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The Freemason

THE FREEMASON

SATURDAY , J ANUARY 26 , 1884 . » © riflinal Comspoirtience ,

[ Wc do not hold enriches responsible for , or even approving of , theopinionsexprcsscdhy ourcorrespondents , but wesvlshtnaaplrit of fair play to all to permit—svithin certain necessary limits—free discussion ] ¦

THE ELECTION OF GRAND TREASURER . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , I venture to think that the circular , or "pronunciamiento , " of Grand Ofliccrs and others on the subject of the forthcoming election of Grand Treasurer svill "invoke " somcthinr / more than thc " oerusal " vou editorially claim

for it . The first " attention " it svill " command" svill be that of regret to see any number of brethren call upon another , as the signers call upon Bro . Allcroft , to forego and throsv on one side an honourable understanding , and I fear that it will " invoke " no little indignation to see the champ ion of yearly election of the onl y office Grand Lodge has it in its posver to bestosv , by election , calmly resign himself

to the position of a permanent holder of the ollice . That there svas the " understanding " of yearly election to the ofiice betsveen the present Grand Treasurer and his electors cannot , I think , be denied . If thc election had been one betsveen Uro . Allcroft and Bro . Creaton there svould have been no doubt as to the result . Who svould have thought of comparing Bro . Allcroft ' s services in the

Craft to Bro . Creaton ' s ? Why , in the question of services to the Craft Bro . Creaton svas first and his last year ' s opponent svas nosvherc ! It svas said that Bro . Allcroft had been a Mason for 40 years ; but during that 40 years hc had been absolutely out of the Craft , almost as much as if he had never belonged to it . If it had not been that the brethren svero asserting a principle , and argued , as it is svell

knosvn they did , that Bro . Col . Creaton svould receive no svrong by the position being passed on , year by year , to those svhom the Craft generally might feel disposed to honour , Bro . Allcroft svould never have displaced thc svorth y Past Grand Treasurer , and it must . be regarded as a slight

to Bro . Creaton , after his splendid services to the Craft , that hc should have losce it proposed , by some Grand Officers , too (!) ,- that his displacement should have been , not , as they told him last year , on a matter of principle , but merely to make svay for one svho svas almost unknosvn in the Craft , and had certainl y of his osvn services not achieved thc honour to svhich lie svas elected .

The Freemason

The circular speaks of the "concern" svith svhich its signers have heard of the proposal to elect a Treasurer every year , as if the matter svas entirely nesv to them , and I am sure that the vast number of uncircularising brethren svill also have "concern" at seeing thc readiness svith svhich some of the rulers in the Craft svill assist in overthrosving an understanding made with the great body of thc electors , country as svell as London , in Grand Lodge

assembled . And here it must be remarked that the circular , svhile " deprecating any splitting up of thc Craft , " svith a lack of frankness , to say the least , endeavours to set the tosvn and country brethren by the ears svith the insinuation that the proposal is one made by " some London brethren . " If this is a specimen of the desire of thc circulariscrs to maintain peace and harmony , it is to be regretted that their spokesman did not svrite in the unknosvn

tongue , for the assertion svould be likely to cause misunderstanding , if the object of it svere dim . The brother svho is proposed for election to the office of Grand Treasurer , Bro . Horace Marshall , is one of svhom many can speak in clear and distinct terms . I have not the honour of that brother ' s acquaintance , and in the svhole course of my life I has'e only seen him ttvice , and that out of the Craft , so that my advocacy of his election is not

dictated by private friendship . This I can say of him , that he svas a Mason in his heart long before he svas initiated , for his heart svas ever open to the calls of charity . His anssver to the calls of charity svere not made , as , alas ! too many are made , for purposes of ostentation ; but they ss * cre made in pure benevolence . Immediately he sasv Masonic light the Masonic Charities benefited to an extent , in his osvn name , and in the name

of his family , so greatly as to be princely , and this , too , being done spontaneously . I knosv of cases ( unpublished in any svay ) in svhich he has been appealed to by svell-crcditea persons svhom hc never sasv , on behalf of the svidosv or orphan , or both , and he has sent them rejoicing asvay . No question of "London" or " country" has stood in thc svay . Last year an appeal svas made to him on behalf of a Kentish brother ' s boy svhom thc county of

Kent could not carry in , and he , svithout even knosving those svho appealed to him , and only taking the case on its merits , paid at once £ 1 . 50 for votes , in addition to large sums lie had already paid , and in all did ten times thc benevolence tosvards a Kentish brother ' s svidosv and orphan than thc svhole county did I and this svas a case svhich thc Provincial Grand Lodge had voted to support . Bro . Horace Marshall has never sought thc ofiice at the hands of the Craft ; but on thc score of svork in thc Craft it svill

be seen that svhatever number of ycars others have scrs-ed , he at least has been a faithful svorkcr in a direction svhich all thc brethren can appreciate , and his position as a donor to thc Craft Charities svill bear comparison svith svhat even some counties have given . A remark has been made in the circular about Bro . Allcrolt being a " man ot good means and position . " The brother svho svill be proposed to succeed this brother in thc position of Grand Treasurer svill , in this respect , do honour to the purple , so that the signers of the circular need have no "concern " on that

score . Apologising , dear sir and brother , for having been tempted , like the circulariscrs , beyond the length of my cable , I am , yours faithfully and fraternally , IOHN WHILE , P . M . and P . Z . 22 S .

