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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS . ' 31 Lodgeof Benevolence 32 Royal Mnsonic Institntion for Hoys 33 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls 32 Presentation to a Lewis i 3-Consecration of a New Loilge in New Zealand . 12
The Great Trior of Canada on the Indqien- 1 dence of Great Priory 33 The Annual Masonic Pall in Liverpool 33 Ireland 33 Personal Statistics * 33 ClIRREsi'ONOEXCEMasonic Lmblcms 34 A National Kxhihilion of Mi ^ nnic Relics 34 \
Con RES pax n * : \'' "F . ( continued ' — The Canadian Knights T-Linplar and Convent General 34 Thc Toast Son ,- *; of the York Lodj ; e 34 Reviews 34 Masonic Notes and Queries 35 RKI *** KTS or MASONIC MI . F . TINCSCraft Masonrv 35
I Instruction 40 Koyal Arch 41 Mark Masonrv \ i The Theatres .. ' 42 Music 42 Science 42 Masonic and General Tidings 43 Lndt ; e Meetings for Next Week 44
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WE understand that up to tlio close of Inst week Bro . TERRY liad received thc names of 221 Stewards for the Royal Masonic Benevolent Festival , which total is somewhat in defect of the number of Stew irds nt lhis time last year . But there is yet some time before the Festival , nn J as many
brethren postpone the announcement of their names until the last moment , during thc ncxt few weeks many more announcements of Stewards will come in . Wc . bcg earnestly to impress on our brethren and readers that they double , so to say , thc help they offer lo this excellent Institution , by sending their names in a ! once to the Secretary .
No better evidence could exist of the estimation in which I-rccmasonry is held in the City than the fact thai its Chief Magistrate again occupies thc position of Master of a Lodge . Two years ago Bro . Sir FRANCIS TRI ' SCOTT was installed ns W . M . ofthe Grand Masters' Lodge , nnd thc brilliant gathering nt the Mansion Hon c during his year of office will long be
remembered . On Wednesday last Bro . Alderman ELLIS occupied the same position , and all who arc acquainted with thc zeal nnd ability with which our worthy brother carries out his many and varied duties will bc assured that thc interests of Masonry in general , nnd of thc Grand Master .-. ' Lodge in particular , will not , whatever may bc thc pressure of other engagements , suffer during his reign .
* * AT thc recent Quarterly Court of the Girls' School , the minutes of the previous Quarterly Court were confirmed with lhis reservation , that the amount to bo expended on the swimming bath was reduced lo a maximum of £ 1500 . We arc informed lhat this amount will , in all probability , bc still
further reduced , nnd that , without impairing thc provisions for the comfort of thc children , or affecting thc elegance and effectiveness of the plan . As some remarks have been made on thc facility with which large sums have been voted by the brethren in the metropolis , subscribers to the Charities , wc think it right to observe that the London brethren arc most disinclined lo
anything like extravagance in thc administration of the Charities , most watchful over the current expenditure ; and that while thoy arc most anxious , and rightly anxious , lo keep up their really noble Charities in thorough efficiency , they arc second to none in their desire and efforts to administer thc funds , provided by thc large-hearted liberality of their brethren , with
every safeguard for proper economy and needful carefulness . 1 he original motion for thc swimming bath was made when tho largest number of our provincial brethren habitually attend , nnd we feel quite sure that the recent decision of the Quarterly Court will bc approved by them , ar , it is unanimously bv all the metropolitan brethren .
* - * - WE wish to impress this one fact on our readers just now , and of which we trust that they will take a careful note , that \ LARGE TROI ' ORTION * OI LODGES AMD CHAPTERS , AN ' n A STILL MORC SERIOUS NUMB Ell OF OUR BRETHREN * . HAVE NEVER DO NT . ANYTHING AT ALL IOR OUR GREAT , OUR
USEFUL , OUR ADMIRABLY MANACF . D CHARITIES . 'I'hc magnificent returns made year by year , arc offered with but a small additional amount of new subscribing lodges , chapters nnd brethren , by the same lodges , chapters and brethren over and over again ; but ns in everything earthly there arc ever the ebb and How , the inevitable losses of subscription lists , and passing
away of good old friends , the Charities have a right to expect additional help from fresh subscribers , new services of help as year passes away on year . Wc trust that 1882 will witness no diminution of the intense reality of the Masonic Charity , but that , on the contrary , wc shall bc able to announce twelve months hence , that the Charities have found , as they deserve , much additional aid from new friends and fresh' subscribers .
