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Second Edition.
SECOND EDITION .
A Second Edition of the "Freemason'' yvill be published at nine o ' clock on Saturday morning , containing a full report of the proceedings at the Provincial Grand Lodge of Oxford , at which His Royal Highness Prince Leopold , Provincial Grand Master of Oxford , will preside .
To Our Readers.
TO OUR READERS .
The Freemason is a sixteen-page weekly neyvspaper , price 2 d . It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important , interesting , and useful information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Annual subscription in the United Kingdom , Post free , 10 / - P . O . O . ' s to be made payable at the chief office , London .
NEW . POSTAL RATES . Owing to a reduction in the Postal Rates , the publisher is noyv enabled to send thc "Freemason" to the folloyving parts abroad for One Year for Tyvelve Shillings ( payable in advance ") : —Africa . Australia . Bombay . Canada , Cane of
Good Hope , Ceylon , China , Constantinople , * Demerara , France , Germany , Gibraltar , Jamaica , Malta , Newfoundland , New South Wales , New Zealand , Suez , Trinidad , United States of America , & c .
COLONIAL AND FOREIGN SUBSCRIBERS are informed that acknowledgments of remittances received are published in the first number of every month . NOTICE . —It is very necessary for our friends to advise us of all money orders they remit , more especially those from the United States of America and India ; otheryvise we cannot tell where to credit them .
To Advertisers.
TO ADVERTISERS .
The Freemason has a large circulation in all parts of ihe Globe , its advantages as an advertising medium can therefore scarcely be overrated . For terms , position , & c , apply to GEORGE KENNING , 198 , Fleet-st .
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 thsx . 12 o ' clock on Wednesday morning .
A special report of the entertainment to the inmates of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , too late for this week , will appear in our next . M . M . —With reference to the book you mention , write to the Editor , with name . Bno . BURDETT YEOMAN . —In our next ; unavoidably crowded out .
New Masonic Hall at Sheffield , and laying a foundation stone at Gibraltar , in our next . " A P . M . " is thanked for advice , yvhich is no doubt well intended , but the F . ditor has " other fish to fry . " The following also stand over : —IIutington Lodge , Derby ; Gilbert Greenall Lodge , Warrington ; Rose of Denmark Chapter , Lodge St . Barchan , 156 S . E . ; Consecration ofTorbay Lorlgc .
Births, Marriages, And Deaths.
Births , Marriages , and Deaths .
[ The charge is 2 s . 6 d . for announcements , not exceeding four lines , under this heading . ] BIRTHS . ADDISON . —On the 10 th inst , at Manchester , the wife of , | . Addison , Esq ., of a daughter . BAKI-. H . —On the 11 th inst ., at Owletts , Col / ham , Kent , the yvife of T . H . Baker . ESQ .. of a son .
BARRETT . —On the 12 th inst , at Slough , Bucks , the yvife of H . R . Barrett , of a daughter . BI . AMEY . —On the 13 th inst ., the yvife of Mattheyv H . Blarney , Esq ., 62 , Charing Cross , of a son . "ZKTLANU . —On the nth inst ., thc Countess of Zetland , of a son .
MARRIAGES . ARMSTRONG—DENTON . —On thc Sth ult ., at St . Mary ' s , Norton , William , son of W . Armstrong , Esq ., of Pelaw House , ' Chester-le-Street , to Eva , daughter ol the late . 1 . P . Denton , Esq ., J . P . ROTTENBURG—HUTTON . —On the Sth inst ., at St . Stephen ' s ,
South Dulwich , hy thc Rev . Canon Parringon , assisted hy the Rev . J . Mces Clark , M . A ., Rural Dean , Franz Jc-hanyyes Rotttsybuvg , L . L . D , Attache ol the Imperial German Foreign Office , to Elizabeth Marion , second daughter of Bro . Charles W . C . Hutton , J . P ., Delair . Dulwich .
DEATHS . BALI . AHD .- Or . the 13 th inst ., at 3 , Chapel-place , Verestreet , William JJallard , late of Boyv-strcct , aged 84 ; DENMAN . —On the 12 th inst ., at Norfolk-roaa , Dalston , Mr . James Denman , aged 74 . JACKSON . —On the nth inst ., at Slindoo , Sussex ,
Eleanor , wife of r . R . Jackson , Esq ., aged 75 . J OHNSON . —On the 12 th inst ., at Epsom , Mary Ann , daughter of the late C . M . Johnson . RICHARDS . —On the 12 th innt ., Bro . Col . A . B . Richards , after a long illness . SCUDAMORE . —On the 12 th inst ., at Bessborough-gardens , S . W ., Mr . Thomas Scudamore , in his 68 th year .
