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Caste Qualifications.
For the foregoing reasons we are of opinion that Parsees are eligible to be admitted to the mysteries and privileges of Freemasonry , care and due precaution being taken that the candidates are of good repute , which must be deemed an essential element in all cases . And while we
are unprepared to say that men professing the religion of the Hindoos , believing in the plorious Architect of Fleaven and Earth , and practising the pure principles of morality , can be excluded from a participation in such mysteries , yet for
the reasons we have expressed , great caution should be observed , and vigilant enquiries made to ascertain whether a candidate of the religion professed by the Hindoos is , ou is not , a fit and proper person to become a Freemason .
It does not seem to us requisite to enjoin a candidate ( not being Jew or Christian ) to make the Book on which he is obligated ' the rule and guide of his faith '; words may easily be selected and used to meet the exigencies of such cases , and we think without any violation of the forms and
ceremonies adopted by English Masons . " ( Signed ) J . S . S . HoPWOOD , President . JAMES MASON , Vice-President .
this report was ordered to be entered on the minutes , and the Grand Secretary was instructed to lay it before the Grand Master . On 1 st November the report was ordered to be printed and a copy sent to each member of the Board , but apparently the subject was never brought before the Grand Lodge . — " Indian Freemason . "
****************** I am not in sympathy with the idea that Masonry punishes a man because he has been convicted by the criminal courts of an offence . While the criminal offence and the Masonic offence may arise out of the same act , that act constitutes entirely independent offences so far as the municipal and Masonic aspects of the case are concerned . —Frank T . Lodge , Michigan .
**¦* - **« - * - *»* The temple of King Solomon has long since been destroyed , but Freemasonry , which exemplifies the location of the temple , and transmits the legend of its building , has
defied the ravages of time , withstood the persecutions of ignorance , bigotry and intolerance , and to-day stands in its beauty like a Corinthian column in a desert of ruin , without a rival in point of numbers and stability of organisation . — W . D . Henderson , Tennessee .
Scotch Humour.
SCOTCH HUMOUR .
THE visit of our esteemed Bro . Frank Green P . J . G . W ., Lord Mayor of London , to Glasgow , in some of the pomp and splendour he is accustomed to be associated with in the great metropolis , has aroused the mirth of our worthy contemporary the " Glasgow
Evening- News , " which refers to the matter in the following terms : What the Glasgow Corporation requires ( if I may be pardoned the digression ) is a Mace . How we have managed to struggle through the centuries without such a weapon , and gained the giddy eminence we occupy among corporations , I cannot conceive . It betrays a pitiful disregard for detail in the civic mind of Scotland .
Only the other clay ( thanks to Biailic Ferguson ) we got a . city banner for the first time , and I hope we are proud of it now that we have it ; by some other unknown benefactor's enterprise the keeper of the Citv Chambers , who has hitherto plodded along unostentatiously and efficiently in plain tweeds , or broad-cloth , when occasion called for it , was for the first time on Friday apparelled wondrously
in a new uniform in colour and cut recalling the valiant Robin Hood and Lord Nelson . These innovations lead us to hope that , by-and-bye , we , too , shall have a Mace , and a Macer , whose salary might begin at , £ 500 , and work up in a year or two bv the customary process to three or four times that amount . I hope that whoever the lucky person elected to the office may be , he took a lesson
in the deportment of the office on Friday , and saw the way the head of the weapon was permitted to hang outside the window of his lordship's chariot . It was the most bewitching thing ! It looked at one moment like a substitute for a Mayor , and I feared that after all his lordship had not been able to come to Glasgow ; at another moment it seemed as if someone were unwell , and perforce compelled to take a more concentrated interest than usual in the street paving
of Glasgow . But anyhow , whatever the illusion , it is enough that there was the Mace—a rakish Mace , a regular jolly dog of a Mace temporarily indisposed—sticking with its head outside the window and its feet within , blocking the Lord Mayor ' s view of the Second City , and expressing whole lectures upon England and the Sense of Humour . The Sword perhaps projected from the opposite window , but I cannot say with certainty that it did so .
