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O OYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT ¦ ^ INSTITUTION FOR AGED FREEMASONS AND WIDOWS OF FREEMASONS . URANIJ I'ATRON AND PRESIDENT : HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES , K . G ., & c ., M . W . G . M . THE ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL Of this Institution will take place at FREEMASONS' TAVERN , GREAT QUEEN STREET , LONDON , On Wednesday , 24 II 1 February , 1886 , Upon which occasion the Most Hon . the MARQUJS OF HERTFORD , R . W . Senior Grand Warden , Has been pleased to signify his intention of Presiding . _ Brethren are earnestly invited to accept the Office of Steward upon this occasion , and they will greatly oblige by forwarding their Names and Masonic Rank , as soon as convenient , to Ihe Secretary , who will gladly give any information required , and supply them with all necessary circulars , & c . It is fraternally hoped that , upon this occasion , owing to the large number of Applicants and the few vacancies , Brethren will use their influence to obtain donations towards the Funds of the Institution , which were never more needed than at the present time . JAMES TERRY , P . Prov . G . S . W . Norths & Hunts ., Secretary . 4 , Freemasons' Hall , London , W . C .

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)^<^^^ fe ]^^ g _ - _ __ - _ -- ^^ A ^ 4 _^^ - § i SATURDAY , DECEMBER 5 , 1885 .

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

t \ Ve do not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of the opinionsexpressedby our correspondents , but we wish in a spirit of fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . ) ——^ FREEMASONRY AND THE EDITOR OF OLD

AND NEW . To the Editor ofthe "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , I shall be glad if you will lind room for the enclosed correspondence in your next issue and oblige , A PROVINCIAL GRAND SECRETARY .

In the November number of " New and Old , " a monthly magazine , the editor makes the following reply to some correspondent : "' A Freemason . '—I am afraid you do not understand the principles underlying- your profession . Consult an article in the July number of the * Christian Remembrancer " for 1 S 47 , written by the late BiV . hop Armstrong , quotations from which are given in his life , p . 1 G 9-1 S 1 , and

you will there find that you are committed to a system of Deism , and nothing else . One of the 'Constitutions , concerning Cod and Religion , ' obliges members , to ' that religion in which all men agree ; ' in other words , it requires the Christian to suppress all that is peculiarly Christian ; the lew all that is peculiarly Jewish , the Mahometan all

that is peculiar to the Koran , and to join in one religious Brotherhood . You see that Freemasonry is preparing the way for Anti-Christ . " The above statement of the editor of " New and Old " containing so many false inferences , both of fact and opinion , I wrote him the following letter , requesting hc would insert it in thc December number , which he has refused to do :

A FREEMASON . "To the Editor of ' _ veta and Old . ' " Sir , —Your answer to a correspondent under the above title in the November number is so incorrect in fact , and untrue in your inference , that ( must beg space in your next issue for these few lines to correct these mistakes . " ist . You state , 'You are committed to a system of Deism , and nothing else , ' which is perfectly untrue , as

Freemasonry is not a religion at all . " 2 nd . You state , * One of the Constitutions of Freemasonry concerning God and religion , ' ' obliges members to that religion in ivhich all men agree . ' This ignorant statement carries its own refutation , as there is no religion I have yet heard of in which all men do agree j and Freemasonry , as before stated , is not a religion : I have at this moment the Book of Constitutions of

Freemasonry before me and have referred to the first article in it 'Concerning God and religion , ' and there is not a single word of the pretended extract you quote in it , but there is this in it , ' A Mason of all men should best understand that God seeth not as man seeth ; for man looketh at the outward appearance , but God looketh to the heart . A Mason is therefore particularly bound never to act against his conscience . Let a man ' s religion

or mode of worship be what it may , he is not excluded from the Order , provided he believe in the glorious Architect o _ Heaven and Earth , and practise the sacred duties of morality . ' " Lastly , your inference ' That Freemasonry is preparing the way for Anti-Christ , ' has not a grain of truth in it , for

if it had , I am quite certain the present Archbishop of Dublin , the present Bishop of Peterborough , the Earl of Limerick , or the writer would not remain for one hour members of the Order . I was one of the early members of the E . C . U . and at this moment a member of the C . B . S . " A PROVINCIAL GRAND SECRETARY . "

In place of the foregoing he inserts the following weak evasion to myself , utterly ignoring the untrue statements he has made in the November number : — " ' A Freemason . '—Study the whole of Bishop Armstrong ' s article referred to , and answer it . I doubt not you and many other Freemasons are Christian believers . But what then ? If you believe there is only one way _ of salvation , and One Name , what are you doing and saying

to warn your fellows , Jews , Mahometans , Hindoos , & c , of their great danger ? It is hard to believe that St , Paul or St . John would not , in season and out of season , have spoken out for their one Lord . Would they have called Him the ' Great Architect , ' and said no word as to His being our only Saviour , Intercessor , and Judge ? " To which I have replied as follows : — " December 1 , 1 S 85 .

" To the Editor of ' New and Old . ' "Sir , — " In the November number of the above magazine you published statements that were untrue respecting the Masonic body . 1 challenged your statements , and requested you to publish my reply , which you have not had the common honesty to do . " I shall therefore send a copy of your statements and my letters to the Freemason newspaper , and the public

will then know that no reliance is to be placed on any reply you may make to correspondents in future . " With Bishop Armstrong ' s inferences and opinions I have not anything to do ; I have simply to deal with the principles of Freemasonry as laid down in the Book of Constitutions , to which I have already referred you . —Yours truly , " A PROVINCIAL GRAND SECRETARY . "

The Keystone of the 14 th ult . contains a paper by Bro . Rob . Morris , written , we are sorry to hear , during hours " made leisure by sickness , " on "Jachin and Boaz . " The sickness , however , has not marred the effect of the essay , which is in the lucid and lluentstyle that characterises all our brother ' s contributions to Craft literature . It contains a fund ot information—the result of a careful study of the biblical accounts of these notable pillars .