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Contents.
CONTENTS .
L EADERS 299 provincial Grand Lodge of Northants and Hunts 300 The Approaching Boys' School Festival 301 Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution 302 Review 30 s -. » II 1 W' 1 . . I 1 \ T- _ 1 . TIT- __ .. ..... prince Albert Victor and Mark 303
Masonry .., Opening of a New Masonic Hall at Northgate , Elland 303 Board of Benevolence 303 Masonic Charity in West Lancashire 303 The Masonic Female Orphan School , Dublin 303 Trans-atlantic Masonic Congratulations ... 303
CORRESPONDENCEMark Grand Lodge 305 Provincial Kalcndars 305 Reviews 305 Notes and Queries 305 REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 305 kjia ^ k iticiouui ^ .,..,. ¦•••• •••*••• >••••¦••• - ••••¦•»• Jv 3
Instruction 307 Royal Arch 30 S Knights Templar 308 Obituary 308 TheValueof Freemasonry 308 The Theatres 308 Masonic and General Tidings 309 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 310
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WE regret to hear that the number of Stewards for the Boys' School Festival is not yet up to the mark . We hope that a goodly gathering will yet manifest markedly how unchanging is the sympathy of the Craft for one of the most needful , most valuable , and most useful of our great Charitable Institutions . The education and care of the children of our deceased or
destitute brethren is a work and duty that must commend themselves to the mind of the philanthropic and genuine Freemason , in that , Freemasonry being a profession of friendship and goodwill to our Brotherhood , the children of those whom adversity has blighted , or death has smitten down , seem to constitute a lasting appeal to us , in respect of those Masonic virtues we
profess to admire , and promise to imitate . Of course , there are times and seasons for all things , and we somewhat doubt in our own minds whether these little exhortations of ours are not resented by some , who think they know their own duty , and are prepared to perform it to the best of their power and ability . Still , the Freemason has always been distinguished for its
sympathy with , and interest in , the great Charities of our Order , and has rejoiced to record and witness their remarkable advance and their striking developement . It is to-day , then , with every aspiration for success and with
every expression of goodwill , that it deems it to be its duty to press upon its readers the claims of the Boys' School , now in the highest position of efficiency and thoroughness , for their enlightened patronage , and their ready and active support .
* # * WHAT a wonderful fact it is often to realize the long array of years which have passed away since first we met in a Masonic lodge and formed those fraternal associations and welded together those friendlylinks of sympathy and good will , which , though Time with its changes and chances may have
somewhat affected and tinged them with its earthly colours , fadingand ephemeral , it has never been able to destroy , how many cases there are extant to-day as fresh , as living , as vigorous as ever . We can recall the hour when , with " bated breath " and wondering mind , we poor neophytes first saw the light of Masonry . We remember the kind old Master , smiling and serene ,
a long array of decorated P . Ms , and distinguished visitors , the Wardens cheery and communicative , the Deacons thoughtful and attentive , the impressive Inner Guard , the consolatory Tyler , and the ubiquitous Master of the Ceremonies , and last , not least , all those good brethren so friendly , so amiable , and so hilarious . Alas ! how since that hour the inevitable Fates ,
have dealt with all the " dramatis persona ; " of that not to be forgotten episode in our little life . If we visit that good old lodge to-day , how few survive who welcomed our entrance and cheered our progress . How many , alas ! "have joined the majority , " good men and true , kind mates and pleasant brethren , whom we could ill afford to lose , whom we sorely
miss , and whose genial presence , warm hearts , and kindly interest , no newer faces can replace , no younger members can restore . And yet why should we complain , when we know beforehand such is the inevitable lot of mortals all ? Everything changes here and passes on , and fades away . The friends , the homes , the happiness , the associations we pride ourselves the most upon ,
the very things which are nearest and dearest to our hearts , all that we call our own , everything , in short , of earthly tenure or possession , or companionship , has to give way to the ceaseless , the immutable law of our being , and endure for a little season only , and then pass out of sight , if not out of mind . No , we whojare gifted , in the good Providence of T . G . A . O . T . U ., with the
inestimable privileges of Freemasonry , and are subdued and softened , and enli ghtened by thosepleasanter recollections which shed their grace and beauty and elevating influences on our career , and on every Masonic mind , let us then cherish our Masonic memories , as linking us indissolubly , as Time comes and departs , with some of the best and kindest of men , and let us rejoice to
