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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS 349 Consecration of the Farringdon Without Chapter , No . 174 s 35 ° Moveable Granii Mark Lodge at Liverpool 350 Consecration of the Royal Savoy Lodge of Mark Mas * er Masons , No . 354 350 The N- w Provincial Grand Master of
Oxfordshire 3 $ i CORRESPONDENCEThe Recent Boys' School Festival 353 The Provinces and the Mtrtroplis 353 Masons limincnt in the State 3 ^ 3 Which shall it be— "Charity" or Dinners ? ' * 353 Northern Counties Lodge 353
Notes and Queries 353 REPORTS or MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 354 Instruction 350 Royal Arch 350 Mark Masonry 337 Knights Templar 357
Royal Masonic I nsti ' ution for Boys 357 Annual Summer Banquet of Lodge St . John , No . 1305 3 S 7 Freemasonry in Hampshire 357 The Recent Boys' School Festival 357 The Theatres 357 Masonic and General Tidings 358 Lodge Meetings for Next Week Cover .
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As we stated last week , there is every prospect that the 17 th Anniversary Festival on Wednesday next of the Mark Benevolent Fund will prove a great success . The services of Bro . Lord EGERTON OP TATTON , the Deputy G . M . M . M . of England and Wales , than whom there is no abler , more genial , and therefore more deservedly popular member of the Degree
to be found anywhere under the auspices of Mark Grand Lodge , have been secured as Chairman , and a Board of 88 Stewards , as against 47 last year , has been constituted , on whose loyal co-operation in raising a goodly total his lordship may rely with confidence . Bro . ALIRED WILLIAMS , P . G . D ., is President of the Board ; Bros . A . F . GODSON , W . KELLY , Sir PRYSE
PRYSE , Bart ., and J SUTCLIIFE , respectively Prov . G . M . M . Masons of Worcestershire , Leicestershire , & : c ., South Wales , and Lincolnshire , Honorary Presidents , Bro . R . BERRIDGK , G . D . C ., Hon . Treasurer , and Bros . F .
BINCK . ES , G . Sec , and C . F . MATIER , Hon . Secretaries . With such officers and so influential a body of representatives from 25 of the Mark provinces , we anticipate a great result for Wednesday next , and we are sure our readers will unite with us in wishing them success .
THE following account of a very foolish procedure appears in the " Echo du Nord " ( Lille ) , July 2 nd . It originally appeared . it seems , in the " Matin , " another French paper . We presume that our brethren wished to emulate the activity of the " early bird . " " The Lodge of Amitie , the most ancient in Paris — it dates from 1721 , it
is said , —gave on the Sunday previousy , at the Restaurant Ory , in the ' Bois de Boulogne , ' a most curious' fete' of ' adoption . ' At this establishment a hall on the ground floor had been transformed for the event ; at the end a platform destined for the Master , the Deputy LAGUERRE , and his assessors , the Deputies TOXY REVEiLLONet DESMOXS . On each side were
two tables , of which one was occupied by the Bro . Secretary THEVET , the other by the Bro . Orator PETROT . In the middle were 15 chairs for the children of Freemasons who were to be adopted ; around them were seated the parents , the sponsors ( so-called ) , and members of the lodge . On the platform two English brethren were remarked , "—we suppress their names ,
—" and , as well , Bro . TAMISIER , iVIaster of the Lodge ' The Democratic Republic' On opening the meeting , the Master explained the object of the ' reunion , ' and put several questions to the two brothers , the First and Second ' Guardians , ' "—or , we should say "Tylers , "— " who , placed near the door of entry , and screened from observation by the other assistants in
the corners , read their answers , printed ' ad hoc' Fifteen infants were to receive adoption , or baptism . " ( We object to this use of the word Masonically very much . ) " One of the brethren led three of them outoutside the hall , one a little girl of five , and returned shortly with them . Each of these infants had the face covered by a white
muslin veil , bearing , in yellow letters , a different inscription . On one you read the word ' Ignorance , ' on another ' Fanaticism , ' and on another 'Misery . ' These children resumed their previous places on the first row of chairs , and then the ' word was given ' by Bro . PETROT , who dwelt on the benefits of Freemasonry . The first veil fell . For the
second voyage , ' Bro . DESMONS , Deputy for Gard , and V . P . of the Council of the Order , pronounced a ' discours , ' taking for his thesis ignorance , which engendered misery , and protesting against clerical intolerance . Finally , Bro . TONY RKVEILLON said some words , which were much applauded , on marriage and the duties of mothers towards their infants .
