Our Archaeological Corner.

due to one Avho is worthy . Thus , where our authorised version translates Matthew , ( xix . 19 , ) "Honour thy father and thy mother . " Wycliffe says , "AVorchip thi fadir and thi madir . " And in the marriage service of the Episcopal Church the

expression is still retained , " Avith my body I thee worship , " that is honour or reverence thee . Hence , the still common use in England of the words worshipful and right worshipful , as titles of honour applied to municipal and judicial officers . Thus the mayors of

small towns and justices of the peace are styled " Worshipful , " while the mayors of large cities , as London , are called " Eight AVorshipful . " The usage Avas adopted and retained in Masonry . The word worship , or its derivationsis not mot with in

, any of the old manuscripts . In the manner of constituting a IIOAV Lodge adopted in 1722 , and published by Anderson in 1723 , the word " worship" is applied as a title to the Grand Master . In the seventeenth

century the guilds of London began to call themselves " worshipful , " as " the Worshipful Company of Grocers , " etc ., and it is likely that the lodges , at the revival , and perhaps a feAV years before , adopted the same style . The Americaa daily journal of Bogota

, , in a recent issue publishes letter of Don Joaquin Alvez da Costa , in Avhich he states that his slaves Avhilc working upon the plantation of Porto Alto , Parahyba district Peru , have discovered a monumental stone , erected by a small colony of Phoenicians who had Avaiidered thither from their native

country in the ninth or tenth year of the reign of Hiram , a monarch contemporary Avith Solomon and who nourished about ten centuries before the Christian era . The monolith bears an inscription of eight lines , Avritten in clear Phoenician characters ,

Avithout punctuation marks or any visible separation of the Avords . This lias been imperfectly deciphered , but enough has been made out to , learn that a party of Canaaiiites left the port of Aziongaber ( Boy-Akaba ) and navigated about the

coast of Egypt for twelve moons ( one year , ) but were drawn by currents off their course and eventually carried to the present site of Guayaquil , Peru . The stone gives the names of these unfortunate travellers , both male aud female , and probably further investigations -will shed more light on the records they have left .

Correspondence.

Correspondence .

[ It has heen thought advisable to open a correspondence column in the Magazine , —though we do not profess to be responsible either for the words or the opinions of our Correspondents . In this particular case , to -which the subjoined letter refers , there seems to be a little heat on both sides which Ave trust tho true fraternal spirit of Freemasonry will soon allay . — T HE E DITOR . ]

The Grand Lodge Of Scotland And Its Membership.

THE GRAND LODGE OF SCOTLAND AND ITS MEMBERSHIP .

( To the Editor of the Masmie Magazine ) SIR AND BROTHER , —As one deeply interested in whatever concerns the honour , the prosperity , and the reputation of the Grand Lodge of Scotland , I claim permission to contradict most emphatically the unfounded imputations , and to challenge the reckless

and offensive assertions contained in a paper in the January number of your Magazine , reflecting upon that august body and its members . There would be little occasion to do this if the accusations in question . did not reach some whose Avant of information upon the subject miht lace them in danger of

gp being misled by giving them credence . I shall not therefore intrude at any great length upon your valuable space , nor attempt to controvert the Airhole of the giwe aspersions which your contributor distributes so lavishly . I . With respect to the GMAND LODGE it

is asserted ( 1 ) that it is in a state of " degradation , " and under the " domination" of an " artful and unscrupulous clique , " which has " degraded" it ; ( 2 ) that its is not unfrequently " packed" for " party purposes" and personal

ends ; ( 3 ) that " scandals have abounded in its history which have in some instances driven aAvay brethren AVIIO Ai * ere an honour to the brotherhood "; ( 4 ) that "the meetings have been sometimes even scenes of brawling and riotous contention" Avith " shoutings , hoAvlings , aud all kinds of offensive noises" ; ( 5 ) that

" to pack it men have been chosen from the loAvest ranks of society" ; and ( 6 ) that its proxy system ( by Avhich part of its membership is provided ) has been made the means ot perpetrating some of tho most discreditable , not to say unmasonic , transactions and abuses that could be conceived .

II . The MEMBERS of the Grand Lodge are misrepresented iu similiar terms" ; ( I ) as " generally'' unfitted " to command respect" ; ( 2 ) as not " esteemed" ever amongst " their brethren" ; ( 3 ) as not possessing Masonic " knoAvledge" ; ( 4 ) as entitled to be " suspected" of " meanness" '' underhand

, dealing , " and "jobbery for private ends" ; ( 5 ) as guilty of giving and receiving bribes ; ( 6 ) as "breaking the rules of Masonic brotherliness and gentlemanly propriety in their meetings" : ( 7 ) as being , " very many , ill-