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Freemasonry In The House Of God.
"The world admiring , admiring shall reqnost To learn , and your bright oaths pursue . " Somotoitbo ! " Bro . Cloqnot's peroration was in these words : And now , in conclnsion , dearly beloved " brethren of tho mystic tie , " let mo remind yon that you aro members of ono of the most sacred and honourable institutions on earth—an institution which T cannot better
characterize than as a DIVINE BONO OF HUMAN" BROTHERHOOD ; and therefore I wonld ask—yea , pledge yon , in this House of God , on this Holy Day , ever to walk worthy of yonr high calling . And my earnest prayer for you is , that ye may contiuuo to prove yourselves living stones of this glorious temple on earth ; and that , finally , each ono of you and all may bo found worthy of a place in the Higher and
Everlnsting Temple above , through Jesns Christ our Lord . So mote it bo !" The preceding is but an outline of Bro . Cloqnot ' s sermon , which was eloquent in expression , dignified in tone , and a masterly tribute to tho grandeur of Freemasonry . When it is remembered that the brethren Ho under tho ban of tho Church of Rome , and every effort has been made to destroy the Ordor . it is something to havo a clergyman of tho
National Church standing up in the pulpit and boldly announcing his attachment to the Craft . The thanks of Freemasons are due to Bro . Cloqnet , and although thoro was not a large muster of the brethren present to hear tho sermon , some of tho most foremost representatives of tho Lodges attended , and nn doubt wero as gratified as
we were with Bro . Cloqnet s defence of the noblest human institution in the world . It is a universal church , in which creeds and dogmas are unknown , but which embraces all that is pnro and holy of every faith . It is a passport to the ends of the earth , a bond that unites nations , which can never be severed till time is no more . — Norwich Argus
Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
We do not hold ourselves responsible for tlie opinions of our Correspondents . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . All Letters must bear tlie name anl address of the Writer , not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of good faith .
THE APPROACHING SCHOOL ELECTIONS .
To the Editor of the FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —Reforring to tho loader in the CHRONICLE of Satnrday , 25 th nit ., upon the above subject , and as necessarily must be tho case with only partial facts before yon , your comments on tho whole , to say the least , aro judicions . Yet there are individual cases upon those lists of candidates that appear
sad and neglected , and doubtless aro neglected by those who are rosponsible for sending them in the first instance to tho Institutions , but when the facts in connection therewith are explained—and thoso facts havo their counterpart in all our Provinces—it clearly shows many candidates are on thoso lists who never had a reasonable chance of being elected , thus unduly swelling an already heavy list of
applicants , and making it appear to the outsider , either that the Craft does not support its Institutions , whtn sending seventy-three boys to compete for sixteen vacancies , or that the Institutions are not doing what might be done with their large incomes voluntarily raised —neither of these propositions being true . For somo years past I have represented the Province of Devon at the London Elections of all our
great Charities , and I confine my remarks in reference to yonr comments on the approaching contest . To tho boy candidates hailing from tho Province of Devon for tho coming October Election you truly say , —of No . 7—E . E . Hawke—having made four applications already , with bnt one voto to his credit , " AVo presume he is under the fostering care of the Charity Committee of that Provinco . " Again
you say , "No . 11 , W . R . D . Foot , applies for the fourth timo , with not even one voto recorded for him . " True to the letter , but when it is explained both these boys—Hawko and Foot—havo long since been elected into the " Devon Educational Fund , " and are receiving tho benefits therefrom , I ask , Should not both these cases have been removed from the list of candidates , seeing no reasonable chanco exists of
either ever being elected , a 3 neither boy has the slightest influence or likelihood of obtaining votes outsido Devon , and the cases were never adopted or selectedby tho " Committee of Petitions . " This Committee fully investigates every case that is brought before it , and upon tho merits of the respective applicants gives the selected ones their whole and nndivided support . Take , for instance , the third
boy from Devon , No . 2 G—S . E . Loveridgo—whom yon say has boeri " more fortunate , bringing tohis credit 324 votes . " In this boy we havo the selected candidate of the Committee of Petitions , and without doubt he will be elected . Bear in mind , every candidate selected by iho Committee of Petitions for onr great Charities—whether Aged Mason , Widow , Boy , or
