-
Articles/Ads
Article GRAND MARK LODGE. ← Page 2 of 2 Article GRAND MARK LODGE. Page 2 of 2
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Grand Mark Lodge.
CR . By Expenditure ... ... ... •¦•£ 89 6 " 4 1 „ Investments ... ... •••••¦ 398 ' 8 6 „ Bank Charge ... ... ... •••2 1 S „ Balance ... ... ... ... 203 4 o
£ 150 ° 8 3 DR . BENEVOLENT FUND . To Balance , 31 st March , 1 S 88 ... ... ... £ 238 19 3 „ Interest ... ... ... ... ... 40 » »' „ Stock Realised ... ... ... ... 530 6 6
£ 809 17 S CR . By Grants in Relief ... ... ... ... £ 12215 o „ Investments ... ... ... ... 59 s 5 7 3 „ Balance ... ... ... ... 88 15 5
£ Sog 17 S DR . EDUCATION FUND . To Balance , 31 st March , iSSS ... ... ... £ 134 2 7 ,, Interest ... ... ... ... 44 lS 6 „ Stock Realised ... ... ... ... 318 4 0
£ 497 5 1 CR ; By Education Fees ... ... ... ... £ 140 5 4 „ Investments ... ... ... ... 299 3 9 „ Balance ... ... ... ... 57 l 6 °
£ 497 5 * DR . ANNUITY FUND . To Balance , 31 st March , 1888 ... ... ... £ 105 1 8 ,, Interest ... ... ... ... ... 52 17 S ,, Stock Realised .., ... ... ... 742 9 o
49 °° 8 4 CR . By Annuities ... ... ... ... £ 40 o o „ Investments ... ... ... ... 797 16 o ,, Balance ... ... ... ... 62 12 4
£ 900 8 4 DR . BENEVOLENT FESTIVAL ACCOUNT . To Balance , 31 st March . 1888 ... ... ... £ 48 13 o „ Half-Year ' s Receipts ... ... ... 1401 7 9 £ 1460 o 9
CR . By Bank Charges ... ... ... ... £ 2 1 S „ Donation returned , paid twice in error ... ... 550 „ Balance ... ... ... ... 1442 14 1 £ ' 45 ° 0 9 MARK MASTER MASONS FUND OF BENEVOLENCE BANK
DR . ACCOUNT . To Balance as per Pass Book , 31 st September , 1888 ... £ 1651 17 10 £ ' 65 1 * 7 io CR . By Balance Account of Benevolent Fund ... ... £ 8815 5 ,, „ Education Fund ... ... 57 16 o „ „ Annuity Fund ... ... 62 12 4 ,, ,, Festival Accounts ... ... 1442 14 1
£ 1651 17 to Audited and approved this ist day of November , 1888 , CHARLES EDWARD SOPPET , P . G . O ., Auditor . M . W . Bro . the Rev . Canon PORTAL moved :
That the Annuity payable to Male Annuitants be increased to £ 26 , and that to Female Annuitants to £ 21 , and that a sum of £ 5 be annually presented at Christmas to each Annuitant for the purpose of procuring clothing or fuel , or other necessaries ; and that the Book of Constitutions , page 76 , clause viii ., and page 79 , clause iv ., be altered accordingly .
He said that with regard to this motion it was only necessary to inform Grand Lodge that their Annuity Fund amounted now to a considerable sum , no less , according to the report the brethren had in their hands than £ 2800 ; and thanks to the exertions of the Stewards from year to year at all the festivals their funds were increasing to a large extent annually . Last
festival the sum realised was £ 1818 . Therefore , being in very good funds indeed , he did not think Grand Lodge could do better than increase the amount of the annuities to ten shillings a week to the males and eight shillings a week to the females , to all those who from unfortunate
circumstances were compelled to appeal to Grand Lodge for assistance . He could assure Grand Lodge it was well to give them also a gratuity of £ 5 at Christmas in order that they might provide themselves with some little comfort . They had now four male annuitants and no females , and they could well afford to do it .
Bro . FRANK R ICHARDSON , G . Reg ., said that in seconding the motion , he could add nothing to what had been said by Canon Portal . The matter had been very carefully considered by the Board , and he trusted their decision would meet with the approbation of all the brethren . The motion was put and carried .
