Mark Masonry.

¦ — .-- ¦ — ,. -I — ¦¦¦¦ ¦ - I ¦ — ¦ ' - Samuel Knight - - - Master Overseer . Arthur Subbs ... Senior Overseer . Edgar Home ... Junior Overseer . Eev . Ohas . Westly Groves- - Chaplain . Eev . Samnel Wathen Wigg - Chaplain .

Samuel Cleaver - - - Treasurer . Samuel Arthur Marris - - Registrar . Miles J . Walker - - - Secretary . John Cooper Webb - - Senior Deacon . John Edward Beazeley - - Junior Deacon .

William Boughen - - - Inspector of Works . John Harrison - - - Dir . of Ceremonies . Abraham Woodiwiss - - Assistant ditto . Walter Hugh Goodwin - - Sword Bearer .

John Ellis Whitehead . - Standard Bearer . George Thomas Edmund - - Organist . Reginald Blake Barratt - - Inner Guard . T . Gillot Cbarlosworth - - ^

Frank Samnel Preston - - ( Stewarda . Harry Hodges - - -1 Geo . Maxwell Huntley - - J Benjamin Asher Derrick - - " ) m „ i William Stone - - . J iyiera >

The Lodge was then closed in due form at 5 . 45 p . m . The R . W . P . G . M . afterwards presided at the banquet held in honour of the event .

LOVE AND HONOUR LODGE , No . 94 .

THIS Lodge held their annual meeting at the Masonio Hall , Falmouth , on Thursday evening , the 7 th instant , when Bro . S . Tressider was installed as W . M . by Bro . J . M . Carne . The Worshipful Master appointed and invested Bro . J . M . Carne as the I . P . M ., and his Officers as follow : —Bros . G . T . Olver S . W ., W . Anderson J . W ., G . Carter M . O ., T . E . Grylls S . O ., H . Liddicoat J . O ., Eev . M . J . Sutton

Chap ., W . F . Newman Treasurer , Williams Beg . of Marks , H . Tucker Secretary , J . Martin S . D ., E . C . M . Pooley J . D ., W . J . Carne Org ., W . M . Harrison I . G ., E . J . K Nicholls Steward , J . N . Francis Tyler . The brethren afterwards adjourned to the Royal Hotel , and partook of an excellent repast , provided by Bro . E . Carter .

ELPHIN LODGE , No .. 321 .

THE annual installation took place on the loth inst ., at Carnarvon , Bro . Cornelius Davies being the Installing Officer . Bro . N . Bunnell , who was installed W . M ., nominated as his Officers Bros . J . Poole I . P . M ., Segontium S . W ., C . Eowland J . W ., Rev . W . Morgan M . O ., Edward Eoberts S . O ., E . W . Newton J . O ., C . H . Eees Treas .,

G . Challinor Sec . and E . of M ., Cornelius Davies Dir . of Cer ., J . Williams S . D ., \ V . C . Whisken J . D ., E . G . Humphries I . G ., Owen Evans S ., W . Watkins Tyler . There was a larse attendance of visiting brethren . The banquet was served at the Eoyal Hotel .

Mark Ma-ons in Devonshire will be afforded an opportunity of proving themselves operative as well as " free and accepted Masons " at the laying of the corner stone of the church at Rose Ash , near South Molton , which is

being rebuilt . The Provincial Grand Mark Lodge for Devonshire will meet in tho school-room at Rose Ash in the early part of July . The brethren will then march to the site of the church , and the corner will be laid by the

Masons in memory of the late Colonel Tanner-Davy , for many years the respected P . G . M . M . M . The Masons will also place the keystone in the arch , and the characters peculiar to the degree with the mark of Colonel

Tanner-Davy will be engraved on the stone . This will be the first time in the history of Mark Masonry that such a duty has been performed by the Masonic brethren , and Devonshire ought to feel proud that they have the first opportunity given to them .

The meetings of the Royal Savoy Mark Lodge of Instruction , held at the Moorgate , Finsbury Pavement , have been adjourned until September next .

Royal Veterans Encampment.

ROYAL VETERANS ENCAMPMENT .

