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Article PROVINCIAL GRAND MARK LODGE OF NORTH WALES. Page 1 of 1 Article CONSECRATION OF THE FITZWILLIAM MARK LODGE, No. 477, AT PETERBOROUGH. Page 1 of 1 Article THE POETRY OF MASONRY. Page 1 of 1 Article THE POETRY OF MASONRY. Page 1 of 1 Article THE FREEMASONS AND MEDIAEVAL ART. Page 1 of 1
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Provincial Grand Mark Lodge Of North Wales.
PROVINCIAL GRAND MARK LODGE OF NORTH WALES .
The annual meeting of the above Provincial G-aM Lodge was held on Monday , the i 9 * h inst .. at Rh . l . Bro . Col . Hunter , P . G . M ., presiding over at exceptionally large attendance of brethren from all parts of lhe province . 'Oif . Prov . Grand Master invested his officers for the ensuing year as fo'lows : Bro . Lieut .-Col . Gordon-Warren ... ... D . P . G . M . „ Coxhead ... ... ... ... Prov . S . G . W . .. T . iomas William ; ... ... ... Prov . J . G . W .
„ Capain Ashley Randolp h ... ... Prov . G . M . O . ,, T . B . Farrington ... ... ... Prov . S . G . O . „ John Hughes ... ... ... Prov . J . G . O . " § ^ h Evans ' | Prov . G . Chaps . ,, Rev . Thomas Edwards ... ... ¦•¦ ) r .. Richard Bellis ... ... ... Prov . G . Treas .
„ J . Haworth ... ... ... ... Prov . G . Reg . „ \ V . D . Henderson ... ... ... Prov . G . Sec . ,, Dr . Jones Roberts ... ... ... Prov . S . G . D . ,, F . F ' isher Jones ... ... ... Prov . J . G . D . „ J . M . Gunn ... ... ... ... Prov . G . S . of W . .. G . L . Woods ... ... ... Prov . G . D . C .
" „ J . G . Jones ... ' . ' . ' . ... ... Prov . G . S . B . „ John Owen ... ... ... ... Prov . G . Std . Br . „ ' Dr . T . K . L . Davies ... ... ... Prov . G . I . G . ,, J . Burwell ... ... ... ... Prov . G . Org . :: H £ Sih" ::: ::: " : ] Prov - G - Stewards - ,, J . Vincent ... ... ... ... Prov . G . Tyler .
The binquet was served at the Westminster Hotel . The PROV . GRAND MASTER , in response to the toast of his health , referred to the great increase which had taken place in Mark Masonry , no fewer than 40 lodges hiving been added to the Order in England last year .
Consecration Of The Fitzwilliam Mark Lodge, No. 477, At Peterborough.
CONSECRATION OF THE FITZWILLIAM MARK LODGE , No . 477 , AT PETERBOROUGH .
Pi-Urbo-. ugh can now claim the distinction of having formed and opened th .. fir Mnk luilgp since the inauguration of the new provinces , which Grand M irk Lodge has considered it desirable to create , on the decease of th * lamented B o . Kelly , late P . G . M . nf Leicester , and the gathering at the Freemasons' Hall , Peterborough , on Monday , the 19 th inst , was worthy of this ci a-ion .
The ceremony of consecration was conducted by the Pro Grand Master , the Eatl ol Euston , who is also Prov . Grand Master of Norths Hunts , and B-H « . LTH En ton was accompanied b y the following Grand Officers : Bros . C « l . A . B . Cook . P . G . M . Middx ., as S . W . ; C . FitzGerald M rtier , P . G . W ., GS .. asJ . W . ; Rev . J . H . Gray , G . Chip ., as Chap . ; J . Balfour Cockburn , G . D . C asDC . i Jabez Church , P . G . O ., as J . O .
The ceremony was carried out with all the ea = e and masterly skill and impressiveness which great experience in their special duties has made this di-. ii'ein' -hfd Head of our Od-r familiar .
The musical arrangements were under the direction of Bro . Richard Croft , P . M ., P . P . G . Org ., Leicester , & c , and in such able hands these were simply perfect . A word of praise must also be given to Bro . Clarabut , Hon . Sec . pro tern , who has been indefatigable in his exertion- ; to start the lod ^ e .
