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To Our Readers.
TO OUR READERS .
l The Freemason is a sixteen-page weekly newspaper , price 2 d . It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important and useful information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Annual subscription in the United Kingdom , Post free , 10 / . Brethren in foreign parts , wishing to have this newspaper sent them regularly from thc oflice of publication , should , in sending their remittances , add to the 2 d . per week the postage on 20 z . newspapers .
To Advertisers.
TO ADVERTISERS .
The Freemason has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe , its advantages as an advertising medium can therefore scarcely be overrated . For terms , position , & c , apply to GEORGE KENNING , 198 , Fleet-st .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
All Communications , Advertisements , & c ., intended for insertion in the Number of the following Saturday , must reach the Office not later than 12 o ' clock on Wednesday morning . M . DAVIS . —Thc question is quite inadmissible .
EGERTON , 1392—Yes . The following stand over : — " The Order cf the Temple ; " Tudor Trevor ; VV . P . Buchan ; W . M . Dunbar Castle , 75 ; Report of Chaucer Lodge , 1540 ; and several Scotch Lodge reports .
BOOKS , ecc , RECEIVED . " Evening * Hours , " edited by Lady Barker ; " The Garden "; " Our Laws and our Poor , " F . Peek ; " East Anglian Hand Book , " "All the World Over" No . 11 , Cook & Son ; "Boletiono Officiale del Grande Oriente Nazionale Egiziano ; " The Craftsman ; " The Provincial Grand Lodge of Ohio ; " » ' The Colonist , " " The Belgian News . "
REMITTANCES RECEIVED . £ s- *!• Bailey , F . A ., Australia ( P . O . O . ) 1 1 4 Bate , O . H ., Thc Cape ( P . O . O . ) 023 Beg , Rev . Dr ., N . S . W . ( P . O . O . ) 1 2 o Borg * , R ., Egypt ( Stamps ) 076 Crossley , J ., Thc Cape ( P . O . O . ) 1 8 6
Dorrell , W „ Hasskien ( P . O . O . ) 0106 Hall , J . ; Smyrna ( Stamps ) 098 Jcvon , H ., Egypt ( Stamps ) 060 Monaghan , W . M . St . Thomas ' s Mount ( B . ofE . ) 25 ° Peake , H . H ., Ballarat ( P . O . O . ) 1 o o
Petty , G ., Cadiz ( Cash ) o 10 8 Toby , C , Tasmania ( Draft ) 300 Trelcase , Corsica ( Cash ) 090 Tyndall , P ., Malta ( Stamps ) 050 Warmington , H . W ., Punjab ( Draft ) 3 7 4 / itman , Thomas , Demerara ( Cash ) 100
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The Freemason , SATURDAY , ] AK . I , 1876 .
Our Royal Grand Master's Visit To India.
OUR ROYAL GRAND MASTER'S VISIT TO INDIA .
Our Royal Grand Master has reached Calcutta , where his reception has been most enthusiastic . There have been several State Ceremonies , and a grand assembly of Indian Princes , to which we shall recur in our next . Our Royal Grand Master is quite well , and has won all hearts . We shall treat the subject more full y in our next .
The New Year.
THE NEW YEAR .
Tlie flight of time has ever exercized , so to say , much and deeply the poet and preacher , the thoughtful and the sage . The stern and often unpalatable truth to man—of Time ' s rapid decay , " its effacing fingers , " and its inevitable and often premature ending , have appealed to the
feelings and conscious perception of all mortal generations . Time is like a flowing river which we think will run parallel to our course or road , and yet a sudden bend hides it from our view and we go on our way and behold it no more For whatever may be our actual views of life per
se , whether pleasant or mournful , whether philosophical or paradoxical , we cannot deny this in controvertable truth , that Time is often of very short duration for us and ours , that it often ceases for us at a moment when we least expect its departure , and even when all is summed up , when we have seen the best of it , when we have
enjoyed its fleeting hours to the full , it bids us farewell , and seems to us , whether in its longest retrospect or in its often hasty flight , simply like a " tale that is told . " How short after all do the hours of our little , if even longish life , appear to us to-day . It seems but yesterday that we were beginning the iournev of time . Blithe
The New Year.
comrades were at our sides , we were marching on , a goodly and a stalwart band , the way wac pleasant and refreshing , we were traversing flowery meads and the "woodland green- " no clouds were on our path , all was full of hope
and of contentment ! Life has run on , years have sped away , and we hardly can realize that here we are to-day , moving on with halting steps to our journey ' s close , weak and weary , footsore and dispirited ! We hardly can believe actually the lapse of years and the flight of time !
