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ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY . 92 , CHEAPSIDE , LONDON , " E . C . FIRE , LIFE ^ ACCIDENT . Capital—One Million Two Hundred Thousand Pounds . Instituted 1808 , and Empowered by Special Act of Parliament . The Company has been in existence more than 7 6 Years . Moderate Rates . PromptSettlements . Liberal Conditions . All its Funds are Invested in Great Britain . Transacts Home Business only . No Hypothecation of Funds for Foreign Policy Holders . Ample Reserves apart from Capital . LIFE DEPARTMENT—Whole-World Assurances . Liberal Surrender Values given in Cash or by paid-up Policies . Pavment of Claim- immediately on proof of death . Alfkindsof Life Assurance transacted . ACCIDENTS—Assured Against , whether fatal or causing total or partial disablement , at moderate rates , and with liberal Compensation . FIRE—Policies issued free of expense . LOSSES OCCASIONED BY LIGHTNING will bepaid whether the property be set on lire or not . LOSS OR DAMAGE caused by Explosion of Coal Gas in any building assured will be made good . even Years' Policies grantedon payment of Six Years' Premiums . Active Agents Wanted . SAMUEL J . PIPKIN , Secretary .

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NOW READY . FIFTEENTH ANNUAL ISSUE . THE COSMOPOLITAN MASONIC Calendar & Pocket Book For 1885 , Price 2 s . ; Post Free , 2 s . id . ; 320 pages , flexible Roan , Gilt Edges , Tuck or Elastic Band . "The most comprehensive Masonic Book of Reference issued . " The Cosmopolitan Masonic Calendar contains full particulars ot all Grand Masonic Bodies in England , Scotland , and Ireland , with complete lists of Craft Lodges , giving dates of Constitution , Royal Arch Chapters , Mark Lodges , Rose Croix Chapters , Knig hts Templar Preceptories , Antient and Accepted Rite , Red Cross Conclaves , Colleges , The Allied Masonic Degrees , & c . There are also Lists of London CRAFT AND MARK LODGES , AND ROYAL ARCH CHAPTERS . Those Meeting in the Country are shewn in towns alphabetically arranged . Tables are given shewing the different Lodges and Chapters grouped under their respective Provinces ; and a List of Lodges and Chapters meeting on Foreign Stations . The London Meetings of the Craft , Royal Arch , Mark , Ancient and Accepted Rite , Knights Templar , and Red Cross are noted in the Memorandum space of each day . Meetings of the various Committees of Grand Lodge , Grand Chapter , and Charitable Institutions are also given . Also the Grand Bodies , with their Officers , in France , Belgium , Switzerland , Germany , Spain , Portugal , Italy , the Netherlands , Sweden and Norway , Denmark , Hungary , Greece , Turkey , Egypt , Canada , Quebec , New Brunswick , British Columbia , United States , Hayti , Central and South America , Republic of Liberia , Cuba , & c , giving in most cases also Lists of Lodges , & c . It also contains the Three Charges and Entered Apprentice ' s Song . May be had of all Booksellers , or at G EORGE K ENNING ' S Establishments—LONDON : 16 & 16 a , GREAT QUEEN ST ., Opposite Freemasons' Hall ( Office of Publication ); * , 3 , 3 . 4 , LITTLE BRITAIN , 1 95 , 196 , & 197 , ALDERSGATE STREET . LIVERPOOL : 2 , MONUMENT PLACE . MANCHESTER : 47 , BRIDGE STREET . GLASGOW : o , WEST HOWARD ST .

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(( EtfticattouaU DULWICH HOUSE SCHOOL , VICTORIA ROAD , UPPER NORWOOD , S . E , ( Within seven minutes' of the Crystal Palace ) . PRINCIPAL : Mr . J . K . BARNES , LONDON UNIVERSITY . ( Late Upper Fifth-Form Master , Bedford Modern School Harpur Foundation . ) RESIDENT STAFF : Classics : Mr . W . P . EVANS , M . A . ( 2 nd Class Classical Tripos , 1 S 77 . ) ( Late Foundation Scholar , Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge . ) English Language and Literature : The PRINCIPAL . Mathematics and Science : P . Z . ROUND , B . A . ( Mathematical Tripos , 1 SS 2 . ) ( Late Scholar St . Katharine ' s College , Cambridge . ) Modern Languages : The PRINCIPAL . VISITING STAFF : Modern Languages : Monsieur EUGENE FASNACHT . ( Late Senior Modern Language Master , Bedford Modern School . Editor of Macmillan ' s Foreign Classics . ) Science : Rev . j . G . WOOD , M . A ., F . L . S ., and Prof . C . P . MORRIS , Geology and Phys . Geog . ; and such other qualified and experienced Masters as the requirements of the Pupils may demand . References kindly permitted to Rev . R . B . Poole , B . D ., Bed . Mod . School , Bedford . Alex . Waugh Young , M . A ., Tettenhall College , Staffordshire . G . M . Hicks , M . A ., 5 , South-row , Blackheath , S . E . E . F . Ashworth Briggs , M . A ., L . L . M ., 15 , New Street , Daventry . Rev . A . Lloyd , M . A ., Norton Rectory , Bury St . Edmunds . C . L . Peel , Esq ., C . B ., Woodcraft , Cuckfield , Sussex . Major Ed . Green , St . Mary ' s , Bedford . J . D . Rodger , Esq ., College Lawn , Cheltenham . C . P . Mason , B . A ., F . C . P ., Dukesell , Streatham Hill , S . E .

