-
Articles/Ads
Article TO THE EDITOR. ← Page 4 of 4 Article TO THE EDITOR. Page 1 of 2 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
To The Editor.
led to the most disastrous consequences to the Craft . The Grand Lodge therefore earnestly calls upon all good Masons to aid and assist in discountenancing , and forbidding to be continued any longer , as Members , those belonging to such Clubs or Meetings as are held out of a regularly constituted and tyled Lodge , — such conduct being a decided breach of Masonic Discipline , and subject to the penalties above stated . " With the correction of such abuses the Grand Lodge will be enabled to keep inviolate that sacred pledge which , as the Guardian of the
Craft , she , for the peace and good order of Society , has come under to the Government of the Country . " In conclusion , I beg to stato , that The Grand Lodge or Grand Committee will grant temporary Warrants , gratis , for holding Lodges of Instruction in any District or Province , when a majority of the Masters therein shall petition for them . I remain , It . AV . Sirs and Brethren , yours faithfully and fraternally , " AVat . A . LAURIE . Secretary . " To the R . W . The Masters of Lodges , Ice .
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
JEHOSHAPHAT . SIR AND BROTHER , —It is , you are aware , difficult to deal with the subject of Bro . AVilson ' s letter in the last Quarterly , but I think 1 shall be able sufficiently to go into the matter to shew , that the explanation given in the Emulation Lodge of Improvement , as stated by Bro . AVilson , is erroneous . As I understand Bro . AVilson ' s letterthe Valley of Jehoshhat
, ap , spoken of in the Lodge of Emulation , is treated , not as a proper name or place , hut as entirely figurative or symbolical ; this appears to be quite inconsistent with the subject with which it is associated , and I cannot agree with the position ( at least in this case ) , that an ethical figure is a proper foundation for a physical demonstrative ; there appears to me to he no just connection between the two as so given . Jehoshaphat means , God ' s Judgment , or the Judgment of Jehovah ; it
was given as a proper name to many persons , and , amongst others , to a king of Judah ; and I think there is little or no doubt that the valley in question took its name from that king who reigned about A . M . 3100 . Joel ' s time was 100 years afterwards , when the valley by the name of Jehoshaphat was well known . Now Joshua lived upwards of 600 years before Joel , and there is no trace , I believe , until about Solomon ' s time , even of the name of Jehoshaphateither as of persons or of lace . It
, p does not at all follow that , because Jehoshaphat means " God ' s Judgment , " that it is to be taken in its literal or figurative sense . All Hebrew names , and most Asiatic names , now hear a meaning . Now test the propriety of using Jehoshaphat in the sense used by the Emulation Lodge , and say , " in the valley of God ' s Judgment , " or " in the valley ofthe Judgment of Jehovah , " and it appears senseless , or at least most obscure and unintelligible .
The Loclge of Emulation being founded on the School of Gilkes , I am at a loss to conceive where the explanation now given comes from . Haying had the benefit of much instruction from him , and Jehoshaphat having been several times the subject of particular discussion between us , I think I may venture to say , that he never treated it as figurative ; I have no recollection whatever of his treating it otherwise than as a
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
To The Editor.
led to the most disastrous consequences to the Craft . The Grand Lodge therefore earnestly calls upon all good Masons to aid and assist in discountenancing , and forbidding to be continued any longer , as Members , those belonging to such Clubs or Meetings as are held out of a regularly constituted and tyled Lodge , — such conduct being a decided breach of Masonic Discipline , and subject to the penalties above stated . " With the correction of such abuses the Grand Lodge will be enabled to keep inviolate that sacred pledge which , as the Guardian of the
Craft , she , for the peace and good order of Society , has come under to the Government of the Country . " In conclusion , I beg to stato , that The Grand Lodge or Grand Committee will grant temporary Warrants , gratis , for holding Lodges of Instruction in any District or Province , when a majority of the Masters therein shall petition for them . I remain , It . AV . Sirs and Brethren , yours faithfully and fraternally , " AVat . A . LAURIE . Secretary . " To the R . W . The Masters of Lodges , Ice .
To The Editor.
TO THE EDITOR .
JEHOSHAPHAT . SIR AND BROTHER , —It is , you are aware , difficult to deal with the subject of Bro . AVilson ' s letter in the last Quarterly , but I think 1 shall be able sufficiently to go into the matter to shew , that the explanation given in the Emulation Lodge of Improvement , as stated by Bro . AVilson , is erroneous . As I understand Bro . AVilson ' s letterthe Valley of Jehoshhat
, ap , spoken of in the Lodge of Emulation , is treated , not as a proper name or place , hut as entirely figurative or symbolical ; this appears to be quite inconsistent with the subject with which it is associated , and I cannot agree with the position ( at least in this case ) , that an ethical figure is a proper foundation for a physical demonstrative ; there appears to me to he no just connection between the two as so given . Jehoshaphat means , God ' s Judgment , or the Judgment of Jehovah ; it
was given as a proper name to many persons , and , amongst others , to a king of Judah ; and I think there is little or no doubt that the valley in question took its name from that king who reigned about A . M . 3100 . Joel ' s time was 100 years afterwards , when the valley by the name of Jehoshaphat was well known . Now Joshua lived upwards of 600 years before Joel , and there is no trace , I believe , until about Solomon ' s time , even of the name of Jehoshaphateither as of persons or of lace . It
, p does not at all follow that , because Jehoshaphat means " God ' s Judgment , " that it is to be taken in its literal or figurative sense . All Hebrew names , and most Asiatic names , now hear a meaning . Now test the propriety of using Jehoshaphat in the sense used by the Emulation Lodge , and say , " in the valley of God ' s Judgment , " or " in the valley ofthe Judgment of Jehovah , " and it appears senseless , or at least most obscure and unintelligible .
The Loclge of Emulation being founded on the School of Gilkes , I am at a loss to conceive where the explanation now given comes from . Haying had the benefit of much instruction from him , and Jehoshaphat having been several times the subject of particular discussion between us , I think I may venture to say , that he never treated it as figurative ; I have no recollection whatever of his treating it otherwise than as a