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Mother Kilwinning.

" 5 . That although the above laws are declared binding upon the foresaid brethren , yet they are at full liberty to make such laws and regulations as they shall deem necessary and requisite for establishing good order and preserving peace and concord amongst them . That the members , as soon as they have elected their office-bearers , shall without delay cause their Secretary to transmit the wholof their

e proceedings , together with the names of . the office-bearers , to this lodge , in order that they may he inserted in the dispensation , and also a list of the attendant members , aud particularly to specify the names and numbers of the . lodges which the brethren not members of this lodge belong to . Notwithstanding it is the general custom with those who grant dispensations to exact the half

of their entry-money , Ayr St . Paul ' s , from a wish to indulge her brethren in the Ayrshire Militia , will ask no more than 3 s . for each intrant , 2 s . 9 d . of which falls to the Grand Lodge , and the remaining 3 d . will be retained to defray any necessary expense that may he incurred . A list of tbe members entered must be forwarded regularl quarter to

y every this lodge , so that she may have it in her power to transmit the same to the Grand Lodge . "St . _ Paul ' s shall be happy to hear what is hero set forth- is approved of ; and she wishes the brethren to expressly mention whether the dispensation is to be wrote on parchment or paper . "

Although " temperance , harmony , and brotherly love " ought ever to be ehai-acteristic features of Masonic communications , the Craft are subject at times to have their equanimity disturbed b y the ebullitions of drunken brawlers . One such case

we find engrossing the attention of the Kilwinning bi-ethren on the same day in which they had disposed of the petition we have already noticed as having been presented by the Lodge Operative , Ayr , against their earing representative in Eenfrewshire ; and the decision with which the

R . W . M . acted in pi'eserving the lodge from being made the arena for inebriates carrying themselves , as they would , within the precincts of a pothouse , presents an example worthy of closer imitation than by the hisfcoiy of some lodges is shown to obtain among their mystic rulers . On the evening in qoestion , when the social cup was being

quaffed , J . W . joined the happy cn-cle , and by and bye , from the depth of his potations , becoming somewhat excited , " conducted himself in a very disorderly manner , cursing and swearing , and using other language unbecoming a brother of the

Ci'aft , "—so much so , indeed , as to lead to his forcible expulsion from the aneeting , and to the adoption by the another lodge of the following addenda to its pi-evionsly-recorded delivei'ance in the case of complaint arising out of his Masonic

delinquencies : "The Mother Kilwinning Lodge have great forbeai'ance to brethren on the evenings of mirth and festivity , and are much inclined to draw a veil over the misconduct of a brother ; but in this case J . W . 's behaviour was very

aggravated , aud unlike a worthy brother ; therefore the Provincial Grand Master requires the Operative Lodge , Ayi' , to take such steps with him as they in their wisdom think he deseiwes , and procure a satisfactory apology from him for

his improper conduct in Mother Kilwinning Lodge . If not , this business cannot be passed over in silence , but will be laid before and be decided

upon by the Grand Lodge of Scotland . " Among other questions of Masonic jurisprudence adjudicated upon by Mother Kilwinning ( 1811-12 ) , we notice one in which the decision differs from the Masonic usage in our own day ,

when it is almost univea'sally held that aiothing short of expulsion , after regular trial , can sever a ba-other ' s connection with his mother lod ° 'e . D Two lodges in the province of Ayr , working in the same town , fall out with each other ; and certain

members of the younger of the two , originally belonging to the older lodge , " facetiously interfere with the management , " of their mother lodge , the officer-bearers of which resist such

interference , and exclude from their business meetings those of their number who had become members of what was looked upon as a l'ival sister . By petition and complaint the matter comes before the mother lodge ( held in these days , though

improperly so , to be the Provincial Grand Lodge of Ayrshire ) when by a majority it is decided that " any brother leaving his mother lodge and joining another , by that act relinquishes the rights of membership in his mother lodge , and can have no

right to vote or in any shape interfere in its management . " Which decision is qualified , however , by the acknowledgment , on the part of Mother Kilwinning , that the question is a " delicate one , and worth consideration by the Grand Lodge . "

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Untitled Article 1
Untitled Article 2
ADDRESS TO OUR READERS. Article 3
INDEX. Article 5
MOTHER KILWINNING. Article 8
RELIGION AND FREEMASONRY. Article 11
SECRECY AND SILENCE. Article 12
BAMBOROUGH CHURCH. Article 14
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES. Article 15
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 17
MASONIC MEM. Article 17
GRAND LODGE. Article 17
METROPOLITAN. Article 19
PROVINCIAL. Article 19
CUMBERLAND. Article 20
Untitled Article 20
ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE. Article 21
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 21
IRELAND. Article 21
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 21
LITERARY EXTRACTS. Article 22
Poetry. Article 23
THE WEEK. Article 24
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 27
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Mother Kilwinning.

