Diary For The Week.

902—Burgoyno , Red Cap , Camden Town , at 8 ( Instrnction ) 933—Doric . Duke ' s Head , 79 Whitechnpel-road , at 8 ( Instruction ) 1056—Metropolitan , Portusal Hotel . 155 Fleet-street . E . C . at 7 ( Instruction ) 1158—Belgrave , Jermvn-street , S . W ., at 8 ( Instruction ) 1288—Finsbury Park M . M ., Earl Russell , Isledon-road , N . at 8 ( Instruction ) I 1298— Roval Standard . Ahvyne Castle , St . Paul ' s-road . Canonbury , at 8 ( In . ) j 1365—Clapton , White Hart , Lower Clapton , at 7 . 30 ( Instruction ) 1612—E . Carnarvon , Mitre Hotel . Goulhorne-rd . N . Kensington , at 8 . 0 ( Inst . l R . A . 78—Pythagorean , Portland Hotel , London-street , Greenwich , at 8 ( Inst . )

36—Glamorgan , Freemasons' Hall , Arcade , St . Mary's-street , Cardiff . 458— A're and Calder , Private Rooms , Ouse-streot , Goole . 528—Honour , Star and Garter Hotel , Wolverhampton . 682—Dartmouth , Dartmouth Hotel , West Bvomwich . 697—United , George Hotel , Colchester . 780—Royal Alfred , Star and Garter , Kew Bridge , at 7 . 30 ( Inst . ) 815—Blair , Town Hall , Stratford-road , Hulme .

1001—Harrogate and Claro , Masonio Rooms , Parliament-street , Harrogate . 1087—Beandesert , Assembly Rooms , Corn Exchange , Leighton Bnzzard , Beds , 1299-Rock , Bedford House , Rock Ferry . 1636—United Military , Masonic Hall , Plumstead . General Lodge of Instruction , Masonio Hall , New Street , Birmingham , at t R . A . 993—Alexandra , Modway Hotel , Levenshulme K . T . —Hope , Freemasons' Hall , Fitzwilliam-street , Huddersfield

SATURDAY , 10 th JANUARY .

Quarterly General Court , Girls' School , Freemasons' Hall , at 12 198—Percy . Jolly Farmers , Southgatc Road , N ., at 8 ( Instrnction ) 1426-The Great City , Cannon-street Hotel , E . C . 1624—Eccleston , Grosvenor Club , Ebury-square , Pimlico , at 7 ( Instruction ) Sinai nhnpter n < " Tnatmctinn . Union . Air-street , Regent-street , W . at 8 1391—Commercial , Freemasons Hall , Leicester 1558—Addiscombe . Surrey Club , West Croydon R . A . 308—Affability , Station House Hotel , Bottoms , Stansfield

The North East Angle.

THE NORTH EAST ANGLE .

THE Neophyte , as he passes through the mystio ceremonies of his reception , is for a certain period placed in the North East Angle of the Lodge , and there given to understand that he is so placed to represent the foundation stone of those superb and stately edifices , which our ancient operative brethren invariably placed at the North East Angle of the Building , and then the hope is expressed that from the lessons given , and admonitions he has received

during the course of the evening , he will figuratively represent that stone , and npon it erect " a superstructure perfect in its parts and honourable to the builder . " It is at this time when the Worshipful Master gives this advice , that a few kindly words ( free from ritua'ism and extempore in character ) shonld be expressed , and expressed in snch a manner as to leave upon the mind of the Neophyte a deep

and lasting impression of the sincerity of Masonic friendship , the earnestness of the Masonio labour in which he has embarked , and the grandeur and sublimity of those principles whioh have been handed down through countless generations , from time immemorial , and above all things to make him realise the fact that we practise those principles and expect him , as a trne follower of Hiram , to do the

same . The custom of glibly running through a few set phrases and inculcating charity in a parrot-like manner does not teach the candidate what means he is to adopt to raise that superstructure which we tell him shonld be perfect in its parts and honourable to the builder . He must be tanght how he is to accomplish this task . He cannot do it unless it is now fully explained to him , and this is the

great feature that we so often neglect . In some Lodges the excuse is there is so much work that the brethren cannot devote more attention to a single candidate . In others , that the Neophyte should discover these things for himself , grope along as it were in the dark , stumbling here and there amidst the rubbish and fallen timbers of onr Mystio Temple , aud in a few ( many ) Lodges , the Worshipful

