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intolerance , has never yet reached this point of absurdity . " We quite agree with them , but still we deem it well to bring this " elegant extract " before our readers , as it is needful that they should fairly realize what is the unchanged bitterness of Rome , alike in America as in Europe .
When the writer who penned the statement above gave it forth to his co-religionists , he knew that there was not one word of truth in his assertions , and his only object could be to inflame their feelings against their felloyv Christians and Hebreyv brethren . We in England or in America
knoyv that such a statement is absolutely false in every particular . Freemasonry has nothing to do with politics , in Anglo-Saxon lodges at any rate , whatever individual cases may be alleged in other constitutions , and as regards the Hebrews , they are a peaceful , loyal , orderly community ,
conservative ( not in a political sense ) of layv and public tranquillity , and opposed to revolution and anarchy . The most mournful part of this picture of Roman Catholic truth and toleration is , that in this year of light and grace , a large portion of our fellow creatures seem to be doing all they
possibly can by word and deed to revive the hateful intolerance of dead generations , and to malign , to irritate , to excommunicate , and burn their brother men . Let us wish them one and all kindlier sympathies , a more tolerant religion , and better hearts , as well as a happier realization of the abstract importance of truth .
Public Health Congress At Brussels In 1876.
PUBLIC HEALTH CONGRESS AT BRUSSELS IN 1876 .
Our attention has been called by Bro . Major Burgess to an International Exhibition , and Congress of Public Health and the means of preserving life , to be held in Brussels , in 1876 . As many of our readers may be interested in the matter , we thank Bro . Major Burgess for calling
our attention to so important a gathering , and we publish the General Regulations for British Exhibitors this week , while next week we propose to give the "Classification " of articles to be exhibited , as it may be useful to a considerable number of our friends and brethren . The
English circular thus commences . "A . Congress and International Exhibition of means , appliances , and instruments for saving life and preserving health will be held in Brussels in 1876 . The movement originated with the Royal Humane Society of Belgium ( Societe Royale des
Sauveteurs de Belgique ) , presided over by Lieutenant-General Renard , Aide-de-camp to the King of the Belgians . The necessary capital has been raised by subscription in Belgium . The cost of management , buildings , machinery , kc , is to be defrayed from the fund thus created
and all receipts on account of the Congress and Exhibition are to be credited to it . Detailed rules for the management of this philanthropic and eminently useful undertaking , and for its careful regulation on strictly commercial principles , have been promulgated with the
programme , which inaugurates a new and sound economical basis for such undertakings . The Congress and Exhibition are under the special patronage and protection of the -King of the Bel gians and of the City of Brussels , with his Royal Hi ghness the Count of Flanders as
Honorary President . The Croyvn Prince of Germany has accepted thc Honorary Presidency of the German Committfe . The Archdukes Charles Louis and Joseph are Honorary Presidents of the General Committees for Austria and Hungary , respectively and in France an
influential committee is now being formed . " The following are the eloquent words of the Bel gian Committee , whose address we feel bound to add does much credit to them . "The study and application of the principles of public health and safety , in their largest sense , have now become
of primary necessity from the accumulation of numbers in great centres and from the development of industry and commerce . Terrible fires have often destroyed large cities ; fatal collisions at sea and on land are frequent , and will become
more so with the advance of civilization and the transactions to which it gives rise . Mercantile fleets are multiplied , and with them the ship-Wrecks attendant upon every storm ; war is no longer waged by limited armies ; whole popula-
Public Health Congress At Brussels In 1876.