have been permitted to take friendly counsel together , to have shared the work , to have been admitted to the inner social circle of that good Old Lodge , which , still to the front , in a fresh old age , maintains its high repute , and is still a friendl y beacon for many wayfarers here , always ever foremost in the excellent outcome of Masonic loyalty , beneficence , work , and hospitality
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FIFTY years constitute a long spell of actual Masonic membership and work . We were reminded by an" old Masonic friend the other day of friendly work in a certain good town and province 50 years ago . We had to deny the soft impeachment . We admitted 40 , we could not subscribe to 50 . But our kindly correspondent could do so . He had met us hard at work
in Masonry ( alas how time flies ) in 1845 , he himself having being initiated in 1833 . He is still a member of his mother lodge , being a VV . M . of 1835 ' He was exalted in iS 34 , and for many years was the only member surviving or remaining of a chapter from 1851 to 1865 , and yet now that chapter has nearly 50 subscribing members . Such a Masonic career deserves noting
and remembrance . Our brother has , as he tells us , seen four Grand Masters and five Prov . Grand Masters . To him who has witnessed the earlier and rougher work of FVeemasonry , and now beholds its triumphant progress
and stately march , such facts as we have mentioned constitute a veiitable history , alike moving and affecting . All honour to the good old loyal brother who clung to his Order through evil report and good report , and may peace and prosperity gild and soothe his now declining years .
# THE London season of Masonic work and gathering is verging to its close . In a few weeks our lodges will be closed for the summer recess , and our brethren will be scattering or scattered far and wide . It is often affecting to note and realize how we meet contentedly for years , having
parted to meet happily again and again , and then part to meet no more . But the lodge goes on . Its work , its prestige , survive those who make it or have made it ; and it is , in truth , the " old , old story ; " it is "history repeating itself ; " how the " young succeed the old ;" and how no one is absolutely necessary for any work or post on eartVi ;
but that others are equally available to fill our places , as other men enter on our labours . There are those of us who sometimes are apt to think that nothing can get on well without them , and that without their amiable patronage or personal support , nothing can prosper , nothing can succeed . To them the peaceful triumphs and the well considered name of some
distinguished lodge or chapter are entirely owing , and without themselves they hardly like to fancy or fathom what must be its many drawbacks , its gentle dulness , or its sere decay . And yet all the while the lodge survives , even when some of its most favoured and distinguished members pass away . In this we have a good lesson
for us all . When NAPOLEON I . parted with BOURRIENNE , his well-known Secretary , he said " I can ' t have the world think you are absolutely necessary for me , and that I cannot get on without you . " And , humbling as the truth often is to our vanity or our egotism , while we are ourselves active and energetic and bustling , it is good for the lodge and for us all as
friends , associates , brethren , to realize , that when we do go , when the inevitable hour of separation comes , we are not after all indispensable to the lodge , others take up the work where we left it , and if , the truth be told , often carry it on and complete it better than we accomplished it , or could have done . With these mingled feelings
let us bid good bye to another pleasant season of labour and sociality coming to a close , and let us look back pleasantly in after time to the " seria mista jocis , " to the pleasant assemblies of the kindly , the cultured , and the agreeable , to the warm hearts we have so long companioned with here , but
some of whom , humanly speaking , we may not be destined to greet again , when another season opens of work and friendship , and when our Domus returns to its yearly cycle of Charity , ceremonial , and hearty welcome to all who take part in its labours , or share its social outcome .
* # * . WE recently announced that the consecration of the Cama Lodge was fixed for Monday , the 15 th inst . Further arrangements , however , have necessitated a change , and the actual date has yet to be settled .
* » OUR attention has been drawn by Bro . J . TYDEMAN , P . M . 1327 , 1437 , P . P . G . P . Essex , to a scheme for the restoration of Queen Eleanor's Cross , at Waltham Cross . The cost , including purchase of adjacent property , so as to make the Cross still more conspicuous , is estimated at about
£ 3000 , and Bro . TYDEMAN ' S suggestion is that every lodge should contribute a guinea from its funds to assist in restoring and preserving what he rightly describes as a " national monument . " Bro . TYDEMAN grounds his proposition , firstly , on the great interest which our Craft has in all ages
taken in Operative Masonry , and also on the fact that Queen Eleanor was the mother of the first Prince of WALES , heir apparent to the British Crown . The proposition is an excellent one , and we have much pleasure in drawing to it the attention of our readers .
