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Rightness.
morally good and others morally evil . In order to this judgment nothing is required but a knowledge of the circumstances and motives of the action . Even the atheist cannot avoid the conviction that particular actions are praiseworthy and others deserving blame . " All men ,
therefore , by their conduct , continually recognise this supreme place of the will of Goi > , even where there is a failure to recognise Goi > Himself . 6 . Where there is any belief in GOD , if the believers iu Him arise in their conceptions above mere fetichism , great force is thereby added to the
dictates of conscience . Due consideration of such a Moral Governor impresses upon every one the duty of all rational creatures to conform to His will ; " and as tho idea of GOD grows in clearness , this conviction of rightful subjection to His will , as the supremo rule of conduct increases in fullness and power . "
II . MAN ' S MORAL CONDUCT : Individual , Social and Religious . " In all these conditions of society , and everywhere , and in all ages , cleav evidence exists that man ' s conduct has been referred to tho will of GOD as the supreme rule of right and duty . " a . Belief in GOD and
responsibility to Him . From all history we learn that there has ever been the conviction of the existence of a Superior Superintending Power over the world , and of all created beings , and of their responsibility to that Power , which has ever been represented by a personal Being . " No condition
of society in any age of the world has been able to destroy it from the souls of men . The good have always rejoiced to proclaim it , and those most given to vice have borne witness to virtue and the supreme rule by condemning themselves . " III . FROM CONTRAST WITH UNSATISFACTORY THEORIES .
" The theory that the Will of GOD is the supreme rule of right has the advantage over the other theories , inasmuch as the Will of GOD furnishes a definite , decisive , comprehensive and practical standard of rectitude . " a . Other Theories Fail . They all fail in some one or all of these
respects . First Theory , as to the authority of the State , takes away the very nature of right , because it becomes changeable , dependeut on the judgment and prejudices of the law-makers , and which may be modified , changed , dispensed with or reversed , so that what is right to-day
may be wrong at another time—what is required to be done or not done now may be vice versd at some future day . Second Theory , that the nature of things furnishes the supreme rule , gives a standard so indefinite and incomprehensible as to be an impracticable standard . The
Third Theory " makes lightness depend upon mere human opinion or sentiment , and so removes everything like a decisive standard . It makes right and wrong vary with man ' s education or with his mood . " b . The True Theory
Does Not Fail . " The will of the unchangeable GOD furnishes a definite , decisive standard of right . It will be seen from the revelations made of that will , that it also furnishes a comprehensible and thoroughly practical standard for man ' s guidance . "—Voice of Masonry .
The monthly meeting of the Board of Benevolence was held on Wednesday , at Freemasons' Hall . Bro . Joshua Nunn presided , and Bros . James Brett and Henry Garrod , Assistant Grand Pursuivant , occupied the Senior and Junior Vice-Presidents' chairs . There was a very fair
attendance of brethren . The Board confirmed recommendations made at the August meeting amounting to £ 95 . The new cases on the list numbered nineteen . The localities from which they came were Croydon , Stowmarket , Manchester , Portsmouth , Newfoundland , Ireland
Lostwithiel , Rochdale , Exmouth , Newcastle-on-Tyne , St . Helena , South Shields , Devonport , Leeds , Topsham , Pretoria , and London . Only two were from London . Eig ht were cases of widows . The sitting lasted two hours , and the total amount granted was £ 500 . No case was deferred or dismissed .
The Right Worshipful Brother Sir Walter Wyndham Burrell , Bart ., Provincial Grand Master , has fixed Thursday , the 9 th of October , as the date for the annual meeting of the members of the Province of Sussex . The brethren will assemble at the Royal Pavilion , Brighton , at 2-30
when the customary business of the year will be transacted . A banquet will be provided , but the Stewards give notice that they cannot ensure a scat being allotted at the dinner table to any brother who docs not purchase a ticket for the same before Monday , 6 th October .
Obituary.
Obituary .