" 5 . That although the above laws are declared binding upon the foresaid brethren , yet they are at full liberty to make such laws and regulations as they shall deem necessary and requisite for establishing good order and preserving peace and concord amongst them . That the members , as soon as they have elected their office-bearers , shall without delay cause their Secretary to transmit the wholof their

e proceedings , together with the names of . the office-bearers , to this lodge , in order that they may he inserted in the dispensation , and also a list of the attendant members , aud particularly to specify the names and numbers of the . lodges which the brethren not members of this lodge belong to . Notwithstanding it is the general custom with those who grant dispensations to exact the half

of their entry-money , Ayr St . Paul ' s , from a wish to indulge her brethren in the Ayrshire Militia , will ask no more than 3 s . for each intrant , 2 s . 9 d . of which falls to the Grand Lodge , and the remaining 3 d . will be retained to defray any necessary expense that may he incurred . A list of tbe members entered must be forwarded regularl quarter to

y every this lodge , so that she may have it in her power to transmit the same to the Grand Lodge . "St . _ Paul ' s shall be happy to hear what is hero set forth- is approved of ; and she wishes the brethren to expressly mention whether the dispensation is to be wrote on parchment or paper . "

Although " temperance , harmony , and brotherly love " ought ever to be ehai-acteristic features of Masonic communications , the Craft are subject at times to have their equanimity disturbed b y the ebullitions of drunken brawlers . One such case

we find engrossing the attention of the Kilwinning bi-ethren on the same day in which they had disposed of the petition we have already noticed as having been presented by the Lodge Operative , Ayr , against their earing representative in Eenfrewshire ; and the decision with which the

R . W . M . acted in pi'eserving the lodge from being made the arena for inebriates carrying themselves , as they would , within the precincts of a pothouse , presents an example worthy of closer imitation than by the hisfcoiy of some lodges is shown to obtain among their mystic rulers . On the evening in qoestion , when the social cup was being

quaffed , J . W . joined the happy cn-cle , and by and bye , from the depth of his potations , becoming somewhat excited , " conducted himself in a very disorderly manner , cursing and swearing , and using other language unbecoming a brother of the

Ci'aft , "—so much so , indeed , as to lead to his forcible expulsion from the aneeting , and to the adoption by the another lodge of the following addenda to its pi-evionsly-recorded delivei'ance in the case of complaint arising out of his Masonic

delinquencies : "The Mother Kilwinning Lodge have great forbeai'ance to brethren on the evenings of mirth and festivity , and are much inclined to draw a veil over the misconduct of a brother ; but in this case J . W . 's behaviour was very

aggravated , aud unlike a worthy brother ; therefore the Provincial Grand Master requires the Operative Lodge , Ayi' , to take such steps with him as they in their wisdom think he deseiwes , and procure a satisfactory apology from him for

his improper conduct in Mother Kilwinning Lodge . If not , this business cannot be passed over in silence , but will be laid before and be decided

upon by the Grand Lodge of Scotland . " Among other questions of Masonic jurisprudence adjudicated upon by Mother Kilwinning ( 1811-12 ) , we notice one in which the decision differs from the Masonic usage in our own day ,

when it is almost univea'sally held that aiothing short of expulsion , after regular trial , can sever a ba-other ' s connection with his mother lod ° 'e . D Two lodges in the province of Ayr , working in the same town , fall out with each other ; and certain

members of the younger of the two , originally belonging to the older lodge , " facetiously interfere with the management , " of their mother lodge , the officer-bearers of which resist such

interference , and exclude from their business meetings those of their number who had become members of what was looked upon as a l'ival sister . By petition and complaint the matter comes before the mother lodge ( held in these days , though

improperly so , to be the Provincial Grand Lodge of Ayrshire ) when by a majority it is decided that " any brother leaving his mother lodge and joining another , by that act relinquishes the rights of membership in his mother lodge , and can have no

right to vote or in any shape interfere in its management . " Which decision is qualified , however , by the acknowledgment , on the part of Mother Kilwinning , that the question is a " delicate one , and worth consideration by the Grand Lodge . "

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