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BRITISH HOME for INCURABLES , CLAPHAM RISE . President : VISCT . HOLMESDALE , Prov . G . M . Kent . This Institution provides a home for those of the middle class ivho are unable , through incurable disease , to maintain themselves . In certain cases pensions of ^' 20 per annum are granted . . At present there are 40 in and 261 out patients on the books of the Charity , to the support of which FUNDS are most urgently SOLICITED . CHAS . HOOD , Esq ., F . R . S ., Chairman . . ROBERT G . SALMOND , Secretary . Offices , 37 , Cheapside , E . C .
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PERILS ABOUND ON EVERY SIDE ! The RAILWAY PASSENGERS'ASSURANCE COMPANY 64 , CORNHILL , INSURES AGAINST ACCIDENTSOFALLKINDS , —ONLANDOR WATER , AND HAS THE LARGEST INVESTED CAPITAL , THE LARGEST INCOME , AND PAYS YEARLY THE LARGEST AMOUNT OF ' COMPENSATION of any Accidental Assurance Company . CHAIRMAN . —HARVIE M . FARQUHAR , ESQ . Apply to the Clerks at the Railway Stations , the Local Agents , or West End Office : 8 , GRAND HOTEL BUILDINGS , CHARING CROSS ; or at the HEAD OFFICE : —64 , CORNHILL , LONDON , E . C . WILLIAM J . VIAN , Secretary .
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( gtmcattonat , DULWICH HOUSE SCHOOL , VICTORIA ROAD , UPPER NORWOOD , S . E . ( Within seven minutes' of the Crystal Palace ) . PRINCIPAL : Mr . J . K . BARNES , LONDON UNIVERSITY . ( Late Upper Fifth-Form Master , Bedford Modern School , Harpur Foundation . ) RESIDENT STAFF : Classics : Mr . VV . P . EVANS , M . A . ( 2 nd Class Classical Tripos , 1 S 77 . ) ( Late Foundation Scholar , Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge . ) English Language and Literature : The PRINCIPAL . Mathematics and Science : P . Z . ROUND , B . A . ( Mathematical Tripos , 18 S 2 . ) ( Late Scholar St . Katharine ' s College , Cambridge . ) Modern Languages : The PRINCIPAL . VISITING STAFF : Modern Languages : Monsieur EUGENE FASNACHT . ( Late Senior Modern Language Master , Bedford Modern School . Editor of Macmillan ' s Foreign Classics . ) Science : Rev . J . G . WOOD , M . A ., ' F . L . S ., and Prof . C . P . MORRIS , •Geology and Phys . Geog . ; and such other qualified and experienced Masters as the requirements of the Pupils may demand . References kindly permitted to Rev . R . B . Poole ,. B . D ., Bed . Mod . School , Bedford . Alex . Waugh Young , M . A ., Tettenhall College , Staffordshire . . G . M . Hicks , M . A ., 5 , South-row , Blackheath , S . E . E . F . Ashworth Bnggs , M . A ., L . L . M .,-15 , New Street , Daventry . Rev . A . Lloyd , M . A ., Norton Rectory , Bury St . Edmunds . C . L . Peel , Esq ., C . B ., Woodcraft , Cuckfield , Sussex , Major Ed . Green , St . Mary ' s , Bedford . J . D . Rodger , Esq ., College Lawn , Cheltenham . C . P . Mason , B . A ., F . C . P ., Dukesell , Streatham Hill , S . E ,
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HIGH-CLASS PRIVATE SCHOOL THEOBALD'S PARK , WALTHAM CROSS , LONDON ,. N . PRINCIPAL : Rev . J . OSWALD JACKSON , Assisted by Five Masters . Limited number of Gentlemen ' s Sons ; motherly care for delicate pupils ; individual teaching for backward ones ; playground of six acres . First riass Honours gained at last Cambridge Local Examinations , with Distinction in Mathematics . References kindly permitted to Rev .. Dr . Reynolds , Principal of Cheshunt College , Herts , Rev . Charles E . Mayo , M . A ., Nottingham . Sir Thomas Chambers , M . P ., Recorder of London . Richard Toller , Esq ., Solicitor , Leicester . George Kenning , Esq ., Little Britain .
