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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS * ° S Provincial Grand Chapter of South Wales ( Eastern Division ) 206 Early Masonic Halls in Philadelphia 206 Roval Masonic Benevolent Institution 207 Theatres = ° 7
CORRESPONDENCEThe " Daily Journal" of 1530 209 jubilee Honours 210 Rev . R . Underwood's Portrait 210 Reviews 210
Notes and Queries 210 REPORTS OP MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 211 Instruction 213 Royal Arch 214 Mark Masonry 214 Ancient and Accepted Rite 214 Malta 215
The Craft Abroad 215 Obituarv 3 'S Masonic and General Tidings 215 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 216
Ar00100
WE are sorry to find the Board of Stewards for the approach-FestJva ° ' the ing Anniversary of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls is so much below its usual strength . The Festival will take place
on Wednesday , the nth May , and at the time of writing there are only 214 Stewards , as against 245 at the corresponding period of 1886 . A fortnig ht since , when we drew attention to this subject , the Board mustered 203 brethren , so that in the interval that has elapsed since only 11 fresh names
have been added to the roll . The decrease as compared with last year is very serious . Even if we could be sanguine enough to hope that the Board will ultimately be 250 strong , it would still be materially weaker than that of 1886 , which mustered 275 brethren . There was a time when we looked
forward to the year of the QUEEN ' S Jubilee being a year of Jubilee to all our three Institutions . It has proved so in the case of the Benevolent Institution ; but having regard to the close proximity of the Girls' School Festival , the prospect is the reverse of encouraging , as matters now stand , for the senior of our Charities . However , there is still time for brethren to volunteer
theirservicesin behalf oftheSchool , though , as we cannotin justice expect much from a canvass commenced so late , we must trust to the brethren already composing the Board to put on an extra spurt , and see if they cannot realise amongst them a total such as we are in the habit ot associating with the more formidable Boards of later years .
* * * NOTHING could have been better than the tone and character Address ? of the address which Bro . TEW , P . G . M ., delivered at the recent annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of West Yorkshire , and which appeared in our columns last week . His text
was "Loyalty" and "Chanty , which his Royal Highness the GRAND MASTER cited , at his installation in 1875 , as the watchwords of the Order . The former of these he interpreted to mean "Fidelity to our Sovereign Lady the QUEEN , and to our PRINCE , her son . To hold in veneration the rulers
and patrons of the Order of Freemasonry . To cheerfully conform to every lawful authority . To uphold on every occasion the interests of the comniunity , and zealously promote the prosperity of our country , " and he proceeded , without difficulty , to show how compliance with the invitation of the Pro
wand MASTER ' S circular , to consider , and if possible , to support the scheme ° > an Imperial Colonial Institute as propounded by the Prince of WALES , in commemoration of the Q UEEN ' Jubilee would be in accordance with the e « er and spirit of that definition . Moreover , he urged as a strong
eason wh y the lodges should countenance , and , to the best of their ability , Promote the scheme for establishing the Institute , that in 1874 , en tne Craft was seriously downcast by the sudden resignation ythe late Grand Master of all his offices and his entire withdrawal
m the Society , the Prince of WALES at once accepted the positions a H V . ac ^ te (* ' * by so doing restored that confidence in the virtues „ t . , ' '' ty of Freemasonry which had been so rudely and unexpectedly
to 6 " ^ ' an '" ustrat ' ° f loyalty , unhesitatingly shown by the PRINCE ards the Craft , appeared , in Bro . TEW ' judgment , to entitle his Royal Im " t 0 t ' 1 e su PP ° f 'he brethren in prospering this work of the iSn . ^ 'tute which he has taken up . And this ,-onl y in another form ,
Q * v '" C view we have urged from the beginning , namely , that a uretli ^ ster who has shown himself on all occasions so considerate of the if , 1 en s wishes merits their consideration in return even in matters which , 0 [ , car | not be regarded as Masonic , are intended to advance the welfare latin cornmun 'ty to which they are members . It is a small request
re-MASTE tf non'Masonic , yet beneficent , scheme which the PRO GRAND G RAN J addressed to our lodges , and for the reasons urged by the PROV . f avo 1 7 ASTER of West Yorkshire and ourselves , we trust it will be answered do y y a large majority ; and that even in the case of lodges which '"divid e ^ Way t 0 su PPortm & the scheme in their corporate capacity , \ vish es c " lerr'bers will discover a means of complying with the known ° ' the GRAND MASTER .
