Our Architectural Chapter.

can become Worshipful Master of a Lodge , he will commonly have tc take the higher degrees , and in many . Lodges will have spent many years , and advanced to the Rose Croix , before he can fill the chair of his Lodge . These honest workers on the old ritual , strengthened by the bond of the Strict Observance , have no notion of sending an

ignorant young man up the ladder of M . C ., J . D ., S . D ., J . W ., and S . W ., aiicl perhaps only one round even of this ladder , and placing him in what is profanely called the chair of K . S . Hence it is that we have among us so many mock Masons , who , though they have paid fees aud hold Grand Lodgo certificates , have never seen the true light—and never will .

Wo therefore commend tho practice of charging fees for degrees to all engaged in building new halls , as a special fund for the redemption of the purchase money . A pound for each of these steps would constitute a goodly sum iu a year . We should like to go a step farther , and make it obligatory from Grand Lodge to charge one pound for Fellow Craftand one pound

, for Master Mason , such fees to go to the Building Fund ; and where the Lodge has no hall , then to go to its credit in a general buildingfund , to be applied for the erection of Masonic Halls . In the Grand Lodge home jurisdiction , or London district , this might be so applied in the case of Lodges using the Freemasons' Hall , as to furnish forth a magnificent set of Lodge rooms . Something like six thousand or

eight thousand pounds a year would be a goodly sum for building halls ancl Lodge rooms . In Stuttgart and most parts of Germany three pounds is paid for passing ancl five pounds for raising . Thus thirteen pounds is paid to reach M . M ,, and that in a poor country ; and here not half the amount . Then there is the further creditable ancl remarkable fact ,

that the yearly subscription is only sixteen shillings and sixpence , so that no brother need leave a Lodge from the desire of discontinuing his subscription ; and in this way the body of Masons is kept together , whereas , with us , M . M . once reached , the new fledged Masons are off , except the feiv who remain to keep up the party of ghouls who feed off the initiation fees . . How much better would it be to keep

together a large body of old Masons than to initiate freely and to disperse among society the greater portion of the candidates , without knowledge and without discipline , to bo called Masons , and to be known as such to the discredit of the Order . Por sixteen shillings and sixpence , the German Mason has the privilege of attending the ceremonies of a large , powerful , and well

frequented Lodge at the regular meetings , and , beyond that , of using the hall ancl rooms for social intercourse every clay . For twice the sum here , or thrice the sum in a considerable town , and for nearly ten times the sum in London , he will enjoy the privilege of meeting ten or twenty persons in a tavern , once a month , for a few months in tho year . The contrast is not complimentary , We thank Bro , Breitling for giving us the means of making