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Correspondence.
As Bro . Hughan concedes that point gracefully , my humble contention is at an end . I can hardly believe that the Hiram Lodge , composed aa it ia of the great educated classes in America—judges , lawyers , the medical profession , clergymen , and the like , —can have made such a blunder
as to have raised a false issue on a purely " infantine" matter , as Bro . MacCalla puts it . As I understand , it is tho alteration of a usage , since 1750 , and by whioh alteration the ceremonial to be enforced is " ont of touch " with that in use when the Lodge was warranted , and joined on the
old landmarks , the newly-formed Graud Lodge of 1789 , and especially with the normal usage of Lodges nnder the Grand Lodge of England , from which it originally derived its " loons standi " and its " vital breath . " Yours fraternally , LEX .
To the Editor of the FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —In Bro . Sadler ' s recent very interesting and valuable work the opinion of our esteemed Bro . Thomas Fenn is quoted ( a very high authority ) in favour of the unschismatic character of those independent Lodges and brethren who set np the
Antient Grand Lodge . The argument seems to be this : ' being outside the formation of 1717 , they were never in it , and therefore cannot be properly termed schismatics from a body which they never belonged to . " I do not think it needful to inquire here if the proposition cau be actually validated , it is sufficient for my purpose
now to give Bro . Fenn's and Bro . Sadler's theories . Bro . Hughan , in lasfc FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE , seems to think fche Grand Registrar is prepared to endorse the views he ( Bro . Hnghan ) has so characteristically expounded . I rather doubt , on the contrary , if that learned and courteous official will care to commit himself to
an " ex parte " opinion on matters which do not come before him in any tangible or authoritative form . Bufc if Bro . Fenn ' s view is correct , and Bro . Sadler ' s arguments valid , may not Hiram Lodge put in , on similar grounds , a plea for legality and regularity ?
If the Lodges and brethren were within their legal rights in 1735 , a lawful Grand Lodge existing since 1717 at any rate , in setting np an independent Grand Lodge , what is to render Hiram Lodge either clandestine , schismatic , or irregular , when , in 1887 , by a change of landmarks and a breach of the compact of 1789 , it becomes independent and falls back on its undoubted legal Warrant of 1750 ? Yours very fraternally , FAIR PLAY .
THE GRAND TREASURERSHIP . To the Editor of the FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —I shall be obliged if you will kindly allow me the opportunity of informing fche Craffc in general , and members of Grand Lodge iu particular , throngh the medium of your widely-circulating journal , that Bro . Asher Barfield will , on Wednesday
nexfc , be nominated for the office of Grand Treasurer . Bro . Barfield was initiated in the Medina Lodge , No . 35 , West Cowes , in the Isle of Wight , on the 1 st June 1846 , and is a P . M . of that Lodge . He joined the Zetland Lodge , No . 511 , then held at Kensington , on the 10 th April 1850 , was W . M . in 1853 , and was
elected Treasurer in 18 oo , and still holds that office in tho Lodge , of which he is now the senior member . Bro . Barfield was a founder of the Londesborough Lodge , No . 1681 ; is a P . M . and the Treasurer . He was also a founder of the Kensington Lodge , No . 1767 , and for some time held the office of Treasurer after its consecration , andia now an
honorary member of the Lodge . He is I . P . M . of the Lodge of Emulation , No . 1990 , Portsmouth , which is a Lodgo of Installed Masters only . Bro . Barfield ia a P . P . G . D . of Hants and the Isle of Wight , and was elected W . M . of the Medina Mark Lodge , No . 140 , at Cowes ; but the distance from London prevented him accepting the
honour of office this year . He was exalted in the Mount Sinai Chapter , No . 19 , in March 1853 , was Z . in 1858 , and is now the senior member and Treasurer of the Chapter . He is also a P . Z . of fche Andrew Chapter , No . 834 , Hammersmith , and a founder and honorary member of the Stuart Chapter , No . 504 , Bedford , and also a
member of the Harmony Chapter , No . 309 , Fareham , Hants . In addition to his Masonic services , Bro . Barfield is Patron of all the Institutions , and has served 10 Stewardships to the Girls' School , 11 to the Boys' School , anil 11 to the Benevolent Institution .
