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Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

SATURDAY , APRIL 15 , 18 99 .

The Ouarterly General Court of Governors and Subscribers of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls was held at Freemasons' Tavern on 'Thursday under the presidency of Bro . Sir R . Hanson , Bart ., M . P . 1 he

nair . es of the lO girls who were elected from an approved list of 3 G candidates will be found in our ' 'dvcrtisement columns , while the rest of the proceedings are described in the report we publish elsewhere . As regards the Boys' School Court , which

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takes place to-day , a full account with the names of the 23 successful candidates will appear in a special edition which will be issued to-morrow ( Saturday ) morning . # * *

We have much pleasure in announcing that Bro . the Right Hon . Lord Addington , Prov . G . Master of Buckinghamshire , has very kindly consented to preside at the-next Festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , which will be held at the usual place on Wednesday , the 28 th February , 1900 . The

fact was made known at the meeting of the Committee of Management on Wednesday , and it is needless to say that the members were delighted to hear that the Secretary had succeeded thus early in enlisting the support of so distinguished a Mason as next year ' s Chairman .

* * * In the meantime our readers will be glad to learn that a very substantial addition has been made to the total of Donations and Subscriptions as announced at this year ' s Anniversary , which took place under the presidency of Bro . Lord Llangattock , Prov . G . Master

of South Wales ( E . D . ) , on Wednesday , the 22 nd February last . The sum , as then stated by Bro . Terry , was £ 18 , 207 8 s . 6 d . New lists and additions to lists have since been returned , particulars of which have been published in our columns , and the total products of the recent Festival now reaches the splendid sum of £ igsSo ios .

* The Committee of Management of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution held their regular monthly meeting at Freemasons' Tavern on Wednesday . Bro . 1 . A . Farnfield presided , and the Secretary

having reported the deaths of one male and two widow annuitants and the withdrawal of one man ' s name from the list of candidates for the May election , the Warden's report for the past month and that of the Finance Committee were read , and the latter adopted ,

and ordered to be entered on the minutes . The usual Committee was appointed tc ^ draw up the report for the past year for presentation at the annual general meeting of Governors and Subscribers , which will be held on Friday , the loth May .

It will be seen from our report of the proceedings at thc Quarterly General Court of Governors and Subscribers of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls on the 13 th instant , that Bro . Sir Reginald Hanson , Bart .,

M . P ., P . G . W ., Patron and Treasurer , who was in the chair , made graceful allusion in one of his speeches to the great loss which the Girls' School in particular , and Freemasonry in general , had sustained through the death of Bro . Col . Peters , P . G . S . B ., who for more than a quarter of a century had done our Masonic

state good suit and service . For many years Bro . Col . Peters was a member of the Girls' School House Commiltee and it was in that capacity , perhaps , that he rendered his best services . He will be greatly missed by his brolher members of that Committee and , indeed , by all good men and true in . Masonry .

* * * We cannot but sympathise with our Madras brethren on the loss they are abjut to sustain . Three Craftsmen who have held high office in the District Grand Lodge—Bros . Stivcn and Sibthorpe , Past

Dist . Grand Wardens , and the Rev . Bro . Lawrence , Past Dist . Grand Chaplain , are leaving India for good and some time must necessarily elapse before their places can be filled by brethren of equal experience and influence . It will be remembered that Bro . Stiven

had the brevet rank of Past Grand Deacon of England conferred upon him in 18 97 , when the Diamond Jubilee of her Majesty ' s accession to the throne was commemorated , while our Rev . Bro . Lawrence was for some years editor of the Indian Masonic A . 'ei'iVw . a

journal whicii has long enjoyed a high reputation among the Masonic periodicals of the day . But what must prove a great loss to Madras Masonry will , in the event of their taking up their residence in this country , be a gain to the Craft in England .

