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ROYAL MasonicBenevolentInstitution FOR AGED FREEMASONS AND WIDOWS OF FREEMASONS . Grand Patron and President : His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES , K . G ., & c , M . W . G . M . Treasurer : —JOHN A . FARNFIELD , Esq . Bankers -. —LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANK ( Bloomsbury Branch ) , 214 High Holborn , London , W . C . . •Upwards of 1460 Annuitants have received the benefits of the Institution since its foundation in 1842 and 1849 . 195 men and 240 widows are Annuitants at the present time . 30 widows , in addition , are receiving half their late husband's annuity . Amount paid Annually in Annuities £ 16 , 090 Permanent Income £ 3 , 600 Deficit £ 12 , 490 115 Candidates for next election . THE ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL Will be held at the FREEMASONS' TAVERN , LONDON , W . C ., ON WEDNESDAY , 27 th FEBRUARY 1895 , Under the distinguished Presidency of THEVISCOUNTDUNGARVAN R . W . Prov . G . M . for Somersetshire . Brethren are earnestly solicited to accept the Stewardship upon this most important occasion , and to kindly forward their names as soon as possible , with full particulars , to JAMES TERRY ( V .-Pat ., P . G . Swd . B . ) , Secretary . Office—4 Freemasons' Hall , London , W . C .

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NewBarnetSchoolofMusic, STATION" ROAD , NEW BARNET . PATRONS : The Right Rev . the Lord Bishop of Lincoln . The Very Rev . Dean of Rochester . Rev . G . E . Gardner , M . A . Rov . Professor Shuttleworth , M . A . Sir Joseph Barnby . T . Morgan Harvey , Esq ., J . P . Ebenezer Prout , Esq ., B . A . Vicary Gibbs , Esq ., M . P . E . H . Turpin , Esq ., Mus . Doc . George C . Martin , Esq ., Mus . Doc . PROFESSORS : Violin . * Singing . Mr . John * Saunders . Bro . John Probert . Mr . George F . Leipold . Mr . James Blackney . Mr . Gerald Walenn . Mr . Henry Cooper . Bro . Charles E . Tinney . Pianoforte . Bro . J . Henry Leipold . Harmony and Counterpoint . Bro . Fountain Meen . Bro . J . Henry Leipold . Mr . F . A . W . Docker . ur , p , . -yy . Docker . Mr . George Hooper , A . R . A . M . Miss Maude Gurson . Violoncello . Miss Maggie Wilks . Mr . Edmund Woolhouse . Mr . E . J . Paddi . Organ . Mr . F . A . W . Docker . Elocution . Trumpet and Cornet . Miss Ada Giles . Bro . John Solomons . Miss Helen Steven . For all Particulars and Prospectus , apply to the Secretary , NEW BARNET SCHOOL OP MUSIC . THE NEW BARNET SCHOOL OF MUSIC will be happy to provide high class entertainments and Ceremonial Music for Masonic Meetings , Consecrations , Installations and Ladies' Nights . For terms : —Bro . John Probert , Station Road , New Bamet , N .

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OLD Books and Curiosities relating to Freemasonry , Knights Templars , Rosicrucians or other Secret Societies wanted . Address , W . W . Morgan , New Barnet . BOOKBINDING in all its branches . Price list on application . Morgan , Fleet Works , Bulwer Eoad , New Bamefc .

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PHOTOGRAPHY. S.HOCKETT&Co., PhotographicPrinters, POTTEES ROAD , NEW BARNET . NEGATIVES sent to us by Parcels Post , securely packed , receive prompt attention , and Prints in SILVKB , PLATINOTYPE , P . O . P ., giving best obtainable results , forwarded without delay . Wo are also pleased to answer inquiries , and give information and advice , for which our large experience fully qualifies us . Price Lists on application .

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HOTELS,ETC. TJ 1 ALING—Feathers Hotel . EASTBOURNE—Pier Hotel , Cavendish Place . View of Sea and Pier . A . TAYLOR , Proprietor . EAST MOLESEY—Castle Hotel , Hampton Court Station . Specimen Menus , with Tariff , on application . JOHN MAYO , Proprietor . HAVERFORDWEST—Queen ' s Family and Commercial Hotel . BEN . M . DAVIES , Proprietor . EICHMOND—Station Hotel , adjoins Railway Station . Every accommodation for Large or Small Parties . SANDWICH—BELL Family and Commercial Hotel . Good Stabling . J . J . -FILMER , Proprietor . COWE S ( WEST)—Gloucester and Globe Hotels . G . A . MURSELL , Proprietor .

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COLLECTOR , AGENT or TRAVELLER in Dublin ( City and County ) or all Ireland . A Gentleman , middle-aged , of active business habits , is open to an _ engagement whole or part time . Has travelled in Ireland . Is well up in ' office work , but is giving up office work altogether . Is active and reliableT Terms easily arranged . Advertiser is a Mason of many years standing , and is an Officer of an Irish Lodge . Further particular , with pleasure , on application to W . M ., care of Miss Lettie Hoey , 56 South Richmond Street , Dublin .

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CHURCH SERVICE .

THE Rev . J . M . Guilding having been recently appointed Worshipful Master of the Greyfriars Lodge , No . 1101 , the members decided to attend Divine Worship at St . Lawrence ' s

Church , Reading , on the 6 th ult ., and afterwards formed part of a large congregation in the church . The Brethren of the Lodge , who were joined by several Masons from other Lodges , assembled in the Small Town Hall .

The lessons were read by Dr . W . J . Maurice , Churchwarden , and W . M .-elect of the Union Lodge . The Rev . J . M . Guilding took his text from I John 5 , " God is light , and in him is no darkness at all . " The Rev . Brother

said he had prefaced his remarks to them by a collect from St . John the Evangelist , in which was a prayer for divine light and divine guidance , an aspiration which was never absent from their Masonic assemblies . He had also chosen his text from the same

Evangelist , and there were special reasons which rendered such a selection appropriate . Their English Lodges had ever cherished the tradition that when the temple of Jerusalem was destroyed by the Roman armies , and the Lodges of Palestine were broken up , their dispersed Brethren in that sore extremity applied to St . John

the Baptist , then Bishop of Ephesus , and in spite of his advanced age , prevailed on him , who was a Mason from his youth , to take the office of Grand Master of the Order . Be that as it may , it became a custom in all christian countries , and was the practice in our own land up to the year 1813 , that their Lodges should be

dedicated to St . John the Evangelist conjointly with St . John the Baptist , both serving as bright examples of those virtues which they as Masons were taught to reverence and to practise . This

great luminary of their Order , and this exalted son of the Church was often styled the Apostle of Love . He thought that he might be more fitly described as the Apostle of Light and Truth , for St . John was pre-eminently the divine to whom was revealed the