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CONTENTS .

LEADERS 163 Masonic History 166 " Long Livers " 166 Masonic History and Historians 167 The Grand Lodge at York 167 The Anti Masonic Candidate in America 167 CORRESPONDENCEDorset Masonic Charity 16 S Thc Girls' and Bovs' Schools Elections ... 160

Mum 16 9 A Serious Matter 16 9 Thc Oldest Freemason in England 16 9 The Ancient and Primitive and Swedenborgian Rites 16 9

CORRESPONDENCE ( Continued)—Dean Swift 169 Young Instructors i < 5 g Renews l 6 9 Masonic Notes and Queries 170 Roval Masonic Institution tor Boys 170 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls 170 Cryptic Masonry 170 REPORT , OF MASONIC

MEETINGSCraft Masonry 171 Instruction 173 Mark Masonry 173 District Grand Lodge of Malta 173 Masonic Tidings 174

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WE have received and read the eighteenth report of the " Cheshire Educational Masonic Institution . " It is not without interest for us all . It has paid for the education of seventeen children ^ 124 2 s . 2 d ., and for the " advancement" of two children ^ 10 ios . Its annual income appears to be from "lodges and chapters" and " subscriptions and donations , " ^ 150 16 s . ;

interest of investments , £ 160 . It has sold out £ 350 of invested capital , and re-invested £ 782 13 s . Its "balance to credit" at the end of 18 79 was £ 272 is . 6 d . ; but at the end of 1 SS 0 only £ S 6 s . id . We need hardly add

that we wish this useful Association all success , and trust that in 1881 it will receive a considerable addition of pecuniary support from our good Cheshire brethren , in order to render its operations commensurate with the wants of that important province .

* * OUR remarks on a former occasion relative to the inopportuncness and impropriety of Bro . MASSA ' S Resolutions will be fully , we apprehend , borne out by their publication . They must strike all thinking Masons as singularly questionable . We ventured to point out before that if Bro . MASSA has any complaint

against the House Committee , he can bring the matter formally before the General Committee , and , if not satisfied with their decision , can appeal to the Quarterly Court . But it is contrary to all custom and precedent for any brother to make a fictitious motion , ( for Bro . MASSA cannot be in earnest in proposing a needless increase of the Girls' School ) , for the mere purpose of

ventilating a grievance . We trust that , as elsewhere , at the Quarterly Court " urgency " will be carried , and this mournful and unwelcome episode formally put a stop to , with the unanimous consent and to the intense relief of the Court and the subscribers . It is quite , clea " a priori" that Bro . MASSA , in his professional position , is the last person in the

world who ought to move a Resolution involving a large "building outlay , " against the wishes , moreover , of the House Committee and of the subscribers generall )' . There is no desire , as there is no need , to incur fresh building expenses , and the assumption that the "Junior School" is only

meant and adapted for " temporary purposes " is not only a most gratuitous one in itself , but is entirely contrary to the facts of the case . Such a Resolution is , in fact , an act of disrespect lo the whole House Committee and the whole body of the subscribers .

* * WE have reason to believe that though the list of Stewards for the Girls' School festival is a very good one so far , a large additional number of names of Stewards is required to make the interesting gathering a genuine success . An absurd " canard " has it seems been most

industriously propagated , to which we previously alluded—though by whom we do not profess to know or even conceive , nor for what purpose such an act of " malice prepense " could be committed , —that the returns are so large and so striking as to render other efforts superfluous . We beg , on the

contrary , to assure our readers that any such statement is entirely incorrect , and we wish to urge upon all who may intend to become Stewards to lose no time in sending in their names to thc Secretary , by whom all such offers of assistance will be gratefully received .

* * * THE report of the West Lancashire Educational Institution is before us , and a very striking one it is . The normal income of the Institution isdonations and subscriptions from lodges , & c , £ 573 - > from investments about X ' 580 . It receives £ 102 16 s . id . from an annual ball , and beginning

the year with a balance of £ 702 12 s . iod ., it ends with a balance of £ 754 19 s . gd . It has invested £ 655 during the past year , and its invested capital is now £ 16 , 500 in round figures . It has spent £ 671 17 s . iod . in the education and partial clothing of ninety-three children ; has taken in

twentyfive additional children ; and has increased the " School age" from six to fifteen—nine years . We are glad to " note "such " prosperous circumstances" in respect of an institution which seems to commend itself so strongly to the sympathies ancl support of all zealous brethren in West Lancashire .