The other recommendations in the report were then read by Canon PORTAL , seconded by Bro . FRANK RICHARDSON , and carried unanimously . On the motion of Canon PORTAL , P . G . M ., seconded by Bro . C . L . MASON , D . P . G . M . West Yorkshire , the report of the General Board was adopted , Lord EGJSRTON of TATTON : Brethren , —I have now formally to nominate
Grand Mark Lodge.
the Most Worshipful Grand Master , his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , for election as Grand Master for the ensuing year . ( Cheers . ) Bro . E . LETCHWORTH : I have great pleasure in nominating for election to the office of Grand Treasurer , Bro . Henry Faija , P . S . G . W . Middx . and Surrey , P . M . of the Grosvenor Lodge , and first Master of the Davison
Lodge . ' Bro . W . A . SCURRAH : I have much pleasure in nominating Bro . W . M . Stiles , Old Kent ( Time Immemorial ) Lodge , and founder of the Royal Savoy Lodge , as Treasurer . Charity Festival jewels were then awarded to the following brethren who served as Stewards at the last Festival of the Mark Benevolent Fund .
The following brethren received jewels : Bros . T . R . Arter , J . Belcher , Col . A . J . Briggs , G . M . Bond , B . R . Bryant , Rev . F . V . Bussell , J . K . R . Cama , R . B . Cater , S . B . Catterson , R . Clutton , J . R . Cocks , T . Cohu , J . C Collier , H . E . Cousans , H . O . Crane , H . Creed , A . Event , R . ght Hon . the Eatl of Euston , the Hon . Alan de Tatton Egerton , C . Fendelow , W . Fisher , W . Forrest , H . Fisher , G . Galloway , F . Graves , J . B . Green , Robt . Grey , F . R . Hales , Augustus Harris , H . P . Hay , G . C . Heron , Most Hon . the Marquess of Hertford , C . Y .
Holdgate , H . S . Holdsworth . Sir R . N . Howard , F . R . W . Hedges , G . W . P . Harris , W . Hillman , H . M . Imbert Terry , E . H . Jennings , Dr . VV . H . Kempster , C . E . Keyser , E . Lea , J . E . Lees , Rev . J . A . Lloyd , R . A . Luck , J . P ., C H . McKay , G . Miter , H . McCalmont , J . Naysmith , H . C . Okeover , J . C Onions , the Hon . W . 1 . Orde Powlett , E . Palmer , Rev . J . N . Palmer , Major-General C . W . Randolph , P . Saillard , the Right Hon . Lord Saltoun , G . Saxby , H . Stocker , J . Strachan , H . Tipper , Rev . W . Valentine , M . A ., C . Waters , G . H . Wilkinson , jun ., w . Woodward , and F . Hughes Hallett .
The following brethren received bars ; Bros . H . W . G . Abell , Capt . G . P . Airey , Right Hon . the Earl Amherst , J . IE . Anderson , Chas . Belton , F . T . T . Bennett , R . Berridge , J . D . Birkin , D . T . Briggs , A . K . Carter , Jabez Church ; F . C . Cleeves , G . Cooper , T . Cubitt , Rev . Hayman , Cummings , W . J . Cunliffe , Baron de Ferrieres , C . H . Driver , J . S . Eastes , J . W . Edwards , R . J . Emmerson , W . ] . Frier , G . Fletcher , J . Gardiner , Capt . C . H . Garnett , A . F . G idson ,
M . P ., G . Graveley , E . G . Harwood , C . W . Hudson , W . Jaffrey , A . H . Jrfferis , S . Kelly , G . Kenning , j . Ken ) on , F . S . Knyvelt , Maj > r Geo . Lambert , J . P . Lewin , J . Lane , J . H . Lane , H . J . Lardner , R . Loveland Loveland , W . Maple , C . L . Mason , M . Mildred , H . Massey , C . F . Matier , G . Norman , Sir Love Jones Parry , Bart ., G . Powell , G . Page , F . Richardson , Rev . T . Robbinson , J . Ramsay , J . G . G > rdon Robbins , T . H . Smith , Col . Patrick Stirling , H . Stone , Jack Sutcliffe , P . A . Scratchley , J . Terry , W . J . Thompson , Percy Wallis , H . Ward , A . Williams , W . B . Williamson , J . Willing , jun ., S . B . Wilson . A . Woodiwiss , A . F . Warrillow , J . Wilson , and R . Young .
