Art, History, And The Craft.

to be the work of William de Ireland . To preserve tho Waltham Cross , and to improve its position by opening up a now roadway , the sum of £ 3 , 000 will be required . Towards this sum an appeal is made to the Masonic

Lodges to contribute . Most of the Lodges hitherto appealed to have responded favourably , aud it is hoped that the rest will follow their example . We are reminded , in a circular issued by Bro . J . Tydeman P . M . 1827

and 1427 , one of the lion , secretaries , of the connection between Queen Eleanor ' s Cross and our Masonic Order . It is not only a most artistic aud beautiful monument , but it perpetuates the memory of a good woman , the aneestoi

of our Grand Master and the founder of his title . Wt earnestly hope that Bro . Tydeman will meet with the sue cess tbe movement deserves . Contributions can be for warded to the Secretaries of tho Eleanor Cross Preserva . tion Fund . Waltham Cross , Herts , of whom also can bt obtained further information .

Provincial Grand Lodge Of Surrey.

PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF SURREY .

THE annual meeting of the brethren , of Snrrey was held on Saturday , 27 th ult ., at St . Mark ' s School , St . Andrew ' s Roarl , Surbiton , under the banner of the St . Margaret ' s Lodge , No . 1872 . Bro . General Studholme Browurigg , C . B ., the Right Wor . Grand Master presided in person , and was supported by Bro . W . W . B .

Beach , M . P ., Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master , Hampshire and the Isle of Wight , J . M . Case P . G . D ., and by tho following Officers of tbe Province of Surrey : —Rev . C . W . " Arnold P . G . C . England Deputy Grand Master , H . C . Leigh-Bennett S . W ., George Price Treasurer , C . Greenwood P . G . S . B . Secretary , A . Laurence

S . D ., W . Gibbes J . D ., F . Flood Snpt . Works , Alfred Nuthall Swore Bearrr , S . P . Cattersen Standard Bearer , F . Cambridge Organist , H . J . Strong , M . D ., P . P . G . W ., G . B . Brodic P . P . S . G W ., ~ G . Dundas P . P . J . G . W ., H . J . P . Dumas P . G . D . P . P . J . G . W ., H . E . France . * P . P . S . G . D ., J . B . Boucher r . P . G . D , C . Belton P . P . G . D ., J . Humor

Owens P . P . G . D ., A . B . Taylor P . P . G . Snpt , of Works , , 7 . Squin P . P . G . S . B ., J . Rhodes P . P . G . O ., A . Saxelby P . P . G . S ., C . Ledger P . P . G . S ., G . Porter P . P . G . S ., & e . Provincial Grand Lodge having boon formally opened , the roll of Lodges was called over , and most of those in the district wore found

to bo represented . Tho minutes of the last regular meeting , and of the Special Provincial Grand Lodge held at Redhill last Hummer , on the occasion of the visit of H . R . H . the Prince of Wales to the Royal Asylum of St . Anne ' s Schools , were confirmed . The Provincial Grand Master expressed tho pleasure he experienced on the

latter occasion in seeing so many Masons of his Province present to support him in welcoming the Grand Master . Tho Report of the Finance and Audit Committee was submitted and adopted . It showed that the funds of the Province were in a satisfactory condition , and recommended that sums should be voted to eaeh of the

Masouic Institutions , and also to tho fnnd for the restoration of the local church . Sums of fifteen guineas were voted to each of the former , and one of ten guineas to the latter . Brother George Price was unanimously re-elected as Provincial Grand Treasurer , and then the other Provincial Grand Officers

were appoiuted . In announcing that the Rev . Bro . Arnold had again undertaken the duties of Deputy , the Provincial Grand Master said he regretted the present would bs the last occasion he shonld have the pleasure of appointing Bro . Arnold to the office , as that brother had intimated his desire to retire ; indeed , he waa abor . t

to leave England , so that it would not bo possible to re-appoint him after the present year . General Brownri gg felt he should hardly be able to manage without Bro . Arnold , who for many years had taken a most prominent part in the Masonic affairs of the Province . He had been more than a right hand man to him , and whoever mi'ht be

called upon to continue the work hitherto performed by Bro . Arnold , would find he had a very difficult example to follow . Bro . Arnold , in acknowledging the compliment paid him , expressed the pleasure he always felt in advancing the interests of Freemasonry , and also thanked the Masons of Snrrey for the great kindness he had always

received from them . His connection with the district would at all times be among his most pleasant memories of the past , and he hoped that the brethren of Snrrey would long retain in their midst a memory of his connection with them . The other Provincial offices were filled as follows : —

Bro . the Earl of Onslow ... ... Prov . G . Senior Warden — Locko ... ... ... Prov . G . Junior Warden Rev . Geoffrey Hughes ... " ) „ „ _ ,, _ . Rev . Herbert Turner j Prov - G - Chaplains S . W . Lambert ... ... Prov . G . Registrar

C . Greenwood P . G . S . B . England Prov . G . Secretary R . S . Hart ... ... ... Prov . G . Senior Deacon T . Wakley ... ... ... Prov . G . Junior Den con J . G . Collier ... ... Prov . G . Snpt , Works John Hooke ... ... Prov . G . Director of Cer .

— Clayton ... ... .., Piov . G . Assistant D . C . George Porter ... ... Prov . G . Sword Bearer Joseph Steele ... ... Prov , G . Standard Bearer J . W . Baldwin ... ... Prov . G . Assist . Stand . Bearer G . S . Dunkley ... ... Prov . G . Organist

W . 1 . C-. tterson jun . ... Prov . G . Pursuivant E . Nichols ... ... ... Prov . G . Asst . Pursuivant Jcpps , Thomson , Hngcrty , Lane , ) ^ „ 0 Still well , A . J . Greenwood j Frov - G ' Stewards

Provincial Grand Lodge Of Surrey.

