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CONTENTS . PAGE LBADERThe late Bro . the Rev . C . J . Martyn , M . A ., P . G . Chap . ... ... 25 The Grand Lodge , 1801-1901 ... ... ... ... ... 26 Royal Masonic Institution for Boys ( Quarterly Court ) ... . „ ... 26 Craft Masonry ... ... ... — ... 27 Science . Art , and the Drama ... ... ... ... ... 28 Craft Masonry ... ... ... ... ... ... 29

MASONIC NOTES— „ Quarterly Court of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys ... ... 31 District Grand Lodge of Burma ... ... ... ... 31 Quatuor Coronati Lodge , No . 2076 ... ... ... ... 31 Grand Lodge of Canada ... ... ... ... ... 31

Correspondence ... ... ... ... ... ... 32 Continental Cathedrals ... ... ... ... ... ... 32 Consecration of the Sir Walter Raleigh Lodge , No . 2 S 37 ... ... 32 Provincial Grand Chapter of Warwickshire ... ... ... ... 32 Royal Arch ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 32 Craft Masonry ... ... ... ... ... ... 33 Instruction ... ... ... ... ... — ... 35 Masonic and General Tidings ... ... ... ... ... 36 Obituary ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 3 6

The Late Bro. The Rev. C. J. Martyn, M.A., P.G. Chaplain.

THE LATE BRO . THE REV . C . J . MARTYN , M . A ., P . G . CHAPLAIN .

We had but sufficient time last week to pay a hurried tribute of respect to the memory of the late Bro . the Rev . C . J . MARTYN , Past Grand Chaplain of England , and sketch , in brief , the principal events in his long and distinguished career as a Mason . This week his mortal remains have been interred at

Long Meiford , of which our deceased brother was formerly rector , and where his wife , who predeceased him several years , was buried ; and the occasion seems favourable for again referring to the services he rendered to the Craft , in the hope and belief

that the bright example he set to his brethren cannot but have an influence for good on future generations of Masons . Bro . MARTYN may be best designated as a cultured English gentleman , who , in private life , as a clergyman of the Anglican

Church , and as a prominent member of our ancient Fraternity , was as greatly beloved as he was respected by all classes and conditions of men . Educated at one of our chief public schools ,

and afterwards at Christ Church College , Oxford , he possessed , in a marked degree , all those generous attributes by which , as a rule , our public school and University men are characterised . He was always ready and willing to do what lay in his power to

benefit the community of which he was a member , and took as much interest in promoting their honest pleasures as in ministering to their spiritual needs . While true in all things to his sacred office , he does not appear to have considered it any

part of his duty as a clergyman to intrude religion into all the petty affairs of everyday life . It did not , in his opinion , detract from a man ' s relig ious worth that he should devote the best of his time and energy to working for an honest livelihood , nor did

he consider it inconsistent with the duties of a Christian that a man should excel in athletic exercises . To enjoy the pleasures of life was as much a part of his daily care as to counsel or assist his humbler neig hbours . In short , he was a good man ,

who , in his quiet and unobtrusive way , endeavoured to do his duty in the sphere of life in which lie was placed , and hence the universal respect which was entertained for him while living , and which will be felt for his memory now that he has gone to his eternal rest .

The Late Bro. The Rev. C. J. Martyn, M.A., P.G. Chaplain.

As a Mason there are few who have been more thoroughly imbued with the essential principles of our Craft . The leading parts he played in the several branches of Masonry with which he was connected have already been described in some detail ,

and in doing so we have shown how , in Craft Masonry , he was a Past Grand Chaplain of England and the Deputy Grand Master of a Province ; in the Royal Arch a Past Grand Officer and the Grand Superintendent . of a Province ; in the Mark Degree a

PastGrand Chaplain and Past Deputy Prov . Grand Master ; andin the Orders of the Temple and of Rome and the Red Cross of Constantine a Past G . Officer . We have also drawn attention to the generous support he was always giving and ready to give to our

Masonic Charitable Institutions , which , by his death , have lost one of their truest and best friends . But there are one or two circumstances connected with his career as a Mason which cannot fail to strike the reader as being most unusual . Not onl y was he an officer of three of our Provincial Grand Lodges—those of

Oxfordshire , Gloucestershire , and Suffolk—but in addition he was Past Master of a lodge in the Province of Norfolk , and a member of two of our most distinguished London Lodges , Moreover , among his contemporaries were some of the most

prominent- brethren of our time . Among those who were initiated in the Apollo University Lodge , No . 3 : 7 , in 18 56 , were Sir . M . HICKS . BEACH , Bart ., M . P ., Prov . Grand Master of Gloucestershire . and thelate Earlof LATHO . M , M . W . Pro G . Master

and Prov . G . Master of West Lancashire , to say nothing of those he was associated with in the Royal Alpha and Westminster and Keystone Lodges . He took part in all the principal events in English Masonry of the last 30 years and more . He was in liisplace in Grand

Lodge as one of the Grand Chaplains of the year on the 1 st December , 186 9 , when the Prince of WALES was introduced and had conferred upon him b y the late Earl of ZETLAND , then M . W . Grand Master , the rank of Past Grand Master . He was

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