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THE M 4 .S O N J C J 0 H E N A L .
“MOEE LIGHT.”
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to bury him in accordance with the rites
of the church, he was at all events enti
tled to the piece of ground in the ceme
tery purchased during his lile-time, and
his remains were therefore ordered to be
removed thither. The result of the at
tempt to carry out the order
of the Privy Council is fresh in the minds
of all, and the course pursued in resisting
the burial has been justly denounced.
The action of the Montreal Priests was
evidently taken with the view of dragging
Masonry into the matter. Although it
had no connection with the affair, it be-
By Mason’s art religious domes appear,
where the Almighty Architect is wor
shipped in spirit and in truth.
By Mason’s art the, avaricious miser
opens his iron bound breast and feels
compassion’s tender warmth.
By Mason’s art the injurious and un
ruly tongue falls down before the throne
of awful silence, and readily submits to
her commands.
By Mason’s art the wings of loose de
sire are clipped, and the lascivious mind
refrained from all immodest and unlaw- I came desirable on the part of the church
i'ul bents.
By Mason’s art the pussy fop (man
kind’s disgrace) rejects a vain and gaudy
outside and gladly accepts of more valua
ble and permanent furniture w'ithin.
By Mason’s art ensigns of state and
princely ornaments (the nursery of pride,
where ambition keeps her lofty seat,) as
useless toys by free-born sons, meet with
disdain, since they can boast of a more
lasting glory who are—
Eunobled by the name they bear.
Distinguished by the badge tliey wear.
By Mason’s art impartial justice her
equal balance holds, and fraud oppress
ive owns her gentle swmy.—Dalton En
ierprise.
masons of fifty
against us, and
Heaven help us !
years ago employed
are using to this day.
—Hebrew Leader,
A holiday Mason is one who
meets with his Lodge, except on
never
occa
sions of public parade, anniversary cele
brations, banquets, and social reunions.
He is seldom seen in the Lodge at stated
meetings for business, or at special meet
mgs for the serious work of conferring
the degrees. And when he does come,
ne engages in oonversation with his
brethren on,some topics of biisi'iess or
pleasure, changes his seat two or three
times from one place to another, here and
there about the Lodge, as the notion takes
i-im; and then when the business of the
Lodge c-r i(ie -work of conferring the de
gree is in progr-ese, and quite probably at
.acme early stage, of ihe proceedings, he
will go out of the roma., perhaps without
saluting the Worshipful Mastei, or even
:-o much as saying “permission to retire,”
or “by your leave.” And then, very
likely you will hear his voice outside “the
inner door,’’ talking to the faithful Tvler
about anything but the work in which bis
brethren are engaged; the faithful Tvler,
'.-aeanwliile, whose mind is pre occupied
with his duties as “door-keeper in the
house of the Lord,” wishes that his airy
brother had soul enough to remain with
.jii,s brethren, like a good craftsman, or
fading in that, that he bad sense enough
i-o,-retire from the quiet and serious scene
ofitLe outer courts. Hear Brethren
tlie-se .things ought not to be so.—Enter
prise
to evince the spirit of persecution that
has so long pervaded it. Masonry cer
tainly loses nothing by the course adopt
ed, still enough has been done to show
that Roman Catholicism is antagonistic
to Masons wherever they exist. The sim
ple fact ofGuibord being driven beyond
the pale of the Church on account of his
holding membership in a societi' in com
pany with Masons, is sufficient to con
vince the world of the intolerance and
hatred nurtured by the Romish hierarchy
against jiir Order. They never lose a
chance of manifesting the feeling they en
tertain, but the in.stanoe in question is of
such a character as to stamp the modern
persecutors as the worst and most iiitoi -
eraut of their race. To deny Christian
burial to a fellow creature, merely be
cause he was found associated in a liter
ary society with persons, some of whom
happe;:ed to be members of a secret and
benevolent Order, presents the most mon
strous feature of religious intolerance
that has ever been W'itne.ssed In this coun
try. Let us hope it is the last thing of its
kind.-—The Craftsman.
Tlie Cow Hunters.
The use of the ballot is of high anti-
quity ; even profane history records that
it was used in the time of Lyourgiib, lit
tle more than j century after the build
ing of King Solomon's Temple. The
method of using the ballot then was to
make a small ball of soft bread in the
hand, and drop it, without saying a word,
into a certain vessel. If the veter ap
proved tlie candidate, he did not altar the
shape of the ball; but if be disaproved
him, he pressed it Hat. and a flattened
ball-was a negative vote, and rejected the
candidate. The ballot, it has been well
said is the Tyler of the Masonic Lodge.—
E^iterprise,
A Choice Vocabulary.
Guibord and Masonry.
