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R.M.I. Boys Scholarship Fund.

R . M . I . BOYS SCHOLARSHIP FUND .

A GENEEAL Meeting of the Subscribers to this Fund was held on Friday , 30 fch ult ., at Freemasons' Hall , London , Bro . George Everett P . G . Treas . and Vice-Patron of Institution in the chair . There were present Bros . Sir John Monckton , G . E . Fairchild , W . A . Scurrah , Dr . Mickley , Dr . W . H . Kempster ,

J . F . Haden , W . Eussell , Dick E . Kadclyffe , Thomson Lyon , J . G . Miioourn , Eev . H . A . Hebb , H . A . Tobias , J . W . Burgess , E . Margrett , J . W . Gieve , P . Eavenscroft , S . Cochrane , J . H . Whadcoat , C . Pulman , P . O'Doherty ( Old Masonian ) , John Strachan , and J . M . McLeod .

Bro . Eavenscroft submitted his report on the Audit , from which it appeared the total amount promised to date was £ 1 , 6546 12 s , of which £ 95 12 s was unpaid , but in course of collection , and that the expenditure , for printing and stationery , advertisements , postages , and clerical assistance , had amounted to £ 57 8 s 2 d .

The report was unanimously adopted , and Bro . John Strachan , for the Executive Committee , submitted and explained the regulations which had been formulated after much care and thought on the part of those constituting the Committee . The regulations were severally put to the meeting , and carried with a few minor alterations .

It was unanimously resolved to invite Earl Amherst Dep . G . M ., Sir John Monckton P . G . W ., and Chas . E . Keyser Esq . P . G . D ., to become Trustees of the Fund . Bros . J . M . McLeod and John Strachan were appointed the Honorary Secretary and the Honorary Treasurer respectively .

Bros . Eve , Everett , F . Richardson , G . E . Fairchild , John Glass , W . Eussell , D . E . Eadclyife , J . H . Whadcoat , and Walter Martin , with Mr . E . S . Chandler ( Old Masonian ) were elected as

the Board of Governors of the Fund , and power was given to them to decide upon what securities the Fund should be invested in . Bro . Percy Eavenscroft , A . C . A ., was appointed Honorary

Auditor . Votes of thanks to the Officers who had worked up the Fund and to the Chairman of the meeting closed the proceedings .

English Freemasonry.

ENGLISH FREEMASONRY .

THE following letter appeared in a recent issue of our contemporary , the " Tablet : " SIB , —I quite agree with your correspondent " Mr . Norbert Jones , G . R . L ., of Sianaouth . " His view as a Catnolic , without , as I presume , any practical experience of English Freemasonry , is exactly what mine would be , had I never Deen an English Freemason . But mine is modified by practical experience . As I have aiready mentioned , while still a Protestant , I became

a Freemason before I was cwenty-one , by " dispensation , " at Cambridge . Our Master , the Rev . Mr . Ward , of St . John ' s , kind , most amiable , genial , an excellent musician ( " and of such is the kingdom of heaven , " to quote the well-known epitaph ) , instructed me and others in Masonry before we joined the Lodge . He was a High Churchman , as High Churchmanship was understood in those days , and as such 1 am quite convinced he would never have encouraged us youngsters to become Masons had he personally seen the slightest harm in it .

Subsequently , years after , he ceased from active participation in Masonry , and I rather fancy , though I do not pretend to know , he did so from purely religious motives . I infer that in the latter portion of his life he would nob have recommended any one to become a Mason . The work from which Mr . Jones quotes may be regarded as giving a correct account of all grades in Masonry up to and inclusive of the Master ' s Degree . Beyond this I cannot speak from personal experience . I remember how carefully our Master , Ward , impressed on us that " nothing would be

required of us incompatible with our civil , moral , or religious duties . " Therefore , decidedly unpleasant as sounds the penal portion of the Masonic Obligation , correctly quoted by Mr . Jones , we were able to take the oath , feeling sure on the authority of our friend , the Master of the Lodge , a High Church clergyman of the University , that Masonry , according to the instruction given to the candidate " is founded on the purest principles of p iety and vhtue . " .... "Vows of fidelity are required ; but let me assure you that in these vows there is nothing incompatible with your civil , moral , or religious duties . "

I feel certain that the majority of English Masons read their oath in the light of this safeguard . To many excellent English Masons Freemasonry is a genial form of religion : to some it is socially and politically useful , it is patronised by H . R . H . the Prince of Wales , and . that is , to not a few , a great attraction and a strong recommendation . Catholics , of course , can but hold one opinion as to Deistic Secret Societies , or indeed as to any Secret Societies altogether condemned by the Church . I am now speaking of myself when a Protestant , among Protestants , just on forty years ago . F . C . B .