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Monthly Masonic Summary.
Monthly Masonic Summary .
We have little to report this month . Our Royal Grand Master has been suffering from an abscess , but has noAV happily recovered , ancl has started for Villafranca , via , Paris . H . E . H . the Princess of Wales has left for Athens .
ivhere she has arrived safely , and amid great popular enthusiasm . Sir G . Elliott has been installed P . G . M . for South Wales , before a large gathering , and amid much applause ;
many of our JVI asonic notabilities Avere present . The struggle in France continues , though Avhat the result may be , at present it is almost impossible to predict .
We are still very hopeful that the good sense of the French brethren , alike in Paris and the provinces , will resent the dictation of a turbulent minority , and prevent the isolation of French
Freemasonry , Avhich , if this unhappy revolution is accomplished , will undoubtedly take place . Some of our French brethren appear to have very lax notions of Masonic national or
international law . Indeed , they seem to have a tendency to no law at all , to Masonic anarchy , to the destructive theory of a Masonic " Commune . " ¦ A Bro . Adrien Grimaux ( we
believe an able writer otherwise ) , has distinguished himself , ( pace Brother Caubet ) , with asserting the following paradoxes in the "Monde Magonnique , "—first , that a spurious so-called
Grande Loge des Philadelphes , etc ., is not spurious because the English Grand Lodge refused it a warrant ; and , secondly , that it is not clandestine , because it openly asserted its existence .
These theories are happily novel in England , though they appear not to be altogether unknoAvn in the United States , where , hoAvever , the same Masonic theories of Law and Order
happily exist as here . We think it right to note them for the information of all Masonic friends , and to reprobate , them in the face of the civilized and lawful Masonic Avorld .
This illegal body is otherwise practically beneath notice , and may well be left to its OAvn utter insignificance . 2 N
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Masonic Summary.
Monthly Masonic Summary .
We have little to report this month . Our Royal Grand Master has been suffering from an abscess , but has noAV happily recovered , ancl has started for Villafranca , via , Paris . H . E . H . the Princess of Wales has left for Athens .
ivhere she has arrived safely , and amid great popular enthusiasm . Sir G . Elliott has been installed P . G . M . for South Wales , before a large gathering , and amid much applause ;
many of our JVI asonic notabilities Avere present . The struggle in France continues , though Avhat the result may be , at present it is almost impossible to predict .
We are still very hopeful that the good sense of the French brethren , alike in Paris and the provinces , will resent the dictation of a turbulent minority , and prevent the isolation of French
Freemasonry , Avhich , if this unhappy revolution is accomplished , will undoubtedly take place . Some of our French brethren appear to have very lax notions of Masonic national or
international law . Indeed , they seem to have a tendency to no law at all , to Masonic anarchy , to the destructive theory of a Masonic " Commune . " ¦ A Bro . Adrien Grimaux ( we
believe an able writer otherwise ) , has distinguished himself , ( pace Brother Caubet ) , with asserting the following paradoxes in the "Monde Magonnique , "—first , that a spurious so-called
Grande Loge des Philadelphes , etc ., is not spurious because the English Grand Lodge refused it a warrant ; and , secondly , that it is not clandestine , because it openly asserted its existence .
These theories are happily novel in England , though they appear not to be altogether unknoAvn in the United States , where , hoAvever , the same Masonic theories of Law and Order
happily exist as here . We think it right to note them for the information of all Masonic friends , and to reprobate , them in the face of the civilized and lawful Masonic Avorld .
This illegal body is otherwise practically beneath notice , and may well be left to its OAvn utter insignificance . 2 N