Girl—has been elected into tho respective Institutions for somo years past ; but this Oommitt . ee—call it what you will , that of Petitions , Charity Committee , or anything you like—is an Institution known now in nearly every Province of England ; its chief functions being to organise tho voting power of the Provinco in connection with the London Charities of our Craft ; to discuss tho merits of each case brought before it ; to select ( ho most descrvim / , and to give
to tho samo all the votes of tho Province coming into its possesion ; and standing by tho adopted candidates until they are elected . This Committee , from practice , knows its work , and knows accurately the voting strength of its Province , and is very careful not to adopt or select more cases than it believes can be carried in a given time with tho probable votes at its command . But here is the rub . This Committee has not , nor has any other body , the power to say to a Lodge or to individual brethren— " You must not send that
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petition for So-and-So ; wo cannot givo it support , and no chanco exists of its ever bei''g successful . " Hut , nevertheless , the ca < e goes no , tho Lodgo and brethren who , having conformed with certain laws of our Institutions , have tho independent right to not , send ease after on-JO up , quite irrespective of its Charity Committee , or the possibility of the poor applicant ever being eleeled . Who can say tlio brethren
act wisely in so doing—with no outside influence for the case , knowing well tho bulk of tho Province votes eoni" regularly into the hands of the Committee , who are pledged to use them for tin selected candidate of the Provinco ? This individual action i > n the part of tho Lodge , with no ultimate prospect of success , raises false hopes and ideas in the minds of candidates and friends . They , of course , being totally
unacquainted with the working , live on , election after election , hoping next timo it will "come off , " which , in this class of case , nine times out of ten , it does not . At last , the old man or tho widow dies ; and the boy or girl , as tho caso may bo , becomes disqualified by ago from further competition . Tn fact , to tell the truth , T fear the Lodges in many cases sign tho
petition of the applicant for tho London Charities to slave off wdiat othorwiso wonld be an application for some assistance from its funds ; or , to prevent this application being made , the petition is got up , and tho Lodge from which it emanates never givo even a proxy or think of it again , evcept when it may casually hear of its failure at tho elections again and again .
Tho question in my mind for somo timo past Iris been , whether tho laws of onr several Tnstita . tiovs—Hoys' and , Girls' especially — could not at least bo so modified , or altered , so far as the right exists of sending up petitions from Lodges or brethren without supervision . For instance it would bo well if instead of a Lodgo , as now , acting independently in sending up the petition of a candidate to tho Charities ,
by alteration of tho laws of tho Institutions , had to submit tho namo of its candidate to a Committee of tho Province—nearly all Provinces have snch Committees—or somo organisation in connection with the Provincial Grand Lodge that selects tho Charity cases for tho London Institutions , which could utilise its voting power . To this body , in my opinion , each caso in a Province that is proposed to bo sent to ono
or other of our Institutions , should bo submitted , in tho first place , to this Committee . The Committco would know something of tho merits of tho case—what its chanco of ultimate success was—what assistance the Lodge itself was prepared to givo tho candidate of its adoption—the amount of influence likely to bo obtained for tho caso outside tho Province—if tho Provinco votes and the influonco of
the Committco had already been given to othor deserving cases , so that for some time to eomo they wero powerless to help fresh ones . Tho Committee wonld at once see what chanco existed for the applicant beforo them , and if in the opinion of a majority no chance existed for the proposed aoplicant , thoy should possess tho
right of veto . With this restriction in force , tho absurdit y of having a list of seventy-threo boys to fill sixteen vacancies would not bo seen . Wondering how long it will be , at the present rate of progress , beforo we see one hundred candidates for ten places , I remain , Yours fraternally ,
CHARLES GODTSCTIALK , Representative of tho Committee of Petitions for Devon for all Masonic London Charities . 107 Devonshire-road , Holloway , N .
The Un-Masonic Trial.
THE UN-MASONIC TRIAL .
BRO . VOIGT versus BROS . CARR , LAKING , AND TREVOR . To the Editor of the FREEMASON ' CHRONICLE . Kendal , 28 th Sept . 1 SS 0 . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —In replying to Bro . Voigt ' s letter in your last , I will endeavour to make my remarks both concise , clear , and conclusive .
