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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS 411 United Grand Lodge 412 Masonic Exhibition at Worcester 412 The Tu Quoque 413 Freemasonry in York in the Eighteenth Centurv 414
History of the Royal Masonic Institution for Uoys { Continual ) 413 CORRESPONDENCEThc Legality of Freemasonry in England 41 ^
West Yorkshire 417 United Grand Lodge 417 The Preparatory School for Boys 417 Re Past Masters' Levels , & c 417
Reviews 41 ^ Notes and Queries 417 REPORTS OK MASONIC MEETINGS — Craft Masonry „ 41 s Instruction „ . 418 Mark Masonry 419
Scotland 419 Marriage of Miss Williams Wynn 419 Hughan Testimonial Fund 45 a Obituary , 41
Ye Kahere Almoners 420 Masonic Picnic 420 Masonic and General Tidings 420 Lodge Meetings for Next Week Cover .
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BY the lamented death of Bro . J HAVERS English Freemasonry has lost one of its brightest ornaments , and the Craft Cosmopolitan one of its most loyal adherents . There are few brethren to whom it has been given to exercize so much influence over his brother Freemasons , and no one can allege , even by remotest implication , but that Bro . HAVERS ' S use of such
influence ever was , in every respect , for the honour and welfare of that great Body which he for so long practically directed . Indeed , much of the present prosperity of English Freemasonry may fairly be ascribed to that better and sounder rule under Lord ZETLAND , which , harmonizing conflicting sections , and utilizing available talent , sought to put an end to divisions
and incongruities , to any laxity in official administration , and to bring into play those truer Masonic sentiments , which best illustrate and adorn the peaceful mission and rightful principles of Freemasonry . To assert that all Bro . H AVERS said or did in a long , and anxious , and often troubled Masonic rule was unfailingly wise or absolutely judicious ; to profess to
believe to that he never erred , to claim for him infallibility of any kind , would be both unfair tohim and un-Masonic sycophancy to assert . But it may be safely averred of Bro . HAVERS that his aims were absolutely honest and upright , that if endowed with a quick temper , he was alike fair and just , of keen discrimination , sound judgment , unwearying patience ,
ceaseless assiduity , and , above all , one of the most intellectual and the most highly g ifted of men . He had a large heart as well as a most liberal mind , —and though sometimes abrupt in his expressions and stern in his utterances , he was , in truth , most kindly and courteous to all . He hated anything like " jobbing , " or laxity of administration , and hence he fully earned , as
he richly deserved , the ample and absolute trust reposed in him . English Freemasonry owes a great deal to Bro . J * HAVERS , more than some ot us perhaps like to think ; more than many of us are willing to remember . Of his devotion to our Order it is impossible to speak too highly , and he retained it to the
very last . The whole Craft was glad to see how lately he reappeared amongst us , and aided to extricate us in a difficult conjuncture with that knowledge of our traditions which nothing could weaken , and that singular lucidity of idea and ability of utterance which , in other and less peaceful times , had given him such a just preponderance in the councils of the
Craft , had rallied a loyal majority around him , to uphold the honour and dignity of Grand Lodge , and had given to the Masonic Executive that direction , reality , and earnestness , without which merely nominal rank , and the possession of passing authority , as we well know avail so little , either to the due performance of allotted duty , or the careful
maintenance of the rights , and privileges , and prestige of Grand Lodge . Many of his friends had hoped still to hear his pleasant voice , to greet his honest presence , and to welcome their old Master and Leader amongst them again , from time to time . But , so in the good providence of the G . A . O . T . U ., it was not to be ; and English and Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry
deplores to-day the premature loss of one of its most distinguished brethren , of one of its most faithful servants . The sympathies of our Craft will attend with heartfelt sincerity his sorrowing family , and it will be long
before English Freemasons of all ranks and conditions will cease to talk of the great services rendered by their lamented friend to Freemasonry , and of the regard , respect , and affection they bear and owe , and ever must bear and owe , to the refreshing and gracious memory of J OHN'HAVERS .
*»* OUR readers will note with pleasure the Masonic offering made by Bro . Sir OFFLEY WAKEMAN on behalf of the brethren of North Wales and Shropshire to the only daughter of our esteemed and distinguished Bro . Sir
W . W . WYNN , Prov . G . Master , on her marriage with her cousin , Mr . WYNN . Our worthy and respected brother stated that he believed he was the oldest of our Prov . Grand Masters , and so he is—he was appointed Jan . 13 th , 1852—the two next him in seniority being Lord LEIGH , appointed Aug . ist , 1852 , and Lord METHUEN , appointed March 2 nd , 1853 .