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AX / OKING COLLEGE , WOKING , VY SURREY . •' •HEAD MASTER : The Rev . C . W . ARNOLD , M . A ., Trinity College , Cambridge . In the Higher Classes pupils are prepared for the Universities , Army , Civil Service , Oxford and Cambridge Lqcals , and Mercantile Life . The School is connected with a School at Lausanne , to which boys for Mercantile Life can be sent on to acquire French and German conversationally . * In the Lower Classes pupils are prepared for the Public Schools and Navy . From this department boys have passed into all the Public Schools . During the last year two open Scholarships •at the Universities and a Foundation Scholarship at Westminster have been gained . Terms Moderate . For Prospectus apply to Head Master .
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WANTED at once , £ 24 for two months , b y a Brother momentarily distressed . Security given . P . M ., ig , Bennets-hill , E . C . THE Widow of a P . Prov . Grand Warden having embarked the small ready money sum left on which to support herself and two children in a business which did not fulfil its promised advantages on purchase , and her own health having greatly suffered from anxiety and constant attendance on the youngest child , a girl four and a half years old , who is now attending an Ophthalmic Hospital for defective sight , earnestly asks ASSISTANCE from the Craft to enable her to go to the seaside to recruit her health , without which blessing she cannot hope to tide over the future , should any opening offer , and to raise sufficient money to enable her to make a fresh start to maintain herself and invalid child . References can be given on application to the Freemason office , 16 " , Great Oueeri-st ,
To Correspondents.
To Correspondents .
"Centenary Festival of the Harmonic Lodge , No . 252 , Dudley , " and several other reports stand over till our next . BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . " Loomis * Musical and Masonic | ournal , " " | e \ vish Chronicle , *' "Sunday Times ' . ' fNew York ; , "Hull Packet ; " " Broad Arrow , "
"Citizen , " " Royal Cornwall Gazette , " " Freemasons Chronicle , " " Lc Moniteur de la Chance Univcrsclle , " " New York Dispatch , " " Electrical Review , " " Masonic- Chronicle , " " Court Circular , " " Masonic Token , " "Masonic World , " " Victorian Freemason , " " Keystone , " " Victorian Masonic Journal , ''* ' Allen ' s Indian Mail , " "Time , " "The Tricycling Journal , " " Canadian Craftsman . "
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: SATURDAY , AUGUST 2 , 1884 .
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
[ We do not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of , the opinionsexpressedby our correspondents , but we wish in a spirit of fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits— -free discussion . ] .
A USEFUL WARNING . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , As at this period of the year the Masonic "gooseberry " sometimes crops up , I have thought it well to send you a little " morceau" from the "Freemasons' Repository , " which , I think , may be of use : " Freemasonry calls
for honest and guarded speech at all times . One of its watchwords is the call to silence and circumspection . Especially does it require of brethren that they shall support each other ' s reputation , and be always controlled by the spirit of charity , in words not less than in deeds . But not all have been Freemasons in their hearts ; not all have been sufficiently impressed by the lessons taught in the lode-e :
hence occasionally there appear backbiters in the Fraternity . We have known men who had received high honours at the hands of the Craft to be very much given to speaking ill of the absent , and even surreptitiously of the present . They were quick to censure , ready to ascribe base motives , active in the work of adverse criticisms , and greatly wanting in charitable judgment of those to whom , in name at least , they sustained the relation of friends and brethren .