The ceremo' -y of consecra ion being ended . B-o . C . F . Matier , P . G . W ., and G . Sec . took the cha i r and installed B'O . G . C . W . Fitzwilliam as W . M . The W . M . anroint-d the following brethrt-n as his officers , and they were dulv investfd : Bros . T . Pnipps Dorman , P . M . 245 , S . W . ; W . H .
P . ke , P . M . 292 , J W . ; Geo . C Cr-ter , M . O . ; J . Hardy , S . O . ; J . B . Vergette , J . O . ; Rev . P . Royston . Chap . ; J . C'ifton , Treas . j R . D . Adkins , R * g . ; H . C . Cl-rabut , Sec . ; J . C . Ruyce , S . D . ; J . S . Loweth , J . D . ; W . B . iy . r , Org . ; R . W . Elsey , l . G . ; F . Caster , Stwd . ; and H . Plowman , T \ ler .
Among't the numerous visitors present we noticed : Bros . Abraham Woodiws-, Prov . G . M . Derbyshire ; G . Ellard , P . G . Stwd ., P . M . 245 ; Paget , Crolt , Hart , Hodges , Fletcher , and R binson , W . M . 245 . The usual banquet took place at the Angel Hotel .
The Poetry Of Masonry.
THE POETRY OF MASONRY .
It would indeed be a sorry world if we were able to deny that there is a Poetry of Life ; and he who denies the Poetry of Masonry in the same sense , has studied it to very little purpose ; his intellect is dull indeed . As in the pnetrv of life , it is believed in at one period , the happiest , viz .: in our youth . The Masonic youth of every man ( 1 speak with some years over a quarter of a century ' s experience , passed as a keen observer of men and things ) , is
pissicl in mixed wonder , with gratitude for the knowledge that ; i Society exists wiih such x r Sessions toward God and man . This admiration of the principles of a hitman institution , so instinctively interwoven with thankfulness towards a beneficent Creator—that elevation of the soul above the ordinary io : tine of life awakened at ou' initiation—combined with the willing acknowledgment in the presence of our friends , and , as it were , in the p-esence of Gid , acceptance ot those principles and avowal of trust in
Him—spring fion what may very aptly be called the poetry of Masonry . It has reached the hear . " , then , and however long or short may be the period of its duration Ihere , runs on exactly parallel lines to what is called the poetry of life . The ' at'er circum ^ ance is the only reason why it is being subject to partial extinction , which could never have happened had the Craft occupied its proper and original p ' ace as a leader ins ' . cad oi following th « ou ' - side world .
The Poetry Of Masonry.
As the best part jf man is the poetic , so it is 111 Masonry . Nobjdy will deny the latter , because as lo ' g as it has existed nothing has been said in favour or praise of Freemasonry without reliance on its aid . The Craft U"hersal has acknowledged it , stamp ^ it with the seal of approval , and m 1 st either stand for it or acknowledge the institution worthless , as it would be whem eliminated from it .
So far as the ordinary acceptation goes , poetry is little appreciated in the bustling hurry of our mneteenth ' century competition to live , into which most of us can hardly avoid being drawn ; but to own that the suppression of humanity in the breast , and honesty in one ' s dealings , enables a man to be the better equipped to earn his living , is a confession few men would make !
Many people , I know , regard any kind of poetry , if they acknowledge appreciation of it , as an inspiration of the mind more or less elegantly expressed ; but this is no poetry , and certainly not the kind I would wish to always find in a Mason ic Lodge and want preserving . 1 f poetry does not stir our nobler qualities , which the jostling hubbub of life or the hardness of our surroundings may have deadened—if it does not touch the chords which responded so melodiously when the true poetry of life awoke in our youth : —
if it re-animates none of those lofty , ideal inspirations which the untrammelled enthusiasm of boyhood produces , but have long lain dormant under the cold calculating influences of the world—in short , if it speaks not from the soul in tones indicative of the source , and neither stirs our hearts in some degree to our betterment , nor inspires our souls with gentle , noble or sublime feelings ( and I am deeply conscious myself of having been most likely a great sinner in this respect ) , it is no poetry at all , but worthless doggerel !
