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THF HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY ,

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then arising from the operative Masons , and specially the " Steinmeitzen" and " Bauhutten" of Germany . Bro . Findel gives us a good deal of evidence on this head , and one thing is clear from his work , that the German Freemasons were , at a very early period , organized into lodges with a Master over them , and with outward regulations and inner ceremonies peculiar to the Craft . Bro . Findel rejects

all the views which have been from time to time put forward of a Templar or a Rosicrucian origin . Whether or no Bro . Findel ' s theory of the date of the rise of Freemasonry be correct , matters very little : we do nut oui selves profess to accept it ; but this wecan fairly say of Bro Findel ' s work , it is marked from first to last by the most remarkable tokenof industry , ability , and care , of patient research , and

of skilful criticism . W ' eknow of no work which so clearly sets before us our amount of knowledge up to the present time on the great question of Masonic Archaeology , and there can be little doubt that what Preston ' s work is to English Freemasonry , Findel ' s work is to cosmopolitan Freemasonry . Indeed no student in Masonry can now dispense with it , and it is a perfect storehouse both of Masonic evidence and Masonic

illustrations . We earnestly recommend all the lodges in this country to obtain a copy for the lodge library before the work is bought up for America ; and we believe that no Mason will rise from the perusal of its pages without a higher idea both of the historical truth and intrinsic value of Freemasonry , and of fraternal regard and recognition to the latest and not the least well-informed or effective of our Masonic historians . The present century has produced

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The Life Of Constantine.

THE LIFE OF CONSTANTINE .

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Answers To Correspondents.

Answers to Correspondents .

All Communications , Advertisements , & c , intended for insertion in the Number of the following Saturday , must reach the Office not later than 6 o ' clock on Wednesday evening . Bro . MAGNUS OIIREN , much thanked . The detailed account of Swanscombe will appear next week .

Bro . Owen R . Ellis . Repoit arrived too late for insertion ; , will appear next wee'i . The following stand over : —Reports of Lodges r 2 ? 5 , 1263 , 51 , and Provincial Grand Lodge of Somerset . Lodge 3 C 0 , S . C . ; Consecration of a New Lodge at Kilsyth , and a communication from II . M . G .

Births ,Marriages And Deaths.

Births , Marriages and Deaths .

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TheFreemason, SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 12 , 1874 .

Our Late Grand Master.

OUR LATE GRAND MASTER .

The week which has elapsed since the an nouncement of the resignation by the Marquis of Ripon of his high office of Grand Master of English Freemasoni )' , has only tended to make

us feel more intensely the fact itself , and to increase the regret with which we first received the intelligence , which it was our unwelcome duty on Saturday to announce to the Craft

dispersed throughout the world . At the time all weie stunned by the suddenness of the resignation , and no one could profess to understand , or even to surmise a reasuii for a step in itself ap .

parently inexplicable . The Times , in a remarkable lender of Saturday , professes to give the only explanation , an explanation which if it be correct , must be received by our entire Order with equal surprise and regret . It is ' -

this" Lord Ripon has become a Roman Catholic It is notorious that the Freemasons are under the especial ban of the Church of Rome . That

Church tolerates no secret society , except that of the Jesuits ; and the first sacrifice which would be demanded of a convert like Lord Ripon would be his withdrawal from the Craft . As

the first p ledge of his new obedience he has to abandon his honourable position in the brotherhood , and to renounce a harmless and kindly

association , in which he might for years have held the foremost place . It was justly said that the reasons must have been overwhelming which could induce him to take so unwelcome

a step , and they arise from nothing less than the important change in his religious convictions which we have stated . '' The article from which this sad extract is taken , and which is

printed in another column , is a very remarkable one , and deserves attentive perusal , and it puts the case alike temperately and unanswerably . But while we feel how great will be the grief of

Freemasons on every account for this melancholy and ominous announcement , as a sad proof , if proof be needed , of the antagonistic and irreconcilable tendencies of the Church of Rome to all

freedom of action and all liberty of thought , we feel , that justice requires of us a few words of grateful tribute to the services of our late

valued Grand Master . Freemasons are always just , and we must not allow the overpowering emotions of painful surprise and regret , to make