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land orphan , who were left like the leafless tree of the forest , but their three great charities , so well known , then came to aid them . He preached no sermon , but to remind them as to what was right and true , to and assist in the great work of doing the greatest thing in the code of Freemasonry , which was charity , and when he found that upwards of £ 40 , 000 was raised in one year towards thc support of these charities he said that was unique . After some further

observations to the same purport he asked the brethren to support the W . M . who would represent the lodge at the ¦ ensuing Festival of the Girls' School . Bro . Stevens , P . M ., proposed "The Health of Bro . IKebble , W . M ., " and referred to the very able mannner in which he had discharged his duties in the chair . The Worshipful Master returned thanks on behalf of the Masonic Charities and hoped the brethien of thc Great City

Lodge would support him on the occasion which had been referred to byBro . Simpson , their Chaplain . The Worshipful Master returned thanks for the very kind manner in which his name was always received , and if his duties involved some labour and time they were well spent , and he was amply repaid by the kindly greeting with which he was always received . The Worshipful Master said he had then come to what

might be trul y termed the toast ot the evening , a toast to which they wished to do the greatest honour . They had that night admitted amongst them Bro . Small , who had Ibeen well and worthily recommended . This was an eventhe might well consider as the turning point in his life . He had travelled a great deal , and in taking thq first step that 'night in his initiation a wide vista was thrown open to him 'for future enquiry , to assist in the completion of which

ihe ' trusted he might attain that position which was the just ambition of every Mason . Bro . Small in returning thanks said he was deeply im-¦ jmessed with the beauty of the ceremony he had passed through , and of which he had little conception , and with that feeling he was highly pleased in having joined Freemasonry . The Worshipful Master next gave "The Visitors , " expressing the happiness the lodge felt in seeing them amongst

¦ them . Bro . Duscher , 1 CS 7 , in responding for tbe visitors said : H am nearly ashamed of the honour shown me each time I < come among you , inviting mc as you do to speak on behalf of the visitors . Among the visitors there are many who would be more apt than I am to return thanks for them , which you must have discovered ere this . I am not a master in the art of paying compliments . I can but

thank you for the kind reception we have met with this evening . We will endeavour to follow your example when in your turn as visitors you come to see us in our respective lodges . This duty of politeness accomplished , allow me . Worshipful Master and brethren , a slight digression . A few days ago I read in the Pall Mall Gazette some very sad news—that Peterborough Cathedral , so famous irt English history , one of the most beautiful Gothic churches

in the world , built by our brethren of the 13 th century , was threatened with ruin . Mr . Pearson ( a brother , I hope ) has been called by telegram to give his opinion , and he declared it indispensable that the tower should be demolished . If instead of coming to that conclusion Mr . Pearson had said it must be repaired , and gave this important task to the brethren of the Great City Lodge , I suppose you ¦ would have been astonished and much embarrassed , for

there are few amongst us , I think , who would be capable of setting a brick . Does it not seem strange , brethren , that in this great Masonic society which covers the world we meet bankers , clerks , and members of every profession , but no Alasons , properly speaking . VVe call ourselves Masons , but not the slightest spot of mortar is seen on our aprons . This is anomalous to-day , but not in the past , now nearly two centuries ago , when our brethren

were really constructing Masons . To lind the solution of ' this enigma we must seek it in the Masonic history of England . From the day in which Masonry opened its por-¦ tals tp science and philosophy—to Voltaire , Rousseau , ¦ Diderot , Helvetius , Holbach , and many others whom I could name—dates Masonry ' s new era . Thc consequences of the decision of the Lodge of Antiquity deciding that Masonic privileges should no longer be the exclusive

property of constructing Masons , and that members of different professions should be called to enjoy them , provided they were regularly approved and initiated , were immense . It gathered together all the scattered remains of the dissentinglodges , Templars , Albagesis , Parantines , and Bulgares , to form in the eighteenth century the sect known as the Illuminati , whicli for a little while made the world tremble , and of which Cagliostro was one of the chiefs .

From the time of this decision Masonry became philanthropic and humanitary , renovated , and young again . It accomplished in the interests of liberty , charity , and benevolence the work which the Templars had tried to appropriate to their own ambition , and which so largely ¦ commenced was suddenly interrupted by Philip the Fair , King of France , and the execution of the Great Master of

the Order , Jaques de Molay . That is why , brethren , you are Masons but by name , and why you will not be called upon to reconstruct Peterborough Cathedral . Therefore , biethren , 1 am happy if I have been able to interest you by raising a corner of the veil which conceals our great Masonic history . Some other loasts were given , and the evening was spent in complete harmony .

