Masonic Journeyings.

sanctuary of Masonry . With a slow step , yet with a confident trust , we journey along towards the sun at its meridian height , our minds all radiant with hope , filled with trust , like an inexperienced child of nature resting upon the bosom of a kind parent . So the candidate of Masonry has a trusting and confiding friend in the South , who with a watchful care observes the time and sees

that no one makes moral shipwreck of himself . Then tis footsteps are toward the West . With smiles of joy and tokens of friendship he commences the inclined plane of life as soon as he gains the summit . As it is with our life journey here , we anxiously look towards the cool evening shades of the West . So with the neophytehe is intended to repair to the westassured

, , that all have traveled the same exciting pathway . But still his mind is filled with ambition to press onward , to gain the great object of life , and as he approaches the terminus of his western journey he finds justice ready and willing to reward him for all labour and trouble , and pay him his wages . It is at the West gate of human life that we come to our manhood . It is here that we are

entitled to receive wages if ever . It is here that we need our earnings . At this point of our earthly existence we should have in store an ample supply of mental , intellectual and moral wealth that will recommend us at the East gate of life . Our journeyinss compel us to leave the west , and turn

our face to the east . AVe are obliged to leave that portion of life where we have borne the burden and heat of high twelve . Our eyes have become dim , and we can not longer distinctly see the sign . They have been filled with the tears of sorrow and grief ; and have sparkled with the exciting brilliancy of events ; but are now _ loosing their lustre , and the surrounding objects

are imperfectly seen . In former times our elastic step was firm , sure and strong . But now we begin , to trembeneath the ponderous weight of years . As we turn eastward on the journey of life , our hearing becomes somewhat impaired , and we can scarcely hear the word , and the nervous system is less sensitive to the touch ; and the brotherly token is not as accurately

felt , as when we passed the south gate , But , notwithstanding the failing of our senses , we can practice Masonic charity , and manifest brotherly love . As we trustingly pursue our journeyings our mind ' s eye turns to the east gate , for the grand focus of that true light , for which we have so long labored . Soin the course of events we reach the east gate of

human life , when God speaks to us as earthly pilgrims , " Let there be Light . " At this crisis the tenement of earth is left , aud the mind and spirit leaving the several stations of this existence , puts on immortality , and the sun of eternal glory in its divine effulgence arises and bids us a welcome to higher joys and a higher lift . — Mystic Star .

Obituary.

Obituary .

BEO . JOB AUSTIN

We regret to announce the death of Bro . Job Austin , P . M . and Sec . of Hornsey Lodge ( No . 890 ) . Bro . Austin was highly respected by a large circle of Masonic friends , and his loss will be deeply felt by the lodge in which he has long and efficiently performed the duties incident to his office .

The worthy brother ' s death , caused by htemorrhage of the lungs , took place at his residence , on Thursday , the Sth inst . His remains were interred at the Tower Hamlets Cemetery on Wednesday last , aud invitations Avere issued to the members of the lodge to assemble at the cemetery to pay the last respects to their departed brother .

The Late R .W. Bro. William Wellis

THE LATE R . W . BRO . WILLIAM WELLIS

P . M ., Hon . Prov . Depute Grand Master , P . Z . The melancholy task devolves upon us of announcing the death of the oldest Mason in Western India , which took place at Poona , on Tuesday evening , the 26 th July , 1870 , at the good old age of 72 . Our deceased brother truly earned for himself the title of

the ' ' Pather of Masonry in Western India , " for not only way he such in name , but he laboured diligently and incessantly in the cause of our Holy Order for fully 43 years ; his whole soul was iu Masonry , and he fulfilled all its behests to the very letter by his upriht and strictlMasouic and Christian life .

Hung y dreds of our brethren will miss the good old man , whose pride it was to dilate upon the precepts of our Order , and there is not one who ever spent an hour with Bro . Wellis that did not profit by it . We have lost in him a sincere friend and an able adviser . Bro . Wellis was the father of twenty-three children ,

six of whom , with his bereaved widow , survive him ; he took the earliest opportunity of initiating his sons into the mysteries of the Order he so dearly loved , and we earnestly hope that they may follow in his footsteps , and earn the same honour and esteem . Bro . Wellis was buried with Masonic honoursat

, his own special request : an account of the funeral has been kindly furnished to us . Our readers are aware of the difficulties attending a Masonic funeral in India , owing to the short time a body con be kept above ground , and more particularly so in this inclement season . We are informed that it

continued raining the whole of the evening that the funeral took place . Notwithstanding all these difficulties , tbe brethren of Lodge St . Andrew ' s , assisted by some of the brethren of Lodges Orion and Barton , did their sorrowful duty to the remains of their beloved Past Masterin a manner worthy of the

occa-, sion . Bro . J . C . Graham , an intimate friend of the deceased , performed the sad ceremony with great ability , and his feelings were frequently overcome during the solemn service . We understand that Lodge St . Andrew ' s will observe mourning for three months , as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased ,

aud we doubt not that Lodge Barton and the chapter and encampment with which he was connected will also do so . Bro . Wellis was one of the founders of Lodge Perseverance , which was opened under the English Constitution in 1829 and of Lodge E-ising Star of

West-, ern India ; he was also the founder of Lodge Barton at Lanowlee . He held the oflice of Honorary Depute Provincial Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Western India , aud for many years held the highest offices in lodge , chapter , encampment , and council . At the time of his decease he held the

office of P . E . C . of Ascalon Encampment , and P . Z . of Chapter St . Andrew ' s ; only a mouth before his death he assisted at the installation of the W . M . of Lodge Orion in the West . He was ahvays ready to take up any oflice that fell vacant , to prevent

inconvenience . It does not require any suggestion from us for all to unite in perpectuating the memory of Bro . Wellis in some manner befitting so great and good a Mason , and we hope the Provincial Grand Lodge of Western India ( of which he was a member from the date of