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HIGH-CLASS PRIVATE SCHOOL THEOBALD'S PARK , WALTHAM CROSS , LONDON , N . PRINCIPAL : Rev . J . OSWALD JACKSON , Assisted by Five Masters . Limited number of Gentlemen ' s Sons ; motherly care for delicate pup ils j individual teaching for backward ones ; playground of six acres . First Class Honours gained at last Cambridge Local Examinations , with Distinction in Mathematics . References kindly permitted to Rev . Dr . Reynolds , Principal of Cheshunt College , Herts . Rev . Charles E . Mayo , M . A ., Nottingham . Sir Thomas Chambers , M . P ., Recorder of London . Richard Toller , Esq ., Solicitor , Leicester . George Kenning , Esq ., Little Britain .

To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

The following reports , & c , stand over for want of space 1 CRAFT LODGES—Nelson , 700 ; Battle Abbey , 11 S 4 ; Great Northern , 12 S 7 ; Israel , 1502 ; Evening Star , 1719 ; Albert Victor , 1773 . LODGES OF INSTRUCTION—Prince Frederick William , 7 C-1 ; Burdett-Coutts , 127 S ; Wanderers , 1604 .

Prov . Grand Lodge of Cambridgeshire . Prov . Grand Mark Lodge of Dorset . Interesting Masonic Ceremony at Maryport . The Red Apron Lodges , by Bro . E . L . Hawkins . Obituary—Bro . J . R . Goepel .

BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . " Icwish Chronicle , " " Keystone , " " New Zealand Craftsman , " " Hull Packet , " " Broad Arrow , " "Sunday Times" "Citizen , " " Roval Cornwall Gazette , " " El Taller , " " Le Mcnitcur de la Chance Universale , " " Court Circular , " " Dntcitspan Herald and Buitfontain Advertiser , " " tricycling Journal . " " Masonic Record of Western India , " " Allen ' s Indian Mail , " " Recent Books , and Something About Them , " " Freimaurer Zeitung , " " Looml ' a Masonicand Musical Journal , " " Masonic Chronicle , " " New York Dispatch . "

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SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 29 , 1884 .

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

[ Wc do not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of the opinionsexpressedby ourcorrespondents . but we wish in aspirit of fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free Jicpiiacinn . l ———

THOMAS GRUMBOLD . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear . Sir and Brother , — In the issue for November 1 st , your indefatigable correspondent , Bro . W . J . Hughan , calls attention to a monumental inscription in St . Benedict ' s Churchyard , Cambridge , to one Thomas Grumbold , Freemason , 1657 . In Stow ' s Surrey , 1603 ( W . J . Thorns' reprint , 1 S 76 ) , is the following notice , p . So : " " On the east side of Bridgeward have ye the parish church of St . Magnus , in the which church have been buried many men of good worship , whose monuments are now for the most part utterly defaced . 1 find John Blund , Mayor 1307 , Henry Yeuele ,

Freemason to Edward III ., Richard II ., and Henry IV ., who deceased 1400 his monument yet remaineth . " From remote ages handicraft trades have united themselves into Fraternities for their own protection , for the relief of their poor brethren , and for the exclusion of foreigners and of those workmen who were not members of and contributories to their several guilds . In after years these associations became a powerful element in the government of the City , and charters of incorporation were granted by Royal decree , extending their authority and enabling them to hold land , & c , in mortmain .

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The company of Masons were thus established from very ancient date , and a grant of arms made to them by Clarencieux , King at Arms in the year 1477 , but they were not incorporated by charter until Charles 11 . ' s reign in 1677 . Maitland says "They have a small and convenient hall in Masons ' -alley , Basinghall-street . "

I have no doubt that Henry Yeuele in 1400 , and Thomas Grumbold in 10 57 , were members of the society of Masons before it was incorporated into a Livery Company , for their fellowship of it showed them to be good workmen , honest citizens , and freemen of the City of London . The title Free Vintner still survives among us . —Yours fraternally ,

BRACKSTONE BAKER . November 19 th .

