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Article THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON. ← Page 5 of 5
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The Freemasons' Lexicon.
does he work for it , for he does not sell his humanity and philanthropy . He who looks for gain will not receive it , but he who does his duty faithfully and cheerfully , without either requiring or waiting for a reward , will receive it without measure , and rejoice innocently that he has received it , for his conscience tells him that he is worthy of it , and that he has endeavoured to deserve it . London . —The United Grand Lodge of all the Freemasons in England ,
founded 24 th June , 1717 , adopted the above name in the year 1814 . Under this Grand Lodge there are in London about two hundred and fifty Lodges , and about the same number in the other cities and towns of England . * Besides those , she has daughter Lodges in all parts of the world ; but works more particularly by Provincial Grand Lodges , which she has founded here and there , as in Hamburg , Hanover , Frankforton-Maine & c . & c . In 1725 this Grand Lodge established a fund for
re-, , lieving distressed Brethren , to which every English Lodge now subscribes , and the funds of which are materially increased by a fee on granting certificates . It has its own committee , to which the petitioner must apply . If the committee finds he is worthy of assistance , he is immediately relieved with five pounds sterling ; but if it is a Brother who has
been suddenly plunged into distress and poverty oy some great calamity or unavoidable misfortune , or who has a large family of children whom he is unable to support , those circumstances are brought under the consideration of the Grand Lodge at their next assembly , and a sum is voted to him , which must not exceed twenty guineas at one time . By this timely assistance , many a worthy Brother has been relieved from poverty and distress . The Grand Lodge iu London was also the first to compile and publish a Constitution Book . Since its foundation , the most
exalted personages have always been at its head as Grand Master , and the Prince Regent is at the present time the Grand Patron ofthe Order ( I 818 ) . f Luf ' ton . Lewis . —This appellation , derived from the English , is given to , the son of a , Mason ., Lewis formerly had the , privilege of being initiated into the Order younger than any other person , even in his eighteenth year ; -but they only enjoy this privilege now in those Lodges [ where [ the law does not prohibit any one to be initiated before he has reached his twenty-fifth year . Lewis must also be a cultivated and morally respectable young man , or , the entrance into the Lodge will be refused to him as well as to those whose fathers are not Masons .
The privileges which the sons of the priests of , the ancient mysteries enjoyed , cannot be introduced into , Freemasonry ..
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Lexicon.
does he work for it , for he does not sell his humanity and philanthropy . He who looks for gain will not receive it , but he who does his duty faithfully and cheerfully , without either requiring or waiting for a reward , will receive it without measure , and rejoice innocently that he has received it , for his conscience tells him that he is worthy of it , and that he has endeavoured to deserve it . London . —The United Grand Lodge of all the Freemasons in England ,
founded 24 th June , 1717 , adopted the above name in the year 1814 . Under this Grand Lodge there are in London about two hundred and fifty Lodges , and about the same number in the other cities and towns of England . * Besides those , she has daughter Lodges in all parts of the world ; but works more particularly by Provincial Grand Lodges , which she has founded here and there , as in Hamburg , Hanover , Frankforton-Maine & c . & c . In 1725 this Grand Lodge established a fund for
re-, , lieving distressed Brethren , to which every English Lodge now subscribes , and the funds of which are materially increased by a fee on granting certificates . It has its own committee , to which the petitioner must apply . If the committee finds he is worthy of assistance , he is immediately relieved with five pounds sterling ; but if it is a Brother who has
been suddenly plunged into distress and poverty oy some great calamity or unavoidable misfortune , or who has a large family of children whom he is unable to support , those circumstances are brought under the consideration of the Grand Lodge at their next assembly , and a sum is voted to him , which must not exceed twenty guineas at one time . By this timely assistance , many a worthy Brother has been relieved from poverty and distress . The Grand Lodge iu London was also the first to compile and publish a Constitution Book . Since its foundation , the most
exalted personages have always been at its head as Grand Master , and the Prince Regent is at the present time the Grand Patron ofthe Order ( I 818 ) . f Luf ' ton . Lewis . —This appellation , derived from the English , is given to , the son of a , Mason ., Lewis formerly had the , privilege of being initiated into the Order younger than any other person , even in his eighteenth year ; -but they only enjoy this privilege now in those Lodges [ where [ the law does not prohibit any one to be initiated before he has reached his twenty-fifth year . Lewis must also be a cultivated and morally respectable young man , or , the entrance into the Lodge will be refused to him as well as to those whose fathers are not Masons .
The privileges which the sons of the priests of , the ancient mysteries enjoyed , cannot be introduced into , Freemasonry ..