tions cover fields of battle , and in the presence of numberless calamities the means of affording aid is terribly inadequate ; industries increase incessantly among civilised nations , absorbing more and more the strength ofthe populations . Some occupations place the lives ofthe labourers
in constant peril , while others enfeeble the vital powers of those who pursue them . Society , then , has powerful inducements to provide against or mitigate these evils , and owes a dee p debt of gratitude to those devoted and disinterested individuals who , singly and in societies ,
make constant efforts to protect human life and to provide for the health and safety of the labouring classes and of the general public . It must be admitted that governments , public administrations , manufacturers , medical men , engineers , and philanthropists have already ' made
great efforts ; everywhere the solution of questions affecting the welfare of humanity has been diligently sought everyyvhere important works of surpassing interest exist , but such work , should not be confined to localities—they belong to the whole yvorld . Nations should communicate to each other their several discoveries . The
inventions of many eminent engineers and distinguished manufacturers for protecting the lives ofthe industrious , and ameliorating the conditions in which they live , should receive due recognition and publicity . To give but one example—Who can deny that , numerous as are
the casualties on railways , at sea , and in mines , spreading abroad mourning and misery , it would be a public relief to have publicly discussed by public men of all nations the modes of preventing or at least mitigating such disasters and the consideration of the means and appliances
intended to reach them ? In other words , to group together all that the charity and foresight of public bodies and private individuals have devised or effected to save and protect human life , and to assist those in danger and suffering . In the Great Exhibitions of London , Paris , and
Vienna , health and public safety were not overlooked , but the departments relating to them yvere scattered and lost in the splendour of the more attractive portions of those Exhibitions . Moreover , they received but little attention , from the want of explanation of their nature and use ,
and from the general indifference With which these matters have heretofore been treated . All this will be remedied in the Exhibition of 1876 , in which public attention will be concentrated on the one class of objects , and the means afforded of forming a correct judgment of what is
exhibited . The Congress will be divided into as many sections as there are classes . Committees appointed by the sections will make public trials of apparatus and processes exhibited , and every one will thus be able to see for himself the benefit , to be derived from them . " We think the
scheme a very praiseworthy one , and deserving of great support in this country , where we have so many thousands of our fellow creatures daily following avocations in which hurt to limb and danger to life are often incurred , either by carelessness or mismanagement , or the
uncontrollable accidents of a dangerous business . We wish it all success , as we always sympathize , as Freemasons especially , with every endeavour to ameliorate the condition , or lessen the sufferings , or preserve the life of our brethren of the dust . We think it right to add , that Mr . P . de Keyser ,
President of the Societe Beige de Bienfaisance , represents in this country the Central Committee at Brussels , and that brethren desirous of imformation or of taking part in the Congress will please to address Bro . Major Burgess , the
Honorary Secretary , afc the Mansion " House . Intending exhibitors , and others interested in the Exhibition , should communicate with Mr . Edmund Johnson , the Commissaire Delegue , at 3 , Castle-street , Holborn .
Archaeological Progress.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROGRESS .
One of the great stumbling-blocks in the way of Masonic Arch .-eological studies is , and has been , the " vexata quaestio " of the connexion ( if any ) between Freemasonry and the old
Knightl y Orders . Whenever the history of English Freemasonry is re-written , and it will have to be some day , this point will have to be alike fully discussed and deliberately decided . A t pre-
Archaeological Progress.
sent it is simply a great " debateable land , " on which Masonic Students may and do skirmish continuall y , on which they may even fight a good fight , but nothing comes of either , and we go back unconvinced to our favourite theories or individual prepossessions . It has been often
stated , for instance , that all the three great Knightly Orders , the Templars , the Hospitallers , and the Teutonic Knights , had a form of Masonic reception and symbolism , and an esoteric bond of union and of teaching . Bro . Findel
utterly denies the fact as regards the Teutonic Knights ; there seems to be the gravest doubts in respect of the Hospitallers : but it is alleged that there is some evidence as far as the Templars are concerned . Let us see then what is our
available and direct evidence . We think that there is plenty of evidence to prove that the Templars had a " secreta receptio" over and above their ordinary one , though what it was we have not yet sufficient data to decide . In the great enquiry at Paris , which began April nth ,
1 , 310 , it is no doubt admitted by many of the witnesses partially , and by some distinctly , that there was this "illicita receptio , " or secreta , after the chapter of reception was closed by the Preceptor , and that it was an innovation introduced from the East by the G . M ., Wm . de
Beaujeu , and that it was intended originally as a proof of devotion , as a test of courage . Ono witness , the isist , Antoine Sicci deVerceil , Notary , Apostolic and Imperial , not a member of the Order , makes a long statement to the commission . He declares that the Freemasons had
a " secret , which he terms " Honteux , " and that Guillaume de Beaujeu was " passant pour 1 ' auteur des invovations dans I ' ordre . " It is a little noteworthy perhaps that Jacques de Molai defended Beaujeu , though long dead , before this very commission , for being too friendly with Saladin .
