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A Brother ( M . M . ) , possessing a large experience in various legal public appointments , seeks an ENGAGEMENT xvhere his services xvould be useful , temporary or otherxvise . Excellent Testimonials and references . —Address , P . ; 156 , The Chase , Nottingham .
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© tiucationaL IGfcTcLASS PRIVATE SCHOOL THEOBALD'S PARK , WALTHAM CROSS , LONDON , N . PRINCIPAL : Rev . J . OSWALD JACKSON , Assisted by Five Masters . Limited number of Gentlemen's Sons ; motherly care for delicate pupils ; individual teaching for backward ones ; playground of six acres . . First pass Honours gained at last Cambridge Local Examinations , xvith Distinction in Mathematics . References kindly permitted to Rev , Dr . Reynolds , Principal of Cheshunt College , Herts . Rev . Charles E . Mayo , M . A ., Nottingham . Sir Thomas Chambers , M . P ., Recorder of London . Richard Toller , Esq ., Solicitor , Leicester . George Kenning , Esq ., Little Britain .
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DULWICH HOUSE SCHOOL , VICTORIA ROAD , UPPER NORWOOD , S . E . ( Within seven minutes ' , of the Crystal Palace ) . PRINCIPAL : Mr . J . K . BARNES , LONDON UNIVERSITY . ( Late Upper Fifth-Form Master , Bedford Modern School , Harpur Foundation . ) RESIDENT STAFF : Classics : Mr . W . P . EVANS , M . A . ( 2 nd Class Classical Tripos , 1 S 77 . ) ( Late Foundation Scholar , Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge . ) English Language and Literature : The PRINCIPAL . Mathematics and Science : P . Z . ROUND , B . A . ( Mathematical Tripos , 1 SS 2 . ) ( Late Scholar St . Katharine's College , Cambridge . ) Modern Languages * . The PRINCIPAL . VISITING STAFF : Modern Languages : Monsieur EUGENE FASNACHT . ( Late Senior Modern Language Master , Bedford Modern School . Editor of Macmillan ' s Foreign Classics . ) Science : Rev . j . G . WOOD , M . A ., F . L . S ., and Prof . C . P . MORRIS , Geology and Phys . Geog . ; and such qther qualified and experienced Masters as the requirements of the Pupils may demand . References kindly permitted to Rev . R . B . Poole , B . D ., Bed . Mod . School , Bedford . Alex . Waugh Young , M * . A ., Tettenhall College , Staffordshire . G . M . Hicks , M . A ., 5 , South-roxVi Blackheath , S . E . E . F . Ashworth Briggs , M . A ., L . L . M ., 15 , Nexv Street , Daventry . Rev . A . Lloyd , M . A ., Norton Rectory , Bury St . Edrtiunds . C . L . Peel , Esq ., C . B . ; Woodcraft , Cuckfield , Sussex . Major Ed . Green , St , Mary's , Bedford . J . D . Rodger , Esq ., College Laxvn , Cheltenham . C P . Mason , B . A ., F . C . P ., Dukesell , Streatham Hill , S . E .
To Correspondents.
To Correspondents .
The folloxving communications stand over until next xveek for xvant of space : — The Pope ' s Encyclical Letter * ' De Secta Massonum . " The Collegia Romana . jubilee of Menturia Lodge , 41 S , Hanley . Cheshunt Great House . District Grand Lodge of Natal . CRAFT LODGES ;—Florence Nightingale , 706 ; Crystal Palace , 743 ; Marmion , 1060 ; Clarendon , 1769 ; Graystone , i 9 > 5-
BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . " Freimaurer Zeitung , " "Keystone , " "Hull Packet , " "Broad Arrow , " " Citizen , " " lioyal Cornxvall Gazette , " " Masonic Advocate , " "Nexv York Dispatch , " "Victorian Masonic Journal , " " La Espana Masdnica , " " Court Circular , " " Rough Ashlar , " " The Tricycling Journal , " "Allen ' s Indian Mail , " " Masonic World . "
TO OUR READERS . THE FREEMASON is published exery Friday morning , price 3 d ., and contains the fullest and latest information relating to Freemasonry of every degree . Subscriptions , including Postage : — United States , United Kingdom , Canada , the Continent , India , China , Ceylon , the Colonies & c . Arabia , & c . 13 s . 6 d . 15 s . 6 d . 17 s . 6 d . Remittances may be made in Stamps , but Tost Office Orders or cheipies are preferred , the former payable to GEORGE K EXXI . VO , Chief Office , London , the latter crossed London Joint Stock Bank
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SATURDAY , J 21 , 1884 .
