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119-Fvl-1881-11-26-001-Single CONTENTS. GENERAL P URPOSES Lady M ONCKTON, Mrs. LANGTRY, and other able performers, have been acting, and most successfully, in the cause of charity LEADERS S3* CORRESPONDENC E— of Benevolence $32 The Province of Cheshire and the Charities £36 at Twickenham. ^- Lodge The Performance of Ceremonies by Others ^ Royal Masonic Institution for Girls £32 than Dulv Installed Masters in the THERE has been a sort of idea afloat that the world was to come to an end in Marriage of Bro. H.R.H. Prince Leopold ... £32 Chair .' $36 ' iSSr , though some say 1S82. In "Knowledge," a new scientific paper provincial Grand Chapter of Somerset 533 A Query~ 537 Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of North and Prov. Gra.nd Lodge Somerset and 41, Bath 537 edited by the well known astronomer, Mr. A. PROCTER , and published by East Yorkshire $33 Reviews 537 Consecration of the Temple Chapter, No. Masonic Notes and Queries 537 Bro. C. W YMAN , some amusing reasons are given. One is an old $18, at Folkestone 533 R F.I'- IRTS OF M ASONIC : M EETINGS — prophecy of " Mother Shipton j " another is, that as the ascending gallery Consecration of the Alexander Chapter, No. Craft Masonry $38 1661, at Newark-on-Trent 534 Instruction ..'. 542 of the great pyramid is 1S82 inches long, therefore the year of grace 1882 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls 534 Royal Arch 543 Mark Masonry was to introduce a new era ! Our friend Bro. R OWBOTTOM will repudiate, Watling Street Lodge of Mark Master ^ S43 Masons, No. 292 534 Ancient and Accepted Rite 543 we fancy, any such absurd theory ; and without being presumptuous of Obituary 53a Rosicrucian Society 543 Victoria S3s Daring Burglarv at Bro. Sir \V. \V. Barren's, aspiring to belong to the " school of the prophets," we think we are ourselves Amusements S3s P.G.M. Sussex ;.. 543 Brighton <3s Masonic and General Tidings 544 warranted in expressing our belief that as of old, the " end is not yet." Master Bakers' Protection Societv .'. Ws Lodge Meetings for Next Week ni. One day no doubt the " valley of dry bones " will be revivified , and the "harvest of the world " will be ripe. But until that great day, of " which Craft in T HE whole of our world-wide Fraternity, as well as the " gentle , no one knoweth, arrives, in the inscrutable providence of T.G.A.O.T.U. it Great Britain , will receive the news of the approaching marriage of Bro. is our duty to " work " in our several callings and lots in life, essaying to EOPOLD with the H.R.H. the Duke of A LBANY, better known as Prince L , carry out into practice the reality of the angels' song, which still includes His brethren in utmost and unanimous feelings of loyal gratification. " the whole chain of moral duty and religious responsibility, " Glory to God" , and listened to his genial and Masonry " have followed his public career and "Peace and Love to Man." # able speeches on artistic and educational matters with pride and pleasure, and for his fair bride and for himself they do, as one great Brotherhood , THE perpetrators of the robbery of diamonds at Hatton Garden Post Office united in goodwill and sympathy, heartily seek to express, we know, in the are as yet undiscovered. Certainly we are a strange people ! We have a pages of the Freemason to-day, their deep, sincere, and heartfelt aspirations happy knack of always " being wise," as the French say " apres coup," and for all that earthly happiness and prosperity which, under the overruling of attempting to perform that remarkable undertaking of " shutting the stable hand and providence of T.G.A.O.T.U., it is wise and befitting for them door when the steed is stolen." That post bags of such great value should be left in an easily accessible place, without guard but five fully-occupied women, to desiderate and hope. * * * is one of those things which a " fellar can 't understand." But so it is, and so has sustained W E regret to note the great loss West Yorkshire Freemasonry it was, and we can only hope, though we confess we gravely doubt the fulfil- by the premature death of Bro. H ENRY D AY, whose " obituary " we give ment of our aspirations, that " something may be done." We entirely dis- y a friendl y correspondent. Bro. with much regret elsewhere, as sent to us b believe the easy and habitual theory of a " put up," and we think it rather D AY was one of those earnest and true-hearted Masons who formed part of dirty immediately to say it all arises from " employing women." In all that band of Yorkshire brethren of yore, now, alas ! sadly reduced in num- probability it is only another developement of the " fence system," as, of bers, who set to work manfull y some years back to exemplif