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Our Responsibilities.
OUR RESPONSIBILITIES .
An Address bt / Bro . Ven . Archdeacon Gaul , Chaplain , of thc Cosmopolitan Lodge .
BEETHREN , —The customary congratulations offered to him who has been raised to the high privilege and responsibility of Worshipful Master of this Lodge have to mo , this evening , a peculiar force . Our brother , whom your suffrages have placed in yon exalted chair , has
been my immediate senior officer during the past year , I will only say that though undoubtedly hois honoured by his exaltation , yet he himself reflects , by his natural Avorth and his zeal for the highest and final objects of Masonry , almost equal honour upon the chair itself .
And this , at once , gives me the text for my address this evening , which necessarily must be short . Masonry is often mistaken either as being a religion or as a mere Benefit Society , or even as a Social Club . Doubtless it has its highest sanction to draw its deepest
truths from Natural and Revealed religion—undoubtedly a true Mason's heart is responsive to every cry for help , and every true Mason rejoices in sharing with his brethren those social joys which are based on the sacred duty of friendship and hospitality . Bnt , for a man to put Masonry
in the place of Religion , or to join it or uso it simply for what he gets from it , or to resolve his Lodge into a mere club , is to turn the source into the stream , to put cause for effect , or , again , to turn back the end into the means . In that volume of the Sacred Law , which is open to all
our meetings , is a witness to us that whether we be Jew or Christian we acknowledge and are bound to uphold the fundamental truth of Revealed Religion—a Personal God —and as a necessary consequence Ave implicitly acknowledge our responsibilities to those revealed laws of life
and worship , which , whether as Jew or Christian , we have received . The posture of the daily supplication which Masonry takes for granted is to remind us of a brother ' s wants , and we acknowledge in Lodge that the law of love demands intervals of social recreation . We adjourn from
labour to refreshment , not because recreation is an end , but in order that we may return with joy and vigour from refreshment to labour . And in the same way onr signs , passwords , and illustrations are none of them mere mechanical forms , used to represent some mystery which is
a myth , or some nostrum Avhich is nothing , but each of them to a true Mason is as a wayside parable , instinct with some final truth meant to germinate and grow up into the life , and indeed become the life . The maxims and symbols of Masonry aro witnesses to every true Mason of his daily
privileges and responsibilities as a man , a friend , and a responsible moral being . They are not the duties themselves , but they claim from our intellects attention , from our will action ,-and from our hearts devotion to those duties we owe to God , our neighbours and ourselves . To
illustrate exactly what I mean—the Psalms of the Great prophet King of Israel—can be to us if we choose only like the music which we can strike from a harp dropped from a dead man's hand , or they may be the eternal music itself , telling us day by day the same old story , with infinite
pathos , of human aspiration , human sympathy and human responsibility . So our Ritual , our maxims of morality , and our symbols are to all true Masons mystic voices echoing through the ages and whispering through earth ' s daily din the Eternal claims of ReligionBrotherhood , and
, true Manhood . Put the symbol for the realit y and Masonry deserves to die—must die . Illustrate the reality by the symbols in our Lodges , and to ourselves in daily life , and
Masonry , claiming to be neither the Author nor Director of Reli gion or Morality , but being the Guardian or Exemplar ^ of both , will prove itself worthy of its immemorial ori gin b y its fruits . —The South African Freemason .
EXCITING SCENE AT TEIGNMOUTH . —A gentleman named Woodnut PMI ^? cause on Thursday , 31 st ulfc ., fco be thankfnl thafc " Beecham ' s rills" Advertising boat was exhibited off Teignmonth Pier , or he would in all probability have now been where the pills are not yet vertised . He had ventured out too farbecome exhaustedand
, , wonld have been drowned had nofc boatman George Hook , who always cas his "Try Beecham ' s Pills" sails set , happened to be in the icinit y , and went to tho rescue . Great excitement was caused
among the visitors on the pier , as when the boat reached the drowng man he was jnsfc sinking . His weight almost pulled the boatman ae ° f ^ ' ^ ^ k ° wa 8 * ' mniinent danger of being knocked fn ^ L 1 P iUars of the pier , which was nofc a desirable contingency to thePeer ofthePillera .
