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NOTICE ,
The Subscription io T HE FREEMASON is now ios . per annum , post-free , payable
in advance . Vol . I ., bound in cloth 4 =- 6 d . Vol . IL , ditto Js . 6 d . Vol . s III ., IV ., V . and VI each 15 s . od . Reading Cases to hold c 2 numbers ... 2 s . fid .
Ditto ditto 4 do . ... is . fid . United States of America . THE FuiiEMAsoN is delivered free in any part of the United States for 12 s . per annum , payable in advance .
The Freemason is published on Saturday Mornings in time for the earlv trains . The price of the Freemason is Twopence per week ; annual subscription , ios , ( pavahle in advance . ) All communication ' s , letters , & c ., to be addressed to the Editor , ;< S , Fleet-street , ICC . The Editor will pay careful attention to all MSS . entrusted to him , bat cannot undertake to return them unlessaccompanied by postag ; Bt-amn ? .
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Now Read v . INDEX to Vol . VI . of "THE FREEMASON . " ¦ * - May be had at thc Publishing Oflice , lyS , Fleetstreet .
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Now ready , with Index and Preface , in Twelve Imperial Folio Pa its , : ;« . each , or bound in one handsome volume , £ 3 . THK FREEMASONS' LIBER MUSICUS , Dedicated by express permission to H . R . H . THE PRINCE OK WALKS , Past Giand Master of England and -Wales . Edited by Dit . WIU . SPAM * , P . P . U . O ., W . Y . —2-jS . This Work contains 315 pp . and 118 Musical Compositions suitable for all the Ceiemonies of the Masonic Order ; Firtt , Second , and Thiid Degrees ; Consecration and Dedication of Halls and Lodges ; Programmes , Toasts , Songs , 'Piios , Choruses , cvc ., for banquets and other Festive Gatherings ; Laying Foundation or Corner Stones ; Installation ; Mark Masonry ; Royal Arch ; Masonic Funerals ; Voluntaries * , Marches , ice , & c . Notice from the Evening Mail . I ( Our . Masonic rentiers are no strangers to tlie name of . Bro . William -- j . nik , lhe talculcd musician and Organist of the Town HaU , Leeds . In tins really ^ vcat work , now completed , Ilr . Spark , lias sliown hi * e , reat lact and jndtjmen by completing and compiling for the . Masonic brethren a complete library of musical , compn ' uions ol * the choicest English and foreign works , ancient , traditional , modem , vocal , and instrumental , liy the best composers . It comprises . Masonic anthems , installation odes , dedication music , responses , opening , closing , and intei mediate music tor all dc-jves , ' ] hankssh ings , Itinera ! odes , marches , songs , duets , banquet music , programmes , voluntaries , and general musical i hvciions , arranged lor voices and organ , pianoforte , or harmonium . " i he Freemasons' Liber . Musicus " is issued with thc cncui reiice ot many intluential Masonie Lodges , and under the distinguished patronage nnd support ol the Most Worshipful IheCtauii Masters of Kngland , Wales , Scotland , ami Ireland . It foims a complete library of the choicest anil rarest Masonic music , in aword . il is indispensable to all Masonic lodges . The worthy brother editor , moreover , has had the valuable co-operation aud assistance of the most distinguished aud experienced composers and organists , members of the trail . It is bronglit ont in the highest style of art , is printed Irom large engraved music plates , anil forms a very handsome folio volume of" nearly two hundred and twenty pages ! " It deserves the patronage of every Alasonic Lodge , both at home aud abroad , aud for ils mciils alone it ought to be zealously pii / ed b \ every brother . As a present to a lodge , nothing could ' be more uselul / taluable , aud appropriate . HANDSOME CLOTH COVERS , with gilt lines , and lettered , for Minding ( similar to those used for the Graphic and lllitsl ruled lXvrvs ) , pi ice js . each . LONDON : GEORGE KENNING . 10 . 8 , Fleet-street .
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Second Edition , Now Ready , j / 6 . A MASONIC MUSICAL SERVICE . In lhe key of C . for A ., T ., T ., 13 . Opening and Closing Odes . Craft Ceremonies . Royal Arch Ceremony . Consecration Ceremony . Grace before and after Meat . COMPOSED BV DR . J . C . RAKER , NO . 241 . LONUON . —Geo . Kenning , njS , Fleet-street ; and 2 , 3 , and 4 , Little l'ritain . „ R . Spencer , 26 , Great Queen-street . LiviiHi'ooi .. —Geo . Kenning , 2 , Mor . ument-place . MANOIESTI ' H . —II . Jfenry cc Co ,, 59 , Deansgate . 'Juui . iN . —C . Hedgelong , 26 , Grafton-strcet . GLASGOW . —Geo . Kenning , 145 , Argyle-street .