Whyit was only yesterday , we feel disposed to say , that this and that happened to us here and there , that ours was the pleasant friendship , ours was ^ the endearing re-union , that for us this world was full of happiness , and life had many charms . And yet here has January whitened into
December , and the wintry sky has covered the scene with its dimmer and its duller rays . How quickly old time has ' passed , how rapidly its days , and seasons , and scenes have vanished away , leaving us only the illusion of memory , or the dream of fond regrets , those ghosts and shadows
of olden hours , which serve only to remind us of what once has been , but never , never can be more for us poor sojourners for a little season here below . Youth and hope , and health an d happiness , and pleasant association , and tender trust , all are in our "far away- " like many others
in this wilderness of life , we have outlived even the warmth of affection , the reality of friendship , and the sympathy of fellow feeling . How many a poor mortal has thus to complain , as it were , to himself , as the hours roll on , and life grows old , and the hurrying years bring with them their
inevitable changes , and time leaves us standing , perhaps downcast and depressed , on that great and sombre shore , which hems in the " silent sea . " But then , the philosopher , while he admits this normal state of being , this inevitable condition of time , will not therefore really take either
a dreary or doubting view of things . So it is , so it ever has been , so it ever will be , in the good Providence of God . This very shortness of time is actually the best thing for us all , though we may not a priori like to think so , and offers to us ever the best of reminders , and the
truest and soundest of teaching . For after all , who would really wish time to be more enduring than it is ? We may say so , or affect to think so , but we doubt if any one reall y does so say or think truly , except in the gross ignorance of materialistic unbelief . None of us ever pretend
to assert or to believe , that this life is satisfying , that time is our best portion . Take life and time at their very best , their very , very best , what do they ever demonstrate to every thoughtful mind amongst us . but that they are alike imperfect , and transitory , and deceiving ?
Under the mask of human follies are many heartaches j under the pomp and glitter of terrestial wealth are ceaseless worries , and sordid cares ; health often gives way utterly , and leaves us helpless creatures to-day , a " ' wreck of the past , " a touching instance of shattered strength .
When gaiety and merriment are at the highest , there are many who laugh , simply , as Figaro did , to prevent him from crying and as the li ghts die out , as the music ceases , as the viands grow cold , as the flowers crumble into dust , we often only look back on those white-robed phantoms ,
which tell us of baneful pleasures , or whisper to us in sadder tones of golden moments , whose waste we never can repair , of pleasant faces we only recall with the sigh of remorse ! Such has ever been the great and unvarying' condition of time , that it is disappointing , disheartening , and
departing ! It is heie to-day , and gone to-morrow . It never allows us hardly even to finish our plans , or complete our happiest schemes . If it does so , perchance , it often leaves us in the hour of fruition , and like the fairy palace of old , the building we have created with so much care , after so
many long years' work , has crumbled away , and disappeared in the night . Now we all know this , and we all admit this , the preacher and the congregation , the teacher and the pupil , the lecturer and his audience . Hence we venture lo believe , despite some few rash assertions of
either the worldly wise , or the coldly cynical , or the sceptical epicurean , that none of us really wish time to endure for ever , that none of us honestly desire that we ourselves might "live always . " No ! there comes over us all , sooner or later , the clear conviction that
The New Year.
it is far better for us ail , that things are as they are in this respect ! We could not bear a too lengthened continuance of time , we could none of us desire to live life over again . As year follows year , as the new year succeeds the old , as generations give place to
generations in their onward march , as the cycle of time keeps ever filling up , and completing its course to us all alike , ours must be the thought and the admission , that not only " sic fata voluere , " but that it is idle to complain ofjthe flight of time , and that all things are for the best , and
that we must all grow old . If any of ns are even tempted to say " ah mihi prneteritos si referet Jupiter annos , " it is an unreal wish , it is a hurtful aspiration as , after all , the Great Architect of the Universe has given us all our proper times and seasons , in which to do our work for him ,
and to help our brother man . Let , then , the departure of 187- ; , and the advent of 18 76 , tell us in a clear and thrilling voice of our own mission and our own responsibilities . Let us not , because all things do not go with us as we wish , or want , * become sad or sighing , cross-grained or
ungenial ! We have still something to do , however humble , for our great Grand Master and for our brethren here ; let us labour on to the close , so to say , with "harness on our backs " to the last , humbly seeking to do our duty , where
God has been pleased in His omniscient wisdom to place us ; and then time will leave us without vain regrets , because time is to us but a symbol of that great eternity , into which we all are wending , as the years hasten from us , and our sands are running out .
