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Article ROMAN CATHOLICISM AND CHARITY. ← Page 3 of 3 Article MASONIC MISSIONS. Page 1 of 6 →
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Roman Catholicism And Charity.
are to be added to the list , the last festival having added nearly two thousand two hundred pounds to the funds . Nor is this all , for the Board of Benevolence during the last year dispensed in relief one thousand nine hundred pounds to distressed brothers or their widows , without regard to creed or clime ; many of
those relieved being foreigners ancl Roman Catholics . Wc would earnestly urge the archbishop to consider these figures ; to remember that what we have enumerated is altogether apart from tho benevolence of jirivate Lodges—ancl then ask himself how far the comparison betiveen Freemasonry and Ribandism will hold good , and which has the greatest claim to a character for charity—the archbishop
or tho Freemason . Of course we have confined our statistics to England alone , as the more readily accessible , though we are aware that in Ireland and other countries Masonic charity does not sleep , and as wo showed last week . one of tho reasons now put forth for the secession of the Canadian Lodges from . English , Irish , ancl Scotch jurisdiction , is , that by greater union amongst themselves the brethren may be the better enabled to emulate the educational and charitable institutions ofthe English brethren .
Masonic Missions.
MASONIC MISSIONS .
WE may as well consider the state ofthe province of Buckinghamshire to begin with . This shire has about 100 , 000 inhabitants , extends over 800 square miles , ancl includes sixteen market towns aud about tivo hundred parishes or townships . It is therefore so far worthy to constitute a Masonic province ; but being in a state not far removed from darkness , it has been
amalgamated Avith Berkshire , which by the bye , has no more than three Lodgo towns . The Provincial Grand Master of the Province of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire is Bro . the Marquis of Downshire , and his province includes the following Lodges : — Buckinghamshire—Aylesbury .
Berkshire—Reading , Newbury , and Windsor . In each of these is one Lodge and no more , making four Lodges for the province which has a population of 300 , 000 , or as many as some of our flourishing colonics , as many in fact as all South Africa ^ and . as-2 ;> %
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Roman Catholicism And Charity.
are to be added to the list , the last festival having added nearly two thousand two hundred pounds to the funds . Nor is this all , for the Board of Benevolence during the last year dispensed in relief one thousand nine hundred pounds to distressed brothers or their widows , without regard to creed or clime ; many of
those relieved being foreigners ancl Roman Catholics . Wc would earnestly urge the archbishop to consider these figures ; to remember that what we have enumerated is altogether apart from tho benevolence of jirivate Lodges—ancl then ask himself how far the comparison betiveen Freemasonry and Ribandism will hold good , and which has the greatest claim to a character for charity—the archbishop
or tho Freemason . Of course we have confined our statistics to England alone , as the more readily accessible , though we are aware that in Ireland and other countries Masonic charity does not sleep , and as wo showed last week . one of tho reasons now put forth for the secession of the Canadian Lodges from . English , Irish , ancl Scotch jurisdiction , is , that by greater union amongst themselves the brethren may be the better enabled to emulate the educational and charitable institutions ofthe English brethren .
Masonic Missions.
MASONIC MISSIONS .
WE may as well consider the state ofthe province of Buckinghamshire to begin with . This shire has about 100 , 000 inhabitants , extends over 800 square miles , ancl includes sixteen market towns aud about tivo hundred parishes or townships . It is therefore so far worthy to constitute a Masonic province ; but being in a state not far removed from darkness , it has been
amalgamated Avith Berkshire , which by the bye , has no more than three Lodgo towns . The Provincial Grand Master of the Province of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire is Bro . the Marquis of Downshire , and his province includes the following Lodges : — Buckinghamshire—Aylesbury .
Berkshire—Reading , Newbury , and Windsor . In each of these is one Lodge and no more , making four Lodges for the province which has a population of 300 , 000 , or as many as some of our flourishing colonics , as many in fact as all South Africa ^ and . as-2 ;> %