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The Charlestown Mother Supreme Grand Council Of The World.
though he is a high degreer , and very often prints a great deal of worthless stuff , happened to copy some spicy extracts from papers , whose editors advocate either more or less Masonics for the American system than Bro . Carson allows . This put Bro . Carson out of temper , and he wrote
to tho publisher of the Review . Indeed , it was an indignant challenge : but the publisher and editor accepted the challenge , and each gave onr brother Carson n moat tearful ¦ whai -kinn . I was sincerely sorry for friend Carson , but
I could not help saying , serve him right . For , in the first place , there is a great deal of moonshine in his American system ; and , second , he ought to have known that it was altogether too late for any ono to succeed in muzzling the Press .
Ifc is true that the mass of Masons aro still ignorant of Masonic history . This is in a measure unavoidable as long as false legends are retained in fcho ritual . Ifc is also true that many of onr Masonic Editors will cheerfully publish all kind of twaddle , and will carefully exclude every
particle of truth which clashes with their interest , conceit , or the notions of their patrons . But who cares ? If one editor is a partizan for moonshine Masonry , truth can find vent through another paper . You see now , my dear Brother , that to the rising desire for reading Masonic books , which
gave rise to the formation of Grand Lodgo libraries and a consequent diffusion of Masonic information through the agency of a free press , we are indirectly indebted to tho continuous fighting among high degreers . Thus , tho high degree storm tends to clear the Masonic atmosphere of its impurities .
The present state of high degreedom in America is anything but harmonious ; thus , in the Northern States , we hove four independent Supreme Councils , and two in the Southern States . Baltimore high degreers recently sent back their charter to Pike , and took out one from one of
the Cerneau concerns at New York . In California there is also trouble ; so there is in Ohio , in New Hampshire , & c . Several pamphlets have recently been issued by the Secessionists in different States . Here , in Boston , we have quite a number of 32 nds and 33 rds too , who make no
secret of expressing their disgust with all the high degrees , and I felt amused the other day , when conversing with one of these brethren , to hear him explain the difference between a 33 rd who is an active member of a Snpreme Council and one who is nofc ; the former he styled a
fullblooded 33 rd , and the latter he called a " 32 | only . " In short , high degreedom here is fast falling into contempt among our disinterested reading and thinking Masonic public ; and if our Grand Lodges do not hasten to bring the ritual into conformity with the present state
of Masonic information , and do nofc order the Masters of Lodges to caution candidates against taking all kinds of so called high degrees , Freemasonry itself will , a little sooner or later , be numbered among the somethings of the pasfc . BOSTON , U . S . 31 st October 1884 .
The London Cottage Mission has had a busy week at the Now Hall , Salmon Lane , Limehouse , aud ono which we trust will go a long way towards recruiting the almost exhausted feuds of this most deserving Charity . On Tnesday a Baaaar for tho sale of work was opened by Lady Colin Campbell , whom Mr . Austin introduced in a brief but telling speech , in which he gave a review of the work of
fche Mission since its inception more than a dozen years ago , and this Bazaar is to remain open daily from three till nine o ' clock up till Saturday . On Wednesday , the second Children ' s Irish Stew Dinuer of the season took place , when six or seven hundred poor little starvelings had their " One Dinner a Week , " and it is earnestly to be hoped that a greater number will find their way to the Mission
Hall on future Wednesdays in the coming winter ; bnt to do thisto increase the amount of practical good being clone throughout the East-end—funds are urgently wanted , indeed at this moment tlio action of the Mission is literally crippled for lack of them . All who would help a causa so good can forward their contributions to the Founder and Director , Mr . Walter Austin , 44 Finsbury Pavement , E . C , who will gladly acknowledge them .
HOLLOWAY ' PILLS . — "Nothing preserves tho health so well as thoso alterative Pills in changeable weather , or when our nervous systems are irritable . Tlioy ac . admirably on tho stomach , liver , and kidneys , and so throughly purify the blood that they are tho most efficient remedy for warding off derangements of the stomach , fever , catarrhs , quinsies , and other maladies , and giving tone and energy to enervated valetudinarians . All who have the natural and laudable desire of maintaining their own and their family's health cannot do better than trust to HoIIoway ' s Pills , which cool , regulate and strengthen . Those purifying Pills are suitable for all ages , seasons , climates , and ' constitutions , when all other means fail , and are the female ' s best friend .
Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE
We »» t hidd nv . rselrt ' s responxiide f < r the opinions of our Vor . respondents . All Letters must hear the name and . mldrcss nf the Writer , not necessttrih / for i > ubliruti ,, n , bul n . < a guarantee of goml faith . \\' .. . ; .,..,... t . ,, 1 ., 1 , 'rh'l :: /( . re . t , i _ rn , rc ' iC'lt ' il r . 'ini . u »»' * r < i / i .. « ,: .
