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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS ' 93 Grand Festival * 94 The Girls'School ' 9 S Consecration of the Provincial Grand Chapter of Sussex * 96 Consecration ot the Lumley Lodge , No . 1893 , Skegness , Lincolnshire 19 . Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania 197 Mark Notes 19 .
CORRESPONDENCERoyal Masonic Institution for Girls 19 S The Grand Orient of Tunis 198 Red Cross of Constantine 19 S A Question 198 Young Instructors 19 S The Oldest Freemason 19 S Reviews 198 Masonic Notes and Queries 199 A New Attack on Freemasonry , 199 Consecration of the Selwyn Lodge , No . 1901 199
Consecration of thc Breadalbane Lodge , No . 657 , Aberfeldv 300 Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of South Wales soi ¦ Proposed International 1-rcen . asonic Conference 201 Laving the Foundation Stone of a New Masonic Hall at Jarrow 301 Ancient and Accepted Rite 201
REPORTS OF MASONIC M EETINGSCraft Masonry 202 Instruction 202 Royal Arch 202 Reil Cross of Constantine . * . 202 Rosicrucian Society 203 Obituary 303 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls 203 Masonic Tidings 203 General Tidings 203 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 304
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THE following has been going the rounds of the press : "The celebrated WILLIAM MORGAN , of Masonic fame , who , a great many years ago , became , it is said , a victim to thc horrors of Masonic fury , has a second cousin now residing in Clyde , N . Y ., and from him it is learned that MORGAN * was not murdered ( as believed by many ) , but that to this cousin ' s personal knowledge
he left the country of his own free will , going directly to Australia , and receiving therefor his passage money 'and 200 dollars . MORGAN published a newspaper in Australia until his death . His son is now there , and in the same business . The anti-secret society people propose to erect a monument to his memory . If this is done we shall then be told all about it , and where
MORGAN lived , first and last , and any other particulars . " We have found the above extract in a contemporary of identical name , termed "The Freemason oi Toronto , Canada , " and commend it to the attention of our readers . No greater fraud , no more " bogus " alarm was ever imposed on a too
credulous public , than thc alleged death of MORGAN , & C , by the anti-Masonic party in the United States . That Freemasonry has recovered the anti-Masonic scare , though not an unnatural or unreasonable fact in itself , is a favourable commentary on the good sense of Americans , and thc high character and commendable qualities of the Masonic body generally .
¦ * * # WE hear a good deal of " public installations" in America ; what they are we do not profess to understand , to be able even to conceive . They seem to allude to the "W . M . 's" installation , but that latter fact we hold to be
utterly impossible , for such a state of things and feeling is opposed , not only to every Masonic precedent and theory , but is entirely subversive of thc intention and object of the ceremony itself . Can any American brother explain in what these so-called " public installations " really consist ?
* * * ACCORDING to Bro . HUBERT , in the ] " Chaine d'Union , " a new book has appeared , as an attack on Frfeemasonry , entitled , " Juifs et Franc-masons ou le Sixieme Age de l'Eglise , " " Jews and Freemasons , or the Sixth Age of the Church . " The " Ordre de Caen , " a journal , Bro . HUBERT declares ,
already known to his readers , states that this essay forms part of a great work on the" Apocalypse , " by an author under the pseudonym " M . DE ST ANDRE , " but he is a priest , and which the writer publishes , he says , on account of the actual facts it contains . If our readers wish to judge properly of its essential analysis , sense (?) , truthfulness (?) , & c , we recommend them to read the short account of it elsewhere .
* * ACCORDING , also , to Bro . HUBERT , " Le Causeur Normand , " an Ultramontane sheet , absurdly and untruthfully identifies the " Nihilists with Freemasons . " "Five times already the Freemasons , known in Russia under the name of Nihilists , had assailed his life , ( the EMPEROR ALEXANDER ' S ) .
2 . They had vowed his destruction , chiefly and solely because he was the Emperor . Nevertheless , none of his ancestors had ever reigned with so much of ' liberalism , ' and hc had himself enfranchised all the Serfs . The Freemasons in France had not even the modesty to conceal their joy on hearing this sad news . Our friends , the Russian revolutionists , they said in their
journals , are to-day paid for all their sufferings and recompensed for all their invincible perseverance . " Though wc do not always agree with all that I' reemasons sometimes do and say , we utterly disbelieve in the fact that any of them are capable of such ignoble sentiments , and shall be happy to reproduce in our English Masonic journal any repudiation of such calumnies
by French Freemasons . We may add that the Nihilists are not Freemasons , nor the Freemasons Nihilists , and we believe that the recent horrible and tearful act of wickedness at St . Pctcrsburgh is indignantly repudiated in the name of our common loyalty , patriotism , honour , and humanity , by the entire
bodyof ourCosmopolitanCraft . Oursentimentshavebeentooclearlyexpressed more than once to leave any doubt as to our own opinions on this recent dastardl y and fearful crime , what is the true , and honest , and indignant feeling of English Freemasons , on an occurrence which is a lasting reproach to the age in which we live .