We may be thankful that backbiters among Freemasons are so few ; that in the main a spirit of fair dealing and generosity finds expression , and the great lessons that apply to related life are so generally heeded . But it will do no harm to often call to mind these teachings—to offer frequently the prayer , " From envy , hatred , and malice , and all uncharitableness mayT . G . A . O . T . U . deliver us "—that , having the right spirit in our ' hearts , our words and our works may come into beautiful harmony therewith . " —Yours fraternally , A WELL-WISHER .
A VERY HARD CASE . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , In one of your late issues I notice a letter — " M . M . M . "—touching the abstraction of one of the English lodge regalia here . Please allow me to give you the
facts—The W . M . and some of the members of St . George ' s Lodge , 440 , desired to take the lodge over to the Grand Lodge of Quebec . Finding they could not accomplish it , a favouredfew met at the W . M . 's office , when it was arranged to open the lodge sharp on time at the next regular meeting , which was called for 7 . 30 o'clock p . m . The lodge was opened before the time , andprevious to the reading
, of the minutes , a motion was made recognising the supremacy of the Grand Lodge of Quebec . There were 37 members present ; the question was discussed for over an hour . In the meantime there were over 40 members in the ante-room demanding an entrance , who were refused . The vote being taken , stood—30 for , and 7 against . The members who were refused , with the minoritv
inside , met the next day , drew out a strong protest to the VV . M ., demanding the warrant , books , & c , which were refused , the W . M . referring them to the then Grand Master ol Quebec , Bro . J . H . Graham , who had the warrant . A delegation , properly authorised , went to Bro . Graham , laid before him the facts , and the English Constitution , and respectfully requested the lodge property . Bro . Graham
refused . On the return ofthe delegation with their report , a ' petition was drawn up and presented to the English Deputy Grand Master here , who personally called on the W . M ., demanding the lodge property , & c , which also was refused . The D . G . M . then ' issued a dispensation to the loyal
members , sent , a dispatch to England , when a warrant of confirmation was issued , and the Board of General Purposes ordered the suspension of the W . M . The property taken away and now in use b y the members of the Grand Lodge of Quebec , was the regalja , lodge furniture , cash , books , jewels , and warrant , amounting to over two thousand dollars .
Original Correspondence.
When M . W . Bro . M . Tait succeeded Bro . Graham as Grand Master , and being informed of the above , ' he instituted inquiries , took the warrant from the lodge , and
personally handed it over to the English U . U . 'M . Here . The time , we trust , is hot far off when the Grand Lodge of Quebec will elect another Grand Master , who will com- ' plete what Bro . Tait has began . —Yours fraternally , Montreal , 1 st July . -. J . H . LIVINGSTON ,
A FIND . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , I notice the following " par " in an American Masonic paper : — " And now Bro . H . VV , Rylands has found an example of a gentleman being received as a Freemason in
1 Q 03 , which sets the date of speculative Masonry back one hundred years or more . " Can Bro . W . H . Rylands , for I fancy that is the " real and original Party , " give us a full account of this reception ? Or are these words an amplification of a " find " announced ( in your Journal of a Freemason in 1 C 03 in a Register by Bro . Rylands ?—Yours fraternallv . FACT !
