-
Articles/Ads
Article THE REPORTER. ← Page 6 of 6 Article CHIT CHAT. Page 1 of 6 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Reporter.
that the National Polish Lodge will take a high position in the Order . It is , we understand , to work always in the English language , and according to the English ritual . The warrant was signed by the Grand Master on the 27 th of May last . LODGE FRANCAISE DE LA TOLERANCE , No . 784 . —This Lodge is now in full operation , and meets , we believe , on the first Tuesday in the
month , under the able presidency of Bros . Caplin , Armand , and Nardin , the officers named in the warrant as tlie Master and Wardens . The proceedings are conducted in the French language , and embrace much of the English ritual . Many points of the French ritual are however retained , in particular the " Chamber of Reflection . " Bro . Boura is the Treasurer , and admirably seconds the Master and his Wardens in their praiseworthy efforts to advance the objects of Freemasonry .
Chit Chat.
CHIT CHAT .
THE BISHOP OP EXETER , BRO . DENIS MOORE , AND THE CHARITY BALL . —A curious correspondence between the Bishop of Exeter and Mr . W . Denis Moore , Mayor of Exeter , relative to a public ball announced to take place in aid of the distressed Irish and Scotch , is published in the Exeter Gazette . The bishop wrote to the mayor on the 24 th of March , expressing his " very strong opinion on the painful incongruity of such a mode of testifying sympathfor famishing millions "
y ; and stating that he had animadverted on the contemplated enormity in a sermon which he had that day preached . Mr . Moore replied by avowing his " regret and surprise , " & c— "Though humbly sensible of the great superiority of your lordship ' s judgment , I am unable to discover any sound objection to such mode of disposing of the surplus receipts arising from a harmless amusement . I am very far from thinking that the endhowever goodcan sanctif objectionable but when the
, , y means ; means are blameless in themselves , I am at a loss to comprehend how their character should be changed by an ulterior benevolent purpose .. The promotion of the intended ball is a course directly sanctioned by the personal example of her Most Gracious Majesty . " The bishop published his sermon at the charge of one shilling . To the title-pa 4 he appended a foot-note , stating that the " proceeds" of the sale were ?*
be given to the relief purposes for which the proceeds of the ball were destined ; and hinting that those charitably disposed could give-as much as they liked beyond the shilling . On the sermon and note Mr . Moore founded a long letter to the bishop , written in exceedingly respectful but very direct language . H e asks— " Was it necessary that your lordship should stigmatise with such terms as ' selfishness , ' ' degrading , ' 'low ' . 'miserable frivolity , ' 'mockery , ' and ' dissipation , ' the feelings of those Who in different here have
a sp come forward to devote their talents fo the like purpose ? " then comes a home-thrust . "What was the shield which in 1841 sheltered your lordship ' s name from the like aspersion , when it stood high among 'full half the aristocracy of Devon , ' not unaccompanied b y others of clerical and even episcopal dignity , in the list of stewards of a festival , in which the ceremonies of the day , consisting oi ; A procession , a sermon , and a tavern dinner , were terminated by a public ball ? I may be permitted to ask , were these in themselves ' in-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Reporter.
that the National Polish Lodge will take a high position in the Order . It is , we understand , to work always in the English language , and according to the English ritual . The warrant was signed by the Grand Master on the 27 th of May last . LODGE FRANCAISE DE LA TOLERANCE , No . 784 . —This Lodge is now in full operation , and meets , we believe , on the first Tuesday in the
month , under the able presidency of Bros . Caplin , Armand , and Nardin , the officers named in the warrant as tlie Master and Wardens . The proceedings are conducted in the French language , and embrace much of the English ritual . Many points of the French ritual are however retained , in particular the " Chamber of Reflection . " Bro . Boura is the Treasurer , and admirably seconds the Master and his Wardens in their praiseworthy efforts to advance the objects of Freemasonry .
Chit Chat.
CHIT CHAT .
THE BISHOP OP EXETER , BRO . DENIS MOORE , AND THE CHARITY BALL . —A curious correspondence between the Bishop of Exeter and Mr . W . Denis Moore , Mayor of Exeter , relative to a public ball announced to take place in aid of the distressed Irish and Scotch , is published in the Exeter Gazette . The bishop wrote to the mayor on the 24 th of March , expressing his " very strong opinion on the painful incongruity of such a mode of testifying sympathfor famishing millions "
y ; and stating that he had animadverted on the contemplated enormity in a sermon which he had that day preached . Mr . Moore replied by avowing his " regret and surprise , " & c— "Though humbly sensible of the great superiority of your lordship ' s judgment , I am unable to discover any sound objection to such mode of disposing of the surplus receipts arising from a harmless amusement . I am very far from thinking that the endhowever goodcan sanctif objectionable but when the
, , y means ; means are blameless in themselves , I am at a loss to comprehend how their character should be changed by an ulterior benevolent purpose .. The promotion of the intended ball is a course directly sanctioned by the personal example of her Most Gracious Majesty . " The bishop published his sermon at the charge of one shilling . To the title-pa 4 he appended a foot-note , stating that the " proceeds" of the sale were ?*
be given to the relief purposes for which the proceeds of the ball were destined ; and hinting that those charitably disposed could give-as much as they liked beyond the shilling . On the sermon and note Mr . Moore founded a long letter to the bishop , written in exceedingly respectful but very direct language . H e asks— " Was it necessary that your lordship should stigmatise with such terms as ' selfishness , ' ' degrading , ' 'low ' . 'miserable frivolity , ' 'mockery , ' and ' dissipation , ' the feelings of those Who in different here have
a sp come forward to devote their talents fo the like purpose ? " then comes a home-thrust . "What was the shield which in 1841 sheltered your lordship ' s name from the like aspersion , when it stood high among 'full half the aristocracy of Devon , ' not unaccompanied b y others of clerical and even episcopal dignity , in the list of stewards of a festival , in which the ceremonies of the day , consisting oi ; A procession , a sermon , and a tavern dinner , were terminated by a public ball ? I may be permitted to ask , were these in themselves ' in-