IT is our mournful duty this week to chronicle the death of two as worthy brethren as over graced our Order . Bro . George Penn , Grand Steward , P . M . 1642 , P . Z . 1642 , & c , aud Bro . W . H . Wallington P . M . 860 , have both passed away during the last few days .
Bro . George Penn died at his residence , Castle Bar , Ealing , on Saturday , 13 th inst ., after an illness of three months . He was initiated into Freemasonry on the 6 th May 1874 , in the Zetland Lodge , No . 511 . Was a petitioner for , and first S . W . of , the Earl of Carnarvon Lodge ,
No . 1642 , in 1876 , serving the office of W . M . thereof in the following year . He was afterwards elected as Treasurer of the Lodge , and in that position added to his reputation as a really genuine Mason . In 1879 he joined the Peace and Harmony Lodge , No . 60 , and was at the time of his
death Grand Steward of the Grand Lodge of England from that Lodge . He was first Principal and Treasurer of the Earl of Carnarvon Chapter , and may be said to have taken a leading part , both in that and the Lodge to which it is attached . As a supporter of the
Masonic Institutions , Bro . Penn ' s name stands out most prominently . He had served the office of Steward to all the Charities , was a Vice-President of the Boys' School , and Life Governor of the other Institutions . In 1880 he took up the large sum of five hundred guineas as Steward ,
representing the Earl of Carnarvon Lodge at the Festival of the Boys' School , and on that occasion filled the important office of Treasurer of the Board of Stewards . In public life , in the parish where Bro . Penn passed a considerable portion of his clays , be was equally to the fore as in
Freemasonry . He was a member of the Kensington Vestry , aud of the Kensington Trustees of the Poor , also a Commissioner of the Baths and Washhouses of the same parish , aud in many other ways took a leading part in the welfare of the inhabitants of his district . His remains were
interred at Perrivale Church , on Wednesday , in the presence of a large number of relatives and friends . Bro . Penn was highly respected by all who knew him , and will be deeply regretted by the members of the Lodges and Chapter with which he was associated , as well as by others to whom he was known .
Bro . W . H . Wallington , whose death took place on Thursday , the 11 th instant , was best known perhaps in his official position as Preceptor of the Dalhousie Lodge of Instruction , No . 860 , a post he had filled for upwards of ten years , both with credit to himself and benefit to those
whom he instructed . He was initiated in the Dalhousie Lodge , No . 860 , in April 1868 , and rose to the position of W . M . thereof in 1875 , since which time he has been looked upon as one of the most distinguished of the Past Masters of that Lodge , and his absence from future gatherings will
appear the more noticeable from the fact that he was always most regular in his' attendance . His funeral took place on Thursday , at Abney Park Cemetery , when among those brethren who attended to pay the last sad tribute of respect were Bros . Littell ( P . G . P . ) , Weige , Dickens ( Sec ) ,
Bates , Smith P . M . s , Pavitt W . M ., Jenkins , Lamb , Clark , and others , of the Dalhousie Lodge ; Wardell P . M . 95 , Green , T . J . Cusworth P . M . 813 , Dallas P . M ., Bowen , Marsh W . M ., Morgan W . M . 211 , & c , & c . It will be long before any brother will be found to fill the place which
Bro . Wallington has so long occupied as an instructor in the ritual of the three degrees , even if we ever find so jovial , painstaking and persevering a brother as he to succeed him . To the members of both families we respectfully tender our heartfelt sympathy with them in their affliction .
LODGES OP INSTKTJCTION . —Any person can be made a member of the Order by being initiated ; bnt by so doing , he for the most part only learns to know the ceremonies ; but the precise meaning of Freemasonry he mnst learn by being afterwards instructed . In many Lodges these instructions are written out as a commentary ,
and are given to the Lodge from time to time : at these times the W . M . or Lecturer has ample room for explanatory remarks . In other Lodges it is left to the W . M . to instruct the brethren upon Masonic subjects , according to his own views . These instruction 3 must form a principal part of the labours of a Lodgo , and the candi * date should pay great attention to them . Hebrew Leader .