“he refusal on the part of the Romish
pni.,-S Montreal to allow the burial of
-tl i'.V.n Eoman Catholic Cemetery,
. did n-cit 1 “ fact that the
,}\eceased connected with the
-I'lnstitute L^anadien.” It is true that the
society has b ^en called secret, w^hioh we
•Relieve it isnoiL for it is altogether liter
ary in its character, but it seems to have
' become obnoxious to the church w'hen a
.nuraber of Freemasons joined it, and it
-wag immediately placed under bein on
■that accou'it Poor Gsibord, who was
not a Mason, declined the advice of the
priest to leave the society, and for so- do
ing he forfeited the privileges of the
(h irah When he died he was refused
iCColesiaBtlcil burial, but his friend? were
not willing to put up with this priestly
iyrrany, and accordingly appealed to the
law, which sptained them. It was held,
i|i'at-di,th«ugb ,t,hg pr]e5|hoed might refuse
In looking ovei some of the anti tna-
.sonic liteiature, published during the
Morgan fever, we find the following epi
thets in a work ascribed to a certain Sol
omon Sout-hwick, and applied to Freema
sons :
“ Banditti brethren, vile ijppostors, liy
pocrites, time fools, time fuddlers, sharp
ers, knaves, charlatans, noodles, fools,
blackguards, wolves, iguoramuses, drunk
ards, gullers, coxcombs, dsbauchees, a
motley nocturnal crew, blasphemers, bac
ohanalians, deceptive hearts, dumpling
heads, nincomp'oops.”
On various occasions he likewise intro
duces the following expressions;
“ Freemasonry is the step that leads
down to the gates of hell; the paths of
perdition ; conclaves of corruption ; dis
gusting and blasphemous rites ; Milton’s
darkness visible; worse than Bedlam's
folk’; assinine conclave; ass-associate
conclave; atheism and infidelity; degrad
ing mummery ; genuine academies of Sa
tan ; sink of corruption and iniquity;
midnight revels and dobauohet,; the off
spring of the meanest motives; Temples
of dissipation and delusion ; the legiti
mate offspring of hell; naught but dark
ness, f'otion and falsehood ; false and
wicked mysteries; lambskin order;
blood-stained order; amon-ster; mystery
and moonshine ; school of old Hick,” etc.,
etc.
This ;s the style of weapons the anti- -
The Iowa State Register has the fol
lowing story : Two yonng gentlemen of
Polk City, on a pleasant afternoon a few
days since, had sallied forth in search of
some cows and found themselves upon a
bank of the Des Moines, while the objects
of their pursuit were quietly grazing upon
the other side. The youths soon divested
themselves of clothing, and, breasting the
rippling waters, swam to the other side,
whereupon the cows alarmed at the sight
of these two original Adams, fled into the
busU, The Polk City gentleman follow
ed in hot pursuit, and soon came ail un
warned upon a picnic party of young la
dies who of course were, greatly terrified
at the sight of these strange animals, sim
ilar to nothing they had ever seen before.
The young Adams rapidly withdrew stop
ping not to apoligize or explain. They
now determined to abandon the search
and resume their store clothes as soon as
jioafuble. With that end in view, they be
gan to retrace their steps towaid the river
and had acomplislied about half the dis
tance when they were attacked by a fero
cious bulldog and compelled to betake
themselves to the top of a fence for refuge.
In this position they attracted the atten
tion of two old maids living in an adjoin
itig house. The ancient damsels appear
ed upon the porch, and were soon lost in
an animated discussion as to the nature
of the singular creatures perched upon
the leiice. The young Adams contracted
themselves to the smallest dimensiciis,
and waited for something to tuin up or
the dog to leave. The latter event—the
departure of the dug—occurred about
dusk, and the youths, who were by this
time considerably chilled, started for the
river in .search of their clothes. But by
this time the shades of night had falien to
such an extent that they were unable to
find the place where they had disrobed,
Naught could be said, but do their best
to get home to bed. In about an hour
they found themselves on the outskirts of
Polk- Uity somewhat the worse for scratch
es, stumped toes, and frosty weather.
They started cautiously down back alleys
and alter cutting their feet on broken
bottles and old barrel hoops; after being
chased by small dogs, and terribly'fright
ening ail old lady who was leed.ing her
cow m the alley, after these and other
disasters ti.ey lound themselves in the
bac I yard ol one ol the twain, ensconced
behind a store box. Here they called
lustily lor help, and the kitchen door be
ing opened, one of them with his head
elevated above the box, explained the
situation and asked plaintively for cloth
ing. The request was complied with, and
these two youths now fully appreciate
the Bibilical words, “I was a stranger
and ye took me in ; naked, and yo cloth-
To Hale.
The meaning of this Masonic phrasp'
often misapprehended by our Eroit **
Hr. Mackey under head of “Hail or. Ear’
in his Lexioon says : “
“This word is used among masons witl
two very diffeient significations ' ^
“First, when addressed as an inquirvt,
a visiting Brother, it has the same m
port as that in which it is used -rrl'
like oiroumstandbs be mariners Tli
‘whence do you hail?’ that is of 'wh!.'
