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Robison On Freemasonry:
After ... the -first- horror of Robison ' s revelations was over , it is not surprising that English Masons showed no disposition to commit suicide , to save themselves from doing wrong , and that the colleagues of "Wyndham , so far from suppressing Masonry , gave it the countenance of the law .
The beginning of Robison ' s work is agreeably written , but the latter part ( where he gets into the thick of his subject ) is illogical , for he is led on by his rabid anti-Jacobinism to assertions , some of which he was himself forced to allow were unfounded . Altogether , the result of this work has been to confirm Masonry
rather than to throw it down , for it brought against it all the weight of evidence that could be collected in a time of public excitement , and the verdict was on the personal evidence of the author that the Order assailed was neither impure nor disreputable , nor had it committed political offences .
The verdict of Robison ' s own biographers is that the excitement created by this book was not justified by its contents , nor followed by practical results .
Tidings From The Craft In The United States.
TIDINGS FROM THE CRAFT IN THE UNITED STATES .
( Prepared for the Freemasons' Monthly Magazine , by the R . W . Bro . Rob ¦ i Morris , of Lodgeton , Kentucky , late Editor of the American Freemason . ) Lodgeton , Kentucky , March 10 , 1858 . Your correspondent begs leave to congratulate the Magazine upon its escape from the chrysalis of a Monthly to the full-blown honours of a Weekly . With all our boasts of ten Masonic journals in the United States ,
we can support hut one weekly—yea , though our Lodges are 4 , 200 , and our membership nearly a quarter of a million ; while you , without a rival , and with a membership numerically much weaker than ours , a re held up to " fifty-two per year , " with a force absolutely startling . Brother Jonathan doffs his hat to Brother John , and , in his own nervous and expressive vernacular , acknowledges the corn "
In the literary way we are moving forward encouragingly , and 1858 will acid various good publications to the American Masonic bibliography . Dr . A . G . Mackey has his Royal Arch Manual , alluded to in my November communication , nearly complete , A . S . Ruthven , of Galveston , Texas , Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Texas , has published , in a large octavo of some 1 , 200 pages , all the proceedings of that Grand Lodge since its organization . The Grand Lodge of California , has recently republished all its proceedings from its origin in one volume . The Grand Lodges of
Iowa and Florida , through appropriate committees , are engaged in the same work . Your correspondent has nearly readv for the press , " The HA nL 4 / a / M f istory of Freemasonry in Kentucky , with special Relation to the Symbolic Degrees , embracing CotemporaneouS Events in the History of Grand and Subordinate Lodges throughout the United States and the Canadas , Historical and Statistical Tables , Compendsof Decisions in Masonic Law , Catalogues of Books , Pamphlets , and Circulars , upon Masonic Subjects , & c . & c , by Rob Morris , Deputy Grand Master , author of various Masonic Works , and compiler of < The Universal Masonic Library . ' " The 2 t 2
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Robison On Freemasonry:
After ... the -first- horror of Robison ' s revelations was over , it is not surprising that English Masons showed no disposition to commit suicide , to save themselves from doing wrong , and that the colleagues of "Wyndham , so far from suppressing Masonry , gave it the countenance of the law .
The beginning of Robison ' s work is agreeably written , but the latter part ( where he gets into the thick of his subject ) is illogical , for he is led on by his rabid anti-Jacobinism to assertions , some of which he was himself forced to allow were unfounded . Altogether , the result of this work has been to confirm Masonry
rather than to throw it down , for it brought against it all the weight of evidence that could be collected in a time of public excitement , and the verdict was on the personal evidence of the author that the Order assailed was neither impure nor disreputable , nor had it committed political offences .
The verdict of Robison ' s own biographers is that the excitement created by this book was not justified by its contents , nor followed by practical results .
Tidings From The Craft In The United States.
TIDINGS FROM THE CRAFT IN THE UNITED STATES .
( Prepared for the Freemasons' Monthly Magazine , by the R . W . Bro . Rob ¦ i Morris , of Lodgeton , Kentucky , late Editor of the American Freemason . ) Lodgeton , Kentucky , March 10 , 1858 . Your correspondent begs leave to congratulate the Magazine upon its escape from the chrysalis of a Monthly to the full-blown honours of a Weekly . With all our boasts of ten Masonic journals in the United States ,
we can support hut one weekly—yea , though our Lodges are 4 , 200 , and our membership nearly a quarter of a million ; while you , without a rival , and with a membership numerically much weaker than ours , a re held up to " fifty-two per year , " with a force absolutely startling . Brother Jonathan doffs his hat to Brother John , and , in his own nervous and expressive vernacular , acknowledges the corn "
In the literary way we are moving forward encouragingly , and 1858 will acid various good publications to the American Masonic bibliography . Dr . A . G . Mackey has his Royal Arch Manual , alluded to in my November communication , nearly complete , A . S . Ruthven , of Galveston , Texas , Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Texas , has published , in a large octavo of some 1 , 200 pages , all the proceedings of that Grand Lodge since its organization . The Grand Lodge of California , has recently republished all its proceedings from its origin in one volume . The Grand Lodges of
Iowa and Florida , through appropriate committees , are engaged in the same work . Your correspondent has nearly readv for the press , " The HA nL 4 / a / M f istory of Freemasonry in Kentucky , with special Relation to the Symbolic Degrees , embracing CotemporaneouS Events in the History of Grand and Subordinate Lodges throughout the United States and the Canadas , Historical and Statistical Tables , Compendsof Decisions in Masonic Law , Catalogues of Books , Pamphlets , and Circulars , upon Masonic Subjects , & c . & c , by Rob Morris , Deputy Grand Master , author of various Masonic Works , and compiler of < The Universal Masonic Library . ' " The 2 t 2