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Royal Ark Mariners.
The lodge being opened in due form , the minutes of the special lodge were read and confirmed . Apologies were read from several candidates unable to be present as the Easter holidays were so near . Amongst them included the Prov . G . M . M . Mon . ; Bros . John Owen Marsh , P . M . ; and Robert Lock , P . M ., D . P . G . M . M . South Wales . Bro . John Rees being in attendance , was impressively elevated to this Sublime Degree by Bro . John Sheridan , P . C . N ., who is well-known to take special interest in the Royal Ark Mariners . The lodge closed in ample form . The next meeting will be held the first Thursday in October next , immediately before the Mark Lodge .
Bro. The Rev. W. H. Edgell.
BRO . THE REV . W . H . EDGELL .
" DOWN UNDER . " At the last meeting of the Dobie Lodge , Kingston-on-Thames , reference was made to a most interesting letter addressed to the members by Bro . the Rev . W . H . Edgell , and which had been sent out by the Secretary in printed form . The writer is a son of Bro . James Edgell , J . P ., a Past Master of the Dobie Lodge , No . 88 9 , Chairman of the Teddington Urban District Council , and well known on the Middlesex County Council . He was initiated in
the Dobie Lodge , and soon after taking the Third Degree he was accepted from among the students at St . Augustine ' s College , Canterbury , for mission work among the islands of the New Hebrides , whose position in regard to his old name is " Down Under . " Bro . W . H . Edgell is not yet out of his third decade , and it is clear by the tone of his letters that he has lost none of the missionary zeal which led him to offer himself for work often carried on life in hand , as cannibalism is still practised in some of the islands .
Our missionary brother started his epistle to the Dobie Lodge by saying that he was slowly recovering from an attack of ague , in spite of which he was carrying out peripatetic duties , including visiting schools , baptising adults and children , and generally doing quite a bishop ' s part . After giving an outline of one week's round , he goes on to say : " Being single-handed at present , with three islands under my charge and not even one native clergyman to help , and having just on 80 schools to visit ,
besides plentiful heathen work , does not leave me much time to idle in . All the better for me , and the work is most absorbing in spite of troubles , such as fighting , polygamy , and cannibalism , which latter is still rife in some heathen parts . But white men are too salt for the native palate , and besides , men-of-war would take action if cause were given , so that we are safe ; but , of course , we have to discourage the vice in every way we can . These troubles , however , are confined to the heathen , but I need hardly say there are others in the Christian parts , too
often , alas 1 immorality and drunkenness from Kava drinking . There is a big feast on here to-morrow , as is usual when there is a baptism . It is of rather unusual size , as this is the first time the rite has been administered here , and five chiefs—all old men—are among the candidates . Six pigs and 30 fowls have been killed , and about 100 yams peeled and cut up , together with 20 or so bunches of green bananas , which were grated up . People from all the Christian villages round are expected , and we may have any number from 200 to 600 here before
the service begins . It depends on the weather , because the average native who owns a shirt ( and many do ) does not like it to get wet . If rain comes on he takes it off—trousers , too , if he has them—rolls them up in a banana leaf , and carries under his arm , only retaining his loin cloth . I once saw the proud possessor of an umbrella treat it in the same way when a shower came on . It was cotton , fairly old , and cost perhaps 3 s . 6 d . new ; but he would not wet it for the world 1 "
Having mentioned that his district consists of three islands , with a total coast line of 70 miles in length , and that all are mountainous involving stiff climbs when getting about , Bro . W . H . Edgell , who wrote on December 5 th last , closed his letter with the following words : " I am sorry , but I had quite forgotten that I was writing to many who are personally unknown to me . My excuse must be that I look on the Dobie Lodge room as so much a part of home , and I feel sure that feeling as they must surely do the same things themselves ,
they will forgive an exile ( voluntary it is true ) for any unintentional remissness herein . As for old friends , I shall not insult them by apologising , because I know that they are glad to hear from me , since it is a proof that they are not forgotten by the fragment of the Dobie Lodge " down under . " Although some months must elapse before you get this , I must , though rather late , wish every
one all happiness and success during the New Year . My prayer ever is that the G . A . O . T . U . may preserve the Craft , and not the least that small part of it represented by the members of No . 889 . The probability is that at the end of next year 1 shall be taking a holiday in New Zealand , and I hope then to be able to find opportunity for attending lodge in Auckland or Otaki or some other North island town . "
Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS .
