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mainly that its success is due . The important services whicii he had rendered to the Order were recognised by his promotion to the Grand Senate , of which he was a member at his decease . As noticed in another part of our paper , he was only last week unanimously elected to the principal chair of the Conclave .
He was the President of the local Literary and Philosophical Society , and a member of the School Board . The funeral was to take place yesterday ( Friday ) , and was to be attended by members of the Masonic and other public bodies with which he was connected . Servant of God well done
Rest from thy lov'd employ , The battle fought , the victory won , Enter thy Master ' s joy . BRO . CAPT . JOHN GEORGE FREER
At Auckland , New Zealand , on the ioth November last , the mortal remains of Captain John George Freer were conveyed to the cemetery , and there interred with the ceremonies which are used by the brethren of the body of Free and Accepted Masons—ceremonies intended
to symbolize a blessed eternity , whicii all Alasons are instructed to believe will fall to the lot of a true and faithful brother of the Craft , ceremonies very beautiful and most touching to every one of them . Two hundred and forty of the brotherhood were present , but the cortege was swelled
to quite 400 by the addition of the personal friends and acquaintances of the deceased . As the funeral procession marched to the place of interment , the fine band belonging to the Artillery preceding the coffin , which was carried by eight bearers , played the " Dead Alarch . " The
Masonic burial service was read and the funeral oration pronounced very impressively by Bro . Andrew Beveridge , R . AV . P . D . G . AL , S . C . The deceased brother had attended the Roman Catholic Church , and a few hours previous to his death a jiriest was sent for to administer the
last consolations of the Church offered to the dying . On the arrival of the rev . father he exhorted the dy ing man to renounce his connection with the brotherhood of Freemasons , but this he declined doing . Then the rev . father declared he could not under these circumstances
administer the sacred rites of the Church , nor pronounce the absolution . But Bro . Freer , knowing that his end was very near , still refused to renounce his connection with that fraternity he had sworn at his initiation to be a worthy member of , and the rev . father left . After Bro . Freer died , Bro . Simon Liiisline , 421 , I . C , waited
on the Right Rev . Dr . Croke , Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland , and requested that the funeral service according to the Roman Catholic Church might be read over the coffin in which the dead man ' s body had been placed . But , greatly lamenting the circumstance , Bishop Croke declined to allow this to be done . He
would willingly , he said , have comjihed with the request , but by doing so he would bring down upon himself the censure of the Church . Neither was it permitted that the body of the deceased should be buried within the precincts of the Roman Catholic burying ground . An
application was made and burial . space was offered for the deceased's remains within the area of the Presbyterian interment ground . The refusal of Burial of the Priests of his religion caused considerable correspondence in the local paper , the Daily Southern Cross .
The Right Honourable the Lord Skelmersdale , Provincial Grand Master for the Western Division of Lancashire has consented to take the chair atthe 85 th Anniversary Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls on Wednesday the 14 th May .
The annual assembly of the General Grand Conclave of the Order of Constantine will be held at Freemasons' Tavern , Great Queen-street , on Thursday , the 6 th March , under the presidency of the Earl of Bective , ALP .
Microscopical investigation has proved that the substances which accumulate hetween the teeth contain animal anil vegetable parabites , and that the tooth powders , pastes , and washes in iv ; cncral nse have no ellect npon these . Messrs , Gabriel's Coralite Tooth I ' asteand Koyal Dentrilice ( sold hy all chemists nnd perlumers at 1-. lid . per hox ) completely destroy and remove these animalcules ami also preserve and heautil ' v the ' tcetll . Prepared onlv hy Messrs . 1-iabricl , ihe old-established dentists , 6 .-, I . mltfite-hill , and ' 5 ( 1 , liarley-street , Carendish-square , London , where they practice tlieir unique s > stem of painless ^ entistry .
Alpha And Omega.
ALPHA AND OMEGA .
Contimtedfrom , page 3 6 . Earthborn ! remark the wrong and degradation Which ev ' ry Vice entails upon the Soul . Dragging it from the higher aspiration By Affinity ' s durable control
Into the mire . Albeit wordly-wise : how can our Measure Enlarged and graduated be , to suit The standard of the unseen Next Life ' s treasure ? Brute can but have affinity for brute And rise no higher .
