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If it be his stiff knees or his missing fingers , then legislate for legs and hands . If it is his head and his heart and not his shape , let us care for them and look to acts , words , moral

uprightness , and mental perfection , instead of toes , fingers , and flexible joints . " We thank thee , Bro . MELISH , for this exhibition of sound common sense .

One other extract from the address and wc have done . The Grand Lodge has recently expended some 5000 dollars on the compilation by a duly appointed Committee of a newly-published Code of Laws , with the result , Bro . MELISH tells us , that it

" contains 511 Decisions , 41 Resolutions , 92 Sections of a Code , 16 Rules of Order , 29 By-Laws , 17 Articles of the Constitution , and 6 divisions of the Ancient Charges — a total of only seven hundred and twelve items

of law . " The mere enumeration of these items under their several heads of Decisions . Resolutions , Orders , Sc ., is enough to afllict the student of Masonic law with a perpetual headache , and when Bro . MELISH tells us that the code now contains

fully " one hundred Decisions , which are simply a re-statement of previous Decisions ; and which are really explanations of former Decisions ; " that "some laws which were considered landmarks are no longer in the Code , but opposite the

number is the word ' obsolete ; ' " and that there are " at least 50 Decisions which are the opposite of 50 others , " the situation of the would-be student becomes appalling and wc look upon him as a possible candidate for Bedlam rather than as one likely to become a learned exponent of the laws of our Society in Ohio .

An Historical Address.

AN HISTORICAL ADDRESS .

On Saturday , the 19 th ultimo , the worthy , worshipful , and warranted Lodge Philadelphia , which ranks as No . 72 on the register of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania , celebrated the centenary of its constitution , and , as is customary on such

auspicious occasions , an historical Address , in which the career of the lodge was traced , was delivered by Bro . S . KINGSTON McCAV , P . M ., in the presence of a very large and influential assemblage of members and visitors , among the latter being the

Grand Master , Deputy Grand Master , the S . G . Warden , the Grand Secretary , Past Grand Master CONRAD B . DAY , and many other Grand Officers of the Grand Lodge . What are known in America as the Centennial Exercises included an address from

the Grand Master on the importance of the occasion and a history of the lodge from its consecration b y the brother already named , and it is of the latter that we are desirous of laying before our readers such a report as will enable them to form an

idea of what this Philadelphia Lodge , No . 72 , has accomplished for the general good of Freemasonry . Those who may wish to read it in full will find it reproduced in thc columns of the Philadelphia Keystone

of the 23 rd ult . ; while we are fortunate enough to have been courteously favoured by Bro . RiCHARD MuCKLE with a copy in pamphlet form . The lodge dates from a very interesting period in the history of the United States , just when Bro . General

GEORGE WASHINGTON had announced his intention of retiring into private life , the day on which the warrant of the Lodge was petitioned for and granted being the day on which the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania held its annual communication ,

that is to say , the 27 th December ( St . John the Evangelist ' s Day ) 179 6 , when , after Bro . WILLIAM MOORE SMITH had been installed Grand Master , and certain other brethren as Grand Oflicers for the ensuingyear , an address was voted by Grand Lodge

to Bro . GEORGE WASHINGTON , in which the fervent hopes ol the brethren were expressed that he might be spared for many years and enjoy all the happiness which this world affords . When this was over , the petition of a number of brethren who had severed

their connection with Lodge Concordia , No . 6 7 , and praying for a warrant of constitution as Philadel phia , No . 72 , was presented and granted , the principal officers designated in the warrant being Bro . ANDREW BAUM , VV . M . ; GEORGE WILLIG , S . VV and CHRISTIAN

SCHITZ , J . W . The warrant was there and then issued under the seal of Grand Lodge , attested by Bro . GEORGE BAKER , G . Sec , and countersigned by Bro . J MCELWEE , G . Treas . Unfortunatel y , the minutes of the lodge , from 1797 to 1820 were destroyed by the great fire which consumed theMasonic Hall , Chestnut-street ,

An Historical Address.

Philadelphia , in 1819 , the lodge being one of those which met and kept its archives in that building . Bro . MCCAY , however , has been successful in discovering from other sources of information that the lodge was consecrated on the 14 th January , 1797 .