Bro . BINCKES read a list of brethren from whom letters of apology had been received by him for inability to attend on this occasion . Apologies were received from Bros . Most Hon . the Marquess of Hertford , D . G . M . ; Right Ron . Lord Henniker , P . G . M . ; Sir E . Lechmere , Bart ., P . D . G . M . ; Right Hon . the Earl of Euston , S . G . W . ; and others . Grand Lodge was then closed . The brethren afterwards sat down to a choice banquet , and subsequently honoured the usual toasts .
HIGH DEGREES . —We have already said a good deal on this subject under GRADES , HIGH , and we do not think it needful to dilate upon it here again . Suffice it to observe that the High Degrees , " Les Hautes Grades , " may all , we believe , be traced back to Chevalier Ramsey , though , such as they are , they are the amplification and development ot his more modest addition to the Craft Degrees . At the same time , it is but fair to observe
that recent investigations seem to show that , before Ramsey , in England an Hermetic Society existed , though of its exact nature there seems some doubt . It may have been only an adaptation of the older Rosicrucian confraternity , the historical " Fratres Roste Crucis ; " or il may even have been a quasi revival of the same . That the real Rosicrucians existed , is , we
apprehend , incontestable ; what their connection with English Masonic Hermeticism , is another and very different question . We prefer , as we have said more than once , the simpler system ot our English Grand Lodge , which limits true and ancient Masonry to the Three Degrees and the Royal Arch . —Kenninsr ' s Cyclopaedia of Freemasonry .
DALCHO , FREDERICK . —A brother who played an important part in the history of American Freemasonry . Mackey ' s account of him is the best we have seen , and the fullest . He was , it seems , born in London in 1770 , of Prussian descent . He emigrated to Baltimore on his father ' s death , and was there brought up for the medical profession . He served in the American army as a medical officer , but resigned his commission
in 1799 , and settled at Charleston , where he resumed his medical practice with a certain Isaac Auld . In 1818 Dr . Dalcho was ordained a priest in the American Protestant Episcopal Church , and the same year was elected assistant minister at St . Michael ' s Church , Charleston , where he laboured until his death in 1836 . He published more than one religious work , and edited for , some time the " Gospel Messenger . " He
is supposed to have been initiated into Masonry in an Athol Lodge , but when exactly is not known . In 1801 he was admitted into the 33 rd Degree of the A . and A . S . Rite , and soon after aided to form the " Supreme Council" of that body at Charleston . So much interest did he take in this high grade , that Mackey and others term him actuall y one of the founders of the Ancient and Accepted Rite in its present
arrangement , a position which his own acceptance into the 33 previously renders improbable and impossible . VVe cannot accept the Charleston arrangement of the rite , and feel sure that it is an error historically and critically . In 1803 Dalcho published his " Orations , " which are undoubtedly able productions ; and in 1807 he published at the request of the Grand Lodge of York Masons in South Carolina , another " Ahiman Rezon , " based 011
Dermott ' s original work . In 1808 he became Grand Secretary of this Grand Lodge , and he seems to have devoted all his energies to the union of the two Grand Lodges which then claimed the allegiance of the South Carolina Masons . In 1817 the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of South Carolina , and the Grand Lodge of Ancient York Masons of South Carolina , became happily one united Grand Lodge under the appellation of
the Grand Lodge ol Ancient Freemasons of South Carolina , and Bro . Dalcho was appointed Grand Chaplain , which post he filled for many years , delivering a public address or sermon on the Festival of St . John . In 1822 he prepared a second edition of "Ahiman Rezon , " and in 1823 , in con- . sequence of an unpleasant controversy , which more especially related to
the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite , he retired from Masonry , and gave up for the remainder of his life , as Mackey tells us—to whose biograph y we are indebted for our main " precis " ot it— " all participation in the active duties of Masonry . " He was an instructed and earnest member of our Order , and we must all regret such a termination to his Masonic career . —Kenning ' s Cyclopcedia of Freemasonry .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Grand Mark Lodge.
