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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 2 of 7 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
To the Most Worshipful Grand Master , Grand Lodge , Royal York of Friendship , Berlin . Proem .-. s . ms' Hail London , 4 lh September . lil-lfi . MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND MASTER , —The Most Worshipful Grand Master of England , the Right Honourable the Earl of Zetland , received with the deepest feeling of grief the reply made by the Right Worshipful
Brother Bier , the Grand Secretary , on behalf of the Grand Lodge , Royal York of Friendship , Berlin , to the communication of his Lordship of the 15 th of December last , inasmuch as that reply announces that , by the existing laws of the Grand Lodge , Royal York of Friendship , none but Christians and duly legitimated Brethren of recognized Lodges , are to be allowed access to the labours .
To this law it appears that all subordinate Lodges are bound to conform , and to exclude , as visitors . Brethren of the Jewish faith , notwithstanding such Brothers may take with them the certificate of the Grand Lodge of England , and be in every respect , as to character , unexceptionable , the religious creed being alone the ground of refusal . The Grand Lodge of England , by the earliest history and tradition ,
has always declared and observed the universality of Freemasons , making no distinction or exclusion on the score of religious faith , —a matter in which she never enquires , beyond the point in which all men agree . It
is . for this reason that she does not sanction or recognize meetingswmch in some places are holden—assemblies of particular religionists . With these the Grand Lodge of England does not interfere * but she strictly guards , by her laws and her practice , against the introduction into her Lodges of any emblems or decorations which are indicative of particular creeds , deeming them liable to be taken as offensive demonstrations at
variance with the true spirit of Freemasonry . This universality the Grand Masters of England have always upheld , and , as far as has been within their power , have sought the co-operation of other ( 5 rand Lodges - without , however , pretending to any right of direct interference . But when members of English Lodges , lawfully admitted , and bearing diplomas from the G rand Lodge of England , duly authenticated under her seal , are not recognized , and , on the contrary , are rejected merely on account
of ' their particular faith , it becomes ah imperative duty of the Grand Master to vindicate the rights , the honour , and the integrity of the body over which he has been called to preside , whose branches extend into every quarter of the habitable globe . In the discharge of : that duty , then , the Grand Master of England protests against the refusal which has been made to acknowledge the
legitimate children of a . lawful constituted English Lodge ; and at the same : time is constrained to recal from his post the Right Worshipful Brother the Chevalier Esser , as the Representative of England in the Grand Lodge , Royal York of Friendship , at Berlin .
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
To the Most Worshipful Grand Master , Grand Lodge , Royal York of Friendship , Berlin . Proem .-. s . ms' Hail London , 4 lh September . lil-lfi . MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND MASTER , —The Most Worshipful Grand Master of England , the Right Honourable the Earl of Zetland , received with the deepest feeling of grief the reply made by the Right Worshipful
Brother Bier , the Grand Secretary , on behalf of the Grand Lodge , Royal York of Friendship , Berlin , to the communication of his Lordship of the 15 th of December last , inasmuch as that reply announces that , by the existing laws of the Grand Lodge , Royal York of Friendship , none but Christians and duly legitimated Brethren of recognized Lodges , are to be allowed access to the labours .
To this law it appears that all subordinate Lodges are bound to conform , and to exclude , as visitors . Brethren of the Jewish faith , notwithstanding such Brothers may take with them the certificate of the Grand Lodge of England , and be in every respect , as to character , unexceptionable , the religious creed being alone the ground of refusal . The Grand Lodge of England , by the earliest history and tradition ,
has always declared and observed the universality of Freemasons , making no distinction or exclusion on the score of religious faith , —a matter in which she never enquires , beyond the point in which all men agree . It
is . for this reason that she does not sanction or recognize meetingswmch in some places are holden—assemblies of particular religionists . With these the Grand Lodge of England does not interfere * but she strictly guards , by her laws and her practice , against the introduction into her Lodges of any emblems or decorations which are indicative of particular creeds , deeming them liable to be taken as offensive demonstrations at
variance with the true spirit of Freemasonry . This universality the Grand Masters of England have always upheld , and , as far as has been within their power , have sought the co-operation of other ( 5 rand Lodges - without , however , pretending to any right of direct interference . But when members of English Lodges , lawfully admitted , and bearing diplomas from the G rand Lodge of England , duly authenticated under her seal , are not recognized , and , on the contrary , are rejected merely on account
of ' their particular faith , it becomes ah imperative duty of the Grand Master to vindicate the rights , the honour , and the integrity of the body over which he has been called to preside , whose branches extend into every quarter of the habitable globe . In the discharge of : that duty , then , the Grand Master of England protests against the refusal which has been made to acknowledge the
legitimate children of a . lawful constituted English Lodge ; and at the same : time is constrained to recal from his post the Right Worshipful Brother the Chevalier Esser , as the Representative of England in the Grand Lodge , Royal York of Friendship , at Berlin .