As for the "ensemble —the coach , the bays , the carriages , the Jeames de la Pinches standing behind—all was harmony and the most genteel taste . I have often si ghed for the revival of our annual Carters' Trip ; nosv I know that the Carters' Tri p at its best was a
Scotch Humour.
meretricious promenade ad captandum vulgus . I love survivals that are not incongruous—old ways , old costumes , old ceremonialsand ever since Friday I am doing my best to reconcile the Livermore Minstrel sort of thing with my ideas of the monster London with American engineers burrowing in her entrails , and her clerks attired in can hats and frockers , and every mediaeval ideal of hers
shoved behind her , long ago and far away . It was a glorious—an unforgettable spectacle , on Friday , and it seemed to explain many things hitherto crepuscular . Now I understand why Scotsmen , once they have gone to London , never take the highway home again . It is because they can see the Lord Mayors Show once a year for nothing , and indulge their native economy and their racial sense of
the ludicrous at the same time . A sight like that of ind . iy would reconcile myself to residence in the Metropolis . They might shut up every other entertainment—the theatres and halls , the Crystal Palace , the Commons , and the Zoo if they left me this—the darling Quaker Oats , tremulous like a blame-mange upon his perch ; the lumbering chariot , and the slightly-indisposed Mace leaning out of the window .
And in other ways the pageant of Friday was a lesson . It not only suggested the reason why London , of all the great municipalities of this or any other country , is the most helplessly antiquated and inept , but k threw a lig ht upon the vast and vital differences between the English and us . Manchester and other English provincial cities are content now-a-days to take their newspapers and their ideals
from London , of which these cities are thereby made ia sort of distant suburbs . Manchester , probably , would delight in the pomp of Friday , and reverence its " antiquity , " its " quaintness / ' its atmosphere of Wardour Street romance . But the lumbering chariot and its grotesques jolting over our fairly honest streets was something a million miles , away from - us and our notions of state and circumstance . A parade of Indian sachems would have struck in the
general Scottish heart a more sympathetic note . We looked and ( let this in politeness go no further than ourselves ) we laughed . We saw London—the real old London of Dick AVhittington and his Cat , which we thought never existed out of fairy books and pantomime ; and , having seen it , we went up the close of the Chartered Accountant and House Factor and laughed . After all there is fun in the world yet . ******************
The Theatres, &C.
THE THEATRES , & c .
AVENUE . 8 . 30 , The Night of the Party . Matinee , Wednesday , 2 . 30 . CENTURY ( late Adelphi ) . Will be opened , early in September , with The Whirl of the Town . COMEDY . On 2 nd September . When w : were Twenty-one . COURT . On 5 th September , a new play , by Stuart Ogilvie .
CRITERION . On Saturday , 14 th September , Mr . Charles Wyndham and Mr . Arthur Bourchier will produce an original Comedy , by Mr . R . C . Carton . DALY'S . 8 . 15 , San Toy . Matinee , Saturday , 2 . 30 . DRURY LANE . In active preparation for production in September , a new and original Drama bv Cecil Raleigh .
DUKE OF YORK'S . 8 . The Bishop ' s Candlesticks . S . 45 , A Royal Rival . GAIETY . 8 , The Toreador . Matinee , Wednesday , 2 . GLOBE . 8 , H . M . S . Irresponsible . Matinee , Wednesday and Saturday , 2 . 30 . GT . QUEEN STREET . 8 . 15 , A Roval Betrothal . 9 , Charley ' s
Aunt . Matinee , Wednesday and Saturday , 3 , HER MAJESTY'S . Mr . Tree ' s autumn season will open early in October . IMPERIAL . 8 . 30 , A Man of his Word . Matinee , Wednesday , 2 . 30 . LYCEUM . On oth September , Sherlock Holmes . LYRIC . 8 , The Silver Slipper . Matinee , Wednesday , 2 . 30 .