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THE MARK MASONS' SONG , Dedicated by permission to the Right Hon . the Earl Percy , M . P ., 30 ° , Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons for Noithumberland . Most Worshipful Grand Mark Master Mason of England . Words by Bro , T . Rurdett Yeoman , Original Mark Lodge No . 1 ., composed by Bro . Henry Parker , Original Mark LodgeNo . I . Office , 198 , Fleet-street .
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MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION , BAKER STREET . Now added , PORTRAIT MODELS of SIR GARNET WOLSELEY , the Three Judges in the Tichborne Trial , Cockburn , Mellor , and Lush ; thc Shah of Persia , Marshal MacMahon , M . Thiers , and the late Mr . Charles Dickens , Admission is . Children under ten , Od . Extra Rooms , fid . Open from ten a . m . to ten p . m .
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 6 o ' clock on Wednesday evening .
Our brother will see that wc have answered his question praclically in our 1 st leader nf last week . We have to claim the indulgence of numerous correspondents who have sent reports this week . The pressure on our columns caused by several important meetings isa sufficient excuse .
REMITTANCES RECDIVED . T . Markus ( Vienna ) 1 5 o T . Chapman ( Curacoa , West Indies ) per G . Lodge . i 16 o The W . M . of the Iqualdad Lodge ( Island of Cuiaacoa , West Indies ) per Grand Lodge 1 4 o H . A . Baxter ( London , Ontario ) P . O . O .... 1 n 7 J . Palmer ( Savana Grande , Trinidad ) ... P . O . O .... o 12 9
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TO FOREIGN SUBSCRIBERS . It is very necessary for our friends to advise us of all money orders they remit , more especially those from the United States of America , otherwise we cannot tell where to credit them . Several remain uncredited at the present time owing to no advice having been received .
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The Freemason , SATURDAY , J . fiiir J 874 .
The New Surrey Masonic Hall.
THE NEW SURREY MASONIC HALL .
We have to call the attention of our readers , to an interesting ceremony , which took place on Friday last , tlie 29 th ult ., namely , the laying of the foundation stone of the new Surrey Masonic
Hall , of whicli interesting ceremony a report appears in our columns to-day . We congratulate the Directois of the Company on this auspicious commencement of their important
undertaking , and trust sincerely that the building may be erected without danger to the workmen , and will prove eventually alike profitable as an investment , convenient to the lodges using it , a
credit to Masonic Architecture , and advantageous to the Craft . There is no reason why such buildings should not , under proper management , be in themselves , so to say , self-supporting , as
well as most helpful to true Freemasonry . Indeed , when we recall to-day the somewhat haphazard way in which the ancient ceremonies of our Order were celebrated some twenty years
ago , the inconvenient rooms in which we were content to meet , the incongruous accessories which then sometimes graced our socalled lodge-rooms , used for other purposes ,
and often less elevated proceedings , we cannot but feel what a large stride Masonic aesthetics have made happily amongst us , and how everywhere to-day we see tokens alike of the
craftsman ' s handiwork , and the architect ' s skill , employed in raising and adorning many a most stately and goodly Masonic Hall in our land . In the case before us , all the plans of the ground
buildings and all the details of the inner arrangements seem to betoken an anxious design to make the building alike suitable and fitted for our Masonic ceremonial and the convenience and
comfort of our brethren . And though we know there have been those , there probably still are some , who on the " penny wise and pound foolish system , " object to such an outlay and
deprecate such elaboration , and say that it is better and cheaper to rent a room in some adjacent hotel , or public building , yet we feel certain from some little experience , that no movement has done more good to Masonry than that , whicli , a
The New Surrey Masonic Hall.
