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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS 325 Provincial Grand Lotlge of Surrey 325 Provincial Grand Lodge of Staffordshire ... 325 Pros-incial Grand Chapter of Middlesex ... 327 Provincial Grand Chapter of North and East Yorkshire 327 Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 327 Consecration of Use Dacre Lodge , No . 20 S 6 32 S
Consecration of the Mount Edgcumbe Chapter , No . 1446 32 S Consecration of the Chissvick Leidge of Mark Mas'er Maso . is , No . 357 32 S Masons Eminent in the State 329 Reviesv 329 C ORRESPONDENCEWhich shall it lie— ' •Charity" or '* Dinners ? " 331 Boys' Festival 331 District Grand Master of Jamaica 131
CORRESPONDENCE ( Continued ) Pros-incial Kalendars 331 The Masonic Charities 331 Northern Counties Lodge 331 The Late Colonel Kennedy , of thc Canadian Nile Contingent 331 Notes and Queries 332 REPORTS OF MASONIC
MEETINGSCraft Masonry 332 Instrnction 33 fJ Royal Arch 33 * 1 Mark Masonry 335 Scotland 33 S Masonry in Bokhara 335 A Memoir of Dr . Henry Hopkins , P . M . 41 , 43 . & e 336 Obituars- 33 d ) Masonic and General Tidings 337 1 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 33 S
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THE result of the Boys' festival sve need not profess to conceal , must be a disappointing one to the friends and authorities of the School . At the same time , if we take into consideration the times we live in , commercially , financially , such a total is still not without relative merit , and sve perhaps could hardly expect a fuller or more striking
return in the present juncture of affairs , and the unis'ersal uncertainty , uneasiness and uncertainty svhich prevail among business men and all commercial relations everysvhere just nosv . The authorities of the School are naturally rendered very anxious as to the future , and not without cause . They have the Preparatory School shortly approaching completion , a
Grand Lodge grant for furniture , but how are they to support the scholars ? ^ 1500 a year at the very least will ba required over and above all existing income to keep up the Preparatory School—to put in 50 boys as originall y contemplated . Where is this sum to come from ? In order to meet the wishes of the Craft , and tlie oxigenc ' . s of a continual !"
increasing list of candidates , we understand that the authorities contemplate , and we think wisely , offering double votes for all sums contributed between the Festival and the opening of the nesv buildings in August . There is an objection entertained by some good friends of ours to these double votes ; but we cannot see why . It is simply a case
of " contract" for a special purpose , a particular end , to obtain as man ) ' donations as possible , to help forsvard a good work . There might , indeed , be something in the objection if A could obtain for _ £ io ios ., as a new subscriber , four votes , and B , the old subscriber , only retain two , for his similar amount . But as a precedent qualification for this privilege is , that
the individual donor , or province , or body must have previously qualified as a Life Governor at the old rate , we cannot see hosv any one is " damnified , " as the lawyers say , or hosv any possible injustice is committed or effected . So strongly do we feel the importance of increasing thc sustentation powers of-the Boys' School , both in respect of its general work and this " new
venture , " that we recommend the authorities strongly to extend the time for receiving such donations to the end of 18 S 5 , and , at the very least , to the Election Day in October . Then , in all probability , the nesv buildings svill have some inmates , or soon after , —how many must depend upon the Craft ; and it seems . that , at any rate up to that time , the privilege should be extended ,
and the "grace given . On thc whole , hosvever , as the one great end to be attained is the healthy and effective support of the School , sve are ot opinion that the best and safest term of such privileges should be until the end of 1885 . It may make all the difference in the world to the future progress and prosperity of the School .
.. . * MASONIC . archaeology , so much and happily studied to-day , has much in store to edify and gratify the Masonic student . Unaccountably neglected or carelessly looked into in former days , it safely retains a vast deal to startle and reward an investigating generation . As sve lift the veil which shrouds
the past from our often anxious gaze , we see hosv much there is which lends an interest and charm to Masonic studies . We are treading so to say , an almost " terra incognita , " we are opening out that " debateable land , " with striking results to industry and perseverance . The history of onr Order soon falls into shape , and cohesion , and regularity .