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Rightness.
morally good and others morally evil . In order to this judgment nothing is required but a knowledge of the circumstances and motives of the action . Even the atheist cannot avoid the conviction that particular actions are praiseworthy and others deserving blame . " All men ,
therefore , by their conduct , continually recognise this supreme place of the will of Goi > , even where there is a failure to recognise Goi > Himself . 6 . Where there is any belief in GOD , if the believers iu Him arise in their conceptions above mere fetichism , great force is thereby added to the
dictates of conscience . Due consideration of such a Moral Governor impresses upon every one the duty of all rational creatures to conform to His will ; " and as tho idea of GOD grows in clearness , this conviction of rightful subjection to His will , as the supremo rule of conduct increases in fullness and power . "
II . MAN ' S MORAL CONDUCT : Individual , Social and Religious . " In all these conditions of society , and everywhere , and in all ages , cleav evidence exists that man ' s conduct has been referred to tho will of GOD as the supreme rule of right and duty . " a . Belief in GOD and
responsibility to Him . From all history we learn that there has ever been the conviction of the existence of a Superior Superintending Power over the world , and of all created beings , and of their responsibility to that Power , which has ever been represented by a personal Being . " No condition
of society in any age of the world has been able to destroy it from the souls of men . The good have always rejoiced to proclaim it , and those most given to vice have borne witness to virtue and the supreme rule by condemning themselves . " III . FROM CONTRAST WITH UNSATISFACTORY THEORIES .
" The theory that the Will of GOD is the supreme rule of right has the advantage over the other theories , inasmuch as the Will of GOD furnishes a definite , decisive , comprehensive and practical standard of rectitude . " a . Other Theories Fail . They all fail in some one or all of these
respects . First Theory , as to the authority of the State , takes away the very nature of right , because it becomes changeable , dependeut on the judgment and prejudices of the law-makers , and which may be modified , changed , dispensed with or reversed , so that what is right to-day
may be wrong at another time—what is required to be done or not done now may be vice versd at some future day . Second Theory , that the nature of things furnishes the supreme rule , gives a standard so indefinite and incomprehensible as to be an impracticable standard . The
Third Theory " makes lightness depend upon mere human opinion or sentiment , and so removes everything like a decisive standard . It makes right and wrong vary with man ' s education or with his mood . " b . The True Theory
Does Not Fail . " The will of the unchangeable GOD furnishes a definite , decisive standard of right . It will be seen from the revelations made of that will , that it also furnishes a comprehensible and thoroughly practical standard for man ' s guidance . "—Voice of Masonry .
The monthly meeting of the Board of Benevolence was held on Wednesday , at Freemasons' Hall . Bro . Joshua Nunn presided , and Bros . James Brett and Henry Garrod , Assistant Grand Pursuivant , occupied the Senior and Junior Vice-Presidents' chairs . There was a very fair
attendance of brethren . The Board confirmed recommendations made at the August meeting amounting to £ 95 . The new cases on the list numbered nineteen . The localities from which they came were Croydon , Stowmarket , Manchester , Portsmouth , Newfoundland , Ireland
Lostwithiel , Rochdale , Exmouth , Newcastle-on-Tyne , St . Helena , South Shields , Devonport , Leeds , Topsham , Pretoria , and London . Only two were from London . Eig ht were cases of widows . The sitting lasted two hours , and the total amount granted was £ 500 . No case was deferred or dismissed .
The Right Worshipful Brother Sir Walter Wyndham Burrell , Bart ., Provincial Grand Master , has fixed Thursday , the 9 th of October , as the date for the annual meeting of the members of the Province of Sussex . The brethren will assemble at the Royal Pavilion , Brighton , at 2-30
when the customary business of the year will be transacted . A banquet will be provided , but the Stewards give notice that they cannot ensure a scat being allotted at the dinner table to any brother who docs not purchase a ticket for the same before Monday , 6 th October .
Obituary.
Obituary .