•THE INQUISITION . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , In one of your leaders in last week ' s Freemason you allude to Bro . Coustos , who underwent most cruel tortures like other poor Freemasons at Lisbon , over ioo * years ago . I have looked into an old book I have on the history
of Freemasonry , published 1 S 04 , and I send you an extract from the same . It is as under . : ' "At Lisbon , in the year 1742 , James Mouton , a French artist , and John Coustos , a native of Berne , in Switzerland , were imprisoned by the bloody Inquisition . They were accused of belonging to a society by which sacrilege ,. & c , were allowed ; and were requested to discover to their
persecutors , the true design of Freemasonry . " After defending the institution as useful and innocent , they were extended on the rack , ir . expectation that a confession would be extorted by its torments . Force , however , had no control over a mind conscious of integrity . Coustos having maintained his innocence , after having been twice stretched on this instrument of agony , was ,- at last
sentenced to walk in the procession of the "Auto da Fie , ' and to serve in the gallies for four years . " At the instance of the English Masons , however , George the Second authorised the British Minister at Lisbon to demand , in his Majesty ' s name , from the King ' of Portugal , the liberation of Coustos , which was granted in 1744 ,
after a dreadful confinement of two years and a half . " I send you this copy as it may be interesting to yourself and others of our Craft . —I am , yours fraternally , E . R . HARTLEY ,-P . M . 252 , & c . " S 2 , Balsall Heath-road , Edgbaston , Birmingham , July 2 Sth . [ The work about Coustos is well-known to Masonic Students . —ED . FMA
Reviews
REVIEWS
DAS RITUAL DER LOGE ZUR HOFFNUNG IN BERN . By Bro . A . S ., Past Grand Keeper of the Archives . Bern , 1 SS 4 . ( A reprint from the Alpina . ) This small pamphlet has been the source of some considerable disappointment to us . It would appear from the opening pages that , for political and prudential reasons , the Hope Lodge , of Bern , deemed it advisable in 1 S 82 to reconsider its statutes , and to amend its legal position by
conversion into a civil corporation . Advantage was taken of these radical changes to reconstruct its ritual , which work was entrusted to Bro . A . S ., because—in his own words— "it was abundantly known that for many years past I had made a thorough study of all Swiss and other rituals of both the lower and upper branches of Masonry . " Considering that the pamphlet is entitled "The Ritual of the Hope Lodge , " we were justified in expecting some hints of the nature
of this newest reform ( sic ) of our venerable ceremonial ; but , to our dismay , arc only presented with some 35 pages of academical discussion upon the objects of the Craft , its tendencies as they are , and as they should be , and the conclusion that a perfect ritual Should conform thereto . The pamphlet not only belies its title , but is totally unworthy of being separately reprinted . In its original form as a magazine article it was in its place , and forms an interesting
study of the Teutonic aptitude for hair-splitting and differentiating in the absence of a real difference . . It is , however , a pleasure to be able to agree with Bro . A . S . when he at length comes to the conclusions that three degrees are enough for all purposes ; and that the elaborate elucidation of Craft symbolism should be relegated to lodges of Instruction . Whether we should approve of his brand hew ritual or not , it is impossible to say , as he gives us no indications of
its nature . As the Lodge of Hope is a very important one , a few facts connected with its history , for which however we are notindebtedtoBro . A . S , may be of interest . An ei g hteenth century lodge existedinCaiouge ( near ' Geneva ) , holding from Grand Orient of France , which constituted the lodge of Hope , Bern , early in 1 S 03 . A confirmatory charter was granted by Grand Orient of France on 14 th September , 1803 . In 1 S 05 the lodge developed aRosicrucian Chapter .
It founded several other lodges in the neighbourhood ( although not a Grand Lodge ); and on 6 th August , 1 S 13 , initiated Prince Leopold of Sachsen-Koburg , afterwards King of the Belgians . In 1 S 1 S it threw off its allegiance to the Grand Orient of France and all high Degrees , and joined the union of lodges holding from England . On the 27 th July of the same year it was constituted by the Duke of Sussex a Provincial Grand Lodge of Switzerland . At
this time three grand bodies divided the . allegiance of the Swiss lodges ; but the Prov . Grand Lodge of Hope did its best to bring about a union . In 1 S 22 it was partially successful , as the Grand Orient of Lausanne and the English Prov . Grand Lodge both divested themselves of their separate powers to form a United Grand Lodge of
Switzerland ; the Lodge of Hope continuing as a subordinate private lodge . In 1 S 41 the outstanding Grand Lodge and the newly formed Grand Lodge effected an amalgamation , forming the present Grand Lodge " Alpina ; " so that at . length all Swiss lodges were brought under one allegiance . We are unaware of the present strength of the Lodge of Hope , but in i 860 it numbered 128 members , G , W . S .