H still here and there enveloped in the clouds which age and carelessness have thrown around it , if on this and that footway we shall have to tread with cautious steps and "bated breath , " if we cannot as yet speak quite decisively on many a " moot point ; " on many a prominent subject , yet we ought to rest satisfied with the progress we have made ,
we ought to cheer ourselves , with our sense of the clearer knowledge , archreologically , we possess than did our forefathers , who seemed to have contented themselves with persistent repetition and habitual " sheep-svalking , " For them Freemasonry was ; for them it had , as for us , many charms and attractions , and they were content to take it for what it was , without enquiring too closely into its antecedents , its " birth , parentage ,
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and education . " But still , as the mind of man is alsvays more or less enquiring , a history had Lo be found for it , and which in that time of general apathy on similar subjects admirably suited the requirements ot an uncritical epo ; li . Hence the unsuccessful attempts from HUTCHINSON dosvnsvards , and which may be said to have culminated in OLIVER , to explain historical difficulties , to solve insuperable , enigmas , and to square the all but impossible
contradictions of chronology . To-day , when the authentic school has been at svork , Masonic atxh . 'cology is before us in great effect . Freemasonry is nosv a wonderful organization in the svorld . What is ils origin ? what is its " raison d ' etre ? " what is its actual bearing on the multiform developement whicii Society and the svorld assume before our eyes to-day ? what is its connection svith past ages dead and gone , the organizations , the Guilds , the
secret associations , the mystic chapters , which Time , ever relentless , if it has destroyed irrevocably their * ' local habitation and name , " has , with a spirit of compensation , procured for us the memory of their names and the verity of their orig inal existence ? These are the questions sve seek and want anssvers to . Masonic arclucology has therefore before it a pleasant , a needful , and a svholesome task . To remove errors and lighten
up obscurity , to rectify svhat carelessness and unskilfulness have combined to create or preserve , to substitute clearer , and truer , and more reliable annals , to apply the test of truth , reason , and accuracy in critical measure , and , with a simple love of correctness , to thc confused traditions of yesterday , and the idle reiteration of to-day , to give at last to our Order a consistent , a reasonable , an historical account of our great Fraternity , are alike the pleasing
task and thc consolatory reward of Masonic arcli . cology . The band of students , once very limited indeed , those patriarchs of Masonic investigation , whose names we may svell hold in some little respect , —first , because they are very fesv , and , secondly , because they svorked very hard on an often ungrateful soil , and before an unappreciating audience , —is nosv by slosv . ' egree- j " 'ling la : y < _ : :-n : l as ve write to-day , with a full , clear memory
of the past struggles of Masonic archieologists , ours , in the unselfishness of Masonic sympathy , is a hope for the future , for fresh efforts , greater discoveries , and a more universal taste for Masonic archaeology . Sure sve are of this , that nothing svill so tend to elevate our contemporary and passing Freemasonry in England as such archaeological proclivities and enquiries . Thev will remove many an idle cause of needless discussion and sterile
debates , even 111 our good lodges , and will lend to the present a greater reality , ant ! often to the past a more enduring charm , in that they svill invest that usclnl oil kindly Brotherhood , to svhich sve have so happily belonged and clui- _ - , - nr years , svith the ever increasing certainty of its importance for manici j , in that with indubitable certainty , sve have adduced the proofs of its svoiM-widu existence , its cosmopolitan progress , its mission and
developement in the svorld , as the ages themselves have come and yone , and myriad-, of our race have been slowly moving on with the great world itself to then common appointed goal . Lei us encourage the increase of Masonic study and Ma-onic tastes amongst us , and let us alsvays be ready to offer a favouring hand and help lo all that can fosler and develope intellectual aspirations and archaeological tendencies amongst us .
