Grand Lodge Library Of New York.

GRAND LODGE LIBRARY OF NEW YORK .

[ The Grand Lodjje of New York haa a library containing many valuable work- > , w « ll n > ranged and made easily accessible by the Grand Librarian , Bio . Herman G . Carter , whose fitness for the responaible p isition haa been amply tested . We copy the following from a report recently presented by Bro . Carter to the Grand Lodge . —En . ]

AN important feature in the progress of the Institution in this Jurisdiction at the present day is the advantage which the Craft possesses in ready access to its large and increasing collection of Masonic and miscellaneous books in the Grand Lodge Library . Increased interest

and a larger attendance by the Craft fully demonstrate what an important factor the library is to the Masonic student in becoming well versed in Masonic and current literature . There is a great and constant desire on the part of the

Craft for Masonic literature of the past and pregent . Knowledge is of the first importance to the Mason , and the dissemination of Masonio literature among the Fraternity should be encouraged , and the more that it is brought before the minds of the brethren , its value will be increased , and the Institution become ennobled and elevated .

Without our Masonic literature we could not unfold the real object of our Fraternity , and could not develop the sublime teachings contained in the emblems , which speak volumes to the searcher after Masonic light .

" Man ' s books are but man ' s alphabet—Beyond and on his lessons lie . " The Grand Lodge Library is a subject worthy of the

consideration of the Grand Lodge . Constant additions by donations and purchase should be made , so that we may have a collection of works that will be even a greater honour to this Grand Jurisdiction .

It should be the aim of the Fraternity to impress upon the minds of its neophytes that they should study Masonic history , jurisprudence , and the meanin g of its symbolism . There are books published on every branch , rite , doctrine

and theory of Freemasonry , and this vast mass of literature is stored with imperishable truths , beautiful sentiments , poetry and history , and every brother can find something to interest and edify and become well equipped in Masonic lore .

In this age , to carry on our system of instruction , we resort to the art of printing in its most improved form , and the instrumentality to accomplish this is the literature of Freemasonry through the medium of the Grand Lodge Library . By far the greater portion of the moral and

intellectual teaching of the Craft is of a nature that the whole world may read , and it is in the books of brethren , eminent for their skill and learning , that the profoundest truths contained in those teachings can be best studied and mastered .

The number . of works of the Grand Lodge Library should be increased by bequests , and by donations similar to those that have been made to libraries in all parts of our land and in Europe . On 3 rd January 1885 , the Reading Room was formally

opened to the Fraternity . Ifc is admitted thafc ifc is an acknowledged necessity , and of great advantage in connection with the Grand Lodge Library . With the exception of holidays and Sundays , it is open daily , afternoons from 3 " 30 to 5 ' 30 , and evenings from 7 to 10 " 30 .

The number of visitors has steadily and materially increased during the past year , and the large increase in the number of readers that regularly avail themselves of the opportunity to consult fche many literary treasures contained therein is a matter for sincere congratulation .

In addition to the Masonic publications , the tables and files are kept fully supplied with the standard periodicals and newspapers of the English-speaking world . In a word , the Reading Room has kept pace with fche era of progress and success in all the branches of Freemasonry in this Jurisdiction . —The Freemason ' s Repository .

HOLLOWAY ' S OiNTMBirr AITD PILLS . —Rheumitism and gont . —These purifying and soothing remedies demand the earnest attention of all persons liable to gout , sciatica , or other painful affections of the muscles , nerves or joints . The Ointment should be aopliod after the affected parts hare been patiently fomer ted with hot water , when the unguent should he diligently rubbed npon the adjacent skin , unless the friction should cause pain . Holloway ' s Pills

should be simultaneously taken to reduce inflammation and to purify the blood . This treatment abates tho violence , and lessens the frequency of gout , rheumatism , and all spasmodic diseases , which spring from hereditary predisposition , or from any accidental weakness of constitution . This Ointment checks the local mischief . The Pills restore the vital powets .

Monsignor Munro On Freemasonry.

MONSIGNOR MUNRO ON FREEMASONRY .

AT recent Sunday evening services the Bight Kev . Monsignor Munro has preached to crowded congregations , in St . Andrew's Cathedral , Great Clyde Street , Manchester , the subject of hia discourse being the recent Encyclical of His Holiness Leo XIII . in regard to the movements of the Masonic fraternity in Italy . Speaking first on the unity of the Chnrob , he said , that the Catholic Chnroh by the Divine power wonld preserve the integrity of the

Faith to the end of time . The Divine Power was seen in the beautiful harmony of its system . As the centre of nnity it bound together all nations and all people ? . Founded and provided for by the Son of God Himself , by the commission " Thou art Peter , and upon this rock I will bnild My Church , and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it , " the stability aud perpetuity of the Church was guaranteed .

