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SURREY . $ ) rob . ( 6 . | . ' obge of Jfret nnb Jttepfeb 'Masons . THE E . W . BRO . GEN . STUDHOLME BROWURIGG , C . B . PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER . A PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE will be held at the OATLANDS PARK HOTEL , WALTON on THAMES , SURREY , on Thursday , the 28 th June 1883 , at 1 . 30 p . m . precisely . By command , CHARLES GREEN-WOOD jun . P . M . P . P . G . R . Prov . Grand Secretary . N . B . —Morning dress . 61 Nelson-square , Blackfriars-road , S . E . 9 th June 1883 . The Banquet will take place at -1 o ' clock . For tickets apply to the W . Bro . Dr . G . B . BRODIB P . M . P . P . S . G . W . Surrey , 3 Chesterfield Street , Mayfair , W . ( enclosing 15 s ) . Dinner will be provided for those only who have taken Tickets , and no Tickets will be issued after 25 th June . A Sermon will be preached by the P . G . Chaplain , at St . Mary ' s Church , Oatlands , at 2 . 45 p . m . Brethren not to appear in Masonic cosfcumo at Divine Service . Down Trains from Waterloo 12 . 15 and 1 . 35 . TJp Trains from Woking 11 . 47 . changing at Wevbridge 12 . 23 , Walton 12 . 29 .

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PROYINCEOFMIDDLESEX. R . W . COI . SIR FRANCIS BURDETT , BART . PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER . A PROVINCIAL Grand Lodge will be held in the New Rooms , Mitre Hotel , Hampton Court , on Saturday , 30 th Juno , at 2 . 30 p . m . precisely . By command of the Prov . G . Master , H . C . LEVANDER , P . G . D . Provincial Grand Secretary . 6 th June 1883 .

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CITY ARMS TAVERN , ST . MARY AXE , E . C . WORSHIPFUL MASTERS and BRETHREN are invited to inspect the commodious and most suitable Lodge and Banquet rooms , to be let for Lodge and other public meeting , at this central and well appointed Tavern . MANAGER—BROTHER D . M . SHERWILT , , No . ( 813 ) , Late of Guildhall Tavern , Gresham Street .

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BEIXTOlSr , S . W . SAIES or FimirtTtmE BY AUCTION BT MR . JAMES STEVENS . ¦ Monday , 18 th June 1883 , at 8 MARLBOROUGH TERRACE , SHAKESPEARE ROAD ( between tho Loughborough Junction and Heme Hill Railway Stations ) , at 1 for 2 o'clock precisely . Usual bed chamber appointments , walnut drawing room suite , glasses , pianoforte , engravings , books and miscellaneous effects . Wednesday , 20 th June 1883 , at » yA BURTON ROAD ( near tbe " White Horse , " Brixton Road ) , at \\ j 12 for 1 o'clock precisely . Brass and other bedsteads and bedding , winged wardrobe , and bedroom appointments , walnut drawing room suite , cabinet , pianoforte by Scoteher , glas s es , ornaments , clocks , fine engravings , plated goods , bookcase , and general effects . On view prior to sales . Catalogues will be forwarded on application to the Auctioneer , Mr . James Stevens The Clapham Auction and Estate Agency ( Established 1856 ) , 88 High Street , Clapham , S . W .

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FIRE AT FREEMASONS' HALL ! LARGE photographs of the Temple , taken immediately after the fire , on 1 th May ( suitable for framin ?) , 5 s each ; or framed in oak , securely packed , sent to any address in the United Kingdom , carriage paid , on receipt of cheque for 15 s . Masters of Lodges should secure this memorial of the old Temple for their Lodgo rooms . W . G . PAB . KEB , Photographer , 40 High Holborn , "W . C . . Established 25 years .

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BHO . R . HIRST engages to provide , at short notice , an efficient Band for Annual Banquets , Dinners , Excursions and Quadrille Parties . ^ or terms apply to "R . Hirst , The Three Crowns , 237 Mile End Road , E . "

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— : o : — PROVINCIAL GRAND CHAPTER OF SURREY . THE Companions of the Royal Arch Degree assembled in considerable force on Satnrday last , at the Siin Hotel , Kingston-on-ThameB , for the double purpose of transacting the business consequent upon the Annnal Meeting of their Provincial Grand Chapter , find to assist in the consecration of a new Chapter , which will raise the total on the roll of tho Province to nine . The Grand Superintendent , the Right Worshipfnl Comp . J . Stndholme Brownrigg , C . B .,

