Gleanings.

The true Mason believes in a Supreme Intelligence which pervades and animates all nature—the Infinite One—and will pay Him that reverence due from a creature to his Creator . Nor will he nse fche name by whioh He is known to us in a light ; and trifling manner .

The Masonic curiosities deposited in the Masonic Temple , New York City , have been catalogued , and they fill a pamphlet of twelve pa ^ es , including Masonic medals , jewels , collars , aprons , autographs , furniture , diplomas , certificates , warrants , & c .

The East is Masomcally styled the place of light , a figure thafc is too obvious to require illustration . It is in the East that " the foUleiv doors of sunrise" open . Thence the god of day comes forth to banish the silence , coldness , ancl darkness of night . The benighted

• wanderer , chilled wifch night dews and melancholy wifch its ghostly stillness , turns his eyea longingly towards the East , and impatiently anticipates the dawn . So with those who feel the intellectual loneliness and darkness of their nature ; they turn wishfully to the moral Hast , fche heavenly East , the source of mental illumination . —Morris .

We dislike to seo Masonio work done in a careless , indifferent and imperfect manner . Occasionally we havo witnessed a rendition of ceremonies which was far from pleasant because the Officers were not masters of the situation . They did fche work in a halting and embarrassed way , as if thoy were nofc sure of tho requirements they

were appointed to teach and illustrate . Ifc takes away both the charm and effectiveness of any Masonic service when mistakes are common , and when , evidently , there is little intelligent thought or

earnestness directing the ceremony . Knowledge , confidence , clearness of expression , promptness of action—these are essential to fche right ; rendering of the work so thafc ifc shall be duly impressive and instructive .

Would that brethren might be temperate in all things . The keeping of too late hours afc the Lodge room is au excess that ought to be guarded against . It were better to begin at an early hour and close in good season , rather than follow the course pursued in some localities where a late commencement is made , and therefore the

brethren are detained to an unreasonable limit . Masonry will be more respected in the home and in society , while ifc will be more useful to its members , if good sense be called upon fco determine what the length of its meetings shall be and brethren conform to a standard thna established .

"Order ia heaven's first law , " said Pope . Certainly order is one of the first essentials to the successful administration of Lodge affairs . Everything ought to be arranged and systematized in a way to avoid friction . In the work of a Lodge let the demands of time and place be recognized , so that a regnlar course of procedure may be followed

from first to last . Thus will fche best effects be produced and the most comfort succeed . But fussiness is nofc necessary to the maintenance of good order . The manifestations of preparation—of

restraint and direction—should bo as few as possible . If the mechanism is concealed all the greater will bo the effect . Let as much spontaneity as possible attend the rule of order that should have prevailing force in every Masonic body .

ARCHITECT . —The name by which the architect of Cologne Cathedral is designated in tho contract for the work is Magister Lapicida , the master stone-cutter ; and Ruskin in his " Seven Lamps of

Architecture , " says : " This was tho usual Latin term throughout the middle ages . " The architect of the 14 th century portion of Notre Dame , Paris , is styled in French merely premier masson . — William James Hughan .

Fanaticism is one of those peculiar outbreaks of ill-regulated minds whioh seem periodically to affect humanity . It has marked human nature curiously enough from the first , ancl has even disgraced religion . Of course , to some , religion itself is fanaticism ; but we are speaking of that hopeless , ancl excited , and intolerant spirit

which denies to another the right of private judgment , which sees nothing good in any who happen religiously or politically to differ from ifc , and which bans instead of blessing , and hinders instead of advancing , the progre s of religious toleration , and of the liberty of belief . Freemasonry has suffered much from fanatacism and fanatics

m past times and at the present hour , but knows nothing of ifc itself , disavows it , aud condemns it . Freemasonry avows toleration for all , ancl wishes ever to lay down tho great , though sometimes forgotten truth , that the world is wide enough for all religious bodies , and that

instead of fighting wifch one another nnd cnrsing one another , they had better join in one common crusado against evil , ignorance , sntferinsr , sorrow , want , aud wretchedness , lying , liko Lazarus , afc their very doors .

C i uc mi AMBULATION . —If this long word bo reduced into its simple meaning , it expresses only a going around , or walking around . Ifc refers to the processions in the heathen temples ou stated occasions . Ifc is asserted that these processions always moved from east to oast , singing hymns , that is to say , they went from cast to west , ancl then from west to east again , ending where they began in the east , and

so mutating the course of the sun . But thongh this rule was common , it had some exceptions , though no doubt tho very frequent nse of tbe ceremony gavo rise eventually to the word . Ifc is probably more correct to say , thafc the habit of circnmambtilation is a relic of heathen worahij ., though thero is no meaning of course iu its special

use any longer . In certain ceremonies of Freemasonry a modified torm of circnmambulatiou or processional is used , though simply on Masonic principles . Any attempted explanation of our present M . ' based on any old-world ceremonial , is in cttr opinion idle in

the extreme . Wo may observe that cireumambulation , in its processional phasis , is common to several Christian churches , ns touch as it was to the heathen temple worship . Thero is an innocent use and lawful adaptation of all such ancient forms . —Kcnninfs VydopcBdia ,

Mrs. Caudle On Freemasonry.

MRS . CAUDLE ON FREEMASONRY .

BY THE IATE BRO . DOUGLAS JERHOLD . Caudle has been made a Mason , Mrs . Caudle indignant and curious .

