Christian Cynosure . eath! The un-clouded brightness of his glory will illumin-ate the future ages! This was evidently no occasion for afarce, and hence the. Masons contentedthemselves by merely putting in an ap-pearance. There is a solemnity, a pa-thos, a simplicity and grandeur in thesefuneral honors to Washington that areutterly repellant to those gross, artificialdisplays whidh are usually exhibited atMasonic funerals. It is one of the rules and landmarks ofMasonry not to bury tlie dead with Ma-sonic honors unless they have expresseda wish to that effect. As Washington wasnot buried with s
Christian Cynosure . eath! The un-clouded brightness of his glory will illumin-ate the future ages! This was evidently no occasion for afarce, and hence the. Masons contentedthemselves by merely putting in an ap-pearance. There is a solemnity, a pa-thos, a simplicity and grandeur in thesefuneral honors to Washington that areutterly repellant to those gross, artificialdisplays whidh are usually exhibited atMasonic funerals. It is one of the rules and landmarks ofMasonry not to bury tlie dead with Ma-sonic honors unless they have expresseda wish to that effect. As Washington wasnot buried with such honors, it is fair topresume that he made no request to beburied in that way.—Geo. J. W. Phelpsin Secret Societies, Ancient and Mod-ern. (In the Centennial Commemoration ofthe burial of Washington on the 14th ofnext November, for which Masons havemade such great preparations, they claimthat they are to reproduce the originalceremonies of a century ago. Wait andsee.—Ed.) 200 CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE. November, —From the Missionary Monthly. TASSOS PURROW SOCIETY men in the picture have their hats ornamented witn human bones, ;.nl their persons with all manner of foolish things. SECRET SOCIETIES IN REBELLION.;! BY REV. H. H. HINMAN. The revolt of the native tribes in SierraLeone, West Africa, during the earliermonths of 1898 was a most unusualevent. There had often been mutteringsof discontent, which a wise colonial pol-icy had pacified, but there had been nosuch outbreak during the more than onehundred years of British occasion was the imposition of thehut tax of five shillings sterling per an-num. It had been tried once before andhad been repealed because of the difficul-ty of collection. The outbreak began in the newly an-nexed territories among the Timnics,but soon spread to the Mendis, a war-like tribe. In spite of all efforts at sup-pression it continued from January toOctober or November, 1898. All na-tives who willingly paid the tax
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