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
[\ Ve Ao « ot hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of , the opinions expressed by ourcorrespondents , but we wish in aspirit of fair play to all to permit—xvithin certain necessary limits—free discussion , ] ' LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM .
Dear Bro . Kenning , Can any of your readers favour mc xvith a fexv votes at once in this excellent orphanage for Sarah Laura Herbert , orphan of our late Bro . Herbert . The case is strongly recommended . " The election is on Monday , so that any votes ought to reach me by the last post Saturday . —Yours fraternally , A . F . A . WOODFORD .
Original Correspondence.
NOT FAIR . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , There is a little matter connected xvith the honour of Freemasonry in Canada to xvhich I xvish to call attention . It is the alleged confiscation of the property of the St . George's Lodge , Montreal , and its appropriation by another body , xvhich fact , if true , I think is most opposed to the
genuine dictates of true Freemasonry . At this hour , if I am correctly informed , the jexvels of the St . George's Lodge , xvith name and number engraved , are held by the officers of another lodge , xvithout leave or licence ; indeed , having been taken axvay from their laxvful possessors . Surely , as xvith the hiding of the Royal Arch xvarrant , something should be done by those who are cognizant of the facts of the case to put a stop to a crying scandal and reflection on Freemasonry . —Fraternally yours , M . M . M .
A NEEDFUL CORRECTION . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother ,. Permit me to correct a typeical error in your last Freemason . I did not say in the leaderette No . S , page 296 , " the contributions ot the brethren of the English lodges in South Australia to benevolence , " merely or generally . Some xvords have evidently slipped out . As I xvrote them
the xvords xvere " to the Lodge of Benevolence at home ! the argument in the colony being that they could do better for themselves if they xvere independent , by giving their contributions to a local Fund of Benevolence , than sending them , as it xvas asserted they did , to the Lodge of Benevolence at home .
My ansxver is , they certainly could do better , as their contributions to the Lodge of Benevolence at home xvere nil , though the Lodge of Benevolence at home xvas constantly helping the colonial brethren . You xvill see that the omission of these xvords takes axvay the entire effect and real meaning of the sentence , and you xvill oblige me sensibly by inserting this correction . THE WRITER OF THE LEADERETTE .
THE HUGHAN TESTIMONIAL . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , I desire to acknoxvledge the receipt , through our good friend Bro . Charles E . Meyer , of Philadel p hia , a further sum of 35 dols ., toxvards the Hughan Testimonial Fund . Particulars will appeir in a future advertisement . Yours fraternally , GEORGE KENNING , Treas .
Reviews.
REVIEWS .