Provincial Grand Lodge Of Surrey.
PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF SURREY .
The Provincial Grand Lodge of Surrey was held at the Saint Mark ' s School-rooms , St . Andresv ' s-road , Surbiton , on Saturday , the 27 th ult ., the arraiigenents being by command of the R . VV . Prov . Grand Master placed under the direction of the St . Margaret ' s Lodge , No . 1872 . The R . VV .
Prov . Grand Master , Bro . General Studholme Brosvnrigg , C . B ., having opened the Provincial Grand Lodge at 2 . 15 p . m ., directed the Prov . Grand Secretary ' , VV . Bro . C . Greensvood , to call over the roll of lodges of the province , svhen it was found that wilh one exception all the Surrey lodges were represented at the meeting .
The PROV . GRAND SECRETARY then read the minutes of ihe last ordinary Provincial Grand Lodge , and aftersvards those of the special Provincial Grand Lodge held at Reigate , which were duly confirmed ; after which the report of the Finance and Audit Committee svas read and adopted , and the next business being the election of Prov . Grand Treasurer and appointment of other Provincial Grand Officers for the year , Bro . Price was unanimously re-elected Prov . Grand Treasurer .
The vote of the lodge was taken for donations of £ 15 15 s . to each of the Masonic Charities , and for £ 10 ios . to the restoration fund of St . Mark's Church , Surbiton . Before proceeding to appoint his officers for the year the PROV . GRAND MASTER remarked that this was one of the most difficult tasks that came within the round of his duties . All the officers of the province rendered
him such cordial assistance whenever he required it lhat lie could not but acknosvledge that there svere a large number svho deserved recognition , but he had to depend upon the recommendation of others in this matter , and regretted that the purple he had in his gift was insufficient lor the number who deserved it . Although the numerical strength of the province entailed such responsibility for him lhat personally he did not desire the establishment of additional lodges , he felt bound to tell them that one more addition
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS 325 Provincial Grand Lotlge of Surrey 325 Provincial Grand Lodge of Staffordshire ... 325 Pros-incial Grand Chapter of Middlesex ... 327 Provincial Grand Chapter of North and East Yorkshire 327 Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 327 Consecration of Use Dacre Lodge , No . 20 S 6 32 S
Consecration of the Mount Edgcumbe Chapter , No . 1446 32 S Consecration of the Chissvick Leidge of Mark Mas'er Maso . is , No . 357 32 S Masons Eminent in the State 329 Reviesv 329 C ORRESPONDENCEWhich shall it lie— ' •Charity" or '* Dinners ? " 331 Boys' Festival 331 District Grand Master of Jamaica 131
CORRESPONDENCE ( Continued ) Pros-incial Kalendars 331 The Masonic Charities 331 Northern Counties Lodge 331 The Late Colonel Kennedy , of thc Canadian Nile Contingent 331 Notes and Queries 332 REPORTS OF MASONIC
MEETINGSCraft Masonry 332 Instrnction 33 fJ Royal Arch 33 * 1 Mark Masonry 335 Scotland 33 S Masonry in Bokhara 335 A Memoir of Dr . Henry Hopkins , P . M . 41 , 43 . & e 336 Obituars- 33 d ) Masonic and General Tidings 337 1 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 33 S
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THE result of the Boys' festival sve need not profess to conceal , must be a disappointing one to the friends and authorities of the School . At the same time , if we take into consideration the times we live in , commercially , financially , such a total is still not without relative merit , and sve perhaps could hardly expect a fuller or more striking
return in the present juncture of affairs , and the unis'ersal uncertainty , uneasiness and uncertainty svhich prevail among business men and all commercial relations everysvhere just nosv . The authorities of the School are naturally rendered very anxious as to the future , and not without cause . They have the Preparatory School shortly approaching completion , a
Grand Lodge grant for furniture , but how are they to support the scholars ? ^ 1500 a year at the very least will ba required over and above all existing income to keep up the Preparatory School—to put in 50 boys as originall y contemplated . Where is this sum to come from ? In order to meet the wishes of the Craft , and tlie oxigenc ' . s of a continual !"
