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Monthly Masonic Summary.

Monthly Masonic Summary .

WHEN these lines meet our readers eyes , the old year Avill have passed away , and a neAV year will have daAvned upon the Avorld and upon the Craft . 1875 has been a most eventful year in some respects to English Freemasonry , and , we may add , also as regards the Order at large everyAvhere . In England the Masonic body , always loyal , has been greatly gratified by the election and installation of the Prince of Wales as

Grand Master of our great fraternity . Those of us who were present in the Albert Hall , April 2 Sth , 1 S 75 , will never forget the gathering or the scene . Never Avas a more enthusiastic or orderly assembly collected together ; never did any arrangements reflect so much credit on those Avho nlanned and conducted them .

Over 7 , 000 Masons were ranged in the gay amphitheatre , and all took their places and left them without confusion and without a hitch . The loyalty of the meeting may be said to haA'o been most strikingly evinced alike iu the reception accorded to the Grand

Master , as in the deafening cheers Avbich greeted his advent and his departure , and Avere continued , more or less , during the Avhole proceedings . It Avas a spectacle Avorthy of the occasion , of th > 5 Order , and of the august Prince

Avhose installation a distinguished and united brotherhood thus hailed with one glad Avelcome and one loyal acclaim ! For the Order itself the Grand Mastershi p of the Prince of Wales was more than a more fact of deA'oted enthusiasm on the

one side , of a courtly pageant on the other . The Prince of Wales , the heir apparent to tho throne , had openly avowed his recognition of our Craft , at a time , too , Avhen the flood gate of ultramontane virulence , and even of Papal condemnationhad opened

, unpit yingly upon onr sodality . At the moment when H . E . IT . the Prince of Wales , as it were , came to our rescue , the most odious imputations on our motives and aims were sedulouslv scattered abroad , in

Avholesalc invective , Avith a proficiency of ecclesiastical and episcopal Billingsgate never before knoAvn , and which Avill hardly ever be subsequently surpassed . For Ave Avere told—Ave the loyal , peaceable , laAV-abiding , charitable , and

warm-hearted Freemasons of England—that Ave belonged to a secret , revolutionary , and infidel order , Avhose efforts Avere characterized everyAvhere by sedition and anarchy ; Avhose one great aim Avas the overthroAv of the home , the altar , and the throne ; ancl in the midst of all this fervour of

ultramontane incrimination , at the very tunc when on every side of us libellers ¦ were many and calumny Avas rampant , the- son ancl successor of our gracious Queen—the daughte ) . ' of a Mason , let us rememberproclaimed himself a Mason too , and IAVO of his brothers openly joined our traduced

fraternity . What more , then , could mendacity do , or falsehood assert ? If the eventual monarch of this realm , thus , openly patronized us by presiding personally over these Avieked Freemasonsit

, Avas epiite clear , either , as Mr . Weller Avould say , that " things Avere going Avrong , " or the Romish accusation Avas a " mockery , a delusion , and a snare . " It was not very likely that tho Prince of Wales Avould place himself at the head of a

revolutionary or socialistic fraternity and hence the effect was wonderful , and the ansAver complete ! Strange indeed that even such a vindication Avas needed for our truly unrevolutionary and beneficent Order , but great is the extent of gullibility , and numerous are the " gobemouches" of society and tho Avorld still .

Indeed , it required all the audacity of Avhich even ultramontane writers and Jesuit clique arecapablo , to venture to scatter Avholesale sneh a " plethora " of abuse , such childish accusations , and such ridiculous allegations . Let us hope that they are ansAveredand that they may profit by Avhat

, amounts to an indignant rebuke . We Avish Ave could add that there Avas any chance of a lull in this hurricane of T