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THEFREEMASON'SCHRONICLE, A Weekly Record of Masonic Intelligence . ¦ Reports of United Grand Lodge are published with tho Special Sanction of H . R . H . tho Prince of Wales the M . W . tho Grand Master of England . THE FREEMASON'S CHRONICLE will be forwarded direct from the Office , Belvidere Works , Hermes Hill , Pentonville , N ., on receipt of Post Office Order for the amount . Intending Subscribers shonld forward their full Addresses , to prevent mistakes . Post Office Orders to be made payable to W . W . MORGAN , at Ponton Street Office . Cheques crossed " London and County . " The Terms of Subscription ( payable in advance ) to THE FREEMASON ' S CHBONICIIE are—Twelve Monfchs , post free £ 0 13 6 Six Months ditto 0 7 0 Three Monfchs ditto 0 3 6 SCALE OF CHARGES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS . Per Page £ 8 8 0 Back Page 10 10 0 Births , Marriages , and . Deaths , Is per line . General Advertisements , Trade Announcements , & c , single column , 5 s per inch . Double column Advertisements la per line . Special terms for a series of insertions on application . Advertisers will find THE FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE an exceptionally good medium for Advertisements of every class . Agents , from whom copies can always be had : — HANSARD PUBLISHING UNION , LIMITED , 12 and 14 Catherine Street , W . C . Messrs . H . DARBYSHIRE and Co ., 9 Red Lion Court , B . C ., and 43 A Market Street Manchester . Mr . RITCHIE , 6 Red Lion Court , E . C . Messrs . SIMPSON BROS ., Shoe Lane . Mr . H . SIMPSON , 7 Red Lion Court , E . C . Messrs . W . H . SMITH and SON , 183 Strand . Messrs . SPENCER and Co ., 15 Great Queen Street , W . O . Messrs . STEEL and JONES , 4 Spring Gardens , Charing Cross . Mr . G . VICKERS , Angel Court , Strand .
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EADE'S GOUT&RHEUMATICPILLS. The SAFEST and most EFFECTUAL CURE for GOUT , RHEUMATISM , and all PAI 2 JS in the HEAD , FACE , asid LIMBS . IMPORTANT TESTIMONIAL from fche Rev . F . FARTIS , Bapfciafc Minister . Mr . G . "BADE . March 19 , 1887 . Dear Sir , —I havo many times folt inclined to inform you of the benefit I have received by taking your Gout nnd Rheumatic Pills . After suffering for some timo from "Rheumatics end Sciatica , I was advised to use your Pills . I bought a battle , and when in severe pain and unable to use the limb affected 1 took a doso . Iu a few hours after I felt the pain much better , and after tho second dose tho pain completely removed and tho limb restored to its right uso . I thank you , dear sir , for sending forth , such a boon for tho relief of human suffering . Yours faithfully , F , FAHVIS , 2 South View Villas , Baptist Minister . Burgess Road , Basingstoke . PREPARED ONLY BY GEORGE EADE , 72 GOSWELL ROAD , LONDON . And sold by all Chemists and Medicine Vendors , IN * BOTTJ 1 . ES . at ls lid and 3 s 9 d each .
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Bro . EDWARD DELEVANTI , Conductor ITALIAN ORCHESTRA ( Uniform ) , 9 ST . MARY'S TERRACE , -JYEAXDA "ECIJLIi , AV . VOCALISTS , Solo Instrumentalists and Bands provided for Concerts , Balls , Ga den Parties , Masonic Banquets , & c . Pianoforte , Organ , Violin , and Singing Lessons . Onaunsi TO LODGES 1621 , 2012 , AND 2021 .
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DANCING . —To Those Who Have Never Learnt fco Dance . —Bro . and Mrs . JACQUES WYNMAN receive daily , and undertake to teach ladies and gentlemen , who have never had the slightest previous knowledge of instruction , to go through ovory fashionable ball-dance in a few easy lessons . ACADEMY—74 NEWMAN STREET , OXFORD STREET . BBO . JI CQUES " WLH-MAN WILL BB HAPPX TO TAKE TUB MAKAOKMBNT OV MASOUIC BALLS . FIBST-CLASS BAUDS PBOVIDBD . PBOSPBCTUS OK APPLICATION .
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/"' -jOLEMAN'S LIEBIG'S EXTRACT OF MEAT and MALT \ J WINE . —A 2 s 9 d bottle of this celebrated wine sent tree by Parcels Pest for 33 stamps . Over 2 , 000 testimonials received from medical men . COLEMAN & CO . LIMIIBD , NORWICH . Sold every where .
