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To Our Readers.
TO OUR READERS .
The Freemason is a sixteen page weekly newspaper , price : d . It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important and useful information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Annual subscription in the United Kingdom , Post free , 10 / . Brethren in foreign parts , wishing to have this newspaper sent them regularly from the office of publication , should , in sending their remittances , add to the 2 ( 1 . per week the postage on 20 Z .
newspapers . The Freemason may be procured through any newsagent in the United Kingdom by giving ( if needed ) the publisher ' s address , 198 , Fleet-st . "" All communications , correspondence , reports , Sec , must be addressed to the Editor .
Advertisements , change in address , complaints of difficulties in procuring Freemason , Sec , to the Publisher , 198 , Flect-st ., London , E . C . Careful attention will be paid to all MSS . entrusted to the Editor , hut he cannot undertake to return them unless accompanied by stamp directed covers .
To Advertisers.
TO ADVERTISERS .
The Freemason has a large circulation in all patts of the Globe , its advantages as an advertising medium can therefore scarcely be overrated . For terms , position , Sec , apply to GEORGE KENNING , 198 , Fleet-st .
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NOTICE Many complaints having been received of the difficulty experienced in procuring the Freemason in the City , the publisher begs to append the following list , being a selected few of the appointed agents : — Abbott , Wm ., East-cheap . Bates , Pilgrim-street , Ludgate-hill . Born , H ., 115 , London-wall . Dawson , Wm ., 121 , Cannon-street .
Gilbert , Jas ., 18 , Gracechurch-street . Gwest , Wm ., 54 , Paternoster-row . Phillpott Bros ., 6 3 , King William-street . Pottle , R „ 14 , Royal Exchange . May also be obtained at W . 11 . Smith & Son ' s Bookstalls at the following City Stations : — Broad-street . j Hoi born Viaduct . Cannon-street . | London Bridge . Ludgate Hill .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
All Communications , Advertisements , Sec , intended for insertion in the Number of the following Saturday , must reach the Office not later than 12 o ' clock on Wednesday
morning . The following stand over and will be inserted next week ;—Bro . W . J . Hughan on Guilds ; Bro . W . P . Buchan on Lord Carnarvon ' s Speech ; Bro . W . J . Hughan on an old
American Mark Lodge ; Masonic Student . Reporsof Lodges , 33 , 54 , 949 , 1260 , 1289 , 1326 , 14 S 6 . Chipter 720 ; Red Cross Conclave 4 , Edinburgh ; Reports from New Zealand , Sandridge , ^ Vicloria , Mazagon , Jamaica , and Smyrna .
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TheFreemason, SATURDAY , MAY 22 , 1875 .
The Girls' School Festival.
THE GIRLS' SCHOOL FESTIVAL .
