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PROCEEDINGS  "^ 


The  Grand   Lodge 


State  of  Illinois, 


F'ree  and  Accepted  Masons, 


AT    ITS    THIKTY-NINTH 


GRAND  ANNUAL  COMMUNICATION, 


CHICAGO,    OCTOBER     ist,   ad  and   3d,   A.  L.  5878. 


M.  W.  THEODORE  T.  GURNEY,  Grand  Master. 
R.  W.  JOHN  F.  BURRILL,  Grand  Secretary. 


SPRINGFIELD,   ILL. 

Springfield  Printing  Company  Print,  West  Side  Square. 


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OFFICERS  OF  THE  GRAND  LODGE 

OF     THE 

STATE  OF  ILLINOIS,  1S78-79. 


M.  W.  Theodore  T.  Gurney     .    ".      .    .  Grand  Master Chicago. 

R.  W.  William  H.  Scott Deputy  Grand  Master  .    .  Edwardsville. 

R.  W.  Louis  Zeigler Senior  Grand  Warden      .  Chenoa. 

R.  W.  Daniel  M   Browning      ....  Junior  Grand  Warden  .  .  Benton. 

R.  W.  Orlin  H.  Miner Grand  Treasurer    ....  Springfield. 

R.  W.John  F.  Burrill  .• Grand  Secretary Springfield. 

R.  W.  and  Rev.  Geo.  Wiley  Martin  .  Grand  Chaplain Prairie  City. 

R.  W.  John  R.  Thomas Grand  Orator Metropolis. 

W.  Frank  Hudson,  Jr Deputy  Grand  Secretary .  .  Springfield. 

W.  John  P.  Norvell Orand  Pursuivant  ....  Danville. 

W.  Henry  C.  Cleveland    ....  Grand  Marshal Rock  Island. 

W.  Loyal  L.  Munn Grand  Standard  Bearer  .  .  Freeport. 

W.  Samuel  Rawson Grand  Szuord  Bearer  .        .  Troy. 

W.  Alfred  Sample Senior  Grand  Deacon  .  .    .  Paxton. 

W.  Frank  A.  Halliday Junior  Grand  Deacon  .    .  Metropolis. 

W.  A.  M.  Bennett Grand  Stcivard   .    .  .  Chicago. 

W.  James  Strong Grand  Steward Pontiac. 

W.J.  L.  Wallar Grand  Steward   .         ...  Fairfield. 

W.  Gilbert  R.  Smith Grand  Steivard Harrard. 

Bro.  John  P.  Ferns Grand  Tyler Chicago. 


PROCEEDINGS. 


THIRTY-NINTH  GRAND  ANNUAL  COMMUNICATION. 


The  Grand  Lodge  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  met  in  Annual  Grand  Communication  at 
McCormick's  Hall,  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  on  Tuesday,  the 
first  day  of  October,  A.  D.  1878,  A.  L.  5878,  at  10  o'clock,  a.  m. 

GRAND     OFFICERS     PRESENT. 

^        M.  W.  Joseph  Robbins Grand  Master. 

S        R.  W.  W.  J.  A.  DeLancey Deputy  Grand  Master. 

--,         R.  W.  Henry  E.  Hamilton Senior  Grand  Warden. 

R.  W.  William  H.  Scott Junior  Grand  Warden. 

R.  W.  Orlin  H.  Miner Grand  Treasurer. 

•^        R.  W.  John  F.  Burrill Grand  Secretary. 

P(^^       R.  W.  and  Rev.  Geo.  Wiley  Martin Grand  Chaplain. 

R.  W.  Alfred  Sample Grand  Orator. 

'^  W.  Frank  Hudson,  Jr. Deputy  Grand  Secretary. 

W.  John  P.  Norvell Grand  Pursuivant. 

W.  John  A.  Ladd Grand  Marshal. 

W.  John  R.  Thomas Grand  Standard  Bearer. 

W.  J.  M.  Bell as   Grand  Sword  Bearer. 

W.  John  M,  Pearson Senior  Grand  Deacon. 

W.  Henry  C.  Cleveland Junior  Grand  Deacon. 

W.  George  Rawson Grand  Steward. 

W.  Adolph  Shire Grand  Steward. 

W.  Charles  M.  Grammar Grand  Steward. 

Bro.  John  P.  Ferns Grand  Tyler. 


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PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct.  I, 


A  constitutional  number  of  lodges  being  represented,  the  M.  W. 
the  Grand  Master  opened  the  Grand  Lodge  in  Ample  Form;  the 
R.  W.  the  Grand  Chaplain  invoking  the  blessing  of  the  Grand 
Architect  of  the  Universe. 

The  M.  W.  the  Grand  Master  announced  the  appointment  of 
the  following 

COMMITTEES. 

JURISPRUDENCE. 

James  A.  Havvley,  Dewitt  C.  Cregier,  Wm.  Lavely,  Wiley  M.  Egan^ 

Jno.  C.  Bagby. 

APPEALS, 

D.  M.  Browning,  Miles  H.  Wilmot,  Joseph  E.  Dyas,  A„  B.  Campbell, 
George  M.  Haynes. 

CHARTERED     LODGES. 

C.  Kirkpatrick,  S.  S.  Chance,  John  L.  McCullough,  J.  C.  McMurtry, 

Rodney  Ashley. 

LODGES    U.    1). 
Louis  Zeigler,  D.  G.  Burr,  Jos.  Holland,  H.  G.  Calhoun,  Fred.  W.Eads. 

MILEAGE    AND    PER    DIEM. 
S.  W.  Waddle,  Ed.  S.  Mulliner,  Geo.  W.  Cyrus. 

AUDITOKS. 
Gil.  W.  Barnard,  David  A.  Cashman,  Chas.  F.  Tenney. 

CORRESPONDENCE. 
Theodore  T.  Gurney. 

GRAND    EXAMINERS. 

M.  D.  Chamberlain,   Edward    Cook,   A.   T.  Darrah,  J.  H.  Fawcett, 
Hiram  W.  Hubbard. 


1878.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


SPECIAL  COMMITTEES. 

MASONIC    CONGRESS. 
Theodore  T.  Gtrney,  James  A.  Hawley,  Dewitt  C.  Cregier. 

CREDENTIALS. 
R.  D.  Lawrence,  John  A.  Waugh,  A.  S.   Converse. 

FINANCE. 
John  C.  Smith,  Evelyn  C.  Selleck,  Thomas  J.  Bronson. 

PETITIONS. 
O.  F.  Price,  A.  B.  Davidson,  James  C.  Luckey'. 

OBITUARIES. 
E.  E.  Waggoner,  A.  A.  Glenn,  Chas.  Trowbridge. 

GRAND    master's    REPORT. 
Harvey  P.  Buxton,  E.  B.  Buck,  A.  Demaree. 

REPORT. — Committee  on  Credeutials. 

W.  Bro.  R.  D.  Lawrence,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
Credentials,  submitted  the  following  report,  which  was  received 
and  adopted,  and  leave  granted  to  make  additions  and  correc- 
tions. 

To  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  State  of  Illinois^  F.  d-  A.  M.  : 

Your  Committee  on  Credentials  beg  leave  to  report  that  thej  have  per- 
formed the  duty  assigned  them,  and  that  the  several  persons  whose  names 
appear  in  this  report  are  entitled  to  seats  in  this  Grand  Lodge. 


R.  D.  LAWRENCE,  ■)  ^ 

A.  S.  CONVERSE,    /  ^ommtttee. 


PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct.  I, 


GRAND    OFFICERS. 

Joseph  Robhins Grand  Master. 

W.  J.  A.  DeLaxcey Deputy  Grand  Master. 

H.  E   Hamilton Senior  Grand  Warden. 

W.  H.  Scott Junior  Grand  Warden. 

O    H.  Miner Grand  Treasurer. 

John  F.  Bukrill Grand  Secretary. 

G.  W.  Martin Grand  Chaplain. 

Alfred  Sample Grand  Orator. 

Frank  Hudson,  Jr Deputy  Grand  Secretary. 

John  P   Norvell Grand  Pursuivant. 

John  A.  Ladd Grand  Marshal. 

John  R.  Thomas Grand  Standard  Bearer. 

J.  M    Bell  .......        Grand  Sword  Bearer. 

John  M    Pearson  .    .        Senior  Grand  Deacon. 

H.  C.  Cleveland ....  Junior  Grand  Deacon. 

George  Rawson Grand  Sleiuard. 

Adolph  Shire  ...         .      Grand  Stei^'ard. 

C.  M.  Grammar Grand  Steward. 

John  P.  Ferns Grand  Tvler. 


PAST    GRAND    MASTERS. 

William  Lavely,  James  A.  Hawley,  Dewitt  C.  Cregier. 

Jas.  C    Luckey p^j^^   Jun    Grand  Warden. 

Jas.  H.  Matheny Past  D.  G.  M. 


DISTRICT    DEPUTY    GRAND    MASTERS. 

W.  A.  Stevens First  District. 

D.  J.  Avery Second  District, 

John  O'Neill    .    .         Third  District. 

F.  L.  Bartlett Fourth  District. 

John  V.  Thomas Seventh  District, 

Jno.  Gray    ....  Eighth  District. 

Thos.  J.  Wade Ninth  District. 

George  Crossley Tenth  District. 

F.  G.  Welton Eleventh  District. 

W.  H.  H.  Rader Tivelfth  District. 

Rowley  Page Thirteenth  District, 

W.  H.  Eastman     .    .         Fourteenth  District. 

H.  C.  Clarke Sixteenth  District. 

George  Scroggs Seventeenth  District. 


iSyS.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


DISTRICT  DEPUTY  GRAND  MASTERS — Continued. 

John  Bennett Nineteenth  District. 

S.  M.  Martin Twentieth  District. 

James  Mayor .  Twenty-first  District. 

A.  L.  ViRDEN .         .   Tzventysecond  District. 

G.  H,  B.  ToLLE Twenty-fourth  District. 

Jas,  Douglas  .....  Twenty  seventh  District. 

C,  H.  Patton .   Twenty  eighth  District. 

J.  I.  McClintock Twenty-ninth  District. 

P.  W.  Barclay  ....        Thirtieth  District. 


REPRESENTATIVES  OF    OTHER   GRAND    LODGES. 

Wiley  M.   Eg  an Canada  and  Ireland. 

L.  L.  Mr  NX    ...  British  Columbia. 

Jas.  a.  Ha\\  ley        Alabama,  Colorado  and  Rhode 

Island. 

Orlin  H.  Miner Florida,    Oregon,    Ohio,  Royal 

York  and  Friendship,  Berlin, 
Prussia . 

T.  T.  Glrney Califortiia. 

Vincent  L.  Hurlbut West  Virginia. 

John  Bennett Arkansas. 

De\vitt  C.  Cregier Connecticut,  District  of  Colum- 
bia, Indiana,  Michigan,  Mis- 
sissippi and  Quebec. 

W.  J.  A.   DeLancey       Georgia. 

John  F.  Burrill Idaho. 

Joseph  Robbins Iowa. 

A.  A.  Glenn Kentucky  and  Manitoba. 

D.  A.   Cashman Maryland. 

Wm.  Lavely Minnesota. 

H.  W.  Hubbard Montana. 

Henry  E.  Hamilton JVe-w  Hampshire. 

John  C.  Smith Nevada. 

W.  A.  Stevens North   Carolina. 

Chas.  H.  Patton South  Carolina. 

H.  C.  Clark Tennessee. 

Edward  Cook Texas. 

Gil.  VV.  Barnard Wisconsin. 

Wm.  H.  Scott Virginia. 

John  C.  Bagby    ...  Wyoming. 

John  M.  Pearson  ...        Pennsylvania. 


PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE 


[Oct.   I, 


RkPKESENT ATIVES    OF    LODGES. 


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17 
19 
20 
23 
24 

25 

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31 

33 

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3S 
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42 
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51 
52 
S3 
54 
55 
56 
57 
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59 
60 
61 

63 
64 
66 
67 
68 
69 


W.  M.  Robertson W.  M. 

J.  W.  Clifton* " 

A.   Wood " 

Fred  Trapp " 

Jaines  B.  Pomerov    S.  W. 

Win.  L.   Hammer* W.  M. 

Geo.  W.  Biirnelt " 

J.  G.  Bver " 

W.  J.  EIwL-U " 

W.  V.  Francis " 

E.  M.  Armstronsr* J.    W. 

C.  W.  Hig-genbothaiii S.   W. 

A.  K.  Lodg^e "' 

H.  Stewart 'V  .  M. 

W.J.  Dale S.   \V. 

S.  O.  Sprint? \V.  M. 

C.  A.  Monk " 

B.  G.  Grigsbv " 

Thos.  Cannell " 

Lewis  Zintfer* " 

John  A.  Clinton " 

E.  B.  Bennett S.   W. 

J.  L.  Sweet \V.  M. 

A.  J.   Todd S.   W. 

John  Bawden W.M. 

D.  D.  Dunkle    " 

Geo.  W.  Hooton S.   \V. 

H.  Oehlshhieaer \V.  M. 

Robert  Henning " 

J.  S.  Miller " 

John  D.  Fowle S.   \V. 

Francis  Kevser W.  M. 

A.  Monroe " 

D.  Cosgrove " 

Jno.  R.Griffith S.   W. 

J.  F.  Everlv n  .  M. 

O.  B.  Chamberlain S.   W. 

J.  E.  Avers \V.  M. 

J.  P.  Moore* " 

M.  W.  Miller  * J.    W. 

Charles  Heinz* \V.  M. 

H.  J.  Hamlin " 

G.  F.  Thomas " 

J.  Paul  Jones " 

H.  E.  Loyd " 

J.  M.  Monttjomerv " 

VV.  J.  Britton ." " 

Geo.  Lyttle " 

A.  W.  Burnside " 

R.  A.  Wright " 

A.  S.  Writfht* " 

John  J.  St.  Clair S.   W. 

E.  R.  Svkes " 

D.  Wer'theim     W.  M. 

James  Linkins J.    W. 

Geo.  M.  Dickson* \V.  M. 

C.  E.  Bodemer " 

J.  D.  Harper J.    W  . 

B.  W.  Tackenberg " 

J.  B.  Rockwood  W.  M. 

G.  G.  Smith " 

W.H.Chaffee " 

Wm.  H .  Geohegan " 

H.  E.  Hatlev " 

H.  P.  Buxton " 


T.  A.  Smith S.  AV. 

J.  A.  Mason ^V.  M. 

John  L.  McGuire " 

I^.  S.  McGraw " 

Thos.  Boyd " 

Richard  Brown J.    W. 

W.  A.  Shafer W.  M. 

H    W.   Lindlev " 

Jolin  H.  Reynolds J.    AV. 

Sam'l  Hovles W.  M. 

F.  .\.  Halliday S.   W. 

Geo.  Richards W.  M. 

Levi  Sillinian " 

F.  C.  Moore " 

J.  M.  Nichols " 

J.F.  Hoover " 

B.  R.  Burroughs " 

J.  W.  Green " 

Thos.  Lawler " 

E.  S.  Bartholomew J.    W. 

J.  W.  Massie \V.  M. 

A.  P.  Munson " 

G.E.Young    " 

H.  Biirgesser " 

C.  O.  Drayton S.   W. 

C.  J.  Renter " 

Hugh  Andrews " 

D.  J.  Bailey W.  M. 

Win.  P   Strong '• 

Allen  Wait " 

E.  J  .  Tower " 

A.  R.  Clark    " 

H.  D.  Woodworth " 

A.  L.  Kimber    " 

J.  C.  Moodv " 

Albert  T.  Kinnev J.    W. 

H.  X.  P.itterson W.  M. 

Perry  A   Armstrong  " 

Thos.  C.  Tutwiler " 

O    E.  Hofer '• 

John  M into " 

J  as.  T.  Clark " 

E.  A.  Belknap S.    W. 

John  W.  Larimer W.  M. 

James  A.  Kose   " 

B.  Beckiev " 

J.  E.  (jorham " 

A.  N.  Wheeler " 

W.  H.  Wade " 

L.  W.  Smith* " 

John  C.  Hall '• 

A.  McWavne " 

J.  A.  Niblo " 

James  John " 

J.  A.   Farnhaii. S.    \V. 

G.  P.  Wodell W.  M. 

S.  O.  Vaughn* " 

H.  B.  Farwell " 

W.  S    Frost " 

J  as.  B.  Coe " 

Wm.  Hartley*  " 

Owen  Scott. " 

J.  B.  Kuykendall " 

John  Patrick " 

D.  Q   Trotter " 


iS7S.] 


GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


REPRESENTATIVES — Continued. 


David  Berry W.  M. 

\V.  C.  Cowan     " 

G.  P.  Lawrence "       i 

J.  N.  Snedeker " 

E.  Blackshaw " 

Smith  Searles " 

A.  B.  Asiiley " 

J.A.Stoddard "      II 

F.  W   Porter S.  W. 

Geo.  S.  Norf.ilk J.   W.  ! 

W.  K.  Bowling W.M.I 

James  Milne 

Chas.  Downe> " 

Addison  Lewi.'- "       I 

J.  S.  Perriton " 

\V.  E.  Derweni "       i 

J.  A.  McConnell "       I 

Theodore  Kundinfjci " 

J.  D.  Metcalf " 

C.  H.  Metcalf S.  W. 

S.M.  Conner J.    W.i 

Daniel  Ellington S.   W.I 

L.  M.  VanBuren W.  M.j 

T.J.  Kaufman " 

Geo.  W.  Tewksbur)   " 

A.  H.  Wooster " 

B.  H.  Lawson  " 

L.  L.  Hazen "       ' 

Herman  Xietlici   '' 

I.  I.  Pool* S.  W.: 

S.D.  Pollock W.M.I 

\Vm.  <;.  Atkins " 

Jas.  C.  Luckev*       S.   W.' 

Jas.  C.  Lucke'y*  J.   W. 

D.  R.  Miller W.  M.l 

C.  A.  Griswold "       1 

Wm.  Scott J.    W.' 

lohn  Jacksoi. W.  M. 

"C.  W.   Bradshaw S.   W.I 

X.  F.  Beal* W.  M. 

Geo.  W.  Smiiii " 

G.  W.  Trask " 

R.  B.  Deem  " 

G.  W.  Yates  " 

H.  L.  Goodncli S.  W. 

A.  P.  Turner* W.  M. 

lohn  W.  Turlc\ S.   W. 

\.  J.  Tavlor  . . .' ).    W. 

J.  F.  Shad  well W.  M. 

T.  D.  Palmer " 

J.  W.  Tiillis J.    AV. 

H.  West W.  M. 

J.  B.  Iohi.»ui " 

J.  H.  Wood' " 

E.G.  Hudson* " 

Malcolm  McDonaKi " 

Geo.  K.  Haslett S.   W. 

Fred  S.  James J  .    W 

T.  G.  Coffy W.  M. 

William  Dickie " 

Geo.  H.  Simp   ...     " 

C.  R.  Hanson " 

John  Andrew " 

H.  D.  Williams " 

J.  D.  Brown " 


270 


272 

273 
274 

27s 
276 
277 
278 
279 
280 
282 
283 
28s 
286 
287 
288 
29 1 


C.  A.  Barley S.  W. 

J.  L.  Kenner* W.  M. 

I.  H.  Hazlett " 

J.  E.  Southwick* " 

Geo.  Phirman* " 

W.  G.  Cochran* " 

S.  Barnes " 

D.  C.  Hunter " 

T.  C.  Roach* •' 

Frank  M.  Cortright J.    W. 

E.  M.  Hinckley W.  M. 

Jonathan  Rice " 

G.  M.  Loughmiller        " 

Chas.  Wilson " 

R.  .S.  Gordon " 

H.  J.  Dunlap " 

E.  J.  IngersoU " 

H.  L.  Dickinson J.    W. 

D .  A.  Baxter W.  M. 

I.  Norman " 

G.L.Gibson S.   W. 

S.  Kidder W.  M. 

G.W.Hamilton " 

F.  Stewart " 

M.  C.  Mills S.    \V. 

Nathan  Low " 

J .  M.  Wilson W.  M. 

Luke  Stronf,* J .    W. 

P.  Harrod \V.  M. 

A.  F.  Wade " 

H.  S.  Hanner 

J.  Peter* '' 

John  Harris* 

VV.  G.  Billings " 

J.  L.  Scott " 

W.  H.  Cardilt " 

Albert  Randall " 

C.  M.  Cummings* 

Peter  C.  Rooney* 

J.  R.  Grace 

Theodore  Roth* 

Chas.  M.  Kern " 

W.B.Humphrey'' 

\V.  H.  Johnson* " 

E.  H.  Gray S.   W. 

Lavton  Collar   J-   ^V. 

W.  H.  Robinson W.  M. 

L.O.  Hill* S.    W. 

Edward  Cook* W.  M. 

Geo.  Darrah S.   W. 

R.  H.  FiddicK W.  M. 

John  C.  Davif^ " 

G.  R.  Roush* J.   W. 

J.  H.  B.  Renfro   W.M. 

H.  Rocher 

S.  A.  Clark '^' 

P.  Welshimet 

S.J.  Pavne* 

J.  W.  Sfnisher S.  W. 

G.  H.  Friz/.ell'^ W.M. 

S.  R.  Tilton* " 

D.  \V.  Huddlestoii " 

Henry  J  acob,<^ |' 

J.  McLean 

H.  H.  Marsh S.   W. 


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PROCEEDINGS    OF     THE 


[Oct. 


REPKESENTA'rn'  ES —  CoutiuHcd. 


292 
293 

2<H 
29S 
296 
297 
298 
299 
300 
301 

302 
303 
304 
30s 
306 
307 
30S 
309 
310 
3" 
312 

3<3 
314 
31S 
316 
3>8 
3>9 
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321 
322 
3^3 

3^8 
3?o 

3 '2 

3H 

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340 
34J 
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344 
345 
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351 
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3S4 

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359 
360 
361 
362 
363 
3^4 
365 


R.  E.  Beard W.  M. 

J.  C.  Paddock  " 

H.  B.  Leonard* S.  W. 

E.  E.  Wallace W.  M. 

Oscar  J.  Reese " 

E.  C.  Selleck*  " 

Joseph  P.  Lasley " 

H.  B.  Burritt " 

J.  W.  Houston*. " 

A.  B.  White " 

A.  Cone " 

G.  E.  Hohbs S.   W. 

D.  J.  Stewart* W.M. 

Chas.  Roberts " 

C.  J.  Gardner* " 

J.  C.  Culver S.   W. 

E.  W.  Dickenson W.M. 

W.  J.  Frisbee " 

F.  S.  Allen " 

J.  B.  Rosencrantz " 

Win.  K.  Forsyth " 

R.  Thibodo " 

J.  C.  Hosteller* " 

S.B.Lake " 

F.  J.  Filbert " 

Wm.  Sonntag " 

T.  N.  Bone " 

R.  J  .  Greyson " 

N.  R.  Zeigler " 

Caleb  Peters " 

E.  J.  Congar " 

W.  W.  M.  Barboin* " 

N.  J.Cobleigh " 

F.  M.  Pickett* " 

F.  J.  Glazier " 

L.  B.  Zong " 

B.  Ervin* " 

Jesse  K.  Dubois S.  W. 

T.  ]M.  Stevens* W.  M, 

John  Corsoski J.    W, 

I.  G.  Helm W.M, 

E.  Marsh " 

H.D.Parker* " 

Jacob  Godfrey " 

"I.  F.  Uttley J.    W, 

b.  M.  Southwell .W.M, 

J.  Q.  Russell " 

J.  H.  Leonard S.  W. 

Wm.  Freeman W.  M, 

G.  P.  Weger " 

Chas.  H.  Ingalls " 

David  A.  Parks " 

Smith  Olney " 

W.  G.  Smith " 

I.  W.  Nuckols S.   W 

"G.  a.  Elbring* W.M 

Joseph  White " 

J.  D.  Bliss S.  W 

C.  Spaulding W.  M 

J.  L.  Blanchard " 

P.  W.  Lill " 

Henry  Palmer " 

T.  V.  R.  Dafoe " 

G.W.Howe " 

B.B.Bacon " 


366 
367 
36S 
37 « 
372 
373 
374 
377 
37s 
379 
3S0 
38 1 
382 
383 
384 
386 
3S7 
389 
39" 
392 
.393 
394 
395 
30 
39S 
3W 
400 
401 
402 

403 
404 

40s 
408 
409 
410 
411 


412 
414 
416 

4'7 
418 
419 
420 
421 
422 


424 
426 
427 
42S 
429 
43' 
432 
433 

434 
435 
43'J 
437 
439 
440 


A.  D.  Kaga W.M. 

A.  P.  Petrie " 

Abram  Marlow S.    W. 

J .  G.  Strong W.  M. 

W.  H.  Davidson " 

Oscar  Dennis '■ 

F.  A.  Frost " 

August  Kohler* " 

J.  C.  Danforth J.    W. 

John  Kidder W.M. 

S.  F.  McBride " 

P.  S.  Lerch " 

Richard  Boston     " 

V.  L.  Angier " 

Wm.  Wilson " 

B.  Leach " 

W.  W.  Shoop " 

John  K.  Croswcll " 

VV.  R.  Comstock " 

W.  H.  Aughinbaugh " 

D.  H.  Dickenson " 

C.  E.  Miner " 

Richard  Terrill .    " 

B.  B.  Olinstead " 

W.  R.   Hubbard* " 

J.  N.  Pervier " 

E.  Pluinmer 1 .    \V'. 

Chas.  Finefield* W.  M. 

0.  Rodgers S.    W. 

J.  S.  Townsend W.  M. 

J  as.  M.  Miller W.M. 

C.  A.  Butcher S.    W. 

H.  B.  McKnight W.M. 

1.  J.  Lamb " 

W.  Lowe " 

August  Koblitz " 

Dan'lJ.Avery " 

James  Smith S.    W. 

D.  H.  Brower J.    W. 

II.  C.  Benson W.M. 

John  Weber  " 

B.  F.  Mason* " 

Edward  T.  Keagle S.   W. 

T.  O.  Holcomb " 

J.  S.  Whittenberg W.M. 

A.  S.  Babcock " 

G.  W.  Burson " 

P.  Daggy " 

C.  M.  Clark S.  W. 

D.  M.  Cool* J.    W. 

Stephen  Redshaw S.    W. 

G.  W.  Dudderar*    W.M. 

D.  R.  Gukcr " 

Chas.  A.  Getman* " 

R.J.  McDonald " 

J.  C.  Tucker " 

J.  B.  Beadles " 

H.  N.  Oilman " 

H.  F.  Carroll* J.    W. 

John  A.  Prickett S.   W. 

A.  B.  Avery* W.  M. 

W.  Fleming " 

Chas.  Cohen " 

John  A.  Riley   " 

D.  A.  Ward J .   W. 


iS78.] 


GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


II 


REPRESENTATIVES — Conlitiued. 


442 
443 
-444 
445 
4+6 
447 
44S 
449 

450 
45^ 
4S3 
4S4 
4SS 
456 
457 
458 
459 
460 
461 
462 

463 
464 

46s 
466 
467 
469 
470 

47' 
472 

474 
475 
476 

477 
47S 

479 

480 
48 1 
482 
484 
48s 
4S6 
488 
489 
490 

491 
492 

493 
495 
496 

497 
498 
500 
SOI 
502 
S03 
504 
506 
508 

S"9 


T.  E.  Gapen W.  M 

Henry  Titus S.   W 

W.  VV.  Bruce     \V.  M 

L.  J.   Ciirlyle* " 

J  ohii  Tyre  ....    " 

H.J.  Ivooiiiis " 

John  \V.   KiKgs " 

L.  C.  Conover S     W, 

J.  I).  C.  Hoit \V.  M, 

D.  15.  Cooke* " 

T.  J  .  Mrown S.   W, 

John  Lowry* \V.  M, 

K.  13.  Keyes " 

Henry  Polhircl S.   W, 

\\.  M.  Phares W.  M. 

E.  H.  Kitch " 

Geo.  .Sippell " 

H.  W.  Mercer " 

J.  C.  Campbell " 

W.  EUirnan S.    W 

G.  H.  IliUard W.  M. 

A.  \V.  Schultz  " 

A.  A'.  Norman " 

J.  T.  Gardner " 

L.  Harlman " 

C.  II.  Phelps " 

I.  H.  Lawrence " 

R.  H.  Woodcock " 

C.  C.  Aldrich " 

I.  Messenger ->.   W. 

R.  W.  Willett VV.  M. 

John  McWilliams " 

M.  M.  Gray " 

A.  B.  Copeland* " 

Fred.  Schenaman " 

W.  O.  Ensign   " 

\V.  Fenneniore " 

T.  W.  Bloomer " 

J.  M.  Cox J.    W. 

David  Gillespie VV.  M. 

Thos.  B.  Manning* " 

J  .  I>.  Langstatf " 

Joseph  Danks " 

A.  Pickthall* " 

Jesse  Palmer* " 

J.  T.  Evans " 

H.  A.  Eidson " 

C.  Hines " 

J.  M.  Daggett " 

E.  B.  Messer* " 

E.  Bronnhack* " 

W.  R.  Mi/.elle  " 

S.  \V.  Aiken " 

\V.  H.  .Stevens " 

G.  \V.  Smith " 

J.  F.  McNeil " 

W.  T.  Dickenson " 

J.  W.  Willis " 

K.  B.  Wilcox " 

A.  Gustin " 

W.  H.  McClam " 

D.  G.  Hamilton " 

Geo.  II.  Fox S.   W. 

Wm.  Williamson W.M. 

J.  A.  Irwin " 


5" 

512 

5 '3 
514 
515 
S16 
517 
S'8 
519 
520 

521 
522 

524 
525 
526 
527 
528 

529 
53° 
531 
532 
533 
534 
535 
530 
537 
538 
539 
54° 
54J 
542 
543 
544 
547 
548 
550 
551 
552 
555 
550 
557 
558 
559 
500 

561 
562 

563 
564 

.565 
5'* 
570 
572 
573 
574 
575 
576 
577 
578 
579 
580 
581 
582 

583 
584 


Wm.  Dolting S.   W. 

L.  L.  Burr W.M. 

Thos.  J.  Fritts " 

A.  B.  Abbot " 

J.  V.  Diamond* " 

James  Cozad " 

W.  B.  Schoen S.   \\  . 

W.J.  Sofield J.    W. 

R.  L.  McReynolds " 

John  Spire. I S.    W. 

John  P.  Cowdin* " 

W.  H.  Wilcox J.  \V. 

C.  Raymond W.M. 

T.J.  Dunn " 

H.  VV.  Wolseley " 

W.  W.  Phillips " 

Wm.  Bedford S.   W. 

J.  W.  Hollenbeak W.M. 

J.  L.  Burkhalter " 

H.  Ely " 

A.  F.  Rogers " 

Perry  Carpenter " 

J.  G.  Moss " 

Fred  Thompson " 

A.  H.  Tyler S.   W. 

J.  G.  Wright* W.  .M. 

F.  W.  Stowe " 

N.  C.  Kenyon " 

C.  H.  Coolidge " 

R.  T.  Woiley S.   W. 

F.  M.Jones W.  M. 

Isaac  Cool " 

C.  M.  Hubbard S.   W. 

L.  B.  Thomas W.M. 

Geo.  Frost " 

J.  H.  Welsh " 

Albert  Prevoe " 

A.  J.  Bosseman " 

Geo.  W.  Ravens* " 

VV.  W.  Judd*. " 

Wm.  Heineman " 

J.  W.  Blood* " 

G.  W.  Sweet " 

Abraham  Allen " 

0.  D.  Wilcox " 

A.  B.  Robinson " 

1.  C.  Noble S.    \S  . 

N.  C.  Tyler ^^'-  ^l- 

F.  L.  Zerenberg S.    W. 

J.  M.  Eaton W.  M. 

G.  V.  Black " 

T.  A.  Jackson S.    W . 

W.  H.  Long W.M. 

J.  M.  Harnet " 

N.  H.  Wooster ).    W. 

L.  Simmonds* W  .  Al. 

Van  R.  Harriott " 

Joseph  Eskridge* S     W. 

Stephen  Maddock W   M. 

C.G.Cochran " 

T.  J.  Edelman " 

D.  F.  Quinn. " 

C   M.  Reed S.    W. 

lames  H.  Miller " 

Judson  Graves W.  M. 


12 


PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE 


[Oct.  I, 


REPRESENTATIVES — Continued. 


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S88 

589 

59° 

592 

595 

596 

597 

598. 

599 

600 

601 

602 

603 

604 

60s 

607 

609 

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612 

613 
614 
616 
617 
618 
619 
620 
621 
622 
624 
627 
631 
632 
633 
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635 
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63S 
641 


643 

644 

^S 
646 
647 
64S 
650 
651 
652 

653 
655 
656 

657 

658 

«>5y 
660 
061 
663 


R.  P.  Hunter W.  M, 

Samuel  Rawson " 

C.  Elkin " 

J.  L.  Carr S.   W. 

W.  Parks W.  M. 

J  as.  H.  Cross " 

M.E.Stone S.  W. 

W.  F.  Willey " 

Geo.  W.  Smith* W.   M. 

E.F.Davis " 

E.  Drum " 

I.N.   Kepner " 

W.M.Abraham J.    W. 

Jerry  Ishler VV.  M. 

J.M.Mansfield " 

J. S. Weir " 

F.  W.  Eads " 

D.J.  Eastburn " 

J.  S.  Cook J.    W. 

W.  A.  McCune W.  M. 

J.  W.  Niles J.   W. 

J.  H.  Hudspeth W.M 

B.  M.  BuUard S.  W. 

W.  P.  Hart W.  M. 

I.  S.  Wallin " 

J.  R.  McGinnis* " 

P.  H.  Shelton " 

H.  W.  Haslit» " 

B.  F.  Sippy " 

G.  P.  Orendorff " 

S.B.Gilbert " 

E .  Wiggs " 

Geo.  W.  Lowden " 

Geo.  A.  Dice* " 

J.  C.  Garver •' 

J.  G.  McClave " 

B.F.Montgomery J.    W. 

C.  A.  Westgate W.  M. 

A.  McFarland* " 

J.  M.  Edmiston " 

J.  E.  Railsback S.    W. 

S.J.  Nicolay J.   W. 

Thos.  Neill W.M. 

H.  R.  'Ihomas S.  W. 

C.  W.  Chafjee J .   'W. 

J  ames  Keats \V.  M. 

Chas.   Wheeler S.   W 

B.  M.  Arnold W.M 

Henry  Thorn S.   W. 

P.  H."  Evans J.    W. 

W.  T.  Huston W.M 

G.  R.  Anderson* " 

T.  D.  Hinckley " 

W.J.  Biggs J.    W. 

Ishani  Harrison W  M 

H.  K.  Rule* " 

T.  S.  Beach S.   W. 

M.  Hansen W.  m! 

Wm.  Kunze '• 

John  R.  \V  arner S.   W. 

VV.  H.  Konantz    W.m! 

Geo.  \V.  Bristow " 

H.  L.  Turpcning " 

Thos.  Jeff ord " 

W.  C.  Harncd " 


686 

687 
6S8 
690 
691 
692 

693 
694 

695 
696 
697 
69S 
700 
701 
702 
703 
704 

705 
706 
707 
709 
710 
711 
712 
713 
7"4 
7«S 
716 
7'8 
719 
720 
721 
722 

723 
724 

725 
726 
727 
728 
729 
730 
731 
73-5 
734 
735 
736 
738 


J.  K.  Fleniken W.M. 

T.J.  Athey " 

Arthur  McLane " 

Wesley  Phillips S.    \V . 

David  Braun W.  M. 

E.H.Donaldson " 

Wm.  J  ackson " 

J.  S.  Lackey " 

Wm.  Bushman " 

G.  C.  Drennan '" 

W.  H.  Baird |.    W. 

AV.  H.  Kistler   W.M. 

John  Watson,  J r " 

J.  W.  McClure " 

0.  C.  Ing " 

Michael  Connely* " 

F.  A.  Landon* J  .    W. 

J.  H.  Frees W.M. 

J.  L.  Stranahan S.    \V. 

Wm.  R.  Moore '" 

S.  R.  Beardslee W.M. 

D.  W.  Rosseter " 

J.  C.  Craig " 

Edward  Grimes " 

A.  H.  J  ames " 

W.  E.  Scott " 

1.  Barrow " 

0.  P.Nesmith S.    W. 

Chas.  A.  Mathay " 

A.  N.  Rosencrans W-  ^I- 

John  A.  Larmon 

J.  H.  Ilenham 

J .  E.  Alexander " 

H.  C.  Ranney S.    VV. 

John  Broadbent VV.  M. 

C.  O.  Kfclley "' 

S.  Cosart 

J.J.  Peebles J-    VV. 

Geo.  Steely ^V  .  .vl. 

