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The Freemason , SATURDAY , J 12 , 1873 .

Royal Masonic Institution For Boys.

ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS .

SUMMER FESTIVAL AT WOOD GREEN , DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES TO PUPILS , AND PRESENTATION OF TESTIMONIAL TO BRO . BINCKES , SECRETARY .

This festival , distribution , and presentation took place at the Institution , Wood-green , on Tuesday last ; the distribution of prizes being made by Bro . Sheriff Perkins ( in the absence of

the Lord Mayor ) , in the presence of a large assemblage of brethren and ladies . We purpose giving an extended report of the day ' s proceedings in our next number .

The presentation to Bro . Binckes consisted of a handsome silver salver , accompanied by a purse containing a cheque representing the amount collected . On the salver was the

following inscription : — " Presented to Bro . Frederick Binckes , P . M . Lodges 11 , Grand Steward , 60 , 788 , 1185 , and P . G . Steward , with a Purse of One Thousand Guineas , by his Masonic Friends ,

in testimony of their appreciation of his exertions as Secretary , in promoting the Institution ' s prosperity , and especially his earnest and

successful advocacy of the erection of the New School Buildings . Wood Green , July 8 th I 373- "

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TALK ABOUT MASONRY .

Human institutions are but the outgrowths of human nature . They have permanency and influence in proportion to the completeness with which they reflect the human soul . Those that

grow out of an evanescent wave of human thought or feeling , rise , serve their temporary purpose , and pass away . Forms of government , dynasties , religious creeds , systems of philosophy .

political dogmas , theories of science , social customs , when they cease to keep pace with the growth of the great body of human character , or to respond to its essential and unchangeable

elements , are discarded , and fall into oblivion . That only is permanent which answers to some thing in the human heart which time cannot change .

Adam was the epitome of the human race . There was nothing in Adam that is not in kind in us . There is nothing generic or essential in us that was not in him . Deep down , below all

varieties ot race , language , individual character istics , culture , growth , circumstances , is the com mon humanity derived from our first father

There , indeed , men meet upon the level . The institution that iinds an echo in that deep is for ail time .

Our inquiry is , Is Masonry founded in , and does it appeal to , any such universal principles of our common nature ? Its high antiquity , its steady , unchecked

progress , and its present position might serve as a sufficient answer to that quotum . Except the Church , 1 : 0 institution survives which can count so many centuries of life . And even the

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Church has not been so unchangeable in Form . The opposition of governments , absolute acts of suppression , religious anathemas , social ostracism ,

the sneers and denunciations of society , the rage of partisan violence and fanatic hate , have all beaten against the grand old structure in vain . It still stands serene amidst the failure of its

enemies , and rears its head to heaven crowned with the triumphs of the ages , —a monument of a wisdom scarcely less than divine . As some tall cliff * that lifts its awful form ,

Sweds from the vale , and midway leaves the storm ; Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread , Eternal sunshine settles on its head !

livery man is conscious in his own heart of a sentiment of fear ; more or less developed and pronounced , according to the degree of his intelligence . It is the necessary co-relative and

concomitant of hope . We fear evil ; we hope to escape it and secure good . There is no reason why we should be unwilling to admit the existence of this feeling , for the fear of which I

speak is not the negation of courage , but rather the foundation and animating principle of prudence ; a virtue which looks out for danger on cverv side and endeavours to provide against

it . It takes no long experience in life to convince us that we are surrounded by dangers from the cradle to the grave . Of these none are more dreaded than those which arise from

the coldness , hatred , and falsehood of men , toward each other . We all dread the aversion , indilierence , and treachery of our fellow men ,

and those adverse turns of fortune which wc observe to be so often beyond the control of individual foresight and

effort-I recall in this connection those charming verses of Burns addressed to a field mouse , whose carefully-prepared nest and stores of food he had turned out with his ploughshare , and

scattered to the cold blasts of the winter . It is full of a poet ' s tenderness and sympathy . But from the consideration of the short-lived misery of his poor little victim , he turns to the

contemplation of his own weightier and more permanent sorrows , and exclaims : " Still thou art blessed , compar'd wi' me !

The present only touchet thee : But , Och ! I backward cast my e ' e , On prospects drear ! An' forward , tho' I canni see ,

I guess an' fear . " It is this looking forward with doubt and dread that constitutes most of the misery of life ,

and makes it man s most cherished wish to secure to himself all possible guarantees for the future . Safety is the longed for haven of rest to every : empest-tossed soul .

The apprehensions of fear are tempered by the sentiment of hope which is implanted in every soul , and which bears a direct relation to tlttt

amount and kind of fear . The balance between these affections in the individual consciousness gives character to life—as wretched , tolerable , or happy .

Lastly , every man finds in his heart a wellspring of love . I know that this is sometimes denied . I have heard it repeatedly declared

from an eloquent pulpit here , that men are haters of God and haters of each other . It may be , my brethren , that the God who is held up to ui