y the true spirit course, the thieves must have firs t of all known their " locale," and then He was always read of Freemasonry in good work- for its grea t Charities. y have the means of obtaining " money dowii " lov their " venture," in this to help; genial, kind, considerate ; and his cheerful countenance and friendl y case so far, unhappily, successful " prima facie." words will long be remembered by those who knew him , and worked with him, and loved him. He had been a Steward at sixteen festivals. W E cannot say that the aspect of our normal literature is either reassuring * * or edifying. We hard ly take up a professed society journal without noting M ANY of our readers will see with pleasure elsewhere that Bro. OSHUA J how a love of gossip, scurrility, inuendo, defamation of character, seems to N UNN, who has recently resigned the Vice-Consulship of the United States, tickle the palate and suit the idiosyncrasies of many unreflecting readers. has been presented with the handsome testimonial of 1500 guineas, as the We fear that t,his evil of " polite and untruthful slander " is greatl increas- token of approval from those with whom he was daily brought into contact y ing amongst us. * in matters of arduous and important business. Bro. J OSHUA N UNN 'S ser- vices to Freemasonry arc too well known to need mention in our columns. WE think that Mrs. SURR deserves the thanks of all who are interested in the welfare and progress of our industrial schools, for her courageous * * A WRITER in the Building Ncivs, who signs himself " Veritas?" thus and consistent exposure of hideous abuses and cowardly cruelties inflicted "iligantly discoorscs " on a recent little controversy between the Freemason on friendless, defenceless, helpless children . All Freemasons will applaud and its enlightened and suave contemporary, the Saturday Review, " I have her efforts, and sympathize with her in her performance of " duty." read both the article on page 439, and the letter of ' Knight Templar,' on * ** page 509; but though the latter proves the writer has a warm heart to the LORD Chief Justice COLERIDGE'S remarks in the case of SCOTT V . SAMPSON ' Order,' the historical knowledge he shows is scarcely so creditable to him. will commend themselves to most of our readers, and though severe and If he had read much about the history of Freemasonry he would have sarcastic, no doubt, yet seem to us perfectly well founded and true in " text known that many students of history have asserted that what has been and context." Perhaps his words may have some effect in checking that known for the last century and a hal f as Freemasonry, ' was invented and increasing "hbertinage " of the Press, which we daily note with regret, in established in , or about, 1717. ' The fact that Freemasons adopted old the undermining of private reputation , the destruction of personal character, Masonic signs, tools, and emblems is no proof that Freemasonry itself is the promulgation of idle tittle-tattle, and the developement of a spirit of old, and I hard ly think W OODI'ORD and W HYTEHEAD arc the most reliable slander which afford apparently such a " pabulum " of pleasure just now for Freemasonic writers. W. J. H UGHAN in England, FINDEL in Germany, the childish , the empty-headed , and the low-minded. and D. M URRAY LYON in Scotland, are all authors of higher repute; the * * latter is the Grand Secretary for Scotland, and both he and H UGHAN —an O UR worthy and distinguished brother, the LORD MAYOR, presided most officer in the Grand Lodge of England—coincide in asserting that there was appropriately at the giving of prizes to the metropolitan drawing classes no Freemasonic system of Three Degrees until about 1717, nor any Grand in the Guildhall, on Tuesday last. Wc venture to think that his observa- Master until the same year. Then a good while after that, viz,, towards the tions are both most judicious and seasonable. end of last century, Masonic Knights Templars, and other high-sounding Degrees sprang up. The adoption of a similarity in nomenclature does not T HE old controversy of the Warden and the P.M., as regards Masonic involve historical or hereditary relationshi p." Probabl Bros. W HYTE- y ceremonial, is again before our readers . Bro. CHADWICK, the able Prov. HEAD and W OODFORD will take the criticism of " VERITAS,"—appropriate, G.S. for East Lancashire, brings forward an opinion of the late Bro. H ERVEY happy pseudonym and may remark, as has not been unfrc- ,—very easily, as against one of our esteemed G RAND REGISTRA R . In our opinion, it all quentl y remarked under similar circumstances before, " what a pity that turns, upon what meaning is to be given " to rule the lodge," page , s.
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