Thompson  Rosier 

A.  Dunning 

W.  C.  Hadley " 

Wm.  M.  Johnson " 

Thos.  J.  George " 

W.  H.  Speckman " 

H.  B.  Robinson    " 

W.  E.  J  ennings 

L.  L.  Gallemore* " 

Edwin  Gants " 

R.  F.  Casey " 

L.  J.  Thompson " 

1.  M.  Asl)ery " 

L.  C.  Chandler " 

B.  R.  Cole " 

D.  Goodman* " 

S.  D.  Parsons  * " 

C.  F.  Greenwood " 

E.  L.  Darrow " 

S.  T.  Webber " 

VV.  J.  McVay S.   VV. 

G.  H.  Messick W.M. 

C.  N.  Hcnkle " 

Abe  White " 

W.  VV.  W  ilson " 

R.  F.  Griffin* " 


iSyS.J  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


REPRESENTATIVES — Continued. 


John  C.  Wood* W.  M. 


748 

749    !    J.  W.  Meador 


739  W.  M.  Burbank* W.  M 

740  A.  D.  VanDoreu. " 

E.  H.  Buck J.    W.I  750         E.  B.  Hazard " 

742  C.  C.  Rowell S.    W.I  751  Edgar  Isbel " 

743  A.  M.  Workman "       '  7i;2  Chas.  W.  Day " 

744  C.  G.  Reagin "  754         J.  W.  Leney J.    W. 

745  John  Tanner \V.M.|  755  VVm.  C.  Gray W.  M. 

740  F.  A.  Winslow "       j  Samuel  Bailey* S.    W. 

747  B.  L.  Tabler "       \ 

*  Proxy. 

READINC;  OF  MINUTES— Bispeused  with. 

Upon  Motion  of  R.  W.  Bio.  Dklancey,  D.  G.  M.,  the  read- 
ing of  the  minutes  of  the  last  Annual  Communication  was  dis- 
pensed with,  copies  being  in  tlie  hands  of  the  Representatives. 

ADDRESS. 

The  M.  W.  the  Grand  Master  then  read  his  annual  address, 
which  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Grand  Master's   Report. 

Brethren  of  the  Grand  Lodge: 

Another  year  has  been  strung  on  His  eternal  rosary,  in  whose  presence 
we  now  pause  with  bended  heads  and  uplifted  hearts,  acknowledging  His 
gracious  favor  in  the  past,  and  invoking  for  the  future  the  sustaining  and 
guiding  power  of  His  mightv  arm. 

And  so  pausing,  we  mingle  with  our  thoughts  of  Him  the  memory  of 
those  whom  His  providence  has  called  on  before,  the  loved  ones  whose  con- 
tact with  us  in  these  fraternal  associations  has,  let  us  hope,  made  all  that  was 
noble  and  elevated  in  their  lives  a  part  of  our  own. 

NECROLOGY. 

George  E.  Lounsbury,  the  junior  Past  Grand  Master  of  Illinois,  died  at 
Denver,  Colorado,  August  4,  1S78,  and  was  there  buried  with  the  rites  of 
Masonry  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colorado. 

When  Grand  Master  LouNSBUKYwas  compelled  by  failing  health  to  relin- 
quish the  duties  of  his  office,  two  years  and  two  months  ago,  his  friends 
hoped  that  the  climate  of  Colorado  might  prove  curative,  and  his  improved 
condition  for  a  time  after  his  arrival  there  gave  them  great  encouragement; 
but  it  soon  became  evident   that  his  malady  was  too  deeply  seated,  and  that 


14  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct.    1, 


he  could  not  recover.  Reduced  in  circumstances  in  consequence  of  his  pro- 
tracted illness,  his  sensitive  nature  forbade  his  making  his  condition  known, 
and  it  is  to  be  feared  that  he  and  his  family  suffered  from  actual  want  before 
the  kind  hearted  Craftsmen  of  Denver  became  aware  of  liis  necessities. 
From  that  time  on  they  were  unremitting  in  their  ministrations.  From  them 
information  came  to  me  of  his  situation,  and  on  the  loth  of  June  last  I  made 
it  known  to  the  Craft  in  Illinois  by  a  circular  letter,  and  your  bounty  made 
his  last  days  free  from  want  and  anxiety.  The  report  of  the  Grand  Treasurer, 
as  the  custodian  of  the  fund  contributed  for  his  relief,  is  submitted  as  an 
appendix  to  this  report. 

Our  thanks  are  due  to  the  Masons  of  Colorado  for  their  kindness  to  our 
brother  and  his  family,  and  especially  due  to  Union  Lodge,  No.  7,  W. 
Bro.  Aaron  Gove,  Master,  Denver,  as  the  direct  almoner  of  your  contribu- 
tions. 

Horace  Hayward,  Past  Junior  Grand  Warden,  died  at  Olney,  January 
8th,  187S,  aged  56  years. 

Sylvester  Stevens,  Past  Grand  Lecturer,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
decease  a  member  of  the  Standing  Committee  on  Chartered  Lodges,  died  at 
Knoxville,  June  15,  1878. 

Elijah  Lutener,  Past  Master  of  Kingston  Lodge,  No.  266,  died  at 
Kingston,  March  4,  1S78. 

J.  B.  Kyle,  Past  Master  of  Macomb  Lodge,  No.  17,  died  at  Macomb,  June 
I,  1S78. 

Sydney  Breesk,  Past  Master  of  .Scott  Lodge  No.  79,  died  at  Pinckneyville, 
June  27,  1878. 

Henry  B.  Pierce,  Past  Master  of  Geneva  Lodge  No.  139,  died  at  Flmira, 
N.  Y.,  Aug.  26,   1878. 

EwiNG   HoucHiN,  Worshipful  Master  of   Sigel  I>odge  No.  541,  died  July 

-,  1S78. 

I  have  received  official  intelligence  of  the  death  in  other  jurisdictions  of 
the  following  distinguished  brethren  : 

James  C.  Braden,  Grand  Master  of  Minnesota. 

Frank  Welch,  Grand  Master  of  Nebraska. 

John  A.  Harris,  Grand  Secretary  of  New  Hampshire. 

We  know  not  yet  how  many  of  our  brethren  have  fallen  before  the  pesti- 
lence which  is  now  desolating  the  southern  portion  of  our  coimtry;  but  the 
press  dispatches  have  announced  the  death  of  A.  J.  Wheeler,  Past  Grand 
Master  of  Tennessee,  widely  known  as  the  editor  of  the  Masonic  Jewel ;  and 
Harvey  W.  Walter,  Past  Grand  Master  of  Mississippi.  Bro.  Wheeler  was 
President  of  the  Masonic  relief  board  of  Memphis,  and  Bro.  Walters  was  at 


1878.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILT.INOIS.  I5 


the  head  of  the  relief  work  at  IIollv  Springs.  Both  contracted  the  fever 
vvliile  ministering  in  their  respective  cities,  and  died  with  tiie  harness  on. 
Earth  has  no  prouder  graves  than  sucli  as  theirs. 

Wlien  from  tlie  magnitude  and  imprecedented  virulence  of  the  epidemic 
it  became  evident  that  the  stricken  communities  could  not  cope  with  it 
unaided,  the  stitled  cry  of  distress  which  the  horrors  of  the  situation  wrung 
from  the  lips  of  our  soutliern  brethren,  was  echoed  from  this  Grand  East  in 
a  circular  letter,  issued  on  the  3d  of  September,  requesting  that  contributions 
of  money  be  sent  to  our  Grand  Treasurer.  Prior  to  this  time  the  brethren 
in  many  localities  within  our  jurisdiction,  and  notably  the  brethren  of  Chi- 
cago, whose  own  experience  had  made  them  keenly  alive  to  the  sufferings  of 
others,  Iiad,  of  their  oWn  volition,  moved  in  the  matter  of  relief,  and  sent 
tlieir  contributions  directly  to  the  infected  districts 

The  contributions  to  date,  including  those  thus  far  reported,  outside  of 
the  funds  received  by  the  Grand  Treasurer,  already  aggregate  $6,000  00. 

Special  reports  from  the  Grand  Treasurer  as  the  custodian  of  the  general 
fund,  and  from  the  custodian  of  the  fund  collected  by  the  Masonsof  Chicago 
and  not  included  in  the  general  fund,  are  herewith  submitted  as  matters  of 
general  interest,  indicating  as  they  do  not  only  the  sources  from  which  the 
contributions  have  come,  but  the  direction  in  which  they  have  been  applied. 

FAILURE    AND    RESIGNATION"    OF    THE    GRAND    TREASURER. 

In  the  latter  part  of  November,  1S77,  while  absent  from  the  jurisdiction, 
I  was  apprised  by  the  Grand  Secretary  of  the  failure  of  R.  W.  Bro.  A.  A. 
Glenn,  Grand  Treasurer,  who  was  engaged  in  the  banking  business  at  Mt. 
Sterling.  Investigation  disclosed  the  fact  that  the  moneys  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  had  not  been  deposited  as  trust  funds,  but  liad  been  deposited  in  com- 
mon with  his  private  funds  in  his  own  name,  and  that  the  Grand  Lodge  would 
have  to  share  in  common  with  other  creditors.  Accordingly',  with  the  expert 
assistance  of  W.  Bro.  Edward  S.  Mulliner,  whom  I  employed  for  tliat  pur- 
pose, the  account  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  amounting  to  $15,060  52,  was  made 
up  and  duly  filed  against  the  estate  of  Bro.  Glenn. 

The  report  of  the  Grand  Secretary  will  show  what  amount  has  already 
been  realized  on  this  claim.  It  is  not  probable  that  the  Grand  I>odge  will 
realize  more  than  fifty  per  cent  of  it  from  the  estate,  and  it  is  doubtful  if  the 
balance  can  be  collected  from  the  sureties  on  his  official  bond.  The  busi- 
ness of  Bro.  Glenn  was  extended  in  the  community  where  he  lived,  and 
among  those  crippled  by  his  failure  were  the  chief  of  the  sureties  residing 
at  Mt.  Sterling;  probably  to  such  an  extent  as  to  greatly  impair  the  security 
of  the  Grand  Lodge. 

After  the  failure  of  Bro.  Glenn  and  before  any  permanent  arrangement 
had  been  made  to  meet  accruing  indebtedness,  the  credit  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
was  maintained  by  drawing  no  salary  orders,  and  by  covering  into  the  treas- 
ury funds  received  by  the  Grand  Master  for  fees  and  for  interest  on  the  note 


i6 


PKOCEKD.NGS    OF    THE 


I  Oct. 


of  Alex.  F.  Pool,  for  the  payment  of  printing  hills.  To  effect  this,  I 
temporarily  assumed  the  office  of  Grand  Treasurer,  and  my  account  while  so 
acting  is  herewith  suhmitted. 

The  resignation  of  Bro.  Glenn  as  Grand  Treasurer  was  accepted  on  the 
iSth  of  March,  1878,  and  on  the  same  day  I  appointed  R.W.  Orlin  H.  Miner, 
of  Springfield,  to  fill  the  vacancy,  who,  having  filed  his  official  bond,  and  the 
same  having  been  approved,  was  duly  installed  as  Grand  Treasurer,  in  Tyr- 
ian  Lodge,  No.  333,  April  13,  1S78,  by  R.  VV.  John  F.  Bi  rrill,  acting  as 
my  proxy. 

On  advising  with  the  Grand  Treasurer  as  to  ways  and  means,  he  proposed 
to  advance  the  funds  necessar>'  to  meet  the  current  expenses  of  the  Grand 
Lodge,  charging  interest  at  the  rate  of  six  per  cent  per  annum  on  each  order 
from  the  date  of  payment. 

Considering  this  proposition  more  liberal  as  to  rate  of  interest,  and  other- 
wise more  advantageous  to  the  Grand  Lodge  than  could  be  obtained  else- 
where, it  was  promptly  accepted,  and  all  Grand  Lodge  orders  have  been  hon- 
ored on  presentation. 

pool's  note. 

I  have  received  interest  on  the  note  of  Alexander  F.  Pool  to  the  Grand 
Lodge,  the  sum  of  $491  20,  and  have  paid  for  commissitMis  on  the  collection 
and  for  legal  services  in  connection  therewith,  $45  00,  as  shown  in  my 
expense  account,  herewith  submitted. 

NEW    LODGES    CONSTITUTED. 

Upon  the  proxies  to  constitute  the  newly  chartered  lodges,  issued  upon 
the  close  of  the  last  Annual  Communication,  returns  have  been  made  as 
follows : 


Akin 

Lyndon  .... 
Lounsbury  . 
Allendale. . . 

Cornell 

Ogden 

Pre-emption 


749 
75° 
751 

752 
753 
754 
755 


D.M.Browning  October  31. 

N\  m.  Lane October  25. 

John  O'Neill !  October  it). 

Jacob  Zimmerman j  November  5. 

Chas.   Finefield |  October  16. 

George  Scrogg.'- I  October  24. 

H.  G.  Calhoun October  31. 


INSTALLATION. 


R.  W.  Bro.  Robert  L.  McKinl.w,  appointed  Grand  Sword  Bearer,  but 
absent  from  the  Grand  Lodge  during  the  installation  of  the  Grand  Officers, 
was  duly  installed  in  Prairie  Lodge  No.  77,  Dec.  15,  1877,  ^J  '^y  special 
deputy,  R.  W.  Daniel  G.  Burr. 


1878.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  I7 


RESIGNATION. 


R.  W.  Bro.  Jacob  Krohn,  District  Deputy  Grand  Master  of  the  fifth  dis- 
trict, finding  tliat  the  demands  of  his  private  business  would  not  permit  him 
I0  give  to  the  duties  of  his  office  that  attention  which  would  satisfy  his  own 
sense  of  duty,  resigned  on  the  7th  of  December,  and  R.  W.  Bro.  Edward  L. 
Cronkrite,  of  Freeport,  was  appointed  in  his  stead. 


MATTERS    REFERRED. 

The  memorial  of  Yates  City  Lodge  No.  44S,  asking  re-imbursenient  for 
expenses  incurred  in  defending  a  suit  brought  by  Wm.  H.  Robinson,  an 
expelled  member,  to  recover  the  fees  paid  by  him  for  the  degrees,  was  referred 
to  the  Grand  Master  with  power  to  act.  (^Proc.  iSjy,  p.  no.')  I  decided  that 
the  lodge  was  justly  entitled  to  re-imbursement ;  an  order  was  accordinglv 
drawn  on  the  Treasury  in  its  favor,  for  the  sum  of  $108  10. 

The  case  which  was  then  pending  in  the  Supreme  Court  of  Illinois,  on  an 
appeal  taken  b\'  the  plaintiff  from  the  decision  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  Knox 
county,  has  since  been  determined  in  favor  of  the  Lodge. 


BURIAL  SERVICE. 

The  committee  directed  to  prepare  a  burial  service  for  the  use  of  the 
lodges,  in  due  time  submitted  its  report  to  the  Grand  Master  for  approval.  It 
has  been  published,  bound  with  the  forms  for  other  ceremonies  already 
adopted  by  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  has  been  distributed  to  the  lodges. 


CASE  OF    C.   J.   JENKINS. 

The  appeal  of  C.  J.  Jenkins  from  the  action  of  Olney  Lodge  No.  140, 
bv  which  he  was  expelled,  was  referred  to  the  Grand  Master  with  power  to 
order  a  new  trial  if  consistent  with  justice. 

The  record  of  the  case  bears  internal  marks  of  undue  prejudice  against 
the  accused,  and  some  of  the  rulings  were  incorrect;  but  however  erroneous 
the  methods  of  procedure,  the  result  reached,  if  not  absolutely  correct,  does 
not  mark  such  a  departure  from  substantial  justice  as  to  warrant  me  in  order- 
ing a  new  trial  with  the  effect  to  re-open  the  case  '  in  Olney  Lodge.  I 
find,  however,  in  addition  to  the  appeal  from  the  judgment  of  the  lodge, 
which  was  considered  by  the  Grand  Lodge  in  1S75,  ^^  appeal  from  a  ruling 
of  the  Master  taken  by  the  counsel  for  the  defense,  on  which  no  action  ap- 
pears to  have  been  had;  and  this,  in  view  of  its  importance  as  a  precedent,  I 
recommend  be  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Jurisprudence. 


*3 


i8 


PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE 


[Oct.   I, 


I  have  issued  dispensations  for  the  advancement  of  candidates  to  the   fol- 
lowing lodges : 


Pontiac 

Homer 

Mt.  Carmel. 

Macon 

Shabbona  . . 
Keeney 


ZQ4 

'%> 

239 

8 

374 

2ZT, 

Batavia 1      404 


?  S  00 

ID  00 

5  00 

*IO  GO 
10  00 
5   00 

S  00 


Cass 

Jackson  . .  . 
Effingham 
Vesper  .  . . . 


Total. 


23 

53 

I|U 

584 

•?S  00 
5;  00 
5  uo 
5  00 

$70  00 

Dispensations  for  elections,  installations,  vacations,  coriection  of  records 
and  other  purposes,  have  been  issued  to  lodges  as  follows: 


Blazing  Star.. . 

Temple 

New  Boston  . . . 
Waubansia  . . . . 

DiiQuoin 

Staunton 

Meti'opolis 

Elhridge 

Irvington 

Scottville 

Kaskaskia 

W^ashburn  .... 
D.  A.  Cashman 

Grcenview 

Wheaton 

Stone  Fort 

KlUhart 

Cbiney's  Grove 

lUiopolis 

Columbia 


4SS 
46 

59 
160 

234 
177 

91 
579 
650 
426 

86 
421 
686 
653 
269 
495 
545 
468 
521 
474 


.f2   00 


Gillespie 214 

Warsaw 257 

Aroma. '  37S 

Dearborn |  310 

Milford 168 

Bath 4i>f 

Meteor 2S3 

Mt.  Vernon 31 

Valley 547 

Lacon 61 

Martin 491 

Sam'l  H.  Davis <,6 

Avon  Harnicniy 253 

Corinthian 205 

D.  C.  Cregicr 643 

Home 508 

National ,  S96 

Landmark   422 

Total I 


2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

2 

00 

.f76  00 


But  one  application  for  a  dispensation  to  authorize  a  ballot  on  a  petition 
for  the  degrees,  without  regard  to  time,  has  been  received  during  the  year, 
and  it  was  refused.  The  emergenc}'  can  rarely  occur  that  can  warrant  the 
Grand  Master  in  setting  aside  the  law  requiring  previous  notice  and  due 
inquiry  into  the  character  of  the  applicant. 

I  have  also  had  occasion  to  refuse  an  application  to  dispense  with  the  law 
requiring  candidates  to  have  a  bona  fide  residence  within  the  State  and  within 
the  jurisdiction  of  the  lodge.  It  was  claimed  iox  the  applicant  in  this  case, 
who  was  a  member  of  an  itinerant  concert  troupe,  that  since  he  had  attained 

*  The  fee  of  ten  dollars  for  a  dispensation  issued  to  ISIacon  I^odge,  No.  S,  included  in  the 
above  column,  has  not  been  paid  to  the  (Jrand  Lodge.  A  draft  for  the  amount  was  sent  by 
the  lodge  to  the  Grand  Master,  and  while  it  was  in  his  hands  the  bank  drawing  it  and  the 
one  on  which  it  was  drawn  both  became  insolvent.  The  lodge  claims  that  its  loss  was  due  to 
the  neglect  of  the  Grand  Master.  The  amount  is  still  due,  either  from  him  or  from  the  lodge. 
The  Grand  Master  asks  the  Grand  Lodge  to  decide  which. 


iSyS.J 


GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  I9 


his  majority  he  liad  been  so  constantly  travelling  that  lie  liad  never  acquired 
a  legal  domicile  in  any  State,  but  was  as  much  a  citizen  of  Illinois  as  of  any 
State.  The  rule  that  a  candidate  must  have  resided  within  the  State  for 
twelve  months  next  preceding  the  date  of  his  petition,  is  designed  to  prevent 
the  possibility  of  invading  the  rights  of  lodges  in  sister  jurisdictions;  and  the 
requirement,  that  he  must  also  have  resided  for  six  months  within  the  juris- 
diction of  the  lodge,  is  designed  to  give  the  members  an  opportunity  to  judge 
somewhat  of  his  character.  Both  rules  are  so  manifestly  wise  and  just  that  I 
could  not  consent  to  set  them  aside. 

Notwithstanding  my  i-efusal  to  grant  dispensations  for  such  purposes  during 
my  first  official  term,  and  the  fulness  with  which  my  reasons  for  refusing  were 
set  forth  in  my  last  annual  report,  I  have  again  had  occasion,  during  the  past 
year,  to  refuse  dispensations  to  enable  lodges  to  hold  their  annual  elections 
in  advance  of  the  time  fixed  by  their  by-laws;  to  enable  them  to  appear  in 
public  on  gala  days;  and,  in  one  instance,  to  permit  a  lodge  to  participate  in 
the  dedication  of  an  Odd-Fellows'  Hall. 

A  refusal  to  grant  a  dispensation  to  a  lodge  to  join  the  funeral  procession 
of  one  of  its  members,  who,  at  his  own  request,  was  buried  by  an  Odd- Fel- 
lows' lodge,  of  which  he  was  also  a  member,  brought  me  a  letter  from  a 
zealous  and  intelligent  Past  Master,  and  because  I  presume  it  to  have  reflected 
a  feeling  more  or  less  widespread  in  the  Fraternity,  I  give  here  that  portion 
of  niy  reply  which  indicates  the  rule  governing  my  action: 

"The  rule  is  that  the  lodge  should  not  appear — as  a  lodge — ^on  funeral 
occasions  unless  it  appears  for  the  purpose  of  Masonic  labor,  of  which  the 
rites  of  Masonic  sepulture  are  a  part.  It  bars  no  Mason  from  attending  the 
funeral  of  a  brother  who  is  not  biu-ied  with  our  services.  On  the  contrary, 
unless  the  teachings  of  Masonry  have  been  lost  on  its  members,  they  ought 
to  be  more  ready  than  others  to  honor  the  memory  of  one  of  their  number 
by  their  individual  presence  at  his  funeral,  and  especially  in  a  case  of  this 
kind  where  it  is  known  that  the  deceased  especially  desired  their  presence, 
although  he  did  not  desire  to  be  buried  with  Masonic  rites. 

"To  you,  and  to  others  it  appears,  my  decision  that  a  rule  forbids  a  lodge 
to  appear  on  a  funeral  occasion,  except  for  the  performance  of  the  burial 
rites,  seems  to  have  been  prompted  by  the  fear  that  the  dignity  of  the  Fra- 
ternity would  suffer  if  the  lodge  was  not  accorded  the  'first  place,'  and  the 
rule  itself  to  be  rooted  in  the  phariseeism  which  says,  'Stand  aside,  I  am  holier 
than  thou !' 

"Of  this  it  is  sufficient  to  say  that  the  rule  is  older  than  any  of  the  organ- 
izations of  an  imitative  character  that  have  adopted  forms  of  burial  service  of 
their  own;  and  it  is  difficult  to  see  how  an  assumption  of  superiority  over 
the  poor  publican  of  the  comparison  could  be  imputed  to  the  pharisee  at  a 
time  when  the  poor  publican  did  not  exist. 

"You  say:  'We  have  buried  a  number  of  brethren,  at  which  times  the 
other  societies  have  joined  with  us  with  a  fraternal  feeling;  but  when  the 
case  was  different  we  could  not  reciprocate.    Their  charity  is  beyond  ours.' 

"Herein,  I  imagine,  although  not  upon  its  surface,  lies  the  key  to  the  bad 
impression  which  you  say  the  matter  has  created  against  Masonry  in  your 
neighborhood.     If  you  will  analyse   the  impression,   1  think  you   will  find 


PROCEEDINGS    OF     THE  [Oct,     I, 


the  complaint  to  be  not  so  much  that  Masonry  was  disinclined  to  do  honor 
to  the  memory  of  the  deceased,  as  that  it  failed  to  do  honor  to  some  other 
society.  In  the  cases  that  have  come  under  my  own  observation,  the  real 
grievance  has  seemed  to  be  that  Masonry  would  not  assimilate  its  practice  to 
that  of  those  modern  growths  which,  unlike  it,  have  received  from  the  far 
past  no  legacv  of  unchangeable  law.  For  myself,  I  do  not  regret  that  its  laws 
are  not  elastic  enough  to  permit  it  to  become — or  seem  to  become — a  compe- 
titor with  other  societies  for  public  eclat.  I  would  have  it  maintain  its 
ancient  rule  of  modest  propriety  which  forbids  it  to  thrust  itself  before  the 
IHiblic  in  its  organized  capacity,  unless  there  is  Masonic  work  to  be  done, 
and  then  onlv  when  solicited  to  do  so  by  those  who  have  a  right  to  ask  it. 

"There  may  be  instances,  like  that  which  gave  rise  to  this  correspondence, 
when  our  feelings  lead  us  to  wish  that  the  law  was  more  elastic,  just  as  we  do 
when  the  inflexible  rule  requiring  physical  fitness  excludes  some  dear  friend 
whom  we  feel  to  be  otherwise  so  well  qualified  for  the  Institution;  but  when 
we  let  our  judgment  rather  than  our  feelings  ha^■e  sway,  I  think  we  shall  con- 
clude that  in  this,  as  in  other  things,  it  is  not  wise  to  break  a  salutary  general 
rule  to  meet  individual  cases  where  for  the  moment  its  maintenance  seems  to 
us  to  work  a  hardship. 

"  So  long  as  it  is  maintained  inflexibly  and  impartiallv  no  personal  ani- 
mus can  be  imputed  to  those  on  whom  falls  the  duty  of  enforcing  it,  but 
every  one  will  understand  that  it  is  the  law,  and  not  the  individual  or  the 
lodge,  that  decides  the  question." 

In  one  instance  I  was  applied  to  for  a  dispensation  to  authorize  a  new 
ballot  on  a  rejected  petition,  on  the  ground  that  the  voting  was  participated 
in  by  a  brother  so  unsound  of  mind  as  probably  to  be  incapable  of  discrimin- 
ating between  an  affirmative  and  a  negative  ballot,  and  it  was  therefore 
feared  that  the  voting  did  not  reflect  the  sense  of  the  lodge,  which  is  the 
essence  of  a  real  ballot. 

While  the  facts  set  forth  in  the  petition,  as  well  as  those  set  forth  in  pre- 
vious correspondence  relative  to  the  alleged  insane  brother,  afforded  strong 
presumptive  evidence  that  the  ballot  might  not  have  reflected  the  sense  of  the 
lodge,  it  was  held  that  this  would  not  warrant  the  Grand  Master  in  setting 
aside  a  ballot  properly  had  under  the  forms  of  law,  participated  in  by  those 
only  who  had  a  right  to  vote.  The  brother  referred  to  being  present,  what- 
ever might  be  his  mental  condition,  could  not  be  deprived  of  his  right  to  vote 
on  the  admission  of  a  candidate,  such  right  inhering  to  every  member  by  the 
landmark  which  is  expressly  declared  to  be  "not  subject  to  dispensation." 
This  landmark  is  explicitly  recognized  in  the  By  Laws  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
(Sec.  7,  Art.  14,  part  2\  which  provide  that  a  ballot,  when  properly  taken, 
must  stand  save  in  case  of  an  avowed  mistake,  and  that  the  declaration  there- 
of shall  not  be  set  aside  by  the  Grand  Master.  Had  I  recognized  the  right  of 
the  Grand  Master  to  set  aside  the  ballot  under  the  circumstances,  which  I  did 
not,  I  should  still  have  been  unwilling  to  exercise  it,  deeming  it  unsafe 
to  establish  a  precedent  based  on  the  vanishing  line  between  soundness  and 
unsoundness  of  mind,  whereby,  in  some  future  case,  an  unscrupulous  major- 
ity might  find  it  in  their  power  to  nullify  the  franchise  of  a  brother  wholly 
competent  to  exercise  it. 


1878.] 


GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


21 


In  the  case  of  this  brother  mv  ;idvice  had  previously  been  sought  as  to 
what  action  the  lodge  could  take  for  its  own  protection  in  the  event  that  his 
insanity  made  it  unsafe  longer  to  permit  his  participation  in  its  meetings,  and 
had  replieti  that  there  was  no  law  applicable  to  such  a  case  but  the  law  of 
necessity;  that,  of  course,  mere  mental  disease  was  not  an  offense,  but  on  the 
contrary  a  misfortune  so  terrible  as  to  call  for  our  deepest  commiseration  ; 
yet,  if  it  took  such  a  form  as  to  render  the  subject  of  it  insensible  to  his 
responsibilities  as  a  Mason,  the  instinct  of  self-preservation  would  demand 
his  exclusion;  and  if,  in  the  deliberate  judgment  of  the  lodge,  it  was  unsafe 
for  him  to  be  present,  the  Master,  in  the  exercise  of  that  arbitrary  power 
which,  while  it  is  to  be  exercised  at  his  peril  is  nevertheless  his,  should 
assume  the  responsibility  of  excluding  him,  and  trust  to  superior  authority  to 
sustain  him  in  such  action. 

NEW    L(iDGES. 

I  have  granteil  three  dispensations  for  new  lodges,  viz: 


DATE. 

{            LODGE. 

LOCATION. 

COUNTY. 

Grundy 

Cook 

Wayne 

OFFICERS. 

Dec.  17  .. 
Jan.  3  ... 

July  IS  .. 

. .  Verona   

1 
. .  Mystic  Star 

.  Hickory  Hill.. 

r  Wni.  H.  Sindel.. 

<  Nathan  Small. 
( Alpha  Baker. 

(  John  \V.  May. 

<  Geo.  Marchbank. 

(  Alphonzo  L.  Cory. 

t  Syria  J.  Branson. 

<  Asa  F.  Atteberry. 

I  Nathan  M.  Williams. 

R.  I.  Car  Shops 
Hickory  Hill  .. 

Dispensation  and  charter  fees  received  $200  00. 

In  several  instames  where  it  has  come  to  my  knowledge  that  movements 
were  on  foot  to  petition  for  new  lodges,  I  have  checked  them  by  warning  the 
brethren  of  the  futility  of  petitioning  unless  they  could  meet  all  the  condi- 
tions imposed  by  the  Constitution  and  By-Laws  relative  to  the  formation  of 
additional  lodges.  The  insurmountable  obstacle  has  generally  proved  to  be 
the  ten  mile  restriction. 


CHANGE    Ol'    LOCATIO.V. 

All  the  conditions  of  the  law  having  been  complied  with,  on  the  i6th  and 
23d  of  April,  respectively,  Brooklyn  Lodge  No.  2S2  and  Farmers'  Lodge 
No.  232  were  permitted  to  change  their  locations:  the  former  from  Malugin's 
Grove,  in  the  township  of  Brooklyn,  Lee  Co.,  to  the  village  of  Compton,  in 
the  same  township;  the  latter  from  Pellonia,  Massac  county,  to  near  Secesh 
School  House,  in  the  same  county. 


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CONSOLIDATION. 

Middleton  Lodge  No.  370  and  Belle  Rive  Lodge  No.  696  have  consoli- 
dated as  Belle  Rive  Lodge  No.  696,  with  its  location  at  Belle  Rive,  Jefferson 
county.  The  new  lodge  was  constituted  May  ist,  1S7S,  by  my  special 
deputy,  W.  Bro.  Charles  S.  Todd,  who  reports  that  the  consolidation  will  be 
for  the  best  interests  of  Masonry  in  that  neighborhood. 

DORMANT    LODGES CHARTERS    ARRESTED. 

Manteno  Lodge  No.  507  having  become  dormant,  and  failing  to  show 
cause,  as  required,  why  its  charter  should  not  be  arrested,  on  the  14th  of 
March,  1S78,  I  issued  an  order  of  arrest,  and  directed  R.  W.  Bro.  IIaswell  C. 
Clarke,  District  Deputy  Grand  Master  of  the  i6th  District,  to  take  charge  of 
the  effects  of  the  lodge,  which  duty  has  been  performed. 

Grand  Detour  Lodge  No.  338  has  long  been  practically  dormant.  During 
my  first  term  of  office  I  required  the  lodge  to  show  cause  why  its  charter 
should  not  be  suspended.  At  that  time  the  District  Deputy  of  the  7th  Dis- 
trict, R.  W.  Bro.  J.  V.  Thomas,  reported  that  the  resident  members  were 
making  strenuous  efforts  to  make  up  the  arrearages  of  the  lodge  for  Grand 
Lodge  dues  and  resume  labor,  and  with  strong  hopes  of  success.  Further 
time  was  accordingly  given  and  afterwards  extended,  but  the  resident  mem- 
bership had  become  so  much  reduced  that  resumption  of  labor  was  found  to 
be  impracticable;  and  the  District  Deputy  Grand  Master  now  reports  that, 
in  the  exercise  of  the  discretionary  power  conferred  on  him  by  me,  he  has 
arrested  the  charter  and  taken  charge  of  the  property  of  the  lodge. 

I  recommend  that  these  charters  be  vacated,  and  the  lodges  erased  from 
the  register. 

Complaint  having  been  made  that  Fayette  Lodge,  No.  107,  was  in  a  dor- 
mant condition,  on  the  2Sth  of  January,  1S78,  I  required  the  lodge  to  show 
cause  why  its  charter  should  not  be  suspended.  The  response  disclosed  a 
history  common  to  many  lodges,  I  fear,  in  this  jurisdiction — an  ill-advised 
building  enterprise  embarked  in  during  a  period  of  fictitious  prosperity,  en- 
tailing a  burden  of  debt  which  in  the  time  of  financial  depression  following, 
weighed  like  an  incubus  on  the  lodge,  resulting  in  the  dimission  of  many 
members,  ill-feeling,  discouragement  and  apathy,  until  it  finally  became  im- 
possible to  secure  a  constitutional  quorum  for  its  meetings. 

I  was  informed  by  the  Master  that,  in  consequence  of  my  order,  the  breth- 
ren had  taken  hold  with  renewed  zeal,  sacrificed  the  building  to  save  the 
lodge,  rented  a  hall  within  their  means,  and  evinced  such  a  disposition  as  to 
promise  a  successful  future  for  Fayette  Lodge.  Bidding  them  God  speed  in 
their  efforts,  I  took  no  further  step  in  the  proceedings  instituted.  Having 
heard  no  further  complaint  from  neighboring  lodges,  I  am  led  to  hope  that 
the  labors  of  the  lodge  have  been  successfully  resumed. 

On  the  1st  of  April,  1878,  complaint  having  been  made  that  the  hall  occu- 
pied by  Mosaic   Lodge,  No.  628,   was  so  much  exposed  as  to  be  unsafe  and 


187S.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  23 


unfit  for  Masonic  purposes,  and  that  the  affairs  of  the  lodge  were  generally 
in  an  unsatisfactory  condition,  I  suspended  the  labors  of  the  lodge  pending 
an  investigation. 

W.  Bro.  S.  W.  Waddle,  as  my  special  deputy,  visited  the  lodge,  when  the 
correctness  of  the  allegations  respecting  the  insecurity  of  the  hall  was  con- 
firmed. The  history  of  the  troubles  within  tlie  lodge  was  much  the  same  as 
in  the  case  of  Fayette  Lodge.  Under  the  advice  of  W.  Bro.  Waddle,  an 
effort  was  made  for  such  a  transfer  of  the  property  as  would  release  the  lodge 
from  its  burden  of  debt,  and  thus  restore  harmony;  but  the  Master  of  No. 
62S,  W.'  Bro.  Daniel  Gonder,  writes  me  under  date  of  Sept.  16,  that  the 
efforts  of  the  brethren  to  extricate  themselves  from  their  financial  troubles 
have  failed,  and  that  they  are  willing  to  surrender  their  charter.  As  a  more 
expeditious  method  of  attaining  the  end  desired — the  closing  up  of  the 
lodge — -I  have  notified  the  Master  that  I  should  recommend  that  the  charter 
be  revoked  at  this  session  of  the  Grand  Lodge. 

WORK    and    instruction. 

Judging  from  my  own  observations,  and  from  the  evidence  afforded  by 
the  reports  of  the  District  Deputies,  the  continued  depression  of  business  has 
had  its  legitimate  effect,  and  the  year  now  closing  will  prove  not  to  have  been 
one  of  general  activity  among  the  lodges.  In  addition  to  the  causes  of 
comparative  inactivity  which  lie  so  near  the  surface  as  to  be  recognized  at 
once  by  the  most  superficial  observer,  it  should  be  remembered  that  the 
measure  of  normal  growth  in  a  lodge  is  not  to  be  found  in  the  amount  of 
work  and  rate  of  increase  which  marked  the  decade  previous  to  the  one  now 
passing.  After  the  turmoil,  the  excitement,  the  ceaseless  activity  of  that 
eventful  period  must  come  a  period  of  reaction,  for  the  demand  for  rest  was 
imperative.  During  such  periods  men  are,  relatively  speaking,  disinclined  to 
move  unless  compelled  to;  and  this  inertia  affects  all  organized  and  asso- 
ciated life.  Time  is  required  to  reach  the  point — somewhere  between  these 
two  extremes — where  normal  activity  reigns.  For  this  all  institutions  must 
wait,  and  none  can  better  afford  to  wait  than  Masonry. 