THE GRAND MASTERS LODGE , No . 1 . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , Thc distinguished lodge above-named requires no poor svords of mine to enhance its credit , or commend its services to Masonry . Its prestige is well known , and those svorthy brethren svho form part of it are alike svarmly regarded and sincerely appreciated by thc Craft . What I svrite

I svrite therefore simply as an antiquary to an antiquarian audience . In thc Times of Monday last appeared a paragraph saying among other things that thc Grand Masters Lodge svas called the Grand . Masters Lodge "for other antiquarian reasons . " Strictly speaking , thc Grand Masters Lodge is No . 1 by an accident . At the Union lots svere drasvn for precedence , and thc Antients svinning , their leading lodge became No . 1 , the oldest lodge of all , nosv Antiquity , No . 2 , formerly

Antiquity , No . 1 , taking second place on thc United List . As compared historically to No . 2 and others , No . 1 is a comparatively modern lodge . 'The Lodge of Antiquity , No . 2 , is , in one sense , thc oldest lodge in the svorld , and mother really of all lodges . Thc only lodge that can possibly compete with it is a lodge probably at York , " —from 1 CS 6 to 1 C 90 . Thanks to the labours of many distinguished Masonic students , and to one of the youngest

of them—Bro . Rylands—thc existence of a seventeenth century Freemasonry is nosv placed beyond a doubt . We have traces of a lodge at Warrington , in Chester , in Staffordshire , in London , York , at Ssvalsvcll , and Alnwick , and thc history of that most interesting period has yet to be " dug up and developed . Unfortunately so far no earlier evidences exist in London ( as far as is yet ascertained ) before 1722 , and sve arc thus

far completely ignorant of the actual tacts ot the revival in 1717 , beyond the bare bald statement of Anderson , svho has been entirely follosved by Preston , and from svhom all subsequent writers have taken their cue . But is seems to thc svriter of this letter that tss * o sources of information as regards 1717 svere formerly extant , both of svhich arc nosv apparently not forthcoming , namely , that svhich Anderson used , ( and svhich is not at Freemasons' Hall ) , and that svhich svas paraphrased by the unknosvn author of

" Multa Paucis . It may be svell before 1 finish this letter to put these tsvo accounts side by side , so to say . Anderson states that four lodges assembled , and some old brethren met together and revived Grand Lodge . The author of " Multa Paucis " says six lodges . Which is right ? For this , and other reasons , a fresh search ought to be made in all lodge chests and thc like , as it is more than probable that older documents than any yet knosvn by us still exist in some " safe depository . " —Fraternally yours , ANTIQUARY .

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Reviews.

REVIEWS .

A LEXICON OF FREEMASONRY . By ALBERT MACKEY . Seventh edition , revised . With an Appendix compiled b y Bro . M . C . PECK , P . M ., P . Z . 1 his republication of Mackey ' s original Lexicon seems to us a slight anomaly in the history and interests of Masonic arch-cology , inasmuch as it is a reproduction of an admittedly inchoate and incomplete svork , though good in its svay and useful at the time it svas first published . It

has in fact been completely superseded by Mackey ' s " Magnum Opus , " and sve do not quite sec the object , the "raison de etre , " of the present publication , hosvever svell done or ably edited . The editor states that the appendix is brought up to date , but as sve note the name of Molart perpetuated svhen Molash is the real name , sve cannot quite agree svith the svorth y editor that this is so . As regards "Broached Thurnel , " hosvever ingenious the

suggested explanation , it is in our humble opinion neither correct or tenable . Had there been in the tracing board in Clavel a rough nnd smooth ashlar , and a third nondescript figure , sve might have been ready to concede that there svas something in Mackey ' s hypothesis . But that is not so . It is clear , svhatever thc said figure is intended to be , it is in antithesis to the rough , and sve are inclined to think that Mackey svas right in his original

viesy of the smooth and perfect ashlar . At the same time , as is said in " Kcnning ' s Cyclopaedia , " the matter is not svithout difficulty . The figure in Clavel , svhose illustrations are not at all reliable by the svay , looks like a perfect ashlar into svhich a handle of some kind is let in . We can , even with the aid of a magnifying glass , discover no traces of a spired turret ; more perfectly described it svould seem to be a svorked piece of stone svith a cap of wood or metal and

