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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
Islington , March 31 , 1849 . Sin AND BROTHER , —On visiting the Grand Stewards' Lodge on Wednesday last , being public lecture ni g ht , I was much surprised at finding it so badly attended , there being only about thirty brethren present , including the officers of the lodge . The working , I am pleased to say , was of the first order , Bro . Shaw , the W . M ., and Bro . Norris , P . M ., gave the charges after each section , assisted by other eminent brethren .
Now , I cannot account for the paucity of visitors on this particular night , as many who have been in the habit of attending regularly for years , lost a great treat . I have previousl y found a good attendanceindeed sometimes scarcely standing room , therefore this great falling off
must nave a cause ; surely it is not the withdrawing the little refreshment of a glass of wine , which used to be so liberall y handed to the visitors ; if it is , it shews that the brethren who generally attended , came more for the sake of the wine , than the edification to be received . Yet , I should be sorry if the withdrawing so slight an hospitality were to do away with the grand principle on which the public lecture nights were founded , viz : for establishing one uniform mode of working the lectures ; but I hope this was not the reason , and that at the next
meeting there will be a better attendance , and until then I remain , Sir and Brother , yours truly , A CONSTANT READER .
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR , —I have frequently seen in books as well as in newspapers , the remark that a certain assertion or report had not been contradicted , and therefore it was to be presumed that it was true , and to be quoted in future as an undoubted and indisputable fact . Although I cannot agree in such deduction , it does not follow that some others may not—I beg therefore to call your attention to the peculiar phraseology adopted in the heading of an article at 73 of the last number of the "
Freemapage sons' Quarterly Review , " namely the seventeenth of the second series . " Jewish Freemasonry , Joppa Lodge , No . 223 . " As I believe Freemasonry to be universal , and am sure no particular ceremony or ritual is made use of in the above lodge , I am at a loss to discover why it should be distinguished as " Jewish Freemasonry . " If it be that the majority
of the members are of the Jewish faith , I am free to admit some term might have been used to showit , had you thought such desireable , although to me such term or distinction in Freemasonry would have appeared invidious and scarcely masonic , as neither one nor other religious or sectarian peculiarity ought to be known in our society . It has been admitted that some attempts have been made to institute a society called " The Christian Order of Freemasonry , " with what success it is not my province ov intention to show ; but by the same number , page 37 ,
I perceive it is thought that more members would join it , if it were made independent of Masonry altogether . This shows that the Christian Orders are not Christian Freemasonry , or Freemasonry at all . And I beg most respectfully to deny that we of the Joppa Lodge practice Jewish
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To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
Islington , March 31 , 1849 . Sin AND BROTHER , —On visiting the Grand Stewards' Lodge on Wednesday last , being public lecture ni g ht , I was much surprised at finding it so badly attended , there being only about thirty brethren present , including the officers of the lodge . The working , I am pleased to say , was of the first order , Bro . Shaw , the W . M ., and Bro . Norris , P . M ., gave the charges after each section , assisted by other eminent brethren .
Now , I cannot account for the paucity of visitors on this particular night , as many who have been in the habit of attending regularly for years , lost a great treat . I have previousl y found a good attendanceindeed sometimes scarcely standing room , therefore this great falling off
must nave a cause ; surely it is not the withdrawing the little refreshment of a glass of wine , which used to be so liberall y handed to the visitors ; if it is , it shews that the brethren who generally attended , came more for the sake of the wine , than the edification to be received . Yet , I should be sorry if the withdrawing so slight an hospitality were to do away with the grand principle on which the public lecture nights were founded , viz : for establishing one uniform mode of working the lectures ; but I hope this was not the reason , and that at the next
meeting there will be a better attendance , and until then I remain , Sir and Brother , yours truly , A CONSTANT READER .
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
SIR , —I have frequently seen in books as well as in newspapers , the remark that a certain assertion or report had not been contradicted , and therefore it was to be presumed that it was true , and to be quoted in future as an undoubted and indisputable fact . Although I cannot agree in such deduction , it does not follow that some others may not—I beg therefore to call your attention to the peculiar phraseology adopted in the heading of an article at 73 of the last number of the "
Freemapage sons' Quarterly Review , " namely the seventeenth of the second series . " Jewish Freemasonry , Joppa Lodge , No . 223 . " As I believe Freemasonry to be universal , and am sure no particular ceremony or ritual is made use of in the above lodge , I am at a loss to discover why it should be distinguished as " Jewish Freemasonry . " If it be that the majority
of the members are of the Jewish faith , I am free to admit some term might have been used to showit , had you thought such desireable , although to me such term or distinction in Freemasonry would have appeared invidious and scarcely masonic , as neither one nor other religious or sectarian peculiarity ought to be known in our society . It has been admitted that some attempts have been made to institute a society called " The Christian Order of Freemasonry , " with what success it is not my province ov intention to show ; but by the same number , page 37 ,
I perceive it is thought that more members would join it , if it were made independent of Masonry altogether . This shows that the Christian Orders are not Christian Freemasonry , or Freemasonry at all . And I beg most respectfully to deny that we of the Joppa Lodge practice Jewish