CR . By Expenditure ... ... ... •¦•£ 89 6 " 4 1 „ Investments ... ... •••••¦ 398 ' 8 6 „ Bank Charge ... ... ... •••2 1 S „ Balance ... ... ... ... 203 4 o
£ 150 ° 8 3 DR . BENEVOLENT FUND . To Balance , 31 st March , 1 S 88 ... ... ... £ 238 19 3 „ Interest ... ... ... ... ... 40 » »' „ Stock Realised ... ... ... ... 530 6 6
£ 809 17 S CR . By Grants in Relief ... ... ... ... £ 12215 o „ Investments ... ... ... ... 59 s 5 7 3 „ Balance ... ... ... ... 88 15 5
£ Sog 17 S DR . EDUCATION FUND . To Balance , 31 st March , iSSS ... ... ... £ 134 2 7 ,, Interest ... ... ... ... 44 lS 6 „ Stock Realised ... ... ... ... 318 4 0
£ 497 5 1 CR ; By Education Fees ... ... ... ... £ 140 5 4 „ Investments ... ... ... ... 299 3 9 „ Balance ... ... ... ... 57 l 6 °
£ 497 5 * DR . ANNUITY FUND . To Balance , 31 st March , 1888 ... ... ... £ 105 1 8 ,, Interest ... ... ... ... ... 52 17 S ,, Stock Realised .., ... ... ... 742 9 o
49 °° 8 4 CR . By Annuities ... ... ... ... £ 40 o o „ Investments ... ... ... ... 797 16 o ,, Balance ... ... ... ... 62 12 4
£ 900 8 4 DR . BENEVOLENT FESTIVAL ACCOUNT . To Balance , 31 st March . 1888 ... ... ... £ 48 13 o „ Half-Year ' s Receipts ... ... ... 1401 7 9 £ 1460 o 9
CR . By Bank Charges ... ... ... ... £ 2 1 S „ Donation returned , paid twice in error ... ... 550 „ Balance ... ... ... ... 1442 14 1 £ ' 45 ° 0 9 MARK MASTER MASONS FUND OF BENEVOLENCE BANK
DR . ACCOUNT . To Balance as per Pass Book , 31 st September , 1888 ... £ 1651 17 10 £ ' 65 1 * 7 io CR . By Balance Account of Benevolent Fund ... ... £ 8815 5 ,, „ Education Fund ... ... 57 16 o „ „ Annuity Fund ... ... 62 12 4 ,, ,, Festival Accounts ... ... 1442 14 1
£ 1651 17 to Audited and approved this ist day of November , 1888 , CHARLES EDWARD SOPPET , P . G . O ., Auditor . M . W . Bro . the Rev . Canon PORTAL moved :
That the Annuity payable to Male Annuitants be increased to £ 26 , and that to Female Annuitants to £ 21 , and that a sum of £ 5 be annually presented at Christmas to each Annuitant for the purpose of procuring clothing or fuel , or other necessaries ; and that the Book of Constitutions , page 76 , clause viii ., and page 79 , clause iv ., be altered accordingly .
He said that with regard to this motion it was only necessary to inform Grand Lodge that their Annuity Fund amounted now to a considerable sum , no less , according to the report the brethren had in their hands than £ 2800 ; and thanks to the exertions of the Stewards from year to year at all the festivals their funds were increasing to a large extent annually . Last
festival the sum realised was £ 1818 . Therefore , being in very good funds indeed , he did not think Grand Lodge could do better than increase the amount of the annuities to ten shillings a week to the males and eight shillings a week to the females , to all those who from unfortunate
circumstances were compelled to appeal to Grand Lodge for assistance . He could assure Grand Lodge it was well to give them also a gratuity of £ 5 at Christmas in order that they might provide themselves with some little comfort . They had now four male annuitants and no females , and they could well afford to do it .
Bro . FRANK R ICHARDSON , G . Reg ., said that in seconding the motion , he could add nothing to what had been said by Canon Portal . The matter had been very carefully considered by the Board , and he trusted their decision would meet with the approbation of all the brethren . The motion was put and carried .