increasing list of candidates , we understand that the authorities contemplate , and we think wisely , offering double votes for all sums contributed between the Festival and the opening of the nesv buildings in August . There is an objection entertained by some good friends of ours to these double votes ; but we cannot see why . It is simply a case
of " contract" for a special purpose , a particular end , to obtain as man ) ' donations as possible , to help forsvard a good work . There might , indeed , be something in the objection if A could obtain for _ £ io ios ., as a new subscriber , four votes , and B , the old subscriber , only retain two , for his similar amount . But as a precedent qualification for this privilege is , that
the individual donor , or province , or body must have previously qualified as a Life Governor at the old rate , we cannot see hosv any one is " damnified , " as the lawyers say , or hosv any possible injustice is committed or effected . So strongly do we feel the importance of increasing thc sustentation powers of-the Boys' School , both in respect of its general work and this " new
venture , " that we recommend the authorities strongly to extend the time for receiving such donations to the end of 18 S 5 , and , at the very least , to the Election Day in October . Then , in all probability , the nesv buildings svill have some inmates , or soon after , —how many must depend upon the Craft ; and it seems . that , at any rate up to that time , the privilege should be extended ,
and the "grace given . On thc whole , hosvever , as the one great end to be attained is the healthy and effective support of the School , sve are ot opinion that the best and safest term of such privileges should be until the end of 1885 . It may make all the difference in the world to the future progress and prosperity of the School .
.. . * MASONIC . archaeology , so much and happily studied to-day , has much in store to edify and gratify the Masonic student . Unaccountably neglected or carelessly looked into in former days , it safely retains a vast deal to startle and reward an investigating generation . As sve lift the veil which shrouds
the past from our often anxious gaze , we see hosv much there is which lends an interest and charm to Masonic studies . We are treading so to say , an almost " terra incognita , " we are opening out that " debateable land , " with striking results to industry and perseverance . The history of onr Order soon falls into shape , and cohesion , and regularity .
H still here and there enveloped in the clouds which age and carelessness have thrown around it , if on this and that footway we shall have to tread with cautious steps and "bated breath , " if we cannot as yet speak quite decisively on many a " moot point ; " on many a prominent subject , yet we ought to rest satisfied with the progress we have made ,
we ought to cheer ourselves , with our sense of the clearer knowledge , archreologically , we possess than did our forefathers , who seemed to have contented themselves with persistent repetition and habitual " sheep-svalking , " For them Freemasonry was ; for them it had , as for us , many charms and attractions , and they were content to take it for what it was , without enquiring too closely into its antecedents , its " birth , parentage ,
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and education . " But still , as the mind of man is alsvays more or less enquiring , a history had Lo be found for it , and which in that time of general apathy on similar subjects admirably suited the requirements ot an uncritical epo ; li . Hence the unsuccessful attempts from HUTCHINSON dosvnsvards , and which may be said to have culminated in OLIVER , to explain historical difficulties , to solve insuperable , enigmas , and to square the all but impossible
contradictions of chronology . To-day , when the authentic school has been at svork , Masonic atxh . 'cology is before us in great effect . Freemasonry is nosv a wonderful organization in the svorld . What is ils origin ? what is its " raison d ' etre ? " what is its actual bearing on the multiform developement whicii Society and the svorld assume before our eyes to-day ? what is its connection svith past ages dead and gone , the organizations , the Guilds , the
secret associations , the mystic chapters , which Time , ever relentless , if it has destroyed irrevocably their * ' local habitation and name , " has , with a spirit of compensation , procured for us the memory of their names and the verity of their orig inal existence ? These are the questions sve seek and want anssvers to . Masonic arclucology has therefore before it a pleasant , a needful , and a svholesome task . To remove errors and lighten
