Grace After Masonry.

is the least that he should do . What is move ? What most ? An appropriate method of saying grace after Masonry , in evidence of our appreciation of the opufenco of privilege

and honour thereby conferred upon us , is to contribute to the support of some of the approved organisations of the Craft , fostered and conducted exclusively by Craftsmen , which have in view the amelioration of the condition of distressed and thoivl ' ef of . suffering Brethren .

Tho Masonic Homo is probably the highest form of exterior organised effort which has this humane and Masonic purpose in view . Itiecogniscs tho fact that poverty and distress are liable to come , sometimes almost unannounced , to any of us . Well-to-do as wo may be here to-day ,

to-morrow may find us without money , without relations who both can and will holp us , and almost without friends . But a Freemason is never friendless , but always lias relatives who can and will help him—his brethren of tho Mystic Tie . In almost every jurisdiction they havo organised , or

arc organising , a Masonic Homo for tho fraternal reception and continuous support of worthy distressed Master Masons . There is no more practical and efficient method of rendering grace after Masonry , than by becoming a life or contributing member to a Masonic Horn ? . Brethren ,

examine yourselves and learn whether you are truly thankful for the honour , and pleasure , and instruction conferred upon you by the Masonic Fraternity , and if so , at once become a cortributing member toward ; : the support of a Masonic Home .

We have a Masonic Home in Pennsylvania , atNos . 3333-3337 North Broad Street , Philadelphia , which is worthy of the name , which needs your support , in order that it may

extend its laudable work , and in contributing to it you will perform your duty by giving grace after Masonry , and thereby realise that " it is more blessed to give than to receive . "

But you need not stop here . Grace need not bo said in one word or one act . Do more ; do as much as "in you lies , " There arc other Masonic organisations worthy of your cordial support . The Art Association of tho Masonic Temple ,

Philadelphia , is an Institution worthy of the support of every Freemason in tho jurisdiction of Pennsylvania . Give thanks after Masonry by becoming a member of it . It costs little , and the society docs much . Do you admire the Pillar of beauty in tho Craft ? The Art Association has for its

mission tho adornment of tho Masonic Temple . It has covered tho walls of Egyptian Hall , Ionic Hall , and Norman Hall with symbolic paintings . It has placed artistic gates of brass in tho corridor of the Temple . It has fostered the painting of numerous full-length portraits of prominent

brethren which now adorn various halls in the Temple . Join it and aid to continue and extend its work . Brethren , if you , month by month and year by year , arc enjoying Freemasonry in its various lines of instruction and pleasure , give evidence of tho fact by saying grace after Masonry . —Keystone .

A Provincial Grand Lodge was hold at Connah ' s Quay , on Monday , tho 8 th ins * -., when Lord Harlech , Provincial Grand Master of North Wales , consecrated a now Lodge , to bo called St . Mark ' s Lodgo , No . 2423 . Hitherto many Flintshire Masons had to attach themselves to the Chester ,

Mold , or Rhyl Lodges , and it was to sorvc this district , which includes Hawarden , that the new Lodgo was consecrated . Bro . J . D . Bolton , Deputy Chief Constable of Flintshire , who is a P . M . of the Mold Lodgo , was installed as the first Worshipful Master .

Brother James Stevens asks us to notify that he is now entering into arrangements with Provincial Lodges and Lodges of Instruction for the delivery during the ensuing Masonic session of his Lectures on the Ritual and

Ceremonial of the Symbolic Degrees in Freomasonry , He * s prepared to meet the reasonable requirements of brethren at a distance , and will be pleased to communicate particulars on recei pt of requests addressed to him at Evelyn , Catford , London , S . E .

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FUNERALS properly carried out and personally attended , in London and Country , by Bro . Q . A . HUTTON , 17 Newcastle Street , Strand , W , C . Monuments erected . Valuations made .

Freemasonry's Sublimity.

FREEMASONRY'S SUBLIMITY .