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BRITISH HOME for INCURABLES , CLAPHAM RISE . President : VISCT . HOLMESDALE , Prov . G . M . Kent . This Institution provides a home for those of the middle class ivho are unable , through incurable disease , to maintain themselves . In certain cases pensions of ^' 20 per annum are granted . . At present there are 40 in and 261 out patients on the books of the Charity , to the support of which FUNDS are most urgently SOLICITED . CHAS . HOOD , Esq ., F . R . S ., Chairman . . ROBERT G . SALMOND , Secretary . Offices , 37 , Cheapside , E . C .
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PERILS ABOUND ON EVERY SIDE ! The RAILWAY PASSENGERS'ASSURANCE COMPANY 64 , CORNHILL , INSURES AGAINST ACCIDENTSOFALLKINDS , —ONLANDOR WATER , AND HAS THE LARGEST INVESTED CAPITAL , THE LARGEST INCOME , AND PAYS YEARLY THE LARGEST AMOUNT OF ' COMPENSATION of any Accidental Assurance Company . CHAIRMAN . —HARVIE M . FARQUHAR , ESQ . Apply to the Clerks at the Railway Stations , the Local Agents , or West End Office : 8 , GRAND HOTEL BUILDINGS , CHARING CROSS ; or at the HEAD OFFICE : —64 , CORNHILL , LONDON , E . C . WILLIAM J . VIAN , Secretary .
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( gtmcattonat , DULWICH HOUSE SCHOOL , VICTORIA ROAD , UPPER NORWOOD , S . E . ( Within seven minutes' of the Crystal Palace ) . PRINCIPAL : Mr . J . K . BARNES , LONDON UNIVERSITY . ( Late Upper Fifth-Form Master , Bedford Modern School , Harpur Foundation . ) RESIDENT STAFF : Classics : Mr . VV . P . EVANS , M . A . ( 2 nd Class Classical Tripos , 1 S 77 . ) ( Late Foundation Scholar , Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge . ) English Language and Literature : The PRINCIPAL . Mathematics and Science : P . Z . ROUND , B . A . ( Mathematical Tripos , 18 S 2 . ) ( Late Scholar St . Katharine ' s College , Cambridge . ) Modern Languages : The PRINCIPAL . VISITING STAFF : Modern Languages : Monsieur EUGENE FASNACHT . ( Late Senior Modern Language Master , Bedford Modern School . Editor of Macmillan ' s Foreign Classics . ) Science : Rev . J . G . WOOD , M . A ., ' F . L . S ., and Prof . C . P . MORRIS , •Geology and Phys . Geog . ; and such other qualified and experienced Masters as the requirements of the Pupils may demand . References kindly permitted to Rev . R . B . Poole ,. B . D ., Bed . Mod . School , Bedford . Alex . Waugh Young , M . A ., Tettenhall College , Staffordshire . . G . M . Hicks , M . A ., 5 , South-row , Blackheath , S . E . E . F . Ashworth Bnggs , M . A ., L . L . M .,-15 , New Street , Daventry . Rev . A . Lloyd , M . A ., Norton Rectory , Bury St . Edmunds . C . L . Peel , Esq ., C . B ., Woodcraft , Cuckfield , Sussex , Major Ed . Green , St . Mary ' s , Bedford . J . D . Rodger , Esq ., College Lawn , Cheltenham . C . P . Mason , B . A ., F . C . P ., Dukesell , Streatham Hill , S . E ,
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HIGH-CLASS PRIVATE SCHOOL THEOBALD'S PARK , WALTHAM CROSS , LONDON ,. N . PRINCIPAL : Rev . J . OSWALD JACKSON , Assisted by Five Masters . Limited number of Gentlemen ' s Sons ; motherly care for delicate pupils ; individual teaching for backward ones ; playground of six acres . First riass Honours gained at last Cambridge Local Examinations , with Distinction in Mathematics . References kindly permitted to Rev .. Dr . Reynolds , Principal of Cheshunt College , Herts , Rev . Charles E . Mayo , M . A ., Nottingham . Sir Thomas Chambers , M . P ., Recorder of London . Richard Toller , Esq ., Solicitor , Leicester . George Kenning , Esq ., Little Britain .