The other recommendations in the report were then read by Canon PORTAL , seconded by Bro . FRANK RICHARDSON , and carried unanimously . On the motion of Canon PORTAL , P . G . M ., seconded by Bro . C . L . MASON , D . P . G . M . West Yorkshire , the report of the General Board was adopted , Lord EGJSRTON of TATTON : Brethren , —I have now formally to nominate
Grand Mark Lodge.
the Most Worshipful Grand Master , his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , for election as Grand Master for the ensuing year . ( Cheers . ) Bro . E . LETCHWORTH : I have great pleasure in nominating for election to the office of Grand Treasurer , Bro . Henry Faija , P . S . G . W . Middx . and Surrey , P . M . of the Grosvenor Lodge , and first Master of the Davison
Lodge . ' Bro . W . A . SCURRAH : I have much pleasure in nominating Bro . W . M . Stiles , Old Kent ( Time Immemorial ) Lodge , and founder of the Royal Savoy Lodge , as Treasurer . Charity Festival jewels were then awarded to the following brethren who served as Stewards at the last Festival of the Mark Benevolent Fund .
The following brethren received jewels : Bros . T . R . Arter , J . Belcher , Col . A . J . Briggs , G . M . Bond , B . R . Bryant , Rev . F . V . Bussell , J . K . R . Cama , R . B . Cater , S . B . Catterson , R . Clutton , J . R . Cocks , T . Cohu , J . C Collier , H . E . Cousans , H . O . Crane , H . Creed , A . Event , R . ght Hon . the Eatl of Euston , the Hon . Alan de Tatton Egerton , C . Fendelow , W . Fisher , W . Forrest , H . Fisher , G . Galloway , F . Graves , J . B . Green , Robt . Grey , F . R . Hales , Augustus Harris , H . P . Hay , G . C . Heron , Most Hon . the Marquess of Hertford , C . Y .
Holdgate , H . S . Holdsworth . Sir R . N . Howard , F . R . W . Hedges , G . W . P . Harris , W . Hillman , H . M . Imbert Terry , E . H . Jennings , Dr . VV . H . Kempster , C . E . Keyser , E . Lea , J . E . Lees , Rev . J . A . Lloyd , R . A . Luck , J . P ., C H . McKay , G . Miter , H . McCalmont , J . Naysmith , H . C . Okeover , J . C Onions , the Hon . W . 1 . Orde Powlett , E . Palmer , Rev . J . N . Palmer , Major-General C . W . Randolph , P . Saillard , the Right Hon . Lord Saltoun , G . Saxby , H . Stocker , J . Strachan , H . Tipper , Rev . W . Valentine , M . A ., C . Waters , G . H . Wilkinson , jun ., w . Woodward , and F . Hughes Hallett .
The following brethren received bars ; Bros . H . W . G . Abell , Capt . G . P . Airey , Right Hon . the Earl Amherst , J . IE . Anderson , Chas . Belton , F . T . T . Bennett , R . Berridge , J . D . Birkin , D . T . Briggs , A . K . Carter , Jabez Church ; F . C . Cleeves , G . Cooper , T . Cubitt , Rev . Hayman , Cummings , W . J . Cunliffe , Baron de Ferrieres , C . H . Driver , J . S . Eastes , J . W . Edwards , R . J . Emmerson , W . ] . Frier , G . Fletcher , J . Gardiner , Capt . C . H . Garnett , A . F . G idson ,
M . P ., G . Graveley , E . G . Harwood , C . W . Hudson , W . Jaffrey , A . H . Jrfferis , S . Kelly , G . Kenning , j . Ken ) on , F . S . Knyvelt , Maj > r Geo . Lambert , J . P . Lewin , J . Lane , J . H . Lane , H . J . Lardner , R . Loveland Loveland , W . Maple , C . L . Mason , M . Mildred , H . Massey , C . F . Matier , G . Norman , Sir Love Jones Parry , Bart ., G . Powell , G . Page , F . Richardson , Rev . T . Robbinson , J . Ramsay , J . G . G > rdon Robbins , T . H . Smith , Col . Patrick Stirling , H . Stone , Jack Sutcliffe , P . A . Scratchley , J . Terry , W . J . Thompson , Percy Wallis , H . Ward , A . Williams , W . B . Williamson , J . Willing , jun ., S . B . Wilson . A . Woodiwiss , A . F . Warrillow , J . Wilson , and R . Young .