The I'reemasons Chronicle of Australasia for the 28 th February publishes a portrait , with accompanying record of his services , of Comp . Major LZ . C . Rennie , who , in September last , was appointed Grand Superintendent of thc Provincial Grand Chapter of New South

Wales , holding under the Supreme Grand Chapter of Scotland . Major Rennie has resided in Sydney since J 886 " . He was installed in ollice on tlie _» jrd December last , and , according to our contemporary , has been " intimately connected with the . Masonic Brotherhood throughout his adult life , and has passed through the

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scale of Degrees up to the 30 th . He is the representative in Sydney of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York . # * * The Canadian Craftsman , quoting from one of its contemporaries , publishes an utterance of Bro . J . M .

Drummond , of Maine , to the effect that he is of the opinion " that membership in the Catholic Church ought to prevent the admission of a candidate into Masonry . " Bro . Drummond ' s argument is that as it is " the officially and publicly announced law " of the Romish Church that its members cannot be Masons , a Roman Catholic who becomes a Mason must he

" either a traitor to his Church or a traitor to Masonry , or to both , " and he adds , " when a man by becoming a Mason , must become either a traitor or a hypocrite , he is no fit stone for our Temple . " * * *

The Craftsman condemns , and we think rightly condemns , this opinion , mainly on the ground that " sectarianism must be left outside the Mason ' s door . " Our contemporary very justly points out that there are " Brethren of that faith who were ' neither traitors nor hypocrites . '" It remarks that " it is not the mission of the Masonic Craft to bind the fetters of

the Priesthood on the men of thought throughout all the different phases of religious sentiment as expressed in the Creeds of the Churches . " It points out that " the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man is the Creed of Misonry , and the Craft welcomes all true believers in that doctrine , no matter what church or sect they belong to . "

» * Though , as regards one head of receipt , there appears to have been a substantial falling off in the income for the past year of the Devon Masonic Educational Fund—of whose meeting we publish a full report elsewhere—the general prosperity of the Fund

docs not appear to have been seriously affected . The total sum received in 1898 from all sources , including a balance brought forward from the previous account of nearly £ 600 , reached . £ 958 , the subscriptions , & c , amounting to . £ 330 , as compared with , £ 529 in 1897 , This diminution of nearly . £ 200 , however , is exolained

by the failure of the annual concert at Plymouth . But the year ' s account closed with a balance in the bank and in the Treasurer ' s hands of . £ 584 , while the Fund has £ 1300 on deposit . It cannot , therefore , be affirmed that with a total of assets amounting to , £ 1885 thc Fund is in difficulties . * * *

In the course of the proceedings at the annual meeting one of the two candidates whose claims had been approved was elected to the benefits of the Charity . There are now 23 children on the Fund , to the guardians of each of whom is paid annually th e sum of ^ 15 , so that Devonshire , apart from the support it gives to the Fortescue Annuity Fund and its

contributions to the great Central Charities , spends annually about . £ 200 on educating the children of its deceased or indigent brethren . This is in every way creditable to the Province , and we trust that in future years the Educational Fund will be even more generously supported , and so enabled to do a still greater amount of good for the sons and daughters of reduced or deceased Devonian Masons .

• • • It seems that the Grand Lod ge of Tasmania has in its Statute Book a law which cannot bg otherwise than most useful in preventing strangers of whom but little is known "being rushed into Masonry . " By the provisions of this law a person who offers himself as a

candidate for admission to the mysteries and privileges of the Order must have been resident in the colony for at least " six months prior to the date of his candidature , " nor can anyone who has not been a resident for that period be accepted as a candidate b y any lodge until a dispensation forthe purposj has been first obtained . Mention is made of the existence of

this salutary enactment by the G . Secretay in his latest annual report in consequence of " a member of a well known and much respected family , who , on returning to the colony after an absence of some years , expressed a desire to join the Fnternity , and the question at once arose whether in his case it would be necessary to obtain a dispensation . We shall be curious to hear the result .

We learn from thc March number of the Freemason of Toronto , that with that issue our contemporary completed a career of lS years , and that its prospects for the future are most encouraging . We are pleased to hear that a Masonic periodical so well conducted

and edited , whosi articles are ieiv . iri . tWy wjll written and whose columns are filled with useful infor . n itioti , is making good progress , and we trusi that future annutl announcements of a like character in ly be equally encouraging .