THE MONTH . June , 1884 . BURNS AND OATES . There is in this Roman Catholic magazine ( No . 240 ) a very carefully xvritten article on Freemasonry . We xvish xve * could say that the tone it takes and the arguments
it accepts xvere more fair or kindly than previous violent outbursts of the Roman Catholic " Spirituality . " There is , undoubtedly , more seeming courtesy in language , less excitement of temperament , a calmer and more reasonable xvay of dealing xvith the " secta Masonum , " as they like to term us , in defiance as often happens with Rome of classic language , —using in fact uneducated " Dog Latin . " But the animus remains the same , "latet anguis in herba . "
Freemasons are still in their polite vocabulary "pagans , " and really " particepes criminis " in all the abomination of the xvorst of foreign jurisdictions . Freemasonry is a" pernicious sect , a baseless , laxvless , godless society , " " the enemy of all virtuous living , " and " contrary to right and justice , and not less baneful to Christianity than the State , " because , "teaching the doctrines of naturalism" and " reviving xvith indomitable craftiness and dissimulation thc
diabolical spirit of rebellion among men . " though the xvriter of this eloquent tirade is kind enough to say he does not " accuse it of being professedly atheist , " yet he does deliberately " accuse it , " he tells us , ** of being professedly a pagan society , a society xvhich ignores all revelation , a society xvhich is based on mere naturalism , a society xvhich sets aside alljsupernatural truth , " . & c , & c . For a Roman Catholic to be present at a lodge consecration
especially is a " commumcatio in Sacns , " a taking part xvith them in their religious services . In fact , if the politest language be used , the very hyperbole of concentrated bitterness is exhausted in seeking to prove that all " loyal Christians" and sincere Roman Catholics should never regard Freemasonry xvith anything but hostility and abhorrence . Let us remember that the xvhole of this torrent of incrimination and condemnation is
poured forth in the face of acknoxvlegnients , that the xvriter is fully axvare that men of the highest culture and character in England belong to this hypocritical and dangerous society . To use the xvritcr's oxvn xvords , •' In England and Americait is quite different * , Freemasonry there puts on the garb of religion ; it enlists in its ranks men xvho fill the highest places in Church and State ; it is essentially a Conservative institution , and professes to cling
to English tradition , and to be a staunch upholder of Divine and human laxv . It has its Chaplains among Anglican dignitaries ; its offices are filled by Royal personages . The Holy Bible occupies a conspicuous place in its assemblies ; in all its proceedings Almighty God is recognized xvith an outivard shoxv of honourand respect . " The Tablet , a Roman Catholic paper , had most fearlessly suggested that English Freemasonry might be excepted from the actual and implied
censures of the Papal Bull . For this , that rash journal receives a dignified reproof from thc xvriter of the article . And thus it is that xvith a happy mixture of paradox and politeness , courtesy and cursing , inconsistency and unfairness , contradiction and contempt , sense and sarcasm , Freemasonry is practically denounced by the rcvieivcr in the " Month , " as a heathenish , hurtful , deceptious , and
destructive Society , hostile to God and injurious to man ; and thc sum and substance of the xvhole matter is that Leo XIII . xvas perfectly justified in issuing the "Bull Humanum Genus , " & c , and that all Freemasons are very properly censured , anathematized , and excommunicated by the Father of the Faithful . As xve are promised another article on the subject , xve stop here to-day , leaving our Masonic commentary on this article and others like to
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it as exhibitqry of the modern Masonic viexv until a later occasion . To us as Freemasons such allegations and such asseverations seem "idler than the xvind , " to be hardly deserving of discussion , and certainly not to call for annoyance or retort . VVe have simply laid the matter before our readers , xvithout heat or anger , if xvith deepsorroxv , for such unchanged intolerancesuch unreasoning animosity
, on the part of the Roman Catholic Church and its members . There are txvo questions xve should like to ask the reviexver of the Papal Bull blunder . As he condemns Freemasonry on the ground of its being a secret society , has he ever heard of the Jesuits ? Is that not a secret society of secret societies ? What can he tell us of the Fourth Grade , xvith its mysteries , probationary . trialsand its secret
, voxv ? If Freemasonry is to be * condemned for being secret , xvhy is the Jesuit Society not in the same category ? We have never yet seen a Roman Catholic reply to this query . What does the xvriter think of a condemnation " en . bloc , " without citation , hearing , judgment , or sentence ? The Roman Catholic Canon Laxv professes that these four ' points are necessary to any valid
sentence . Even the Inquisition in its palmiest days professed to have a form of trial . Heaven save the mark ' . But . here xve have Vicars Apostolic , Monsignores , Bishops in partibus , Archbishops , and lastly the Supreme Pontiff , excommunicating Freemasons and even by a very specious use of xvords extending . the anathema " urbi et orbe , " and declaring all Freemasons evervxvhere enemies
to God and man , and therefore accursed . Does not the xvriter , do not pious and cultured Roman Catholics realize the fact , that all such ridiculous decrees only serve to expose the hopelessness of impotent xvrath , and express the indecency of childish malice ; that they are needless , senseless , utterly alien to the spirit of our age , xvhich
detests intolerance and " cursing" of all kinds ; and so evidently unreasoning , unfounded , and unjust , that xvhile they only create * laughter and ridicule among the throng , they grate very harshly indeed on the kindlier sentiments of Roman Catholics themselves , xve are happy to think and to say ?
