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The Quebec Question.
Grand Lodge . The Grand Lodge of Quebec is formed , a " swarm " from the Grand Ltdge of Canada , and straightway proclaims a repudiation ofthe original " Concordat " as between the Grand Lodge of England and the Grand Lodge of Canada , as well as with the Grand Lodge of
Scotland . It is not pretended that the Grand Lodge of Scotland took any steps or intended to do so , until thus " challenged " by the Grand Lodge of Quebec , about whose actual legality , a good deal might be said , if it was worth while . It i » quite clear that the Grand Lodge of Quebec
had nothing to do with these lodges , and we doubt if any American Grand Lodge will assert , in express words , that where a lodge previously chartered declines to give up its original constituting Grand Lodge , it is to be compelled to do so , or be excommunicated
for not doing so . There may be some " post hoc propter hoc" decision of some one American Grand Lodge on this delicate point , but we will not believe , till we see it in black and white , that all the American Grand Lodges hold the same views , or have propounded that to be law ,
which is against all known Masonic law , right , and precedent on the subject . We are quite clear that , as regards the English and Scottish , and , we believe , Irish Lodges , the Grand Lodge of Quebec is in the wrong . With respect to the Provincial Grand Mastership , & c , lately
appointed by Scotland ; in all probability the Grand Lodge of Scotland will not care to proceed with the matter . In our opinion it is reall y not worth while . If the Grand Lodge of Quebec will not be reasonable , either as regards the Grand Lodge of Scotland , or the Grand Lodge of England , tbe
best way is to close all communication , as we venture to think that both the Grand Lodges of England and Scotland will survive vapid decla .-mation , or " stumping"' accusations . We are struck with the tone of some of the Quebec brethren , which is neither to our taste , nor very
kindly , nor very Masonic , but then we are . old fashioned Masons , with strong opinions , perhaps , on men and things . Ouresteemed contemporary , the New York Dispatch , will be amused to find what a " Sermon " we have written on the "text" he so courteously and ably supplied .
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THE BOYS' AND GIRLS' SCHOOLS VOTING PAPERS .
It is instructive and interesting in the highest degree to note how great is the importance of our two valuable Schools , for the various and contrasted classes of society which now eagerly avail themselves , year by year , of their great , nay their remarkable benefits . We have put together
a sort of classification of such classes or divisions , though owing to the abstract difficulty ofthe classification itself , we are not quite prepared to say Uhat our concrete statement is the most correct , ofcthe best that could be made . It will give our readers , however , we think , an approximate idea
of the facts ofthe case and the relevancy of our remarks . In the Girls' School voting paper , with its" twenty-nine cases , two represent the professional element , a surgeon and an engineer j there are two officials , a Superintendent of the Board of Trade , and a government clerk . There are
four merchants , ( so-called ) , an iron merchant , a wool merchant , a plush merchant , and a wine merchant , while we have also a contractor , a warehouseman , a brewer , a newspaper proprietor , and an accountant . Of trades we have a jeweller , a bookseller , a chemist , a house decorator ,
and an auctioneer . We have also a sergeant in the Royal Artillery , a traveller , a nurseryman and farmer , a post - master , two clerks , a brewer ' s foreman , and a yeoman . Thus , if we divide this list into a broader classification of pure professional element and pure
trade qualification , we find that the former is represented by seven , the latter by twenty-two cases . Such a fact speaks volumes for the middle-class importance and need ofthe school . In the boys' voting paper , of sixty-seven cases , ( though one , if not two , are out ) , of professions
we have thirteen , a dentist , two marine engineers , a teacher of music , a professor of music , two surgeons , an artist , three schoolmasters , an architect , a lecturer to a mechanics' institution . Of the official element , we find two superintendents of police , a lailway superintendent , an
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inspector of dock police , and a clerk of the works , Royal Engineers , and a sergeant of artillery . Of trades we have , two maltsters , a draper , a stationer , a sailmaker , a brewer , two hotel keepers , two jewellers , two grocers , a hay and corn merchant , a chemist and druggist
a plumber , an ivory turner , a sailmaker and ship chandler , an oilman , a drysalter , a tallow chandler , a publisher , two builders , an ecclesiastical glazier , and a bill broker . We have also a contractor , a merchant , a planter , four commercial travellers , and one licensed
victualler , a satisfactory reply to the childish allegations sometimes recklessly made , that the licensed victuallers profit more by our schools than any other class . In addition , in this list , we find also five clerks , a cashier , two farmers , and one farm steward ,- we have also a brass founder , a mercantile agent , a commission agent , a cashier , and
overseer ofa mill , a clerk and steward . Thus nineteen may be said to represent the professional and official elements , and forty-eight relate to the trading class . Such statistics demonstrate most convincingly the essential middle class character of our schools on the whole , though we have to deal with other classes , andoften greatly contrasted as well .
