First Sentence

"WITH the recent explorations in the Soudan region of Africa of the ruins of Napata, the ancient capital of Ethiopia (the Kush of the Old Testament), bringing to light an ancient temple of Amon containing a huge Masonic altar, and with archaeologists getting ready to renew their explorations in Palestine and the Euphrates valley, antiquarians are expecting further additions to the vast mass of evidence of the worldwide spread of primitive Freemasonry, which concealed in its rites, symbols and ceremonies the teaching and belief in the "Grand Architect" and "Great Geometrician of the Universe," a one and supreme God."