Masonic Notes And Queries.
Masonic Notes and Queries .
35 SJ SCOTS MASONS . 1 think I have found an explanation ofithese xvords , xvhich . have puzzled Bro .- Hughan , Bro . Gould , and myself much . It-seems from some correspondence of Bro . Van Lennep , of Amsterdam , xvith Bro . Walker Arnott , xvhich has recently fallen into my hands , that there xvas in the last century in Scotland a particular term of
High-Gradism , termed "Scotch Masonry . " This xvas composed of 12 Grades . _ Both Van Lennep and Arnott talk ofthe 12 Grades xvhich folloxv , as "Scotch Masonry so called . " It seems , hoxvever , to have been unknoxvn to Bro . Arnott until Van Lennep called his attention to it . 1 . Apprentice ; 2 , Fellow- Craft ; 3 . Master ; 4 . Elect ; 5 . High Elect ; 6 . Elect of thq Temple ; 7 . Perfect Master ; S . Master Elect ; 9 . Architect ; 10 .
Perfect Architect ; 11 . Elect Architect ; 12 . Kt . of the Orient . It is stated that a Bro . L . Heartfield , Bond-street , •London , had the papers , and a Scottish brother named . Dundas , took jt to the Cape . Are these the " High Gradians" of the Sxvalxvell Lodge ? Are these the " Scots Masons " of many of the London and Provincial lodges of the last century ? A . F . A . W .
359 ] ' . LODGE CERTIFICATES . To show hoxv late-ending , and as I believe earlycommencing , xvas the system of Lodge Certificates , I have before me to-day five from 1797 doxvn toiSig . 1 . The St . Nicholas Lodge , Nexvcastle-upon-Tyne , in 1797 , on parch- •ment , no number , but "holden of the Grand Lodge of England , " grants a certificate to James Richardson of having
been initiated , passed , and raised , November 1 , 1797 , apparently signed in . lodge that day . It is but fair to observe that No . 2 is a certificate granted by the Mariners Lodge , No . 362 , Liverpool , 7 th December , iSog . There- are txvo passages in the certificate I do not quite understand , "Duly Constituted by H . R . H . B . G . W ., G . M ., of Antient Masons in . England . "
We do affectionately recommend him to all Antient Masons round the Globe . " The Atholl Lodge , No . , holding of the Grand Lodge of England , and xvhich gave a M . M .. certificate September iSth , 1813 , to Herman Koppen . The fourth is a certificate , xvith the seal attached , of a M . M ., granted to "Robert Cant" by the •Nexvcastle-upon-Tyne Lodge , No . 26 , February 14 th , 1815 .
The fifth is a certificate , xvith seal , March ist , 1 S 19 , that " Henry Clayton has given a donation to the Newcastleupon-Tyne Lodge , No . 26 , xvhich entitles him to any Right and Privilege for Life that an ordinary Member of the Lodge can enjoy . " None of these certificates are in any xvay endorsed by a Grand Secretary . The Atholl Lodge seems to have issued 203 certificates , at any rate . MASONIC STUDENT .
360 ] GRAND LODGE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA . I am glad to note the friendly tone of the Editor of the Freemason respecting the recognition of the nexv " Grand Lodge of South Australia , " for it is entitled , to our hearty support , because , so far as I can judge , legally constituted . Out of some 33 lodges , all but one , so xve are told , havc ioined the nexv oreanuation , and thus on the ground of the
affirmative votes of the majority of lodges and members , the Grand Lodge has been duly launched . I entirely deny the right of three lodges to meet and form themselves into a Grand Lodge , notxvithstanding a large majority of thc lodges object to such action j but xvhen such a number join in the movement , as in South Australia , let us hold out the rig ht hand of felloxvship , and express the hope that ere lontr the sinefe lodge left out in the cold xvill co-operate
xvith the others in establishing a firm and prosperous Grand Lodge . Should it still elect to remain " outside " the new Grand Lodge it has a perfect right so to do , though one cannot help doubting the xvisdom of such a step . As to Colonial Grand Lodges being a great source of income to our Grand Lodge , a greater mistake xvas never made , for they pay us no annua ) subscription , and the fees on initiation are merely nominal . W . J . HUGHAN .