We congratulate the Committee , and Bro . Little , and the Order generally , on the successful result of the anniversary for 1875 . Everything seems to have prospered with it , from the Chairman down to the weather . We are glad to record the fact that our distinguished brother ,
the Lord Mayor , presided , and we still more rejoice to call attention to his sensible and Masonic address . That the result of so numerous and animated a meeting would be large and gratifying we did not doubt , and we feel some " little honest pride , as Freemasons , for our
benevolent Order , in adding that the Stewards' lists realised the large sum of £ 7 , 268 , 3 s . All honour to that maligned Craft of ours , which is yet untiring and unrelaxing in its efforts to promote the great and sacred cause of benevolence and charity . The returns , as usual , are very
striking . The metropolis is to the fore with £ 4 , 811 , in round numbers . The provinces send up £ 2 , 257 10 s . 6 d ., and miscellaneous and foreign £ 200 , in round numbers , a little more or less . Bro . Constable heads the metropolitan list with the goodly sum of £ 420 12 s ., Bro . Headon
of 1426 , follows with £ 211 is . ; while Bro . Palmer , 1348 , brings up £ 174 ; Bro . Hyde Pullen , 1 . 382 , £ 170 2 s . ; Bro . J . G . Stevens , 9 . 3 . 3 . £ l + " 5 - 5 Bro . J . L . Thomas , 1328 , £ 33 7 - 5 Bro . S . Poynter , I 49 i , £ ri 8 os . 6 d .:
Urn . F . Lough , 6 9 , £ 115 10 s . ; and Bro . VV . H . Stevens , 607 , and Bro . W . J . Murlis , 1489 , £ 102 18 s . and £ 120 respectively . In the provinces , Middlesex and West Yorkshire have a close race for it , the former winning by a head
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on the post with £ 581 19 s . against £ 580 17 s . The next is Monmouth with £ 464 tos ., followed by Kent with £ 142 , 3 s . ; the remaining 19 provinces not exceeding the two figures . The return , however , is a very striking one , as we
have said before , and reflects the hi ghest credit on the zeal and energy of the Stewards , and tells also a good tale for the ready liberality of our Craft . We are happy to state that the financial affairs of the Girls' School to the close of
1874 are in a very prosperous condition . 1 he Lord Mayor alluded to the Balance Sheet in warm terms of commendation , and certainly it is very gratifying . The credit side of the account for 1874 shews from all sources , including balance of preceding year , the sum of £ 11 , 557
ys . 4 d . The debit amounts to ^ 10 , 258 18 s ., leaving a balance , when all is paid , at the bankers at the close of 1874 , of ^ i , 298 us . 4 d ., with gS " jo for petty cash . It is , however , fair to observe that of this amount of s ^ ro ^ S iSs ., 6 ^ 2 , 29 6 2 s . 6 d . was invested in £ 2 , 500 Consols ,
leaving the vested property of the School , at ^ 23 , , Three-per-Cent . Consols . This surely is a most praiseworthy state of affairs , and says much for the effective management of the Committee and the Secretary . Our distinguished
brother the Lord Mayor asked why with such great advantages , with the blessings ot such an Institution , not double the number of inmates , making them 2 S 5 or 300 ? We believe , though Bro . Little can inform us officially , that there is no more room at the School for new buildings !
But two questions arise . Cannot land be purchased r and cannot the School be extended in one direction or the other ? We apprehsnd that with our rapidly increasing numbers , rapidly augmenting claims will com ; upon us , and we fear that is impossible to suppose that in the present
state of our Order 145 girls can represent the permanent number of the inmates of the Girls ' School . The question is so important , and the Girls' School is so well managed by those able and painstaking brethren who look after its
interests and control its affairs , and Bro . Little is so ali \ e to its educational value and the needs of our Order , that we only venture to suggest the consideration of the increase of numbers to the attention of those best qualified in all respects to deal with so grave a question .
The Pope And The Freemasons.
THE POPE AND THE FREEMASONS .
Telegrams dated Pans , Sunday night , state that Bishop Dupanlotip has received the following letter from the Pope , congratulating him on his pamphlet against Freemasonry : — " Venerable Brother , —Salutation and apostolical benediction . In this war waged on all sides against the
Catholic Church by the Masonic sect , your publication was most useful and opportune , especially because this sect , long secret , has now unmasked itself . It avows its designs , and in a certain country , not under the pretext of public rights , but in its own name , does guilty b 3 ttle with the
Church . It is useful because , the nefarious cnaracter of the sect being known , there is no honest man who must not turn from it with horror , and perhaps many members who do not know the secret mysteries will now withdraw . What is particularl y useful is the perspicacity with which
you demonstrate to all attentive minds the real tendency of the taking words , ' Fraternity and Equality , ' which have deceived and seduced so many , and the true origin and object of the much boasted liberties of conscience , of public worship , and of the Press . After reading your work
nobody can doubt that all this came from Freemasonry to overturn civil and religious order , and consequently the Church has wisely condemned those who practise and defend such liberties . It is manifest that all partisans of these liberties , albeit unknown to themselves , favour the Masonic
sect , and the more honest they are the more disastrous is their support to such principles . We therefore wish you many intelligent readers , for it is no small advantage to perceive the snare , and as a pledge of Divine favour and our special
goodwill we give you , venerable brother , from the bottom of our heart , to you andyour diocese , our Apostolical benediction . "In the twenty-ninth year of our Pontificate , — " Pius IX ., POPE . "
The "Scottish Freemasons' Magazine."