up obscurity , to rectify svhat carelessness and unskilfulness have combined to create or preserve , to substitute clearer , and truer , and more reliable annals , to apply the test of truth , reason , and accuracy in critical measure , and , with a simple love of correctness , to thc confused traditions of yesterday , and the idle reiteration of to-day , to give at last to our Order a consistent , a reasonable , an historical account of our great Fraternity , are alike the pleasing
task and thc consolatory reward of Masonic arcli . cology . The band of students , once very limited indeed , those patriarchs of Masonic investigation , whose names we may svell hold in some little respect , —first , because they are very fesv , and , secondly , because they svorked very hard on an often ungrateful soil , and before an unappreciating audience , —is nosv by slosv . ' egree- j " 'ling la : y < _ : :-n : l as ve write to-day , with a full , clear memory
of the past struggles of Masonic archieologists , ours , in the unselfishness of Masonic sympathy , is a hope for the future , for fresh efforts , greater discoveries , and a more universal taste for Masonic archaeology . Sure sve are of this , that nothing svill so tend to elevate our contemporary and passing Freemasonry in England as such archaeological proclivities and enquiries . Thev will remove many an idle cause of needless discussion and sterile
debates , even 111 our good lodges , and will lend to the present a greater reality , ant ! often to the past a more enduring charm , in that they svill invest that usclnl oil kindly Brotherhood , to svhich sve have so happily belonged and clui- _ - , - nr years , svith the ever increasing certainty of its importance for manici j , in that with indubitable certainty , sve have adduced the proofs of its svoiM-widu existence , its cosmopolitan progress , its mission and
developement in the svorld , as the ages themselves have come and yone , and myriad-, of our race have been slowly moving on with the great world itself to then common appointed goal . Lei us encourage the increase of Masonic study and Ma-onic tastes amongst us , and let us alsvays be ready to offer a favouring hand and help lo all that can fosler and develope intellectual aspirations and archaeological tendencies amongst us .
Provincial Grand Lodge Of Surrey.
PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF SURREY .
The Provincial Grand Lodge of Surrey was held at the Saint Mark ' s School-rooms , St . Andresv ' s-road , Surbiton , on Saturday , the 27 th ult ., the arraiigenents being by command of the R . VV . Prov . Grand Master placed under the direction of the St . Margaret ' s Lodge , No . 1872 . The R . VV .
Prov . Grand Master , Bro . General Studholme Brosvnrigg , C . B ., having opened the Provincial Grand Lodge at 2 . 15 p . m ., directed the Prov . Grand Secretary ' , VV . Bro . C . Greensvood , to call over the roll of lodges of the province , svhen it was found that wilh one exception all the Surrey lodges were represented at the meeting .
The PROV . GRAND SECRETARY then read the minutes of ihe last ordinary Provincial Grand Lodge , and aftersvards those of the special Provincial Grand Lodge held at Reigate , which were duly confirmed ; after which the report of the Finance and Audit Committee svas read and adopted , and the next business being the election of Prov . Grand Treasurer and appointment of other Provincial Grand Officers for the year , Bro . Price was unanimously re-elected Prov . Grand Treasurer .
The vote of the lodge was taken for donations of £ 15 15 s . to each of the Masonic Charities , and for £ 10 ios . to the restoration fund of St . Mark's Church , Surbiton . Before proceeding to appoint his officers for the year the PROV . GRAND MASTER remarked that this was one of the most difficult tasks that came within the round of his duties . All the officers of the province rendered
him such cordial assistance whenever he required it lhat lie could not but acknosvledge that there svere a large number svho deserved recognition , but he had to depend upon the recommendation of others in this matter , and regretted that the purple he had in his gift was insufficient lor the number who deserved it . Although the numerical strength of the province entailed such responsibility for him lhat personally he did not desire the establishment of additional lodges , he felt bound to tell them that one more addition