The Spirit liberated from its mansion Mnst seek its like ; e ' en in the AV odd beyond . The Soul refined , may soar to bright expansion In hope and faith , discarding ev ' ry bond . The base—ajijiears
With downcast eyes , which cannot bear the Light AVith low desires , to Earth and Lust yet clinging ; Purblind and hampered from the loftier flight , And out of jilace ' mid jiurer Spirits , winging To pir . er sjiheres
Bright , on our meaner thoughts and darker ways , AVhat mem ' ries glimmer from the Ages past ! AVhat stately pageants of classic days Transient , as tho' too beautiful to last For our birthright !
\ isions of early Faith and A ' irtue strong Of Inspiration in the human breast , When Truth was victor over Fraud and Wrong ; AVhen Error only seem'd to rear its crest For Gods to smite .
Too clear and lambent for our grosser Mind The aura of the old Ideals glanced . Colour and Form and Poesy entwined In graceful and fantastic guise , advanced To reach us .
The Artists of Expression and of Form Swejit boldly up to bear the meed of Fame ; Invoking Beauty from the waste and storm Genius—in grandest apiration , came To teach us .
The Alaster-AIinds of Ages toiled and thought To give new life to a dull world ' s desire ; Giants of Art applied what Sages taught Achieving Wonders . And where are they ; Fire And Sword consumed them !
Ihe wretched remnant ofthe Hebrews , wept In Babylonian and Assyrian chains ; Babylon and Syria in turn were swept , Leaving to us--but shards , whose frail remains Entombed them .
Egypt succumbed beneath the Persian ' s blows . Its hoary Treasures well-nigh gone for ever , Until the Greeks , Persia ' s vicLirous fo . * s , Built up the ruins ; And the rich endeavour AVas richly paid .
Then rose the great and g lorious result Alexandria ! Learning , Art , Science , With mighty Philadelphus to consult ; To all our rivalry bequeath'd defiance , Cast all in shade .
Law works by man ! The Roman ' s ruthless wil ] Blotted from us that hoard . id priceless Lore . And gaunt fanatics , men more ruthless still , Grew on the spot and ev ' ry record tore I Widely in sunder !
AVe strive to rebuild what was there destroyed ; And marvel at the frenzy and the hate Which could make such majestic labour void , That Library , Museum , —desolate . Wonder of wonder !
Fanaticism—or Intolerance ! The monomaniacs saddest spur to Crime . AVhich ev ' ry passion must perforce enhance :
The cause of scenes in ev ' ry age and clime AVhich most appall . I If Devils have faith—' tis thus pestilent , And nourished thus on dark and monstrous deeds
Alpha And Omega.
Wlvch kill itself whene ' er its' force be spent . What is the end of all such burning Creeds ? Where are they all ?
DIRGE . Osiris and Isis—your fanes are athirst , 1 he groves are a desert , the worship accurst . The keys and the symbols of mysteries dread
Forgotten , the very tradition is dead ! No perfumes of spices bewilder the brow ; A loathsome miasma , is sacrifice now . No . Herophant grovels in dust at the door , Your mandates recorded—no more
No more 1 Thou Hebrew vision materialised ! Whose grand jiroportions the Tyrian devised : The splendour and riches of jewels and gold
Of marbles and cedar—arc blent with the mould . Lust and rapacity , judgment of crime , — Scatter'd the fragments thro' ages of Time . Tho' twice tho . ' . vver : r a -J 1 i ' . i ( sr i A : i alor - The foundations know thee—no
more—No more ! Halls of the Norsemen ! Your Gods are no more . Oil to AValhalla their Legends they bore , Where blue-eyed Walkuras divided the spoil
And goblets of Mead-drink refreshed them front toil . Still'd is Thor ' s hammer , your symbol of old , Fled are the Dragoons , and vanish'd the Gold ) Not now on black pinions enchanted they soar , And Skalds chant the Sagas—no more—No more !
Awun Olympus ! For long in the world No thun'dring Zeus his anger has hurled , No heroes to Pall as invoking have knelt , Nor graceful divinities with us have dealt .
Cavern of Del phi ! ' mid incense and smoke Where sov ' reigns paled when the Oracle spoke , Lost and deserted the influence of yore . Thc Pythoness foaming no more-No more !