Ar00101
THE vacancycaused by the resignation of Bro . Lord DETABLEY , Prov . G . M . who for the last 20 years has held the important office of Prov . of Cheshire . Grand Master of Cheshire , will be filled to-day ( Friday ) by the installation of Bro . Lord EGERTON OF TATTON , who for some'time past has acted as Deputy P . G . M . Every effort has been made in order to ensure
that the ceremony shall be carried out with appropriate state , and it is expected that the muster of brethren in Chester Town Hall will be unprecedented in numbers , and will include many of the chief dignitaries of the Order , either the Pro G . M ., the Earl of CARNARVON , or in his absence the Deputy G . M ., the Earl ot LATHOM , who is G . M . of the adjoining
Province of West Lancashire , being the presiding officer . The installation will take place in the Town Hall , but there will be Divine service in the Cathedral , and a grand banquet will follow ; and it is our earnest hope , as it is also our firm belief , that a career begun under such brilliant auspices and amid so much genuine splendour , will be continued as brilliantly .
* * » WE gather from the Finance Report which was presented to , MasonicBcnevo- and approved by , the Committee of Management of the lent Institution . R , Masonic Benevolent Institution , on Wednesday , that a
further amount of - £ 5000 Government Stock has been purchased in respect of the Widows' Fund , the result of which act will be that a very appreciable addition will be made to the permanent income of this branch of the Institution . This is good news indeed . There is a tendency in Societies like ours , at times of extreme pressure on the charitable resources at their
disposal , to bestow them somewhat more freely than can be justified by a due regard for the exigencies of the future . We hear of the distress that is imminent , and we hasten to relieve it , without stopping to weigh very , carefully whether we shall be able to continue the fresh responsibilities we have incurred . There is a vast deal of human nature in this tendency ; indeed , there are
not a few people who prefer the man that is carelessly generous to him who is precisely just . Still , it is always better when we can illustrate our generosity and our justice at the same time , and thanks to the splendid total of contributions at the recent Festival of the Benevolent Institution , the Committee of Management have found themselves in the happy position of being able
to make additional permanent provision for the future requirements of the Charity , at the same time that , by taking on fresh female annuitants , they are perceptibly reducing the more immediate demands on its resources . We say again , this is indeed good news , and we trust the Committee will always preserve the same wise policy of arranging for the distant future as well as for the immediate present .
WE heartily congratulate Bro . TERRY on the recognition Bro . Jas . Terry ,.,,. "' ° . , , ,. . . . and the recent which the important services , he rendered in connection with Festival R . M . B . I . th ( J recent p estival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution received at the hands of the Committee of Management on Wednesday .
There is little doubt that Bro . TERRY , ever since he was appointed to the Secretaryship of this Charity , has not only thrown his whole heart and soul into the duties of his office , but that he has likewise carried them out most successfully . How hard he has worked for it can be better imagined than described . It is enough to say that day by day , week by week , month by
month , year by year , he has pursued the even tenour of his way , never cast down by any passing disappointment , never deterred by any difficulty , and never relaxing from further and more persistent efforts , even when he might appear to have achieved the greatest possible success . The full result oi his
latest and most brilliant triumph is known to our readers , and it will be as gratifying to them as it is to us to find that the Committee have bestowed on him this latest mark of their favour for labours so ungrud gingly and meritoriously performed .