PRINCE OF WALES'S . Tuesday , 27 th August , 8 , Becky Sharp . SAVOY . 8 . 15 , The Emerald Isle . Matinee , Saturday , 2 . 30 . STRAND . 8 . 20 , Newspaper Nuptials . 9 , The Talk of the Town . Matinee , Wednesday and Saturday , 3 . TERRY'S . 8 . 15 , The Lady Wrangler . 9 , The Giddy Goat . VAUDEVILLE . 8 , You and I . 9 , Sweet and Twenty . Matinee , Wednesday , 2 .
GRAND . Next week , 7 . 45 , Serving the Queen . OPERA HOUSE , CROUCH END . Next week , S , Miss Muriel Wylford ' s Repertoire Company . SURREY . Next week , 7 . 45 , The Bellringer . ALPIAMBRA . 7 . 45 , Variety Entertainment , The Gay City , Inspiration , & c . AQUARIUM . Varied performances , World's Great Show , & c .
CANTERBURY . 8 , Variety Entertainment . EMPIRE . 8 , Variety Entertainment . Les Papillons , & c . LONDON- PAVILION . 7 . 45 , Variety Entertainment . Saturday , 2 . 30 also . METROPOLITAN . S , Variety Entertainment . OXFORD . 8 , Variety Entertainment . Saturday 2 . 15 also . PALACE . 7 . 45 , Variety Entertainment . American Biograph , & c . TIVOLI . 7 . 30 , Variety Entertainment . Saturday , 2 . 15 also .
CRYSTAL PALACE . Varied attractions daily . Grand Naval and Military Exhibition . Fireworks every Thursday and Saturday . EARL'S COURT . Military Exhibition . ¦ EGYPTIAN HALL . 3 and 8 , Mr . J . N . Maskelyne's entertainment .
LONDON HIPPODROME . 2 and 8 , Varied attractions . MADAME TUSSAUD'S ( Baker Street Station ) . Open daily . Portrait models of modern celebrities , & c . ST . JAMES'S HALL . 8 , Mohawk Moore and Burgess Minstrels . Matinee , Monday , Wednesday , Thursday and Saturday ,
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Caste Qualifications.
For the foregoing reasons we are of opinion that Parsees are eligible to be admitted to the mysteries and privileges of Freemasonry , care and due precaution being taken that the candidates are of good repute , which must be deemed an essential element in all cases . And while we
are unprepared to say that men professing the religion of the Hindoos , believing in the plorious Architect of Fleaven and Earth , and practising the pure principles of morality , can be excluded from a participation in such mysteries , yet for
the reasons we have expressed , great caution should be observed , and vigilant enquiries made to ascertain whether a candidate of the religion professed by the Hindoos is , ou is not , a fit and proper person to become a Freemason .
It does not seem to us requisite to enjoin a candidate ( not being Jew or Christian ) to make the Book on which he is obligated ' the rule and guide of his faith '; words may easily be selected and used to meet the exigencies of such cases , and we think without any violation of the forms and
ceremonies adopted by English Masons . " ( Signed ) J . S . S . HoPWOOD , President . JAMES MASON , Vice-President .
this report was ordered to be entered on the minutes , and the Grand Secretary was instructed to lay it before the Grand Master . On 1 st November the report was ordered to be printed and a copy sent to each member of the Board , but apparently the subject was never brought before the Grand Lodge . — " Indian Freemason . "
****************** I am not in sympathy with the idea that Masonry punishes a man because he has been convicted by the criminal courts of an offence . While the criminal offence and the Masonic offence may arise out of the same act , that act constitutes entirely independent offences so far as the municipal and Masonic aspects of the case are concerned . —Frank T . Lodge , Michigan .
**¦* - **« - * - *»* The temple of King Solomon has long since been destroyed , but Freemasonry , which exemplifies the location of the temple , and transmits the legend of its building , has
defied the ravages of time , withstood the persecutions of ignorance , bigotry and intolerance , and to-day stands in its beauty like a Corinthian column in a desert of ruin , without a rival in point of numbers and stability of organisation . — W . D . Henderson , Tennessee .
Scotch Humour.
SCOTCH HUMOUR .
