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PAGES F REEMASONRY AND ISRAELITISM 607 & 60 S TRADING ON MASONIC REPUTATION 608 PROV . GRAND LODGE 01 * CHESHIRE 60 S , 609 , & 610 PROV . GRAND LODGE OF WARWICKSHIRE ... 610 PROV . G RAND LODGE OF J ERSEY 611
WEST KENT MASONIC CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION 611 S COTLAND 611 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS 612 THE MASONIC SEASON 612 M ULTUM IN PARVO 613 ORIGINAL
CORRESPONDENCE" Freemasonry and Judaism 613 & 614 The Royal Order of Scotland 614 Bro . Buchan Again ... ... ... ... 615 PROV . GRAND CHAPTER OF YORKSHIRE 615 CONSECRATION OF A CHAPTER AT KIDDERMINSTER 616 THE
CRAFTMetropolitan ... ... ... ... ... 616 Provincial ... ... ... ... ... 616 ROYAL ARCH 616 MARK MASONRY 616 FOREIGN MASONIC
INTELLIGENCECanada ... ... ... ... 617 Turkey ... ... ... ... ... ... 617 POETRY—Sonnet 617 MASONIC MEETINGS FOR NEXT WEEK . 61 S ADVERTISEMENTS 605 , 6 o 5 , 61 S , 619 , & 620
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FREEMASONRY & ISRAELITISM .
BY BRO . WILLIAM C ARPENTER , P . M . & P . Z . 177 . XIX . In my last paper I glanced at thc military and maritimequalities which are united in the Anglo-Saxon race , by the exercise
of which thcyhave asserted and maintained their high position amongst the nations of thc earth . Notwithstanding the comparatively small extent of their home-territory , and the inferiority of their military strength
and appliances , they have achieved those conquests and hold those possessions which have already been described . What they have lacked in the numerical strength of their armies , they have made up in their
wonderful pluck and endurance . They are brave in fight , and heroic in suffering . No privations or discomforts have sufficed to make them succumb in the face of an enemy ,
however numerous and powerful , or advantageously circumstanced he might be . They have " supreme endurance in war and in labour ; " and their kindred in Germany and in America exhibit thc same invincible
strength and heroism , and the same selfsustaining qualities . One of the most ardent desires of the first Napoleon was to secure the alliance of England , believing that France and England united might rule
the world . But it was not to be . Ihe pre-eminence was reserved for the Saxon , and England , Germany , and America—one race—now rule the world . To England it has been given to occupy thc more
prominent part in din using the truth , lor thc preservation and promulgation of which Israel was selected , and for the accomplishment of which , power and independence were indispensable . Accordingly , thc
Anglo-Saxon history is a continuous record of triumphs over difficulties , and of conquests over the opposing powers of darkness and oppression . On this I must be permitted to quote thc testimony of one of a
r ' . val race , the Abbe Milot , a French Roman Catholic and professor , to whom I have before referred . In thc preface to his " Elements of thc History of England , " he thus writes , and although his sketch is
tinctured by thc bias which we might expcctin one so far removed from us in race ancl religion , his admiration for our character and achievements was not overcome by his predilections and prejudices : —
" No modern history , it must be confessed , presents to our view so great a number of striking pictures as that of England . We
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see here a people free , warlike , unconquerable , and a long time ferocious , preserve the same characteristic qualities through a successive train of bloody revolutions . Depressed by the arms and the despotism
of thc ambitious William , Duke of Normandy ; gloriously governed by Henry the Second , the most powerful monarch of Europe , though embroiled with the Church ; they groaned afterwards under the tyranny
of King John ; and this very tyranny procured them the Great Charter , the eternal basis of their freedom . The English then imposed their crown on France , drove out the French prince they had called to the
throne , ancl became the terror of the monarchy of Clovis , which seemed on the point of submitting to the yoke . But France , at length , after an interval of calamity and madness , called forth its
resources , recovered its ancient glory , inseparable from the cause of its kings ; triumphed over a haughty enemy , whose victories were thc fruit of our fatal dissensions ; and to revenge itself had only to
leave its enemy a prey to dissensions still more cruel . Two rival , but kindred , houses , impelled to arms by rage and ambition , snatched from each other ' s brow a diadem drenched in blood ; princes assassinated
princes ; thc people massacred each other for thc choice of a master , and England became a theatre of anarchy ancl carnage . Under thc Tudors we sec tranquility restored , and the national strength
augmented ; but liberty destroyed . A prince , violent and capricious , habituates to the chains of despotism this proud and restless
nation . He domineers over religion itself ; and Rome , for having opposed him , loses , at one blow , a kingdom which had ever been one of its most fruitful sources of
services and of riches . Mary attempts , in vain , to restore , by severe punishments , a worship which , having truth for its basis , ought to subdue minds by no arms but those of persuasion . She succeeds only in
making inconstant hypocrites , or inflexible fanatics ; she renders for ever detestable herself and the faith she wishes to establish . At length Elizabeth reigns . Her genius enchains fortune , fertilizes tlie earth ,
animates all the arts , opens to her people an immense career of commerce , ancl fixes in thc ocean thc foundations of the English Dominion . Continually surrounded by enemies , foreign or domestic , she defeats
conspiracies by her prudence , ancl triumphs over the forces of Philip the Second by her courage . Happy had she known how to conquer her own heart , and to spare a rival , whose blood , alone , tarnishes her memorv !
