and foliage. The lodge room upstairs was effectively illuminated with chandeliers with the electric light in the same manner as in the dining saloon. Accommodations had been provided here for 300 or 400 Masons. Over against the walls of the Lodge room were arranged the banners of the Dist. Grand Lodge and of the different Lodges under the English and Scottish Constitutions. Behind the dias was placed against the wall a portrait of her Majesty the QueenEmpress in the robes of State.

Bro. Harold King, Deputy District Grand Master-in-charge, said, brethren, I have now to inform you of the object of this special com munication of the District Grand Lodge, which is, as you are well aware, the installation of H. R. H. the Duke of Connaught as District Grand Master in this presidency. That, it must be admitted by all, is a great honor conferred on this presidency; and I am sure I am only expressing the feelings of all the members of the District Grand Lodge of Bombay that we shall show him all loyalty and obedience. (Cheers.) I will only adduce one fact to show the interest his Royal Highness takes in Freemasonry in this district. He recently met with a rather severe accident which rendered him lame. He walks lame now; and he desires me to say that he hopes that the brethren will excuse his entering the District Grand Lodge limping, and with the aid of a stick. (Cheers.)

The undermentioned seven Past Masters of Lodges were directed to go out and receive his Royal Highness, and introduce him with due honors: Bros. R. Dickie, W. C. H. Gill, Shamrao Vithal, B. C. Pavree, H. W. Barrow, S. N. Wadia, and J. D. Pitt. 7:30 P. M., his Royal Highness was escorted into the Lodge room by the above mentioned brethren. His Royal Highness was accom panied by Col. Cavaye, his Military Secretary, Col. Becher, the Equerry-in-waiting, and Col. Woolridge, Deputy Adjutant-General, who are old Masons The District Grand Secretary read out the patent of his Royal Highness' appointment as District Grand Master of Bombay.

The prescribed ceremonial having been gone through, and the District Grand Chaplain, Bro. Rev. H. N. Midwinter, having offered an appropriate prayer, Bro. Harold King, amidst a fanfare of trumpets without, installed his Royal Highness in the chair of District Grand Master of Bombay.

His Royal Highness then appointed Bro. Harold King his Deputy, and invested him with the insignia of the office. His Royal

Highness announced that he re-appointed all the other officers holding office in the District Grand Lodge. H.R. H. also in the exercise of the privilege granted by the M. W.G. M., H. R.H. the Prince of Wales, and the Grand Lodge of England, to D.G. M.'s of conferring District Grand Lodge rank on a certain number of brethren in commemoration of the Jubilee of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen-Empress, conferred on Bro. W. H. Hussey the rank of Past Deputy District Grand Master (loud cheers) and on Bros. Framjee Dinshaw Petit and Rev. H. N. Midwinter, Past District Grand Wardens.

His Royal Highness said-Brethren, I rise to address you and to assure you of the high honor I feel it to have been this day invested as your Dist. G. M. (Cheers.) I feel the honor the more deeply, both from its coming from his Royal Highness the Grand Master of England, and from the brother at whose wish it has been conferred. During the time that I hold this office, brethren, I am sure you will find my first object and every endeavor would be to to do all I can to promote the interests of the Craft in general, and of this District Grand Lodge in particular. (Applause.)

Sir Henry Moreland then invested his Royal Highness with the jewel of a Past Grand Master and a collar of the office.

The collar was of green corded silk with lotus flower and thistle richly embroidered in silver and gold. The jewel was of 18-carat gold, very massive, with wreath of lotus and thistle, and St. Andrew in the

center.

The District Grand Secretary intimated that he had received congratulations from the District Grand Lodge of Bengal and of the Punjab, and from a number of other Lodges, as well as from brethren who could not be present, and in connection with the joyful occasion he had received from Bro. Ganesham Nilkunt, J.G. W., a check for Rs. 100 to be devoted to the Charity. Bro. Hussey also said that he had received her Majesty the QueenEmpress' reply to the address of congratulation sent by the District Grand Lodge in connection with the Jubilee of her Majesty's reign.

Bro. Hussey read the reply, which is as follows: "I thank the District Grand Master, and the District Grand Master Designate, and the officers and members of the District Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Bombay, for their kindly congratulations and good wishes."

His Royal Highness, the District Grand Master, closed the Lodge, and the brethren adjourned to the banquet hall. During the evening the band of the East Yorkshire Regiment played a selection of Music. After dinner the usual constitutional toasts were drunk.

After many toasts and speeches the proceedings terminated, the brethren felicitating each other on the great success by which they had been attended. A guard of honor of the East Yorkshire Regiment was in attendance. The brethren gave three hearty cheers as his Royal Highness' carriage drove off at about 11:30 P. M. London Freemason.

JESUS, THE CHRIST.

Notwithstanding the fact that the worshipers of the Sun-God in the personality of the Jewish Messiah, destroy faith in his very existence by the wilful perversity with which they insist upon maintaining for him an impossible biography, the origin, growth and specialties of the Christian faith in Jerusalem, demand the interposition of a human founder, and point, with conclusive testimony, to the influence of a noble Essenian of precisely the character attributed to the meek and gentle Nazarene.