" "VfOW , Mr . Caudle—Mr . Caudle , I say : oh ! you can't be asleep L l already , I know . Now , what I mean to say is this ; there ' s no use , none at all , in our having any disturbance about the matter j but , nt last my mind's made up , Mr . Caudle ; I shall leave yon .

Either I'll know all yon ve been doing to-uighfc , or to-morrow morn , ing I quit the houso . No , no ; there's an end of the marriage-state , I think—an end of all confidence between man and wife—if a husband ' s to have secrets and keep ' em all to himself . Pretty secrets they must be , when hia own wife can't know ' em . Not fit for any decent

person to know , I'm sure , if that's the case . Now , Candle , don't let us qnarrel ; there's a good soul , tell me what's it all about ? A pack of nonsense , I dare say ; still—not that I care much about ; it—still , I should like to know . There ' s a dear . Eh ? Oh , dont tell me there ' s nothing in ifc ; I know better ; I'm not a fool Mr . Caudle ; I know

there s a good deal in it . Now , Caudle ; just tell me a little bit of it . I'm sure I'd tell you anything . You know I would . Well ? " Caudle , you're enough to vex a saint ! Now , don't you think you're going fco sleep ; because you ' re not . Do you suppose I'd ever suffered you to go and be made a Mason , if I didn't suppose I was fco

know the secret too ? Not thafc it's anything to know , I dare say ; and that's why I'm determined to know it . " But I know what it is ; oh yes , there can be no doubt . The secret is , to ill-nsa poor women ; to tyrannize over 'em ; to make ' em your slaves ; especially your wives . It must be something of the sort ,

or you wouldn't be ashamed to have ifc known . Whafc's right and proper never need be done in secret . It's an insult ; fco a woman for a man to be a Freemason , and let his wife know nothing of ifc . But , poor soul , she ' s sure fco know ifc somehow—for nice husbands they all make . Yes , yes , a part of fche secret ia fco think better of all the

world than their own wives and families . I m sure men have quite enough to care for—that is , if they act properly—to care for them they have afc home . They can't have much , care fco spare for the world besides . " And I suppose they call you Brother Caudle ? A pretty brother

indeed !• Going and dressing yourself up in an apron like a turnpike man—for that ' s what yon look like . And I should like to know what the apron ' s for ? There must be something in ifc nofc very respectable , I ' m sure . Well , I only wish I was queen for a day or two ; I'd put an end to Freemasonry , and all such trumpery , I know .

"Now , come , Candle ; don't let's quarrel . Eh ! You re nofc in pain , dear . What ' s it all about ? What are you lying laughing there afc ? Bufc I ' m a fool to trouble my head about you . " And you ' re not going to let me know the secret , eh P You mean to say—you're not ? Now , Candle , you know it ' s a hard matter to

put me in a passion—not that I care about tho secret itself ; no , I wouldn't givo a bntton to know ifc , for it ' s all nonsense I ' m sure . If ; isn't the secret I care about , ifc's fche slight , Mr . Caudle ; it ' s the studied insult that a man pays to hia wife , when he thinks of going through the world keeping something to himself which he won't let

her know . Man and wife one , indeed ! I shonld like to know how thafc can be when a man ' s a Mason—when he keeps a secret thafc sets him and his wife apart ? Ha , you men make the laws , and so you take good care to have all the best of ' em to yourselves ; otherwise a woman ought to be allowed a divorce when a man becomes a Mason .

When he ' s got a sort of corner-cupboard in his heart—a secret place in his mind—thafc his poor wife isn ' t allowed to rummage ! " Caudle , you shan ' t close your eyes for a week—no , you shan'tunless you tell me some of ifc . Come , there ' s a good creature : there ' s

a love . I ' m sure , Caudle , I wouldn't refuse you anything—and you know it , or ought to know it , by this time . I only wish I had a secret ! To whom should I think of confiding ifc , bub to my dear husband ? I should be miserable to keep it to myself , and you know ifc . Now , Caudle ?

" Was there ever such a man ! A man , indeed ! A brute ! Yes , Mr . Caudle an unfeeling , brutal creature , when you might oblige me , and you won't . I'm sure I don't object to your being a Mason ; nofc afc all , Caudle ; I dare say ifc's a very good thing 5 I dare say it is—ifc's only yonr making a secret of ifc that vexes

me-Bufc you'll tell me—you'll tell your own Margaret ? You won't You ' re a wretch , Mr . Caudle . "But I know why ; oh , yes , I can tell . The fact is you ' re ashamed to lot me know what a fool they ' ve beeu making of you . That ' s ifct You , afc your time of life—the father of a family . I should be ashamed of myself , Candle .

"And I suppose yon'll be going to what you call your Lodge every night , now . Lodge indeed ! Pretty place it must be , where they don't admit women . Nice goings on , I dare say . Then yon call one another Brethren . Brethren ! I ' m suro you'd relations enough , you didn't want any moro .

" But I know what all this Masonry ' s abonfc . It's only an excuse fco get away from your wives and families , that you may feast and drink together , that ' s all . That's the secret . Aud so abnse women —as if they were inferior animals , aud not to bo trusted . That's

the secret ; and nothiuc else . "Now , Caudle , don ' t let us quarrel . Yes , I know you ' re in pain , Still , Caudle , my love ; Caudle ! Dearest , I say ! Caudle ! " " I recollect nothing more , " says Caudle , "for I had catena hearty supper , and somehow became oblivious . "

Time , patience , and indus-ty aro the three grand masters of fche world . They bring a man the end of his desires ; whereas an imprudent and turbulent murmur often turns him off tho way to his proposed ends .