I  infer  an  increased  interest  in  the  matter  of  ritualistic  instruction  from 
the  increase  of  applications  for  commissions  to  lecture,  over  the  previous 
year  when  only  two  were  appointed. 

I  have  commissioned  Assistant  Grand  Lecturers  as  follows: 

John  F.  Burrill Springfield. 

Samuel  Rawson Troy. 

Wm.  B.  Grimes Pittsfield. 

R.  D.  Kirkpatrick Frankfort. 

Thos.  L.  Magee Prairie  City. 

Benj.  R.  Baughen .....  Cairo. 

My  correspondence  indicates  a  more  or  less  wide-spread  misapprehension 
as  to  the  effect  of  Sec.  i,  Art.  32,  Part  Second  of  the  Grand  Lodge  By-Laws, 


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which  provides  that  no  brother  shall  act  as  a  Grand  or  Deputy  Grand  Lec- 
turer without  a  commission  from  the  Grand  Master,  nor  unless  he  be  a 
present  or  actual  Past  Master.  I  have  advised  all  inquirers  that  to  act  as 
lecturer  in  the  sense  here  referred  to  means  the  holding  of  schools  of  instruc- 
tion, or  lecturing  lodges,  but  has  no  reference  to  instruction  to  individuals. 
The  right  of  every  Mason,  whether  Master  of  a  lodge  or  not,  to  impart  to  any 
other  brother  standing  on  the  same  degree,  all  that  he  knows  about  Masonry 
— be  it  its  history,  ritual,  work,  or  law — is  an  absolute  one,  not  subject  to 
abridgment  either  by  legislation  or  edict.  So  long  as  the  Masonic  character 
remains  intact,  the  right  to  converse  Masonically  with  any  lawful  Mason  in 
good  standing  is  inseparable  from  it. 

VISITATIONS. 

Of  the  many  invitations  of  a  complimentary  character  to  pay  official 
visits  to  lodges,  received  bv  me  during  the  year,  I  ha\e  been  able  to  accept 
only  those  of  the  fi\e  lodges  in  my  own  city,  the  officers  of  each  of  which  I 
installed.  In  Bodley  Lodge  No.  i,  the  ceremonies  took  place  in  the  pres- 
ence of  a  large  number  of  ladies  and  invited  guests  from  other  lodges,  and 
like  the  installation  in  Quincy  Lodge,  No.  296,  were  followetl  by  an  elegant 
banquet. 

On  the  25th  of  April,  1S7S,  I  visited  Kcndrick  Lodge,  No.  430,  and  at  the 
request  of  the  Master  presided  at  a  trial  held  therein. 

At  the  earnest  request  of  the  Master  of  Scott  Lodge,  No  79,  I  visited  that 
lodge  on  the  ist  da}'  of  July,  1878,  and  assisted  in  the  burial  of  its  former 
Master,  W.  Bro.  Sydney  Breese.  The  last  rites  of  Masonry  were  given  to 
the  dead  in  the  presence  of  the  Governor,  the  members  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Illinois,  and  a  large  gathering  of  representati\e  men  from  all  por- 
tions of  the  State. 

DEDICATIONS. 

On  the  13th  of  November,  1877,  l^-  ^^-  '^'"o-  Haswell  C  Clakke,  as  my 
proxv,  publicly  dedicated  the  new  and  elegant  apartments  of  Kankakee 
Lodge,  No.  389,  at  Kankakee.  The  manner  in  which  the  ceremonies  were 
performed  elicited  general  commendation,  and  it  was  universally  conceded 
that  the  new  apartments  were  in  the  highest  degree  creditable  to  the  enter- 
prise and  taste  of  the  Craftsmen  of  that  beautiful  city 

On  the  6th  of  December,  1877,  R.  W.  Bro.  Daniel  J.  Avery,  as  my 
proxy,  dedicated  the  new  hall  of  Pleiades  Lodge,  No.  47S,  Chicago,  in  the 
presence  of  the  members  of  the  lodge  and  a  large  and  appreciative  congre- 
gation of  their  relatives  and  friends.  An  oration  was  delivered  by  Bro.  NoR- 
MEN  T.  Gassette.  The  new  hall  is  reported  as  very  handsome,  and  its  ap- 
pointments, ante-rooms  and  parlors  so  perfect  as  to  meet  the  entire  approval 
of  the  many  veteran  Masons  present. 


[878.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  2^ 


The  Occasional  Grand  Lodge  was  tendered  and  accepted  an  escort  by 
Chicago  Conimandery,  No.  ig,  Knights  Templar,  for  which  suitable  acknowl- 
edgments were  made. 

On  the  27th  of  December,  1877,  M.  W.  Henry  W.  Rothkrt,  Past  Grand 
Master  of  Iowa,  as  my  proxy,  publicly  dedicated  the  new  hall  of  Reclamation 
Lodge,  No.  54,  at  Nauvoo.  The  press  accounts  of  the  ceremonies  were 
highly  flattering  to  the  distinguished  brother  who  performed  them,  while  his 
report  is  equally  commendatory  of  the  energy,  perseverance,  and  social  qual- 
ities of  the  Craftsmen  of  that  city. 

I  desire  thus  publicly  to  repeat  my  acknowledgments  for  the  honor  con- 
ferred on  me  by  M.  W.  Bro.  Rothert,  in  consenting  to  represent  me  on  that 
occasion. 

On  the  23d  of  February,  1S7S,  my  attention  was  attracted  to  a  special 
telegram  from  Mt.  Morris,  appearing  in  a  Chicago  daily  paper,  giving  the 
details  of  the  dedication,  on  the  21st  of  that  month,  of  the  new  hall  of 
Samuel  H.  Davis  Lodge,  No.  96,  at  that  place,  by  a  brother  prominent  in  civil 
life,  from  a  neighboring  city.  As  the  dedication  had  not  been  authorized  by 
me,  I  immediately  made  inquiries  of  the  brother  who  had  assumed  the  purple, 
and  in  due  time  received  his  answer  through  the  Master  of  the  lodge,  who 
had  invited  him  to  perform  the  ceremonies.  The  correspondence  satisfied 
me  that  both  were  ignorant  of  the  fact  that  such  work  is  the  prerogative  of 
the  Grand  NLister  alone,  and  can  only  be  performed  by  him  or  by  his  deputy 
specially  authorized  by  him.  There  would  be  more  excuse  for  ignorance  of 
this  fact  if  the  Craft  could  learn  it  by  tradition  only,  but  it  is  explicitly  recog- 
nized in  the  constitution,  which  is  in  the  possession  of  every  lodge,  and  with 
which  every  Master  at  least  should  be  familiar. 

I  was  satisfied  that  the  brother  who  officiated  as  the  dedicating  officer 
without  authority  was  sufticiently  punished  for  his  error  by  the  mortification 
which  its  discovery  brought  with  it. 

The  Master  of  the  lodge  was  censured  for  his  ignorance  of  the  law,  and  he 
was  required  to  place  the  letter  containing  the  censure,  and  a  declaration 
that  the  assumed  dedication  was  irregular,  unlawful  and  void,  upon  the 
record. 

Subsequently,  upon  petition,  I  issued  my  dispensation  healing  the 
irregularity. 

On  the  7th  of  September,  187S,  I  dedicated  the  new  hall  of  Marcelline 
Lodge,  No.  114,  at  Marcelline.  The  hall  is  commodious  and  comfortable, 
and  fitted  in  a  manner  to  reflect  credit  on  the  brethren  who  conceived  and 
carried  to  a  successful  termination  an  enterprise  requiring  faith  as  well  as 
energy  and  perseverance. 

CORNER-STONES. 

On  the  iSth  of  April,  1878,  on  the  invitation  of  the  Board  of  Supervisors 
of  the  county,  M.  W.  Bro.  Dewitt  C.  Cregier,  as  my  representative,  laid 


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the  corner-stone  of  the  Lake  county  Court  House,  at  Waukegan,  in  the  pres- 
ence of  a  hirge  concourse  of  people. 

On  the  iSth  of  May,  on  the  invitation  of  the  Governor  of  Illinois,  the 
Commander-in-Chief  of  the  militia  of  the  State,  the  same  brother,  as  my 
proxy,  laid  the  corner-stone  of  the  new  Armory  building  of  the  First  Regi- 
ment Illinois  National  Guard,  in  Cliicago. 

On  both  occasions  the  Craft  of  the  vicinity  had  very  generally  responded 
to  the  invitation  of  the  Grand  Master  to  assist  by  their  presence,  and  at 
Waukegan  constituted  a  marked  feature  of  the  procession.  At  Chicago, 
where  the  ceremonies  were  performed  in  the  midst  of  a  drenching  rain,  it 
was  thought  expedient  at  last  to  limit  the  Masonic  portion  of  the  procession 
to  the  brethren  composing  the  Occasional  Grand  I^odge. 

Apart  from  being  charged  with  the  performance  of  the  ceremonies  in 
these  cases,  M.  W.  Bro.  Cregier  was  authorized  by  the  Grand  Master  to 
represent  him  in  the  conference  as  to  the  propriety  ef  accepting  the  invita- 
tion of  the  authorities  to  do  the  work.  The  period  intervening  between  the 
time  when  in  each  case  the  matter  was  first  brought  to  the  attention  of  the 
Grand  Master  and  the  proposed  date  of  the  ceremony,  was  too  short  to  per- 
mit the  settlement  of  the  question  of  propriety  and  authority  by  correspond- 
ence, and  it  was  therefore  necessary  that  the  Grand  Master  should  have  a 
representative  on  the  ground.  The  delicate  duties  entrusted  to  my  proxy 
were  discharged  in  a  manner  to  command  my  entire  approval,  and  to  reflect 
very  precisely  my  own  views.  In  determining  whether  an  invitation  of  this 
kind  may  be  accepted,  reference  must  be  had  to  two  principal  points:  First, 
whether  the  building  or  structure  wliose  corner-stone  is  to  be  laid  is  of  a  pub- 
lic character;  and,  seco?id,  whether  the  authority  which  extends  the  invita- 
tion is  ample  and  unquestioned.  Unless  both  these  points  can  be  affirmativelj' 
determined  beyond  cavil.  Masonry  cannot  afford,  in  the  presence  of  opponents 
watchful  for  a  pretext  to  condemn  it,  to  come  before  the  public.  It  is  far 
better  that  it  bo  accused  of  punctiliousness,  than  that  it  should  compromise 
its  dignity  by  assuming  a  position  to  which  its  title  is  not  clear  beyond  the 
the  possibility  of  denial. 

On  the  24th  of  September,  187S,  R.  W.  Bro.  D.  A.  Cashman,  as  m\' 
proxy,  on  the  invitation  of  the  Mayor  and  Council  of  Sandwich,  laid  the 
corner-stone  of  the  new  City  Hall  in  the  process  of  erection  in  that  city. 

The  ceremonies,  which  took  place  in  the  presence  of  a  large  concourse  of 
people,  were  performed  with  the  grace  and  dignity  which  always  character- 
izes the  work  of  the  Occasional  Grand  Master  who  represented  me ;  and  the 
whole  affair  is  spoken  of  by  the  local  reporters  as  an  event  long  to  be 
remembered. 

IRREGULAR    WORK    AND    BUSINESS. 
GIRARD    LODGE. 

Being  officially  informed  that  Girard  Lodge,  No.  171,  assumed  to  hold  its 
stated  meeting,  which,  by  the  requirements  of  its  By-Laws,  should  have  been 


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held  on  Monday,  October  23,  1877,  or  the  preceding  Monday,  the  15th  of 
that  month;  and  that  at  the  meeting  so  assumed  to  be  held  on  the  15th  of 
October,  the  regular  routine  of  business  proper  at  a  stated  meeting  was  gone 
through  with,  including  the  reading  and  approval  of  the  minutes,  the  hearing 
of  the  reports  of  committees,  the  allowing  of  bills,  and  the  balloting  for  and 
election  of  a  candidate  for  the  degrees;  and,  further,  that  the  candidate  so 
elected  was  then  and  there  subjected  to  the  forms  of  initiation,  I  declared 
these  proceedings  void,  as  having  been  had  without  any  warrant  of  law;  and 
that  the  candidate  who  was  invested  with  the  secrets  of  the  degree  of  Entered 
Apprentice  was  not  a  lawful  Mason,  he  not  having  been  made  in  a  lawful 
lodge,  lawfully  held.     I  therefore  required  that  he  should  be  formally  healed. 

METEOR    LODGE. 

At  the  time  fixed  for  the  installation  of  tlie  officers  elect  of  Meteor  Lodge 
No.  283,  the  Master  elect  declined  to  qualify.  The  installing  officer  pro- 
ceeded to  install  the  other  officers.  Under  decision  24,  proceedings  of  1877, 
which  is  based  on  the  principle  that  it  is  the  prerogative  of  the  Master  to 
install  his  subordinates,  the  installation  was  set  aside. 

HOME    LODGE. 

In  proceedings  in  the  nature  of  a  ballot,  in  Home  Lodge,  No.  50S,  had 
June  21,  1878,  it  having  been  shown  that  the  ballot-box  was  not  clean  when 
the  voting  began,  I  declared  that  there  had  been  no  ballot  in  the  case,  and 
that  the  lodge  was  at  liberty  to  complete  the  proceedings  required  by  law  on 
the  petition  of  a  candidate;  but  required  that  before  a  ballot  was  taken 
thereon,  notice  should  be  given  to  all  the  members  who  were  present  at  the 
meeting  of  June  21,  1878. 

CLIFTON    L0D(;E. 

In  Clifton  Lodge,  No.  688,  on  the  16th  of  April,  1878,  a  dimit  was  granted 
to  Bro.  G.  B.  Heath.  The  record  showed  that  at  the  time  the  dimit  was 
granted,  charges  of  unmasonic  conduct  were  pending  against  the  brother, 
which  were  afterwards  dismissed.  The  error  was  probably  an  innocent  one, 
so  far  as  intention  was  concerned — a  mistake  in  method  of  arriving  at  a  de- 
sired result.  The  proceeding  was,  however,  held  to  be  void  in  law,  and  was 
set  aside. 

UNLAWFUL    suspensions. 

The  present  provision  of  our  law  for  the  discipline  of  delinquents  for 
lodge  dues  has  now  stood  four  years  upon  our  statute  book,  a  period  long 
enough  to  enable  us  to  judge  in  some  measure  of  its  general  tendency  and  of 
its  practical  workings. 

This  law  declares  that  a  certain  prescribed  form  of  proceedings,  much 
more  summary  in  their  character  than  are  properly  conceded  to  those  charged 


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with  the  grossest  of  Masonic  offenses,  shall  be  deemed  due  notice  and  fair  trial 
for  the  comparatively  venial  offense  of  non-payment  of  dues.  Having  been 
compelled  to  observe  closely  its  operation  for  more  than  two  years,  I  do  not 
hesitate  to  say  that  in  its  thinly  disguised  departure  from  the  principles  of  an 
enlightened  jurisprudence,  in  providing  for  what  may  fairly  be  called  con- 
structive trials,  the  example  of  the  Grand  Lodge  has  had  a  pernicious  effect 
upon  the  lodges. 

Its  abandonment  of  some  of  the  forms  of  law  which  long  experience  has 
shown  to  be  essential  to  the  security  of  individual  rights,  seems  to  have  been 
interpreted  by  the  lodges  as  a  license  to  still  further  simplify  the  process  of 
excision,  and  to  warrant  them  in  sweeping  away  all  rights  without  even  that 
form  of  trial  which  the  Grand  Lodge,  in  deference  to  the  axiom  that  no 
brother  can  be  deprived  of  his  rights  without  due  process  of  law,  had  still 
retained. 

That  this  is  not  over-stated  will  appear  from  the  fact  that  in  no  single 
case  of  this  class  in  which  during  the  year  now  closed  executive  interference 
has  been  invoked,  has  the  record  shown  the  proceedings  to  have  been  in  con- 
formity to  the  law.  I  see  no  reason  to  doubt,  that  of  the  large  number  of 
suspensions  for  non-payment  of  dues,  by  far  the  greater  portion  have  been 
unlawful. 

The  following  is  a  record  of  the  cases  in  whicii  1  have  been  called  upon  to 
interfere : 

LINCOLN    PARK    LODGE. 

On  June  i,  1877,  in  Lincoln  Park  Lodge,  No.  611,  three  brethren  were 
suspended  for  non-payment  of  dues,  without  such  notice  as  the  law  requires, 
and  without  the  semblance  of  a  trial.  Tiie  proceedings  were  set  aside 
November  3,  1S77. 

LOGAN    LODGE. 

Logan  Lodge,  No.  480,  on  the  nth  of  September,  for  non-payment  of 
dues  suspended  eleven  brethren,  a  portion  if  not  all  of  whom  were  among 
those  whose  unlawful  suspension  by  the  same  lodge,  on  the  15th  of  May, 
1877,  I  reported  last  year  as  having  been  set  aside.  The  defective  points  in 
the  proceedings  terminating  on  the  nth  of  September,  were  fully  covered 
in  my  letter  to  the  Master  of  the  lodge  on  the  occasion  of  setting  aside  the 
previous  suspensions,  which  letter  was  published  on  pagp  31,  Pro.  1877. 
Yet,  with  this  letter  in  the  archives  of  the  lodge,  the  former  error  was 
repeated. 

Four  of  the  brethren  suspended  on  the  nth  of  September  resided  within 
the  city  of  Lincoln,  where  the  lodge  is  located,  and  personal  service  of  citation 
for  trial  was  therefore  "possible"  within  the  meaning  of  the  law.  This  they 
did  not  receive — -all  the  citations  having  been  sent  by  mail— and  were  not, 
therefore,  properly  cited  for  trial.     The  other  delinquents,  living  beyond  the 


1878.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  29 


limits  of  the  county  of  Logan,  could  be  properly  notified  by  mail,  but,  as  no 
stated  meeting  invervened  between  the  time  of  mailing  their  citations  for 
trial  and  the  meeting  at  which  they  were  suspended,  they  were  not  lawfully 
on  trial  at  that  meeting.     Accordingly  the  proceedings  were  set  aside. 

LACON    LODGE. 

Lacon  Lodge,  No.  61,  on  the  9th  of  April,  1S77,  suspended  a  brother 
for  non-payment  of  dues,  without  trial,  and  without  his  having  been  cited 
to  appear  therefor.  He  had  been  notified  to  pay  his  arrearages  by  a  certain 
time,  as  required  by  law,  but  the  second  notice,  or  citation  to  appear  for 
trial,  was  never  given.  Shortly  after  the  death  of  the  brother,  which 
occurred  in  the  following  November,  my  attention  was  called  to  the  case, 
and  the  above  facts  were  ofticially  developed.  Although  the  brother  could 
no  longer  be  affected  by  an^'  human  action,  it  was  not  too  late  to  per- 
form an  act  of  justice  due  alike  to  his  memory  and  his  surviving  relations 
having,  perhaps,  a  material  interest  in  his  status  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
The  act  of  assumed  suspension  was  accordingly  declared  to  have  been  unlaw- 
ful and  void. 

MONMOUTH     LODGE. 

Monmouth  Lodge,  No.  37,  on  the  6th  day  of  November,  1S77,  suspended 
three  brethren  for  non-payment  of  dues.  The  proceedings  were  set  aside  for 
the  double  reason  that  they  were  neither  properly  cited  for  trial  nor  sepa- 
rately tried.  Neither  of  them  received  personal  notice  of  the  time  of  trial, 
though  all  lived  within  the  limits  where  such  notice  was  imperative,  and  all 
were  finally  suspended  on  a  single  vote. 

MALTA    LODGE. 

Malta  Lodge,  No.  320,  for  non-payment  of  dues,  suspended  two  brethren, 
February  7,  1S78.  The  proceedings  were  initiated  January  3,  1S78,  when  the 
Secretary  was  directed  to  notify  the  delinquents  to  pay  or  satisfactorily 
explain  by  the  next  stated  meeting,  on  pain  of  suspension.  At  the  next  stated 
ineeting  (February  7)  the  two  brethren — one  living  in  Canada  and  the  other 
in  Iowa — were  suspended  without  ceremony.  There  was  no  trial,  and  no 
citation  therefor,  as  required,  and  after  the  issue  of  which  one  stated  meeting 
must  have  intervened  before  action  in  pursuance  thereof  could  have  been 
had.     Of  course  the  proceedings  were  set  aside. 

CIRCLE    LODGE. 

Circle  Lodge,  No.  707,  suspended  five  brethren,  September  5,  1S77,  for 
non-payment  of  dues.  The  delinquents  were,  without  any  preliminary 
action,  ordered  (August  15,  1877,)  to  be  summoned  to  appear  at  the  next  stated 
meeting  and  show  cause  why  they  should  not  be  suspended  for  their  delin- 
quency; they  did  not  appear,  and  without  further  ceremony  were  suspended 
on  a  simple  motion.     The  proceedings  were  set  aside. 


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ASHMORE     LODGE. 

Ashmore  Lodge,  No.  390,  on  the  13th  of  July,  1S7S,  suspended  four 
brethren  for  non-payment  of  dues. 

The  proceedings  were  set  aside  because  the  delinquents  were  not  properly 
on  trial.  The  proceedings  had  been  based  on  the  ordinary  printed  "notice 
of  meeting,"  in  which  had  been  inserted,  after  the  words  "object  of  meeting," 
the  words  "to  pay  dues."  This  had  been  designed  to  do  duty  for  the  first 
notice  prescribed  in  Sec.  4,  Art.  8,  Part  3,  G.  L.  By-Laws.  Manifestly  it  is 
too  general  and  indefinite  to  convey  any  intimation  to  the  delinquent  that  it 
is  the  beginning  of  a  compulsory  process,  as  has  already  been  decided  by  the 
Grand  Lodge.  Had  the  first  notice  been  sufficient,  the  proceedings  would 
have  still  been  invalid  in  all  the  cases  save  one.  All  of  the  delinquents 
resided  within  the  limits  of  the  county,  yet  their  citations  to  appear  and  show 
cause  were  sent  by  mail,  except  in  one  instance,  where  it  was  personally 
served. 

AMES    LODGE. 

Ames  Lodge,  No.  14::,  on  the  ist  of  June,  187S,  suspended  a  brother  for 
non-payment  of  dues.  The  citation  to  appear  for  trial  was  sent  to  him  by 
mail,  at  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  his  last  known  place  of  residence.  No  stated 
meeting  intervened  between  the  mailing  of  the  notice  and  the  action  of  the 
lodge  suspending  him.     The  proceedings  were  accordingly  set  aside. 

All  of  the  foregoing  were  cases  arising  under  Article  8,  Part  Third,  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  Bv-Laws.  The  proceedings  under  this  article  being  of  an 
exceptional  character,  the  article  must  be  strictly  construed,  and  the  lodge 
must  complv  literally  with  its  requirements  before  it  can  acquire  the  right  to 
suspend  under  its  provisions. 

UNLAWFUL    EXPULSIONS. 
GRAFTON    LODGE. 

Grafton  Lodge,  No.  32S,  expelled  a  brotlier  on  the  23d  of  February, 
1878.  At  the  next  stated  meeting  it  was  discovered  that,  by  an  error  of 
the  Secretary,  the  accused  had   not  been  notified  of  the  time  and  place  of 

trial. 

All  the  proceedings  had  in  the  case  subsequent  to  the  reception  of  the 
charges,  were  accordingly  set  aside,  and  the  lodge  directed  to  proceed  with 
the  trial  thereon  according  to  law. 

HERMAN    LODGE. 

Herman  Lodge,  No.  39,  expelled  a  brother  on  the  12th  of  June,  187S,  for 
alleged  disobedience  of  summons  occurring  during  the  course  of  pro- 
ceedings for  non-payment  of  dues.  This  case  was  literally  a  Comedy  of 
Errors  in  which  nearly  every  step  was  fatally  defective.     The  brother,  then 


1S7S.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  3I 


living  in  Chicago,  was  twice  ordered  to  be  summoned  to  answer  for  non-pay- 
ment of  dues,  the  second  summons  being  returnable  on  May  22d,  1878. 
Failing  to  appear  at  that  time,  the  lodge  ordered  him  to  be  summoned  to 
appear  on  the  12th  of  June,  to  answer  for  disobedience  of  summons.  Fail- 
ing to  appear  on  June  12th  he  was  summarily  expelled  It  afterwards 
appeared  that  by  an  error  of  the  Secretary  the  last  citation  was  made  returna- 
ble on  June  26th,  two  weeks  after  his  expulsion.  All  the  citations  were 
robbed  of  the  character  of  summonses  by  being  sent  by  mail,  instead  of  being 
personally  served,  and  hence  neither  could  have  been  made  the  basis  of  a 
charge  for  contempt;  the  charge  of  contempt  taken  without  a  valid  basis  was 
not  proceeded  with  in  the  manner  and  form  prescribed  under  the  general  law 
for  the  trial  of  Masonic  offenses,  as  explicitly  required  by  law;  and  no  stated 
meeting  intervened  between  the  mailing  ot  the  citation  to  answer  and  the 
ineeting  at  which  he  was  summarily  expelled.  The  proceedings  were  mani- 
festly void,  and  were  so  declared. 


IRRKGUI-ARITIES  — MASTERS    AND    LODGES^DISCIPLINE. 
LOVINGTON    LODGE,    NO.    228. 

In  my  last  annual  report  reference  was  made  to  an  official  inquiry  then 
pending  on  a  complaint  of  irregularities  in  Lovington  Lodge,  No.  22S.  The 
report  of  the  District  Deputy,  made  after  a  personal  investigation,  exoner- 
ated the  Master  and  lodge  of  any  intentional  wrong  doing,  and  indicated  no 
necessity  for  further  executive  action.  The  matter  was  therefore  allowed  to 
drop. 

liLAlK    l.ODr.E,    NO.    393. 

Charges  of  unmasonic  conduct  preferred  by  Bro.  George  T.  (Graham, 
a  member  of  Blair  Lodge,  No.  393,  against  W.  Bro.  J.  M.  Tkrvvii.lagek,  the 
Master  thereof,  were  on  the  3d  of  November,  1877,  referred  to  a  commission 
consisting  of  M.  W.  Bro.  Dkwitt  C  Ckecjier  and  R.  W.  Brethren  Theoddre 
T.  Gurney  and  Gii.ukrt  W    Bvrnard. 

Otj  investigation  the  commission  found  the  accused  not  guilty,  and  on  a 
review  of  the  testimony,  I  approved  the  finding  and  directed  my  order  to  thai 
effect  to  be  entered  upon  tlie  records  of  the  lodge. 

GII.I.F.SIME     LODGE,    NO.    2I4. 

On  the  18th  of  December,  1S77,  complaint  was  made  to  me  that  a  mem- 
ber of  Gillespie  Lodge,  No.  214,  who  had  been  suspended,  had  been  declared 
reinstated  without  petition  on  his  part  or  action  on  the  part  of  the  lodge,  and 
that  on  the  i6th  of  that  month  he  had  been  elected  to  the  office  of  Master. 
Ordering  the  installation  to  be  stayed,  I  investigated  the  complaint,  and 
from  the  records  of  the  lodge,  and  an  official  statement  from  the  Master  and 
Secretary,  the  following  facts  appeared  : 


PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct. 


On  the  17th  of  August,  1877,  at  a  stated  meeting,  Bros.  Wm.  Decker, 
John  Irwin  and  A.  Woodruff  were,  on  motion,  declared  suspended  during 
non-payment  of  dues.  Without  subsequent  action  on  the  part  of  the  Iod6;e, 
upon  the  payment  of  arrearages — some  ten  da.ys  after  the  vote  of  the  lodge 
suspending  him — Bro.  Decker  was  considered  by  the  lodge,  and  by  himself, 
as  reinstated  in  all  his  rights  and  privileges,  was  thereafter  allowed  the  privi- 
leges of  the  lodge,  and  at  the  annual  election,  on  the  i6th  of  December,  was 
elected  to  the  office  of  Worshipful  Master,  qualifying,  on  the  iSth,  for  instal- 
lation by  receiving  the  degree  of  Past  Master. 

Our  law  permits  the  infliction  of  but  one  Masonic  punishment  for  the 
offense  of  non-payment  of  dues,  viz.,  indefinite  suspension.  It  points  out 
explicitly,  also,  the  manner  in  which  alone  an  indefinitely  suspended  Mason 
can  be  reinstated ;  and  to  a  statement  of  these  facts  in  a  letter  written  by  the 
Grand  Master  to  W.  Bro.  Thomas  Rose,  the  attention  of  W.  Bro.  Jacob 
QuERBACH,  the  Master  of  Gillespie  Lodge,  was  cited  by  Bro.  Rose  prior  to 
the  annual  meeting.  Yet,  after  having  had  his  attention  thus  called  to  the 
law,  and  learning  beyond  question  that  Bro.  Decker  had  not  been  rein- 
stated, the  Master  permitted  the  suspended  brother  to  be  present  in  open 
lodge,  and  to  be  declared  elected  to  the  office  of  Master. 

After  the  matter  became  the  subject  of  official  inquiry,  it  was  urged  by 
the  officers  of  Gillespie  Lodge — presumably  to  extenuate  the  offense  of  per- 
n^itting  the  enjoyment  of  Masonic  rights  to  a  suspended  Mason — that  Bro. 
Decker  was  not  legally  suspended,  and  that  the  vote  to  suspend  him  was 
taken  with  the  understanding  that  it  was  illegal.  Yet,  in  the  communication 
of  the  Master  and  Secretary  to  the  Grand  Master,  they  speak  of  the  two 
other  brethren  at  the  same  time  with  him,  and  on  the  same  motion,  as  being 
still  under  suspension. 

Our  law  is  not  of  such  elastic  quality  that  precisely  the  same  action  had 
under  it  in  two  different  cases,  may  be  valid  in  one  and  not  in  the  other, 
according  to  the  intention  of  the  lodge.  The  record  of  the  lodge  is  not  per- 
mitted to  be  made  up  with  mental  reservations  to  be  read  between  the  lines. 
It  is  to  stand  as  it  is  made,  and  as  it  reads  so  is  the  lodge  to  be  judged.  In  this 
case  the  record  showed  that  three  brethren  were  suspended  for  non-payment 
of  dues,  and  until  the  judgment  of  the  lodge  there  recorded  had  been  annulled 
by  competent  authority,  or  until  the  brethren  against  whom  the  judgment 
was  rendered  had  been  reinstated  in  the  manner  prescribed  by  law,  every 
brother  who,  being  cognizant  of  their  status,  held  Masonic  intercourse  with 
either  of  them,  was  guilty  of  an  offense  of  the  grossest  character,  one  which 
the  slightest  familiarity  with  the  unwritten  law  of  Masonry  would  enable  any 
brother  to  define. 

All  of  the  members  of  the  lodge  who  had  fellowshipped  the  suspended 
brother,  were  of  course  technicalh'  guilty,  but  it  was  not  to  be  forgotten  that 
most  of  them  had  probably  received  their  ideas  of  duty  from  the  Master, 
whose    position    pre-supposes  a  knowledge  of  what  that  duty  is ;   and  it  was 


1878.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS,  33 


therefore  thought  that  justice  might  be  more  nearly  attained  if  the  weight  of 
punishment  fell  on  him.  Accordingl}-  I  deposed  W.  Bro.  Querbach  from 
the  office  of  Master,  and  for  obvious  reasons  set  aside  the  election,  directing 
the  Senior  Warden  who  had  been  placed  in  charge  of  the  lodge,  to  apply  for 
a  dispensation  to  hold  a  new  election. 

As  the  investigation  had  developed  the  fact  that  the  suspension  of  the 
three  brethren  had  been  done  without  notice,  or  the  form  of  a  trial,  I  de- 
clared the  action  of  the  lodge  imlawful  and  void. 

D.    A.    CASHMAN    LODGE,  NO.    686. 

Charges  of  official  misconduct  on  the  part  of  W.  Bro,  Henry  G.  Thomp- 
son, Master  of  D.  A.  Cashman  Lodge,  No.  686,  filed  with  me  by  W.  Bro.  R. 
J.  Daui'hiney  and  other  members  of  said  lodge,  were,  on  the  31st  of  Decem- 
ber, 1S77,  referred  to  a  commission  consisting  of  R.  W.  Bro.  Daniel  J. 
Avery,  D.  D.  G.  M.  of  the  zd  District,  R.  W.  Bro.  Theodore  T.  Gurney 
and  M.  W.  Bro.  Devvitt  C.  Cregier.  The  commission  reported  that  no  evi- 
dence was  adduced  or  offered  to  sustain  the  charges,  and  was  unanimous  in 
finding  the  accused  not  guilty.  The  finding  was  approved  and  entered  upon 
the  records  of  the  lodge. 

HESPERIA    LODGE,    NO.    4II. 

Complaint  having  been  made  to  me  of  the  manner  in  which  the  election 
of  officers  in  Hesperia  Lodge,  No,  411,  had  been  conducted,  I  ordered  the 
installation  to  be  stayed.  This  complaint  was  followed  by  charges  of  official 
misconduct  and  unmasonic  conduct  on  the  part  of  W.  Bro.  Charles  H. 
Brenan,  the  Master  of  said  lodge,  filed  by  Bro.  Myron  F.  Tarble,  a  member 
thereof.  Both  were,  on  the  iSth  of  January,  1S7S,  referred  to  the  commission 
which  had  heard  the  case  of  Graham  vs.  Terwillager. 

After  a  patient  and  thorough  investigation  the  commission  submitted  an 
elaborate  report  reflecting  great  ability,  and  evincing  a  thorough  grasp  of  all 
the  points  involved. 

The  commission  found  that  of  the  ten  charges  on  which  the  hearing  was 
had,  the  sixth,  seventh,  so  much  of  the  fifth  as  alleged  that  the  accused 
Master  had  required  members  present  to  withhold  the  proceedings  of  the 
lodge  from  those  who  were  not  present,  and  so  much  of  the  tenth  as  alleged 
the  contracting  of  indebtedness  by  him  without  authority,  should  be  dis- 
missed; that  as  to  the  first  and  second  charges,  the  accused  was  not  guilty, 
and  as  to  the  remainder  of  the  charges,  guilty.  The  findings  of  the  commis- 
sion were  approved. 

A  careful  review  of  the  case  as  embodied  in  the  report  of  the  commission, 
showed  that  with  the  exception  of  the  fifth  the  charges  were  of  a  serious 
ctiaracter. 

Of  this  charge  the  commission  properly  found  the  accused  guilty  on  the 
evidence,  but  expressed  the  opinion  that  while  the  act  involved  was  unlawful 


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the    intention    which    prompted  it  was  commendable,   and  in  this  opinion  I 
concurred. 

Tlie  error  of  tlie  Master  in  this  matter  lay  in  his  summoning  a  limited 
number  of  members,  and  in  opening  a  lodge  thus  called.  Had  he  simply 
summoned  the  members  interested  and  such  others  as  he  desired,  to  meet  him 
informally  for  the  purpose  for  which — under  such  a  call — he  improperly 
opened  the  lodge,  viz :  the  settlement  of  a  misunderstanding  between  breth- 
ren, he  would  have  violated  no  law.  The  error  being  one  of  method  rather 
than  wrong  intention,  it  was  evident  that  in  determining  the  degree  of  pun- 
ishment to  be  inflicted  on  the  accused,  the  offense  proven  under  the  fifth 
charge  was  not  an  important  factor. 

The  other  charges  proven  were  of  a  graver  character  throughout,  some  of 
them  involving  offenses  so  serious  that  to  have  passed  lightly  over  them  would 
not  only  have  endangered  good  government  throughout  the  jurisdiction,  but 
would  have  put  in  jeopardy  the  safeguards  by  which  the  purity  of  Masonry 
and  the  most  sacred  rights  of  individual  brethren  can  alone  be  maintained. 

With  a  profound  sense  of  my  obligation  to  maintain  these,  and  keenly 
regretting  the  necessity  which  to  me  seemed  imperative,  I  concluded  that  the 
accused  should  be  removed  from  his  office,  and  that  his  Masonic  privileges 
should  for  a  time  be  held  in  abeyance.  Accordingly,  on  the  4th  of  March, 
1S7S,  I  issued  an  order  deposing  W.  Bro.  Charles  II.  Brenan  from  the 
office  of  Worshipful  Master  of  Hesperia  Lodge,  No.  411,  and  indefinitely  sus- 
pending him  from  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  Masonry;  and  inasmuch  as 
th(||pvidence  elicited  before  the  commission  implicated  the  Secretary  of  Hespe- 
ria Lodge,  Bro.  Charles  F.  Foerster,  as  accessory  to  some  of  the  unlawful 
and  unmasonic  acts  whereof  its  Master  had  been  found  guilty,  I  directed  the 
Junior  Warden  of  his  lodge  to  prepare  and  present  charges  against  him  for 
the  unmasonic  conduct  to  which  he  had  lent  his  official  aid,  concurrence  and 
approval.     This  was  done,  and  conviction  and  reprimand  followed. 

The  commission  investigated  the  complaints  respecting  the  election  of 
officers  in  Hesperia  Lodge,  and  found  that  the  proceedings  had  been  irregular, 
improper  and  unlawful.  The  proceedings  were  accordingly  annulled  and  a 
new  election  ordered. 