The true founder of Christian Theology was Paul. This indomitable disciple was himself a Gnostic, and wrote in the true Cabbalistic spirit of the mystery of the Lord Jesus Christ.

But to the immediate followers of the beloved Master, to those who have heard his voice, lived in his holy presence, shared his sufferings, and witnessed his exalted powers, Jesus was no mystery, his existence no myth. They had often marveled at his words, and failed to understand that when he spoke from the simple standpoint of his humanity, he was one of themselves, and represented himself only as an imperfect mortal; but when he was "in the spirit," as he doubtless often was, he spoke as if he had indeed lived before Abraham; as of the "Son of God," the mysterious and longpromised Messiah, who temporarily inspired, without being the actual personalty of the man Jesus. The devotion which rose to enthusiasm, and subsequently to a faith which has survived the upheaval of dynasties, the rise and fall of empires, and the changes which have revolutionized the old earth and builded and rebuilded

it again and again, was not founded on a myth, a mistake, or an idle superstition.

When good, pure, divinely inspired and divinely acting men enter upon the scene, and this poor, degraded humanity of ours can look up to such an one and feel his kind hand healing their sicknesses, and hear his tender tone compassionating them, and bringing them very near to the awful majesty of the unknown God, translating that majesty into the pitying and strictly human character of a Father, who can wonder that such an one was deemed of as a God, and invested with all the popular attributes of that mediatorial Deity, whose existences and occasional appearances on earth, incarnate in human form, had been taught and believed in for countless ages? The Jews were well acquainted with this popular idea, and their great theological teacher, Paul, obviously favored it; hence it cannot excite surprise that many of the early Christians were disposed to invest the memory of their beloved Master with the same divine attributes that had been assigned to many another great and good man before. Whatever the simple followers of Jesus may have deemed of his divinity, it was his gospel of love, his pure life, his divinely compassionate nature, that so endeared his memory to suffering human hearts, and sustained the faith of his disciples to preach his gospel amidst the fires of persecution and the tortures of martyrdom. But the simplicity and practical beauty of this gospel of love died out, when it became entangled in the sophisms of learning, and identified with incomprehensible systems of metaphysical speculation. -Art Magic.

GRAND LODGE OF ONTARIO, A. F. & A. M.

The following report is from the Hamilton (Canada) Times of January 21st, The Grand Lodge of Ontario, it will be remembered, is the one that the Grand Master of Ohio took the MASONIC REVIEW to task for having published its proceedings in our issue of last January, it being characterized as irregular and clandestine. Upon the receipt of the Grand Master's Address we apologized as best we could for the omission in the MASONIC REVIEW for November. We trust all brethren will take due notice and govern themselves accordingly.

The Grand Lodge of Ontario, A. F. & A. M., held its thirteenth communication in the hall of the I..G.T., corner of James and

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King William streets, in this city, on the 18th and 19th inst. From pressure of business and other important reasons, such as the state of the roads in some of the rural districts of Ontario, many of the delegates appointed were unable to attend, but there was a good representation of the Lodges, and the interests of this Grand Body were well cared for by those to whom they were entrusted. throne was occupied by M. W. Bro. James Blois Smith, Grand Master. After the usual brotherly courtesies had been extended to the delegates from the various Provincial Lodges that were in attendance, and the opening ceremonies having been duly performed and opened in ample form, the usual committees were appointed. The Lodge was then called off from labor to refreshment till 7 PM. On resuming labor, the reports of those committees who had completed their work having been received, the M. W. G. Master, James Blois Smith, delivered the address from the throne. As this instructive document is very elaborate, containing matter which will be very interesting not only to the Craft, but as well to those outside the Order, it is to be published with an account of the proceedings of Grand Lodge and circulated among all those who are interested in the welfare and success, not only of this particular Order, but as well of the Craft throughout the world. Other business was proceeded with, and the Grand Lodge was called off till 9:15 Thursday morning.

A banquet was provided at the Franklin House.

After doing complete justice to the excellent repast which was provided by mine host, the following toast were given by the chairman, R. W. Bro. W. Amor:

"The Queen," drank with usual honors.

"The Prince of Wales and the Grand Lodge of England."

"The Craft throughout the World," responded to by a visiting brother.

"The Grand Officers of the Grand Lodge of Ontario, A. F. & A M., responded to by the Grand Master, M.W. Bro. J. Blois Smith and R. W. Bro. J. G. Yemen, who made an excellent address, describing how he was received by the Masons in Europe.

Bro. McVitty also told of his treatment by Freemasons in Quebec, England and Ireland.

M.W. Bro. Ruth made a few very appropriate remarks. After giving the toast, Our Host and Hostess," the company separated at the small hours, all delighted with the evening's enter

tainment.

THURSDAY'S SESSION. -Thursday, Jan. 19.-After receiving reports of committees and disposing of other business, the following members were elected to Grand Lodge offices for the present year: M. W. Bro. James Blois Smith, Hamilton (re-elected), Grand Master; R. W. Bro. W. E. Pethick, Bowmanville, D. G. M.; R. W. Bro. W. F. Edgar, Brockville, G.S. W.; R.W. Bro. J. R. Reid, Chatham, G.J. W.; R.W. and R. Bro. E. J. Burgess, Strathroy,