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1720 ) lag behind the old charges ( 1723 ) . My brother ' s words lack explanation . COMMINGLING IN LODGE OP ALL DENOMINATIONS OP CHRISTIANS . A brother writes that the principle of the commingling of all denominations of Christians in the

Mason ' s Lodge , was first established by the English Fundamental laws of . 1723 . Then my brother adds , was seen the sublime spectacle , of Roman Catholics and Protestants , Trinitarians and Socinians , Ep iscopalians and Presbyterians ,

Luthei'ians , Calvinists , Annfnians and Jansenisfcs , meeting as brothers in the temple of the glorious architect of Heaveu and Earth .

A QUESTION . Can any brother say when the stars and other symbols borrowed from the Firmament were first incorporated with the Masonic system ? Is it natural to suppose that this would be done by operative Masons ? Craft Notes .

THINGS ESSENTIAL TO SALVATION . Upon the subject of things said to be essential to salvation , Christian Masons of the present century do not think altogether as Christian Masons of the last century thought .

HINDOO FREEMASONRY " . Hindooism is a Pantheism . Hindoo Freemasonry cannot therefore be true Freemasonry now , any more than it was in those remote ages , when Hindooism is said to have just ceased to be a Monotheism .

MOHAMMEDAN FREEMASONRY , PERSIA , ARABIA , Mohammedan Freemasonry is said to be widely distributed in Persia and in Arabia . In Persia it is estimated that there are about 50 , 000 Mohammedan Freemasons . In Arabia it is estimated that there are about 20 . 000 Mohammedan

Freemasons . THOUGHTS . —ACTIONS . Brother , —Our duties admit of a two-fold division , - the one as regards our thoughts ; the other as regards our actions . Duty as regards our thoughts is frequent meditation upon the great

architect of the universe and his attributes , and the study of his wonderous works . Duty as regards our actions is charity , the charity of Christianity and not less the charity of masonry . BROTHER FINDEL AND THE CHARGES OF 1723 .

The erroneous construction put by Brother Findel on the charges of 1723 has been known to ¦ the Past Provincial Grand Master for Kent three years and upwards . Somewhere in the Freemasons

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Magazine Brother Findel writes—if a member of ' the Craft will read the first of the old charges of 1723 , he may perceive that Freemasonry embraces all free men , of good report , of every faith with the same love ; that our freemasonry has for its object

to unite all good men , or men of honour and truth , and thus become the centre of opinion , and the means of conciliating true friendship amongst persons that must otherwise have remained at a perpetual distance .

GRAND LODGE OP THE CITY OF YORK 1734 Lord Crawford , Grand Master 1734 , made an encroachment on the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge in the City of York , by constituting two Lodges within their district ; and by granting

without their consent , three deputations , one for Lancashire , a second for Durham , and a third for Northumberland . This encroachment , the Grand Lodge in York hi g hly resented .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

OUR PERIODICAL , A young brother , one of those disciples of Themis who " pens a stanza when he should engross ; " writes that some contributions to his favourite periodical resemble the " pellucid mountain rilf , " but that others resemble " the turbid flow of a town gutter . ' - ' He hopes that there will be a long continuance of the former , and that editorial zeal and good taste will speedily effect a discontinuance of the latter . —A PAST PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER .

THE ROYAL ARCH . THE MANNINGHAM LETTER . A MASONIC STUDENT . 'Ihe ensuing passage is taken from one of "A ^ Masonic Student's" communications to our periodical , 29 th August , 1868 . "It may be said that Ero . Manningiiam decides the controversy of the

ltoyal Arch . We must , however , remember that the controversy is , after all , more a matter of words than of any very antagonistic views . It will depend upon what Bro . Munningham means by the " Master ' s Degree . " If he , as I believe , understood the old full third degree , with its first and second parts , then— " cadit quietio . ' '—A PAST PROVINCIAL GRAND M ASTER .

A MASONIC LITERARY CONTROVERSY . Dear Friend , —My answer to your enquiry is that during the last three years , or thereabouts , I have been often told that communications , such as those signed "Pictus" and " "W . P . B ., " "Freemasons ' Magazine , " vol . xx ., pages 350 , 351 , have deterred instructed , but timid brethren from engaging in our Masonic literary controversy . —A PAST PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER .

THREE ASSERTIONS AND THEIR ANSWERS . See a communication , '• Freemasons' Magazine , " vol . 24 , page 249 .