When the three infants were freed from their veils , they ascended the platform , followed by their little friends , and each received a diploma , accompanied by cakes and sweetmeats . The ceremony being ended , the children were adopted by the members of the lodge , who undertook to help them
whenever they needed aid , as well as " solidarity , " ( mutual assistance ) , being the emblem of Freemasonry . A banquet followed the fete , at which 100 guests were present . " Such is the account of an episode which , we confess , we regret greatly to read and to record , and at which we are still more sorry to note that two English brethren were present
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IT seems sometimes unaccountable to us the unchanged animosity with which Freemasonry in general is regarded by ths Roman Catholic authorities everywhere , to use their own phase , " in urbe et orbe . " Roman Catholics base their denominational opposition to Freemasonry on the original Bull of CLEMENT , 1738 , confirmed , as that Bull has been , by sundry
allocutions of succeeding Popes , and successive demonstrations of infallible authority . We say nothing of inferior officers or local " mandemens , " and we go direct to the fountain-head . At that lime ( 173 S ) the Roman Catholic authorities took the alarm because they thought they saw in the proclamation and propagation of Freemasonry a sort of " natural religion , " socalled , mak »
mg light of and disavowing the authority of Pontifts , and the claims of the Church . A favourite dogma of Rome has always been " extra ecclesiam nulla salus ; " and as Roman Catholics and Protestants met together in lodge for purposes of humanity , sociality , and Charity , Rome took the alarm , and having denounced the body , proposed to hand it over to the
tender mercies of the Inquisition and a Cosmopolitan persecution . As time ran on Rome ' s theories and tactics changed with changes in Freemasonry itself . As to Craft Masonr } ' was superadded the more gorgeous and aesthetic ceremonial of the High Grades , Rome professed to be shocked with a nomenclature and a ritual which , it asserted , was a parody both on
ecclesiastical terminology , and religious and hallowed rites . But still , despite the fulminations of Roman Catholic officials , Freemasonry advanced , and found Royal patrons and loyal devotees . The appearance of the UlumiuaU , about 1780 , iormed by a Roman Catholic professor , WEISHAUTT , and a Jesuit to boot , who discovered that Freemasonry was too religious for him , gave
Rome a handle which it has never failed to use , since that most mischievous and destructive and disloyal society , in no sense Masonic , and entirely opposed to the peaceful , rational , and loyal progress of Freemasonry proper appeared , and which no doubt did a great deal of evil with its prescribed principles ol thought and action , initsshort career . For to speak correctly ,
it was literally and truly Jesuitism engrafted on Nihilism , and may fairly be assumed to be the precursor of many similar hurtful and debased secret associations . Since that period , though Freemasons are not Illuminati , nor Illuminati Freemasons , Rome has skilfully since kept close to that line of description ^ and ^ incrimination . The developement of secret societies
in the nineteenth century , and up ' to this hour , has always been assumed by Roman Catholic authorities to be also Masonic , and they confound Freemasonry with . societies ol various kinds , which have nothing in common with our Order but secrecy , the principles of Freemasonry being light compared with their darkness , loyalty , faith , religion , honour , peace , legality
order , as contrasted with the mischievous aims and prejudicial movements of all such illegal .. and pernicious bodies . Freemasonry aims at the tranquil progress and conservation of society , the peace and civilization of mankind . Not so the secret political associations . They tend only to destruction ; seem to seek to compass alone the uprooting of law , government , and social life , the
uprising of a vindictive proletariat , and the prevalence of revolution , confiscation , and universal chaos . If something may be alleged lor the wild and angry maledictions of Roman Catholic authorities in some portions of the Contintnt , wheie foolish words and prevtrse proceedings have disgraced the fair lame of Freemasonry , and caused doubt and suspicion to hover
around both its prolessionsand its practice , why should such words and such prejudices be cherished against our Anglo-Saxon Fraternity ? None know better than Roman Catholics themselves how untenable are the allegations they direct in hot haste , bad form , and uncomely virulence against our loyal , peaceful , useful , and benevolent Brotherhood . Rome is still Rome , and .
