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Important Notice.
IMPORTANT NOTICE .
It is very necessary for our readers to advisus 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 . Several P . O . O , ' s are now in hand , but having received no advice we cannot credit them .
To Correspondents.
To Correspondents .
Masonic Amateur Dramatic Performance in our next . BOOKS , tec , RECEIVED . "Brief , " " The Girl's World , " "Hull Packet , " "Alliance News , " " Royal Cornwall Gazette , " " Broad Arrow . " 'Citizen , " "Daylight , " "La Chaine d'Union , " "The Freemasons' Repository , " " New York Dispatch , " " Die New Yorker Bundes Presse , " "The Masonic Newspaper , " " Keystone . "
Births, Marriages, And Deaths.
Births , Marriages , and Deaths .
[ The charge is 2 s . 6 d . for announcements not exceeding Four Lines under this heading . ]
BIRTHS . BALDOCK . —On the 10 th inst ., at Charlton le Moorland , Lincolnshire , the wife of the Rev . R . Baldock , of a son . MACG ILL . —On the 10 th inst ., at Si Southbrookc-road , Lee , Kent , the wife of Mr . Campbell MacGill , of a daughter .
MARRIAGE . DAKBV—S BOVKR . —On the 5 th inst ., at All Saints' , Child's-hill . N . W ., by the Rev . J . II . Clay , Robert , third son of Mr . Robert Fryer Darby , of Cirencester , to Kate Emily , daughter of Mr . James Grover , late of New Brentford .
DEATHS . Cox . —On the 6 th inst ., at Swansea , Joseph Hamilton Cox , aged 47 . KELLY . —On the 5 th inst ., Isabella Rosa Curzon Fitzroy , third daughter of the Lord Chief Baron Sir Fitzroy
Kelly , aged 19 . MILTON . —On the Sth inst ., at Uxbridge-road , W ., Ann Susan , wife of Mr . John Milton . Ti'RNiii'Li .. —On the 9 th inst ., at Cedars-road , Clapham-common , Sarah Dent , widow of Mr . 'Thomas Tnrnbull .
Ar00608
THEFREEMASON. SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 15 , 1879 .
Facts And Figures.
FACTS AND FIGURES .
A correspondent , calling himself a " Past Master , " in a column of our last newspaper , gave us some "figures" as regards provincial support of the Girls' School , which are alike curious and most interesting . We assume , of course , that they are correct . There can be no
intentional inaccuracy in the matter , and though there is only approximate certainty at the best , yet the facts thus elicited are facts worthy of note and remembrance We shall next week give our correspondent ' s figures for the Boys' School . It seems there were to the close of 1879 ( though
that hardly covers the whole ground , we fancy , ) 8 435 votes in the provinces for the Girls' School , and that 940 lodges subscribed . Of these the hig hest average subscriptions came from West Yorkshire , with 65 lodges and 148 4 votes , and , as the compiler of the figures puts it , iii votes
per lodge . This , is , however , a deceptive way of putting the average , we think it right to remark , as all lodges do not subscribe alike ; some lodges do much more than others , some do comparatively little . We fancy that this remark applies to West Yorkshire as to all other provinces , though Bro . H . Smith can best tell us , if he will . Still it is
a convenient way , perhaps , of getting at an " idea " of provincial work , and , curiously enough , as West Yorkshire heads the list , Kent follows suit , and Sussex succeeds to Kent . East Lancashire is only twenty-fourth' in order of forty-three provinces , and West Lancashire thirty-seventh . West Lancashire will no doubt make a noble effort in 18 S 0 under its
distinguished chief , and a little bird has whispered in our ears that it " means to beat East Lancashire for the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution . " We wish it may . It is but fair . to
Facts And Figures.
observe that the votes for 1879 are no ' included in this list , and which may materially alter the average , so that our brother " Past Master " must in 188 c repeat his valuable summaries . We have always contended that a great margin remains of work for the Secretaries , and we are
sorry when we notice crude suggestions or impractical theories propounded which serve only to check the efforts of zealous brethren , or to dwarf the movements of sympathetic lodges . All lodges cannot contribute alike , all brethren are not on the same level of worldly means , and
to lay it down that all brethren shall contribute so much per annum to the Charities , either for themselves or through the lodges , is a very great mistake , because utterly unreasonable to expect , and impossible to effect . The work of the future will , and must be , we fancy , the work of
the past , only in enlarged ratio , and with a juster perception of need and of means , and of the real end in view . It still must be left to the willing hearts and thoughtful minds of individual members of our kind-hearted brotherhood , and with the excepton of more uniform lodge and chapter
support actually of all our Chanties , like everything else in the world , the result must still , humanly speaking , be controlled by personal sympathies , individual effort , and a Masonic sense of duty , a belief in the noble principles we habitually profess .
