The Mason's Trust.

taught the subKme truths of Brotherly Love , Relief and Truth , founded upon a bebet in the Great Fatherhood of God ancl the Great Brotherhood of Man . By the late action of the so-called supreme Masonic body of France , we are told wo must fraternize with those who deny the very existence of a God ; who sneer at the thought of a hereafter ; who woidd place that puny , weak , miserable thing , the mind of man , upon a level with the infinite soul of an infinite God ; who would raise man , the createdto a higher point than the Creator ; who -would declare this life to be the

be-, ginning ancl ending of all , forgetting that Ho who first fashioned man from mother earth is , Himself , the Alpha ancl Omega . Such being the case , we repeat , no time is to be lost in reiterating our belief in the Great I AM . Our voice must no longer be silentwe must not only declare it , but we must act up to it ; we must guard our portals with tenfold greater care ; we must , by precept and example , teach our younger members that Masonry is something nobler and grander than a mere symbolism ; that it is a

living , vital institution , inculcating great truths , pregnant with noble thoughts , surrounded by generous sentiments and based upon an undying trust in the Wisdom , Goodness ancl Greatness of the Jehovah . We have declared it , and now before the world we must prove it . If many of us have been lax ancl careless amidst the cares and business of every day life ; if when

surrounded by the pleasures of the hour , we have forgotten , as it were , our duties , it is not too late to return to them . Our mission has become far more difficult , since now we find traitors , ancl worse than traitors , in our midst . True , most of the Grand Lodges ancl Supreme Bodies have severed connection with those who have betrayed us , and forbidden Masonic intercourse with them ; still , we must not overlook the fact that the Grand Orient of France is a powerful organization , that her action wid be commented upon by those who oppose usthat it will be a weapon in their handswhich they will freely wield against us

, , , and against which it mil be hard for us to shield ourselves . We can only do so by acting up to our principles , by being still more careful in admitting candidates to our mysteries and being doubly and trebly particular with regard to our own acts and actions . The time , then , has come for Freemasons of every branch and rite throughout the globe , to sever all connection with the Atheistical Grand Orient of France , ancl to prove to friend and foe alikethat a Mason ' s hope is in the immortality of the souland his trust in the

, , wisdom of the Divine Essence of an Omnipotent , Omniscient , Omnipresent Being , whose Wisdom is everywhere seen , whose Strengihis be 3 ond the comprehension of weak , miserable man , ancl the Beauty of whose Holy Will can never be even faintly understood , till the soul of man is welcomed into the abode of the Great I AM , the Adonai , the Alpha and Omega , the Everloving , Everlasting Jehovah . Orillia , Ontario .

The Name Of God.

THE NAME OF GOD .

5 . IK K . Y . DISPATCH . WE sing Jehovah , God most High , Possessor of the earth ancl sky , The great Elohim on His throne ,

The Holy , High , ancl Lofty One ; El-Shaddai shows Almighty power ; El-Holam reigns for ever more ; El-Roe sees us when we stray ; El-Bethel meets us by the way ; To rise and seek a better land , The God of Abram gives command ; The God of Isaac guards us there ,