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To Correspondents.
To Correspondents .
The following was received too late for publication , and is held over until next week : — Consecration of the New Masonic Hall , Southampton . Skiddaiv Lodge , No . 1002 , Cockermouth .
BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . " Brief , " " Broad Arrow , " " Keystone , " " Royal Cornwall Gazette , " " The Southland Times , " " Alliance News , " " Lloyd ' s Weekly Newspaper , " " Der Triangcl , " " The
Masonic Review , " The Blackburn Standard , " " Croydon Guardian , " " Boletin Masonico , " ' Woman , dear Woman , " " Hebrew Leader , " " Die New Yorker Bundes Presse , "" The Liberal Freemason , " " Paper and Print , " " Funny Folks , " " The Union Jack . "
Births, Marriages, And Deaths.
Births , Marriages , and Deaths .
[ The charge is 2 s . 6 d . for announcements not exceeding Four Lines under this heading . ] BIRTHS . H-MI ' IIRYS . —On the 26 th ult ., at Cavendish-park , Barrow-in-Furness , thc wife of Mr . James Humphry's , of a son . MOORL . —On the 29 th ult ., at S . Edmund Hall , Oxford , the wife of the Rev . E . Moore , of a daughter .
MARRIAGE . HALL—MORDAUNT . —On the 23 rd ult ., at St . Paul's Church , Knightsbridge , by the Hon . and Rev . Canon Lidded , Bro . the Rev . Humphrey Farran Hall , eldest son of our Bro . the Rev .
Ambrose William Hall . M . A ., of the Prince of Wales Lodge , No . 239 , P . M ., P . P . G . Chaplain , and P . P . S . G . Warden of Surrey , to Mary Augusta , daughter of the late Sir John Mordaunt , Baronet , of Walton Hall , Warwickshire , and great granddaughter of the late Duke of Athole .
DEATHS . B __ ii _ u . —On thc 31 st of October , at Sydney , Edward Bus ' icr , late of Kendal . SAIUNK . —On thc 28 th ult ., suddenly , at Brighton , Brd . Thomas J . Sibinc , P . M ., P . S . G . W . Middlesex , aged 46 . FAUTIIIN _ . —On the 24 th ult ., at 16 , Beacon-hill . N ., Rebecca Martha , wife of Bro . Edmund Farthing , late of 119 , Cheapside , aged 54 .
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THEFREEMASON. SATURDAY , J ANUARY 3 , i 8 _ c .
The New Year.
THE NEW YEAR .
We greet all our many readers with this our first issue for 18 do with hearty good wishes for the New Year . Another twelve months of our Masonic and civil life have sped away , and we stand , as it were , in the shadow of the great undiscovered future , the waves of time bubbling
and surging up at our feet , utterly ignorant , happily , of what the next twelve months have in store for us and ours . It is this merciful want of knowledge of the future which constitutes for us the great peculiarity of the mysterious law of our probation here . We none of us , we repeat ,
happily , can forecast or forereckon what lies in the hidden depths of a new year , and whether we shall be prosperous or unfortunate , well or ill , joyous or grieving , contented or disappointed as 1880 rolls on its course , we are unable with all our science or skill now to anticipate or
forereckon . There have been those in old days , indeed , and the practice was rife when alchemy and astrology flourished amongst men who affected to unfold the " science of the stars , " and open out for us the '' arcana" and mysterious pathway of human life . There are those even at
this hour , we believe , who claim a power of foretelling future events . As educated Freemasons we must reject the conclusions and claims of all such would-be seers . Suffice it for us that the future , unknown and untried , is yel before us , practically an undiscovered country , and in the
truest spirit of reverent trust and reli gious wisdom let us learn to be submissive to all the appointments of T . G . A . O . T . U ., be they what they may for us and ours in 1880 , without anxious forecasting or peevish forereckoning , without hasty complaints or perverse doubts , let us calmly await what the New Year has in store for us all .