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TheFreemason, SATURDAY , J 17 , 1876 .
The Last Quarterly Communication.
THE LAST QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION .
The greatest enemies of the " Freemason " cannot accuse it of truckling to the ' opinions of one or many . It has from the first hour of its existence been most independent in tone and temper , in thought and utterance , and perhaps that is the very reason , a good reason—by the
way—why it has received so much kindly and general support from the Craft at home and abroad . If brethren do not agree yvith its expressed sentiments , at any rate they know well that ' such openly avowed opinions are both orig inal and independent , based on deliberate
convictions , and animated by proper independence . We still shall have , yve triist , to-day , full credit with our numerous readers for simple honesty of utterance , for " straight running , " and " plain sailing , " in what wo are about to say . VVe shall hoist no strange colours , and throw ont no
false signals , but [ shall steer a steady course . The intelligent and perspicacious reader will b y this time probabl y have discovered that what we are going to say will not be all " couleur de rose , " or please every one . Nothing , indeed , is easier than to swim with the stream , it ij
perhaps even , humanly speaking , not the most unpleasant of proceedings ; nothing is more convenient at times than to go yvith the majority . We shall all of ns remember the axiom of safety at Eatansvviil election , yvhere , yve believe , it yvas the poetic Snodgrass ' s view of
matters that if there are two mobs shout with the largest . But then such an accomodating disposition is often purchased at a high price , viz ., the complete loss of manly independence . So we prefer to stick to our own old colours , on which thc motto , " honest and free opinion , " is
inscribed , leaving both the word 5 we use and the arguments we bring forward , to the kindl y and fraternal criticism of an indulgent but appreciating Masonic public . Nothing , in our opinion , is so detrimental to the character of the press , Masonic or profane , as any mere
yieldmgs to passing delusions or unreasoning majorities ; nothing SD sad as to note too often the complacency of yvriters and speakers , who go with the popular current , and fancy that they form ths views of the majority . At such a time all that the serious and thinking can do is to lament
over that insufferable and inflated egotism , which seems to cry out in stentorian tones see " how we apples swim . " So they may , pro tem , but , after all , what a contemptible bobbing up and down it is ! After this high-flown exordium , need we say that we do not agree with the
result of the last Quarterly Communication , nay , that we rather think it a matter for much concern . With all deference to Grand Lodge , and with all respect to the speakers and voters for tho amendment , we venture . to express our very great regret that Bro . Havers ' s seasonable
resolution was not carried , and that the amendment was . We venture even to think , that in coming to the decision it did Grand Lodge acted somewhat hastily and impulsively , led away by mistaken appeals , '' at Lathomos , " on grounds we equally venture to consider illogical . ' We
cannot help feeling strongly that the whole question was decided on an incorrect issue , and that the line of argument , as against Bro . Havers ' s motion , was very defective in all its premises . For , as we read the speeches of the orators we rind , according to our comprehension , which we admit
is limited , that the simple and strai ghtforward resolution of the Past J unior Grand Warden yvas met by considerations of sectarian feeling ancl very limited vieyvs of Masonic benevolence , which ought never even to have been glanced at in Grand Lodge , and appeals were made to severances and sensibilities which ought never to
have been invoked at all . The difference , for instance , as between Christian and Hebrew brethren in respect of a supposed denominationalism ought never to have been dwelt upon for one moment , and we feel sure of this , that our worthy Hebrew brethren , good Masons as they are , will not the least feel thankful to those who
The Last Quarterly Communication.