THE last attack on Freemasonry by ALBAN STOLZ , —we do not quite gather whether such is a psuedonym or no , is published at Vienna by CHARLES SARTORI . If the Monde Maconnique gives us correct extracts from ils pages , which wc doubt not , it is a very silly and , in fact , contemptible pro-
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duction . So much so , that it is certainly not worth a reply ; indeed , hardly deserving of notice . It is termed , ns translated , " The Xalural History of Freemasons . " Whether it is written in German or French docs not quite clearly appear ; but if the Alpina has printed its title exactl y from which paper the Monde . Maconnique derives its precis , it is actually
termed , " Histoire Xaturcllc des Francmacons . " Perhaps some German reader ran set us right on this point , if wc are wrong . Mr . Ai . is . w SroL / . proceeds , it is asserted , to divide Freemasons into lour classes , ( . so : ; Monde Mitconuiq :. ' :- fur / S ' owmbtT , page , } 17 ) : 1 . The Weak Freemao ,, ns : 2 . The Speculating Freemasons ; X .
Apostate Christians ; . j . The Helpers of Satan . Is it to be believed that in 1 SS 2 any man could bc so foolish or fanatic , or perversely crazed as to put forth such nonsense ' . ' still less , thai he could find a reasonable or sane publisher to join in his venture ' . ' The editor of the Mond . i Maconnique seems to intimate that ALB w STOI . Z , whoever he may he , is a Jesuit . Be
it so . \\ e deeply regret that anyone could bc found in this epoch to give up his mind to such absolutely wicked and criminal libels . The main point of complaint seems to bc lhat Freemasons are unbelievers and Red Republicans , and that they constitute a . standing league against order , morality , religion , and law . Wc know how thoroughly absurd , and worse than
absurd . —nay , how deliberately and malignantly slanderous inch a charge appears to us Anglo-Saxon Masons . But wc must be fair , even while wc reprove , and just while we condemn . Wc fear that it cannot be denied , that . abroad , here and there , foolish speeches are made , childish proclamations are issued , words and acts
are Irequent which alarm the respectable and frighten the timid members of society . There is in some sectit . ii ** , of Freemn ' -oi ' . rv a good dc . il , wo apprehend , of a so-called sympathy with Unbelief and Comnumisn , which to some extent justify even injurious suspicions and indignant reclamations . But then our antagonists almo-t always argue from a particular to an universal ,
and forgetting ih . it Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry prob . al . ily represents scventemhsof all existing Freemasonry , judge from tiie habits and tendencies of a minority , the unfailing practices and unchanging tenet ; 01 a < -Tc . it majority of Freemasons . For them , ho . vever . Go 1 be thanked , the old fashioned words , charily , loyalty , duty , order , submission to lawful authority ,
the civilizing influences nf social restraint , and th ,: gentler sympathies of the morali / ed humanities arc still full of meaning nnd reality , and , therefore , wo can afford lo cor . sign in the limbo of hopeless inanities , and lo hand over lo the judgment of the honest nnd the Inn * , such attacks as these , which only display thc ignorance , and perversity , and ciankim-- ? , and era .-re of the writer .
Wr . publish elsewhere an extract , which wc found accidentall y in the Be / fast News Letter , lelativc to Ii ish Masonry . We arc always glad to publish Irish reports , and only regret that we are positively often indebted 10 Ultramontane and nntigonistic journals , or chance paragraph * . , from n < n-Masonie papers , for thc accounts of Irish Freemasonry ' which appear in our friendly and Masonic columns .
* * * Wr . call attention lo a letter of Bro . K . IIOLMHS , and a circular of Bro , Lieut .-Col . M * U * LI : OIJ MOORE , which appear elsewhere . They will suggest many serious reflections lo many of our readers , and all will approve of the wordj and action of our distinguished brother , the Grand Prior o ( Canada
OUR contemporary , the Standard , says : "The public are—not , it appears , without good cause—warned again * -1 a man who is going about the country obtaining money and clothing from people by pa-sing himself off as a friend or relative just come back from sea . Weare told lhat he has been
very successful in swindling several people in this way . It is said that his victims are to be found chiefly among persons in the humbler walks of life , and thi * j is no more than one might expect . It is among them , for thc most part , that relatives are lost sight of , and they are apt too , unless prematurely sharp , to bc very guileless . It is they who succumb with such readiness lit
the confidence trick , and who lend money on the security of painted sparrows , and- —be this put in their favour—if n man can claim any sort of knowled-rt ! of them , and can persuade them that he has come back from sea hard up
for a few shilling or a suit of clothes , he is more likely to find liberality among those ' in the humbler walks of life , ' than a few steps higher up thc social ladder . " We hope that our readers will make a note of this fact , as just now impostures are many , aud impostors are rank amongst us .
