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The Last Roman Catholic Attack On Freemasonry.
have read such an unmeaning collection of misp laced epithets and silly nomenclature , and that we never hardly before realized , how words can be used which are utterl y misused , alike , as names , or
epithets , or adjectives , or when intended to disp lay the fullest force of withering sarcasm . The writer , from lirst to last , is like Don Quixote rig hting with the windmills . He is
attacking an order of which he knows nothing in reality ; the evils he deprecates , and the imputations he casts , are alike imaginary and unfounded and all that remains of a great deal of" tall talk , "
is about as childish , unmeaninglcss , and valueless an attack on Freemasonry , as it has ever been our misfortune to con over or consider . First of all its " pseudo history , " as the writer
calls it , is not , as he so boldly avers , " one of the greatest shams and impostures known in this day of Pinchbeck . " Despite his ready asseverations , that "it has not
the slig htest claim to rank as one of the successors of the old trade guilds of the middle ages , and still less , as is farcically asserted , to be a remnant of thc Egyptian and Jewish religious
rites , " we can only say , after a careful study now of many years , that the historical and archrelogical evidence is unimpeachable which links on our present
speculative and philanthropic Order , to the Craft guilds of mediaeval times . Supposing we have established this fact to our own satisfaction , and that of the outside world ,
carefully and critically , why need we care because some one has chosen to say , that our only " unvarnished history , is , that , it was established late in the last century , by a few illiterate , and
petty tradesmen , whose ideas of romance were flattered b y the flimsy cloak of affected mystery they contrived to throw around their proceedings , and whose counterskipping vanity was titillated
by the grandiose titles freely lavished on each other ? " As Paddy said of old , " mighty foine writing , bedad ; it only wants a little poethry to make the prose rowl down aisier any how !" As the writer in the IVeslminsler Gazelle is
evidently so utterly ignorant of our history , and our principles , and our practice , we need not waste time or space , by dilating upon his highly flavoured remarks , for neither in the present
typical < representatives he has given us of our Order , " and shown up as he fancies , in such vivid colours ,. can we in any degree recognize thc slightest likeness to any of our Masonic
contemporaries . "Cheops the butcher , " who is happily blessed with an affectionate and adoring wife ; "Mr . Touch-and-go Pettit , " whatever such a name
means , who apparently has no time to enjoy the society of a ' placcns uxor ; ' "Uro . Nobleton Graball , and Bro . Shark , the great Masonic jeweller , and above all the lender of loans to
impoverished brother bricklayers , Hebraic in their interest , " are ; as far as we know and believe , pure ereations of this " modest writer ' s imaginationand a wonderful imagination it is .
" Mr . Daniel Clement , the great diamond merchant , of Godiva Street , " who is equally a mythic personage , has never , we make bold to sa )' , been so ungentlemanly or ill-bred as to " clap the Heir A pparent on the back , " when , as the writer puts it
The Last Roman Catholic Attack On Freemasonry.
so elegantly , " he is cheek-by-jowl with half our peerage . " Well if the Heir Apparent , and half our peerage
attend our " seances , " and honour our " symposia , " Freemasonry is doing very well indeed , and will do very well indeed , we make bold to say , despite the opinions of a writer , whose knowledge
of our Order and whose acquaintance with the culture of civilized society , are only eq ualled by his childish anathemas and vulgar diatribes . We are sorry to see a respectable paper like
the Westminster Gazette , allowing such intense snobbishness as the last passage but one , of the same article to discredit its pages , and to bring ridicule on its pretensions , as a literary organ of
a great religious community . This last attack on Freemasonry will , we make bold to say , have very little effect on us , as Freemasons , whatever it may have on some of our Roman Catholic brethren who are
Freemasons . Freemasonry is not to be put down , depend upon it , either by the thunders of ecclesiastical anathemas , or the so-called witticisms , of
unqualified critics . Wit , no doubt , like water always finds its level here , and genuine wit , even when adverse to us , we can hail and admire for that "Geist" which when really displayed by any one ,
or anywhere , or anyhow , is the common property , so to say , of our human intellect . But where writers affect to be well read , and are most superficially informed on the subject
they are treating , when they seek to be witty and are only vulgar , when they aim at sarcasm , and only land themselves in childish inanity , we can safely , as the most charitable course , afford to
leave their CTTCO . Tc-epoeirTo . to the stern and sober criticism , of advancing time . And so we hand over the writer of the" last attack on Freemasonry" to the consideration of the
tolerant and the criticism of the just ! He may indeed have succeeded in momentarily hurting the feelings of some good and useful brethren of our Order , but as we have
never yet known ignorance or vulgarity to gain thc upper hand , when opposed to intellectual enlightenment , and happy culture , we will only repeat that , Freemasonry , has | nothing to fear from
stich attacks , or such writers , but can go on its way , breathing out most peacefully its gentle words of good will , peace , harmony , and toleration , for us severed mortals in this antagonistic world . W .
