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if ■ U'l f ill -I?;!; ?-!-■ ‘r'*4 •’ •. ' '^’1 '■y.';..■■■>, J ii iir',. 4 ' 'h ^ i ■IS t ii ': ;l f: ■" • -‘ S •f . • ’ ' 1 v; ■ i: ■fi. „,:4j Ff-r.. .'S'- ffc'.. ■'.'■'S ':ii -i I " SiSiaiffefo*' THE MASONIC JOURNAL Design in the Atmosphere. The wisdom of God is clearly mani fested in the adaptions of the vast ex- vanse of atmospheric air which surrounds this globe and envelopes all that it con tains. While the sun is the great source of light, -j-et the co-operation of the atmos- phere to diffuse that light is essential to the proper illumination of the earth. To the atmo.sphere we are to ascribe the sweet alories of the day, the delicious blue of the heavens, and the soft and soothing shada of the landscape. With out it the sKy would be black as ebony, and out of it the sun would shine like a red hot ball; and his beams, like a ray passing through an aperture into a dark room, would reveal only the objects on which they fell, or those from which they were directly reflected. Withou; atmos phere there would be no twilight, morn ing, or evening; the sun at the com mencement of the day, would, at one bound, burst from the bosom of night in all its unbearable brilliancy ; and at the close of day, would suddenly plunge out of vie-v, and leave us at once in utter- darkness. To the atmosphere we owe all the glories ot tnosetting sun, when heav en puts on her most gorgeous robe.«, and for ad the Ifweline.ss of the softening twi light that sncoeeds. By means of the atmosphere birds wing their way through space, and in sects flit from flower to flower. —With out it the busy bee could never gather an.I lay up her nectar store, nor the morning lark ascend on high to pou forth her early song. Without it even the eagle and the condor would flap their wings in vain; flight would be im possible The atmosphere is also the vehicle of ■smell, by which we are warned of what is unwholesome, offensive, and attracted to what is desirable and pleasing. Without it we should never be regaleU with the perfume of incense, or the sweet orders of flowers from garden or field. The atmosphere is likewise the medi um of sound. In its absence eternal silence must have reigned; conversation could have been carried on by signs only, while music would have remained an impossibility—that i.?, supposing that, under such circumstances men could have existed to converse or eing. The vibrations of the air, like speedy messen' gers, are what convey our thoughts to others, and those of others to us. Th ter than any other man can, and while a candidate expresses his belief in Deity we have no right to ask any further ques tions. All other tests must be excluded if we are to unite in bonds of Brother hood the different sects and religions of the world. We know that men cannot be made to think alike while they differ phrenologioally, temperamentally and educationally. History is full of failures by gibbet, stake, rack, thumbscrew, and other powerful agencies, to make men think alike It i.s often said by some zealous Brother that Masonry is a good enough religion, while others as stoutly deny that it is any religion at all and claim that the Church is the panacea for all human ills. It seem.s to me that in such cases Brethren are overstepping the ine, an.i assuming authority where they have none. Let us be careful how we sit in judgement in any matter where the individual conscience alone must decide. —Ex. Short Speeches. The Right Time. Reproof must be administered gently, if at all. If you are annoyed or vexed at people, just remember it is not the right time to speak. Close your mouth, shut vour teeth together firmly, and it will save you many a useless and una vailing regret and many a bitter enemy. If vou happen to feel a little cross— and who among us does not at some time or other ?—do not select that season for reproving your noisy household flock. One word spoken in passion will make a scar that a summer of smiles can scarce ly heal ovei’. If you are a wife, never tease your husband when he comes home, weary from his day’s business, It is not the rigid time. Do notask him for ex pensive outlays when he has been talk ing about hard times ; it is most assured ly the wrong time. If he has entered upon any undertaking against your ad vice. do not seize on the moment of its failure to say, “I told you so !” In fact, it is never the right time for those four monosyllables. Oh ! if people only knew enough to discriminate between the right time and the wrong, there would be less domestic unhappiness, less silent sorrow, and less estrangement of heart.—Odd Fellows Banner. Editorial Duty—A Sensible Christian View. and air is the channel through which man holds communion with his fellows, and receives the indescribable pleasures that spring from the worlds of friendship, the voice of love, and all the soothing charms of melody. Thus in the air as in other porfion.s of the universe, we see the wisdom, the de .sign, and the goodness of that Creator who “saw everything he had made, and behold it was very good.”