CHAPTER XXXVII.

A brief, comprehensive and practical history of Masonry,
Knight Templars of Malta, St. John, Hospitalers, ete.—The
Crusades to possess the Holy Land; Egypt, ete—How Jerusalem
and Acre were taken and re-taken—Why the Holy Land was
made a desert—The practical workings of the Masonry and
kindred Orders of to-day.

—Mostly the testimony of others, as taken from books and
the press.

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