MASONRY IN ITS TWO-FOLD FORM , PHYSICAL AND MORAL—A GREAT PICTURE , EMBRACING MORI AH AND CALVARY , AND FAR BEYOND .

An Unique , Sublime and Rhapsodical Oration , delivered by Rev . John Newland Mqffitt , 1 st February JS . yi , at the public Installation of the Officers of St . Louis and Naphtali Lodges , in St . Louis , Missouri , members of the Grand Lodge being present .

( Continued from page 99 ) . rilHERE can bo but little doubt that tho Magii of Egypt JL wero a Masonic fraternity accumulating and preserving the wisdom and scienco of tho successive ages through which ihoy lived beneath the symbolic language or tho

key of tho hieroglyphics . Thales and Pythagoras , who travelled to Egypt to transplant to auothor land , yotbirbarous and unknown , the wisdom of this mother country , were obliged to pass through a series of initiatory

ceremonies beforo they could bo admitted to tho mysteries and learning of the Egyptian scholars . Slowly and under the most piercing scrutiny , they were admitted , step by step , into the temples of ancient wisdom . And how

practical and Masonic that wisdom was , we can learn from tho great canal of Sesostris , the first ever mado in tho world—from the aqueducts that carried tho waters of the Nile over wido plains into tho desert—from tho

vast temples , labyrinths , columns , tombs , pyramids , that encumber tho sites of anciont cities—from hundred-gated Thebes—from tho illustrious Memphis—and from Helios polis , tho city of the sun .

The next great triumphs of the Masonic Art wero in Palestine , at the building of Solomon ' s Temple , tho stones of which , by Masonic craft , were so prepared in ; their distant quarries , that the edifice arose like an exhalation , without the sound of hammer or axe . The archives of

Masonry contain authentic copies of the original correspondence of King Solomon with tho king of Tyro , and with the Great Master Builder of the Temple , Hiram Abiff . Tho Masonic mysteries clung to tho montains of Judoa until the Roman invasion and the fall of Jerusalem made

the land of the chosen people a hissing and a scorn . After this Masonry lived in other lands . She was on the shores of the Tyrian aud the iEgean seas . Along with Christianity , she was a prisoner and a martyr at Rome . Sho was a

wanderer , like a ghost haunting the East , the wasted land of her birth . Long after Rome was desolated by the foot of the barbarian , the Crusaders found her , as she fled , like a frightened dove , from hill to hill , and they clothed her

with the trappings of grandeur , as sho marched to the wars against the infidels . Some of her highest orders were instituted in Italy and Palestine by the Paladians of England , under the promptings of Peter the Hermit and Richard Cceur do Lion . From tho wars of the Crusaders

Masonry came to Europe , leaving her Templars on the island of Malta to bear the name of Knights Hospitallers , and the Order of St . John , for centuries . Introduced by the lion-hearted Richard and others into England at this era ,

it was not till the time of Elizabeth that this organisation was the most perfect , since which it has pervaded the Anglo-Saxon race , and been received on every continent aud island of the sea . On its moral platform , the king and

his noble , the commoner and his labourer , if Free and Accepted Masons , all meet on a level . Masonry knows not of political dignitaries , or of the arbitrary distinction s of life . It abases tho proud , it exalts the humble .

This rapid and brief historical sketch must suffice for this occasion . It has a nobler historian , whose pen of fiio has emblazoned its deeds of charity and love upon t n

thousand hearts—the widows and tho orphans , the distressed and the unhappy—those living epistles of benevolence from which the handwriting , in praise of the Masonic brotherhood , shall never be eradicated .

Objections Answered . —Before proceeding to a consideration of Moral Masonry , suffer me to play with a l \ - \ v trite objections : It is a secret society ! This is true i . nly for tho purpose of self-preservation from tho contamination

of unworthy men . And that Masonry has her portion of the unworthy is but too true ; but in this respect she is i . ot alone ; and unworthy members can no more dim the purity of tho Masonic escutcheon than the conduct of Judas , who