Rome ; The victorious , mighty , renown'd , Relics of Empires encumber thy ground ! Mars is no longer . So abject and mean A monk was Lord whore a Ciesar had been .
Intriguers may plot and conspirators grieve Or Christianised Eurojie revere and believe , But Mem ' ries alone are left to adore And thy Pontiff is C .-esar—no
more—No more ! The factor Time ploughs uji all in the Past . Ruin , the owner , reaps harvest at last . Our Temples rest on the bones of the dead ,
Out of Corruption the living are fed . Let the bigot behold and mark well the decay . That To-morrow weep not for his Pride of To-day ! For all , on one scroll , in jircdestin'd array , Time , Ruin , and Bigot—are passing away !
Or . the 27 th December , St . J ohns' Day , the biethren of the Northern Lodge of China , No . 570 , held their usual annti il meeting , when Bro . W . A . Turnbtill was installed as W . M ., Bros . F .
S . Barnes and T . R . Wluvloek being appointe d as Wardens . After the ceremony the brethren dined , aud spent a pleasant evening together at the Shanghai Club .
kilEl - M . w 1 :, Neiiral . ni . i , Spasm , Cool , Deafness , Head and loolli Ar lie , Paralysis , Nervous Debility , Muscular and l- ' unc liona ! Maladies , however tenacious lo Mother remedies , speedily > : < ld to I '' uheruiarlicr ' s Improved Pate : t Chain Hunt , llatleries " , end v ' . ci c- o'ir-, truin 2 s . and upwards . Authenticated proofs cf . n-paeillHcd c : licacy are i ; i \ cn in Pamphlet , - ' . Nature ' s ( hie ! l'c ,. t <; Hv , t ¦¦ ;;' . iwcd vital cr . ey .-v , " p : > . i nee on application to | . I . I ' til rvs ; el ; , " . ' ,. I ' lalvank' l-Ls ' tah' . i . ' ini .-ir , i-. >** . Ke-jem-street London , 'A ' ,, . I :.-,,- I ' . IOM , 1 II ,. | ami lull 1 ' iice l . i-t can lie obtained ro . t : " jje .
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Obituary.
mainly that its success is due . The important services whicii he had rendered to the Order were recognised by his promotion to the Grand Senate , of which he was a member at his decease . As noticed in another part of our paper , he was only last week unanimously elected to the principal chair of the Conclave .
He was the President of the local Literary and Philosophical Society , and a member of the School Board . The funeral was to take place yesterday ( Friday ) , and was to be attended by members of the Masonic and other public bodies with which he was connected . Servant of God well done
Rest from thy lov'd employ , The battle fought , the victory won , Enter thy Master ' s joy . BRO . CAPT . JOHN GEORGE FREER
At Auckland , New Zealand , on the ioth November last , the mortal remains of Captain John George Freer were conveyed to the cemetery , and there interred with the ceremonies which are used by the brethren of the body of Free and Accepted Masons—ceremonies intended
to symbolize a blessed eternity , whicii all Alasons are instructed to believe will fall to the lot of a true and faithful brother of the Craft , ceremonies very beautiful and most touching to every one of them . Two hundred and forty of the brotherhood were present , but the cortege was swelled
to quite 400 by the addition of the personal friends and acquaintances of the deceased . As the funeral procession marched to the place of interment , the fine band belonging to the Artillery preceding the coffin , which was carried by eight bearers , played the " Dead Alarch . " The
Masonic burial service was read and the funeral oration pronounced very impressively by Bro . Andrew Beveridge , R . AV . P . D . G . AL , S . C . The deceased brother had attended the Roman Catholic Church , and a few hours previous to his death a jiriest was sent for to administer the
last consolations of the Church offered to the dying . On the arrival of the rev . father he exhorted the dy ing man to renounce his connection with the brotherhood of Freemasons , but this he declined doing . Then the rev . father declared he could not under these circumstances
administer the sacred rites of the Church , nor pronounce the absolution . But Bro . Freer , knowing that his end was very near , still refused to renounce his connection with that fraternity he had sworn at his initiation to be a worthy member of , and the rev . father left . After Bro . Freer died , Bro . Simon Liiisline , 421 , I . C , waited
on the Right Rev . Dr . Croke , Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland , and requested that the funeral service according to the Roman Catholic Church might be read over the coffin in which the dead man ' s body had been placed . But , greatly lamenting the circumstance , Bishop Croke declined to allow this to be done . He
would willingly , he said , have comjihed with the request , but by doing so he would bring down upon himself the censure of the Church . Neither was it permitted that the body of the deceased should be buried within the precincts of the Roman Catholic burying ground . An
application was made and burial . space was offered for the deceased's remains within the area of the Presbyterian interment ground . The refusal of Burial of the Priests of his religion caused considerable correspondence in the local paper , the Daily Southern Cross .