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WE are informed , which we much regret , that our remarks on the approaching Girls' Festival are liable to misconstruction . We wrote , we admit at once , on no official authority , and were rather influenced , perhaps , by friendly Governors than by any positive information . We have been for some time aware that a foolish " canard " had been going about , doing
injury to the festival , by whomsoever circulated and invented we know not , or with what intent , malice prepense , or childish ignorance we are equally unaware . The " canard " was to the effect that the returns were already so large as to render exertion needless . This statement , as we before pointed out , is distinctly unfounded , and we sincerely regret if our language was
calculated in any respect to seem to confirm so great a delusion . We have reason to believe , on the contrary , that if the festival be ai success it can only be achieved by unceasing hard work of Stewards and friends of the Girls ' School in the "interim , " and we urge upon all alike who feel an interest in
that most admirable Institution to slack no energies , nay , even to increase their salutary and praiseworfhy endeavours , in order to make the festival of the Girls' School for 1 S 81 a triumphant one , alike for the Stewards , the subscribers , and its hardworking and zealous Secretary , Bro . R . F . W . HEDGES .
* * WE publish a paragraph elsewhere from the Latomia relating to another " congress " or " conference" of Masons this year at Leipsic . We shall recur to the subject fully in our next , but for various reasons see no possible good in it , or likely to arise from it .
* * * WE refer our readers to a communication elsewhere relative to the new movement in France , in respect of Craft and High Grade Masonry . So far as wc understand its professed objects we approve of it . But we are not insensible of the difficulties attendant on it . A point in its favour is that Bro . HUBERT seems heartily to endorse it .
* * WE are informed that a movement has begun in France to combine all Freemasons under two heads , i . e ., 1 , an obedience which shall have jurisdiction over all the High Grades from the Fourth to the Thirty-third
Degrees , and all professing quasi-Masonic rites ; and 2 , an obedience which shall have jurisdiction ( absolute and exclusive ) over the three First Degrees as a Craft Body or Blue Masonry . At present the situation in France is as follows : There are four ruling Bodies in France .
1 . The Grand Orient and Supreme Council of France and French possessions governs the three First Degrees and four High Grades , including Rose Croix , making up the Modern French Rite of Seven Degrees . 2 . A Supreme Council for France and its dependencies ruling Craft Bodies and High Grades . In France Blue Masonry is practised under the A . and A . Rite .
3 . A " Supreme Puissance " for France of the Oriental Masonic Order of Mizraim . 4 . The so-called G . Loge Ecossaise Symbolique . " En principe , " as the French say , the idea is a good one , but how far the practical difficulties in the way can be overcome remains yet to be seen .
Time can only show how far such an arrangement is feasible in France . From an English point of view it has much to recommend it , but we cannot shut our eyes to the realities that in France the contests of the opposing Bodies have been more bitter and prevailing than in England , and it is just
possible that at present , at any rate , personal prepossessions and sectional differences are too many and too powerful to be overcome . We think it well , however , to make a note of the fact , and shall be happy to " report progress" of anything which shall come of a " movement" whiqh seems both rational and seasonable . * *
THE Annual Festival took place on Wednesday last , but we regretted to observe the very scanty attendance of the noble and distinguished brethren of our Order , which was not a little commented upon by the brethren present . Where , we must venture to ask , were all the Provincial Grand Masters ? Surely the Annual Festival of our Order deserves the sympathy
and presence of those high in authority and position amongst us . We beg respectfully to add that it is very hard on those humbler brethren of ours who do attend , often at considerable personal inconvenience , to note the absence of those whose kindly assistance add lustre to all our Masonic assemblies .
* " * IN our issue next week we shall give an account of the Masonic services of our new Grand Ofiicers , as we have done on previous occasions .
* , * OUR readers will see a special notice elsewhere relative to the removal of the publishing office of the Freemason , from 198 , Fleet-street , to 16 , Great Queen-street . All communications should therefore be henceforth forwarded to the latter address .