Under  the  new  regime  harmony  took  the  place  of  confusion,  the  return  of 
fraternal  feeling  being — as  I  afterwards  learned — -largely  promoted  by  the 
efforts  of  the  late  Master  among  those  who  had  been  his  adherents.  His 
loyal  and  manly  course  while  under  suspension,  inclined  me  in  advance  to 
look  with  favor  on  his  petition  subsequently  preferred  for  reinstatement, 
which  came  to  me  with  the  favorable  endorsement  of  all  the  members  of  the 
commission;  and  accordingly,  on  the  19th  of  April,  187S,  believing  that  the 
true  ends  of  discipline  had  been  attained,  I  issued  an  order  reinstating  W. 
Bro.  Charles  H.  Brenan  to  all  his  Masonic  rights  and  privileges,  which, 
like  the  order  of  suspension,  was  entered  upon  the  records  of  Hesperia  Lodge. 


1S7S.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  35 


DEARBORN    LODGE,    NO.    3IO. 

Complaint  of  alleged  unwarrantable  action  on  the  part  of  W.  Bro.  Wm. 
K.  Forsyth,  Master  of  Dearborn  Lodge,  No.  310,  (in  connection  with  the 
contemplated  removal  of  said  lodge  from  its  present  location),  filed  with  me 
by  W.  Bro.  John  Sutton,  a  member  and  Past  Master  thereof,  were  referred 
for  investigation  to  a  commission  consisting  of  R.W.  Bro.  Daniel  J.  Avery, 
and  W.  Bros.  E.  St.  John  and  Hiram  Barber. 

At  the  time  fixed  for  the  hearing  it  was  found  by  the  commission  that  the 
differences  on  whicli  the  complaint  was  grounded  had  been  satisfactorily 
adjusted,  and  thereupon  the  complainant,  upon  written  request  and  with  the 
assent  of  all  parties  interested,  was  permitted  to  withdraw  his  complaint,  and 
the  case  was  dismissed.     The  action  of  the  commission  was  approved. 

RAVEN    LODGK,    NO.    303. 

In  December,  1S77,  an  informal  complaint  was  lodged  with  me  by  the 
Secretary  of  Raven  Lodge,  No.  303,  alleging  irregularities  in  that  lodge,  and 
on  the  19th  of  that  month  it  was  referred  to  R.  W.  Bro.  John  Gray,  D.  D. 
G.  M.  of  the  Sth  district,  who  visited  Raven  Lodge  and  reported  that  no 
irregularities  existed  therein  requiring  executive  interference. 

RIO    LODGE,    NO.    685. 

Complaint  of  malfeasance  in  office  on  the  part  of  W.  Bro.  Robert 
Deatherage,  Master  of  Rio  Lodge,  No.  685,  filed  with  me  by  several  mem- 
bers of  said  lodge,  were,  on  the  14th  of  June,  1878,  referred  to  a  commission 
consisting  of  R.  W.  Bro.  Rowley  Page,  D.  D.  G.  M.  of  the  13th  district, 
and  W.  Brethren  Judson  Graves  and  Frank  Murdock,  for  investiga- 
tion ;  and  by  said  commission  it  was  found  that  the  preponderance  of  evidence 
tended  so  strongly  to  prove  that  W.  Bro.  Deatherage  had  been  guilty  of 
irregularities  in  his  financial  dealings  with  the  lodge,  as  to  forbid  that  it 
should  longer  remain  under  his  control.  Accordingly,  on  the  6th  of  July, 
1878,  I  issued  an  order  deposing  him  from  the  Mastership  of  Rio  Lodge;  and 
inasmuch  as  the  inxestigation  of  the  commission  had. developed  the  fact  that 
the  business  of  the  lodge  had  been  worked  by  looseness  and  irregularity  to  an 
extent  meriting  se\ere  censure,  the  officers  and  members  thereof  were  required 
to  familiarize  themselves  with  the  law  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  obey  it;  and 
were  warned  that  they  would  be  held  to  a  strict  accountability  for  the  manner 
in  which  their  duties  were  performed. 

shef.a  lodge,  no.  200. 

Charges  of  unmasonic  conduct,  preferred  by  order  of  Sheba  Lodge, 
No.  200,  against  its  Master,  W.  Bro.  James  R.  Ennis,  were,  on  the  25th  of 
July,  1S78,  by  me  referred  to  a  commission  consisting  of  R.  W.  Bro.  James 
I.  McChntock,  b.  D.  G.  M.  of  the  29th  district,  and  W.  Brethren  Thomas 
G.  Parker  and  Thomas  W.  Hay,  for  investigation. 


^6  PROCEEDINGS    OP    THE  [Oct. 


The  commission  found  that  of  the  two  charges  on  which  the  hearing  was 
had,  the  first  charge  (falsehood)  was  sustained,  as  was  also  the  first  specifica- 
tion under  said  charge,  while  the  second  specification  was  not  sustained;  and 
that-  neither  the  second  charge  (fraudulent  misrepresentations)  nor  the 
specifications  under  the  same  were  sustained. 

Agreeable  to  the  recommendation  of  the  commission,  on  the  2d  of  Septem- 
ber, 1S78,  I  deposed  W.  Bro.  James  R.  Exnis  from  the  otfice  of  Master  of 
Sheba  Lodge,  No.  200,  and  directed  my  order  to  that  effect  to  be  entered 
upon  its  records. 

ALTAMONT    LODGE,    NO.    533. 

From  the  records  of  Altamont  Lodge,  No.  533,  and  the  correspondence 
of  my  oflRce,  the  following  facts  appear : 

At  the  stated  meeting  of  Altamont  Lodge,  No.  533,  held  January  12,  1878, 
the  petition  of  Mr.  Arthur  Hower  for  the  degrees  of  Masonry  was 
received  and  referred.  At  the  stated  meeting  of  said  lodge  held  February 
16,  1878,  after  due  report  thereon,  a  ballot  was  had  on  said  petition,  wherein 
one  negative  vote  appeared.  Thereupon  the  Master  ordered  another  trial  of 
the  ballot  with  like  result,  when  the  candidate  was  declared  rejected.  W.  Bro. 
Perry  Carpenter,  the  Master  of  the  lodge,  wrote  to  the  Grand  Master  on 
the  same  evening,  asking  him  to  set  aside  this  action  and  order  a  new  ballot. 
On  the  iSth  the  Grand  Master  replied  that  he  had  no  power  to  do  this,  citing 
his  attention  to  Sec.  7,  Art.  14,  Part  Second,  G.  L.  By-laws,  wherein  it  is  pro- 
vided that  a  declaration  of  rejection  properly  made — as  it  manifestly  was  in 
this  case — "shall  not  be  set  aside  by  the  Master,  the  Lodge,  the  Grand  Mas- 
ter, or  the  Grand  Lodge,"  except  as  provided  in  the  succeeding  Article  (15), 
to  which  his  attention  was  also  directed.  At  the  succeeding  stated  meeting, 
held  March  16,  1878,  the  record  of  the  preceding  n^eeting,  at  the  order  of 
the  Master,  was  made  to  show  that  Mr.  Arthur  Hower,  was  elected — instead 
of  rejected,  as  was  really  the  case — and  was  thus  approved ;  and  Mr.  Hower 
was  thereupon  initiated  as  an  Entered  Apprentice. 

It  further  appears  that  after  the  closing  of  the  lodge  on  the  evening  of 
February  i6th,  every  inember  of  the  lodge  present  during  the  meeting,  came 
forward  and  in  violation  of  Sec.  4,  Art.  14,  Part  Second,  G.  L.  By-Laws, 
exposed  the  character  of  his  vote,  each  claiming  to  have  cast  an  affirmative 
ballot;  and  upon  these  declarations,  thus  unlawfully  made,  the  Master  predi- 
cated his  decision  that  a  mistake  must  have  occurred. 

In  his  letter  invoking  the  interposition  of  the  Grand  Master,  W.  Bro. 
Carpenter  earnestly  urged  that  the  very  existence  of  the  lodge  depended 
upon  the  setting  aside  of  the  rejection,  and  in  his  subsequent  letters  urges 
the  same  consideration  as  condoning  the  offense  involved  in  his  action. 

The  right  guaranteed  by  the  landmark  to  every  member,  of  expressing 
his  assent  or  dissent  "  in  his  own  prudent  way  "  when  a  candidate  is-^ro- 
posed,  is  an  absolute  right,  and  must  be  maintained  whether   lodges  live  or 


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die.  To  this  end  the  law  of  the  ballot  as  it  now  stands  was  enacted  by  the 
Grand  Lodge.  Unless  it  is  carried  out  to  the  very  letter  the  first  and  most 
sacred  right  of  the  individual  Mason  is  insecure.  Hence  its  infraction  or 
evasion  is  among  the  gravest  of  Masonic  offenses,  and  cannot  be  overlooked 
without  a  culpable  neglect  of  duty. 

In  this  case,  while  the  Master  is  directly  responsible  for  the  violation  of 
law,  and  from  his  position  more  blameworthy  than  his  lodge,  yet  the  latter  is 
so  largely  a  participant  in  the  wrong  doing  that  the  question  of  its  fitness  to 
continue  as  one  of  the  custodians  of  Masonry  is  one  which  it  seemed  to  me 
the  Grand  Lodge  should  answer.  In  the  exercise,  therefore,  of  the  power 
vested  in  me  by  the  constitution,  on  the  29th  of  August,  1878,  I  declared  the 
functions  of  Altamont  Lodge,  No.  533,  suspended  until  this  meeting  of  the 
Grand  Lodge,  and  required  the  lodge  to  appear  here  and  show  cause  why  its 
charter  should  not  be  revoked. 

ST.    JOHN'S    LODGE,    NO.    I3. 

Charges  of  unmasonic  conduct  on  the  part  of  W.  Bro.  John  G.  Beyer, 
Master  of  St.  John's  Lodge,  No.  13,  were  lodged  with  me  by  W.  Bro.  R.  C. 
Hattenhauer  and  Bro.  E.  F.  Metzger,  late  members  of  said  lodge,  and  on 
the  14th  of  August,  1S78,  were  referred  to  a  commission  consisting  of  W. 
Brethren  David  A.  Cook,  Robert  Hennxng  and  D.  B.  Gates.  On  investi- 
gation the  commission  found  that  at  a  stated  meeting  of  St.  John's  Lodge, 
No.  13,  held  July  iSth,  1878,  a  candidate  for  the  degrees  of  Masonry  was 
rejected,  two  negative  ballots  appearing;  that  after  the  lodge  was  closed  the 
Master  sought  to  learn  how  the  members  had  voted,  and  that  nearly  all  who 
had  participated  in  the  ballot  declared  that  they  had  cast  affirmative  votes; 
and  that  the  Master  accused  two  of  the  members  of  having  cast  the  negative 
ballots,  one  of  whom  he  denounced  as  a  liar  during  a  dispute  which  grew  out 
of  the  matter. 

A  review  of  the  evidence  taken  by  the  commission  forced  upon  me  the 
conviction  that  there  was  a  determined  effort,  participated  in  by  the  Master 
and  most  of  the  members  of  the  lodge  present,  to  discover,  by  exposing  the 
character  of  their  own  votes,  who  had  voted  against  the  candidate,  in  defi- 
ance of  the  statute  which  declares  that  if  any  member  "  shall  expose  the 
character  of  his  own  vote  before,  at  the  time  of,  or  after  casting  it,  or  shall 
attempt  to  ascertain  the  character  of  the  vote  of  any  other  member,  he  shall 
be  liable  to  Masonic  discipline  and  punishment." 

Although  in  this  case  the  complaint  was  lodged  against  the  Master,  it  was 
found  that  the  lodge  was  likewise  guiltyj  and  while  some  who  exposed  the 
character  of  their  votes  might  claim  that  they  were  encouraged  to  do  so  by 
his  course,  they  could  not  claim  to  have  done  so  under  such  duress  as  some- 
times constrains  one  for  the  time  being  to  consciously  pursue  a  wrong  course 
under  the  orders  of  his  superior  officer.  While,  therefore,  the  Master  was 
plainly  most  culpable,  because  his  position  makes  him  the  expounder  as  well 


38  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct.  I, 


as  enforcer  of  the  law,  it  did  not  appear  that  there  was  such  a  difference  in 
the  degree  of  guilt  attaching  respectively  to  him  and  to  his  lodge  to  call  for 
any  essential  difference  in  the  degree  of  punishment  to  be  inflicted.  There- 
fore, on  the  2d  of  September,  1S7S,  I  declared  the  functions  of  St.  John's 
Lodge,  No.  13,  suspended  until  such  time  as  the  Grand  Lodge  should  decide 
that  they  might  safely  and  properly  be  resumed. 

TRESPASS — MAQUON    LODGE,    NO.    53O 

On  the  4th  of  September,  1S77,  the  Grand  Secretary  referred  to  me  a  let- 
ter from  R.  W.  Bro.  Wm.  E.  Fitch,  D.  D.  G.  M.  of  the  12th  District,  New 
York,  referring  to  a  complaint  from  Van  Renssellaer  Lodge,  No.  400,  N.  Y., 
that  one  Nelson  Morrison,  of  Hoosick  Falls,  N.  Y.,  rejected  in  that  lodge 
on  the  iSth  of  January,  1S70,  had  without  its  consent  or  knowledge  been 
made  a  Mason  in  Maquon  Lodge,  No.  530,  in  this  jurisdiction. 

Maquon  Lodge,  No.  530,  being  called  upon  for  an  explanation,  furnished 
me  with  the  original  petition  of  Bro.  Morrison,  which  proved  to  be  the  form 
required  by  our  law,  and  set  forth  that  he  had  never  been  rejected  by  any 
other  lodge. 

I  therefore  directed  that  Bro.  Nelson  Morrison  be  put  on  trial  in  Ma- 
quon Lodge,  on  charge  of  obtaining  the  degrees  therein  by  misrepresentation 
and  fraud. 

Bro.  Morrison  being  at  the  time  of  his  trial  a  resident  of  Hoosick  Falls, 
Van  Renssellaer  Lodge  kindly  furnished  a  commission  to  take  his  testimony 
in  the  case,  provision  for  such  commission  being  made  in  the  regulations  of 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  York,  and  thus  became  familiar  with  the  grounds 
of  his  defense.  The  evidence  went  strongly  to  show  that  Bro.  Morrison 
had  signed  the  petition  without  being  fully  aware  of  its  contents,  and  igno- 
rant of  the  fact  that  it  contained  a  denial  of  his  rejection;  and  further,  that 
the  brother  who  prepared  the  petition  for  his  signature  in  good  faith  supposed 
that  the  statement  as  to  rejection  referred  only  to  rejection  hy  a  lodge  in 
Illinois.  The  trial  resulted  in  his  acquittal.  In  communicating  the  result  to 
the  Grand  Master  of  New  York,  with  whom  I  had  been  in  correspondence 
on  the  subject,  I  proposed  in  case  it  was  not  satisfactory,  to  order  an  appeal 
to  the  Grand  Lodge.  In  reply  he  expressed  himself  as  fully  satisiied  with  the 
result  of  the  trial,  and  with  the  spirit  in  which  their  complaint  had  been  met. 

ROCHESTER    LODGE,    NO.    635. 

On  the  1st  of  January,  1S7S,  I  received  a  communication  from  M.W.  Bro. 
Edward  A.  Stevenson,  Grand  Master  of  Masons  in  Idaho,  setting  forth 
that  one  Andrew  B.  Smith,  who  had  for  years  been  a  resident  of  Idaho 
Territory,  in  the  winter  of  1S75-6  visited  Illinois,  and  during  his  stay  of  a  few 
months  received  the  degrees  of  Masonry  in  Rochester  Lodge,  No.  635;  and 
that  on  his  return  he  had  tried  to  gain  admission  in  some  of  the  lodges  in 


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Idaho,  but  was  refused.     In  this  connection  M.  W.  Bro.  Stevenson  quoted 
from  a  by-law  of  his  Grand  Lodge,  as  follows: 

"Nor  shall  any  lodge  in  this  jurisdiction  recognize  any  citizen  of  Idaho 
Territory  who  has  been  made  a  Mason  outside  the  jurisdiction  of  this  Grand 
Lodge  during  his  citizenship,  unless  by  permission  of  the  lodge  in  whose 
jurisdiction  he  resided." 

I  informed  M.  W.  Bro.  Stevenson  that  I  should  at  once  order  an  investi- 
gation of  the  case  in  vindication  of  our  own  law,  as  well  as  our  known  position 
based  on  the  broadest  recognition  of  the  doctrine  of  exclusive  territorial 
jurisdiction  and  of  the  comity  which  should  characterize  the  relations  of 
sister  Grand  Lodges;  saying  to  him,  however,  that  we  did  not  view  the  act 
by  which  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Idaho  assumed  to  deny  the  Masonic  name  and 
character  to  a  Mason  made  in  a  regular  lodge,  chartered  by  a  Grand  Lodge 
with  which  it  was  in  fraternal  correspondence  (unless  such  denial  came  as  a 
sentence  in  punishment  of  an  offense  whereof  such  brother  had  been  duly 
convicted)  as  being  founded  either  in  a  proper  inter-jurisdictional  comity  or 
the  law  of  Masonry. 

Upon  investigation,  Rochester  Lodge,  No.  635,  furnished  me  with  a  copy 
of  Smith's  petition,  wherein  his  residence  is  set  forth  as  "Rochester,  Sanga- 
mon county,  Illinois,"  and  claimed  that  he  had  acquired  a  domicile  there 
before  going  to  Idaho;  had  not  since  acquired  one  elsewhere;  and  while  in 
that  Territory  was  simply  sojourning  there,  still  remaining  a  resident  of 
Rochester  within  the  meaning  of  our  law. 

These  alleged  facts  were  furnished  to  Grand  Master  Stevenson,  together 
with  my  views  of  the  law  of  residence,  in  a  letter  written  April  i6th,  1S7S. 

Replying,  under  date  of  July  loth,  M.  W.  Bro.  Stevenson  says: 

"A.  B.  Smith  came  to  Idaho  in  1S64,  and  has  never  been  absent  from  this 
Territory  but  about  six  weeks  in  fourteen  years,  and  in  that  short  absence  he 
travelled  to  Illinois,  received  the  degrees  of  Masonry  in  Rochester  Lodge, 
No.  635,  and  returned  to  Idaho." 

He  further  says  that  Smith  has  gained  a  residence  there;  has  continuously 
exercised  all  the  rights  of  a  citizen;  has  voted  at  all  elections;  and  is  to  all 
intents  and  purposes  a  citizen  of  Idaho. 

If  these  statements  are  correct,  the  facts  rellect  severely  upon  the  fitness  of 
Rochester  Lodge  to  be. one  of  the  local  custodians  of  our  laws  and  of  the 
honor  of  our  Grand  Lodge;  and  show  that  at  best  it  has  been  made  tiie 
victim  of  fraud  and  misrepresentations  under  circumstances  especially  calcu- 
lated to  excite  suspicion  on  the  part  of  its  officers  and  members. 

It  would  be  sufficiently  himiiliating  to  us  that  a  man,  even  of  an  unblem- 
ished reputation,  who  had  been  absent  from  the  State  for  a  dozen  years, 
returning  for  a  brief  visit,  should,  during  his  sojourn  of  only  a  few  weeks, 
receive  the  degrees  in  one  of  our  lodges  on  his  bare  statement  that  he  still 
retained  his  citizenship  in  Illinois,   and  without    inquiry  on  the  part  of  the 


40  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct.   I, 

lodge  as  to  his  conduct  during  liis  long  absence.  It  is  doubly  humiliating  to 
find,  that  he  whom  the  lodge  so  swiftly  and  recklessly  made  would  have  been 
rejected  by  any  lodge  where  his  recent  life  had  been  known,  and  this  we  are 
assured  by  Grand  Master  Stevenson  is  the  case  with  Smith,  who  he  says 
could  not  have  obtained  the  degrees  in  any  lodge  in  Idaho. 

On  the  23d  day  of  July,  I  directed  the  Junior  Warden  of  Rochester  Lodge 
to  prepare  and  present  charges  therein  against  Bro.  Smith  for  obtaining  the 
degrees  by  fraud  and  misrepresentation.  The  case  is  now  pending.  Within 
a  few  days  I  have  forwarded  to  the  prosecutor  a  list  of  witnesses,  received 
from  the  Grand  Secretary  of  Idaho,  by  whom  it  is  alleged  can  be' established 
beyond  question  the  fact  that  Smith  has  long  been  a  bona  fide  resident  of 
that  Territory. 

SUMMERFIELD    LODGE,    NO     342. 

Complaint  of  the  violation  of  the  personal  jurisdiction  of  Trenton  Lodge, 
No.  109,  by  Summerfield  Lodge,  No.  342,  in  the  initiation  of  John  Zopf, 
who  had  been  previously  rejected  in  the  first  named  lodge,  proved  upon 
investigation  to  be  well  founded,  but  the  violation  of  law  appears  not  to  have 
been  willful,  nor  the  result  of  criminal  neglect.  Summerfield  Lodge  was 
ordered  to  proceed  no  furtherwith  the  candidate  without  the  consent  of  Tren- 
ton Lodge,  and  to  pay  over  to  the  latter  the  fee  received  from  Zopf. 

VARNA    lodge,    NO.    720. 

Complaint  of  the  violation  of  the  territorial  jurisdiction  of  Rutland  Lodge, 
No.  477,  by  Varna  Lodge,  No.  720,  in  initiating  Edward  Bangs,  a  resident 
of  Rutland  sojourning  within  the  territorial  limits  of  the  last  named  lodge, 
proved  to  be  well  grounded,  and  I  so  decided  and  ordered  that  the  initiation 
fee  be  turned  over  to  Rutland  Lodge,  on  whose  consent  the  advancement  of 
the  candidate  was  made  contingent.  As  the  evidence  showed  that  the  peti- 
tion of  Bangs  was  received  by  Varna  Lodge  in  good  faith,  under  the  impres- 
sion that  he  was  a  bona  fide  resident  of  its  jurisdiction,  it  was  held  that  the 
lodge  had  not  been  guilty  of  an  offense  warranting  discipline. 

HURNSIDE    LODGK,    NO.    6S3. 

Complaint  made  by  Hancock  I^odge,  No.  20,  of  the  violation  of  its  per 
sonal  jurisdiction  by  Burnside  Lodge,  No.  6S3,  in  initiating  Mr.  I.  N.  Hobart 
without  its  consent,  was  found  upon  investigation  to  be  well  founded,  Hobart 
having  been  rejected  by  No.  20,  July  27,  1S63. 

Burnside  Lodge  justified  its  action  in  initiating  the  candidate  after  having 
vainly  waited  five  months  for  an  answer  to  its  request  that  Hancock  Lodge 
would  waive  its  lawful  jurisdiction,  by  referring  to  Sec.  3,  Art.  12,  Part 
Second,  G.  L.  By-Laws,  as  its  basis. 

This  section  is  so  plainly  inapplicable  to  cases  where  petitions  have  been 
rejected  by  lodges  in  this  State,  that  it  is  difficult  to  see  how  any  one  could 
innocently  err  therein ;  for  it  refers  in  express   terms  to  rejecting   lodges 


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located  in  other  grand  jurisdictions,  and  to  such  lodges  alone.  Still,  there 
was  a  possibility  that  the  lodge  had  not  intentionally  disregarded  the  law,  and 
it  was  therefore  given  the  benefit  of  the  doubt.  It  was  ordered  to  pay  over  the 
fee  received  from  Hobart  to  Hancock  Lodge,  and  to  take  no  further  steps 
with  the  candidate  without  the  consent  of  that  lodge. 

PARKERSBURG    LODGE,    NO.    509. 

Complaint  of  Edward  Dobbin  Lodge,  No.  164,  against  Parkersburg  Lodge, 
No.  509,  for  alleged  violation  of  its  personal  and  territorial  jurisdiction,  was 
referred  to  me  by  R.  W.  Bro.  G.  H.  B.  Tolle,  D.  D.  G.  M.  of  the  24th  District. 
The  alleged  trespass  consisted  in  the  initiation  by  Parkersburg  Lodge,  of  one 
F.\RNSwoRTH,  who,  it  was  claimed,  was  not  only  a  resident  of  the  jurisdic- 
tion of  Edward  Dobbin  Lodge,  but  had  petitioned  it  for  the  degrees. 

Upon  investigation  it  appeared  that  the  only  evidence  that  Farnsworth 
had  ever  petitioned  the  latter,  was  the  rather  uncertain  recollection  of  some 
of  its  members. 

Upon  the  question  whether  he  had  done  so,  the  members  were  divided. 
The  records  did  not  show  it,  but  it  appeared  that  the  records  were  so  loosely 
kept  as  to  be  valueless  for  the  purposes  of  evidence. 

It  was  held  that  the  absence  of  any  record  of  Farnsworth's  petition 
constituted  a  prima  facia  case  against  the  claim  of  the  lodge  to  personal 
jurisdiction;  and  as  the  claim  could  not  be  clearly  established  by  other  evi- 
dence, it  was  held  to  have  no  foundation. 

It  further  appeared  that  within  less  than  six  months  from  the  time  of 
Farnswortu's  removal  from  the  jurisdiction  of  Edward  Dobbin  to  the 
jurisdiction  of  Parkersburg  Lodge,  the  last  named  lodge  had  received  his 
petition,  and  on  this  action  was  based  the  claim  of  the  former  that  there  had 
been  trespass  upon  its  territorial  jurisdiction. 

This  claim  was  not  valid,  as  the  removal  of  Farnsworth  was  conceded 
to  have  been  bona  fide,  and  on  the  instant  of  such  removal  the  territorial 
jurisdiction — which  is  negative  in  its  character — previously  held  over  him  by 
Edward  Dobbin  Lodge,  ceased,  and  it  thereafter  had  no  more  claim  upon 
him  than  if  he  had  never  been  a  resident  of  its  territory. 

Upon  removing  from  its  jurisdiction  he  ceased  at  once  to  be  eligible  as  a 
candidate  in  any  lodge,  and  a  residence  of  six  months  in  his  new  home  was 
necessary  to  re-establish  his  eligibility.  This  had  not  occurred  when  his 
petition  was  received  by  Parkersburg  Lodge,  but  in  this  matter  Edward 
Dobbin  Lodge  had  no  greater  interest  than  any  other  lodge  in  the  jurisdic- 
tion— the  common  interest  of  all  in  seeing  that  the  laws  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
are  faithfully  obeyed. 

Incidentally  it  appeared  that  both  Edward  Dobbin  and  Parkersburg 
Lodges  had  violated  the  By-Laws  of  the  Grand  Lodge :  the  former  in  not 
keeping  a  full  and  proper  record  of  its  transactions  {Sec.  /,  Art.  j,  Part  _'), 


A2  PROCKEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct. 


and  the  latter  in  receiving  a  petition  from  a  candidate  who  lacked  the  qualifi- 
cation of  a  six  months'  residence  within  its  jurisdiction.  Accordingly  the 
District  Deputy  was  directed  to  require  them  both  to  show  cause  for  these 
irregularities.  On  his  report  Edward  Dobbin  Lodge  was  severely  censured 
by  the  Grand  Master,  and  warned  to  exercise  greater  care  in  preserving  a 
record  of  its  transactions ;  and  the  plea  of  unintentional  ignorance  of  the  law 
on  the  part  of  Parkersburg  Lodge,  No.  509,  is  reported  to  you  for  such 
action  as  you  may  deem  necessary. 

WESTKIELD    LODGE,    NO.    163— METAMORA    LOUr.E,    NO.    82. 

Complaints  of  Casey  Lodge,  No.  442,  against  Westfield  Lodge,  No.  163, 
and  Washburn  Lodge,  No.  421,  against  Metamora  Lodge,  No.  82,  are  still 
sub  judice. 

WAIVER    OF   JURISDICTION — WORK    BY    rROXY. 

Golden  Gate  Lodge,  No.  24S,  and  Monmouth  Lodge,  No.  37,  both  claimed 
the  membership  of  Bro.  Frank  B.  Pitney,  he  having  been  initiated  and 
passed  in  the  former  and  raised  in  the  latter. 

Upon  investigation  it  appeared  that  an  informal  request  of  Golden  Gate 
Lodge  to  confer  upon  Bro.  Pitney  the  degree  of  Master  Mason  to  which  he 
had  alreadv  been  elected,  was  misconstrued  by  Monmouth  Lodge  as  a  waiver 
of  jurisdiction,  and  that  the  last  named  lodge  thereupon  received  Bro. 
Pitney's  petition  for,  elected  him  to,  and  conferred  upon  him  the  third  de- 
gree, and  received  his  signature  to  its  By-Laws. 

Tlie  records  of  Monmouth  showed  that  Golden  Gate  Lodge  had  granted 
it  permission  to  receive  his  petition,  but  in  my  correspondence  both  lodges 
a"^reed  that  the  conference  on  the  subject  had  been  between  the  Masters  of 
the  lodges. 

Waiver  of  jurisdiction  which  would  authorize  another  lodge  to  receive  the 
petition  of  an  Entered  Apprenticed  or  Fellow  Craf,  can  only  be  accom- 
plished bv unanimous  formal  action  which  must  be  certified  to  under  seal. 

The  records  of  Golden  Gate  Lodge  show  that  no  such  action  was  had; 
and  in  the  absence  of  a  properly  attested  certificate  to  invalidate  their  cor- 
rectness, the  records  must  be  presumed  to  be  correct. 

I  therefore  decided  that  the  jurisdiction  of  Golden  Gate  Lodge  was  never 
waived;  that  the  action  of  Monmouth  Lodge  in  receiving  and  acting  upon 
the  petition  of  Bro.  Pitney  was  superfluous  and  void;  that  the  lodge  simply 
acted  as  the  proxy  of  Golden  Gate  Lodge  in  conferring  the  degree,  and  that 
he  could  not  therefore  be  a  member  of  Monmouth  Lodge,  but  stood  in  the 
sarrie  relation  to  Golden  Gate  Lodge  as  if  he  had  been  raised  therein. 

LACK    OF    PENAL   JURISDICTION. 

Mv  decision  having  been  invoked  as  to  the  validity  of  the  suspension  of 
Bro.  Charles  Thompson  by  Mt.  Pulaski  Lodge,  No.  S7,  upon  investigation 


iSyS.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  43 

it  was  found  that  Bro.  Thompson  was  a  member  of  Mt.  Pulaski  Lodge,  and 
resided  at  Elkhart;  that  he  joined  in  a  petition  for  a  new  lodge  at  that  place, 
which  was  chartered  as  Elkhart  Lodge,  No.  545,  in  1S67,  and  duly  consti- 
tuted in  October  of  that  year,  with  Thompson  as  one  of  its  charter  mem- 
bers; and  that  on  the  21st  day  of  March,  186S,  Mt.  Pulaski  Lodge  assumed 
to  suspend  him  indefinitely  for  non-payment  of  dues  which  had  accrued 
against  him  prior  to  liis  dimission  therefrom  by  the  act  of  the  Grand  Lodge. 

In  the  analagous  case  of  Ilutsonville  Lodge  vs.  Leaman,  {Proc.  iSjj,  f. 
j^),  it  was  held  that  compulsory  process  by  a  lodge  to  enforce  the  payment 
of  dues,  does  not  lie  against  a  brother  after  he  has  ceased  to  be  a  member 
thereof.  {Decision  4,  j>.  42,  Ibid.)  This  rule  was  affirmed  by  the  Grand 
Lodge. 

The  dimission  of  Thompson  deprived  Mt.  Pulaski  Lodge,  No.  87,  of  all 
claim  to  exercise  iurisdiction  over  him  in  any  matter  relating  to  membership 
only,  to  which  category  the  non-payment  of  lodge  dues  clearly  belongs. 

Want  of  jurisdiction,  therefore,  rendered  the  act  by  which  it  assumed  to 
suspend  him,  a  nullity,  and  I  decided  that  his  standing  in  the  Fraternity  and 
in  Elkhart  Lodge  was  not  affected  thereby. 

MASONRY    AND    BUSINESS — OXFORD    LODGE,    NO     367. 

On  the  1 2th  of  April  I  set  aside  certain  proceedings  had  on  charges  of 
unmasonic  conduct  brought  against  Bro.  A.  A.  Willktt,  a  member  of  Ox- 
ford Lodge,  No.  367,  the  proceedings  beginning  with  the  presentation  of  the 
charges  on  the  12th  of  February,  1S78,  and  terminating  in  a  verdict  on  the 
1 2th  of  March  following.  It  was  held  that  the  proceedings  did  not  constitute 
a  trial  such  as  must  precede  the  rendering  of  a  verdict  by  the  lodge,  prima- 
rily for  the  reason  that  no  time  or  place  was  ever  appointed  for  the  trial,  but 
only  a  time  and  place  for  taking  testimony  before  a  committee.  The  mis- 
take had  been  made  of  regarding  the  proceedings  before  the  committee  as 
the  trial,  when  the  sole  duty  of  the  committee  is  to  reduce  the  testimony 
offered  before  it  to  evidence,  and  to  report  the  evidence  to  the  lodge  at  the 
time  of  the  trial,  which  must  always  take  place  in  the  lodge. 

It  appeared,  moreover,  that  at  the  time  and  place  fixed  for  taking  testi- 
mony, the  accused  failing  to  appear  a  brother  was  appointed  by  the  Master 
to  represent  him,  and  the  attorney  so  appointed,  without  consultation  with 
his  principal,  entered  a  plea  of  guilty  to  all  the  charges  and  specifications, 
which  plea  was  accepted  by  the  committee  as  a  bar  to  the  taking  of  testimony. 
At  the  next  stated  meeting  of  the  lodge  the  committee  reported  to  this  effect 
to  the  lodge,  which  report  was  accepted,  and  the  case  thereon  submitted  to 
the  lodge  for  a  verdict. 

.  If  the  right  of  an  attorney,  so  appointed,  to  put  in  a  plea  of  guilty  for  his 
principal,  without  first  consulting  him,  were  admitted,  and  the  lodge  per- 
mitted to  accept  such  unauthorized  plea  as  a  bar  to  the  taking  of  testimony, 
the  very  consciousness  of  innocence  on  the  part  of  the  accused  might 
lead   to   his  conviction.      Knowing  himself  to  be  innocent  of    the   charges 


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brought  against  him,  and  feeling  sure  that  upon  a  trial  of  them  no  evidence 
could  be  adduced  to  sustain  them,  it  is  quite  conceivable  that  a  brother  might 
not  make  much  effort  to  be  present  at  the  time  specified  if  he  were  far  from 
home,  or  otherwise  found  it  difficult  to  attend;  and  if  an  unauthorized  plea 
of  guilty  could  be  entered  for  him,  the  demonstration  of  his  innocence  by 
the  breaking  down  of  the  prosecution  would  fail. 

On  the  9th  of  July  a  charge  of  unrnasonic  conduct  was  again  preferred 
against  Bro.  Willett,  involving  the  same  matter  on  which  the  previous  pro- 
ceedings were  had,  the  substance  of  the  specifications  under  the  charge  being 
that  WiLLETT  violated  his  masonic  obligation  in  that,  having  bound  himself 
under  it  to  pay  on  or  before  a  certain  date,  to  Bro.  Petrie  (the  Master  of 
No.  367),  for  the  use  of  Bro.  Brooks  (the  accuser),  such  a  suni  of  money  as 
he  (Petrie),  after  examining  the  books  and  other  evidences  of  the  parties, 
should  decide  was  due  from  Willett  to  Brooks,  had  paid  only  something 
less  than  one-half  of  the  amount  so  adjudged  to  be  due. 

Executive  interference  was  invoked  by  the  accused,  presumably  on  the 
ground  that  specifications  fell  under  the  inhibitory  clause  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
By-Laws,  which  declares  (Sec.  2,  Art.  2,  Part  Third,)  that  "  lodges  shall  not 
take  cognizance  of  difficulties  of  a  legal  character,  growing  out  of  business 
transactions  between  brethren,  nor  entertain  charges  against  a  brother  for  the 
purpose  of  adjusting  mere  legal  rights,  pecuniary  or  otherwise,  unless  such 
charges  shall  clearly  specify  fraud  on  the  part  of  the  alleged  offender." 

The  obvious  intention  of  this  provision  is  that  the  lodge  shall  not  be 
made  a  collecting  agency,  nor  a  tribunal  for  the  adjudication  of  questions 
which  are  properly  within  the  province  of  the  civil  courts.  It  is  designed  to 
prevent  the  mixing  up  of  Masonry  with  commercial  transactions  between 
man  and  man,  and  is  an  emphatic  denial  of  the  assumption  that  there  can  be 
one  system  of  commercial  ethics  for  Masons  in  their  dealings  with  each 
other,  and  another  system  for  their  dealings  with  those  who  are  not  Masons. 
It  gives  notice,  therefore,  that  in  its  penal  jurisprudence,  when  called  upon  to 
deal  with  difficulties  of  a  legal  character  growing  out  of  business  transac- 
tions between  brethren.  Masonry  will  regard  as  indictable  only  such  acts  as 
render  Masons  and  non-Masons  alike  amenable  to  the  criminal  law  of  the 
State.  Hence  the  requirement  that  unless  fraud  is  clearly  specified  such 
cases  shall  be  thrown  out. 

