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in the most fraternal spirit , and a donation to the Life-boat Fund was promptly voted . It is to be regretted that means have not been adojifced for bringing the proposal for a Life-boat directly before all our lodges , as we feel sure that the

object is in itself so noble as to merit universal approval . As an instance of the value of a good example , we may mention that a visiting brother promised to propose in two lodges with which he was connected that the excellent precedent set by Doyle's Lodge be adopted by them .

We Avere much interested m a discussion which took place among the brethren of Doyle ' s Lodge as to whether the Guernsey papers had been justified in quoting our articles , seeing thafc Freemasonry is a secret society . The consideration of

the question resulted in the apparently unanimous feeling that the publication of judicious extracts from the FKEEMASONS' MAGAZINE by the newspaper press had a decided tendency to advance the general interests of the order as Avell as to remove

erroneous opinions on the part of outsiders . It m-By be Avell again to remind those who misunderstand the objects and scope of Freemasonry thafc although it is secret in its working the principles upon which it is founded and the results of its operations are such as may fearlessly be made public .

It appears that the editor of the Guernsey Star is a Craftman , and although Bro . Talbot has not taken any position in the order we may nevertheless be glad thafc a gentleman so much respected is connected with us- It is also said that the

Bailiff of Guernsey , Sir Peter Stafford Carey is a Freemason , but we are unable to verify the fact .

In finally parting with our Guernsey brethren we experienced a pang which no Avords can adequately express . For all the pure spontaneous kindness which was shewn to us during a period of long-continued weakness and suffering Ave shall

feel ever indebted , and Avhenever Ave may have the opportunity Ave shall be eager to again visit la telle Ouernesey and the brethren of Doyle ' s Lodge . In the words of our immortal Brother , Robert Bums , we felt at parting : —

Adieu ! a Ueart-fe . lt , Avarm adieu ! Dear brothers of the mystic tie . " and inwardly our heart reiterated the great poet ' s good wishes for Masonry with regard to all the

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lodges and brethren in Her Majesty ' s Duchy of Normandy : — " May freedom , harmony , and love , Unite you in tbe grand design , Beneath tbe Omniscient eye above , The glorious Architect Divine . " J . A . H .

Ears Of Wheat From A Cornucopia.

EARS OF WHEAT FROM A CORNUCOPIA .

By Bro . D . MTOIUY LYON , A . M ., Masonic University of Kentucky , U . S . ; Corresponding Member of the Union of German Freemasons , Leipsic ; one of the Grand Steviards in the Grand Lodge of Scotland ; P . G . S . W . of ArysUire ; author of the "History of Mother Kiliwning , " Sfc .

FEEEMASONEY IN THE SCOTS GEEYS A CENTUEYAGO . FeAV know that of the Military Lodges of which in former times Scotland was so prolific , the lodge originally attached to the Royal North British Dragoons AA as erected by The Mother Lodge , —neither

is there any record of the fact preserved at Kilwinning . It is impossible UOAV to fix the date of this charter ; bufc seeing that the lodge had existed "for a very great length of time " prior to 1770 , it is not unlikely thafc ifc Avas one of the oldest of

the speculative daughters of the Mother Lodge , and it can be no great stretch of imagination to suppose that among its original members Avould be found some of the heroes of Dettingen , where in 1743 the Greys are said to have covered

themselves Avith glory . The " Scots Greys Kilwinning" having through the perils of Avar become dispossessed of its warrant of constitution , Colonel the Honourable William Master of Napier

( afterwards Gth Lord Napier ) and other officers ( their regiment being then quartered at Edinburgh ) , petitioned for a charter from the Grand Lodge of Scotland—compliance with their prayer being urged on these grounds , viz ., " that they

for a very great length of time had held a regular Lodge in the said Regiment under the authority of the Ancient Lodge of Kilwinning ; that through the many hazardous enterprises in which they had been engaged in the service of their king and

country , they had not only lost their charter , bufc their whole records ; and that they were willing still to associate together for the true end of Masonry in a regular Lodge " to be held in the regiment . The following minute , while showing

the success which attended the efforts to resuscitate under ne * . v auspices this old military lodge , is interesting from the glimpse it affords of the proceedings in connection AA'ith its reconsecration