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“MORE LIGHT.”
Does the granting of a Dispensation for
a new Lodge suspend the membership of
the petitioners in the Lodges to which
they respectively belonged?
Yes; and the suspension remains while
the new lodge is under dispensation. If
a Charter is granted, and the new Lodge
constituted, this, of course completes the
transfer of membership to the new Lodge.
If the dispensation is revoked the member
ship of the petitioners is restored to the
Lodges to which they before belonged.
How should Eeports of committees on
petitions be made ?
In writing of course, after a careful i n -
vestigation of the character and qualifica
tions of the petitioner, but no entry should
ever be made either on the petition or
Lodge books as to how a committee re
ported.
The G. M. of Missouri decides that
while closing a Lodge on the first or sec
ond degree does not affect the degrees
above it, that closing on the third degree
may close all below it.
Candidates must learn the work
as they proceed—must give evidence in
open Lodge of suitable proficiency in the
preceeding degree before they can be ad
vanced. Where a candidate can be Ma-
Eonically avouched for by a competent
workman, it is. equivalent to an open ex
amination.
W'hat is the relation uf a brother to the
Lodge who has paid all dues and been
granted a demit by the Lodge, but the
Secretary having failed to fill out, sign
and deliver the demit to him?
The action of the Lodge is binding
when all the requirements have been met
Ly the demitting brother and the facts re
corded in the minutes, though the Secre
tary fails to give the proper certificate of
demition—the brother is non-affiliated.
Is it right for the Grange to hold their
meetings in our Masonic hall?
There is no prohibitory law, that we
are aware of, against it, so it is a question
left entirely to your Lodge to determine.
. It is however recommended that when a
hall has been dedicated to the use of Ma
sonry it should henceforth be kept sacred
tc that use.
Is the regulation in regard to installing
Ly proxy the same in Chapter as in Lodge?
\ es. All installations by proxy are
void.
Our Junior WMrden elect cannot be in
stalled ; can the Junior Warden now
serving by election and installation dimit.
He cannot, until hjs successor is duly
e.ected and installed.
W'hen a brother is dropped from the
roll for non-payment of dues, is a vote
necessary to reinstate him.?
If there has been no charges or trial,
and he comply with the law by paying all
cemands against him, he becomes at once
reinstated to all privileges without any
vote being necessary, and the Secretary
should so record him.
Bro. Wheeler—WGll you inform me at
YOur earlie.st convenience, if a summons
to members of a Lodge to attend a Stated
Communication when business demanding
a summ^ons is to be transacted, requires
tile seal of the Lodge attached to be ,a le
gal summons ?
A legal summons is an order given ver
bally by the Worshipful Master to a Ma
son, stating time, place and purpose for
which It is given ; or an order made by
the Lodge or Master, written out by the'
Secretary (or printed,) signed by him of
ficially, stating time, place and purpose
01 the sumons, U7idei- (he seal of the Lodge.
ro.iie grand jurisdictions claim that a
THE MASONIC JOUllNAL
summons shall also be sighed by the Mas
ter, but we do notsorule.—Jf&sowic Jew
el,
Bro. Wheeler—If a brother has been
indefinitely suspended, and wishes to be
restored should he petition his Lodge (in
writing) requesting restoration, or is it
suflicient for some brother, whose sympa
thies naturally ineline toward such person
to make the request veibally ? Would
the latter be sufficient, especially when
the brother’s conduot,sinoe his suspension
is unknown to his lodge, from the fact
that he has bee-i a non-iesident?
Frateinally yours, y y *
A petition for restoration from expul
sion or indefinite suspension should come
from thopcrson expelled or susp-ended,
unless his conduct has been so marked
and correct that the members of the Lodge
felt that as a matter of justice and as are-
ward for his correct life and example he
should be relieved from further punish
ment. x\ brother must fully atone to the
offended law, and his conduct must be
naturally good and correct, to change the
sentence of a Lodge—Masonic Jeviell.
Can an officer resi.gn or dimit before
the expiration of his term ?
Ko ; when installed he solemnly prom
ised to fulfill the duties of his office for
the whole official term. Can he forswear
himself?
Depkivation of Membebship,—The
Grand Lodge of Maine provides t hat no
Mason shall be deprived of membership
without due trial, but inspection of lodge
records shows a diversity of custom in re
gard to the penalty for the non-payment
of dues. “Stricken from the rolls” and
“deprived of membership” are equivalent,
but “su.spended from membership” is dif
ferent, because in the former case the de
linquent to be resioreJ must pay his dues
and apply as in obtaining original mem
bership, while in the lattei payment of
dues immediately restores him, if rightly
construed. The vote and record are fre
quently made without considering this.