like the French description of Ladies , always will be Rome apparently . Unchanged and unaltered as the ages come and go , it has " learnt nothing , and forgotten nothing ; " it is still hopelessly implacable and determinedly vindictive . Freemasonry has incurred its displeasure and disapproval , for it militates with its canons of ecclesiastical polity and professed dogmata , and
therefore it must be crushed . And so , like BARTOLO , Rome employs unscrupulously the s-pecial agency of calumny . There is nothing too bad , nothing too absurd to be predicated of Freemasons and Freemasonry . Unthinking and unreasoning persons repeat the mendacity , and pass on the accusation . And yet Freemasonry survives it all ; yes , and flourishes . It
has planted its banner firmly as belore men , and a laithiul phalanx rallies round it . In the good providence of T . G . A . O . U . it is destined to win the victory , as specious inventions , cruel invective , and deliberate lying are as certain as certain can be to go down before the energetic advance of Truth , Toleration , and Light . #
» WE learn from particulars with which we have been furnished that a " London Mutual Masonic Voting Association "' has been formed , with Bro . C . DAIRY , P . M . 141 , as its President and Treasurer ; Bros . G . READ ,
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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS 349 Consecration of the Farringdon Without Chapter , No . 174 s 35 ° Moveable Granii Mark Lodge at Liverpool 350 Consecration of the Royal Savoy Lodge of Mark Mas * er Masons , No . 354 350 The N- w Provincial Grand Master of
Oxfordshire 3 $ i CORRESPONDENCEThe Recent Boys' School Festival 353 The Provinces and the Mtrtroplis 353 Masons limincnt in the State 3 ^ 3 Which shall it be— "Charity" or Dinners ? ' * 353 Northern Counties Lodge 353
Notes and Queries 353 REPORTS or MASONIC MEETINGSCraft Masonry 354 Instruction 350 Royal Arch 350 Mark Masonry 337 Knights Templar 357
Royal Masonic I nsti ' ution for Boys 357 Annual Summer Banquet of Lodge St . John , No . 1305 3 S 7 Freemasonry in Hampshire 357 The Recent Boys' School Festival 357 The Theatres 357 Masonic and General Tidings 358 Lodge Meetings for Next Week Cover .
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As we stated last week , there is every prospect that the 17 th Anniversary Festival on Wednesday next of the Mark Benevolent Fund will prove a great success . The services of Bro . Lord EGERTON OP TATTON , the Deputy G . M . M . M . of England and Wales , than whom there is no abler , more genial , and therefore more deservedly popular member of the Degree
to be found anywhere under the auspices of Mark Grand Lodge , have been secured as Chairman , and a Board of 88 Stewards , as against 47 last year , has been constituted , on whose loyal co-operation in raising a goodly total his lordship may rely with confidence . Bro . ALIRED WILLIAMS , P . G . D ., is President of the Board ; Bros . A . F . GODSON , W . KELLY , Sir PRYSE
PRYSE , Bart ., and J SUTCLIIFE , respectively Prov . G . M . M . Masons of Worcestershire , Leicestershire , & : c ., South Wales , and Lincolnshire , Honorary Presidents , Bro . R . BERRIDGK , G . D . C ., Hon . Treasurer , and Bros . F .