Such seems to be the personal teaching useful to us all at the commencement of the New Year . As Freemasons a New Year also brings to us Masonic teaching of value and importance . We who survive still , whose " place on earth " still knows us , have witnessed another twelve months roll away for Masonry , twelve months of avowed iostility or injudicious praise , an : id the attacks
The New Year.
of avowed enemies , and the treachery of secret foes . Freemasonry stands before the world as 1880 opans out again its passing annals erect , undaunted , admired by its friends , feared by its enemies , of undoubted good and utility and need to the age in which our lot is cast . And , humanly speaking ,
judging from cause to effect , from theory to practice , from what is apparent to what is true , we may fairly say to-day thatso long as Freeenasonry stands by its own principles , acts up to its own professions , so long as , recognizing its proper mission , it keeps on the pathway of pure Freemasonry and
avoids the dangerous and destructive pitfalls of sectarian animosity or political discussion , so long , ( but only so long ) , will its position be safe and healthy , good and true , because it will be not only believed in by its own members but will be honoured and admired by the world at large . If in
the year that is past some portions of the great and wide Masonic family have sadly strayed from the path of Masonic rectitude and teaching , let us hope that in the New Year they will retrace their steps and rebind in fraternal union sympathy and concord , those happier links of
Cosmopolitan Masonry which their unsound teachings have gravely weakened , or their perverse proceediags have even for the moment rent in twain . With these our New Year good wishes for our friends and patrons is mingled necessarily some little solicitude for the onward progress of
our good and great Order . At home in Great Britain , and in the United States and Canada , we have little fear as to the real status and actual development of Freemasonry , but we cannot well predicate the same of all jurisdictions . We therefore look on to the work and struggles of
Freemasonry in 1 SS 0 if with good hope and firm trust , with pardonable anxiety , that moreover the tolerant and stately banner of Freemasonry is hoisted we may find that the theories it enunciates and the practice it works out will be such as will commend them to the approval of the
loyal , the sensible , the peaceful , and the educated , and may tend when perfectly known and realized to the happy spread of our peaceful fraternity , and the sowing broadcast of those goodly seeds of relig ions tolerance and civilizing enlightenment which are for the " healing of the nations " and the lasting welfare of the whol . human race .
1879 And 1880.
1879 AND 1880 .
The unquiet year of 1879 has now drawn to a close and we are looking forward with somewhat of anxiety for the more peaceful progress of 1880 . It may perhaps be permitted to the Freemason , without any reference to the mere passing politics of party or country to advert to the
general aspect of affairs at the close of 1879 and at the opening of 1880 . 1879 wu ' l ° £ associated in our memories with " wars and rumours of wars , ' . ! more or less necessary , more or less unavoidable , which have given excitement to each morning ' s news , and have swayed and affected
the words and feelings of men . We cannot , however , but as Freemasons , lovers of peace and unity , national harmony and international amity , express our earnest trust now that 1880 is stepping forth on the scene and 18 79 is but a shadow of the past , as it passes into the misty cloud of
bygone years , that we may all of us witness in the next twelve months a period of pcacefulness and calm , a subsidence of those storms which have raged , those unwelcome features which have marred the happier outcome of national and cosmopolitan life in the world . It is undoubtedly
true as a fact , and a fact , moreover , which all should never forget , we who write for others and pen our remarks after the event , especially that many things are unavoidable in this curious world of ours , as directed by able and loyal statesmanship , which if condemned in the sterner
principles of abstract justice , or right , or propriety , may yet be defended , and successfully defended too , on the absolute necessity of national existence on the one hand , or the peace , progress , liberty , and civilization of the whole wide world on the other . It is not because we think
subjectively that certain acts are wrong that , therefore they are so objectively , neither is it the case , though it might seem at first sight a paradox to say so , that because things are objectively wrong therefore subjectively they are not capable of defence or support . Owing to the strain of circum-
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stances or the unwisdom of men such things are often actually necessary for the preservation of our nearest and dearest interests . If we were to judge of all the transactions of the world of polity or statesmanship by one unerring standard of truth and justice , right and wrong , we fear that
the verdict of us all would be , to a great extent at any rate , an unfavourable one , but then we must allow a law of common sense , of actual necessity , to modify our judgment and control our sentiments , otherwise we shall forget what is the abiding rule of national government , cf
cosmopolitan observance , "salus populi suprema lex . " It is not for us then to pass any judgment , to offer any opinions on public preceedings , or political complications , further than to say that as on all occasions we rejoice to behold authority upheld , and the laws respected , a . id
civil order , and internal peace , and security maintained , so , on the other hand , we always raise up our voice against the fomenters of civil discords , the " fautors" of international disputes . We cannot quit the subject without protesting against those horrors of anarchical violence and
cruelty which seem to have fallen as a " dark mantle" on the doings of the "Commune , " " Socialism , " " Internationalism , " and " Nihilism " in 1879 . 1 ' "Red Spectre "
may fairly be said to be still before us , both in the cowardice it evokes , and the intense horror it excites . We are glad to be permitted once more to say with what detestation the acts of an insane and
vindictive secret society in Russia are looked upon by us as Freemasons and as citizens of the world , and to express our fervent hop . that in the good providence of T . G . A . O . T . U . all such wicked and detestable proceedings may be controlled , overruled , properly punished , and finally suppressed . Our * ' hearty good wishes " then at
this beginning of 1880 are for the peace of nations and the tranquillity of the world . As these lines fall from our pen wc hear of a most wicked attempt on the life of the King of Spain , which has happily again been productive of no evil consequences . Such acts deserve the d . ep indignation of all loyal citizens .
