Mark Masonry.

Bros . J . S . Bell , P . S . Corder , C . S . Lane , and W Brown were appointed the Committee of General Purposes ; Bros . Seymour Bell and J . C . Moor were appointed auditors . The meeting afterwards terminated . In the evening a banquet was held at the Royal Hotel , under the

presidency of the Prov . G . M . the Rev . Canon Tristram , D . D ., supported by the Deputy Prov . G . M ., and also by Bros . C . P . Matier Grand Secretary of England P . G . W ., A . B . Cook P . G . M . Middlesex , C . D . Hill Dvury P . G . S . W .,

HansB . Olsen P . G . J . W ., C . S . Lane P . G . D . Erg ., Rev . Canon Kynaston P . G . C , and other Officers of Prov . Grand Lodge . The usual Loyal and Masonio toasts were duly given , and a most enjoyable evening was spent by the brethren .

Cheshire Educational Masonic Institution.

CHESHIRE EDUCATIONAL MASONIC INSTITUTION .

THE 30 th annual report of this Institntion for 1892 , which has just been circulated in the Province , is of a very satisfactory nnd gratifying character . From the balance sheet of the Treasurer ( Bro . G . H . Brown Prov . G . D . C . ) we gather that the donations and subscriptions from the Lodges and Chapter ? , & c , of the Province , amount to £ 300 5 s 6 d , interest from investments £ 201 4 s Id , and other small items £ 8 7 s 4 d , making a total income for fche year

of £ 509 16 a lid . Against this we have payments for fche education and clothing of 47 children £ 335 19 s 5 d , printing and stationery £ 24 9 s 4 d , and sundry expencos £ 25 6 s lOd , being a total expenditure of £ 386 5 s 7 d , leaving a surplus on the year of £ 123 ' lis 4 d . There ia a sum of £ 731 3 s 6 d in the Bank , and £ 1 17 B 7 d in the Treasurer's hands , whioh with the

invested fnnds of the Institution total np to £ 6 , 254 3 s Od . The Committee of the Institution ( of which Bro . F . K . Stevenson P . Prov . G . S . B . is the indefatigable honorary Secretary ) remark that it was feared that the efforts whioh were being made to inaugurate a fnnd in the Province for the assistance of aged Freemasons or their widows would seriously affect the amount usually subscribed to thia

Institution , bnt , on the contrary , though the brethren have responded to the appeal which has been made to them on behalf of the new fond in a most generous manner it has not materially reduced the amount they have given to the Educational Institntion , for this year the donations and subscriptions from the brethren aud the fees from fche Lodges , & c , have reached the handsome sum of £ 300 5 s 6 d as against £ 278 2 s 5 d

received last year , thns showing the great interest the brethren take in the affairs of this Institntion and the appreciation they evince for the object it has in view . Of the 47 children on fche foundation during the past year , the time of 8 expires , and there are 8 or 10 new candidates for election . The report concludes with an expression of sympathy with the R . W . Prov . Grand Master on the desth of Lady Egerton of Tatton , who was a Patroness of fche Institution . Seeing

that the Cheshire brethren have contributed some £ 2 , 5 C 0 to inaugurate the Cheshire Masonio Benevolent Institution , £ 300 for the Cheshire Ednoational Institution , besides some smaller contributions to the London Schools , it would appear that the charitable effort of the Cheshire brethren dnring the past year amounts to over £ 3 , 000 , which mnst be acknowledged to be a very satisfactory record for the Province , which numbers 45 Lodges .

Opening Of The West Malling Masonic Hall.

OPENING OF THE WEST MALLING MASONIC HALL .

THE brethren of the Mailing Abbey Lodge , of whioh Bro . H . M . Apps ia W . M ., lately acquired the entire premises of the old Assembly Booms at West Mailing , for a Masonic Hall . Under the supervision of Messrs . Ruck and Smith , of Maidstone , the Assembly Rooms have nndergone thorough repair and alteration , and tbe opening ceremony took place on Friday , of last week , Earl Amherst , the

Provincial Grand Master , attending and consecrating tbe building . The noble Earl , who was accompanied by his Provincial Officers , was met at Mulling Station by Colonel E . T . Luck , and driven to the Bear Hotal , where a luncheon was partaken of , Bro . Apps W . M . presiding . The loyal toasts having been dnly honoured at the instance of the W . M ., Colonel Luok P . M . submitted the health of the Right Wor .

abipful Provincial Grand Master , Earl Amherst . His Lordship suitably acknowledged the compliment and gave the health of tbe Worshipful Master , Bro . Apps . The latter replied , and at three o'clock a move was made for tha Assembly Rooms , now the Free , mason's Hall , and Earl Amherst in suitable terms declared the Hall duly opened and consecrated .

