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the early morning , B . and I dashed down to the sandy beach , and into the waves ; but we could get no other followers . Breakfast over , we prepared for our long walk of twenty-five miles to Yokohama , our host giving each of us a fan as we saicl

"Saiyan ara" ( good-bye ) . Crossing the sandy isthmus , instead of keeping along the beach , we struck right inland , and though the way was sandy for a mile or so , it finally merged into a splendid highway . " The Tokaido , " or Emperor ' s road ,

kept specially in repair for the Mikaido and his suite , whenever he deigns to travel this way , which , our guide tells us , is not often . The country through which we now passsd , was very pretty , in many p laces we were treated to flowers plucked

from the gardens in front of the native cottages , in others we were asked to pick for ourselves , and in one garden a young Japanese damsel offered us a young cabbage plant , evidently thinking it a rarity . However we contented ourselves with a few roses , for the native flowers , however beautiful , have not the slightest scent or odour . At 10 a . m . we reached Fusigawa ,

a village of considerable extent , and from which we had a good view of Fuzigama , " The Peerless , " whose white summit peered far above the clouds . A long road lay before our next halting place , which was a wayside tea-house blessed with monkey

a and a dog . Just after leaving , the Japanese mail passed us—a couple of coolies carrying the parcels , attached to the end of a bamboo , slung across their shoulders . They were going at a very

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quick double , and were perfectly naked , save a cloth round the loins , and grass shoes on their feet . The perspiration was running from them in streams . Arriving at Totsuka about 1 p . m . we halted for dinner , aud a couple of hours " siesta , "

starting again when the sun had lost some of its power , and travelling by easy stages from tea-house to tea-house . We caught sight of Yokohama about 7 . 30 ; an hour afterwards we were washed , dressed , and sitting down to a well-earned repast . At 10 p . m . we were "All on board , sir . " CONCLUSION .

The Pope And Mediaeval Freemasons.

THE POPE AND MEDIAEVAL FREEMASONS .

BY BRO . G . 1 ? . FORT . From the " Philadelphia Sunday Sun . " THE conversion of Oonstantine the Great to Christianity , in the fourth century , gave a decided impulse to the enlargement of Episcopal authority , which at a later period developed into the Papacy . With

the protection afforded throughout the vast empire , proselyting and evangelical labours were assiduously pursued , not only within the circumscribed limits of the municipalities

of Rome and Alexandria , but reached forth into the more remote provinces of Gaul and Germany . The zeal of missionary enterprise soon opened the way

for the introduction of Christianity either in a greater or less orthodox form among the native

Tuetons , or burned its fiery pathway to the obdurate hearts of Gallic pagans . While Uphilas captivated the Goths with the errors of Arianism , the Romish Church , which , under the weighty pressure of Byzantine favour ,

overshadowed all competitors , had at an early period organized , upon the pure doctrines of Christ , a compact system of evangelical missions , whose labourers boldly advanced into undeveloped territory , and through numerous expedients , sue-