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A Brother ( M . M . ) , possessing a large experience in various legal public appointments , seeks an ENGAGEMENT xvhere his services xvould be useful , temporary or otherxvise . Excellent Testimonials and references . —Address , P . ; 156 , The Chase , Nottingham .
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© tiucationaL IGfcTcLASS PRIVATE SCHOOL THEOBALD'S PARK , WALTHAM CROSS , LONDON , N . PRINCIPAL : Rev . J . OSWALD JACKSON , Assisted by Five Masters . Limited number of Gentlemen's Sons ; motherly care for delicate pupils ; individual teaching for backward ones ; playground of six acres . . First pass Honours gained at last Cambridge Local Examinations , xvith Distinction in Mathematics . References kindly permitted to Rev , Dr . Reynolds , Principal of Cheshunt College , Herts . Rev . Charles E . Mayo , M . A ., Nottingham . Sir Thomas Chambers , M . P ., Recorder of London . Richard Toller , Esq ., Solicitor , Leicester . George Kenning , Esq ., Little Britain .
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DULWICH HOUSE SCHOOL , VICTORIA ROAD , UPPER NORWOOD , S . E . ( Within seven minutes ' , of the Crystal Palace ) . PRINCIPAL : Mr . J . K . BARNES , LONDON UNIVERSITY . ( Late Upper Fifth-Form Master , Bedford Modern School , Harpur Foundation . ) RESIDENT STAFF : Classics : Mr . W . P . EVANS , M . A . ( 2 nd Class Classical Tripos , 1 S 77 . ) ( Late Foundation Scholar , Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge . ) English Language and Literature : The PRINCIPAL . Mathematics and Science : P . Z . ROUND , B . A . ( Mathematical Tripos , 1 SS 2 . ) ( Late Scholar St . Katharine's College , Cambridge . ) Modern Languages * . The PRINCIPAL . VISITING STAFF : Modern Languages : Monsieur EUGENE FASNACHT . ( Late Senior Modern Language Master , Bedford Modern School . Editor of Macmillan ' s Foreign Classics . ) Science : Rev . j . G . WOOD , M . A ., F . L . S ., and Prof . C . P . MORRIS , Geology and Phys . Geog . ; and such qther qualified and experienced Masters as the requirements of the Pupils may demand . References kindly permitted to Rev . R . B . Poole , B . D ., Bed . Mod . School , Bedford . Alex . Waugh Young , M * . A ., Tettenhall College , Staffordshire . G . M . Hicks , M . A ., 5 , South-roxVi Blackheath , S . E . E . F . Ashworth Briggs , M . A ., L . L . M ., 15 , Nexv Street , Daventry . Rev . A . Lloyd , M . A ., Norton Rectory , Bury St . Edrtiunds . C . L . Peel , Esq ., C . B . ; Woodcraft , Cuckfield , Sussex . Major Ed . Green , St , Mary's , Bedford . J . D . Rodger , Esq ., College Laxvn , Cheltenham . C P . Mason , B . A ., F . C . P ., Dukesell , Streatham Hill , S . E .
To Correspondents.
To Correspondents .
The folloxving communications stand over until next xveek for xvant of space : — The Pope ' s Encyclical Letter * ' De Secta Massonum . " The Collegia Romana . jubilee of Menturia Lodge , 41 S , Hanley . Cheshunt Great House . District Grand Lodge of Natal . CRAFT LODGES ;—Florence Nightingale , 706 ; Crystal Palace , 743 ; Marmion , 1060 ; Clarendon , 1769 ; Graystone , i 9 > 5-
BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . " Freimaurer Zeitung , " "Keystone , " "Hull Packet , " "Broad Arrow , " " Citizen , " " lioyal Cornxvall Gazette , " " Masonic Advocate , " "Nexv York Dispatch , " "Victorian Masonic Journal , " " La Espana Masdnica , " " Court Circular , " " Rough Ashlar , " " The Tricycling Journal , " "Allen ' s Indian Mail , " " Masonic World . "
TO OUR READERS . THE FREEMASON is published exery Friday morning , price 3 d ., and contains the fullest and latest information relating to Freemasonry of every degree . Subscriptions , including Postage : — United States , United Kingdom , Canada , the Continent , India , China , Ceylon , the Colonies & c . Arabia , & c . 13 s . 6 d . 15 s . 6 d . 17 s . 6 d . Remittances may be made in Stamps , but Tost Office Orders or cheipies are preferred , the former payable to GEORGE K EXXI . VO , Chief Office , London , the latter crossed London Joint Stock Bank
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SATURDAY , J 21 , 1884 .
