within this Jurisdiction, will watch with anxious interest and prayerful hope your progress towards a speedy and happy recovery.

May the Great Captain of our Salvation, whose sworn Servant and Soldier you are, endue you with such fortitude that in this your hour of trial you fail not, and may He in His own good time restore you to health and happiness, so that your great talents and high principles may be retained here on earth for the service of God and the advantage of the Nation for many years to come.

The Lord Jehovah, through Christ our Savior, send the Comforter upon you, and give you and yours Their Heavely Peace!

On behalf of the Great Priory of Canada,

W. J. B. MACLEOD MOORE, G. C. T.,

DANIEL SPRY,

Gand Chancellor.

Great Prior.

Which appears in the Proceedings as a memorandum, and made necessary to carry out the following resolution:

Resolved, That the M. E. the Great Prior appoint a Committee to prepare an Address expressing sympathy with our distinguished Brother, J. A. Garfield, President of the United States, in suffering from the effects of the dastardly attempt made upon his life.

The kindly expressions of sorrow and sympathy for us as a nation and as Templars by our Fraters of Canada, as also those of Her Gracious Majesty, during our dark days of grief, lay us under deep and lasting friendship to Canada and England. And we fervently pray Heaven that they may ever be spared the bitter trials through which we have passed. May the dastardly hand of the assassin be paralyzed ere it be raised against the Queen of England.

M. E. Sir Knight W. J. B. MacLeod Moore of La Prairie, Quebec, was, by acclamation, re-elected Grand Prior.

R. E. Sir Knight Daniel Spry of Barrie, Ontario, was reelected Grand Chancellor.

The following clipping from one of the Provincial newspapers comes to us as a part of the proceedings, and we give it in full:

GREAT PRIORY OF CANADA-MASONIC KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Referring to a telegram from Montreal, which appeared in this journal on the 19th ult., disapproving of the proposal to hold a special assembly of Great Priory to receive A. Staveley Hill, Esq., M. P., Grand Chancellor of England, who bears a

message from H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, the St. John's Globe, after copying the paragraph in question remarks:

"As the Prince of Wales is head of the English branch of the Order in Canada it could hardly be considered improper in any way to convene the Grand Priory to receive his delegate and message."

It may be pleasing to the Commander of one of the Encampments of the Scottish branch of the Order in Canada, to know that the Prince of Wales is not the head of the English branch in Canada, and in fact there is only one head for the whole Templar Order in Canada, viz., Col. W. J. B. Macleod Moore, La Prairie, who was unanimously elected Great Prior of the Dominion of Canada by Great Priory at its recent annual assembly, held in Hamilton, on the 12th of July last. On the same occasion the statutes were amended and among others the following was enacted as Statute I.: "The public interest of the Order in the Dominion of Canada shall be regulated by a general assembly of all the preceptories on record in Canada, represented by their properly qualified officers, etc., under the style and title of the National Great Priory of Canada, of the United Religious and Military Orders of the Temple and of St. John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes and Malta, and said Great Priory shall have the supreme and exclusive jurisdiction over all Preceptories and Knights Templar, and Knights of Malta in and for the Dominion of Canada."

While the Masonic Knights Templar of Canada hold the Prince of Wales in high esteem, they no longer recognize him or the Convent General as having any control over them, and the Great Priory is as supreme over the whole Dominion in Templar matters as is the Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia over lodges of Freemasons in that Province. On one point our namesake down by the sea may rely, the Templars of Canada have declared and will maintain their complete independence, and they trust their Scottish Fraters will see the wisdom of uniting with Great Priory and assist in making the Christian Order of the Temple an united and compact body in this Great Dominion of ours. Canada for the Canadians is not an unsavory doctrine, even in Templarism.

Since writing the above we are in receipt of the following paper, which we give in full for the information of our readers:

NATIONAL GREAT PRIORY OF THE UNITED ORDERS OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR AND MALTA FOR THE DOMINION OF CANADA, V. D. S. A.

THE GREAT PRIOR,

LAPRAIRIE, PROV. OF QUEBEC, 21st Day of January, A.D. 1882.

To all Preceptors and Fraters of the Orders of the Temple and Malta in the said Jurisdiction:

VERY DEAR BRETHREN:-It is with the deepest feelings of profound sorrow

and regret that I take this opportunity to make known to you the death of our Very Eminent Frater Thomas Douglas Harington, Past Great Sub-Prior of the Dominion and Representative of the Great Priory of England and Wales, which sad event took place at his residence in Prescott, Ont., on Friday, the 13th January, 1882.