THE visit of our esteemed Bro . Frank Green P . J . G . W ., Lord Mayor of London , to Glasgow , in some of the pomp and splendour he is accustomed to be associated with in the great metropolis , has aroused the mirth of our worthy contemporary the " Glasgow
Evening- News , " which refers to the matter in the following terms : What the Glasgow Corporation requires ( if I may be pardoned the digression ) is a Mace . How we have managed to struggle through the centuries without such a weapon , and gained the giddy eminence we occupy among corporations , I cannot conceive . It betrays a pitiful disregard for detail in the civic mind of Scotland .
Only the other clay ( thanks to Biailic Ferguson ) we got a . city banner for the first time , and I hope we are proud of it now that we have it ; by some other unknown benefactor's enterprise the keeper of the Citv Chambers , who has hitherto plodded along unostentatiously and efficiently in plain tweeds , or broad-cloth , when occasion called for it , was for the first time on Friday apparelled wondrously
in a new uniform in colour and cut recalling the valiant Robin Hood and Lord Nelson . These innovations lead us to hope that , by-and-bye , we , too , shall have a Mace , and a Macer , whose salary might begin at , £ 500 , and work up in a year or two bv the customary process to three or four times that amount . I hope that whoever the lucky person elected to the office may be , he took a lesson
in the deportment of the office on Friday , and saw the way the head of the weapon was permitted to hang outside the window of his lordship's chariot . It was the most bewitching thing ! It looked at one moment like a substitute for a Mayor , and I feared that after all his lordship had not been able to come to Glasgow ; at another moment it seemed as if someone were unwell , and perforce compelled to take a more concentrated interest than usual in the street paving
of Glasgow . But anyhow , whatever the illusion , it is enough that there was the Mace—a rakish Mace , a regular jolly dog of a Mace temporarily indisposed—sticking with its head outside the window and its feet within , blocking the Lord Mayor ' s view of the Second City , and expressing whole lectures upon England and the Sense of Humour . The Sword perhaps projected from the opposite window , but I cannot say with certainty that it did so .
As for the "ensemble —the coach , the bays , the carriages , the Jeames de la Pinches standing behind—all was harmony and the most genteel taste . I have often si ghed for the revival of our annual Carters' Trip ; nosv I know that the Carters' Tri p at its best was a
Scotch Humour.
meretricious promenade ad captandum vulgus . I love survivals that are not incongruous—old ways , old costumes , old ceremonialsand ever since Friday I am doing my best to reconcile the Livermore Minstrel sort of thing with my ideas of the monster London with American engineers burrowing in her entrails , and her clerks attired in can hats and frockers , and every mediaeval ideal of hers
shoved behind her , long ago and far away . It was a glorious—an unforgettable spectacle , on Friday , and it seemed to explain many things hitherto crepuscular . Now I understand why Scotsmen , once they have gone to London , never take the highway home again . It is because they can see the Lord Mayors Show once a year for nothing , and indulge their native economy and their racial sense of
the ludicrous at the same time . A sight like that of ind . iy would reconcile myself to residence in the Metropolis . They might shut up every other entertainment—the theatres and halls , the Crystal Palace , the Commons , and the Zoo if they left me this—the darling Quaker Oats , tremulous like a blame-mange upon his perch ; the lumbering chariot , and the slightly-indisposed Mace leaning out of the window .
And in other ways the pageant of Friday was a lesson . It not only suggested the reason why London , of all the great municipalities of this or any other country , is the most helplessly antiquated and inept , but k threw a lig ht upon the vast and vital differences between the English and us . Manchester and other English provincial cities are content now-a-days to take their newspapers and their ideals
from London , of which these cities are thereby made ia sort of distant suburbs . Manchester , probably , would delight in the pomp of Friday , and reverence its " antiquity , " its " quaintness / ' its atmosphere of Wardour Street romance . But the lumbering chariot and its grotesques jolting over our fairly honest streets was something a million miles , away from - us and our notions of state and circumstance . A parade of Indian sachems would have struck in the
general Scottish heart a more sympathetic note . We looked and ( let this in politeness go no further than ourselves ) we laughed . We saw London—the real old London of Dick AVhittington and his Cat , which we thought never existed out of fairy books and pantomime ; and , having seen it , we went up the close of the Chartered Accountant and House Factor and laughed . After all there is fun in the world yet . ******************
The Theatres, &C.
