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Masonic Jottings, No. 79.
MASONIC JOTTINGS , No . 79 .
BY A PAST PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER . THJE FIRST POST-REVIVAL JLKCTURES AND CHARGES . The first Post-Revival Lectures and Charges
are known to have been the joint productions of a Calvinist , and the Pastor of a Presbyterian Church . It would be strange , indeed , if the Religion of the Revival was not a fusion of certain Christian Doctrines .
THE OLD LECTURES . —THE OLD CHARGES . Our old Lectures are for the instruction of Christian Masons . Our old Charges open the door of our Lodges to Christian Masons only . THJE JEWISH BRETHREN . Until the publication of the Charges of 1738 ,
there was no law ; printed or written , by virtue of which the Jewish Brethren were received into our Lodges .
ABROGATE . A Correspondent writes : — " abrogate that portion of our Fundamental Laws , called the Charges of 1738 , and Mahommedans , Jews , Parsees and Natural Theists , will no longer be admissable into our Lodges . "
THE 1723 CHARGES . The 1723 Charges are no longer Fundamental Laws of our Masonry , but they are precious parts of our Archives , showing the first station of our Masonry on her road to universality . THETKOE FREEMASONRY . — . 4 TRUE EREEMASONRY
A Correspondent will find the communication of the Past Provincial Grand Master for Kent entitled as above , "Freemasons' Magazine , " 29 th August , 1868 .
GRAND LODGE OE THE CITY OF YORK . Lancashire , Durham , and Northumberland came under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of the City of York . —OLD MASONIC NOTES . THE FOUR LODGES .
Somewhere in Bro . Hughan ' s Analysis a Correspondent will find these words : — " In the second Edition of the Book of Constitutions , A . D . 1738 , the four Lodges who really formed the G-rand Lodge are named . "
MASONRIES OF ANTIENT NATIONS . There must have been great resemblance between the Masonries of antient nations , notwithstanding the Masonry of each nation was the production of its own Lodge .
Masonic Notes And Queries.
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .
A STRAY NUMBER OF THE "FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE . " THE LATE WAR . My dear / What you have heard did occur ; and we owe ifc to Masonry , and in part to our good periodical that the result was not so disastrous as in many instances it is known to have been .
Early in the war ( before the affair in which was made prisoner ) , a small Prussian detachment had been placed in occupation of Coulommes . There had been left on the library table a stray number of the "Freemasons' Magazine . " The two officers commanding were both members of Berlin Lodges ; and
the number of the " Freemasons' Magazine" coming into their hands speedily made them aware that the young owner of Coulommes was the grandson of an English Past Provincial Grand Master . In consequence orders were immediately given , which effectivelprevented kind of illageand
y any p , are believed to have much moderated the accustomed military requisitions . The stray number of the " Freemasons' Magazine " was that which announced the birth at Coulommes , of my great grandson . *—CHAIES P URTON COOPER .
A CONTRIBUTOR IN THE CHARACTER OF A CRITIC . A much esteemed brother , member of a lodge at Hong Kong , requests me to communicate to our periodical the following words , written by a contributor in the character of a critic . He is observing upon an address " On the rise and progress of speculative
Masonry , " delivered by the District Grand Master , China , to the brethren of the Zetland Lodge . A contributor says " as to many statements they form a curious sort of hotchpotch , which J have not the time to go into . They , however , serve to show that a speaker may say a great deal , and yet fall very far short of the truth . It is not the amount said that is the true criterion , but the amount of truth contained in what is said that makes it valuable . "—See "
Freemasons Magazine , " vol . 22 , page 91 . Now the address is such , that in my judgment ifc would be highly advantageous to the Craft , did many more like addresses , had they only half its merits , appear in the columns of the publication , not improperly called the organ of our English Freemasonry .
The address was greatly admired by those who heard it , and the contributor ' s words have , I am told , caused no small disgust . —A PAST PEOVINCIALGEANEMASTER .
DEPUTY GRAND MASTEJR MANNINGHAM'S LETTER See the Jotting , " Freemasons' Magazine / 'vol . 22 , page 67 . The words are known as those of a lawyer who practised in the Courts of Westminster Hall upwards of 40 years , and during halt' of that time as counsel of King William IV . and Queen Victoria .
The law is not disputed . Still the facts to which the law is applied may be wrong ; and it ought not to have created surprise when it was asserted without delay , that " in view of evidence which contradicts it ,
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Masonic Jottings, No. 79.