Under  this  rule  it  is  not  enough  that  fraud  shall  be  simply  charged; 
it  must  be  specified.  Specific  acis  must  be  alleged,  fraudulent  on  their 
face.  In  other  words,  acts  must  be  specified  which  are  necessarily  and  not 
simply  possibly  fraudulent.  A  single  illustration  will  prevent  the  possibility 
of  my  being  misunderstood.  A  failure  to  pay  a  debt  according  to  promise 
might  possibly,  but  need  not  necessarily,  involve  fraud ;  and  a  lodge  would 
not,  therefore,  be  justified  in  entertaining  a  charge  of  fraud  where  the  speci- 
cation  set  forth  only  a  failure  to  pay  according  to  promise.  But  if  an  alleged 
false  schedule  of  assets,  or  a  fraudulent  conveyance  to  prevent  the  payment 


iSyS.] 


GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  45 


of  a  debt  were   specified,   the   charges  would  meet  the  requirements  of  the 
law. 

In  the  charges  in  this  case  not  only  was  no  fraudulent  act  specified,  but 
fraud  was  not  even  alleged.  The  eletnent  was  clearly  wanting,  then,  which 
could  alone  warrant  a  lodge  in  taking  cognizance  of  this  class  of  cases,  unless 
it  was  supplied  by  the  allegation  that  the  accused  failed  to  keep  a  promise 
to  which  he  had  bound  himself  under  his  Masonic  obligation. 

Manifestly  the  obstacles  designedly  placed  in  the  way  of  getting  this  class 
of  cases  into  a  Masonic  court  cannot  be  thus  bridged  over.  The  aim  of  the 
law  being  to  prevent  the  prostitution  of  Masonry  to  commercial  purposes, 
the  statute  cannot  be  invoked  to  countenance  an  attempt  to  make  Masonic 
pledges  factors  in  business  transactions;  and  the  effort  to  do  so  could  only 
serve  to  make  more  defective  a  case  which  without  it  would  be  clearly  barred 
by  the  terms  of  the  regulation. 

The  charges  were  accordingly  ruled  out. 

DtMtSSIOX CIRCULAR    LETTER. 

On  the  24th  of  Febriuiry,  1S7S,  I  issued  a  circular  letter  to  the  lodges,  of 
which  the  following  is  the  body: 

My  correspondence  indicates  wide-spread  confusion  respecting  the  law 
regulating  the  granting  of  Dimits,  and  the  proper  method  of  procedure 
under  it.  As  amended  at  the  last  annual  communication  of  the  Grand 
Lodge,  Section  i,  Article  20,  Part  Second,  Grand  Lodge  By-Laws,  reads 
thus: 

"  All  applications  for  dimits  shall  be  made  in  writing-,  signed  by  the  applicant,  be  pre- 
sented to  the  Lodge  at  a  stated  communication,  shall  be  read  in  open  Lodge,  and  lie  over 
until  the  next  or  some  subsequent  stated  meeting-,  when,  if  the  applicant's  dues  are  paid,  and 
there  are  no  charges  against  him,  a  dimit  shall  be  granted  and  a  record  made  thereof." 

This  section  embraces  all  the  conditions  with  which  a  brother  is  required 
to  comply  in  order  to  entitle  him  to  a  dimit;  and  lodges  are  not  at  liberty  to 
attempt  to  impose  any  others.  All  lodge  by-laws  requiring  applicants  for 
dimission  to  assign  reasons  for  withdrawal,  are  in  conflict  with  this  law  and 
are  inoperative  and  void. 

The  law  as  it  now  stands  recognizes  the  voluntary  nature  of  the  bond  of 
membership,  and  designedly  j)rovides  that  a  brother  may  dimit  from  his 
lodge  for  any  reason,  or  for  no  reason  if  it  so  please  him,  he  complying  with 
its  necessary  forms;  and  this  without  regard  to  whether  he  designs  remain- 
ing within  the  territorial  I'urisdiction  of  the  lodge,  or  removing  elsewhere. 

It  will  be  observed  that  a  vote  of  the  lodge  is  not  one  of  the  conditions 
of  the  law.  Hence  it  is  not  permissible.  When  an  application,  properly 
signed  and  presented,  has  laid  over  for  the  required  period,  and  comes  up  for 
final  disposition,  the  Master  should  announce  that  if  the  applicant's  dues  are 
paid,  and  there  are  no  charges  against  him,  the  dimit  will  be  granted.  Hav- 
ing received  satisfactory  answers  to  his  inquiries  on  these  points,  he  should 
announce  that  the  dimit  is  granted,  and  direct  the  Secretary  to  record  the 
fact  and  to  furnish  the  dimitted  brother  with  a  copy  of  such  record,  or,  in 
other  words,  to  furnish  him  with  a  certificate  of  dimission. 


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It  has  come  to  my  knowledge  that  in  some  lodges  the  practice  prevails  of 
charging  a  fee  for  certificates  of  dimission,  either  as  a  source  of  revenue  to 
the  lodge,  or  as  a  perquisite  to  the  Secretary's  office.  This  is  unlawful  and 
must  be  abandoned,  the  law  explicitly  providing  that  the  brother  dimitted 
"shall  be  entitled"  to  a  copy  of  the  record  of  his  dimission. 

VERMILION    LODGE,    NO.    265 — AMENDE. 

W.  Bro.  W.  T.  Butler,  Past  Master  of  Vermilion  Lodge,  No.  265, 
feeling  that  my  statement  of  the  difliculties  in  his  lodge,  embodied  in  my  ad- 
dress at  the  last  annual  Grand  Communication,  asked  that  the  alleged  facts 
in  the  case  might  be  investigated  in  order  that  he  might  be  relieved  from 
undeserved  censure.  I  accordingly  directed  R.  W.  Bro.  Haswell  C.  Clarke, 
D.  D.  G.  M.  of  the  i6th  District,  to  make  the  investigation.  Business,  how- 
ever, called  him  from  the  jurisdiction,  and  on  his  recommendation  I  en- 
trusted the  duty  to  W.  Bro.  F.  S.  Hatch,  of  Kankakee,  as  my  special  deputy. 

It  affords  me  great  pleasure  to  say  that  the  report  of  W.  Bro.  Hatch 
shows  that  W.  Bro.  Butler  did  not  deserve  the  censure  implied  in  my  ad- 
dress, but  which  the  facts  as  there  alleged  fully  warranted.  He  is  entitled  to 
stand  in  the  favorable  light  in  which  the  investigation  places  him,  and  as  an 
act  of  justice  I  submit  the  report  of  the  special  deputy  as  an  appendix  to 
this  report,  marked  "A." 

MASONIC    relations. 
GRAND    representatives. 

I  have  appointed  and  commissioned  Grand  Representatives  as  follows : 

Adam  Thompson,  near  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland. 
Henry  U.  Aitkin,  near  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Prince  Edward  Island. 
Nathaniel  W.  Cumner,  near  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Hampshire. 
S.  Sylvester  Wells,  near  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Ohio. 

I  have  been  honored  with  a  commission  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scot- 
land as  its  Representative  near  this  Grand  Lodge,  which  position  I  have  since 
felt  compelled  to  resign,  and  have  received  notice  of  the  appointment  of  R. 
W.  Bro.  Ira  J.  Bloomfield  as  the  Representative  of]  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Prince  Edward  Island,  and  of  M.  W.  Ira  A.  W.  Buck  as  the  Representative 
of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Washington  Territory. 

The  name  of  our  duly  accredited  Representative  near  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Mississippi,  has  never  appeared  in  the  proper  list  in  our  published  Proceed- 
ings. I  have  explained  to  our  Mississippi  brethren  that  its  non-appearance 
was  due  to  the  loss  of  the  record  of  his  appointment  in  the  destruction  of  the 
Grand  Master's  correspondence  by  the  Great  Fire. 

GRAND    ORIENT    OF    SPAIN. 

I  am  in  receipt  of  a  communication  from  a  body  styling  itself  the  Supreme 
Grand  Orient  of  Spain,  and  claiming  to  be  the  Supreme  Masonic  power  in 


iSyS.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  4^ 

that  Kingdom,  issued  in  the  name  of  John  Anthony  Perez  (Richard)  "Sov- 
ereign Grand  Inspector  Genera!  33°  Ancient  and  Accepted  Scottish  Rite,  etc.. 
Grand  Commander  and  Grand  Master  of  Masons  in  Spain,"  asking  recogni- 
tion as  a  Sovereign  Masonic  power  at  the  hands  of  tlie  Grand  Lodge  of  lUin- 
ois.  Accompanying,  is  a  commission  to  R.  W.  John  F.  Burrill  as  the 
Representative  of  the  Grand  Orient  near  this  Grand  Lodge. 

Among  the  constitutional  powers  of  the  Grand  Master  is  that  "to  appoint 
representatives,  by  warrant,  in  any  other  recognized  Grand  Lodge,  and 
receive  and  accredit  such  representatives  from  otlier  Grand  Lodges." 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  recognizes  as  entitled  to  an  exchange  of 
representatives  only  sovereign  and  independent  and  perforce  legitimate  Cirand 
Lodges.  No  Masonic  body  answering  this  description  is  known  to  exist 
in  Spain. 

The  so-called  Masonry  of  Spain  is  what  is  known  as  the  "Ancient  and 
Accepted  Scottish  Rite,"  whose  governing  head  is  a  body  known  as  the  Su- 
preme Council  of  Sovereign  Grand  Inspectors  General  of  the  Thirty-Third 
Degree,  and  of  this  body  all  other  bodies  composing  the  Grand  Orient  are 
dependents.  Among  these  dependent  bodies  is  the  "Grand  Lodge,"  nom- 
inally the  governing  body  of  Symbolic  or  Blue  Masonry.  It  is  a  Grand 
Lodge  only  in  name,  having  no  attribute  of  sovereignty,  and  destitute  even 
of  the  first  attribute  of  independence — the  right  to  choose  its  own  rulers. 
The  Sovereign  Grand  Commander  of  the  Supreme  Council  is  ex  officio 
Grand  Master  of  the  Grand  Lodge.  The  office  of  Grand  Commander  is 
non-elective,  attaching  by  right  of  succession  to  the  Senior  Sovereign  Grand 
Inspector  General,  according  to  the  date  of  his  diploma,  and  held,  with  the 
appendant  Grand  Mastership,  by  a  life  tenure. 

With  no  such  emasculated  Grand  Lodge — however  legitimate  might  ha\e 
been  its  origin — could  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  sovereign  and  indepen- 
dent, enter  upon  relations  of  equality. 

Recognition  of  a  Masonic  power  pre-supposes  something  to  recognize, 
some  attribute  on  the  part  of  such  power  which  gives  it  a  likeness  to  a  sov- 
ereign State.  For  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  to  appoint  a  representative 
to  the  "Grand  Lodge  "  of  Spain,  would  be  analogous  to  the  sending  of  an 
ambassador  by  Great  Britain  to  Alsace  or  Lorraine;  or  by  the  United  States 
to  the  county  of  Tipperary,  or  Connaught. 

But  these  considerations,  weighty  as  they  are,  do  not  touch  the  core  of 
the  question  of  our  relations  to  the  Grand  Orients  and  the  system  on  which 
they  are  based,  wherein  is  involved  our  loyalty  to  the  institution  of  Masonry 
and  to  the  obligations  we  sustain  as  one  of  its  constituents. 

The  sole  warrant  for  the  existence  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  is  that 
it  possesses,  and  through  its  constituents  administers,  genuine  Masonry.  If 
the  system  it  holds  and  practices  is  genuine,  it  is  certain  that  the  antipodes 
of  that  system  cannot  also  be  genuine.     Masonry  is  distinguished  not  less  by 


48  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct.  I, 


its  polity  than  by  its  traditions  and  ceremonials.  Its  metes  and  bounds  were 
fixed  when  the  first  Grand  Lodge  solemnly  agreed  to  the  "Charges  of  a  Free- 
mason "  as  the  landmarks,  the  unchangeable  law.  The  Masonry  thus 
bounded  and  distinguished  occupied  the  whole  ground.  Xo  coeval  body 
having  the  same  or  similar  traditions  and  ceremonials,  but  a  different  body 
of  law,  existed  to  dispute  its  title.  It  was  absolutely  exclusive.  This  Masonry 
is  our  heritage.  We  are  dowered  with  all  its  privileges,  immunities  and  glo- 
ries, and  upon  us  are  entailed  all  its  responsibilities,  chief  among  which  is  the 
maintenance  unchanged  of  its  immemorial  law.  From  the  time  when  the 
societ}'  crvstalized  into  its  present  form,  every  successive  generation  of  Mas- 
ters, down  to  that  which  largely  composes  this  assembly,  has  agreed  that  no 
man,  or  body  of  men,  can  make  innovations  on  the  body  of  Masonry,  and 
that  no  new  lodge  shall  be  formed  without  permission  of  the  Grand  Lodge. 

The  existence  of  a  lodge  anywhere  that  may  lawfully  administer  the  rites 
of  Masonrv,  presupposes  the  existence  of  a  Grand  Lodge  from  which  it  has 
derived  its  warrant;  and  the  existence  of  such  Grand  Lodge  presupj>oses  the 
prior  existence  of  warranted  lodges  bj*  whose  representatives  it  was  formed, 
and  so  on  backward  in  unbroken  connection  to  the  first  Grand  Lodge. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  would  not  for  a  moment  entertain  a  propo- 
sition to  recognize  as  masonic  any  so-called  lodge  of  Ancient  Craft  Masons 
which  could  not  show  such  a  connection,  however  loudly  it  might  proclaim 
its  allegiance  to  the  primal  law,  and  though  its  polity  were  identical  with  our 
own.  Bv  what  mvsterious  process  of  logic  can  it  justify  itself,  if  it  shall 
recognize  as  masonic  any  so-called  lodge.  Grand  or  subordinate,  which  not 
only  cannot  show  such  a  connection,  but  whose  polity  is  a  flat  denial  of  the 
fundamental  law  which  we  hold  to  be  unchangeable.?  It  will  not  thvis  place 
a  premium  on  innovation,  nor  accord  to  the  alien  what  it  denies  to  the 
household  of  the  faithful. 

Masonry  is  a  commonwealth  whose  members  stand  on  a  footing  of  per- 
fect equalitv.  It  has  no  imperitiyn  in  imperio  from  whose  ranks  the  rulers  of 
the  Craft  must  spring,  but  on  the  contrary  every  craftsman  is  eligible  to  be 
raised  b\'  the  suffrages  of  his  brethren  to  the  highest  office  within  its  gift. 
Its  representative  form  of  government  is  an  essential  feature,  zvi/koiit  -vJiich 
it  cannot  be.  identified  as  Masonry.  Only  on  condition  that  this  feature  shall 
be  maintained  can,  or  could,  any  body  of  men  acquire  the  authorit}-  to  admin- 
ister its  rites. 

The  claim,  then,  of  any  sodality,  or  system  whose  government  is  a  non- 
elective  oligarchy  exercising  absolute  control  over  admission  to  its  own 
ranks,  to  be  considered  Masonry,  or  as  being  in  any  sense  coequal  with 
Masonry,  is  an  assumption  which  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  cannot  admit 
without  self  stultification. 

Yet  such  is  the  system  which  in  Continental  Europe  breeds  Grand  Orients 
and  Supreme  Councils,  claiming  to  be  the  supreme  Masonic  power  in  the 
states  wherein  they  exist. 


iSyS.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  49 


Holding  these  views  of  my  responsibilities  as  a  Mason,  vou  will  be  pre- 
pared to  learn  that  I  declined  to  receive  and  accredit  the  representative  of 
the  Grand  Orient  of  Spain. 

Our  relations  with  the  Grand  Lodges  with  which  we  were  in  fraternal 
correspondence  have  continued  to  be  most  cordial  and  satisfactory.  To  the 
number  of  Grand  Lodges  with  which  we  had  heretofore  been  so  related  the 
year  just  closing  has  added  two,  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland  and  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Prince  Edward  Island.  Not  only  have  our  own  Masonic 
relations  been  of  this  friendly  character,  but  a  period  of  profound  peace 
seemed  to  have  fallen  upon  all  the  Grand  Lodges  of  the  world  in  their  rela- 
tions with  each  other. 

I  regret  to  say  that  this  universal  tranquility  has  been  broken  by  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Scotland.  I  have  received  from  the  M.  W.  Melbourne  M.  Tait, 
Grand  Master  of  Masons  in  Quebec,  a  communication  embracing  a  procla- 
mation of  non-intercourse  between  the  Grand  Lodges  of  Quebec  and  Scot- 
land, and  their  dependents  respectively;  a  statement  of  the  causes  which  led 
to;  and  a  copy  of  the  correspondence  between  the  two  Grand  Lodges  pre- 
ceding the  rupture.  At  the  time  of  the  formation  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Quebec,  in  1S69,  there  were  existing  in  the  Province,  in  addition  to  the 
lodges  owning  allegiance  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Canada,  and  which  are  now 
all  upon  the  registry  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec,  five  lodges  under  war- 
rants from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England,  and  two  under  warrants  from  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland.  Two  of  the  English  and  one  of  the  Scotch 
lodges  took  part  in  the  formation  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec,  but  the 
three  remaining  English  lodges,  and  the  Scotch  lodge,  Elgin,  at  Montreal, 
have  continued  to  work  under  their  original  warrants  and  still  refuse  to 
acknowledge  the  supremacy  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec,  notwithstand- 
ing it  has  made  every  effort  consistent  with  its  honor  and  dignity,  and  in  the 
most  amicable  spirit,  to  secure  their  allegiance. 

In  all  its  efforts  in  this  direction,  however,  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec 
has  never  for  a  moment  lost  sight  of  its  obligation  scrupulously  to  uphold 
the  doctrine  upon  which  it  was  founded,  and  which  it  holds  in  common  with 
all  the  Grand  Lodges  on  this  continent,  the  supreme  and  exclusive  jurisdic- 
tion of  every  Grand  Lodge  within  its  territorial  limits.  It  declined  the  cov- 
eted recognition  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England  because  it  was  coupled 
with  conditions  which  were  a  practical  denial  of  this  principle. 

In  1S77,  having  received  the  unconditional  recognition  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Scotland,  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec  suggested  to  that  Grand 
Lodge  the  propriety  of  directing  Elgin  Lodge  to  take  such  steps  as  might  be 
necessary  to  place  itself  under  its  jurisdiction;  whereupon  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Scotland  withdrew  its  recognition  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec, 
recalled  the  commission  of  its  newly-appointed  Representative  to  that  body, 
and  granted  warrants  for  two  new  lodges  within  the  Province  of  Quebec. 

*7 


^O  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct. 


In  the  absence  of  any  declaration  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland  as  to 
the  motives  which  governed  its  action,  this  is  no  place  to  discuss  that  phase 
of  the  subject;  but  the  action  itself  and  the  manner  in  which  it  was  taken, 
conveys  a  painful  sense  of  a  lack  of  that  magnanimity  which  we  are  apt  to 
associate  with  our  ideal  of  a  powerful  body,  crowned  with  years  and  con- 
scious of  its  own  respectabilitv. 

Whatever  diversity  of  opinion  might  have  existed  among  American  Grand 
Lodges  as  to  their  duty  had  they  been  brought  face  to  face  with  the  question 
of  sustaining  by  immediate  action  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec  in  an  attempt 
to  sever  by  coercive  measures  the  Gordian  Knot  of  difficulty  presented  by  the 
presence  of  foreign  lodges  already  on  its  territory,  there  can  and  will  be  no 
division  as  to  the  demands  put  upon  them  by  this  indefensible  act  of  plant- 
ing new  lodges  there,  by  which  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland  has  ruthlessly 
disturbed  the  peace  of  the  Masonic  world. 

Every  Grand  Lodge  on  this  continent  is  founded  upon  and  maintains  the 
doctrine  of  the  supreme  and  therefore  exclusive  jurisdiction  of  each  within 
its  territorial  limits;  and  it  is  inevitable  that  they  should  treat  as  a  common 
enemy  any  Masonic  power  that  deliberately  invades  the  domain  of  any  one 
of  their  number. 

We  recognize  in  this  blow  struck  at  our  younger  but  equal  sister,  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Quebec,  a  deadly  menace  to  our  own  sovereignty,  and  we  could  not 
if  we  would,  shrink  from  the  duty  which  it  imposes.  But  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Illinois  has  shown  no  disposition  in  the  past  to  evade  any  responsibility 
attaching  to  it  by  reason  of  its  committal  to  the  doctrine  of  absolute  juris- 
dictional integrity,  but  has  emphasized  its  devotion  to  it  at  the  cost  of  tempo- 
rary alienation  from  those  whose  friendship  it  prized  and  to  whom  it  had 
long  been  bound  in  intimate  and  cordial  association. 

Profoundly  regretting  the  necessity  of  such  action,  but  as  profoundly  con- 
vinced that  our  duty  leaves  us  no  alternative,  I  am  constrained  to  recommend 
that  vou  at  once  take  the  inevitable  step  and  direct  that  all  Masonic  inter- 
course with  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland,  its  constituents,  and  all  Masons 
owing  allegiance  thereto  be  interdicted  to  all  Masons  within  our  jurisdiction. 

DECISIONS. 

1.  There  is  no  limit  of  time  within  which  an  Entered  Apprentice  or  a 
Fellow  Craft  may  be  required  to  advance;  his  advancement  must  be  of  his 
own  free  will  and  accord. 

2,  A  brother  over  whom  lawful  jurisdiction  has  been  waived  by  one 
lodge,  having  been  passed  and  raised  by  the  lodge  acquiring  jurisdiction 
without  petition  and  election  as  required  by  law,  is  nevertheless  a  lawful 
Master  Mason.  Having  received  the  degrees  in  a  regular  lodge,  lawfully 
held,  his  Masonic  character  is  not  attainted  bj'  irregularity  in  the  proceed- 
ings. 


1878.] 


GRAND    I.ODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


3.  The  refusal  of  an  officer  elect  to  give  bond  as  required  by  the  by-laws 
of  his  lodge,  is  a  refusal  to  qualify  for  installation  and  should   be  so  treated. 

4.  Reading  a  petition  for  the  degrees  is  not  "receiving"  it.  After  it 
has  been  read  it  is  received  by  the  voice  of  the  lodge  either  tacitly  or  form- 
ally given ;  or  at  its  pleasure  the  lodge  may  refuse  to  receive  it. 

5.  Objection  to  a  proposed  visitor  by  a  member,  lodged  with  the  Master 
of  his  lodge,  is  not  valid  during  the  absence  of  the  objector. 

6.  An  applicant  for  dimission  may  withdraw  his  application  at  any  mo- 
ment before  the  announcement  that  the  dimit  is  granted,  has  been  made. 

7.  Sec.  9,  Art.  27,  Part  Second  of  the  Grand  Lodge  By-Laws,  authorizes 
a  lodge  to  complete  the  unfinished  work  of  an  extinct  lodge  to  whose  terri- 
tory it  has  fallen  heir. 

S.  An  unauthorized  plea  of  guilty  entered  in  the  absence  of  the  accused 
by  an  attorney  who  has  been  appointed  to  defend  him,  cannot  be  accepted  by 
a  lodge  or  a  committee,  as  a  bar  to  the  taking  of  testimony. 

9.  The  word  "charges"  occurring  in  Section  i,  Article  20,  Part  Second 
of  the  Grand  Lodge  By-Laws,  means  formal,  written  charges,  as  defined  in 
Section  i,  Article  3,  Part  Third. 

Here,  Brethren,  as  I  close  the  record  of  my  stewardship,  I  pause  ere  I 
again  resume  my  place  in  the  ranks,  to  acknowledge  with  grateful  iieart  your 
partiality  in  twice  elevating  me  to  a  position  which  to  have  held  for  a  single 
term  might  well  be  the  goal  of  an  honorable  ambition. 

Satisfied  alike  with  the  measure  of  its  honors  and  the  burden  of  its  cares, 
I  shall  relinquish  the  one  as  gladly  as  I  shall  put  off  the  other. 

JOSEPH  ROBBINS, 

Grand  Master, 


APPENDIX  yK\  TO  GRAND  MASTER'S  REPORT. 

Kankakee,  III.,  June  24,  1878. 
Most    Worshipful  Joseph  Rohbins,   Grand  Master t 

Dear  Brother — Upon  the  receipt  of  your  appointment,  authorizing  me  to  investigate 
difficulties  existing  in  Vermilion  Lodge,  No.  265,  I  informed  the  Master  of  said  lodge  of 
my  apjiointment,  and  by  agreement  met  the  lodge  on  the  evening  of  June  3d,  A.  D.  1878,  and 
after  a  long  session,  in  which  a  full  and  free  discussion  of  the  subjects  pertaining  to  the  case 
was  had,  I  am  pleased  to  be  able  to  say  that  I  left  the  lodge  with  full  confidence  that  all  mat- 
ters of  variance  were  harmonized,  and  that  a  commendable  fraternal  feeling  pervaded  all  the 
members  of  the  lodge. 

The  question  of  Bro.  Cummings'  status  seemed  to  have  been  so  thoroughly  settled,  pre- 
viously to  my  visit  to  the  lodge,  that  there  was  no  difference  of  opinion  upon  that  point,  and 


52  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct. 


the  Master  had  conferred  the  third  degree  upon  him  some  weeks  since,  with  the  approbation 
of  all  the  brethren.  The  life  and  conduct  of  Bro.  Cummings,  since  he  had  been  initiated, 
had  been  such  as  to  meet  the  approval  of  all  the  members  of  the  lodge,  and  Bro.  Barnet 
informed  me  that  his  feelings  had  altered  very  materially  towards  Bro.  Cummings,  and  that 
he  (Bro.  Barnet)  was  entirely  satisfied  with  the  action  of  the  lodge. 

The  original  question  at  issue  having  thus  passed  out  of  discussion,  the  only  remaining 
considerations  were  those  that  had  incidentally  arisen. 

The  main  point  in  this  connection  seemed  to  be  in  relation  to  Past  Master  Butler, who 
claimed  that  the  statement  of  the  case  in  the  address  of  the  Grand  Master  for  1S77  did  him  a 
great  injustice,  and  must  have  been  founded  upon  erroneous  information.  In  examining 
this  point,  it  was  brought  to  light  that  letters,  under  dates  respectively  of  March  5th,  March 
20th,  and  April  2d,  1877,  and  purporting  to  be  written  by  Bro.  H.  H.  McMillix,  Secretary 
of  the  lodge,  were  not  in  reality  written  by  him,  but  by  two  former  members  of  the  lodge, 
one  of  whom  was  the  brother  who  claims  to  have  found  the  black  ball  in  the  ballot-box  when 
the  lodge  was  called  to  refreshment,  and  ajler  the  initiation  of  Bro.  Cummings,  claims  to 
have  cast  the  same,  and  who  (the  two  brethren)  seem  to  have  been  the  moving  impulse  in 
this  entire  matter.  Fortunately,  I  think,  for  the  peace  and  harmony  of  No.  265,  both  of  these 
brethren  have  dimitted  and  removed  beyond  the  limits  of  this  Grand  Jurisdiction.  Bro. 
McMiLLiN  does  not  claim  but  what  he  knew  that  his  name  was  to  be  used  in  writing  to  the 
Grand  Master,  yet  he  claims  never  to  have  written  the  statements,  or  held  the  ideas  there 
expressed,  while  the  fact  that  answers  to  two  of  the  letters  were  directed  to,  and  received  by 
him,  would  show  that  he  must,  in  some  degree  at  least,  have  understood  the  situation  of  the 
case.  It  would  appear  that,  relying  upon  the  integrity  of  older  and  more  experienced  Ma- 
sons, he  permitted  himself  to  be  placed  in  a  false  position,  and,  by  his  silence,  apparently 
acquiesced  in  it. 

The  statement  in  letter  under  date  of  March  5th,  1877,  that  "  a  brother  notified  the  lodge 
that  there  was  surely  a  mistake;  that  he  knew  there  was  a  black  ball  in  the  ballot-box,  he 
having  put  it  there,  as  well  as  seen  it  in  the  box  while  the  ballot  was  being  examined  by  the 
Junior  Warden,"  was  shown  to  be  an  error,  both  as  far  as  notifying  the  lodge  was  concerned, 
and  also  in  reference  to  any  one  putting  the  black  ball  in  the  box.  The  matter  was  discussed 
privately  while  the  lodge  was  at  refreshment,  but  nothing  further. 

The  statement  in  letter  under  date  of  April  2d,  that  "the  brother  (F.  V.  B.)  who  offered 
objections  at  our  last  meeting,  had  made  the  sanie  objections  before  the  initiation  of  the 
candidate,"  was  disproved  by  Bro.  Barnet's  iF.  V.  B.)  own  admission,  that  any  objections 
to  which  he  might  have  given  expression,  were  founded  on  the  belief  that  a  black  ball  was 
in  the  box,  and  not  personal  to  the  candidate. 

In  regard  to  the  remaining  statements  of  objections  made,  they  seem  to  be  founded  on 
the  idea  that  if  one  brother  was  not  exactly  satisfied  with  a  candidate,  and  expressed  himself 
to  that  effect  to  another  brother,  that  constituted  an  objection. 

In  reference  to  the  charge  that  Bro.  Butler  had  passed  Bro.  Cummings  in  defiance  of 
Grand  Master  Lounsburv's  order,  Bro.  Butler  showed  conclusively  that  it  was  an  error, 
as  the  degree  was  conferred  some  days  previous  to  the  date  of  the  order;  and  I  could  come 
to  no  other  conclusion  than  that  Bro.  Butler's  action  in  initiating  and  passing  Bro. 
Cummings  was  fully  vindicated,  and  it  is  his  earnest  desire  to  be  relieved  from  the  stain  that 
is  now  upon  his  name,  and  that  justice  should  be  done  him. 

After  1  had  placed  the  lodge  again  in  charge  of  the  Master,  just  before  the  close  of  the 
communication,  the  following  resolution  was  offered  and  adopted  by  a  vote  of  twenty-two  to 
three : 

"Resolved,  That  in  the  opinion  of  this  lodge  the  action  of  W.  M.  M.  T.  Butler,  in 
conferring  the  degrees  of  Masonry  on  Bro.  (Cummings,  was  in  all  respects  regular,  and  that 
the  information  upon  which  Grand  M.aster  Bobbins  arrived  at  his  conclusions  was  not  com- 
municated by  authority  of  the  lodge  or  its  officers." 


iSyS.]  GRAVD    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  53 


The  three  votes  against  the  resolution  were  explained  to  be  founded  upon  the  belief  that 
the  statement  of  the  brother  who  claimed  to  have  found  the  black  ball  in  the  ballot-box, 
should  have  had  the  same  effect  as  an  objection. 


Fraternally  Yours, 

F.  S.  HATCH, 
Sj'ecial  Deputy. 


CALLED  OFF. 

At    13.45   ^'  ^^'  '^^^^  Grand    Master    called    the    Grand    Lodge 
from  labor  until  3  o'clock. 


FIRST  DAT— AFTERNOON  SESSION. 

Tuesday,  October  ist,  5S7S. 

The  Grand  Master  called  the  Grand  Lodge  to  labor  promptly 
at  3  o'clock.  Grand  Officers  and  Representatives  as  at  the  morn- 
ing session. 

REPORT  OF  GRAND  SECRETARY. 

The  Grand  Secretary  submitted  a  report  of  the  business  of  his 
office  for  the  past  year;  which  was  referred  to  the  Finance  Com- 
mittee: 

To  the  M.    W.  Gramf  Lodge  of  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  of  the  State  of  Illinois: 

As  required  by  the  by-laws,  I  herewith  submit  my  report  of  the  business 
of  my  office  for  tlie  past  year. 

Immediately  after  the  close  of  last  session  of  Grand  Lodge,  I  furnished 
to  the  printers  the  copy  for  tlie  proceedings,  but  owing  to  delay  in  procuring 
the  paper  for  the  work,  I  was  unable  to  furnish  them  to  the  lodges  until  the 
last  of  November. 

During  the  year  I  have  examined  the  returns  of  the  subordinate  lodges 
for  1877,  comparing  them  with  the  returns  of  the  previous  year ;  notifying  the 
Secretaries  of  all  errors,  and  requiring  them  to  correct  them.  Owing  to  the 
care  taken  the  preceding  year,  but  few  errors  appeared,  and  those  of  a  trifling 


54  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct- 


character,  the  most  of  which  have  been  corrected.  From  a  cursory  exami- 
nation of  the  returns  of  the  present  year,  I  believe  they  are  very  nearly  per- 
fect. 

By  the  resolution  published  on  page  130,  Proceedings  of  1877,  the  Grand 
Secretary  was  instructed  to  have  printed  and  bound  in  convenient  form  for 
use,  one  thousand  copies  of  the  Ceremonials  authorized  by  this  Grand  Lodge. 
This  has  been  done,  and  one  copy  sent  to  each  lodge  in  this  jurisdiction,  one 
to  each  Grand  Officer  and  D.  D.  G.  M.,  and  one  copy  to  each  Grand  Lodge 
in  correspondence  with  this  Grand  Lodge.  As  this  wauld  nearly  exhaust  the 
edition,  and  as  the  extra  number  would  cost  only  for  paper  and  press-work,  I 
concluded  after  consultation  with  prominent  Masons,  to  have  1,500  copies 
printed  instead  of  1,000  as  the  resolution  provided.  Tlje  resolution  authorizes 
the  Grand  Secretary  to  sell  the  work,  and  I  have  fixed  the  price  at  one  dollar 
per  copy,  which  leaves  a  fair  margin  above  cost.  But  few  copies  have  been 
sold  as  3'et,  but  I  am  of  opinion  that  when  the  Craft  generally  ascertain  that 
such  a  work  has  been  published  there  will  be  a  large  demand  for  it. 

COMMISSIONS     ISSUED. 

By  direction  of  the  M.  W.  Grand  Master  I  have  issued  commissions  to 
R.  W,  Adam  Morrisox,  as  Representative  of  this  Grand  Lodge  near  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland,  To  R.  W.  Henry  M.  Aitkin,  near  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Prince  Edward  Island.  To  M.  W.  Nathaniel  W.  Cumner,  near 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Hampshire.  To  R.  W.  S.  Sylvester  Wells, 
near  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Ohio, 

duplicate   charter. 

The  charter  of  Hampshire  Lodge,  No.  443,  having  been  destroyed,  I  issued 
to  that  lodge,  by  direction  of  the  Grand  Master,  on  December  7th,  1878,  a 
duplicate  charter. 

consolidation. 

Middleton  Lodge,  No.  370,  and  Belle  Rive  Lodge,  No.  696,  having  con- 
formed to  the  requirements  of  Sec.  i,  Art.  28,  Part  2d  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
By-Laws,  I  issued  to  them,  on  April  19th,  1878,  a  charter  consolidating  the 
two   lodges   as   Belle    Rive  Lodge,  No.  696. 

CHARTER    arrested. 

Manteno  Lodge,  No.  507,  having  become  dormant,  the  Grand  Master 
ordered  the  arrest  of  its  charter,  which  was  done  by  D.  D.  G.  M.  H.  C. 
Clark,  March  14th,  1S7S. 

I  submit  herewith  my  financial  report  of  moneys  received  during  the  year. 

JOHN  F.  BURRILL,   Gy.  Scc'y. 


1878] 


GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


55 


GRAND  SECRETARY'S  ACCOUNT. 

John'  F.   Burrill,    Grand  Secre(arv,  in  account  zvit/i 

The  M.  W,  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois. 

DR. 

TO    LODGE    DUtiS    FOR    THE    YEAR     1878. 


NO.  DUES. 