Speech of the Countess Amherst at the conclusion of the prize distribution by her ladyship on Monday , the 6 th instant : The Countess AMHERST : Ladies and Gentlemen , —It has given me the very greatest pleasure to come here this afternoon to help to give away these prizes . It is always a pleasure to have anything to do with something that has succeeded , and a prize means that someone has worked very hard and that someone has gained . To you who have succeeded we say , " Go on and succeed again ; " and
when you leave this School , do your best to make up your minds to succeed outside as you have succeeded here . And to you girls who have not woa prizesit seems to me there are very few of you—but there are a few ; to those , I would say , " Do not despair . " We all know that everybody is not equally gifted , and what comes quite easily to some people is almost impossible to others , and very often a girl has worked quite as hard who has not won a prize , as one who has . But take my advice—do not give up . Do not say , " I am so stupid , it is no use for
me to try . " Remember thafLife ' s prizes go very often not to the most brilliant , but to the most persevering . I think most of you girls must have heard in one way or another of one of the fundamentil principles of the Great Craft to whose care you owe your education . 1 mean the recognition of the brotherhood of man . Now , if you wish to do credit to that care , try to carry out that principle in your own lives by being as tender-hearted an 1 hel pful to everybody that you come in contact with throughout your lives . I do not know
if you girls have ever thought what you arc going to make of life . I do not expect you have , for you are all very young . But there is no reasan , because you are young , that you should not do so . A sculptor , when he sees a great block of marble before him , makes up his mind what he is going to carve out of it—a Venus , Satyr , or Cupid—and you and I , and everyone of us , wc all have to carve our own lives . No one else can do that for us . If you would
give to life its faiiest proportions , it should have three qualities—length , breadth , and height , and they should be as near as possible of equal propoitions . First there is length . I mean by that , making up your minds what you are going to do and when you have done so , go straight at it . It may be the aim of your life to follow some profession or art , or it miy be just the common homely life of wotiun , which consists of doing an inumerablc number of very small things well , and that
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makes a comfortable and happy home . I would remind you with regard to this home question , of the noble example that has been set us by her late Most Gracious Majesty our venerated Queen Victoria . Of her great qualities as a ruler and stateswoman it is not for me to speak here , but of what she was as wife mother , and , as far as her great position allowed her to be , as a neighbour . Hej kind sympathy in the joys and sorrows of all around her . These are all things we can all imitate . Let no one despise these homely duties of life when we think
that our great Queen as she was not only carried them out most faithfull y , but found in so doing the greatest pleasure in her long , long life . We none of us can excuse ourselves if we neglect home duties , in sharing the joy and sorrow of those amongst us for we cannot say we are following Queen Victoria ' s example . Homeliness no doubt is a very old-fashioned recipe , but it is a real good one to make nations strong and full of vitality , and a most successful one . Then comes breadth . When you have made up your mind what von
will do , do not let it make you narrow , self-centred , selfish , but give out a broad sympathy all through your life to your fellow-passengers in life ' s journey and that broad sympathy will bring a pleasure into your own life that nothing else can give . It will make your life warm and full of a joy which those who are selfish do not possess . And , lastly , there is height . By that I mean , that looking up , that asking of aid from the Great God above us , for without that aid we cannot carry out life's highest ideals , and no one
ever asked for that aid in vain who truly sought it . And now you eider girls these of you who , perhaps , next term , but certainly before the year is out , will be leaving the home where so much care and love have been shown you , and will be going out into the world . Each one will take up her book of life . Those pages are fair , unsoiled . There is nothing written in them . Do take care when you write in them ; and as years go on , if you should be tempted to do something which would sully those pages , just think how its being written would look
if you saw it written , and , perhaps , just that little thought may save you . Dear girls , I wish with all my heart that the pages of your books may be filled with the records of many , many hippy days and happy years of joy to you and all you love . Of pleasure in your work , and pleasure in your play , and the record of many lovely thoughts , kindly actions , and of all things good and true . And when as years go on , as come it must , the last page shall be filled in , may each one of you have the prize of finding written as its ending line , " This life was trul y lived , Pass on to newer joys for evermore . "
Strand Lodge Of Instruction.
STRAND LODGE OF INSTRUCTION .
The first reunion dinner of the Strand Lodge of Instruction , No . 198 7 , was held on Tuesday last at the Salisbury Hotel , Strand , when host Bro . Loasen put on the board a capital menu , which was much appreciated by the brethren . The chair was taken by Bro . Rapley , the Preceptor of the lodge , and among those present were : Bros . J . G . Hare , A . Hare , Gott Thomas , Pastonili Soper , Goff Penn , Edwards , Sparks , Leslie , Seaman , Miller , Thomas , Treas . ; Kibblewhite , Sec .: and many other brethren and friends .
