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Monthly Masonic Summary.
Monthly Masonic Summary .
WE have not much to report , except the great Masonic Gathering at Glasgow , and the rapid increase of our Lodges in Great Britain , especially under the English Grand Lodge . The Masonic Gathering at Glasgow lias been a great success ; and our Koyal Grand Master and Ms amiable and
august Consort received , as they well deserved , the enthusiastic greetings of the loyal inhabitants of Glasgow and the Masonic body . Abroad , we have to note increased violence of the Ultramontane Press . We -wish we could think that the
course foreign Freemasonry is taking is altogether conducive to the best interests and the true position of our great Order ; but truth and a conscientious conviction on the subject compel us to add , that we cannot unfortunately
think so . The French G . Orient , in our humble opinion , is taking a most retrogade and downward course at the same time . It has determined by a large majority to agitate the entirety of
French Freemasonry , with a consideration , of whether it is advisable to maintain the Article of the Constitutional Ws relative to a Belief in God and the Immortality of the Soul . What the result of such an appeal
^ ust be , in the state of things and opinion in France , it is not very difficult to anticipate , and we conceive the
step to be fraught with grave dangers to French Freemasonry . The Council of the Order , presided over by Bro . St . Jean , Bros . Caubet and Wyrouboff , represent the movement , not as a negation of dogmatabut
, an affirmation of toleration . But they forget that in the very step they are now apparently contemplating , they are fulfilling the prophecy of the Bishop of Orleans , and playing into the hands of the Ultramontane Party .
Tney are , in fact , inaugurating a Masonic regime of the great goddess Eeason , and incorporating the teaching of a materialistic negativism in the laws of French Freemasonry . They may disguise the act itself
under many fine phrases and rhapsodical utterances ; but to the Anglo-Saxon mind , plain and practical , the removal of such an affirmation of simple faith in the T . G . A . O . T . U . is simply a surrender to the unbelief and atheism of "Iconoclasts" of every kind .
By this foolish and perverse step , if persisted in , they will sever French Freemasonry from Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry ; and we cannot see how any Anglo-Saxon Mason can enter a French Lodge , from which the Bible has been
removed , and where Freemasons have not the courage to own their belief in the Great Architect of the Universe . "We deeply deplore the fact as it can only place arms in the hands of the violent Ultramontane Party in France , who will not be slow to use them against Freemasonry , botli in general and in particular .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Masonic Summary.
Monthly Masonic Summary .
WE have not much to report , except the great Masonic Gathering at Glasgow , and the rapid increase of our Lodges in Great Britain , especially under the English Grand Lodge . The Masonic Gathering at Glasgow lias been a great success ; and our Koyal Grand Master and Ms amiable and
august Consort received , as they well deserved , the enthusiastic greetings of the loyal inhabitants of Glasgow and the Masonic body . Abroad , we have to note increased violence of the Ultramontane Press . We -wish we could think that the
course foreign Freemasonry is taking is altogether conducive to the best interests and the true position of our great Order ; but truth and a conscientious conviction on the subject compel us to add , that we cannot unfortunately
think so . The French G . Orient , in our humble opinion , is taking a most retrogade and downward course at the same time . It has determined by a large majority to agitate the entirety of
French Freemasonry , with a consideration , of whether it is advisable to maintain the Article of the Constitutional Ws relative to a Belief in God and the Immortality of the Soul . What the result of such an appeal
^ ust be , in the state of things and opinion in France , it is not very difficult to anticipate , and we conceive the
step to be fraught with grave dangers to French Freemasonry . The Council of the Order , presided over by Bro . St . Jean , Bros . Caubet and Wyrouboff , represent the movement , not as a negation of dogmatabut
, an affirmation of toleration . But they forget that in the very step they are now apparently contemplating , they are fulfilling the prophecy of the Bishop of Orleans , and playing into the hands of the Ultramontane Party .
Tney are , in fact , inaugurating a Masonic regime of the great goddess Eeason , and incorporating the teaching of a materialistic negativism in the laws of French Freemasonry . They may disguise the act itself
under many fine phrases and rhapsodical utterances ; but to the Anglo-Saxon mind , plain and practical , the removal of such an affirmation of simple faith in the T . G . A . O . T . U . is simply a surrender to the unbelief and atheism of "Iconoclasts" of every kind .
By this foolish and perverse step , if persisted in , they will sever French Freemasonry from Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry ; and we cannot see how any Anglo-Saxon Mason can enter a French Lodge , from which the Bible has been
removed , and where Freemasons have not the courage to own their belief in the Great Architect of the Universe . "We deeply deplore the fact as it can only place arms in the hands of the violent Ultramontane Party in France , who will not be slow to use them against Freemasonry , botli in general and in particular .