IHE GREAT LIGHT IN MASON * I * . Y . — "The Bible is the Great Li ght in Masonry . Every man is responsible , to a greater or less extent , according as his means of knowledge have been greater or less . No one who has had the Bible placed in his hands , and been taught to read it , can be a good man and disbelieve its teachings .
And no one can be a good Royal Arch Mason who is not a good man . Therefore , I answer , that no one who does not believe in thc writings of Moses and the Prophets , as contained in the Old Testament , if he has been educated in a civilized or enlightened , country , can be a gored Royal Arch Mason , for Royal Arch Masonry is founded thereon . "
SKIUIIKM ' . —Tlii : only guaranteed cure lor Toothache . —This extraordinary applic \ tion , marvellous in its ellecls , y , ivea immediate rclicl , without iiiiiuim ; llie tooth , and forms . 'Cle ] iipol'aiy sloppine ,. is . / . >! .. •jiu . l in : c is . j . l . 'llicttiiiM . it i . 'I ' tiihu I' . i- it :, ' lnr cleans ine ; ami iinpi . iv im ; Ihe teeth , imparls : L naliirahedue-. o to the uums , ami R iu's luilliamy lo the enamel . 1 ' rire ; s . Oil . Ihe KOVAI . Oi . MHUH . 'ij , prepared from ; i recipe as used hy her . Uaic . dy , gives the tcelh a pearl-like whiteness , and imparts a deli < ioi's Iravjrance to the hrealli . I ' riee is . Oil . Sold hy all chemists and perfumer *; , anil by llie proprietors , MKSSRS . (" AIIKIKI ., tiie old-established Dentists , 72 , l . udu .-ite-hill , and 56 , 1 larlei -streei , 1 ' avendish . square London .
United Grand Lodge.
UNITED GRAND LODGE .
The quarterly meeting of Grand Lodge was held on Wednesday , at Freemasons' Hall . The Grand Master did not attend , but his place was filled by Dr . Hamilton , P . Disc . G . M . of Jamaica . Col . Brownrigg was at his post as G . S . W ., and Capt . Piatt as G . J . W .
The Temple was but sparsel y attended , there being not more than 150 brethren present . This is generally the case at the September meetings ; as Masons , like the uninitiated , are out of town at this season of the year . Amongst the brethren present we noticed the
Rev . John Huyshe , Prov . G . M . Devon ; Rev . A . B . Fraser , G . C . ; Rev . J . S . Brownrigg , G . C ; S . Rawson , P . Dist . G . M ., China ; Sir Albert W . Woods , ( Garter ) , 5 . D . C . ; JE . J . McIntyre , Q . C , G . R . ; Horace Lloyd , Q . C , President of the Board of General Purposes ; LI . Evans , Dr .
Hogg , James Mason , John B . Monckton , Benj . Head , Major Creaton , J . E . Saunders , W . Ough , Joseph Smith , Samuel Tomkins , G . T . ; Thomas VV . White , E . S . Snell , J A . Rucker , S . Rosenthal , H . M . Levy , John M . Clabon , Hyde Pullen , Joshua Nunn , N . Bradford , and J . W .
Halsey . After the opening of Grand Lodge , and the reading of the minutes by Bro . Hervey , G . S ., Bro . Hervey read an address of condolence from the Grand Lodge of Scotland on the death of the Earl of Zetland .