A just distinction would be made by in
flicting the severer pe.-ialty upon a man
who refuses to pay dues, and the lighter
upon the member who simply neglects his
summons, as in the latter case the neglect
is sometimes thoughtlessness, Injustice
may occasionally be done to a member
who goes on a long journey from home
without notifying the lodge of bis where
abouts, and care should be taken that
prejudice does not place a worthy broth
er in a position to be stopped by a single
ballot f rom the enjoy iiieut of rights which
he greatly values, and which detention
abroad by misfortune had prevented him
from protecting. Suspension from mem
bership will meet all cases where a doubt
of the delinquent’s intentions exists.—
Masonic Token,
An Ideal Living Room.
It is by no means m.y notion, says Mr.
Interesting Masonic Relics.
We recently had the pleasure of view-
the Jewels and Warrant of a lodge'for-
Clarenre Cook, that the living room field at Cape Coast Castle, Atrica,
should be a homely, matter-of fact apai t-
ment, consecrated to the utilities, while
the muses and graces are left to kick their
heels in the hull. On the contrary, we
want in the living-room, for a foundation,
that the furniture shall be the best de
signed and best made that we can afford,
and all of it intended to be used and ne
cessary to our comfort; not an article to
be allowed that does not earn its living
and cannot prove its right to be there.
These wants being provided for first, then
we admit the ornaments of life—casts,
pictures, engravings, bronzes, books, chief
nourishers in life s feast; but in the be
ginning these are to be few, and of the
choicest, and the greatest care is to be
taken in admitting a new comer. The
room, from the very first, ought to repre
sent the culture of the family—what is
their taste, what feeling have they for
art; it should represent themselves and
not other people ; and the troublesome
fact is, that it will and must represent
these, whether its owners would let or no.
It young people, after they have secured
the few pieces of furniture that must be
had, and made sure that they are what
they ought to be, have some money left
to get a picture, an engraving, or a oast,
they ought to go to work to supply this
want as seriously as they would the other,
which seems the more necessary, but in
reality is not a hit more necessary. I
look upon this ideal living room of mine
as an important agent in the education of
life ; it will make a great difference to the
children wliogrow up in it, and to all
whose ex|!ferience is associated with it,
whether it be a beautiful and cheerful
room or only a homely and bare one, or a
merely formal and conventional one.
The relation of these things to education
is all that gives any dignity or poetry to
the subject, or makes it allowable for a
reasonable man to give much thought to
it. But it has areal vital relation to life,
and plays an important part in education,
and deserves to he thought about a good
deal more than it is. It is, therefore, no
trifling matter whether we hang poor
pictures on our walls or good ones, wheth
er we select a fine cast or a second-rate
one. We might almost as well say it
makes no difference whether the people
we live with are first rate or second-rate.
The Death Kiss.
Gband Lodge Limits.—It seems
strange that so few Grand Lodges Lave
made provision for the issuing of dimits
by Grand Secretaries to members of late
defunct lodges, whose robs and records
are in their possession- In this State the
Grand Secretary Las the annual returns of
all lodges in the jurisdiction, and when a
lodge dies from any cause, the books, re
cords and all propel ty are sent to him,
and Vi'hen any of the members of such
dead lodge desire a dimit to affiliate with
another lodge, all he has to no is to apply
for it, and if found properly enrolled, he
receives it on a fee of fifty cents; and, if
he owed the lodge any dues when it went
down, he pays his debt into the Grand
Treasury, There should be such a law in
every State, as it would save a vast deal
of trouble.—Mo. Freemason.
now iu the possession of Bro. Alfred E.
Potter, Grand Master of Masons of
Pennsylvania, and whicL he i.s
about to transmit to H. E. PI. our Broth
er the Prince of Walus. Grand Master of
Masons of England, whose Grand Lodge
Granted the Charter. There are a num
ber of interesting facts connected with
this Lodge, which we will state to our
readers.
The Wariant of “Gold Coa.st Lodge of
St.John,” is dated London, July 19, 1833,
and was granted by Prince Augustus
Frederick, Duke of Sussex, Grand Master
of England Cape Goa,st Castle, where
the lodge was held, is a town and fort, the
capital of the British Settlements on the
coast of New Guinea. ‘ The principal fort
is situated on a granite rock which pro
jects into the sea, and near it are two
small outposts. The town has a popula
tion of about 10,000 blacks .and 13 Euro
peans.