Further investigations on the part of the historian show that the lodge was represented at the Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge , held on March 6 th , I 797 , and subsequently at the various Quarterly , Annual , and Special Meetings ol thc same G . Lodge . In

1 S 02 , a Bro . WILLIAM NELSON , one of its members , was commissioned to raise subscriptions with which to purchase a building to serve as a Hall for the use of Grand Lodge , and the lodge was represented at the dedication of the new Hall in Filbert-street , on the

27 th December of the same year . Subsequently , it held its meetings in the Hall at Chestnut-st ., the site of which was purchased in 1 S 07 , the Hall itself being opened for Masonic purposes in 1811 , and here it remained until 1819 , when occurred the

disastrous fire already referred to . After a brief interval , in which the lodge resumed its meetings in the Filbert-street Hall —pulled down in January , 1 SS 0—it returned to the

Chestnutstreet Hall , which had been rebuilt , and here it remained until the present magnificent Hall was opened in the autumn of 18 73 . Bro . MCCAY further tells us that a Grand Visitation was made to

the lodge on the 14 th October , 1 S 15 , and again on the Sth September , 1823 , by Grand Master RANDALL , on which occasion the Grand Secretary severely criticised the manner in which the minutes were kept and the working . In 1831 , Grand Master

MICHAEL NlSBET , father of the late distinguished Grand Secretary of Pennsylvania , paid thc lodge its third Grand Visitation , when the Grand Secretary ' s report was the very reverse of that of eight years previously , and was in every respect most

complimentary . During the great Anti-Masonic furore in the United States from 182 S to 1836 , the lodge , notwithstanding that it was by no means in clover , held bravely on its course , and when that

exciting period had passed , it speedily recovered from its depressed condition , and became a very tower of strength to the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania . Moreover—and this speaks well for the class of men who were enrolled as its members—it has

furnished no less than four Grand Masters—Bros . CORNELIUS STEVENSON , WILLIAM BARGER , HENRY M . PHILLIPS , and ALFRED B . POTTER—to Pennsylvania , while among its other prominent members are numbered Bro . JAMES H . WlNDRlM ,

architect of the Masonic Temple in Philadelphia , and Bro . HENRY J . WHITE , one of the members of the Building Committee . In respect of Benevolent and other Funds , it is well

circumstanced , and altogether ranks as one of the most distinguished lodges on thc roll of Pennsylvania , and we trust that in every respect its future career may prove worthy . of its successful past .

Provincial Grand Mark Lodge Of Kent.

PROVINCIAL GRAND MARK LODGE OF KENT .

The above Provincial Grand Mark Lodge—which was postponed owing to the death of the late Archbishop of Canterbury—took place on Thursday , the 28 th ult ., at the Masonic Temple , St . Peter ' s-stveet , Canterbury , for the installation of the new Provincial Grand Master , Bro . Viscount Dungarvan ,

who was appointed by the M . W . G . M ., H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , to fill the place of the late Bro . Rev . T . W . Robinson . Bro . the Earl of Euston , assisted by Provincial Grand Oflicers , performed ' the ceremony in a very impressive manner , and the following Prov . Grand Officers were appointed :

Bro . F . Hughes Hallett , 129 , 37 S , G . D . Eng . ... D . P . G . M . „ W . J . Duncan Best , M . D ., 192 ... ... Prov . S . G . W . „ Sibert Saunders , 262 ... .... ... Prov . J . G . W . „ John W . Court , 390 ... ... ... Prov . G . M . O . „ Frank W . Williams , 322 ... ... Prov . S . G . O . „ H . F . Greig , 309 ... ... ... Prov . J . G . O .

„ Rev . A . \ V . N . Deacon , 322 ... ... Prov . G . Chap . „ Herbert . Black , 6 9 ... . ... ... Prov . G . Treas . „ Hugh M . Gordon , 294 ... ... ... Prov . G . R . of M . „ J . G . Podevin , 162 , P . G . Std . Br . Eng . ... Prov . G . Sec . „ S . J . Brice , jun ., 237 ... ... Prov . S . G . D . „ O . H . Smith , 266 ... ... ... Prov . J . G . D .

„ George F . Baker , 255 ... ... ... Prov . G . I . of W . „ Robert Derry , 6 ... ... ... Prov . G . D . C . „ Henry C . Jones , 262 ... ... ... Prov . A . G . D . C . ,, Charles J . Clapham , 44 ... ... Prov . G . S . B . ,, Lawrence Salt , 6 9 ... ... ... Prov . G . Std . Br . „ Frederick A . Claike , 152 ... ... Prov . G . Org .

„ Alfred T . Dealer , 416 ... ... ... Prov . A . G . Sec . „ Wm . H . Burney / 332 ... ... ... Prov . G . I . G . „ James Farrier , 226 ... ... .,. " } „ William Judd , 322 ... ... ... C Prov . G . Stewards . „ Samuel R . Wilson , 129 ... ... J „ Joseph Oram , 237 ... ... ... Prov . G . Tyler . The usual banquet was subserviently held at the Royal Fountain Hotel .