But how impenetrable are the decrees of Heaven ! The son of Mary Stuart succeeds to Elizabeth ; the scaffold , on which his mother received the stroke of death , serves
him as a step to mount the throne of England , from which his son is destined to be precipitated , to expire also on a scaffold . It is at this period wc see multiplying before our eves those celebrated scenes of which
the universe furnishes no example : an absurd fanaticism forming profound systems of policy , at the same time that it signalises itself by prodigies of foil }* and extravagance : an enlightened enthusiast ,
a great general aud statesman , opening to himself , under the mask of piety , thc road to thc supreme power ; subjects carrying on judicially the trial of a virtuous monarch ,
and causing him to be publicly beheaded , as a rebel . Thc hypocritical author of all this , reigning with as much glory as power : making himself the arbiter of crowns , and enjoying , even to his tomb , the fruits of his tyranny : the Parliament—the slave of the
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Tudors , the tyrant of the Stuarts , the accomplice and dupe of Cromwell , exercising the noblest right which men can possess over their fellow-creatures—that of making laws , and maintaining their execution . At
length , from this chaos of horrors , comes forth a government which excites the admiration of Europe . A sudden revolution again changes the face of affairs . The
lawful heir is acknowledged ; his stormy reign developcs the sentiment of patriotism ; the imprudence of his successor alarms the nationalspirit of liberty ; his subjects revolt ; they call in a deliverer ; the Stadtholder of
Holland dethrones , without bloodshed , his timid and irresolute father-in-law ; the usurpation is established by the sanction of the laws ; but those very laws impose conditions on the prince , and whilst he holds
the balance of Europe , his will is almost without force in England . After him a woman presides over the destinies of nations , makes France tremble , humbles Louis thc
Fourteenth , and covers herself with immortal glory , by giving him peace , in spite of the clamours of an ambitious cabal . Anne , with less talent and more virtues than
Elizabeth , has merited one of the first places among great monarchs . The sceptre passes again into foreign hands , complicated interests embarrass the government , and the British Constitution seems declining from its original principles . "
The averment with which the Abbe concludes is true . Upon the death of Anne , George , Elector of Hanover , was proclaim' d king . The Whigs having thus secured their object , thc Tories opened a correspondence
with " thc Pretender . " The West of England and Scotland , rising , proclaimed Charles Stuart king , and a day was fixed for his coronation . But the Whigs again triumphed . The Pretender and many of his distinguished
adherents escaped to France , and the Hanoverian family was established on the throne . Thc party contests of thc Whigs and Tories , however , waxed fiercer and fiercer ; and in the time of George thc Second , bribery and
intimidation were unscrupulously employed by one party to put clown the other , so that Parliament became a hotbed of corruption , and the instrument of aristocratic misrule ancl violence . The electoral system was an
impudent sham , employed for thc purpose of maintaining and strengthening the power of which the aristocracy had possessed themselves . As Sidney Smith wrote , "Thc country belongs to thc Duke of Rutland ,
Lord Lonsdale , thc Duke of Newcastle , and jroout twenty other holders of boroughs . They are our masters . " So far was the House of Commons from being a representation of the people , that when Pitt
informed Ihe king that the House of Commons desired his mercy to be exercised in favour of Admiral Byng , his Majesty replied , "You have taught me , sir , to seek for the popular opinion elsewhere than in the House
of Commons . ' In the few boroughs that were not absolutely ruled by thc aristocracy , bribery and intimidation formed thc " constitutional" power . Foote , in one of his comedies , makes an elector sav , "When I
first became an elector , I got only thirty guineas for a pair of knight ' s boots , whereas my neighbour , for just the same affair , had the luck to receive a fifty-pound note for a pair of wash-leather breeches . ' This was
only a fair representation of parliamentary corruption . In 1 790 , a goosebcrry-bush was sold , during an election , for , £ 800 . Thc polling , in case of a contested coin * tyclect'on ,
lasted forty clays , during which time the public-houses were thrown open , ancl thc candidates paid for all that wns therein eaten or drank . In 1767 , Lord Che--tcrfield
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Table Of Contents.
TABLE OF CONTENTS .
