Masonic Studies.

MASONIC STUDIES .

SIR ISAAC NEWTON inserl d a relig ious scholu * m in the heart of his " Principla . " Lou ' s Agassi , in opening a ses-. ion in Biology on the Island of Penikese , said to h s c'ass , " Yoang gentlemen , before we com jneuce o look into tbe secrets oi nati , * e let us seek wi dom fiom nature '* God . Let rs nay "

The mosfc eloquent expounder of sciea .- > in th a country during tie last gene ation w ote at Ihe close of his long and brill'ianfc prolessirn- *! ad J 3- * , "I da t . uly declare that in the study f . nd e . bib . " ' ors of s / . enca to my pupils and fellow men I have never f . ; .-goi- ea lo give all honour

and glo y to the ' nfinita Cr . to —hapny if I mighfc be the honoured iafceoreier u ; a po . t ' on of b ' s wo ks and of the beautiful structure and beaeSceat laws di covered

therein by the labiuis of rrany i'llus . fc lors prsdecessois . For this I claim no a \ : t ' u . Ifc is be resell ; ta wlv ' ch vight reason and sound p'ilosopb * -, rs well a- religion , wo- 'd natural ' y le d . "

Was such a " rc *? xln ;>* up ' of religion with scienre in good aste ? Was it scientific ? Some say , No , and say ifc loudly . " The two things d Ser so w'dely in the ' r natu 38 .

They belong ro sucn aflerenfc rea ms . Tney aiaa as sucn different objects . Tney pu sue their objects by such deferent roads . Who has not heard o ? the ' ¦ ientific method ?' and who does nofc know thafc ifc differs by whole diameters from the method of faith ? Lot the two poles keep apart . It wif ha for the comfort and ailvan . ' asa of both . "

It will be se- ? n iVom he fo . lowi * g p ^ es that author does nofc side with these c ' t cs . He pr fers v . t ude with the Pleiades . To 1 is tVuk ' -g there s a w •¦•¦ way of mi-iing up relig ion wi : h e . ir . ' -, l * . i \? . g . Heisfarfom being sa \ bled at ru ; * g R' -. vg o at ¦

the head of a corner . ; -y , or 1- the r . "ae oi God , Amen ! at the he : * dof a h'fc w a . A ' •(>; ¦ ¦> -neni .. Ho 1 any ' i : * j bufc disgusted to find th .-c the name of God appears . so : re national Ma ^ _ a Chad . ;* , ; that * he Gladstone a *? d Bisu > ** cL i of theday s . -akitrverently i . u Parliament a ; d ic ' e lisivg ;

that Legist tnres < , ; J evi -. ih prayer ; ; t .. c Hd . g . ' sfcd . "* •. * - and even voljrs ars qu . 'ified by oaths •, that the legoiid ot a c * rtai « i commonw alta is Qui lr * -. i :- ; tulit snsoinet ; that the Quoan ( God bless her \) sen-i foc . h her -nnynlestos

with We YictOi . ' . a by the Gr V ; ot God ; : fiufc I „; autx-rafc Nebuchadnez *„; i ' , iu in Imperial uka :, * , "talki like a rc ' : * i : ' sr" fcc < v' his nation .. =. nd lugaaj . ; \ Even fche btistl . Q . T ' ib ) x ; a of fche Nevviuniid in : t-ein-. i' 8 setsuii

to hitu uil the ; . i . r . i ; v f"" hav u ^ In it 'ittle ciinpel to fche Create ? * and Te Deua-s sound not uviradically a-aild thepolyglou of geologic baa-net •, chemici icAge : it : / and rotating astronomical domes . So he hop "J * th . i Newton ,

Agassiz and Mii ' . er wil' have m my ;; ac « cur . lb woo . a not much disp . ease Urn wero th" timo haHtily * o rume when not a Kc ' entific lecture * s spoken nor a soioat 1 c b : ok written which do ^ s not ii some way pay an empbit'c tribute to the g eat Aut ior of r ^ fcu ¦¦ .

