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,;2 THE MASONIC] JOURNAL THE MASONIC JOUENaL I'l-iV'!] ■ ■■■ iiii' i I pJii' -4 fi '4'- itH* ■ ■',■ I ■■•n.i-'jll-U GREENSBOKO, N. 0. Thursday, Jan. 27,1876 E, A. WILSON, Editor & Pioprietor. TERMS : 4 copy One Year - - - $ 3 00 : t copy Six Montlis - - . ] 35 Xo club rates."®® Any person sencUno: us 8 or more yearly subscriptions, witli tlie C.VSH, will receive the paper one year free of charge. AUVERTISIXG RATES U1 a o a W V. • a Ci O X B 5 1 inch, $ 2.50 §6.'t0 $ 10.00 1 15,00 i Inches, 4.50 9.00 15 00 30,00 :! inch 's. e 00 13.00 30.00 30,00 column, 10.00 30.00 35.00 45,00 .V column. 15.00 35.00 45.00 00.00 1 column, 20.00 45.00 00.00 100.00 jy Transient ailvertisements cliarged SI per inch for tii'st, and 50 cents for eachsubse- ipieut insertion. Special Notices 35 cents per line for the ilr.st, and 30 cents for eaeli subsequent inser- ' lion. Simple annonneement of Marriages and Deatlis tree: Obituaries and Tributes of Re- “speet charged for at ri'gnlar advertising rates. itSr TER5IS—CsVSll ON DEMAND. Office on South Elm Street, first door north of the Patriot Office. AVe learn that a new Lodge has been organized at Statesville, under dispensa tion from the Grand Master. The par ticulars have not been reported to us,— though it would only cost a postal card. ■Prince Leopold, of Great Brittain, has ■recently received the Masonic honor of being elected Master of Apollo Lodge of ■O.xlord, England. Leopold was made a Mason about the time his brother, the Prince of Wales, was made Grand Mas ter. This early preferment shows rapid progress in the work, on his part. Thanks to brother D. Sickles for Part ,1 of the “Early History and transactions ■ of the Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New A'ork, from 1781 to 1815. We have onlv had time itO'give it a cursory glance, from which we learn that it contains much valuable ihistoric,al .information. Other jurisdic tions should follow the good example of Ne-v York, and seek to preserve their .Masonic history. We hope our good brother will kindly furnish u.s with the .-succeeding parts as they appear. The Ohio Grand Lodge passed the fol lowing commendable resolution ; Jtesolved, That it is the sense of this ■Grand Lodge that in the present era of progress, every Mason should be a sub scriber to one or more Masonic periodi cals in order that the Graft may be posted as to the great progress that is now going ,011 in the development of the true histo- a-y, science and symbolism of tiie Institu tion.” In the endorsements of our Journal !by the Grand Master and the Grand Lodge at our recent session, similar re commendations were made, and the cl ims of the Journal urged upon the brethren. Some have gone to work in earnest, while others have done nothing. AVill not each subscriber use his utmost endeavors to double our list within the next four weeks ? If all will try, it can be done. AMENDE..—From recent evidence we are led to feel :that in our strictures of the 13th inst. we did our respected •extemporary, the N. Y. Hebrew Leader, ■an unintentional wrong, Tlieparagraph which called forth our strictures we find first appeared in the Deo. number of tbe Chicago Voice of Masonry, and was intended for that anti Afasonic sheet, the Christian Cynosure of that city, and its abettors, (and not as we interpreted) who in their warfare on secret societies have “stollen the livery of Heaven to serve the devil in.” Bigotry is to be regarded as of the vilest sins, and when dealing with it we are usually severe, but when we aie convinced, as in this instance, of wrong ing, there is no one more ready to make the proper amende. We hope the Leader will take this explanation in the spirit of sincere regret and across the bloody chasm.” Value of the Masonic Press. It is frequently asserted that a Ma,son- io newspaper i.s of but little value to the Craft in general, or to individual Ma sons in particular; and hence, notwith standing the intelligence an>l financial ability to be found with the Fraternity as a class, it is with considerable difficul ty that the journals devoted to the dis semination of our literature are support ed. This difficulty obtains, like hundreds of others, from a lack of proper thought and appreciation. The many goblin sto ries concerning Masonry are the result of a self-imposed ignorance concerning what thepru/nrie ought to know of our Order, and what we ought to know of ourselves. But few can afford costly Masonic libra ries, and if they could the