Reports Of Lodge Meetings.
REPORTS OF LODGE MEETINGS .
With the New Year , and our first issue ofthe " Freemason " for 1876 , we wish to impress upon many of our excellent correspondents , the need and advisability of somewhat condensing the normal reports of the proceedings ofthe lodges , alike at work , and above all at refreshment . We
are quite aware , that one of the " specialites " of the " Freemason" consists in the full and verbatim records it invariably offers to the Craft of lodge proceedings , and Masonic speeches . But of late there has been somewhat of a tendency to be a little too prolix , and a little too diffuse . Much
has been sent to us and has appeared in print that in our humble opinion might as well have been kept back and omitted without detriment to the report itself , and without any disrespect to the sender , or the lodge . For instance , we would earnestly call the attention of our many
correspondents to the advisability of eschewing for the future all references to the work done in lodge , all ritual arrangements , as we shall assuredly , in justice to our ourselves , to economize our own space , and please our readers and the Order generally , as weknow ; have otherwise to forbear
printing such passages in our weekly correspondence . We also , would respectfully urge a little more condensation as to the reportsthemselves , and the non-introduction of any thing but what is absolutely necessary or purely Masonic . And lastly , as regards the " after dinner
speeches , " and the records of " the feast of reason and tho flow of soul , " we venture to ask , from all our friendly and communicative correspondents , a little alike of curtailment and reserve . We cannot afford , owing to our limited columns , to print the stereotyped phrases , such
as " the banquet gave the greatest satisfaction to all who partook of it , and was a credit to the caterer . ' Neither can we announce week after week that " Bro . Jugg ins supplied a most admirable entertainment , and the viands and wines were ofjthe first quality . " We think that many
speeches might be left out , and more might be shortened ; and we trust that our brethren who give us , " currente calamio , " such elaborate accounts of addresses , which all sound pretty much the same , will pardon us when we say , that while we always hail eloquence or originality , or the sound advice , or the telling point , we , and
our brethren equally , are not improved or edified by hearing that "Bro . Thompson returned thanks and said that it was the proudest day of his life , and that he loved Masonry and had worked hard for it , & c , & c , & c . " It is all perfectly true , no doubt , and the greatest credit is due to Bro . P . M . Thompson , but Masonry is
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To Our Readers.
TO OUR READERS .
l The Freemason is a sixteen-page weekly newspaper , price 2 d . It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important and useful information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Annual subscription in the United Kingdom , Post free , 10 / . Brethren in foreign parts , wishing to have this newspaper sent them regularly from thc oflice of publication , should , in sending their remittances , add to the 2 d . per week the postage on 20 z . newspapers .
To Advertisers.
TO ADVERTISERS .
The Freemason has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe , its advantages as an advertising medium can therefore scarcely be overrated . For terms , position , & c , apply to GEORGE KENNING , 198 , Fleet-st .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
All Communications , Advertisements , & c ., intended for insertion in the Number of the following Saturday , must reach the Office not later than 12 o ' clock on Wednesday morning . M . DAVIS . —Thc question is quite inadmissible .
EGERTON , 1392—Yes . The following stand over : — " The Order cf the Temple ; " Tudor Trevor ; VV . P . Buchan ; W . M . Dunbar Castle , 75 ; Report of Chaucer Lodge , 1540 ; and several Scotch Lodge reports .
BOOKS , ecc , RECEIVED . " Evening * Hours , " edited by Lady Barker ; " The Garden "; " Our Laws and our Poor , " F . Peek ; " East Anglian Hand Book , " "All the World Over" No . 11 , Cook & Son ; "Boletiono Officiale del Grande Oriente Nazionale Egiziano ; " The Craftsman ; " The Provincial Grand Lodge of Ohio ; " » ' The Colonist , " " The Belgian News . "
REMITTANCES RECEIVED . £ s- *!• Bailey , F . A ., Australia ( P . O . O . ) 1 1 4 Bate , O . H ., Thc Cape ( P . O . O . ) 023 Beg , Rev . Dr ., N . S . W . ( P . O . O . ) 1 2 o Borg * , R ., Egypt ( Stamps ) 076 Crossley , J ., Thc Cape ( P . O . O . ) 1 8 6
Dorrell , W „ Hasskien ( P . O . O . ) 0106 Hall , J . ; Smyrna ( Stamps ) 098 Jcvon , H ., Egypt ( Stamps ) 060 Monaghan , W . M . St . Thomas ' s Mount ( B . ofE . ) 25 ° Peake , H . H ., Ballarat ( P . O . O . ) 1 o o
Petty , G ., Cadiz ( Cash ) o 10 8 Toby , C , Tasmania ( Draft ) 300 Trelcase , Corsica ( Cash ) 090 Tyndall , P ., Malta ( Stamps ) 050 Warmington , H . W ., Punjab ( Draft ) 3 7 4 / itman , Thomas , Demerara ( Cash ) 100
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The Freemason , SATURDAY , ] AK . I , 1876 .