I must apologise for taking up so much of yonr valuable space , but as Bro . Barlield has received so many promises of support from influential quarters , I am desirous of making his intended nomination known as widely as possible , aud look forward to March 1888 with every hope of success . Yours faithfully and fraternally , GEO . READ P . M . 511 , 17 G 7 , & c .
BRO . GOULD re YORSTON AND OTHERS . To the Editor of the FREEMASON ' S CHBONICLE . DKAR SIR AND BROTHER , —I am glad to see tbat you have reprinted Mr . Josiah H . Drummond ' s letter to the Maxonic Token ( Portland , Maine ) . Yorston and his assistants appear dissatisfied with having
pirated my book , and if we may judge from tho recent deliverance of Mr . Drummond , aro desirous of emulating the Harpies , who not content with mere pillage , were accustomed to befoul and bespatter those whom they plundered . What measure of Lioth there is in Mr . Drummond ' s statement .
Correspondence.
that I have acted dishonourably and am a liar into the bargain , I shall , on my return to London , ask the readers of the CHRONICLE to determine , after placing before them a variety of facts which
Mr . Drummond finds it convenient to omit . Though to be quite candid , I must freely admit that ho more than makes np the aggregate in nnmber by a quantity of baseless insinuations , derived from sources which he does not name . Yours fraternally , R . F . GOULD . 30 th Nov . 1887 .
Presentation To Bro. Horace Brooks Marshall, J.P.
PRESENTATION TO BRO . HORACE BROOKS MARSHALL , J . P .
ON Friday , the 25 th nit ., at a Vestry Meeting of the parishioners of St . Bride ( Fleet Street ) , a gratifying presentation was made to Bro . Horace B . Marshall , J . P ., who for the pasfc two years has held the office of Senior Churchwarden . The chair was taken by the Rev . E . 0 . Hawkins , the vicar , who expressed the very great pleasure it « ave him to have the privilege of being fche medium of
asking Mr . Marshall to accept a slight testimonial of the high regardin which he was held by his fellow-citizens . The words of the testimonial expressed in admirable terms the high appreciation that his fellow-parishioners had of Mr . Marshall ' s services , and showed the warmth of the feelings entertained towards him bv them . Speaking
to those who knew him well , he need nofc enlarge on his municipal services , his sagacious counsel , and his cordial co-operafcioo , zeal , and liberality in all thafc appertained to fche welfare of fche pariah of St . Bride , but it came within his province more particularly to thank him in the most pnblic manner for the assistance he had rendered
him in the management of the ecclesiastical affairs of Sfc . Bride . Personally he thanked the Vestry for electing the Officers they bad to assist him during the time he had been Vicar . He was sure he was only conveying the voice of the Vestry when he assured him that his fellow-parishioners all heartily congratulated him upon his
successful career , and when he expressed the hope that he would live many years to carry on the important bnsiness transactions in which he was engaged , and to forward the many useful works with which he was identified . He had great pleasure in presenting Mr . Marshall with a beautifully-executed work of art , on which the
sentiments aud opinions of his fellow-pirishioners were expressed , and he added the hope that it might long adorn the walls of his home . The reverend chairman then presented Mr . Marshall with a beautifully * illuminated address , the work of Mr . Jackson , of 44 Great Rnssell Street . The scroll work was very elaborate , a figure of St . Bride in
the centre being prominent , aud the rest of the work serving to identify the present with the recipient ' s connection with the parish . The address , in old English characters , was as follows : —Sfc . Bride's Church , Fleet Street , London . —At a public Vestry Meeting , held in the Vestry of the above parish , on Friday , the 25 th November 1887 ,
the Rev . Edward Comerford Hawkins , M . A ., tbe vicar , in the chair , it was resolved unanimously— ' That tho best thanks of the parish aro justly due , and are hereby most cordially presented to , Horace Brooks Marshall , Esq ., J . P ., the retiring Senior Churchwarden , for the valuable services rendered by him while holding that office during the
past two years , for the assiduous aud unremitting attention he has given to and for the able and zealous manner in which he has discharged the important and onerous duties thereof , for his indefatigable exertions in securing the entire redecoration of the church and chancel , the erection of a new east window , and tho
reconstruction of the organ , the result rejecting tho highest credit on himself , and being eminently satisfactory to the parish . His generous and unbounding liberality to all the charities brought under his notice justly entitled him to the commendation of the citizens of London , and the earnest desire ho has evinced on all occasions to co-operate