WE are sorry to be obliged to recur to the apparentl y inter-TX Craft " man . m ! naDle Anglo-Quebec difficulty ; but our contemporary , the Canadian Craftsman , in a rejoinder to former articles of ours
on this question , has fallen into a grievous error , which it seems desirable we should at once set about rectifying . In answer to a query propounded by itself as to why the Grand Lodges of the old Country , but "especially those of England and Scotland , seek to deny the possession and exercise of ' exclusive sovereignty' to some and not to other Grand Lodges , " this worthy
organ of Canadian Freemasonry is bold enough to assert that "these British Grand Lodges claim the right to have and to exercise concurrent jurisdiction , not in the territory of each other ( oh , no ) , but in each of the ' foreign' dependencies of the Empire ! whether a regularly constitutad Grand Lodge
exists therein or not ! " We will not stop to enlighten our friend as to the beauties of concurrent jurisdiction in British communities made up chiefly of English , Irish , and Scotch people , but we permit ourselves the liberty of suggesting that it is about time a Masonic journal which has existed some 20 years knew something' as tp the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS * ° S Provincial Grand Chapter of South Wales ( Eastern Division ) 206 Early Masonic Halls in Philadelphia 206 Roval Masonic Benevolent Institution 207 Theatres = ° 7
CORRESPONDENCEThe " Daily Journal" of 1530 209 jubilee Honours 210 Rev . R . Underwood's Portrait 210 Reviews 210
Notes and Queries 210 REPORTS OP MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 211 Instruction 213 Royal Arch 214 Mark Masonry 214 Ancient and Accepted Rite 214 Malta 215
The Craft Abroad 215 Obituarv 3 'S Masonic and General Tidings 215 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 216
Ar00100
WE are sorry to find the Board of Stewards for the approach-FestJva ° ' the ing Anniversary of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls is so much below its usual strength . The Festival will take place
on Wednesday , the nth May , and at the time of writing there are only 214 Stewards , as against 245 at the corresponding period of 1886 . A fortnig ht since , when we drew attention to this subject , the Board mustered 203 brethren , so that in the interval that has elapsed since only 11 fresh names
have been added to the roll . The decrease as compared with last year is very serious . Even if we could be sanguine enough to hope that the Board will ultimately be 250 strong , it would still be materially weaker than that of 1886 , which mustered 275 brethren . There was a time when we looked
forward to the year of the QUEEN ' S Jubilee being a year of Jubilee to all our three Institutions . It has proved so in the case of the Benevolent Institution ; but having regard to the close proximity of the Girls' School Festival , the prospect is the reverse of encouraging , as matters now stand , for the senior of our Charities . However , there is still time for brethren to volunteer
theirservicesin behalf oftheSchool , though , as we cannotin justice expect much from a canvass commenced so late , we must trust to the brethren already composing the Board to put on an extra spurt , and see if they cannot realise amongst them a total such as we are in the habit ot associating with the more formidable Boards of later years .
* * * NOTHING could have been better than the tone and character Address ? of the address which Bro . TEW , P . G . M ., delivered at the recent annual meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of West Yorkshire , and which appeared in our columns last week . His text
was "Loyalty" and "Chanty , which his Royal Highness the GRAND MASTER cited , at his installation in 1875 , as the watchwords of the Order . The former of these he interpreted to mean "Fidelity to our Sovereign Lady the QUEEN , and to our PRINCE , her son . To hold in veneration the rulers
and patrons of the Order of Freemasonry . To cheerfully conform to every lawful authority . To uphold on every occasion the interests of the comniunity , and zealously promote the prosperity of our country , " and he proceeded , without difficulty , to show how compliance with the invitation of the Pro
wand MASTER ' S circular , to consider , and if possible , to support the scheme ° > an Imperial Colonial Institute as propounded by the Prince of WALES , in commemoration of the Q UEEN ' Jubilee would be in accordance with the e « er and spirit of that definition . Moreover , he urged as a strong
eason wh y the lodges should countenance , and , to the best of their ability , Promote the scheme for establishing the Institute , that in 1874 , en tne Craft was seriously downcast by the sudden resignation ythe late Grand Master of all his offices and his entire withdrawal
m the Society , the Prince of WALES at once accepted the positions a H V . ac ^ te (* ' * by so doing restored that confidence in the virtues „ t . , ' '' ty of Freemasonry which had been so rudely and unexpectedly
to 6 " ^ ' an '" ustrat ' ° f loyalty , unhesitatingly shown by the PRINCE ards the Craft , appeared , in Bro . TEW ' judgment , to entitle his Royal Im " t 0 t ' 1 e su PP ° f 'he brethren in prospering this work of the iSn . ^ 'tute which he has taken up . And this ,-onl y in another form ,
Q * v '" C view we have urged from the beginning , namely , that a uretli ^ ster who has shown himself on all occasions so considerate of the if , 1 en s wishes merits their consideration in return even in matters which , 0 [ , car | not be regarded as Masonic , are intended to advance the welfare latin cornmun 'ty to which they are members . It is a small request
re-MASTE tf non'Masonic , yet beneficent , scheme which the PRO GRAND G RAN J addressed to our lodges , and for the reasons urged by the PROV . f avo 1 7 ASTER of West Yorkshire and ourselves , we trust it will be answered do y y a large majority ; and that even in the case of lodges which '"divid e ^ Way t 0 su PPortm & the scheme in their corporate capacity , \ vish es c " lerr'bers will discover a means of complying with the known ° ' the GRAND MASTER .