our able Bro . J ohn Havers saw and said years ago , would disassociate our excellent brotherhood from uncongenial influences and question-, able localities . Most of us who have realized
the privacy , the independence , the comfort , and the self respect which our own freehold lodge buildings give us always , will never for a moment entertain the idea ,
that , our previous arrangements were beneficial in this respect , or that it is advisable to return to that " tenant-at-will " position which so often exposed the brethren to several drawbacks , and
often effectively lowered the character of Freemasonry , in days gone by , and in the less satisfactory lodge rooms of a defunct generation . That Masonry worked on , notwithstanding so
many patent inconveniences and unsuitable arrangements is due , we believe , to the inherent excellency of Masonry , and the high character of our Order , but once admitted , the defect , and
proved the blot , it is the duty of all masons , " good and true , " to labour zealously to amend the one , and to remove the other . And thus , in all our large towns , as Liverpool , Manchester
Leeds , Sheffield , Huddersfield , Bradford , and many more , our brethren have , for some time since , either purchased or raised large and stately buildings , in some of which several lodges meet ,
and which , alike , by their external appearance and internal arrangements , do honour to those who planned them , and those who use them . And though the hand which drew the stately
proportions and planned the becoming decorations , or the brethren who hailed the opening , or assembled there for many years , must gradually pass away , their works and their labours of love survive .
Amid the onward march of time , they still remain to tell after generations of craftsmen , that , their forefathers were not ashamed to own themselves Free and Accepted Masons , did not grudge to
give of their substance to do open honour to their Royal Art , and bequeathed to them a duty to perform , and a course to pursue in their day , so as to carefully preserve to their after brethren
what they so liberally erected , and so lovingly reared . It is one of the great characteristics of that noble art , which forms the basis of all Masonic history and symbolism and teaching , that
it is so to say purely unselfish . For we have the evidence before our eyes to day of the princely munificence of those who , in the noble buildings they raised with so much care and at such great
sacrifices , proclaimed to us that their great Masonic motto ever was , " Freely have you received , freely give , " and that they toiled , to afford pleasure , delight , and happiness to others
Yet we who look up with admiring gaze to-day on pinnacle and tower , on the wondrous proportions of some majestic building , some glorious minster , some Guild Hall—we who still can
appreciate oftentimes now the cunning corbel or quainter gurgoyle , we should never for get what we owe to that wandering band of Freemasons , to those moveable lodges of the
operative Craft , which have given us in all the fulness of architectural skill and beauty , so many marvels of that noble handiwork which has enriched and consecrated the science of
architecture . From them we still can draw admirable out . lines for modern labours , in them we still can discern in reverence ; and respect , how sublime an
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Ar00807
NOTICE ,
The Subscription io T HE FREEMASON is now ios . per annum , post-free , payable
in advance . Vol . I ., bound in cloth 4 =- 6 d . Vol . IL , ditto Js . 6 d . Vol . s III ., IV ., V . and VI each 15 s . od . Reading Cases to hold c 2 numbers ... 2 s . fid .
Ditto ditto 4 do . ... is . fid . United States of America . THE FuiiEMAsoN is delivered free in any part of the United States for 12 s . per annum , payable in advance .
The Freemason is published on Saturday Mornings in time for the earlv trains . The price of the Freemason is Twopence per week ; annual subscription , ios , ( pavahle in advance . ) All communication ' s , letters , & c ., to be addressed to the Editor , ;< S , Fleet-street , ICC . The Editor will pay careful attention to all MSS . entrusted to him , bat cannot undertake to return them unlessaccompanied by postag ; Bt-amn ? .
Ad00803
Now Read v . INDEX to Vol . VI . of "THE FREEMASON . " ¦ * - May be had at thc Publishing Oflice , lyS , Fleetstreet .