with and carry out tho wishes of his fellow-parishioners in any object tending to the welfare of the parish elicits their warmest praise . " Mr . Marshall , who was heartily applauded in acknowledging the presentation , thanked the chairman for the kind and flattering way in which he had conveyed the resolution of the vestry to him . When
he ( Mr . Marshall ) entered npon the duties of Junior Churchwarden of the parish , some five years ago , it was in somewhat troublous times , for an attempt was then being made to withhold the funds of the parish from their proper custodians . His colleague , the Senior Churchwarden , with the energy that characterised all he did , step by
step , however , overcame the difficulties and obstacles that stood in the way , and it was to Mr . Paterson that they were in a great measure indebted for obtaining the requisite funds to complete the alterations arid additions to the church . It was no doubt a comparatively easy thing to be generous and lavish with funds thafc people
had nofc contributed themselves , but in the expenditure of the endowment fund of St . Bride ' s Church the restoration committee hacl acted wisely and economically . It was with great satisfaction thafc he was onablod to inform them that he retired from office with every liability connected with tho restoration of the parish church
discharged . The tastefully-illuminated address with which they had presented him would always be highly valued by him , and when in tho distant or , what might be , the near future it was handed to his son , he was sure he would preserve it as a valued record of the belief
ot his fellow parishioners that he ( Mr . Marshall ) had endeavoured faithfully , and to the besfc of his humble ability , to discharge the duties entrusted to him by his fellosv-parishioners of St . Bride's . — Morning Advertiser .
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LARGE photographs of the Temple , taken immediately after the fire , on -Uh May 18-t '' ( . suitable for framing ) , 5 s each ; or framed in oak , securely packed , sent to any address in the United Kingdom , carriage paid on receipt of cheque for 15 s . Masters of Lodges ahould secure this memorial of the old Temple for their Lodge rooms . W . G . PAEKBR , Photographer , 40 High Holborn , W . C i " siablis * ue « l 25 jeau .
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Correspondence.
As Bro . Hughan concedes that point gracefully , my humble contention is at an end . I can hardly believe that the Hiram Lodge , composed aa it ia of the great educated classes in America—judges , lawyers , the medical profession , clergymen , and the like , —can have made such a blunder
as to have raised a false issue on a purely " infantine" matter , as Bro . MacCalla puts it . As I understand , it is tho alteration of a usage , since 1750 , and by whioh alteration the ceremonial to be enforced is " ont of touch " with that in use when the Lodge was warranted , and joined on the
old landmarks , the newly-formed Graud Lodge of 1789 , and especially with the normal usage of Lodges nnder the Grand Lodge of England , from which it originally derived its " loons standi " and its " vital breath . " Yours fraternally , LEX .
To the Editor of the FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —In Bro . Sadler ' s recent very interesting and valuable work the opinion of our esteemed Bro . Thomas Fenn is quoted ( a very high authority ) in favour of the unschismatic character of those independent Lodges and brethren who set np the
Antient Grand Lodge . The argument seems to be this : ' being outside the formation of 1717 , they were never in it , and therefore cannot be properly termed schismatics from a body which they never belonged to . " I do not think it needful to inquire here if the proposition cau be actually validated , it is sufficient for my purpose
now to give Bro . Fenn's and Bro . Sadler's theories . Bro . Hughan , in lasfc FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE , seems to think fche Grand Registrar is prepared to endorse the views he ( Bro . Hnghan ) has so characteristically expounded . I rather doubt , on the contrary , if that learned and courteous official will care to commit himself to
an " ex parte " opinion on matters which do not come before him in any tangible or authoritative form . Bufc if Bro . Fenn ' s view is correct , and Bro . Sadler ' s arguments valid , may not Hiram Lodge put in , on similar grounds , a plea for legality and regularity ?
If the Lodges and brethren were within their legal rights in 1735 , a lawful Grand Lodge existing since 1717 at any rate , in setting np an independent Grand Lodge , what is to render Hiram Lodge either clandestine , schismatic , or irregular , when , in 1887 , by a change of landmarks and a breach of the compact of 1789 , it becomes independent and falls back on its undoubted legal Warrant of 1750 ? Yours very fraternally , FAIR PLAY .