* * * CAN nothing be done to stop Masonic mendicancy and itinerancy ? We beg to commend the subject specially to the notice of the authorities at Freemasons' Hall . The "fact" is a disgrace to Freemasonry , and very

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" hard lines " on the brethren of our lodges . Let us all try andjrealize the serious fact reported from East Lancashire , that out of sixty-four applicants for relief fifty-eight were itinerant Masons ; oi these twenty-four were of so " worthless" a character as to be refused necessarily all relief , and the remaining thirty-four were so manifestly mendicant Masons that they could

only be properly relieved with small sums , amounting to £ 9 is . 6 d . for the entire thirty-four ( not three shillings a head ) , having no " fair claim " on the " charity" of the East Lancashire brethren . These two facts are indeed " stubborn things , " and " speak volumes" to all who will calmly reflect on the meaning , the work , the use , and the true charity of

Freemasonry . * * As will be seen elsewhere , the first meeting of the Board of Stewards for the Girls' School Festival will be held on Tuesday next , the 12 th inst . We regret to find that the report which we have already noticed , but which has

been refuted in the columns of the Freemason by the Secretary of that Institution , is still in circulation and is doing much mischief , being in effect , that the" Girls'School isnotin want of help . " We cannot too strongly again point out the evil effect of such a " canard , " unfounded as it is in fact , nor urge too earnestly on the Craft the necessity of its individual support to each

of the Charities , as its Festival comes round . The Girls School is the next on the list , and we ask for that Institution the support which it so strongly merits , and which it so greatly needs , in order to meet its recently much increased responsibilities and expenditure for the benefit of the children of our Fraternity committed to its faithful charge .

* * WE call attention to the Report of the General Committee of the Girls ' School elsewhere , and also to a letter read at that meeting , which we do not hesitate to say , and such will be the unanimous opinion , we feel sure , of our

readers , not only ought never to have been written , but suggests many very unpleasant considerations indeed . We have had to strike out one very offensive epithet , and we feel lhat such " personalities " area discredit to al Masonic professions .

* * * IT is amusing to note how those who have votes to give for particular cases keep them until the last moment , forgetting that many calculations and

arrangements [ depend on early possession of the voting papers . We note this complaint in the provincial circulars , and this reticent custom is largely prevalent in the metropolis . Perhaps the old adage is true in this , as in other matters— " Better late than never . "

* * WE understand thatboth the elections for the Boys' and Girls' Schools will be marked by the large number of votes polled . Those of us who remember olden elections , say twenty years ago , must be struck by the amount of time , care , and preparation now requisite to do justice to the cases of those we

support . The interest excited in each election not only demonstrates the importance and need of the Charities themselves , but also the unmistakable fact that our wants are increasing , and are likely to increase . We some times hear a good deal as to " abuses " in charity elections—cards , and the

like—but in our Masonic Elections they hardly exist to any appreciable extent . The action of the Provincial Charities precludes their necessity , and in London they are greatly diminished . For this the London Association deserves all credit .

* * # WE take the following " extract" from our excellent contemporary , the Philadelphia Keystone , though we fancy , ( we perhaps may be wrong ) , we have seen it somewhere before , because it contains a great truth , and gives us all most sensible advice . Perhaps we all , unconsciously almost , err on this

subject , and " tall talk , and " high falutin " mark too much of our journalistic and general literature to-day . " Big words are great favourites with people of small ideas and weak conception . They are employed by men of mind when they wish to use language to conceal their thoughts . With few exceptions , however , illiterate and half educated persons use more ' big words ' than

people of thorough education . It is a very common , but egregious mistake , to suppose that the long words are more genteel than the short ones—just as the same sort of people imagine that high colours and flash y figures improve the style of dress . They are the kind of folks who don ' t begin , but ' commence . ' They don't live , but 'reside . ' They don ' t go to bed , but

mysteriously ' retire . ' They don ' t eat and drink , but 'partake' of ' refreshments . ' They are never sick , but ' extremely indisposed ; " and , instead of dying , at last they'decease . ' The strength of the English language is in the short words—chiefly monosyllables of Saxon derivation ; and people who

are in earnest seldom use any other . Love , hate , anger , grief , and joy express themselves in short words and direct sentences ; while cunning , falsehood , and affectation delight in what Horace calls verba sesquipedaliawords ' a foot and a half' long . "

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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS. Article 6
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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS. Article 6
Cryptic Masonry. Article 6
REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGS. Article 7
Mark Masonry. Article 9
DISTRICT GRAND LODGE OF MALTA. Article 9
Masonic Tidings. Article 10
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Contents.