Bro . BINCKES read a list of brethren from whom letters of apology had been received by him for inability to attend on this occasion . Apologies were received from Bros . Most Hon . the Marquess of Hertford , D . G . M . ; Right Ron . Lord Henniker , P . G . M . ; Sir E . Lechmere , Bart ., P . D . G . M . ; Right Hon . the Earl of Euston , S . G . W . ; and others . Grand Lodge was then closed . The brethren afterwards sat down to a choice banquet , and subsequently honoured the usual toasts .
HIGH DEGREES . —We have already said a good deal on this subject under GRADES , HIGH , and we do not think it needful to dilate upon it here again . Suffice it to observe that the High Degrees , " Les Hautes Grades , " may all , we believe , be traced back to Chevalier Ramsey , though , such as they are , they are the amplification and development ot his more modest addition to the Craft Degrees . At the same time , it is but fair to observe
that recent investigations seem to show that , before Ramsey , in England an Hermetic Society existed , though of its exact nature there seems some doubt . It may have been only an adaptation of the older Rosicrucian confraternity , the historical " Fratres Roste Crucis ; " or il may even have been a quasi revival of the same . That the real Rosicrucians existed , is , we
apprehend , incontestable ; what their connection with English Masonic Hermeticism , is another and very different question . We prefer , as we have said more than once , the simpler system ot our English Grand Lodge , which limits true and ancient Masonry to the Three Degrees and the Royal Arch . —Kenninsr ' s Cyclopaedia of Freemasonry .
DALCHO , FREDERICK . —A brother who played an important part in the history of American Freemasonry . Mackey ' s account of him is the best we have seen , and the fullest . He was , it seems , born in London in 1770 , of Prussian descent . He emigrated to Baltimore on his father ' s death , and was there brought up for the medical profession . He served in the American army as a medical officer , but resigned his commission
in 1799 , and settled at Charleston , where he resumed his medical practice with a certain Isaac Auld . In 1818 Dr . Dalcho was ordained a priest in the American Protestant Episcopal Church , and the same year was elected assistant minister at St . Michael ' s Church , Charleston , where he laboured until his death in 1836 . He published more than one religious work , and edited for , some time the " Gospel Messenger . " He
is supposed to have been initiated into Masonry in an Athol Lodge , but when exactly is not known . In 1801 he was admitted into the 33 rd Degree of the A . and A . S . Rite , and soon after aided to form the " Supreme Council" of that body at Charleston . So much interest did he take in this high grade , that Mackey and others term him actuall y one of the founders of the Ancient and Accepted Rite in its present
arrangement , a position which his own acceptance into the 33 previously renders improbable and impossible . VVe cannot accept the Charleston arrangement of the rite , and feel sure that it is an error historically and critically . In 1803 Dalcho published his " Orations , " which are undoubtedly able productions ; and in 1807 he published at the request of the Grand Lodge of York Masons in South Carolina , another " Ahiman Rezon , " based 011
Dermott ' s original work . In 1808 he became Grand Secretary of this Grand Lodge , and he seems to have devoted all his energies to the union of the two Grand Lodges which then claimed the allegiance of the South Carolina Masons . In 1817 the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of South Carolina , and the Grand Lodge of Ancient York Masons of South Carolina , became happily one united Grand Lodge under the appellation of
the Grand Lodge ol Ancient Freemasons of South Carolina , and Bro . Dalcho was appointed Grand Chaplain , which post he filled for many years , delivering a public address or sermon on the Festival of St . John . In 1822 he prepared a second edition of "Ahiman Rezon , " and in 1823 , in con- . sequence of an unpleasant controversy , which more especially related to
the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite , he retired from Masonry , and gave up for the remainder of his life , as Mackey tells us—to whose biograph y we are indebted for our main " precis " ot it— " all participation in the active duties of Masonry . " He was an instructed and earnest member of our Order , and we must all regret such a termination to his Masonic career . —Kenning ' s Cyclopcedia of Freemasonry .