TEMPLE BAR LODGE ( No . 1728 ) . —Tho installation meeting of this lodge was held on the iSth inst ., at Anderton ' s Hotel , Bro . K . Harris , VV . M ., presiding . Among thc brethren present were Bros . A . Staley , P . M . ; B . Buckworth , S . VV . ; VV . Woodward , J . W . ; Rev . R . J . Simpson , P . G . C , Chap . ; George Adamson , P . M ., Treas . ; T . W . C Bush , P . M ., Sec ; G . S . Recknell , S . D . ; R . Kimpton , J . D . ; Edwin Carter , I . G . ; Edgar

Stubbs , Steward ; ana visitors : Bros . B . Ridge , P . M . 1347 ; H . Harland , P . M . 1790 ; Volney Keen , P . M . 203 ; J . B . Shakespeare , 1790 ; John Petch , 1471 ; E . Howes , ' 599 ; l - Cambridge , 1706 ; H . Curtis , 548 ; Ralph Gooding , M . D ., P . M ., Sec . No . 1 ; J . Mason , P . M . 1567 , P . P . S . G . D . Middlesex , Collector Royal Masonic

Benevolent Institution ; T . F . Tyler , 1 GS 5 ; VV . O . Shillitoe , 25 ; lohn L . Mather , 1471 , P . P . G . D . of C . Herts ; R . Brown , 142 G ; John Taylor , 29 S ; VV . Hicklin , J . W . 1261 ; J . Miller , S . W . 257 ; Arthur Dayley , 257 ; F . Binckes , Grand Stewards Lodge , Sec . R . M . l . B . ; and H . Massey , P . M . G 19 and 1928 ( Freemason ) . Ballots were taken for Mr . Alfred George Watkinson and

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Mr . Alfred Thorpe Porter , and these proving successful Mr . Watkinson , who was in attendance , was duly initiated as a Mason . Afterwards Bro . T . W . C Bush , P . M . and Secretary , took the chair , and to him was presented by Bro . Adamson , P . M . and Treasurer , Bro . Benjamin Buckworth , S . W . and VV . M . elect . Bro . Bush then regularly installed Bro . Buckworth as W . M ., and the following brethren were appointed as officers : Bros . VV . Woodward ,

S . W . ; G . Recknell , J . VV . ; C . Butcher , P . M ., Treas . ; Thomas VV . C Bush , P . M ., VV . M . 1 S 5 , Sec ; R . Kimpton , S . D . ; E . Stubbs , J . D . ; lames , I . G . ; A . R . Carter , D . of C ; J . Rexworthy , W . S . ; and A . B . Church , Tyler . After the delivery of the addresses by Bro . Bush the Worshipful Master presented in the name of the lodge a handsome Past Master ' s jewel to Bro . K . Harris , I . P . M . Bro . Staley , P . M ., gave notice of two motions—one for

voting 15 guineas to the Girls' School , and one for voting 10 guineas to the W . M . ' s list for the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution . Bro . Staley expressed the hope that the brethren of the lodge would do all they could to support the VV . M . as their Steward . A well served banquet followed the working of the Iodge , and the usual toasts were afterwards proposed . Bro . the Rev . R . J . Simpson , P . G . C , in responding for

" The Grand Officers , " regretted that there was no more significant member of Grand Lodge than himself to reply . As an honorary member of the Temple Bar Lodge , although insignificent as a Grand Officer , he ventured to assert without doubt that the Grand Officers were not only significant but were well worthy of the best wishes of the brethren , and that those wishes were well timed . Grand Lodge was becoming a great unwieldly difficulty , as might

be apparent to those who regularly attended ; and he thought the time was coming when the heads of Grand Lodge would require all the wisdom that they could have to comprehend the actual number that could conveniently meet together for the purposes of legislation , and that they would also require all the ability to execute the various ideas , thoughts , and wishes which came uppermost into the hearts and minds of those members for the benefit of

the great Craft to which they belonged—in other words , that they required and probably should require an arrangement by which those who were legally entitled to assemble should be enabled to assemble without inconvenience , and that those who were thinking ones might be able not only to express but to formulate their ideas in a manner which should be beneficial to the Order . The rest he left to the wisdom of higher and better men . He stood there that

night not merely in the capacity in which the W . M . had been kind enough to associate him , but also in another capacity in which he took a greater interest . He was at the cradle of this lodge , and he was delighted to see it now as an infant Hercules . In its manhood he hoped to live some years to see it make progress not only in efficiency , but in that harmony which should at all times distinguish Freemasons . And in its old age he hoped it might realise

the beautiful thought that was contained in that last address which was delivered—the wish that their children and their children ' s children might be enabled to celebrate this solemnity , and that this lodge might be able to celebrate its centenary and even beyond it . He was sorry it had been his unhappy lot not to have been able to be present on several ' occasions on which he had been invited by successive W . Ms , of this lodge . In charity and in courtesy

they had asked him to be present , and he willingly would have been if circumstances had permitted . He therefore appeared not only has being called to the Bar but as a prisoner at the Bar for not attending in the past , but he was sure they would kindly acquit him on the ground that a man like himself had a variety of avocations , the calls of home and the calls of public duty . One thought more filled his heart , and it had been suggested to him by the

admirable way in which the installation ceremony had been performed by Bro . Bush , and the other portion of the lodge work by the W . M . If he believed that Masonry consisted in having a princely head , or depended upon the social gathering ( which he hoped might never cease among Masons such as they had present that evening ) , or even upon the secrets which excited thecuriosityof an inquisitive publicor even upon the noble and magnificent charities ,

