Grand Lodge of Missouri.

issouri occupies a justly eminent Masonic position. Many of the brightest and best of the Crafts have bowed at her Masonic altars and labored under hr ægis. From her, Illinois and other jurisdictions received Masonic light and authority to work, and her fraternal influence has extended around the world, thus becoming an endless chain of Masonic union. Her moral standard is hig, and ably she defends what she believes is right.

The sixty-fourth annual communication of the Grand Lodge was held in St. Lous, October 14th, 1884, October 16th, 1884, and it was an occasion of much interest and importance. Most Worshipful Lee A. Hall, Grand Master, presided, and two hundred and seven ten lodges were represented. The Grand Master especially directed attention to the action of the Grand Lodge, in 1882, concerning saloon-keeping by Masons, and reported a circuir thereon, issued by his order to the lodges. The substance of the matter appears in the following No one who uses intoxicating liquors to excess is in any sese worthy to be a partaker of our mysteries, nor should he be allowed to remain among is if he persists in doing so. This brings us back to the proposition that drunkenness and saloon-keeping are cognate offences, both alike foreign to our law, and to the spirit and principle of Freemasonry. This being true, the only conclusion to be deduced from he premises is, (1) That Masons who are saloon-keepers are guilty of un-Masonic conduct, for which they are liable to be expelled from the Order. (2) If those already members were liable to be expelled, certainly it was not proper that the petition for initiation of any person engaged in saloon-keeping should be received. I therefore instructed he lodges that no consideration would justify the lodge in making a saloon-keeper a Mason, and a petition from such a person should not be received. I also instructed our lodges that no brother engaged in saloon-keeping should under any circumstances, be selected to fill any office in the lodge, or to represent it in any way, on the ground that our officers are our representatives before the public, and will be so regarded. The Grand Lodge therefore cannot and will not allow anything to be done that will tend, even in;he slightest degree, to bring Masonry into disrepute."—Voice of Masonry.