We note this because some of us will recall Ramsay ' s original theory , that the Kni ghts Templar learned Freemasonry in the East , from the Eastern lodges then extant . The only witness out of 131 of anything like a Masonic ceremony is the 35 th witness , Tilley , a serving
brother . The French editor of these documents says ( translated ) , " He relates his reception with circumstances which resemble those of Freemasonry . " That is to say French Freemasonry , and of some of the foreign grades . "Repeated entreaties for admission , exhortation to reflect
warning as to the fatigues , privations , and dangers . Repeated sending back to solitary reflection . Summons three times . " But this is all . And though we have read carefully the proceedings in England , all that seems to be substantiated is , that the reception was at night , in the
chapel , and that none but Knights were present or near . There is no further evidence that we are aware of , of any Masonic ceremony , and yet we do not mean to say that none exists , or that the question is as yet absolutely decided , one way or the other . For it is just possible that
there was a connexion after all . ... The Knights Templar are said to have been " Patrons " of our Order , and as they were great builders , and found the guilds existing with their secret teaching and inner bond of union , so it is just possible that they did add a form of " secreta receptio "
to their original " rule , " which , innocent in its first idea , and harmless , became afterwards perverted to bad purposes . Not that we believe the allegations against theTemplars in their" hideous nakedness , " as some one has said ; we fancy that their principal crime was being rich , and
perhaps they owe somewhat of their fall to their pride and overbearing disposition latterly . Be this as it may , it is much more likely that the Templars took FYeemasonry from the guilds than that the guilds derived it from the Templars . We are then inclined to believe that there
was a connexion between the Templars and the Freemasons , though what it was has yet to be distinctly shewn . There is still an Order in Paris called " L'Ordre du Temple . " which professes to come down direct from Jacques de Molai , but whose historical reality is by no means clear . The so called Charter of
Larmenius , which no one has seen , is generally believed to be a " fraus pin , " and to be actuall y the creation of the last century . The evidences that we have seen of its genuineness and authenticity put . forward by the Order itself do not convince
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The American Roman Catholic Tablet.
intolerance , has never yet reached this point of absurdity . " We quite agree with them , but still we deem it well to bring this " elegant extract " before our readers , as it is needful that they should fairly realize what is the unchanged bitterness of Rome , alike in America as in Europe .
When the writer who penned the statement above gave it forth to his co-religionists , he knew that there was not one word of truth in his assertions , and his only object could be to inflame their feelings against their felloyv Christians and Hebreyv brethren . We in England or in America
knoyv that such a statement is absolutely false in every particular . Freemasonry has nothing to do with politics , in Anglo-Saxon lodges at any rate , whatever individual cases may be alleged in other constitutions , and as regards the Hebrews , they are a peaceful , loyal , orderly community ,
conservative ( not in a political sense ) of layv and public tranquillity , and opposed to revolution and anarchy . The most mournful part of this picture of Roman Catholic truth and toleration is , that in this year of light and grace , a large portion of our fellow creatures seem to be doing all they
possibly can by word and deed to revive the hateful intolerance of dead generations , and to malign , to irritate , to excommunicate , and burn their brother men . Let us wish them one and all kindlier sympathies , a more tolerant religion , and better hearts , as well as a happier realization of the abstract importance of truth .
Public Health Congress At Brussels In 1876.
PUBLIC HEALTH CONGRESS AT BRUSSELS IN 1876 .
