Death And Resurrection Of Osiris.

what joy would not be experienced when the sun already remounted toward the middle of the heavens and chased before him the darkness which had encroached upon the light and usurped a part of its empire ? 'And GOD said , Let there be light , and there was light . ' " This , then , is the Egyptian fable handed down to ns . Whether there was anything really Masonic in the character of the picture we do not propose to assume ; but that it bears great analogy to some of the ceremonies of Masonry no one will gainsay . "

A Curious Correspondence.

A CURIOUS CORRESPONDENCE .

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X . Sir , —I feel I owe an apology for noticing once more your correspondent " Nemesis , " but it is the last time . All theologians distinguish between the virtue of charity ancl that of justice , and consequently between sins against charity ancl sins against justice , which latter alone can come before an exterior tribunal and entail the duty of

restitution or idemnification . An interior act of hatred is a sin only against charity , but not against justice : no one ' s right is thereby violated . But a - calumny is not only against charity , but also against justice , ancl entails the duty of reparation . Of charity and sins against charity Gury treats in his chapter on Virtues ; of justicesins against justice and restitutionhe treats in the chapter on

, , Justice and Right . " Nemesis , " being evidently no theologian , brings to-day three cases from the latter treatise , ancl where Gury teaches that certain acts , however much they may be sins against charity , are not also sins against justice , and hence free of the duty of restitution , " Nemesis " jumps at the conclusion that Gury justifies those acts and declares them free of moral guilt !

Surely , if any of my seminarists would be guilty of so gross a blunder , I would at once expel him from the Seminary as an unfit subject . If the fault of " Nemesis " were onl y ignorance , a simple correction of his error would suffice ; but what shall we say , if he evidently tries to deceive your readers by a suppression of truth and by false ([ notations ? Not in his "Casus Conscientias , " as falsely cited by "Nemesis , " but in his treatise on Justice ancl Right , Gury teaches , Nr . 602-604 , that an interior evil

intention , whose sinfulness against charit y he has already shown in Nr . 223 , is is not a sin also against justice , whenever we are entitled to do the exterior act which it accompanies ; for instance , a judge who justly condemns a murderer to death , yet out of hatred does not b y his exterior act commit a sin against justice , however much his hatred may be against charity . After this doctrine , which is as common as it is reasonable , Gury puts the disputed question—Whether , besides the sin against charity , there is also a sin against justice , when a person commits with an evil intention an exterior act , from which it is not very probable that the wrong intended by him will