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
[ We do not liolel ourselves responsible for , or even approving of , the opinions expressed by our correspondents , but we wish in a spine of fair play to all , to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . " !
CANVASSING FOR VOTES AT MASONIC ELECTIONS . To the Editor ofthe " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — I wish to call attention to a great nuisance and evil going on amongst us just now , I mean the begging anil borrowing of votes by some woithy brethren who
have cases which they seek to carry . I think that a very vicious system of individual I . O . U ' s . for votes is going on , whicli is productive of great jobbery , and may lead to great abuse . I quite recognise thc propriety of a Charity Committee of a province , or an association acting officially , openly ,
and above board , m legitimate interchange of votes , but my experience of this individual " touting" is certainly as bad as bad can be . Can nothing be done to check it ? And is not the remedy to be found , for instance , in the London Masonic Charity Association ? Yours fraternallv , 13 . O . X .
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . To Me Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir antl Brother , — I see that you have called attention to the withdrawal of Henry Ncwboult Irom the list of candidates . There is also another candidate ineligible for election , No . 43 , Henry Webb , born IOth September , 1867 , therefore ,
will be one month over the orhtial age , 11 , for election . This will reduce the number of candidates to sixty-five . I wuld take this opportunity that as the London Masonic Charity Association have taken up the cases of Ethel Stone and Emma Eliza Williams , of thc Girls' School ; and C . W . Green , T . C . Watkins , and A . C . Balcombe , in the first place ; F . A . Gills , R . N . Nicholls , and C . F . Frost , in
the second place , among the boys , it behoves the lodges and friends of the above cases to assist the Association with every vote they can individually get , and not slacken in their zealous tffoits for the good work they have taken in hand . 1 would doubly impress this now , as the Association is very young , antl , consequently , has not as many votes at its disposal as it eventually must have in the future . I have spoken to several brethren , who say that this
charily movement is much wanted , but they are afraid it will not answer , or , they will wait and see how it answers before they will join . Why , sir , you might as well stand by and look on some unfortunate creature drowning , who , by a little trouble , you mig ht have saved , and fay , " Oh 1 poor fellow , I am afraid he will be drowned , but I will wait and see whether he can save himself , " and you never put a finger out to save him . Yours fraternally , C . J . PERCEVAL .
WHO ARE CONSECRATING OFFICERS ? To the Edilirr of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — This is a question often askid nowadays by inquisitive brethren . Will you kindly resolve our doubts and difficulties ?
Yours fraternally , NEOPHYTE , [ Strictly speaking , thtre is but one Consecrating Officer , the brother deputed by the G . M ., or the G . M ., or the Deputy G . M . in person . By courtesy and custom , however , the Chaplain and the two Wardens are considered Assistant Consecrating Officers . —ED . F . M . ]
ORIGINAL RESEARCH . To the Editor if the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother . In reply lo your note enquiiing when " Original Research " will be published , I beg to say that the time is very uncertain , and will greatly depend on the number of subscribers obtained to the prospectus in London and
Original Correspondence.
elsewhere . From the time of Bro . Melville ' s death , now about five years' ago , I have been , and am still , more or less , engaged analysing and reconstructing his work . My chief object in so doing i ? , to show that Divinitarianism is the true religious substitute for Catholicism—Romish and Anglican . The change is looming in the horizon , and come it will—inevitably .
