Show THE lOUNOEST FflCCMASOM i I Ceremony I Adopltae Ierfaneed lrha lla Inn > Mnnlh old Upon Master Sydney Frederick Porb has been conferred by the lodge of which hale father VAl a foundation member the title of the youngest ma ton In Iho world nay a contributor to the SI Ixiul Republic While Ibo universal eonitltutlon of the masonic order provide that no one shall join the order unlll hn become 21 year of ngp lo < lao Jubilee ot lIerherloD South Africa working under the Dutch con dilution performed for him the ceremony cere-mony of adoption when be was n month old The lad was born Nor 3 188S of nngllsh parent ills father William IVirbcn wine then secretary of Oho llarhcrton dock exchange and Ii I at present the manager of one ot thn tnluable mining properties at Johannesburg Johan-nesburg Ibo small apron used for Ilia ceremony was made from thin skin of nn African kid 1 1 for lire occasion It III I the chief treasure of Master Sydney Syd-ney collection of valuables dear t I Juvenility The lumen of the Transvaal nmentcd nt length coal 1 enthusiastically enthusias-tically upon the unique rite On Bun day last said one of lima leading Journals Jour-nals was performed In Masonic hall a ceremony which wn believe hu never before been witnessed In South Afrlcii It at all Tho ceremony In question mien no lens I than the adoption by Ixxlgo Jubilee working under the Dutch constitution ol the Infant ton ot imp of Itt foundation member 1 W rorhe lly the ceremony of adoption adop-tion Oho Infant IA I admitted so n hoots In teen masonry the oaths and obligations being taken on hums behalf be-half by the warden of tile lodge IUt sponiora of time lodge Itself tonal all lie members acting In that capacity anal undertaking than masonic gusr dlanihlp of the child In much Ibo someway some-way AI sponsor nt a baptism At the ago ot 21 years thin Ix > wl > may enter and lake part In Iho working of Oho lodge without undergoing uny of thus usual Initiator tcrrmonlc |