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Masonic Missions.
fication and spread of Masonry , Bath has achieved unenviable notoriety , for the Eoyal Cumberland Lodge , Kb . 48 , one of the most ancient Lodges in the country , has passed a scries of resolutions against the application of the Hall to Masonic purposes , as perverse as could veil be drawn . They oppose a library and reading and refreshment rooms , although tho members of the Craft who use them will have to
pay for the latter , and the library will be for the Craft generally . Brethren will be by no means surprised to learn that iSTo . 48 does not object to extend the tavern . The correspondent to whom we are indebted for an account of these proceedings would seem anxious to fix the responsibility ou the whole Lodge , for he says there was but one feeling throughout the Lodge in framing these answers , and that
several brethren spoke in strong condemnation of the plan proposed by the Board of General Purposes . It is a more incasing subject of reflection to announce , that at a still older Lodge , the Enoch , ' No . II , the subject of reducing the amount paid for banquets has been proposed by Bro . Garrod , with
the purpose that the saving shall be devoted to the subjects of charity or towards the renovation of tho furniture of the Lodge . This is done in no spirit of liosLility to social observances , but in reduction of social excess . The Enosh Lodge has paid respect to the arguments and motives of the worthy brother by referring the matter to thc audit committee .
We likewise observe , that "Au Adfuirer of Pure Masonry" reports to us at p , 713 , in a letter which breathes a truly Masonic spirit , that in one of the Kentish Lodges steps have been taken in the right direction , by holding its meetings apart from the tavern , ancl reducing its monthly banquets to quai'teiiy banquets . This is certainly more honourable than the conduct of tho Boyal Cumberland at Bath , which ,
though meeting in Lodge rooms , would degrade the Grand Lodge of England to meet in a tavern ; although all Masons must be aware , that previously to the building of the Hall the Grand Lodge of England only exceptionally met in taverns , for they selected public buildings , its tho halls ofthe Merchant Tailors , Grocers , <_ ic . We shall now continue our review : —
Norfolk forms a large civil district , and a Masonic province . Since 1852 , the Provincial Grand Mastership has been held by Bro . Benjamin Bond Cabbell ; a brother well known for many years as a friend and counsellor of the late Duke of Sussex , as au active member of Grand Lodge , and a munificent supporter of the charities . When Biu Cabbell became a large landowner in Norfolk , and a resident , it ivas 3 D 2
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Masonic Missions.
fication and spread of Masonry , Bath has achieved unenviable notoriety , for the Eoyal Cumberland Lodge , Kb . 48 , one of the most ancient Lodges in the country , has passed a scries of resolutions against the application of the Hall to Masonic purposes , as perverse as could veil be drawn . They oppose a library and reading and refreshment rooms , although tho members of the Craft who use them will have to
pay for the latter , and the library will be for the Craft generally . Brethren will be by no means surprised to learn that iSTo . 48 does not object to extend the tavern . The correspondent to whom we are indebted for an account of these proceedings would seem anxious to fix the responsibility ou the whole Lodge , for he says there was but one feeling throughout the Lodge in framing these answers , and that
several brethren spoke in strong condemnation of the plan proposed by the Board of General Purposes . It is a more incasing subject of reflection to announce , that at a still older Lodge , the Enoch , ' No . II , the subject of reducing the amount paid for banquets has been proposed by Bro . Garrod , with
the purpose that the saving shall be devoted to the subjects of charity or towards the renovation of tho furniture of the Lodge . This is done in no spirit of liosLility to social observances , but in reduction of social excess . The Enosh Lodge has paid respect to the arguments and motives of the worthy brother by referring the matter to thc audit committee .
We likewise observe , that "Au Adfuirer of Pure Masonry" reports to us at p , 713 , in a letter which breathes a truly Masonic spirit , that in one of the Kentish Lodges steps have been taken in the right direction , by holding its meetings apart from the tavern , ancl reducing its monthly banquets to quai'teiiy banquets . This is certainly more honourable than the conduct of tho Boyal Cumberland at Bath , which ,
though meeting in Lodge rooms , would degrade the Grand Lodge of England to meet in a tavern ; although all Masons must be aware , that previously to the building of the Hall the Grand Lodge of England only exceptionally met in taverns , for they selected public buildings , its tho halls ofthe Merchant Tailors , Grocers , <_ ic . We shall now continue our review : —
Norfolk forms a large civil district , and a Masonic province . Since 1852 , the Provincial Grand Mastership has been held by Bro . Benjamin Bond Cabbell ; a brother well known for many years as a friend and counsellor of the late Duke of Sussex , as au active member of Grand Lodge , and a munificent supporter of the charities . When Biu Cabbell became a large landowner in Norfolk , and a resident , it ivas 3 D 2