THE "SCOTTISH FREEMASONS ' MAGAZINE . "
Having said our say about the most unfortunate little " faux pas " of our Scottish contemporary , in the best interests , as we consider , both of Scottish and English Freemasonry , we do not deem it wise to continue a very inopportune , and , in our opinion , unwarrantable discussion .
But we must protest , as before both the English and Scottish Craft , against the tone and temper of that most injudicious writer , who could pen such an article , alike disloyal in utterance , and impertinent to all English Freemasons . And what shall we say of his defence of it ? All that
his best friends can possibly urge in mitigation of his renewed unmasonic temperament is , that his words seem so strange , his opinions so incoherent , that , as Meg Merrilies observed , if we remember rightly , to Dominie Sampson , so we all must say , " Mon , ye maun be either fou or
fasting . We are very , very sorry for the Scottish Frtemasons' Magazine , and having said this—we say no more . We observe , however , that our contemporary likens himself , by implication , to John Knox , and apparently ventures to compare his most unmasonic and unfounded tirade
against English Freemasons and their Royal Grand Master , to the old reformer ' s fervid utterances of what he believed was Truth . The writer in the Scottish Freemasons' Magazine puts us in mind of a young friend of ours who has just returned
from a great public school , in which his report for the half is , that he is " addicted to idleness , " and , what is worse of all , that he is "self-complacent in his idleness . " We do not suppose that the egotism or self-complacency of our sensational confrere can bs exceeded by any journalist at the present hour .
A Pleasant Scene.
A PLEASANT SCENE .
If it is true that " ' one touch of nature makes the whole world kin , " we think that never did the application of the truism appeal more forcibly to our own sense of what is true , sympathetic , and natural , than in the little incident to which
we have given the above name . The Times of Thursday records a meeting at Windsor Castle , where tke Queen of many millions surrounds herself with all the hi ghest charms of home life amid the splondour of a palace , and seems to forget the shadow of the great sorrow of her being in the
bright hopes and gracious promise of her grandchildren ! We are amongst those writers and thinkers—call us realistic if you will—who believe that the best history of the times in which we live , of the world in its progress from age to age , in the onward way of all of human kind , is to be
found in the actual habits and wonted customs of public , and , above all , of private life ! The eyes of men are sometimes dazzled by the tinsel and the trappings of outward sensationalism , but we should gain a sorry picture , either of the world as it has been really , or as it is
truly now , if we ever forgot for one moment that it is in the inner lives of peoples and of persons that you are to look for the certain clue to the hopes and plans and longings and aspirations of successive generations . Beneath the gilded show of the great " Vanity
Fair " of life lies the quiet , hidden existence in the home , by the fireside , and there we must go , after all , for those ennobling touches of our wondrous humanity , which give reality to fiction , certainty to history , and lighten up the continuous kalendar of time with unmistakeable
tokens of reliability and truth . It was one of the greatest characteristics of all the many excellent counsels and endeavours of the late Prince Consort , to which as a people we are , and shall ever be most deeply indebted , to throw the colouring of his cherished German "
Heimlichkeit , over the often garish and dangerous splendors of the Court and of high social rank . When , like a wise master builder , he strove so earnestly to impart his conceptions to our English mind , he found a soil well prepared for the
growth of such goodly plants as home life and domestic happiness . How well be prospered in his labours we need mt recount to-day j the evidence of many " lustra " points to the unmistakeable success of his goodly plans and his life-long
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To Our Readers.