Prosaic man says " I hrit facts—no poetry for me 1 " while deep away in the recesses of his heart he constantly yearns for it ! The prosaic Mason says , " if we don ' t get on , the supper will be cold ; can ' t we skip a bit 1 " and yet the latter will leave the said supper-table wilh a scowl if the poetry of Masonry be left out in proposing his health .
As I have more than once asserted , Masonry mi g ht travel on stili wider lines , but is influenced by the prosaic tendency of the world which it follows . It has all the qualifications of a leader , and everything to lose with nothing to gain from outside . It might be a great social power ; but we older Masons do exactly to our children in the Craft as parents generally too often do in these days , wilfully neglecting their need of encouragement , good example ,
love ; and then with hardened hearts looking around lo find on whom or what to throw the blame for the consequences . Is it any wonder that we have the daily horrors in the newspapers , when by sapping child-life and crushing out the poetry of life in youth we are forming the man that is to be ? The same hardness of heart that prompts to train a youth to regard
moneygetting as the sole purpose of his existence , cannot fail to have its baneful effect . Similarly shut out the poetry of Masonry and ignore its teachings , and what is left ? The coming manhood is just as serious a contemplation for the Mason'C , as the society future , and " to be forwarned is to be forearmed . " —A , J . Leader in the Freemasons' Repository .
The Freemasons And Mediaeval Art.
THE FREEMASONS AND MEDIAEVAL ART .
Architects are apt to forget that by the very fact of copying their predecessors of the Middle iAges , they become most unlike them in that particular circumstance which is the life and soul of all material art , the principle on which it is carried on . The present generation endeavours to recover , like a dead language or a lost science , what the men of old exercised as a living , progressive , self-developing thing . We have , indeed , the body , decayed and worn out as it is , but they had the spirit which quickened
it . It is a mistake to suppose that that spirit was identical with , or even the necessary result of , the Mediaeval faith . The two things are quite distinct in themselves , as is evident from the fact that we retain ths latter , while we had utterly lost and are now only recovering the former . Gothic architecture was immediately and essentially suspended by the dissolution of the Freemasons , in whose hands it was vested like a vast monopoly , rather than
by the rupture in the unity of the Christian Church which took place in the sixteenth century . Without such an organised system as that wonderful conftaternity supplied , no amount of religious feeling or enthusiastic faith could have achieved the great ecclesiastical works of the Middle Ages , because ( as at present ) it would have been unable , so to speak , to embody itself in any definite , methodical , scientific way . At the present time few
men of genius supply a want and , as it were , a vacuum in the department of ecclesiastical art which was unknown and unfelt in the days of the Freemasons . Our bond of unity , so far as it exists in giving the preference to a particular style , is nothing more than a common consent to admire and copy their works . What , indeed , but a kind of rivalry to be foremost' in reviving a lust art could now insure anything like an agreement or
uniformity in building and decorating churches ? Where each one strive ; to be the buit copyist of an existing model it is obvious that at Ieist a very close approximation to uniformity will be the result . But this uniformity is a totally different thing from thit which formerly prevailed throug h the influence ot co-operation and the restrictions of actual rule . It is just as different as the voluntary and independent attempts of five or six fellows of
colleges to imitate the old monastic life would be from the working of an actual religious community living under the ancient rule . In the one case monasticism is a thing extinct or at least merely traditionary , in the other it is a living reality . So it is with modern church building ; the selection of a style is atbitrary , and it is onl y to a general movement and a kind of fashion ( induced no doubt by the best feelings of love and icverence for the mighty
past ) that we owe the improved character and furniture of the churches wnich we see rising everywhere around us . Of the history , organisation , rules and craft of the ancient Freemasons next to nothing is known . But we cannot contemplate their works without being filled with amazement at the perfection of a system which for many centuries together could cover the face of Europe with buildings wherein every detail was , for the time bsing , in the strictest unison , a system under which every advancement and improvement of the
art was spread simultaneously and adopted unanimously by the wording thousands throughout a wide Continent . Not but that Christian architecture had national developments , or rather , perhaps took national directions according to climate , material , and other external circumstances . For instance , the early linglish and the contemporaneous continental geometricdecorated , our perpendicular , and the gorgeous flamboyant of our neig hbours are instances of these diverging tendencies , though all are essentially subordinate to one rule and evidently animated by one spirit . — Architect .