In fact , so much of a Divinitarian am I , that I do not consider myself justified in participating in the ceremonies of sectarian churches or chapels , as such participation would be a practical denial of my astro-Masonic or Divinitarian faith . True toleration is a virtue , but there is a vital difference between toleration and participation . There should be no compromise .
I have just sent , at the request of an Edinburgh firm of booksellers , two or three extracts from " Original Research " for publication , to awaken the " gude folks " there to the truth . As you may think this letter worth publishing I have headed it " Original Research . " Fraternally yours , WM . N . CRAWFORD .
A LETTER OF INQUIRY . To the Editor if the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — Can any American brother give us any information about a Bro . J . F . Harma , of Keystone Lodge , 285 ,
New York . ' He claims to be a Royal Arch Mason , of seventeen yeats' standing , and to be in dire distress , and still a subscribing member cf his lodge . English brethren are always glad to relieve genuine distress , but they also like to be certain that their relief is properly bestowed . Yours fraternally , AMICUS .
WAS THE LATE POPE A FREEMASON ? To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — In your last week ' s issue you stated in an editor ' va * i note , to a correspondent , that the late Pope was not a Freemason , and that all the accounts contrary to that statement were apocryphal . The Rev . Dr . Benjamin
Artom , the respected Chief Rabbi of the united congregations of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the British Empire , was the W . M . of a lodge in Naples , and he related most succinctly to mc , some time since , the fact of the late Pope having been a Mason , and the steps that were taken by all the Italian lodges when they were excommunicated by his authority . After reading your
remarks upon this matter , I wrote to tbe Rev . Doctor , and beg herewith to hand you his reply received to-day . He says , " I have no written records of what I related to you at Manchester ; consequently , I cannot furnish you with the date you desire . I positively state , however , that when the late Pope-, in 18 S 3 or 18 C 4 , excommunicated
Freemasonry , much indignation was felt by the Masons , especially at Naples , in consequence of the fact , that he had cursed an institution to which he had belonged , and to which he had promised fidelity . " This extract needs no comment on my part , and trusting you will insert this in your next , I am , dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally .
ri . DAVIS MARKS , J . W . Israel , 1502 . [ We repeat the statement again to-day distinctly . Pius the IX . was not a Freemason . All these statements have been examined over and over again , and they have been found to be utterly unreliable , as Bro . Findel says , in the
Bauhntle , they are all " humbug . " I he late I ope was said to have been initiated at Naples , in Sicily , the United States , at Havannah , in South America , at Madritl , and in France , as a French cavalry officer , ( which is the last place ) . As we have often said before , though probably enough , a Carbonari in his " hot youth , " he was not a Freemason . —En . F . M . ]
THE LOSS OFTHE "PRINCESS ALICE . " To lhe Editor of thc " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Biother . — In reference to the letter of Bro . W . S . Daniel in your last impression of this date , I am instructed by the proprietor of the Surrey Masonic Hall to state that he will be happy to assist such brethren as may desire to augment
the fund now being raised on behalf ot the sufferers by the late disaster on the Thames , by placing at their disposal the use of the hall , gratuitously , for a concert , or other public entertainment , on the first evening for which engagement has not yet been made . With the exception of an early date in October the hall is fully engaged up to the first week in November ; but as there will certainly be a continued necessity for adding to
the Mansion House Fund for many weeks to come , it may not then be too late for the contemplated purpose * , and meanwhile such arrangements could be made , both in respect of obtaining talent and public support , as woultl secure a successful result . Yours fraternally , JAMES STEVENS , Manager . Surrey MasonicHall , Sept . 21 st ,, 1878 .
RELIEF AND CHARITY . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — Allow me to say a few wcrds , in answer to your article of the 31 st of August , wilh regard to that of our greatest principles , relief , and chaiity . Relief is the text
of our profession , to relieve the distressed is a duty incumbent on all men , but more particularly among Masons , who are linked together in one indissoluble chain of sincere affection , to soothe the unhappy , to sympathise with the misfortunes , and to compassionate with the miseries , antl at the same time to restore peace to thc troubled minds of our brethren , that is the grand aim we have in view , and
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The Quebec Question.
