Consecration Of The Corinthian Lodge. No. 2350.

newly-inatnlled Master inveated the following brethren aa hia Officera : —Bros . S . Moasop J . W ., J . M . Aahurat P . M . 178 Dir . of Cers ., James Eothwell Treasnrer , W . L . Rothwell Secretary , R . Christopher S . D ., J . Laithwaite J . D ., R . Eothwell I . G ., D . Dove and W . Tlibbert Stewards , J . Ashmore Tyler . The investiture of Bro . T . Brayton S . W . designate waa unavoidably poatponed , owing to hia illness . The

brethren , to the number of fifty , afterwards dined together at the Bird-i' -th' -Hand Hotel , whero the regular meetings of tho Lodge will be held , on tho first Thursday in each month . The catering waa entrusted to Meaars . Gait and Capper , and the manner in which they carried out their duties refleota very great credit upon those gentlemen and fcheir efficient staff .

Royal Arch.

ROYAL ARCH .

— : o : — ST . HELEN'S CHAPTER , No . 531 . A CONVOCATION was held at the Masonio Hall , Regont-square , Hartlepool , on the 12 th inst ., when Comps . F . Hookaday H ., J . Newby Taylor J ., and Ed . Nixey S . E ., were installed Z ., H ., and J . respectively . Tha following were also invested . —Comps . T . J . Johnson Treasurer , W . Shaw S . E ., W . Belk S . N ., H . Kirby P . S .,

Arthur Hardy A . S ., H . Belk A . S ., and W . W . Humphries Janitor . Among the visitors present were Comps . H . Lamb J . 764 , G . Carter P . Z . 764 , H . B . Olsen Z . 764 , and H . Bauman P . Z . 764 . After the ceremony the Companions adjourned to the King ' s Head , where a samptuona banquet was proviced by Mr . Butterwick .

UNITY CHAPTER , No . 580 . THE installation of Principals and investiture of Officers took place on Tuesday , the 11 th inst ., in the Chapter-room at the Wheat Sheaf Hotel , Ormskirk . The Installing Principal Companion was Hugh Williams , assisted by Comp . John Pemberton . The following were installed as Principals for the ensuing twelve months : —Comps . J . Orritt Z ., R . Walker II . ( both re-elected ) ,

and J . W . Mason J . The Officers were invested by the Z . ( Comp . J . Orritt ) , as follows : —Comps . A . J . Brooks S . E ., Newsbam S . N ., P . Draper Treasurer , R . Winrow P . S ., F . F . Young Assistant S ., G . Lea Second S ., W . Martindale Janitor . The Companions afterwards partook of tea together .

ST . WOOLO'S CHAPTER , No . 683 .

THE annual meeting of this Chapter was hold at the Masonic Hall , Newport , on Thursday , tho 13 th inst ., when there waa au unusually large assemblage of Companions . After disposing of the preliminary business , four candidates were exalted to the sublime degree of Royal Arch Masons . The imposing ceremony of

installing the three Principals for the ensuing year into their respective chairs of office was then proceeded with , the installation being performed in a perfect manner by tho Past Principal Comp . E . W . Evans , to the great ; gratification of all tho Companions . The members thus installed wero Comps . Alfred Taylor Z ., T . J . Jones II .,

and Walter J . Dix J . Subseqnently the Companions mot at the Westgate Hotel , whero forty-five members sat down to a sumptuous banquet , splendidly laid by Comp . Dean . The usual toast list was gone throngh , interspersed with music and songs , and a most harmonious evening was enjoyed .

Star Chapter of Instruction , No . 1275 . — On the 14 th inst ., nt the Stirling Castle , Camberwell . Comps . G . L . Moore M . E . Z ., G . Powell H ., Jackson J ., C . H . Stone S . E ., Patrick S . N ., Grummant P . S ., F . Hilton Preceptor . Chapter opened by Principals and Past Principals . A Conclave of 3 rd Principals was formed , and Comp . Jackson was installed into the 3 rd chair by Comp . Moore .

Tbe Conclave was olosed and the Companions admitted . There . were also present Comps . R . Davis , Vincent , and Jno . Darwin Smith . The following were elected membora : —Comps . Price , Charles James Smith and Ball . Comp . Powell waa elected M . E . Z . for the next Friday , when fche installation ceremony will be worked , afc 7 " 30 p . m . Letters of aympathy were sent to Comps . Murche and Godwin .

Why The Masonic Fraternity Should Not Celebrate Saints' Days.

WHY THE MASONIC FRATERNITY SHOULD NOT CELEBRATE SAINTS' DAYS .

To tlie Editor of the Masonic Constellation . BRO . RIG ' KAUT , —Solomon said , that "To everything thoro ia a season and a time . " I agree with tho above idea , and will add to tho topics enumerated by Solomon , that thero ia a time when a man may brag up hia religion to the skios , but there aro also times when ho may not do so . Thus , in his church and in his sectarian paper ,

ho may declare that only he and thoso who believe like hiin will go to heaven , and all who differ from hia religious belief will yo to a hoi place . He may do so in his own honse , providing , however , that tho servant whose services ho wishes to retain is of hia religions denomination . Otherwise , oven in his own house , he must do hia religions bragging with closed doors and in a low whisper .

