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first standing erect and surveying the Biblical land from the summit of Cheop's Pyramid . The lecture was interspersed with appropriate anecdotes , curious stereoscepic views , and illustrated with large , well-executed diagrams , and closed amid well-merited acclamation . Bro . Councillor Binnie , R . W . M ., Kilwinning , No . 4 , proposed a vote of thanks to be recorded on the minutes to Bro . Dr . Pritchard . In doing so he took the opportunity of saying it had given him , and he was sure it had also given the immense satisfaction his it seemed trul

brethren . For own part y astonishing how the worthy Doctor , engaged as ho knew he was in the practice of an arduous profession , could stand up and deliver an oration , such as they had listened to , unaided by notes , pouring forth such a flood of instruction with so much ease and elegance of style . The very places and wonders it had "" been his good fortune to witness , were painted in their mental vision so vividly by his eloquence , that all would remember that

night to the latest day of their lives . Bro . Gordon Smith , P . G . S ., seconded the motion , which was carried amid deafening applause . The remainder of the evening , till eleven o ' clock , when the gavel fell , was spent in that harmony and good fellowship which only Masonry can realise . The Doctor announced his second lecture for Monday evening , November 3 ; he merely considered this as introductory . The elegant hall of St . Mark was well filled , and brethren from various lodges , far and near , honoured it with their presence .

Mark Masonry.

MARK MASONRY .

SHEFFIELD . —Britannia Lodge . —The annual meeting of this Lodge was held on Tuesday , the 30 th September . There was a good muster of the brethren , and Bro . F . Binckes , Grand Secretary , attended to instal the W . M . for the ensuing year . The Lodge was opened by the W . M . Bro . White , G . D ., " and Bro . Chester , of Phoenix Lodge ( 1206 ) , was duly advanced as a

M . M . M . The W . M . elect , Bro . H . Webster , S . G . O ., was then introduced and installed with great ability by Bro . Binckes , and the following brethren were nominated and invested by the W . M . as officers for the ensuing year .: —Bros . Waterhouse , S . W . ; Primrose , J . W . ; Stuart , M . O . ; Drury , S . O . ; Garnett , J . O . ; S . Smith , Sec . ; Armson and Parker , S . and J . D . ; Oxley , I . G . Bro . Drury had been unanimously re-elected Treasurer of the Lodge at the j > revious meetingand Bro . Garnett

kindlcon-, y sented to act as Steward . A vote of thanks was passed to Bro . Binckes for his kindness in attending , and after a very pleasant evening of conviviality after the Lodge business , the brethren separated at an early hour , as most of them had arranged to accompany Bro . Binckes to the Prov . Grand Lodge of West Yorkshire , at Doncaster , on the next day , where he was to appear in his capacity of Secretary to the Boys' School , and where his advocacy and the known sympathof the West

y Yorkshire brethren produced a liberal contribution , the sum of £ 100 having been voted from tho funds of the Prov . Grand Lodge , and some 18 or 20 brethren having at once announced their intention to support their Prov . G . M . as Stewards at the forthcoming festival in March .

Poetry.

Poetry .

" WHISTLE DOWN THE BRAKES . " Br B . B . FRENCH . When we hear the young apprentice Who has only pipp'd the shell Grandiloquently striving ' Of Freemasonry to

tell—Giving his elder brethren A touch of knowledge vast ! We whistle down the brakes boys , He ' s moving on too fast !

Poetry.

When we see the young made master Oft rising on the floor—When with words—bat not with wisdoui His shallow mind runs o ' er , We wish some one a whisper Into his ear would

cast" Oh whistle down the brakes , boys , Your moving on to fast !" When with erring footsteps onward We behold a brother move , Whom in our hearts we've cherished

With an ocean , vast , of love ; When we know he has forgotten In his cups , the sacred past , We cry , " Whistle down the brakes , boys He ' s moving on to fast !"

All along the world ' s broad-guage road We ' re rushing toward the tomb—Look ahead—the track's encumbered—O'er the Future hangs a gloom—Stop the train !—a switch is open j The whistle shrieks its blast ;

" Down ! Down ! hard down the brakes boys We're moving on too fast !" When with truth' s banners Hying , We sweep toward life ' s goal—Our locomotive virtue ,

Fired with religious coal—Relieving the afflicted , Raising the downward cast , Oh whistle up the brakes boys , We cannot move too fast .

TO A AVAVE . Dost thou seek a star , with thy swelling crest , Oh ' . wave that leavest thy mother's "breast ! Dost thou leap from the prisoned depths below In scorn of their calm and constant flow ? Or art thou seeking some distant land , To die in murmurs upon the strand ?

Hast thou tales to tell of the pearl-lit deep , Where the wave-whelmed mariner rocks to sleep ? Canst thou speak of navies that sunk iu pride Ere the roll . of their thunder in echo died ? What trophies , what banners , are floating free In the shadowy depths of the silent sea .

It were vain to ask , as thou rollest afar , Of banner , or mariner , ship , or star ; It were vain to seek in thy stormy face Some tale of the sorrowful past to trace . Thou art swelling high , thou art flashing free ,

How vain are the questions we ask of thee ! I , too , am a wave on a stormy sea ; I too , am a wanderer , driven like thee ; I , too , am seehing a distant land , To be lost and gone ere 1 reach the strand , For the land I seek is the waveless shore , And they who once reach it shall wander no more . "