Uniformity Of Ritual.
UNIFORMITY OF RITUAL .
. »¦ - A very able brother of our Order has called our attention to a " point " which certainly requires careful attention by all who remember the history of the Craft and value the peace and prosperity of the Order . Assuming for one moment
that Grand Lodge passes the resolution to appoint a Committee , ( which may be doubtful ) , how is it to be appointed , and on what princip le of representation or construction ? Our brother points out to us that our 1666 effective English lodges , up to the date of 1879 Calendar , are thus made
up : London lodges _ 88 , country lodges 940 , Colonial , & c , 432 . It thus appears that the Colonial lodges alone are more than one-fourth of the entire number , and , as a matter of fact , these are now increasing in the ratio of onethird . How are these lodges to be represented
in this enquiry , and , if unrepresented , how shall Grand Lodge enforce uniformity , and , perhaps , a new ritual , on them ? Any action re uniformity may give us a Colonial question of some magnitude . It is also well to remember , as our able brother puts it , that the " meddling with ritual
caused our great schism in the last century . We are of opinion that here is a point which requires to be thought over , not merely " talked at , " by those to whom the success of English Freemasonry is a matter of heartfelt anxiety and loyal interest .
A Mingled Yarn.
A MINGLED YARN .
How true it is , that with each day , as it were , of life both joy and sorrow come to this fleeting world . The end of the year closes with an account of British triumphs in Afg hanistan , gratify ing to us all alike , and at the same time we hear of the loss of the Borussia , with all its
silent horrors , and of the accident at Tay Bridge , most awful in its reality . These are , indeed , topics which may well make us serious , and teach us to realize how life is at the best but a mingled " yarn " of joy and grief , happiness and sorrow , prosperity and adversity . ^
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To Correspondents.
To Correspondents .
The following was received too late for publication , and is held over until next week : — Consecration of the New Masonic Hall , Southampton . Skiddaiv Lodge , No . 1002 , Cockermouth .
BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . " Brief , " " Broad Arrow , " " Keystone , " " Royal Cornwall Gazette , " " The Southland Times , " " Alliance News , " " Lloyd ' s Weekly Newspaper , " " Der Triangcl , " " The
Masonic Review , " The Blackburn Standard , " " Croydon Guardian , " " Boletin Masonico , " ' Woman , dear Woman , " " Hebrew Leader , " " Die New Yorker Bundes Presse , "" The Liberal Freemason , " " Paper and Print , " " Funny Folks , " " The Union Jack . "
Births, Marriages, And Deaths.
Births , Marriages , and Deaths .
[ The charge is 2 s . 6 d . for announcements not exceeding Four Lines under this heading . ] BIRTHS . H-MI ' IIRYS . —On the 26 th ult ., at Cavendish-park , Barrow-in-Furness , thc wife of Mr . James Humphry's , of a son . MOORL . —On the 29 th ult ., at S . Edmund Hall , Oxford , the wife of the Rev . E . Moore , of a daughter .
MARRIAGE . HALL—MORDAUNT . —On the 23 rd ult ., at St . Paul's Church , Knightsbridge , by the Hon . and Rev . Canon Lidded , Bro . the Rev . Humphrey Farran Hall , eldest son of our Bro . the Rev .
Ambrose William Hall . M . A ., of the Prince of Wales Lodge , No . 239 , P . M ., P . P . G . Chaplain , and P . P . S . G . Warden of Surrey , to Mary Augusta , daughter of the late Sir John Mordaunt , Baronet , of Walton Hall , Warwickshire , and great granddaughter of the late Duke of Athole .
DEATHS . B __ ii _ u . —On thc 31 st of October , at Sydney , Edward Bus ' icr , late of Kendal . SAIUNK . —On thc 28 th ult ., suddenly , at Brighton , Brd . Thomas J . Sibinc , P . M ., P . S . G . W . Middlesex , aged 46 . FAUTIIIN _ . —On the 24 th ult ., at 16 , Beacon-hill . N ., Rebecca Martha , wife of Bro . Edmund Farthing , late of 119 , Cheapside , aged 54 .
