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SATURDAY , 2 / TH JULY 1901 .

Supreme Grand Chapter.

SUPREME GRAND CHAPTER .

THE usual Quarterly Convocation of Supreme Grand Chapter will be held on Wednesday , 7 th August , at Freemasons' Hall , Londca , at 6 p . m ., the following being the Agenda of Business : The Minutes of the last Quarterly Convocation to be read for confirmation .

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF GENERAL PURPOSES . To the Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons , of England . The Committee of General Purposes beg to report that they have examined the Accounts from the iSth April , to the 16 th July 1 9 , both inclusive , which they find to be as follows : To Balance , Grand Chapter - £ j 22 l : 4 ,, , , Unappropriated Account - 233 11 o ,, Subsequent Receipts - ^ 08 1 ^

n . ^ 954 3 7 By Disbursements during the Quarter - 374 2 4 ,, Balance ------ 348 5 9 ,, ,, Unappropriated Account - 231 15 6 ^ 954 3 7 which Balances are in the Bank of England , Law Courts Branch .

The Committee have likewise to report that they have received the following Petitions : — 1 st . From Companions Henry Trask as Z ., William Joseph Stratton as H ., Henry John Thomas as J ., and eight others for a Chapter to be attached to the Maida Vale Lodge , No . 2743 , London , to be called the " Maida Vale Chapter , " and to meet at the Crown Hotel , Aberdeen Place , London .

2 nd . From Companions Charles S . Burdon as Z ., Ernest Geo . Farley as H ., Charles Henry Perryman as J ., and nine others for a Chapter to be attached to the Army and Navy Lodge , to be called the "Army and Navy Chapter , " and to meet at the Mark Masons ' Hall , Great Queen Street , London . The foregoing Petitions being regular , the Committee recommend that the prayers thereof be respectively granted .

The Committee have likewise received memorials , with extracts of minutes , for permission to remove the following Chapters : — The All Saints Chapter , No . 1716 , from the Bow Vestry Hall , to the Bromley Vestry Hall , London .

Supreme Grand Chapter.

The Beadon Chapter , No . 619 , from Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet Street , to the Holborn Viaduct Hotel , London . The Committee having satisfied themselves of the reasonableness of the requests , recommend that the removal of these Chapters be sanctioned .

( Signed ) GEORGE DAVID HARRIS , President . Freemasons' Hall , London , W . C . iSth July 1901 .

JUtJlJLUJUUtJUClUuUUtJUUI To-morrow , 28 th inst ., the Pimlico Lodge , recruited almost exclusively from the ranks of music-hall folk , will have their annual outing . The company will gather at Gatti ' s

Restaurant , Westminster Bridge Road , and proceed to Paddington , entraining- there for Reading . Arrived at Biscuitopolis , launch , WUJ be taken from Caversham Bridge to Windsor , meals being eaten on board .

********** Masonry recognises the fact that man is not perfect , that at best he is far from perfection ; but created in God's image there is , despite the riot and triumph and sacrilege of sin , some faint line or decaying feature that suggests the glorious

perfection once stamped upon him and shall yet be stamped upon him anew . It recognises that human perfection towers above the plain of our living , a holy mountain too far and too sacred for our poor tired feet ; but it looks wistfully

upward , and feels that every advance bears up these rugged slopes . The process is slow and toilsome , but if it ends well , it is worth all the toil and sacrifice . —T . W . Jeffries , Kansas .

********** Freemasonry is encircling the world as no other organisation is . It lives and breathes in all countries ; it is fanned by the zephyrs of the south and with changeless mien meets the Arctic blasts of the icy north . It has been said

that Rome ruled the world from seven hills . The power of Masonry extends from 7 , 000 hills and as many valleys . The past history of the Fraternity extends back to antiquity itself , ¦ and the organisation is based on divine laws which were in existence when the old earth itself was in the swaddling clothes of its infancy . —Charles A . Alden , New York .

Nothing . can so impress the community with the truth and value of our Institution as a pure , self-controlled , upright Mason . He is the strongest possible evidence of the

truthfulness of our principles . We must live our Masonry or it is nothing . And to live it we must do our work in and out of the Lodge as under the All-seeing Eye . To work well we need to work always as under the sense of His impending presence . —W . W . Boyd , Missouri .

********** In every community whenever anything is done for the advancement of that community , you may be certain that Masons have part therein : Whenever men gather out of

love for men , you may be assured in the gathering are Masons ; not because they are Masons , they do not love mankind because they are Masons ; they are Masons because they love mankind . —W . C . P . Breckenridge , Kentucky .

********** The strength of a building is not in its size or in the number of stones used in its construction , but in the strength

and character of each particular stone . Let us see to it that each stone that we add to its wall is without flaw or blemish , that the shafts of envy , hatred or malice shall not prevail against it . —Silas B . Wright , Florida .

********** The subject of non-affiliation and its congener , nonpayment of dues , still occupies a large space in the consideration of those who direct the affairs of Grand Lodges , but

the tone in which they are discussed has greatly changed , the trend of recent years towards more Fraternal views and less drastic legislation becoming more and more emphasised . —Jos . Robbins , Illinois . **********

Masonry is steadily marching to a higher plane , not by innovation or change within the body of the Institution , but by character-building among its votaries and by a more rigid inspection of the material offered for acceptance . —John A . Collins ,. North Carolina .