THK UIUND TRKASURKKSHir ' . To the Editor of th * FKKKMASON ' S CHUO ^ ICLU . DHAK SfB AND BiumiEH , —In saying that I very much regret to learn that Bro . James Willing has boon nominated as a candidate for tho office of Grand Treasurer , I wish it to bo clearly understood that 1 am actuated by no motive which can in tho remotest degree be said to partake of a personal character . 1 havo always heard him spoken
of as a thoroughly good follow . I know ho ia a founder and P . M . of sundry Lodges , a founder and P . Z . of sundry Chapters , a member of tho Board of General Purposes , and a contributor to , as well as a worker for , our Charitable Institutions . Whatever was said on Wednesday last in Grand Lodge in his behalf by the brother who proposed him , or can bo said in his behalf by his most intimate friend ,
I accept or am prepared to accept unreservedly . But I am a supporter of the principle which was successfully asserted at the last and previous elections , and of which I understand Bro . Willing is held to be tho champion on tho present occasion ; aud it is because I consider this principle is on tho ono hand of so much greater importance than tho brother who momentarily represents it , while , on the
other hand , it derives so ranch , if not , as a matter of fact , the whole of its value from his personal qualifications for personal rank , that I ask your permission to explain why it is that I and others regard the candidature of Bro . Willing as a very grave mistake , made in flagrant violation of the principle which has been twice upheld successfully in Grand Lodge and of which , as I have said , he is presumed now to
be the champion ; and why it is that I and others most fervently trust his candidature will end in utter and even disastrous failure . I may of course be wrong in my premisses , but I have always been under the impression that the principle successfully contended for at tho election of the present and immediate Past Grand Treasurers was neither more nor less than this . Graud Lodge-enjoys , under the
Book of Constitutions , the right of electing its Grand Treasurer , and as there is no longer attached to the office any degree or kind of responsibility , it was urged that the members of Grand Lodge should annually nominate and elect from amongst themselves some brother of eminence and distinction whom ifc would be an honour to the Craft to have enrolled among its chiefs , there being no other way
than this open to the general body of English Freemasons for signalising their appreciation of a brother ' s services or merit . Bnt the idea of any one having attained eminence and distinction implies in the very nature of things that he has done something exceptional , something which the other members of the general body have not done so well , or to fche same extent thafc he has ; or that he possesses
naturally , or has acquired after a long experience or in somo other way , certain attributes or qualifications which are not possessed or have not been acquired by the others . Now I will ask this plain matter-of-fact question , —Has Bro . Willing rendered any services to Freemasonry of an exceptional character , that is , any such services as would justify him in seeking or having thrust upon him the one
great hononr which it is in the power of Grand Lodge to confer annually ? Is it not tho case that there are hundreds—I may venture to say thousands—of its membera who havo rendered services of precisely tho same kind and degree as ho has ? I will even pat the question still more forcibly , and ask if thero are not hundreds and hundreds of brethren who have done far moro for Freemasonry than
Bro . Willing , and who are consequently by so much tho more worthy than ho is oi" having the much-coveted honour of the purple bestowed upon them . I hold that the principle of electing annually a new Grand Treasurer ia a just one , but I likewise hold that , in order to ensure its just application , there must be something like an approach to equality in point of merit between the claims of its champion to be
honoured and tho honour itself . There is no such approach to equality in this case of Bro . Willing , who is a very worthy member of tho rank and file of Freemasonry , but who , above and beyond this , has not the slightest shadow of a shade of claim to be placed on an eminence above his brother members of the same standing in Grand Lodge .
I havo studiously avoided the introduction into my statement ot anything like personality , i have been obliged to name the name of Willing , because its owner has been set up as the representative of the principle I have consistently supported from the beginning . I have cheerfully agreed with every ono else that he is what he is , namely , Bro . James Willing P . M . P . Z ., a very good follow and all that , bnt save in this respect , I havo regarded him as being as
absolutely impersonal as a mathematician does the algebraic symbol ( c . It , is through no fault of mine that he is now in a position before the Craft which he has no claim to occupy , ancl it is from no sense of disrespect to him aa a man or a Mason that I earnestly repeat the hope I have already expressed that his candidature in March next for the much-coveted collar of Grand Treasurer will prove a complete and ignominious failure . Yours faithful and fraternally , SYMBOL S .
The Most Worshipful Grand Master has sanctioned a warrant being issued for the Epping Lodge , No . 2077 . Bro . E . G . " Lewis is the "W . M . designate , Bro . James Salmon the S . W ., aud Bro . T . J . Woodman the J . W .
