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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS 5 ) 3 Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution 574 Provincial Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Cheshire $ 74 Provincial Grand Royal Arch Chapter of XVest Yorkshire 574 The Royal Masonic Benex-olent Institution ( Continued ) t-ii
The Grand Orient of France 576 Firework Display at the Institution for Uoys , Wood Green $ 77 Presentation to Miss Berrie Stephens 577 Royal Order of Scotland 577 Ireland ,.,, 577 Australia 577 Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers 577 Obituary 577
CORRESPONDENCEThe Hughan Testimonial , $ 79 The Status of Past Alasters £ 79 Music and Freemasonry 579 The French Grand Orient 579 Reviews 579 Notes and Queries , 580 REPORTS OF MASONIC
MEETINGSCraft Masonry 5 S 0 Instruction 583 Royal Arch 584 Mark Masonry 584 Ancient and Accepted Rite 584 Knights Templar 584 The Theatres 584 Masonic and General Tidings 585 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 586
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THE more xve consider the plan of the reconstruction of Freemasons' Hall the more xve seem to be persuaded in our oxvn mind that Grand Lodge xvill never pass it in its present form . It is alike immature in conception and incomplete in design . As we said , it does too much and too little at the same time . It gives a xvonderful advantage to our lessee and affords the "
minimum of accommodation to theCraft . Wedo not think that the Ordercares very much for the "Supper Room , " for instance , nor does it wish to have Freemasons' Tavern turned into a general resort as a " Supper House . " But if its money is to be spent so largely it does not unnaturally require more accommodation for our brethren . It is in this respect that the report appears to
us so inadequate in its proposals , and , as the gravest objections he against its financial proposition , xve feel sure that the best policy will be to refer it back to the Committee with fresh instructions . These instructions , we venture to think , ought to be "to reconstruct the hall , availing themselves of all improved acoustic and ventilation arrangements , and improve the
kitchen arrangements . " Such a course of action will leave us six years to consider the best steps to take , and by that time Bacon's lease xvill ha \* e run out . VVe do not wish to be committed to 50 years tenure of Freemasons' Hall , inasmuch as another five years may have for us a determining influence on ourchoice of locale for the great head-quarters
ol English Freemasonry . There are those xvho think that Great Queenstreet is not the best position after all or the most convenient after all , and they certainly have a right to be heard on this all important subject . We are however not insensible to the traditions of Freemasons' Hall and Freemasons' Tavern , as connected with great Queen-street for so long a period ,
neither do xve shut out from our viexv the grave question of expense . But xve think that if xve " hold on " for six years more , xve shall then be in a better position to decide the question than xve are noxv . But xve repeat , a 50
years' lease and so Iargeapremiumforsurrenderinga lease to our oxvn lessees , are arrangements xvhich we feel certain beforehand Grand Lodge xvill never sanction . The same objection prevails to them amongst metropolitan and provincial brethren .
* * * WE think Bro . Lieut .-Col . CREATON was quite right in xvithdraxving until next meeting his proposal for £ 2000 from Grand Chapter for the rebuilding of Freemasons' Hall . Time enough it xvill be to vote that amount when Grand Lodge has issued its plan of procedure .
• * BRO . HUBERT , in the Chaine d'bnion for October , at page 389 , gives us xvhat purports to be a statement of Bro . A LBERT PIKE , xvhich , if correct , must seriously alarm all Anglo-Saxon Freemasons . VVe hope , hoxvever , that some little mistake occurs in the translation of Bro . PIKE ' S actual words ,
and as we have not seen the English , xve prefer to suspend our judgment . We only xvrite , therefore , "for information . " Bro . HUBERT makes Bro . PIKE say in French : " The phrase of Architect of the Universe is very poor and very innocent . The Unity of the Will , the Intelligence , the Poxver , and Goodness , xvhich we term God ( " Dieu" ) , and xvhich has no other
" Personality" than that which constitutes the unity , is in no sense the ' Architect of the Universe . ' He has not made it as one makes a watch , or as an architect constructs a house . We in the Rite Ecossais substitute for this phrase , ( which implies a personality like to that of a workman ) , the phrase— ' Dei optimi Maximi , Universitalis
Rerum Fontis ac Originis ad Gloriam . ' Why could not ths Grand Orient accept this phrase , or this other , ' Intelligenciaj , Sapientix , Beneficentia ? Voluntatisque Unitatis ad Gloriam ' ? " With due submission to our Bro . ALBERT PIKE we doubt very much if American Grand Lodges or the
Grand Lodge of Great Britain will agree to give up the old sacred phrase of " Architeknos " for a Latin modern form . Nay , we feel sure that the English Ancient and Accepted Rite will approve of no such unwise change . If the French Grand Orient repudiate their old and accustomed phrase of
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"Grand Architecte de l'Univers , it is not likely to accept the Latin xvords . Indeed , we think Bro . ALBERT PIKE , if his xvords are correctly translated , has got a little " mixed up" in his doctrinal ideas , and xve feel quite sure that such an explanation and exposition will at once be objected to by the Grand Lodge of England and all our Grand and
Provincial and lodge Chaplains . We are sorry that any such question has again been raised . The " Principe Createur" has been rejected , and noxv it is proposed that xve should accept an impersonal Providence , —in fact the old absurdity of an " Anima Mundi , " under altered and paraphrastic verbiage . We trust xve have heard the last of so
monstrous a proposition . Our good Bro . HUBERT jumps at the suggestion , as no doubt he would do . The Voltairian idea in France does not shut out a general Providence . We should not havo xvritten as we have done , but Bro . ALBERT PIKE ' S name is so well-knoxvn that any such proposition is more dangerous as coming from him than from almost any one else .