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
[\ Ve Ao « ot hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of , the opinions expressed by ourcorrespondents , but we wish in aspirit of fair play to all to permit—xvithin certain necessary limits—free discussion , ] ' LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM .
Dear Bro . Kenning , Can any of your readers favour mc xvith a fexv votes at once in this excellent orphanage for Sarah Laura Herbert , orphan of our late Bro . Herbert . The case is strongly recommended . " The election is on Monday , so that any votes ought to reach me by the last post Saturday . —Yours fraternally , A . F . A . WOODFORD .
Original Correspondence.
NOT FAIR . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , There is a little matter connected xvith the honour of Freemasonry in Canada to xvhich I xvish to call attention . It is the alleged confiscation of the property of the St . George's Lodge , Montreal , and its appropriation by another body , xvhich fact , if true , I think is most opposed to the
genuine dictates of true Freemasonry . At this hour , if I am correctly informed , the jexvels of the St . George's Lodge , xvith name and number engraved , are held by the officers of another lodge , xvithout leave or licence ; indeed , having been taken axvay from their laxvful possessors . Surely , as xvith the hiding of the Royal Arch xvarrant , something should be done by those who are cognizant of the facts of the case to put a stop to a crying scandal and reflection on Freemasonry . —Fraternally yours , M . M . M .
A NEEDFUL CORRECTION . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother ,. Permit me to correct a typeical error in your last Freemason . I did not say in the leaderette No . S , page 296 , " the contributions ot the brethren of the English lodges in South Australia to benevolence , " merely or generally . Some xvords have evidently slipped out . As I xvrote them
the xvords xvere " to the Lodge of Benevolence at home ! the argument in the colony being that they could do better for themselves if they xvere independent , by giving their contributions to a local Fund of Benevolence , than sending them , as it xvas asserted they did , to the Lodge of Benevolence at home .
My ansxver is , they certainly could do better , as their contributions to the Lodge of Benevolence at home xvere nil , though the Lodge of Benevolence at home xvas constantly helping the colonial brethren . You xvill see that the omission of these xvords takes axvay the entire effect and real meaning of the sentence , and you xvill oblige me sensibly by inserting this correction . THE WRITER OF THE LEADERETTE .
THE HUGHAN TESTIMONIAL . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , I desire to acknoxvledge the receipt , through our good friend Bro . Charles E . Meyer , of Philadel p hia , a further sum of 35 dols ., toxvards the Hughan Testimonial Fund . Particulars will appeir in a future advertisement . Yours fraternally , GEORGE KENNING , Treas .
Reviews.
REVIEWS .