Ar00101
THE vacancycaused by the resignation of Bro . Lord DETABLEY , Prov . G . M . who for the last 20 years has held the important office of Prov . of Cheshire . Grand Master of Cheshire , will be filled to-day ( Friday ) by the installation of Bro . Lord EGERTON OF TATTON , who for some'time past has acted as Deputy P . G . M . Every effort has been made in order to ensure
that the ceremony shall be carried out with appropriate state , and it is expected that the muster of brethren in Chester Town Hall will be unprecedented in numbers , and will include many of the chief dignitaries of the Order , either the Pro G . M ., the Earl of CARNARVON , or in his absence the Deputy G . M ., the Earl ot LATHOM , who is G . M . of the adjoining
Province of West Lancashire , being the presiding officer . The installation will take place in the Town Hall , but there will be Divine service in the Cathedral , and a grand banquet will follow ; and it is our earnest hope , as it is also our firm belief , that a career begun under such brilliant auspices and amid so much genuine splendour , will be continued as brilliantly .
* * » WE gather from the Finance Report which was presented to , MasonicBcnevo- and approved by , the Committee of Management of the lent Institution . R , Masonic Benevolent Institution , on Wednesday , that a
further amount of - £ 5000 Government Stock has been purchased in respect of the Widows' Fund , the result of which act will be that a very appreciable addition will be made to the permanent income of this branch of the Institution . This is good news indeed . There is a tendency in Societies like ours , at times of extreme pressure on the charitable resources at their
disposal , to bestow them somewhat more freely than can be justified by a due regard for the exigencies of the future . We hear of the distress that is imminent , and we hasten to relieve it , without stopping to weigh very , carefully whether we shall be able to continue the fresh responsibilities we have incurred . There is a vast deal of human nature in this tendency ; indeed , there are
not a few people who prefer the man that is carelessly generous to him who is precisely just . Still , it is always better when we can illustrate our generosity and our justice at the same time , and thanks to the splendid total of contributions at the recent Festival of the Benevolent Institution , the Committee of Management have found themselves in the happy position of being able
to make additional permanent provision for the future requirements of the Charity , at the same time that , by taking on fresh female annuitants , they are perceptibly reducing the more immediate demands on its resources . We say again , this is indeed good news , and we trust the Committee will always preserve the same wise policy of arranging for the distant future as well as for the immediate present .
WE heartily congratulate Bro . TERRY on the recognition Bro . Jas . Terry ,.,,. "' ° . , , ,. . . . and the recent which the important services , he rendered in connection with Festival R . M . B . I . th ( J recent p estival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution received at the hands of the Committee of Management on Wednesday .
There is little doubt that Bro . TERRY , ever since he was appointed to the Secretaryship of this Charity , has not only thrown his whole heart and soul into the duties of his office , but that he has likewise carried them out most successfully . How hard he has worked for it can be better imagined than described . It is enough to say that day by day , week by week , month by
month , year by year , he has pursued the even tenour of his way , never cast down by any passing disappointment , never deterred by any difficulty , and never relaxing from further and more persistent efforts , even when he might appear to have achieved the greatest possible success . The full result oi his
latest and most brilliant triumph is known to our readers , and it will be as gratifying to them as it is to us to find that the Committee have bestowed on him this latest mark of their favour for labours so ungrud gingly and meritoriously performed .
WE are sorry to be obliged to recur to the apparentl y inter-TX Craft " man . m ! naDle Anglo-Quebec difficulty ; but our contemporary , the Canadian Craftsman , in a rejoinder to former articles of ours
on this question , has fallen into a grievous error , which it seems desirable we should at once set about rectifying . In answer to a query propounded by itself as to why the Grand Lodges of the old Country , but "especially those of England and Scotland , seek to deny the possession and exercise of ' exclusive sovereignty' to some and not to other Grand Lodges , " this worthy
organ of Canadian Freemasonry is bold enough to assert that "these British Grand Lodges claim the right to have and to exercise concurrent jurisdiction , not in the territory of each other ( oh , no ) , but in each of the ' foreign' dependencies of the Empire ! whether a regularly constitutad Grand Lodge
exists therein or not ! " We will not stop to enlighten our friend as to the beauties of concurrent jurisdiction in British communities made up chiefly of English , Irish , and Scotch people , but we permit ourselves the liberty of suggesting that it is about time a Masonic journal which has existed some 20 years knew something' as tp the