In tho first place , I never knew till I read it in what I will call "Pro . Voigt ' s First Epistle to tho Freemasons , " that ho had obtained tho " express permission of the Provincial Masonic authorities " for tho issue of his writ of action against Bros . Carr , Lakiug and myself ; and I should have been more astonished than I am at this statement had I not a suspicion that neither Lord Zetland , tho Provincial Grand
"Master for the North and East Hidings of Yorkshire , nor his Deputy , Bro . Dr . Bell , will be found to be included amongst tho " Provincial Masonic authorities '' ' ! o whom Bro . Voigt so obscurely refers . Secondly , I have to say that Bro . Vjigt ' . s suece ;; .- ; iu his demurrer to our statement of defence was a partial and not a comylete one , as ho appears to mo to insinuate , and that lie did not at . any time
abandon the action , as ho apparently wishes your readers to infer . If it was over " abandoned " by him , how citniii it to remain on tho Record of tlio Court in which ho had entered it ? No . Like a would-bo magician , who , whilst he is addressing his audience is at the sar . io time deceiving them , Bro . Voigt endeavours , in my estimation , to throw dust , in the eves of the Craft , by a si ' ppressio veii , which
naturally carries with it a saygestio falsi . My version , however , of the truth of the matter is as follows . After Ids partial success iu the Queen ' s Bench , and . after his appeal to his Provincial Grand Master , Lord Zetland ( which had been there forced , on him , so to speak , by Mr . Justice field ) had l ) ( , en decided against him , liro . \' i igt thought fit , for reasons best known ! o himself , to hold his hand . This was in 1 . 377 , whilst T was in Tndia , but towards Iho end
of 1 S 78 I . was made awave that tho action had not been withdrawn , and , that Bro . Voigt could proceed with it at any moment . I was al . o called upon for Iho n-i' -rn' -nf of expense ? ' in coennei . ion wiili my di I ' . 'iieo to this action , which , 'i . r . io . iu ( ' d to ah nit . 0 . 30 . Afier I had settled these , at the end of 18 /!! , T naturaliy looked for their repayment to the author of the action which had entailed them upon me , and I then called ou Bro . Voigt to pay my costs , or try the action he had
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Freemasonry In The House Of God.
"The world admiring , admiring shall reqnost To learn , and your bright oaths pursue . " Somotoitbo ! " Bro . Cloqnot's peroration was in these words : And now , in conclnsion , dearly beloved " brethren of tho mystic tie , " let mo remind yon that you aro members of ono of the most sacred and honourable institutions on earth—an institution which T cannot better
characterize than as a DIVINE BONO OF HUMAN" BROTHERHOOD ; and therefore I wonld ask—yea , pledge yon , in this House of God , on this Holy Day , ever to walk worthy of yonr high calling . And my earnest prayer for you is , that ye may contiuuo to prove yourselves living stones of this glorious temple on earth ; and that , finally , each ono of you and all may bo found worthy of a place in the Higher and
Everlnsting Temple above , through Jesns Christ our Lord . So mote it bo !" The preceding is but an outline of Bro . Cloqnot ' s sermon , which was eloquent in expression , dignified in tone , and a masterly tribute to tho grandeur of Freemasonry . When it is remembered that the brethren Ho under tho ban of tho Church of Rome , and every effort has been made to destroy the Ordor . it is something to havo a clergyman of tho
National Church standing up in the pulpit and boldly announcing his attachment to the Craft . The thanks of Freemasons are due to Bro . Cloqnet , and although thoro was not a large muster of the brethren present to hear tho sermon , some of tho most foremost representatives of tho Lodges attended , and nn doubt wero as gratified as
we were with Bro . Cloqnet s defence of the noblest human institution in the world . It is a universal church , in which creeds and dogmas are unknown , but which embraces all that is pnro and holy of every faith . It is a passport to the ends of the earth , a bond that unites nations , which can never be severed till time is no more . — Norwich Argus
Correspondence.
CORRESPONDENCE .
We do not hold ourselves responsible for tlie opinions of our Correspondents . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . All Letters must bear tlie name anl address of the Writer , not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of good faith .
THE APPROACHING SCHOOL ELECTIONS .
