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India.
MADRAS , June . —Advices from this Presidency are but scanty . We hope , however , that the information brought from England by our esteemed Brother Barrow , will inspirit us . A Lodge was held at the mansion of the G . M . the W . Bro . Morris a few evenings ago . All were delighted to see their respected Brother Lord Elphinstone able to attend . The principal officers of the Lodge present were Worshipful Brothers Greaves , Poole , Macdonald , Middlemass , Brothers Bakie , Bradford , Lewis , Havelock , & c . & c . After the labour of the evening , the Brethren sat down to a very handsome entertainment , provided by the Grand Master .
The Principles Of Masonry.
THE PRINCIPLES OF MASONRY .
( From the Bombay Gazette , Jan . 27 . ) " We gave in our last a short account of the initiation of a Mussulman into the mysteries of Freemasonry , together with the query of our Calcutta contemporary the Courier , as to whether such a step was according to the principles of the Craft or not ; and we have to-day the pleasure of submitting to the perusal of our readers , a letter from a correspondentwhich we trust will be regarded on all hands as a lucid and
, incontrovertible assertion of the principles on which the Masonic Fraternity are linked together in the bonds of brotherly communion . From the authorities adduced by our correspondent , it will appear that men of all religions , moving within the pale of civilized society , acknowledging the moral laws which bind the human family in the preservation of the social compact , and admitting a belief in the superintendence of a Deity over the universe which he has created , will he unhesitatingly This letter
admitted among the members of the Masonic Brotherhood . will be a satisfactory answer to the question of the Calcutta Courier , and will , we , trust , be noticed accordingly . " TO THE EDITOR Of THE BOMBAY GAZETTE . ME —I had thought that no one who had perused what
" R . DITOR , you were pleased to style , ' the eloquent and elegant address' of the Right Worshipful Brother Burnes to the Craft on St . John ' s day , or who had marked the great and universal principles of right' ( to use your own expressions ) therein inculcated , could have remained under the impression that Freemasonry , instead of being a general system for the encouragement of good of all religions , that have any sense in them , to join together in works of benevolence and charity , was to be restricted
in its application to a particular sect or creed . It appears , however , from your remarks in last paper , that even you require to be enlightened on this subject , and as I doubt not , tbat most of your native readers are in the same predicament , I shall begin by explaining in the words of our own Provincial Grand Master , that' Freemasonry is an institution which welcomes equally to its bosom the Jew and the Gentile , the Christian and the Mahomedan , requiring from each only a belief in a Divine being , with a just sense of moral rectitude and conscientious obligation . ' *
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India.
MADRAS , June . —Advices from this Presidency are but scanty . We hope , however , that the information brought from England by our esteemed Brother Barrow , will inspirit us . A Lodge was held at the mansion of the G . M . the W . Bro . Morris a few evenings ago . All were delighted to see their respected Brother Lord Elphinstone able to attend . The principal officers of the Lodge present were Worshipful Brothers Greaves , Poole , Macdonald , Middlemass , Brothers Bakie , Bradford , Lewis , Havelock , & c . & c . After the labour of the evening , the Brethren sat down to a very handsome entertainment , provided by the Grand Master .
The Principles Of Masonry.
THE PRINCIPLES OF MASONRY .
( From the Bombay Gazette , Jan . 27 . ) " We gave in our last a short account of the initiation of a Mussulman into the mysteries of Freemasonry , together with the query of our Calcutta contemporary the Courier , as to whether such a step was according to the principles of the Craft or not ; and we have to-day the pleasure of submitting to the perusal of our readers , a letter from a correspondentwhich we trust will be regarded on all hands as a lucid and
, incontrovertible assertion of the principles on which the Masonic Fraternity are linked together in the bonds of brotherly communion . From the authorities adduced by our correspondent , it will appear that men of all religions , moving within the pale of civilized society , acknowledging the moral laws which bind the human family in the preservation of the social compact , and admitting a belief in the superintendence of a Deity over the universe which he has created , will he unhesitatingly This letter
admitted among the members of the Masonic Brotherhood . will be a satisfactory answer to the question of the Calcutta Courier , and will , we , trust , be noticed accordingly . " TO THE EDITOR Of THE BOMBAY GAZETTE . ME —I had thought that no one who had perused what
" R . DITOR , you were pleased to style , ' the eloquent and elegant address' of the Right Worshipful Brother Burnes to the Craft on St . John ' s day , or who had marked the great and universal principles of right' ( to use your own expressions ) therein inculcated , could have remained under the impression that Freemasonry , instead of being a general system for the encouragement of good of all religions , that have any sense in them , to join together in works of benevolence and charity , was to be restricted
in its application to a particular sect or creed . It appears , however , from your remarks in last paper , that even you require to be enlightened on this subject , and as I doubt not , tbat most of your native readers are in the same predicament , I shall begin by explaining in the words of our own Provincial Grand Master , that' Freemasonry is an institution which welcomes equally to its bosom the Jew and the Gentile , the Christian and the Mahomedan , requiring from each only a belief in a Divine being , with a just sense of moral rectitude and conscientious obligation . ' *