Table Of Contents.

TABLE OF CONTENTS .

PAGE OlilTUARYllro . Francis Crew ... ... ... ... 217 Bro . Charles Stuart Law 217 RED CROSS ORDER 217 & 218 COPIES OF ADDRESSES 21 S

THE CRAFTMetropolitan 21 S & 219 Scotland 219 ROYAL ARCHMetropolitan 219

Provincial ... ... ... ... ... ... 219 Scotland ... ... ... ... ... ... 219 ROYAL ARK MARINERSMetropolitan ... 219 ORDERS OF CHIVALRYRed Cross of Rome and Constantine ... ... 219

ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE —• Provincial 219 INSTALLATION OF GRAND MASTER 220

CONSECRATION OF A NEW LODGE AT HORNCASTLE 220 PRESENTATION TO M . E . COMP . DR . MOORE ... 220 DEDICATION OF THE MASONIC ROOMS AT THE MASONIC HALL , BIRMINGHAM ... 220 & 221

MASONIC MEETINGS FOR NEXT WEEK 221 ST . MARK ' HOSPITAL FOR FISTULA , CITY ROAD 221 BIRTHS , MARRIAGES AND DEATHS 222 ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS ... 222

MULTUM IN PARVO 222 & 22 3 SUPREME GRAND CHAPTER 223 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCEHear the other side 224

Constantine the Great ... ... ... ... 224 Hut-am Abiff ... 2241 X 225 Uniformity of Working ... ... ... ... 225 Utility of Correspondence ... ... ... 225 Hiram Abif ... ... ... . ... 225

Obituary.

Obituary .

BROTHER FRANCIS CREW , P . G . Steward , P . M . No . I , d-v . Time—inexorable in its determination , however

long postponed—has this week terminated the existence of tlie above well-known member of our Order , at the ripe age of 86 . Initiated in

the Perpetual Friendship Lodge , 157 ( now 135 ) , Bridgewater , on 5 th February , 1821 , Bro . Crew joined the Grand Master ' s Lodge , No . 1 , on 21 st April , 1821 . Having passed the chair in this lodge , Bro . Crew subsequently officiated as

Secretary , and held thatposition to tlie close of his active career . This , it may be remembered , occurred in iS 6 r , in which year illness compelled him to resign the Secretaryship of the " Royal Freemasons' School for Female Children , " which he

had held for 20 years , from 29 th July , 1841 . it was in this position Brother Crew became more extensively known , and his services in connection with that valuable Institution can never be forgotten . They are tangibly and prominently

preserved and commemorated in a full-length portrait placed in the dining-hall of the Institution , painted by subscriptions from members of the various committees , his friends and admirers , by whom his services were best known and

appreciated . Few men possessed the power as did Bro . Crew to form , perfect , and maintain friendships . His genial humour , happy disposition , generosity both of heart and hand , eminently fitted him for

social life , and when to the numerous good qualities by which he was distinguished were added a persuasive eloquence , and vocal powers characterised by so exquisite a charm as to distance all competitors , it can easily be

understood how readily he drew towards himself the warm attachment of those amongst whom lii . s lot was cast . This was never forfeited , even

when struck down by paralysis , and by consequent loss of speech , debarred from the pleasure , of conversational intercourse , as old friends have during the last eight years

Obituary.

been constant in their visits , delighted to find that consciousness , the powers of recognition , and the intellect , remained unclouded , and as powerful as in the days when the flashes of wit " would set the table in a roar , " or when the melodious notes would move to tears by strains

of pathos , or excite to delight by the winning graces of a voice that never failed to please . Bro . Crew married late in life , and it is not too much to say that his last years were cheered , if not absolutely prolonged , by a care and devotion such as has rarely been exhibited even by

woman , and which deserves and demands the warmest acknowledgment of all by whom our departed friend was -revered and respected in life as by them he is regretted in death . Bro . Crew died at his residence , in Burton-crescent , on Tuesday , 3 rd inst ., and will be interred in Highgate Cemetery at noon on Saturday next .

This hasty and imperfect tribute is penned by one who enjoyed Bro . Crew's friendship for some years , and who had ample opportunities of testifying to his goodness . There are , doubtless , many others who possessed these

advantages to a much greater extent , and to whom it must be left to supply particulars with which he is not acquainted , but by none can his memory be more fondly cherished , or held in greener recollection .

Bro . Crew was a member of the Nine Muses Lodge , No . 235 , and the St . James' R . A . Chapter , No . 2 .