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Provincial Grand Mark Lodge Of North Wales.
PROVINCIAL GRAND MARK LODGE OF NORTH WALES .
The annual meeting of the above Provincial G-aM Lodge was held on Monday , the i 9 * h inst .. at Rh . l . Bro . Col . Hunter , P . G . M ., presiding over at exceptionally large attendance of brethren from all parts of lhe province . 'Oif . Prov . Grand Master invested his officers for the ensuing year as fo'lows : Bro . Lieut .-Col . Gordon-Warren ... ... D . P . G . M . „ Coxhead ... ... ... ... Prov . S . G . W . .. T . iomas William ; ... ... ... Prov . J . G . W .
„ Capain Ashley Randolp h ... ... Prov . G . M . O . ,, T . B . Farrington ... ... ... Prov . S . G . O . „ John Hughes ... ... ... Prov . J . G . O . " § ^ h Evans ' | Prov . G . Chaps . ,, Rev . Thomas Edwards ... ... ¦•¦ ) r .. Richard Bellis ... ... ... Prov . G . Treas .
„ J . Haworth ... ... ... ... Prov . G . Reg . „ \ V . D . Henderson ... ... ... Prov . G . Sec . ,, Dr . Jones Roberts ... ... ... Prov . S . G . D . ,, F . F ' isher Jones ... ... ... Prov . J . G . D . „ J . M . Gunn ... ... ... ... Prov . G . S . of W . .. G . L . Woods ... ... ... Prov . G . D . C .
" „ J . G . Jones ... ' . ' . ' . ... ... Prov . G . S . B . „ John Owen ... ... ... ... Prov . G . Std . Br . „ ' Dr . T . K . L . Davies ... ... ... Prov . G . I . G . ,, J . Burwell ... ... ... ... Prov . G . Org . :: H £ Sih" ::: ::: " : ] Prov - G - Stewards - ,, J . Vincent ... ... ... ... Prov . G . Tyler .
The binquet was served at the Westminster Hotel . The PROV . GRAND MASTER , in response to the toast of his health , referred to the great increase which had taken place in Mark Masonry , no fewer than 40 lodges hiving been added to the Order in England last year .
Consecration Of The Fitzwilliam Mark Lodge, No. 477, At Peterborough.
CONSECRATION OF THE FITZWILLIAM MARK LODGE , No . 477 , AT PETERBOROUGH .
Pi-Urbo-. ugh can now claim the distinction of having formed and opened th .. fir Mnk luilgp since the inauguration of the new provinces , which Grand M irk Lodge has considered it desirable to create , on the decease of th * lamented B o . Kelly , late P . G . M . nf Leicester , and the gathering at the Freemasons' Hall , Peterborough , on Monday , the 19 th inst , was worthy of this ci a-ion .
The ceremony of consecration was conducted by the Pro Grand Master , the Eatl ol Euston , who is also Prov . Grand Master of Norths Hunts , and B-H « . LTH En ton was accompanied b y the following Grand Officers : Bros . C « l . A . B . Cook . P . G . M . Middx ., as S . W . ; C . FitzGerald M rtier , P . G . W ., GS .. asJ . W . ; Rev . J . H . Gray , G . Chip ., as Chap . ; J . Balfour Cockburn , G . D . C asDC . i Jabez Church , P . G . O ., as J . O .
The ceremony was carried out with all the ea = e and masterly skill and impressiveness which great experience in their special duties has made this di-. ii'ein' -hfd Head of our Od-r familiar .
The musical arrangements were under the direction of Bro . Richard Croft , P . M ., P . P . G . Org ., Leicester , & c , and in such able hands these were simply perfect . A word of praise must also be given to Bro . Clarabut , Hon . Sec . pro tern , who has been indefatigable in his exertion- ; to start the lod ^ e .
