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TO OUR READERS . The FREEMASON is a Weekly Newspaper , price 2 d . It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important , interesting , and useful information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Subscription , including- postage : United America , India , India , China , Sec Kingdom , the Continent , & c . Via Brindisi . Twelve Months IOS . 6 d . 12 s . od . ijs . J . d .
Six „ 3 s . 3 d . 6 s . 6 d . 8 s . 8 d . Three „ 2 s . 8 d . 3 s . 3 d . 4 s . 6 d . Subscriptions may be paid for in stamps , but Post Office Orders or Cheques are preferred , the former payable to
GEORGE KENNING , CHIEF OFFICE , LONDON , the latter crossed London and Joint Stock Bank . Advertisements and other business communications should be addressed to the Publisher . Communications on literary subjects and books for
review are to be forwarded to the Editor . Anonymous correspondence will be wholly disregarded , and the return of rejected MSS . cannot be guaranteed . Further information will be supplied on application to the Publisher , inS , Fleet-street , London .
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IMPORTANT NOTICE . COLONIAL and FOREIGN SUBSCRIBERS are informed that acknowledgments of remittances received are published in the first number of every month .
It is very necessary for our readers to advise us of all money orders they remit , more especially those from the United States of America and India ; otherwise we cannot tell where to credit them .
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NOTICE . To prevent delay or miscarriage , it is particularly requested that ALL communications for the FREEMASON , may be addressed to the Office , 198 , Fleet-street , London .
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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 . ADVERTISEMENTS to ensure insertion in current -week ' s issue should reach the Office , 198 , Fleet-street , by 12 o ' clock on Wednesdays .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
BOOKS & c , RECEIVED . "Thc Delusion of the Day , " "Man ' s Best l ' ood ;" " The Masonic Eclectic j " " The Scottish Freemason ; " " Bulletin du Grand Orient ; " " The Freemason ' s Repository ; " " Keystone ;"" Science for all ; " "Wallace ' s Wonderful Water ; " " Proctor ' s Planet Earth ; " "Mr . Lockyer ' s Logic ; " " Journal of Travels ; " " Young
Folks ; " " Canadian Craftsman ; " " Voice of Masonry ; " " The Fight between Aleck and Humid ; " " Israel ' s Jubilee 1882 . " ERRATUM . —For " 300 , 000 Masons" read " 1 , 300 , 000 in the world , " in the Freemason , December 29 . PANACHE . —In our next . CONSTANT REMIER . —Unfortunately too late ; in our next .
Births ,Marriages And Deaths.
Births , Marriages and Deaths .
[ The charge is 2 S . 6 d . for announcements , not exceed ng four lines , under this heading . ]
BIRTHS . BARHEH . —On the 6 th inst ., at Westbourne-terrace , Hyde Park , the wife of J . Barber , Esq ., of a son . FAHR . —On the 31 st ult ., the wife of Dr . A . Fair , of a daughter . PACKE . —On the 6 th inst ., at Charles-street , Herkelcysquare , the Lady Alice Packe , of a son . WALKER . —On the jth inst ., at St . Ann ' s-villas , Nottinghill , the wife of W . G . Walker , of a son .
MARRIAGES . ROITE—P OWELL . —On the 22 nd ult ., at Garsington , near Oxford , C . Marceloff Roffe , to Emily , daughter of thc late W . Llewellyn Powell , of Instow , North Devon . TOHRENS—H ARBISON . —On thc 3 th inst ., at St . Peter ' s , Eaton-square , by the Rev . Thomas Millington , vicar of Wooiihouse-Eavc , William M . 'Cullagh Torrens , M . P ., to Emily , third elaughterof the late William Harrison , of Eastland House , Leamington .
DEATHS . ALDUAM . —On thc 5 th inst ., at Braeldock Rectory , Cornwall , Jane Seymour , wife of the Rev . V . H . Aldham . DOYI . E . —On the 5 th inst , at 14 , Mount Pleasant , Liverpool , aged S o , W . Doyle , P . P . G . J . D . W . L ., P . M . and
Treasurer , 66 7 . HARMS . —On thc 4 th inst ., at Villa D'Este , Ryele , I . W ., George Douglas Harris , late Capt . 19 th Rcgt . WRIGHT . —On the 2 nd inst ., at Duke-street , Southport , H . Wright , J . P ., aged 64 years .
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TheFreemason, SATURDAY , J ANUARY 12 , 1878
Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution.
ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION .
The annual Festival of this admirable Institution of our Order will take place on the 1 , 3 th February , 1878 , under the distinguished presidency of the Duke of Manchester , R . W ., Prov . G . Master of Huntingdonshire . A very numerous Board of Stewards has already been formed
among whom may be named Bro . the Marquis of Hartington and the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe , together with many Present and Past Grand and Provincial Grand Officers . Up to the present time the Stewards number 195 ; which large list may well be increased before the second
meeting of the Stewards on the 24 th of January . This we trust will prove to be the case , and we need hardly add that if Bro . Terry can open our Charitable Festivals for 1878 with 200 Stewards , it will be indeed a good augury for the cause of Masonic Charity in this new year of light and
grace . At the first meeting of the Stewards on the 3 rd inst ., Bro . Joseph Smith , P . G . Purst ., well well known to most of us , for many good genial qualities , was elected Chairman . Bro . Edward Cox , an old and worthy member of our Order , was chosen as Treasurer , and to our zealous and
untiring Bro . Terry , was delegated the important office of Secretary to the Board of Stewards , not only"virtute officii , " but as a special mark of fraternal regard and confidence . The Stewards very wisely fixed the amount of deposit for
Stewards at the reasonable figure of two guineas , and we are inclined to think that this fact may induce many other worthy brethren to volunteer to act as Stewards to this most deserving charity of our Order . For let ns remember what the
Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution really does do . It is now giving annuities to 145 aged and decayed brethren , of ££ 40 , equivalent to d 6 j 8 oo annually , and annuities of £ 32 to 130 widows , amounting to s € + 160 . Thus it is pledged to an annual expenditure of /" oo 6 o . In addition
to this the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution gives to 13 widows ( this is an unique arrangement of our excellent Masonic Charity ) one half the amount of their late husband's annuity . Thus on the whole , the payment to the annuitants will absorb somewhat over £ 10 , 200 , andwe may well
bear in mind that during the last five years we have added 99 annuitants and s £± 6 oo annuall y in allowances . These are facts to be recorded and realized . We may observe that of these annuitants fourteen brethren and fifteen widows live at Croydon , where they have comfortable
rooms and coals provided for them . We make bold to say that there is not one Charity of our Order which is in itself more useful and valuable , or more deserving the kindly support of the entire Craft . It does as much good , humanly speaking , as can be done by any other similar charity , and
does it simply , straight-forwardly , and unostentatiously . It has been sometimes said that the Institution is a rich institution , but that is a complete mistake . It has no doubt a considerable amount of funded property , but the interest of that , which amounts , in both the funds to about
, £ 1440 annually , in round numbers , as will be seen , bears but a small proi ^ ortion to the sum necessary to carry on the Institution , namely 6 e § io , 20 o annually at the very least . It has been remarked that the balances of the Institution are large , and so they are , and well it is that they should be so , as the Committee and Bro . Terry
very properly always bear m mind that seasons of prosperity may be followed by the chilling honrs of adversity , and that it is always wise to keep on the " credit" side if possible of your Banker ' s account . The "debit" page is a bad one for societies and individuals . We feel it to beourduty strongly to commend the claims of this excellent
Institution to the notice and sympathy of our many readers . We shall hope on the 13 th of February , to hear Bro . Terry announce a noble total , and shall be glad to think that thus our old English
Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution.
Craft remains true to its high mission , the inculcation of Masonic brotherhood , the practice of kindly and discriminating true hearted charity . May our anticipations be realized , and the anniversary of 18 78 demonstrate that English Freemasonry is " moving on . "
A Note Of Warning.
A NOTE OF WARNING .
Those who know most of what is going on in Freemasonry are the fullest of some little anxiety for the future . We have at this moment before us the spectacle of a weekly increasing Order , and of an enormous list of candidates for Freemasonry . A large number
of lodges have their agenda papers covered posiively with the names of the applicants , whether as initiates or joining members . And though it is very pleasant to us old Masons to witness the appreciation of an Order , to which some of us have devoted the best hours of our lives .
