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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS 31 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls 32 Royal Masonic Institution for Boys 22 Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution 33 A Point of Law 23 Presentation to the R . VV . Deputy Grand Master , the Iiarl of Lathom 23
Christmas Social Parly of the Blair Lodge , No , 815 , Huline 25 Mr . Gladstone and Prince Albert Victor of VVales 35 First Annual Hall of thc Elliot Lodge , No . 15157 35 Mark Masonry 35 Red Cross of Constantine 35
Rosicrucian Society 35 The Craft Abroad 35 CllRRESPOVOENCEThe Red Cross of Rome and Constantino in Australia 36 London Orphan Asylum 37 Reviews * . 39
Notes and Queries 27 RETORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 27 Instruction 33 Royal Arch 32 Obituary 32 Masonic and General Tidings 33 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 31
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AT the Quarterly Court of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , held on Saturday last , Bro . H . ORXCE B . MARSHALL , G . Treas ., vvas elected to fill the ofiice of Treasurer for a period of three months , until the next Quarterly Court in April , when the Treasurer for the ensuing year will be elected . A public announcement having been made in these columns that Bro . Sir FOIIN
MONCKTON wauld be nominated for the office , and had consented to accept it if elected , the Governors appear lo have taken it for granted that no opposition would be offered to the election of a brother so highly-respected by the Craft , and whose interest in the Institution had been manifested in so many ways . Indeed there were scarcely a dozen Governors or Subscribers
present when the election took place . The nomination of Bro . MARSHALL without the slightest notice being given of any opposition being offered to the return of Bro . Sir J MONCKTON was a surprise to many , and to none more so than to the House Committee , at whose invitation Bro . Sit * J MONCKTON had consented to allow himself to be put in nomination . We
believe we are correct in saying that Bro . MARSHALL was not a willing nominee in opposition to Sir J MONCKTON . A suggestion has been made , which we think a good one , that to guard against such a surprise in
future , the rules of the Institution should be amended by inserting a provision that notice of all intended nominations for the offices of Treasurer and Trustee , should be given at the General Committee preceding the Quarterly Court at which the election is to take place .
# THE proceedings in reference to the coming of age of the eldest son of our Royal GRAND MASTER are not only most gratifying in themselves , as a merited proof of the abiding loyalty of the English people , but suggest many pleasing thoughts and many edifying reflections . His Royal
Highness Prince EDWARD , who seems , happily , to have inherited the amiability and tact , and kindly and winning manners , the " don de plaire " of his august parents , thus starts on his career as an English citizen with every prospect of happiness , and every anticipation of success . The " spes surgentisTuli " was never more happily manifest , nor more duly come home to
the heart , sympathies , and emotions of Englishmen and Freemasons . To us he is a " Lewis , " with certain Masonic privileges attached to his high social rank , which may have for him one day both a meaning and a value . In the meanwhile , our entire Order audibly rejoices in the pleasant proceedings at Sandringham , and we are but expressing the sentiments of English
Masons , of Anglo-Saxon Masons everywhere , for in America and Canada , as in Great Britain , the same good feeling prevails , when we reiterate our sincere aspirations for the future happiness and career of this young and illustrious member of our Royal Family , and that his may indeed prove to be a bright and instructive career of usefulness , reality , and highest
meaning for the body politic , as well as for his own circle of nearest and dearest relatives . Emulating the greatness of his grandfather ' s noble efforts for the good of others , guided by the genial , sympathetic , and kindly utterances , and
practical good sense of his Royal father , may he give us as year follows year another proof—if proof be needed—how much , as a nation and individuals all , Freemasons not excluded , we owe to that Divine Providence which gave to our great nation the sovereign rule of the House of BRUNSWICK .
* # * THE proposed marriage of H . R . H . Princess BEATRICE will greatly accord with the good feelings and wishes of all ranks and conditions amongst us . Our good wishes , as a Craft , go with the granddaughter of our old Grand Master , and we trust that all happiness will attend the hymeneal voyage of the youthful and illustrious couple .