TEMPERANCE LODGES . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , I am glad to find that a brother of standing and authority like Bro . Tew , P . G . D ., D . P . G . M . West Yorkshire , has spoken his mind so freely on the subject of socalled " Temperance " Lodges . It is quite refreshing to hear of some one who has the courage to avow his belief

that "temperance" and teetotalism" must not be regarded as synonymous terms . The latter word mayor may not presuppose " the existence of intemperance of a particular kind , viz ., immoderation in drink , " but it certainly does assume " that the best and only way of coping successfully " with this particular form of intemperance "is to compel every brother who enters" a so-called "temperance " lodge " to abstain from alcoholic beverages , " which

are not intoxicating when not indulged in to excess . Bro . Tew is also emphatically right in pointing out that " a temperance lodge on teetotal principles would place the temperate use and intemperate abuse of drink on precisely the same footing . " As he very justly says , " a temperate Mason cannot be allowed to join or remain in such a lodge , because he is not despotically opposed to the use of alcoholic liquors . In my humble opinion , there ought to be no

room in our Fraternity for any such exclusionists . Teetotalism is laudable , but to adopt it in a lodge is objectionable , and , I think , incompatible with the broad and tolerant principles of Freemasonry . This idea of temperance , and this exclusive mode of combating a particular form of intemperance , are not provided for either in the Ancient Charges or the Modern Constitutions of Freemasonry . " This is the opinion of very many other brethren , but they

have not the courage to say so , or the ability to express themselves so clearly and emphatically . Considering the address from which I have made the above quotations was delivered at the consecration of a teetotal lodge , it must have required no small amount of nerve on the part of Bro . Tew to speak out so plainly on the great temperance crotchet of the day . As an humble supporter of the views propounded by him , I will venture

to lay down two propositions which 1 fancy all the teetotallers in creation will not succetd in upsetting : ( 1 ) . There can be no system of morality which does not include " temperance . " ( 2 . ) There can be no total abstinence or teetotalism which does not include one of the two vices which are specially antagonistic to "temperance . " As regards the first of these , I will remark that as

Freemasonry is a system of morality , and , therefore , includes "temperance , and as , moreover , it is not , and never was , intended to be used for proselytising purposes of any kind , it will be just as well to bear in mind Bro . Tew ' s dictum to the effect that teetotalism is not provided for either in our Ancient Charges or Modern Constitutions . With reference to the second , I would offer a few words of explanation . Your readers are no doubt sufficiently well posted in ethics

to be aware that every virtue is the mean between two correspondent vices , of which one is the same moral quality carried to the extreme of excess , and the other the same quality carried to the extreme of defect . Thus the virtue of courage lies midway between that headlong intemperate daring which takes no heed of what it attacks or resists , and cowardice , which dares nothing . May I ask our friends , the teetotallers , to furnish even a

single instance of a man becoming courageous by being forced on all occasions and in all things to be a coward ? Yet this is the doctrine of teetotalism as applied to temperance . Their opinion is that a man will become temperate by never haying the opportunity of learning what temperance is ; their alternative belief being that a man who has cultivated the intemperance of excess will be able to adjust matters , not by having recourse to temperance , but by

seeking cowardly refuge in the opposite extreme—that is , in the intemperance of defect . But are we Masons such a scurvy set of poltroons that , in order to avoid one extreme it is indispensable we should adopt its opposite ? What becomes of our boasted morality , if on our half-dozen or dozen nights of meeting in the twelvemonth we cannot prove ourselves temperate in the matter of drink without becoming teetotallers ? Perhaps it may be suggested that our example

will be of service to the rest of the community , and that if we , who are supposed to be men of substance , abstain from alcoholic beverages , others will go arid do likewise . I demur entirely to this proposition . If we show to the world that we can hold our meetings and dine together without indulging to excess , we shall prove that our morality

is not the sham it must be if wc cannot practise what we preach in the matter of temperance as in other things . For myself , I doubt if the authorities are not violating the fundamental principles of Freemasonry when they issue warrants for the constitution of teetotal lodges . —I remain , faithfully and fraternally yours , TEMPERANCE .

OUR INSTITUTIONS . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , In speaking of the elections of the Girls' and Boys ' Schools , your remarks as to the annuitants are not very happy ones ; you seem to overlook " the aged Freemason . " I have heard that it costs the Committee more for the education of one boy for a year than is given to the old

Mason to live upon for one twelvemonth out of the Asylum , and that those in the Asylum have more than those out of it . They have the same annuity , and have the extras of rent , coals , and lighting , which are equal to £ 10 per annum . How is it you do not call the attention of the subscribers to the Aged Freemasons' Asylum to that fact ? and the different lodges which subscribe to it do not seem to take that interest in it which they ought . I think you would do well to call attention to it . I AN OLD MASON .