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ness . Please , remember , however , that my offer only extends for two weeks following the reception of this letter . I allude to this so that no mistakes need be made which would lead to unpleasantness hereafter . I need not say to you that I am very lonely here , -and oftentimes low-spirited . It is a serious matter

for a man fifty years old to come so far and undertake so much . But my health is excellent . 1 have ¦ everything to encourage me , and I know I have your good wishes and prayers . We shall meet again next fall , when I shall have a thousand things to tell you ¦ of this grand mission , which reflects such honour upon those who got it up .

Don't fail to respond to this call at once . Direct your letters to Dr . Rob . Morris , Box 1653 , Chicago , Illinois . My son-in-law , Mr . PL J . Goodrich , who lives at Chicago , will open your letters and acknowledge the receipt of it to you , and communicate it to me immediately . Surely there are but few Masons who will refuse an appeal like thismade in the

, very homes of King Solomon , Eing Hiram , and Hiram the Artificer—made by a man who has given his lifetime to Freemasonry , and has come so far to get "more light . " Tou paid your dollar when the chances of my coming here seemed very uncertain . Now help me again ; you see I am doing my part with success .

Tours fraternally , ROB . MOEEIS . A Proposition to all Lovers of Bible Knowledge . A great many personsnot Masonslong to have

, , objects from the Holy Land . Such persons may consider the above propositions equally addressed to them . I will also make to them the tollowing additional proposals : —For 1 dol . any one ofthe following specimens : —

A piece of Spina Christi , or " Christ ' s Thorn , " out of which the " crown of thorns " was made that was pressed upon the Saviour ' s brow . This is found abundantly near Jerusalem . One of the pods of the carod ; this is the " husks " which the prodigal son did eat while feeding swine . A shell from the Sea of Galilee .

A shell from the Jordan , near where our Saviour was baptized . A pebble from the Brook Kedron . An object of some kind from Bethany , Nazareth , or Bethlehem , such as a pebble , shell , or flower . . Everything will be numberedlabelledand de

, , - scribed with a printed inscription , so that no mistakes can possibly occur . How many heads of families , Sunday-school teachers , Sunday-school scholars , and Bible readers would feel proud to possess treasures of this kind ! Never before wasths-opportunity offered ; nor will it be

ever again , after the present month . If any minister desires a slip from the cypress tree growing " by the grave of Rev . Pliny Fisk , the first missionary in the Holy Land , who died at Beyrout in 1825 , he can have it , with a copy of my poem written by his grave . The price is also one dollar . Hoping to have a remittance from yourself , and

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a good long list of them from your friends , I close with from the Holy Land . ROB . MOEEIS . Beyrout , Syria , April 13 , 1868 . P . S . —A few copies of this have been sent to subscribers who denoted more than one dollar ; because

having already done their own part so nobly , they are the better qualified to advise their neighbours to " go and do likewise . " Address ROB . MOEEIS , P . 0 . Box 1653 , Chicago , Illinois .

Freemasonry And Chivalry.

FREEMASONRY AND CHIVALRY .

TO THE EDITOR OFTHE FRE 8 MAS 0 NS MAGAZINE AND MASOUIC SAIRKOR . Dear Sir and Brother , —I have to thank Bro . Anthouy Oneal Haye for his courtesy in answering my inquiry as he does at page 469 of the MAGAZINE . It may be considered that few will now care about upholding the idea of any connection between the

Templars or Hospitallers and the Freemasons , or that the Freemasons are descended from the Templars . The only connection that may have existed between the Templars and the Masonic fraternities of the middle ages would be simply that of employer and employed . After the structure was finished for

which the Freemasons may have heen required , they would then go elsewhere , the " serving brethren " or workmen to the Templars being sufficient to keep things in repair or build any common affair . Freemasonry would hardly well live in a Templar encampment or tory . It found itself more at

precep home in the burgh towns , in which places it eventually merged into , or became mixed up with , the Mason corporations . On page 470 Bro . Haye alludes to an ancient lodge

which might have been fouuded by the serving brethren of the Templars at Red Abhey-stead , in the time of David I ., in a way which implies doubts in his mind of their being much in the idea . I do not know of a Freemasons' lodge iu Scotland that , pointing to any existing specimen of ancient ecclesiastical architectureruined or otherwisecan

, , say , with any hope of proving it , " We are the descendants or reprrsentatives of the Masonic fraternity which built that structure , in or about the first half of the twelfth century . " Neither do I know of any existing proof of any sort which shows that a Freemasons' lodge was established in Scotland anywhere

about , or before that date . It may not be out of place here to remark that I have been anxiously waiting for something further from " A Masonic Student , " more especially as I am not yet convinced about the non-existence of the M . M . degree before the eighteenth century , and not as yet

having had time to study it properly , I have been all the more anxious to hear what " A Masonic Student " would say in support of his ideas . I hope to have the pleasure of seeing something from him soon . Tours fraternally , PICTUS .

IF tliou art rich , try to command thy money , lest it should command thee . If thou know how to use it , it is thy servant ; if not , thou art its slave .