Ad00802
Now ready , with Index and Preface , in Twelve Imperial Folio Pa its , : ;« . each , or bound in one handsome volume , £ 3 . THK FREEMASONS' LIBER MUSICUS , Dedicated by express permission to H . R . H . THE PRINCE OK WALKS , Past Giand Master of England and -Wales . Edited by Dit . WIU . SPAM * , P . P . U . O ., W . Y . —2-jS . This Work contains 315 pp . and 118 Musical Compositions suitable for all the Ceiemonies of the Masonic Order ; Firtt , Second , and Thiid Degrees ; Consecration and Dedication of Halls and Lodges ; Programmes , Toasts , Songs , 'Piios , Choruses , cvc ., for banquets and other Festive Gatherings ; Laying Foundation or Corner Stones ; Installation ; Mark Masonry ; Royal Arch ; Masonic Funerals ; Voluntaries * , Marches , ice , & c . Notice from the Evening Mail . I ( Our . Masonic rentiers are no strangers to tlie name of . Bro . William -- j . nik , lhe talculcd musician and Organist of the Town HaU , Leeds . In tins really ^ vcat work , now completed , Ilr . Spark , lias sliown hi * e , reat lact and jndtjmen by completing and compiling for the . Masonic brethren a complete library of musical , compn ' uions ol * the choicest English and foreign works , ancient , traditional , modem , vocal , and instrumental , liy the best composers . It comprises . Masonic anthems , installation odes , dedication music , responses , opening , closing , and intei mediate music tor all dc-jves , ' ] hankssh ings , Itinera ! odes , marches , songs , duets , banquet music , programmes , voluntaries , and general musical i hvciions , arranged lor voices and organ , pianoforte , or harmonium . " i he Freemasons' Liber . Musicus " is issued with thc cncui reiice ot many intluential Masonie Lodges , and under the distinguished patronage nnd support ol the Most Worshipful IheCtauii Masters of Kngland , Wales , Scotland , ami Ireland . It foims a complete library of the choicest anil rarest Masonic music , in aword . il is indispensable to all Masonic lodges . The worthy brother editor , moreover , has had the valuable co-operation aud assistance of the most distinguished aud experienced composers and organists , members of the trail . It is bronglit ont in the highest style of art , is printed Irom large engraved music plates , anil forms a very handsome folio volume of" nearly two hundred and twenty pages ! " It deserves the patronage of every Alasonic Lodge , both at home aud abroad , aud for ils mciils alone it ought to be zealously pii / ed b \ every brother . As a present to a lodge , nothing could ' be more uselul / taluable , aud appropriate . HANDSOME CLOTH COVERS , with gilt lines , and lettered , for Minding ( similar to those used for the Graphic and lllitsl ruled lXvrvs ) , pi ice js . each . LONDON : GEORGE KENNING . 10 . 8 , Fleet-street .
Ad00804
Second Edition , Now Ready , j / 6 . A MASONIC MUSICAL SERVICE . In lhe key of C . for A ., T ., T ., 13 . Opening and Closing Odes . Craft Ceremonies . Royal Arch Ceremony . Consecration Ceremony . Grace before and after Meat . COMPOSED BV DR . J . C . RAKER , NO . 241 . LONUON . —Geo . Kenning , njS , Fleet-street ; and 2 , 3 , and 4 , Little l'ritain . „ R . Spencer , 26 , Great Queen-street . LiviiHi'ooi .. —Geo . Kenning , 2 , Mor . ument-place . MANOIESTI ' H . —II . Jfenry cc Co ,, 59 , Deansgate . 'Juui . iN . —C . Hedgelong , 26 , Grafton-strcet . GLASGOW . —Geo . Kenning , 145 , Argyle-street .
Ad00805
THE MARK MASONS' SONG , Dedicated by permission to the Right Hon . the Earl Percy , M . P ., 30 ° , Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons for Noithumberland . Most Worshipful Grand Mark Master Mason of England . Words by Bro , T . Rurdett Yeoman , Original Mark Lodge No . 1 ., composed by Bro . Henry Parker , Original Mark LodgeNo . I . Office , 198 , Fleet-street .
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MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION , BAKER STREET . Now added , PORTRAIT MODELS of SIR GARNET WOLSELEY , the Three Judges in the Tichborne Trial , Cockburn , Mellor , and Lush ; thc Shah of Persia , Marshal MacMahon , M . Thiers , and the late Mr . Charles Dickens , Admission is . Children under ten , Od . Extra Rooms , fid . Open from ten a . m . to ten p . m .
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 6 o ' clock on Wednesday evening .
Our brother will see that wc have answered his question praclically in our 1 st leader nf last week . We have to claim the indulgence of numerous correspondents who have sent reports this week . The pressure on our columns caused by several important meetings isa sufficient excuse .
REMITTANCES RECDIVED . T . Markus ( Vienna ) 1 5 o T . Chapman ( Curacoa , West Indies ) per G . Lodge . i 16 o The W . M . of the Iqualdad Lodge ( Island of Cuiaacoa , West Indies ) per Grand Lodge 1 4 o H . A . Baxter ( London , Ontario ) P . O . O .... 1 n 7 J . Palmer ( Savana Grande , Trinidad ) ... P . O . O .... o 12 9
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TO FOREIGN SUBSCRIBERS . It is very necessary for our friends to advise us of all money orders they remit , more especially those from the United States of America , otherwise we cannot tell where to credit them . Several remain uncredited at the present time owing to no advice having been received .
Ar00810
The Freemason , SATURDAY , J . fiiir J 874 .