After dinner , and the usual loyal toasts , the CHAIRMAN proposed " Success to the Strand Lodge of Instruction . " This was responded to by Bro . KIBBLEWHITE , Sec , who commented upon the satisfactory progress the lodge had made during its eight months' existence . Thirty-eight meetings had been held , with an average attendance of over 12 , and the lodge numbered among its members representatives of many
important lodges , including Jerusalem , 197 ; Wolsey , 1656 ; Eccentric , 2488 ; Bushey Hall , 2323 ; Friendship , 206 ; Anglo-American , 2191 ; Harrow , 1310 ; Marcians , 2648 ; Ebury , 1448 ; Croxteth United Service , Liverpool , 786 ; Acacia , 1309 ; Empress , 2581 ; and Drury Lane , 2127 . He referred also to the visits and return visits of the Hampden Lodge of Instruction , and hoped it was the first of many similar friendly visits .
The toast of " The Visitors " was proposed by the CHAIRMAN , and responded to by Bro . J . SEAMAN . Bro . J . N . HARE ( Mayor of Arundel ) proposed " The Health of the Preceptor . " Several brethren assisted in contributing to an excellent musical programme . Special mention must be accorded to the brilliant pianoforte playing and singing of Bro . Loasen ' s two promising sons , who exhibit a musical talent that is seldom met with .
WE regret to state that Bro . Sir Walter Besant is very unwell , and has been confined to his bed for some time past . THE APPOINTMENT of Mr . Charles Dibdin , the secretary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution , as a Knight of Grace of the Order of the Hospital of jSt . John of Jerusalem in England has been sanctioned by the King .
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Royal Ark Mariners.
The lodge being opened in due form , the minutes of the special lodge were read and confirmed . Apologies were read from several candidates unable to be present as the Easter holidays were so near . Amongst them included the Prov . G . M . M . Mon . ; Bros . John Owen Marsh , P . M . ; and Robert Lock , P . M ., D . P . G . M . M . South Wales . Bro . John Rees being in attendance , was impressively elevated to this Sublime Degree by Bro . John Sheridan , P . C . N ., who is well-known to take special interest in the Royal Ark Mariners . The lodge closed in ample form . The next meeting will be held the first Thursday in October next , immediately before the Mark Lodge .
Bro. The Rev. W. H. Edgell.
BRO . THE REV . W . H . EDGELL .
" DOWN UNDER . " At the last meeting of the Dobie Lodge , Kingston-on-Thames , reference was made to a most interesting letter addressed to the members by Bro . the Rev . W . H . Edgell , and which had been sent out by the Secretary in printed form . The writer is a son of Bro . James Edgell , J . P ., a Past Master of the Dobie Lodge , No . 88 9 , Chairman of the Teddington Urban District Council , and well known on the Middlesex County Council . He was initiated in
the Dobie Lodge , and soon after taking the Third Degree he was accepted from among the students at St . Augustine ' s College , Canterbury , for mission work among the islands of the New Hebrides , whose position in regard to his old name is " Down Under . " Bro . W . H . Edgell is not yet out of his third decade , and it is clear by the tone of his letters that he has lost none of the missionary zeal which led him to offer himself for work often carried on life in hand , as cannibalism is still practised in some of the islands .
Our missionary brother started his epistle to the Dobie Lodge by saying that he was slowly recovering from an attack of ague , in spite of which he was carrying out peripatetic duties , including visiting schools , baptising adults and children , and generally doing quite a bishop ' s part . After giving an outline of one week's round , he goes on to say : " Being single-handed at present , with three islands under my charge and not even one native clergyman to help , and having just on 80 schools to visit ,
besides plentiful heathen work , does not leave me much time to idle in . All the better for me , and the work is most absorbing in spite of troubles , such as fighting , polygamy , and cannibalism , which latter is still rife in some heathen parts . But white men are too salt for the native palate , and besides , men-of-war would take action if cause were given , so that we are safe ; but , of course , we have to discourage the vice in every way we can . These troubles , however , are confined to the heathen , but I need hardly say there are others in the Christian parts , too
often , alas 1 immorality and drunkenness from Kava drinking . There is a big feast on here to-morrow , as is usual when there is a baptism . It is of rather unusual size , as this is the first time the rite has been administered here , and five chiefs—all old men—are among the candidates . Six pigs and 30 fowls have been killed , and about 100 yams peeled and cut up , together with 20 or so bunches of green bananas , which were grated up . People from all the Christian villages round are expected , and we may have any number from 200 to 600 here before
the service begins . It depends on the weather , because the average native who owns a shirt ( and many do ) does not like it to get wet . If rain comes on he takes it off—trousers , too , if he has them—rolls them up in a banana leaf , and carries under his arm , only retaining his loin cloth . I once saw the proud possessor of an umbrella treat it in the same way when a shower came on . It was cotton , fairly old , and cost perhaps 3 s . 6 d . new ; but he would not wet it for the world 1 "
Having mentioned that his district consists of three islands , with a total coast line of 70 miles in length , and that all are mountainous involving stiff climbs when getting about , Bro . W . H . Edgell , who wrote on December 5 th last , closed his letter with the following words : " I am sorry , but I had quite forgotten that I was writing to many who are personally unknown to me . My excuse must be that I look on the Dobie Lodge room as so much a part of home , and I feel sure that feeling as they must surely do the same things themselves ,