in their nervous anxiety came forward as it were to protect their rights and to claim their votes . For the motion was not , and never was intended in any way , as a denominational one . That the two cathedrals selected for aid belonged to a Christian body of religionists is most un
doubtedly true , but it was not proposed that they should receive the support of Grand Lod ge on denominational grounds hut on Masonie ones , because they appealed to the " sentiment " and memories of Freemasons . The g ift was proposed as a Masonic gift , as a
grateful recognition to a kind Providence , which has brought our Grand Master safe and sound back to us and to old England , and it was based on Masonic principles alone , just as it was in our opinion sanctioned by Masonic teaching , and
archieological souvenirs . It may seem to some that the distinction we have just laid down is without a difference , that it is rather special pleading . But it is not so , the difference between the two positions being very real and distinct , and yve may add , very yvide indeed . We always deepl y
deplore the appeal to anything like the intolerance of sectarianism in our peaceful and liberal-minded Order . Bro . Havers ' s whole Masonic career has been one of unfailing and unswerving maintenance of absolute toleration ; and he was not a priori likely to suggest any
denominational preferences ; and , as we know that he based his proposal on Masonic grounds , and Masonic association alone , yve do much regret , we venture to repeat , that anything like the " tocsin" of religious differences should have been rung in the slightest degree yvithin
the uncontroversial arena of Grand Lodge . The proposal was either good or bad per se , and in our opinion should have been met solely on the ground of inexpediency , if at all . We can quite understand brethren objecting to the vote , on the principle that Masonic'funds were meant for
Masonic purposes alone , but such an argument could not be put forward in the face of a recent grant for ^" ioo for the exploration of Palestine , which , though in our opinion reasonable and proper , was not practically defensible on such grounds . We are all aware that there was a
second openly professed ground of resistance to the resolution , aud we confess that the second reason was , and is , as distasteful to ourselves . We have always objected to that narrow view of many , that Masonic benevolence is meant only for Freemasons . When , then , one of the grounds
openly put forward was that something might be better done for the Asylum or the Boys ' School , yve certainly think it well to point out to-day that such is not the most elevated vieyv of our Masonic responsibilities . We have always felt that there was a certain amount of truth in
the popular objection that Masonic benevolence had somewhat of selfishness about it if you confined the liberality of the Order to Masons alone . Primarily , of course we are bound to do so , but , as it appears to us , there are occasions from time to time , when by a large-hearted
munificence and liberal sympathy , we are to evince our good yvill towards humanity at large , toyvards religion , towards local distress , towards national objects , towards .-esthetic improvements , and we will add , toyvards church restoration . The argument that we ought to do
something specially for our Masonic charities does not exclude the propriety of doing something for something else , which the Grand Lodge might approve of , and which as Freemasons yve ought to feel it to be our duty to do . It is a great pity , we think , that as
before the outer world just now , Grand Lodge should , by its vote , seem to endorse any such , in our opinion , narrow-minded view in respect of Masonic charity . It is in fact so great a limitation of Masonic benevolence , as to reduce it to the mere donations of a benefit order .
That such is a popular way of looking at the matter among Masons just now is , we fear , the case , but that fact does not make it any more the truth , or creditable to Freemasons or Freemasonry . We have the matter here
today . We trust that all our brethren will believe that in writing as we do we write both conscientiously and carefully . We have measured our words , and we feel it to be our duty to give full scope to our own honest convictions . They
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Second Edition.
SECOND EDITION .
A Second Edition of the "Freemason'' yvill be published at nine o ' clock on Saturday morning , containing a full report of the proceedings at the Provincial Grand Lodge of Oxford , at which His Royal Highness Prince Leopold , Provincial Grand Master of Oxford , will preside .
To Our Readers.
TO OUR READERS .
The Freemason is a sixteen-page weekly neyvspaper , price 2 d . It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important , interesting , and useful information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Annual subscription in the United Kingdom , Post free , 10 / - P . O . O . ' s to be made payable at the chief office , London .
NEW . POSTAL RATES . Owing to a reduction in the Postal Rates , the publisher is noyv enabled to send thc "Freemason" to the folloyving parts abroad for One Year for Tyvelve Shillings ( payable in advance ") : —Africa . Australia . Bombay . Canada , Cane of
Good Hope , Ceylon , China , Constantinople , * Demerara , France , Germany , Gibraltar , Jamaica , Malta , Newfoundland , New South Wales , New Zealand , Suez , Trinidad , United States of America , & c .
COLONIAL AND FOREIGN SUBSCRIBERS are informed that acknowledgments of remittances received are published in the first number of every month . NOTICE . —It is very necessary for our friends to advise us of all money orders they remit , more especially those from the United States of America and India ; otheryvise we cannot tell where to credit them .
To Advertisers.
TO ADVERTISERS .
The Freemason has a large circulation in all parts of ihe Globe , its advantages as an advertising medium can therefore scarcely be overrated . For terms , position , & c , apply to GEORGE KENNING , 198 , Fleet-st .
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 thsx . 12 o ' clock on Wednesday morning .
A special report of the entertainment to the inmates of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution , too late for this week , will appear in our next . M . M . —With reference to the book you mention , write to the Editor , with name . Bno . BURDETT YEOMAN . —In our next ; unavoidably crowded out .
New Masonic Hall at Sheffield , and laying a foundation stone at Gibraltar , in our next . " A P . M . " is thanked for advice , yvhich is no doubt well intended , but the F . ditor has " other fish to fry . " The following also stand over : —IIutington Lodge , Derby ; Gilbert Greenall Lodge , Warrington ; Rose of Denmark Chapter , Lodge St . Barchan , 156 S . E . ; Consecration ofTorbay Lorlgc .
