MASONIC.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 859, 17 August 1888, Page 7

MASONIC.

Having reopened the Masonic column in the M-4.1t/, under the supervision qf a Master in the Craft, we shall he glad to receive from Secretaries of Lodges, and brethren generally, short reports of Lodge meetings and Masonic events of all hinds likely to be of interest to nembefs of the craft, AH correspondence for this column to be addressed to the Masonic Editor, New Zealand Mail,

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. K.T. (Auckland).— In 1292 it was proposed, in the council of Salzberg, to incorporate in one Order the ICnights -Templar, Teutonic, and Hospitaller. j,B, No, the sign is not made use of at all in England. . Mason (Wellington).—lf you will call on us we shall be glad to give you the required information. Fellow Craft.— The subscription to the paper you mention is only five shillings. FAVOURS RECEIVED. Tty o EL&spb, Canadian Craftsman, Masonic Chronicle, Alba filasonica, Rivista Masonica del Peru, Chaipo ' tj’Uniyju, apd XL? Dauhiitto. WATERLOO LODGE. This Lodge held its regular monthly meeting on Wednesday,, Bth in»t., the attendance ; being very good. The First Degree was conferred on. a candidate by the R.W.M. ■ ,Bro.,.Masters in aq a,ble .maimer, great assia-; tance being rendered by his officers. A; ballot was also taken for two joining bretli.j Ben, and Resulted favourably for both. After; ..transacting some furfebgr-,business the Lodge: was closed at 10 p,m, . GENUINE CHARITY. \ The care of children is an all provalent topic with the Masons of France, who have invited all lodges to consider the subject, • and to transmit essays to the Central Grand Lodge of the A.Laud A.'. Rite for.publication upon the Centennial of:tho Great Revo-: lutioc. ■ - •• i : ! ■ * . . • ;., A person who has not dwelt in Pans’ cannot imagine the interest taken by the in-! habitants of that city in providing for the: future of chidren, although a man may spend] years in the gay capital without seeing a; child of tender age. One of the cardinal; duties of French Masonry evidences itself in; the adoption 6f orphans,- as will be.seen in a; notice of the Festival of the Scottish Grand •, Symbolic Lodge, announced to be held on December 4th, and to be presided over by Bro. Floquet, President of the Chamber of Deputies, The programme reads as follows ;

‘The fete will commence at two o’clock,' and will be composed Ist. Presentation of children for adoption ; 2nd. A concert; 3rd. A banquet, to be followed by a ball.’ Children thus presented are not the offspring of Masous, but of poor parents, and at times foundlings for whose care and maintenance a member of the Lodge becomes financially responsible. It frequently occurs that a Lodge visits in a body some charitable institution in the environs of Raris, and its members adopt a number of its inmates. THE INEFFABLE NAME. The mandate, forbidding God’s holy name to be taken in vain, would seem to reflective Masons to bs a superfluity, inasmuch a 3 they are told that the Word has been lost, and those, communicated at various stages in the mysteries, are, at the best, mere substitutes for the Ineffable Name of the Lord, to which Solomon dedicated tho Temple.. Despite unremitting researches, the most intelligent Egyptologists have failed to discover a decisive interpretation of the symbolism of the Nile country, which appears to have. been designed to mystify rather than to elucidate. Assuredly, the priesthood of Egypt were at heart monotheists, otherwise Herodotus would not have recorded their possession of a Supreme Deity, whose name it ia unlawful to mention. As Mo3es was learned in all their wisdom, he was undeniably acquainted with this Ineffable Word, and from him it may have descended to the priesthood of Israel. The substitute in universal use among the Jews, for even tho written name, never pronounced by them, wherein they differ from tho Christians, was originally not a radical Hebrew word, but borrowed from their Pheenician neighbours. Adonai, the Lord, ia derived from Adonis, a personation of the Sun during its beneficent season ; an imaginary deity, worshipped by Canaanites, whose figurative destruction forms the basis for the poetical legend of Venus and Adonis, fabricated by Greek romancers. To the Mason, the taking of the Lord’s name in vain designates commission of peijury, the most serious offence inscribed upon the Masonic calendar. *. ■ "

pfiILDRjjJN. Great is their loss' whq nqt learned to share The joys and sorrows of a littje child ; Full oft it has my soul of caro beguiled, To join their harmless play; for then despair Fled from mo, and onoe more I seemed to bo ' As young and innocent as when I went, Led by dear mother’s hand in sweet content, To gather wild flowers—list the minstrelsy Of uncaged birds—when bees and butterflies Were°on the wing, and all the world seem’d fair. Sure all things here were meant by God to share In universal happiness, which lies .Within our reach were each of us as mild And truly wise as when all Nature on us smiled.