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Foreign.
Stewards ; " " our Childhood ' s Home "—when the band played " Home sweet Home "—and the brethren separated at an early hour . ST . CHRISTOPHER , Dec . 27 . —On the Festival of St . John the Evangelist the R . AV . Master , AVardens , and other office-bearers of the Mount Olive Lodge , Nos . 336 ' , 241 , under the Grand Lodge of Scotland , were duly installed and invested with ( heir insignia of office .
Jan . 11 . —A meeting of the Royal Arch Masons resident in this island was held at the Mount Olive Lodge-rooms , for the purpose of revising the Mount Horeb Chapter , No . 8 S .
India.
INDIA .
The Agents hi Calcutta for this Review are— Messrs . LATTEY , BROTHERS & Co ., Government-place -, and Messrs . THACKER & Co ., St . Andrew ' s Library . Madras , Bro . PHAROAH . IT is not possible to comply with the request of several correspondents
on the subject of masonic ritual . There is no printed manual , and to write one verbatim would be a violation of a sacred vow . Brother (!) John Grant ' s edict against Scottish Masonry still exists in
full force . Any visitor , before admission to a craft lodge , must take an obligation that he has not taken the degrees of Mark , Past-Master , or Super-excellent , and further that he is not connected with any lodge or chapter that grants those degrees—otherwise he will not be admitted ! Should he have been among the so-vitiated , he can only enter on the condition that he does not again go near or countenance such lodges .
Such is the present degraded state of Masonry in Bengal ! It is pretended that the Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter of England do not recognize the above degrees . AVhat of that ? Even the toadies and apostates there , dare not play such antics as does Johnnie Grant of Bengal , who , though a reputed Scotchman himself , thinks it no discredit to put down , if he possibly can , Scottish Masonry in his province .
But mark his consistency ; a Prov . Grand Master under the English Constitutions ; he can plead his connection with the 33 rd Degree , " Scottice ; " there is at work in Bengal an Edinburgh Templar Encampment , the Deputy Prov . Grand Master Birch is Grand Prior for Bengal .
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Foreign.
Stewards ; " " our Childhood ' s Home "—when the band played " Home sweet Home "—and the brethren separated at an early hour . ST . CHRISTOPHER , Dec . 27 . —On the Festival of St . John the Evangelist the R . AV . Master , AVardens , and other office-bearers of the Mount Olive Lodge , Nos . 336 ' , 241 , under the Grand Lodge of Scotland , were duly installed and invested with ( heir insignia of office .
Jan . 11 . —A meeting of the Royal Arch Masons resident in this island was held at the Mount Olive Lodge-rooms , for the purpose of revising the Mount Horeb Chapter , No . 8 S .
India.
INDIA .
The Agents hi Calcutta for this Review are— Messrs . LATTEY , BROTHERS & Co ., Government-place -, and Messrs . THACKER & Co ., St . Andrew ' s Library . Madras , Bro . PHAROAH . IT is not possible to comply with the request of several correspondents
on the subject of masonic ritual . There is no printed manual , and to write one verbatim would be a violation of a sacred vow . Brother (!) John Grant ' s edict against Scottish Masonry still exists in
full force . Any visitor , before admission to a craft lodge , must take an obligation that he has not taken the degrees of Mark , Past-Master , or Super-excellent , and further that he is not connected with any lodge or chapter that grants those degrees—otherwise he will not be admitted ! Should he have been among the so-vitiated , he can only enter on the condition that he does not again go near or countenance such lodges .
Such is the present degraded state of Masonry in Bengal ! It is pretended that the Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter of England do not recognize the above degrees . AVhat of that ? Even the toadies and apostates there , dare not play such antics as does Johnnie Grant of Bengal , who , though a reputed Scotchman himself , thinks it no discredit to put down , if he possibly can , Scottish Masonry in his province .
But mark his consistency ; a Prov . Grand Master under the English Constitutions ; he can plead his connection with the 33 rd Degree , " Scottice ; " there is at work in Bengal an Edinburgh Templar Encampment , the Deputy Prov . Grand Master Birch is Grand Prior for Bengal .