IT is our mournful duty this week to chronicle the death of two as worthy brethren as over graced our Order . Bro . George Penn , Grand Steward , P . M . 1642 , P . Z . 1642 , & c , aud Bro . W . H . Wallington P . M . 860 , have both passed away during the last few days .
Bro . George Penn died at his residence , Castle Bar , Ealing , on Saturday , 13 th inst ., after an illness of three months . He was initiated into Freemasonry on the 6 th May 1874 , in the Zetland Lodge , No . 511 . Was a petitioner for , and first S . W . of , the Earl of Carnarvon Lodge ,
No . 1642 , in 1876 , serving the office of W . M . thereof in the following year . He was afterwards elected as Treasurer of the Lodge , and in that position added to his reputation as a really genuine Mason . In 1879 he joined the Peace and Harmony Lodge , No . 60 , and was at the time of his
death Grand Steward of the Grand Lodge of England from that Lodge . He was first Principal and Treasurer of the Earl of Carnarvon Chapter , and may be said to have taken a leading part , both in that and the Lodge to which it is attached . As a supporter of the
Masonic Institutions , Bro . Penn ' s name stands out most prominently . He had served the office of Steward to all the Charities , was a Vice-President of the Boys' School , and Life Governor of the other Institutions . In 1880 he took up the large sum of five hundred guineas as Steward ,
representing the Earl of Carnarvon Lodge at the Festival of the Boys' School , and on that occasion filled the important office of Treasurer of the Board of Stewards . In public life , in the parish where Bro . Penn passed a considerable portion of his clays , be was equally to the fore as in
Freemasonry . He was a member of the Kensington Vestry , aud of the Kensington Trustees of the Poor , also a Commissioner of the Baths and Washhouses of the same parish , aud in many other ways took a leading part in the welfare of the inhabitants of his district . His remains were
interred at Perrivale Church , on Wednesday , in the presence of a large number of relatives and friends . Bro . Penn was highly respected by all who knew him , and will be deeply regretted by the members of the Lodges and Chapter with which he was associated , as well as by others to whom he was known .
Bro . W . H . Wallington , whose death took place on Thursday , the 11 th instant , was best known perhaps in his official position as Preceptor of the Dalhousie Lodge of Instruction , No . 860 , a post he had filled for upwards of ten years , both with credit to himself and benefit to those
whom he instructed . He was initiated in the Dalhousie Lodge , No . 860 , in April 1868 , and rose to the position of W . M . thereof in 1875 , since which time he has been looked upon as one of the most distinguished of the Past Masters of that Lodge , and his absence from future gatherings will
appear the more noticeable from the fact that he was always most regular in his' attendance . His funeral took place on Thursday , at Abney Park Cemetery , when among those brethren who attended to pay the last sad tribute of respect were Bros . Littell ( P . G . P . ) , Weige , Dickens ( Sec ) ,
Bates , Smith P . M . s , Pavitt W . M ., Jenkins , Lamb , Clark , and others , of the Dalhousie Lodge ; Wardell P . M . 95 , Green , T . J . Cusworth P . M . 813 , Dallas P . M ., Bowen , Marsh W . M ., Morgan W . M . 211 , & c , & c . It will be long before any brother will be found to fill the place which
Bro . Wallington has so long occupied as an instructor in the ritual of the three degrees , even if we ever find so jovial , painstaking and persevering a brother as he to succeed him . To the members of both families we respectfully tender our heartfelt sympathy with them in their affliction .
LODGES OP INSTKTJCTION . —Any person can be made a member of the Order by being initiated ; bnt by so doing , he for the most part only learns to know the ceremonies ; but the precise meaning of Freemasonry he mnst learn by being afterwards instructed . In many Lodges these instructions are written out as a commentary ,
and are given to the Lodge from time to time : at these times the W . M . or Lecturer has ample room for explanatory remarks . In other Lodges it is left to the W . M . to instruct the brethren upon Masonic subjects , according to his own views . These instruction 3 must form a principal part of the labours of a Lodgo , and the candi * date should pay great attention to them . Hebrew Leader .