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Our Responsibilities.
OUR RESPONSIBILITIES .
An Address bt / Bro . Ven . Archdeacon Gaul , Chaplain , of thc Cosmopolitan Lodge .
BEETHREN , —The customary congratulations offered to him who has been raised to the high privilege and responsibility of Worshipful Master of this Lodge have to mo , this evening , a peculiar force . Our brother , whom your suffrages have placed in yon exalted chair , has
been my immediate senior officer during the past year , I will only say that though undoubtedly hois honoured by his exaltation , yet he himself reflects , by his natural Avorth and his zeal for the highest and final objects of Masonry , almost equal honour upon the chair itself .
And this , at once , gives me the text for my address this evening , which necessarily must be short . Masonry is often mistaken either as being a religion or as a mere Benefit Society , or even as a Social Club . Doubtless it has its highest sanction to draw its deepest
truths from Natural and Revealed religion—undoubtedly a true Mason's heart is responsive to every cry for help , and every true Mason rejoices in sharing with his brethren those social joys which are based on the sacred duty of friendship and hospitality . Bnt , for a man to put Masonry
in the place of Religion , or to join it or uso it simply for what he gets from it , or to resolve his Lodge into a mere club , is to turn the source into the stream , to put cause for effect , or , again , to turn back the end into the means . In that volume of the Sacred Law , which is open to all
our meetings , is a witness to us that whether we be Jew or Christian we acknowledge and are bound to uphold the fundamental truth of Revealed Religion—a Personal God —and as a necessary consequence Ave implicitly acknowledge our responsibilities to those revealed laws of life
and worship , which , whether as Jew or Christian , we have received . The posture of the daily supplication which Masonry takes for granted is to remind us of a brother ' s wants , and we acknowledge in Lodge that the law of love demands intervals of social recreation . We adjourn from
labour to refreshment , not because recreation is an end , but in order that we may return with joy and vigour from refreshment to labour . And in the same way onr signs , passwords , and illustrations are none of them mere mechanical forms , used to represent some mystery which is
a myth , or some nostrum Avhich is nothing , but each of them to a true Mason is as a wayside parable , instinct with some final truth meant to germinate and grow up into the life , and indeed become the life . The maxims and symbols of Masonry aro witnesses to every true Mason of his daily
privileges and responsibilities as a man , a friend , and a responsible moral being . They are not the duties themselves , but they claim from our intellects attention , from our will action ,-and from our hearts devotion to those duties we owe to God , our neighbours and ourselves . To
illustrate exactly what I mean—the Psalms of the Great prophet King of Israel—can be to us if we choose only like the music which we can strike from a harp dropped from a dead man's hand , or they may be the eternal music itself , telling us day by day the same old story , with infinite
pathos , of human aspiration , human sympathy and human responsibility . So our Ritual , our maxims of morality , and our symbols are to all true Masons mystic voices echoing through the ages and whispering through earth ' s daily din the Eternal claims of ReligionBrotherhood , and
, true Manhood . Put the symbol for the realit y and Masonry deserves to die—must die . Illustrate the reality by the symbols in our Lodges , and to ourselves in daily life , and
Masonry , claiming to be neither the Author nor Director of Reli gion or Morality , but being the Guardian or Exemplar ^ of both , will prove itself worthy of its immemorial ori gin b y its fruits . —The South African Freemason .
EXCITING SCENE AT TEIGNMOUTH . —A gentleman named Woodnut PMI ^? cause on Thursday , 31 st ulfc ., fco be thankfnl thafc " Beecham ' s rills" Advertising boat was exhibited off Teignmonth Pier , or he would in all probability have now been where the pills are not yet vertised . He had ventured out too farbecome exhaustedand
, , wonld have been drowned had nofc boatman George Hook , who always cas his "Try Beecham ' s Pills" sails set , happened to be in the icinit y , and went to tho rescue . Great excitement was caused
among the visitors on the pier , as when the boat reached the drowng man he was jnsfc sinking . His weight almost pulled the boatman ae ° f ^ ' ^ ^ k ° wa 8 * ' mniinent danger of being knocked fn ^ L 1 P iUars of the pier , which was nofc a desirable contingency to thePeer ofthePillera .
