in the United States, which was organized in Boston in 1733. In 1813
the rivalry between the Grand Lodges of York and London was
compromised, and the supremacy of the former was conceded.

From church history we learn that in the year 596 of our era Pope
Gregory I. dispatched Augustin, and forty other monks of the order of
St. Andrew, from Rome to Britain, to convert the natives to
Christianity; but, while the Anglo-Saxons embraced the new faith, the
Britons rejected it, and, being persecuted by the Christians, retired
to the fastnesses of the country known as Wales, where, for a long
period, they maintained the observance of the Druidical form of
worship; and although that country has long since become Christianized,
the society of the Ancient Order of Druids has existed with an
uninterrupted succession at Pout-y-prid, where the Arch-Druid resides,
and from, whence emanated the charter of the Grand Lodge of the order
in this country. In reference to the Druidism on the continent, history
records the fact that when one of the reigning kings became a convert
to Christianity the whole of his subjects were baptized into the Church
of Rome by Imperial decree.



THE SABBATH.

In determining the origin of the seventh day Sabbath, we must of
necessity refer to that source of all religious ordinances, the ancient
astrolatry, the founders of which, having taught that God Sol was
engaged in the reorganization of Chaos during the first six periods of
the twelve thousand year cycle, corresponding to the months of Spring
and Summer, they conceived the idea that he ceased to exert his