Uniformity Of Working.
UNIFORMITY OF WORKING .
A very sensible letter from Bro . Frances gives what we fancy is the general idea of all who have ever thought really on the subject . For it is one thing to take up a question , it is quite another thing , and often a very different thing , to think it out . We believe that there is but one
feeling among all " sound Preceptors" and "bright Masons , " to " leave well alone , " and not for any idle love of change , excitement , or novelty to land ourselves in that debateable and undiscovered couutry of ritual alteration . To take away from the English Craft its harmless and
healthy "liberty of ritualizing ' would be , in our opinion , impolitic and unwise , and certain to produce at no distant date many and serious evils , hard to ameliorate and harder still to cure . Under these circumstances we deprecate the agitation , just as we question the arguments on the
subject . But , to say the truth , arguments we have seen not , and the premises set out involve a complete fallacy in themselves . It is assumed that there has been , first , an uniformity of ritual before and after the Union—that is undoubtedly a myth , pure and undoubted . It is then asserted
that in 1813 , with the Lodge of Reconciliation uniformity was enjoined , and no doubt that fact is a fact , per se . But then , also , equally practice has widely differed from theory . J ust as nd uniformity existed before the Union , none has existed since , and Hemming ' s working has
prevailed in some parts , Hemming ' s improved by Williams elsewhere , while the old Prestonian working is very prevalent . Grateful as we are to the Lodge of Emulation , we are not prepared to concede "infallibility" even to it , nor would its ablest exponent claim that on its behalf ; but too
much cannot be said in favour of its careful working and grateful simplicity . The Lodge of Reconciliation being now dissolved there is no legal exponent of its views . If any doubts exist as to "landmarks , " & c ., the Grand Secretary has to be appealed to , but we feel sure , from what we know
of that distinguished brother , and no one is a more consummate master of the Royal art , he would , like us , deprecate heartily a childish agitation , and a leaden uniformity . Like us , he would rejoice in the sensible and tolerating
liberality of the Grand Lodge of England , which declines to enforce a " standaid of ritual" from which some might conscientiously differ , with which few would entirely agree . Let us trust this movement will be " still born . "
Our Universal Craft.
OUR UNIVERSAL CRAFT .
It is a wonderful idea , is it not , that of the " Universality of Freemasonry ? " As the Bishop of Durham , speaking at another meeting of another work , says truly , " Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris . " What region is there
Our Universal Craft.
on the face of this whole earth , what land so parched with heat or numbed with frost , what ancient kingdom so incnisted with the successive layers of an immemorial civilization , or what newly discovered track so rude with the TOSSness of its abori ginal savagery , that "
Freemasonry has not found thereon a hold for its foot ? From the Rocky Mountains to the Wall of China , beneath the Northern Pole Star and beneath the Southern Cross , in the central plains of the African Continent , and in the scattered islands of the far oft" Melanesia , its voice is
heard . " And thus , just at this moment , Freemasonry is , in truth , cosmopolitan , world-wide , and is making rapid strides , as in the old world so in the new . There are probably about two millions of Masons dispersed over the " face of earth and water , " and wherever we go at this
time we find jurisdictions , rites , lodges , chapters , councils , if not all the same in organization and object , yet all proceeding from the " one starting point , " Freemasonry . For those so scattered and so severed outwardly a handbook is needed , clear and comprehensive , lucid in
order , succinct in statement , easily portable , and easily digestible . The Masonic mind is not always interested , ( like others ) , in details , or long calculations , or tedious compilations , but wants a result , easily attainable , and as easily remembered , one that it can use daily ,
and serve as a useful little varie mecum of reference wherever chance or dut y leads us , wherever the travel-stained pilgrims or the lone and weary pilgrims stay their wearyfeet . We feel it but then right , alike in a spirit of fraternal sympathy , and yet of honest
