Friendship.

" They are members of the Pythagorean Society . " Tully observed that friendship improves happiness and abates misery , by the doubling of our joy and dividing our grief . In these days of progress this friendship of antiquity

seems to have been forgotten . Men no longer regard one another with that esteem that they did in the ages of the past . Among the Gauls men would lend money to bo repaid in the next world . A stranger knocked at Solon ' s

house , and said he was a stranger , and desired to enter into engagements of friendship with him . Solon answered : " Friendships are best formed at home . " " Then , do yon

who are at home , make me your friend and receive me into your house . " Solon was so well pleased with the remark that he entertained him for some time .

Another writer says , " that we should have many well wishers , but few friends . " By which we interpret the meaning that we should be extremely careful with whom we enter into engagements of friendship .

We consider that Masonry has preserved this important characteristic , and that its votaries , as a whole , endeavour to fulfil the intent and purpose of the word .

Proverbs records this verse , which , if observed , will bring contentment and happiness : " A man that hath friends must show himself friendly , ancl there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother . "—Exchange .

Innovating Pests.

INNOVATING PESTS .

FTTHE importance of keeping intact our ancient usages , JL customs , and landmarks is overlooked by too many Lodges now-a-days . We understand that the Masonic system , as such , was adopted because it possessed the

elements of self-preservation . In ifc there shonld be heard neither hammer nor axe while raising a Masonic edifice . Each member was perfect in this structure and each became a support . When put into the building he was

placed there with all the prerogatives essential to his condition and the harmony of all its parts . One piece of material could not displace another , and none could be removed until found to be too unsound for further use .

These prerogatives were not given , as is too often supposed , to be exercised as self-interest or caprice might dictate , and thus bring mutiny into the Lodge , but they were given to

members to be exercised as a Masonic duty , ancl not as an indiscriminate rigid . And when exercised as a duty , they should be based on purely Masonic reasons , or considerations . No Mason deserves the name who would use

a prerogative in any other manner . It is not his to use in any other manner . The harmony of the Lodge , which is essential to its continued existence , is found in the integrity of its members , and in their conscientious support

of the usages , customs and landmarks of Masonry . All personal considerations of Lodge matters were surrendered to the more enlarged claims of Masonry . Upon this level all upright Masons stood . The voice of one Mason was the

voice of all in Masonic- duty . The so-called right of one brother to question the conscientious Masonic acts of another did not exist then , nor does it now . If it does , it is an innovation . There was no one to question the wisdom

of the Masonic plan . Now , it seems , as we grow in number we grow in rudeness , and we lose sight of the wise provisions adopted to prevent Lodges from admitting within their walls the spirit of contention or of innovation ,

so destructive of the harmony of the Lodge . And if innovations are made , and our rigid but wise landmarks are winked at and violated , our experience as a harmonious body will be sad indeed . It reminds ns of the impatience

of some men ; they cannot rest easy and satisfactory under a perfect system of ethics , but they must also bite the apple . These innovators destroy the fair and perfect

fabric of Masonry . As the moth is a pest in every house , so are these innovators pests in every Lodge . —Voice of Masonry .

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Quarterly Communication Op United Grand Lodge.

QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION OP UNITED GRAND LODGE .

THE following is tho business to be transacted in Grand Lodge on Wednesday , 1 st September 1886 , at 6 for 7 p . m .

1 . The minntes of the Quarterly Communication of the 2 nd June for confirmation . 2 . Eeport of the Board of Benevolence for the last quarter , ia which are recommendations for the following grants , viz .: — The Widow of a Brother of tho Cestrian Lodge , No . 425 ,

Cheater ... ... ... ... ... £ 75 0 0 A Brother of the Eoyal Albert Lodge , No . 907 , London 50 0 0 Tho Widow of a Brother of the St . George ' s and Corner

Stone Lodge , No . 5 , London ... ... ... 50 0 0 A Brother of the Domatio Lodge , No . 177 , London .. 50 0 0 A Brother of the Zetland Lodge , No . 1005 , Gloucester ... 50 0 0 The four Orphan Children of a Brother of the Sfc . Maurice Lodge , No . 1855 , Plympton ... ... 50 0 0 A Brother of the Lodge of Unity , No . 183 , London ... 50 0 0 A Brother of the Lodge of Israel , No . 205 , London ... 150 0 0 A Brother of the Prudent Brethren Lodge , No . 145 , London ... .., ... ... ... 100 0 0 A Brother of the Lodge of Fortitude and Old Cumberland Lodge , No . 12 , London ... ... ... 100 0 0 3 . EEPOET OF THE BOAED OF GENERAL PURPOSES .

To the United Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England . The Board of General Purposes beg to report that they have received an application from Messrs . Malby and Sons , the tenants of

the premises in Middle Yard , for a renewal of their present lease , whioh expires September 1889 , for a term of 21 years . Tho Board having considered the application , recommend that a renewal of the lease until the 24 th June 1905 , be granted afc the present rental of £ 150 per annum .

( Signed ) THOMAS FENN ,

President . FREEMASONS' HAM , LONDON , W . C . 17 th August 1886 . To the report is subjoined a statement of the Grand Lod » e

Accounts , at the last meeting of the Finance Committee , held on Friday , the 13 th day of August instant , shewing a balance in the Bank of England ( Western Branch ) of £ 3 , ( 150 3 s ld , and in the hands of the Grand Secretary for Petty Cash £ 100 , and for Servants ' Wages £ 100 , and balance of annual allowance for Library , £ 14 17 s 3 d .

4 . The annual report of the " Royal Masonic Benevolent Institntion for Aged Freemasons and the Widows of Freemasons , " dated the 21 st May 1886 , including the following alterations in the Laws , will be laid before Grand Lodge .

" Rnle 2 , to read ' The Grand Master for the time being shall be President of the Institution . The Treasurer of the Institution shall be elected annually on the third Friday in May . '"

" To alter Rule 14 by erasing the word ' Graud' on the third and sixth lines on page 14 , and the word ' Grand ' on the fifth line of page 15 . "

List of Lodges for which warrants have been granted by the Most Worshipful Grand Master since the last Quarterly Communication of Grand Lodge . No . 2159 . —The Carrington Lodge , Kogarah , New South Wales . 2160 . —The Windsor Social Lodge , Windsor , New South Wales .

2161 . —The John Williams Lodge , Rnndweek , New South Wales . 2162 . —The Tyrrell Leith Lodge , Barorta , Bombay . 2163 . —The Jersey Lodge , Sonthall , Middlesex . 2164 . —The St . German ' s Lodge , Peel , Isle of Man . 2165 . —The St . George's Lodge , Perch , West Australia .

2166 . —The Cotehele Lodge , Calstock , Cornwall . 2167 . —The Star in the West Lodge , Hughenden , Queensland . 2168 . —The Derby Allcroft Lodge , Islington . 2169 . —The Osborne Lodge , East Cowes , Isle of Wi ^ ht .

2170 . —The St . George Lodge , Colombo , Ceylon . 2171 . —The Bnrwood Lodge , Bnrwood , New Sonth Wales . 2172 . —The Molong Lodge , Molong , New Sonth Wales . 2173 . —The Loyalty Lodge , Gundagai , New South Wales .

N . B . —The Revised Edition of the Book of Constitutions , 1884 , may be obtained at the Grand Secretary's Office , in Svo and 32 mo , price Is Cd a copy , bound in cloth . The " Freemasons' Calendar ancl Pocket Book " for 1886 can be had at the Grand Secretary ' s Office , Freemasons ' Hall , London , price 2 s , bound in roan .

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