THE GRAND TREASURERSHIP . To the Editor of the FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —I shall be obliged if you will kindly allow me the opportunity of informing fche Craffc in general , and members of Grand Lodge iu particular , throngh the medium of your widely-circulating journal , that Bro . Asher Barfield will , on Wednesday
nexfc , be nominated for the office of Grand Treasurer . Bro . Barfield was initiated in the Medina Lodge , No . 35 , West Cowes , in the Isle of Wight , on the 1 st June 1846 , and is a P . M . of that Lodge . He joined the Zetland Lodge , No . 511 , then held at Kensington , on the 10 th April 1850 , was W . M . in 1853 , and was
elected Treasurer in 18 oo , and still holds that office in tho Lodge , of which he is now the senior member . Bro . Barfield was a founder of the Londesborough Lodge , No . 1681 ; is a P . M . and the Treasurer . He was also a founder of the Kensington Lodge , No . 1767 , and for some time held the office of Treasurer after its consecration , andia now an
honorary member of the Lodge . He is I . P . M . of the Lodge of Emulation , No . 1990 , Portsmouth , which is a Lodgo of Installed Masters only . Bro . Barfield ia a P . P . G . D . of Hants and the Isle of Wight , and was elected W . M . of the Medina Mark Lodge , No . 140 , at Cowes ; but the distance from London prevented him accepting the
honour of office this year . He was exalted in the Mount Sinai Chapter , No . 19 , in March 1853 , was Z . in 1858 , and is now the senior member and Treasurer of the Chapter . He is also a P . Z . of fche Andrew Chapter , No . 834 , Hammersmith , and a founder and honorary member of the Stuart Chapter , No . 504 , Bedford , and also a
member of the Harmony Chapter , No . 309 , Fareham , Hants . In addition to his Masonic services , Bro . Barfield is Patron of all the Institutions , and has served 10 Stewardships to the Girls' School , 11 to the Boys' School , anil 11 to the Benevolent Institution .
I must apologise for taking up so much of yonr valuable space , but as Bro . Barlield has received so many promises of support from influential quarters , I am desirous of making his intended nomination known as widely as possible , aud look forward to March 1888 with every hope of success . Yours faithfully and fraternally , GEO . READ P . M . 511 , 17 G 7 , & c .
BRO . GOULD re YORSTON AND OTHERS . To the Editor of the FREEMASON ' S CHBONICLE . DKAR SIR AND BROTHER , —I am glad to see tbat you have reprinted Mr . Josiah H . Drummond ' s letter to the Maxonic Token ( Portland , Maine ) . Yorston and his assistants appear dissatisfied with having
pirated my book , and if we may judge from tho recent deliverance of Mr . Drummond , aro desirous of emulating the Harpies , who not content with mere pillage , were accustomed to befoul and bespatter those whom they plundered . What measure of Lioth there is in Mr . Drummond ' s statement .
Correspondence.
that I have acted dishonourably and am a liar into the bargain , I shall , on my return to London , ask the readers of the CHRONICLE to determine , after placing before them a variety of facts which
Mr . Drummond finds it convenient to omit . Though to be quite candid , I must freely admit that ho more than makes np the aggregate in nnmber by a quantity of baseless insinuations , derived from sources which he does not name . Yours fraternally , R . F . GOULD . 30 th Nov . 1887 .
Presentation To Bro. Horace Brooks Marshall, J.P.
PRESENTATION TO BRO . HORACE BROOKS MARSHALL , J . P .
