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America, (United States).
communications which they have annually made to each other have been buried in their Grand Secretaries' offices , and the Fraternity for the most part left in the dark as to the doings of any other Grand Lodge than their own . They have , consequently , lost sight of the important fact that each Grand Lodge , and every individual Mason , forms but an integral part of O NE GREAT FRATERNITY . Towards dispelling this obscuritythe Grand Lodge of New York has taken the
, most efficient measures . They have a committee active through the year in preparing an abstract of the extensive correspondence of that body , which has proved highly interesting and instructive . They make their report but once a-year , and it is then given at length , with the transactions of the annual and quarterly meetings . Of this pamphlet a thousand copies are published , and through it the other Grand Lodges , and the principal subordinates in the States , have received their chief
information on the state of the institution out of their own territory . None of them , however , ever receive any communications from the United Grand Lodge of England . It is supposed that that body publishes its proceedings , but whether they ever send them to foreign bodies of their own rank , or regard them , one and all , as too contemptible to be so highly favoured , is not known . One of the most important events in the past year is the memorial of an Israelite of New York to his Grand Lodge , setting forth the refusal of a Lodge under one of the Grand Lodges of Prussia , to admit
him , on account of his religion , while on a visit to his friends in Germany . From a letter published by the Grand Lodge of New York , forwarded from Berlin to the Grand Lodge of the Netherlands , it appears that the three Grand Lodges of Prussia refuse to admit Jews to their Lodges , and take the responsibility of rejecting the Certificates to Israelites from other Grand Lodges . * The Grand Lodge of New York has taken up the subject , and in the
hands of their Grand Officers , it will not be suffered to sleep . The Editor of the Freemasons' Magazine , at present the best Masonic periodical in America , considers the course of conduct on the part of the Berlin Grand Lodges as an infringement on the freedom of the order , which ought not to be tolerated , and assures the Grand Lodge of New York , that if they should fail in the effort to place every American Freemason on an equal footing in Germany , whether Jew ,
Mahomedan , or Christian , and should finally close the doors of their Lodges against those who have forgotten from . whom Masonry has been received ( by whom it was founded , if there be any truth in our tradition ) , she will be sustained by every Grand Lodge in America . What has the Grand Lodge of England done in this matter ? or are the Grand Lodge certificates of England allowed to be rejected , as those of Holland and America are , in the hands of Jewish Brethren in Prussia ? held at Baltimore in
There is to be a Convocation of Lecturers May next , for the purpose of harmonizing a system of AVork for the Union , It is likely to be generally approved by the Grand Lodges , though some have declined nominating delegates .
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America, (United States).
communications which they have annually made to each other have been buried in their Grand Secretaries' offices , and the Fraternity for the most part left in the dark as to the doings of any other Grand Lodge than their own . They have , consequently , lost sight of the important fact that each Grand Lodge , and every individual Mason , forms but an integral part of O NE GREAT FRATERNITY . Towards dispelling this obscuritythe Grand Lodge of New York has taken the
, most efficient measures . They have a committee active through the year in preparing an abstract of the extensive correspondence of that body , which has proved highly interesting and instructive . They make their report but once a-year , and it is then given at length , with the transactions of the annual and quarterly meetings . Of this pamphlet a thousand copies are published , and through it the other Grand Lodges , and the principal subordinates in the States , have received their chief
information on the state of the institution out of their own territory . None of them , however , ever receive any communications from the United Grand Lodge of England . It is supposed that that body publishes its proceedings , but whether they ever send them to foreign bodies of their own rank , or regard them , one and all , as too contemptible to be so highly favoured , is not known . One of the most important events in the past year is the memorial of an Israelite of New York to his Grand Lodge , setting forth the refusal of a Lodge under one of the Grand Lodges of Prussia , to admit
him , on account of his religion , while on a visit to his friends in Germany . From a letter published by the Grand Lodge of New York , forwarded from Berlin to the Grand Lodge of the Netherlands , it appears that the three Grand Lodges of Prussia refuse to admit Jews to their Lodges , and take the responsibility of rejecting the Certificates to Israelites from other Grand Lodges . * The Grand Lodge of New York has taken up the subject , and in the
hands of their Grand Officers , it will not be suffered to sleep . The Editor of the Freemasons' Magazine , at present the best Masonic periodical in America , considers the course of conduct on the part of the Berlin Grand Lodges as an infringement on the freedom of the order , which ought not to be tolerated , and assures the Grand Lodge of New York , that if they should fail in the effort to place every American Freemason on an equal footing in Germany , whether Jew ,
Mahomedan , or Christian , and should finally close the doors of their Lodges against those who have forgotten from . whom Masonry has been received ( by whom it was founded , if there be any truth in our tradition ) , she will be sustained by every Grand Lodge in America . What has the Grand Lodge of England done in this matter ? or are the Grand Lodge certificates of England allowed to be rejected , as those of Holland and America are , in the hands of Jewish Brethren in Prussia ? held at Baltimore in
There is to be a Convocation of Lecturers May next , for the purpose of harmonizing a system of AVork for the Union , It is likely to be generally approved by the Grand Lodges , though some have declined nominating delegates .