Bro . Arnold was called upon by the Provincial Grand Master and addressed the brethren as to the advisnbility of more united no ' ion in r'gnrd to the support rendered by the Province to tho Masonic Charities . Votes were frequently lost by reason of their not being f-rwarded to the Provinc i al representatives , while others were

frequently given to ontside applicants , to the detriment of Surrey can . didates . In view of the strong organisations existing in neighbour . ; ng districts it was imperative that every vote should be made available , and that every support shonld be given to Surrey cases , otherwise thev would be left out from the benefits of the Institutions .

Tho Provincial Grand Master of Hampshire and Isle of Wight endorsed tho remarks of Bro . Arnold , and referred to the evor increasing difficulty which surrounded tho elections for the Masonic Charities . Nothing bnt unanimity in a Province conld ensure success for its candidates . After the transaction of business of a

formal character Provincial Grand Lodge was clos ed , and the brethren repaired to St . Andrew's Church , where a special service was held . The anthem "Send out . Thy light" ( Gounod ) was well rendered ; and a sermon was preached by Rev . Bro . Geoffrey Hughes , M . A ., of Dorking , Provincial Grand Chaplain . Our roverend brother selected

for his t"xt Acts xvii . 25 , 20 . " ne giveth lo all life and breath , and all things , and hath made of one blood all nations of men . " Tho preacher said—There can bn no doubt that in tho history of religion the narrowness of human sympathy , as well as of tho human

intellect , forms a conspicuous feature . It has been so in the past , as the i * ecordsof many persecutions may remind us , and it is so in the present time , wherein , as wo mnst confess , much uncharitableness is still allowed to wear the cloak of religion . Tt is scarcely necessary to say that such narrowness of heart does not rightly belong to any

form of truth , it is an enenmbranco to it , in fact often a very contradiction . And if sometimes we are troubled by hard actions per . formed , or harsh jndgments uttered in the name of the religion which we profess ; if sometimes , as may be possible , faith itself is shaken bv the unloveliness of what is called religious principle , lot

ns remember that God ' s ways are not man ' s ways , and attempt by a study of the Holy Word to shako offwh"t is merely human corruption , and to find what is true in the truth of God . When the apostles of Jeans Christ wero commisioned to carrv His Gospel to all the world , thev were encountered with the difficulties of tho sort

referred to in a remarkable degree . Perhaps to no one more than to St . Paul wonld it have seemed a matter of course at one time that the greater part of the world was alienated irrevocably from God ; ho might have thought , as a Jew of the Jews , a Pharisee of the Pharisees , that he himself and some others , comparatively few , were

chosen , elect , precious , but that most men were lost . In this is one effect of his conversion marked , that when in the course of his mission work he had to preach especially to Gentiles , ho was able to tell them of God ' s nnivc sal mercy . As when he came to Athena and saw the city wholly given to idolatry , he used no words of burning

contempt , as if he wonld destroy them from the height of his superior attainments , but in tho knowh-dgo that the God who made him made them also , the God who sustained him sustained them also , he preached the universal Fatherhood of God—not exclnding indeed fnture jndgment for them and for himself as

wellnut for tho present showing a universal call to mercy , lie the one Great God , giveth to all life and breath and all things , and hath made of one blood all nations of men . The text may bo regarded briefl y by us in two aspects : 1 st , as a proclam it ion of the One Creator ; 2 nd , as a declaration of the unity of mankind . The two

' ruths are intimately connected ; they teach us of the Universal Fatherhood and of the Universal Brotherhood , and though men may dream of separating these two , yet , as has long ago been shown , they are inseparable . Attempts may be made , and have been made , and are being made , to teach that man ought to love man , bnt need not

love God ; to arrange an aggregate of men who shall call each other brethren , bnt shall have no common Father . It is easy to teach , but to carry this to the desired practical result is impossible . If a man wishes to please himself , to love himself , and hite or despise or neglect his neighbour , he will do so in spite of teaching until you

give him a principle of action greater than himself to which he must bow ; and this we have in God the Universal Father , and in the gifts of His love which compel us to answer love with love . This is no opportunity now to argue on the fact asserted in the text that He , God . giveth to all life and breath and all things ; but it is

fitting that we should now echo such words with thankfulness , bow our own hearts to the great truth , and stand strongly in our own peculiar brotherhood upon the ground which has been maintained ( which others have endeavoured to shake ) that as Freemasons we acknowledge now and for ever as supreme the Great Architect of the

Universe , being convinced that those who reject that mi ghty divine Fatherhood" thereby completely undermine tho essential principle of human brotherhood . But passing on from this foundation , I wonld ask you to think for a moment of the oneness of mankind , the unify of the race , — " He hath made of one blood all nations of men . "

In the origin of our race we are one . Daily experience goes far to teach ns that the unity of human nature still exists . In spite of differences we easily recognise a community of needs , of desires , of faculties , thoughts , and habits . We aro alike in body and iu mind , arid more wonderful still , we aro alike in spirit , in having similar

spiritual satisfactions and similar spiritual longings . So much alike are we in these things , that , it becomes almost easy to regard ourselves as jnst so many manifestations of the one animating principle , whether bodily , mental , or spiritual , only slightly differenced bv circumstances . In one regard , indeed , we are many

individuals , yet are we not — we cannot ho sep . na'e . » Ve aro not as the stones upon tho sen , b aeh , of which , v 0 may count any number together and similar to each ot'ic ,

yet we recognise in them no nnity ; one may be removed here , another there , indifferentl y in a thousand ways , yet no real tie is either formed or severed . Man is net only like man , he belongs to man ; together they form one whole . Trace it from the relation-