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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS 423 Provincial Grand \ . odge of Hertfordshire ... 424 Province of Wiltshire 424 Consecration of the Save and Sele Lodge , No . 1973 4 S Supreme Grand Chapter 426 Roval Masonic Institution for Girls 426 Annual Outing ot the Caledonian 1-odgc , No . 204 , Manchester 425 The New Church for the Deaf and I ) umb at 1
CORRESPONDENCE ( Continued)—Money or Ability 428 lirrata 42 H The Late Bro . John Hervey 42 S Reviews ' , 428 Masonic Notes and Queries 429 Provincial Grand Lodee of Kent 429 Provincial Grand I . ndge of Somerset 430 An Ancient and Valuable Painting 431 Rr . r-iRTs OK MASONIC
MRRTISOSDeptford 427 j Vnnual Summer Treat tor Workhouse 1 Children 427 Obituary 427 ; Mineral of liro . the I « ite Major-General Munhee 427 i ~ ORRESP ;) NnE . \ 'CE— Arch Names 42 S j The " John Hervey Memorial Fund " ... 428 ; A Point of Law 42 S 1 A Warning to the lienevolent 428 I
| | I Craft Masonry 431 Instruction 433 Royal Arch 433 Ma ' rk Masonry 433 1 Knights Templar 433 Roeicrucian Society 433 The Theatres 434 Music 434 Science and Art 434 Masonic and General Tidings 431 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 43 6
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AT the General Committee Meeting of the Girls' School , held on Thursday , at Freemasons' Hall , as will be seen by our report , the usual normal business was transacted . The opinion of the GRAND REGISTRAR was read as to the eligibility of a candidate by purchase with a sister already in the School by election , and which opinion being decided ! ) ' in favour of such a
course , an applicant's request for purchase , based on the GRAND REGISTRAR ' S opinion , but subject , of course , to the House Committee , was carried by a majority . * * * WE are rejoiced to see that our Bro . Grimaux in the Monde Maconnigue takes our view of the absurdity , the " hocus pocus " work , attendant on the
alleged creation of a territorial exceptional , and Specific Grand Lodge of Morocco , or a Grand Orient of Morocco and itsr Dependencies , equally sensible and correct , call it what you like . We are a little amused to note the entire silence of ourgood brethren in America thereanent . Curiously enough ,
there is not a single point of American Masonic law , as regards Grand Lodge customs , which the ingenious author of this little " embroglio " has not contrived to overlook , overrule , and set at nought . There never was such a " n illustration of the old adage , " sic volo , sic } ubeo . "
* * THE position of affairs as regards the union of the Riles in France , has slightly altered since last we wrote . The official Bulletin of the Grand Orient announces that the report of the Union Committee is sent to the lodges , though the Ancient and Accepted Rite and the Rite of Mizraim
have long since withdrawn from the negotiations . How any members of the Grand Orient of France could have acquiesced in the propositions of the commission of the so-called Grand Loge Symbolique is beyond our powers to understand . We are told that this extraordinary submission to unheard of propositions had originated in the
sympathy existing between the " movement party in the Grand Orient and that " movement party " which sought on the same unhallowed lines to break up the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in France . It will be , indeed , the mountain and the mouse again if it should all end in the mere absorption of the twenty lodges of the so-called Grand Loge Symbolique , or
the Grand Orient , and thus the legalization of their Masonic existence . No good will come out of evil . But it is altogether a very sorry state of affairs . Bros . ST . J and WYROBOUVV seem to be the only two brethren on the Conseil of the Grand Orient who realize either the true meaning of such proposals or the exact situation of affairs .