independence , to announce once more , in the far read columns of the Freemason , the appearance of the "Cosmopolitan Calendar , " which aims at being a Masonic handbook of universal use and reference . We can say for it , as we areassured , and as we know , that no pains
have been spared to make it worthy of our universal Craft . It has been made a little more handy , with new type , and contains much fresh and useful matter never before published in any Masonic work . We allude , for instance ,
to the complete account , for the first time printed , of the Masonic bodies in France . Indeed , as we run over its pages , we are struck with its compactness and its completeness , . the enormous amount of otherwise unattainable facts and
names it records and preserves . Surely we have a right and warrant to say that Bro . George Kenning , has deserved well of the Craft LTniversal for the trouble and expense he has so liberally and ungrudgingly
borne in order that " all the world over , " wherever Masons do congregate , in lodge or chapter , wherever the Knightly Grades are found , wherever the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite flourishes , his little book may give to all such brethren and bodies the best and clearest
attainable account of Cosmopolitan Freemasonry ? And thus it is that the " Cosmopolitan Calendar " enters into rivalry with none , is in opposition to none . There are numerous jurisdictional calendars at home and abroad which , excellent in their way and ably edited , are the correct and official
calendars of distinct Grand Lodges . But the " Cosmopolitan Calendar" takes a wider flight , a larger survey of the whole vast Masonic family . It equally records the lodges of France and the lodges of Germany , Spain , and Italy ; it gives us the names of all the leading officials of the
Ancient and Accepted Rite in all portions of the world . If errors creep in , as creep they will in all similar compilations , despite the most careful supervision , or through the retardation of returns , or the carelessness of correspondents , the " Cosmo . " suffers more in this respect , ( not
from its own fault , but the fault of others ) , than the most eager and bitter criticism can discover or blame . We claim for the Cosmopolitan Calendar the support of thousands of our educated brotherhood in all countries , as a most useful handbook of facts , and
names , aud figures , most useful to the traveller , most necessary to the Mason , and one which will tell us , go whore we will , loiter where we may on this earth ' s surface , in words which none can gainsay , or doubt even , of the wonderful and moving fact of the Cosmopolitanism of Freemasonry .
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Important Notice.
IMPORTANT NOTICE .
It is very necessary for our readers to advisus 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 . Several P . O . O , ' s are now in hand , but having received no advice we cannot credit them .
To Correspondents.
To Correspondents .
Masonic Amateur Dramatic Performance in our next . BOOKS , tec , RECEIVED . "Brief , " " The Girl's World , " "Hull Packet , " "Alliance News , " " Royal Cornwall Gazette , " " Broad Arrow . " 'Citizen , " "Daylight , " "La Chaine d'Union , " "The Freemasons' Repository , " " New York Dispatch , " " Die New Yorker Bundes Presse , " "The Masonic Newspaper , " " Keystone . "
Births, Marriages, And Deaths.
Births , Marriages , and Deaths .
[ The charge is 2 s . 6 d . for announcements not exceeding Four Lines under this heading . ]
BIRTHS . BALDOCK . —On the 10 th inst ., at Charlton le Moorland , Lincolnshire , the wife of the Rev . R . Baldock , of a son . MACG ILL . —On the 10 th inst ., at Si Southbrookc-road , Lee , Kent , the wife of Mr . Campbell MacGill , of a daughter .
MARRIAGE . DAKBV—S BOVKR . —On the 5 th inst ., at All Saints' , Child's-hill . N . W ., by the Rev . J . II . Clay , Robert , third son of Mr . Robert Fryer Darby , of Cirencester , to Kate Emily , daughter of Mr . James Grover , late of New Brentford .
DEATHS . Cox . —On the 6 th inst ., at Swansea , Joseph Hamilton Cox , aged 47 . KELLY . —On the 5 th inst ., Isabella Rosa Curzon Fitzroy , third daughter of the Lord Chief Baron Sir Fitzroy
Kelly , aged 19 . MILTON . —On the Sth inst ., at Uxbridge-road , W ., Ann Susan , wife of Mr . John Milton . Ti'RNiii'Li .. —On the 9 th inst ., at Cedars-road , Clapham-common , Sarah Dent , widow of Mr . 'Thomas Tnrnbull .
Ar00608
THEFREEMASON. SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 15 , 1879 .
Facts And Figures.