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THEFREEMASON'SCHRONICLE, A Weekly Record of Masonic Intelligence . ¦ Reports of United Grand Lodge are published with tho Special Sanction of H . R . H . tho Prince of Wales the M . W . tho Grand Master of England . THE FREEMASON'S CHRONICLE will be forwarded direct from the Office , Belvidere Works , Hermes Hill , Pentonville , N ., on receipt of Post Office Order for the amount . Intending Subscribers shonld forward their full Addresses , to prevent mistakes . Post Office Orders to be made payable to W . W . MORGAN , at Ponton Street Office . Cheques crossed " London and County . " The Terms of Subscription ( payable in advance ) to THE FREEMASON ' S CHBONICIIE are—Twelve Monfchs , post free £ 0 13 6 Six Months ditto 0 7 0 Three Monfchs ditto 0 3 6 SCALE OF CHARGES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS . Per Page £ 8 8 0 Back Page 10 10 0 Births , Marriages , and . Deaths , Is per line . General Advertisements , Trade Announcements , & c , single column , 5 s per inch . Double column Advertisements la per line . Special terms for a series of insertions on application . Advertisers will find THE FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE an exceptionally good medium for Advertisements of every class . Agents , from whom copies can always be had : — HANSARD PUBLISHING UNION , LIMITED , 12 and 14 Catherine Street , W . C . Messrs . H . DARBYSHIRE and Co ., 9 Red Lion Court , B . C ., and 43 A Market Street Manchester . Mr . RITCHIE , 6 Red Lion Court , E . C . Messrs . SIMPSON BROS ., Shoe Lane . Mr . H . SIMPSON , 7 Red Lion Court , E . C . Messrs . W . H . SMITH and SON , 183 Strand . Messrs . SPENCER and Co ., 15 Great Queen Street , W . O . Messrs . STEEL and JONES , 4 Spring Gardens , Charing Cross . Mr . G . VICKERS , Angel Court , Strand .
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EADE'S GOUT&RHEUMATICPILLS. The SAFEST and most EFFECTUAL CURE for GOUT , RHEUMATISM , and all PAI 2 JS in the HEAD , FACE , asid LIMBS . IMPORTANT TESTIMONIAL from fche Rev . F . FARTIS , Bapfciafc Minister . Mr . G . "BADE . March 19 , 1887 . Dear Sir , —I havo many times folt inclined to inform you of the benefit I have received by taking your Gout nnd Rheumatic Pills . After suffering for some timo from "Rheumatics end Sciatica , I was advised to use your Pills . I bought a battle , and when in severe pain and unable to use the limb affected 1 took a doso . Iu a few hours after I felt the pain much better , and after tho second dose tho pain completely removed and tho limb restored to its right uso . I thank you , dear sir , for sending forth , such a boon for tho relief of human suffering . Yours faithfully , F , FAHVIS , 2 South View Villas , Baptist Minister . Burgess Road , Basingstoke . PREPARED ONLY BY GEORGE EADE , 72 GOSWELL ROAD , LONDON . And sold by all Chemists and Medicine Vendors , IN * BOTTJ 1 . ES . at ls lid and 3 s 9 d each .
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Bro . EDWARD DELEVANTI , Conductor ITALIAN ORCHESTRA ( Uniform ) , 9 ST . MARY'S TERRACE , -JYEAXDA "ECIJLIi , AV . VOCALISTS , Solo Instrumentalists and Bands provided for Concerts , Balls , Ga den Parties , Masonic Banquets , & c . Pianoforte , Organ , Violin , and Singing Lessons . Onaunsi TO LODGES 1621 , 2012 , AND 2021 .
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DANCING . —To Those Who Have Never Learnt fco Dance . —Bro . and Mrs . JACQUES WYNMAN receive daily , and undertake to teach ladies and gentlemen , who have never had the slightest previous knowledge of instruction , to go through ovory fashionable ball-dance in a few easy lessons . ACADEMY—74 NEWMAN STREET , OXFORD STREET . BBO . JI CQUES " WLH-MAN WILL BB HAPPX TO TAKE TUB MAKAOKMBNT OV MASOUIC BALLS . FIBST-CLASS BAUDS PBOVIDBD . PBOSPBCTUS OK APPLICATION .
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/"' -jOLEMAN'S LIEBIG'S EXTRACT OF MEAT and MALT \ J WINE . —A 2 s 9 d bottle of this celebrated wine sent tree by Parcels Pest for 33 stamps . Over 2 , 000 testimonials received from medical men . COLEMAN & CO . LIMIIBD , NORWICH . Sold every where .