WHAT a curious page in the contemporary history of our Masonic life and work does the monthly Lodge of Benevolence disclose . What an amount of accumulated poverty and wretchedness have we , who distribute so carefully and so liberally the charity of our great Order , often to contemplate
and to deal with . Some of the cases are most pitiable ; some , so to say , are almost irretrievable . Everyone who now attends the Lodge of Benevolence must be struck with the great , the minute attention paid to every case . In the growth of Freemasonry , in the accretion of so many new lodges year by year , it is unavoidable but that more claims crop up than was formerly the
wont , and that we have to deal with a larger area of suffering , and with petititions which touch us all deeply as men and as Freemasons . But certain remarks seem to flow from the constant consideration of such cases . One is the very low status , socially , often of those initiated into Fremasonry , in past years , —those who were , humanly speaking , inevitably almost
claimants for eventual help ; thus constituting Freemasonry a benefit , or sick or insurance society . And are we quite sure that we have improved materially in this respect ? In some parts , and in some lodges , we fear that many are initiated , year by year , who ought to belong rather to a pure benefit order , and not to Freemasonry at all . Again , what a curious thing
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it is , how people discover the financial merits of our order . After an absence from Freemasonry for forty , thirty , twenty , or ten years , on an almost bare qualification of a two years' subscription , we find and deal with constant appeals for help and assistance , all apparently in the firm belief that they positively have a " lien" still on that Craft , which the brethren from
whom they derive their claim left , necessarily or unnecessarily , over a quarter of a century ago . And then , again , what thoughtlessness as regards the future , what indifference to the welfare and comfort of a wife and children , do such cases frequentl y display . When the sun was shining such persons made no provision for a rainy day ; when they were in receipt
of large incomes they nei-er seem to have thought of insuring their lives ; and now , with the comparatively small aid Freemasonry can afford even at th-2 best and most , we have ( o wade through a saddening recital of penury often , and desertion and distress , which the little friendly offering we are
enabled to give is useless and impotent to remove or to relieve . No more painful experiences of the reality of poverty and personal distress are to be met with than those which constitute the staple of the monthly claims on the Lodge of Benevolence .
* * ALL EGYPTOLOGISTS and Masonic students will be equally anxious about the fate of the great museum of BOULAC . It is said that the murderer of Christians and Jews , ARABI PASHA , in order to swell his private coffers , is trying to sell this unrivalled and priceless collection . We hope , however ,
that before very long the autnor and perpetrator of those horribles outrages which have agitated and distressed Europe will have realized fully what it is to outrage humanity , and defy the great , the avenging , the beneficent authority of Great Britain . We can safely leave ARABI PASHA and his myrmidons to Sir BEAUCHAMP SEYMOUR and his Blue Jackets , and the triumphant coulnins of our English soldiers ;
, . * * . THE relief of the poor . fugitives from Egypt . seems to constitute an urgent call upon us all to aid ; - and in the-face of half-a-million expended recentl y in bric-a-brac , cabinet work , books and pictures at the Hamilton sale is in itself a " first charge " surely 011 our sympathies and our pockets . It is not
right that our distinguished Bro . ( he LORD MAYOR should have to make these reiterated appeals . We are a little afraid that .-estheticism is making us somewhat callous and calculating in respect of charitable duties , and oblivious often of what , does not entirely accord with our persona / inclinations or our subjective tastes . Since we wrote the above , public liberality seems to be moved . ' * ... *
WHAT horrible news from Ireland ! The perpetrators of those fearful crimes against humanity seem to be relapsing into absolute barbarism . Let us try to realize the iniquity of the crime as against humanity , which results in breaking the legs and cutting off the tails of poor , unoffending , helpless animals , and , like as on Mr . STEWART ' S property the other day , cuts out
the tongue and breaks the legs of a poor cow . And in the insane and criminal movement which has led to . these awful results , marked as it is by a terrible hyprocrisy and deliberate outiage from the first , a defiance of law and order , an insult to loyalty and constitutional government , despite the great attractions of personal gain and the announcement of prosperous finances .
not one 'word of protest has ever been morally or truly raised by its leaders and author against barbarities and brutalities which sicken the mind and appal the feelings of every thinking person . Surely ourgood brethren in Ireland can openly protest against such outrages against our common humanity . * .
WE have been greatly struck with a leader in our able and excellent contemporary , Knowledge , on " Cricket , " for , despite its obvious brilliancy and " vis , " it appears to us to propound some of the most hopeless fallacies and paradoxes we have ever stumbled upon in the multifarious reading and incoherent assertions of a somewhat unthinking epoch . " A priori , " the position
of Knowledge is surely , on scientific grounds , the perfection of all studies , and the complete development of all rational amusement , as far as human skill will allow or human powers permit . There is no limit to what should be attainable , except of course jvhat is attainable . In astronomy , in geology , in surgery , in calculation , in chess , in whist , Sec , we are to seek for
what is skilled in place of what is unskilled , what is scientific , in place of what is sciolistic , what is complete , thorough , and perfect , ( as far as we can predicate that humanly speaking of anything here ) , in place of what is incomplete , unrealistic , and altogether imperfect in idea as in execution .
