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Conten Ts. Leaders CONTEN TS. to his District G. Lodge at its half-yearl y communication in LEADERS — PAGH March last. At that meeting the report of the District Board of Freemasonry in Natal ... ... ... ••• •¦• 421 Secret Societies in America ... ... ¦•• ••• ••• 421 Genera l Purposes contained the following paragraph : Grand Lodge of Canada ... ... ••¦ ••• ••• 422 Carefu l consideration has been given to the suggestions of the R.W. New Schools at Radcliffe Hall , Lancashire ... ... ... ... 424 District Grand Master as tc the creation of a fund for the relief , in neces - ... 24 Mark Masonry... ... ... ••• ••• ••• 4 sitous cases , of deserving aged and indi gent Freemasons or of their widows , M ASONIC NOTES — if need be. The Board recommends as a suitable means of celebrating, Masonic Veteran Association of Illinois and Diamond J ub ilee Address to Masonically, the 60th year of H ER M AJESTY ' S rei gn , that such a fund the Queen ... ... ... ••• ¦¦• ••• 427 Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Ma ryland ... ... 427 should be established for the relief of aged and indigent Freemasons (or of Grand Lodge of Ncrth Ca rolina ... ... •¦• • • 427 the widows of such Masons) who have been long contributing members of Reviews ... ... ... ... ... — ••• 42$ Lodges in this District , and have been uniforml y in good repute ; and the District Grand Lodge of Northern China (E.C.)... ... ... ... 42§ Board suggest s that a Committee be elected by the District Grand Lodge The Era Lodge and the Albert Hall Meeting ... .., ... ... 429 Royal Arch ... ... ... ... ... ... ••• 429 at this Communication , to acquire information , and to formulate a scheme Roya l Masonic Institution for Boys ... ... ... ... 429 for the establishment and administration of such fund , and to report at the 430 Poetry—The Gift ... ... ... ... ... ... next Half-yearl y Communication of District Grand Lodge. Freemasonry in Scotland ... ... ... ... ... 43° General Committee of Grand Lodge and Board of Benevolence ... ... 430 In his address, Bro. W ESLEY FRANCIS spoke cordially in The Craft Abroad ... ... ... ... 430 Craft Masonrv ... ... ... ... ... ... 430 favour of this proposal. He pointed out that the existing Fund Masonry 's Influence ... ... ... ... ... .:. 43' of Benevolence was sufficient to meet the purpose for which it Obituary ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 43" Lod ge of Instruction ... ... ... ... ... ... 43 l was established. The new scheme, however, which is a purely Secret Monitor ... ... ... ... ... ... 43 1 M asonic and General Tidings ... ... ... — ••• 432 voluntary one, is intended " as a means of providing in days to come for the maintenance of aged Freemasons, who, having borne the heat and burden of the day, in their old age require FREEMASONRY IN NATAL. some substantial aid in contradistinction to the casual aid granted from our existing Benevolent Fund." In short it is It is immensely gratif ying to note that in the great majority , proposed to establish a Fund which shall accomp lish what is of cases, whenever a body of Masons, or several bodies, have combined together for the purpose of celebrating, in an especial done by our Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution. The recom- manner, the completion of the 60th year of her Majesty's mendation was accepted , and the District Board of General accession to the throne of the United Kingdom , the plan Purposes was appointed a Committee, with power to add to adopted has been either to contribute to some charitable in- their number, to acquire information and formulate plans for stitution already established, or the establishment of such an the establishment of the Fund. The advice which the District institution , either for the temporary or permanent alleviation Grand Master tendered to the District Grand Lodge was sound , of distress. At home, our Grand Lodge, as representing the and we trust it will be acted upon. He warned lodges against the exhibition of any feelings of jealousy rivalry. whole English Masonic community, has given some £15,000, of or " It which upwards of one-third has been handed over to the Prince should be," he said, " the pride of the lodges to endeavour to ive as liberally as possible each in accordance with the means of WALES'S Hospital Fund, and the balance among the g , Central Masonic Institutions. In many of the Provinces an at its disposal. The keynote of our Order is to do good , not to extra amount of zeal and energy has been exhibited in behalf of receive it, on the princi ple that it is ' more blessed to give than the local Masonic Educational and Benevolent Associations, to receive,' and I trust that whatever is done will be done with while many sums have been contributed to local, but non- good will , in good sp irit , and with good feeling." VVe need Masomc, Charitable objects. In the ,Masonic Districts hardly add that the proposal, like all other proposals of a similar holding under the