BINCK . ES , G . Sec , and C . F . MATIER , Hon . Secretaries . With such officers and so influential a body of representatives from 25 of the Mark provinces , we anticipate a great result for Wednesday next , and we are sure our readers will unite with us in wishing them success .
THE following account of a very foolish procedure appears in the " Echo du Nord " ( Lille ) , July 2 nd . It originally appeared . it seems , in the " Matin , " another French paper . We presume that our brethren wished to emulate the activity of the " early bird . " " The Lodge of Amitie , the most ancient in Paris — it dates from 1721 , it
is said , —gave on the Sunday previousy , at the Restaurant Ory , in the ' Bois de Boulogne , ' a most curious' fete' of ' adoption . ' At this establishment a hall on the ground floor had been transformed for the event ; at the end a platform destined for the Master , the Deputy LAGUERRE , and his assessors , the Deputies TOXY REVEiLLONet DESMOXS . On each side were
two tables , of which one was occupied by the Bro . Secretary THEVET , the other by the Bro . Orator PETROT . In the middle were 15 chairs for the children of Freemasons who were to be adopted ; around them were seated the parents , the sponsors ( so-called ) , and members of the lodge . On the platform two English brethren were remarked , "—we suppress their names ,
—" and , as well , Bro . TAMISIER , iVIaster of the Lodge ' The Democratic Republic' On opening the meeting , the Master explained the object of the ' reunion , ' and put several questions to the two brothers , the First and Second ' Guardians , ' "—or , we should say "Tylers , "— " who , placed near the door of entry , and screened from observation by the other assistants in
the corners , read their answers , printed ' ad hoc' Fifteen infants were to receive adoption , or baptism . " ( We object to this use of the word Masonically very much . ) " One of the brethren led three of them outoutside the hall , one a little girl of five , and returned shortly with them . Each of these infants had the face covered by a white
muslin veil , bearing , in yellow letters , a different inscription . On one you read the word ' Ignorance , ' on another ' Fanaticism , ' and on another 'Misery . ' These children resumed their previous places on the first row of chairs , and then the ' word was given ' by Bro . PETROT , who dwelt on the benefits of Freemasonry . The first veil fell . For the
second voyage , ' Bro . DESMONS , Deputy for Gard , and V . P . of the Council of the Order , pronounced a ' discours , ' taking for his thesis ignorance , which engendered misery , and protesting against clerical intolerance . Finally , Bro . TONY RKVEILLON said some words , which were much applauded , on marriage and the duties of mothers towards their infants .
When the three infants were freed from their veils , they ascended the platform , followed by their little friends , and each received a diploma , accompanied by cakes and sweetmeats . The ceremony being ended , the children were adopted by the members of the lodge , who undertook to help them
whenever they needed aid , as well as " solidarity , " ( mutual assistance ) , being the emblem of Freemasonry . A banquet followed the fete , at which 100 guests were present . " Such is the account of an episode which , we confess , we regret greatly to read and to record , and at which we are still more sorry to note that two English brethren were present
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IT seems sometimes unaccountable to us the unchanged animosity with which Freemasonry in general is regarded by ths Roman Catholic authorities everywhere , to use their own phase , " in urbe et orbe . " Roman Catholics base their denominational opposition to Freemasonry on the original Bull of CLEMENT , 1738 , confirmed , as that Bull has been , by sundry
allocutions of succeeding Popes , and successive demonstrations of infallible authority . We say nothing of inferior officers or local " mandemens , " and we go direct to the fountain-head . At that lime ( 173 S ) the Roman Catholic authorities took the alarm because they thought they saw in the proclamation and propagation of Freemasonry a sort of " natural religion , " socalled , mak »
mg light of and disavowing the authority of Pontifts , and the claims of the Church . A favourite dogma of Rome has always been " extra ecclesiam nulla salus ; " and as Roman Catholics and Protestants met together in lodge for purposes of humanity , sociality , and Charity , Rome took the alarm , and having denounced the body , proposed to hand it over to the