The Grand Registrar moved and the Rev . J . Huyshe seconded that it be entered in the minutes , the latter brother asking at the same time whether notice of the noble Earl ' s death had been communicated to Grand Lodge of Scotland ,
and Grand Lodge of Ireland . Bro . Hervey said it had not been . The' motion that the address be received , adopted , and entered on the minutes , was then put and carried .
Bro . Hervey said he had also received an address of condolence on the Earl of Zetland ' s death from the Provincial Grand Lodge of South Africa , but it arrived the day after the Board of Masters sat , and consequently he had not had the opportunity of placing it before the Board . As
some months would elapse before the next meeting of Grand Lodge , he had thought it right to mention it to this meeting in order that it might not be considered by the District Grand Lodge of South Africa that their vote of condolence was shelved on account of the usual routine not having been observed .
Bro . Horace Lloyd moved and Bro . Huyshe seconded " That the standing orders be suspended to enable the vote of condolence from South Africa to be read . "
This having been carried , the address was read , and Bro . McIntyre moved , and a brother seco nded , that it be received and entered on the minutes , and that replies be forwarded to the Grand Lodge of Scotland and the District Grand Lodge of South Africa .
I he motions were then put and carried . Bro . Hervey read thc following : — " Report of the Lodge of Benevolence for the last quarter , in which are recommendations for the following grants , viz . —A brother of the Beaufort Lodge , No . 103 , Bristol , . £ 50 ; the
widow of a brother of the Belvidere Lodge , No 503 , Maidstone , £ 100 ; the widovv of a brother of the Grove Lodge , No . 410 , Ewell , £ 250 ; a brother of the Lodge of United Strength Lodge , No . 228 , London , £ 100 . " On the motions for each of these grants being
put , Bro . Joshua Nunn ^ observed that it would be as well to say something about the Hoard of Benevolence . Masons were now a much larger bodv than they were formerly , and the Board had the means of giving larger sums than they used
to do in charity . They consequently did so , and where cases came before them of great merit they dealt with them liberally . He was quite sure that Grand Lodge would support them in this course , and th . it the grants the Board
recommended would be carried unanimously . Bro . J . M . Clabon was of the same opinion . A . grant of ^ ' 250 to one individual was a large sum , and it was the second time such a large grant had been made . It was desirable that the
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The Last Roman Catholic Attack On Freemasonry.
have read such an unmeaning collection of misp laced epithets and silly nomenclature , and that we never hardly before realized , how words can be used which are utterl y misused , alike , as names , or
epithets , or adjectives , or when intended to disp lay the fullest force of withering sarcasm . The writer , from lirst to last , is like Don Quixote rig hting with the windmills . He is
attacking an order of which he knows nothing in reality ; the evils he deprecates , and the imputations he casts , are alike imaginary and unfounded and all that remains of a great deal of" tall talk , "
is about as childish , unmeaninglcss , and valueless an attack on Freemasonry , as it has ever been our misfortune to con over or consider . First of all its " pseudo history , " as the writer
calls it , is not , as he so boldly avers , " one of the greatest shams and impostures known in this day of Pinchbeck . " Despite his ready asseverations , that "it has not
the slig htest claim to rank as one of the successors of the old trade guilds of the middle ages , and still less , as is farcically asserted , to be a remnant of thc Egyptian and Jewish religious
rites , " we can only say , after a careful study now of many years , that the historical and archrelogical evidence is unimpeachable which links on our present
speculative and philanthropic Order , to the Craft guilds of mediaeval times . Supposing we have established this fact to our own satisfaction , and that of the outside world ,
carefully and critically , why need we care because some one has chosen to say , that our only " unvarnished history , is , that , it was established late in the last century , by a few illiterate , and
petty tradesmen , whose ideas of romance were flattered b y the flimsy cloak of affected mystery they contrived to throw around their proceedings , and whose counterskipping vanity was titillated
by the grandiose titles freely lavished on each other ? " As Paddy said of old , " mighty foine writing , bedad ; it only wants a little poethry to make the prose rowl down aisier any how !" As the writer in the IVeslminsler Gazelle is
evidently so utterly ignorant of our history , and our principles , and our practice , we need not waste time or space , by dilating upon his highly flavoured remarks , for neither in the present
typical < representatives he has given us of our Order , " and shown up as he fancies , in such vivid colours ,. can we in any degree recognize thc slightest likeness to any of our Masonic
contemporaries . "Cheops the butcher , " who is happily blessed with an affectionate and adoring wife ; "Mr . Touch-and-go Pettit , " whatever such a name
means , who apparently has no time to enjoy the society of a ' placcns uxor ; ' "Uro . Nobleton Graball , and Bro . Shark , the great Masonic jeweller , and above all the lender of loans to
impoverished brother bricklayers , Hebraic in their interest , " are ; as far as we know and believe , pure ereations of this " modest writer ' s imaginationand a wonderful imagination it is .