Births, Marriages, And Deaths.
Births , Marriages , and Deaths .
[ The charge is 2 s . 6 d . for announcements , not exceeding four lines , under this heading . ] BIRTHS . ADDISON . —On the 10 th inst , at Manchester , the wife of , | . Addison , Esq ., of a daughter . BAKI-. H . —On the 11 th inst ., at Owletts , Col / ham , Kent , the yvife of T . H . Baker . ESQ .. of a son .
BARRETT . —On the 12 th inst , at Slough , Bucks , the yvife of H . R . Barrett , of a daughter . BI . AMEY . —On the 13 th inst ., the yvife of Mattheyv H . Blarney , Esq ., 62 , Charing Cross , of a son . "ZKTLANU . —On the nth inst ., thc Countess of Zetland , of a son .
MARRIAGES . ARMSTRONG—DENTON . —On thc Sth ult ., at St . Mary ' s , Norton , William , son of W . Armstrong , Esq ., of Pelaw House , ' Chester-le-Street , to Eva , daughter ol the late . 1 . P . Denton , Esq ., J . P . ROTTENBURG—HUTTON . —On the Sth inst ., at St . Stephen ' s ,
South Dulwich , hy thc Rev . Canon Parringon , assisted hy the Rev . J . Mces Clark , M . A ., Rural Dean , Franz Jc-hanyyes Rotttsybuvg , L . L . D , Attache ol the Imperial German Foreign Office , to Elizabeth Marion , second daughter of Bro . Charles W . C . Hutton , J . P ., Delair . Dulwich .
DEATHS . BALI . AHD .- Or . the 13 th inst ., at 3 , Chapel-place , Verestreet , William JJallard , late of Boyv-strcct , aged 84 ; DENMAN . —On the 12 th inst ., at Norfolk-roaa , Dalston , Mr . James Denman , aged 74 . JACKSON . —On the nth inst ., at Slindoo , Sussex ,
Eleanor , wife of r . R . Jackson , Esq ., aged 75 . J OHNSON . —On the 12 th inst ., at Epsom , Mary Ann , daughter of the late C . M . Johnson . RICHARDS . —On the 12 th innt ., Bro . Col . A . B . Richards , after a long illness . SCUDAMORE . —On the 12 th inst ., at Bessborough-gardens , S . W ., Mr . Thomas Scudamore , in his 68 th year .
Ar00602
TheFreemason, SATURDAY , J 17 , 1876 .
The Last Quarterly Communication.
THE LAST QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION .
The greatest enemies of the " Freemason " cannot accuse it of truckling to the ' opinions of one or many . It has from the first hour of its existence been most independent in tone and temper , in thought and utterance , and perhaps that is the very reason , a good reason—by the
way—why it has received so much kindly and general support from the Craft at home and abroad . If brethren do not agree yvith its expressed sentiments , at any rate they know well that ' such openly avowed opinions are both orig inal and independent , based on deliberate
convictions , and animated by proper independence . We still shall have , yve triist , to-day , full credit with our numerous readers for simple honesty of utterance , for " straight running , " and " plain sailing , " in what wo are about to say . VVe shall hoist no strange colours , and throw ont no
false signals , but [ shall steer a steady course . The intelligent and perspicacious reader will b y this time probabl y have discovered that what we are going to say will not be all " couleur de rose , " or please every one . Nothing , indeed , is easier than to swim with the stream , it ij
perhaps even , humanly speaking , not the most unpleasant of proceedings ; nothing is more convenient at times than to go yvith the majority . We shall all of ns remember the axiom of safety at Eatansvviil election , yvhere , yve believe , it yvas the poetic Snodgrass ' s view of
matters that if there are two mobs shout with the largest . But then such an accomodating disposition is often purchased at a high price , viz ., the complete loss of manly independence . So we prefer to stick to our own old colours , on which thc motto , " honest and free opinion , " is
inscribed , leaving both the word 5 we use and the arguments we bring forward , to the kindl y and fraternal criticism of an indulgent but appreciating Masonic public . Nothing , in our opinion , is so detrimental to the character of the press , Masonic or profane , as any mere
yieldmgs to passing delusions or unreasoning majorities ; nothing SD sad as to note too often the complacency of yvriters and speakers , who go with the popular current , and fancy that they form ths views of the majority . At such a time all that the serious and thinking can do is to lament
over that insufferable and inflated egotism , which seems to cry out in stentorian tones see " how we apples swim . " So they may , pro tem , but , after all , what a contemptible bobbing up and down it is ! After this high-flown exordium , need we say that we do not agree with the
result of the last Quarterly Communication , nay , that we rather think it a matter for much concern . With all deference to Grand Lodge , and with all respect to the speakers and voters for tho amendment , we venture . to express our very great regret that Bro . Havers ' s seasonable
resolution was not carried , and that the amendment was . We venture even to think , that in coming to the decision it did Grand Lodge acted somewhat hastily and impulsively , led away by mistaken appeals , '' at Lathomos , " on grounds we equally venture to consider illogical . ' We
cannot help feeling strongly that the whole question was decided on an incorrect issue , and that the line of argument , as against Bro . Havers ' s motion , was very defective in all its premises . For , as we read the speeches of the orators we rind , according to our comprehension , which we admit
is limited , that the simple and strai ghtforward resolution of the Past J unior Grand Warden yvas met by considerations of sectarian feeling ancl very limited vieyvs of Masonic benevolence , which ought never even to have been glanced at in Grand Lodge , and appeals were made to severances and sensibilities which ought never to
have been invoked at all . The difference , for instance , as between Christian and Hebrew brethren in respect of a supposed denominationalism ought never to have been dwelt upon for one moment , and we feel sure of this , that our worthy Hebrew brethren , good Masons as they are , will not the least feel thankful to those who
The Last Quarterly Communication.