TO OUR READERS .
The Freemason is a sixteen page weekly newspaper , price : d . It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important and useful information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Annual subscription in the United Kingdom , Post free , 10 / . Brethren in foreign parts , wishing to have this newspaper sent them regularly from the office of publication , should , in sending their remittances , add to the 2 ( 1 . per week the postage on 20 Z .
newspapers . The Freemason may be procured through any newsagent in the United Kingdom by giving ( if needed ) the publisher ' s address , 198 , Fleet-st . "" All communications , correspondence , reports , Sec , must be addressed to the Editor .
Advertisements , change in address , complaints of difficulties in procuring Freemason , Sec , to the Publisher , 198 , Flect-st ., London , E . C . Careful attention will be paid to all MSS . entrusted to the Editor , hut he cannot undertake to return them unless accompanied by stamp directed covers .
To Advertisers.
TO ADVERTISERS .
The Freemason has a large circulation in all patts of the Globe , its advantages as an advertising medium can therefore scarcely be overrated . For terms , position , Sec , apply to GEORGE KENNING , 198 , Fleet-st .
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NOTICE Many complaints having been received of the difficulty experienced in procuring the Freemason in the City , the publisher begs to append the following list , being a selected few of the appointed agents : — Abbott , Wm ., East-cheap . Bates , Pilgrim-street , Ludgate-hill . Born , H ., 115 , London-wall . Dawson , Wm ., 121 , Cannon-street .
Gilbert , Jas ., 18 , Gracechurch-street . Gwest , Wm ., 54 , Paternoster-row . Phillpott Bros ., 6 3 , King William-street . Pottle , R „ 14 , Royal Exchange . May also be obtained at W . 11 . Smith & Son ' s Bookstalls at the following City Stations : — Broad-street . j Hoi born Viaduct . Cannon-street . | London Bridge . Ludgate Hill .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
All Communications , Advertisements , Sec , intended for insertion in the Number of the following Saturday , must reach the Office not later than 12 o ' clock on Wednesday
morning . The following stand over and will be inserted next week ;—Bro . W . J . Hughan on Guilds ; Bro . W . P . Buchan on Lord Carnarvon ' s Speech ; Bro . W . J . Hughan on an old
American Mark Lodge ; Masonic Student . Reporsof Lodges , 33 , 54 , 949 , 1260 , 1289 , 1326 , 14 S 6 . Chipter 720 ; Red Cross Conclave 4 , Edinburgh ; Reports from New Zealand , Sandridge , ^ Vicloria , Mazagon , Jamaica , and Smyrna .
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TheFreemason, SATURDAY , MAY 22 , 1875 .
The Girls' School Festival.
THE GIRLS' SCHOOL FESTIVAL .