, still he should be at a loss to say wh y so many became Masons ; but he was inclined to think that there was underneath the whole of these strata a sentiment and a power in the principles of the Grand Order which attracted thinking men to value Masonry , not merely for its external accessories but for its principles which appealed to the human heart ; and if he wanted one testimony more than another to this it was found in the fact of correspondence

which he held in his own hand from other countries , that the best and truest and most progressive men , the men for the education of the people and the worship of the Grand God of Heaven were Freemasons . He could quote if time permitted authority from almost every country , and he had been deli g hted to hear from time to time of those testimonies to the principles of the Order which seemed to be the first principles of human nature operating overall the differences

which might arise from the modification of human belief . Bro . K . Harris , I . P . M ., in proposing "The Health of the W . M . " said that Bro . Buckworth was one of the oldest members of the lodge , one of the founders , and had contributed from the time he entered the lodge assiduity to his duties and devotion to the best interests of the lodge ; in fact , he had contributed more than his quota of exertion to bringing the lodge to its present state . From the sort of

officers he had around him it was easy to see that everything promised well for his year , and he would bring the Iodge safe into port at the end of his year . The Worshipful Master in reply said he approached his year of office in a nervous sort of style , taking into consideration the good men who had gone before him ; but he should do his best to keep up the standard of the lodge , and when his year had expired he hoped the brethren would not

regret having elected him , but would be able to say that his work had been as good as that of any of his predecessors . After the toast of " The Initiate " had been proposed and responded to , Bro . Dr . Gooding , P . M . and Secretary No . 1 , in replying for "The Visitors . " said that night reminded him much of the

profession to which hebelonged—it knew no politics , creeds , or dissensions , but they met on one common platform of universal benevolence and charity , for after transacting the business of the lodge they devoted themselves to the welfare and to the urgent necessities of distressed brethren , their helpless widows and bereaved orphans . He looked on this as the golden side of Freemasonry , and being practised in

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the Temple Bar Lodge he was happy to say that thc lodge had the two great elements of success and well being in the future . Bros . J . L . Mather and Baily also replied . Bro . T . VV . C . Bush , P . M . and Secretary , replied to the toast of "The Installing Officer , " and spoke in terms of high praise of the W . M . from an intimate acquaintance

with him of many years . Bros . Harris and Staley replied for "The Past Masters . " Bro . Binckes in replying for " Thc Charities " thanked Bro . Bush for representing the lodge and the Tranquillit y last year for the Boys' School . He would be guilty of gross ingratitude if he did not mention Bro . Bush ' s name in " connection with services to thc Boys' School . The brethren

knew what these Institutions of Masonry were doing . Notwithstanding great commercial depression , the last year was thc most successful next to the most successful year . Nearly £ 48 , 000 was received , and all the brethren had reason to be proud of such an amount of success , as it showed the healthy condition of Masonry . He did not forget that there would be a future , and he hoped that then

the Boys' School would bask in the sunshine . He had a good reason for being present that evening—to see a young friend of his ( Bro . Recknell ) advanced to the proud position of J . VV ., and he certainly hoped to be spared two years to welcome his advent to the supreme power in this lodge . The material stones of Temple Bar , from which tlie lodge derived its significant name , had been removed , thev did

not know where , but he would hope the Temple Bar Lodge would always somehow or other be able to hold its meetings in close proximity to the site of old Temple Bar , and that the lodge might continue many many years to hand down to posterity those traditions of Masonry , charity and hospitality . Bro . John Mason also replied and was ' sorry there was

no representative of the Girls' School present . Very little was seen of the Secretary of that Institution . If any brother had promised an amount for the list of the VV . M . he would ask him seriousl y to consider before next meeting if he could not double it . There never was a time the Benevolent Institution wanted so much sympathy , as the number of candidates now seeking assistance from its funds had never

been approached . The Boys' School and the Benevolent Institution were not like the Girls' School which did not know how to spend its money . If the truth were lo leak out the committee of the Girls' School could take in every girl seeking admission . He was told they had 25 spare places after every candidate had been taken in . This might be a reason why a representative of the Girls' School did not

come among the brethren , but if they had the funds they should spend them . They could not find the luxuries for the old folks though they were trying to extend their borders this time . But the time might come when thc Craft would not support the Institutions as they did now .