* * * WE have heard a whisper , though we cannot quite answer for its correctness , that H . R . H . Prince EDWARD , our royal " Lewis , " is shortly to be initialed into Freemasonry . We hope that Dame Rumour will turn out for once to be speaking the truth , as such a fact would be appreciated and gladl y
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hailed by the entire of Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry , and it would well accord with those enlightened views as regards our peaceful , loyal , and useful Order which have swayed two of the greatest reigning Houses of Europe ( great proofs of their far-seeing and foreseeing wisdom ) , namely , the Houses of HOHENZOLLERN and BRUNSWICK . The childish fear of and opposition
to Freemasonry in some countries still , if by some it may perhaps be too hastily assumed to be the outcome of bigotry and intolerance , may at any rate be fairly set down to unworthy apprehensions and a want of common sense . At the same time we say this , we are not insensible to the grave fact ofthe marked difference between foreign Freemasonry in ' some parts and our own loyal , and charitable , and neutral organization .
* * * WITH a new year we think it well to say a few words about Masonic literature . We quite enter into the fact of the great competition existing as to newspapers generally , and also to the grave consideration , as affecting any literary venture , that the Freemason appeals to a special class ,
and that Freemasonry is a speciality , and requires special and peculiar treatment . Some cynics have gone so far as to assert that brethren lake up a Masonic paper only to read their own speeches , and there is no doubt a great deal of vanity and egotism in the world . But , as we are not cynics , we take rather a better view of things , though it is a remarkable fact ,
explain it as you will , that , in America , as in England , there is the same cry of apathy and chilliness , the same difficulty ( with one or two bright exceptions ) of keeping up a prosperous Masonic journalism , and a serial Masonic literature . If it is said , as it sometimes is , Freemasons are too busy to care much beyond and outside the lodge , we venture to reply that
there is a good deal beyond and outside the . lodge which calls for attention and deserves consideration . The antiquities , thc philosophy , thc a ^ theticism of Freemasonry all deserve careful note and study ; and the strides that during the last few years have been made in Masonic archaeology are so striking , that they seem to point to ulterior results and further discoveries . of
The materialism and the machine ^ ' Freemasonry , though needful as a conservating power for the organization , as an organization , arc not the beall and the end-all of true Freemasonry . We want something more ,
farther , better . Masonic literature supplies that want , and , despite many tendencies to neglect or undervaluing , to callous disregard , or affected hostility , deserves , vve make bold to say , the zealous and steady support of all cultured and intelligent Craftsmen .
* * * SOME time ago it was stated in the Freemason by a Correspondent that a meeting of Grand Officers was held to consider the appointment of a Grand Treasurer . We doubted the fact at the time , and said so . We subsequently repeated our assurance of the entire mal-information of our
Correspondent , who , we believe , only repeated what he had heard and believed . As , however , the statement is constantly repeated , we are requested to state that it is in its origin and assertion pure fabrication , most unjust to the Grand Officers , and started only for party purposes of some kind , perhaps to gratify a mysterious cabal which affects to lead the Craft . Some of our readers may remember Bro . AYTOUN ' S amusing description of a clique .
WE are living at a time amid all classes , ( and Freemasonry is not exempt from such weakness also ) there is an impatience of the slower progress of the allotted and normal pathway of personal elevation , and " short cuts " are made and abnormal means are sought
after to obtain individual honours and social distinction of various kinds and forms in this or that Society , in this or that organization . But all bright Masons , all true lovers of our ancient Craft , know full well that it is in lodges of Instruction , and in lodges of Instruction alone , that we are best prepared to advance and to command in Freemasonry ,
best grounded in our venerable formularies , best taught our effective and time-honoured lore ! In our humble opinion , no brother should be called to high office in the Craft who is not an expert Mason , as taught in a lodge of instruction , and many a lesson , useful and valuable , can be learnt by the industrious and intent Freemason who listens to the happy and spontaneous
manner in which the best workers amongst us , —and many , happily there are now , —illustrate and enounce the real and great beauties of our system and our ceremonial . On the other hand , nothing is so painful lo the understanding Freemason as a parrot-like repetition of stereotyped phrases , or
