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fiefuiscinc KtVSTRATED .

Th E Coronation And Peace.

The Coronation and Peace .

CORONATION Day—the great National event which has so happily sychronised with the advent of Peace •—is upon us , and for the moment other interests are dwarfed to insignificance . Denominational and political squabbles , personal grievances , and antipathies give place

to joy and rejoicing . A great family festival of the people of Great Britain and Greater Britain beyond the seas is to be celebrated , with the King as its central figure , and the Nation whole-heartedly acclaims his Sovereignty . It is that tradition of personal sympathy between

Sovereign and people , which was born of the reign of Queen Victoria , that is so marked a feature of this great occasion . It is right and fitting that the Nation should be glad , and that it should show its gladness by acclaiming with all pomp and circumstance the crowning of its King . His Majesty has for so many years so fully filled his part in

the economy of the State and maintained , on behclf of hisaugust mother , the greater part of that ceremonial burden which it was only natural she should desire to be released from , that it requires an effort of the mind to realise that he is now filling another and a greater roll . And what an

enormous power for good can be exercised from this lofty pinnacle ! It is with no misgivings that the people of this , great Empire entrust that power into the hands of their rightful and chosen head . His career has been an open book to the Nation for a long generation . His tactful

and strictly constitutional attitude to all the great political and other controversies of the age , his consummate knowledge of men and things , his natural endowments , ripened by experience and keenly intelligent observation mark him out as an ideal ruler of this great

constitutional Empire . While taking his full part in the pleasures of sport and the amenities of social life , he has proved beyond cavil that he can do his duty ; and how great that duty has been as Prince of Wales and how much greater it will be as Sovereign few will be able to realise .

But it is as the long trusted and beloved head of our Fraternity that our readers will , in their heart of hearts , be most keenly interested in all that pertains to the personality of the King—and by no section of His Majesty's loyal subjects has his Accession and Coronation been more

genuinely and heartily welcomed . To attempt an estimate of the value to Freemasonry resulting from the rule of " our Prince , " both in regard to its inner organism and constitutions , and the high position it has gained in the outer world , would be an almost impossible task . During the eventful

quarter of a century of his Grand Mastership , not only has the number of its members increased by leaps and bounds , but that increase has been accompanied by a corresponding rise in the quality and status of its members—by a vast increase in the funds of the many benevolent organizations of

the Order , and by , we hope and believe , a heightening sense of individual responsibility for the maintenance of the good name of our beloved Craft . In an article in a recent issue , we dealt with the question

of the part Freemasonry might fairly be expected to take at the conclusion of the war , in helping to assuage the feelings of enmity which such a long and bitter struggle as we have passed through must necessarily have engendered . The long looked for blessing of peace has now arrived , and

already we can , we think , discern the first fruits of that beneficent teaching and practice which has been such a refreshing and redeeming feature of the struggle . We have learnt not only from Alasonic sources , but from unimpeachable official authority , that no sentiment of kinship or

community of creed or race has appealed to the humanity of our opponents in such effective fashion as the obligation which unites brother with brother in the bond of Masonry . Never has a Alasonic appeal under circumstances even of mortal struggle been made in vain , and in no single instance has the

Temple of Masonry been violated or suffered any damage , although it is to to be regretted that other buildings with perhaps stronger claims to immunity from desecration have not been so lovingly dealt with .

There is much subject for thought underlying these facts . It proves not only that Masonry exercises a powerful influence over those who are ranged under its banners , but the facts which the situation discloses are largely in favour of the hope , which indeed recent accounts from the late seat of war

undeniably prove , that the new reign will see the Britain and Boer in mutual respect for each other , quietly and earnestly working out their destinies as co-workers in the consolidation of the greatest Empire on which the sun has even risen .