If the Craft were liberal this time the Benevolent Institution would try to meet the wants of the applicants . The toast of " The Treasurer and Secretary " was also proposed and responded to , as was also the toast of " Tho Officers , " which was likewise acknowledged . The Tyler ' s toast closed a very pleasant evening .

LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE LODGE ( No . 19 C 2 ) . —This lodge met for its installation meeting at Anderton ' s Hotel , on Friday , the 19 th inst ., when thc following among a large number of brethren were present I Bros . Neville Green , W . M . ; Andrew McDowall , S . W . j G . C . Matthams , J . VV . ; Walter McDougall , Treasurer j Walter C Clandge , Sec . ; Charles Brown , S . D . j A . Haig

Brown , J . U . ; A . H . bandle , I . G . ; W . J . Tasman , M . C . 5 L . V . Walker , ist Steward ; L . M . Williams , 2 nd Steward ; M . L . Levy , W . Tyrrell , P . Bell , C J . Brown , J . C . Tilt , J . Green , R . H . Tayton , G . Gregory , S . W . Fraser , H . H . Nudmg , W . G . Lowe , G . J . Staning , C . Stein , E . Beard , H . L . Thomas , J . R . Chant , and R . A . Hancock ; and as visitors Bros . John Black , P . M . 70 G ; Sam ! . McDowall .

539 ( S . C ); George Mickley , P . M . 449 ; Eugene Sweeny , P . M . 206 ; Fredk . Blake , P . M . 945 ; Alf . I . Pritchard , P . M . 1 G 2 ; R . A . Steele , P . M . M 94 ; E . C . Knight , VV . M . 94 S ; W . F . Summers , Org . 771 ; Wm . Rowley , 1924 ; I . Marians , 1017 ; I . Sculley , 70 G ; 1 . McCubbin , 948 , P . P . G . S . W . Berks and Bucks ; Charles F . A . Rogers , W . S . 1572 ; Hubert T . Bailev , 1710 : Percv

Preston , 10 G 2 ; J . J . Berry , P . M . 554 ; G . Ward Verry , P . M . 554 ; Thos . VV . C Bush , W . M . 1 S 5 ; Henry Nudmg , S . W . 140 ; Fred . E . Cooper , P . M . 7 ; Chas . J . Stocker . 1 GS 5 ; James Funston , J . W . 17 GG ; Philip A » , , * . 3 ? „ R"bt-J-Cook » 9 ' 3 J ! '' VV . Nash . 1139 ; A . McMillan , P . M . 13 G 5 ; and H . Massey , P . M . 619 and 1928 ( Freemason ) . The lodge working was everything that could be desired , and all details were carried out with the strictest military

exactitude . Bro . Neville Green , VV . M ., installed Bro . Andrew McDowall . S . W ., P . M . 948 , Prov . G . D . C . Berks and Bucks . Bro . H . F . Bing , W . M . 1597 , and a member of the lodge , presented Bro . McDowall to the VV . M . The brethren appointed and invested as ollieers were Bros . Neville Green , I . P . M . ; G . C . Matthams , S . VV . ; C .

Brown , J . W . ; Walter McDougall , Treasurer ; VV . C . Claridgc , P . M . 1 GS 5 , J . W . 159 S , Secretary ; A . Haig Brown , S . D . ; A . H . Sandle , j . D . ; VV . J . Tasm . in , l . G . ; 1-.. Woodley Smith , Org . ; L . V . Walker , M . C ; L . M . Williams , ist Stwd . ; and J . McAlpin , 2 nd Stwd . Bro . Neville Green delivered the address to the VV . M ., and Bro . Walter C . Claridge those to the Wardens and brethren .

The Worshipful Master then said the first duty he had to perform was to present to Bro . Neville Green the Past Master ' s jewel which the brethren were kind enough to vote him . Bro . Green was very deserving of it . " From thc very first he was one of the great advocates of getting up a lodge in connection with thc London Rifle Brigade After being put off from time to time he at length succeeded , and he was to be congratulated on havin " - the

honour of being the first W . M . of the lodge . ° Bro . Neville Green in acknowleding the ° gift assured thc brethien that the presentation of tlie jewel pleased him very much . As the VV . M . had said , he had taken "icat interest in the formation of this lodge years back . ^ loii" - before they succeeded in their endeavours . He had nut wished to undertake thc

onerous duties of Master ; but as that was the brethren ' s wish he did undertake them , and he had done his best and hoped he had met with the brethren ' s approval in what he had done . He felt he had had manv shortcomings , but had done what he could to forward the interests of the lodge . He thought the lodge was fairly established , and that it would go on and prosper and