Grand Lodge of England , which are character , has our heartiest good wishes for its success , and wa scattered throughout the British Empire, as well as in the trust that before the present year has run its course, the Natal jurisdictions of the several Grand Lodges which are independent Fund for A ged and Distressed Masons and their Widows will of our Grand Lodge, the same course has been pursued , be an accomp lished fact. and whenever it has been decided to commemorate, in an excep- tional manner, the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, there invariably has SECRET SOCIETIES IN AMERICA the commemoration assumed a charitable form . Here, an Educa- . tional Fund, already established, has been greatly strengthened There is a highly interesting article on this subject by Bro. and extended, there such a fund has been started. Here it is W. S. H ARWOOD , which has been reprinted , by special permis- a Benevolent Fund which has been extended , there it is a sion , from the North American Review for May last , and which Benevolent Fund or an Educational and Benevolent Fund which forms part of A ppendix B to the report of the Proceedings of has been inaugurated. Elsewhere we read of the endowment of the Grand Lodge of Iowa at its 54th annual Communication at Victoria cots in Children 's Hospitals, or contributions towards Oskaloosa on the ist June and two following days. From this the erection and endowment of Victoria Hospitals or Victoria it appears that in December, 1896, " the membershi p of the Wings to Hosp itals already existing. At no previous epoch in Secret fraternal Orders of the United States " amounted , " in the history of Freemasonry has our respect for the loyalty and round numbers, to 5,400,000, exclusive of the " many thousands charity which are the fundamental princi ples of the ' Craft been who are members of the labour organisations , though they, to a so universally and at the same time so generousl y exhibited. greater or less extent , are knit together by secret threads," nor Under the District Grand Lodge of Natal the same feeling pre- about half a million members of the " secret military Orders, as vails that something of a permanent Charitable character should the G.A.R. ; " nor has any account been taken of the many other be started in commemoration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. thousands who are identified with the fraternities of the col- In our " Notes " of last week , we briefl y noticed certain of the leges." It follows that, taking the present adult population at remarks addressed by Bro. WESLEY FRANCIS , District G. Master , 19 millions , and allowing that many of the above 5,400,000 are members of more than one Society, " every fifth , or, possibly, fact that extreme care is taken to admit as members of our every eighth , man you meet is identified with some I ralernal lod ges only men of character and in reputable circumstances. organisalisn , for the preservation of whose secrets he has given There, are lod ges which arc not as careful as they mi ght be in a solemn oath , a pled ge more binding in its nature, than perhaps this respect—the advice constantl y, given by Consecrating any other known among men." Oilicers to new lodges, and by Provincial Grand Masters and On turning to the Table which presents a list of these others to lod ges generally, is evidence of this—but the cases organisations, with the number of members belonging to each , are exceeding l y rare in which a man of acknowledged bad we lind quite a formidable array of these Orders , ranging from rliaracler is accepted as a candidate for initiation into one of our that of the Freemasons dow n to Roman Catholic and lodges. Jewish Societies, the princi pal being the Masonic Order , which , But this " element of selection ," as Bro. HARWOOD describes including the coloured Masons and certain Kni ghts of Malta , it , is very far f rom being the only merit pertaining to such a &c , musters close upon a million ; the Oddfellows , Society as ours and thc others which are enumerated in this white and coloured , some; 040, 000 ; Foresters, of various organ- article. It must not be forgotten that there is " a demand upon isations, some 28 7,000 ; "'Improved Order of Red Men , these millions of oath-bound men in our land "—a demand lhat 165, 000 ; Kni ghts of Pythias , 475,000 ; " Ancient Order United is imperative upon their conscience—that they acknowledge " a Workmen , " 361 ,000 ; " Koyal Arcanum." 1.So,,000 ; " Modern Supreme Being as ruler over all ," and , further , that they should Woodmen of America , " .204,000 ; Independent Order of Good exhibit a " positive, unequivocal , and constant reverence for the Templars, 2S 1 ,000 ; " Knights of the Maccabees , " 24^5,000 ; Scriptures." No " test of religious belief is exacted ," but Bro. " Kni ghts of Honour , " 118 , 000 ; and " Kni ghts and Ladies HARWOOD considers it no more than just " both to those who of Honour," 85,000.
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