Grand Lodge . The Grand Lodge of Quebec is formed , a " swarm " from the Grand Ltdge of Canada , and straightway proclaims a repudiation ofthe original " Concordat " as between the Grand Lodge of England and the Grand Lodge of Canada , as well as with the Grand Lodge of
Scotland . It is not pretended that the Grand Lodge of Scotland took any steps or intended to do so , until thus " challenged " by the Grand Lodge of Quebec , about whose actual legality , a good deal might be said , if it was worth while . It i » quite clear that the Grand Lodge of Quebec
had nothing to do with these lodges , and we doubt if any American Grand Lodge will assert , in express words , that where a lodge previously chartered declines to give up its original constituting Grand Lodge , it is to be compelled to do so , or be excommunicated
for not doing so . There may be some " post hoc propter hoc" decision of some one American Grand Lodge on this delicate point , but we will not believe , till we see it in black and white , that all the American Grand Lodges hold the same views , or have propounded that to be law ,
which is against all known Masonic law , right , and precedent on the subject . We are quite clear that , as regards the English and Scottish , and , we believe , Irish Lodges , the Grand Lodge of Quebec is in the wrong . With respect to the Provincial Grand Mastership , & c , lately
appointed by Scotland ; in all probability the Grand Lodge of Scotland will not care to proceed with the matter . In our opinion it is reall y not worth while . If the Grand Lodge of Quebec will not be reasonable , either as regards the Grand Lodge of Scotland , or the Grand Lodge of England , tbe
best way is to close all communication , as we venture to think that both the Grand Lodges of England and Scotland will survive vapid decla .-mation , or " stumping"' accusations . We are struck with the tone of some of the Quebec brethren , which is neither to our taste , nor very
kindly , nor very Masonic , but then we are . old fashioned Masons , with strong opinions , perhaps , on men and things . Ouresteemed contemporary , the New York Dispatch , will be amused to find what a " Sermon " we have written on the "text" he so courteously and ably supplied .
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THE BOYS' AND GIRLS' SCHOOLS VOTING PAPERS .
It is instructive and interesting in the highest degree to note how great is the importance of our two valuable Schools , for the various and contrasted classes of society which now eagerly avail themselves , year by year , of their great , nay their remarkable benefits . We have put together
a sort of classification of such classes or divisions , though owing to the abstract difficulty ofthe classification itself , we are not quite prepared to say Uhat our concrete statement is the most correct , ofcthe best that could be made . It will give our readers , however , we think , an approximate idea
of the facts ofthe case and the relevancy of our remarks . In the Girls' School voting paper , with its" twenty-nine cases , two represent the professional element , a surgeon and an engineer j there are two officials , a Superintendent of the Board of Trade , and a government clerk . There are
four merchants , ( so-called ) , an iron merchant , a wool merchant , a plush merchant , and a wine merchant , while we have also a contractor , a warehouseman , a brewer , a newspaper proprietor , and an accountant . Of trades we have a jeweller , a bookseller , a chemist , a house decorator ,
and an auctioneer . We have also a sergeant in the Royal Artillery , a traveller , a nurseryman and farmer , a post - master , two clerks , a brewer ' s foreman , and a yeoman . Thus , if we divide this list into a broader classification of pure professional element and pure
trade qualification , we find that the former is represented by seven , the latter by twenty-two cases . Such a fact speaks volumes for the middle-class importance and need ofthe school . In the boys' voting paper , of sixty-seven cases , ( though one , if not two , are out ) , of professions
we have thirteen , a dentist , two marine engineers , a teacher of music , a professor of music , two surgeons , an artist , three schoolmasters , an architect , a lecturer to a mechanics' institution . Of the official element , we find two superintendents of police , a lailway superintendent , an
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inspector of dock police , and a clerk of the works , Royal Engineers , and a sergeant of artillery . Of trades we have , two maltsters , a draper , a stationer , a sailmaker , a brewer , two hotel keepers , two jewellers , two grocers , a hay and corn merchant , a chemist and druggist
a plumber , an ivory turner , a sailmaker and ship chandler , an oilman , a drysalter , a tallow chandler , a publisher , two builders , an ecclesiastical glazier , and a bill broker . We have also a contractor , a merchant , a planter , four commercial travellers , and one licensed
victualler , a satisfactory reply to the childish allegations sometimes recklessly made , that the licensed victuallers profit more by our schools than any other class . In addition , in this list , we find also five clerks , a cashier , two farmers , and one farm steward ,- we have also a brass founder , a mercantile agent , a commission agent , a cashier , and
overseer ofa mill , a clerk and steward . Thus nineteen may be said to represent the professional and official elements , and forty-eight relate to the trading class . Such statistics demonstrate most convincingly the essential middle class character of our schools on the whole , though we have to deal with other classes , andoften greatly contrasted as well .
