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that immortal part which animated hiin while living , which bears the nearest approach to that supreme ' Mntelligence" that pervades all nature , and which can never die . The Masonic Hall , at Crawfordsville , Indiana , was burnt in August last . The fraternity incurred a loss of ^ 2 , 500 , together with those things not to be priced in money , their records , jewels , regalia , & c .
The amount of labour , talent , and ' well digested system expended by some of our Grand Secretaries in the annual performance of their official duties , is clearly seen in a document before me—" The Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Missouri , at its Thirty-eighth Annual Comniiinication , convened at the City of St . Louis , May 24 , 1858 . " This is an octavo of 257 pages , elegantly printed . Its . internal structure displays a master hand , and I could wish that every Mason in Great Britain possessed
a copy of it as an evidence of the progress and status of the Masonic Craft in America . The proceedings of each day throughout the session , which consumed a week , are recorded in language strictly Masonic . All the reports , of which there are many , have places well displayed and selected , and the whole terminates with an index , thoroughly prepared , which leaves nothing to be desired by the reader . On the cover is a list of ail the Grand Lodges ( with the names and residences of Grand Secretaries ) , with which the Grand Lodge of Missouri is in communication '; these are forty in number . The catalogue does not include any , save those upon this
continent . The hook opens with a list of the Lodges , and delegates representing each respectively ,, eighty-eight Lodges appeared by 192 representatives on the first day , many of them coming through a broken and wilderness country 200 or 300 miles upon horseback or in the rudest conveyance of the frontier , to perform a duty deemed sacred hy them . The address of the M . W . G . M ., Samuel II . Saunders , appears next , and occupies seven pages ,
informing , counselling and reprehending by turns , as the various themes required . The deaths of Past Grand Officers , the condition of the Grand Lodge finances , and the general progress of the fraternity in Missouri have careful attention from his well trained pen . Then follow the reports of District Deputy Grand Masters , of whom there are twenty-four . Next in order is the report on foreign correspondence , which among us Americans is the piece de resistance in Grand Lodge labours . It covers forty-six pages ,, and reviews with vigour and impartiality the proceedings of thirty-two
Grand Lodges , finding in each something to commend , and m many something to blame . Wit and humour are blended with sympathy and rebuke ,, and the whole forms , as was intended , no mean calendar of Masonic labour for 1857-8 . It was Avritten by ILW \ Bro . A . O'Sulfivan , who is likewise Grand Secretary and Grand Lecturer of his Grand Lodge . Following this are lengthy reports , financial and others , relative to the Masonic College long under the control of Grand Lodge . Being greatly
embarrassed in means , and crippled m usefulness , the Grand Lodge is taking measures to be relieved from what has proved to it a serious incumbrance . Masonic schools and colleges (| o not prosper in the United States , where free schools open the means of instruction to the poorest . The Grand Lodge declined to establish a Lodge at Ht . Louis to work in . the German language . Lodges were ordered to enforce all the rajuireineiits of Mawonic law with vigour , and to discountenance , especially those vices that are no well
calculated to bring reproach on the fraternity , such as habitual drunkenness , profane swearing , and those of a kindred character . Upon neglect of such duty , their charter shall he declared forfeit .
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Tidifgs From The Graft In The United Sta...
that immortal part which animated hiin while living , which bears the nearest approach to that supreme ' Mntelligence" that pervades all nature , and which can never die . The Masonic Hall , at Crawfordsville , Indiana , was burnt in August last . The fraternity incurred a loss of ^ 2 , 500 , together with those things not to be priced in money , their records , jewels , regalia , & c .
The amount of labour , talent , and ' well digested system expended by some of our Grand Secretaries in the annual performance of their official duties , is clearly seen in a document before me—" The Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Missouri , at its Thirty-eighth Annual Comniiinication , convened at the City of St . Louis , May 24 , 1858 . " This is an octavo of 257 pages , elegantly printed . Its . internal structure displays a master hand , and I could wish that every Mason in Great Britain possessed
a copy of it as an evidence of the progress and status of the Masonic Craft in America . The proceedings of each day throughout the session , which consumed a week , are recorded in language strictly Masonic . All the reports , of which there are many , have places well displayed and selected , and the whole terminates with an index , thoroughly prepared , which leaves nothing to be desired by the reader . On the cover is a list of ail the Grand Lodges ( with the names and residences of Grand Secretaries ) , with which the Grand Lodge of Missouri is in communication '; these are forty in number . The catalogue does not include any , save those upon this
continent . The hook opens with a list of the Lodges , and delegates representing each respectively ,, eighty-eight Lodges appeared by 192 representatives on the first day , many of them coming through a broken and wilderness country 200 or 300 miles upon horseback or in the rudest conveyance of the frontier , to perform a duty deemed sacred hy them . The address of the M . W . G . M ., Samuel II . Saunders , appears next , and occupies seven pages ,
informing , counselling and reprehending by turns , as the various themes required . The deaths of Past Grand Officers , the condition of the Grand Lodge finances , and the general progress of the fraternity in Missouri have careful attention from his well trained pen . Then follow the reports of District Deputy Grand Masters , of whom there are twenty-four . Next in order is the report on foreign correspondence , which among us Americans is the piece de resistance in Grand Lodge labours . It covers forty-six pages ,, and reviews with vigour and impartiality the proceedings of thirty-two
Grand Lodges , finding in each something to commend , and m many something to blame . Wit and humour are blended with sympathy and rebuke ,, and the whole forms , as was intended , no mean calendar of Masonic labour for 1857-8 . It was Avritten by ILW \ Bro . A . O'Sulfivan , who is likewise Grand Secretary and Grand Lecturer of his Grand Lodge . Following this are lengthy reports , financial and others , relative to the Masonic College long under the control of Grand Lodge . Being greatly
embarrassed in means , and crippled m usefulness , the Grand Lodge is taking measures to be relieved from what has proved to it a serious incumbrance . Masonic schools and colleges (| o not prosper in the United States , where free schools open the means of instruction to the poorest . The Grand Lodge declined to establish a Lodge at Ht . Louis to work in . the German language . Lodges were ordered to enforce all the rajuireineiits of Mawonic law with vigour , and to discountenance , especially those vices that are no well
calculated to bring reproach on the fraternity , such as habitual drunkenness , profane swearing , and those of a kindred character . Upon neglect of such duty , their charter shall he declared forfeit .