Our attention has been called by Bro . Major Burgess to an International Exhibition , and Congress of Public Health and the means of preserving life , to be held in Brussels , in 1876 . As many of our readers may be interested in the matter , we thank Bro . Major Burgess for calling
our attention to so important a gathering , and we publish the General Regulations for British Exhibitors this week , while next week we propose to give the "Classification " of articles to be exhibited , as it may be useful to a considerable number of our friends and brethren . The
English circular thus commences . "A . Congress and International Exhibition of means , appliances , and instruments for saving life and preserving health will be held in Brussels in 1876 . The movement originated with the Royal Humane Society of Belgium ( Societe Royale des
Sauveteurs de Belgique ) , presided over by Lieutenant-General Renard , Aide-de-camp to the King of the Belgians . The necessary capital has been raised by subscription in Belgium . The cost of management , buildings , machinery , kc , is to be defrayed from the fund thus created
and all receipts on account of the Congress and Exhibition are to be credited to it . Detailed rules for the management of this philanthropic and eminently useful undertaking , and for its careful regulation on strictly commercial principles , have been promulgated with the
programme , which inaugurates a new and sound economical basis for such undertakings . The Congress and Exhibition are under the special patronage and protection of the -King of the Bel gians and of the City of Brussels , with his Royal Hi ghness the Count of Flanders as
Honorary President . The Croyvn Prince of Germany has accepted thc Honorary Presidency of the German Committfe . The Archdukes Charles Louis and Joseph are Honorary Presidents of the General Committees for Austria and Hungary , respectively and in France an
influential committee is now being formed . " The following are the eloquent words of the Bel gian Committee , whose address we feel bound to add does much credit to them . "The study and application of the principles of public health and safety , in their largest sense , have now become
of primary necessity from the accumulation of numbers in great centres and from the development of industry and commerce . Terrible fires have often destroyed large cities ; fatal collisions at sea and on land are frequent , and will become
more so with the advance of civilization and the transactions to which it gives rise . Mercantile fleets are multiplied , and with them the ship-Wrecks attendant upon every storm ; war is no longer waged by limited armies ; whole popula-
Public Health Congress At Brussels In 1876.
tions cover fields of battle , and in the presence of numberless calamities the means of affording aid is terribly inadequate ; industries increase incessantly among civilised nations , absorbing more and more the strength ofthe populations . Some occupations place the lives ofthe labourers
in constant peril , while others enfeeble the vital powers of those who pursue them . Society , then , has powerful inducements to provide against or mitigate these evils , and owes a dee p debt of gratitude to those devoted and disinterested individuals who , singly and in societies ,
make constant efforts to protect human life and to provide for the health and safety of the labouring classes and of the general public . It must be admitted that governments , public administrations , manufacturers , medical men , engineers , and philanthropists have already ' made
great efforts ; everywhere the solution of questions affecting the welfare of humanity has been diligently sought everyyvhere important works of surpassing interest exist , but such work , should not be confined to localities—they belong to the whole yvorld . Nations should communicate to each other their several discoveries . The
inventions of many eminent engineers and distinguished manufacturers for protecting the lives ofthe industrious , and ameliorating the conditions in which they live , should receive due recognition and publicity . To give but one example—Who can deny that , numerous as are
the casualties on railways , at sea , and in mines , spreading abroad mourning and misery , it would be a public relief to have publicly discussed by public men of all nations the modes of preventing or at least mitigating such disasters and the consideration of the means and appliances
intended to reach them ? In other words , to group together all that the charity and foresight of public bodies and private individuals have devised or effected to save and protect human life , and to assist those in danger and suffering . In the Great Exhibitions of London , Paris , and
Vienna , health and public safety were not overlooked , but the departments relating to them yvere scattered and lost in the splendour of the more attractive portions of those Exhibitions . Moreover , they received but little attention , from the want of explanation of their nature and use ,
and from the general indifference With which these matters have heretofore been treated . All this will be remedied in the Exhibition of 1876 , in which public attention will be concentrated on the one class of objects , and the means afforded of forming a correct judgment of what is
exhibited . The Congress will be divided into as many sections as there are classes . Committees appointed by the sections will make public trials of apparatus and processes exhibited , and every one will thus be able to see for himself the benefit , to be derived from them . " We think the
scheme a very praiseworthy one , and deserving of great support in this country , where we have so many thousands of our fellow creatures daily following avocations in which hurt to limb and danger to life are often incurred , either by carelessness or mismanagement , or the
uncontrollable accidents of a dangerous business . We wish it all success , as we always sympathize , as Freemasons especially , with every endeavour to ameliorate the condition , or lessen the sufferings , or preserve the life of our brethren of the dust . We think it right to add , that Mr . P . de Keyser ,
President of the Societe Beige de Bienfaisance , represents in this country the Central Committee at Brussels , and that brethren desirous of imformation or of taking part in the Congress will please to address Bro . Major Burgess , the
Honorary Secretary , afc the Mansion " House . Intending exhibitors , and others interested in the Exhibition , should communicate with Mr . Edmund Johnson , the Commissaire Delegue , at 3 , Castle-street , Holborn .