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THEFREEMASON. SATURDAY , J ANUARY 3 , i 8 _ c .
The New Year.
THE NEW YEAR .
We greet all our many readers with this our first issue for 18 do with hearty good wishes for the New Year . Another twelve months of our Masonic and civil life have sped away , and we stand , as it were , in the shadow of the great undiscovered future , the waves of time bubbling
and surging up at our feet , utterly ignorant , happily , of what the next twelve months have in store for us and ours . It is this merciful want of knowledge of the future which constitutes for us the great peculiarity of the mysterious law of our probation here . We none of us , we repeat ,
happily , can forecast or forereckon what lies in the hidden depths of a new year , and whether we shall be prosperous or unfortunate , well or ill , joyous or grieving , contented or disappointed as 1880 rolls on its course , we are unable with all our science or skill now to anticipate or
forereckon . There have been those in old days , indeed , and the practice was rife when alchemy and astrology flourished amongst men who affected to unfold the " science of the stars , " and open out for us the '' arcana" and mysterious pathway of human life . There are those even at
this hour , we believe , who claim a power of foretelling future events . As educated Freemasons we must reject the conclusions and claims of all such would-be seers . Suffice it for us that the future , unknown and untried , is yel before us , practically an undiscovered country , and in the
truest spirit of reverent trust and reli gious wisdom let us learn to be submissive to all the appointments of T . G . A . O . T . U ., be they what they may for us and ours in 1880 , without anxious forecasting or peevish forereckoning , without hasty complaints or perverse doubts , let us calmly await what the New Year has in store for us all .
Such seems to be the personal teaching useful to us all at the commencement of the New Year . As Freemasons a New Year also brings to us Masonic teaching of value and importance . We who survive still , whose " place on earth " still knows us , have witnessed another twelve months roll away for Masonry , twelve months of avowed iostility or injudicious praise , an : id the attacks
The New Year.
of avowed enemies , and the treachery of secret foes . Freemasonry stands before the world as 1880 opans out again its passing annals erect , undaunted , admired by its friends , feared by its enemies , of undoubted good and utility and need to the age in which our lot is cast . And , humanly speaking ,
judging from cause to effect , from theory to practice , from what is apparent to what is true , we may fairly say to-day thatso long as Freeenasonry stands by its own principles , acts up to its own professions , so long as , recognizing its proper mission , it keeps on the pathway of pure Freemasonry and
avoids the dangerous and destructive pitfalls of sectarian animosity or political discussion , so long , ( but only so long ) , will its position be safe and healthy , good and true , because it will be not only believed in by its own members but will be honoured and admired by the world at large . If in
the year that is past some portions of the great and wide Masonic family have sadly strayed from the path of Masonic rectitude and teaching , let us hope that in the New Year they will retrace their steps and rebind in fraternal union sympathy and concord , those happier links of
Cosmopolitan Masonry which their unsound teachings have gravely weakened , or their perverse proceediags have even for the moment rent in twain . With these our New Year good wishes for our friends and patrons is mingled necessarily some little solicitude for the onward progress of
our good and great Order . At home in Great Britain , and in the United States and Canada , we have little fear as to the real status and actual development of Freemasonry , but we cannot well predicate the same of all jurisdictions . We therefore look on to the work and struggles of
Freemasonry in 1 SS 0 if with good hope and firm trust , with pardonable anxiety , that moreover the tolerant and stately banner of Freemasonry is hoisted we may find that the theories it enunciates and the practice it works out will be such as will commend them to the approval of the
loyal , the sensible , the peaceful , and the educated , and may tend when perfectly known and realized to the happy spread of our peaceful fraternity , and the sowing broadcast of those goodly seeds of relig ions tolerance and civilizing enlightenment which are for the " healing of the nations " and the lasting welfare of the whol . human race .