FACTS AND FIGURES .
A correspondent , calling himself a " Past Master , " in a column of our last newspaper , gave us some "figures" as regards provincial support of the Girls' School , which are alike curious and most interesting . We assume , of course , that they are correct . There can be no
intentional inaccuracy in the matter , and though there is only approximate certainty at the best , yet the facts thus elicited are facts worthy of note and remembrance We shall next week give our correspondent ' s figures for the Boys' School . It seems there were to the close of 1879 ( though
that hardly covers the whole ground , we fancy , ) 8 435 votes in the provinces for the Girls' School , and that 940 lodges subscribed . Of these the hig hest average subscriptions came from West Yorkshire , with 65 lodges and 148 4 votes , and , as the compiler of the figures puts it , iii votes
per lodge . This , is , however , a deceptive way of putting the average , we think it right to remark , as all lodges do not subscribe alike ; some lodges do much more than others , some do comparatively little . We fancy that this remark applies to West Yorkshire as to all other provinces , though Bro . H . Smith can best tell us , if he will . Still it is
a convenient way , perhaps , of getting at an " idea " of provincial work , and , curiously enough , as West Yorkshire heads the list , Kent follows suit , and Sussex succeeds to Kent . East Lancashire is only twenty-fourth' in order of forty-three provinces , and West Lancashire thirty-seventh . West Lancashire will no doubt make a noble effort in 18 S 0 under its
distinguished chief , and a little bird has whispered in our ears that it " means to beat East Lancashire for the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution . " We wish it may . It is but fair . to
Facts And Figures.
observe that the votes for 1879 are no ' included in this list , and which may materially alter the average , so that our brother " Past Master " must in 188 c repeat his valuable summaries . We have always contended that a great margin remains of work for the Secretaries , and we are
sorry when we notice crude suggestions or impractical theories propounded which serve only to check the efforts of zealous brethren , or to dwarf the movements of sympathetic lodges . All lodges cannot contribute alike , all brethren are not on the same level of worldly means , and
to lay it down that all brethren shall contribute so much per annum to the Charities , either for themselves or through the lodges , is a very great mistake , because utterly unreasonable to expect , and impossible to effect . The work of the future will , and must be , we fancy , the work of
the past , only in enlarged ratio , and with a juster perception of need and of means , and of the real end in view . It still must be left to the willing hearts and thoughtful minds of individual members of our kind-hearted brotherhood , and with the excepton of more uniform lodge and chapter
support actually of all our Chanties , like everything else in the world , the result must still , humanly speaking , be controlled by personal sympathies , individual effort , and a Masonic sense of duty , a belief in the noble principles we habitually profess .
Uniformity Of Working.
UNIFORMITY OF WORKING .
A very sensible letter from Bro . Frances gives what we fancy is the general idea of all who have ever thought really on the subject . For it is one thing to take up a question , it is quite another thing , and often a very different thing , to think it out . We believe that there is but one
feeling among all " sound Preceptors" and "bright Masons , " to " leave well alone , " and not for any idle love of change , excitement , or novelty to land ourselves in that debateable and undiscovered couutry of ritual alteration . To take away from the English Craft its harmless and
healthy "liberty of ritualizing ' would be , in our opinion , impolitic and unwise , and certain to produce at no distant date many and serious evils , hard to ameliorate and harder still to cure . Under these circumstances we deprecate the agitation , just as we question the arguments on the
subject . But , to say the truth , arguments we have seen not , and the premises set out involve a complete fallacy in themselves . It is assumed that there has been , first , an uniformity of ritual before and after the Union—that is undoubtedly a myth , pure and undoubted . It is then asserted
that in 1813 , with the Lodge of Reconciliation uniformity was enjoined , and no doubt that fact is a fact , per se . But then , also , equally practice has widely differed from theory . J ust as nd uniformity existed before the Union , none has existed since , and Hemming ' s working has
prevailed in some parts , Hemming ' s improved by Williams elsewhere , while the old Prestonian working is very prevalent . Grateful as we are to the Lodge of Emulation , we are not prepared to concede "infallibility" even to it , nor would its ablest exponent claim that on its behalf ; but too
much cannot be said in favour of its careful working and grateful simplicity . The Lodge of Reconciliation being now dissolved there is no legal exponent of its views . If any doubts exist as to "landmarks , " & c ., the Grand Secretary has to be appealed to , but we feel sure , from what we know
of that distinguished brother , and no one is a more consummate master of the Royal art , he would , like us , deprecate heartily a childish agitation , and a leaden uniformity . Like us , he would rejoice in the sensible and tolerating
liberality of the Grand Lodge of England , which declines to enforce a " standaid of ritual" from which some might conscientiously differ , with which few would entirely agree . Let us trust this movement will be " still born . "
Our Universal Craft.