Our Brother had passed the allotted span of life, being in his seventy-fourth year at the time of his decease, and the "All Merciful God" had vouchsafed to him, not only length of years and of honors, but also a comparative freedom from pain, disease and decrepitude during his Earthly Pilgrimage. He passed away with great suddenness, while conversing with his family in the evening twilight, after having spent the day in his usual health and activity-one momentary pang and all was over; "The Silver Cord was loosed, the Golden Bowl broken, and the spirit had returned to God who gave it."

Brother Harington was born at Windsor, England, on the 7th June, 1808, and was descended on his father's side from a good old English family, while he inherited from his mother a portion of the renowned lineage of the gallant Douglas line. He spent his early life as a midshipman in the Royal Navy and afterwards as an officer in the East India Company's Merchant Service. In 1832 he became a resident in Canada, and shortly afterwards entered the Civil Service of the Crown, in which he remained until his retirement some four years ago, having obtained the position of Deputy Receiver General, closing a service of forty-six years without spot or stain.

Brother Harington received the light of Masonry in 1843, and from first to last was an earnest and energetic worker in the Craft. He was deservedly honored by his brethren by the highest offices in their gift; having been repeatedly elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, and Grand First Principal of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Canada. On the 10th April, 1854, he was installed a Knight Templar in the "Hugh de Payens " Preceptory at Kingston, Ont., and bringing to the chivalric Order the same energy and zeal that he had given to Craft and Capitular Masonry, he soon obtained the highest and most honorable position the Sir Knights his brethren could confer upon him.

As was but right, his funeral which took place on Tuesday, 19th January, was deemed a fitting occasion for showing the love and esteem in which his memory is held by his brethren. The Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada, assisted by several Past Grand Masters and other distinguished brethren, conducted the burial ceremonies. A large number of Masons from all parts of Canada attended, while the Cosmopolitan character of the Craft was well illustrated by the presence in the procession of the two Lodges, the Chapter and the Commandery of Knights Templar belonging to Ogdensburg, New York. I have much pleasure in publicly ten

dering the cordial thanks of the Great Priory of Canada to the Eminent Commander and Sir Knights of the above mentioned Templar body for the chivalric courtesy with which they volunteered and gave their services as an escort to the remains of the deceased.

The body of our lamented brother was interred in the old "Blue Church Burying Ground," in Augusta, near the town of Prescott, where he had often expressed a wish to be laid at rest; an historic spot, where under the shade of the evergreen pines lie sleeping so many of the United Empire Loyalists of the surrounding country. To the revered company of these men of true Faith, Loyalty and Honor, one more fitting companion is now added, for of a surety no man more true and faithful in his reliance upon his Divine Savior, more loyal to his Queen and country, and more honorable and generous to his fellow men therein reposes, than Thomas Douglas Harington, my old, true and valued friend, whom we all so deeply lament. "VERY PLEASANT HAS THOU BEEN TO ME MY BROTHER."

WM. J. B. MACLEOD MOORE,

Grand Cross of the Temple, Great Prior Dom. of Canada.

CONCLUSION.

After many hours strangely mingled with bitter and sweet, we lay down our pen, and fastened with the golden cord of brotherly love, place before you the result of our labors for your perusal. Moments of joy and of sadness have been spent in reviewing the proceedings of sister jurisdictions. Much that is gratifying has been brought to our notice.

strife, dissensions or disThe causes of discord, if past, and on the ruins a

Little that bears the impress of couragement, has been met with. any, have been buried deep in the monument has been reared on the broad basis of charity. So much that breathes of sorrow has been wafted us from other states, that all differences have been swept away by the sweet hand of Pity, and all disputes are obliterated by the more recent scenes of distress and devastation which have appealed to sympathy and brotherly kindness, and whose return has been words which were as "apples of gold in pictures of silver." Hearts have been nearer drawn, ties more strongly cemented than ever before, foundations for future prosperity have been laid, and pillars twined with the sweet flowers of thought and feeling have been reared, which will grow stronger and more beautiful till united hands shall build the triumphal arch to complete the structure.

Let Michigan remember the homes swept away, the hearthstones made desolate, and mingle her tears with those at home and abroad to whom the sun of prosperity seems for the present to be obscured. On the ruins of the past, on the mounds of buried hopes, let ours be the hands to build