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Contents.
CONTENTS .
L EADERS 299 provincial Grand Lodge of Northants and Hunts 300 The Approaching Boys' School Festival 301 Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution 302 Review 30 s -. » II 1 W' 1 . . I 1 \ T- _ 1 . TIT- __ .. ..... prince Albert Victor and Mark 303
Masonry .., Opening of a New Masonic Hall at Northgate , Elland 303 Board of Benevolence 303 Masonic Charity in West Lancashire 303 The Masonic Female Orphan School , Dublin 303 Trans-atlantic Masonic Congratulations ... 303
CORRESPONDENCEMark Grand Lodge 305 Provincial Kalcndars 305 Reviews 305 Notes and Queries 305 REPORTS OF MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 305 kjia ^ k iticiouui ^ .,..,. ¦•••• •••*••• >••••¦••• - ••••¦•»• Jv 3
Instruction 307 Royal Arch 30 S Knights Templar 308 Obituary 308 TheValueof Freemasonry 308 The Theatres 308 Masonic and General Tidings 309 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 310
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WE regret to hear that the number of Stewards for the Boys' School Festival is not yet up to the mark . We hope that a goodly gathering will yet manifest markedly how unchanging is the sympathy of the Craft for one of the most needful , most valuable , and most useful of our great Charitable Institutions . The education and care of the children of our deceased or
destitute brethren is a work and duty that must commend themselves to the mind of the philanthropic and genuine Freemason , in that , Freemasonry being a profession of friendship and goodwill to our Brotherhood , the children of those whom adversity has blighted , or death has smitten down , seem to constitute a lasting appeal to us , in respect of those Masonic virtues we
profess to admire , and promise to imitate . Of course , there are times and seasons for all things , and we somewhat doubt in our own minds whether these little exhortations of ours are not resented by some , who think they know their own duty , and are prepared to perform it to the best of their power and ability . Still , the Freemason has always been distinguished for its
sympathy with , and interest in , the great Charities of our Order , and has rejoiced to record and witness their remarkable advance and their striking developement . It is to-day , then , with every aspiration for success and with
every expression of goodwill , that it deems it to be its duty to press upon its readers the claims of the Boys' School , now in the highest position of efficiency and thoroughness , for their enlightened patronage , and their ready and active support .
* # * WHAT a wonderful fact it is often to realize the long array of years which have passed away since first we met in a Masonic lodge and formed those fraternal associations and welded together those friendlylinks of sympathy and good will , which , though Time with its changes and chances may have
somewhat affected and tinged them with its earthly colours , fadingand ephemeral , it has never been able to destroy , how many cases there are extant to-day as fresh , as living , as vigorous as ever . We can recall the hour when , with " bated breath " and wondering mind , we poor neophytes first saw the light of Masonry . We remember the kind old Master , smiling and serene ,
a long array of decorated P . Ms , and distinguished visitors , the Wardens cheery and communicative , the Deacons thoughtful and attentive , the impressive Inner Guard , the consolatory Tyler , and the ubiquitous Master of the Ceremonies , and last , not least , all those good brethren so friendly , so amiable , and so hilarious . Alas ! how since that hour the inevitable Fates ,
have dealt with all the " dramatis persona ; " of that not to be forgotten episode in our little life . If we visit that good old lodge to-day , how few survive who welcomed our entrance and cheered our progress . How many , alas ! "have joined the majority , " good men and true , kind mates and pleasant brethren , whom we could ill afford to lose , whom we sorely
miss , and whose genial presence , warm hearts , and kindly interest , no newer faces can replace , no younger members can restore . And yet why should we complain , when we know beforehand such is the inevitable lot of mortals all ? Everything changes here and passes on , and fades away . The friends , the homes , the happiness , the associations we pride ourselves the most upon ,
the very things which are nearest and dearest to our hearts , all that we call our own , everything , in short , of earthly tenure or possession , or companionship , has to give way to the ceaseless , the immutable law of our being , and endure for a little season only , and then pass out of sight , if not out of mind . No , we whojare gifted , in the good Providence of T . G . A . O . T . U ., with the
inestimable privileges of Freemasonry , and are subdued and softened , and enli ghtened by thosepleasanter recollections which shed their grace and beauty and elevating influences on our career , and on every Masonic mind , let us then cherish our Masonic memories , as linking us indissolubly , as Time comes and departs , with some of the best and kindest of men , and let us rejoice to
