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America—United States.
JEWISH FREEMASONS . —AVe are about to make another effort upon all three of the Grand Lodges of Prussia , in vindication of the rights of our Hebrew Brethren . If it should prove unavailing , tlle next movement will be to excommunicate those Grand Lodges altogether from the pale of our ancient and honourable Fraternity . OUR GRAND CHAPTER has sadly mystified itself and the companions , by some interpolations in its degrees . No English R . A . Mason is admissible until he he healed !
SUPREME GRAND COUNCIL , 33 ° - —This sublime body , at the head of which stands our venerable and venerated Brother , J . J . J . Gourgas , with his estimable colleagues , Bros . G . F . Yates , E . A . Raymond , C . W . Moore , II . Baker , K . H . Van Rasselaer , J . Christie , and others , having given its high authorization to organise , in England , a Supreme Grand Council of the 33 ° . It gives us unqualified satisfaction to learn that a Supreme Grand Council has been there organized under the happiest auspices . AA ' e look for the particulars of this eventful
consummation of a most important epoch in the annals of Masonry , and feel , as scions of a parent stock , no small pride in thus having the power in some measure to repay a debt of gratitude to the memory of past worthies , by the opportunity afforded us of regenerating the scintillations that have been so long dormant in England . With pure Masonic sincerity we pray for success and perpetuity to the Supreme Council 33 ° ( ancient and accepted Rite , ) for England and AVales ! AVINCHESTER , Virginia . —The National Triennial Convention will assemble here on the 11 th May .
DETROIT , Michigan . — -The Grand Lodge is in a prosperous condition , and rapidly multiplying the number of its members . The committee on foreign correspondence has published a very excellent and spirited report . MISSOURI . —AVe have fifty Lodges , besides many working by dispensation . Two hundred and six candidates have been returned for the past year . Brother Carnegy reports most favourably of the Masonic
College . INDIANA . —The Grand Master was prevented by illness from attending the Grand Lodge , but he forwarded an excellent address by the Deputy Grand Master , Isaac Bartlett , Esq . A Grand Lecturer was appointed in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee , who frankly acknowledged that they " were behind the age in whicli we livein respect to the amount of Masonic intelligence within our
, jurisdiction . " A recommendation to build a Masonic Hall was also passed . ALABAMA . —The Committee of Grand Lodge have reported at length on Masonic jurisdiction—on AVork and on Education .
GEORGIA . — The desire for a general Grand Lodge increases . There are fifty Lodges in full work . AVASHINGTON , Pennsylvania . —The AVashington Lodge and Chapter have progressed , and prove powerful auxiliaries in tbe cause of Masonry . ILLINOIS . —Important measures have been proposed and adopted , as to rejection for want of proficiency in preceding degrees—proficiency before advancement—and on conferring degrees . vor .. IV . M M
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America—United States.
JEWISH FREEMASONS . —AVe are about to make another effort upon all three of the Grand Lodges of Prussia , in vindication of the rights of our Hebrew Brethren . If it should prove unavailing , tlle next movement will be to excommunicate those Grand Lodges altogether from the pale of our ancient and honourable Fraternity . OUR GRAND CHAPTER has sadly mystified itself and the companions , by some interpolations in its degrees . No English R . A . Mason is admissible until he he healed !
SUPREME GRAND COUNCIL , 33 ° - —This sublime body , at the head of which stands our venerable and venerated Brother , J . J . J . Gourgas , with his estimable colleagues , Bros . G . F . Yates , E . A . Raymond , C . W . Moore , II . Baker , K . H . Van Rasselaer , J . Christie , and others , having given its high authorization to organise , in England , a Supreme Grand Council of the 33 ° . It gives us unqualified satisfaction to learn that a Supreme Grand Council has been there organized under the happiest auspices . AA ' e look for the particulars of this eventful
consummation of a most important epoch in the annals of Masonry , and feel , as scions of a parent stock , no small pride in thus having the power in some measure to repay a debt of gratitude to the memory of past worthies , by the opportunity afforded us of regenerating the scintillations that have been so long dormant in England . With pure Masonic sincerity we pray for success and perpetuity to the Supreme Council 33 ° ( ancient and accepted Rite , ) for England and AVales ! AVINCHESTER , Virginia . —The National Triennial Convention will assemble here on the 11 th May .
DETROIT , Michigan . — -The Grand Lodge is in a prosperous condition , and rapidly multiplying the number of its members . The committee on foreign correspondence has published a very excellent and spirited report . MISSOURI . —AVe have fifty Lodges , besides many working by dispensation . Two hundred and six candidates have been returned for the past year . Brother Carnegy reports most favourably of the Masonic
College . INDIANA . —The Grand Master was prevented by illness from attending the Grand Lodge , but he forwarded an excellent address by the Deputy Grand Master , Isaac Bartlett , Esq . A Grand Lecturer was appointed in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee , who frankly acknowledged that they " were behind the age in whicli we livein respect to the amount of Masonic intelligence within our
, jurisdiction . " A recommendation to build a Masonic Hall was also passed . ALABAMA . —The Committee of Grand Lodge have reported at length on Masonic jurisdiction—on AVork and on Education .
GEORGIA . — The desire for a general Grand Lodge increases . There are fifty Lodges in full work . AVASHINGTON , Pennsylvania . —The AVashington Lodge and Chapter have progressed , and prove powerful auxiliaries in tbe cause of Masonry . ILLINOIS . —Important measures have been proposed and adopted , as to rejection for want of proficiency in preceding degrees—proficiency before advancement—and on conferring degrees . vor .. IV . M M