that monotonous delivery of consecutive passages , without apparently a stop or a halt , without any evidence or sense of the beauties of diction hastily gabbled over , without even any manifest appreciation of the full meaning , of familiar words , so constantly uttered , and so unconsciously proclaimed . How important then it is in the best interests of our contera-
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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS 31 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls 32 Royal Masonic Institution for Boys 22 Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution 33 A Point of Law 23 Presentation to the R . VV . Deputy Grand Master , the Iiarl of Lathom 23
Christmas Social Parly of the Blair Lodge , No , 815 , Huline 25 Mr . Gladstone and Prince Albert Victor of VVales 35 First Annual Hall of thc Elliot Lodge , No . 15157 35 Mark Masonry 35 Red Cross of Constantine 35
Rosicrucian Society 35 The Craft Abroad 35 CllRRESPOVOENCEThe Red Cross of Rome and Constantino in Australia 36 London Orphan Asylum 37 Reviews * . 39
Notes and Queries 27 RETORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 27 Instruction 33 Royal Arch 32 Obituary 32 Masonic and General Tidings 33 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 31
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AT the Quarterly Court of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , held on Saturday last , Bro . H . ORXCE B . MARSHALL , G . Treas ., vvas elected to fill the ofiice of Treasurer for a period of three months , until the next Quarterly Court in April , when the Treasurer for the ensuing year will be elected . A public announcement having been made in these columns that Bro . Sir FOIIN
MONCKTON wauld be nominated for the office , and had consented to accept it if elected , the Governors appear lo have taken it for granted that no opposition would be offered to the election of a brother so highly-respected by the Craft , and whose interest in the Institution had been manifested in so many ways . Indeed there were scarcely a dozen Governors or Subscribers
present when the election took place . The nomination of Bro . MARSHALL without the slightest notice being given of any opposition being offered to the return of Bro . Sir J MONCKTON was a surprise to many , and to none more so than to the House Committee , at whose invitation Bro . Sit * J MONCKTON had consented to allow himself to be put in nomination . We
believe we are correct in saying that Bro . MARSHALL was not a willing nominee in opposition to Sir J MONCKTON . A suggestion has been made , which we think a good one , that to guard against such a surprise in
future , the rules of the Institution should be amended by inserting a provision that notice of all intended nominations for the offices of Treasurer and Trustee , should be given at the General Committee preceding the Quarterly Court at which the election is to take place .
# THE proceedings in reference to the coming of age of the eldest son of our Royal GRAND MASTER are not only most gratifying in themselves , as a merited proof of the abiding loyalty of the English people , but suggest many pleasing thoughts and many edifying reflections . His Royal
Highness Prince EDWARD , who seems , happily , to have inherited the amiability and tact , and kindly and winning manners , the " don de plaire " of his august parents , thus starts on his career as an English citizen with every prospect of happiness , and every anticipation of success . The " spes surgentisTuli " was never more happily manifest , nor more duly come home to
the heart , sympathies , and emotions of Englishmen and Freemasons . To us he is a " Lewis , " with certain Masonic privileges attached to his high social rank , which may have for him one day both a meaning and a value . In the meanwhile , our entire Order audibly rejoices in the pleasant proceedings at Sandringham , and we are but expressing the sentiments of English
Masons , of Anglo-Saxon Masons everywhere , for in America and Canada , as in Great Britain , the same good feeling prevails , when we reiterate our sincere aspirations for the future happiness and career of this young and illustrious member of our Royal Family , and that his may indeed prove to be a bright and instructive career of usefulness , reality , and highest
meaning for the body politic , as well as for his own circle of nearest and dearest relatives . Emulating the greatness of his grandfather ' s noble efforts for the good of others , guided by the genial , sympathetic , and kindly utterances , and
practical good sense of his Royal father , may he give us as year follows year another proof—if proof be needed—how much , as a nation and individuals all , Freemasons not excluded , we owe to that Divine Providence which gave to our great nation the sovereign rule of the House of BRUNSWICK .
* # * THE proposed marriage of H . R . H . Princess BEATRICE will greatly accord with the good feelings and wishes of all ranks and conditions amongst us . Our good wishes , as a Craft , go with the granddaughter of our old Grand Master , and we trust that all happiness will attend the hymeneal voyage of the youthful and illustrious couple .