—^Science and the Bible. Religious Questions, The religious question is sometimes in troduced into Masonry to that extent that neither the laws or spirit of the institu tion will warrant. I have known of cases where the applicant has been rejected because he was a Jew, and others noon the plea that they were infidels, because not members of an Orthodox Church. Every man knows his religions belief bet- Those who are anxious that the faults and weaknesses of their neighbors shall form the staple information communica ted to them by the daily paper will find little in a well conducted journal to pan der to a morbid and dangerous appetite. It is not the duty of any newspaper to reproduce in its columns the abolished pub[ic stocks that stood once in the mar ket place, to set up small criminals to the public gaze. It is not appointed to any editor to search the closeted griefs of families, to throw the blaze of noonday into the sad, tearful corners, where moth ers, and sisters, and wives, and little ones are realizing the sad consequences of misdoings not their own. Nor does any public need require of any editor that he pile up incumbrances in the wav of a culprit s return to the confidence and esteem of his fellows. If a man have in him the elements of character that shall j enable him to rise from self inflicted , abasement, it serves no public purpose ! to make snob return impossible.—Alex andria Gazette. Short phrases have ever been the moat powerful and beautiful mediums of con- veying thought. They are simplicity it self—and simplicity is beauty. Easily understood no study is required to grasp their meaning. A prophetic politician makes a declaration respecting govern ment, and the people soon catch the spir it and liOnfirm the declaration. Results from such phrases may not be immediate; but the words go sounding on until their work is accomplished. Short phrases are comprehensive, and sometimes contain whole volumes. Csssar’s ‘Veni, vidi, vi- cij’gave thehistoiy ofa whole campaign. And the last words of the dying Tom Paine—T take a leap in the dark’—a a confe.s,sion of judgement stranger than the infidelity of a lifetime. When the remains of Napoleon Bonaparte were brought to Paris by Prince de Joinville the entire speeohmaking was this : ‘Sir! I present to you the ashes of Napoleon.’ And Louis Phillippe an.swered, ‘I receive them in the name of France.’ Such was the brief response of a people to the pres ence of a dead Emperor. Sometimes in a single sentence, the life and character of some great, man stands out strangely revealed and individualized. No biog raphy could depict the character of E- noch more clearly than tliesimple words: Enoch walked with God, and was not— for God took him.’ The first chapteroDf Genesis is a symbol of the power which a few words can embody. lifl-ASONIO -FOR THE MASONIC FRATERUIT? IN N. C. and the South. -:0:- Thae are in the iionth 200,000 Freem»«a and recognizing the imperatiTC neei for „ ular and permanent Org.an peculKi-w to the demands of this vast linked together by an indissolute cliai^ sr."'™"’" SEMI-MONTHLY Masonic Newspaper, Preserved on Ice. About 40.U00 pounds of fossil ivory— that is to say, the trunks of at least 100 mammoths are bartered for every y-ear in New Siberia. As many as ten tnsks have been found lying together in the ■Tundra” weighing from 150 to 300 lbs. each. Notwithstanding the large amount already carried away, the stores of fossil ivory do not appear to diminish. In many places near the mouths of the great rivers flowing into the Arctic Ocean, the bones and trunks of these antediluvian pachyderms lie scattered about like the relics of a plowed np battle field En tire mammoths have occasionally been discovered, nut only with the skin— which was protected with a double cov ering of hair and wool—entire, but with the fleshy portions of the body in such a state of preservation that they have af forded food to dogs and wild beasts. The mammoths appear to nave been suddenly enveloped in ice, or to have sunk into mud which was on the point of congeal ing, and which, before the process of de cay could commence, froze around the bodies and preserved them in the condi tion in which they peri.shed. It is thus that they are occasionally found when a landslip occurs in the frozen soil of the Siberian coast, which never thaws even during the greatest heat of summer, to a depth of more than two feet; and in this way, within a period of a century and a half, five or six of these curious corpses have come to light from their icy graves. A very perfect specimen of the mammoth ‘ ^'«“'’ered in the autumn ot Ibbo near the month of the Jednissi Such as the dignity and aclvancenieiil of ft. ratermty will approve, which is tlie nity will approve, which is the CIIEABEiST PUBLICATION IN THE UNI El) STATES devoted strictly to MASONIC INTERE.ST8. ;0: Mitha jouruaiistio experience of sevmi .years and a determiiiation to give all our time talent and energy to the promotion of this ini ' portant enterprise we hope to receive from our iMasoiiic bretlireii that liberal confidence and support which, by an entire devotion toitesuc- cess we liope to merit. 1 Terms $1.50 per Year, .and all nioiiev should be sent by Check, I’ost-Ofliee ordoroV RegistcredLetter Address E. A. WILSON, Geeeksboko, N. C. fRR (IJQA pov (Lay at home. Samples worth $1 uU kp/iUtree. Stinson * Co.,Portlaud, Miiuif, Q E N T E N N I A I. YEAR. To bring the Danville News within the reach of all, we have brought the subscription price down to nice figures. 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