tender mercies of the Inquisition and a Cosmopolitan persecution . As time ran on Rome ' s theories and tactics changed with changes in Freemasonry itself . As to Craft Masonr } ' was superadded the more gorgeous and aesthetic ceremonial of the High Grades , Rome professed to be shocked with a nomenclature and a ritual which , it asserted , was a parody both on
ecclesiastical terminology , and religious and hallowed rites . But still , despite the fulminations of Roman Catholic officials , Freemasonry advanced , and found Royal patrons and loyal devotees . The appearance of the UlumiuaU , about 1780 , iormed by a Roman Catholic professor , WEISHAUTT , and a Jesuit to boot , who discovered that Freemasonry was too religious for him , gave
Rome a handle which it has never failed to use , since that most mischievous and destructive and disloyal society , in no sense Masonic , and entirely opposed to the peaceful , rational , and loyal progress of Freemasonry proper appeared , and which no doubt did a great deal of evil with its prescribed principles ol thought and action , initsshort career . For to speak correctly ,
it was literally and truly Jesuitism engrafted on Nihilism , and may fairly be assumed to be the precursor of many similar hurtful and debased secret associations . Since that period , though Freemasons are not Illuminati , nor Illuminati Freemasons , Rome has skilfully since kept close to that line of description ^ and ^ incrimination . The developement of secret societies
in the nineteenth century , and up ' to this hour , has always been assumed by Roman Catholic authorities to be also Masonic , and they confound Freemasonry with . societies ol various kinds , which have nothing in common with our Order but secrecy , the principles of Freemasonry being light compared with their darkness , loyalty , faith , religion , honour , peace , legality
order , as contrasted with the mischievous aims and prejudicial movements of all such illegal .. and pernicious bodies . Freemasonry aims at the tranquil progress and conservation of society , the peace and civilization of mankind . Not so the secret political associations . They tend only to destruction ; seem to seek to compass alone the uprooting of law , government , and social life , the
uprising of a vindictive proletariat , and the prevalence of revolution , confiscation , and universal chaos . If something may be alleged lor the wild and angry maledictions of Roman Catholic authorities in some portions of the Contintnt , wheie foolish words and prevtrse proceedings have disgraced the fair lame of Freemasonry , and caused doubt and suspicion to hover
around both its prolessionsand its practice , why should such words and such prejudices be cherished against our Anglo-Saxon Fraternity ? None know better than Roman Catholics themselves how untenable are the allegations they direct in hot haste , bad form , and uncomely virulence against our loyal , peaceful , useful , and benevolent Brotherhood . Rome is still Rome , and .
like the French description of Ladies , always will be Rome apparently . Unchanged and unaltered as the ages come and go , it has " learnt nothing , and forgotten nothing ; " it is still hopelessly implacable and determinedly vindictive . Freemasonry has incurred its displeasure and disapproval , for it militates with its canons of ecclesiastical polity and professed dogmata , and
therefore it must be crushed . And so , like BARTOLO , Rome employs unscrupulously the s-pecial agency of calumny . There is nothing too bad , nothing too absurd to be predicated of Freemasons and Freemasonry . Unthinking and unreasoning persons repeat the mendacity , and pass on the accusation . And yet Freemasonry survives it all ; yes , and flourishes . It
has planted its banner firmly as belore men , and a laithiul phalanx rallies round it . In the good providence of T . G . A . O . U . it is destined to win the victory , as specious inventions , cruel invective , and deliberate lying are as certain as certain can be to go down before the energetic advance of Truth , Toleration , and Light . #
» WE learn from particulars with which we have been furnished that a " London Mutual Masonic Voting Association "' has been formed , with Bro . C . DAIRY , P . M . 141 , as its President and Treasurer ; Bros . G . READ ,