THE MONTH . June , 1884 . BURNS AND OATES . There is in this Roman Catholic magazine ( No . 240 ) a very carefully xvritten article on Freemasonry . We xvish xve * could say that the tone it takes and the arguments
it accepts xvere more fair or kindly than previous violent outbursts of the Roman Catholic " Spirituality . " There is , undoubtedly , more seeming courtesy in language , less excitement of temperament , a calmer and more reasonable xvay of dealing xvith the " secta Masonum , " as they like to term us , in defiance as often happens with Rome of classic language , —using in fact uneducated " Dog Latin . " But the animus remains the same , "latet anguis in herba . "
Freemasons are still in their polite vocabulary "pagans , " and really " particepes criminis " in all the abomination of the xvorst of foreign jurisdictions . Freemasonry is a" pernicious sect , a baseless , laxvless , godless society , " " the enemy of all virtuous living , " and " contrary to right and justice , and not less baneful to Christianity than the State , " because , "teaching the doctrines of naturalism" and " reviving xvith indomitable craftiness and dissimulation thc
diabolical spirit of rebellion among men . " though the xvriter of this eloquent tirade is kind enough to say he does not " accuse it of being professedly atheist , " yet he does deliberately " accuse it , " he tells us , ** of being professedly a pagan society , a society xvhich ignores all revelation , a society xvhich is based on mere naturalism , a society xvhich sets aside alljsupernatural truth , " . & c , & c . For a Roman Catholic to be present at a lodge consecration
especially is a " commumcatio in Sacns , " a taking part xvith them in their religious services . In fact , if the politest language be used , the very hyperbole of concentrated bitterness is exhausted in seeking to prove that all " loyal Christians" and sincere Roman Catholics should never regard Freemasonry xvith anything but hostility and abhorrence . Let us remember that the xvhole of this torrent of incrimination and condemnation is
poured forth in the face of acknoxvlegnients , that the xvriter is fully axvare that men of the highest culture and character in England belong to this hypocritical and dangerous society . To use the xvritcr's oxvn xvords , •' In England and Americait is quite different * , Freemasonry there puts on the garb of religion ; it enlists in its ranks men xvho fill the highest places in Church and State ; it is essentially a Conservative institution , and professes to cling
to English tradition , and to be a staunch upholder of Divine and human laxv . It has its Chaplains among Anglican dignitaries ; its offices are filled by Royal personages . The Holy Bible occupies a conspicuous place in its assemblies ; in all its proceedings Almighty God is recognized xvith an outivard shoxv of honourand respect . " The Tablet , a Roman Catholic paper , had most fearlessly suggested that English Freemasonry might be excepted from the actual and implied
censures of the Papal Bull . For this , that rash journal receives a dignified reproof from thc xvriter of the article . And thus it is that xvith a happy mixture of paradox and politeness , courtesy and cursing , inconsistency and unfairness , contradiction and contempt , sense and sarcasm , Freemasonry is practically denounced by the rcvieivcr in the " Month , " as a heathenish , hurtful , deceptious , and
destructive Society , hostile to God and injurious to man ; and thc sum and substance of the xvhole matter is that Leo XIII . xvas perfectly justified in issuing the "Bull Humanum Genus , " & c , and that all Freemasons are very properly censured , anathematized , and excommunicated by the Father of the Faithful . As xve are promised another article on the subject , xve stop here to-day , leaving our Masonic commentary on this article and others like to
Reviews.
it as exhibitqry of the modern Masonic viexv until a later occasion . To us as Freemasons such allegations and such asseverations seem "idler than the xvind , " to be hardly deserving of discussion , and certainly not to call for annoyance or retort . VVe have simply laid the matter before our readers , xvithout heat or anger , if xvith deepsorroxv , for such unchanged intolerancesuch unreasoning animosity
, on the part of the Roman Catholic Church and its members . There are txvo questions xve should like to ask the reviexver of the Papal Bull blunder . As he condemns Freemasonry on the ground of its being a secret society , has he ever heard of the Jesuits ? Is that not a secret society of secret societies ? What can he tell us of the Fourth Grade , xvith its mysteries , probationary . trialsand its secret
, voxv ? If Freemasonry is to be * condemned for being secret , xvhy is the Jesuit Society not in the same category ? We have never yet seen a Roman Catholic reply to this query . What does the xvriter think of a condemnation " en . bloc , " without citation , hearing , judgment , or sentence ? The Roman Catholic Canon Laxv professes that these four ' points are necessary to any valid
sentence . Even the Inquisition in its palmiest days professed to have a form of trial . Heaven save the mark ' . But . here xve have Vicars Apostolic , Monsignores , Bishops in partibus , Archbishops , and lastly the Supreme Pontiff , excommunicating Freemasons and even by a very specious use of xvords extending . the anathema " urbi et orbe , " and declaring all Freemasons evervxvhere enemies
to God and man , and therefore accursed . Does not the xvriter , do not pious and cultured Roman Catholics realize the fact , that all such ridiculous decrees only serve to expose the hopelessness of impotent xvrath , and express the indecency of childish malice ; that they are needless , senseless , utterly alien to the spirit of our age , xvhich
detests intolerance and " cursing" of all kinds ; and so evidently unreasoning , unfounded , and unjust , that xvhile they only create * laughter and ridicule among the throng , they grate very harshly indeed on the kindlier sentiments of Roman Catholics themselves , xve are happy to think and to say ?
