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TABLE OF CONTENTS .

PAGES F REEMASONRY AND ISRAELITISM 635 & 636 O

BITUARYBro . William Thompson 636 & 637 T HE GROWN PRINCE OF PRUSSIA AS A MASON ... 637 THE ROYAL BANK OF IRELAND 637 & 638 O RIGINAL

CORRESPONDENCE" Freemasonry and Judaism " 638 & 639 THE CRAFTMetropolitan 639 B IRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS 640 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS 640

A C ONTRAST 640 & 641 M ULTAM IN PARVO 641 THE F OOTSTEPS OF MASONRY 641 THE F REEMASONS' LIFE-BOAT COMMITTEE ... 642 C ONSECRATION OF THE ROYAL ALBERT CHAPTER ,

No . 907 642 PROV . GRAND LODGE OF WEST LANCASHIRE 642 & 643 PROV . GRAND LODGE OF STAFFORD - SHIRE 643 644 , & 645

POETRYLight 345 MASONIC MEETINGS FOR NEXT WEEK 6 4 6 ADVERTISEMENTS 633 , 634 , 646 , 647 , & 64 S

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FREEMASONRY & ISRAELITISM .

BY BRO . WILLIAM CARPENTER , P . M . & P . Z . 177 . xx . The money-power of the Saxon race is one of the most noticeable traits in their character . The scale of living amongst

their industrial classes is much higher than is to be found among either Celts or Franks . They feed better , clothe better , are housed better , and their social habits ensure them comforts and luxuries to which the other

races are comparative strangers . But while the Saxons thus expend more upon themselves than others do , they save more money ; that is , accumulate more than any other peoples . What enormous sums

England , America , and Germany have expended in wars during the last century , and yet what a mnss of accumulated wealth they each possess ! England stands first in this , as in most other things . " In spite of her

huge National Debt , " says Emerson , " the valuation mounts . During the war , from 178910 1815 , whilst Englishmencomplained that they were taxed within an inch of their lives , and by dint of enormous taxes were

subsidizing all the Continent against r ranee , they were every year growing rich , faster than any people ever grew before . It is their maxim , that the weight of taxes must be calculated , not by what is taken ,

but by what is left . " The creation of wealth in England , during the last century , is a main fact in modern history . The wealth of England determines prices all over the globe . All things , precious , or

amusing , or useful , or intoxicating , enter into her commerce , and are floated to London . Some English private incomes reach , and some exceed , £ 250 , 000 a year . A hundred thousand mansions adorn the

land . All that can feed the senses and passions ; all that can succour the talent , or increase the comfort , of the intelligent

middle classes , who never forego anything for their own consumption ; all that can gratify taste or secure enjoyment , is in the open market . Whatever is excellent and beautiful

in civil , rural , or ecclesiastical architecture , in fountain , garden , or grounds , the English nobleman crosses land and sea to obtain , or to copy at home . Such a wealth has

England earned — ever new and augmenting . But the question suggests itself , "does she take the > tcp beyond ; namely , to the wise "sc in view in the accumulated wealth of Nations ? We estimate the wealth of nation J

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by seeing what they do with their surplus capital . " Well , we have seen that a part of her wealth goes to establish schools and hospitals , and in a thousand other ways to minister to the minds and bodies of those

who need it . Hundreds of churches , schools , hospitals ] for every ailment to which humanity is liable ; with asylums for the deaf , the dumb , the blind , the idiot , and the mad ; and refuges for sorrowing

Magdalens and penitent thieves ; and beneficient societies for helping the aged , the crippled , and the temporarily embarrassed , abound . But after having dispensed so

largely as England does , in this way . she has so much left in hand that she supplies the world , or any part of it , with all the money it requires . But to this I shall more particularly speak further on .

"Whence , we may ask , is all this wealth obtained ? Chiefly from our manufacturing and mercantile industry . The products of our labour are estimated at between seven

and eight hundred millions sterling a year . Our foreign commerce is so vast that the declared value of the exports exceeds £ 220 , 000 , 000 a year . During the first seven months of the present year their declared

value was £ 121 , 455 , 961 . The sums passed through the Bankers' Clearing-house in the city of London—the centre of this commerce—amounted , in the first six months of the year , to £ 2 , 205 , 549 , 000 . If I had

the materials at hand to give , approximately , the sum of the accumulated savings , only , of England , America , Germany , and the rest of the Saxon nations , the figures would be bewildering . I have adverted to

the superior condition , as regards the various comforts of life , which characterizes the Saxon peoples , especially the Anglo-Saxons , and , above all , England and her colonies .