they will forgive an exile ( voluntary it is true ) for any unintentional remissness herein . As for old friends , I shall not insult them by apologising , because I know that they are glad to hear from me , since it is a proof that they are not forgotten by the fragment of the Dobie Lodge " down under . " Although some months must elapse before you get this , I must , though rather late , wish every
one all happiness and success during the New Year . My prayer ever is that the G . A . O . T . U . may preserve the Craft , and not the least that small part of it represented by the members of No . 889 . The probability is that at the end of next year 1 shall be taking a holiday in New Zealand , and I hope then to be able to find opportunity for attending lodge in Auckland or Otaki or some other North island town . "
Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS .
Speech of the Countess Amherst at the conclusion of the prize distribution by her ladyship on Monday , the 6 th instant : The Countess AMHERST : Ladies and Gentlemen , —It has given me the very greatest pleasure to come here this afternoon to help to give away these prizes . It is always a pleasure to have anything to do with something that has succeeded , and a prize means that someone has worked very hard and that someone has gained . To you who have succeeded we say , " Go on and succeed again ; " and
when you leave this School , do your best to make up your minds to succeed outside as you have succeeded here . And to you girls who have not woa prizesit seems to me there are very few of you—but there are a few ; to those , I would say , " Do not despair . " We all know that everybody is not equally gifted , and what comes quite easily to some people is almost impossible to others , and very often a girl has worked quite as hard who has not won a prize , as one who has . But take my advice—do not give up . Do not say , " I am so stupid , it is no use for
me to try . " Remember thafLife ' s prizes go very often not to the most brilliant , but to the most persevering . I think most of you girls must have heard in one way or another of one of the fundamentil principles of the Great Craft to whose care you owe your education . 1 mean the recognition of the brotherhood of man . Now , if you wish to do credit to that care , try to carry out that principle in your own lives by being as tender-hearted an 1 hel pful to everybody that you come in contact with throughout your lives . I do not know
if you girls have ever thought what you arc going to make of life . I do not expect you have , for you are all very young . But there is no reasan , because you are young , that you should not do so . A sculptor , when he sees a great block of marble before him , makes up his mind what he is going to carve out of it—a Venus , Satyr , or Cupid—and you and I , and everyone of us , wc all have to carve our own lives . No one else can do that for us . If you would
give to life its faiiest proportions , it should have three qualities—length , breadth , and height , and they should be as near as possible of equal propoitions . First there is length . I mean by that , making up your minds what you are going to do and when you have done so , go straight at it . It may be the aim of your life to follow some profession or art , or it miy be just the common homely life of wotiun , which consists of doing an inumerablc number of very small things well , and that
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makes a comfortable and happy home . I would remind you with regard to this home question , of the noble example that has been set us by her late Most Gracious Majesty our venerated Queen Victoria . Of her great qualities as a ruler and stateswoman it is not for me to speak here , but of what she was as wife mother , and , as far as her great position allowed her to be , as a neighbour . Hej kind sympathy in the joys and sorrows of all around her . These are all things we can all imitate . Let no one despise these homely duties of life when we think
that our great Queen as she was not only carried them out most faithfull y , but found in so doing the greatest pleasure in her long , long life . We none of us can excuse ourselves if we neglect home duties , in sharing the joy and sorrow of those amongst us for we cannot say we are following Queen Victoria ' s example . Homeliness no doubt is a very old-fashioned recipe , but it is a real good one to make nations strong and full of vitality , and a most successful one . Then comes breadth . When you have made up your mind what von
will do , do not let it make you narrow , self-centred , selfish , but give out a broad sympathy all through your life to your fellow-passengers in life ' s journey and that broad sympathy will bring a pleasure into your own life that nothing else can give . It will make your life warm and full of a joy which those who are selfish do not possess . And , lastly , there is height . By that I mean , that looking up , that asking of aid from the Great God above us , for without that aid we cannot carry out life's highest ideals , and no one
ever asked for that aid in vain who truly sought it . And now you eider girls these of you who , perhaps , next term , but certainly before the year is out , will be leaving the home where so much care and love have been shown you , and will be going out into the world . Each one will take up her book of life . Those pages are fair , unsoiled . There is nothing written in them . Do take care when you write in them ; and as years go on , if you should be tempted to do something which would sully those pages , just think how its being written would look
if you saw it written , and , perhaps , just that little thought may save you . Dear girls , I wish with all my heart that the pages of your books may be filled with the records of many , many hippy days and happy years of joy to you and all you love . Of pleasure in your work , and pleasure in your play , and the record of many lovely thoughts , kindly actions , and of all things good and true . And when as years go on , as come it must , the last page shall be filled in , may each one of you have the prize of finding written as its ending line , " This life was trul y lived , Pass on to newer joys for evermore . "
Strand Lodge Of Instruction.