majority of the books are of a style and character pro.sa- ic and hypothetical and totally nn.siiite^l to ihe demands of the general reader To inform ourselves and to supply onr families with a right knowledge of what Masonry is, and the great work it is do ing, morally and socially, for the human family is only to be done through the medium of a well digested and intelli gent Masonic periodical. Almost every family in the land is well posted in the doings and teachings of the political-par ties through the medium of the secular press, and not by the means of elaborate treatises on the science of Government, in musty books,—a knowledge of which science pertains to a very few of even the really learned. These thoughts are suggested by the fact that many of the wives of Masons are inclined to complain, and excusably, too, at what they regard as unreasonable neglect from the husband who, having been absent through the day in attend ing to understood (and consequently ap preciate!) business, leaves them again in the evening to attend the Lodge meeting. In their total ignorance of the Order, both inward and o'ltward, they are not so much to be censured for even eomplaini.ng when it robs them cf so many evenings of of domestic pleasure ; and whenthey seek information are not willing to be put off by an ominous shake of the head in dicative of so much secrecy. Women think, as well as men ; and if you fail to aid them to think rightly and intelligent ly, think they will, nevertheless, and the foolish husband must bear the conse quences of those thoughts. Nor are they to be put off by the deoeits of “Eastern Stars,” or any other side show clap-trap which they soon learn means nothing,— and is nothing. Give them food, the pure periodical literature of your Order, and they will soon learn to appreciate and love it for its owr. sake, and to become helpmates to you in practically demon strating the principles for which it is founded—nor will they dis.sent from the higher reasons that bar them from mem bership in the Order. A brother who lives in another State, recently informed u ’ of some facts pecu liar to himself. His wife, an intelligent lady, bitterly oppo.sed bi.s joining the Ma sons, and for the reasons illustrated above, would not be reconciled, until he had been taking thi.s paper into his fam ily for some time, when through the me dium of the general Masonic intelligence received with every weekly visit her pre judices gave way and she became warm ly enlisted in the sncoe.ss of the Order. We want the intelligent cooperation of tbe ladies in carrying out. the great char ities of our Fraternity, and you cannot ' better nor more easily secure it than by j placing in the hands of your wives and; daughters a liberal supply of the period- | io.il literature of the day. Brother, if you have a neighbor who | is without a Masonic fiaper, present the claims of the Journal to him, Benda copy to hi.'i wife, point out its special fea- ture.s and get them to take it and you will he confeiing-a blessing upon them and advancing Masonry. Some Objections to Masonry- Considered. It has more than once occurred to us there has been on the part of those who have .shown themselves the persistent en emies of onr Order, not only a great deal of di.«ingenuonsness, but also a remarka ble absence of ingenuity and originality in tbe charges they have made. * * * Thus the eiitliusinsm of English Ma sons, when the Prince of Wales accepted the Grand Mastership of England, was more than once, and in more than one quarter, described as a gross display of flunkeyism. We cai ed little it was said, about bis fitness for the post. We had caught a live prince, heir apparent to the British Grown, ai d xvere guilty, accord ingly, of any amount of obsequiousness It was overlooked that three generations of the Prince's ancestors had been Ma sons before him. * =(■ Thus the Prince had, if we may be per mitted to say so, an hereditary claim, not only to become a member of our Order were he so minded, and subject to the conditions imposed equally on all candi dates, bill being so minded, and having fulfilled those conditions, to hold a prom inent, and, as it happens, the most prom inent position in our English section of the Craft. There was no flunkeyism, when once he had entered our ranks, in assigning him, in the first instance, the position he was entitled to, and then in viting him to be our chief, when he was already patron or chief of nearly every other Masonic body in the United King- ifom. The charge was