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AX / OKING COLLEGE , WOKING , VY SURREY . •' •HEAD MASTER : The Rev . C . W . ARNOLD , M . A ., Trinity College , Cambridge . In the Higher Classes pupils are prepared for the Universities , Army , Civil Service , Oxford and Cambridge Lqcals , and Mercantile Life . The School is connected with a School at Lausanne , to which boys for Mercantile Life can be sent on to acquire French and German conversationally . * In the Lower Classes pupils are prepared for the Public Schools and Navy . From this department boys have passed into all the Public Schools . During the last year two open Scholarships •at the Universities and a Foundation Scholarship at Westminster have been gained . Terms Moderate . For Prospectus apply to Head Master .
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WANTED at once , £ 24 for two months , b y a Brother momentarily distressed . Security given . P . M ., ig , Bennets-hill , E . C . THE Widow of a P . Prov . Grand Warden having embarked the small ready money sum left on which to support herself and two children in a business which did not fulfil its promised advantages on purchase , and her own health having greatly suffered from anxiety and constant attendance on the youngest child , a girl four and a half years old , who is now attending an Ophthalmic Hospital for defective sight , earnestly asks ASSISTANCE from the Craft to enable her to go to the seaside to recruit her health , without which blessing she cannot hope to tide over the future , should any opening offer , and to raise sufficient money to enable her to make a fresh start to maintain herself and invalid child . References can be given on application to the Freemason office , 16 " , Great Oueeri-st ,
To Correspondents.
To Correspondents .
"Centenary Festival of the Harmonic Lodge , No . 252 , Dudley , " and several other reports stand over till our next . BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . " Loomis * Musical and Masonic | ournal , " " | e \ vish Chronicle , *' "Sunday Times ' . ' fNew York ; , "Hull Packet ; " " Broad Arrow , "
"Citizen , " " Royal Cornwall Gazette , " " Freemasons Chronicle , " " Lc Moniteur de la Chance Univcrsclle , " " New York Dispatch , " " Electrical Review , " " Masonic- Chronicle , " " Court Circular , " " Masonic Token , " "Masonic World , " " Victorian Freemason , " " Keystone , " " Victorian Masonic Journal , ''* ' Allen ' s Indian Mail , " "Time , " "The Tricycling Journal , " " Canadian Craftsman . "
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: SATURDAY , AUGUST 2 , 1884 .
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
[ We do not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of , the opinionsexpressedby our correspondents , but we wish in a spirit of fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits— -free discussion . ] .
A USEFUL WARNING . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , As at this period of the year the Masonic "gooseberry " sometimes crops up , I have thought it well to send you a little " morceau" from the "Freemasons' Repository , " which , I think , may be of use : " Freemasonry calls
for honest and guarded speech at all times . One of its watchwords is the call to silence and circumspection . Especially does it require of brethren that they shall support each other ' s reputation , and be always controlled by the spirit of charity , in words not less than in deeds . But not all have been Freemasons in their hearts ; not all have been sufficiently impressed by the lessons taught in the lode-e :
hence occasionally there appear backbiters in the Fraternity . We have known men who had received high honours at the hands of the Craft to be very much given to speaking ill of the absent , and even surreptitiously of the present . They were quick to censure , ready to ascribe base motives , active in the work of adverse criticisms , and greatly wanting in charitable judgment of those to whom , in name at least , they sustained the relation of friends and brethren .