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The Charlestown Mother Supreme Grand Council Of The World.
though he is a high degreer , and very often prints a great deal of worthless stuff , happened to copy some spicy extracts from papers , whose editors advocate either more or less Masonics for the American system than Bro . Carson allows . This put Bro . Carson out of temper , and he wrote
to tho publisher of the Review . Indeed , it was an indignant challenge : but the publisher and editor accepted the challenge , and each gave onr brother Carson n moat tearful ¦ whai -kinn . I was sincerely sorry for friend Carson , but
I could not help saying , serve him right . For , in the first place , there is a great deal of moonshine in his American system ; and , second , he ought to have known that it was altogether too late for any ono to succeed in muzzling the Press .
Ifc is true that the mass of Masons aro still ignorant of Masonic history . This is in a measure unavoidable as long as false legends are retained in fcho ritual . Ifc is also true that many of onr Masonic Editors will cheerfully publish all kind of twaddle , and will carefully exclude every
particle of truth which clashes with their interest , conceit , or the notions of their patrons . But who cares ? If one editor is a partizan for moonshine Masonry , truth can find vent through another paper . You see now , my dear Brother , that to the rising desire for reading Masonic books , which
gave rise to the formation of Grand Lodgo libraries and a consequent diffusion of Masonic information through the agency of a free press , we are indirectly indebted to tho continuous fighting among high degreers . Thus , tho high degree storm tends to clear the Masonic atmosphere of its impurities .
The present state of high degreedom in America is anything but harmonious ; thus , in the Northern States , we hove four independent Supreme Councils , and two in the Southern States . Baltimore high degreers recently sent back their charter to Pike , and took out one from one of
the Cerneau concerns at New York . In California there is also trouble ; so there is in Ohio , in New Hampshire , & c . Several pamphlets have recently been issued by the Secessionists in different States . Here , in Boston , we have quite a number of 32 nds and 33 rds too , who make no
secret of expressing their disgust with all the high degrees , and I felt amused the other day , when conversing with one of these brethren , to hear him explain the difference between a 33 rd who is an active member of a Snpreme Council and one who is nofc ; the former he styled a
fullblooded 33 rd , and the latter he called a " 32 | only . " In short , high degreedom here is fast falling into contempt among our disinterested reading and thinking Masonic public ; and if our Grand Lodges do not hasten to bring the ritual into conformity with the present state
of Masonic information , and do nofc order the Masters of Lodges to caution candidates against taking all kinds of so called high degrees , Freemasonry itself will , a little sooner or later , be numbered among the somethings of the pasfc . BOSTON , U . S . 31 st October 1884 .
The London Cottage Mission has had a busy week at the Now Hall , Salmon Lane , Limehouse , aud ono which we trust will go a long way towards recruiting the almost exhausted feuds of this most deserving Charity . On Tnesday a Baaaar for tho sale of work was opened by Lady Colin Campbell , whom Mr . Austin introduced in a brief but telling speech , in which he gave a review of the work of
fche Mission since its inception more than a dozen years ago , and this Bazaar is to remain open daily from three till nine o ' clock up till Saturday . On Wednesday , the second Children ' s Irish Stew Dinuer of the season took place , when six or seven hundred poor little starvelings had their " One Dinner a Week , " and it is earnestly to be hoped that a greater number will find their way to the Mission
Hall on future Wednesdays in the coming winter ; bnt to do thisto increase the amount of practical good being clone throughout the East-end—funds are urgently wanted , indeed at this moment tlio action of the Mission is literally crippled for lack of them . All who would help a causa so good can forward their contributions to the Founder and Director , Mr . Walter Austin , 44 Finsbury Pavement , E . C , who will gladly acknowledge them .
HOLLOWAY ' PILLS . — "Nothing preserves tho health so well as thoso alterative Pills in changeable weather , or when our nervous systems are irritable . Tlioy ac . admirably on tho stomach , liver , and kidneys , and so throughly purify the blood that they are tho most efficient remedy for warding off derangements of the stomach , fever , catarrhs , quinsies , and other maladies , and giving tone and energy to enervated valetudinarians . All who have the natural and laudable desire of maintaining their own and their family's health cannot do better than trust to HoIIoway ' s Pills , which cool , regulate and strengthen . Those purifying Pills are suitable for all ages , seasons , climates , and ' constitutions , when all other means fail , and are the female ' s best friend .
Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE
We »» t hidd nv . rselrt ' s responxiide f < r the opinions of our Vor . respondents . All Letters must hear the name and . mldrcss nf the Writer , not necessttrih / for i > ubliruti ,, n , bul n . < a guarantee of goml faith . \\' .. . ; .,..,... t . ,, 1 ., 1 , 'rh'l :: /( . re . t , i _ rn , rc ' iC'lt ' il r . 'ini . u »»' * r < i / i .. « ,: .