STRAND LODGE OF INSTRUCTION .
The first reunion dinner of the Strand Lodge of Instruction , No . 198 7 , was held on Tuesday last at the Salisbury Hotel , Strand , when host Bro . Loasen put on the board a capital menu , which was much appreciated by the brethren . The chair was taken by Bro . Rapley , the Preceptor of the lodge , and among those present were : Bros . J . G . Hare , A . Hare , Gott Thomas , Pastonili Soper , Goff Penn , Edwards , Sparks , Leslie , Seaman , Miller , Thomas , Treas . ; Kibblewhite , Sec .: and many other brethren and friends .
After dinner , and the usual loyal toasts , the CHAIRMAN proposed " Success to the Strand Lodge of Instruction . " This was responded to by Bro . KIBBLEWHITE , Sec , who commented upon the satisfactory progress the lodge had made during its eight months' existence . Thirty-eight meetings had been held , with an average attendance of over 12 , and the lodge numbered among its members representatives of many
important lodges , including Jerusalem , 197 ; Wolsey , 1656 ; Eccentric , 2488 ; Bushey Hall , 2323 ; Friendship , 206 ; Anglo-American , 2191 ; Harrow , 1310 ; Marcians , 2648 ; Ebury , 1448 ; Croxteth United Service , Liverpool , 786 ; Acacia , 1309 ; Empress , 2581 ; and Drury Lane , 2127 . He referred also to the visits and return visits of the Hampden Lodge of Instruction , and hoped it was the first of many similar friendly visits .
The toast of " The Visitors " was proposed by the CHAIRMAN , and responded to by Bro . J . SEAMAN . Bro . J . N . HARE ( Mayor of Arundel ) proposed " The Health of the Preceptor . " Several brethren assisted in contributing to an excellent musical programme . Special mention must be accorded to the brilliant pianoforte playing and singing of Bro . Loasen ' s two promising sons , who exhibit a musical talent that is seldom met with .
WE regret to state that Bro . Sir Walter Besant is very unwell , and has been confined to his bed for some time past . THE APPOINTMENT of Mr . Charles Dibdin , the secretary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution , as a Knight of Grace of the Order of the Hospital of jSt . John of Jerusalem in England has been sanctioned by the King .
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\< 6 &> T ™ IN © W * N . <^^ # > w XOVKf , CO-OPERATIVE PLAN OF xyf > X 0 MONTHLY f PAYMENTS X ^ v _________—i \ V 20 MONTHS' CREDIT y x W * *> X NO INTEREST . N . ^^ X . No extra charges on 111 \> 0 J X . " ' " SilverNT AJX Novel plau ' £ 15 \^ Tlie"FinU ) "Wu . i _ his \ 7 ^ T- \ . I . " . ic ... _] . '_ Ia . ! ,. & li .... l i . t (_ utecl \^ ^ ^^^ ^ ^ Jiii | imvi _ i . >< . . _] ts lhat make it ^^ m ¦ ^ ni'li-riurton \> ulliera . X ^ ^_____( T __ r CATALOGUE AND >^ i ^ ^ ORDER FORM POST FREE . V 7 I One-third saved by buying I > . Best Louilou Mnilo Hifc'UCl . iss Wutt-li . Iu direct from tho Makers . I ^ V Hiuitinir , IIiill-Hiintinir , or Crystal ( Mass I * ' > 18-tt . ( Juki Cases £ 25 , or iu Silver Cases £ 15 . wktn xritiw mention " Frtemann . " J . \ 7 V . BENSON , LTD ., Steam Factory : 62 & 64 ,- LUDGATE HILL , E . C . ; & 25 , Old Bond 8 t „ W .