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TO OUR READERS . The FREEMASON is a Weekly Newspaper , price AU .. It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important , interesting , and useful information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Subscription , in eluding postage : United America , India , India , China , & c Kingdom , the Continent , & c . Via Drindisi . Twelve Months 10 s . 6 d . 12 s . od . 17 s . 4 d . Six „ 5 s . 3 d . 6 s . 6 d . 8 s . 8 d . Three „ 2 s . 8 d . 3 s . 3 d . 4 s . 6 d . Subscriptions may be paid for in stamps , but Post Office Orders or Cheques are preferred , the former payable to GEORGE KENNING , CHIEF OFFICE , LONDON , the latter crossed London Joint Stock Bank . Advertisements and other business communications should be addressed to the Publisher . Communications on literary subjects and books for review are to be forwarded to the Editor . Anonymous correspondence will be wholly disregarded , and the return of rejected MSS . cannot be guaranteed . Further information will be supplied on application to the Publisher , ig 8 , Fleet-street , London . 1 ¦
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TO ADVERTISERS . The FBEEMRSON has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe , its advantages as an advertising medium can therefore scarcely be overrated . ADVERTISEMENTS to ensure insertion in current -week ' s issue should reach the Office , 198 , Fleet-street , by 12 o ' clock on "Wednesdays . SCALE OF CHARGES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS . V ? hole of back page £ 12 12 o Half , „ 6 10 o Inside pages ... ... 7 7 ° Half of ditto 400 Quarter ditto ... ... 2 10 o Whole column ... ... ... 2 10 o Half „ 1 10 o Quarter „ 100 Per inch ... ... ... 040 ' These prices are for single insertions . A liberal reduction is made for a series of 13 , 26 , and 52 insertions . Further particulars may be obtained of the Publisher , 198 , Fleet-street , London .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
J ULIUS FRANK . —We could not publish your letter while your appeal was pending , still less can we do so , now that it has been heard and decided by the P . G . M ., the lawful authority . We are not a Court of Appeal ! The Book of Constitutions gives you a remedy if dissatisfied with the
decision . J . R . —On the 15 th of December . J . H . ( Bombay)— . A complete list of Rose Croix Chapters is given in the " Cosmopolitan Masonic Pocket Book . " H . H . —The report will appear next week . P . G . D . —The office of Grand Treasurer is at present
vacant . P . Z . —Bro . R . Wentworth Little , was elected Secretary to the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , in November , 1872 , He died on April 12 th of the present year .
BOOKS & c , RECEIVED . "Pantile Papers ; " "Die Bauhutte ; " "Freemasons ' Monthly , " " Maxims and Miscellanies for Merchants and Men of Business ; " " London Express ; " " Broad Arrow ;" " Westminster Papers ; " " Hull Packet ; " " Masonic Record ; " " Masonic Herald ; " " Liberal Freemason ;" " Corner Stone ; " " Public Ledger ; " " Bundes Presse ;" "Brief ; " " Freemasons'Monthly ; " Proceedings of thc Grand
Lodge of Scotland ; " "European Mail ; " " Rome's Recruits ; A List cf Protestants who have become Catholic since the Tractatian Movement ; " "New York Dispatch ;" " Risorgimento ; " " Der Triangel . " " Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Pennsylvania ; " "Masonic Newspaper ;" " Address of the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Quebec , A . G . and A . M . delivered at Annual Communication held 25 th Sept . 1878 ; " " Hebrew Leader ; " " Edinburgh Courant . "
Births ,Marriages And Deaths.
Births , Marriages and Deaths .
BIRTHS . CUNNINGHAM . — On the 28 th ult ., at Studley , near Trow , bridge , Wilf , the wife of D . Cunningham , Lieut . R . A ., cf a daughter . PARTIULOI ; . —On thc 1 st inst ., at Anchor-gate Lodge , Portsea , the wife of Capt . S . R . B . Partridge , of a son .
MARRIAGE . BULL—MASSF . Y . —On the 31 st ult ., at St . Man's , Great Dunmow , Edwin , son ot the late C . Bull , of Little Dunmow , to Laura Graves , daughter of O . H . Massey , of Hoiiitlyc , Little Dunmow .
DEATHS . BOSWORTH . —On the 17 th ult ., suddenly , of apoplexy , John Baswunh , ol the Granite Lodge , Ni > . 1328 . DIXON . —On the 3 rd inst ., at 2 , Cecil-street , Strand , Alice , widow of Joseph Dixon , formerly of Bury-street , St . James ' s , in the 73 rd year of her age .
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THE FREEMASON , SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 9 , 1878 .