We may be thankful that backbiters among Freemasons are so few ; that in the main a spirit of fair dealing and generosity finds expression , and the great lessons that apply to related life are so generally heeded . But it will do no harm to often call to mind these teachings—to offer frequently the prayer , " From envy , hatred , and malice , and all uncharitableness mayT . G . A . O . T . U . deliver us "—that , having the right spirit in our ' hearts , our words and our works may come into beautiful harmony therewith . " —Yours fraternally , A WELL-WISHER .
A VERY HARD CASE . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , In one of your late issues I notice a letter — " M . M . M . "—touching the abstraction of one of the English lodge regalia here . Please allow me to give you the
facts—The W . M . and some of the members of St . George ' s Lodge , 440 , desired to take the lodge over to the Grand Lodge of Quebec . Finding they could not accomplish it , a favouredfew met at the W . M . 's office , when it was arranged to open the lodge sharp on time at the next regular meeting , which was called for 7 . 30 o'clock p . m . The lodge was opened before the time , andprevious to the reading
, of the minutes , a motion was made recognising the supremacy of the Grand Lodge of Quebec . There were 37 members present ; the question was discussed for over an hour . In the meantime there were over 40 members in the ante-room demanding an entrance , who were refused . The vote being taken , stood—30 for , and 7 against . The members who were refused , with the minoritv
inside , met the next day , drew out a strong protest to the VV . M ., demanding the warrant , books , & c , which were refused , the W . M . referring them to the then Grand Master ol Quebec , Bro . J . H . Graham , who had the warrant . A delegation , properly authorised , went to Bro . Graham , laid before him the facts , and the English Constitution , and respectfully requested the lodge property . Bro . Graham
refused . On the return ofthe delegation with their report , a ' petition was drawn up and presented to the English Deputy Grand Master here , who personally called on the W . M ., demanding the lodge property , & c , which also was refused . The D . G . M . then ' issued a dispensation to the loyal
members , sent , a dispatch to England , when a warrant of confirmation was issued , and the Board of General Purposes ordered the suspension of the W . M . The property taken away and now in use b y the members of the Grand Lodge of Quebec , was the regalja , lodge furniture , cash , books , jewels , and warrant , amounting to over two thousand dollars .
Original Correspondence.
When M . W . Bro . M . Tait succeeded Bro . Graham as Grand Master , and being informed of the above , ' he instituted inquiries , took the warrant from the lodge , and
personally handed it over to the English U . U . 'M . Here . The time , we trust , is hot far off when the Grand Lodge of Quebec will elect another Grand Master , who will com- ' plete what Bro . Tait has began . —Yours fraternally , Montreal , 1 st July . -. J . H . LIVINGSTON ,
A FIND . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , I notice the following " par " in an American Masonic paper : — " And now Bro . H . VV , Rylands has found an example of a gentleman being received as a Freemason in
1 Q 03 , which sets the date of speculative Masonry back one hundred years or more . " Can Bro . W . H . Rylands , for I fancy that is the " real and original Party , " give us a full account of this reception ? Or are these words an amplification of a " find " announced ( in your Journal of a Freemason in 1 C 03 in a Register by Bro . Rylands ?—Yours fraternallv . FACT !