Bodley i 

Equalit)- 2 

Harmony 3 

Springrield 4 

Friendship 7 

Macon 8 

Rushville 9 

St.  John 13 

Warren 14 

Peoria IS 

Temperance 16 

Macomb 17 

Clinton 19 

Hancocli 20 

Cass 23 

St.  Clair 24 

Franklin 25 

Hiram 26 

Piasa I  27 

Pekin |  29 

Mt.  Vernon 31 

Oriental !  33 

Barry 34 

Charleston I  35 

Kavanaugh I  36 

Monmouth 37 

Olive  Branch 38 

Herman ;  39 

Occidental 40 

Mt.  Joliet 42 

Blooming^ton 43 

Hardin 44 

Griggsville 45 

Temple 46 

Caledonia ,  47 

Unity 48 

Cambridge I  49 

Carrollton 50 

Mt.  Moruih 51 

Benevolent 5^ 

Jackson 53 

Reclamation 54 

Washington 55 

Pittsfield 56 

Trio 57 

Fraternal |  58 

New  Boston [  59 

Belvidere j  60 

Lacon 61 

St.  Marks 1  63 

Benton ]  64 

Knoxville i  66 

Acacia |  67 

Naples ;  68 


l73  50 
19  50 

75  00 
89  25 
87  00 

loi  25 
49  5° 
47^5 
25  5° 

130  50 

5625 

76  50 
96  75 
.50  25 
47  25 
55  SO 

45  75 
27  00 
89  25 
33  75 
52  50 

202  50 
64  50 
52  SO 
37  SO 
6q  00 
1 16  25 
47  ^5 
loo  50 
12.^  75 
128  25 
75  °" 
41  25 
93  75 
iS  00 
31  SO 

47  25 

77  25 
71  75 

46  50 

48  75 
36  75 
44  25 
69  75 

144  00 

Sfi  25 
48  00 
66  75 
.•?6  75 
73  50 
46  so 
44  25 
57  75 
21  75 


Eureka , 

Social 

Central 

Chester 

Kockton 

Roscoe 

Mt.  Nebo 

Prairie 

Waukegan 

Scott 

Whitehall 

Vitruvius 

Metamora 

Dewitt 

Mitchell 

Kaskaskia 

Mt.  Pulaski 

Havana 

Fellowship 

Jerusalem  Temple 

Metropolis 

Stewart 

Toulon 

Perry 

Excelsior 

Taylor 

Edwardsville 

Astoria 

Rockford 

Magnolia 

Lewiston 

Winchester 

Versailles 

Trenton 

Lebanon  

Jonesboro 

Bureau 

Robert  Burns 

Marcelline 

Rising  Sun 

Vermont 

Elgin 

Waverly 

Henry 

Mound 

Oquawka 

Cedar  

Greenup 

Empire 

Antioch 

Raleigh 

Greenfield 

Marion 

Golconda 


NO.  DUES 


69 

$27  00 

70 

27  75 

7' 

53  25 

72 

45  75 

74 

36  75 

75 

54  00 

76 

58  so 

77 

S3  25 

78 

847s 

79 

30  75 

So 

75  75 

81 

30  00 

82 

18  75 

84 

85.50 

^5 

36  75 

86 

43  50 

87 

39  75 

88 

65  25 

89 

54  75 

90 

147  00 

9> 

57  75 

92 

45  75 

93 

47  25 

95 

51  00 

97 

76  50 

98 

39  75 

99 

04  50 

100 

48  00 

102 

131  25 

J  03 

37  50 

104 

45  75 

105 

53  25 

108 

31  SO 

109 

39  75 

no 

51  00 

III 

35  25 

112 

95  25 

113 

33  75 

114 

28  50 

I '5 

28  so 

116 

54  75 

"7 

74  25 

118 

42  00 

119 

2:  00 

122 

81  75 

■23 

35  25 

124 

84  00 

125 

2i  00 

126 

39  75 

127 

33  75 

128 

27  00 

I2Q 

43  50 

130 

4875 

'3' 

44  25 

56 


I'ROCELDINGS    OF    THE 


[Oct.    I, 


LODGE    DUES    FOR    THE    YEAR     I S7S — Co/lUnucd. 


Mackinaw 

Marshall 

Sycamoi  L- 

Lima 

Hutsonvill     ... 

Marenffo 

Genev:i 

Olney 

Garden  Cil    . . . 

Amcf 

RichmontI 

DeKalh 

A.  \V.  Rawsoi: 

Lee  Centr'- 

Clayton 

BloonifieKI  . . . . 

Effingham 

Vienna 

Bunker  Hili... 

Fidelilv 

Clay..: 

Russell 

Alpha 

Delevaii 

Urbana  

McHenij 

Wethersfiel..    .. 
Waubansi.i  .  . . . 

Virden  

Hope    

VVestfieKi 

Edward  Dobbii 

Atlanta 

Star  in  the  Ea- 

Milfonl    

Nund 

Evergreen  . . . . 

Girard        

WayuL-   

Cherry  Vallr> 

Lena 

Mendola 

Illinois  Central 

Wabash 

Moweaqua  . . . . 

German!  a 

Meridian 

Abingdon 

Mystic  Tk 

Cyrut 

Fulton  Cits 

Dundee  

Farmingtoii  . . . 

Herrick    

Freedom 

La  Harpu 

Louisville 

King  Solomon' 
Grandview  . . . . 

Homer 

Sheba   

Centralia 

Lavely 

Flora  

Corinthian 


73 
74 
76 
78 
79 
80 
82 
83 
85 
87 
88 
89 

yO 
9^ 
93 
94 
95 
96 
97 
98 
99 
200 
201 
203 
204 
20S 


$28  SO 

46  so 
103  5° 

34  50 
24  00 

54  75 
33  00 
66  75 

'39  50 

48  7S 

44  -S 
76  SO 

35  25 
26  25 

53  25 
56  so 
3825 

47  25 

45  00 

46  SO 
24  00 

28  So 
III  00 

5'  75 
83  25 

29  25 
59  25 

^^i  75 
5'  75 
41  25 
26  25 
26  25 

30  75 
no  25 

29  25 
38  25 

8775 
00  75 
20  25 
3^  25 

54  75 
90  00 
72  00 

32  25 

43  50 
124  50 

37  50 
28  so 
41  25 

44  25 
70  50 

31  5° 

47  25 
24  75 

33  00 
8775 

35  25 
4'  25 
28  50 
33  00 

36  75 
75  75 
40  50 

32  25 
36  75 


Fairfield   

Tamar   a 

Wilmingto.; 

Wm.  B.  \\  am  n    

Lincoln 

Clevelaiui    

Shipman   

Ipa\  a 

Gillesi)u 

Newton   

Mason 

New  Sail  n 

Oakland    

Mahomi  ' 

LeRo}   

Geo.  Washingl.  M 

Keener  

Pana  .' 

Columbi . . 

Lovingtd      

ManchesU  1 

New  HavL  1    

Wyanet    

Blandinsvil..   

DuQuoin 

Dallas  Cil    

Charter  0,.k 

Cairo    

Mt.  Carn..  I 

Western  St    

Shekina'   

Galva    I  243 

Horicun 244 

Green vi II      '  245 

E I  Paso    !  246 


206 
207 
20S 
20Q 
210 

211 
212 
213 
214 
216 
217 
218 
219 
220 
221 
222 
223 
226 
227 
228 
229 
230 
231 
233 
234 
23s 
236 

237 
239 
240 
241 


Rob  Mori  1 
Golden  Ga  i  . . . 

Hibbard 

Robinsfi;    

Heywortli 

Aledo   

Avon   Harmon 

Aurora   

Donnelsi'      . . . . 

Algonqnii 

Warsaw 

Chemunij 

Mattorn    

Amor 

Ch an n alien  .  . . 

lUinoi , , 

Franklin  Gro\  . 

Vermilion 

Kingston 

La  Prairi 

Pans 

Wheatoi 

Levi  Lu:  k 

Blancv 

Carnii 

Miners  

Byron 

Milton 

Elizabell' 

Accordia 


247 
248 
249 
250 

251 
252 
253 
254 
255 
256 
257 
25S 
260 
261 
262 
263 
264 
26s 
266 
267 
268 
269 
270 
271 
272 
273 
274 
275 
276 
277 


36  75 
25  50 
72  00 

121  so 
60  75 

301  5° 

2y  25 

45  75 
J875 

35  25 

27  00 
382s 
48  00 

39  00 
42  00 

36  00 
21  00 
36  00 

28  So 

35  25 
16  25 

23  25 

29  25 

39  00 

42  00 

44  25 
68  25 
85  50 
44  75 
85  50 
53  25 

43  25 

56  25 

43  SO 
64  50 

44  25 

32  25 

48  00 

34  50 

47  25 

45  75 
39  00 
So  25 

24  00 
21  00 

33  00 

23  75 
7875 

48  00 
32  25 

49  SO 
45  00 

34  SO 
43  50 
28  so 
93  75 
39  75 

35  25 
112  50 

45  00 
60  75 
20  25 

57  75 

24  00 
5850 


IS7S.] 


GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


57 


LODGE  DUES  FOR  THE  YEAR   1S7S — Continued. 


Jo  Daviess 

Neoga  

Kansas 

Brooklyn 

Meteor 

Catlin 

I'lyinouth 

De  Soto 

Genoa 

Wataga    

Chenoa    

Prophel>t(>\vn  . . . 

Pontiac 

Dills  

Qiiincy 

Benjamin 

V\  aconda 

Mechanicsbiiri;  . 

Hanover 

Corlland 

Durand 

Raven    

Cenienl 

Onarsa 

\V.  C.  Hobb?.... 

T.  J.  Pickett 

Ashlar   

I larvard    

Dearborn 

Kilwinning  .     . . . 

Ionic 

York 

Palatine 

Erwin 

Abraham  Jonas  . 
J.  L.  Anderson. . 

Doric 

Malta 

Dunlap 

Windsor. 

Orient 

Harrisburg 

Grafton 

Altona 

Tuscola 

Tyrian 

Sumner 

Schiller 

New  Columbia  . . 

Oneida 

Kedron    

Full  Moon 

Siimmcrtield  . .  .  . 

Wenona 

MilledgeviUe  .... 

N.  D.  .Morse 

Sidney 

Russellville 

Sublette 

Fairview 

Tarbolton 

CJroveland    

Kinderhook 

Ark  and  Anchor. 
Marine 


*8 


278 
279 
2S0 
2S2 
2S3 

2SS 

2S6 

2S7 

2SS 

291 

292 

294 

29.'; 
296 

297 

29S 

299 
300 
301 
302 
303 
304 

3<).S 
306 
307 
30S 
309 
310 
311 
312 
313 
314 
3iS 
316 
3iS 
319 
320 
321 

3i2 

32.'; 
32S 
3.30 

3.« 
334 
335 
33O 
337 
3»o 
34' 
343 
3M 
3f.'; 
34'' 
347 
3tS 
3t9 
ISO 
3.SI 
3.S2 
3.53 
354 
355 


?7S  00 

39  00 

47  50 
30  00 
69  00 

44  25 
32  25 
27  75 
43  so 
25  50 

40  SO 
63  00 
59  25 
25  50 
Si  75 
39  00 

36  00 
21  00 

18  00 
'9  50 

37  50 
^2'    25 

30  00 

36  75 
I?,  00 
f>5  25 

172  50 

63  75 

98  25 

''J3  .50 

67  50 

37  .50 

38  25 
25  so 
'5  75 

48  7S 
74  25 
27  75 
57  00 
55  SO 
21  00 
55  50 

20  25 

31  50 
91  .50 
76  50 
52  50 
52  SO 

32  25 

45  00 
29  25 

39  75 

21  00 

7,1   75 

29  25 

30  00 

19  50 
IS  00 
25  50 

41  25 
7875 
23  25 
27  00 
5'^  25 
36  00 


Hermitage 

Orion 

Blackberry 

Princeville 

Douglas    

Noble 

Horeb 

Tonica 

Bement 

Areola 

Oxford  

Jefferson 

I.,ivingston 

Galesburg 

Chambersburg 

Shabbona    

Archimedes 

Aroma 

Payson 

Liberty   

M.  R.  Thompson. 

Gill 

LaMoille 

Waltham 

Mississippi 

Bridgeport 

Youngstown 

El  Dara 

Kankakee 

Ashmore 

Tolono 

Oconee 

Blair 

Jerseyville 

H.  G    Reynolds  . . 

Muddy   Point 

Shiloh    

Kinmundy 

Buda 

Pacific 

Odell 

Kishwaukee   

Mason  City 

Batavia 

Ramsey 

Bethalto    

Stratton 

Thos.  J.  Turner  . . 

Mithra 

Hesperia 

Bollen    

Evening  Star 

Lawn  Ridge 

Paxton 

Marseilles 

Freeburg 

ReynoldsTjurg  . . . . 

Oregon 

Washburn    

Landmark 

Exeter 

Kaneville    

Scottville    

Red  Mud 

Sunbeam  


356 
358 
.3S9 
3^0 
.361 
362 

3'^4 
3f'5 
,36rt 
3'-'? 
3'^S 
371 
372 
373 
374 
377 
378 
379 
380 
3S1 
3S2 
383 
384 
385 
386 
387 
3SS 
389 
390 
.391 
392 
393 
.394 
39S 
396 
397 
3';S 

3W 
400 
401 
402 
403 
404 
405 
40(1 
40S 
409 
410 

411 
412 

414 
415 
416 

4'7 
418 
419 
420 
421 
422 
424 

425 
426 
427 
428 


$42  00 

21  00 

14  25 

25  50 

38  25 

33  00 

56  25 

24  75 

53  25 

37  50 

37  50 

23  25 

42  75 

70  50 

27  00 

27  00 

42  75 

20  25 

35  25 

30  00 

55  50 

26  25 

34  SO 

35  25 

23  25 

21  75 

34  50 

30  75 

69  00 

21  75 

29  25 

23  25 

129  00 

64  so 

21  00 

33  00 

19  SO 

32  25 

39  00 

34  SO 

39  00 

26  25 

7'  25 

67  so 

33  00 

IS  75 

45  75 

92  25 

«4  7S 

165  75 

29  25 

34  50 

21  00 

30  00 

36  75 

36  00 

42  00 

34  50 

1S75 

86  25 

24  00 

'7  25 

36  00 

25  so 

46  50 

58 


PROCEEDINGS    OP'    THE 


[Oct. 


LuDGE   DUES   FOR   THE   YEAR    1S7S — Continued. 


I 

Chebanse 429  $4050    1 

Summit 431  2925 

Murrayville     432  33  00 

Annawan 433  2400 

Makanda    434  4S  00 

Neponset    435  2100 

Philo 430  48  7S 

Chicago 437  132  00 

Luce 439  57  75 

Camarg^o I  440  45  00 

Sparland 1  441  26  25 

Casey 442  35  25 

Hampshire 443  75  5° 

Cave-in-Rock 444  27  75 

Chesterfield ' 445  35  ^5 

Watseka 446  49  5° 

S.D.Monroe 447  2550 

Yates  City   448  46  50 

Mendon 449  42  00 

Loami 45°  4050 

Grant 452  27  00 

New  Hartford 453  2400 

Maroa 454  59  25 

Irving 455  3'  5° 

Nokomis 456  34  5° 

Moscow 457  3075 

Blazing  Star 458  3900 

Butler 459  23  25 

J  effersonville 460  16  50 

Plainview 461  1425 

Treniont j  462  20  25 

Palmyra 463  37  50 

Dens-er 464  2775 

Huntsville 465  45  00 

Cobden 466  31  50 

South  Macon 467  53  25 

McLean 469  iS  75 

Rantoul I  470  25  50 

Kendall 471  27  75 

Amity 472  4°  5° 

Gordon 1  473  2400 

Columbia |  474  31  50 

Walshville 475  24  75 

Manilo 476  1650 

New  Rutland ,  477  20  25 

Pleiades 47S  170  25 

Wyoming 479  63  75 

Logan 480  57  00 

Momence 481  35  25 

Lexington 482  39  75 

Edgewood 484  18  75 

Oskaloosa 485  975 

Bowen 486  1050 

Clav  Citv 48S  2550 

Cooper 489    ,      2100 

Shannon 490  21  75 

Martin 491  35  25 

Libertyville 492  *  32  25 

Tower  Hill 493  2250 

Bath 494  33  00 

Stone  Fort 49S  49  5° 

Tennessee 496  30  75 

Alma 497  36  75 

Murphysboro 498  51  00 

SaintPaul I  500     |      2925 


Stark 

Woodhull 

Odin 

East  St.  Louis 

Meridian  Sun 

O.  H.  Miner 

Home 

Parkersburg   

J.  D.  Moody 

Clinton  ville 

Wade  Barney 

Cold  Spring 

Bradford 

Dement 

Andalusia    

Litchfield 

Abraham  Lincoln    

Roseville 

Anna 

Illiopolis 

Monitor    

Evans 

Delia 

Covenant 

Rossville 

Minooka  

Adams 

Maquon    

Ashton 

Seneca  

Altaniont  

Cuba 

Sherman 

Plainfield 

J.  R.  Gorin 

Lockport 

Chatsworth 

Harlem 

Sigel  

Towanda  

Cordova 

Virginia 

Elkhart 

Valley  

Apple  River  

Sharon 

Darwin 

Ancona 

Humboldt    

Dawson    

Lessing     

Leland 

Thompson   

Madison 

Trinitv 

Villa  Ridge 

Hamilton 

Winslow 

Pleasant  Hill 

Albany 

Jacksonville    

Bardolph 

Gardner    I  573 

Pera  ...   574 

Capron I  575 


50 « 
502 
503 
504 
505 
qo6 
50S 
509 
510 

5" 
512 

513 

SH 
5>5 
516 
517 
51S 
S'9 
5^0 


524 

525 

5^6 

527 

52S 

529 

530 

S3« 

53^ 

533 

534 

535 

536 

537 

538 

539 

540 

54' 

542 

543 

544 

545 

547 

548 

55° 

55' 

552 

555 

556 

557 

SS8 

559 

560 

561 

562 

563 

564 

565 

566 


?2i  75 
35  25 
.W  75 
44  25 
50  25 
32  25- 

"75  50 
25  50 
3'  SO 
25  50 
9'  50 

14  25 

44  2S 
37  50 

15  75 
40  50 

32  25 
34  50 
28  50 
27  00 
8^  00 

75  75 

20  2^ 

■84  50 
34  50 
27  00 

21  50 
^o  50 
'8  75 
30  75 

45  75 
3825 

32  25 
39  75 
39  00 
54  00 
27  00 
43  50 

16  so 

20  25 
18  00 

22  so 
24  00 
34  50 
3825 

33  00 

16  so 

21  00 
27  00 
4'  25 
52  50 
24  00 
3'  SO 
37  SO 
48  00 

17  25 
24  75 
30  75 
39  00 
32  25 
67  so 
34  SO 
43  SO 
iS  00 
37  SO 


878.] 


GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


59 


LODGH     DUES    FOR    THE    YEAR     1 87S — Cont'im^ed. 


O'Fallon 576 

Viola j  577 

Prairie  City ...    578 

Elbridge ]  579 

Hazel  Dell 580 

Dongola !  581 

'"■  •  '  sSi 

583 
584 
58s 
S87 
588 
589 
59° 
592 
S9S 
596 
597 
598 
599 
600 
601 
6oi 


Shirle)' 

Highland     . 

Vesper 

Fisher    

Princeton  . . 

Troy 

Elwood 

Fairmount  . 

Fieldon 

Miles  Hart . 

National 

Lostant.  . . . 

Dorchester  . 

Fowler 

Cerro  Gordo 

Laclede  .... 

Watson 

Clark '. 603 

Hebron 1  604 

Allen 60S 

607 
60S 
609 
610 
611 
612 
613 
614 
616 
617 
618 
619 
620 
621 


Streator  . 

Piper 

Sheldon 

Union  Park. . . 
Lincoln  Park. 
Rock  River. . . 

Patoka 

Forrest 

Wadley 

Milan 

Basco   

Berwick 

New  Hope  . . . 
Venice 


Hopedale I  622 

624 
O27 
630 

63' 
632 

634 
^iS 
636 
638 
'■'39 
641 
642 

643 
644 

645 
646 
647 
648 
649 
650 

65- 
652 

653 


Dubois 

Union 

Tuscan 

Norton 

Ridge  b  arm  .  . 
E.  F.  W.  Elhb 

Buckley 

Rochester.  . . . 

Peotone    

Fortitude 

Keystone 

Comet 

Apollo 

D.  C.  Cregier. 
Oblong  City  . . 

San  Jose 

Somonauk . . . . 

Blueville 

Camden 

Hinsdale 

Irvington 

Centre  Star. .. 

Polar  Star 

Greenview  ... 


I33  00 
30  00 
32  25 

32  25 
28  50 

23  25 

27  00 

28  50 

73  SO 

28  50 

38  25 
27  75 
18  00 

30  75 

35  25 

39  0° 

78  00 
21  75 

13  50 

14  25 

33  00 

17  25 
>S  7? 
27  75 
32  25 
21  00 

79  SO 

36  00 

31  50 
52  SO 
83  25 
90  00 
35  25 

29  25 

18  75 

27  75 
21  75 

28  50 

27  75 
12  OJ 
26  25 
12  00 

20  25 

21  00 

24  00 

28  so 
75  75 
43  SO 


20  25 
58  SO 
36  00 

III  75 
87  75 
30  00 
20  25 
30  00 
26  25 

,54  00 
18  75 
'7  25 
22  SO 
J9  50 
34  50 


Yorktown 

Mozart 

Lafayette 

Rock  Island 

Lambert 

Grand  Cham  . . . 

Bethesda 

South  Park 

Phenix 

Mayo 

Greenlaiiu    

Crawford , 

Erie 

Burnt  Prairie 

Herder 

Fillmore 

Farina 

Eddyville 

Normal 

Waldeck 

Pa^vnee 

A.  O.  Fay 

Enfield 

Sheffield  

Illinois  City . 

Clement 

MorrisonvUle. . . 

Blue  Mound 

Burnside 

Galatia    

Rio 

D.  A.  Cashman  . 

Orangeville 

Clifton 

EnglewooU 

lola 

Rayiiioiia 

Herrin's  Prairie. 

».  entre 

ShilohHiU 

Beile  Rive 

Richard  Cole. .. 

Hutton 

Pleasant  ±-laia.,. , 

Temple  Hill 

Alexandria , 

St.  Andrews  . . . . 

Braidwood 

Ewing 

Joppa 

Circle 

Lemont 

Star , 

Farmer   Cily  . . . . 

Providence 

CoUinsville 

JohnsonviUe  . .  . . 

Newtown 

Elvaston 

Calumet 

Luinberniau's     . . 

May 

Chapel  rlili 

Varna 

Rome     


655 

I3675 

650 

27  75 

057 

13  5° 

6s8 

54  00 

059 

44  2S 

600 

20  2S 

661 

14  25 

662 

36  00 

663 

21  00 

664 

'S  75 

005 

19  SO 

666 

IS  00 

667 

27  00 

668 

24  75 

669 

60  7S 

670 

42  75 

671 

12  75 

672 

a   75 

673 

iS  00 

674 

62  25 

675 

34  SO 

670 

29  25 

677 

27  00 

678 

18  00 

679 

26  25 

680 

i8  00 

68i 

33  75 

682 

40  SO 

6S3 

24  00 

684 

27  00 

6S5 

i^  25 

686 

no  25 

6S7 

24  00 

688 

24  75 

690 

70  50 

(X,I 

15  75 

692 

29  25 

693 

23  25 

694 

JO  50 

695 

29  25 

696 

30  75 

697 

63  75 

69S 

31  SO 

700 

33  75 

701 

24  00 

702 

33  00 

703 

14  25 

704 

57  7S 

70s 

21  75 

706 

13  50 

707 

60  75 

708 

■7  -'5 

709 

Si  75 

710 

49  50 

711 

31  50 

712 

33  75 

713 

24  00 

714 

35  25 

715 

20  25 

716 

a   00 

717 

5-3  25 

718 

16  50 

719 

26  .iS 

720 

19  SO 

721 

'9  50 

6o 


PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE 


[Oct.  I, 


LODGE   DUES   FOR   THE   YEAR    1S78 — Continued. 


Walnut. 

Omaha 723 

Chamllerville '  724 

Rankin !  725 

^      -        -  726 

727 
72S 
729 
730 
731 
732 
734 
735 


Golden  Rule 
Raritan.  .  . 
Waterman  . 
Lake  Creek. 
Eldorado.  . . 

Harbor 

Carman  .... 

Canton 

Sheridan  ... 

Dennison 736 

Arrowsmith    1  737 

Sullivan  Center ;  738 

Lakeside I  739 

Grant  Park I  740 


$2S    SO 

23  25 

26  25 

19  so 
51  75 
28  50 
26  25 
21  00 

18    2S 

20  00 
18   00 

73  SO 
23  25 
187s 

17   2S 

'S  75 
Sf>  25 
26  25 


New  Holland 
Danvers  .... 
Scott  Land. . 

Goode   

Winnebago. . 

Weldon     . 

Centennial  . . 

Alta 

Akin 

Lyndon  

Lounsbury  . . 
Allendale. . . . 

Cornell 

Ogden 

Pre-emption. 
Mystic  Star. . 
Hardinsville. 
Verona   


741 

742 

743 
744 
745 
746 
747 
748 
749 
750 
751 
752 
753 
754 
755 
U.  D. 


.f  iS  GO 

14  25 

15  00 
20  21; 

187s 

12  75 
18  00 
12  00 

15  75 
24  00 
20  25 
12  00 

12  75 

16  so 

IS  75 
9  75 
I  SO 

ID  so 


DUES    OF     1S77. 


Pekin 29 

Mt.  Joliet 42 

St.    Marks 63 

Prairie 77 

Whitehall 80 

Kaskaskia 86 

Geneva 139 

Matteson 175 

Mendota 176 

Louisville 196 

King-  Solomon's 197 

Duquoin 234 

Chemung 2s8 

Kingston 266 

Xeoga 279 

DeSoto 2S7 

Wauconda 29S 

Harrisburg 325 

Mount  Erie 331 

Kedron    340 

Sublette j  349 

Orion 358 

Ulackberry I  359 

Horeb I  463 

Livingston 371 

Muddy   Point 396 

Ramsey I  405 

.  Annawan i  433 

Cobden 466 

Manito ■  476 


3  00 

iiS  SO 

84  75 

75 

75 

I  so 

39  75 

114  00 

12  00 

75 

75 

75 

75 

6  75 

I  50 

29  25 

I  SO 

55  SO 

21  75 

32  25 

75 

24  00 

17  25 

75 

75 

i^  00 

3  00 

75 

3  00 

iS  75 


Cooper  

Murphysboro    . 

Odin 

Meridian    bun 
Clintonville. . . . 

Bradford 

Adams 

Maquon    

J.  R.  Gorin.  . .  . 

Towanda    

Cordova   

Virginia    

Trinity 

Villa  Ridge.... 

Time 

Peru   

Elbridge 

Hazel  Dell  .... 
Fairmount  .  . . . 
Cerro  Gordo  .  . 

Clark 

Wadley . 

Basco 

Apollo 

Hutton 

Temple  Hill    . . 

Circle    

Chapel  Hill 

Omaha 

Lake  Creek  . . . 


489 
498 
S03 
505 
5" 
5 '4 
529 
.530 
537 
542 
.543 
544 
S61 
562 
569 
574 
579 
580 

590 
600 
603 
fti6 
618 
.642 
698 
701 


719 
723 
729 


25  so 

75 

(> 

25 

3 

00 

23 

25 

V,~i 

75 

I 

';o 

36 

75 

21 

00 

17 

25 

75 

54 

75 

75 

15 

00 

3 

00 

3 

00 

75 

75 

I 

^o 

75 

19  50 

75 

5 

25 

75 

75 

3 

00 

7S 

I 

50 

75 

DUES    OF     1876. 


Mt.  Joliet  42 

Fayette   107 


124  00 
9  SO 


Cooper    [  4S9 

Dorchester 598 


26  25 
IS  00 


1878.] 


GRAND    LODGE    OF     ILLINOIS. 


MISCELLANEOUS. 


Dispensation  for  Verona  Lodge,  U.  D 

Dispensation  fees  from  G.  M.  Robbins 

Interest  on  note  of  A.  F.  Pool 

24  copies  ceremonials,  at  $1.00  each 

I  copy  proceedings 

Ten  per  cent,  dividend  from  estate  of  A.  A.  Glenn. 


.flOO   00 

346   GO 

49t  ^0 

24  00 

75 

1,506  05 

•f2,4- 

■I  00 

RECAPITULATION. 

To  dues  for  1S7S $28,074  75 

"       "       "     1S77 ',07875 

"       "       "     "S76 17475 

"    Miscellaneou.s 2,471  00 


CHARITY    FUND. 


To  dues  from  members  of  No.  594. 
438- 
654- 
191. 

637- 
546- 


Balance  from  Nilwood  Lodge,  No.  546. . . 

"  "       Rurlington  Lodge,  No.  637 

Received  for  certifying  diplomas 


.>  2  00 
10  00 
•  50 
3  85 
8  50 
6  00 

2  75 
93  25 
67  00 


.fi94  S5 


Jan'y  5 
June  12 
Sept.  10, 
"  16 
"  21 
Oct.      I 


Rv  cash  paid  Acting  Grand  Treasurer  Robbins 
"         "      Grand  Treasurer  Miner 


■t  600  27 
1,506  05 
2,000  00 
3,000  00 
15,600  00 
5,4-8  93 
2,141  98 
1,522  02 


CHARITY    FUND. 


Oct.       I.     By  cash  paid  Grand  Treasurer  Miner  , 


Total 


?i94  85 


^•194  85 
S3',994  10 


62  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct.  I, 

REPOET  OF  GRAND  TREASURER— Yellow  Fever  Fund. 

R.  W.  Bro.  Miner,  G.  T.,  submitted  a  report  ot  contributions 
received  in  aid  of  sufferers  from  yellow  fever  in  the  South,  in 
response  to  the  circular  issued  by  the  Grand  Master.  Report 
received  and  ordered  to  be  j^rinted  with  the  proceedings.  (See 
Appendix.) 

M.  W.  Bro.  D.  C.  Ckegier  also  submitted  a  report  of  amount 
contributed  by  the  Masons  of  Chicago  for  that  purpose,  which  was 
ordered  to  be  printed  with  the  proceedings.     (See  Appendix.) 

REPORT— Committee  on  Chartered  Lodges. 

W.  Bro.  Kirkpatrick,  from  the  Committee  on  Chartered 
Lodges,  submitted  the  following  report,  which  was  adopted : 

Chicago,  III.,  Oct.  i,  1878. 
To  the  M.   W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.: 

Your  Committee  on  Chartered  Lodges  would  respectfully  submit  the  fol- 
lowing report : 

We  have  examined  the  reports  of  all  subordinate  lodges  placed  in  our 
hands  up  to  the  present  time. 

Whilst  your  committee  is  gratified  to  find  a  marked  improvement  in  the 
reports  of  lodges  over  former  years,  we  are  compelled  to  note  an  unusually 
large  decrease  in  the  membership. 

We  herewith  present  a  tabulated  statement  as  follows: 

Total  membership 38,616 

Initiated  during  the  year 1,607 

Passed           "         "       " i,535 

Raised           "         "       «< 1,550 

Admitted     "         "       " 723 

Restored      "         <'       '< 295 

Non-affiliated 1,335 

Dimitted 1,482 

Deceased 472 

Rejected ...  470 

Suspended i)442 

Expelled 64 

Showing  a  net  decrease  of 770 

The  following  lodges  have  failed  to  make  reports  in  accordance  with 
Article  25,  Sees,  i,  2  and  3,  Grand  Lodge  By  Laws,  which  requires  all  subor- 
dinate lodges  to  pay  Grand  Lodge  dues  on  or  before  the  20th  of  September: 


iSyS.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  63 


Nos.  7,  16,  19,  26,  40,  42,  43,  47,  51,53,56,57,  64,65,  72,  84,  90,92,  96,  100,  106, 
107,  108,  122,  12S,  130,  133,  134,  137,  138,  139,  141,  146,  175,  177,  i8i,  182,  187, 
1S9,  192,  194,  204,  2  6,  209,  210,  217,  222,  226,  227,  228,  232,  236,  238,  243, 
246,  247,  250,  251,  255,  25S,  261,  263,  280,  2S7,  298,  299,  306,  310,  311,  313, 
316,  317,  318,  322,  325,  327,  331,  332,  338,  339,  352,  356,  361,  369,  378,  380, 
3S1,  386,  394,  407,  409,  410,  411,  416,  422,  423,  425,  430,  435,  440,  446,  450, 
451.  458)  463*  468,  476,  478,  480,  483,  4S5,  487,  494,  496,  519,  522,  527,  528, 
533.  536,  537,  541.  549.  55°,  554.  555.  557.  559.  560,  564,  567,  569,  574,  575, 
578,  582,  591,  592,  600,  605,  608,  610,  611,  623,  628,  635,  638,  642,  643,  648, 
649,  654,  660,  662,  663,  666,  669,  671,  674,  675,  678,  681,  683,  687,  6SS,  CS9, 
693.  706,  717,  72S. 

The  following  lodges  have  made  no  reports:  Nos.  65,  96,  107,  175,  iSr, 
232.  317,  3-7.  339,  379.  416,  46S,  569,  591,  628,  654,  660,  684,  693,  728. 

The. following  lodges  have  made  returns,  but  paid  no  dues:  Nos.  106, 
238,  331.  369.  407,  430,  451.  483.  487.  523.  623,  733. 

Your  committee  would  ask  leave  to  ainend  this  report  during  the  sitting 
of  this  Grand  Lodge. 

Fraternally  submitted. 

C.    KiRKPATRICK,  "1 

S.  S.  Chance,  | 

Rodney  Ashley,  I^  Covimittee. 

J.    L.    McCULLOUI.H,        I 

Jas.  C.  McMurtry,    J 

The  Committee  on  Mileage  and  Per  Diem  asked  instiuctions 
in  regard  to  listing  the  names  of  those  representatives  in  attend- 
ance whose  lodges  had  failed  to  pay  their  dues  in  accordance  with 
Sections  i,  2  and  3,  Article  25,  Part  2,  Grand  Lodge   By-Laws, 

The  Grand  Master  ruled: 

That  to  entertain  the  motion  to  excuse  would  be  to  assume  that  the  for- 
feiture of  mileage  and  per  diem,  threatened  in  Sec.  3,  Article  25,  was  con- 
ditioned on  failure  to  pay  on  or  before  the  20th  of  September;  whereas,  it 
was  conditioned  on  failure  to  pay  at  all;  and  that  if  the  dues  of  a  lodge  have 
been  paid  for  the  current  year,  the  law  has  been  sufficiently  complied  with 
to  authorize  the  Committee  on  Mileage  and  Per  Diem  to  issue  its  certificate 
to  its  representative;  that  the  penalty  threatened  for  delinquency  beyond  the 
20th  of  September,  is  not  forfeiture  of  mileage  and  per  diem,  but  deprivation 
of  representation  ;  but  that  so  long  as  a  lodge  is  in  possession  of  an  unrevoked 
charter,  its  constitutional  and  inherent  right  to  representation  in  this  body 
cannot  be  denied. 

REPORT— Committee  on  firand  Master's  Report. 

W.  Bro.  Bu:«,TON  submitted  the  report  of  the  Committee  on 
Grand  Master's  Report,  which  was  received  and  adopted,  and  the 
several  recommendations  concurred  in. 


64  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct.   I, 


To  the  M.   W.   Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.: 

The  committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  Address  of  the  M.  W.  Grand 
Master,  respectfully  report  that  they  have  considered  the  same  and  recom- 
mend that  the  parts  thereof  relating  to  the  following  subjects  be  referred  to 
committees  as  follows: 

To  Committee  on  Obituaries:      All    which  relates  to  deceased  brethren. 

To  Committee  on  Chartered  Lodges :  All  which  relates  to  constituted 
lodges. 

To  Committee  on  Lodges  U.  D.:  All  which  relates  to  dispensations 
granted  to  form  new  lodges. 

To  Finance  Coirimittee:  All  which  relates  to  R.  W.  Grand  Treasurer, 
to  dispensations  for  advancement  of  candidates,  elections,  installations,  etc. 

To  Committee  on  Masonic  Jurisprudence:  All  which  relates  to  Yates 
City  Lodge,  to  irregular  work  and  business,  to  unlawful  suspensions  and 
expulsions,  trespass  and  conflict  of  jurisdiction. 

Your  committee  specially  commend  the  action  of  our  M.  W.  Grand  Mas- 
ter in  refusing  to  recognize  as  a  Masonic  body  the  Grand  Orient  of  Spain. 
His  reasons  for  such  action  are  clear  and  convincing,  and  prove  that  it  is  a 
body  which  entirely  disregards  the  ancient  landmarks  of  our  order,  and 
thereby  places  itself  without  the  pale  of  our  Masonic  family. 

Your  committee  have  briefly  noticed  some  of  the  more  important  points 
of  the  Grand  Master's  Address,  and  referred  them  to  appropriate  coinmit- 
tees ;  at  the  same  time  they  commend  it  to  the  craft  as  a  most  valuable  con- 
tribution to  Masonic  literature,  replete  with  important  decisions  and 
profitable  instruction. 

In  view  of  the  many  subjects  embraced  in  the  annual  report  of  the  Grand 
Master,  and  the  importance  of  having  the  matters  therein  discussed,  in  the 
hands  of  the  several  committees,  in  convenient  form  for  use  during  the 
session  of  the  (irand  Lodge,  we  recommend  that  provision  be  made  for 
printing  the  same,  hereafter,  in  advance  of  its  delivery. 

Respectfully  submitted. 

H.  P.  Buxton,  \  * 

Albert  Demari  e,  \  Committee. 

E.  B.  Buck,  j 

IIEPOIIT— Coiiiinittee  on  Lodfjes  Uudor  Dispeusatioii. 

R.  VV.  Bro.  Zeigi-ER  submitted  the  report  of  the  Coniiiiittee 
on  Lodges  U.  D.,  which  was  received  and   adopted. 