Lodge are you a member?’ Used in tbh
sense, it comes from the Saxon term of
salutation, and should be spelt Rail
Its second use is confined to what Ma
sons understand by the 'tie; and in ty'
sense it signifies to conceal, being deriv
ed from the Saxon word Helan, to hide'
By the rules of etymology, it should be
spelt hale. The preservation of this g,-
on word in the Masonic dialect, while j*
has ceased to exist in the vei nao-alar j-
most striking proof of the antiquit- o'fth-
Order and its ceremonies,” ^
A Year’s Masonic Work in Hu-
mania.
ed
A Singular Incident.
About fifty years ago a boy' named
Phillip Wagner, living near Chittenago,
Madison county, N. Y, on his wav to
school discovered a wayfa-'er appare"ntly
in distress, by the road side. The boy
returned home and informed his father,
\yho went and conveyed the aged way-^
farer to his house, where he died during
the .same night. There was nothing
found upon him by which to identify him
e.x_cepthis Masonic d ploma. It was da
ted Nov. 25, 1770, and signed bv Samuel
Barrett, W. M. ; Geo. Cader, S. \V. ; John
Gardner, J. W. ; Wm, Brock, P. M.; and
Christopher Hussey, Treas. It was writ
ten in both Lngiish and Latin, on thick
parchment. This document has lain con
cealed, among other papers ofMr. Wag
ner, all these long years, soaroeiy ever
having bee-, opened, and never seen bv
any member of the Fraternity, until about
four years since, when it became the pron
Charles P. Wagner, a grandson of
I fillip Wagner, bon., father of tfie bay
above mentioned. On the margin of the
■diploma IS the autograph of David Squire'
written twice, and raised Aug, 5th 177e’
Through Oneida Lodge, 170, of Oneida
Hepo , Madison county. New York, these
facts become known to Union Lodge and
a request was made that the diploma be’
returned only a copy could be ob-
Bro. Caubet, the editor of the Nasonic
Maconnique, gives us in the nv.mbsrfor
August, at page 152, a most interestico
account of the Lodge “Dt-sSakes d’Helt
opolis,” under the French Constitution at
Oiiccharest..
Tuis Lodge, which has only been in ej-
isfencri a year- and some months, has
shown so much Masonic energy and life
as to deserve recognition and preservation
in our pages.
The Lodge has held in twelve monlts
ending February, 1865, sixty-five meet
ings, two lodges of emergency, a funeral
service, and eleven conferences of instruc
tion. It has, as is the foreign custom of
ten, a sanitary .section, composed of med
ical men ; a judicial section, composed of
lawyers, and a Committee of Instruction.
The medical section has assisted, with
gratuitous advice and medicine, 774 sich
persons at the Lodge itself, has visited
111 at their own homes, has.piaced in the
civil hos}iitals 14 .serious cases, so tliatin
ail 874 sufi'ereas have received affection--
ate and zealous care, belonging as they
do to all religions and nationalities. Tts
seem.s to as very “good Samaritan’’
work.
i he j‘idicial section has done a good-
deal of work, and in a way to startle our
An. lo-Saxon Freemasons. Remember
ing the old proverb, to the effect that le- .
gal advice gratis is good for nothing, will
it surprise our readeis to he told hat the
lawyers of the Lodge Les Sages, &o., -
have given numeruiis gratuitous consul
tations at Lodge, have pleaded gratui
tously in a certain number of suits for
some who diil not belong to the Lodge,
and who sued in “torma pau])eris;' have
rendered signal services to two foreign
Freemasons, .and have saved the widow
of a member ol the Lodge from ruin?
The Committee of Instruction has en
deavored to establish a school of “Arts
et Metiers,” which we usuallv term tech
nical instruction, and have raised in one
w.ay or another, 6,000 francs, £240, so far
for that purpose, a sum they hope soon
materially to increase.
The same committee has so'jght to aid
all the Roumanian Schools, as we under
stand in Bucharest, and to that end have
given 450 voliime.s as prizes at the gener
al examination in 1874.
The same committee inaugurated a se
ries of “Scientific Conferences,’’ which
Bro. Caubet tells us were "very remark
able and- very worthy of intGrest.’*
Misiria, a Bucharest Maso.nk{pa
per, which we have seen, has been es
tablished by this same Lodge, and is
flourishing while the Lodge hassl.sobid
the foundation of a gooil library.
The financial position of the Lodge is
also very good. It has received inde-
pen-lently of the School Fund to which it
has contributed, from its formation, a
year and a few months ago, the sum of
61,709 franuB 91 centimes—ia English
money, in round numbers, very nearly
£2,080. It has 6,500 francs, in round
numbers, or £245, balance to credit, on
the general purposes funds, July 28, 1875,
and 5,,‘283 francs—a little over £200—in
its hospitable che&t, the fund of benevo
lence.
We leave this simple statement of facts
and figures to- the consideration and ap
proval of our Brethren in Aiiglo-Saioh ,
i reemwaonry.—Aoscfo72-'iY’«fttas«iJ. ' ' '