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SATUBDAY , 11 TH SBPTBIV 1 BBB 1897 .

Devonshire.

DEVONSHIRE .

THE Provincial Grand Master Sir Stafford H . Northcote , Bart ., C . B ., M . P ., has ordered that the annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge be held at the Freemasons' Hall , Princess Square , Plymouth , on Wednesday , the 22 nd inst ., at 3 p . m . The Provincial Grand Master will preside , and a very large attendance of Brethren is expected . There are now

fiftyseven Lodges , and some 3 , 500 members , so that the Province is larger and more prosperous than ever . An excellent report of the installation of the Hon . Sir Stafford Northcote as Provincial Grand Master by Lord Ebrington , ab Exeter , on 12 th August 1896 , is being circulated with the usual summons convening the

ensuing assembly , as well as particulars of the amounts contributed by the Lodges to the Indian Famine Relief Fund . To this special and additional appeal the amount of £ 203 was sent by the Provincial Graud Master to the Lord Mayor of London , and gratefully acknowledged . This includes £ 95

contributed through the medium of the Western District Masonic Association . Various reports will be read , and propositions will be considered , concerning Her Majesty ' s sixty years reign , and matters affecting the Province in particular . The Provincial Grand Lodge Officers for the ensuing year will be appointed

and the Provincial Grand Treasurer elected . Probably also additional appointments to " past rank" will be made , to the number of eight , in commemoration of Her Majesty ' s Diamond Jubilee . The efficient Provincial Grand Secretary is Bro . John Stocker , of St . Thomas , Exeter , says the " Western Morning News . "

Church Service.

CHURCH SERVICE .

ON Sunday , 29 th ult ., the annual service in connection with St . John ' s Lodge , No . 697 ( I . C . ) , Warrenpoint , was held iu the Warrenpoint Parish Church . The service commenced with the singing of the hymn , " With one consent let all the earth . " Evening prayer was said by Bro . Eev . Dr . Naylor , and the lessons were read by Bro . Bev . Dr . Glenny .

At the conclusion of the service , Bro . Eev . T . M . Benson Provincial Grand Chaplain Derry and Donegal , Eector of Ballyrnoney , ascended the pulpit and preached an able and appropriate sermon , selecting as his text Proverbs ix ., 9—" Give instruction to a wise man , and he will be yet wiser . " By the

help of God , he said , they had met in that Christian temple , a band of Brothers , to worship Him who had revealed Himself as the " One God and Father of all "; and like wise men to seek instruction , that they might become wiser . And that they had met , by invitation , in a Christian church , in the full light of day ,

showed that the foolish , ignorant slanders concerning them that once prevailed were no longer credited , but that the tongue of report spoke well of the Brethren of the mystic Craft . But that they were still misunderstood by many could not be denied , and , therefore , he had chosen as a suitable passage on which to address both of them—his Masonic Brothers—and also his

baptised brothers and sisters of the Holy Christian Church , an aphorism of King Solomon , who was both a Grand Master of the Order and an ancestor of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ . Now , many people had many ideas as to Freemasonry . As these

were generally all wrong he wanted the instruction that he was anxious to impart that evening to assume the form of answers to the following questions : —1 . " What Freemasonry is not "; 2 . " What Freemasonry is " ; 3 . " What is the use of Freemasonry in the present day ? "

Freemasonry was emphatically not a benefit society . No Mason could claim as his right in return for the heavy initiation fees , yearly subscriptions , and constant contributions to the charities , any return whatever . And yet their charities were among the finest in the world . As a rule the Masons of England voluntarily subscribed and dispensed for charitable purposes somewhere between £ 70 , 000 and £ 80 , 000 per annum . And here

in Ireland—poor Ireland—their Girls School , of which they were justly proud , fed , clothed , and educated in 1896 one hundred girls , at a cost of £ 2 , 500 ; and their Boys School discharged the like duty for eighty boys , at a cost of £ 2 , 288—in all of which the Province of Down bore its part . But their charities were not by any means the chief reason for their existence . A candidate joined Freemasonry not for what he could get out of it , but to render himself more generally useful to others .

Again , Freemasonry was in no sense a political society . Men of the most opposite views might be found seated together in any Lodge in the country ; and yet he was by no means sure that the Craft did not exert a very deep-seated and far-reaching political influence . The constant association at Lodge and banquet of men of all classes and views on a footing of perfect .

equality , each thus learning to appreciate the good points of each other , tended to awaken an enlightened liberalism ; whilst , on the other hand , their own high antiquity as a society and the respect for old customs , unconsciously inspired by their venerable ceremonies , produced a marked tone of conservative thought and a dislike of change for change sake . The admirable and

persistent , though tentative and deliberate , march of all British reforms—reluctant to forget , but willing to learn—owed probably not a littlle to the widely diffused spirit of Freemasoury . Again , Freemasonry was not a Beligion . It admitted men of all religions , without questioning their truth or admitting their validity . But the candidate must be a believer in God .

Once more , Freemasoury was not a secret society . The Pope said that it was , and nearly every Pope from Clement XII ., in 1737 , onwards , had on that account excommunicated them , although Pope Pius IX . was himself a Freemason . But the Pope had excommunicated the Anglican Church and denied the validity of Anglican orders ; yet nobody paid any attention to

him , nor believed his denial because it was unhistorical and contrary to fact . x \ nd so the Masonic Order , honourable in its principles , benevolent in its purposes , and wishing well to all , smiled amiably at the impotent thunders from the Vatican , and as the party that ought to know denied that it was a secret society . He merely stated a well-known fact when he said that the Jesuits formed the greatest secret society upon earth , and

one most powerful for harm . It therefore ill became the Pope , in one and the same breath , to curse the Craft and bless the followers of Ignatius Loyola . Now , the Freemasons answered to none of the requirements of a secret society . They were known to their neighbours , and there was no rule requiring them to conceal their membership . Their Halls and Lodge Booms were public , and well known , and every Lodge , once a year , sent a complete list of its members to the Clerk of the Peace ,