MASONIC JOTTINGS , No . 79 .
BY A PAST PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTER . THJE FIRST POST-REVIVAL JLKCTURES AND CHARGES . The first Post-Revival Lectures and Charges
are known to have been the joint productions of a Calvinist , and the Pastor of a Presbyterian Church . It would be strange , indeed , if the Religion of the Revival was not a fusion of certain Christian Doctrines .
THE OLD LECTURES . —THE OLD CHARGES . Our old Lectures are for the instruction of Christian Masons . Our old Charges open the door of our Lodges to Christian Masons only . THJE JEWISH BRETHREN . Until the publication of the Charges of 1738 ,
there was no law ; printed or written , by virtue of which the Jewish Brethren were received into our Lodges .
ABROGATE . A Correspondent writes : — " abrogate that portion of our Fundamental Laws , called the Charges of 1738 , and Mahommedans , Jews , Parsees and Natural Theists , will no longer be admissable into our Lodges . "
THE 1723 CHARGES . The 1723 Charges are no longer Fundamental Laws of our Masonry , but they are precious parts of our Archives , showing the first station of our Masonry on her road to universality . THETKOE FREEMASONRY . — . 4 TRUE EREEMASONRY
A Correspondent will find the communication of the Past Provincial Grand Master for Kent entitled as above , "Freemasons' Magazine , " 29 th August , 1868 .
GRAND LODGE OE THE CITY OF YORK . Lancashire , Durham , and Northumberland came under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of the City of York . —OLD MASONIC NOTES . THE FOUR LODGES .
Somewhere in Bro . Hughan ' s Analysis a Correspondent will find these words : — " In the second Edition of the Book of Constitutions , A . D . 1738 , the four Lodges who really formed the G-rand Lodge are named . "
MASONRIES OF ANTIENT NATIONS . There must have been great resemblance between the Masonries of antient nations , notwithstanding the Masonry of each nation was the production of its own Lodge .
Masonic Notes And Queries.
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .
A STRAY NUMBER OF THE "FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE . " THE LATE WAR . My dear / What you have heard did occur ; and we owe ifc to Masonry , and in part to our good periodical that the result was not so disastrous as in many instances it is known to have been .
Early in the war ( before the affair in which was made prisoner ) , a small Prussian detachment had been placed in occupation of Coulommes . There had been left on the library table a stray number of the "Freemasons' Magazine . " The two officers commanding were both members of Berlin Lodges ; and
the number of the " Freemasons' Magazine" coming into their hands speedily made them aware that the young owner of Coulommes was the grandson of an English Past Provincial Grand Master . In consequence orders were immediately given , which effectivelprevented kind of illageand
y any p , are believed to have much moderated the accustomed military requisitions . The stray number of the " Freemasons' Magazine " was that which announced the birth at Coulommes , of my great grandson . *—CHAIES P URTON COOPER .
A CONTRIBUTOR IN THE CHARACTER OF A CRITIC . A much esteemed brother , member of a lodge at Hong Kong , requests me to communicate to our periodical the following words , written by a contributor in the character of a critic . He is observing upon an address " On the rise and progress of speculative
Masonry , " delivered by the District Grand Master , China , to the brethren of the Zetland Lodge . A contributor says " as to many statements they form a curious sort of hotchpotch , which J have not the time to go into . They , however , serve to show that a speaker may say a great deal , and yet fall very far short of the truth . It is not the amount said that is the true criterion , but the amount of truth contained in what is said that makes it valuable . "—See "
Freemasons Magazine , " vol . 22 , page 91 . Now the address is such , that in my judgment ifc would be highly advantageous to the Craft , did many more like addresses , had they only half its merits , appear in the columns of the publication , not improperly called the organ of our English Freemasonry .
The address was greatly admired by those who heard it , and the contributor ' s words have , I am told , caused no small disgust . —A PAST PEOVINCIALGEANEMASTER .
DEPUTY GRAND MASTEJR MANNINGHAM'S LETTER See the Jotting , " Freemasons' Magazine / 'vol . 22 , page 67 . The words are known as those of a lawyer who practised in the Courts of Westminster Hall upwards of 40 years , and during halt' of that time as counsel of King William IV . and Queen Victoria .
The law is not disputed . Still the facts to which the law is applied may be wrong ; and it ought not to have created surprise when it was asserted without delay , that " in view of evidence which contradicts it ,