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the rest in industry and exertion . The master , perceiving this , took him one day out with him to refresh himself by a walk . In the evening , when all the workmen came to receive their wages , the industrious one also appeared , and received his full wages . Thereupon the others murmured , saying : 'We have worked and toiled the whole ofthe clay , and this one who has only worked two hours , why should he receive as much as we ? ' But the master replied : ' This one hacl clone more in two

hours than you have during the whole day . ' Rabbi Bun , whom we now lament , was the industrious workman in the vineyard of the Lord . During his short stay on earth , he has effected more good than many have during a life of a hundred years' duration . Therefore his slumber is sweet , ancl his reward great . "

BURIAL PLACES IN EGYPT AND IN IRELAND . —Can we wonder that the inhabitants of Egypt resemble in appearance the carcases with whom they dwell ; can we hesitate to account for the constant development of a pestilence , when we reflect that by clay and by night , for twelve centuries , the soil on which Cairo stands , its crowded courts , and narrow streets have been inundated by the filthy excretions of animals and of man ; that clay and night , for centuries , the earth has been imbibing the putrid sanies from the bodies of thousands of animalspermitted to rot

, over its surface ; that day and night , for centuries , it has been imbibing the fluid contents of imperfect cloacea ? , and the poisonous exhalations . of its half-buried inhabitants , until the sub-soil has become one vast hotbed of pestilential infection . Now , the burial places in this kingdom have little to boast of over those of Egypt . There is this distinction , however , to be drawn . In the latter countrythe system employed is at once recognized and

-, per mitted . In England , men pay " funeral clues , " under the impression that their dead fulfil their destiny—return " ashes to ashes , dust to dust . " Whether they gain more by their purchase than a solemn plausability , those who have heard these Lectures , or perused what I have written , can determine for themselves .

The condition of the burial-places in Ireland seems to be even worse than those in other portions of the United Kingdom , although they are almost universally in a most disgusting and dangerous condition . In the neighbourhood of Castle Island and Ballylongford , in the above country , from the imperfect covering thrown over the recent dead , troops of dogs prey from day to day on the bodies . Violent madness is the result , which has led these rabid animals not only to attack one another , but the cattle in the fields .

Methinks our boasted civilization , expansive as it is , may clothe itself in sack-cloth and ashes—it should hide its head for very shame . That man , the image of his God , the heir of immortality , trampled upon during life , hideous in death , should again be made the victim of well deserved punishment to his survivors , is a fearful reflection for those who see in the PRESENT the forebodings of a more terrible FUTURE .

BURIAL-PLACES IN EGYPT —THE PRODUCERS OP PLAGUE . —In ancient Egypt the plague was unknown . Although densely populated , the health of the inhabitants was preserved by strict attention to sanitary regulations . But with time came on change , and that change was in man . The serene climate , the enriching river , the fruitful soil remained ; but when the experience of 2 , 000 years was set at nought ; when the precautions previously adopted for preserving the soil from accumulated impurities