* * * WE call particular attention to the letter of the Secretary of the Girls' School
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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS ' 93 Grand Festival * 94 The Girls'School ' 9 S Consecration of the Provincial Grand Chapter of Sussex * 96 Consecration ot the Lumley Lodge , No . 1893 , Skegness , Lincolnshire 19 . Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania 197 Mark Notes 19 .
CORRESPONDENCERoyal Masonic Institution for Girls 19 S The Grand Orient of Tunis 198 Red Cross of Constantine 19 S A Question 198 Young Instructors 19 S The Oldest Freemason 19 S Reviews 198 Masonic Notes and Queries 199 A New Attack on Freemasonry , 199 Consecration of the Selwyn Lodge , No . 1901 199
Consecration of thc Breadalbane Lodge , No . 657 , Aberfeldv 300 Provincial Grand Mark Lodge of South Wales soi ¦ Proposed International 1-rcen . asonic Conference 201 Laving the Foundation Stone of a New Masonic Hall at Jarrow 301 Ancient and Accepted Rite 201
REPORTS OF MASONIC M EETINGSCraft Masonry 202 Instruction 202 Royal Arch 202 Reil Cross of Constantine . * . 202 Rosicrucian Society 203 Obituary 303 Royal Masonic Institution for Girls 203 Masonic Tidings 203 General Tidings 203 Lodge Meetings for Next Week 304
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THE following has been going the rounds of the press : "The celebrated WILLIAM MORGAN , of Masonic fame , who , a great many years ago , became , it is said , a victim to thc horrors of Masonic fury , has a second cousin now residing in Clyde , N . Y ., and from him it is learned that MORGAN * was not murdered ( as believed by many ) , but that to this cousin ' s personal knowledge
he left the country of his own free will , going directly to Australia , and receiving therefor his passage money 'and 200 dollars . MORGAN published a newspaper in Australia until his death . His son is now there , and in the same business . The anti-secret society people propose to erect a monument to his memory . If this is done we shall then be told all about it , and where
MORGAN lived , first and last , and any other particulars . " We have found the above extract in a contemporary of identical name , termed "The Freemason oi Toronto , Canada , " and commend it to the attention of our readers . No greater fraud , no more " bogus " alarm was ever imposed on a too
credulous public , than thc alleged death of MORGAN , & C , by the anti-Masonic party in the United States . That Freemasonry has recovered the anti-Masonic scare , though not an unnatural or unreasonable fact in itself , is a favourable commentary on the good sense of Americans , and thc high character and commendable qualities of the Masonic body generally .
¦ * * # WE hear a good deal of " public installations" in America ; what they are we do not profess to understand , to be able even to conceive . They seem to allude to the "W . M . 's" installation , but that latter fact we hold to be
utterly impossible , for such a state of things and feeling is opposed , not only to every Masonic precedent and theory , but is entirely subversive of thc intention and object of the ceremony itself . Can any American brother explain in what these so-called " public installations " really consist ?
* * * ACCORDING to Bro . HUBERT , in the ] " Chaine d'Union , " a new book has appeared , as an attack on Frfeemasonry , entitled , " Juifs et Franc-masons ou le Sixieme Age de l'Eglise , " " Jews and Freemasons , or the Sixth Age of the Church . " The " Ordre de Caen , " a journal , Bro . HUBERT declares ,
already known to his readers , states that this essay forms part of a great work on the" Apocalypse , " by an author under the pseudonym " M . DE ST ANDRE , " but he is a priest , and which the writer publishes , he says , on account of the actual facts it contains . If our readers wish to judge properly of its essential analysis , sense (?) , truthfulness (?) , & c , we recommend them to read the short account of it elsewhere .
* * ACCORDING , also , to Bro . HUBERT , " Le Causeur Normand , " an Ultramontane sheet , absurdly and untruthfully identifies the " Nihilists with Freemasons . " "Five times already the Freemasons , known in Russia under the name of Nihilists , had assailed his life , ( the EMPEROR ALEXANDER ' S ) .
2 . They had vowed his destruction , chiefly and solely because he was the Emperor . Nevertheless , none of his ancestors had ever reigned with so much of ' liberalism , ' and hc had himself enfranchised all the Serfs . The Freemasons in France had not even the modesty to conceal their joy on hearing this sad news . Our friends , the Russian revolutionists , they said in their
journals , are to-day paid for all their sufferings and recompensed for all their invincible perseverance . " Though wc do not always agree with all that I' reemasons sometimes do and say , we utterly disbelieve in the fact that any of them are capable of such ignoble sentiments , and shall be happy to reproduce in our English Masonic journal any repudiation of such calumnies
by French Freemasons . We may add that the Nihilists are not Freemasons , nor the Freemasons Nihilists , and we believe that the recent horrible and tearful act of wickedness at St . Pctcrsburgh is indignantly repudiated in the name of our common loyalty , patriotism , honour , and humanity , by the entire
bodyof ourCosmopolitanCraft . Oursentimentshavebeentooclearlyexpressed more than once to leave any doubt as to our own opinions on this recent dastardl y and fearful crime , what is the true , and honest , and indignant feeling of English Freemasons , on an occurrence which is a lasting reproach to the age in which we live .
