resolutely conceals itself; mocking the patient Master Mason with a substitute, and lying still beyond the ninth arch, before it is unveiled to perfection; and, as if afraid to trust itself even there, at perfection, mounting away from the pursuer to the height of unknown degrees, is, my reader, no ordinary secret; but this is Free Masonry.

"And what does it pretend to be?"-Even the true name of the only true God. Such conduct, and such a claim! Now, brother Jew, lend me attention; for you are interested in this part of the argument; and so, also, are Mahometans and Deists, without being invited.

Let Free Masonry's claim be allowed; to teach the right pronunciation of the true name of the only true God.

Her masters are put off with a substitute for it; her most excellent masters (sixth degree) have it not yet; her perfect masters (fifteenth degree) have it not perfect yet; her grand pontiffs (twenty-ninth degree) must still make their sacrifices without knowing precisely to whom; the " prince of the royal secret, prince of Masons," covering degrees forty, forty-one, forty-two, has a sovereign inspector general above, and cannot yet see, eye to eye, the great secret of Free Masonry.

Is it not to be inferred, that the God of Free Masonry has no name; and that, in setting her pupil on a chace in pursuit of it to perfection, and far beyond, she is practically teaching him so? Professing to make manifest the true God, does she not, by a devious path, and an endless renewal of disappointment, effectually impress upon the panting bosom of her deluded pupil, there is no God? Say, brother Jew, (for I waive here all Free Masonry's contempt of the Messiah,) when, with a blinder over his eyes, and a cable tow about his neck, she leads her pupil into the realms of darkness, in pursuit of light, and into the regions of night in pursuit of the true name of God, leading him about and about, until he is giddy, down deep arches, and up high degrees; if the humbled, degraded, and confounded soul should stumble

and fall into the abyss of Atheism, would she hold fast the cable tow, brother Jew, or loose it from her hand? What think you, would she gently draw him out, remove the bandage from his eyes, tenderly condole with him for the tremendous hazard he had run, and advise him to return home, and to pursue his inquiries after the true God, and the way to happiness, in the midst of his family, morning and evening, with the Bible in his hand, at the feet of Immanuel? Or would she send after him a peal of curses, to make the horrible abyss ring, and, if it might be possible, to sink him two-fold deeper in wo!

Those who believe in a protecting Providence, need not fear to believe in the reality of evil angels; those who do not believe in a protecting Providence, have every thing to fear; and, if there exists in Christian lands a single specimen of the handy work of God's adversary, and man's, Free Masonry has high claims to be that one.

The reader who meets this conclusion, without arriving at it through the argument, may think it uncharitable; if so, this common sense will meet him: the friends of a doctrine which studiously conceals itself, only showing its features more boldly, as people become more hardened to them, have no right to complain, and ery, charity, charity, upon honest efforts to hasten the monstrous birth, and fully to learn its character, before the time for easily strangling it has elapsed.

CHAPTER XLII.

Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle; and the Lord shall be King over all the earth; in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one."

Zechariah, ch. xiv.

It is not to be demanded of one attempting to ferret out a treasonable conspiracy, that he should be perfect in judgment; he must seize upon persons whose guilt is quite doubtful even in his own poor judgment, and hold them prisoners for the examination of the court and jury. This is his duty; and no man who is unwilling to run a small risk of being suspected as accessary to the crime, and as a party to the treason, will dare to reprove him for want of charity in the honest discharge of that duty.

The writer may sometimes build an argument on small premises, may attach undue importance to minor truths, may draw conclusions little satisfactory to the deeper penetration of some, and may extend his inferences beyond the easy apprehension of others. Upon all these, and similar points, he is ready to plead to the reader's compassion and better judgment. But let not the glorious doctrine which conceals itself, profane the name of charity, upon a resolute attempt to discover its bearings and tendency; that were insufferable.

Esprit du Dogme, p. 41.-" THE POT OF INCENSE.

"This reminds us, as it did the Levites, of the fire of virtue which ought to inflame the heart with a masonic zeal. The censor used by the ancients was in the form of a per

fuming pan, with a perforated lid, whence came the smoke of the incense. The Greeks called it thymiaterion, and the ancient and modern Romans, thuribulum." He exhibits learning to grace his masonic zeal.

66 THE CRUISE of gold, OR POT OF MANNA. (p. 41.) "Moses placed this in the tabernacle to instruct the priests, that in the proper exercise of their ministry, they ought to feed on the spiritual manna shut up in the sciences, which they were explicitly charged to study."

Our expositor quotes neither the priests of the god onion, nor masonic tradition, in support of this assertion; it must rest entirely on his better authority, called by the Greeks anaisquintia,* by the ancient Romans impudentia, and, (by the help of a dictionary,) impudence, in the vernacular.

66 THE MITRE WITH THE INDENTED TOP. (p. 41.) "The ornament of the priests of Isis and Osiris, was also adopted by the magi, or priests of Mytra in Persia, and by the priests of Jupiter at Athens, and at Rome. It afterwards served for the head dress of the Roman females, who sold their favours at the foot of the temple of Fortune, to the parties of Cicero and Cataline. This same mitre, in time, was adopted by the Christian pontiffs at Rome, and by those of Mahomet, and by the ancient and modern templars. This mitre had a plate of gold covering the front, with these words: Holiness to the Lord.""

This is more than a match. To meet the crocodiles of Egypt, the Persian magi, the priests of Jupiter, Cataline, Mahomet, and the knights templars, arrayed in support of Masonry's claim to the mitre, is an overmatch for common learning. But one thing "the art of demonstrating divine and moral truth by geometrical solutions" enables me to do; which the reader shall see.

* Αναισχυντία,

To make out the Spirit of Masonry, two Masons being given, in the manner of making a right-angled triangle, two legs being given.

Suppose the leg M. J., Mahomet the Impostor, and the leg J. T., Judas the Traitor.

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From J. erect a nocturnal and secret society to T., the Traitor; draw the line M. T., the Miser Traitor; and we have the selfish spirit of the Masonic imposture. Quod erat inveniendum.

To those who are unacquainted with the higher branches of Mathematics, this demonstration may appear somewhat obscure; but its geometrical accuracy will stand the test of any professor, at least on this side of the Atlantic.

This is an extraordinary science, and the reader will find it amusing; the kaleidescope not furnishing more unexpected variety, than Masonics, or moral geometry, furnishes to the mental eye; one turn of the instrument throwing out, "Herod, a most excellent grand master;" and the next, perhaps, "Cataline, Sovereign Inspector General."*

*The author gives notice, that measures are taken to secure his right to this application of geometrical solutions to the demonstration of moral truth, and until the patent is sealed, it seemed good to give only a specimen of Masonics, showing the value of the science; otherwise he could have interested the reader with difficult moral questions, easily solved in Trigonometry, by the rule of proportion, or by natural sines, when the necessary sides and angles are given.