IT is no doubt true , as one of our contemporaries has put it , and the fact is a very sadonc in itself , that last year was one of the most disastrous known to ( he shipping interest , from the twofold cause of trade depression and casualties at sea . An authority has computed that shipping to the amount
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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS . ' 31 Lodgeof Benevolence 32 Royal Mnsonic Institntion for Hoys 33 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls 32 Presentation to a Lewis i 3-Consecration of a New Loilge in New Zealand . 12
The Great Trior of Canada on the Indqien- 1 dence of Great Priory 33 The Annual Masonic Pall in Liverpool 33 Ireland 33 Personal Statistics * 33 ClIRREsi'ONOEXCEMasonic Lmblcms 34 A National Kxhihilion of Mi ^ nnic Relics 34 \
Con RES pax n * : \'' "F . ( continued ' — The Canadian Knights T-Linplar and Convent General 34 Thc Toast Son ,- *; of the York Lodj ; e 34 Reviews 34 Masonic Notes and Queries 35 RKI *** KTS or MASONIC MI . F . TINCSCraft Masonrv 35
I Instruction 40 Koyal Arch 41 Mark Masonrv \ i The Theatres .. ' 42 Music 42 Science 42 Masonic and General Tidings 43 Lndt ; e Meetings for Next Week 44
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WE understand that up to tlio close of Inst week Bro . TERRY liad received thc names of 221 Stewards for the Royal Masonic Benevolent Festival , which total is somewhat in defect of the number of Stew irds nt lhis time last year . But there is yet some time before the Festival , nn J as many
brethren postpone the announcement of their names until the last moment , during thc ncxt few weeks many more announcements of Stewards will come in . Wc . bcg earnestly to impress on our brethren and readers that they double , so to say , thc help they offer lo this excellent Institution , by sending their names in a ! once to the Secretary .
No better evidence could exist of the estimation in which I-rccmasonry is held in the City than the fact thai its Chief Magistrate again occupies thc position of Master of a Lodge . Two years ago Bro . Sir FRANCIS TRI ' SCOTT was installed ns W . M . ofthe Grand Masters' Lodge , nnd thc brilliant gathering nt the Mansion Hon c during his year of office will long be
remembered . On Wednesday last Bro . Alderman ELLIS occupied the same position , and all who arc acquainted with thc zeal nnd ability with which our worthy brother carries out his many and varied duties will bc assured that thc interests of Masonry in general , nnd of thc Grand Master .-. ' Lodge in particular , will not , whatever may bc thc pressure of other engagements , suffer during his reign .
* * AT thc recent Quarterly Court of the Girls' School , the minutes of the previous Quarterly Court were confirmed with lhis reservation , that the amount to bo expended on the swimming bath was reduced lo a maximum of £ 1500 . We arc informed lhat this amount will , in all probability , bc still
further reduced , nnd that , without impairing thc provisions for the comfort of thc children , or affecting thc elegance and effectiveness of the plan . As some remarks have been made on thc facility with which large sums have been voted by the brethren in the metropolis , subscribers to the Charities , wc think it right to observe that the London brethren arc most disinclined lo
anything like extravagance in thc administration of the Charities , most watchful over the current expenditure ; and that while thoy arc most anxious , and rightly anxious , lo keep up their really noble Charities in thorough efficiency , they arc second to none in their desire and efforts to administer thc funds , provided by thc large-hearted liberality of their brethren , with
every safeguard for proper economy and needful carefulness . 1 he original motion for thc swimming bath was made when tho largest number of our provincial brethren habitually attend , nnd we feel quite sure that the recent decision of the Quarterly Court will bc approved by them , ar , it is unanimously bv all the metropolitan brethren .
* - * - WE wish to impress this one fact on our readers just now , and of which we trust that they will take a careful note , that \ LARGE TROI ' ORTION * OI LODGES AMD CHAPTERS , AN ' n A STILL MORC SERIOUS NUMB Ell OF OUR BRETHREN * . HAVE NEVER DO NT . ANYTHING AT ALL IOR OUR GREAT , OUR
USEFUL , OUR ADMIRABLY MANACF . D CHARITIES . 'I'hc magnificent returns made year by year , arc offered with but a small additional amount of new subscribing lodges , chapters nnd brethren , by the same lodges , chapters and brethren over and over again ; but ns in everything earthly there arc ever the ebb and How , the inevitable losses of subscription lists , and passing
away of good old friends , the Charities have a right to expect additional help from fresh subscribers , new services of help as year passes away on year . Wc trust that 1882 will witness no diminution of the intense reality of the Masonic Charity , but that , on the contrary , wc shall bc able to announce twelve months hence , that the Charities have found , as they deserve , much additional aid from new friends and fresh' subscribers .