Once Again.
ONCE AGAIN .
Once again , as the " whirligig of old time meets us in the way , we are assembling in our good and pleasant lodges . All is rubbing up , and smartening up . Secretaries are issuing circulars , and Tylers are getting " paraphernalia " ready , and even now many brethren have
answered the summons , and have gathered around their W . M ., in goodly force , in genial spirits , and with Masonic zeal . It cannot , however , be , but that we miss some , whose presence enlivened , whose friendship cheered our " lodge life , " when last we parted , hoping to meet again .
No year passes over our heads , indeed , but sees gaps in our ranks , and names wanting on our " rolls , " and as to-day , after a long recess , we meet together once more , and greet one another , let us hope , with true fraternal warmth , we look in vain for some who once were ever to the
" fore amongst us , " not only , indeed , those who " set the table on a roar , " but those kind and pleasant " socii atque sodales , " who have been so bound up with the history of our lodge , such good mates , and such honest sharers with ourselves , of the rubs and gaities , the crosses and
the comforts of life . They are not now any more amongst us , —tbeir places know them no more , they have left us , not to return , their journey is ended , their work is done . He must be a very thoughtless man , and we will add , a very bad Mason , who is not touched with such
realities , or affected by such a condition of affairs . Though this may be the noimal condition of this , our " sublunary state , " it is not the less both trying and often startling to us , as it ought to be , in the highest degree . We form friendships , we make us friends , we interchange sympathies , we
link ourselves together in the pleasant chain of a goodly brothrerhood , and some of our cheeriest hours , many of our simplest pleasures are found in a little happy circle of true-hearted mates and companions . No , man is a gregarious animal , and it is not good for him to be alone . He
wants friendship , sympathy , intercourse with his kind , interchange of thought and opinion , the play of fancy and of wit , the evocation of intellect and conversation . In all this geniality of lifo , man may fairly play his part , and share his lot , despite the assertions of a mistaken
asceticism , notwithstanding thc suggestions of an ill-founded love of segregation and separation from the duties and transactions of life . And here to-day , as brethren meet in their lodges , hence we need to be on our guard against the temptation of our Masonic social system . If
our meetings are a social gathering , and only that to us , they are not all they ought to be , all they might be . We must not surrender to the materialistic teaching of the hour , all that is touching or sentimental , all that is ennobling in aspiration , all that is elevating in moral perception .
Amid the charms of sociality , we must not forget the "higher claims " of better things . Still , as of old , still as ever , in everything of earth , " Latet anguis in herbii , " and we should not , in the most successful gatherings of our warm-hearted sodality , put out of sight or out of mind , the most
important and more enduring requirements of charity and sympathy for brethren and fellow mortals , the old and decayed of our Order , the widows of our companions , the orphan children of our brethren . May our Masonic season of
78-79 witness to us of pleasant meetings and harmonious assemblies , may it banish the mischief maker , the tale-bearer , the slanderer from our midst , and may it serve to increase the store of human happiness , and cement the concord of our Masonic family .
Roman Catholic Intimidation And Intolerance.
ROMAN CATHOLIC INTIMIDATION AND INTOLERANCE .
It is with feelings of mingled sorrow ancl indignation that we call attention to a letter elsewhere on this subject . It is , indeed , a mourn-
Roman Catholic Intimidation And Intolerance.
ful parody in this age of light , and in this land of liberty , on those professions and principles which are supposed to govern the world at large , and nations in particular . But we cannot profess , much as we deplore the fact , to be astonished or startled at it . It is , in fact , the natural
corrollary of the argument and the teaching of Ultramontanism , just now very rampant in some portions of the world , and not at all particular in the allies it associates with , or the aid it invokes . In fact , when we come calmly to consider it , we see bow consistently Rome has acted , and ever
does act in all matters which concern it as a body corporate , as a system of influence , and we must add imposture . In the first Bull against the Freemasons , in 1738 , not only were all Free-, masons to be delivered over to the "Inquisition " and the " Secular arm , " but the "houses of those
persons were to be pulled down where the Freemasons met . " And so say the Ultramontanes of MuIIingar . It is just now Rome ' s pleasant little game to profess tosupport liberty of conscience here , and to endeavour openly to suppress it elsewhere ; as with us to claim the full and sacred right
of educating its own people , but in another country to seek to shut up all schools which are not Roman Catholic . Like the old Roman god Janus , it is " Bifron . " J ust as in its previous history , owing to the pernicious teaching of the Jesuit school , the assassination of heretical kings
has been approved of and encouraged , £ 0 to-day it claims to be superior even in its temporal authority , to all national laws , all sovereign authorities , which do not acknowledge the material and spiritual "Regale " of the Bishop of Rome . And , therefore , though not astonished with these
proceedings at Mullingar , we are deeply pained at them , while we equally sympathize with our brother Freemasons in that town , and trust that Bro . D'Arcy ' s appeal may not be made in vain to the sympathy and liberality of English Freemasons .