Bro. George Maclean, Ensign of his Maj
esty’s 91st regiment of Foot, was named
in the Warrant as W. M, of this Lodge,
and he afterwards became Governor of
Cape Coast Castle. He married a fa
mous literary lady—Letitia Elizabeth
Landon, a popular English poetess, well
known by her signature, L. E. L,, and
whose death occurred in 1839, from an
overdose of prussic acid, which she took
as a medicine.
The Warrant and Jewels of this Lodge,
and Bro. Maclean’s certificate 01 lodge
membership W'ere brought to the United
States some years ago by Bro. John Glass
Saiiderman, of Glasgow, Scotland, who
was secretary to Governor Maclean, and
the only surviving member of the lodge,
all the other members having died of the
coast fever, (the W. M. Bro. Maclean
died in Bro. Sanderman’s arms.) Bro.
Charles A. Besson, a M. M. of Lodge No.
61, Philadelphia, having at heart “Ma
sonry around the world,” obtained from
the widow of Bro Sanderman*the owner
ship of the relics above described, and
has just presented to Grand Master, Bro.
Alfred E, Potter, with the trust that he
will transmit them to the Grand Lodge
of England, to which Body the/ rigldful-
ly belong Bro. Potter is about to com
ply with this fratei mil request, and his
act will doubtless be duly appreciated,
and be the means of further cementing
the Mafonic relations between the Old
World and the New.—l^^eystone.
Ancient Initiation.
Woman’s love, is f
it.? A Canadian’s wi:
Ealeigh, and he has taken her to Canada
to bury her under the native sod. She
died in a land of strangers, but has left
behind her the name of a devoted wdfe.
It was love and death. He saw her sink
ing fast, he knew it, she knew it—it was
comsumption. He nursed her like a little
child, the great strong man, and there
they were iu the room together the night
she died. She wanted to see out, to gaze
once more at the world outside, but he
In Egypt the ceremonies of initiation
into the mysteries, took place in a pyram
id erected over a cavern ; the pyramids
of Egypt are nothing more or Jess than
Masonic Temples, and these were so con
structed as to defy the ravages of time.
The Arabs have a tradition that the
presentpyramidswere built by Saurid Ibn
Salhouk, King of Egypt who lived three
-here anything like hundred years before the deluge, and who
lie has just died in adopted this curious form of building, on
account of the great solidity it gave to the
structure, and its symbolical reference to
the sun the spiral flame. It was also to
indicate tne God head ; ior having three
side‘s I’f • .
es, it represented trinity in unity,and
wisdom strength and beauty.
ihe caveriib under these places of ini—
tiation; or Temples of -
extended East and
Masonry, usually
W est, and dilfered m
their appearance, some being perfectly
entreated her against it, and told heiYbat I ornament, while
.1 'iei tuat others were embellished with symbols
cut in the solid rock, and contained
to take her up would make her worse, but
she told him she was dying anywaiq and
he lifted her tenderly in his arms ’ and
walked with her about the room, hold no
her to his breast and showing her this ob°
ject and that, pointing out every pleasant
thing, and she kissing him with every
breath till the last breath had gone, and
pe kiss died cold on his cheek. Woman’s
love! When God made man. he
crouches and cells, or closets. In these
caverns were ‘''ejehrated the rites of An
cient Masonry.— Canada Urajtswm.
CL ■ --man, heimt all, i,„, - ,
olheavenin a woman’s love, and told ■
him to win it and be worthy of it.—Yom I CuiTituck Bcadi. 'N'. C.
Evans in Yickshurg Herald. j Gen. Joseph E. Jolmson has lieen tendered
Intemneranee is e j the position of Commamler in Chief'of llic
to Freenfasonry j
of vices combinerl ItfniiU tl.nno, i If lus head isa,s level ou
housands | salary as it is on tactics lie will;
Some of the papers arc jubilaling over the
approach otaiiotlier oil CHS lunnbiig. Of course
the ag,..ius will be nosing around here sliortly
Notice is given tliat on and after Dec. 1st.,
Six iniu-derers were hanged at Fort Smith,
all at the same time, and each for a separate
offence. Three of tliem were wliite, one negro
one Cherokee and one quarter Cherokee.
I he steamer Francis from Bridgeport Conn
arrived in Norfolk, Va.. last week with l.iO
ladies and gentlemen—pleasure stekers who
arc out for a ten day’s voyage. ’
vices combined,
of masonic hearts.
accept
Gr. W. J. Hawkins has resigned tlie presi-
We value the religious exercises of the of tbe Raleigh and Gaston (N. C.)Road.
cage, and conceive thatno lodge is open- }!!*f Kews says: ‘'For nineteen yeais,
ed inform without a prayer j o mmaged tlie affairs of tlie company with
i r^fSyjudg-meat and mtegi-ity.”