ON Friday , the 25 th nit ., at a Vestry Meeting of the parishioners of St . Bride ( Fleet Street ) , a gratifying presentation was made to Bro . Horace B . Marshall , J . P ., who for the pasfc two years has held the office of Senior Churchwarden . The chair was taken by the Rev . E . 0 . Hawkins , the vicar , who expressed the very great pleasure it « ave him to have the privilege of being fche medium of
asking Mr . Marshall to accept a slight testimonial of the high regardin which he was held by his fellow-citizens . The words of the testimonial expressed in admirable terms the high appreciation that his fellow-parishioners had of Mr . Marshall ' s services , and showed the warmth of the feelings entertained towards him bv them . Speaking
to those who knew him well , he need nofc enlarge on his municipal services , his sagacious counsel , and his cordial co-operafcioo , zeal , and liberality in all thafc appertained to fche welfare of fche pariah of St . Bride , but it came within his province more particularly to thank him in the most pnblic manner for the assistance he had rendered
him in the management of the ecclesiastical affairs of Sfc . Bride . Personally he thanked the Vestry for electing the Officers they bad to assist him during the time he had been Vicar . He was sure he was only conveying the voice of the Vestry when he assured him that his fellow-parishioners all heartily congratulated him upon his
successful career , and when he expressed the hope that he would live many years to carry on the important bnsiness transactions in which he was engaged , and to forward the many useful works with which he was identified . He had great pleasure in presenting Mr . Marshall with a beautifully-executed work of art , on which the
sentiments aud opinions of his fellow-pirishioners were expressed , and he added the hope that it might long adorn the walls of his home . The reverend chairman then presented Mr . Marshall with a beautifully * illuminated address , the work of Mr . Jackson , of 44 Great Rnssell Street . The scroll work was very elaborate , a figure of St . Bride in
the centre being prominent , aud the rest of the work serving to identify the present with the recipient ' s connection with the parish . The address , in old English characters , was as follows : —Sfc . Bride's Church , Fleet Street , London . —At a public Vestry Meeting , held in the Vestry of the above parish , on Friday , the 25 th November 1887 ,
the Rev . Edward Comerford Hawkins , M . A ., tbe vicar , in the chair , it was resolved unanimously— ' That tho best thanks of the parish aro justly due , and are hereby most cordially presented to , Horace Brooks Marshall , Esq ., J . P ., the retiring Senior Churchwarden , for the valuable services rendered by him while holding that office during the
past two years , for the assiduous aud unremitting attention he has given to and for the able and zealous manner in which he has discharged the important and onerous duties thereof , for his indefatigable exertions in securing the entire redecoration of the church and chancel , the erection of a new east window , and tho
reconstruction of the organ , the result rejecting tho highest credit on himself , and being eminently satisfactory to the parish . His generous and unbounding liberality to all the charities brought under his notice justly entitled him to the commendation of the citizens of London , and the earnest desire ho has evinced on all occasions to co-operate
with and carry out tho wishes of his fellow-parishioners in any object tending to the welfare of the parish elicits their warmest praise . " Mr . Marshall , who was heartily applauded in acknowledging the presentation , thanked the chairman for the kind and flattering way in which he had conveyed the resolution of the vestry to him . When
he ( Mr . Marshall ) entered npon the duties of Junior Churchwarden of the parish , some five years ago , it was in somewhat troublous times , for an attempt was then being made to withhold the funds of the parish from their proper custodians . His colleague , the Senior Churchwarden , with the energy that characterised all he did , step by
step , however , overcame the difficulties and obstacles that stood in the way , and it was to Mr . Paterson that they were in a great measure indebted for obtaining the requisite funds to complete the alterations arid additions to the church . It was no doubt a comparatively easy thing to be generous and lavish with funds thafc people
had nofc contributed themselves , but in the expenditure of the endowment fund of St . Bride ' s Church the restoration committee hacl acted wisely and economically . It was with great satisfaction thafc he was onablod to inform them that he retired from office with every liability connected with tho restoration of the parish church
discharged . The tastefully-illuminated address with which they had presented him would always be highly valued by him , and when in tho distant or , what might be , the near future it was handed to his son , he was sure he would preserve it as a valued record of the belief
ot his fellow parishioners that he ( Mr . Marshall ) had endeavoured faithfully , and to the besfc of his humble ability , to discharge the duties entrusted to him by his fellosv-parishioners of St . Bride's . — Morning Advertiser .
Ad01003
LARGE photographs of the Temple , taken immediately after the fire , on -Uh May 18-t '' ( . suitable for framing ) , 5 s each ; or framed in oak , securely packed , sent to any address in the United Kingdom , carriage paid on receipt of cheque for 15 s . Masters of Lodges ahould secure this memorial of the old Temple for their Lodge rooms . W . G . PAEKBR , Photographer , 40 High Holborn , W . C i " siablis * ue « l 25 jeau .