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IN a recent article on the Papal condemnation of Freemasonry , the Saturday Review has the following , to us enigmatical words : " Between the fierceness of its ( Masonry ' s ) Jesuit assailants and the enthusiasm of attached panegyrists , it is difficult for outsiders , who arc neither Jesuits nor Freemasons , to attain to any exact knowledge ol * thc true state of the
case . And until some further information is forthcoming they may be pardoned if they incline to the alternative suggested by BALAAM , and neither bless altogether nor curse altogether a sect which comes before them in so questionable a shape that it absolutely refuses lo be questioned . But the presumption must always lie against any secret association , that its secrets
are either too trivial or too criminal for exposure . We are aware of tho fierce diatribes which that leading weekly has indulged in from time to time against Freemasonry , but certainly we were not prepared for such a specimen of the " precipitate bathos " in even the Saturday Review , as these words betray . The writer has put out of all
consideration not only the law of common sense and of living knowledge , but even that still happily abiding covenant of truth , courtesy , and toleration . The writer of these weakly words , we repeat , is perfectly well aware whether , as Lord CARNARVON SO well put it , the general charge is as true as the particular one . Are English Freemasons , for instance , the disloyal ,
desperate , destructive , godless body the Bull declares Freemasons without exception everywhere to be ? The " onus proband ! " clearly rests with the accuser who makes such sweeping charges against a great and world-wide Order ; and , despite the Saturday Review , Freemasons do not think it necessary to do more than protest , as
before society and the world , against accusations which are odious , and allegations which are degrading ; those rash , foolish , oft-repeated , illdigested impossible charges in fact , which the accuser himself does not believe in , and which are contradicted , not only by the well-known realities of the case , but the very knowledge , experience , and certainty
of even all non-Masons everywhere to-day . To contend , as the Saturday Review seems to do , that because we are attacked , and because we aro a secret society , therefore we are bound to go out of our way to lift the veil which hangs over our world-existence in order to reply to absurd calumnies and ridiculous asseverations , seems to us to be the most wondrous
specimen of childish suggestion and illogical reasoning which we have ever read of , even in these unreasoning and frivolous days . The very essence of the condition of Freemasonry is its unblameablesecresy as before its contemporaries to-day , as in ages that are gone and past . But Freemasonry cannot be condemned by the Roman Church simply as a secret
society , for the Church of Rome has the greatest secret society in the world attached to its body , and amenable to its authority ; and until the POPE of ROME can show us something more than these complaints against Italian , French , and Belgian Freemasonry , whether well or ill founded , we can only say when he attacks Freemasonry in general , including Anglo-Saxon
Freemasonry , " Physician , heal thyself . VVe decline therefore to be drawn into a vulgar controversy , and leave the matter to the good sense of the public , and the reality and munificence of our many philanthropic and beneficent exertions , which attest better than anything else the genius , the . scope , and the mission of Freemasonry .
* * WE regret to notice in the " Chaine D'Union " that our confrere HUBERT is urging the Grand Lodge of Holland to " follow suit" with the Grand Orient of France , and dispense with a Grand Master , and establish a "Grand Conseil de rOrdre . " Nothing , we make bold to say , has to
our mind , so affected for evil French Freemasonry as the unwise and unprecedented suppression of the Grand Mastership , and we trust our good friends in Holland , despite their evidently " progressist" leanings , will refuse to listen to the " voice of the charmer , "—charm he never so sugges ?
lively and persuasively . In our opinion , a Grand Conseil is both an anomaly and an absurdity . It has no Masonic character ; it is the outcome of agitation and revolution , and , as regards its effect on its own Order or Cosmopolitan Freemasonry , it is a nondescript organization , neither " fish , flesh , fowl , nor good red herring . "
* # * IN our review columns will be found the first notice of the catalogue of the Worcester Exhibits , and a very wonderful catalogue it is . We congratulate Bro . GEORGE TAYLOR sincerely on this striking result of his untiring exertions , and commend the fact to the notice of our Order as a proof , if proof
be needed , of the extent of the riches of archaeological Freemasonry . We recommend all our brethren who can to make a Masonic pilgrimage to Worcester . Bro . TAYLOR ' S success is surely an encouragement to all such praiseworthy innovations on the somewhat sleepy if normal , existence of English Freemasonry .
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Contents.