* * * WE have seen the Victorian Freemason , the " output " of the last nexv and , according tous , " illegal Grand Lodge , " andare much amused with a passage from the Sydney Freemason xvhich xve give in its " naked simplicity . " " The Grand Lodge of Manitoba granted a charter to a lodge in Gibraltar , Spain .
To this the Grand Lodge of England objected , as being an infringement of her territory . The Grand Master of Manitoba withdrew the xvarrant . Hoxv noble it xvould be on the part of the Grand Lodge of England if she removed all thc infringements existing in Nexv South Wales ! ! !" " From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step , " and the analogy
betxveen the txvo cases is so simply ludicrous , that xve think the xvorthy brother who penned it must have chuckled as he realized hoxv he appealed to a ridiculous or ignorant audience in very rash xvords . The case of Manitoba is this . The Grand Lodge of Manitoba was induced to grant a warrant for a lodge in Tangiers , Morocco , and by an unheardof license of
authority empowered it to meet temporarily at Gibraltar , an occupied jurisdiction . We never heard of such assumed authority before , as xve have just said , and no similar exercize of such authority is knoxvn to anyone . Gibraltar happens to be one of the oldest of our Provincial Grand Lodges , as a Provincial Grand Master , Bro . COMERFORD , was appointed in 1731
to the Provincial Grand Lodge of Andalusia . In later years it has assumed the name of the District Grand Lodge of Gibraltar . The GRAND MASTER OF ENGLAND disapproved of this "invasion" of his jurisdiction , just as the Spanish Body did when the lodge was transferred to St . Roque , in Spain . The Grand Lodge of
Manitoba very properly yielded to the friendly remonstrances of our Grand Lodge and wc believe has since cancelled the -warrant of the Lodge " EI Ahksa , " not on this account by-the-xvay , but by reason of certain irregular proceedings at Tangiers . In Nexv South Wales some Irish and
Scottish Freemasons , an immense minority , formed themselves into a Grand Lodge which the English Grand Lodge has unanimously refused to acknoxvledge . And this is the analogy between the txvo cases . Except as a pure [ appeal " ad misericordiam " xve do not even profess to understand it .
* * * BRO . WEEKS , the able editor and proprietor of the Sydney Freemason , has just left our shores after a temporary sojourn , and though as was to be expected , we could not agree altogether in our views of the situation in Victoria and Nexv South Wales , xve yet are glad and desirous of offering
to him our hearty good xvishes for his safe return to his home , and our personal aspirations of goodwill for his health and happiness . Though unfortunately severed somexvhat by the course of events , the benign principles of Freemasonry help to link us together , and smooth over serious differences and unax'oidable severances .
* * * WE notice in the Victorian Freemason that strong suggestions are made to our English brethren in South Australia and Nexv Zealand to leave their good old mother Grand Lodge , and set up Grand Lodges of their oxvn . We believe , hoxvever , that all these tentative efforts will be shattered on the Rock of Masonic Loyalty .
# * # WE call attention to a sketch of the present position of the Grand Orient of France , as not xvithout some points requiring careful attention and consideration . The statements therein contained are a valuable commentary of what is going on across the Channel for all loyal Anglo-Saxon Freemasons .
