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The Consecration of the Keystone Lodge of Mark Master Masons , No . 168 , will take place at the Old Ship Hotel , King ' s-road , Bri g hton , this day ( Saturday ) , at two o ' clock , p . m . Bro . Sir John Cord y Burrows , J . P ., P . M . 811 , P . P . G . W ., Sussex , is the W . M . Designate ; Bro . W . R . Wood , P . M . 63 , 31 c ,, 811 , P . G . Steward ; P . G . S . W ., Sussex , S . W , Designate ; and Bro . John Nathan Stoner , P . M . 66 , J . W . Designate .

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TheFreemason, SATURDAY , MARCH 28 , 1874 .

The Initiation Of H.R.H. Prince Arthur.

THE INITIATION OF H . R . H . PRINCE ARTHUR .

The entire Craft will rejoice to hear , that , another member of the Royal Family has been admitted a member of our ancient and honourable Fraternity . H . R . H . Prince Arthur was , on

Monday initiated by his exalted Bro . H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , as Master of the Prince cf Wales ' s Lodge . As a fact it is most gratifying , and interesting ;

that the Heir-Apparent to the throne should be included amidst the active and working W . M . ' s of our great brotherhood , and above all , that he should preside , and so effectively , on such a

very happy occasion ! We congratulate the Prince of Wales ' s Lodge , not only on its Royal Master , but in having been the happy medium , through which so illustrious

a representative of the Royal Family , saw the light of Masonry . H . R . H Prince Arthur is , indeed , a new member of whom our Order may be proud , not

merely for his high rank and princely name , but for that distinguished position he has himself achieved in the hearts and attachment of all who know him , or have served with him .

The godson of the never-to-be-forgotten Duke of Wellington , he has ever made his motto , in his military career , as he said at Belfast , " duty first and pleasure afterwards , " and wherever he

has been , or whatever corps he has served ( in , whether with his regiment or on the staff , he ] has gained alike the attachment of officers and men , and has endeared himself to all , by his high sense

of duty , and his many genial and excelling qualities of mind and heart . It must have been a moment of great happiness to his Royal Brother the Prince of Wales ' to have received a relative so near and dear to him

into that Brotherhood , to which he has directly shown himself so much attached , and we congratulate the Order once more on this most interesting event , pregnant as we believe it is and will be , of good to the Craft in every way .

Our Charitable Anniversaries.

OUR CHARITABLE ANNIVERSARIES .

The last anniversary meeting of the Boys ' School was a remarkable one for many reasons . In the first place the announcement of the subscriptions and donations , a little over £ j , ooo ,

was in itself a gratifying fact to realize , as evidencing the continued zeal and sympathy of our Order , and in the next place , the large and

excellent gathering heard from the lips of our distinguished Grand Master some very wise words of warning and of counsel .

For though the efforts of our beneficent brotherhood are very striking , and very creditable in themselves , yet the annual gathering only serves to show to all thoughtful Masons , how

very reasonable and how very pertinent are the pointed remarks of our Grand Master . In this present case , the s £ ~ , 004 or AS / , 031 are made up in the following way . The Metropolitan

Our Charitable Anniversaries.

lodges and brethren have contributed the large sum of nearly gc ? 3 , ooo ; the Provincial lodges over 5 ^ 4 , 000 . Of the £ 4 , , Lincolnshire alone has contributed £ 1 , 058 , our very

worthy Bro . John Sutclifte , W . M . in that province , but formerly of West Yorkshire , and still we believe among its astive Past Grand Officers , having given 350 guineas himself , and collected in his province about / "Soo .

Now this list suggests several considerations , for while we must and ought to give due praise to those who have worked so well for the Boys ' School , all Masons , we think , must equally feel

how narrow at present is the basis on which our great efforts rest . ; Year after year we have noble evidences of the zeal and good-will of our sodality in the best of

all causes , but we confess we should like , as the Grand Master suggested , to see the support of charities more generally diffused over our entire Craft .

Some lodges never have subscribed anything , some lodges never do subscribe anything to our charities , and though the zeal of individual

brethren , and the amounts voted by individual lodges , do a good deal , yet there is really no limit to what could be done , by a little more combined action and general effort .

We have said before , ourselves , and we agree with Bro . Binckes in his opinion , that , every lodge in the Order should have a life governor ' s vote at least for all the Charities .

It has been said that the somewhat heavy increase of the lodge qualifica tion , has hindered the lodge support . That we do not believe , as

exactly the same state of things existed , even when the qualification was lower and before any question arose of raising it .

But no doubt a good deal may be said " pro and con , " the policy of such a material increase in the qualification of lodges . We believe , however , that the practical solution

of the whole question is to be found , in the course pursued by West Yorkshire , which some 12 or 13 years ago formed a Charity Committee ,

composed of members annually elected bv each lodge , to attend solely to the important question of the Masonic Charities .

Under its auspices a very large sura , on the whole , together with two perpetual presentations in the Boys' School , has been sent tr the Metropolitan Charities , and we feel certain , that if every

Province formed its own Charity Committee , a large amount of interest and new support would be elicited for our great JVetropolian Institutions .

One thing is clear , we have the Institutions now in fu' / working order , under most efficient manafement , in themselves a source of pride and gr / tification to all

Freemasons . Let us ther seek through the length * and breadth rt our great brotherhood to obtain for them universal sympathy and support , that so they may be maintained and

improved , developed and enlarged as the needs arise , even to become as ti . ne moves on , still more worthy of Freemasonry more serviceable to

philanthropy , and fully eqial to the claims and exigencies of the thronging and progressing age in which our lot is cast . ;