But if the writer ' s ingenious fallacies and paradoxes , ( for they are ingenious ) , are permissible or acceptable , it is a great mistake to expect or attain perfection in cricket ; it is hopeless to endeavour to compass to the mastery of a STUUD or a STEEL , and it is preferable on every ground , abstract and
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS 423 Provincial Grand \ . odge of Hertfordshire ... 424 Province of Wiltshire 424 Consecration of the Save and Sele Lodge , No . 1973 4 S Supreme Grand Chapter 426 Roval Masonic Institution for Girls 426 Annual Outing ot the Caledonian 1-odgc , No . 204 , Manchester 425 The New Church for the Deaf and I ) umb at 1
CORRESPONDENCE ( Continued)—Money or Ability 428 lirrata 42 H The Late Bro . John Hervey 42 S Reviews ' , 428 Masonic Notes and Queries 429 Provincial Grand Lodee of Kent 429 Provincial Grand I . ndge of Somerset 430 An Ancient and Valuable Painting 431 Rr . r-iRTs OK MASONIC
MRRTISOSDeptford 427 j Vnnual Summer Treat tor Workhouse 1 Children 427 Obituary 427 ; Mineral of liro . the I « ite Major-General Munhee 427 i ~ ORRESP ;) NnE . \ 'CE— Arch Names 42 S j The " John Hervey Memorial Fund " ... 428 ; A Point of Law 42 S 1 A Warning to the lienevolent 428 I
| | I Craft Masonry 431 Instruction 433 Royal Arch 433 Ma ' rk Masonry 433 1 Knights Templar 433 Roeicrucian Society 433 The Theatres 434 Music 434 Science and Art 434 Masonic and General Tidings 431 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 43 6
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AT the General Committee Meeting of the Girls' School , held on Thursday , at Freemasons' Hall , as will be seen by our report , the usual normal business was transacted . The opinion of the GRAND REGISTRAR was read as to the eligibility of a candidate by purchase with a sister already in the School by election , and which opinion being decided ! ) ' in favour of such a
course , an applicant's request for purchase , based on the GRAND REGISTRAR ' S opinion , but subject , of course , to the House Committee , was carried by a majority . * * * WE are rejoiced to see that our Bro . Grimaux in the Monde Maconnigue takes our view of the absurdity , the " hocus pocus " work , attendant on the
alleged creation of a territorial exceptional , and Specific Grand Lodge of Morocco , or a Grand Orient of Morocco and itsr Dependencies , equally sensible and correct , call it what you like . We are a little amused to note the entire silence of ourgood brethren in America thereanent . Curiously enough ,
there is not a single point of American Masonic law , as regards Grand Lodge customs , which the ingenious author of this little " embroglio " has not contrived to overlook , overrule , and set at nought . There never was such a " n illustration of the old adage , " sic volo , sic } ubeo . "
* * THE position of affairs as regards the union of the Riles in France , has slightly altered since last we wrote . The official Bulletin of the Grand Orient announces that the report of the Union Committee is sent to the lodges , though the Ancient and Accepted Rite and the Rite of Mizraim
have long since withdrawn from the negotiations . How any members of the Grand Orient of France could have acquiesced in the propositions of the commission of the so-called Grand Loge Symbolique is beyond our powers to understand . We are told that this extraordinary submission to unheard of propositions had originated in the
sympathy existing between the " movement party in the Grand Orient and that " movement party " which sought on the same unhallowed lines to break up the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in France . It will be , indeed , the mountain and the mouse again if it should all end in the mere absorption of the twenty lodges of the so-called Grand Loge Symbolique , or
the Grand Orient , and thus the legalization of their Masonic existence . No good will come out of evil . But it is altogether a very sorry state of affairs . Bros . ST . J and WYROBOUVV seem to be the only two brethren on the Conseil of the Grand Orient who realize either the true meaning of such proposals or the exact situation of affairs .
