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Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.

ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS .

THE half yearly election took place on Thursday , when fifteen girls were admitted to the benefits of the Institution . The list of those successful is given in our advertisement column , the unsuccessful , and the number of votes polled on

behalf of each , were as follow : Votes : No . Name . Forward . Polled . Total . 11 Meade , Dorothy Helena — 3229 3229 18 Leftwich , Doris Elizabeth — 1206 1206

19 Brown , Annie — 430 430 1 Lerpiniere , Lilian Irene 104 209 313 21 Powell , Helen Sothern — 168 168 3 Hodgkinson , Clarice Lillian ^ 3 2 S 5 ^ 10 Edwards , Mary Coslett — 10 10

THIS Chapter , attached to the Ambleside Lodge , was consecrated at the Queen ' s' Hotel , Ambleside , on Friday ,

29 th ult . The Consecrating Officer was Comp . Col . Sewell Prov . G . Superintendent Cumberland and Westmorland and the principal Officers installed on the occasion were Comps . T . A . Argles , K . J . Nelson , and Thomas Taylor .

The Middlesex Hospital Lodge has been founded in connection with Middlesex Hospital , and its Consecration will take place on Tuesday , 7 th May . The Officers named in the Warrant are Bros . T . J . A . Burns , M . R . C . S . Eng ., as Worshipful Master ; W . Duncan , M . D . Brux ., F . R . C . S . Eng .,

as Senior Warden ; and F . J . Wethered , M . D ., F . R . C . P . Lond ., as Junior Warden . Bro . Henry Morris , F . R . C . S . Eng ., will , it is understood , be the Treasurer . This is the third Lodge that has , within recent years , been founded in connection with the great London hospitals , the other two

being the Rahere Lodge , associated with St . Bartholomew ' s , and the Sancta Maria Lodge , with St . Mary ' s . The Middlesex Hospital Lodge starts under good auspices and will ,

we trust , prove as successful as have the Rahere and 'the Sancta Maria Lodges . Particulars concerning the new Lodge can be obtained from the Secretary , Bro . F . Clare Melhado , Middlesex Hospital , W .

The petitioners for a Warrant for the " Polytechnic " Lodge have been informed that their request has been granted , the number assigned to the new Lodge being 2847 . Further particulars may be had of Bro . A . G . Lee , 14 Ingham Road , West Hampstead .

An amusine and perfectly true story comes from Tientsin . The Masonic Hall was very much damaged by shells last summer , and after the bombardment was over it was occupied by Japanese troops . It appears that in the . third degree in Masonry a skull and cross-bones are

employed ; and these horrifying properties were in a chest in the Hall , with a pall . The Japanese soldiers found them , and knowing nothing of Masonic secrets or ceremonies , came to the conclusion that they were the ghastly evidence of a murder , which they duly reported to their colonels , who

ordered the relics to be reverently buried . This was done , and now the Freemasons of Tientsin , who have recovered and repaired their Hall , cannot find where their precious properties were deposited , and have to do the best they can with the cast-off skeleton of a Boxer . — " Edinburgh Evening Dispatch . "

Wansfell Chapter , No . 2745 .

The Ministry And The Lodge.

THE MINISTRY AND THE LODGE .

THE following timely sermon was preached by Rev . Sir Morgan A . Peters , of East Mauch Chunk , Pa ., and will be found well worthy of careful perusal : In the twenty-fifth chapter of the Book of Proverbs ,

and in the ninth verse , we read thus : Discover not a secret one to another . From these words it appears to me that a minister , as well as anyone else , is included in the passage , and that there is nothing in it that will prevent him from belonging to a Secret Order . A minister ' s relation to a

m Secret Order is such that as long as he belongs to none and knows of nothing of their workings , he can only , as a minister of the Gospel , have the same regard for the Order as he may have for the best members of the Urder with which he may come in contact . For the simple reason that I feel it is our

bounden duty to judge impartially of such Orders , and knowing that there are good men at the head of these Orders , men who are true to the Protestant faith , men who uphold the Church in all her details , I feel it is also the duty of the clergy to do likewise .

It seems that in all periods of the world there were people too much disposed not only to tell all they knew , but even more . A physiological suggestion is that we have but one tongue and two ears , thus giving us to understand that we ought to hear twice as much as we ought to tell . By

the power of a secret divulged , churches , families , neighbours , nations fly apart . By the power of a secret kept , great charities , socialities , reformatory movements and Christian enterprise may be advanced . Men are gregarious ; cattle in herds , fish in schools , birds in flocks , men in social circles .

You may discharge a gun and thus scatter a flock of quail , but they will gather themselves together again . If you . by some new power could break the associations in which men

now stand , they would again adhere . God meant it so . He has gathered all the flowers ana shrubs into associations . Plants love company . You will find them talking to each other in the dew .

Y ou sometimes see a man with no outbreathings of sympathy . His nature is cold and hard , like a ship ' s mast , ice-glazed , which the most agile sailor could never climb . Others have a thousand roots and a thousand branches . Innumerable tendrils climb their hearts and blossom all the

way up , and the fowls of heaven sing in the branches . In consequence of this tendency we find men coming together in tribes , in communities , in churches , in societies . Dare we cry out against it ? If we do , we cry out against a tendency

divinely implanted . Our relation to Secret Orders is such that if we condemn them and preach long sermons against them it will do just as much good as if we would preach a long sermon to a busy ant-hill concerning Secret Orders .

The oft-discussed question whether associations that do their work with closed doors and admit their members by passwords and greet each other with a secret grip are right or wrong . I answer that it depends entirely on the nature of the object for which they meet . Is it to pass the

hour in revelry , wassail , blasphemy and obscene talk , or to plot trouble to the State , or to debauch the innocent , then I say , with an emphasis no man can mistake , they are wrong But is the object the defence of the rights of any class against oppression , the improvement of the mind , the

advancement of art , the defence of the Government , the extirpation of crime , or the kindling of a pure-hearted sociability , then I say , with just as much emphasis , they are right ! As a general of an army knows well the intentions of his army , so the Protestant minister ought to know the

intentions and the workings of Secret Orders , and he , like the general , can only know these secrets by belonging to the Order . Let us look upon the greatest enemies we have ; are they in the Secret Orders ? No , they are nearly all strictly Protestant and American , and for this very reason I feel our relation to Secret Orders to be very near and dear .

Our Roman Catholic enemies who call us heretics because we do not fall at the feet of their Roman bull , Pope Leo XIII , are fearfully opposing our Secret Orders in America ; they know that these Orders are opposing them both religiously as well as politically . In the halls of these Secret

Orders the Roman Catholics are barred out , and they are bold in their assertions when they say that they desire to boycott every member of the Secret Orders in this heretical nation who will not vote for candidates of their faithg nor in any way support their Church ,