To the Editor of the FREEMASON ' S CHRONICLE . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —Reforring to tho loader in the CHRONICLE of Satnrday , 25 th nit ., upon the above subject , and as necessarily must be tho case with only partial facts before yon , your comments on tho whole , to say the least , aro judicions . Yet there are individual cases upon those lists of candidates that appear
sad and neglected , and doubtless aro neglected by those who are rosponsible for sending them in the first instance to tho Institutions , but when the facts in connection therewith are explained—and thoso facts havo their counterpart in all our Provinces—it clearly shows many candidates are on thoso lists who never had a reasonable chance of being elected , thus unduly swelling an already heavy list of
applicants , and making it appear to the outsider , either that the Craft does not support its Institutions , whtn sending seventy-three boys to compete for sixteen vacancies , or that the Institutions are not doing what might be done with their large incomes voluntarily raised —neither of these propositions being true . For somo years past I have represented the Province of Devon at the London Elections of all our
great Charities , and I confine my remarks in reference to yonr comments on the approaching contest . To tho boy candidates hailing from tho Province of Devon for tho coming October Election you truly say , —of No . 7—E . E . Hawke—having made four applications already , with bnt one voto to his credit , " AVo presume he is under the fostering care of the Charity Committee of that Provinco . " Again
you say , "No . 11 , W . R . D . Foot , applies for the fourth timo , with not even one voto recorded for him . " True to the letter , but when it is explained both these boys—Hawko and Foot—havo long since been elected into the " Devon Educational Fund , " and are receiving tho benefits therefrom , I ask , Should not both these cases have been removed from the list of candidates , seeing no reasonable chanco exists of
either ever being elected , a 3 neither boy has the slightest influence or likelihood of obtaining votes outsido Devon , and the cases were never adopted or selectedby tho " Committee of Petitions . " This Committee fully investigates every case that is brought before it , and upon tho merits of the respective applicants gives the selected ones their whole and nndivided support . Take , for instance , the third
boy from Devon , No . 2 G—S . E . Loveridgo—whom yon say has boeri " more fortunate , bringing tohis credit 324 votes . " In this boy we havo the selected candidate of the Committee of Petitions , and without doubt he will be elected . Bear in mind , every candidate selected by iho Committee of Petitions for onr great Charities—whether Aged Mason , Widow , Boy , or
Girl—has been elected into tho respective Institutions for somo years past ; but this Oommitt . ee—call it what you will , that of Petitions , Charity Committee , or anything you like—is an Institution known now in nearly every Province of England ; its chief functions being to organise tho voting power of the Provinco in connection with the London Charities of our Craft ; to discuss tho merits of each case brought before it ; to select ( ho most descrvim / , and to give
to tho samo all the votes of tho Province coming into its possesion ; and standing by tho adopted candidates until they are elected . This Committee , from practice , knows its work , and knows accurately the voting strength of its Province , and is very careful not to adopt or select more cases than it believes can be carried in a given time with tho probable votes at its command . But here is the rub . This Committee has not , nor has any other body , the power to say to a Lodge or to individual brethren— " You must not send that
Correspondence.
petition for So-and-So ; wo cannot givo it support , and no chanco exists of its ever bei''g successful . " Hut , nevertheless , the ca < e goes no , tho Lodgo and brethren who , having conformed with certain laws of our Institutions , have tho independent right to not , send ease after on-JO up , quite irrespective of its Charity Committee , or the possibility of the poor applicant ever being eleeled . Who can say tlio brethren
act wisely in so doing—with no outside influence for the case , knowing well tho bulk of tho Province votes eoni" regularly into the hands of the Committee , who are pledged to use them for tin selected candidate of the Provinco ? This individual action i > n the part of tho Lodge , with no ultimate prospect of success , raises false hopes and ideas in the minds of candidates and friends . They , of course , being totally
unacquainted with the working , live on , election after election , hoping next timo it will "come off , " which , in this class of case , nine times out of ten , it does not . At last , the old man or tho widow dies ; and the boy or girl , as tho caso may bo , becomes disqualified by ago from further competition . Tn fact , to tell the truth , T fear the Lodges in many cases sign tho
petition of the applicant for tho London Charities to slave off wdiat othorwiso wonld be an application for some assistance from its funds ; or , to prevent this application being made , the petition is got up , and tho Lodge from which it emanates never givo even a proxy or think of it again , evcept when it may casually hear of its failure at tho elections again and again .