WHAT a curious page in the contemporary history of our Masonic life and work does the monthly Lodge of Benevolence disclose . What an amount of accumulated poverty and wretchedness have we , who distribute so carefully and so liberally the charity of our great Order , often to contemplate
and to deal with . Some of the cases are most pitiable ; some , so to say , are almost irretrievable . Everyone who now attends the Lodge of Benevolence must be struck with the great , the minute attention paid to every case . In the growth of Freemasonry , in the accretion of so many new lodges year by year , it is unavoidable but that more claims crop up than was formerly the
wont , and that we have to deal with a larger area of suffering , and with petititions which touch us all deeply as men and as Freemasons . But certain remarks seem to flow from the constant consideration of such cases . One is the very low status , socially , often of those initiated into Fremasonry , in past years , —those who were , humanly speaking , inevitably almost
claimants for eventual help ; thus constituting Freemasonry a benefit , or sick or insurance society . And are we quite sure that we have improved materially in this respect ? In some parts , and in some lodges , we fear that many are initiated , year by year , who ought to belong rather to a pure benefit order , and not to Freemasonry at all . Again , what a curious thing
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it is , how people discover the financial merits of our order . After an absence from Freemasonry for forty , thirty , twenty , or ten years , on an almost bare qualification of a two years' subscription , we find and deal with constant appeals for help and assistance , all apparently in the firm belief that they positively have a " lien" still on that Craft , which the brethren from
whom they derive their claim left , necessarily or unnecessarily , over a quarter of a century ago . And then , again , what thoughtlessness as regards the future , what indifference to the welfare and comfort of a wife and children , do such cases frequentl y display . When the sun was shining such persons made no provision for a rainy day ; when they were in receipt
of large incomes they nei-er seem to have thought of insuring their lives ; and now , with the comparatively small aid Freemasonry can afford even at th-2 best and most , we have ( o wade through a saddening recital of penury often , and desertion and distress , which the little friendly offering we are
enabled to give is useless and impotent to remove or to relieve . No more painful experiences of the reality of poverty and personal distress are to be met with than those which constitute the staple of the monthly claims on the Lodge of Benevolence .
* * ALL EGYPTOLOGISTS and Masonic students will be equally anxious about the fate of the great museum of BOULAC . It is said that the murderer of Christians and Jews , ARABI PASHA , in order to swell his private coffers , is trying to sell this unrivalled and priceless collection . We hope , however ,
that before very long the autnor and perpetrator of those horribles outrages which have agitated and distressed Europe will have realized fully what it is to outrage humanity , and defy the great , the avenging , the beneficent authority of Great Britain . We can safely leave ARABI PASHA and his myrmidons to Sir BEAUCHAMP SEYMOUR and his Blue Jackets , and the triumphant coulnins of our English soldiers ;
, . * * . THE relief of the poor . fugitives from Egypt . seems to constitute an urgent call upon us all to aid ; - and in the-face of half-a-million expended recentl y in bric-a-brac , cabinet work , books and pictures at the Hamilton sale is in itself a " first charge " surely 011 our sympathies and our pockets . It is not
right that our distinguished Bro . ( he LORD MAYOR should have to make these reiterated appeals . We are a little afraid that .-estheticism is making us somewhat callous and calculating in respect of charitable duties , and oblivious often of what , does not entirely accord with our persona / inclinations or our subjective tastes . Since we wrote the above , public liberality seems to be moved . ' * ... *
WHAT horrible news from Ireland ! The perpetrators of those fearful crimes against humanity seem to be relapsing into absolute barbarism . Let us try to realize the iniquity of the crime as against humanity , which results in breaking the legs and cutting off the tails of poor , unoffending , helpless animals , and , like as on Mr . STEWART ' S property the other day , cuts out
the tongue and breaks the legs of a poor cow . And in the insane and criminal movement which has led to . these awful results , marked as it is by a terrible hyprocrisy and deliberate outiage from the first , a defiance of law and order , an insult to loyalty and constitutional government , despite the great attractions of personal gain and the announcement of prosperous finances .
not one 'word of protest has ever been morally or truly raised by its leaders and author against barbarities and brutalities which sicken the mind and appal the feelings of every thinking person . Surely ourgood brethren in Ireland can openly protest against such outrages against our common humanity . * .
WE have been greatly struck with a leader in our able and excellent contemporary , Knowledge , on " Cricket , " for , despite its obvious brilliancy and " vis , " it appears to us to propound some of the most hopeless fallacies and paradoxes we have ever stumbled upon in the multifarious reading and incoherent assertions of a somewhat unthinking epoch . " A priori , " the position
of Knowledge is surely , on scientific grounds , the perfection of all studies , and the complete development of all rational amusement , as far as human skill will allow or human powers permit . There is no limit to what should be attainable , except of course jvhat is attainable . In astronomy , in geology , in surgery , in calculation , in chess , in whist , Sec , we are to seek for
what is skilled in place of what is unskilled , what is scientific , in place of what is sciolistic , what is complete , thorough , and perfect , ( as far as we can predicate that humanly speaking of anything here ) , in place of what is incomplete , unrealistic , and altogether imperfect in idea as in execution .
But if the writer ' s ingenious fallacies and paradoxes , ( for they are ingenious ) , are permissible or acceptable , it is a great mistake to expect or attain perfection in cricket ; it is hopeless to endeavour to compass to the mastery of a STUUD or a STEEL , and it is preferable on every ground , abstract and