Hampshire And I. Of Wight Educational And Benevolent Institution.

first festival , three years ago , the Committee stated that they were in a position to begin work , and he informed the Lodges of tho fact , but no candidates came forward till nearly eighteen months had elapsed , and that accounted for the small expenditure last year . This year it had increased , and the children wero being looked after by a sub-committee of at least three brethren , who bud to initial the bill

for education before it was paid . Tho Deputy Provincial Grand Master had mentioned incidentally , and he should like to drive it home , as Bro . Eve had remarked they had not spent all their income , tbat every case brought before the Committee had been admitted to the benefits of the Institution .

Bro . G . P . W . Mortimer proposed the Stewards , to which Bro . R . Boughton Smith ( upon whom the local arrangements for tho day had fallen ) , J . Marks , and Lieut . 0 . Dowd , E . N ., responded . A septett baud , conducted by Mr . J . Norton Child , performed an excellent programme of musio during dinner and between the speeches .

At the last meeting of the Druids Lodge of Love und Liberty , No . 589 , held at the Masonio Hall , Redruth , on 8 th December , under the presidency of W . Bro . Frank Hiohens W . M ., the following were elected as Ollicers for the ensuing year : —Bro . W . L .

Chegwidden S . W . as W . M ., Jos . SatTih P . M . as Treasurer , Jno . Polkinghorne as Tyler . Tho Officers aud Past Masters were appointed a committee to make arrangements for the festival of St . John , which will beheld on 12 th January , and Bro . E . Eodda P . M . aud John Carkeek , Assistant Secretary , were elected Auditors .

HARMONY CHAPTER , No . 156 .

rpHE Companions held their installation meeting ou Friday , the 1 5 tb inst ., at the Freemasons' Clnb , Plymouth . Tho Principals elect were Comps . John Martin Z ., Captain G . S . Strode-Lowe H ., W . H . Miohell J . Comp . W . K . Michell P . P . G . Keg . waa the Installing Officer , assisted by Comps . G . Whittley aud P . B . Clemens . The Officers invested were : —Comps . J . Parkhouso I . P . Z ., W . K .

Miohell S . E ., W . E . Chapelt P . S ., E . G . Hayward lst A . S ., J . C . Eovell 2 nd A . S ., W . K . Michell Treasurer , W . H . Phillips Janitor .

Masonic Adullamites.

MASONIC ADULLAMITES .

IT is a lamentable fact thafc Masonic principles nofc only are oftentimes found wanting in individual Craftsmen , but fail to dominate even organised Masonic bodies . We have recently had two very prominent instances of

a lack of Masonic respect for the trul y Masonic virtues of justice and charity , in the conduct of certain Masonic ¦ Adullamites who have taken upon themselves to found in Capetown Lodges holding charters from Grand Lodges which have neither lot nor scot in South Africa . Some

time ago certain malcontents iu a recognised Constitution , not finding things quite according to their own sweet will , determined , like the typical Yankee , to do " as they darn please . " They therefore cast about for some foreign Con . stitntion to give them a charter . One of the German

Grand Lodges was fixed upon , not from any national predilection , or any special admiration for its working or laws , but simply because , like Barkis , it was " willin . " The G . Lodge of Timbuctoo would have done equally well , had it likewise been " willin . " The G . Lodges of England ,

Scotland and the Netherlands issued courteous protests against this uncalled for invasion of their legitimate territory , but all to no avail . The Lodge was warranted , and went on its way , after a fashion . The Established Grand Lodges had to forbid their adherents holding any

intercourse with it . And so we have the always unpleasant spectacle of Masonic warfare , all because a tiuy handful of malcontents will persist in exalting their own infinitesimal ideas of the fitness of things , above the Grand principles of Masonic law and order . Rather than make units in

English , Scotch or Dutch Masonry , they aspire to run a little show of their own to make a desert , and call it peace . And to crown the whole miserable business , another little knot of Adullamites have got hold of a Charter purporting to bo issued by the Grand Lodge of Italy , and

are running a Lodge in Cape Town under its banner . All this is childish on the parfc of the subordinates , immoral on the part of the authorities who grant the Charters . The Grand Lodges of Italy and Germany have no more right to establish Lodges in Cape Town than the Grand Lodge ot lOtiifinnd would iiAve to issue Charters for- Berlia

or-Napta .-.. I ' l-enniinourr i , - either one ¦ - tiri iti > ii * i"iaible . or it toH < iw . ~ . tin' : / j .- •( , £ .. <' ri ' / inhVir rhc tfiviurs idea to u certain ox rent- Unv Mway , in modern cime * - Masonic jurisdictions have bei-it mado * to follow political divisions :. iNbw ,