Tho question in my mind for somo timo past Iris been , whether tho laws of onr several Tnstita . tiovs—Hoys' and , Girls' especially — could not at least bo so modified , or altered , so far as the right exists of sending up petitions from Lodges or brethren without supervision . For instance it would bo well if instead of a Lodgo , as now , acting independently in sending up the petition of a candidate to tho Charities ,
by alteration of tho laws of tho Institutions , had to submit tho namo of its candidate to a Committee of tho Province—nearly all Provinces have snch Committees—or somo organisation in connection with the Provincial Grand Lodge that selects tho Charity cases for tho London Institutions , which could utilise its voting power . To this body , in my opinion , each caso in a Province that is proposed to bo sent to ono
or other of our Institutions , should bo submitted , in tho first place , to this Committee . The Committco would know something of tho merits of tho case—what its chanco of ultimate success was—what assistance the Lodge itself was prepared to givo tho candidate of its adoption—the amount of influence likely to bo obtained for tho caso outside tho Province—if tho Provinco votes and the influonco of
the Committco had already been given to othor deserving cases , so that for some time to eomo they wero powerless to help fresh ones . Tho Committee wonld at once see what chanco existed for the applicant beforo them , and if in the opinion of a majority no chance existed for the proposed aoplicant , thoy should possess tho
right of veto . With this restriction in force , tho absurdit y of having a list of seventy-threo boys to fill sixteen vacancies would not bo seen . Wondering how long it will be , at the present rate of progress , beforo we see one hundred candidates for ten places , I remain , Yours fraternally ,
CHARLES GODTSCTIALK , Representative of tho Committee of Petitions for Devon for all Masonic London Charities . 107 Devonshire-road , Holloway , N .
The Un-Masonic Trial.
THE UN-MASONIC TRIAL .
BRO . VOIGT versus BROS . CARR , LAKING , AND TREVOR . To the Editor of the FREEMASON ' CHRONICLE . Kendal , 28 th Sept . 1 SS 0 . DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —In replying to Bro . Voigt ' s letter in your last , I will endeavour to make my remarks both concise , clear , and conclusive .
In tho first place , I never knew till I read it in what I will call "Pro . Voigt ' s First Epistle to tho Freemasons , " that ho had obtained tho " express permission of the Provincial Masonic authorities " for tho issue of his writ of action against Bros . Carr , Lakiug and myself ; and I should have been more astonished than I am at this statement had I not a suspicion that neither Lord Zetland , tho Provincial Grand
"Master for the North and East Hidings of Yorkshire , nor his Deputy , Bro . Dr . Bell , will be found to be included amongst tho " Provincial Masonic authorities '' ' ! o whom Bro . Voigt so obscurely refers . Secondly , I have to say that Bro . Vjigt ' . s suece ;; .- ; iu his demurrer to our statement of defence was a partial and not a comylete one , as ho appears to mo to insinuate , and that lie did not at . any time
abandon the action , as ho apparently wishes your readers to infer . If it was over " abandoned " by him , how citniii it to remain on tho Record of tlio Court in which ho had entered it ? No . Like a would-bo magician , who , whilst he is addressing his audience is at the sar . io time deceiving them , Bro . Voigt endeavours , in my estimation , to throw dust , in the eves of the Craft , by a si ' ppressio veii , which
naturally carries with it a saygestio falsi . My version , however , of the truth of the matter is as follows . After Ids partial success iu the Queen ' s Bench , and . after his appeal to his Provincial Grand Master , Lord Zetland ( which had been there forced , on him , so to speak , by Mr . Justice field ) had l ) ( , en decided against him , liro . \' i igt thought fit , for reasons best known ! o himself , to hold his hand . This was in 1 . 377 , whilst T was in Tndia , but towards Iho end
of 1 S 78 I . was made awave that tho action had not been withdrawn , and , that Bro . Voigt could proceed with it at any moment . I was al . o called upon for Iho n-i' -rn' -nf of expense ? ' in coennei . ion wiili my di I ' . 'iieo to this action , which , 'i . r . io . iu ( ' d to ah nit . 0 . 30 . Afier I had settled these , at the end of 18 /!! , T naturaliy looked for their repayment to the author of the action which had entailed them upon me , and I then called ou Bro . Voigt to pay my costs , or try the action he had