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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 587, 26 March 1891, Page 3

There arc a very great number of Freemasons who are quite unaware nf the object for which the order of* F r eema.-onry was formed, but everyone. Freemason or not, who has watched a public procession of tbe Order must be aware that th- most important feature of all h the open Bible which everyone can see as the procession marches along. Bir Robert Stout is not a Bible believer ; the Grand Orient commenced in atheistic France does not believe in the Bible. Freemasonry is intimately oonneo’ed with the Old Testament his’orv of the Bible, therefore a man who does not belt ve that history utterly fails in realising wha’ 'h on come of Freemasonry will be. Freemasons have a solemn and world-important duty to perform—no less, it is said, than to locate the position nf the Ark of the Covenant, and recover it. Sir Robert Stout no doubt would deny that there ever was such an ark, and if there was, it had not 'he miraculous p operties attributed to it |o ih? Bible, There are m iny who believe, and much correspondence has taken place in some English papers, that eventually this ark will be unearthed at Tara in Ireland, At present, however, tbe spot indicated is specially protected by an Ao' passed by h B-itiwh Parlia meat, and until that is repealed or amended no steps can be taken to prove the truth or falsity of the suggestion. In the annals of the Four Masters in the old Irish legends and iu the the old Irish poetry, the place where several 'hings taken out of Bninmon*s Temple are deposited is given, with *he dimensions and other details of the place concealing them.—Auckland Star,