1879 And 1880.
1879 AND 1880 .
The unquiet year of 1879 has now drawn to a close and we are looking forward with somewhat of anxiety for the more peaceful progress of 1880 . It may perhaps be permitted to the Freemason , without any reference to the mere passing politics of party or country to advert to the
general aspect of affairs at the close of 1879 and at the opening of 1880 . 1879 wu ' l ° £ associated in our memories with " wars and rumours of wars , ' . ! more or less necessary , more or less unavoidable , which have given excitement to each morning ' s news , and have swayed and affected
the words and feelings of men . We cannot , however , but as Freemasons , lovers of peace and unity , national harmony and international amity , express our earnest trust now that 1880 is stepping forth on the scene and 18 79 is but a shadow of the past , as it passes into the misty cloud of
bygone years , that we may all of us witness in the next twelve months a period of pcacefulness and calm , a subsidence of those storms which have raged , those unwelcome features which have marred the happier outcome of national and cosmopolitan life in the world . It is undoubtedly
true as a fact , and a fact , moreover , which all should never forget , we who write for others and pen our remarks after the event , especially that many things are unavoidable in this curious world of ours , as directed by able and loyal statesmanship , which if condemned in the sterner
principles of abstract justice , or right , or propriety , may yet be defended , and successfully defended too , on the absolute necessity of national existence on the one hand , or the peace , progress , liberty , and civilization of the whole wide world on the other . It is not because we think
subjectively that certain acts are wrong that , therefore they are so objectively , neither is it the case , though it might seem at first sight a paradox to say so , that because things are objectively wrong therefore subjectively they are not capable of defence or support . Owing to the strain of circum-
1879 And 1880.
stances or the unwisdom of men such things are often actually necessary for the preservation of our nearest and dearest interests . If we were to judge of all the transactions of the world of polity or statesmanship by one unerring standard of truth and justice , right and wrong , we fear that
the verdict of us all would be , to a great extent at any rate , an unfavourable one , but then we must allow a law of common sense , of actual necessity , to modify our judgment and control our sentiments , otherwise we shall forget what is the abiding rule of national government , cf
cosmopolitan observance , "salus populi suprema lex . " It is not for us then to pass any judgment , to offer any opinions on public preceedings , or political complications , further than to say that as on all occasions we rejoice to behold authority upheld , and the laws respected , a . id
civil order , and internal peace , and security maintained , so , on the other hand , we always raise up our voice against the fomenters of civil discords , the " fautors" of international disputes . We cannot quit the subject without protesting against those horrors of anarchical violence and
cruelty which seem to have fallen as a " dark mantle" on the doings of the "Commune , " " Socialism , " " Internationalism , " and " Nihilism " in 1879 . 1 ' "Red Spectre "
may fairly be said to be still before us , both in the cowardice it evokes , and the intense horror it excites . We are glad to be permitted once more to say with what detestation the acts of an insane and
vindictive secret society in Russia are looked upon by us as Freemasons and as citizens of the world , and to express our fervent hop . that in the good providence of T . G . A . O . T . U . all such wicked and detestable proceedings may be controlled , overruled , properly punished , and finally suppressed . Our * ' hearty good wishes " then at
this beginning of 1880 are for the peace of nations and the tranquillity of the world . As these lines fall from our pen wc hear of a most wicked attempt on the life of the King of Spain , which has happily again been productive of no evil consequences . Such acts deserve the d . ep indignation of all loyal citizens .
Uniformity Of Ritual.
UNIFORMITY OF RITUAL .
. »¦ - A very able brother of our Order has called our attention to a " point " which certainly requires careful attention by all who remember the history of the Craft and value the peace and prosperity of the Order . Assuming for one moment
that Grand Lodge passes the resolution to appoint a Committee , ( which may be doubtful ) , how is it to be appointed , and on what princip le of representation or construction ? Our brother points out to us that our 1666 effective English lodges , up to the date of 1879 Calendar , are thus made
up : London lodges _ 88 , country lodges 940 , Colonial , & c , 432 . It thus appears that the Colonial lodges alone are more than one-fourth of the entire number , and , as a matter of fact , these are now increasing in the ratio of onethird . How are these lodges to be represented
in this enquiry , and , if unrepresented , how shall Grand Lodge enforce uniformity , and , perhaps , a new ritual , on them ? Any action re uniformity may give us a Colonial question of some magnitude . It is also well to remember , as our able brother puts it , that the " meddling with ritual
caused our great schism in the last century . We are of opinion that here is a point which requires to be thought over , not merely " talked at , " by those to whom the success of English Freemasonry is a matter of heartfelt anxiety and loyal interest .
A Mingled Yarn.
A MINGLED YARN .
How true it is , that with each day , as it were , of life both joy and sorrow come to this fleeting world . The end of the year closes with an account of British triumphs in Afg hanistan , gratify ing to us all alike , and at the same time we hear of the loss of the Borussia , with all its
silent horrors , and of the accident at Tay Bridge , most awful in its reality . These are , indeed , topics which may well make us serious , and teach us to realize how life is at the best but a mingled " yarn " of joy and grief , happiness and sorrow , prosperity and adversity . ^