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
[ We do not liolel ourselves responsible for , or even approving of , the opinions expressed by our correspondents , but we wish in a spine of fair play to all , to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . " !
CANVASSING FOR VOTES AT MASONIC ELECTIONS . To the Editor ofthe " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — I wish to call attention to a great nuisance and evil going on amongst us just now , I mean the begging anil borrowing of votes by some woithy brethren who
have cases which they seek to carry . I think that a very vicious system of individual I . O . U ' s . for votes is going on , whicli is productive of great jobbery , and may lead to great abuse . I quite recognise thc propriety of a Charity Committee of a province , or an association acting officially , openly ,
and above board , m legitimate interchange of votes , but my experience of this individual " touting" is certainly as bad as bad can be . Can nothing be done to check it ? And is not the remedy to be found , for instance , in the London Masonic Charity Association ? Yours fraternallv , 13 . O . X .
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . To Me Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir antl Brother , — I see that you have called attention to the withdrawal of Henry Ncwboult Irom the list of candidates . There is also another candidate ineligible for election , No . 43 , Henry Webb , born IOth September , 1867 , therefore ,
will be one month over the orhtial age , 11 , for election . This will reduce the number of candidates to sixty-five . I wuld take this opportunity that as the London Masonic Charity Association have taken up the cases of Ethel Stone and Emma Eliza Williams , of thc Girls' School ; and C . W . Green , T . C . Watkins , and A . C . Balcombe , in the first place ; F . A . Gills , R . N . Nicholls , and C . F . Frost , in
the second place , among the boys , it behoves the lodges and friends of the above cases to assist the Association with every vote they can individually get , and not slacken in their zealous tffoits for the good work they have taken in hand . 1 would doubly impress this now , as the Association is very young , antl , consequently , has not as many votes at its disposal as it eventually must have in the future . I have spoken to several brethren , who say that this
charily movement is much wanted , but they are afraid it will not answer , or , they will wait and see how it answers before they will join . Why , sir , you might as well stand by and look on some unfortunate creature drowning , who , by a little trouble , you mig ht have saved , and fay , " Oh 1 poor fellow , I am afraid he will be drowned , but I will wait and see whether he can save himself , " and you never put a finger out to save him . Yours fraternally , C . J . PERCEVAL .
WHO ARE CONSECRATING OFFICERS ? To the Edilirr of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — This is a question often askid nowadays by inquisitive brethren . Will you kindly resolve our doubts and difficulties ?
Yours fraternally , NEOPHYTE , [ Strictly speaking , thtre is but one Consecrating Officer , the brother deputed by the G . M ., or the G . M ., or the Deputy G . M . in person . By courtesy and custom , however , the Chaplain and the two Wardens are considered Assistant Consecrating Officers . —ED . F . M . ]
ORIGINAL RESEARCH . To the Editor if the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother . In reply lo your note enquiiing when " Original Research " will be published , I beg to say that the time is very uncertain , and will greatly depend on the number of subscribers obtained to the prospectus in London and
Original Correspondence.
elsewhere . From the time of Bro . Melville ' s death , now about five years' ago , I have been , and am still , more or less , engaged analysing and reconstructing his work . My chief object in so doing i ? , to show that Divinitarianism is the true religious substitute for Catholicism—Romish and Anglican . The change is looming in the horizon , and come it will—inevitably .
