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Article INDEPENDENT GRA^ND LOD GE FOR YICTOBIA, ← Page 2 of 6 →
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Independent Gra^Nd Lod Ge For Yictobia,
Lodges—therd being twenty-seven of the latter , nine Irish , and two Scotch Lodges . We trust our Brethren holding from England will not be too ready to listen to the voice of the tempter , hut that they will carefully consider the advantages and disadvantages of their present position , and that held out to them , before they determine upon a separation from England .
That the day will come when the Craft will become so large and important in Australia as to warrant its forming an independent Grand Lodge for its government , we have no dqubt but we believe the Australian Brethren will do well to consider whether it has yet
arrived—and we must be allowed to say we think not . If the Brethren in Victoria have any complaints to make of the government at home , we trust they will make them boldly , but respectfully , and we are sure they will be promptly and liberally considered and responded to , both by the Grand Master and the members of Grand Lodge .
At all events there is one thing we can positively pledge Ourselves to , that so long as the Freemasons Magazine is hohoured with the support of the Graft , our colonial Brethren shall never be without a medium for making their wants and opinions known to their Brethren in England , whether we agree with them or not .
FREEMASONRY IN THE EAST . JOURNEY OF A FREEMASON FROM MEERUT TO SINGAPORE , On the 4 th of Feb ., 1858 , I left Meerut for the "for East , " taking the route via Bombay , in preference to a tedious daily march of ten miles down the country with a military escort . Since the month of October , 1857 , the Lodge and Royal Arch Chapter at Meerut had been regularly worked by a number of Brethren from Delhi and
elsewhere , including a few of the regular members whom the recent mutiny , to a great extent , had scattered through the length and breadth of India . I therefore possessed the high satisfaction of leaving Masonry in a state of happy revival at Meerut , after the abeyance into which the rebellion had thrown all Lodges in the northeast , from the earliest outbreak on the 18 th of May , 1 , 857 , at Meerut itself .
While travelling to Delhi by dak carriage , 1 observed no signs of war or disburbance , beyond the troops of idle Mussulmans and dancing girls , wbom the taking of Delhi had doubtless drawn from their former haunts and who thronged the roads in every direction . At Delhi itself , it warmed my heart to see the tattered English ensign on the walls of the fort , and the British soldier holding the posts so long and insanely committed of old to the miscreant sepoy . Around and some distance beyond the city , dead camels , broken wells , earth-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Independent Gra^Nd Lod Ge For Yictobia,
Lodges—therd being twenty-seven of the latter , nine Irish , and two Scotch Lodges . We trust our Brethren holding from England will not be too ready to listen to the voice of the tempter , hut that they will carefully consider the advantages and disadvantages of their present position , and that held out to them , before they determine upon a separation from England .
That the day will come when the Craft will become so large and important in Australia as to warrant its forming an independent Grand Lodge for its government , we have no dqubt but we believe the Australian Brethren will do well to consider whether it has yet
arrived—and we must be allowed to say we think not . If the Brethren in Victoria have any complaints to make of the government at home , we trust they will make them boldly , but respectfully , and we are sure they will be promptly and liberally considered and responded to , both by the Grand Master and the members of Grand Lodge .
At all events there is one thing we can positively pledge Ourselves to , that so long as the Freemasons Magazine is hohoured with the support of the Graft , our colonial Brethren shall never be without a medium for making their wants and opinions known to their Brethren in England , whether we agree with them or not .
FREEMASONRY IN THE EAST . JOURNEY OF A FREEMASON FROM MEERUT TO SINGAPORE , On the 4 th of Feb ., 1858 , I left Meerut for the "for East , " taking the route via Bombay , in preference to a tedious daily march of ten miles down the country with a military escort . Since the month of October , 1857 , the Lodge and Royal Arch Chapter at Meerut had been regularly worked by a number of Brethren from Delhi and
elsewhere , including a few of the regular members whom the recent mutiny , to a great extent , had scattered through the length and breadth of India . I therefore possessed the high satisfaction of leaving Masonry in a state of happy revival at Meerut , after the abeyance into which the rebellion had thrown all Lodges in the northeast , from the earliest outbreak on the 18 th of May , 1 , 857 , at Meerut itself .
While travelling to Delhi by dak carriage , 1 observed no signs of war or disburbance , beyond the troops of idle Mussulmans and dancing girls , wbom the taking of Delhi had doubtless drawn from their former haunts and who thronged the roads in every direction . At Delhi itself , it warmed my heart to see the tattered English ensign on the walls of the fort , and the British soldier holding the posts so long and insanely committed of old to the miscreant sepoy . Around and some distance beyond the city , dead camels , broken wells , earth-