To  the  M    W.   Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  cf-  A.  AL: 

Your  Committee  on  Lodges  Under  Dispensation,  who,  having  imder 
consideration  such  matters  as  have  been  submitted  to  them,  ask  leave  to 
fraternally  report : 


1878.] 


GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


Your  committee  take  pleasure  in  reporting  the  wisdom  of  the  Grand 
Master  in  restricting  the  hitherto  too  rapidly  increasing  number  of  new 
lodges,  to  the  issuance  of  only  three  dispensations. 

We  have  had  under  consideration  and  examined  the  returns,  work  and 
By-Laws  of  Hardinville,  Verona  and  Mystic  Star  Lodges,  and  find  them  in 
the  main  correct. 

The  returns  and  work  of  Hardinville  Lodge  are  good;  the  By-Laws  are 
the  authorized  Code.  The  returns  and  work  of  Verona  Lodge  are  fair  only, 
abounding  in  numerous  minor  mistakes,  which,  under  our  excellent  Code  of 
By-Laws,  a  school-boy  ought  to  be  able  to  avoid.  This  lodge  has  omitted  to 
send  to  this  Grand  Lodge  a  copy  of  its  By-Laws  for  inspection  and  approval. 
We  therefore  recommend  that  Verona  Lodge  be  ordered  to  forward  to  the 
Grand  Master  a  copy  of  its  By-Laws  for  his  inspection  and  approval. 

The  returns,  work  and  By-Laws  of  Mystic  Star  Lodge  give  credit  to  the 
officers  and  members  of  Mystic  Star,  and  might  well  serve  as  a  model  of 
good  work  and  true,  to  many  older  lodges. 

Your  committee  would  recommend  that  Charters  be  granted  to — 

Hardinville  Lodge as  Hardinville  Lodge,  No   756, 

Verona  Lodge as  Verona  Lodge,  No.  757, 

Mystic  Star  Lodge as  Mystic  Star  Lodge,  No.  758. 

All  of  which  is  fraternally  submitted. 

Louis  Zeigler,     ~l 

H.  G.  Cat.houx,   I 

Daniel  G,  Burr,  |-  Committee. 

Fred.  W.  Eads,     j 

Jos.  Holland,      J 

Tabular  Statement  accomfanving  the  report  of  the   Committee  on  Lodges 
Under  Dispensation. 


NAMES    OF    LODGES. 


Hardinsville ■  4 

Verona 32 

Mystic  Star 27 

Total I  63 


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66  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct.   I, 

AMENDMENTS— Rejetted. 

Bro.  Geo.  K.  Hazlitt  (211)  submitted  a  series  of  amendments 
to  the  Constitution  and  By-Laws  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  which 
were  not  seconded. 

W.   Bro.   Buck  (35)  offered  the  following  resolution: 

Resolved,  That  the  subject  of  Grand  Lodge  moneys  be  referred  to  a  com- 
mittee of  three,  to  report  prior  to  the  election  of  Grand  Officers  during  the 
present  session,  some  plan  of  securing  the  Grand  Lodge  against  loss. 

Upon  motion  of  R.  W.  Bro.  Pearson,  S.  G.  D.,  the  resolution 
was  referred  to  the  Finance  Committee. 

REPORT— Inditing  Comniittee. 
W.  Bro.  C.  F.  Tennev,   from    the    Auditing    Committee,  sub- 
mited  the  following  report,  which  was  adopted : 

To  the  M.   W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  d-  A.  M.: 

Your  committee  for  auditing  claims  against  this  Grand  Lodge  most  res- 
pectfully submit  the  following  report  of  their  transactions  for  the  current 
year : 

There  have  been  presented,  accompanied  by  the  proper  vouchers,  the  fol- 
lowing bills,  which  have  been  approved  and  certified  to  the  Grand  Secretary 
as  correct. 

Bill  of  Springfield  Printing  Co.,  for  1,500  copies  of  Ceremonials  .    .  $573  75 

Bill  of  D.  L.  Phillips  for  postage •    •    ■    .     164  34 

Bill  of  15ro.  Frank  Hudson  for  1,500  blank  returns So  00 

Total .    $818  09 

All  of  which  is  fraternally  submitted. 

Gil  W.  Barnard,') 

D.  A.  Casiiman,       y  Committee. 

C.  F.  Tknney,         J 

REPORT— Finance  Comniittee. 

R.  W.  Bro.  !•  C.  Smith,  Chairman  of  the  Finance  Committee, 
submitted  the  following  report,  whicli  was  received    and    adopted: 

To  the  M.    W.   Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  d-  A.  M.: 

Your  Committee  on  Finance  respectfully  ask  the  attention  of  this  Grand 
Lodge  to  the  valuable  services  rendered  by  Bro.  S.  W.  Waddle,  Chairman 
of  the  Committee  on  Mileage  and  Per  Diem,  in  preparing  the  schedules  of 
mileage  and  per  diem  orders  for  the  committee  during   the   recess  of  this 


iSyS.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  67 


Grand  Lodge.     We  respectfully  recommend  a  special   appropriation  of  $25 
to  Bro.  Waddle  for  this  extra  service. 

We  would  also  recommend  an  appropriation  of  $25  to  M.  W.  Bro. 
Dewitt  C.  Cregier,  for  special  services  in  preparing  the  funeral  ceremony 
authorized  at  the  last  session  of  this  Grand  Lodge. 

We  further  recommend  the  payment  to  members  of  coinmittees  at  this 
Grand  Communication,  of  $3  per  day  for  each  day's  services,  in  addition  to 
the  amount  allowed  b}-  the  By-Laws. 

To  R.  W.  Bro.  T.  T.  Gurney,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Foreign 
Correspondence,  we  would  respectfully  recommend  the  usual  appropriation 
of  $300. 

Fraternally  submitted. 

J.  C.  Smith,  ^ 

Tom  J.  Bronson,   >  Committee. 

E.  C.  Selleck,      J 

ELECTION— Made  Special  Order. 

Upon  motion  of  W.  Bro.  Thomas,  G.  S.  B.,  the  election  of 
Grand  officers  was  made  the  special  order  for  lO  o'clock  to-mor- 
row (Wednesday)  morning. 

AMENDMENT  TO  BY-LAWS— Proposed. 

M.  W.  Bro.  Cregier,  P.  G.  M.,  offered  the  following  amend- 
ment to  the  By-Laws,  which,  heing  duly  seconded,  lies  over  until 
the  Grand  Annual  Communication: 

Amend  Sec.  2,  Article  13,  Part  Second,  of  By-Laws,  by  adding:  "each 
member  of  said  committee  shall  respectively  make  a  private  verbal  report  to 
the  Worshipful  Master,  who,  at  the  proper  time,  shall  announce  to  the  lodge 
only  the  degree  of  unanimity  of  the  committee  and  the  nature  of  the  report." 

PETITION -Humboldt  Lodge,  No.  555. 

Bro.  Ravens,  representative  of  Humboldt  Lodge,  No.  555, 
submitted  the  following  petition,  which  was  read  by  the  Grand 
Secretary,  and,  upon  motion,  referred  to  the  Finance  Committee: 

To  the  M.   W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.: 

Brethren:  The  undersigned,  representative  of  Humboldt  Lodge,  No, 
555,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Ottawa,  LaSalle  County,  Illinois,  begs  leave  to  state 
that  at  the  burning  of  the  Masonic  Hall  in  the  winter  of  1875-76  we  lost  all 
our  effects  without  any  insurance.  Our  sister  lodge,  Occidental,  No.  40, 
which  met  with  us  in  the  same  hall,  also  lost  all  their  effects,  but  were  relieved 


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by  an  insurance  of  $1,200,  and  had  their  Grand  Lodge  dues  returned.  Con- 
sidering ourselves  at  that  time  able  to  get  along  without  calling  for  similar 
aid  from  the  R.  W.  Grand  Lodge,  we  withheld  our  petition;  which,  however, 
we  are  compelled  to  present  to  you  now;  for  the  subsequent  general  depres- 
sion of  business,  and  the  inability  of  many  members  to  pay  their  dues,  has 
so  affected  our  treasury  that  we  had  to  raise  our  present  Grand  Lodge  dues 
by  assessment.  We  therefore  pray  the  R.  W.  Grand  Lodge  to  return  our 
dues,  thereby  only  allowing  us  what  was  given  our  sister  lodge  in  1876. 

Fraternally, 

Geo.  W.  Ravens. 
Rep.  Humboldt  Lodge,  No  jjj,  A.  F.  d-  A.  M. 
Chicago,  Oct   i,  1S78. 

AMENDMENTS  TO  BY-LAWS— Proposed. 

W.  Bro.  John  O'Neill,  D,  D.  G.  M.,  offered  the  following 
amendment  to  the  By-Laws,  which  was  duly  seconded: 

Amend  Sec.  i,  of  Article  2,  Part  First,  of  By-Laws,  by  adding:  "and 
shall  be  conducted  as  follows,  viz.: 

"  I.  At  the  time  of  election  of  each  and  every  officer,  a  list  of  lodges,  by 
number,  the  permanent  members  by  name  or  title,  and  the  Grand  officers  by 
title,  shall  be  called  in  the  order  prescribed  by  Section  4,  of  Article  8,  of 
Constitution. 

"2.  Said  call  shall  be  made  from  a  list  prepared  in  accordance  with  the 
provisions  of  Sec.  i.  Article  9,  Part  First,  of  By-Laws. 

"3.  Upon  such  call,  each  representative,  member  and  Grand  officer 
present,  shall  deposit  his  ballot  marked  with  the  number  of  votes  they  are 
respectively  entitled  to. 

"4.  Upon  such  announcement  the  votes  may  be  received,  and  the  num- 
ber thereof  shall  at  the  same  time  be  duly  recorded  by  special  Tellers,  upon 
suitable  tally  sheets,  said  votes  shall  be  credited  to  the  respective  lodge, 
member,  and  Grand  officer  casting  the  same,  and  the  aggregate  number 
thereof  shall  correspond  with  the  '  call  list. ' 

"5.     Said  record  of  votes  shall  be  filed  among  the  archives." 

CALLED  OFF. 

At  5:30  o'clock  p.  M.,  the  Grand  Master  called  the  Grand  Lodge 
from  labor  to  refreshment  until  9  o'clock  to-morrow  morning. 


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SECOND  DAY— MORNING  SESSION. 

Wednesday,  October  2d,  587S. 

The  M.  W.  Grand  Master  called  the  Grand  Lodge  to  labor 
at  9  o'clock.  Prayer  b}'  the  R.  VV.  the  Grand  Chaplain.  Officers 
and  Representatives  as  on  the  previous  day. 

REPORT — Committee  ou  Correspondence.  \ 

R.  W.  Bro.  GuRNEY  presented  his  report  on  Masonic  Corres- 
pondence, and  moved  the  adoption  of  the  special  report  on  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Indian  Territory — page  53 — which  was  concurred 
in,  and  the  reports  ordered  to  be  printed  with  the  proceedings. 
(See  appendix.) 

Bro.  GuRNEY  also  offered  the  following  resolutions,  which  were 
adopted: 

Resolved^  That  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  A.  F.  &  A..  M.  respectfully 
decline  to  recognize  the  "Grand  Lodge  of  Colon"  as  a  governing  body  of 
Symbolic  Masonry. 

Resolved,  That  the  application  of  the  •'  Grand  Lodge  of  New  South 
Wales"  for  recognition,  be  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Correspondence 
for  further  consideration. 

Resolved,  That  the  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  extend  fra- 
ternal recognition  to  the  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  of  Indian  Territory. 

Resolved,  That  the  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  extend  fra- 
ternal recognition  to  the  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Mexico. 

REPORT— Grand  Treasurer— Lounsbury  Relief  Fund. 

R.  W.  Bro.  Miner,  Grand  Treasurer,  presented  his  report  of 
receipts  and  disbursements  of  moneys  received  for  the  relief  of  the 
late  Bro.  Geo.  E.  Lounsbury  and  family;  which  was  received 
and  ordered  to  be  printed  with  the  proceedings. 

ELECTION— Of  Grand  Officers. 

The  hour  for  the  special  order — election  of  officers — having 
arrived,  the  M.  W,  Grand  Master  appointed  the  following  breth- 
ren as  tellers  to  collect  and  count  the  vote:  L.  L.  Munn,  J.  L 
McClintock,    Chas.    F.    Tenney,    Edward  Cook,   John  V. 


yo  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct.  2, 

Thomas,  Charles  H.  Patton,  J.  D.  C.  Hoit,  W.  H.  East- 
man, W.  M.  Robertson,  Thomas  Cannhll,  Charles  E. 
Miner,  Malcolm  McDonald  and  E.  B.  Ramb. 

The  tellers  having  collected  and  counted  the  several  ballots, 
reported  the  following  named  brethren  had  received  a  majority  of 
all  the  votes  cast: 

For  Grand  Master Theodore  T.  Gurney. 

For  Deputy  Grand  Master William   H.  Scdtt. 

For  Senior  Grand  Warden Louis  Zeigler. 

For  Junior  Grand  Warden        Daniel  M.   Browning. 

For  Grand  Treasurer Orlin  H    Miner. 

For  Grand  Secretary John  F.   Bukrill. 

Whereupon  they  were  declared  duly  elected  officers  of  this 
Grand  Lodge  for  the  ensuing  Masonic  year,  and  until  their  suc- 
cessors shall  be  duly  elected  and  installed. 

REPORT — Committee  on  Appeals  and  Grievances. 

R.  W.  Bro.  D.  M.  Browning,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
Appeals  and  Grievances,  presented  the  report  of  that  Committee, 
which  was  received ;  the  cases  considered  seriatim^  and  the  sev- 
eral recommendations  concurred  in. 

To  the  M.   W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  d-  A.  M.  : 

Your  Committee  on  Appeals  and  Grievances  respectfully  report :  That 
they  have  carefully  and  diligently  examined  all  cases  presented,  and  submit 
the  following  as  the  result  of  their  labors: 

No.  I. 

Thomas  Darling,         1 

vs.  >  Appeal. 

Grafton  Lodge,  No.  32S.  J 

This  was  an  appeal  taken  from  the  action  of  the  lodge  in  expelling  Bro. 
Darling.  Since  the  appeal  was  taken  the  action  of  the  lodge  was  set  aside, 
and  a  new  trial  granted  by  the  M.  W.  Grand  Master.  The  committee  recom- 
mend that  the  appeal  be  dismissed. 

No.  3. 

A.  Miller,  ^ 

vs.  [-Appeal. 

Raymond  Lodge,  No.  692.  ) 

While  A.  Miller,  the  applicant  in  this  case,  was  a  member  of  Girard 
Lodge,  No.  171,  he  joined  in  a  petition  for  a  charter  for  Nilwood  Lodge.     A 


1878.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


charter  was  granted,  and  Nilvvood  Lodge,  No. ,  constituted,  with  Miller 

as  one  of  its  members. 

Miller,  the  appellant,  paid  dues  to  said  lodge  for  a  time,  but  was,  on  the 
i2th  day  of  April,  1873,  indefinitely  suspended  from  said  lodge  for  non-pay- 
ment of  dues.  On  the  Sth  day  of  May,  A.  D.  1876,  said  Miller,  while 
residing  within  the  jurisdiction  of  Raymond  Lodge,  No.  692,  visited  said 
lodge,  and  took  the  Masonic  test  oath.  Charges  were  preferred  against  him 
in  said  Raymond  Lodge  for  unmasonic  conduct,  and  he  was  expelled  from 
all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  Masonry. 

Miller  takes  an  appeal  to  this  Grand  Lodge.  Your  committee  are  of  the 
opinion  that  the  action  of  the  lodge  should  be  sustained,  and  so  recommend. 

No.  3. 

J.  B.  McFarlane,        ^ 

vs.  y  Appeal. 

Valley  Lodge,  No.  547.  ) 

In  this  case  Bro.  Samuel  Powell  was  charged  with  unmasonic  conduct,  the 
specifications  being,  first,  seduction;  second,  attempting  to  produce  an 
abortion. 

The  defendant  was  put  upon  his  trial,  which  resulted  in  a  finding  of  not 
guilty  by  the  lodge,  from  which  finding  J.  B.  McFarlane,  a  member  of  said 
lodge,  prosecutes  this  appeal.  The  evidence  in  the  case  shows  that  the 
young  lady  with  whom  Bro.  Samuel  Powell  (according  to  his  own  statement) 
had  criminal  intercourse,  became  pregnant  and  suddenly  died.  The  finding 
of  the  coronor's  jury  was  that  her  death  was  the  result  of  an  attempt  to  pro- 
duce an  abortion.  The  defendant  testified  in  open  lodge  that  he  did,  at  the 
request  of  the  young  lady,  produce  for  her  medicine  for  this  criminal  pur- 
pose. Nothing  could  be  more  scandalous  to  Masonry  than  such  conduct  as 
is  admitted  by  the  defendant  in  this  case. 

Your  committee  find  the  charge  and  specifications  fully  sustained  by  the 
evidence,  and  recommend  that  the  action  of  the  lodge  be  set  aside,  and  that 
Bro.  Samuel  Powell  be  expelled  from  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  Masonry. 

No.   4. 

George  T.  Graham,         ^ 

Ts.  [  Appeal. 

Blair  Lodge,  No.  393.       j 

In  this  case  Bro.  George  T.  Graham  was  charged  with  unmasonic  conduct. 
The  specifications  being: 

ist.  Writing  communications  to  the  Secretary  of  Blair  Lodge,  No.  393, 
scandalizing  the  Worshipful  Master  and  certain  other  brethren  in  the  lodge, 
and  setting  at  defiance  the  authority  of  said  lodge. 


^2  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct. 


2d.  Writing  scandalous  and  offensive  postal  cards  to  a  brother  Master 
Mason,  with  the  malicious  intent  to  injure  and  disgrace  said  brother. 

3d.  Wrongfully  accusing  the  Worshipful  Master  of  said  lodge  of  con- 
verting the  moneys  of  said  lodge  to  his  own  private  use. 

^th,  5th  and  6th.  Fraudulently  converting  the  moneys  of  various  breth- 
ren in  said  lodge  to  his  own  use,  while  acting  as  their  attorney. 

The  defendant  was  placed  upon  trial  and  found  guilty  of  the  charge, 
and  each  specification  thereof,  excepting  the  6th;  and  was  indeiinitely  sus- 
pended. The  defendant  appeals,  and  in  his  appeal  raises  many  objections  to 
the  trial,  of  a  technical  character. 

Your  committee  having  carefully  examined  the  evidence  in  this  case,  are 
of  opinion  that  the  charges  are  fully  sustained  by  it;  and  while  the  proceed- 
ings in  all  respects  have  not  been  entirely  regular,  yet  we  are  fully  satisfied 
that  substantial  justice  has  been  done,  and  we  therefore  recommend  that  the 
action  of  the  lodge  be  sustained. 

No.  5. 

Levi  S.  Correll,  "j 

vs.  y  Appeal. 

Pleasant  Plains  Lodge,  No.  700.  j 

This  is  an  appeal  from  the  action  01  the  lodge  by  plaintiff,  in  expelling 
him  from  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  Masonry.  The  charges  are  repeated 
attempts  to  have  illicit  carnal  intercourse  with  the  widow  of  a  Master  Mason, 
and  drunkenness.  The  accused  was  tried,  found  guilty,  and  by  unanimous 
vote  of  the  lodge,  expelled.  We  have  examined  the  record  carefully,  and  we 
find  that  the  accused  was  properly  served  with  notice  of  the  time  and  place 
of  trial;  that  the  defendant  did  not  appear  at  the  trial,  nor  attempt  to  dis- 
prove the  charges,  which  were  abundantly  sustained  by  the  evidence.  And 
although  there  may  have  been  irregularities  in  the  preliminary  proceedings, 
vet  they  are  not  of  sufficient  importance  to  warrant  your  committee  in 
reversing  or  disturbing  the  action  of  the  lodge;  and  believing  that  substan- 
tial justice  has  been  done,  your  committee  recommend  that  the  appeal  be 
dismissed  and  the  action  of  the  lodge  sustained. 

No.   6. 

George  W.  McGibbons,^ 

vs.  1- Appeal. 

Mendon  Lodge,  No.  449.  J 

Bro.  McGibbons  appeals  from  the  action  of  said  lodge,  in  failing  to  find 
Bro.  Thomas  J.  Brown  guilty  of  charges  preferred  against  him  by  McGib- 
bons. The  difficulty  grew  out  of  a  village  election,  in  which  both  of  the 
brethren  were  interested  as  candidates  or  otherwise.  The  offense  charged 
was  for  language  used  by  Bro.  Brown  to  Bro.  McGibbons.     The  committee 


1878,]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  73 

does  not  approve  of  the  use  of  such  language  bj  Masons,  but  in  this  case  it 
was  provoked  by  the  appellant,  and  they  recommend  that  the  appeal  be  dis- 
missed. 

No.  7. 

G.  W.    DUDDERER, 


Appeal. 
ScoTTSviLLE  Lodge,  No.  426.  ' 

Bro.  Dudderer  appeals  from  the  action  of  said  lodge  in  acquitting  Bro. 
S.  W.  Capps,  on  trial  of  charges  preferred  against  him  by  Bro.  Dudderer. 

The  charge  was  that  he  assisted  in  the  unlawful  whipping  of  one  Nelson 
Powers. 

The  evidence  before  the  committee  is  such  that  thev  cannot  saj  that  the 
lodge  erred  in  its  decision,  and  therefore  recommend  that  the  action  of  the 
lodge  be  sustained. 

No.  S. 


Otto  N.  Sprague,  ] 

vs.  l  Appeal. 

Fraternal  Lodge,  No.  58.  J 


The  charge  and  specifications  in  this  case  accuse  the  applicant  with 
selling  intoxicating  liquors  contrary  to  law. 

The  accused  was  found  guilty  and  expelled. 

No  objections  are  made  to  the  regularity  of  the  proceedings  in  the  lodge. 

The  evidence  shows  conclusively  that  the  accused,  under  the  pretense  of 
keeping  a  drug  store,  systematically  sold  spirituous  liquors  as  a  beverage, 
contrary  to  the  law  of  this  State. 

Your  committee  recommend  that  the  action  of  the  lodge  be  sustained. 

No.  9. 
John  Campbell, 


Appeal. 
Marcelline  Lodge,  No.  114. 

This  case  is  an  appeal  by  Bro.  John  Campbell  from  the  action  of  Marcelline 
Lodge,  No.  114,  in  finding  him  guilty  of  a  charge  of  immoral  and  unmasonic 
conduct,  and  fixing  his  punishment  at  indefinite  suspension. 

Your  committee  do  not  desire  to  trespass  upon  the  time  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  by  minutely  pointing  out  their  objections  to  the  specifications,  but 
they  deem  it  sufficient  to  say  that  the  specifications  are  either  frivolous  or 
indefinite,  and  that  the  evidence  entirely  fails  to  prove  them. 

Your  committee  therefore  recommend  that  the  action  of  the  lodge  be  set 
aside  and  the  brother  restored. 


74  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct.    2, 

No.  lo. 

Adolph  Gechan,         "I 

l's.  y  Appeal. 

Lessing  Lodge,  No.  557.  j 

This  was  an  appeal  bj  plaintiff  from  the  action  of  the  lodge  in  indefinitely 
suspending  him. 

We  have  examined  the  record,  such  as  it  is,  with  as  much  care  as  can  be 
done,  and  are  of  opinion — 

First,    That   the    charges,  as  set  up   in   the    record,  are    not   sufficiently 
explicit,  upon  which  to  place  in  jeopai-dy  a  Mason's  standing. 

Seco7id,  We  do  not  think  that  there  was  sufficient  notice  to  the  lodge  of 
the  trial. 

Third,  There  does  not  appear  sufficient  certificates  of  the  record. 

For  these  and  other  irregularities,  we  recommend  that  the  action  of  the 
lodge  be  set  aside  and  a  new  trial  had. 

No.  II. 
MuRREL  Morgan, 


Appeal. 
Allendale  Lodge,  No.  752.  " 

In  this  case  Bro.  Murrel  Morgan  was  charged  with  unmasonic  conduct, 
the  specifications  being: 

1st.  Maliciously  publishing  scandalous  reports  against  Bro.  D.  G.  Price, 
a  Master  Mason  and  member  of  said  Allendale  Lodge,  No.  752. 

2d.  Using  indecent,  profane  and  offensive  language  of  and  concerning 
said  Bro.  Price. 

3d.     Engaging  in  private  piques  and  quarrels  to  the  scandal  of  Masonry. 

Bro.  Murrell  Morgan  was  put  upon  his  trial  and  found  guilty  of  the 
charge  and  first  and  second  specifications  thereof,  and  indefinitely  sus- 
pended by  the  lodge. 

Bro.  Morgan  appeals.  We  have  carefully  examined  the  evidence  in  this 
case,  and  find  that  the  charges  are  clearly  proven,  the  language  used  by  him 
being  indecent  and  offensive  in  the  extreme.  Your  committee  therefore 
recommend  that  the  action  of  the  lodge  be  sustained. 

Respectfully  submitted. 

D.  M.  Browning,  ] 

Miles  H.  Wilmot,  | 

Joseph  E.  Dyas,  ]  Cojnmittee. 

A.  B.  Campbell, 

Geo.  M.  Haynes,  J 


.SyS.] 


GRAND    LODGfi    OF    ILLINOIS. 


75 


INYITATION— To  Tisit  Board  of  Trade. 

R.  W.  Bro.  Egan,  on  behalf  of  the  Board,  extended  an  invi- 
tation to  the  otficeis  and  members  of  the  Grand  Lodge  to  visit  the 
Board  of  Trade  at  any  time  during  their  stay  in  the  city. 

Upon  motion  it  was 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  this  Grand  Lodge  be  and  they  are  hereby 
tendered  to  the  Board  of  Trade  of  the  city  of  Chicago  for  the  kind  invita- 
tion extended  to  the  members  of  this  Grand  Lodge  through  Wiley  M.  Egan, 
Esq. 

REPORT— 01"  ftrand  Treasurer. 

R.  W,  O.  H.  Miner,  Grand  Treasurer,  submitted  his  report 
of  receipts  and  disbursements;  which  was,  upon  motion,  referred 
to  the  Finance  Committee. 


Origin  H.  Miner,  Grand  Treasurer,  In  account  with 

The  M.  W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois. 

DR. 

For  amount  received  from  Grand  Secretary $   1,50605 


1878. 
June    12 
Sept.  10 
"      16 


Oct 


30 


2,000  00 

3,000  00 

"          .             "                                "                 15,600  00 

Am't  rec'd  from  Jos.  Robbins,  late  acting  Grand  Treas.  27 

"               "       Grand  Secretary 5,4-8  93 

"               "                   "                   Charity  Fund  ....  194  85 

"               "                   "                   General  Fund     .    .    .  2,141  98 

"...  1,522  02 


Bv  G 

rand  Lodge 

1S7S. 

Mar.  iS. 
"     -\3- 

No.  396. 
No.  397. 

"        I. 

No.  398. 

"        I. 

No.  400. 

"     13" 
May      I . 
June     T. 

"     29. 
July    12. 

No.  399. 
No.  401. 
No.  402. 
No.  403. 
No.  404. 
No.  406. 

"     17, 

"    31, 

Oct.     2, 

No.  393. 
No.  407. 
No.  410. 

orders  paid,  as  follows,  viz. : 

To  J.  F.  Burrill,  for  salary  as  G.  S.  $208  33 
Springfield  Printing  Co.,  for  print- 
ing proceedings 3152  99 

Springfield  Printing  Co.,  for  print- 
ing ceremonials 573  75 

John  F.  Burrill,  salary  as  G.  S.  .    .  208  34 

D.  L   Phillips,  P.  M.,  for  postage,  164  34 

Yates  City  Lodge,  costs  of  suit  .  .  108   10 

John  F.  Burrill,  salary  as  G.S.  .    .  208  33 

Same,                           .    .  20S  34 

Same,                           .    .  416  67 

F.  Hudson,  Jr.,  pt'g  blank  returns,  80  00 

Joseph  Robbins,  salary  as  (i.  M.    .  125  00 

John  F.  Burrill,  salary  as  G.  S  .    .  208  34 

O.  H.  Miner,  salary  as  G.  T.  .    .    .  213  35 


$31,394  lu 


$3,075  88 


$28,318  22 


76  PROCEEDINGS   OF    THE  [Oct.  2, 


Oct.  3,     To  balance  General  Fund $28,123  37 

u     a    To         "       Charity  Fund i94  §5 

$28,318  22 

REPORT— Finance  Committee,  on  Bro.  Buck's  Resolution. 

The  Finance  Committee,  to  whom  was  referred  the  resolution 
of  Bro.  Buck,  made  the  following  report,  which  was  received  and 
adopted : 

To  the  M    W.Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  d-  A.  M.: 

Your  Finance  Committee,  to  whom  was  referred  the  resolution  instruct- 
ing this  committee  to  report  "some  plan  of  securing  this  Grand  Lodge 
against  loss,"  respectfully  report  thar  we  have  had  the  same  under  consider- 
ation, and  find  that  Section  2,  Article  5,  of  the  By-Laws  of  this  Grand 
Lodge  makes  ample  provision  for  such  security. 

Your  committee  would  therefore  call  attention  to  said  By-Law,  and 
request  and  urge  that  the  provisions  of  the  law  be  fully  enforced. 

Fraternally  submitted. 

J.  C.  Smith,         | 

T.  J.   Broxson,    \  Committee. 

E.  C.  Selleck,    J 

REPORT— Finance  Committee  on  Petition  of  Humboldt  Lodge,  No.  656. 

The  Finance  Committee,  to  whom  was  referred  the  petition  of 
Humboldt  Lodge,  No.  555,  for  a  remission  of  their  dues,  reported 
as  follows: 

To  the  M.   W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illi7iois,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.: 

Your  Finance  Committee,  to  whom  was  referred  the  petition  of  Hum- 
boldt Lodge,  No.  555,  for  a  remission  of  dues  paid  by  said  lodge  for  the  year 

1S76,  because  of  the  destruction  of  all  their  property  by  fire,  respectfully 
report  that  we  have  had  the  same  under  consideration,  and  would  recommend 
that  the  petition  be  granted. 

Fraternally  yours. 

J.  C.  Smith,        \ 

T.  J.  BronSON,    [■  Committee. 

E.  C.  Selleck,  J 

The  report  was  received,  and,  upon  motion,  the  recommenda- 
tion of  the  committee  was  not  concurred  in. 

REPORT— Commtttee  on  Printing. 

The  Grand  Secretary  read  the  report  of  the  Committee  on 
Printing:: 


1878.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  77 


To  the  M.    W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.: 

The  undersigned,  Committee  on  Printing,  respectfully  report  that  they 
have  received,  opened  and  computed  bids  for  printing  proceedings  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  and  blanks  for  annual  returns,  offered  by  Messrs.  llazlett  & 
Reed,  of  Chicago;  The  Springfield  Printing  Co.,  The  State  Register  Co., 
H.  W.  Rokker,  and  Frank  Hudson,  Jr.,  of  Springfield. 

The  committee  find  the  bid  of  the  Springfield  Printing  Co.,  for  printing 
the  proceedings,  to  be  the  lowest  and  best  for  that  work,  and  the  bid  of  Frank 
Hudson,  Jr.,  the  lowest  and  best  for  printing  blank  returns;  they  therefore 
recommend  that  the  contracts  for  said  work  be  so  awarded. 

Your  committee  find  great  practical  difficulties  arising  from  the  present 
plan  of  awarding  the  printing  contract  during  the  session  of  the  Grand 
Lodge, 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Masonic  Correspondence  is  published 
before  the  session  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  under  the  contract  of  the  preceding 
year,  \h.^  proceedings  are  published  after  the  session,  under  the  contract  of 
the  current  year.  When  the  contractor  prints  the  report  he  does  not  know 
w^ho  will  print  the  proceedings,  of  which  that  report  is  legitimately  a  part; 
he  does  not  know  what  amount  of  paper  to  contract  for,  whether  for  the 
report  only,  or  for  report  and  proceedings. 

Bidders  are  at  a  loss  in  fixing  on  prices  for  work  to  be  done  and  for  paper 
to  be  furnished  at  intervals  of  nearly  a  year,  and  paper  purchased  at  different 
times  cannot  be  accurately  matched,  hence  paper  of  widely  different  appear- 
ance is  constantly  to  be  found  in  the  volumes  of  proceedings. 

It  is  believed  that  these  difficulties  would  be  obviated  by  letting  the  print- 
ing contract  previous  to  the  meeting  of  the  Grand  Lodge.  This  would 
enable  the  contractor  to  obtain  at  one  time  sufficient  paper  for  the  report 
and  proceedings  of  the  coming  session,  and  he  will  be  able  to  commence 
publication  of  proceedings  immediately  on  the  close  of  the  Grand  Lodge, 
without  the  present  necessary  delay  in  obtaining  paper,  and  each  year's  work 
will  stand  by  itself. 

The  committee  therefore  propose  the  following  amendment  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  By-Laws,  viz.: 

Strike  out  the  present  Section  15,  of  Article  9,  of  Part  First,  and  insert 
in  lieu  thereof  the  following : 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Committee  on  Printing  to  meet  at  the  office  of 
the  Grand  Secretary,  at  least  ninety  days  before  each  annual  session  of  the 
Grand  Lodge,  and  there  open  and  compute  all  bids  for  printing  for  this 
Grand  Lodge,  and  award  contracts  therefor  to  the  lowest  and  best  bidders. 

Joseph  Robbins,    Grand  Master, 

Orlin  H.  Miner,  Grand  Treasurer,  \  Committee. 

John  F.  Burrill,  Grand  Secretary, 


78  PROCEEDINGS    OP    THE  [Oct.  2, 

The  report  was  received  and  adopted ;  and  the  recommendation 
awarding  the  contract  to  the  Springfield  Printing  Company,  con- 
curred in. 

The  amendment  to  the  By-Laws  accompanying  the  report, 
being  duly  seconded,  lies  over  until  the  next  Annual  Communica- 
tion. 

APPEAL— Joseph  B.  Jones  vs.  Effingham  Lodge  No.  149. 

The  Grand  Secretary  stated  that  he  had  received  by  mail  on 
September  30th,  an  appeal  from  the  action  of  Effingham  Lodge, 
No.  149,  in  suspending  Bro.  Joseph  B.  Jones  for  non-payment 
of  dues. 

The  appeal  having  been  received  too  late  for  action  at  this 
session  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  it  was,  upon  motion,  referred  to  the 
M.  W.  Grand  Master. 

PETITION— For  New  Lodge  at  Roodhouse. 

The  Grand  Secretary  presented  the  petition  of  sundry  brethren 
residing  at  Roodhouse,  Greene  county,  praying  for  a  dispensation 
to  establish  a  lodge  at  that  place. 

Upon  motion,  the  petition  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on 
Lodges  Under  Dispensation,  for  their  consideration  and  recom- 
mendation. 

MEMORIAL— From  Knoxville  Lodge,  No.  66. 

The  Grand  Secretary  read  a  memorial  from  Knoxville  Lodge, 
No.  66,  asking  the  Grand  Lodge  to  make  an  appropriation  to  aid 
said  lodge  in  erecting  a  monument  to  the  memory  of  our  late 
brother  Sylvester  Stevens. 

Referred  to  the  Finance  Committee. 

CALLED  OFF. 

At  12  o'clock  M.  the  Grand  Master  called  the  Grand  Lodge 
to  refreshment. 


iSyS.]  GRAND    LODGK   OF    ILLINOIS.  79 


SECOND  DAT— AFTERJfOON  SESSION. 

Wednesday,  October  3d,  5878. 

At  2.30  o'clock,  p.  M.,  the  Grand  Master  called  the  Grand 
Lodge  to  labor. 

REPORT— Coinmittee  on  PetlHons. 

R.  W.  Bro.  O.  F.  Price  submitted  the  report  of  the  Committee 
on  Petitions.     Report  read  and  cases  considered  seriatim. 

To  the  M.  W.  Grand  Lod^e  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  &-  A.  M.: 

Your  Committee  on  Petitions  submit  the  following  report : 

No.  I.  Petition  of  James  D.  Payne,  expelled  October  6th,  1S7S,  by 
Ashlar  Lodge,  No.  30S,  for  restoration. 

The  petition  having  been  concurred  in  by  said  lodge,  and  also  by  D.  D. 
G.  M.  W.  A.  Stevens,  your  committee  recommend  that  James  D.  Pavne  be 
restored  to  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  Masonry. 

No.  2.  Petition  of  Thomas  Shirley,  expelled  by  Oriental  Lodge,  No.  33, 
for  restoration. 

The  petition  having  been  concurred  in  by  said  lodge,  as  required  by  the 
Grand  Lodge  By-Laws,  and  many  distinguished  members  of  the  Craft  having 
earnestly  recommended  that  the  prayer  of  the  petition  be  granted,  your  com- 
mittee therefore  recommend  that  said  Thomas  Shirley  be  restored  to  all  the 
rights  and  privileges  of  Masonry. 