Our Royal Grand Master's Visit To India.
OUR ROYAL GRAND MASTER'S VISIT TO INDIA .
Our Royal Grand Master has reached Calcutta , where his reception has been most enthusiastic . There have been several State Ceremonies , and a grand assembly of Indian Princes , to which we shall recur in our next . Our Royal Grand Master is quite well , and has won all hearts . We shall treat the subject more full y in our next .
The New Year.
THE NEW YEAR .
Tlie flight of time has ever exercized , so to say , much and deeply the poet and preacher , the thoughtful and the sage . The stern and often unpalatable truth to man—of Time ' s rapid decay , " its effacing fingers , " and its inevitable and often premature ending , have appealed to the
feelings and conscious perception of all mortal generations . Time is like a flowing river which we think will run parallel to our course or road , and yet a sudden bend hides it from our view and we go on our way and behold it no more For whatever may be our actual views of life per
se , whether pleasant or mournful , whether philosophical or paradoxical , we cannot deny this in controvertable truth , that Time is often of very short duration for us and ours , that it often ceases for us at a moment when we least expect its departure , and even when all is summed up , when we have seen the best of it , when we have
enjoyed its fleeting hours to the full , it bids us farewell , and seems to us , whether in its longest retrospect or in its often hasty flight , simply like a " tale that is told . " How short after all do the hours of our little , if even longish life , appear to us to-day . It seems but yesterday that we were beginning the iournev of time . Blithe
The New Year.
comrades were at our sides , we were marching on , a goodly and a stalwart band , the way wac pleasant and refreshing , we were traversing flowery meads and the "woodland green- " no clouds were on our path , all was full of hope
and of contentment ! Life has run on , years have sped away , and we hardly can realize that here we are to-day , moving on with halting steps to our journey ' s close , weak and weary , footsore and dispirited ! We hardly can believe actually the lapse of years and the flight of time !
Whyit was only yesterday , we feel disposed to say , that this and that happened to us here and there , that ours was the pleasant friendship , ours was ^ the endearing re-union , that for us this world was full of happiness , and life had many charms . And yet here has January whitened into
December , and the wintry sky has covered the scene with its dimmer and its duller rays . How quickly old time has ' passed , how rapidly its days , and seasons , and scenes have vanished away , leaving us only the illusion of memory , or the dream of fond regrets , those ghosts and shadows
of olden hours , which serve only to remind us of what once has been , but never , never can be more for us poor sojourners for a little season here below . Youth and hope , and health an d happiness , and pleasant association , and tender trust , all are in our "far away- " like many others
in this wilderness of life , we have outlived even the warmth of affection , the reality of friendship , and the sympathy of fellow feeling . How many a poor mortal has thus to complain , as it were , to himself , as the hours roll on , and life grows old , and the hurrying years bring with them their
inevitable changes , and time leaves us standing , perhaps downcast and depressed , on that great and sombre shore , which hems in the " silent sea . " But then , the philosopher , while he admits this normal state of being , this inevitable condition of time , will not therefore really take either
a dreary or doubting view of things . So it is , so it ever has been , so it ever will be , in the good Providence of God . This very shortness of time is actually the best thing for us all , though we may not a priori like to think so , and offers to us ever the best of reminders , and the
truest and soundest of teaching . For after all , who would really wish time to be more enduring than it is ? We may say so , or affect to think so , but we doubt if any one reall y does so say or think truly , except in the gross ignorance of materialistic unbelief . None of us ever pretend
to assert or to believe , that this life is satisfying , that time is our best portion . Take life and time at their very best , their very , very best , what do they ever demonstrate to every thoughtful mind amongst us . but that they are alike imperfect , and transitory , and deceiving ?
Under the mask of human follies are many heartaches j under the pomp and glitter of terrestial wealth are ceaseless worries , and sordid cares ; health often gives way utterly , and leaves us helpless creatures to-day , a " ' wreck of the past , " a touching instance of shattered strength .