" Mr . Daniel Clement , the great diamond merchant , of Godiva Street , " who is equally a mythic personage , has never , we make bold to sa )' , been so ungentlemanly or ill-bred as to " clap the Heir A pparent on the back , " when , as the writer puts it
The Last Roman Catholic Attack On Freemasonry.
so elegantly , " he is cheek-by-jowl with half our peerage . " Well if the Heir Apparent , and half our peerage
attend our " seances , " and honour our " symposia , " Freemasonry is doing very well indeed , and will do very well indeed , we make bold to say , despite the opinions of a writer , whose knowledge
of our Order and whose acquaintance with the culture of civilized society , are only eq ualled by his childish anathemas and vulgar diatribes . We are sorry to see a respectable paper like
the Westminster Gazette , allowing such intense snobbishness as the last passage but one , of the same article to discredit its pages , and to bring ridicule on its pretensions , as a literary organ of
a great religious community . This last attack on Freemasonry will , we make bold to say , have very little effect on us , as Freemasons , whatever it may have on some of our Roman Catholic brethren who are
Freemasons . Freemasonry is not to be put down , depend upon it , either by the thunders of ecclesiastical anathemas , or the so-called witticisms , of
unqualified critics . Wit , no doubt , like water always finds its level here , and genuine wit , even when adverse to us , we can hail and admire for that "Geist" which when really displayed by any one ,
or anywhere , or anyhow , is the common property , so to say , of our human intellect . But where writers affect to be well read , and are most superficially informed on the subject
they are treating , when they seek to be witty and are only vulgar , when they aim at sarcasm , and only land themselves in childish inanity , we can safely , as the most charitable course , afford to
leave their CTTCO . Tc-epoeirTo . to the stern and sober criticism , of advancing time . And so we hand over the writer of the" last attack on Freemasonry" to the consideration of the
tolerant and the criticism of the just ! He may indeed have succeeded in momentarily hurting the feelings of some good and useful brethren of our Order , but as we have
never yet known ignorance or vulgarity to gain thc upper hand , when opposed to intellectual enlightenment , and happy culture , we will only repeat that , Freemasonry , has | nothing to fear from
stich attacks , or such writers , but can go on its way , breathing out most peacefully its gentle words of good will , peace , harmony , and toleration , for us severed mortals in this antagonistic world . W .
IHE GREAT LIGHT IN MASON * I * . Y . — "The Bible is the Great Li ght in Masonry . Every man is responsible , to a greater or less extent , according as his means of knowledge have been greater or less . No one who has had the Bible placed in his hands , and been taught to read it , can be a good man and disbelieve its teachings .
And no one can be a good Royal Arch Mason who is not a good man . Therefore , I answer , that no one who does not believe in thc writings of Moses and the Prophets , as contained in the Old Testament , if he has been educated in a civilized or enlightened , country , can be a gored Royal Arch Mason , for Royal Arch Masonry is founded thereon . "
SKIUIIKM ' . —Tlii : only guaranteed cure lor Toothache . —This extraordinary applic \ tion , marvellous in its ellecls , y , ivea immediate rclicl , without iiiiiuim ; llie tooth , and forms . 'Cle ] iipol'aiy sloppine ,. is . / . >! .. •jiu . l in : c is . j . l . 'llicttiiiM . it i . 'I ' tiihu I' . i- it :, ' lnr cleans ine ; ami iinpi . iv im ; Ihe teeth , imparls : L naliirahedue-. o to the uums , ami R iu's luilliamy lo the enamel . 1 ' rire ; s . Oil . Ihe KOVAI . Oi . MHUH . 'ij , prepared from ; i recipe as used hy her . Uaic . dy , gives the tcelh a pearl-like whiteness , and imparts a deli < ioi's Iravjrance to the hrealli . I ' riee is . Oil . Sold hy all chemists and perfumer *; , anil by llie proprietors , MKSSRS . (" AIIKIKI ., tiie old-established Dentists , 72 , l . udu .-ite-hill , and 56 , 1 larlei -streei , 1 ' avendish . square London .