English And Foreign Freemasonry.
ENGLISH AND FOREIGN FREEMASONRY .
In our last week s impression we touched upon certain differences which seemed to form an impassable gulf between English and many Foreign Freemasons , namely in respect of political tendencies , but there are others still greater in connexion with belief in God , tho foundation stone
of all true Masonry , which we must not lose sight of , nor pass by . Not onl y is belief in God erased from some Constitutions in so marked a way as to leave no doubt of the object and the aims of the act , but even when belief in God is professed , it is accompanied by conditions ,
restrictions , and qualifications , repugnant to the honest minds of English Masons . For instance , at the congress of Geneva the " Rite Ecossais " declared that " Freemasonry proclaims—as it has proclaimed from the beginning—the existence of a creative principle , under tho name of the
Great Architect of the Universe , in French , a " Principe Createur , " & c . Now this , in relation to special discussions , and philosophical subtleties , cannot possibly be satisfactory to any who have studied the question or who realize the exact meaning of words
Ihe " Principe Createur , is not synonymous with the G . A . O . T . U . ; indeed the congress of Geneva says as much when it adds , " under the name of T . G . A . O . T . U . " Do our readers perceive the difference ? It is in fact a specious substitution of an " Anima Mundi "
of the machinery of necessitarian deism , as it is called , for the honest faith of our fathers in a personal God ! A man may say he believes in a " Principe Createur" which practically only presupposes a machinal " Force Superieure , " " Superior Force , " and yet not bo able to
say as we do that we "trust in God , " or pray to God , or that he accepts His divine and inspired Word as the rule of man ' s feet , the square of man ' s actions , and the light of man ' s pathway here below . Hence we apprehend , that just as
prayer is not used in the " Rite Ecossais , as we know , any more than in the Grand Orient , any real acknowledgement of the Most High is altogether unknown . If the lodges are still closed in the name of T . G . A . O . T . U . it is merely as a " formula , " inasmuch as the " Prin-
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Ad00607
TO OUR READERS . The FREEMASON is a Weekly Newspaper , price AU .. It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important , interesting , and useful information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Subscription , in eluding postage : United America , India , India , China , & c Kingdom , the Continent , & c . Via Drindisi . Twelve Months 10 s . 6 d . 12 s . od . 17 s . 4 d . Six „ 5 s . 3 d . 6 s . 6 d . 8 s . 8 d . Three „ 2 s . 8 d . 3 s . 3 d . 4 s . 6 d . Subscriptions may be paid for in stamps , but Post Office Orders or Cheques are preferred , the former payable to GEORGE KENNING , CHIEF OFFICE , LONDON , the latter crossed London Joint Stock Bank . Advertisements and other business communications should be addressed to the Publisher . Communications on literary subjects and books for review are to be forwarded to the Editor . Anonymous correspondence will be wholly disregarded , and the return of rejected MSS . cannot be guaranteed . Further information will be supplied on application to the Publisher , ig 8 , Fleet-street , London . 1 ¦
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TO ADVERTISERS . The FBEEMRSON has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe , its advantages as an advertising medium can therefore scarcely be overrated . ADVERTISEMENTS to ensure insertion in current -week ' s issue should reach the Office , 198 , Fleet-street , by 12 o ' clock on "Wednesdays . SCALE OF CHARGES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS . V ? hole of back page £ 12 12 o Half , „ 6 10 o Inside pages ... ... 7 7 ° Half of ditto 400 Quarter ditto ... ... 2 10 o Whole column ... ... ... 2 10 o Half „ 1 10 o Quarter „ 100 Per inch ... ... ... 040 ' These prices are for single insertions . A liberal reduction is made for a series of 13 , 26 , and 52 insertions . Further particulars may be obtained of the Publisher , 198 , Fleet-street , London .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
J ULIUS FRANK . —We could not publish your letter while your appeal was pending , still less can we do so , now that it has been heard and decided by the P . G . M ., the lawful authority . We are not a Court of Appeal ! The Book of Constitutions gives you a remedy if dissatisfied with the
decision . J . R . —On the 15 th of December . J . H . ( Bombay)— . A complete list of Rose Croix Chapters is given in the " Cosmopolitan Masonic Pocket Book . " H . H . —The report will appear next week . P . G . D . —The office of Grand Treasurer is at present
vacant . P . Z . —Bro . R . Wentworth Little , was elected Secretary to the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , in November , 1872 , He died on April 12 th of the present year .