Master and his Officers are not aware , have never made the discovery that Freemasonry is anything more than a secret society , divided into degrees , with a ritnal , a few signs , and some secrets attached to each . The consequence of all this is that the Neophyte is lost in a haze of doubt as he ponders in the North East Corner how and by what means he is figuratively to represent

the foundation-stone of onr Ancient Brethren . The fact is patent to all that we do not impress onr lessons sufficiently upon the minds of our neophytes . Ritualism is not sufficient . It leaves a vacuum that requires to be filled np before the aspirant can be satisfied . Why teach him that we honour the name of God , if we bring curses npon our heads by invoking his hallowed name on every trivial occasion ?

Why tell him that he is never to pronounce that name except with the reverence due from the creature to the Creator , if we clinch onr arguments with an oath , and " bespatter and besmear " onr conversation with blasphemous epithets . Why talk charity if we do not practise it ? The neophyte will notice these things very quickly , and

if , after hearing these moral lessons , and being told that , on the foundation laid that evening he is to erect , symbolically , a moral edifice , the corner-stone of which is a belief in the Fatherhood of God —if after hearing all these things as he stands in the North East angle of the Lodge , he notes , as soon as he leaves the Lodge-room , that these brethren saunter away to bar-rooms , billiard-rooms ,

The North East Angle.

gambling-hells , danca houses and dens of iniquity , his moral sense ia shocked , and he is apt to view the ceremony as a farce , and the utterances of our Officers as arrant hypocrisy . Brethren , therefore , shonld set a seal npon their lips ancl a watch upon their actions . Good example and honest work tell far better than plausible precepts and the varnished veneer of slothful idleness . It is worse than

useless running over the ritual to tho Neophyte if we fail to carry out our glorious precepts in the every-day walks of life . We cannot , therefore , too strongly urge npon every Craftsman tha vital importance of making the Freemasonry of the present day more practical in its character . We blush with shame as we note the hundreds of thousands of dollars given away in practical

charity by the American Order of Oddfellows ( in 1876 , 1 , 698 , 840 dollars ) , and the fabulous sums expended by the Manchester Union or English Branch , and then note the fact that the Grand Lodge of the Empire State , with its seventy thousand Masons , expended last year in charity five hundred dollars ! Fie upon it , The excuse thafc we are not a benevolent society is a farce , a snare , and a delusion .

We are not a benevolent society strictly speaking , because oar charity should be greater , more diffuse , more general . We delude ourselves with the idea thafc we are wondrous liberal , whereas in comparison with other societies we are far , far behind . Our place shonld be in the forefront , and not in the rear . Let the Neophyte see this , and his interest in the Craft will be greatly enhanced ; let him

see that Masons really love one another and are true to their vows , their precepts , and their principles . Let him see thafc the jest of the scoffer nnd the profanity and obscenity of the libertine meet with , no response from the trne Mason . If he notes these he will soon understand how to build up " a superstructure perfect in ita parts and honourable to the builder . " Make Masonry practical , and .

the Neophyte will then appreciate the God given truths expressed to him as he stands on the symbolical foundation stone of fche moral edifice ho proposes to erect , and then , as he adds ashlar to ashlar , he will soon prove to his brethren thafc he is following out the design laid down by the Chief Architect on His unerring trestle board , and

keeping his labours within dne bounds by the Compasses of Truth , and squaring his work by the Square of Virtue , and levelling ib with the Level of Brotherly Love , and finally with the Trowel uniting ifc into one symmetrical whole with the Cement of Faith , Hone , and Charity . —Eclectic .

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