The ceremo' -y of consecra ion being ended . B-o . C . F . Matier , P . G . W ., and G . Sec . took the cha i r and installed B'O . G . C . W . Fitzwilliam as W . M . The W . M . anroint-d the following brethrt-n as his officers , and they were dulv investfd : Bros . T . Pnipps Dorman , P . M . 245 , S . W . ; W . H .
P . ke , P . M . 292 , J W . ; Geo . C Cr-ter , M . O . ; J . Hardy , S . O . ; J . B . Vergette , J . O . ; Rev . P . Royston . Chap . ; J . C'ifton , Treas . j R . D . Adkins , R * g . ; H . C . Cl-rabut , Sec . ; J . C . Ruyce , S . D . ; J . S . Loweth , J . D . ; W . B . iy . r , Org . ; R . W . Elsey , l . G . ; F . Caster , Stwd . ; and H . Plowman , T \ ler .
Among't the numerous visitors present we noticed : Bros . Abraham Woodiws-, Prov . G . M . Derbyshire ; G . Ellard , P . G . Stwd ., P . M . 245 ; Paget , Crolt , Hart , Hodges , Fletcher , and R binson , W . M . 245 . The usual banquet took place at the Angel Hotel .
The Poetry Of Masonry.
THE POETRY OF MASONRY .
It would indeed be a sorry world if we were able to deny that there is a Poetry of Life ; and he who denies the Poetry of Masonry in the same sense , has studied it to very little purpose ; his intellect is dull indeed . As in the pnetrv of life , it is believed in at one period , the happiest , viz .: in our youth . The Masonic youth of every man ( 1 speak with some years over a quarter of a century ' s experience , passed as a keen observer of men and things ) , is
pissicl in mixed wonder , with gratitude for the knowledge that ; i Society exists wiih such x r Sessions toward God and man . This admiration of the principles of a hitman institution , so instinctively interwoven with thankfulness towards a beneficent Creator—that elevation of the soul above the ordinary io : tine of life awakened at ou' initiation—combined with the willing acknowledgment in the presence of our friends , and , as it were , in the p-esence of Gid , acceptance ot those principles and avowal of trust in
Him—spring fion what may very aptly be called the poetry of Masonry . It has reached the hear . " , then , and however long or short may be the period of its duration Ihere , runs on exactly parallel lines to what is called the poetry of life . The ' at'er circum ^ ance is the only reason why it is being subject to partial extinction , which could never have happened had the Craft occupied its proper and original p ' ace as a leader ins ' . cad oi following th « ou ' - side world .
The Poetry Of Masonry.
As the best part jf man is the poetic , so it is 111 Masonry . Nobjdy will deny the latter , because as lo ' g as it has existed nothing has been said in favour or praise of Freemasonry without reliance on its aid . The Craft U"hersal has acknowledged it , stamp ^ it with the seal of approval , and m 1 st either stand for it or acknowledge the institution worthless , as it would be whem eliminated from it .
So far as the ordinary acceptation goes , poetry is little appreciated in the bustling hurry of our mneteenth ' century competition to live , into which most of us can hardly avoid being drawn ; but to own that the suppression of humanity in the breast , and honesty in one ' s dealings , enables a man to be the better equipped to earn his living , is a confession few men would make !
Many people , I know , regard any kind of poetry , if they acknowledge appreciation of it , as an inspiration of the mind more or less elegantly expressed ; but this is no poetry , and certainly not the kind I would wish to always find in a Mason ic Lodge and want preserving . 1 f poetry does not stir our nobler qualities , which the jostling hubbub of life or the hardness of our surroundings may have deadened—if it does not touch the chords which responded so melodiously when the true poetry of life awoke in our youth : —
if it re-animates none of those lofty , ideal inspirations which the untrammelled enthusiasm of boyhood produces , but have long lain dormant under the cold calculating influences of the world—in short , if it speaks not from the soul in tones indicative of the source , and neither stirs our hearts in some degree to our betterment , nor inspires our souls with gentle , noble or sublime feelings ( and I am deeply conscious myself of having been most likely a great sinner in this respect ) , it is no poetry at all , but worthless doggerel !
Prosaic man says " I hrit facts—no poetry for me 1 " while deep away in the recesses of his heart he constantly yearns for it ! The prosaic Mason says , " if we don ' t get on , the supper will be cold ; can ' t we skip a bit 1 " and yet the latter will leave the said supper-table wilh a scowl if the poetry of Masonry be left out in proposing his health .