THE last attack on Freemasonry by ALBAN STOLZ , —we do not quite gather whether such is a psuedonym or no , is published at Vienna by CHARLES SARTORI . If the Monde Maconnique gives us correct extracts from ils pages , which wc doubt not , it is a very silly and , in fact , contemptible pro-
Ar00102
duction . So much so , that it is certainly not worth a reply ; indeed , hardly deserving of notice . It is termed , ns translated , " The Xalural History of Freemasons . " Whether it is written in German or French docs not quite clearly appear ; but if the Alpina has printed its title exactl y from which paper the Monde . Maconnique derives its precis , it is actually
termed , " Histoire Xaturcllc des Francmacons . " Perhaps some German reader ran set us right on this point , if wc are wrong . Mr . Ai . is . w SroL / . proceeds , it is asserted , to divide Freemasons into lour classes , ( . so : ; Monde Mitconuiq :. ' :- fur / S ' owmbtT , page , } 17 ) : 1 . The Weak Freemao ,, ns : 2 . The Speculating Freemasons ; X .
Apostate Christians ; . j . The Helpers of Satan . Is it to be believed that in 1 SS 2 any man could bc so foolish or fanatic , or perversely crazed as to put forth such nonsense ' . ' still less , thai he could find a reasonable or sane publisher to join in his venture ' . ' The editor of the Mond . i Maconnique seems to intimate that ALB w STOI . Z , whoever he may he , is a Jesuit . Be
it so . \\ e deeply regret that anyone could bc found in this epoch to give up his mind to such absolutely wicked and criminal libels . The main point of complaint seems to bc lhat Freemasons are unbelievers and Red Republicans , and that they constitute a . standing league against order , morality , religion , and law . Wc know how thoroughly absurd , and worse than
absurd . —nay , how deliberately and malignantly slanderous inch a charge appears to us Anglo-Saxon Masons . But wc must be fair , even while wc reprove , and just while we condemn . Wc fear that it cannot be denied , that . abroad , here and there , foolish speeches are made , childish proclamations are issued , words and acts
are Irequent which alarm the respectable and frighten the timid members of society . There is in some sectit . ii ** , of Freemn ' -oi ' . rv a good dc . il , wo apprehend , of a so-called sympathy with Unbelief and Comnumisn , which to some extent justify even injurious suspicions and indignant reclamations . But then our antagonists almo-t always argue from a particular to an universal ,
and forgetting ih . it Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry prob . al . ily represents scventemhsof all existing Freemasonry , judge from tiie habits and tendencies of a minority , the unfailing practices and unchanging tenet ; 01 a < -Tc . it majority of Freemasons . For them , ho . vever . Go 1 be thanked , the old fashioned words , charily , loyalty , duty , order , submission to lawful authority ,
the civilizing influences nf social restraint , and th ,: gentler sympathies of the morali / ed humanities arc still full of meaning nnd reality , and , therefore , wo can afford lo cor . sign in the limbo of hopeless inanities , and lo hand over lo the judgment of the honest nnd the Inn * , such attacks as these , which only display thc ignorance , and perversity , and ciankim-- ? , and era .-re of the writer .
Wr . publish elsewhere an extract , which wc found accidentall y in the Be / fast News Letter , lelativc to Ii ish Masonry . We arc always glad to publish Irish reports , and only regret that we are positively often indebted 10 Ultramontane and nntigonistic journals , or chance paragraph * . , from n < n-Masonie papers , for thc accounts of Irish Freemasonry ' which appear in our friendly and Masonic columns .
* * * Wr . call attention lo a letter of Bro . K . IIOLMHS , and a circular of Bro , Lieut .-Col . M * U * LI : OIJ MOORE , which appear elsewhere . They will suggest many serious reflections lo many of our readers , and all will approve of the wordj and action of our distinguished brother , the Grand Prior o ( Canada
OUR contemporary , the Standard , says : "The public are—not , it appears , without good cause—warned again * -1 a man who is going about the country obtaining money and clothing from people by pa-sing himself off as a friend or relative just come back from sea . Weare told lhat he has been
very successful in swindling several people in this way . It is said that his victims are to be found chiefly among persons in the humbler walks of life , and thi * j is no more than one might expect . It is among them , for thc most part , that relatives are lost sight of , and they are apt too , unless prematurely sharp , to bc very guileless . It is they who succumb with such readiness lit
the confidence trick , and who lend money on the security of painted sparrows , and- —be this put in their favour—if n man can claim any sort of knowled-rt ! of them , and can persuade them that he has come back from sea hard up
for a few shilling or a suit of clothes , he is more likely to find liberality among those ' in the humbler walks of life , ' than a few steps higher up thc social ladder . " We hope that our readers will make a note of this fact , as just now impostures are many , aud impostors are rank amongst us .
IT is no doubt true , as one of our contemporaries has put it , and the fact is a very sadonc in itself , that last year was one of the most disastrous known to ( he shipping interest , from the twofold cause of trade depression and casualties at sea . An authority has computed that shipping to the amount