BOOKS & c , RECEIVED . "Pantile Papers ; " "Die Bauhutte ; " "Freemasons ' Monthly , " " Maxims and Miscellanies for Merchants and Men of Business ; " " London Express ; " " Broad Arrow ;" " Westminster Papers ; " " Hull Packet ; " " Masonic Record ; " " Masonic Herald ; " " Liberal Freemason ;" " Corner Stone ; " " Public Ledger ; " " Bundes Presse ;" "Brief ; " " Freemasons'Monthly ; " Proceedings of thc Grand
Lodge of Scotland ; " "European Mail ; " " Rome's Recruits ; A List cf Protestants who have become Catholic since the Tractatian Movement ; " "New York Dispatch ;" " Risorgimento ; " " Der Triangel . " " Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Pennsylvania ; " "Masonic Newspaper ;" " Address of the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Quebec , A . G . and A . M . delivered at Annual Communication held 25 th Sept . 1878 ; " " Hebrew Leader ; " " Edinburgh Courant . "
Births ,Marriages And Deaths.
Births , Marriages and Deaths .
BIRTHS . CUNNINGHAM . — On the 28 th ult ., at Studley , near Trow , bridge , Wilf , the wife of D . Cunningham , Lieut . R . A ., cf a daughter . PARTIULOI ; . —On thc 1 st inst ., at Anchor-gate Lodge , Portsea , the wife of Capt . S . R . B . Partridge , of a son .
MARRIAGE . BULL—MASSF . Y . —On the 31 st ult ., at St . Man's , Great Dunmow , Edwin , son ot the late C . Bull , of Little Dunmow , to Laura Graves , daughter of O . H . Massey , of Hoiiitlyc , Little Dunmow .
DEATHS . BOSWORTH . —On the 17 th ult ., suddenly , of apoplexy , John Baswunh , ol the Granite Lodge , Ni > . 1328 . DIXON . —On the 3 rd inst ., at 2 , Cecil-street , Strand , Alice , widow of Joseph Dixon , formerly of Bury-street , St . James ' s , in the 73 rd year of her age .
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THE FREEMASON , SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 9 , 1878 .
Once Again.
ONCE AGAIN .
Once again , as the " whirligig of old time meets us in the way , we are assembling in our good and pleasant lodges . All is rubbing up , and smartening up . Secretaries are issuing circulars , and Tylers are getting " paraphernalia " ready , and even now many brethren have
answered the summons , and have gathered around their W . M ., in goodly force , in genial spirits , and with Masonic zeal . It cannot , however , be , but that we miss some , whose presence enlivened , whose friendship cheered our " lodge life , " when last we parted , hoping to meet again .
No year passes over our heads , indeed , but sees gaps in our ranks , and names wanting on our " rolls , " and as to-day , after a long recess , we meet together once more , and greet one another , let us hope , with true fraternal warmth , we look in vain for some who once were ever to the
" fore amongst us , " not only , indeed , those who " set the table on a roar , " but those kind and pleasant " socii atque sodales , " who have been so bound up with the history of our lodge , such good mates , and such honest sharers with ourselves , of the rubs and gaities , the crosses and
the comforts of life . They are not now any more amongst us , —tbeir places know them no more , they have left us , not to return , their journey is ended , their work is done . He must be a very thoughtless man , and we will add , a very bad Mason , who is not touched with such
realities , or affected by such a condition of affairs . Though this may be the noimal condition of this , our " sublunary state , " it is not the less both trying and often startling to us , as it ought to be , in the highest degree . We form friendships , we make us friends , we interchange sympathies , we
link ourselves together in the pleasant chain of a goodly brothrerhood , and some of our cheeriest hours , many of our simplest pleasures are found in a little happy circle of true-hearted mates and companions . No , man is a gregarious animal , and it is not good for him to be alone . He
wants friendship , sympathy , intercourse with his kind , interchange of thought and opinion , the play of fancy and of wit , the evocation of intellect and conversation . In all this geniality of lifo , man may fairly play his part , and share his lot , despite the assertions of a mistaken
asceticism , notwithstanding thc suggestions of an ill-founded love of segregation and separation from the duties and transactions of life . And here to-day , as brethren meet in their lodges , hence we need to be on our guard against the temptation of our Masonic social system . If
our meetings are a social gathering , and only that to us , they are not all they ought to be , all they might be . We must not surrender to the materialistic teaching of the hour , all that is touching or sentimental , all that is ennobling in aspiration , all that is elevating in moral perception .