The tribute is due . Society needs it more than tongue can ia 1 ! . Ours are cot the ages of faith . An audacious speculation , with is ^ ae-ist-d and fictions sad in sanities , is frying as never before to turn God o * afc of His own worldend with a frightful measur 3 of success . " Wbafc France

lacks to-day Is , nofc a man , bufc a God . " And Geiaiany is , if possible , wo . se off still . And both Teuton and Gaul , invited by words vandals of our own , are frequently

crossing channel and ocean to lay waste the EogUsh-spealang peoples . Many of our strongholds have already fallen into the hands of " tie Invaders . Should all fall it would he " midnight streaked with lightning . "

Not scientific to mix up science and teligion in the same hook ? Then God himself is unscientific , for he has so largely and legibly written himself into that Book of Nature that contains all the sciences that even the heathen

" are without excuse for not reading hia eternal power and godhead in the things thafc are made . " I « ifc scientific to atiacK jehVon f ; m the sida of sclencs , and unscientific to defend it from ths same side ? 1 % it scientific io illustrate

one science by another , as s da- y dono witbouo rebuke , and unscientific to ir . eajv ^ ta dLa supreme science which we call religion by that other science we call ast ^ o-aomy ?

Is it scientific to notice the gigantic tracks of hirds in the rocks of tbe Connecticut Valley , and unscientific to notice in both earthly and heavenly stratft fche still more gigantic footprints of the Creator ? Was it scientific and

;» excellent taste for the scholar who ra the year 1-500 found

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an aged parchment in the monastery of Corwey , in Westphalia , to cry oufc so that all Europe heard him , " Thia reads like Tacitus , " and unscientific as well as in bad taste for the scholar who finds stili more ancient inscriptions in the cloistered heavens , fco . cry out loudly , "Thia reads like God . " —Masonic Review .

Misonic Sonnets.—No. 27.

MISONIC SONNETS . —No . 27 .

BY BRO . C ^ . P . FOE ^ , LL . D ., 24171214 , 701 ( S . C ) — : o : — A DRUNKEN MASON .

Oh ! that a iran who . reads onr happy ways Should also walk the paths of degradation ; * nd , through strong drink , for all his future daya Bear with remorse , a raiued reputation . Ah ! 'tis a foe fihat gnaws the very sonl , Steals from a man h ' s erstwhile perfect name , And as aie a time dotb ever onward 10 H ,

Steeps him in sin and sinks him into shame . My Brethren , we are bound by bonds of love , By links whioh teaoh us e ' er ' * help another 5 Then , for the sake of Him who rales abore ,

Let as aye stroa to tnrn an erring urotner , — Who at the ah .-ine of Bacchus fain would stay , And worship that whioh wens his sonl away . Winder House , Bradford . 15 th December 1892 .

At the Maid ^ todie Assizes , ou Monday , Leonard Maoklelow was Indicted for feloniously wounding , with intent to murder , Miss Edith Philbrick and Miss Hilda Wood . The cbecinstances of the case are well known to most of our leaders . The prisoner since hia committal

from fche Bromley pcli-ie court ha ^ developed distinct signs of ' nsanlty , aud has had whilst iu gt . ol a number of fit ? . Mr . H . F . Dickena , Q . C , who , wifch lir . Low , appeared to pr ., se 3 uiG for the Trecs . 'ry , iiow submitted the evidence of D . 3 . Gilbeit and Hoar , Medici' O . Ttc-rs afc Ho'loway and

Maidstone g-. ols , aud r . Davies , Medical Superintendent at Burning Heath Lrnafcic Asylnm , who deponed that the prisoner was lidally unable ta " ¦ Aude-. c . tand the proceedings

or t ;> plead to fche indictment . The jn . y , who wero sworn fco try tLis lasae , t'esuined a vi rdicfc cqcordingly , and Mr . Juafciie Hawkl ^ a thereupon ovoered ihe prisoner ' 0 bo detai . icil d : rinj her Majesty ' s pler . dure .

The Ej-rl _ of Bad . or was kstasled , on the 14 th inst ., at Salisbu y , as F ; c ineial Graud Mdster of Mark Masons for WUtsL ' re . The coromonlba , which included the consecration of a new M * . rk Lei' . " ) fo * . * Salisbury , were

performed b y the Earl of Euston , Deputy Grand Master of theMa ? k Degiv « , a :: s '; gi < -iJ by Colonel A . B . Ccok Provincial Graud Ma-te .. for Middlesex , Bro . Frank Richavdson C ! t . ^ nd Reg ! -i . •. ¦•, ar . fl Bro . 0 . F . Matier Grand is-jcreii-fy .

The amual meeting of the Marquess of Granby Lodge , No . 124 , was held on Tuesday evening , the 6 th inst ., in tho Freemasons' Hf . ll , Durham . Bro . W . H . Patterson was

elec . ^ d W . M . for the ensuing year ; Bro . M . Fowler M . P ., was re-sleeted Treasurer , and Bro . W . Grabham Tyler . The Lodge was closed in the usual manner , and fcho Festival of St . John was afterwards held .

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