Order Of The Temple.

ORDER OF THE TEMPLE .

ST . JAMES OF JERUSALEM PRECEPTORY .

A MEETING of this Preceptory was held on Friday , at the Commercial Hotel , Bolton , afc six o ' clock in the evening . Present _ Sir Knights J . Horrock E . G ., Sam . Crowther Constable , J . Bromley Marshal , G . Fergnson Sub Marshal , A . Hopkinson Captain of Guards , W . Nicholl Alni ( ner , J . W . Taylor Organist , C . S . Lano 1 st Standard Bearer , R . H . Swindlehurst Registrar , G . P . Brockbank ( Treasurer ) Past Grand Captain , V . E . Sir Knights C . It . N . Beswicke-Boyds

Provincial Grand Commander of Lancashire . Tbe Preceptory having been opened in form , the minutes of tbe proceedings of the last meeting were read aud confirmed . Sir Knight Brockbank P . G . Captain , presented to tho Prov . Graud Commander , who had assumed the throne , for installation as E . C . for the ensuing year Sir Kn ight Samuel Crowther , and he , having been duly obligated , was

proclaimed and saluted in due form . The following Sir Knights were appointed as Officers for tho ensuing year : —John Bromley Constable , George Ferguson Marshal , G . N . Brockbank Treasurer , Alfred Hopkiusoii Sub-Marshal , W . Nicholl Captain of Guards , C . S . Lane Almoner , J . W . Taylor Organist , W . D . Holbrook 1 st Standard Bearer , W . Taffray 2 nd Standard Bearer . On the motion of Sir

Knight Brockbank , seconded by Sir Knight Taylor , fche thanks of the Preceptory were very cordially tendered to the Provincial Grand Commander , for hia courtesy in attending , at considerable inconvenience , the installation of the day , and congratulating him on his promotion to honours in the Craffc , and other orders of Masonry . Ifc

was resolved , that the Provincial Grand Conclave be invited to hold its next annual meeting under the banner of this Preceptory . Precep tory closed at seven o ' clock . The Sir Knights then proceeded to banquet , when the customary loyal and Templar toasts were duly given and responded to .

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REMINISCENCES OF A SECRETARY .

ONE night , as fche Worshipful Master was about to commence " work , " an announcement came that Bro . Brown , from Lodge No . 999 , England , wished to be examined . The W . M . cast an inquiring look upon me , and I retired to examine fche stranger . I found in fche ante-room a very handsome young man , dressed genteelly , but clothes rather worse for wear , who began by apologising that be was rusty , and that this was the first Lodge he had attempted to visit in America . He had never made himself known

as a Mason , although living more than six mouths in New York . He spoke a good grammatical English , with a decided English accent —that is , fche accent of the better class—and I soon found biui by bis conversation to be a man of very good education . He produced the ponderous certificate in use by tho Grand Lod ge of England , lialf Latin and half English , by which I found that he had been a

Mason about two years . I proceeded with fche examination , until I found that he was legally entitled to visit my Lodge , and brought him inside . When he found that I was the Secretary , he came up near my desk , and remained near me until fche Lodge closed . There wns something so sad , so suppressed and subdued in ° the man's mann er aud speech , that I could not mako ifc oufc . He looked nonr

euongh , yet tbe stamp of fche gentleman was unmistakably upon him . Before closing I mustered up courage to ask him if the Lodge could dn anything for him . Ho looked startled , blushed , thanked me very kindl y , and said no , not now ; and when the Master , in fche words of tbo beautiful old ritual , asked , is any brother of our Lodge , or a

sojourning brother , in need of our aid or sympathy ? I looked sharply at him . Again the blood mantled his face ; he bowed his head as if "i meditation , bufc said nothing . After Lodge closed I gave him one of onr visiting cards , and cordially invited him to call again . A , a h ° did several times , looking paler , sadder , and poorer each

., day a letter was brought to my house requesting me to call < , t « npou Bra Blown » m 7 P Euglish friend ; Jbnt as I only got the letter late in the evening , and it being Lodge night , I resolved J ° call before going to the Lodge , even at the risk of letting the orethren wait for me—which by the way , they seldom had to do . lonnd the address given me to be iu tbe mosfc crowded east side

element district , and as I mounted stair after sfcair , I felfc indeed at I was in the home of thafc greatest monster of our present civilisation—Poverty . be f . * ° . cked at the do ° l" oi room No . 46 , and it was opened by a bad y ° n woman of scarce eighteen years , who , mneh confused , iuv V " - ent 6 r •Upon a miserably fitted up bed , or cot , lay dressed , that ki ^ ^ - ^ "' brother Mason . He asked to be forgiven / I :-- " ^ troubled me , but he now wanted my aid . He would ho

;„ » j 0 S 8 «» sed on the morrow if he did not pay the rent by 10 o ' clock I " " ? 10 IDiI 1 fr- It was an enormous sum , the whole of six dollars . t ] , iu ° ^*' ^ to bring his case before the Lodge thafc evening , and also l , t x would surely call before 10 o ' clock the next morning , and that j tlio T" , rest easy , lie being able to keep his rooms . I hastened to ;