Archaeological Progress.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROGRESS .
One of the great stumbling-blocks in the way of Masonic Arch .-eological studies is , and has been , the " vexata quaestio " of the connexion ( if any ) between Freemasonry and the old
Knightl y Orders . Whenever the history of English Freemasonry is re-written , and it will have to be some day , this point will have to be alike fully discussed and deliberately decided . A t pre-
Archaeological Progress.
sent it is simply a great " debateable land , " on which Masonic Students may and do skirmish continuall y , on which they may even fight a good fight , but nothing comes of either , and we go back unconvinced to our favourite theories or individual prepossessions . It has been often
stated , for instance , that all the three great Knightly Orders , the Templars , the Hospitallers , and the Teutonic Knights , had a form of Masonic reception and symbolism , and an esoteric bond of union and of teaching . Bro . Findel
utterly denies the fact as regards the Teutonic Knights ; there seems to be the gravest doubts in respect of the Hospitallers : but it is alleged that there is some evidence as far as the Templars are concerned . Let us see then what is our
available and direct evidence . We think that there is plenty of evidence to prove that the Templars had a " secreta receptio" over and above their ordinary one , though what it was we have not yet sufficient data to decide . In the great enquiry at Paris , which began April nth ,
1 , 310 , it is no doubt admitted by many of the witnesses partially , and by some distinctly , that there was this "illicita receptio , " or secreta , after the chapter of reception was closed by the Preceptor , and that it was an innovation introduced from the East by the G . M ., Wm . de
Beaujeu , and that it was intended originally as a proof of devotion , as a test of courage . Ono witness , the isist , Antoine Sicci deVerceil , Notary , Apostolic and Imperial , not a member of the Order , makes a long statement to the commission . He declares that the Freemasons had
a " secret , which he terms " Honteux , " and that Guillaume de Beaujeu was " passant pour 1 ' auteur des invovations dans I ' ordre . " It is a little noteworthy perhaps that Jacques de Molai defended Beaujeu , though long dead , before this very commission , for being too friendly with Saladin .
We note this because some of us will recall Ramsay ' s original theory , that the Kni ghts Templar learned Freemasonry in the East , from the Eastern lodges then extant . The only witness out of 131 of anything like a Masonic ceremony is the 35 th witness , Tilley , a serving
brother . The French editor of these documents says ( translated ) , " He relates his reception with circumstances which resemble those of Freemasonry . " That is to say French Freemasonry , and of some of the foreign grades . "Repeated entreaties for admission , exhortation to reflect
warning as to the fatigues , privations , and dangers . Repeated sending back to solitary reflection . Summons three times . " But this is all . And though we have read carefully the proceedings in England , all that seems to be substantiated is , that the reception was at night , in the
chapel , and that none but Knights were present or near . There is no further evidence that we are aware of , of any Masonic ceremony , and yet we do not mean to say that none exists , or that the question is as yet absolutely decided , one way or the other . For it is just possible that
there was a connexion after all . ... The Knights Templar are said to have been " Patrons " of our Order , and as they were great builders , and found the guilds existing with their secret teaching and inner bond of union , so it is just possible that they did add a form of " secreta receptio "
to their original " rule , " which , innocent in its first idea , and harmless , became afterwards perverted to bad purposes . Not that we believe the allegations against theTemplars in their" hideous nakedness , " as some one has said ; we fancy that their principal crime was being rich , and
perhaps they owe somewhat of their fall to their pride and overbearing disposition latterly . Be this as it may , it is much more likely that the Templars took FYeemasonry from the guilds than that the guilds derived it from the Templars . We are then inclined to believe that there
was a connexion between the Templars and the Freemasons , though what it was has yet to be distinctly shewn . There is still an Order in Paris called " L'Ordre du Temple . " which professes to come down direct from Jacques de Molai , but whose historical reality is by no means clear . The so called Charter of
Larmenius , which no one has seen , is generally believed to be a " fraus pin , " and to be actuall y the creation of the last century . The evidences that we have seen of its genuineness and authenticity put . forward by the Order itself do not convince