The Right Honourable the Lord Skelmersdale , Provincial Grand Master for the Western Division of Lancashire has consented to take the chair atthe 85 th Anniversary Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls on Wednesday the 14 th May .
The annual assembly of the General Grand Conclave of the Order of Constantine will be held at Freemasons' Tavern , Great Queen-street , on Thursday , the 6 th March , under the presidency of the Earl of Bective , ALP .
Microscopical investigation has proved that the substances which accumulate hetween the teeth contain animal anil vegetable parabites , and that the tooth powders , pastes , and washes in iv ; cncral nse have no ellect npon these . Messrs , Gabriel's Coralite Tooth I ' asteand Koyal Dentrilice ( sold hy all chemists nnd perlumers at 1-. lid . per hox ) completely destroy and remove these animalcules ami also preserve and heautil ' v the ' tcetll . Prepared onlv hy Messrs . 1-iabricl , ihe old-established dentists , 6 .-, I . mltfite-hill , and ' 5 ( 1 , liarley-street , Carendish-square , London , where they practice tlieir unique s > stem of painless ^ entistry .
Alpha And Omega.
ALPHA AND OMEGA .
Contimtedfrom , page 3 6 . Earthborn ! remark the wrong and degradation Which ev ' ry Vice entails upon the Soul . Dragging it from the higher aspiration By Affinity ' s durable control
Into the mire . Albeit wordly-wise : how can our Measure Enlarged and graduated be , to suit The standard of the unseen Next Life ' s treasure ? Brute can but have affinity for brute And rise no higher .
The Spirit liberated from its mansion Mnst seek its like ; e ' en in the AV odd beyond . The Soul refined , may soar to bright expansion In hope and faith , discarding ev ' ry bond . The base—ajijiears
With downcast eyes , which cannot bear the Light AVith low desires , to Earth and Lust yet clinging ; Purblind and hampered from the loftier flight , And out of jilace ' mid jiurer Spirits , winging To pir . er sjiheres
Bright , on our meaner thoughts and darker ways , AVhat mem ' ries glimmer from the Ages past ! AVhat stately pageants of classic days Transient , as tho' too beautiful to last For our birthright !
\ isions of early Faith and A ' irtue strong Of Inspiration in the human breast , When Truth was victor over Fraud and Wrong ; AVhen Error only seem'd to rear its crest For Gods to smite .
Too clear and lambent for our grosser Mind The aura of the old Ideals glanced . Colour and Form and Poesy entwined In graceful and fantastic guise , advanced To reach us .
The Artists of Expression and of Form Swejit boldly up to bear the meed of Fame ; Invoking Beauty from the waste and storm Genius—in grandest apiration , came To teach us .
The Alaster-AIinds of Ages toiled and thought To give new life to a dull world ' s desire ; Giants of Art applied what Sages taught Achieving Wonders . And where are they ; Fire And Sword consumed them !
Ihe wretched remnant ofthe Hebrews , wept In Babylonian and Assyrian chains ; Babylon and Syria in turn were swept , Leaving to us--but shards , whose frail remains Entombed them .
Egypt succumbed beneath the Persian ' s blows . Its hoary Treasures well-nigh gone for ever , Until the Greeks , Persia ' s vicLirous fo . * s , Built up the ruins ; And the rich endeavour AVas richly paid .
Then rose the great and g lorious result Alexandria ! Learning , Art , Science , With mighty Philadelphus to consult ; To all our rivalry bequeath'd defiance , Cast all in shade .
Law works by man ! The Roman ' s ruthless wil ] Blotted from us that hoard . id priceless Lore . And gaunt fanatics , men more ruthless still , Grew on the spot and ev ' ry record tore I Widely in sunder !