P . G . W ., presided , and he was supported by the Rev . C . VV . Arnold , M . A ., P . G . C ., who filled tbe chair of H ., and the Rev . J . Studholme Brownrigg , P . G . C ., who officiated as J . Amongst those who attended were Companions C . Greenwood P . G . D . of Cer . Prov . Grand Scribe E ., Magnns Ohren P . G . A . D . C . Prov . Grand J ., H . J . P . Dumas P . G . D ., Charles Greenwood jnn . Provincial Grand Secretary Surrey ,

Leigh-Bennett Prov . 1 st Assistant Sojourner , H . E . Frances Prov . 2 nd Assistant Sojourner , F . A . Manning Prov . Director of Ceremonies , Comps . Vincent , Boucher , W . W . Morgan , & o . & c . After Provincial Grand Chapter had been formally opened , the consecration of the new Chapter , the Ewell , No . 1851 , was proceeded with , the Grand Superintendent , Right Worshipful Companion General Brownrigg

officiating as Consecrating Officer , assisted by the Revs . C . W . Arnold and J . Stndholme Brownrigg . After the presiding Officer had addressed the Companions on the nature of the meeting , the acting Scribe E . explained the steps that had been taken by those interested in the formation of the Chapter . The Conseorating Officer having

signified his approval , gave the necessary directions that the ceremony should proceed , and the petition and charter were formally read . After iDqniry had been dnly made , and assent given that the Principals named in the charter were still approved , the acting J . was called on for an oration , which was delivered in the following terms :

COMPANIONS , —Masonry is a progressive science , and it is , therefore , a matter of extreme importance when any Lodge has so far proved its past efficiency as to entitle it to a Royal Arch Chapter . It i 3 , I think , quite right and proper that the Provincial Grand Superintendent should not recommend , and that Grand Chapter should not grant a Warrant , unless there is the evidence of at least three yeara '

good work ; that there is such a capacity of progress as to entitle the Lodge to further opportunities of searching into tbe great science of Masonry . And this , Companions , brings mo to the single point upon which I desire to claim your attention for a very few minutes to-day . What is progress ? Literally , the word means " agoing forward ;" a going forward to something better and a something higher ; a

disinclination to rest satisfied with anything that is imperfect or incomplete ; a desire to remove all that is evil . And is such , Companions , our aim ? I think that , both in Masonry and in the world , we should remember that i hero is nothing so despicable as the man who does no good . Life is active , not passive . Unless , more or les 3 , you are , in some measure , of practical utility to your fellow men , yon are a

contradiction to all that is grand , or noble , or holy in . life . But , Companions , I have spoken thus strongly in the encouragement of all legitimate progress , in the pursuit of the great principles of Masonry , in order that I may , with special emphasis , insist upon what I believe to be at all times a very necessary caution . There is a true progress , there is a false progress , or rather there is a hideous phantom which

veils itself tinder tbe fair garb of progress , and wbich is in reality a serious retrogression . Strip the mask from her face , peel off the untemperod mortar from the wall , and what posed as the fair work of progress is in reality only inopportune and ill-considered change . We can change for the worse as well as for the better . I am afraid I am sadly behind the time . It is the fashion to change simply for

the sake of changing ; to think that there can be no progress without destruction ; no improvement of the building without removing the foundations . It was not thus that our ancient brethren wrought . One generation laid the foundations , another reared the fabric , a third beautified it , and so the structure grew to be the thing of beauty and . of art which we find it , because our ancient brethren knew that

progress did not mean change of fundamental principles ; but rather an orderly , but at the same time a living and energetic advancement in the steps which were none the worse because they were thoae of men who had gone before . We talk a great deal abont the landmarks of our Ordpr ; I sometimes think there is a danger lest our much talking shonld make ns careless . It is , I conceive , a duty incumbent upon

every Mason to encourage true progress ; to fight to the bitter eud against all false progress ; to cnt away with unsparing hand all that is evil , to change where change is needful ; bat ever to remember that we dare touch nothing , alter nothing , unless we have some better reason than that restless and discontented spirit of the world

which is ever meddling and marring , bnt never improving ; whioh is hindering all true progress by its anxiety to scrawl its own icleaB upon the plans of tho Master Architect , instead of carrying out what has been laid down and approved by the wisdom and experience of the past . May this Chapter be ever full of life and true progress ; a bulwark against all needless and undesirable change . Tho consecration ceremony was then completed with full ceremonial , and the three Principals duly installed as follows : —Comps ..