Ar00102
WE are informed , which we much regret , that our remarks on the approaching Girls' Festival are liable to misconstruction . We wrote , we admit at once , on no official authority , and were rather influenced , perhaps , by friendly Governors than by any positive information . We have been for some time aware that a foolish " canard " had been going about , doing
injury to the festival , by whomsoever circulated and invented we know not , or with what intent , malice prepense , or childish ignorance we are equally unaware . The " canard " was to the effect that the returns were already so large as to render exertion needless . This statement , as we before pointed out , is distinctly unfounded , and we sincerely regret if our language was
calculated in any respect to seem to confirm so great a delusion . We have reason to believe , on the contrary , that if the festival be ai success it can only be achieved by unceasing hard work of Stewards and friends of the Girls ' School in the "interim , " and we urge upon all alike who feel an interest in
that most admirable Institution to slack no energies , nay , even to increase their salutary and praiseworfhy endeavours , in order to make the festival of the Girls' School for 1 S 81 a triumphant one , alike for the Stewards , the subscribers , and its hardworking and zealous Secretary , Bro . R . F . W . HEDGES .
* * WE publish a paragraph elsewhere from the Latomia relating to another " congress " or " conference" of Masons this year at Leipsic . We shall recur to the subject fully in our next , but for various reasons see no possible good in it , or likely to arise from it .
* * * WE refer our readers to a communication elsewhere relative to the new movement in France , in respect of Craft and High Grade Masonry . So far as wc understand its professed objects we approve of it . But we are not insensible of the difficulties attendant on it . A point in its favour is that Bro . HUBERT seems heartily to endorse it .
* * WE are informed that a movement has begun in France to combine all Freemasons under two heads , i . e ., 1 , an obedience which shall have jurisdiction over all the High Grades from the Fourth to the Thirty-third
Degrees , and all professing quasi-Masonic rites ; and 2 , an obedience which shall have jurisdiction ( absolute and exclusive ) over the three First Degrees as a Craft Body or Blue Masonry . At present the situation in France is as follows : There are four ruling Bodies in France .
1 . The Grand Orient and Supreme Council of France and French possessions governs the three First Degrees and four High Grades , including Rose Croix , making up the Modern French Rite of Seven Degrees . 2 . A Supreme Council for France and its dependencies ruling Craft Bodies and High Grades . In France Blue Masonry is practised under the A . and A . Rite .
3 . A " Supreme Puissance " for France of the Oriental Masonic Order of Mizraim . 4 . The so-called G . Loge Ecossaise Symbolique . " En principe , " as the French say , the idea is a good one , but how far the practical difficulties in the way can be overcome remains yet to be seen .
Time can only show how far such an arrangement is feasible in France . From an English point of view it has much to recommend it , but we cannot shut our eyes to the realities that in France the contests of the opposing Bodies have been more bitter and prevailing than in England , and it is just
possible that at present , at any rate , personal prepossessions and sectional differences are too many and too powerful to be overcome . We think it well , however , to make a note of the fact , and shall be happy to " report progress" of anything which shall come of a " movement" whiqh seems both rational and seasonable . * *
THE Annual Festival took place on Wednesday last , but we regretted to observe the very scanty attendance of the noble and distinguished brethren of our Order , which was not a little commented upon by the brethren present . Where , we must venture to ask , were all the Provincial Grand Masters ? Surely the Annual Festival of our Order deserves the sympathy
and presence of those high in authority and position amongst us . We beg respectfully to add that it is very hard on those humbler brethren of ours who do attend , often at considerable personal inconvenience , to note the absence of those whose kindly assistance add lustre to all our Masonic assemblies .
* " * IN our issue next week we shall give an account of the Masonic services of our new Grand Ofiicers , as we have done on previous occasions .
* , * OUR readers will see a special notice elsewhere relative to the removal of the publishing office of the Freemason , from 198 , Fleet-street , to 16 , Great Queen-street . All communications should therefore be henceforth forwarded to the latter address .
* * * WE call particular attention to the letter of the Secretary of the Girls' School