THE THEATRES , & c .
AVENUE . 8 . 30 , The Night of the Party . Matinee , Wednesday , 2 . 30 . CENTURY ( late Adelphi ) . Will be opened , early in September , with The Whirl of the Town . COMEDY . On 2 nd September . When w : were Twenty-one . COURT . On 5 th September , a new play , by Stuart Ogilvie .
CRITERION . On Saturday , 14 th September , Mr . Charles Wyndham and Mr . Arthur Bourchier will produce an original Comedy , by Mr . R . C . Carton . DALY'S . 8 . 15 , San Toy . Matinee , Saturday , 2 . 30 . DRURY LANE . In active preparation for production in September , a new and original Drama bv Cecil Raleigh .
DUKE OF YORK'S . 8 . The Bishop ' s Candlesticks . S . 45 , A Royal Rival . GAIETY . 8 , The Toreador . Matinee , Wednesday , 2 . GLOBE . 8 , H . M . S . Irresponsible . Matinee , Wednesday and Saturday , 2 . 30 . GT . QUEEN STREET . 8 . 15 , A Roval Betrothal . 9 , Charley ' s
Aunt . Matinee , Wednesday and Saturday , 3 , HER MAJESTY'S . Mr . Tree ' s autumn season will open early in October . IMPERIAL . 8 . 30 , A Man of his Word . Matinee , Wednesday , 2 . 30 . LYCEUM . On oth September , Sherlock Holmes . LYRIC . 8 , The Silver Slipper . Matinee , Wednesday , 2 . 30 .
PRINCE OF WALES'S . Tuesday , 27 th August , 8 , Becky Sharp . SAVOY . 8 . 15 , The Emerald Isle . Matinee , Saturday , 2 . 30 . STRAND . 8 . 20 , Newspaper Nuptials . 9 , The Talk of the Town . Matinee , Wednesday and Saturday , 3 . TERRY'S . 8 . 15 , The Lady Wrangler . 9 , The Giddy Goat . VAUDEVILLE . 8 , You and I . 9 , Sweet and Twenty . Matinee , Wednesday , 2 .
GRAND . Next week , 7 . 45 , Serving the Queen . OPERA HOUSE , CROUCH END . Next week , S , Miss Muriel Wylford ' s Repertoire Company . SURREY . Next week , 7 . 45 , The Bellringer . ALPIAMBRA . 7 . 45 , Variety Entertainment , The Gay City , Inspiration , & c . AQUARIUM . Varied performances , World's Great Show , & c .
CANTERBURY . 8 , Variety Entertainment . EMPIRE . 8 , Variety Entertainment . Les Papillons , & c . LONDON- PAVILION . 7 . 45 , Variety Entertainment . Saturday , 2 . 30 also . METROPOLITAN . S , Variety Entertainment . OXFORD . 8 , Variety Entertainment . Saturday 2 . 15 also . PALACE . 7 . 45 , Variety Entertainment . American Biograph , & c . TIVOLI . 7 . 30 , Variety Entertainment . Saturday , 2 . 15 also .
CRYSTAL PALACE . Varied attractions daily . Grand Naval and Military Exhibition . Fireworks every Thursday and Saturday . EARL'S COURT . Military Exhibition . ¦ EGYPTIAN HALL . 3 and 8 , Mr . J . N . Maskelyne's entertainment .
LONDON HIPPODROME . 2 and 8 , Varied attractions . MADAME TUSSAUD'S ( Baker Street Station ) . Open daily . Portrait models of modern celebrities , & c . ST . JAMES'S HALL . 8 , Mohawk Moore and Burgess Minstrels . Matinee , Monday , Wednesday , Thursday and Saturday ,