The New Surrey Masonic Hall.
THE NEW SURREY MASONIC HALL .
We have to call the attention of our readers , to an interesting ceremony , which took place on Friday last , tlie 29 th ult ., namely , the laying of the foundation stone of the new Surrey Masonic
Hall , of whicli interesting ceremony a report appears in our columns to-day . We congratulate the Directois of the Company on this auspicious commencement of their important
undertaking , and trust sincerely that the building may be erected without danger to the workmen , and will prove eventually alike profitable as an investment , convenient to the lodges using it , a
credit to Masonic Architecture , and advantageous to the Craft . There is no reason why such buildings should not , under proper management , be in themselves , so to say , self-supporting , as
well as most helpful to true Freemasonry . Indeed , when we recall to-day the somewhat haphazard way in which the ancient ceremonies of our Order were celebrated some twenty years
ago , the inconvenient rooms in which we were content to meet , the incongruous accessories which then sometimes graced our socalled lodge-rooms , used for other purposes ,
and often less elevated proceedings , we cannot but feel what a large stride Masonic aesthetics have made happily amongst us , and how everywhere to-day we see tokens alike of the
craftsman ' s handiwork , and the architect ' s skill , employed in raising and adorning many a most stately and goodly Masonic Hall in our land . In the case before us , all the plans of the ground
buildings and all the details of the inner arrangements seem to betoken an anxious design to make the building alike suitable and fitted for our Masonic ceremonial and the convenience and
comfort of our brethren . And though we know there have been those , there probably still are some , who on the " penny wise and pound foolish system , " object to such an outlay and
deprecate such elaboration , and say that it is better and cheaper to rent a room in some adjacent hotel , or public building , yet we feel certain from some little experience , that no movement has done more good to Masonry than that , whicli , a
The New Surrey Masonic Hall.
our able Bro . J ohn Havers saw and said years ago , would disassociate our excellent brotherhood from uncongenial influences and question-, able localities . Most of us who have realized
the privacy , the independence , the comfort , and the self respect which our own freehold lodge buildings give us always , will never for a moment entertain the idea ,
that , our previous arrangements were beneficial in this respect , or that it is advisable to return to that " tenant-at-will " position which so often exposed the brethren to several drawbacks , and
often effectively lowered the character of Freemasonry , in days gone by , and in the less satisfactory lodge rooms of a defunct generation . That Masonry worked on , notwithstanding so
many patent inconveniences and unsuitable arrangements is due , we believe , to the inherent excellency of Masonry , and the high character of our Order , but once admitted , the defect , and
proved the blot , it is the duty of all masons , " good and true , " to labour zealously to amend the one , and to remove the other . And thus , in all our large towns , as Liverpool , Manchester
Leeds , Sheffield , Huddersfield , Bradford , and many more , our brethren have , for some time since , either purchased or raised large and stately buildings , in some of which several lodges meet ,
and which , alike , by their external appearance and internal arrangements , do honour to those who planned them , and those who use them . And though the hand which drew the stately
proportions and planned the becoming decorations , or the brethren who hailed the opening , or assembled there for many years , must gradually pass away , their works and their labours of love survive .
Amid the onward march of time , they still remain to tell after generations of craftsmen , that , their forefathers were not ashamed to own themselves Free and Accepted Masons , did not grudge to
give of their substance to do open honour to their Royal Art , and bequeathed to them a duty to perform , and a course to pursue in their day , so as to carefully preserve to their after brethren
what they so liberally erected , and so lovingly reared . It is one of the great characteristics of that noble art , which forms the basis of all Masonic history and symbolism and teaching , that
it is so to say purely unselfish . For we have the evidence before our eyes to day of the princely munificence of those who , in the noble buildings they raised with so much care and at such great
sacrifices , proclaimed to us that their great Masonic motto ever was , " Freely have you received , freely give , " and that they toiled , to afford pleasure , delight , and happiness to others
Yet we who look up with admiring gaze to-day on pinnacle and tower , on the wondrous proportions of some majestic building , some glorious minster , some Guild Hall—we who still can
appreciate oftentimes now the cunning corbel or quainter gurgoyle , we should never for get what we owe to that wandering band of Freemasons , to those moveable lodges of the
operative Craft , which have given us in all the fulness of architectural skill and beauty , so many marvels of that noble handiwork which has enriched and consecrated the science of
architecture . From them we still can draw admirable out . lines for modern labours , in them we still can discern in reverence ; and respect , how sublime an