An imposing procession of Freemasons belonging to the English and Scotch Lodges at Karachi was witnessed on Saturday evening . The members marched from the Masonio HaU to Trinity Chnrch in aprons and sashes , bine , red , and green . A special service was held , and the Rev . H . Griffiths preached . There were altogether 63 Masons present , including two Parsis . Tho offertory was for the Bind Masonio Benevolent Institntion . —Indian Daily News .

" ExaiiND % m Smut BB TBVK TO THB COBS , " is a saying that every patriotic Briton will heartily echo . Whatever may be said by disaffected ¦ tump orators as to tho degeneracy of tho present day , onr country continues to progress in her old majestic style , preserving her best traditions and gaming fresh laurels . She keeps true to herself and thns is true to all men . Li the same manner Holloway ' s wonderful remedies keep tho reputation they have earned for over half a century all over the world , aa the greatest wonders of modern times . At the present time thousands of testimonials come to hand showing that in no case where fairly tried have they failed to relieve coin or care disease .

Masonry's Grandeur And Goodness.

MASONRY'S GRANDEUR AND GOODNESS .

MASONRY A TEMPLE—A SYMBOL—A SCIENCE OP EMBLEMS AND SYMBOLS—A SOCIETY OP RITUAL AND OF IDEALS .

An Address by Rev . James Byron Murray , Grand Chaplain , before the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of New York , Sth February 1893 .

( Continued from page 35 ) . IN the Vatican at Rome there ia a fresco wrought by one of the world ' s great artists . It is " Philosophy , or tho School at Athene , " painted into an immortality by Raphael of Urbino . The figures of tho philosophers are arranged in groups which mark their attainments in mental

greatness and the victories of genius . On a dais , as if superior to all , and to commend all , are enthroned Plato and Aristotle , tho philosopher of tho Ideal and tho philosopher of the Real . With aspiring eyes and upstretched arm , Plato directs those whom he would t ach to the firmament ,

as if to tell them that amid its splendid pageantry they would find ideals higher and more enduring than this earth with its vanishing glory and decay . There , ' he would seem to say , is the sphere for the exercise of your minds , tho enlargement of your faculties , the elevation of your powers .

There shall your spirits commune with the spiritual , and there in yonr aspiring thought you will learn the marvellous greatness of being a man . "With outstretched arm , Aristotle , the philosopher of the Real , directs his discip les to the world about them , as if to tell them , there

is the sphere of your labour ; there the place for the exercise of your reason ; there the place for the outflowing of your sympathies , and there , in this place of toiling man , you are to act and live as earth ' s most wondrous creation , and testify by tho force and command of mind that you have dignified the claim to be men indeed .

Masonry , the philosopher of the Ideal , points its disciples to the firmament and the ennobling study of astronomy . There , it seems to say , you shall discover and find the laws that rule those wondrous bodies which cluster the heavens into beauty , there yon shall behold the

magnificent things revealed to the inner sight , and ideal after ideal shall be suggested to your mind , and as you follow them in reverent aspiration , you shall in somo degree be made really great . But reach farther in your ever lengthening vision , farther than where world burns to

world , and constellation shines to constellation , farther and yet more far , through space whose flame-lit processions aro brilliant stars , until you reach the throne of that Being , the Eternal Architect of the Universe , Who , out of His infinite fullness , fashioned all things visible and invisible .

Then , by your sublimer ventures , by your looking up , your aspirations and believing , you shall learn that the crown of this scene creation , the splendour that dropped from His shaping fingers , is the thinking , the spiritually adventurous , sympathetic being , immortal man .

Masonry , the philosopher also of the Real , with arm outpointed , directs its disciples to the world about them . It bids them go work in this moving , restless society , for human good , for the moral elevation of the lives that so closely surround their own . There , it seems to say , you ,

my disciples , shall find the sphere for the exercise of your reason , for the growth of your sympathies , for the pouring forth of the gifts so largely given yon . And yours will be a higher and blessed service ' , yours a humble but majestic work ; yours will be the tender ministry of cleansing the

disfigurements of this modern life ; the healing of the wounds made by evil hearts and evil hands ; the comforting of the distressed by pouring in the anointing oil of Masonry . Yonrs , the superb position in the ranks of the benefactors and reformers of the age ; yours , the interpreting of their

loftiest dreams for spiritual progress ; yours , the founders with the good and great , of a Republic , not of Plato ' s gorgeous imagination , but a Republic of a wiser , statlier manhood , of a purer civilisation , of nobler action ; a Republic where law shall not be a letter on a book , but a

manifestation of integrity , right and justice ; yours , to stand amongst the best in the forefront of the teachers of a large and saintlier knowledge ; yours to bo the harbingers as the watchmen on the hills , to proclaim the foremost rays of the sun which shall usher in the coming day , and with tbo temple of the living God to welcome to a more