have been permitted to take friendly counsel together , to have shared the work , to have been admitted to the inner social circle of that good Old Lodge , which , still to the front , in a fresh old age , maintains its high repute , and is still a friendl y beacon for many wayfarers here , always ever foremost in the excellent outcome of Masonic loyalty , beneficence , work , and hospitality
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FIFTY years constitute a long spell of actual Masonic membership and work . We were reminded by an" old Masonic friend the other day of friendly work in a certain good town and province 50 years ago . We had to deny the soft impeachment . We admitted 40 , we could not subscribe to 50 . But our kindly correspondent could do so . He had met us hard at work
in Masonry ( alas how time flies ) in 1845 , he himself having being initiated in 1833 . He is still a member of his mother lodge , being a VV . M . of 1835 ' He was exalted in iS 34 , and for many years was the only member surviving or remaining of a chapter from 1851 to 1865 , and yet now that chapter has nearly 50 subscribing members . Such a Masonic career deserves noting
and remembrance . Our brother has , as he tells us , seen four Grand Masters and five Prov . Grand Masters . To him who has witnessed the earlier and rougher work of FVeemasonry , and now beholds its triumphant progress
and stately march , such facts as we have mentioned constitute a veiitable history , alike moving and affecting . All honour to the good old loyal brother who clung to his Order through evil report and good report , and may peace and prosperity gild and soothe his now declining years .
# THE London season of Masonic work and gathering is verging to its close . In a few weeks our lodges will be closed for the summer recess , and our brethren will be scattering or scattered far and wide . It is often affecting to note and realize how we meet contentedly for years , having
parted to meet happily again and again , and then part to meet no more . But the lodge goes on . Its work , its prestige , survive those who make it or have made it ; and it is , in truth , the " old , old story ; " it is "history repeating itself ; " how the " young succeed the old ;" and how no one is absolutely necessary for any work or post on eartVi ;
but that others are equally available to fill our places , as other men enter on our labours . There are those of us who sometimes are apt to think that nothing can get on well without them , and that without their amiable patronage or personal support , nothing can prosper , nothing can succeed . To them the peaceful triumphs and the well considered name of some
distinguished lodge or chapter are entirely owing , and without themselves they hardly like to fancy or fathom what must be its many drawbacks , its gentle dulness , or its sere decay . And yet all the while the lodge survives , even when some of its most favoured and distinguished members pass away . In this we have a good lesson
for us all . When NAPOLEON I . parted with BOURRIENNE , his well-known Secretary , he said " I can ' t have the world think you are absolutely necessary for me , and that I cannot get on without you . " And , humbling as the truth often is to our vanity or our egotism , while we are ourselves active and energetic and bustling , it is good for the lodge and for us all as
friends , associates , brethren , to realize , that when we do go , when the inevitable hour of separation comes , we are not after all indispensable to the lodge , others take up the work where we left it , and if , the truth be told , often carry it on and complete it better than we accomplished it , or could have done . With these mingled feelings
let us bid good bye to another pleasant season of labour and sociality coming to a close , and let us look back pleasantly in after time to the " seria mista jocis , " to the pleasant assemblies of the kindly , the cultured , and the agreeable , to the warm hearts we have so long companioned with here , but
some of whom , humanly speaking , we may not be destined to greet again , when another season opens of work and friendship , and when our Domus returns to its yearly cycle of Charity , ceremonial , and hearty welcome to all who take part in its labours , or share its social outcome .
* # * . WE recently announced that the consecration of the Cama Lodge was fixed for Monday , the 15 th inst . Further arrangements , however , have necessitated a change , and the actual date has yet to be settled .
* » OUR attention has been drawn by Bro . J . TYDEMAN , P . M . 1327 , 1437 , P . P . G . P . Essex , to a scheme for the restoration of Queen Eleanor's Cross , at Waltham Cross . The cost , including purchase of adjacent property , so as to make the Cross still more conspicuous , is estimated at about
£ 3000 , and Bro . TYDEMAN ' S suggestion is that every lodge should contribute a guinea from its funds to assist in restoring and preserving what he rightly describes as a " national monument . " Bro . TYDEMAN grounds his proposition , firstly , on the great interest which our Craft has in all ages
taken in Operative Masonry , and also on the fact that Queen Eleanor was the mother of the first Prince of WALES , heir apparent to the British Crown . The proposition is an excellent one , and we have much pleasure in drawing to it the attention of our readers .