Looseness In Masonry.

it were a small amount , was essential for such a purpose . I strongly urged the members of the lodge to keep a record of their proceedings , so that their successors might have a full knowledge of the progressive history of the lodge . I hope that my advice , which was most courteously listened , to , may have

had some good effect , for nothing could be more unsatisfactory than the whole state of things that I witnessed . I regret that I could not visit the lodges which were kindly opened for us at Dundee . I was not aware of the intention of our Scotch brethren to do honour

to us in that way till it was too late for me to accept their invitation . I should like to have seen the working in a full lodge at Dundee , but I suppose it would not have affoaded to me the excellent opportunity that I had in my sudden descent upon the brethren a few miles south of that town . Yours fraternally , A DEVON MASOS .

A Perpetual Mental Calendar.

A PERPETUAL MENTAL CALENDAR .

TO TOE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIISROH . Dear Sir aud Brother , —Under the above heading there appears in your number of the 19 th inst . a letter signed " H . PL , " in which he states that a book written by him thirty years ago may he obtained from Messrs . Simpkin and Marshall . I might

probably have left the letter unnoticed , had it not alluded to my method for finding the day of the week answering to any day of the month of any year contained in your number of the 12 th inst . "H . H . " states that he had learnt , when a boy at school fifty years agoa method on the same princilethough

, p , differing slightly in details . Methods on the same principle are at least as old as the Julian Calendar , and one of them is that contained in the Book of Common Prayer for finding the Sunday letter . The only claim to originality is in having so arranged the elements as to make the calculation as brief and as

easily remembered as possible . If "H . H . " will impart his method to me , I shall be enabled to judge whether or not he has anticipated me in attaining these objects to the greatest extent , and , should I find he has done so , I shall not hesitate to acknowledge the fact . I may mention that , in my article

on this subject , on page 291 of your Magazine , one of the paragraphs is transposed , by which , although the sense is not destroyed , yet to a certain extent the connection is less apparent . I am happy to find that you have yourself pointed this out in your errata on page 320 . Yours fraternally , J . Ii . YoiTNGHr / SBAKlI .

Royal Benevolent Institution For Aged Freemasons And Their Widows

ROYAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION FOR AGED FREEMASONS AND THEIR WIDOWS

TO TIIE EDITOE OF THE FREEMASONS' . MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIR 1 IOE . Dear Sir and Brother , —I rejoice to learn , from an article published in the Masonic Mirror of the 19 th inst ., that great extra exertions are afloat for the purpose of celebrating the completion of a quarter of a ceutury since the foundation of this valuable institution in a manner worthy of the occasion .

Royal Benevolent Institution For Aged Freemasons And Their Widows

From inquiries I have made respecting the present state and future prospects of the funds of the Institution , I fully anticipate a very large increase in the number of recipients ; and I am even convinced that we might , without prejudicing the position of the funds , appropriately celebrate the twenty-fifth

anniversary by admitting all approved candidates to _ its benefits without the ceremony of an election . This is not to be accomplished without a little exertion _ on the part of the Masonic body generally , and , lookingto the ultimate good we can effect , and the small amount of labour requiredlet us each and all put

, our shoulders to the wheel , and try what can be done to marie the occasion by supporting the next festival ( Jan . 29 th , 1 SGS ) , with subscriptions , and thereby strengthening the hands of the Committee , and encouraging our worthy Secretary , Bro . Farnfield , towhom the Institution is so much indebted for it &

present success . Yours fraternally , CIIAEIES SHEEET , P . M . 76 , P . Prov . S . G . W . Hants .

Masonic Lifeboat.

MASONIC LIFEBOAT .

TO TOE EDITOE OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Dear Sir and Brother , —The valuable proposition ; for a Masonic lifeboat has peculiar claims upon us for we have so many Masonic captains in our Fraternity , that a Masonic lifeboat might save even thelives of Masons . Yours fraternally , SUPPOETEE .

Lodge Working.—Ceremonials.

LODGE WORKING . —CEREMONIALS .

TO THE EDITOR OF THE FTlTiEMASONS ' MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIEEOE . Dear Sir aud Brother , —I am very much surprised at the contents of a letter bearing the signature of "A Master Mason of ten years' standing" from the province of Devon and Cornwall . The writer complains of the want of a proper working of the lodges ,

and says that he has only heard the magnificent lectures ( sections ) worked but once , and then they were given by some foreign brethren Now , in the first place , there are two provinces in Devon and Cornwall , and not one , that for Devon being presided over by one of the most distinguished

and learned men in our Craft , R . W . Bro . the Rev . John Iiughan , who is a Past Grand Chaplain of England , and who , in every department of Freemasonry , is one of its most adinirable exponents . No one can have witnessed the consecration of a lodor portion of the duties which ever devolve

ge any upon our right worshipful and reverend brother without being struck with the chaste and elegant manner in which he performs all the ceremonials which attach to his high office . For more than forty years , as he told us the other day at Totnes , has he been an active Mason , and for more than twenty

years has he been at the head of our fraternity in this province . Then we have as his lieutenant , second in command , our learned Bro . L . P . Metham , who is our Deputy Provincial Grand Master . Every brother who is an attentive reader of your Magazine , will have become acquainted with some of those eloquent orations of his which have so frequently , in the last few years , adorned your pages . Now our Bro .