Masonry was designed to unite tho good and true of all denominations into a brotherhood , " or , as Anderson said , " to cultivate true and sincere friendship among those who might otherwise havo remained at a perpetual distance . " And true and sincere friendship ia simply impossible if one of the parties is found to bo insincere and untrue . Anderson further says , that "No private piquea or quarrela about nations , families , religions , or politics , must bo brought

Why The Masonic Fraternity Should Not Celebrate Saints' Days.

within the door of tho Lodge ; for , aa Masons , we are * * * of all religions . " Now , I confess , that politics are never alluded to in a Lodge . I never heard any one intimate in a Lodge a preference to free trade or protection . Even in tho days of the anti-slavery excitement thafc subject waa never alluded to in a Masonio Lodge , or in Masonio papers , and the same rule should be strictly observed

in Masonic gatherings about religion . But ia it BO ? Yon initiate Jews into Masonry ; yon promise them , on the word and honour of a gentleman and Mason , fchafc they should onjoy all Masonic pnVilo ;? es without violating their conscience . But after their initiation they find that they are obliged to join in Christian prayers , to venerate Christian aaints , to talk about the " Lion of fcho Tribe of Judah , "

and to listen to other allusions offensive to their religions belief . In short , Christian Masons behave towards Jews in a Masonio Lodge with a kind of rudeness which they would not dare to do in presence of their servants in their own houses . A Jewish Mason informed me that the Chaplain of his Lodgo said to him that he did not see how a Jew could consistently be a Mason .

I told my informant that the Chaplain was right ; a consistent Jew should not bo a Mason , thafc is , as Masonry ia practised in American Lodges . But on the other hand , said I , Christians aro bound to speak the trnth , and to keep their promises . I cannot seo how a consistent Christian can be Master of an American Lodgo who , when initiating a Jew , haa to promise him on the word and honour

of a gentleman , & c , that the Jew should enjoy all Masonic privileges without having to violate his conscience , when he knows full well that the promise is a mere fraud . Iu tho year 1723 , in the Masons' Constitutions , it was ordained that the two Saint John Days should be held as Masonio Festivala ; but the law waa never meant to be an irrevocable law , in fact , the

Grand Lodge of England observed those days very seldom even be . fore 1738 , for Anderson said , in his 1738 Constitutions , that the said law depended on the convenience of the Grand Master ; and he added that " the good of the Craft is more to be regarded than days . " In fact , the Grand Lodge of England very rarely held its meetings on Saints' Days , and after 1813 the names of the Saints John

were removed from the Grand Lodge of England ' s Constitutions , and expunged from the English Masonic Ritual . Lasfc week a Brother called my attention , in the Boston Masonio Temple , to a letter of Bro . Daniel F . Bell , in No . 2 of the Masonic Constellation , giving his reasons why Masona observe St . John the

Baptist ' s Day . He saya , " Ifc is scarcely necessary fco mention the day of the birth of John the Baptist , " thua implying that every body knows that the Saint waa born on the 24 th of June , and then goes on to say : — " In the firsfc place , St . John was a pure , good man , loving truth , and despising hypocrisy and deceit . "

"In the second place , he was the promoter and lover of our Order and ita principles . He was recognised in the ceremonies and symbols of our Order , and in the teachings thereof , that whioh was in accordance with the great truths he proclaimed . He saw tho aim of onr teachings , and became the patron of our Order . " The reasons Bro . Bell gives for Masons to observe the Baptist ' s

Day may be thua briefly summed up , that 1 st , because tho Baptist waa born on the 24 th Juno ; 2 nd , because he was a prophet , and predicted the coming of Jesus Christ ; and 3 rd , because the Baptist was a Brother Mason , and loved our Order , & c . Now , wifch all due respect to Bro . Boll , I beg to assure him that his first , as well as his last reason , is simply fallacious ; for no ono knows

on what day the Baptist was born , and every well informed Mason is perfectly satisfied that no such an Order as our Freemasonry existed in the days of the Baptist , and consequently he could not havo been a Brother Mason . I would advise Bro . Bell , before ho undertakes fco write again about Freemasonry , to road the worka of Sfceiubrenner , Findel , Lyon , Gould and Hughan . With regard to his reason

that St . John was a prophet , who prophesied the coming of Christ , and whose own birth was prophesied by fche old Hebrew prophets , tbat reason would be very good for Masons to keep St . John ' s Day , if Masonry had been confined exclusively to believers in Christianity . But snch is not the case . The Jewish Masona do not believe in St . John ' s prophesy , or in Christ ' s mission , and we have Gentile

Masons who do not believe that the Evangelists , whose names head the several Gospels , wore the authors of those books , and these brethren say that they do not know whafc Sfc . John did say and whafc he did not say , and taking further into consideration that it is now a well known fact that the invention of tho

Masonic St . John ' s legends are purely pious Christian frauds , I think , therefore , that justice , as well as prudence , should iuduce our American Masons to imitate the action and example of the Graud Lodge of England , by expunging from their ritual and Constitutions all allusions to tho Ss ' nts John . Eespectfully and fraternally yours , Boston , I 7 fch Fob . 1890 . JACOU NOKXON .

Lord Brooke , Provincial Grand Master Essex , has intimated thafc he will go to Chelmsford , on tho 3 rd of April , to take part in the celebration of tho Centenary of the Lodge of Good Fellowship , No . 276 .

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