Masonic Notes And Queries.
Masonic Notes and Queries .
35 SJ SCOTS MASONS . 1 think I have found an explanation ofithese xvords , xvhich . have puzzled Bro .- Hughan , Bro . Gould , and myself much . It-seems from some correspondence of Bro . Van Lennep , of Amsterdam , xvith Bro . Walker Arnott , xvhich has recently fallen into my hands , that there xvas in the last century in Scotland a particular term of
High-Gradism , termed "Scotch Masonry . " This xvas composed of 12 Grades . _ Both Van Lennep and Arnott talk ofthe 12 Grades xvhich folloxv , as "Scotch Masonry so called . " It seems , hoxvever , to have been unknoxvn to Bro . Arnott until Van Lennep called his attention to it . 1 . Apprentice ; 2 , Fellow- Craft ; 3 . Master ; 4 . Elect ; 5 . High Elect ; 6 . Elect of thq Temple ; 7 . Perfect Master ; S . Master Elect ; 9 . Architect ; 10 .
Perfect Architect ; 11 . Elect Architect ; 12 . Kt . of the Orient . It is stated that a Bro . L . Heartfield , Bond-street , •London , had the papers , and a Scottish brother named . Dundas , took jt to the Cape . Are these the " High Gradians" of the Sxvalxvell Lodge ? Are these the " Scots Masons " of many of the London and Provincial lodges of the last century ? A . F . A . W .
359 ] ' . LODGE CERTIFICATES . To show hoxv late-ending , and as I believe earlycommencing , xvas the system of Lodge Certificates , I have before me to-day five from 1797 doxvn toiSig . 1 . The St . Nicholas Lodge , Nexvcastle-upon-Tyne , in 1797 , on parch- •ment , no number , but "holden of the Grand Lodge of England , " grants a certificate to James Richardson of having
been initiated , passed , and raised , November 1 , 1797 , apparently signed in . lodge that day . It is but fair to observe that No . 2 is a certificate granted by the Mariners Lodge , No . 362 , Liverpool , 7 th December , iSog . There- are txvo passages in the certificate I do not quite understand , "Duly Constituted by H . R . H . B . G . W ., G . M ., of Antient Masons in . England . "
We do affectionately recommend him to all Antient Masons round the Globe . " The Atholl Lodge , No . , holding of the Grand Lodge of England , and xvhich gave a M . M .. certificate September iSth , 1813 , to Herman Koppen . The fourth is a certificate , xvith the seal attached , of a M . M ., granted to "Robert Cant" by the •Nexvcastle-upon-Tyne Lodge , No . 26 , February 14 th , 1815 .
The fifth is a certificate , xvith seal , March ist , 1 S 19 , that " Henry Clayton has given a donation to the Newcastleupon-Tyne Lodge , No . 26 , xvhich entitles him to any Right and Privilege for Life that an ordinary Member of the Lodge can enjoy . " None of these certificates are in any xvay endorsed by a Grand Secretary . The Atholl Lodge seems to have issued 203 certificates , at any rate . MASONIC STUDENT .
360 ] GRAND LODGE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA . I am glad to note the friendly tone of the Editor of the Freemason respecting the recognition of the nexv " Grand Lodge of South Australia , " for it is entitled , to our hearty support , because , so far as I can judge , legally constituted . Out of some 33 lodges , all but one , so xve are told , havc ioined the nexv oreanuation , and thus on the ground of the
affirmative votes of the majority of lodges and members , the Grand Lodge has been duly launched . I entirely deny the right of three lodges to meet and form themselves into a Grand Lodge , notxvithstanding a large majority of thc lodges object to such action j but xvhen such a number join in the movement , as in South Australia , let us hold out the rig ht hand of felloxvship , and express the hope that ere lontr the sinefe lodge left out in the cold xvill co-operate
xvith the others in establishing a firm and prosperous Grand Lodge . Should it still elect to remain " outside " the new Grand Lodge it has a perfect right so to do , though one cannot help doubting the xvisdom of such a step . As to Colonial Grand Lodges being a great source of income to our Grand Lodge , a greater mistake xvas never made , for they pay us no annua ) subscription , and the fees on initiation are merely nominal . W . J . HUGHAN .