0 f £ ?» where I reported his case , and was appointed a committee j man e 1 w , * ' P ower . Early next morning I aeain wenfc to seo my > w ' tli r 'DK' tI "' t , mo to finrl ont m 0 TB abonfc him—as r 1 , ! , d ' that th ° ^ * "he Lodge to disptw of , I felfc in duty bound to ace

I ft * f . were we "> anc ( worthily bestowed . i peot ) , satisfied the clamouring landlord , so as to make the young ; re ceint * asier I" their mind ; and when I entered their room with a j '"¦ each 1 ° , t * ae '' ' reDt . their thanks were profuse aud hearfcy . I fc | 1 Cm 'hat n subject of his history ; told him it was nofc idle curiosity I wnri , ° !' . ? tedl n , y inquiry ; but " that I might intelligently aid him .

was th + i know something of his former home and life . It j ] e " tQat he revealed to me , under Masonic seal , his trne name . liuua ¦ •™ bad held an important position in a large commercial e 'ii England , where hu hud the entree to his employer ' s house

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and home , where he met aud loved the merchant ' s daughter , which love was not only returned , but fostered and encouraged by the young girl . It never entered the minds of the young people that they conld not obtain the sanction of the rich and proud father to

their union , but they kept right on , holding secret meetings and pledging eternal love and fidelity to each other , when their dream was suddenly ended by the young man receiving his instant dismissal from the house , and preparations being mado to send Miss M to London .

, The ardent lovers frustrated this plan by a hasty marriage , and flight to America , there to strike oufc for themselves . In youth everything looks rosy , especially to those who have never been brought face to face with thafc powerful fiend , Poverty ; and so with these people . The funds hastily gathered before leaving home soon melted , and ho found every avenue of life overcrowded , and he had

to acknowledge to himself thafc he had not the " push " and " vim " to crowd in and crowd on and onward . They soon became poorer and poorer , nntil they brought up in this miserable abode , a room seven ft . by nine ft ., and even here he could not stay , as there was no hope for him . There was something very sad iu his voice that struck me 88

particularly strange iu one so yon-g , but I saw ifc was remorse —deep , sincere remorse—for having induced bis wife to come with him to America , to leave a home of plenty , and luxury , and refinement , to share this abject poverty with him . He further stated thafc he . knew he was going to die , and asked me would we give him decent Masonio burial , and made me promise as a brother Mason

to notify the British Consul , tell the true name of his wife , and see that she was sent home to her kinsfolk in old England , there to forget the foolish youth who had cast so deep a shadow across her young life . He seemed exhausted by his long talking , and I tried to encourage him— spoke of his youth and of better things yet in store for

himbut he faded fast away , and grasping my hand he whispered faintly : — " I shall be dead within the hour . Keep your promise , send Julia back to her father . The British Consul will pay you back the money , and God will pay you in kind . " He then begau to whisper the Lord ' s Prayer , faintly but distinctly .

word by word , the young wife , stricken , dazed , aud mechanically joining with him aud myself , and when the last words were reached , " for ever and ever , " we listened , with our heads bowed low , for the " Amen . " It did not come . The brother had passed to the realms beyond . May the Amen come to hira from the throne of glory , " for ever and ever . "

After the brother had been buried by the Lodge , I found that the widowed girl could not then be sent home . Through the goodness of old Dr . Muhlenbersr , late of St . Luke ' s Hospital , she was placed iu thafc excellent institution , where she gave birth to a little girl , and gave her young life with it . Again fche grave opened , and tbe child-wife , widow and mother , was laid beside her lover husband .

I now had to take care of the tiny little orphan , which a brother of a sister Lodge , who knew some of the circumstances , consented to adopt ; but death had also put his relentless stamp npon the little one . The trials and vicissi'udes through which the mother had passed , and fche inadequate food before being admitted to the Hospital , along with her suffering , could not fail to have its effect

upon her offspring . The child was born suffering with marasmus , and could not be cured . It lingered , however , through good and careful nursing , for three months , when it also died , and for the third time the yawning grave opened and received the last of this unfortunate family , united in death as they had been on ea . th . I never notified the British Consul , never wrote to fche harsh old

father , and the secret of those lives aud the secret of their names , lies buried iu the triple grave afc Greenwood Cemetery , there to remain until all secrets are revealed , all hearts laid bare , and the final judgments will be passed on all—rich and poor , weak and strong , alike—all measured by the standard of the great Jehovah , by the scale of the ever-righteons Judge . —Canadian Craftsman .

Viscount Holmesdale presided afc the meeting- on Wed-! nesday of the Provincial Grand Chapter of Kent . His ! lordship was well supported by his P . G . Officers and the ! Companions , every Chapter in the Province being reprei seuted .

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