a handle . It may bcacovered "Lesvis . " Mackey has taken this second explanation , contrary to his first , from Parker , but it is odd that Parker in his small glossary leaves out the svord"Thurnel" altogether , as an ingenious friend of ours remarks . 'I he svord broach , brooch , abroach , has several meanings , the principal one being a spit . To boach is to tap . Thurnel may be a corruption of Tournclle , as Tournclle is undoubtedly a turret , but of

a turretted spire or spit sve can ( ind no trace . Parker mentions that thc term to " broach " seems to be also used in old building accounts , perhaps for cutting the stones in thc form of " Voussoirs . " The " Voussoirs " arc thc wedgeshaped stones of svhich an arch is constituted , " the centre one being called thc keystone . On the whole , sve du not sec that anything has been advanced to shake the explanation , though perhaps still it is not not quite clear , lhat

the Uruaclicd 1 hurncl svas a term for svhat sve call the perfect , or smooth , ashlar , unless that it had a covering to it , pointed and fitting to it closely , so as to be lilted byahandleorconcealcdlesvisorcramp . Eventhen sve hardly see hosv the apprentices svere to learn to svork upon it . We cannot concur cither with the remarks on "Tests , " as these catechisms rest on thc authority of Oliver , and Oliver cannot be relied on . For example , his great mistake in respect of

those who took an active part in the revival of 1717 , and svho were only those svho svere present at the initiation of the Prince of VVales many years later , and sonic of svhom svere probably not Masons in 1717 , shows hosv svith him thc "svish is father to thc thought , " and on what " sheep-walking " our Masonic assertions lor thc most part rest . All these varieties of socalled tests and catechisms are taken , moreover , from thc "Grand Mystcry /' andsimilarcatcchetical forms , while

sve knosv of no authority since Oliver ' s for giving thc names of Wren , Anderson , Clare , & c , to such assumed changes . 'I here is no authoritative evidence available until sve come to the time of Preston , and as Oliver is careful not to give us his authority , it is impossible to accept any such statements off-hand as historicall y correct . The remarkthc able Sloane MS ., no doubt , snows us that even in the

seventeenth century probably some such catechetical forms sverc in existence ; but sve must be careful about receiving as real andrcliablethcdogmaticdcclarationsof Oliver , svhicfi rest more on his osvn subjective sense of the eternal fitness of things than on anything else . As an example of his method he takes thc Grand Mystery of 1723 , and declares it to be Wren ' s Catechism of 16 G 3 . " Ex hoc discc omvia . "

THOUGHTS ON Till * : THRESHOLD . By CHARLES WM . DUNCAN , 1 SS 3 . Chester : Edsvard Thomas , Pepper-street . This is an extremel y thoughtful and svell written pamphlet , and a very able andintercstingcommunication by a brother Masonic student . It deserves careful perusal and serious thought , and as sve do not in this column affect on any occasion to speak thc mere svords of childish compliment ,

or idle adulation , sve are glad at the outset to express our humble opinion of thc extreme ability svhich marks it from first to last . And sve do so svith greater satisfaction and more readiness , because sve do not agree with all the conclusions of the svriter . Wc , think for instance , he has " shaved too close to the svind " as regards the mysteries . Oliver sasv and felt the difficulty svhen dealing svith that classical viesv of svhich Hutchinson may be said to be

thc sponsor . Hc invented the term of thc spurious and real mysteries , a hopeless svay of settling an unovcrcomcablc " Crux . " The mysteries no doubt originally retained the " Prim : cva Religio , " but being corrupted as ages run on , can only be safely considered in the history of Freemasonry as containing a portion of common truth , alsvays overlaid , often misunderstood . We admit thediffculty of connecting Roman Collegia svith Grecian "Suminoria-, " svith Tyrian

and Jesvisli sodalities , and tliep again svitn tne " ftlagistn Comacenscs , " and still further svith the earliest Christian Guilds of svhich Hope speaks so confidently . Here is the real dilemma of the true , Guild theory , svhich , attractive and no doubt realistic , can hardly nosv be accepted as the only explanation of the perpetuation and preservation of Masonry . Accordingl y Bro . Duncan reproduces a 'lemplar theory of his osvn , svhich sve fear must go the svay of other

Templar theories . At the same time sve make this remark sve clearly admit the possibility of a "secreta receptio " more or less Masonic among the Templars , and sve think it not at all improbable that they attached Guilds of Masons to their Preceptories , and gave them a secret organization and mystic teaching . But any idea that the Templars " qua" Templars after their suppression kept up Templary must be given un as simple " Muthos . " Thc norther *