OUR UNIVERSAL CRAFT .
It is a wonderful idea , is it not , that of the " Universality of Freemasonry ? " As the Bishop of Durham , speaking at another meeting of another work , says truly , " Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris . " What region is there
Our Universal Craft.
on the face of this whole earth , what land so parched with heat or numbed with frost , what ancient kingdom so incnisted with the successive layers of an immemorial civilization , or what newly discovered track so rude with the TOSSness of its abori ginal savagery , that "
Freemasonry has not found thereon a hold for its foot ? From the Rocky Mountains to the Wall of China , beneath the Northern Pole Star and beneath the Southern Cross , in the central plains of the African Continent , and in the scattered islands of the far oft" Melanesia , its voice is
heard . " And thus , just at this moment , Freemasonry is , in truth , cosmopolitan , world-wide , and is making rapid strides , as in the old world so in the new . There are probably about two millions of Masons dispersed over the " face of earth and water , " and wherever we go at this
time we find jurisdictions , rites , lodges , chapters , councils , if not all the same in organization and object , yet all proceeding from the " one starting point , " Freemasonry . For those so scattered and so severed outwardly a handbook is needed , clear and comprehensive , lucid in
order , succinct in statement , easily portable , and easily digestible . The Masonic mind is not always interested , ( like others ) , in details , or long calculations , or tedious compilations , but wants a result , easily attainable , and as easily remembered , one that it can use daily ,
and serve as a useful little varie mecum of reference wherever chance or dut y leads us , wherever the travel-stained pilgrims or the lone and weary pilgrims stay their wearyfeet . We feel it but then right , alike in a spirit of fraternal sympathy , and yet of honest
independence , to announce once more , in the far read columns of the Freemason , the appearance of the "Cosmopolitan Calendar , " which aims at being a Masonic handbook of universal use and reference . We can say for it , as we areassured , and as we know , that no pains
have been spared to make it worthy of our universal Craft . It has been made a little more handy , with new type , and contains much fresh and useful matter never before published in any Masonic work . We allude , for instance ,
to the complete account , for the first time printed , of the Masonic bodies in France . Indeed , as we run over its pages , we are struck with its compactness and its completeness , . the enormous amount of otherwise unattainable facts and
names it records and preserves . Surely we have a right and warrant to say that Bro . George Kenning , has deserved well of the Craft LTniversal for the trouble and expense he has so liberally and ungrudgingly
borne in order that " all the world over , " wherever Masons do congregate , in lodge or chapter , wherever the Knightly Grades are found , wherever the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite flourishes , his little book may give to all such brethren and bodies the best and clearest
attainable account of Cosmopolitan Freemasonry ? And thus it is that the " Cosmopolitan Calendar " enters into rivalry with none , is in opposition to none . There are numerous jurisdictional calendars at home and abroad which , excellent in their way and ably edited , are the correct and official
calendars of distinct Grand Lodges . But the " Cosmopolitan Calendar" takes a wider flight , a larger survey of the whole vast Masonic family . It equally records the lodges of France and the lodges of Germany , Spain , and Italy ; it gives us the names of all the leading officials of the
Ancient and Accepted Rite in all portions of the world . If errors creep in , as creep they will in all similar compilations , despite the most careful supervision , or through the retardation of returns , or the carelessness of correspondents , the " Cosmo . " suffers more in this respect , ( not
from its own fault , but the fault of others ) , than the most eager and bitter criticism can discover or blame . We claim for the Cosmopolitan Calendar the support of thousands of our educated brotherhood in all countries , as a most useful handbook of facts , and
names , aud figures , most useful to the traveller , most necessary to the Mason , and one which will tell us , go whore we will , loiter where we may on this earth ' s surface , in words which none can gainsay , or doubt even , of the wonderful and moving fact of the Cosmopolitanism of Freemasonry .