we still feel , and feel strongly , that there is another side to the picture , not so cheerful , and certainly not so welcome . It is the old saying , " After the dinner comes the reckoning , " and after we have thus added to our numbers , rapidly and
indiscriminately , what then r We now wish to point out to our readers two ways in which this untimely haste of admission is likely to injure the prestige and prosperity of the Craft . We shall suffer greatly from a lowering of our standard of admission . It is an undoubted fact that in order
to swell lodge funds many candidates are admitted who have no claim to be admitted at all . Too many brethren forget both the responsibility of a Freemason and the need there is that they should have some knowledge of the candidate . Many candidates get in in a sort of
haphazard way like this . Bro . Jones says to Bro . Jiggins , "lam going to propose Beckington , will you second him ? " " 1 don ' t know him " says Jiggins , '' but if you propose him I will . " "Capital good fellow : s Powter , " says Napper'' let ' s have him in our lodge , Johnson . " "T
don ' t know him , " says Johnson , " but if you do that ' s quite enough . " Accordingly , Beckington and Powter are proposed , seconded , and admitted . We have known of a case where candidates were admitted on the fiat of one brother , though unknown to the other brethren , and at this
moment no possible enquiry can be made as to those who are trooping in , and on whom will depend the future of Freemasonry . Of the above there is no possible doubt ; though its remedy may not be so easy to find , and then , secondly , let us remember , the evil accruing
to us as an Order , in respect of overwhelming demands on our Charities . Ask Bro . Terry , or Bro . Binckes , or Bro . Little , all of whom know the working of Freemasonry well , and they will tell you , we feel sure , that the present rapid increase of brethren fills them with most serious considerations for the future . Of those
who now are so carelessly admitted in such large numbers , a very sensible proportion will become inevitably candidates for our Charities . And whet we realize what has been doing , what is doing in this respect , we often ask ourselves , what is to be the possible limit 5
What will be the probable result of such a startling increase of our numerical membershi p ? We then beg , respectfully , with tho beginning of 1878 , to call the attention of W . Masters to this most important subject . Let them set their faces against this extraordinary facility of
proposition and of reception , and let us all remember that if our lodges are to continue to be what they are meant to be to us , we should endeavour to make them a family party to us all , in which all are known , all are loved , all are on
terms of affection , and happy when with us . Freemasonry is not and never will be strong because of numbers , but it is and must be strong in the heartfelt sympathy and Masonic fellowship of all the members of its kindly lodges .
The Indian Famine Fund.
THE INDIAN FAMINE FUND .
The result of the appeal from the Mansion House to the benevolent public forthe relief of our
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TO OUR READERS . The FREEMASON is a Weekly Newspaper , price 2 d . It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important , interesting , and useful information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Subscription , including- postage : United America , India , India , China , Sec Kingdom , the Continent , & c . Via Brindisi . Twelve Months IOS . 6 d . 12 s . od . ijs . J . d .
Six „ 3 s . 3 d . 6 s . 6 d . 8 s . 8 d . Three „ 2 s . 8 d . 3 s . 3 d . 4 s . 6 d . Subscriptions may be paid for in stamps , but Post Office Orders or Cheques are preferred , the former payable to
GEORGE KENNING , CHIEF OFFICE , LONDON , the latter crossed London and Joint Stock Bank . Advertisements and other business communications should be addressed to the Publisher . Communications on literary subjects and books for
review are to be forwarded to the Editor . Anonymous correspondence will be wholly disregarded , and the return of rejected MSS . cannot be guaranteed . Further information will be supplied on application to the Publisher , inS , Fleet-street , London .
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IMPORTANT NOTICE . COLONIAL and FOREIGN SUBSCRIBERS are informed that acknowledgments of remittances received are published in the first number of every month .
It is very necessary for our readers to advise us of all money orders they remit , more especially those from the United States of America and India ; otherwise we cannot tell where to credit them .
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NOTICE . To prevent delay or miscarriage , it is particularly requested that ALL communications for the FREEMASON , may be addressed to the Office , 198 , Fleet-street , London .
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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 . ADVERTISEMENTS to ensure insertion in current -week ' s issue should reach the Office , 198 , Fleet-street , by 12 o ' clock on Wednesdays .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
BOOKS & c , RECEIVED . "Thc Delusion of the Day , " "Man ' s Best l ' ood ;" " The Masonic Eclectic j " " The Scottish Freemason ; " " Bulletin du Grand Orient ; " " The Freemason ' s Repository ; " " Keystone ;"" Science for all ; " "Wallace ' s Wonderful Water ; " " Proctor ' s Planet Earth ; " "Mr . Lockyer ' s Logic ; " " Journal of Travels ; " " Young
Folks ; " " Canadian Craftsman ; " " Voice of Masonry ; " " The Fight between Aleck and Humid ; " " Israel ' s Jubilee 1882 . " ERRATUM . —For " 300 , 000 Masons" read " 1 , 300 , 000 in the world , " in the Freemason , December 29 . PANACHE . —In our next . CONSTANT REMIER . —Unfortunately too late ; in our next .