* * # THE loss of our late distinguished Bro . Dr . DEIGHTON will be keenly felt by the Cambridge brotherhood . He will be emphatically a missed man . We
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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS 5 ) 3 Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution 574 Provincial Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Cheshire $ 74 Provincial Grand Royal Arch Chapter of XVest Yorkshire 574 The Royal Masonic Benex-olent Institution ( Continued ) t-ii
The Grand Orient of France 576 Firework Display at the Institution for Uoys , Wood Green $ 77 Presentation to Miss Berrie Stephens 577 Royal Order of Scotland 577 Ireland ,.,, 577 Australia 577 Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers 577 Obituary 577
CORRESPONDENCEThe Hughan Testimonial , $ 79 The Status of Past Alasters £ 79 Music and Freemasonry 579 The French Grand Orient 579 Reviews 579 Notes and Queries , 580 REPORTS OF MASONIC
MEETINGSCraft Masonry 5 S 0 Instruction 583 Royal Arch 584 Mark Masonry 584 Ancient and Accepted Rite 584 Knights Templar 584 The Theatres 584 Masonic and General Tidings 585 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 586
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THE more xve consider the plan of the reconstruction of Freemasons' Hall the more xve seem to be persuaded in our oxvn mind that Grand Lodge xvill never pass it in its present form . It is alike immature in conception and incomplete in design . As we said , it does too much and too little at the same time . It gives a xvonderful advantage to our lessee and affords the "
minimum of accommodation to theCraft . Wedo not think that the Ordercares very much for the "Supper Room , " for instance , nor does it wish to have Freemasons' Tavern turned into a general resort as a " Supper House . " But if its money is to be spent so largely it does not unnaturally require more accommodation for our brethren . It is in this respect that the report appears to
us so inadequate in its proposals , and , as the gravest objections he against its financial proposition , xve feel sure that the best policy will be to refer it back to the Committee with fresh instructions . These instructions , we venture to think , ought to be "to reconstruct the hall , availing themselves of all improved acoustic and ventilation arrangements , and improve the
kitchen arrangements . " Such a course of action will leave us six years to consider the best steps to take , and by that time Bacon's lease xvill ha \* e run out . VVe do not wish to be committed to 50 years tenure of Freemasons' Hall , inasmuch as another five years may have for us a determining influence on ourchoice of locale for the great head-quarters
ol English Freemasonry . There are those xvho think that Great Queenstreet is not the best position after all or the most convenient after all , and they certainly have a right to be heard on this all important subject . We are however not insensible to the traditions of Freemasons' Hall and Freemasons' Tavern , as connected with great Queen-street for so long a period ,
neither do xve shut out from our viexv the grave question of expense . But xve think that if xve " hold on " for six years more , xve shall then be in a better position to decide the question than xve are noxv . But xve repeat , a 50
years' lease and so Iargeapremiumforsurrenderinga lease to our oxvn lessees , are arrangements xvhich we feel certain beforehand Grand Lodge xvill never sanction . The same objection prevails to them amongst metropolitan and provincial brethren .
* * * WE think Bro . Lieut .-Col . CREATON was quite right in xvithdraxving until next meeting his proposal for £ 2000 from Grand Chapter for the rebuilding of Freemasons' Hall . Time enough it xvill be to vote that amount when Grand Lodge has issued its plan of procedure .
• * BRO . HUBERT , in the Chaine d'bnion for October , at page 389 , gives us xvhat purports to be a statement of Bro . A LBERT PIKE , xvhich , if correct , must seriously alarm all Anglo-Saxon Freemasons . VVe hope , hoxvever , that some little mistake occurs in the translation of Bro . PIKE ' S actual words ,
and as we have not seen the English , xve prefer to suspend our judgment . We only xvrite , therefore , "for information . " Bro . HUBERT makes Bro . PIKE say in French : " The phrase of Architect of the Universe is very poor and very innocent . The Unity of the Will , the Intelligence , the Poxver , and Goodness , xvhich we term God ( " Dieu" ) , and xvhich has no other
" Personality" than that which constitutes the unity , is in no sense the ' Architect of the Universe . ' He has not made it as one makes a watch , or as an architect constructs a house . We in the Rite Ecossais substitute for this phrase , ( which implies a personality like to that of a workman ) , the phrase— ' Dei optimi Maximi , Universitalis
Rerum Fontis ac Originis ad Gloriam . ' Why could not ths Grand Orient accept this phrase , or this other , ' Intelligenciaj , Sapientix , Beneficentia ? Voluntatisque Unitatis ad Gloriam ' ? " With due submission to our Bro . ALBERT PIKE we doubt very much if American Grand Lodges or the
Grand Lodge of Great Britain will agree to give up the old sacred phrase of " Architeknos " for a Latin modern form . Nay , we feel sure that the English Ancient and Accepted Rite will approve of no such unwise change . If the French Grand Orient repudiate their old and accustomed phrase of
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"Grand Architecte de l'Univers , it is not likely to accept the Latin xvords . Indeed , we think Bro . ALBERT PIKE , if his xvords are correctly translated , has got a little " mixed up" in his doctrinal ideas , and xve feel quite sure that such an explanation and exposition will at once be objected to by the Grand Lodge of England and all our Grand and
Provincial and lodge Chaplains . We are sorry that any such question has again been raised . The " Principe Createur" has been rejected , and noxv it is proposed that xve should accept an impersonal Providence , —in fact the old absurdity of an " Anima Mundi , " under altered and paraphrastic verbiage . We trust xve have heard the last of so
monstrous a proposition . Our good Bro . HUBERT jumps at the suggestion , as no doubt he would do . The Voltairian idea in France does not shut out a general Providence . We should not havo xvritten as we have done , but Bro . ALBERT PIKE ' S name is so well-knoxvn that any such proposition is more dangerous as coming from him than from almost any one else .