We congratulate the Committee , and Bro . Little , and the Order generally , on the successful result of the anniversary for 1875 . Everything seems to have prospered with it , from the Chairman down to the weather . We are glad to record the fact that our distinguished brother ,
the Lord Mayor , presided , and we still more rejoice to call attention to his sensible and Masonic address . That the result of so numerous and animated a meeting would be large and gratifying we did not doubt , and we feel some " little honest pride , as Freemasons , for our
benevolent Order , in adding that the Stewards' lists realised the large sum of £ 7 , 268 , 3 s . All honour to that maligned Craft of ours , which is yet untiring and unrelaxing in its efforts to promote the great and sacred cause of benevolence and charity . The returns , as usual , are very
striking . The metropolis is to the fore with £ 4 , 811 , in round numbers . The provinces send up £ 2 , 257 10 s . 6 d ., and miscellaneous and foreign £ 200 , in round numbers , a little more or less . Bro . Constable heads the metropolitan list with the goodly sum of £ 420 12 s ., Bro . Headon
of 1426 , follows with £ 211 is . ; while Bro . Palmer , 1348 , brings up £ 174 ; Bro . Hyde Pullen , 1 . 382 , £ 170 2 s . ; Bro . J . G . Stevens , 9 . 3 . 3 . £ l + " 5 - 5 Bro . J . L . Thomas , 1328 , £ 33 7 - 5 Bro . S . Poynter , I 49 i , £ ri 8 os . 6 d .:
Urn . F . Lough , 6 9 , £ 115 10 s . ; and Bro . VV . H . Stevens , 607 , and Bro . W . J . Murlis , 1489 , £ 102 18 s . and £ 120 respectively . In the provinces , Middlesex and West Yorkshire have a close race for it , the former winning by a head
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on the post with £ 581 19 s . against £ 580 17 s . The next is Monmouth with £ 464 tos ., followed by Kent with £ 142 , 3 s . ; the remaining 19 provinces not exceeding the two figures . The return , however , is a very striking one , as we
have said before , and reflects the hi ghest credit on the zeal and energy of the Stewards , and tells also a good tale for the ready liberality of our Craft . We are happy to state that the financial affairs of the Girls' School to the close of
1874 are in a very prosperous condition . 1 he Lord Mayor alluded to the Balance Sheet in warm terms of commendation , and certainly it is very gratifying . The credit side of the account for 1874 shews from all sources , including balance of preceding year , the sum of £ 11 , 557
ys . 4 d . The debit amounts to ^ 10 , 258 18 s ., leaving a balance , when all is paid , at the bankers at the close of 1874 , of ^ i , 298 us . 4 d ., with gS " jo for petty cash . It is , however , fair to observe that of this amount of s ^ ro ^ S iSs ., 6 ^ 2 , 29 6 2 s . 6 d . was invested in £ 2 , 500 Consols ,
leaving the vested property of the School , at ^ 23 , , Three-per-Cent . Consols . This surely is a most praiseworthy state of affairs , and says much for the effective management of the Committee and the Secretary . Our distinguished
brother the Lord Mayor asked why with such great advantages , with the blessings ot such an Institution , not double the number of inmates , making them 2 S 5 or 300 ? We believe , though Bro . Little can inform us officially , that there is no more room at the School for new buildings !
But two questions arise . Cannot land be purchased r and cannot the School be extended in one direction or the other ? We apprehsnd that with our rapidly increasing numbers , rapidly augmenting claims will com ; upon us , and we fear that is impossible to suppose that in the present
state of our Order 145 girls can represent the permanent number of the inmates of the Girls ' School . The question is so important , and the Girls' School is so well managed by those able and painstaking brethren who look after its
interests and control its affairs , and Bro . Little is so ali \ e to its educational value and the needs of our Order , that we only venture to suggest the consideration of the increase of numbers to the attention of those best qualified in all respects to deal with so grave a question .
The Pope And The Freemasons.
THE POPE AND THE FREEMASONS .
Telegrams dated Pans , Sunday night , state that Bishop Dupanlotip has received the following letter from the Pope , congratulating him on his pamphlet against Freemasonry : — " Venerable Brother , —Salutation and apostolical benediction . In this war waged on all sides against the
Catholic Church by the Masonic sect , your publication was most useful and opportune , especially because this sect , long secret , has now unmasked itself . It avows its designs , and in a certain country , not under the pretext of public rights , but in its own name , does guilty b 3 ttle with the
Church . It is useful because , the nefarious cnaracter of the sect being known , there is no honest man who must not turn from it with horror , and perhaps many members who do not know the secret mysteries will now withdraw . What is particularl y useful is the perspicacity with which
you demonstrate to all attentive minds the real tendency of the taking words , ' Fraternity and Equality , ' which have deceived and seduced so many , and the true origin and object of the much boasted liberties of conscience , of public worship , and of the Press . After reading your work
nobody can doubt that all this came from Freemasonry to overturn civil and religious order , and consequently the Church has wisely condemned those who practise and defend such liberties . It is manifest that all partisans of these liberties , albeit unknown to themselves , favour the Masonic
sect , and the more honest they are the more disastrous is their support to such principles . We therefore wish you many intelligent readers , for it is no small advantage to perceive the snare , and as a pledge of Divine favour and our special
goodwill we give you , venerable brother , from the bottom of our heart , to you andyour diocese , our Apostolical benediction . "In the twenty-ninth year of our Pontificate , — " Pius IX ., POPE . "
The "Scottish Freemasons' Magazine."
