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Monthly Masonic Summary.
Monthly Masonic Summary .
WE have not a great deal of Masonic news to mention or comment upon . The Quarterly Communication lias past and gone , and , to us , with no satisfactory result .
\ Bro . John Havers , P . G . W ., well-known for his many and great services to our Order for long years , proposed to make a grateful recognition of our cherished Grand Master ' s safe return home by a grant ot £ 2 , 000 to the Eestoration Funds of St . Paul ' s and St . Alban ' s Cathedral . He
selected these two special objects because connected with our Masonic annals and because they pointed to the operative and speculative sides of our older Masonic history . This reasonable proposal was met by an appeal " ad hominem " as if it were a
sectarian and denominational grant , and by an urgent invocation of that theory of Masonic donation of funds onl y for Masonic purposes—a rule which , though no doubt true in the main , has its exception , as most rules on earth have . On these two
grounds apparently a majority of Grand Lodge rejected the proposal , though a committee , it was agreed , should be appointed to consider in what way such a recognition should be made . We , as we said before regret the rejection of the oriinal
, g proposition of Bro . Havers , feeling that Grand Lodge has lost a good opportunit y , u even it went a little out of its usual routine , of doing a pleasant thine ; in a graceful way . Some brethren seemed to be apprehensive that
the matter took a denominational iorni— -a very great mistake , as it in no way urn' aUtl ot , leratook ll P the old story , that Uiant y begins at home . " Anyhow , on one ground or another , a majorit y objected to the original proportion and supported the amendment , and s ° " cadit qiuestic . " We feel that in September it will be all too late to move any
Monthly Masonic Summary.
further in the matter , and Grand Lodge will probablycontent itself withrecording its grateful recognition of the happy return of our Grand Master to England and the active duties of Freemasonry . The increase of our Order continues , and have
we constantl y to report consecrations of New Lod ges and Chapters . We are afraid , however , that there is another side to this pleasing picturenamely , too much of a seeking of Masonic materia ] , respectability and prosperityfor what it can give us , for what we ourselves can obtain from it for ourselves in a darker hour on a rainy day .
Sonnet.
SONNET .
BY BRO . KEY . H . GORDON . ( For the Masonic Magazine . ) What eye—what least observant
eye but scans A dark cloud looming in the eastern sk y , Which still appears moreominouslynigh ; Yea , half of the wide orient heav ' n now spans , Presaging wrath ?—Ye Brother Ottomans
Of the Masonic heav ' n compacted tie , If ye would live , restore full speedily A land—a sacred land , which is not man ' s , But God ' s—to Brother Hebrew Masons , ' who Your surest friends will , in return , be found
; Friends no less mystic-bound to usto you—Than by an instinct , shared the whole world round , 'Gainst that bleak realm—that dark , Cimmerian Clime In which mistaken law , —our Craft ' s a crime .
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Monthly Masonic Summary.
Monthly Masonic Summary .
WE have not a great deal of Masonic news to mention or comment upon . The Quarterly Communication lias past and gone , and , to us , with no satisfactory result .
\ Bro . John Havers , P . G . W ., well-known for his many and great services to our Order for long years , proposed to make a grateful recognition of our cherished Grand Master ' s safe return home by a grant ot £ 2 , 000 to the Eestoration Funds of St . Paul ' s and St . Alban ' s Cathedral . He
selected these two special objects because connected with our Masonic annals and because they pointed to the operative and speculative sides of our older Masonic history . This reasonable proposal was met by an appeal " ad hominem " as if it were a
sectarian and denominational grant , and by an urgent invocation of that theory of Masonic donation of funds onl y for Masonic purposes—a rule which , though no doubt true in the main , has its exception , as most rules on earth have . On these two
grounds apparently a majority of Grand Lodge rejected the proposal , though a committee , it was agreed , should be appointed to consider in what way such a recognition should be made . We , as we said before regret the rejection of the oriinal
, g proposition of Bro . Havers , feeling that Grand Lodge has lost a good opportunit y , u even it went a little out of its usual routine , of doing a pleasant thine ; in a graceful way . Some brethren seemed to be apprehensive that
the matter took a denominational iorni— -a very great mistake , as it in no way urn' aUtl ot , leratook ll P the old story , that Uiant y begins at home . " Anyhow , on one ground or another , a majorit y objected to the original proportion and supported the amendment , and s ° " cadit qiuestic . " We feel that in September it will be all too late to move any
Monthly Masonic Summary.
further in the matter , and Grand Lodge will probablycontent itself withrecording its grateful recognition of the happy return of our Grand Master to England and the active duties of Freemasonry . The increase of our Order continues , and have
we constantl y to report consecrations of New Lod ges and Chapters . We are afraid , however , that there is another side to this pleasing picturenamely , too much of a seeking of Masonic materia ] , respectability and prosperityfor what it can give us , for what we ourselves can obtain from it for ourselves in a darker hour on a rainy day .
Sonnet.
SONNET .
BY BRO . KEY . H . GORDON . ( For the Masonic Magazine . ) What eye—what least observant
eye but scans A dark cloud looming in the eastern sk y , Which still appears moreominouslynigh ; Yea , half of the wide orient heav ' n now spans , Presaging wrath ?—Ye Brother Ottomans
Of the Masonic heav ' n compacted tie , If ye would live , restore full speedily A land—a sacred land , which is not man ' s , But God ' s—to Brother Hebrew Masons , ' who Your surest friends will , in return , be found
; Friends no less mystic-bound to usto you—Than by an instinct , shared the whole world round , 'Gainst that bleak realm—that dark , Cimmerian Clime In which mistaken law , —our Craft ' s a crime .