•THE INQUISITION . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , In one of your leaders in last week ' s Freemason you allude to Bro . Coustos , who underwent most cruel tortures like other poor Freemasons at Lisbon , over ioo * years ago . I have looked into an old book I have on the history
of Freemasonry , published 1 S 04 , and I send you an extract from the same . It is as under . : ' "At Lisbon , in the year 1742 , James Mouton , a French artist , and John Coustos , a native of Berne , in Switzerland , were imprisoned by the bloody Inquisition . They were accused of belonging to a society by which sacrilege ,. & c , were allowed ; and were requested to discover to their
persecutors , the true design of Freemasonry . " After defending the institution as useful and innocent , they were extended on the rack , ir . expectation that a confession would be extorted by its torments . Force , however , had no control over a mind conscious of integrity . Coustos having maintained his innocence , after having been twice stretched on this instrument of agony , was ,- at last
sentenced to walk in the procession of the "Auto da Fie , ' and to serve in the gallies for four years . " At the instance of the English Masons , however , George the Second authorised the British Minister at Lisbon to demand , in his Majesty ' s name , from the King ' of Portugal , the liberation of Coustos , which was granted in 1744 ,
after a dreadful confinement of two years and a half . " I send you this copy as it may be interesting to yourself and others of our Craft . —I am , yours fraternally , E . R . HARTLEY ,-P . M . 252 , & c . " S 2 , Balsall Heath-road , Edgbaston , Birmingham , July 2 Sth . [ The work about Coustos is well-known to Masonic Students . —ED . FMA
Reviews
REVIEWS
DAS RITUAL DER LOGE ZUR HOFFNUNG IN BERN . By Bro . A . S ., Past Grand Keeper of the Archives . Bern , 1 SS 4 . ( A reprint from the Alpina . ) This small pamphlet has been the source of some considerable disappointment to us . It would appear from the opening pages that , for political and prudential reasons , the Hope Lodge , of Bern , deemed it advisable in 1 S 82 to reconsider its statutes , and to amend its legal position by
conversion into a civil corporation . Advantage was taken of these radical changes to reconstruct its ritual , which work was entrusted to Bro . A . S ., because—in his own words— "it was abundantly known that for many years past I had made a thorough study of all Swiss and other rituals of both the lower and upper branches of Masonry . " Considering that the pamphlet is entitled "The Ritual of the Hope Lodge , " we were justified in expecting some hints of the nature
of this newest reform ( sic ) of our venerable ceremonial ; but , to our dismay , arc only presented with some 35 pages of academical discussion upon the objects of the Craft , its tendencies as they are , and as they should be , and the conclusion that a perfect ritual Should conform thereto . The pamphlet not only belies its title , but is totally unworthy of being separately reprinted . In its original form as a magazine article it was in its place , and forms an interesting
study of the Teutonic aptitude for hair-splitting and differentiating in the absence of a real difference . . It is , however , a pleasure to be able to agree with Bro . A . S . when he at length comes to the conclusions that three degrees are enough for all purposes ; and that the elaborate elucidation of Craft symbolism should be relegated to lodges of Instruction . Whether we should approve of his brand hew ritual or not , it is impossible to say , as he gives us no indications of
its nature . As the Lodge of Hope is a very important one , a few facts connected with its history , for which however we are notindebtedtoBro . A . S , may be of interest . An ei g hteenth century lodge existedinCaiouge ( near ' Geneva ) , holding from Grand Orient of France , which constituted the lodge of Hope , Bern , early in 1 S 03 . A confirmatory charter was granted by Grand Orient of France on 14 th September , 1803 . In 1 S 05 the lodge developed aRosicrucian Chapter .
It founded several other lodges in the neighbourhood ( although not a Grand Lodge ); and on 6 th August , 1 S 13 , initiated Prince Leopold of Sachsen-Koburg , afterwards King of the Belgians . In 1 S 1 S it threw off its allegiance to the Grand Orient of France and all high Degrees , and joined the union of lodges holding from England . On the 27 th July of the same year it was constituted by the Duke of Sussex a Provincial Grand Lodge of Switzerland . At
this time three grand bodies divided the . allegiance of the Swiss lodges ; but the Prov . Grand Lodge of Hope did its best to bring about a union . In 1 S 22 it was partially successful , as the Grand Orient of Lausanne and the English Prov . Grand Lodge both divested themselves of their separate powers to form a United Grand Lodge of
Switzerland ; the Lodge of Hope continuing as a subordinate private lodge . In 1 S 41 the outstanding Grand Lodge and the newly formed Grand Lodge effected an amalgamation , forming the present Grand Lodge " Alpina ; " so that at . length all Swiss lodges were brought under one allegiance . We are unaware of the present strength of the Lodge of Hope , but in i 860 it numbered 128 members , G , W . S .