As I have more than once asserted , Masonry mi g ht travel on stili wider lines , but is influenced by the prosaic tendency of the world which it follows . It has all the qualifications of a leader , and everything to lose with nothing to gain from outside . It might be a great social power ; but we older Masons do exactly to our children in the Craft as parents generally too often do in these days , wilfully neglecting their need of encouragement , good example ,
love ; and then with hardened hearts looking around lo find on whom or what to throw the blame for the consequences . Is it any wonder that we have the daily horrors in the newspapers , when by sapping child-life and crushing out the poetry of life in youth we are forming the man that is to be ? The same hardness of heart that prompts to train a youth to regard
moneygetting as the sole purpose of his existence , cannot fail to have its baneful effect . Similarly shut out the poetry of Masonry and ignore its teachings , and what is left ? The coming manhood is just as serious a contemplation for the Mason'C , as the society future , and " to be forwarned is to be forearmed . " —A , J . Leader in the Freemasons' Repository .
The Freemasons And Mediaeval Art.
THE FREEMASONS AND MEDIAEVAL ART .
Architects are apt to forget that by the very fact of copying their predecessors of the Middle iAges , they become most unlike them in that particular circumstance which is the life and soul of all material art , the principle on which it is carried on . The present generation endeavours to recover , like a dead language or a lost science , what the men of old exercised as a living , progressive , self-developing thing . We have , indeed , the body , decayed and worn out as it is , but they had the spirit which quickened
it . It is a mistake to suppose that that spirit was identical with , or even the necessary result of , the Mediaeval faith . The two things are quite distinct in themselves , as is evident from the fact that we retain ths latter , while we had utterly lost and are now only recovering the former . Gothic architecture was immediately and essentially suspended by the dissolution of the Freemasons , in whose hands it was vested like a vast monopoly , rather than
by the rupture in the unity of the Christian Church which took place in the sixteenth century . Without such an organised system as that wonderful conftaternity supplied , no amount of religious feeling or enthusiastic faith could have achieved the great ecclesiastical works of the Middle Ages , because ( as at present ) it would have been unable , so to speak , to embody itself in any definite , methodical , scientific way . At the present time few
men of genius supply a want and , as it were , a vacuum in the department of ecclesiastical art which was unknown and unfelt in the days of the Freemasons . Our bond of unity , so far as it exists in giving the preference to a particular style , is nothing more than a common consent to admire and copy their works . What , indeed , but a kind of rivalry to be foremost' in reviving a lust art could now insure anything like an agreement or
uniformity in building and decorating churches ? Where each one strive ; to be the buit copyist of an existing model it is obvious that at Ieist a very close approximation to uniformity will be the result . But this uniformity is a totally different thing from thit which formerly prevailed throug h the influence ot co-operation and the restrictions of actual rule . It is just as different as the voluntary and independent attempts of five or six fellows of
colleges to imitate the old monastic life would be from the working of an actual religious community living under the ancient rule . In the one case monasticism is a thing extinct or at least merely traditionary , in the other it is a living reality . So it is with modern church building ; the selection of a style is atbitrary , and it is onl y to a general movement and a kind of fashion ( induced no doubt by the best feelings of love and icverence for the mighty
past ) that we owe the improved character and furniture of the churches wnich we see rising everywhere around us . Of the history , organisation , rules and craft of the ancient Freemasons next to nothing is known . But we cannot contemplate their works without being filled with amazement at the perfection of a system which for many centuries together could cover the face of Europe with buildings wherein every detail was , for the time bsing , in the strictest unison , a system under which every advancement and improvement of the
art was spread simultaneously and adopted unanimously by the wording thousands throughout a wide Continent . Not but that Christian architecture had national developments , or rather , perhaps took national directions according to climate , material , and other external circumstances . For instance , the early linglish and the contemporaneous continental geometricdecorated , our perpendicular , and the gorgeous flamboyant of our neig hbours are instances of these diverging tendencies , though all are essentially subordinate to one rule and evidently animated by one spirit . — Architect .