CONTENTS .

LEADERS 163 Masonic History 166 " Long Livers " 166 Masonic History and Historians 167 The Grand Lodge at York 167 The Anti Masonic Candidate in America 167 CORRESPONDENCEDorset Masonic Charity 16 S Thc Girls' and Bovs' Schools Elections ... 160

Mum 16 9 A Serious Matter 16 9 Thc Oldest Freemason in England 16 9 The Ancient and Primitive and Swedenborgian Rites 16 9

CORRESPONDENCE ( Continued)—Dean Swift 169 Young Instructors i < 5 g Renews l 6 9 Masonic Notes and Queries 170 Roval Masonic Institution tor Boys 170 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls 170 Cryptic Masonry 170 REPORT , OF MASONIC

MEETINGSCraft Masonry 171 Instruction 173 Mark Masonry 173 District Grand Lodge of Malta 173 Masonic Tidings 174

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WE have received and read the eighteenth report of the " Cheshire Educational Masonic Institution . " It is not without interest for us all . It has paid for the education of seventeen children ^ 124 2 s . 2 d ., and for the " advancement" of two children ^ 10 ios . Its annual income appears to be from "lodges and chapters" and " subscriptions and donations , " ^ 150 16 s . ;

interest of investments , £ 160 . It has sold out £ 350 of invested capital , and re-invested £ 782 13 s . Its "balance to credit" at the end of 18 79 was £ 272 is . 6 d . ; but at the end of 1 SS 0 only £ S 6 s . id . We need hardly add

that we wish this useful Association all success , and trust that in 1881 it will receive a considerable addition of pecuniary support from our good Cheshire brethren , in order to render its operations commensurate with the wants of that important province .

* * OUR remarks on a former occasion relative to the inopportuncness and impropriety of Bro . MASSA ' S Resolutions will be fully , we apprehend , borne out by their publication . They must strike all thinking Masons as singularly questionable . We ventured to point out before that if Bro . MASSA has any complaint

against the House Committee , he can bring the matter formally before the General Committee , and , if not satisfied with their decision , can appeal to the Quarterly Court . But it is contrary to all custom and precedent for any brother to make a fictitious motion , ( for Bro . MASSA cannot be in earnest in proposing a needless increase of the Girls' School ) , for the mere purpose of

ventilating a grievance . We trust that , as elsewhere , at the Quarterly Court " urgency " will be carried , and this mournful and unwelcome episode formally put a stop to , with the unanimous consent and to the intense relief of the Court and the subscribers . It is quite , clea " a priori" that Bro . MASSA , in his professional position , is the last person in the

world who ought to move a Resolution involving a large "building outlay , " against the wishes , moreover , of the House Committee and of the subscribers generall )' . There is no desire , as there is no need , to incur fresh building expenses , and the assumption that the "Junior School" is only

meant and adapted for " temporary purposes " is not only a most gratuitous one in itself , but is entirely contrary to the facts of the case . Such a Resolution is , in fact , an act of disrespect lo the whole House Committee and the whole body of the subscribers .

* * WE have reason to believe that though the list of Stewards for the Girls' School festival is a very good one so far , a large additional number of names of Stewards is required to make the interesting gathering a genuine success . An absurd " canard " has it seems been most

industriously propagated , to which we previously alluded—though by whom we do not profess to know or even conceive , nor for what purpose such an act of " malice prepense " could be committed , —that the returns are so large and so striking as to render other efforts superfluous . We beg , on the

contrary , to assure our readers that any such statement is entirely incorrect , and we wish to urge upon all who may intend to become Stewards to lose no time in sending in their names to thc Secretary , by whom all such offers of assistance will be gratefully received .

* * * THE report of the West Lancashire Educational Institution is before us , and a very striking one it is . The normal income of the Institution isdonations and subscriptions from lodges , & c , £ 573 - > from investments about X ' 580 . It receives £ 102 16 s . id . from an annual ball , and beginning

the year with a balance of £ 702 12 s . iod ., it ends with a balance of £ 754 19 s . gd . It has invested £ 655 during the past year , and its invested capital is now £ 16 , 500 in round figures . It has spent £ 671 17 s . iod . in the education and partial clothing of ninety-three children ; has taken in

twentyfive additional children ; and has increased the " School age" from six to fifteen—nine years . We are glad to " note "such " prosperous circumstances" in respect of an institution which seems to commend itself so strongly to the sympathies ancl support of all zealous brethren in West Lancashire .

