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To Correspondents.
WHY—a mystery ? "I am directed by a Provincial Grand Master to enquire ' why * the mystery of Freemasonry—an answer in your next Review will oblige P . G . M . " " Who" can solve this " why ?" HONG KONG . An adjutant may be a very useful scavenger in the East to gobble up unseemly matter , but of what use he can be at the George and Vulture , unless to hiss , cackle and bluster , we know not . A march to Coventry is recommended . BRO . J . C . Smith , W . M . Neptune Lodge , Penang . Masonic communications will he
warmly welcomed . G . P . Such a ladder is not worth the trouble to look , at , much less to ascend . MARATHON . AVe have heard that coals have heen seen at Newcastle , but not that they have been brought from Sumatra . The colour of the gloves is no proof of the employment of the hands . Aureus CURTJB is correct as to a late Grancl Registrar ' s Special pleading in aid of the present but the letter is hardly admissible .
K . T . ( Edin . ) Titus Gates was not a Mason . ANOTHER WIDOW . —In Lloyd ' s phrase the office is not A . 1 . Is it Z . or Anperzan or lower still in the scale ? A thing hatched in such a Nadir can hardly reach any Zenith . Widows beware .
DISCIPLINE AND PRACTICE . T . W . By Art . 31 , p . 70 , an erased Lodge cannot be restored—the article altogether is a mysterious jumble—the council of five must have been in aright " merryemood" to have perfected such an absurdity . B . ( Leamington ) A Blackball is legal in the case in question—the sufferer may congratulate himself on his escape from membership . AN OLD MASON . If a P . M . on the installation of his successor be duly invested , his
rank is permanent . The English Constitution has no Lodge of " Past Masters . " The board of " Installed Masters" is possibly analagous , and a W . M . being duly obligated as an actual , not a spurious Mason , is eligible to attend such board . The rank of a Depute Master who lias also served as Master for a year , is that of P . M . under the G . L . of Scotland .
ARCH MATTERS . Z . Scriptural readings— : first portion , first descent ; second , second descent ; chair por tions on the installation of the respective principal ? . TEMPLARS . A TEMPLAR . We are obliged by the first number , vol . 3 , of tlie Freemasons' Magazine , Boston , U . S ., but with the fear of the G . R . of Scotland before us , we dare not extract even
a wee-bit of the nine chapters . Mercy , if we did , what a clippering would follow . A DURUN KNIGHT is benighted ; the Cross of Christ is not only a regular encampment , but possibly the most regular . That the Duke of Leinster was imposed upon is probableall we can say is that the Marquis , by being therein installed , both received and conferred an honour of which its members are gratefully sensible—the harmlessness of re-making has no other fault than that of inconsistency . A SOUTHAMPTON KNIGHT . —The letter to the "Hants Independent" is merely a little
coquetting with non-Masons , and consequently harmless . BROTHER W . LLOYD . —Too late . THE ASYLUM . THE FESTIVAL IS FIXED FOR THE 19 TH OF JUNE . FLOHEAT ASYLUM
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
To Correspondents.
WHY—a mystery ? "I am directed by a Provincial Grand Master to enquire ' why * the mystery of Freemasonry—an answer in your next Review will oblige P . G . M . " " Who" can solve this " why ?" HONG KONG . An adjutant may be a very useful scavenger in the East to gobble up unseemly matter , but of what use he can be at the George and Vulture , unless to hiss , cackle and bluster , we know not . A march to Coventry is recommended . BRO . J . C . Smith , W . M . Neptune Lodge , Penang . Masonic communications will he
warmly welcomed . G . P . Such a ladder is not worth the trouble to look , at , much less to ascend . MARATHON . AVe have heard that coals have heen seen at Newcastle , but not that they have been brought from Sumatra . The colour of the gloves is no proof of the employment of the hands . Aureus CURTJB is correct as to a late Grancl Registrar ' s Special pleading in aid of the present but the letter is hardly admissible .
K . T . ( Edin . ) Titus Gates was not a Mason . ANOTHER WIDOW . —In Lloyd ' s phrase the office is not A . 1 . Is it Z . or Anperzan or lower still in the scale ? A thing hatched in such a Nadir can hardly reach any Zenith . Widows beware .
DISCIPLINE AND PRACTICE . T . W . By Art . 31 , p . 70 , an erased Lodge cannot be restored—the article altogether is a mysterious jumble—the council of five must have been in aright " merryemood" to have perfected such an absurdity . B . ( Leamington ) A Blackball is legal in the case in question—the sufferer may congratulate himself on his escape from membership . AN OLD MASON . If a P . M . on the installation of his successor be duly invested , his
rank is permanent . The English Constitution has no Lodge of " Past Masters . " The board of " Installed Masters" is possibly analagous , and a W . M . being duly obligated as an actual , not a spurious Mason , is eligible to attend such board . The rank of a Depute Master who lias also served as Master for a year , is that of P . M . under the G . L . of Scotland .
ARCH MATTERS . Z . Scriptural readings— : first portion , first descent ; second , second descent ; chair por tions on the installation of the respective principal ? . TEMPLARS . A TEMPLAR . We are obliged by the first number , vol . 3 , of tlie Freemasons' Magazine , Boston , U . S ., but with the fear of the G . R . of Scotland before us , we dare not extract even
a wee-bit of the nine chapters . Mercy , if we did , what a clippering would follow . A DURUN KNIGHT is benighted ; the Cross of Christ is not only a regular encampment , but possibly the most regular . That the Duke of Leinster was imposed upon is probableall we can say is that the Marquis , by being therein installed , both received and conferred an honour of which its members are gratefully sensible—the harmlessness of re-making has no other fault than that of inconsistency . A SOUTHAMPTON KNIGHT . —The letter to the "Hants Independent" is merely a little
coquetting with non-Masons , and consequently harmless . BROTHER W . LLOYD . —Too late . THE ASYLUM . THE FESTIVAL IS FIXED FOR THE 19 TH OF JUNE . FLOHEAT ASYLUM