CONTENTS .
LEADERS 411 United Grand Lodge 412 Masonic Exhibition at Worcester 412 The Tu Quoque 413 Freemasonry in York in the Eighteenth Centurv 414
History of the Royal Masonic Institution for Uoys { Continual ) 413 CORRESPONDENCEThc Legality of Freemasonry in England 41 ^
West Yorkshire 417 United Grand Lodge 417 The Preparatory School for Boys 417 Re Past Masters' Levels , & c 417
Reviews 41 ^ Notes and Queries 417 REPORTS OK MASONIC MEETINGS — Craft Masonry „ 41 s Instruction „ . 418 Mark Masonry 419
Scotland 419 Marriage of Miss Williams Wynn 419 Hughan Testimonial Fund 45 a Obituary , 41
Ye Kahere Almoners 420 Masonic Picnic 420 Masonic and General Tidings 420 Lodge Meetings for Next Week Cover .
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BY the lamented death of Bro . J HAVERS English Freemasonry has lost one of its brightest ornaments , and the Craft Cosmopolitan one of its most loyal adherents . There are few brethren to whom it has been given to exercize so much influence over his brother Freemasons , and no one can allege , even by remotest implication , but that Bro . HAVERS ' S use of such
influence ever was , in every respect , for the honour and welfare of that great Body which he for so long practically directed . Indeed , much of the present prosperity of English Freemasonry may fairly be ascribed to that better and sounder rule under Lord ZETLAND , which , harmonizing conflicting sections , and utilizing available talent , sought to put an end to divisions
and incongruities , to any laxity in official administration , and to bring into play those truer Masonic sentiments , which best illustrate and adorn the peaceful mission and rightful principles of Freemasonry . To assert that all Bro . H AVERS said or did in a long , and anxious , and often troubled Masonic rule was unfailingly wise or absolutely judicious ; to profess to
believe to that he never erred , to claim for him infallibility of any kind , would be both unfair tohim and un-Masonic sycophancy to assert . But it may be safely averred of Bro . HAVERS that his aims were absolutely honest and upright , that if endowed with a quick temper , he was alike fair and just , of keen discrimination , sound judgment , unwearying patience ,
ceaseless assiduity , and , above all , one of the most intellectual and the most highly g ifted of men . He had a large heart as well as a most liberal mind , —and though sometimes abrupt in his expressions and stern in his utterances , he was , in truth , most kindly and courteous to all . He hated anything like " jobbing , " or laxity of administration , and hence he fully earned , as
he richly deserved , the ample and absolute trust reposed in him . English Freemasonry owes a great deal to Bro . J * HAVERS , more than some ot us perhaps like to think ; more than many of us are willing to remember . Of his devotion to our Order it is impossible to speak too highly , and he retained it to the
very last . The whole Craft was glad to see how lately he reappeared amongst us , and aided to extricate us in a difficult conjuncture with that knowledge of our traditions which nothing could weaken , and that singular lucidity of idea and ability of utterance which , in other and less peaceful times , had given him such a just preponderance in the councils of the
Craft , had rallied a loyal majority around him , to uphold the honour and dignity of Grand Lodge , and had given to the Masonic Executive that direction , reality , and earnestness , without which merely nominal rank , and the possession of passing authority , as we well know avail so little , either to the due performance of allotted duty , or the careful
maintenance of the rights , and privileges , and prestige of Grand Lodge . Many of his friends had hoped still to hear his pleasant voice , to greet his honest presence , and to welcome their old Master and Leader amongst them again , from time to time . But , so in the good providence of the G . A . O . T . U ., it was not to be ; and English and Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry
deplores to-day the premature loss of one of its most distinguished brethren , of one of its most faithful servants . The sympathies of our Craft will attend with heartfelt sincerity his sorrowing family , and it will be long
before English Freemasons of all ranks and conditions will cease to talk of the great services rendered by their lamented friend to Freemasonry , and of the regard , respect , and affection they bear and owe , and ever must bear and owe , to the refreshing and gracious memory of J OHN'HAVERS .
*»* OUR readers will note with pleasure the Masonic offering made by Bro . Sir OFFLEY WAKEMAN on behalf of the brethren of North Wales and Shropshire to the only daughter of our esteemed and distinguished Bro . Sir
W . W . WYNN , Prov . G . Master , on her marriage with her cousin , Mr . WYNN . Our worthy and respected brother stated that he believed he was the oldest of our Prov . Grand Masters , and so he is—he was appointed Jan . 13 th , 1852—the two next him in seniority being Lord LEIGH , appointed Aug . ist , 1852 , and Lord METHUEN , appointed March 2 nd , 1853 .