In fact , so much of a Divinitarian am I , that I do not consider myself justified in participating in the ceremonies of sectarian churches or chapels , as such participation would be a practical denial of my astro-Masonic or Divinitarian faith . True toleration is a virtue , but there is a vital difference between toleration and participation . There should be no compromise .
I have just sent , at the request of an Edinburgh firm of booksellers , two or three extracts from " Original Research " for publication , to awaken the " gude folks " there to the truth . As you may think this letter worth publishing I have headed it " Original Research . " Fraternally yours , WM . N . CRAWFORD .
A LETTER OF INQUIRY . To the Editor if the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — Can any American brother give us any information about a Bro . J . F . Harma , of Keystone Lodge , 285 ,
New York . ' He claims to be a Royal Arch Mason , of seventeen yeats' standing , and to be in dire distress , and still a subscribing member cf his lodge . English brethren are always glad to relieve genuine distress , but they also like to be certain that their relief is properly bestowed . Yours fraternally , AMICUS .
WAS THE LATE POPE A FREEMASON ? To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — In your last week ' s issue you stated in an editor ' va * i note , to a correspondent , that the late Pope was not a Freemason , and that all the accounts contrary to that statement were apocryphal . The Rev . Dr . Benjamin
Artom , the respected Chief Rabbi of the united congregations of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the British Empire , was the W . M . of a lodge in Naples , and he related most succinctly to mc , some time since , the fact of the late Pope having been a Mason , and the steps that were taken by all the Italian lodges when they were excommunicated by his authority . After reading your
remarks upon this matter , I wrote to tbe Rev . Doctor , and beg herewith to hand you his reply received to-day . He says , " I have no written records of what I related to you at Manchester ; consequently , I cannot furnish you with the date you desire . I positively state , however , that when the late Pope-, in 18 S 3 or 18 C 4 , excommunicated
Freemasonry , much indignation was felt by the Masons , especially at Naples , in consequence of the fact , that he had cursed an institution to which he had belonged , and to which he had promised fidelity . " This extract needs no comment on my part , and trusting you will insert this in your next , I am , dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally .
ri . DAVIS MARKS , J . W . Israel , 1502 . [ We repeat the statement again to-day distinctly . Pius the IX . was not a Freemason . All these statements have been examined over and over again , and they have been found to be utterly unreliable , as Bro . Findel says , in the
Bauhntle , they are all " humbug . " I he late I ope was said to have been initiated at Naples , in Sicily , the United States , at Havannah , in South America , at Madritl , and in France , as a French cavalry officer , ( which is the last place ) . As we have often said before , though probably enough , a Carbonari in his " hot youth , " he was not a Freemason . —En . F . M . ]
THE LOSS OFTHE "PRINCESS ALICE . " To lhe Editor of thc " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Biother . — In reference to the letter of Bro . W . S . Daniel in your last impression of this date , I am instructed by the proprietor of the Surrey Masonic Hall to state that he will be happy to assist such brethren as may desire to augment
the fund now being raised on behalf ot the sufferers by the late disaster on the Thames , by placing at their disposal the use of the hall , gratuitously , for a concert , or other public entertainment , on the first evening for which engagement has not yet been made . With the exception of an early date in October the hall is fully engaged up to the first week in November ; but as there will certainly be a continued necessity for adding to
the Mansion House Fund for many weeks to come , it may not then be too late for the contemplated purpose * , and meanwhile such arrangements could be made , both in respect of obtaining talent and public support , as woultl secure a successful result . Yours fraternally , JAMES STEVENS , Manager . Surrey MasonicHall , Sept . 21 st ,, 1878 .
RELIEF AND CHARITY . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — Allow me to say a few wcrds , in answer to your article of the 31 st of August , wilh regard to that of our greatest principles , relief , and chaiity . Relief is the text
of our profession , to relieve the distressed is a duty incumbent on all men , but more particularly among Masons , who are linked together in one indissoluble chain of sincere affection , to soothe the unhappy , to sympathise with the misfortunes , and to compassionate with the miseries , antl at the same time to restore peace to thc troubled minds of our brethren , that is the grand aim we have in view , and