A MEETING was held at the Huyshe Masonic Temple , Princesssquare , Plymouth , on the 8 th inst ., when Comp . VV . H . Dillon was installed as Sir Knight . A Provincial Priory of tho Order of St . John of Jerusalem , Palestine , Rhodes , and Malta was afterwards held under the banner of the " Royal Veterans" Encampment and Priory of Malta , for the purpose of conferring the degree of Knight on snch

Sir Knights of tho Order of the Temple as might present themselves after ballot approval . As this was the first Provincial Priory held for twelve years—the last having been held at Exeter—the event was of an interesting character . The V . E . Sir Knight Eev . T . W . Lemon , M . A ., 31 st cleg . Provincial Prior of Devon , occupied the throne , and

was numerously t-upportrn . The Priory being duly former ! , the degree of Knight of St . John of Jerusalem was conferred on Sir Knights J . F . Dupro , J . R . Lord , Henry Stockor . 18 deg ., Francis Crouch , Frank E . Thomas * , W . H . Dillon , and Henry Rogers . The

Knights subsequently adjourned to the Masonic Club , where they sat down to an excellent supper provided by Bro . Symons- , and were joined by Sir Knight T . S . Bavly P . E . P ., E . A . Davies P . E . P ., and W . H . Phillips .

Pleasures Of The Imagination.

PLEASURES OF THE IMAGINATION .

nVTO one better than the Freemason can plume his imagi-Xl nation for a lofty flight , no ono better than he can soar to the azure of the skiey , and there in the midst of the clarity of tho upper air gaze not only far to the east and tho west , the north and the south , but even , sitting at

home in his easy chair can peer into the distant future and the remote past . In the profane world the earth's grovellers—those self-limited creatures who are the prisoners of ignorance , whose minds aro dominated by the . r

bodiesrarely think a noble thought , scarcely raise their eyes , much less their thoughts to heaven , but ever , as it were , dance clog dances on the earth for the delectation of those as ignorant as themselves . They live in a darkness which

may be felt . But the Freemason has been " . brought to light . " His eyes are wide open . His intellectual sight is perfect . His moral insight is clear . He has learned to know himself , to care for his fellows , to love his brethren .

Such a one is gifted with a new sense , a second sight . He sees everything in a new light . He is not " brought up like a rude Macedonian , and taught to call a spade a spade . " To the bricklayer a trowel is but a trowel ; but

what is it to the Freemason ? To the carpenter a square is but a square ; but what is it to him who has been taught the language of the Craft ? To the geometrician the compasses are but the compasses ; but what are they to the

" Son of Light ? " Xerxes offered a reward to any one who would invent a new pleasure . He lived in the fifth century B . C . —why did he not seek initiation in the Ancient Mysteries of the East ? They would have afforded him new

and even regal pleasures , they would have bmished his emmi , they would have taught him the restful joys of Faith , the expectant pleasures of Hope , the present enjoyment of

Charity . They would have revealed to him the only true and living God , and the sublime doctrine of the immortality of the soul .

The Freemasons of to-day are the heirs of the ages . Upon us have descended the intellectual wealth of all our ancestors in the Craft . Their knowledge and their achievements are ours . Morally and intellectually there

are no blind Masons—unless they are wilfully blind , and have closed the eyes of their minds so as to exclude the light of truth . Strength supports the Masonic world ,

Wisdom governs it , Beauty clothes it . Or , if you translate these Masonic powers to the blue canopy of heaven , Wisdom is our Sun , Strength is our Moon , while Beauty in a million forms gems the sky with Stars .

Did it never occur to you that the present moment is the most insignificant point in time ? So puny is it , so quick to vanish away . Yes , but some will say , it is all important to us ! Is it ? Do we really enjoy the present

as much as we may or do , the past or the future ? We believe with Henry Home , that " such is the povver of imagination that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession . "

Now , Freemasons are millionaires , if they only knew it , and proprietors of more " castles in Spain" than the wealthiest Spanish baron . Let us enumerate a few of the Freemason ' s possessions .

First—In the past . We have the noblest of ancestors , whose works survive them , and we are the heirs of their iutellectual wealth . They were the Temple builders of all time . Never was there reared a structure which seemed

the work of the Divine Architect rather than the production of human hands , that Freemasons did not build it . Temple , cathedral and castle are all ours , aud ours the rich inheritance of their glory . Of each of them it may be said , as Emerson wrote of the architect of Sfc . Peter ' s at Rome :

Ihe hand that rounded Peter's dome , And groined the aisles of Christian Rome , Wrought in a sad sincerity ; Himself from God he could not free : He builded better than he knew : — The conscious stone to beauty grew .

Next—in the present . We have the best of personal experiences—intimate association and friendship with the choicest spirits of our time ; instruction ia the loftiest spiritual truths and the highest ; moral duties , siuce we

are taught Faith in God , Hope in Immortality and Charity for our Brethren and all mankind ; and by the symbolism of the Craft we are impressively instructed in

all of the higher knowledge which appertains to Freemasonry . We have our own alphabet , our own teachers , our own object lessons , our own selected band of learners .