AVe strive to rebuild what was there destroyed ; And marvel at the frenzy and the hate Which could make such majestic labour void , That Library , Museum , —desolate . Wonder of wonder !
Fanaticism—or Intolerance ! The monomaniacs saddest spur to Crime . AVhich ev ' ry passion must perforce enhance :
The cause of scenes in ev ' ry age and clime AVhich most appall . I If Devils have faith—' tis thus pestilent , And nourished thus on dark and monstrous deeds
Alpha And Omega.
Wlvch kill itself whene ' er its' force be spent . What is the end of all such burning Creeds ? Where are they all ?
DIRGE . Osiris and Isis—your fanes are athirst , 1 he groves are a desert , the worship accurst . The keys and the symbols of mysteries dread
Forgotten , the very tradition is dead ! No perfumes of spices bewilder the brow ; A loathsome miasma , is sacrifice now . No . Herophant grovels in dust at the door , Your mandates recorded—no more
No more 1 Thou Hebrew vision materialised ! Whose grand jiroportions the Tyrian devised : The splendour and riches of jewels and gold
Of marbles and cedar—arc blent with the mould . Lust and rapacity , judgment of crime , — Scatter'd the fragments thro' ages of Time . Tho' twice tho . ' . vver : r a -J 1 i ' . i ( sr i A : i alor - The foundations know thee—no
more—No more ! Halls of the Norsemen ! Your Gods are no more . Oil to AValhalla their Legends they bore , Where blue-eyed Walkuras divided the spoil
And goblets of Mead-drink refreshed them front toil . Still'd is Thor ' s hammer , your symbol of old , Fled are the Dragoons , and vanish'd the Gold ) Not now on black pinions enchanted they soar , And Skalds chant the Sagas—no more—No more !
Awun Olympus ! For long in the world No thun'dring Zeus his anger has hurled , No heroes to Pall as invoking have knelt , Nor graceful divinities with us have dealt .
Cavern of Del phi ! ' mid incense and smoke Where sov ' reigns paled when the Oracle spoke , Lost and deserted the influence of yore . Thc Pythoness foaming no more-No more !
Rome ; The victorious , mighty , renown'd , Relics of Empires encumber thy ground ! Mars is no longer . So abject and mean A monk was Lord whore a Ciesar had been .
Intriguers may plot and conspirators grieve Or Christianised Eurojie revere and believe , But Mem ' ries alone are left to adore And thy Pontiff is C .-esar—no
more—No more ! The factor Time ploughs uji all in the Past . Ruin , the owner , reaps harvest at last . Our Temples rest on the bones of the dead ,
Out of Corruption the living are fed . Let the bigot behold and mark well the decay . That To-morrow weep not for his Pride of To-day ! For all , on one scroll , in jircdestin'd array , Time , Ruin , and Bigot—are passing away !
Or . the 27 th December , St . J ohns' Day , the biethren of the Northern Lodge of China , No . 570 , held their usual annti il meeting , when Bro . W . A . Turnbtill was installed as W . M ., Bros . F .
S . Barnes and T . R . Wluvloek being appointe d as Wardens . After the ceremony the brethren dined , aud spent a pleasant evening together at the Shanghai Club .
kilEl - M . w 1 :, Neiiral . ni . i , Spasm , Cool , Deafness , Head and loolli Ar lie , Paralysis , Nervous Debility , Muscular and l- ' unc liona ! Maladies , however tenacious lo Mother remedies , speedily > : < ld to I '' uheruiarlicr ' s Improved Pate : t Chain Hunt , llatleries " , end v ' . ci c- o'ir-, truin 2 s . and upwards . Authenticated proofs cf . n-paeillHcd c : licacy are i ; i \ cn in Pamphlet , - ' . Nature ' s ( hie ! l'c ,. t <; Hv , t ¦¦ ;;' . iwcd vital cr . ey .-v , " p : > . i nee on application to | . I . I ' til rvs ; el ; , " . ' ,. I ' lalvank' l-Ls ' tah' . i . ' ini .-ir , i-. >** . Ke-jem-street London , 'A ' ,, . I :.-,,- I ' . IOM , 1 II ,. | ami lull 1 ' iice l . i-t can lie obtained ro . t : " jje .