* * * CAN nothing be done to stop Masonic mendicancy and itinerancy ? We beg to commend the subject specially to the notice of the authorities at Freemasons' Hall . The "fact" is a disgrace to Freemasonry , and very

Ar00102

" hard lines " on the brethren of our lodges . Let us all try andjrealize the serious fact reported from East Lancashire , that out of sixty-four applicants for relief fifty-eight were itinerant Masons ; oi these twenty-four were of so " worthless" a character as to be refused necessarily all relief , and the remaining thirty-four were so manifestly mendicant Masons that they could

only be properly relieved with small sums , amounting to £ 9 is . 6 d . for the entire thirty-four ( not three shillings a head ) , having no " fair claim " on the " charity" of the East Lancashire brethren . These two facts are indeed " stubborn things , " and " speak volumes" to all who will calmly reflect on the meaning , the work , the use , and the true charity of

Freemasonry . * * As will be seen elsewhere , the first meeting of the Board of Stewards for the Girls' School Festival will be held on Tuesday next , the 12 th inst . We regret to find that the report which we have already noticed , but which has

been refuted in the columns of the Freemason by the Secretary of that Institution , is still in circulation and is doing much mischief , being in effect , that the" Girls'School isnotin want of help . " We cannot too strongly again point out the evil effect of such a " canard , " unfounded as it is in fact , nor urge too earnestly on the Craft the necessity of its individual support to each

of the Charities , as its Festival comes round . The Girls School is the next on the list , and we ask for that Institution the support which it so strongly merits , and which it so greatly needs , in order to meet its recently much increased responsibilities and expenditure for the benefit of the children of our Fraternity committed to its faithful charge .

* * WE call attention to the Report of the General Committee of the Girls ' School elsewhere , and also to a letter read at that meeting , which we do not hesitate to say , and such will be the unanimous opinion , we feel sure , of our

readers , not only ought never to have been written , but suggests many very unpleasant considerations indeed . We have had to strike out one very offensive epithet , and we feel lhat such " personalities " area discredit to al Masonic professions .

* * * IT is amusing to note how those who have votes to give for particular cases keep them until the last moment , forgetting that many calculations and

arrangements [ depend on early possession of the voting papers . We note this complaint in the provincial circulars , and this reticent custom is largely prevalent in the metropolis . Perhaps the old adage is true in this , as in other matters— " Better late than never . "

* * WE understand thatboth the elections for the Boys' and Girls' Schools will be marked by the large number of votes polled . Those of us who remember olden elections , say twenty years ago , must be struck by the amount of time , care , and preparation now requisite to do justice to the cases of those we

support . The interest excited in each election not only demonstrates the importance and need of the Charities themselves , but also the unmistakable fact that our wants are increasing , and are likely to increase . We some times hear a good deal as to " abuses " in charity elections—cards , and the

like—but in our Masonic Elections they hardly exist to any appreciable extent . The action of the Provincial Charities precludes their necessity , and in London they are greatly diminished . For this the London Association deserves all credit .

* * # WE take the following " extract" from our excellent contemporary , the Philadelphia Keystone , though we fancy , ( we perhaps may be wrong ) , we have seen it somewhere before , because it contains a great truth , and gives us all most sensible advice . Perhaps we all , unconsciously almost , err on this

subject , and " tall talk , and " high falutin " mark too much of our journalistic and general literature to-day . " Big words are great favourites with people of small ideas and weak conception . They are employed by men of mind when they wish to use language to conceal their thoughts . With few exceptions , however , illiterate and half educated persons use more ' big words ' than

people of thorough education . It is a very common , but egregious mistake , to suppose that the long words are more genteel than the short ones—just as the same sort of people imagine that high colours and flash y figures improve the style of dress . They are the kind of folks who don ' t begin , but ' commence . ' They don't live , but 'reside . ' They don ' t go to bed , but

mysteriously ' retire . ' They don ' t eat and drink , but 'partake' of ' refreshments . ' They are never sick , but ' extremely indisposed ; " and , instead of dying , at last they'decease . ' The strength of the English language is in the short words—chiefly monosyllables of Saxon derivation ; and people who

are in earnest seldom use any other . Love , hate , anger , grief , and joy express themselves in short words and direct sentences ; while cunning , falsehood , and affectation delight in what Horace calls verba sesquipedaliawords ' a foot and a half' long . "

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