The Knights Templars.

king endeavoured to satisfy him with fair speeches , the more the Patriarch Avas discontented , in so much that he said to him , — ' Hitherto thou hast reigned gloriously , but hereafter thou shalt be forsaken of Him whom thou at this time forsakest .

Think ou him , and what He hath given thee , and on what thou hast yielded to Him again : how first thou Avert false unto the King of France , and after that slew that holy man , Thomas of Canterbury , and lastly thou forsakest the protection of Christ ' s faith . ' The king Avas annoyed at these Avords , and said unto the Patriarch—' Thouoh all the

men of my laud Avere one body , ancl spoke with one mouth , they durst not speak to me such Avords . ' 'No wonder , ' retorted the Patriarch , ' for they love thine , and not thee ; that is to say , they love thy temporal goods , and fear thee for

loss of promotion , but they love not thy soul . ' And when he had said this , he offered his head to the king , saying— ' Do by me right as thou diddest by that blessed man , Thomas of Canterbury , for I had better be slain by thee than by the Saracens ,

for thou art worse than any Saracen . ' But the king kept his patience , and said— 'I may not go out of my own land , for my own sons will rise against me when I am absent . ' ' No Avonder / said the Patriarch , ' for of the devil they come , and to the devil they shall go , ' and so saying , he departed from the king in great ire . "

HoAvever , on the 17 th of May , the Patriarch sailed over to Normandy Avith Henry , and celebrated Easter at Rouen . Philip Augustus , King of France , hearing of their arrival , came with all speed to them at Vaudreuil . He had a conference

Avith the king and the Patriarch relative to the affairs of the Hol y Laud , but although he received the Patriarch with distinguished honour , as he had recently ascended the throne , the interests of the kingdom Avould not permit him assuming the

badge of the Crusaders , or lead an army to Palestine . Both monarchs , however , were liberal in their offers of money , and Henry sent a considerable sum to the Holy Laud to help the Christians there . This , however , did not satisfy the haughty Heraclius , Avho departed much disappointed and chagrined .

After his return to Palestine he met at Naplous , the Avife of a haberdasher , Avith whom he fell in love . He went to see her often , the distance between Naplous ancl Jerusalem being only twelve miles , aud , singular so relate , shortly after the acqaiutance began , the haberdasher died . Heraclius then

brought her to Jerusalem , gave her gorgeous dresses , bought her a house , ancl supplied her with a numerous retinue . When the news of the failure of his negotiationswith the Kings of France and England were told

in Palestine , from the character of the Patriarch ,, it became a popular saying , " that the true cross , which had been recovered from the Persians by the Emperer Heraclius , Avas about to be lost under the pontificate , and by the fault of a Patriarch of

the same name . " Roger of Hoveden states , that when the Holy City Avas rescued from the Pagans by the first Crusaders , the Pope Avas called Urban ; the Patriarch of Jerusalem , Heraclius ; and the-Eoman Emperor , Frederick . " And so IIOAV ,

when the land of Jerusalem is captured from the-Christians by Saladin , the Pope is called Urban ; - the Patriarch , Heraclius ; and the Emperor of the-Eomans , Frederick . " While the envoys Avere in England , the affairs

of the Holy Land remained in the same critical state . Terricus , the regent , put the castles still remaining in the possession of the Templars iathe best possible state of defence , and wrote urgently to the brethren in Europe to send him-: supplies both of money and of men . ( To be continued . )

Oration

ORATION

Belivered hy Bro . the llev . J . W . LAUGIILIX , at a 'Meeting of respect to the late Bro . IVEXXEDY , P . M . and Treas- of the Old Concord Lodge ( No . 172 ) , on Tuesday evening , dik inst ., at the Freemasons' Hall . Bro . the Rev . J . W . Langhliu said that the brethren bad been informed that an oration would be delivered '

by their Chaplain , upon the bereavement the lodge had sustained by the death of their Treasurer , but lie feltinadequate to do suck a thing . In the lodge room woresigns which would speak more eloquently to their feelings than anything he could say . When a vacant chair was left ) in the family circle they all knew what it

waste look upon it . Well , in this room there was a vacant chair , with their late Treasurer ' s apron and collar upon it , and they would speak more eloquently to the brethren , than he ( the Chaplain ) could of the loss of Bro . Kennedy . They forced home to every brother in the lodge the truth that they themselves might be called upon to vacate

their chairs as suddenly , and on as short a summons , as Bro . Kennedy . Ho was au excellent Mason , and a valued member of the lodge . Seventeen years next January he was initiated in that lodge , and what opinion , was entertained of him might be gathered from the fact of his having been elected fourteen years to the office of Treasurer . No higher expression of confidence in a man could be given than that , for it testified that all the