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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 3 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
tant contradictory acts . Let them , in future , listen to and think upon subjects of grave importance . Notwithstanding the untoward aspect , we have no fears for Freemasonry ; it has stood the test of ages ; and , even as regards the delinquent Grand Lodge of Berlin , we have no doubt of being enabled , at some future time , to publish the recantation of the Prussian Freemasons .
In the meantime , it affords us great pleasure to be able to state , that the members of the Pilgrim Lodge of London , No . 289 , which works in the German language , and of which the late Prussian representative , Bro . Hebeler , was Master , have , since the publicity given to the anti-Masonic Prussian doctrine , altered their mode of initiation , and do not NOW compel the candidate to make a declaration of his reli gion previously to his being admitted ; we were surprised at its not being altered before ,
considering the immediate Past Grand Registrar of England is a member of the Lodge . The Most Worshipful Master ' s determined conduct has already produced a good effect . All honour to him , as well as to Bro . Henry Faudel , the stalwart champion of the Jewish Freemasons .
THE RECENT OUTRAGE . —In the year 1735 , the Grand Lodge of England , to mark their sense of the great services rendered to the Order by those Brethren who had from time to time conducted the A NNUAL FEAST ( as it was then called , ) in their capacity of Stewards , embodied them into a separate Lodge , granted its members the distinction of a red apron , and even confided to their honour and integrity the distribution of its monthly benevolence . The "Stewards' Lodge" was , iu fact ,
the governing body , and , subsequently , to render this constituency respected by the Craft at large , the Board of Stewards were entitled GRAND STEWARDS , and the Lodge as the " Grand Stewards' Lodge . " Nay , more , it was afterwards enacted , that " no Brother" should be promoted to the dignity of Grand Officer , unless he was a Member of such . With the Union came those alterations that changed the state of things . The Grand Officers were no longer selected from the Grand Stewards' Lodge , which , in fact , was only saved from extinction by the perseverance of the late Bro . W . Williams , P . G . M . for Dorset , but into these circumstances we shall not at uresent enter .
Eighteen Lodges received the privilege of annually nominating each a Grand Steward , to be approved by the Grand Master . Their duty is to regulate the Grand Festival under the direction of the Grand Master —to assist in conducting the arrangements made for the quarterly communications and other meetings of the Grand Lodge , and to so regulate the Festival , that no expense whatever may fall on the Grand Lodge , & c . For such services and such expenses the Grand Stewards are
permitted for the current year to rank as Grand Officers , and to wear the red apron in perpetuity . We propose at some future time to enter fully into the Grand Stewardship—to point out some mode of rendering its utility more evident , and its position more honourable ; at present it is an anomaly . But now , as to the cause of our touching on the outrage . On the 29 th of April last , the Grand Festival of the Order was held in Freemasons' Hall—the occasion was sanctified by the circumstance of its being the day on whicli the statue of the late revered Grand Master , H . li . II . the Duke of Sussex was unveiled to the Order , when it seemed
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
tant contradictory acts . Let them , in future , listen to and think upon subjects of grave importance . Notwithstanding the untoward aspect , we have no fears for Freemasonry ; it has stood the test of ages ; and , even as regards the delinquent Grand Lodge of Berlin , we have no doubt of being enabled , at some future time , to publish the recantation of the Prussian Freemasons .
In the meantime , it affords us great pleasure to be able to state , that the members of the Pilgrim Lodge of London , No . 289 , which works in the German language , and of which the late Prussian representative , Bro . Hebeler , was Master , have , since the publicity given to the anti-Masonic Prussian doctrine , altered their mode of initiation , and do not NOW compel the candidate to make a declaration of his reli gion previously to his being admitted ; we were surprised at its not being altered before ,
considering the immediate Past Grand Registrar of England is a member of the Lodge . The Most Worshipful Master ' s determined conduct has already produced a good effect . All honour to him , as well as to Bro . Henry Faudel , the stalwart champion of the Jewish Freemasons .
THE RECENT OUTRAGE . —In the year 1735 , the Grand Lodge of England , to mark their sense of the great services rendered to the Order by those Brethren who had from time to time conducted the A NNUAL FEAST ( as it was then called , ) in their capacity of Stewards , embodied them into a separate Lodge , granted its members the distinction of a red apron , and even confided to their honour and integrity the distribution of its monthly benevolence . The "Stewards' Lodge" was , iu fact ,
the governing body , and , subsequently , to render this constituency respected by the Craft at large , the Board of Stewards were entitled GRAND STEWARDS , and the Lodge as the " Grand Stewards' Lodge . " Nay , more , it was afterwards enacted , that " no Brother" should be promoted to the dignity of Grand Officer , unless he was a Member of such . With the Union came those alterations that changed the state of things . The Grand Officers were no longer selected from the Grand Stewards' Lodge , which , in fact , was only saved from extinction by the perseverance of the late Bro . W . Williams , P . G . M . for Dorset , but into these circumstances we shall not at uresent enter .
Eighteen Lodges received the privilege of annually nominating each a Grand Steward , to be approved by the Grand Master . Their duty is to regulate the Grand Festival under the direction of the Grand Master —to assist in conducting the arrangements made for the quarterly communications and other meetings of the Grand Lodge , and to so regulate the Festival , that no expense whatever may fall on the Grand Lodge , & c . For such services and such expenses the Grand Stewards are
permitted for the current year to rank as Grand Officers , and to wear the red apron in perpetuity . We propose at some future time to enter fully into the Grand Stewardship—to point out some mode of rendering its utility more evident , and its position more honourable ; at present it is an anomaly . But now , as to the cause of our touching on the outrage . On the 29 th of April last , the Grand Festival of the Order was held in Freemasons' Hall—the occasion was sanctified by the circumstance of its being the day on whicli the statue of the late revered Grand Master , H . li . II . the Duke of Sussex was unveiled to the Order , when it seemed