Amid the charms of sociality , we must not forget the "higher claims " of better things . Still , as of old , still as ever , in everything of earth , " Latet anguis in herbii , " and we should not , in the most successful gatherings of our warm-hearted sodality , put out of sight or out of mind , the most
important and more enduring requirements of charity and sympathy for brethren and fellow mortals , the old and decayed of our Order , the widows of our companions , the orphan children of our brethren . May our Masonic season of
78-79 witness to us of pleasant meetings and harmonious assemblies , may it banish the mischief maker , the tale-bearer , the slanderer from our midst , and may it serve to increase the store of human happiness , and cement the concord of our Masonic family .
Roman Catholic Intimidation And Intolerance.
ROMAN CATHOLIC INTIMIDATION AND INTOLERANCE .
It is with feelings of mingled sorrow ancl indignation that we call attention to a letter elsewhere on this subject . It is , indeed , a mourn-
Roman Catholic Intimidation And Intolerance.
ful parody in this age of light , and in this land of liberty , on those professions and principles which are supposed to govern the world at large , and nations in particular . But we cannot profess , much as we deplore the fact , to be astonished or startled at it . It is , in fact , the natural
corrollary of the argument and the teaching of Ultramontanism , just now very rampant in some portions of the world , and not at all particular in the allies it associates with , or the aid it invokes . In fact , when we come calmly to consider it , we see bow consistently Rome has acted , and ever
does act in all matters which concern it as a body corporate , as a system of influence , and we must add imposture . In the first Bull against the Freemasons , in 1738 , not only were all Free-, masons to be delivered over to the "Inquisition " and the " Secular arm , " but the "houses of those
persons were to be pulled down where the Freemasons met . " And so say the Ultramontanes of MuIIingar . It is just now Rome ' s pleasant little game to profess tosupport liberty of conscience here , and to endeavour openly to suppress it elsewhere ; as with us to claim the full and sacred right
of educating its own people , but in another country to seek to shut up all schools which are not Roman Catholic . Like the old Roman god Janus , it is " Bifron . " J ust as in its previous history , owing to the pernicious teaching of the Jesuit school , the assassination of heretical kings
has been approved of and encouraged , £ 0 to-day it claims to be superior even in its temporal authority , to all national laws , all sovereign authorities , which do not acknowledge the material and spiritual "Regale " of the Bishop of Rome . And , therefore , though not astonished with these
proceedings at Mullingar , we are deeply pained at them , while we equally sympathize with our brother Freemasons in that town , and trust that Bro . D'Arcy ' s appeal may not be made in vain to the sympathy and liberality of English Freemasons .
English And Foreign Freemasonry.
ENGLISH AND FOREIGN FREEMASONRY .
In our last week s impression we touched upon certain differences which seemed to form an impassable gulf between English and many Foreign Freemasons , namely in respect of political tendencies , but there are others still greater in connexion with belief in God , tho foundation stone
of all true Masonry , which we must not lose sight of , nor pass by . Not onl y is belief in God erased from some Constitutions in so marked a way as to leave no doubt of the object and the aims of the act , but even when belief in God is professed , it is accompanied by conditions ,
restrictions , and qualifications , repugnant to the honest minds of English Masons . For instance , at the congress of Geneva the " Rite Ecossais " declared that " Freemasonry proclaims—as it has proclaimed from the beginning—the existence of a creative principle , under tho name of the
Great Architect of the Universe , in French , a " Principe Createur , " & c . Now this , in relation to special discussions , and philosophical subtleties , cannot possibly be satisfactory to any who have studied the question or who realize the exact meaning of words
Ihe " Principe Createur , is not synonymous with the G . A . O . T . U . ; indeed the congress of Geneva says as much when it adds , " under the name of T . G . A . O . T . U . " Do our readers perceive the difference ? It is in fact a specious substitution of an " Anima Mundi "
of the machinery of necessitarian deism , as it is called , for the honest faith of our fathers in a personal God ! A man may say he believes in a " Principe Createur" which practically only presupposes a machinal " Force Superieure , " " Superior Force , " and yet not bo able to
say as we do that we "trust in God , " or pray to God , or that he accepts His divine and inspired Word as the rule of man ' s feet , the square of man ' s actions , and the light of man ' s pathway here below . Hence we apprehend , that just as
prayer is not used in the " Rite Ecossais , as we know , any more than in the Grand Orient , any real acknowledgement of the Most High is altogether unknown . If the lodges are still closed in the name of T . G . A . O . T . U . it is merely as a " formula , " inasmuch as the " Prin-