PAGES F REEMASONRY AND ISRAELITISM 607 & 60 S TRADING ON MASONIC REPUTATION 608 PROV . GRAND LODGE 01 * CHESHIRE 60 S , 609 , & 610 PROV . GRAND LODGE OF WARWICKSHIRE ... 610 PROV . G RAND LODGE OF J ERSEY 611
WEST KENT MASONIC CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION 611 S COTLAND 611 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS 612 THE MASONIC SEASON 612 M ULTUM IN PARVO 613 ORIGINAL
CORRESPONDENCE" Freemasonry and Judaism 613 & 614 The Royal Order of Scotland 614 Bro . Buchan Again ... ... ... ... 615 PROV . GRAND CHAPTER OF YORKSHIRE 615 CONSECRATION OF A CHAPTER AT KIDDERMINSTER 616 THE
CRAFTMetropolitan ... ... ... ... ... 616 Provincial ... ... ... ... ... 616 ROYAL ARCH 616 MARK MASONRY 616 FOREIGN MASONIC
INTELLIGENCECanada ... ... ... ... 617 Turkey ... ... ... ... ... ... 617 POETRY—Sonnet 617 MASONIC MEETINGS FOR NEXT WEEK . 61 S ADVERTISEMENTS 605 , 6 o 5 , 61 S , 619 , & 620
Freemasonry & Israelitism.
FREEMASONRY & ISRAELITISM .
BY BRO . WILLIAM C ARPENTER , P . M . & P . Z . 177 . XIX . In my last paper I glanced at thc military and maritimequalities which are united in the Anglo-Saxon race , by the exercise
of which thcyhave asserted and maintained their high position amongst the nations of thc earth . Notwithstanding the comparatively small extent of their home-territory , and the inferiority of their military strength
and appliances , they have achieved those conquests and hold those possessions which have already been described . What they have lacked in the numerical strength of their armies , they have made up in their
wonderful pluck and endurance . They are brave in fight , and heroic in suffering . No privations or discomforts have sufficed to make them succumb in the face of an enemy ,
however numerous and powerful , or advantageously circumstanced he might be . They have " supreme endurance in war and in labour ; " and their kindred in Germany and in America exhibit thc same invincible
strength and heroism , and the same selfsustaining qualities . One of the most ardent desires of the first Napoleon was to secure the alliance of England , believing that France and England united might rule
the world . But it was not to be . Ihe pre-eminence was reserved for the Saxon , and England , Germany , and America—one race—now rule the world . To England it has been given to occupy thc more
prominent part in din using the truth , lor thc preservation and promulgation of which Israel was selected , and for the accomplishment of which , power and independence were indispensable . Accordingly , thc
Anglo-Saxon history is a continuous record of triumphs over difficulties , and of conquests over the opposing powers of darkness and oppression . On this I must be permitted to quote thc testimony of one of a
r ' . val race , the Abbe Milot , a French Roman Catholic and professor , to whom I have before referred . In thc preface to his " Elements of thc History of England , " he thus writes , and although his sketch is
tinctured by thc bias which we might expcctin one so far removed from us in race ancl religion , his admiration for our character and achievements was not overcome by his predilections and prejudices : —
" No modern history , it must be confessed , presents to our view so great a number of striking pictures as that of England . We
Freemasonry & Israelitism.
see here a people free , warlike , unconquerable , and a long time ferocious , preserve the same characteristic qualities through a successive train of bloody revolutions . Depressed by the arms and the despotism
of thc ambitious William , Duke of Normandy ; gloriously governed by Henry the Second , the most powerful monarch of Europe , though embroiled with the Church ; they groaned afterwards under the tyranny
of King John ; and this very tyranny procured them the Great Charter , the eternal basis of their freedom . The English then imposed their crown on France , drove out the French prince they had called to the
throne , ancl became the terror of the monarchy of Clovis , which seemed on the point of submitting to the yoke . But France , at length , after an interval of calamity and madness , called forth its
resources , recovered its ancient glory , inseparable from the cause of its kings ; triumphed over a haughty enemy , whose victories were thc fruit of our fatal dissensions ; and to revenge itself had only to
leave its enemy a prey to dissensions still more cruel . Two rival , but kindred , houses , impelled to arms by rage and ambition , snatched from each other ' s brow a diadem drenched in blood ; princes assassinated
princes ; thc people massacred each other for thc choice of a master , and England became a theatre of anarchy ancl carnage . Under thc Tudors we sec tranquility restored , and the national strength
augmented ; but liberty destroyed . A prince , violent and capricious , habituates to the chains of despotism this proud and restless
nation . He domineers over religion itself ; and Rome , for having opposed him , loses , at one blow , a kingdom which had ever been one of its most fruitful sources of
services and of riches . Mary attempts , in vain , to restore , by severe punishments , a worship which , having truth for its basis , ought to subdue minds by no arms but those of persuasion . She succeeds only in
making inconstant hypocrites , or inflexible fanatics ; she renders for ever detestable herself and the faith she wishes to establish . At length Elizabeth reigns . Her genius enchains fortune , fertilizes tlie earth ,
animates all the arts , opens to her people an immense career of commerce , ancl fixes in thc ocean thc foundations of the English Dominion . Continually surrounded by enemies , foreign or domestic , she defeats
conspiracies by her prudence , ancl triumphs over the forces of Philip the Second by her courage . Happy had she known how to conquer her own heart , and to spare a rival , whose blood , alone , tarnishes her memorv !