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Untitled Article 1
Monthly Masonic Summary. Article 2
THE HONBLE MRS. ALDWORTH. Article 3
THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCES OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY. Article 4
THE MASONIC SIGN. Article 6
AN INDIAN MASONIC WELCOME TO OUR GRAND MASTER. Article 7
LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF SCOTTISH FREEMASONRY. Article 8
BYE-LAWS OF THE YORK LODGE: No. 236. Article 10
EARLY MEETINGS OF THE GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND. Article 14
CURFEW MUST NOT RING TO-NIGHT. Article 16
THE FREEMASONS AND ARCHTECTURE IN ENGLAND. Article 17
WOMAN'S CHOICE —THE STORY OF A HERO. Article 18
UNDER CURRENTS. Article 23
THE LAST WISH. Article 25
NOTES ON THE OLD MINUTE BOOKS OF THE BRITISH UNION LODGE, NO. 114, IPSWICH. AD. 1762. Article 25
AN ORIGINAL TOAST, Article 30
SONNET. Article 30
A WORD TO THE WISE. Article 31
CONTEMPORARY LETTERS ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Article 32
THE NEW YEAR. Article 35
THE WIDOW'S STRATAGEM. Article 36
NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. Article 39
ADDRESS OF THE V. H. AND E. SIR KT. COL. W. J. B. MACLEOD MOORE, Article 43
THE SITE OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE DISCOVERED. Article 45
Review. Article 48
SONNET. Article 49
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Monthly Masonic Summary.

Monthly Masonic Summary .

WHEN these lines meet our readers eyes , the old year Avill have passed away , and a neAV year will have daAvned upon the Avorld and upon the Craft . 1875 has been a most eventful year in some respects to English Freemasonry , and , we may add , also as regards the Order at large everyAvhere . In England the Masonic body , always loyal , has been greatly gratified by the election and installation of the Prince of Wales as

Grand Master of our great fraternity . Those of us who were present in the Albert Hall , April 2 Sth , 1 S 75 , will never forget the gathering or the scene . Never Avas a more enthusiastic or orderly assembly collected together ; never did any arrangements reflect so much credit on those Avho nlanned and conducted them .

Over 7 , 000 Masons were ranged in the gay amphitheatre , and all took their places and left them without confusion and without a hitch . The loyalty of the meeting may be said to haA'o been most strikingly evinced alike iu the reception accorded to the Grand

Master , as in the deafening cheers Avbich greeted his advent and his departure , and Avere continued , more or less , during the Avhole proceedings . It Avas a spectacle Avorthy of the occasion , of th > 5 Order , and of the august Prince

Avhose installation a distinguished and united brotherhood thus hailed with one glad Avelcome and one loyal acclaim ! For the Order itself the Grand Mastershi p of the Prince of Wales was more than a more fact of deA'oted enthusiasm on the

one side , of a courtly pageant on the other . The Prince of Wales , the heir apparent to tho throne , had openly avowed his recognition of our Craft , at a time , too , Avhen the flood gate of ultramontane virulence , and even of Papal condemnationhad opened

, unpit yingly upon onr sodality . At the moment when H . E . IT . the Prince of Wales , as it were , came to our rescue , the most odious imputations on our motives and aims were sedulouslv scattered abroad , in

Avholesalc invective , Avith a proficiency of ecclesiastical and episcopal Billingsgate never before knoAvn , and which Avill hardly ever be subsequently surpassed . For Ave Avere told—Ave the loyal , peaceable , laAV-abiding , charitable , and

warm-hearted Freemasons of England—that Ave belonged to a secret , revolutionary , and infidel order , Avhose efforts Avere characterized everyAvhere by sedition and anarchy ; Avhose one great aim Avas the overthroAv of the home , the altar , and the throne ; ancl in the midst of all this fervour of

ultramontane incrimination , at the very tunc when on every side of us libellers ¦ were many and calumny Avas rampant , the- son ancl successor of our gracious Queen—the daughte ) . ' of a Mason , let us rememberproclaimed himself a Mason too , and IAVO of his brothers openly joined our traduced

fraternity . What more , then , could mendacity do , or falsehood assert ? If the eventual monarch of this realm , thus , openly patronized us by presiding personally over these Avieked Freemasonsit

, Avas epiite clear , either , as Mr . Weller Avould say , that " things Avere going Avrong , " or the Romish accusation Avas a " mockery , a delusion , and a snare . " It was not very likely that tho Prince of Wales Avould place himself at the head of a

revolutionary or socialistic fraternity and hence the effect was wonderful , and the ansAver complete ! Strange indeed that even such a vindication Avas needed for our truly unrevolutionary and beneficent Order , but great is the extent of gullibility , and numerous are the " gobemouches" of society and tho Avorld still .

Indeed , it required all the audacity of Avhich even ultramontane writers and Jesuit clique arecapablo , to venture to scatter Avholesale sneh a " plethora " of abuse , such childish accusations , and such ridiculous allegations . Let us hope that they are ansAveredand that they may profit by Avhat

, amounts to an indignant rebuke . We Avish Ave could add that there Avas any chance of a lull in this hurricane of T

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