BRO . CHARLES STUART LAW . ( Grand Director of Ceremonies in the Grand Lodge of Scotland . ) It is with a feeling of sadness that we record the death of Bro . Charles Stuart Law , Master Mason No . 1 , and Past Master of St . Andrew ' s Lodge , Edinburgh , Xo . 48 , Grand Director of

Ceremonies in the Grand Lodge of Scotland , and First Principal Chapter No . 2 , Member of the Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Scotland , a Member of the Royal Order of Scotland , and a Member of the Religious and Military Order of Knights Templar . He died at

Edinburgh on the 13 th April , 1870 , at the early age of 3 6 . His death , so unexpected , in the very prime of life , will be regarded with much regret by Freemasons throughout all parts of the world , but particularly in Scotland , where he was best known . He was highly esteemed among his

Masonic brethren on account of his high attainments in Freemasonry . He was a son of the First Grand Jeweller to the Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Scotland , and the Religious and Military Order of the Temple , and was himself at the proper age initiated as a

Mason , i he working of a lodge under his Mastership was admirable to all who witnessed it ; the solemnity of the initiation of candidates and the manner in which the whole ceremonial was conducted were deeply impressive , and were calculated to give the newly-initiated a most

favourable view of the entire system of our Order . In his Masonic zenith , about four years ago , his working of the Mark degree was such as has seldom been equalled . The working of the Senior Warden in the Royal Order of Scotland was such

as is not likely again to be witnessed , and certainly can never be surpassed . Some years ago , Bro . Charles Stuart Law was a candidate for tlie office of Grand Jeweller to the Grand Lodge of Scotland , and was unsuccessful only by a few votes .

He has gone home , we trust , to the land of peace—where those who obey the great teachings of Freemasonry , " to love and obey the laws of God with their whole heart , " are sure to dwell . He has left many to mourn his early departure from this world . A few faithful brethren attended his funeral , and he now lies interred in the Western Cemetery , Edinburgh .

" I HAD been laid up several days , suffering severely from diarrhoea , accompanied with intense pain , when a fellow-traveller recommended to mc so strongly Perry Davis ' s Vegetable Pain Killer that 1 tried it , and got almost instant relief , and I cut do no better than recommend it as strongly to others .- — J-I I : \ KV J . } Zooyiv ., ( Cle » tcnl &* Co . ) , L' urlouon-Trcnt , Nov . 14 , 1868 . —To P . Davis & Son .

Red Cross Order.

RED CROSS ORDER .

I trust that Bro . R . W . L . and Bro . Hughan will permit me to reply to their communications in one article , and to commence by thanking them for their friendly expressions of good-will . I hope the former , when he tells me that I " cover a vast extent of ground , " will not forget that I

have occupied the space with questions to which , in communications of greater space , he does not reply ; and I trust that the latter does not include me amongst those who , speaking of the Masonic Red Cross Order , are " rushing against the facts of its history , " or offering to its votaries

" any amount of petty opposition . My sole object is to know what are the evidences which are stated to be possessed by a Masonic Order , which has now made very extraordinary historic claims . I will first refer to points in R . W . L . 's communication at p . 193 .

1 . I enquired if it could be shown that this Masonic Order had been allied with the Constantinian name more than afc 7 U years ? Surely this could not be mistaken ? Is it more than

a few years since the French publication in 18 3 8 ? And now that R . W . L . discovers that my view of " more that a few years , " means rather more than thirty-two , why has he not advanced some of the evidence which Bro .

Hughan told us was in the hands of tlie chosen few , and of which he now says , " time will make mention " ? I should prefer its being mentioned at once . 2 . I do not know that the Scottish Templar question is material to the broad claims now

asserted ; but I must say that I have perused the correspondence of one of the most distinguished Masons amongst those whose names adom the Scottish Roll , and can testify that he said he assisted in the organization of the first Encampment , and that his own diploma was

dated in 1800 . I was , perhaps , hasty in giving this as the year of the actual appearance of the Masonic Order of the Temple in Scotland . We have the distinct testimony of Morison that it was first introduced in 179 8 , so that R . W . L . 's grandfather may have been a Templar in 1799 .

3 . I fail to see the inference in favour of the antiquity of the Red Cross degree from its being countenanced by a Chapter-general of such a venerable date as 18 n . ' 4 . Bro . R . W . L . ' s word is quite sufficient that the Ritual he possesses is in the hand-writing

of the well-known Mason , Bro . W . Rodwell Wright ; but how does this fact prove the antiquity of the Order , or help its claim to be " the only legitimate , " & c . ? Bro . Wright had pos sibly , or even probably , compiled this Ritual himself , from a Ritual of the old Masonic Red

Cross Order which was not called "Constantine ; and this is the document , written probably within two years of 181 r , which R . W . L . refers to when he says , " we now quote the words of an oldRitual . " This is " very ancient and fish-like , " indeed !

5 . I am happy to explain the error I made when I said that King Victor Emmanuel was the head of the ancient public Constantinian Order . In making that statement I was misled by , or mistook , one of our principal authorities on the subject ; but a few weeks afterwards , and

after your contemporary had closed the then discussion , I was informed by a very competent friend that the present Italian Government had in no way adopted the Chivalric Orders of its predecessor , and that they consequently still belonged only to their former claimants . This

information is now fully corroborated by the letter from the Italian Legation , which Bro . Yarker has published in your contemporary of the 23 rd inst . ( p . 329 ); in which it clearly appears that the Italian Minister supposed he had received an application from a " Masonic lodge which is entitled the Red Cross of

Constantine . " It appears obvious that he thought he was required to say if there would be any objection made to this assumption ; and he accordingly says , " that the Italian Government not having recognised the Constantinian Orders of Naples and Parma , they have not on his part to fear any objection lhat the members of the above-named lodge should use the orders in