Church Services.

wish to beautify this common home , and make it worthy of God . The window dedicated that day connected itself with their former Vicar , an eminent Freemason , and he commended to their generosity the fact that £ 100 was still required to complete the memorial fund .

Mr . Tomsett was at the organ . Afterwards the clergy and Masons were received and entertained at Chart Place . The late Vicar , the Eev . Thomas Eobinson , M . A ., at the beginning of his clerical career went to Jamaica as chaplain to Bishop Spencer . After spending about twenty years in the West

Indies he returned to England at the commencement of the rebellion in the Islands . He then accepted the living of Chart Sutton from his father , who was Master of the Temple and Canon of Eochester Cathedral . He retired after twenty-five years ministry , on account of ill-health , and went to Cniddingfold , where

he died , about two years later , on 30 th July 1895 . He had reached the highest ranks of Freemasonry , including that of Grand Chaplain of England . The window corresponds in character with , and is directly opposite to , that unveiled a few weeks ago . It has two hays containing a representation in fine stained glass of the building of Solomon's Temple . In the right corner are the

Arms of Freemasonry and badges representing in their order the various degrees of Masonry which the late Vicar passed , including those of Past Master , Chaplain , the Eoyal Arch , and Provincial Grand Master of Mark Masons . There are various other Masonio emblems . Inserted in the wall below the window is a brass plate bearing the inscription : —

To the Glory of God , and in memory of THOMAS ROBINSOK , M . A ., Vicar of this pariah for twenty-five years ; died , 30 th July 1895 . This window is erected by Freemasons of Kent , his friends , and parishioners

A . D ., 1898 . The glass is by Lavers and Westlake , and the structural work by Messrs . Wood and Son , of Boughton Monchelsea .

Centenary At Mottram.

CENTENARY AT MOTTRAM .

rTlHE old village of Mottram was the meeting place of JL Freemasons from all parts of the district on the afternoon and evening of Wednesday , 26 th ult ., when there was entered into very heartily the celebration of the Centenary of Lodge Loyalty , held at the Junction Inn . The Lodge , which was formed on the 24 th of October 1798 , is one of four Lodges in Cheshire only that have been able to celebrate their " Centenary , "

and is one moreover of the very few that can show an unbroken history for tbe period named . Other Lodges claim their formation a century ago , but few there are whose history and development have been so continuous as that at Mottram , which financially and in point of membership has admirably solidified itself . Wednesday ' s proceedings were very interesting , and were attended with much enthusiasm .

There were present representing the Grrand Lodge of England Bros . Eichard Newhouse and John Clayton . The Provincial Grand Lodge of Cheshire was represented by Bros . Armstrong , of Liverpool * , Henry Jackson , of Stalybridge •James

White , of Ashton-under Lyne ; and T . Simpson and G . Holland ; the Provincial Lodge of Derbyshire by Bros . William Dawson and W . H . Bowden . There were also present a large number of representatives of other Lodges , making an attendance of about one hundred .

In the course of the celebration a Centenary Warrant , which had been issued by the H . E . H . the Prince of Wales , was presented by Brother Newhouse to the Worshipful Master of the Lodge , enabling the Brethren to wear a comniemqrative jewel upon the occasion of their meetings in future .

A solid silver Master ' s chain was presented to the Vtf . M ., on behalf of the Lodge , by the senior member ' present Bro . E . H . Swindlehurst ; and a copy of a mural tablet , which is in Ashtonunder-Lyne Parish Church , to the memory of Brother John Postlethwaite , who was the first Master of the Lodge , and died in the year 1819 , was also presented to the Lodge by Bro . John Wagstaffe .

After the usual Masonic business , the Brethren adjourned and celebrated the Centenary by a banquet , at which Loyal and Masonic toasts were given and very enthusiastically received . A festive meeting of a most enjoyable and successful character terminated about midnight . — " Buxton Chronicle . "

Practical Masonry.

PRACTICAL MASONRY .

THE brotherly love that binds Freemasons together , no matter from what country they bail , has just been beautifully and forcibly illustrated in connection with the heart-

Practical Masonry.

rending wreck of the Mohegan . Last summer an American gentleman , Mr . Thos . Northington King , of Nantucket , Man ' ., his mother-in-law , wife , and two spns , were visitors at Calvis Bay , ' oh " the coast of Cornwall . In the house next that occupied by Mr . King , Brother J . M . Cornish ( now W . M . of Sinai Lodge , Penzance ) , wife and children were spending their holiday . The

two families became intimate , and the acquaintance grew into friendship when Brother Cornish found that Bro . King was a distinguished and . . prominent member of the Craft in America , he haying attained to the thirty-second degree , and Brother King was often a yisitpr at Sinai Lodge . Bro . King and family took their passages on board the ill-fated Mohegan , accompanied by

a young Irish American , O'Eourke , Bro . King ' s valet . O'Eourke was the sole survivor of the party ; he climed up one ofthe masts of the sinking ship and clung to the rigging until morning , when he was released from his perilous position in a state of extreme exhaustion . As soon as he learned , on being taken ashore , that he was in Cornwall , he telegraphed to Brother

Cornish , the only friend of his master ' s that he knew , who , accompanied by Brother P . M . Mockridge , at once went to the scene of the wreck , and assisted in identifying the bodies of Mrs . King , her mother Mrs . Weller , and her seven-year old son " Tony . " Cablegrams were sent to Mr . William Neal King , Columbus , Ohio , who directed the bodies to be embalmed and

no expense spared in forwarding them to America . The Brethren of the Sinai Lodge placed the Masonic Hall at the disposal of Brother Cornish , and then they were laid out . Brothers E . Waters and V . Corien undertook the necessary preparations . Each body was laid in a mahogany shell with glass panel over the face ; these were put into lead coffins , the upper part of the

lid so arranged that they could be easily opened to show the faces of the deceased . The outside coffins were of polished English oak with brass ornaments , the top panel of each being a door with lock and key . Oblong deal boxes were provided for each coffin , giving to each the appearance of a box of merchandise , as sailors still retain the old superstition of not sailing in a vessel

with a corpse . Brother Canon W . H . Cooper P . M . P . D . G . C . Sussex , a visitor in Penzance at the time , and Brothers W . M . Cornish , Mockridge P . M ., Golenso P . M ., Waters and Corien , and J . E . Eogers P . P . G . Tyler , who bad charge of the bodies , were present at the closing of the cases and witnessed their despatch , Mrs . Weller to Saratoga , and Mrs . King and her son to Cincinnati . — " Surrey Mirror . "

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