns are celebrated 2 ; xii l . ( J; xxi . , ; etcMn.the Bible v.-rsi .. ., , .1 e wi l l ret u rn lor two years " 1 am¦t ? 0,W1Ill,"l, ul lul l, 1 Hri'!> <m oiie friend , you can not love (J0d and hate some at the smnmer and wiufir solstices. the expression seems not to occur , th. .- ! rig h t l v understood ir meaning thai, thusid e, -aud the submission to :,,lv and all of his childi-en just because they do aot live "Tho Masons ou the continent of Europe " Most High ," or , " the Highest," buii* its , k-n-th of . his stay at home will h.- two

arbitrary dealings by the privil eged class in the same nosition as vou. or thev thinkr have embraced a very difierent opinion, equiva lent. But we haye a rediin l iu .i io i i , yi-urs . H un t f say, He will not r . ; „ r non the other Hide \vhv„ 1,, - ,1- ,.,1 , ,. ¦ „ .u position .is sou , oi mey inmn.6 ronnpction of St. JOhn of tlie same kind 11 Acts xxvi. r > ! "A Ite r j for two years , then I do not , by the m-,-

L omia auL a- t'hn r ' US different ly lr0"' >'ou ? And if you love your Conry%"Ktha honor K U,e most .straitest sect of our religion f l i v".,l ti on ,,r „„¦ native, reverse thelbrn,., -v- * |IX >o ma state of the condition oi humanity, fellowmau, and t r y to protect him from j0hn tho A lmsgiver who was Patriarch of a Pharisee." In this place, Itis dilliclt to j j» . - i i i . > ¦ • . .. -., mean that the len Btl. ¦ • ' « IJT¦ LiUeralism was therefore very l imited , in- bodily dangers-veu, if vuu light and con- Alexandria in the sixth century, but took account for it as it represents only the ( *!,.>¦ ..: I '-;™ ' '™

V^ r-, - *»|v%, d«*l i the " liberal nmn - roul d not extend nnw wZhh " ni.l misfortunes which «P l,is residence at Jerusalem that ho simple superlative^n the on h' .nnl te xt. wi. | . l > «-'»^t hing quite dtflereut : *i,- • :at Jg^#H\ his benefits unon tho .' »«. r. i , len" quer accidenb, ami in imoi tunes wmcii Christians who had made Kint; James 's translators seem niorely lo t w „ v-.- i h will elapse 'before his ¦ r . - i h i - . i . /fgggtfL i l W

"W De™n» uPon the not free-burn ' man ; threaten to laBhll h im , are vou not , as a Em hav. re -ui iKHl it trom tho older Knglish v.-r- By tie- insertion of the " not ,'' tl.e j -^ l'"-- j {f lFf o & , C C'°Uld w^r be elevated to "Liberal" man , duiv bound to protect him u ted u fraternity to attend upon the sick sion * . Tyndalo 's, Cramucr's, a nd iho <;.- sin on ' lo r , retaining its ine.-r . i i i . u oi - , i n-- VTff.

^P& tho position of the former . from any danger uh:-h you see hovering and to .-ulonl pecuniary aid to the needy." nev ;i liible . _ ;!.¦,'. lor tho space ol,' co^ t-, l.el .mu to^K