An English artizan , an English labourer of any description , in his home-land , America , or Australia , consumes much more than the artizan or labourer of any other race does ; and the middle classes live much more

freely and luxuriously than those of other peoples . But while they all thus live , they do not consume all they acquire . Tluy have a surplus , as savings' banks , benefit societies , of various kinds , freehold land

societies , life insurance companies , and stocks and shares of all descriptions testify , for while savings' banks , benefit societies , and some other descriptions of investments arc almost wholly sustained and derive

their funds from the middle and working classes , these classes also invest a comparatively large amount in British and Foreign Funds . " Foreign Stocks "—that is , money lent to foreigners—is a familiar phrase ; for

although foreigners have borrowed so freely , that , after all they have repaid , they still owe no less a sum than £ 2 , 800 , 000 , 000 , the greater part of it to England , they are continually coming for more , and arc never

sent empty away . Nor have they to wait long for what they ask . A loan is announced for some State in the Old World , or the New , and the subscriptions so pour into the banks appointed to receive them ,

that the usual thing is for many millions more than arc required to be offered , in a week , sometimes in a day ; the applications for permission to lend to the borrower being so numerous , that an applicant is not

permitted to contribute more than a half , or a third , or less than that , of what he offers . So enormous are the loans , that the amount of ins en st paid upon t '< icm , in England ,

alone , sometimes exceeds five or six millions sterling , in a single month . And while we have ihus lent , and arc still lending , the amount cl unempioy * d capita ! is often so great , that , though oaeicd , on loan ,

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at from 1 to to 2 per cent ., borrowers cannot be found . The Saxons never go to the Celts or the Franks , to borrow . To them they are ever lenders . They borrow amongst themselves

—Germany and England are large creditors of the Americans , their kinsfolk ; and England has sometimes , not often , helped the Germans , her kinsfolk . England herself has , in times past , borrowed largely ; but it

has been the State borrowing of the nation —the rulers borrowing of the people ; for although a considerable amount of British Stocks is held by foreigners , it is not because we borrowed the money from them , but

because they , having such confidence in our resources and our honesty , have purchased the securities from those who originally held them , as securities a long way a-head of anythingtheycould find elsewhere .

The chief ground of this confidence is the unswerving rectitude of the English character . I have quoted Emerson two or three times , as describing traits in the English character , and I quote him once more ,

because , not being an Englishman , he cannot be supposed to speak under the bias with which an Englishman might be supposed to speak of his countrymen ' s character . He says : " They have a national

singleness of heart , a name which has a proverbial significance of sincerity and honest meaning . The arts bear testimony to it . In old sculptures and illuminated missals , the faces of clergy and laity are

charged with earnest belief . Add to this hereditary rectitude , the punctuality and precise dealing which commerce creates , and you have the English truth and credit . The Government strictly performs its

engagements . The subjects do not understand trifling on its part . When any breach of promise occurred in the old days of prerogative , it was resented by the people as an intolerable grievance . And , in modern

times , any slipperiness in the Government , in political faith , or any repudiation or crookedness in matters of finance , would bring the whole nation to a committee ol inquiry and reform . Private men keep

their promises , never so trivial . Down goes the flying word on their tablets , and it is as indelible as Doomsday Book . Their practical power rests on their national

sincerity . They are blunt in saying what they think ; sparing of promises ; and require plain dealing of others . They will not have to do with a man in a mask . ' Let

us know the truth . Draw a straight line , hit whom and where it will . ' To be king of their word is their pride . When they unmask cant they say , ' The English of this is' so and so ; and to give the lie is

the extreme insult . The phrase of the lowest of the people is , ' Honour bright ;' and their vulgar praise— 'His word is as good as his bond . ' They hate shuffling and equivocation ; and the cause is

damaged , in the public opinion , on which any paltering can be fixed . An Englishman understates , avoids the superlative , checks himself in compliments , and alleges that one cannot speak in the French

language without lying . They confide in each other . English believe in English . The French feel the superiority of this probity . The Englishman is not springing a trap for

admiration , but is honestly minding his own business . The Frenchman is vain . Madame de Stael says that the English irritated Napoleon , mainly , because they had found oat how to unite success with honesty . "

Have we any intimations in the ancient prophecies , of the wealth and monetary [ . over of the IsraeHlish race ? Wc certainly i . ave , although these prophecies are not so