United Grand Lodge.
UNITED GRAND LODGE .
The quarterly meeting of Grand Lodge was held on Wednesday , at Freemasons' Hall . The Grand Master did not attend , but his place was filled by Dr . Hamilton , P . Disc . G . M . of Jamaica . Col . Brownrigg was at his post as G . S . W ., and Capt . Piatt as G . J . W .
The Temple was but sparsel y attended , there being not more than 150 brethren present . This is generally the case at the September meetings ; as Masons , like the uninitiated , are out of town at this season of the year . Amongst the brethren present we noticed the
Rev . John Huyshe , Prov . G . M . Devon ; Rev . A . B . Fraser , G . C . ; Rev . J . S . Brownrigg , G . C ; S . Rawson , P . Dist . G . M ., China ; Sir Albert W . Woods , ( Garter ) , 5 . D . C . ; JE . J . McIntyre , Q . C , G . R . ; Horace Lloyd , Q . C , President of the Board of General Purposes ; LI . Evans , Dr .
Hogg , James Mason , John B . Monckton , Benj . Head , Major Creaton , J . E . Saunders , W . Ough , Joseph Smith , Samuel Tomkins , G . T . ; Thomas VV . White , E . S . Snell , J A . Rucker , S . Rosenthal , H . M . Levy , John M . Clabon , Hyde Pullen , Joshua Nunn , N . Bradford , and J . W .
Halsey . After the opening of Grand Lodge , and the reading of the minutes by Bro . Hervey , G . S ., Bro . Hervey read an address of condolence from the Grand Lodge of Scotland on the death of the Earl of Zetland .
The Grand Registrar moved and the Rev . J . Huyshe seconded that it be entered in the minutes , the latter brother asking at the same time whether notice of the noble Earl ' s death had been communicated to Grand Lodge of Scotland ,
and Grand Lodge of Ireland . Bro . Hervey said it had not been . The' motion that the address be received , adopted , and entered on the minutes , was then put and carried .
Bro . Hervey said he had also received an address of condolence on the Earl of Zetland ' s death from the Provincial Grand Lodge of South Africa , but it arrived the day after the Board of Masters sat , and consequently he had not had the opportunity of placing it before the Board . As
some months would elapse before the next meeting of Grand Lodge , he had thought it right to mention it to this meeting in order that it might not be considered by the District Grand Lodge of South Africa that their vote of condolence was shelved on account of the usual routine not having been observed .
Bro . Horace Lloyd moved and Bro . Huyshe seconded " That the standing orders be suspended to enable the vote of condolence from South Africa to be read . "
This having been carried , the address was read , and Bro . McIntyre moved , and a brother seco nded , that it be received and entered on the minutes , and that replies be forwarded to the Grand Lodge of Scotland and the District Grand Lodge of South Africa .
I he motions were then put and carried . Bro . Hervey read thc following : — " Report of the Lodge of Benevolence for the last quarter , in which are recommendations for the following grants , viz . —A brother of the Beaufort Lodge , No . 103 , Bristol , . £ 50 ; the
widow of a brother of the Belvidere Lodge , No 503 , Maidstone , £ 100 ; the widovv of a brother of the Grove Lodge , No . 410 , Ewell , £ 250 ; a brother of the Lodge of United Strength Lodge , No . 228 , London , £ 100 . " On the motions for each of these grants being
put , Bro . Joshua Nunn ^ observed that it would be as well to say something about the Hoard of Benevolence . Masons were now a much larger bodv than they were formerly , and the Board had the means of giving larger sums than they used
to do in charity . They consequently did so , and where cases came before them of great merit they dealt with them liberally . He was quite sure that Grand Lodge would support them in this course , and th . it the grants the Board
recommended would be carried unanimously . Bro . J . M . Clabon was of the same opinion . A . grant of ^ ' 250 to one individual was a large sum , and it was the second time such a large grant had been made . It was desirable that the