Births ,Marriages And Deaths.
Births , Marriages and Deaths .
[ The charge is 2 S . 6 d . for announcements , not exceed ng four lines , under this heading . ]
BIRTHS . BARHEH . —On the 6 th inst ., at Westbourne-terrace , Hyde Park , the wife of J . Barber , Esq ., of a son . FAHR . —On the 31 st ult ., the wife of Dr . A . Fair , of a daughter . PACKE . —On the 6 th inst ., at Charles-street , Herkelcysquare , the Lady Alice Packe , of a son . WALKER . —On the jth inst ., at St . Ann ' s-villas , Nottinghill , the wife of W . G . Walker , of a son .
MARRIAGES . ROITE—P OWELL . —On the 22 nd ult ., at Garsington , near Oxford , C . Marceloff Roffe , to Emily , daughter of thc late W . Llewellyn Powell , of Instow , North Devon . TOHRENS—H ARBISON . —On thc 3 th inst ., at St . Peter ' s , Eaton-square , by the Rev . Thomas Millington , vicar of Wooiihouse-Eavc , William M . 'Cullagh Torrens , M . P ., to Emily , third elaughterof the late William Harrison , of Eastland House , Leamington .
DEATHS . ALDUAM . —On thc 5 th inst ., at Braeldock Rectory , Cornwall , Jane Seymour , wife of the Rev . V . H . Aldham . DOYI . E . —On the 5 th inst , at 14 , Mount Pleasant , Liverpool , aged S o , W . Doyle , P . P . G . J . D . W . L ., P . M . and
Treasurer , 66 7 . HARMS . —On thc 4 th inst ., at Villa D'Este , Ryele , I . W ., George Douglas Harris , late Capt . 19 th Rcgt . WRIGHT . —On the 2 nd inst ., at Duke-street , Southport , H . Wright , J . P ., aged 64 years .
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TheFreemason, SATURDAY , J ANUARY 12 , 1878
Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution.
ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION .
The annual Festival of this admirable Institution of our Order will take place on the 1 , 3 th February , 1878 , under the distinguished presidency of the Duke of Manchester , R . W ., Prov . G . Master of Huntingdonshire . A very numerous Board of Stewards has already been formed
among whom may be named Bro . the Marquis of Hartington and the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe , together with many Present and Past Grand and Provincial Grand Officers . Up to the present time the Stewards number 195 ; which large list may well be increased before the second
meeting of the Stewards on the 24 th of January . This we trust will prove to be the case , and we need hardly add that if Bro . Terry can open our Charitable Festivals for 1878 with 200 Stewards , it will be indeed a good augury for the cause of Masonic Charity in this new year of light and
grace . At the first meeting of the Stewards on the 3 rd inst ., Bro . Joseph Smith , P . G . Purst ., well well known to most of us , for many good genial qualities , was elected Chairman . Bro . Edward Cox , an old and worthy member of our Order , was chosen as Treasurer , and to our zealous and
untiring Bro . Terry , was delegated the important office of Secretary to the Board of Stewards , not only"virtute officii , " but as a special mark of fraternal regard and confidence . The Stewards very wisely fixed the amount of deposit for
Stewards at the reasonable figure of two guineas , and we are inclined to think that this fact may induce many other worthy brethren to volunteer to act as Stewards to this most deserving charity of our Order . For let ns remember what the
Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution really does do . It is now giving annuities to 145 aged and decayed brethren , of ££ 40 , equivalent to d 6 j 8 oo annually , and annuities of £ 32 to 130 widows , amounting to s € + 160 . Thus it is pledged to an annual expenditure of /" oo 6 o . In addition
to this the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution gives to 13 widows ( this is an unique arrangement of our excellent Masonic Charity ) one half the amount of their late husband's annuity . Thus on the whole , the payment to the annuitants will absorb somewhat over £ 10 , 200 , andwe may well
bear in mind that during the last five years we have added 99 annuitants and s £± 6 oo annuall y in allowances . These are facts to be recorded and realized . We may observe that of these annuitants fourteen brethren and fifteen widows live at Croydon , where they have comfortable
rooms and coals provided for them . We make bold to say that there is not one Charity of our Order which is in itself more useful and valuable , or more deserving the kindly support of the entire Craft . It does as much good , humanly speaking , as can be done by any other similar charity , and
does it simply , straight-forwardly , and unostentatiously . It has been sometimes said that the Institution is a rich institution , but that is a complete mistake . It has no doubt a considerable amount of funded property , but the interest of that , which amounts , in both the funds to about
, £ 1440 annually , in round numbers , as will be seen , bears but a small proi ^ ortion to the sum necessary to carry on the Institution , namely 6 e § io , 20 o annually at the very least . It has been remarked that the balances of the Institution are large , and so they are , and well it is that they should be so , as the Committee and Bro . Terry
very properly always bear m mind that seasons of prosperity may be followed by the chilling honrs of adversity , and that it is always wise to keep on the " credit" side if possible of your Banker ' s account . The "debit" page is a bad one for societies and individuals . We feel it to beourduty strongly to commend the claims of this excellent
Institution to the notice and sympathy of our many readers . We shall hope on the 13 th of February , to hear Bro . Terry announce a noble total , and shall be glad to think that thus our old English
Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution.
