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^Be^TsSi^ SATURDAY , DECEMBER 23 , 1893 .

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

Once again the pleasant duty devolves upon us of wishing all our friends and the members of the Craft generally the compliments of this festive season . The circumstances of the moment are not very encouraging , but we trust that people will—at all events during the

holiday of the next few days—exhibit towards each other that spirit of kindness and forbearance which are so necessary to the promotion of peace and goodwill at all seasons of the year , but more especially at Christmastide .

» It will be good news to the friends and supporters of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys that the Secretary has had the good fortune thus early to enlist the support of a very distinguished Mason as the Chairman of the Anniversary Festival , which will be held in its behalf in the month of June , 1894 . R . W . Bro . W . L ,

Jackson , M . P ., the newly-installed Prov . G . Master of West Yorkshire , has very kindly consented to preside on that occasion , so that we may anticipate with good reason that the claims of the younger of our Masonic Schools will be ably advocated , and , we trust we shall not prove over sanguine in our anticipations if we add , as generously supported .

* * * We say this because West Yorkshire is a large Province , which deals out its donations and subscriptions to our different Charities on a large scale , the scale being particularly large on special occasions—as

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for instance when its Prov . G . Master has consented to act as Chairman ; when some distinguished brother , in the success of whose presidency it has exhibited more than usual interest ; or when some event of special importance in connection with a particular Charity was about to be celebrated . Thus , when the late Bro . Sir

Henry Edwards , Bart ., P . G . M ., was Chairman at one of the Benevolent Festivals , when the Girls' School celebrated its Centenary and the Benevolent Institution its Jubilee , and in 1891 , when an exceptional effort was made under the auspices of Bro . the Earl of

Lathom , Pro G . M . and Prov . G . Master of West Lancashire , to restore the somewhat ] dilapidated fortunes of the Boys' School , on each and every of these occasions West Yorkshire put forth its strength to excellent purpose . * * *

It is true that , in 1887 , when Bro . T . W . Tew , who is now the Past G . Master of the Province , presided at the Boys' School Festival , its subscriptions were , for a Province like West Yorkshire , on a modest scale . But this may be looked upon as the exception which proves the rule we have stated . Moreover , it is easily

to be explained by two circumstances . In the first place it was not till a fortnight before the day appointed for the celebration that , all other attempts on the part of the School Executive to obtain a Chairman having signally failed , Bro . Tew volunteered to act in

that capacity ; and in the next , the Province in the early part of the year had expended—over and above its subscriptions at the Festival itself— . £ 2100 in the purchase of two Perpetual Presentations to the Widows ' Fund of the R . M . B . I .

* * * We say again , therefore , that we are justified in looking hopefully forward to the 9 6 th Anniversary of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys in June . With the Right Hon . Bro . Jackson in the chair , and a whole regiment of West Yorkshire brethren eager to show

their loyalty to him , and give the Order generally a taste of their quality as Stewards , the Festival may yield a lesser total than some we have known ; but it will be a success notwithstanding , and one which wil ] redound to the credit both of the Chairman and his Province . * * *

While , however , we are offering our congratulations to the Boys' School Executive . on this rare piece of good fortune , we must , for the next two months , keep continually before us the requirements of the Benevolent Institution , which are immediately pressing . We must remind the brethren that the fame of a

splendid success in 1892 will not supply the ways and means for carrying on this Charity during the year 1894 . We trust the Craft will not in this instance repeat the error it committed in the case of the Girls ' School , when in consequence of the grand total obtained at the Centenary of that Institution in 1 SS 8 ,

it ventured to relax its efforts during the three or four years that followed . The result of such relaxation was , not altogether perhaps disastrous , but certainly injurious to the monetary well-being of the School . We trust that no such fate will befall the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , which has upwards of 430 Old People to furnish with annuities , and is in

need of an annual supply of . £ 16 , 000 to fulfil this obligation . Yet the Board of ^ Stewards , upon whose efforts Bro . Col . Money the Chairman will have to rely , is wofully short of what it usually is two months prior to the day appointed for the Festival . Up to the present moment , the Board of Stewards numbers only about 150 , as compared with over 200 in connection with previous ordinary Festivals .

* * * There is , therefore , as we pointed out in our recent article on the subject , a considerable amount of leeway to be made up between now and the 28 th February , 1894 , and though , having regard to the fact that West Lancashire is chiefly committed to the support of the

Girls' School and West Yorkshire to that of the Boys School , we cannot look for much help from these large and important Provinces , we trust that such a number of brethren will offer their services as Stewards during the next two months as will increase the Board to the average strength of ordinary years , and allow of its raising enough for the requirements of the Charity .

* We announce , with very great regret , that Bro James Terry , Sec . Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , has been compelled , by an attack of influenza ,

to absent himself from his duties during the past 10 days . He contrived to visit his office for about hulfan-hour on Wednesday , but he was too weak to remain and transact business . We regret also to hear that Mrs . Terry's progress towards recovery from her recent