Masonic Adullamites.

the Cape Colony , albeit possessing local self-government , is an integral portion of the British Empire , and as such under the jurisdiction Masonically of such Grand Bodies as are sheltered under the same flag as itself . The widest possible view to take of ita

position would be to say that it was open to any Grand Lodge in the British Empire ; the more logical one would be to limit it to the three Grand Lodges in fche British Islands , inasmuch as the only body outside the border of the Cape Colony which has any political

jurisdiction over its internal concerns , is a Parliament elected by the people of England , Ireland , and Scotland . Bufc even if for argument ' s sake , we admit tbe right of Canada or Victoria to warrant Lodges here , it does nofc follow that

countries which have not one iota of political interest with us should do the same thing . The position of the Netherlands is , as we have pointed out before , another matter altogether . —The South African Freemason .

Our Common Humanity.

OUR COMMON HUMANITY .

'T'HE Tribune recently published the following , which will bear repeating : " General Beaver had a friend , who got along so well with one arm he sometimes wondered why the Lord had ever given him two . " Another writer spoke of a boy whom he met one morning . He said to

him : " Johnny , why did the Lord givo you two hands r " After a moment , scratching his head , Tankeeboy fashion , he said : " One of 'em to help myself , and the other to help the other feller . "

There is a whole . sermon on our mutual kinship and duties in this little anecdote , and we would do well to consider it . Ever since Cain tried to shirk the responsibility of his murderous act by tho subterfuge , " Am I my brother ' s keeper ? " his descendants have continued in fcho samr

sneaking way to evade their duties to their fellow men , and that too by the most transparent pleas of non-responsibility . To an extent we are each his " brother ' s keeper , " and the Divine Father of all will see to it that these duties are nofc wholly ignored . Humanity is a chain in which each

individual unit is a link , and the integrity of the entire length depends on each individual fraction . Mankind is a brotherhood , is something more than tbe attenuated thread which reaches back to our common ancestor , Adam .

Rather does it find its issues in the warm tide of sympathy which surges in every heart that owns itself in uuisou with humanity , keeping pulse-beat in the true rhythm of higher life .

The boy , in the little anecdote above narrated , said a grander thing than he intended . He builded far better than he knew , and the structure will stand . Lefc us hope thafc he will live up to his own creed and we earnestly commend his example to all . Masonic law divides the

twentyfour hours of each day into three equal parts and devotes one portion to the relief of distressed Brethren . This is as it should be , and faithfully lived up to will go farther to insure the perpetuity of our Fraternity than years of assertion or mountains of ritualistic ceremony . Lefc

us own our common humanity and mutual dependence . " No man Jiveth unto himself alone , " and tbe parable of the good Samaritan was not intended as a pleasant fictiou to while away an idle hour . The noblest portion of our Masonic duty is that which , pertains to the relief of tho

distressed , and the comforting of those who sorrow . It is far nobler to kneel by the side of the sick and minister to their wants , to visit the abodes of poverty and feed thoso that hunger , to stand with mourners over the graves oE loved ones and give such feeble comforts as we can give at

such times , than to sit clothed in full regalia of the mosfc honoured . Fraternity that was ever formed on earth , and repeat formalistic creeds and ritualistic ceremonies . These are necessary , brethren , but only as the disciplinary

portion of onr dnties , the school in which is our true faith , the theory by which our acts are iucited and controlled . Wo are , indeed , " our brother ' s keeper , " and woe to him who repudiates the claim , who neglects the dnfcy . He is v . u true Mason , for he is not a true man . —X . T tiimdau Tinw--

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Fi / ttEftALS properly carried out and personally attended . : in London and Country , by Bro . G-. A . HTTTTON , 17 Newcastle i Street , Strand , "W . C . rJLonumeats erected . VtU uatioua made .