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A Tale Of Venice In 1781.
in black , like a notary , came to inform them that they were at liberty , but must leave Venice in twenty-four hours . Away they went in due course , glad to get quit of such a trying little episode on any terms ; and when they had returned to England and settled down to their quiet country lives , and were married and had families , the recollection of their Venetian trouble graduallfaded from their memories .
y One day , when they were going to attend the Grand Lodge in Great Queen Street , where it still is , though happily renovated and rebuilt , under the favourable auspices of our good old friend Bro . John Havers and other worthy Masons , they were accosted by a person in the street , who spoke to them in Italian , and asked them for alms as a Mason . Lo and behold it was their Venetian friend !
After the Venetian Republic had fallen , and the "Cisalpine Republic" was introduced , our friend and brother , too purely patriotic for the new realm , had been compelled to leave his native country , and was now an exile in a strange and foreign land , unhappy and pitiable lot ! I need not add that two such good Masons as our friends were not oblivious either of their duty or their privileges in this respectand that our Venetian
, brother , after some years of peaceful sojourn in England , where he died , never ceased to acknowledge that true-hearted fraternity which is not sundered by difference of nationality or language , but runs all the world over like a magic chain of electric light , diffusing warmth , lustre , and benificence on all who are encircled by its mystic bands , which time itself is unable to weaken , much less to dissolve or destroy !
A New History Of Freemasonry.
A NEW HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY .
THE following article recently appeared in our excellent contemporary , the Keystone , of Philadelphia , and we reprint it for the information of Masonic students , some of whom it will startle not a little . WE take the following from the last number of the N . Y . Dispatch : "In the issue of the Keystone 15 th inst ., the following extract from an article
, written by myself , and printed in your journal , on the change of Freemasonry from an operative to a speculative , appears : " ' During the troubles which desolated England about the middle of the seventeenth century , and after the death of Charles I ., in 1649 , the Masons of England , and more particularly those of Scotland , laboured in secret for the re-establishment of the throne destroyed b y Cromwell ; and for this purpose
they instituted many degrees hitherto unknown and totally foreign to the spirit and nature of Freemasonry , and by such innovations gave to our Fraternit y a political character . These discussions produced a separation between the Operative and Accepted Masons . The latter were honorary members , who , as per long-established usage , had been accepted into the corporation for the advantage of which their influential position might afford . Now mark , this very position at that time made them naturall y the adherents of the throne and strong supporters of Charles II ., who during his exile was received as an Accepted Mason b y their election , and in consequence of the benefits he derived
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A Tale Of Venice In 1781.
in black , like a notary , came to inform them that they were at liberty , but must leave Venice in twenty-four hours . Away they went in due course , glad to get quit of such a trying little episode on any terms ; and when they had returned to England and settled down to their quiet country lives , and were married and had families , the recollection of their Venetian trouble graduallfaded from their memories .
y One day , when they were going to attend the Grand Lodge in Great Queen Street , where it still is , though happily renovated and rebuilt , under the favourable auspices of our good old friend Bro . John Havers and other worthy Masons , they were accosted by a person in the street , who spoke to them in Italian , and asked them for alms as a Mason . Lo and behold it was their Venetian friend !
After the Venetian Republic had fallen , and the "Cisalpine Republic" was introduced , our friend and brother , too purely patriotic for the new realm , had been compelled to leave his native country , and was now an exile in a strange and foreign land , unhappy and pitiable lot ! I need not add that two such good Masons as our friends were not oblivious either of their duty or their privileges in this respectand that our Venetian
, brother , after some years of peaceful sojourn in England , where he died , never ceased to acknowledge that true-hearted fraternity which is not sundered by difference of nationality or language , but runs all the world over like a magic chain of electric light , diffusing warmth , lustre , and benificence on all who are encircled by its mystic bands , which time itself is unable to weaken , much less to dissolve or destroy !
A New History Of Freemasonry.
A NEW HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY .
THE following article recently appeared in our excellent contemporary , the Keystone , of Philadelphia , and we reprint it for the information of Masonic students , some of whom it will startle not a little . WE take the following from the last number of the N . Y . Dispatch : "In the issue of the Keystone 15 th inst ., the following extract from an article
, written by myself , and printed in your journal , on the change of Freemasonry from an operative to a speculative , appears : " ' During the troubles which desolated England about the middle of the seventeenth century , and after the death of Charles I ., in 1649 , the Masons of England , and more particularly those of Scotland , laboured in secret for the re-establishment of the throne destroyed b y Cromwell ; and for this purpose
they instituted many degrees hitherto unknown and totally foreign to the spirit and nature of Freemasonry , and by such innovations gave to our Fraternit y a political character . These discussions produced a separation between the Operative and Accepted Masons . The latter were honorary members , who , as per long-established usage , had been accepted into the corporation for the advantage of which their influential position might afford . Now mark , this very position at that time made them naturall y the adherents of the throne and strong supporters of Charles II ., who during his exile was received as an Accepted Mason b y their election , and in consequence of the benefits he derived