There was the natural law which could be reached by man , simply by the exercise of his reason . Bnt Almighty God had given as something more than this . He had lifted as above things that were natural to everlasting principles—principles independent of matter , independent of the visible faculties of man . Revelation was the way by whioh God was pleased to manifest His will to man with regard

to onr relations to Himself and our relations towards each other . Man had for centuries been fighting against Him , in spite of the promise of desolation to all nations that abandon the law of God . It had been so from the beginning , even in the first two hundred years of the Christian Church ' s existence . The successors of Peter in these two centuries had all won martyrs' crowns . The Popes had

ever been subjected to cowardly assault from without . They had to defend the poor from the oppression of the nobles , and the law of the divine sanctity of marriage . Bat from wherever the attack , the gniding spirit would remain always unaltered . Dealing with the subject of Freemasonry the right rev . preacher gave a short sketch of its origin and development into perhaps one of the most perfect

organisations in the world . At first a holy association , the atheist and anarchist in the last century had found their way within its ranks . What it had become on the Continent and in America it was liable to become in this country—the means of propagating atheism . They were hound by the most awful oaths to promote each others ' interests , which was the essence of Freemasonry , yet while the

organisation contained tens of thousands upon tens of thousands , the inner circle , which directed the whole system was composed of only a few . Their aim was the overthrow of all individual Governments and States , that they might be the dictators . Professor Hoffman , of Vienna , the conductor of a Masonic Journal , had recently issued a circular in which he sneered at the " superstition " in relation to Onr

Lord Jesus Christ , as being the means by which the priests had drawn mankind into their nets , besides the influence which the fear of eternal punishment exercised over weak minds . The name of God had been expunged from the ritual of the Grand Orient , tbe most powerful branch of the Order on the Continent . Their real objeob was the undermining of Christianity , but to disarm the

hostility of England and other countries snob extremities had not been resorted to by all branches of the Order , though their constitution was practically the same , and though H . E . H . the Prince of Wales was the Grand Master of all Freemasonry in England . The right rev . preacher then read a number of recent additions to tha statntes of the Order , whioh apportioned the most awful pains and penalties to those who violated them .

Knights Of Malta At Plymouth.

KNIGHTS OF MALTA AT PLYMOUTH .

A MEETING of the Priory of the Order of St . John of Jerusalem , Palestine , Rhodes and Malta , for the Province of Devonshire was held on Monday afternoon by order of the V . E . Provincial Prior fche Rev . Dr . T . W . Lemon , at the Sincerity Masonio Temple , Stonehouse , under the banner of Loyal Brunswick Priory , " for the purpose of conferring the degree of Knight Hospitaller of the Order of

St . John of Jerusalem , Palestine , Rhodes and Malta on such Knights as might present themselves . " The Provincial Prior presided , and was supported by E . Sir Knights John Dupre E . P . of Loyal Brunswick P . P . G . Marsh , as Captain-General , P . B . Clemens P . E . P . Royal Sussex P . G . Marsh , as Lieutenant-General , Vincent Bird P . E . P .

Royal Veterans P . P . G . Con . as First-Lieutenant , R . Pengelly P . E . P . Royal Veterans P . G . Reg . as Second-Lieutenant , E . Aitken-Daviea P . E . P . Royal Veterans P . P . G . Const , and Guard of the National Grand Priory as Prelate , J . B . Gover P . E . P . Royal Veterans P . P . G . Const , as Maresohal , Captain G . Strode-Lowe Holy Cross P . G .

Sub-Mars , as Hospitaller , W . Frank Westcott P . E . P . Holy Cross P . P . G . M . as Admiral , George R . Barrett P . E . P . Royal Veterans P . P . G . Const , as Conservator , J . R . Lord P . E . P . Royal Veterans P . G . W . R . as Baillie , George Dunsterville Loyal Brunswick P . G . H . as Turkepolier , John Leonard Loyal Brunswick P . G . Chamb . as Chancellor , W . H .

Dillon Royal Veterans P . G . A . D . C . as Treas ., J . R . Wilson Loyal Brunswick as Captain of the Guard , Frank R . Thomas Loyal Brunswick as Guard of A ., J . M . Hifley P . E . P . Royal Veterans P . P . G . Const , as Guard of R ., and James Hifley P . G . Guard as Guard . The P . G . Priory having been opened in dne form , the following Sir

Knights were duly installed as Knights of Malta : —J . Kinton Bond Royal Veterans , Sholto Henry Hare Loyal Brunswick , John Wallis Royal Veterans , A . J . Verdi Loyal Brunswick , A . Trout Loyal Brunswick , J . Holland Loyal Brunswick , Fredk . A . Gray Rongemont ,

E . Aslat Loyal Brunswick , and J . W . Cornish Royal Veterans . The P . G . Priory was closed , and the Sir Knights adjourned to the Masonic Club , where they were joined by Sir Knight E . Binding , of Royal Veterans . A capital dinner was well served up by the Steward ( Bro . Harvey ) , and a pleasant evening was spent .

The Great City Lodge of Instruction meets at the Masons' Hall Tavern , Basingha . ll Street , E . G ., every Thursday , at 6 * 30 p . m . Brethren are cordiall y invited .