in their nervous anxiety came forward as it were to protect their rights and to claim their votes . For the motion was not , and never was intended in any way , as a denominational one . That the two cathedrals selected for aid belonged to a Christian body of religionists is most un
doubtedly true , but it was not proposed that they should receive the support of Grand Lod ge on denominational grounds hut on Masonie ones , because they appealed to the " sentiment " and memories of Freemasons . The g ift was proposed as a Masonic gift , as a
grateful recognition to a kind Providence , which has brought our Grand Master safe and sound back to us and to old England , and it was based on Masonic principles alone , just as it was in our opinion sanctioned by Masonic teaching , and
archieological souvenirs . It may seem to some that the distinction we have just laid down is without a difference , that it is rather special pleading . But it is not so , the difference between the two positions being very real and distinct , and yve may add , very yvide indeed . We always deepl y
deplore the appeal to anything like the intolerance of sectarianism in our peaceful and liberal-minded Order . Bro . Havers ' s whole Masonic career has been one of unfailing and unswerving maintenance of absolute toleration ; and he was not a priori likely to suggest any
denominational preferences ; and , as we know that he based his proposal on Masonic grounds , and Masonic association alone , yve do much regret , we venture to repeat , that anything like the " tocsin" of religious differences should have been rung in the slightest degree yvithin
the uncontroversial arena of Grand Lodge . The proposal was either good or bad per se , and in our opinion should have been met solely on the ground of inexpediency , if at all . We can quite understand brethren objecting to the vote , on the principle that Masonic'funds were meant for
Masonic purposes alone , but such an argument could not be put forward in the face of a recent grant for ^" ioo for the exploration of Palestine , which , though in our opinion reasonable and proper , was not practically defensible on such grounds . We are all aware that there was a
second openly professed ground of resistance to the resolution , aud we confess that the second reason was , and is , as distasteful to ourselves . We have always objected to that narrow view of many , that Masonic benevolence is meant only for Freemasons . When , then , one of the grounds
openly put forward was that something might be better done for the Asylum or the Boys ' School , yve certainly think it well to point out to-day that such is not the most elevated vieyv of our Masonic responsibilities . We have always felt that there was a certain amount of truth in
the popular objection that Masonic benevolence had somewhat of selfishness about it if you confined the liberality of the Order to Masons alone . Primarily , of course we are bound to do so , but , as it appears to us , there are occasions from time to time , when by a large-hearted
munificence and liberal sympathy , we are to evince our good yvill towards humanity at large , toyvards religion , towards local distress , towards national objects , towards .-esthetic improvements , and we will add , toyvards church restoration . The argument that we ought to do
something specially for our Masonic charities does not exclude the propriety of doing something for something else , which the Grand Lodge might approve of , and which as Freemasons yve ought to feel it to be our duty to do . It is a great pity , we think , that as
before the outer world just now , Grand Lodge should , by its vote , seem to endorse any such , in our opinion , narrow-minded view in respect of Masonic charity . It is in fact so great a limitation of Masonic benevolence , as to reduce it to the mere donations of a benefit order .
That such is a popular way of looking at the matter among Masons just now is , we fear , the case , but that fact does not make it any more the truth , or creditable to Freemasons or Freemasonry . We have the matter here
today . We trust that all our brethren will believe that in writing as we do we write both conscientiously and carefully . We have measured our words , and we feel it to be our duty to give full scope to our own honest convictions . They