THE "SCOTTISH FREEMASONS ' MAGAZINE . "
Having said our say about the most unfortunate little " faux pas " of our Scottish contemporary , in the best interests , as we consider , both of Scottish and English Freemasonry , we do not deem it wise to continue a very inopportune , and , in our opinion , unwarrantable discussion .
But we must protest , as before both the English and Scottish Craft , against the tone and temper of that most injudicious writer , who could pen such an article , alike disloyal in utterance , and impertinent to all English Freemasons . And what shall we say of his defence of it ? All that
his best friends can possibly urge in mitigation of his renewed unmasonic temperament is , that his words seem so strange , his opinions so incoherent , that , as Meg Merrilies observed , if we remember rightly , to Dominie Sampson , so we all must say , " Mon , ye maun be either fou or
fasting . We are very , very sorry for the Scottish Frtemasons' Magazine , and having said this—we say no more . We observe , however , that our contemporary likens himself , by implication , to John Knox , and apparently ventures to compare his most unmasonic and unfounded tirade
against English Freemasons and their Royal Grand Master , to the old reformer ' s fervid utterances of what he believed was Truth . The writer in the Scottish Freemasons' Magazine puts us in mind of a young friend of ours who has just returned
from a great public school , in which his report for the half is , that he is " addicted to idleness , " and , what is worse of all , that he is "self-complacent in his idleness . " We do not suppose that the egotism or self-complacency of our sensational confrere can bs exceeded by any journalist at the present hour .
A Pleasant Scene.
A PLEASANT SCENE .
If it is true that " ' one touch of nature makes the whole world kin , " we think that never did the application of the truism appeal more forcibly to our own sense of what is true , sympathetic , and natural , than in the little incident to which
we have given the above name . The Times of Thursday records a meeting at Windsor Castle , where tke Queen of many millions surrounds herself with all the hi ghest charms of home life amid the splondour of a palace , and seems to forget the shadow of the great sorrow of her being in the
bright hopes and gracious promise of her grandchildren ! We are amongst those writers and thinkers—call us realistic if you will—who believe that the best history of the times in which we live , of the world in its progress from age to age , in the onward way of all of human kind , is to be
found in the actual habits and wonted customs of public , and , above all , of private life ! The eyes of men are sometimes dazzled by the tinsel and the trappings of outward sensationalism , but we should gain a sorry picture , either of the world as it has been really , or as it is
truly now , if we ever forgot for one moment that it is in the inner lives of peoples and of persons that you are to look for the certain clue to the hopes and plans and longings and aspirations of successive generations . Beneath the gilded show of the great " Vanity
Fair " of life lies the quiet , hidden existence in the home , by the fireside , and there we must go , after all , for those ennobling touches of our wondrous humanity , which give reality to fiction , certainty to history , and lighten up the continuous kalendar of time with unmistakeable
tokens of reliability and truth . It was one of the greatest characteristics of all the many excellent counsels and endeavours of the late Prince Consort , to which as a people we are , and shall ever be most deeply indebted , to throw the colouring of his cherished German "
Heimlichkeit , over the often garish and dangerous splendors of the Court and of high social rank . When , like a wise master builder , he strove so earnestly to impart his conceptions to our English mind , he found a soil well prepared for the
growth of such goodly plants as home life and domestic happiness . How well be prospered in his labours we need mt recount to-day j the evidence of many " lustra " points to the unmistakeable success of his goodly plans and his life-long