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Momthly Masonic Summary.
Momthly Masonic Summary .
WE have not a great deal to report this month as regards Freemasonry at home . It is like a yacht in mid-channel , running along with a favouring breeze , all sails set . May its fair weather
continue ! Abroad , the aspect of Freemasonry is not comfortable , or re-assuring , especially in France and Belgium . The "libres penseurs , " ( and an advanced party , ) have apparently obtained
a great predominance in the Lodges , and the Grand Orient of France has , in its recent sitting , by a large majority , erased the name of God from the Constitutions . Henceforward the Profession of French Masonic Belief rests on a political cry , and a nihilistic sentence .
, V \ itiiout saying too much , or speaking too hastily , we are inclined to think that , by its recent perverse agitation , as well by its last suicidal decision , the ruling section of the Grand Orient nas un-Masoned , ( if we may use such 1 word
S , ) French Freemasonry . That j to say , in our humble opinion , it | as severed itself deliberately from We Great Masonic Family , and ceases ; ° be , "ipso facto , " either a legitimate Poiiyon- Magonnioue , " or a lawful Ul'and Lod
ge 1 It has no Grand Master , and it has S i recognition of . the Most
iiv fl f i ° m S to om" insulfir and perhaps w , , view > " c ' est le commence" ^ de la fin . " We can have no hope
Momthly Masonic Summary.
I for French Freemasonry working and resting on so rotten a foundation , and with such unsound principles of action .
To Bro. S. B. Ellis, W.M., Sheffield.
TO BRO . S . B . ELLIS , W . M ., SHEFFIELD .
BY BRO . GEORGE MARKHAH TWEDDELL . FRIEND , though we never met , and ne'ei may meet , Yet bound together with "the mystic tie , " There seems a friendship that can never die
Between thyself and me ; and I will greet Thee with a verse , such as my Muse can give-No " sugar d Sonnet , " such as Skakspere threw Broadcast ainoncrst his friends . * HI ™
ghttering clew Thrown from an angel ' s whig ; yet it may live When thou and I are both beneath the sod , Prized by our children ' s children , just to prove
The Merchant and the Poet both could love The Beautiful , through all the works of God ; And , through the teachings of Freemasonry , They felt their souls from worldly fetters free . Rosa Cottage , Stolcesley , Aug . 21 , 1877 .
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Momthly Masonic Summary.
Momthly Masonic Summary .
WE have not a great deal to report this month as regards Freemasonry at home . It is like a yacht in mid-channel , running along with a favouring breeze , all sails set . May its fair weather
continue ! Abroad , the aspect of Freemasonry is not comfortable , or re-assuring , especially in France and Belgium . The "libres penseurs , " ( and an advanced party , ) have apparently obtained
a great predominance in the Lodges , and the Grand Orient of France has , in its recent sitting , by a large majority , erased the name of God from the Constitutions . Henceforward the Profession of French Masonic Belief rests on a political cry , and a nihilistic sentence .
, V \ itiiout saying too much , or speaking too hastily , we are inclined to think that , by its recent perverse agitation , as well by its last suicidal decision , the ruling section of the Grand Orient nas un-Masoned , ( if we may use such 1 word
S , ) French Freemasonry . That j to say , in our humble opinion , it | as severed itself deliberately from We Great Masonic Family , and ceases ; ° be , "ipso facto , " either a legitimate Poiiyon- Magonnioue , " or a lawful Ul'and Lod
ge 1 It has no Grand Master , and it has S i recognition of . the Most
iiv fl f i ° m S to om" insulfir and perhaps w , , view > " c ' est le commence" ^ de la fin . " We can have no hope
Momthly Masonic Summary.
I for French Freemasonry working and resting on so rotten a foundation , and with such unsound principles of action .
To Bro. S. B. Ellis, W.M., Sheffield.
TO BRO . S . B . ELLIS , W . M ., SHEFFIELD .
BY BRO . GEORGE MARKHAH TWEDDELL . FRIEND , though we never met , and ne'ei may meet , Yet bound together with "the mystic tie , " There seems a friendship that can never die
Between thyself and me ; and I will greet Thee with a verse , such as my Muse can give-No " sugar d Sonnet , " such as Skakspere threw Broadcast ainoncrst his friends . * HI ™
ghttering clew Thrown from an angel ' s whig ; yet it may live When thou and I are both beneath the sod , Prized by our children ' s children , just to prove
The Merchant and the Poet both could love The Beautiful , through all the works of God ; And , through the teachings of Freemasonry , They felt their souls from worldly fetters free . Rosa Cottage , Stolcesley , Aug . 21 , 1877 .