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THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLYREVIEW, Article 1
MASONIC REPROOF. Article 8
ON FREEMASONRY, Article 9
CHAPTER II. Article 14
THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON. Article 18
IMPORTANT MASONIC RECORD. Article 26
AM ACCOUNT OF THE NEAPOLITAN MASONRY ; Article 31
A SUCCINCT ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF THE WRITER. Article 33
TO THE EDITOR. Article 40
TO THE EDITOR. Article 40
TO THE EDITOR. Article 41
TO THE EDITOR. Article 43
TO THE EDITOR. Article 45
TO THE EDITOR. Article 45
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 46
UNITED GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND. Article 47
QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION, JUNE 7. Article 58
GRAND CONCLAVE OF ENGLAND AND WALES. Article 64
THE EARLY GRAND ENCAMPMENT OF ENGLAND AND CONCLAVE OF FAITH AND FIDELITY. Article 66
THE FREDERICK ENCAMPMENT, Article 66
SUPREME GRAND COUNCIL FOR ENGLAND AND WALES. Article 67
RE-UNION OF THE BURLINGTON AND BANK OF ENGLAND LODGES. Article 68
THE CHARITIES. Article 69
ASYLUM FOR WORTHY AGED AND DECAYED FREEMASONS. Article 70
Untitled Article 71
CHIT CHAT. Article 80
Obituary. Article 87
PROVINCIAL. Article 90
SCOTLAND. Article 98
IRELAND. Article 99
FOREIGN. Article 102
INDIA. Article 104
THE GENERAL ASSURANCE ADVOCATE. Article 108
LITERARY NOTICES. Article 116
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 119
CONTENTS. Article 121
TO THE MANAGING DIRECTOR S, ACTUARIES, & SECRETARIES , OF INSURANCE COMPANIES. Article 122
W^^^^^^^^^^^^^M^M Article 123
GALL'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS —Tbe most usefu... Article 124
FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY ADVERTISER. SECOND... Article 125
FREEMASONS' HOTEL, GREAT QUEEN STREET, L... Article 126
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FREEMASONRY. BROTHER J. P. ACKLAM, MASON... Article 127
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Untitled Ad 128
Untitled Ad 128
Untitled Ad 128
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CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Article 129
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the rest in industry and exertion . The master , perceiving this , took him one day out with him to refresh himself by a walk . In the evening , when all the workmen came to receive their wages , the industrious one also appeared , and received his full wages . Thereupon the others murmured , saying : 'We have worked and toiled the whole ofthe clay , and this one who has only worked two hours , why should he receive as much as we ? ' But the master replied : ' This one hacl clone more in two

hours than you have during the whole day . ' Rabbi Bun , whom we now lament , was the industrious workman in the vineyard of the Lord . During his short stay on earth , he has effected more good than many have during a life of a hundred years' duration . Therefore his slumber is sweet , ancl his reward great . "

BURIAL PLACES IN EGYPT AND IN IRELAND . —Can we wonder that the inhabitants of Egypt resemble in appearance the carcases with whom they dwell ; can we hesitate to account for the constant development of a pestilence , when we reflect that by clay and by night , for twelve centuries , the soil on which Cairo stands , its crowded courts , and narrow streets have been inundated by the filthy excretions of animals and of man ; that clay and night , for centuries , the earth has been imbibing the putrid sanies from the bodies of thousands of animalspermitted to rot

, over its surface ; that day and night , for centuries , it has been imbibing the fluid contents of imperfect cloacea ? , and the poisonous exhalations . of its half-buried inhabitants , until the sub-soil has become one vast hotbed of pestilential infection . Now , the burial places in this kingdom have little to boast of over those of Egypt . There is this distinction , however , to be drawn . In the latter countrythe system employed is at once recognized and

-, per mitted . In England , men pay " funeral clues , " under the impression that their dead fulfil their destiny—return " ashes to ashes , dust to dust . " Whether they gain more by their purchase than a solemn plausability , those who have heard these Lectures , or perused what I have written , can determine for themselves .

The condition of the burial-places in Ireland seems to be even worse than those in other portions of the United Kingdom , although they are almost universally in a most disgusting and dangerous condition . In the neighbourhood of Castle Island and Ballylongford , in the above country , from the imperfect covering thrown over the recent dead , troops of dogs prey from day to day on the bodies . Violent madness is the result , which has led these rabid animals not only to attack one another , but the cattle in the fields .

Methinks our boasted civilization , expansive as it is , may clothe itself in sack-cloth and ashes—it should hide its head for very shame . That man , the image of his God , the heir of immortality , trampled upon during life , hideous in death , should again be made the victim of well deserved punishment to his survivors , is a fearful reflection for those who see in the PRESENT the forebodings of a more terrible FUTURE .

BURIAL-PLACES IN EGYPT —THE PRODUCERS OP PLAGUE . —In ancient Egypt the plague was unknown . Although densely populated , the health of the inhabitants was preserved by strict attention to sanitary regulations . But with time came on change , and that change was in man . The serene climate , the enriching river , the fruitful soil remained ; but when the experience of 2 , 000 years was set at nought ; when the precautions previously adopted for preserving the soil from accumulated impurities

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