When gaiety and merriment are at the highest , there are many who laugh , simply , as Figaro did , to prevent him from crying and as the li ghts die out , as the music ceases , as the viands grow cold , as the flowers crumble into dust , we often only look back on those white-robed phantoms ,
which tell us of baneful pleasures , or whisper to us in sadder tones of golden moments , whose waste we never can repair , of pleasant faces we only recall with the sigh of remorse ! Such has ever been the great and unvarying' condition of time , that it is disappointing , disheartening , and
departing ! It is heie to-day , and gone to-morrow . It never allows us hardly even to finish our plans , or complete our happiest schemes . If it does so , perchance , it often leaves us in the hour of fruition , and like the fairy palace of old , the building we have created with so much care , after so
many long years' work , has crumbled away , and disappeared in the night . Now we all know this , and we all admit this , the preacher and the congregation , the teacher and the pupil , the lecturer and his audience . Hence we venture lo believe , despite some few rash assertions of
either the worldly wise , or the coldly cynical , or the sceptical epicurean , that none of us really wish time to endure for ever , that none of us honestly desire that we ourselves might "live always . " No ! there comes over us all , sooner or later , the clear conviction that
The New Year.
it is far better for us ail , that things are as they are in this respect ! We could not bear a too lengthened continuance of time , we could none of us desire to live life over again . As year follows year , as the new year succeeds the old , as generations give place to
generations in their onward march , as the cycle of time keeps ever filling up , and completing its course to us all alike , ours must be the thought and the admission , that not only " sic fata voluere , " but that it is idle to complain ofjthe flight of time , and that all things are for the best , and
that we must all grow old . If any of ns are even tempted to say " ah mihi prneteritos si referet Jupiter annos , " it is an unreal wish , it is a hurtful aspiration as , after all , the Great Architect of the Universe has given us all our proper times and seasons , in which to do our work for him ,
and to help our brother man . Let , then , the departure of 187- ; , and the advent of 18 76 , tell us in a clear and thrilling voice of our own mission and our own responsibilities . Let us not , because all things do not go with us as we wish , or want , * become sad or sighing , cross-grained or
ungenial ! We have still something to do , however humble , for our great Grand Master and for our brethren here ; let us labour on to the close , so to say , with "harness on our backs " to the last , humbly seeking to do our duty , where
God has been pleased in His omniscient wisdom to place us ; and then time will leave us without vain regrets , because time is to us but a symbol of that great eternity , into which we all are wending , as the years hasten from us , and our sands are running out .
Reports Of Lodge Meetings.
REPORTS OF LODGE MEETINGS .
With the New Year , and our first issue ofthe " Freemason " for 1876 , we wish to impress upon many of our excellent correspondents , the need and advisability of somewhat condensing the normal reports of the proceedings ofthe lodges , alike at work , and above all at refreshment . We
are quite aware , that one of the " specialites " of the " Freemason" consists in the full and verbatim records it invariably offers to the Craft of lodge proceedings , and Masonic speeches . But of late there has been somewhat of a tendency to be a little too prolix , and a little too diffuse . Much
has been sent to us and has appeared in print that in our humble opinion might as well have been kept back and omitted without detriment to the report itself , and without any disrespect to the sender , or the lodge . For instance , we would earnestly call the attention of our many
correspondents to the advisability of eschewing for the future all references to the work done in lodge , all ritual arrangements , as we shall assuredly , in justice to our ourselves , to economize our own space , and please our readers and the Order generally , as weknow ; have otherwise to forbear
printing such passages in our weekly correspondence . We also , would respectfully urge a little more condensation as to the reportsthemselves , and the non-introduction of any thing but what is absolutely necessary or purely Masonic . And lastly , as regards the " after dinner
speeches , " and the records of " the feast of reason and tho flow of soul , " we venture to ask , from all our friendly and communicative correspondents , a little alike of curtailment and reserve . We cannot afford , owing to our limited columns , to print the stereotyped phrases , such
as " the banquet gave the greatest satisfaction to all who partook of it , and was a credit to the caterer . ' Neither can we announce week after week that " Bro . Jugg ins supplied a most admirable entertainment , and the viands and wines were ofjthe first quality . " We think that many
speeches might be left out , and more might be shortened ; and we trust that our brethren who give us , " currente calamio , " such elaborate accounts of addresses , which all sound pretty much the same , will pardon us when we say , that while we always hail eloquence or originality , or the sound advice , or the telling point , we , and
our brethren equally , are not improved or edified by hearing that "Bro . Thompson returned thanks and said that it was the proudest day of his life , and that he loved Masonry and had worked hard for it , & c , & c , & c . " It is all perfectly true , no doubt , and the greatest credit is due to Bro . P . M . Thompson , but Masonry is