But how impenetrable are the decrees of Heaven ! The son of Mary Stuart succeeds to Elizabeth ; the scaffold , on which his mother received the stroke of death , serves
him as a step to mount the throne of England , from which his son is destined to be precipitated , to expire also on a scaffold . It is at this period wc see multiplying before our eves those celebrated scenes of which
the universe furnishes no example : an absurd fanaticism forming profound systems of policy , at the same time that it signalises itself by prodigies of foil }* and extravagance : an enlightened enthusiast ,
a great general aud statesman , opening to himself , under the mask of piety , thc road to thc supreme power ; subjects carrying on judicially the trial of a virtuous monarch ,
and causing him to be publicly beheaded , as a rebel . Thc hypocritical author of all this , reigning with as much glory as power : making himself the arbiter of crowns , and enjoying , even to his tomb , the fruits of his tyranny : the Parliament—the slave of the
Freemasonry & Israelitism.
Tudors , the tyrant of the Stuarts , the accomplice and dupe of Cromwell , exercising the noblest right which men can possess over their fellow-creatures—that of making laws , and maintaining their execution . At
length , from this chaos of horrors , comes forth a government which excites the admiration of Europe . A sudden revolution again changes the face of affairs . The
lawful heir is acknowledged ; his stormy reign developcs the sentiment of patriotism ; the imprudence of his successor alarms the nationalspirit of liberty ; his subjects revolt ; they call in a deliverer ; the Stadtholder of
Holland dethrones , without bloodshed , his timid and irresolute father-in-law ; the usurpation is established by the sanction of the laws ; but those very laws impose conditions on the prince , and whilst he holds
the balance of Europe , his will is almost without force in England . After him a woman presides over the destinies of nations , makes France tremble , humbles Louis thc
Fourteenth , and covers herself with immortal glory , by giving him peace , in spite of the clamours of an ambitious cabal . Anne , with less talent and more virtues than
Elizabeth , has merited one of the first places among great monarchs . The sceptre passes again into foreign hands , complicated interests embarrass the government , and the British Constitution seems declining from its original principles . "
The averment with which the Abbe concludes is true . Upon the death of Anne , George , Elector of Hanover , was proclaim' d king . The Whigs having thus secured their object , thc Tories opened a correspondence
with " thc Pretender . " The West of England and Scotland , rising , proclaimed Charles Stuart king , and a day was fixed for his coronation . But the Whigs again triumphed . The Pretender and many of his distinguished
adherents escaped to France , and the Hanoverian family was established on the throne . Thc party contests of thc Whigs and Tories , however , waxed fiercer and fiercer ; and in the time of George thc Second , bribery and
intimidation were unscrupulously employed by one party to put clown the other , so that Parliament became a hotbed of corruption , and the instrument of aristocratic misrule ancl violence . The electoral system was an
impudent sham , employed for thc purpose of maintaining and strengthening the power of which the aristocracy had possessed themselves . As Sidney Smith wrote , "Thc country belongs to thc Duke of Rutland ,
Lord Lonsdale , thc Duke of Newcastle , and jroout twenty other holders of boroughs . They are our masters . " So far was the House of Commons from being a representation of the people , that when Pitt
informed Ihe king that the House of Commons desired his mercy to be exercised in favour of Admiral Byng , his Majesty replied , "You have taught me , sir , to seek for the popular opinion elsewhere than in the House
of Commons . ' In the few boroughs that were not absolutely ruled by thc aristocracy , bribery and intimidation formed thc " constitutional" power . Foote , in one of his comedies , makes an elector sav , "When I
first became an elector , I got only thirty guineas for a pair of knight ' s boots , whereas my neighbour , for just the same affair , had the luck to receive a fifty-pound note for a pair of wash-leather breeches . ' This was
only a fair representation of parliamentary corruption . In 1 790 , a goosebcrry-bush was sold , during an election , for , £ 800 . Thc polling , in case of a contested coin * tyclect'on ,
lasted forty clays , during which time the public-houses were thrown open , ancl thc candidates paid for all that wns therein eaten or drank . In 1767 , Lord Che--tcrfield