* * * WE have heard a whisper , though we cannot quite answer for its correctness , that H . R . H . Prince EDWARD , our royal " Lewis , " is shortly to be initialed into Freemasonry . We hope that Dame Rumour will turn out for once to be speaking the truth , as such a fact would be appreciated and gladl y
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hailed by the entire of Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry , and it would well accord with those enlightened views as regards our peaceful , loyal , and useful Order which have swayed two of the greatest reigning Houses of Europe ( great proofs of their far-seeing and foreseeing wisdom ) , namely , the Houses of HOHENZOLLERN and BRUNSWICK . The childish fear of and opposition
to Freemasonry in some countries still , if by some it may perhaps be too hastily assumed to be the outcome of bigotry and intolerance , may at any rate be fairly set down to unworthy apprehensions and a want of common sense . At the same time we say this , we are not insensible to the grave fact ofthe marked difference between foreign Freemasonry in ' some parts and our own loyal , and charitable , and neutral organization .
* * * WITH a new year we think it well to say a few words about Masonic literature . We quite enter into the fact of the great competition existing as to newspapers generally , and also to the grave consideration , as affecting any literary venture , that the Freemason appeals to a special class ,
and that Freemasonry is a speciality , and requires special and peculiar treatment . Some cynics have gone so far as to assert that brethren lake up a Masonic paper only to read their own speeches , and there is no doubt a great deal of vanity and egotism in the world . But , as we are not cynics , we take rather a better view of things , though it is a remarkable fact ,
explain it as you will , that , in America , as in England , there is the same cry of apathy and chilliness , the same difficulty ( with one or two bright exceptions ) of keeping up a prosperous Masonic journalism , and a serial Masonic literature . If it is said , as it sometimes is , Freemasons are too busy to care much beyond and outside the lodge , we venture to reply that
there is a good deal beyond and outside the . lodge which calls for attention and deserves consideration . The antiquities , thc philosophy , thc a ^ theticism of Freemasonry all deserve careful note and study ; and the strides that during the last few years have been made in Masonic archaeology are so striking , that they seem to point to ulterior results and further discoveries . of
The materialism and the machine ^ ' Freemasonry , though needful as a conservating power for the organization , as an organization , arc not the beall and the end-all of true Freemasonry . We want something more ,
farther , better . Masonic literature supplies that want , and , despite many tendencies to neglect or undervaluing , to callous disregard , or affected hostility , deserves , vve make bold to say , the zealous and steady support of all cultured and intelligent Craftsmen .
* * * SOME time ago it was stated in the Freemason by a Correspondent that a meeting of Grand Officers was held to consider the appointment of a Grand Treasurer . We doubted the fact at the time , and said so . We subsequently repeated our assurance of the entire mal-information of our
Correspondent , who , we believe , only repeated what he had heard and believed . As , however , the statement is constantly repeated , we are requested to state that it is in its origin and assertion pure fabrication , most unjust to the Grand Officers , and started only for party purposes of some kind , perhaps to gratify a mysterious cabal which affects to lead the Craft . Some of our readers may remember Bro . AYTOUN ' S amusing description of a clique .
WE are living at a time amid all classes , ( and Freemasonry is not exempt from such weakness also ) there is an impatience of the slower progress of the allotted and normal pathway of personal elevation , and " short cuts " are made and abnormal means are sought
after to obtain individual honours and social distinction of various kinds and forms in this or that Society , in this or that organization . But all bright Masons , all true lovers of our ancient Craft , know full well that it is in lodges of Instruction , and in lodges of Instruction alone , that we are best prepared to advance and to command in Freemasonry ,
best grounded in our venerable formularies , best taught our effective and time-honoured lore ! In our humble opinion , no brother should be called to high office in the Craft who is not an expert Mason , as taught in a lodge of instruction , and many a lesson , useful and valuable , can be learnt by the industrious and intent Freemason who listens to the happy and spontaneous
manner in which the best workers amongst us , —and many , happily there are now , —illustrate and enounce the real and great beauties of our system and our ceremonial . On the other hand , nothing is so painful lo the understanding Freemason as a parrot-like repetition of stereotyped phrases , or
that monotonous delivery of consecutive passages , without apparently a stop or a halt , without any evidence or sense of the beauties of diction hastily gabbled over , without even any manifest appreciation of the full meaning , of familiar words , so constantly uttered , and so unconsciously proclaimed . How important then it is in the best interests of our contera-