THK UIUND TRKASURKKSHir ' . To the Editor of th * FKKKMASON ' S CHUO ^ ICLU . DHAK SfB AND BiumiEH , —In saying that I very much regret to learn that Bro . James Willing has boon nominated as a candidate for tho office of Grand Treasurer , I wish it to bo clearly understood that 1 am actuated by no motive which can in tho remotest degree be said to partake of a personal character . 1 havo always heard him spoken
of as a thoroughly good follow . I know ho ia a founder and P . M . of sundry Lodges , a founder and P . Z . of sundry Chapters , a member of tho Board of General Purposes , and a contributor to , as well as a worker for , our Charitable Institutions . Whatever was said on Wednesday last in Grand Lodge in his behalf by the brother who proposed him , or can bo said in his behalf by his most intimate friend ,
I accept or am prepared to accept unreservedly . But I am a supporter of the principle which was successfully asserted at the last and previous elections , and of which I understand Bro . Willing is held to be tho champion on tho present occasion ; aud it is because I consider this principle is on tho ono hand of so much greater importance than tho brother who momentarily represents it , while , on the
other hand , it derives so ranch , if not , as a matter of fact , the whole of its value from his personal qualifications for personal rank , that I ask your permission to explain why it is that I and others regard the candidature of Bro . Willing as a very grave mistake , made in flagrant violation of the principle which has been twice upheld successfully in Grand Lodge and of which , as I have said , he is presumed now to
be the champion ; and why it is that I and others most fervently trust his candidature will end in utter and even disastrous failure . I may of course be wrong in my premisses , but I have always been under the impression that the principle successfully contended for at tho election of the present and immediate Past Grand Treasurers was neither more nor less than this . Graud Lodge-enjoys , under the
Book of Constitutions , the right of electing its Grand Treasurer , and as there is no longer attached to the office any degree or kind of responsibility , it was urged that the members of Grand Lodge should annually nominate and elect from amongst themselves some brother of eminence and distinction whom ifc would be an honour to the Craft to have enrolled among its chiefs , there being no other way
than this open to the general body of English Freemasons for signalising their appreciation of a brother ' s services or merit . Bnt the idea of any one having attained eminence and distinction implies in the very nature of things that he has done something exceptional , something which the other members of the general body have not done so well , or to fche same extent thafc he has ; or that he possesses
naturally , or has acquired after a long experience or in somo other way , certain attributes or qualifications which are not possessed or have not been acquired by the others . Now I will ask this plain matter-of-fact question , —Has Bro . Willing rendered any services to Freemasonry of an exceptional character , that is , any such services as would justify him in seeking or having thrust upon him the one
great hononr which it is in the power of Grand Lodge to confer annually ? Is it not tho case that there are hundreds—I may venture to say thousands—of its membera who havo rendered services of precisely tho same kind and degree as ho has ? I will even pat the question still more forcibly , and ask if thero are not hundreds and hundreds of brethren who have done far moro for Freemasonry than
Bro . Willing , and who are consequently by so much tho more worthy than ho is oi" having the much-coveted honour of the purple bestowed upon them . I hold that the principle of electing annually a new Grand Treasurer ia a just one , but I likewise hold that , in order to ensure its just application , there must be something like an approach to equality in point of merit between the claims of its champion to be
honoured and tho honour itself . There is no such approach to equality in this case of Bro . Willing , who is a very worthy member of tho rank and file of Freemasonry , but who , above and beyond this , has not the slightest shadow of a shade of claim to be placed on an eminence above his brother members of the same standing in Grand Lodge .
I havo studiously avoided the introduction into my statement ot anything like personality , i have been obliged to name the name of Willing , because its owner has been set up as the representative of the principle I have consistently supported from the beginning . I have cheerfully agreed with every ono else that he is what he is , namely , Bro . James Willing P . M . P . Z ., a very good follow and all that , bnt save in this respect , I havo regarded him as being as
absolutely impersonal as a mathematician does the algebraic symbol ( c . It , is through no fault of mine that he is now in a position before the Craft which he has no claim to occupy , ancl it is from no sense of disrespect to him aa a man or a Mason that I earnestly repeat the hope I have already expressed that his candidature in March next for the much-coveted collar of Grand Treasurer will prove a complete and ignominious failure . Yours faithful and fraternally , SYMBOL S .
The Most Worshipful Grand Master has sanctioned a warrant being issued for the Epping Lodge , No . 2077 . Bro . E . G . " Lewis is the "W . M . designate , Bro . James Salmon the S . W ., aud Bro . T . J . Woodman the J . W .