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IN a recent article on the Papal condemnation of Freemasonry , the Saturday Review has the following , to us enigmatical words : " Between the fierceness of its ( Masonry ' s ) Jesuit assailants and the enthusiasm of attached panegyrists , it is difficult for outsiders , who arc neither Jesuits nor Freemasons , to attain to any exact knowledge ol * thc true state of the
case . And until some further information is forthcoming they may be pardoned if they incline to the alternative suggested by BALAAM , and neither bless altogether nor curse altogether a sect which comes before them in so questionable a shape that it absolutely refuses lo be questioned . But the presumption must always lie against any secret association , that its secrets
are either too trivial or too criminal for exposure . We are aware of tho fierce diatribes which that leading weekly has indulged in from time to time against Freemasonry , but certainly we were not prepared for such a specimen of the " precipitate bathos " in even the Saturday Review , as these words betray . The writer has put out of all
consideration not only the law of common sense and of living knowledge , but even that still happily abiding covenant of truth , courtesy , and toleration . The writer of these weakly words , we repeat , is perfectly well aware whether , as Lord CARNARVON SO well put it , the general charge is as true as the particular one . Are English Freemasons , for instance , the disloyal ,
desperate , destructive , godless body the Bull declares Freemasons without exception everywhere to be ? The " onus proband ! " clearly rests with the accuser who makes such sweeping charges against a great and world-wide Order ; and , despite the Saturday Review , Freemasons do not think it necessary to do more than protest , as
before society and the world , against accusations which are odious , and allegations which are degrading ; those rash , foolish , oft-repeated , illdigested impossible charges in fact , which the accuser himself does not believe in , and which are contradicted , not only by the well-known realities of the case , but the very knowledge , experience , and certainty
of even all non-Masons everywhere to-day . To contend , as the Saturday Review seems to do , that because we are attacked , and because we aro a secret society , therefore we are bound to go out of our way to lift the veil which hangs over our world-existence in order to reply to absurd calumnies and ridiculous asseverations , seems to us to be the most wondrous
specimen of childish suggestion and illogical reasoning which we have ever read of , even in these unreasoning and frivolous days . The very essence of the condition of Freemasonry is its unblameablesecresy as before its contemporaries to-day , as in ages that are gone and past . But Freemasonry cannot be condemned by the Roman Church simply as a secret
society , for the Church of Rome has the greatest secret society in the world attached to its body , and amenable to its authority ; and until the POPE of ROME can show us something more than these complaints against Italian , French , and Belgian Freemasonry , whether well or ill founded , we can only say when he attacks Freemasonry in general , including Anglo-Saxon
Freemasonry , " Physician , heal thyself . VVe decline therefore to be drawn into a vulgar controversy , and leave the matter to the good sense of the public , and the reality and munificence of our many philanthropic and beneficent exertions , which attest better than anything else the genius , the . scope , and the mission of Freemasonry .
* * WE regret to notice in the " Chaine D'Union " that our confrere HUBERT is urging the Grand Lodge of Holland to " follow suit" with the Grand Orient of France , and dispense with a Grand Master , and establish a "Grand Conseil de rOrdre . " Nothing , we make bold to say , has to
our mind , so affected for evil French Freemasonry as the unwise and unprecedented suppression of the Grand Mastership , and we trust our good friends in Holland , despite their evidently " progressist" leanings , will refuse to listen to the " voice of the charmer , "—charm he never so sugges ?
lively and persuasively . In our opinion , a Grand Conseil is both an anomaly and an absurdity . It has no Masonic character ; it is the outcome of agitation and revolution , and , as regards its effect on its own Order or Cosmopolitan Freemasonry , it is a nondescript organization , neither " fish , flesh , fowl , nor good red herring . "
* # * IN our review columns will be found the first notice of the catalogue of the Worcester Exhibits , and a very wonderful catalogue it is . We congratulate Bro . GEORGE TAYLOR sincerely on this striking result of his untiring exertions , and commend the fact to the notice of our Order as a proof , if proof
be needed , of the extent of the riches of archaeological Freemasonry . We recommend all our brethren who can to make a Masonic pilgrimage to Worcester . Bro . TAYLOR ' S success is surely an encouragement to all such praiseworthy innovations on the somewhat sleepy if normal , existence of English Freemasonry .