a silly one to make, and there are silly people who will believe it becaese it nas been made, but as to this view of the charge, or to the class of persons we have nothing further to say. There might have been some sense in urging that those who first as signed the Mason Princes of the English Royal family a position in the Coder, not unworthy of their august rank in the out er world, achieved a grand stroke of pol icy, and that modern Masons have ex hibited much wisdom in imitating the ex ample set them by their predecessors. The charge is not made against other so. cieties which may number his Royal Highness among their members cr pat rons, and there are grounds for presum ing that it is urged against Masonry bv those who detest us without reason, and find it incumbent on them to offer some sort of apology for their hatied. Nor must we overlook the inconsistency of this charge with the more serious one re ferred to at the outset, that we are the enemies of religion and of order. It is very unlikely that a bodv, professedly irreligious, and opposed to any and^'^’ form of the Government, would any respect or deference for one of ly rank, simply because he was a prk There is no religion with the teachingl't which we have any acquaintance wlid, doe.s not inculcate loyalty to those ' high places, and how we can betheene" mies of order, and at the same time ej hibit an undue regard for men of ranhij an anomaly we shall not attempt to ex plain. But, say a good many pc„pij yon Masons believe in liberty, eqnak/ and fraternity. We not only believe il but strive earne.stly to practice this triad of virtues, b-jt not in the cant sense whid, too many ascribe to them. We in the right of every man to follow tie dictates of his own conscience, in matten religious and political. He may he, as regards the former, a Chri.stian. Jew, Mo hammedan, or what not; as regards He latter, a Monarchist or Republican. Itjj immaterial to Masonry what his vieive are, the one restriction we impose hciDc that we shall believe in some one relio. ion, and .act obediently to the laws ofHe country, whatever form they mav as- sume. As to our fraternity, we needsar little. We regard each other as brethrec, and seek to behave one toward anotherii a spirit of brotherly love. As to oiir equality, the second in order of the triad, but which we have purposely reserved till the last, how, it is sometinaea asked can there be any real equality whet there are in Masonry as many welldeh- ed gradations cf rank as in the differett empires and kingdoms of the earth ? H'f think we shall fairly illustrate the Ma sonic idea of equalitv by giving a briei sketch of a capital story, culled from one of the best known and most populartov- els of the late Capt, Jlarryat. In In; “Midshipman Easy” tbe hero is the sot of a crack-brained enthusiast, wliodonk less regarded himself as a philosopher. This enthusiast “goes in” for equality atd the rights of man, and young Jack Easy is nothing loth to follow his father's lead ings.—N. Y. Hebrew Leader. (To be continued.) We teach men to think of God. ffto can think of God without thinking oi himself as one of the humblestof his crea tures, totally dependent upon Ilia, and His protection and aid totally unfitfor the society of the wise and the good? We do not tolerate presumption cr blasphemy against the God tha: made us. We esteem Him as the chief good, and every one who enters our mys tic temple is careiully instructed in his du ty to God as well as to his neighbor and himself. We undertake to rely oa divine revelation as our guide, conse quently no atheist can be made a Mason If we discharge our duty to the Inatiln tion, and are true to ourselves, noirre ligious libertine can gain admittance The foundations, then, of the Masonic Or der are laid broad and deep, Brotherhood are tine to tliem8elTes,no shocks of political charges or fanaticism of any sort can destroy it. Temples rea>’ ed with hands may be razed to tbe ground by the rude shocks of war, and by barb* rous force; but the progress of our mysb^ temple is onward and upward, and m'• lions yet unborn are to be blessed by it* benign teachings.—Repository. The Emperor of Russia is quite yoi'uS in comparison with his most imporW cotemporaries. He is in his fifty-'*‘S“\ year. His uncle, Kaiser Wilhelm, twenty one years older. While A ander is much attached to his uncle c Germany his son and heir hates Germ* and the Germans. Hence the comparative youth is a good thing Europe.
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