Craft remains true to its high mission , the inculcation of Masonic brotherhood , the practice of kindly and discriminating true hearted charity . May our anticipations be realized , and the anniversary of 18 78 demonstrate that English Freemasonry is " moving on . "
A Note Of Warning.
A NOTE OF WARNING .
Those who know most of what is going on in Freemasonry are the fullest of some little anxiety for the future . We have at this moment before us the spectacle of a weekly increasing Order , and of an enormous list of candidates for Freemasonry . A large number
of lodges have their agenda papers covered posiively with the names of the applicants , whether as initiates or joining members . And though it is very pleasant to us old Masons to witness the appreciation of an Order , to which some of us have devoted the best hours of our lives .
we still feel , and feel strongly , that there is another side to the picture , not so cheerful , and certainly not so welcome . It is the old saying , " After the dinner comes the reckoning , " and after we have thus added to our numbers , rapidly and
indiscriminately , what then r We now wish to point out to our readers two ways in which this untimely haste of admission is likely to injure the prestige and prosperity of the Craft . We shall suffer greatly from a lowering of our standard of admission . It is an undoubted fact that in order
to swell lodge funds many candidates are admitted who have no claim to be admitted at all . Too many brethren forget both the responsibility of a Freemason and the need there is that they should have some knowledge of the candidate . Many candidates get in in a sort of
haphazard way like this . Bro . Jones says to Bro . Jiggins , "lam going to propose Beckington , will you second him ? " " 1 don ' t know him " says Jiggins , '' but if you propose him I will . " "Capital good fellow : s Powter , " says Napper'' let ' s have him in our lodge , Johnson . " "T
don ' t know him , " says Johnson , " but if you do that ' s quite enough . " Accordingly , Beckington and Powter are proposed , seconded , and admitted . We have known of a case where candidates were admitted on the fiat of one brother , though unknown to the other brethren , and at this
moment no possible enquiry can be made as to those who are trooping in , and on whom will depend the future of Freemasonry . Of the above there is no possible doubt ; though its remedy may not be so easy to find , and then , secondly , let us remember , the evil accruing
to us as an Order , in respect of overwhelming demands on our Charities . Ask Bro . Terry , or Bro . Binckes , or Bro . Little , all of whom know the working of Freemasonry well , and they will tell you , we feel sure , that the present rapid increase of brethren fills them with most serious considerations for the future . Of those
who now are so carelessly admitted in such large numbers , a very sensible proportion will become inevitably candidates for our Charities . And whet we realize what has been doing , what is doing in this respect , we often ask ourselves , what is to be the possible limit 5
What will be the probable result of such a startling increase of our numerical membershi p ? We then beg , respectfully , with tho beginning of 1878 , to call the attention of W . Masters to this most important subject . Let them set their faces against this extraordinary facility of
proposition and of reception , and let us all remember that if our lodges are to continue to be what they are meant to be to us , we should endeavour to make them a family party to us all , in which all are known , all are loved , all are on
terms of affection , and happy when with us . Freemasonry is not and never will be strong because of numbers , but it is and must be strong in the heartfelt sympathy and Masonic fellowship of all the members of its kindly lodges .
The Indian Famine Fund.
THE INDIAN FAMINE FUND .
The result of the appeal from the Mansion House to the benevolent public forthe relief of our