* * * WE have seen the Victorian Freemason , the " output " of the last nexv and , according tous , " illegal Grand Lodge , " andare much amused with a passage from the Sydney Freemason xvhich xve give in its " naked simplicity . " " The Grand Lodge of Manitoba granted a charter to a lodge in Gibraltar , Spain .
To this the Grand Lodge of England objected , as being an infringement of her territory . The Grand Master of Manitoba withdrew the xvarrant . Hoxv noble it xvould be on the part of the Grand Lodge of England if she removed all thc infringements existing in Nexv South Wales ! ! !" " From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step , " and the analogy
betxveen the txvo cases is so simply ludicrous , that xve think the xvorthy brother who penned it must have chuckled as he realized hoxv he appealed to a ridiculous or ignorant audience in very rash xvords . The case of Manitoba is this . The Grand Lodge of Manitoba was induced to grant a warrant for a lodge in Tangiers , Morocco , and by an unheardof license of
authority empowered it to meet temporarily at Gibraltar , an occupied jurisdiction . We never heard of such assumed authority before , as xve have just said , and no similar exercize of such authority is knoxvn to anyone . Gibraltar happens to be one of the oldest of our Provincial Grand Lodges , as a Provincial Grand Master , Bro . COMERFORD , was appointed in 1731
to the Provincial Grand Lodge of Andalusia . In later years it has assumed the name of the District Grand Lodge of Gibraltar . The GRAND MASTER OF ENGLAND disapproved of this "invasion" of his jurisdiction , just as the Spanish Body did when the lodge was transferred to St . Roque , in Spain . The Grand Lodge of
Manitoba very properly yielded to the friendly remonstrances of our Grand Lodge and wc believe has since cancelled the -warrant of the Lodge " EI Ahksa , " not on this account by-the-xvay , but by reason of certain irregular proceedings at Tangiers . In Nexv South Wales some Irish and
Scottish Freemasons , an immense minority , formed themselves into a Grand Lodge which the English Grand Lodge has unanimously refused to acknoxvledge . And this is the analogy between the txvo cases . Except as a pure [ appeal " ad misericordiam " xve do not even profess to understand it .
* * * BRO . WEEKS , the able editor and proprietor of the Sydney Freemason , has just left our shores after a temporary sojourn , and though as was to be expected , we could not agree altogether in our views of the situation in Victoria and Nexv South Wales , xve yet are glad and desirous of offering
to him our hearty good xvishes for his safe return to his home , and our personal aspirations of goodwill for his health and happiness . Though unfortunately severed somexvhat by the course of events , the benign principles of Freemasonry help to link us together , and smooth over serious differences and unax'oidable severances .
* * * WE notice in the Victorian Freemason that strong suggestions are made to our English brethren in South Australia and Nexv Zealand to leave their good old mother Grand Lodge , and set up Grand Lodges of their oxvn . We believe , hoxvever , that all these tentative efforts will be shattered on the Rock of Masonic Loyalty .
# * # WE call attention to a sketch of the present position of the Grand Orient of France , as not xvithout some points requiring careful attention and consideration . The statements therein contained are a valuable commentary of what is going on across the Channel for all loyal Anglo-Saxon Freemasons .
* * # THE loss of our late distinguished Bro . Dr . DEIGHTON will be keenly felt by the Cambridge brotherhood . He will be emphatically a missed man . We