No.  3.  Petition  of  Joseph  Z.  Gritlith,  expelled  by  Charleston  Lodge, 
No.  35,  for  restoration. 

Having  regularly  petitioned  said  lodge  for  recommendation  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  for  restoration,  and  said  lodge  having  concurred  in  said  petition,  your 
committee  recopimend  that  Joseph  Z.  Griffith  be  restored  to  all  the  rights 
and  privileges  of  Masonry.  •" 

No.  4.  Petition  of  Benjamin  Sigsworth,  expelled  by  New  Hartford 
Lodge,  No.  453,  for  restoration. 

Said  lodge  having  concurred  in  said  petition,  and  various  members  of  the 
"  Fraternity  having  recommended  that  the  prayer  of  the  petition  be  granted, 
your  committee  recommend  that  Benjamin  Sigs\vorth  be  restored  to  all  the 
rights  and  privileges  of  Masonry. 

No.  5.  Petition  of  Henry  E.  Rives,  expelled  by  Paris  Lodge,  No.  j68, 
for  restoration. 

Said  lodge  having  concurred  in  said  petition,  your  committee  recommend 
the  restoration  of  Henry  E.  Rives  to  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  Masonry. 

No.  6.  Petitions  of  Robert  Grounds  and  W.  D.  Lomax,  expelled  by 
Abingdon  Lodge,  No.  185. 


So  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct. 


In  this  case  jour  committee  respectfully  report,  that  they  have  had  before 
them  the  statement  and  certificate  of  the  Worshipful  Master  and  Secretary  of 
said  lodge,  under  seal  of  the  lodge,  that,  on  the  22d  day  of  February,  1876, 
said  Robert  Grounds  and  W.  D.  Lomax  each  petitioned  said  lodge  for  a 
recommendation  to  the  Grand  Lodge  for  reinstatement;  that  the  lodge  then 
concurred  in  said  petition;  that  the  said  petitions,  and  the  recommendation 
of  the  lodge  for  their  restoration,  were  at  that  time  forwarded  to  the  Grand 
Secretary,  and  that  no  action  had  been  taken  thereon  by  the  Grand  Lodge ; 
and  tliat  said  lodge  now  desires  that  they  be  restored.  Your  committee  have 
examined  the  Grand  Lodge  proceedings  of  1S76  and  1S77,  ^"^  found  no 
mention  of  such  case. 

We  have  also  had  the  verbal  testimony  of  S.  D.  Pollock,  W.  M.  of  said 
lodge,  that  the  statements  of  said  certificate  were  true.  Believing,  therefore, 
that  said  petitions  and  recommendations  were  lost  or  mislaid,  and  believing 
that  it  would  be  unjust,  under  the  circumstances,  to  keep  said  petitioners 
under  sentence  of  expulsion  till  the  next  communication  of  this  Grand 
Lodge,  we  recommend  that  said  Robert  Grounds  and  W.  D.  Lomax  be 
restored  to  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  Masonry. 

No.  7.  Petition  of  Joseph  Washington,  expelled  by  Mattoon  Lodge, 
No.  260,  for  restoration. 

Said  lodge,  bv  unanimous  vote,  having  recommended  that  the  prayer  of 
the  petition  be  granted,  your  committee  recommend  that  Joseph  Washington 
be  restored  to  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  Masonry. 

No.  8.     Petition  of  James  M.  Duncan,  for  restoration. 

From  the  evidence  before  us,  the  facts  in  this  case  appear  to  be  these: 
Petitioner  was  a  member  of  Marcelline  Lodge,  No.  114;  charges  were  pre- 
ferred against  him  in  said  lodge;  trial  was  had,  and  the  lodge,  by  vote,  found 
him  not  guiltv.  A  brother  brought  the  case  to  this  Grand  Lodge  on  appeal, 
and  the  petitioner  was  here  suspended  during  the  pleasure  of  the  Grand 
Lodo'e.  Considering  the  action  of  Marcelline  Lodge  in  finding  the  petitioner 
not  <^uiltv,  w-e  belie\e,  from  the  infQrmation  furnished  us,  that  the  petitioner 
has  been  punished  sufficiently  to  answer  the  ends  of  discipline,  and  we 
recommend  that  he  be  restored  to  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  Masonry. 

No.  9.  Petition  of  Wm.  O'Brien,  expelled  by  Harrisburg  Lodge,  No.  325, 
for  restoration. 

The  petition  having  been  concurred  in  and  recommended  by  said  lodge, 
your  committee  recommend  that  Wm.  O'Brien  be  restored  to  all  the  rights 
and  privileges  of  Masonry. 

No.  10.  Petition  of  Russelville  Lodge,  No.  34S,  to  change  the  location 
of  their  lodge  from  the  town  of  Montgomery,  Crawford  Co.,  to  the  village  of 
Flat  Rock,  in  Honey  township,  in  said  county,  a  distance  of  three  miles. 

Said  change  of  location  being  concurred  in  and  recommended  by  S.  D. 
Monroe  Lodge,  No.  447,  and  by  Robinson  Lodge,  No.  250,  the  only  lodges 


1878.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  81 


affected  by  the  change,  your  committee  recommend  that  the  prayer  of  the 
petition  be  granted. 

No.  II.  Petition  of  W.  E.  Purrett,  expelled  by  Wenona  Lodge,  No.  344, 
for  restoration. 

It  appearing  to  your  committee,  from  the  certificate  and  verbal  testimony 
of  O.  M.  Southwell,  W,  M.  of  said  lodge,  that  said  Purrett  duly  petitioned 
said  lodge  to  recommend  him  to  the  Grand  Lodge  for  restoration,  and  that 
said  lodge,  by  a  constitutional  vote,  did  so  recommend  his  restoration;  and 
it  further  appearing  that  said  petition  and  recommendation  by  said  lodge 
were  duly  forwarded  to  the  Grand  Secretary  more  than  ten  days  prior  to  the 
present  communication  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  but  were  lost  in  transmittal,  we 
therefore  recommend  that  this  case  be  referred  to  the  Grand  Master,  with 
power  to  restore  said  Wm.  E.  Purrett  to  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of 
Masonry,  when  said  lodge  shall  forward  to  him  certified  copies  of  said  lost 
papers,  if  he  shall  then  find  that  the  requrements  of  the  law  are  complied 
with. 

No,   12.     Petition  of  Mt.  Joliet  Lodge,  No.  42,  for  payment  of  amount  of 
mileage  and  per  diem  of  representatives  for  the  years  1876  and  1877.     We 
recommend  that  this  petition  be  referred  to  the  Finance  Committee. 
Fraternally  submitted, 

O.  F.  Price,  ] 

A.  B.  Davidson,       y  Comviittee. 

James  C.  Luckey,  j 

Cases  Nos.  1,2,  3,  4  and  5  read,  and  recommendations  concun-ed 
in. 

Case  No.  6,  referred  to  the  M.  W.  Grand  Master,  with  power 
to  act  when  duplicates  of  the  papers  are  received. 

Cases  No.  7,  8,  9,  10,  11  and  12  read  and  recommendations  con- 
curred in. 

The  report,  except  so  much  as  was  referred  to  the  Finance  Com- 
mittee, was  adopted. 

Note  by  Grand  Secretary. — In  case  No.  7.  the  name  should  be  Joseph  Withington , 
instead  of  Joseph  "Washington,"  as  reported  by  the  committee. 

MEMORIAL— From  Geneva  Lodge,  >o.  ISO. 

W.  Bro.  McWayne  (139)  presented  the  following  memorial, 
which  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Charity: 

To  the  M.    IV.    Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.   F.  &-   A.   M.: 

Geneva  Lodge,  No.  139,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  respectfully  represent  that  thev, 

in  common  with  the  Craft  in  general,  have  sustained  an  irreparable  loss  in 

the  death  of  W.  Bro.  Henry  B.  Pierce,  who  for  fourteen  years  was   Master 

of  that   lodge,    a   member  of  this   Grand  Lodge,  and  at  one  time  an  officer 

*II 


82  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct. 


thereof.     He  died  at  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  on  the  26th  day  of  August  last,  during 
an  absence  from  home  occasioned  by  business. 

No  Mason  was  ever  better  instructed  in  the  work  and  lectures  of  the  Craft, 
nor  did  any  man  ever  live  in  more  perfect  harmony  with  its  spirit  and  teach- 
ings than  he.  A  more  perfectly  upright  man  never  lived.  During  his  long 
term  of  service,  and  still  longer  residence  at  his  home,  no  breath  was  ever 
heard  against  his  honor  or  integrity,  as  a  man  or  Mason.  For  many  years 
he  labored  under  severe  financial  difficulties,  brought  upon  him  by  mistaken 
confidence  in  those  for  whom  he  was  surety,  but  disdained  any  other  way  out 
of  them  than  the  right  royal,  though  infrequently  traveled,  road  of  honest 
and  honorable  payment. 

Bro.  Pierce  has  left  a  widow  and  five  children,  the  youngest  but  a  few 
months  old,  to  whom  he  has  left  nothing  but  the  priceless  legacy  of  a  good 
name.  The  lodge  of  which  he  was  a  member  is  small  and  weak,  and  has 
exhausted  its  entire  fund  in  defraying  the  expenses  of  his  last  sickness,  trans- 
portation home  and  burial;  and  respectfully  asks  that  the  case  may  be 
referred  to  the  Committee  on  Charity'  of  this  Grand  Lodge  for  their  consid- 
eration and  such  aid  as  in  their  wisdom  they  shall  deem  fitting  and  proper. 

The  Grand  Secretary  called  up  the  amendinents  to  the  By-Laws 
proposed  at  the  last  Annual  Communication. 

Amendment  No.  i,  as  follows: 

Amend  Part  First,  Article  i,  vSec.  2,  by  striking  out  "a  committee  on 
finance;"  also,  same  Article,  Sec.  3,  by  striking  out  "a  committee  on 
auditing,"  and  insert  a  committee  on  finance.'''' 

Also,  Article  6,  Sec.  i,  paragraph  4,  by  striking  out  the  word  "  auditing  " 
in  the  3d  line,  and  insert  the  v/ord  finance;  and  strike  out  the  word  "  finance  " 
where  it  appears  now  in  the  same  line,  and  insert  the  word  sajne  in  its  place. 

Also,  Article  9,  by  striking  out  all  of  Sections  11,  12  and  13,  and  adding 
paragraphs  i  and  2  of  Sec.  11,  to  Section  2  of  same  Article,  as  paragraphs  5 
and  6. 

Also,  add  to  Sec.  2,  Art.  9,  an  additional  paragraph,  numbered  7,  as  fol- 
lows :  The  Finance  Committee  shall  7nake  a  full  detailed  report  of  their 
doings  during  the  year,  and  submit  the  same  to  the  Grand  Lodge  for  appro- 
val." 

Being  put  to  vote,  was  declared  adopted. 

Amendment  No.  2,  as  follows: 

Amend  Section  i,  Article  i.  Part  First,  by  striking  out  the  word  "first," 
and  inserting  the  word  second\  making  the  clause  read  Second  Tuesday  in 
October. 

Being  put  to  vote,  was  declared  lost. 


iSyS.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  83 

RESOLUTION— To  Appoint  a  Committee  on  Transportation. 

W.  Bro.  J.  E.  Alexander  (702)  offered  the  following: 

Resolved^  That  a  committee  of  three  members  of  this  Grand  Lodge  be 
appointed  by  the  M.  W.  Grand  Master,  to  be  styled  the  Committee  on  Rail- 
road Transportation,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  secure,  if  possible,  excursion 
or  round  trip  rates  for  the  delegates  attending  this  Grand  Lodge  on  all  rail- 
roads leading  into  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  connecting  lines,  and  to  give  due 
and  timely  notice  of  the  same  to  such  delegates. 

Bro.  Pearson,  G.  S.  D.,  moved  to  amend  by  making  it  the 
duty  of  the  Grand  Secretary. 

The  amendment  was  adopted. 

The  resolution,  as  amended,  was  adopted. 

THANKS— From  Grand  Lodge  of  Mississippi. 

M.  W.  Bro.  Cregier,  Representative  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Mississippi,  in  a  few  well  chosen  remarks,  extended  the  thanks  of 
that  Grand  Lodge  to  the  Masons  of  Illinois,  for  the  timely  aid 
extended  to  the  Craft  of  Mississippi,  who  are  now  suffering  from 
the  ravages  of  that  dread  scourge,  the  Yellow  Fever. 

Bro.  Cregier  also,  as  the  Representative  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Quebec,  thanked  Grand  Master  Robbins  for  his  action  in  main- 
taining the  rights  of  that  Grand  Lodge  in  the  matter  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Scotland. 

The  question  being  asked : 

The  Grand  Master  decided  that  a  meeting  of  a  lodge  may  be 
held  in  the  day  time,  if  the  by-laws  of  the  lodge  provide  that 
special  meetings  may  be  called  at  any  time  at  the  convenience  of 
the  lodge. 

REPORT— Committee  on  Lodges  U.  D. 

The  Committee  on  Lodges  U.  D.,  to   whom   was   referred   the 
petition  for  a  dispensation  for  a  lodge  at  Roodhouse,  submitted  the 
following  report,  which  was  received  and  adopted: 
To  the  M.  W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.: 

Your  Committee  on  Lodges  U.  D.,  having  had  under  consideration  a 
petition  from  a  number  of  brethren  of  Roodhouse,  in  Greene  County, 
asking  the  recommendation  of  this  Grand  Lodge  for  their  petition  to  the 
M.  W.  Grand  Master  to  grant  them  a  dispensation  to  form  and  open  a  lodge 
of  Masons  at  Roodhouse,  in  the  County  aforesaid. 

After  considering  all  the  facts  and  evidences  before  us,  your  committee 
are  of  the  opinion  that  the  granting  of  said  petition  would  be  a  violation  of 
Sec.  5,  of  Article  23,  of  Part  Second,  of  the  Grand  Lodge  By-Laws. 


84  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct.    3, 

Your  committee  are  further  of  the  opinion  that  the  dispensing  power, 
according  to  the  fundamental  laws  of  Masonry,  belong  to  the  Grand  Master^ 
and  to  him  alone,  and  cannot  and  should  not  be  disturbed  nor  interfered 
with  by  any  Mason,  lodge,  nor  even  the  Grand  Lodge. 

We  therefore  recommend  that  a  recommendation  for  said  petition  be  not 
granted.  Louis  Zeigler,      H.  G.  Calhoun,  ^ 

Daniel  G.  Burr,  Jos.  Holland,      v  Committee. 
Fred.  W.  Eades,  J 

COMMIMCATION— From  Mrs.  Glenn. 

R,  W.  Bro.  J.   C.   McMuRTRY   (26)    read  the  following  letter 
from  Mrs.  Lavinia  Glenn,  which  was    referied    to   the  Finance 
Committee : 
To  the  M.   W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.,  A.  F.  <&  A.  M.: 

I  have  two  policies  on  the  life  of  my  husband,  A.  A.  Glenn,  both  in  the 
Connecticut  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company,  and  each  for  the  sum  of 
$5,000 — one  a  ten-year  policj^,  on  which  nine  payments  have  been  made;  the 
other  an  ordinary  life  policy'.  It  is  expected  that  after  the  next  payment  the 
dividends  on  the  first  policy  will  paj-  the  premium  on  the  last  one  and  make 
them  self-supporting.  I  will  assign  these  policies  to  the  Grand  Lodge  in  sat- 
isfaction of  its  claim  against  my  husband,  I  to  have  whatever  further  divi- 
dends may  be  paid  out  of  his  estate.'  Lavinia  Glenn. 

At  5.30  o'clock  P.  M.,  the  Grand  Master  called  the  lodge  to 
refreshment  until  9.00  to-morrow  morning. 


THIRD  DAI— Morning  Session. 

Thursday,  Oct.  3d,  5S78. 
The    Grand    Master  called  the  Grand   Lodge  to  labor  at  nine 
o'clock.     Prayer  by  the  R.  W.  the  Grand  Chaplain.     Officers  and 
Representatives  as  on  the  previous  day. 

REPORT— Committee  on  Mileage  and  Per  Diem. 

W.  Bro.  Waddle   presented  the  report  of  the  Committee  on 
Mileage  and  Per  Diem,  which  was  received  and  adopted. 
To  the  M.   JV.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.: 

The  undersigned,  your  Committee  on  Mileage  and  Per  Diem,  fraternally 
report  that  the  Grand  Officers,  Representatives  and  Members  of  Committees 
in  attendance  on  this  Grand  Communication,  are  entitled  to  mileage  and  per 
diem,  under  the  By-Laws  and  resolutions  of  this  Grand  Body,  as  set  forth  in 
the  following  pages.  S.  W.  Waddle, 


E.  S.  Mulljner,  j^  Co?nmitiee. 
Geo.  W.  Cyrus, 


IS78.] 


GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


GRAND    OFFICERS. 


Joseph  Robbins 

\V.  J.  A.  DeLancey 
Henrv  E.  Hamilton  . 

W.  II.  Scott    

O.  H.  Miner   

John  F.  Burrill 

Geortje  W.  Martin  .. 

Alfred  Sample 

F.  Hudson,  Jr 

John  P.  Norvell 

John  A.  Ladd 

John  R.  Thomas  .... 

J.  M.  Bell 

)  ohn  M.  Pearson  .... 
"H.  C.  Cleveland    .... 

George  P  awson 

Adolph  Shire 

Charles  M.  Grammar 
John  P.  Ferns 


W.  Grand  Master 

W.  D.  Grand  Master 

Senior  Grand  Warden. . 
Junior  Grand  Warden. . 

Grand  Treasurer 

"        Secretary 

"       Chaplain 

"        Orator 

Deputy  Grand  Secretary... 

Grand  Pursuivant 

"       Marshal 

"       Standard  Bearer 

''       Sword  Bearer 

"       Senior  Deacon 

"       J  unior  Deacon 

"       Steward 

"       Steward 

"       Steward 

"       Tvler 


263 

$26  30 

253 

25  30 

1^0 
6 

280 

28  00 

6 

18^ 

18  so 

18^ 

18  so 

187 

18  70 

6 

103 

10  30 

6 

i8<; 

i8  so 

6 

128 

12  80 

6 

no 

II  00 

6 

402 

40  20 

6 

164 

16  40 

6 

2^6 

2S  60 

6 

182 

18  20 

6  i 

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28  00 

6  i 
6 

269 

26  90 

t 

$26 

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6 

00 

34 

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18 

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18 

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24 

70 

16 

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24 

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18  80 

17 

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46 

20 

22 

40 

31 

60 

24 

20 

34 

00 

6 

00 

32  90 

6 

00 

DISTRICT    DEPUTY    GRAND    MASTERS. 

W.  A.  Stevens ist  District 

D.J.  Averv 2d 

John  O'Neill 3d 

G.  K.  Bartlett 4th 

J.  V.  Thomas 7th 

John  Gray 8th 

Thomas  J .  Wade    9th 

George  Crossley loth 

F.  G.  W  eiton    nth 

W.  H.  H.  Rader 12th 

Rowley  Page   13th 

W.  H.  Eastman 14th 

H.  C,  Clarke i6th 

George  Scroggs  17th 

J  ohn  Bennett    19th 

S.  M.  Martin 20th 

James  Mayor 21st 

A.  L.  Virden 22d 

G.  H.  B   Tolle 24th 

James  Douglas   27th 

C.  H.  Patton    2Sth 

James  I.  McClintock 29th 

P.  W.  Barclay 30th 


istrict 

6 

6  1 

6  ; 

38 

3  So 

6  1 

q8 

9  So 

6 

3S 

3  80 

6 

84 

8  40 

6 

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ID  So 

6 

I. '54 

IS  40 

6 

232 

23  20 

6 

164 

16  40 

6 

151 

IS  10 

6 

S6 

S60 

6 

128 

12  80 

6 

187 

18  70 

6 

21S 

21  SO 

6 

216 

21  60 

6 

206 

20  60 

6 

2S8 

25  So 

6 

321 

32  10 

6 

283 

28  30 

6 

287 

28  70 

6 

36S 

36  so 

4 

6  00 
6  00 
6  00 
9  80 

15  80 
9  So 

14  40 

16  so 

21  40 
29  20 

22  40 
21  10 
II  60 
18  80 
24  70 
27  so 
27  60 
26  60 
31  80 
38  10 
34  30 
34  70 
40  50 


COMMITTEES— JURISPRUDENCE. 


0) 

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<u 

>. 

c 

"3 

:s 

0 

Ph 

h 

James  A.  Hawley 98  $080 

D.  C.  Cregier   

Wm    Lavely 185  18  SO 

W.M.Egan 

Jno.  C.  Bagby 1     2281  2280 


$24  80 
IS  00 
33  SO 
IS  00 
3780 


CORRESPONDENCE. 


T.  T.  Gurney 


S6 


PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE 


[Oct.  3, 


REPORT     ON    MILEAGE    AND    PER    DIEM Contl?tUcd. 


APPEALS    AND    GRIEVANCES. 


Q  -3 


Q  ,  &■ 


D.  M.  Browning 306 

M.  H.  Wilmot 198 

Jos.  E.  Dyas i  164 

A.  B.  Ca  i.pbell ;  126 

Geo.  Haynes   I  283 

CHARTERED    LODGES. 

C.  Kirkpatrick 328 

S.  S.  Chance \  249 

J.  L.  McCullough 258 

J.  C.  McMurtry  161 

R.  Ashley I  61 

LODGES  U.  D. 

Louis  Zeigler 

H.  G.  Calhoun 

F.  Eads 

Jos.  Holland  

D.  G.  Burr  

MILEAGE    AND    PER    DIEM. 

S.  W.  Waddle 1     126 

E.  S.  MuUiner I     263 

Geo.  W.  Cyrus I     242 

AUDITORS. 

Gil.  W.  Barnard •  •  • 

D.  A.  Cashman i     •  •  • 

C.  F.  Tenney   I     iS4 

GRAND    EXAMINERS. 

M.  D.  Chamberlain 12 r 

A.  T.  Darrah i37 

J.  H.  Fawcett loS 

H.  W.  Hubbard 253 

PETITIONS. 

O.  F.  Price 

A.  B.  Davidson  

J.  C.  Luckey 

G.  M.    ADDRESS. 

H.  P.  Buxton   261 

A.  Demaree 2°3 

E.  B.  Buck    '84 

OBITUARIES. 

E.  E.  Waggoner 1     196 

Chas.  Trowbridge 132 

A.  A.  Glenn I     ^SS 

FINANCE. 

J.  C.  Smith    ••• 

E.  C.  Selleck 1  263 

T.  J.  Bronson ^'S 

CREDENTIALS. 

R.  D.  Lawrence '85 

A.  S.  Converse 1  '°4 


$30  60 
19  90 
16  40 
12  60 
28  30 


32  80 

24  go 

25  So 
16  10 

6  10 


IS  40 


13  70 
10  so 
25  30 


164 

16  40  ; 

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II  GO 

III 

II  10  1 

26  10 

26  30 

18  40 


19  60 

13  20 

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26  30 

21  50 


18  SO 
16  40 


3S  ?6s  60 

35  54  90 

30  46  40 

35  47  60 

35  63  30 


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35  59  9° 

35  60  80 

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30  .^6  10 


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20  ! 

40  30 

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29  60 
3680 
36  40 


32  60 
46  30 
44  20 


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3      IS      IS  00 

3  I  15  I  30  40 


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15     2S  SO 

15  I  40  30 


3   IS  :  31  40 

3  ,  IS  i  26  00 

3  i  15  1  26  10 


41  10 
41  30 
3i  40 


3      15     34  60 

3   j    IS   !   28  20 

3  I  15  I  40  50 


15  15  00 
15  41  30 
15     36  50 


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20  ;  36  40 


1878.] 


GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


87 


REPORT    ON    MILEAGE    AND     PER    DIEM Continued. 


REPRESENTATIVES, 


Bodley 

Equality 

Harmony 

Springfield  . . . 
Friendship  ... 

Macon 

Rushville 

St.  John 

Warren 

Peoria 

Temperance. . 

Macomb 

Clinton 

Hancock 

Cass 

St.  Clair 

Franklin 

Piasa 

Pekin 

Mt.  Vernon  . . 

Oriental 

Barry 

Charleston  .. . 
Kavanaugh  . . 
Monmouth  . . . 
Olive  Branch. 

Herman 

Occidental 

Mt.  Joliet 

Bloomington  . 

Hardin 

Griggsville 

Temple 

Caledonia 

Unity 

Cambridge 

CarroUton 

Mt.  Monah.. . 
Benevolent. . . 

Jackson  

Reclamation  . 
Washington. . 

Pittsfield 

Trio 

Fraternal 

New  Boston. . 

Belvidere 

Lacon 


9 
13 
14 
IS 
16 

17 
19 
20 

23 

24 

2S 
27 
29 

31 

33 
34 
35 
36 
37 
38 
39 
40 
42 
43 
44 
4S 
46 
47 
48 

49 
SO 
Si 
52 
Si 
54 
i<, 
56 
57 
58 
59 
60 
61 


St.  Marks 63 

Benton 64 

Knoxville 66 

Acacia 67 

Naples 68 

Eureka 69 

Social I  70 

Central 71 

Chester 72 

Rockton 74 

Roscoe 75 

Mt.  Nebo 76 

Prairie 77 

Waukegan 78 

\Vhitehall 80 

Vitruvius 81 

Metamora I  82 


W.  M.  Robertson.  ... 

J.  W.  Clifton 

A.  W  ood 

F"red  Trapp 

James  B.  Pomeroy    .. 
Wm.  L.   Hammer.... 

Geo.  W.  Burnett 

J.  G.  Byer 

W.  J.  Elwell 

W.  y .  Francis 

C.  W.  Higgenbotham 

A.  K.  Lodge 

H.  Stewart 

W.  J.  Dale 

S.  O.  Spring 

C.  A.  Monk 

B.  G.  Grigsby 

Thos.  Cannell 

Lewis  Zinger 

J  ohn  A.  Clinton 

E.  B.  Bennett 

J.  L.  Sweet 

A.  J. Todd 

John  Bawden 

D.  D.  Dunkle 

Geo.  W.  Hooton 

H.  Oehlshlaeger 

Robert  Henning 

J.  S.  Miller 

John  D.  Fowle 

Francis  Keyser 

A.  Monroe 

D.  Cosgrove 

J.F.  Lyerly 

O.  B.  Chamberlain... 

J.  E.  Ayers 

J.  P.  Moore 

M.  W.  Miller 

Charles  Heinz 

H.J.  Hamlin 

G.  F.  Thomas 

J.  Paul  Jones 

H.  L.  Loyd 

J.  M.  Montgomery  . . . 

W.  J.  Britton 

Geo.  Lyttle 

A.  W.  Burnside 

R.  A.Wright 

A.  S.  Wright 

John  J.  St.  Clair 

L. R.  Sykes  

D.  Wertheim 

James  Linkins 

Geo.  M.  Dickson 

C.  E.  Bodemer 

J.  D.  Harper 

B.  ^V.  Tackenberg 

J.  B.  Rockwood 

G.  G.  Smith 

W.  H.  Chaffee 

^Vm.  H.  Geohegan 

H.  L.  Hatley 

T.  A.  Smith 

J.  A.  Mason 

John  L.  McGuire.  ... 


263 
322 

215 

185 
98 
i6q 
228 
100 
310 
151 
230 
204 
187 

239 
225 

294 
258 
256 
160 
283 

264 
T84 
186 
179 
128 
263 


126 

2SS 

246 
iSi 

368 
38 

154 
249 
240 

239 
196 
242 

278 
249 
182 
148 

78 
128 

51 
306 
i6g 

99 

238 
187 
118 
18S 
321 

91 

85 
223 
164 

36 
240 

25 
137 


$26  30 
32  20 

21  50 
18  SO 

9  80 
16  90 

22  80 
10  00 
31  00 

15  ID 

23  00 
20  40 
18  70 

23  90 

22  SO 
29  40 
25  80 

25  60 

16  00 

28  30 

26  40 
18  40 

18  60 

17  90 

12  80 

26  30 

8  40 
3  So 

12  60 
25  SO 

24  60 
IS  10 
3680 

3  80 

15  40 
24  90 
24  00 

23  90 
ig  60 

24  2  f 

27  80 
24  go 

18  20 
14  80 
ig  10 

7  80 

12  80 
5  10 

30  60 

16  90 

9  90 

23  80 
18  70 
II  80 
18  so 
32  10 

g  10 

8  so 
22  30 
16  40 

3  60 

24  00 
2  50 

13  70 


I32  30 
38  20 

27  SO 
24  so 

15  80 
22  90 

28  80 

16  00 

37  00 

21  10 

29  00 
26  40 
24  70 

29  go 

28  SO 

35  40 
31  80 

31  60 

22  00 

34  30 
6  00 
33  40 

24  40 

24  60 

23  90 
18  80 

32  30 

14  40 
g  80 

18  60 
31  SO 

30  60 
21  10 
42  80 

9  80 

21  40 
30  go 
30  00 

29  90 

25  60 

30  20 

33  80 
30  90 

24  20 
20  80 

25  10 

13  80 

i8  80 
II  10 

36  60 

22  go 

iS  90 
2g  80 
24  70 

17  80 
24  so 

38  10 

15  10 

14  so 

28  30 

22  40 

9  60 

30  00 

8  SO 
ig  70 


PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE 


;Oct.   2, 


REPORT    ON    MILEAGE    AND    PER    DIEM — Conti?lued. 


KEPKKSENTATIVES. 


Dewitt 84 

Mitchell '  85 

Kaskaskia |  86 

Mt.  Pulaski 87 

Havana 8S 

Fellowship 89 

Jerusalem  Temple 90 

Metropolis 91 

Stewart 9^ 

Toulon 93 

Perry 95 

Excelsior 97 

Taylor 98 

Edwardsville 99 

Astoria '00 

Rockford 102 

Magnolia '03 

Lewiston '04 

Winchester 105 

Versailles loS 

Trenton 109 

Lebanon no 

Jonesboro '" 

Bureau I  '12 

Robert  Burns 113 

Marcelline j  •  '4 

Rising  Sun 115 

Vermont 116 

Elgin : H7 

Waverly "8 

Henry 119 

Mound 1^^ 

Oquawka 1^3 

Cedar 124 

Greenup i-S 

Empire i-t> 

Antioch 1^7 

Raleigh 12S 

Greenfield 129 

Marion 130 

Golconda 131 

Mackinaw 132 

Marshall i33 

Sycamore 134 

Lima 13S 

Hutsonville 136 

Pope 138 

Geneva 139 

Olney 140 

Garden  City 141 

Ames 142 

Richmond 143 

DeKalb 144 

A.  W.  Rawson 145 

Lee  Centre 146 

Clayton 147 

Bloomfield 148 

Effingham 149 

Vienna 15° 

Bunker  Hill 151 

Fidelit}' IS^ 

Clay IS3 

Russell 154 

Alpha ISS 

Delevan ,  156 


L.  S.  McGraw 148 

Thos.  Boyd 299 

Richard  Brown \  327 

W.  A.  Shafer 16S 

H.  W.   Lindley 191 

John  H.  Reynolds 326 

Sam'l  Hoyles 38 

F.  A.  Hailiday 402 

Geo.  Richards 159 

Levi  Sillinian 144 

¥.  C.  Moore 251 

J.  M.  Nichols 121 

J.  F.   Hoover 140 

B    R.  Burroughs 264  i 

J.  W.  Green 218  | 

Thos.  Lawler 93 

J.  W.  Massie 122 

A.  P.  Munson 196 

G.  E.  Young    235 

H.  Burgesser 246 

C.  O.  Dravton 278 

C.  J .  Renter 285 

Hugh  Andrews 330 

D.J.  Bailey 105 

Win.  P   Strong 194 

Allen  Wait 271 

E.  J .  Tower 47 

A.  K.  Clark 211 

H.  D.  Woodworth 36 

A.  L.  Kimber 218 

J.  C.  Moody 127 

Albert  T.  Kinney  201 

H.N.Patterson 204 

Perry  A   Armstrong           61 

Thos.  C.  Tutwiler 223 

O    E.  Hofer 160 

John  Minto 4S 

Jas.  T.Clark 306 

E.  A.  Belknap 252 

John  W.  Larimer 249 

James  A.  Rose   3SS 

B.  Beckley 146 

J.  E.  Gorham 200 

A.  N.  Wheeler 60 

^V,  H.  ^Vade 267 

L.  W.  Smith* 224 

John  C.  Hall 2S9 

A.  McWavne 36 

J.  A.  Nibl'o 258 

J  ames  J  ohn 

J.  A.  Farnham 136 

G.  P.  Wodell 60 

S.  O.  Vaughn jS 

H.  B.  Farwell 107 

W.  S    Frost 95 

las.  B.  Coe 242 

"Wm.  Hartley i54 

Owen  Scott '99 

J.  B.  Kuvkendall 34S 

John   Patrick j  253 

D.  Q.  Trotter j  250 

David  Berry 1  266 

W.  C.  Cowan ]  138 

G.  P.  Lawrence ,  164 

J.  N.  Snedeker >  157 


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GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


REPORT    ON    MILEAGE    AND    PER    DIEM Co)ltinHcd. 


Urbana 157 

McHenrv 158 

Wetliersfiekl    159 

Waubansia - '  160 

Virden 161 

Hope   162 

Westfield 163 

Edward  Dobbins |   164 

Atlanta ]  165 

Star  in  the  Kast :65 

Milford  i  16S 

170 
171 
172 
173 
174 
176 
17S 
179 
I  So 
182 
•83 
185 
.87 
188 
189 
192 

■93 
194 
195 

10 

197 
198 
199 
200 
201 
203 
204 
205 
20t) 
207 
20S 
209 
210 


Evergreen 

Girard        

Wayne  

Cherry  Valley    . .  • 

Lena 

Mendota 

Illinois  Central 

VV  abash 

Moweaqua 

German!  a 

Meridian 

Abingdon 

Mystic  Tie 

Cyrus 

Fulton  City 

Farmington 

Herrick    

Freedom 

La  Harpe 

Louisville 

King  Solomon's  .  . 

Grandview 

Homer 

Sheba   

Centralia 

Lavely 

Flora 

Corinthian 

Fairfield    

Tamar'^a 

Wilmington 

Wm.  I?.  Warren    . 

Lincoln 

Cleveland    

Shipman  

Gillespie 

Newton  

Mason 

New  Salem   

Oakland   

Mahomet 

LeRoy  

Geo.  Washington. 

Keeney  

Pan  a 

Columbus 

Lovington    

Manchester 

New  Haven 

Wyanet   

RlandinsviHe 

DuQuoin 

Dallas  City 

Charter  Oak 


212 
214 
216 
217 
218 
219 
220 
221 
222 
223 
226 
227 
228 
229 
230 
231 
233 
234 
23s 
236 


REPRESENTATIVES. 


E.  Blackshaw 

Smith  Searles 

A.  B.  Ashley 

J.  A.  Stoddard 

W.  K.  Bowling 

James  Milne 

Chas.  Downey 

Addison  Lewis 

J.  S.  Perriton 

W.  E.  Derwent 

J.  A.  McConnell 

Theodore  Kundinger 

J.  D.  Metcalf 

Daniel  Ellington.... 
L.  M.  VanBuren.... 

T.J.   Kaufman 

Geo.  W.  Tewksbury 

A.  H.  Wooster 

B.  H.  Lawson 

L.  L.  Hazen 

Herman  Niether  . . . . 

J.J.  Pool 

S.  D.  Pollock 

Wm.  G.  Atkins 

D.  R.  Miller 

C.  A.  Griswold 

Wm.  Scott 

John  ) ackson  

C.  W.  Bradshaw 

A.  F.  Beal 

Geo.  W.  Smith 

G.  W.  Trask 

R.  B.  Deem 

G.  W.  Yates 

H.  L.  Goodrich 

A.  P.  Turner 

I.  J.  Taylor 

).  F.  Shadwell 

"T.  D.  Palmer 

I.  W.  Tullis 

"H.  West 

J.  B. Johnson  

J.  H.  Wood 

E.  G.  Hudson 

Malcolm  McDonald. 

T.  G.  Coffy 

W^illiam  Dickie 

Geo.  H.  Shup 

C.  R.  Hanson 

John  Andrew 

H.  D.  Williams 

I.  D.  Brown 

J.  C.  Barley 

J.  L.  Kenner 

I.  H.  Hazlett 

J.  E.  Southwick. .   . . 

Geo.  Phirman 

W.  G.  Cochran 

S.  Barnes 

D.  C.  Hunter 

T.  C.  Roach 

Frank  M.  Cortright. 

E    M.  Hinckley 

Jonathan  Rice 

G.  M.  Loughmiller 


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90 


PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE 


[Oct. 


REPORT    ON    MILEAGE    AND    PER    DIEM Continued. 


Cairo    237 

Mt.  Cannel 239 

Western  Star 240 

Shekinah 241 

Galva    i  243 

Horicon 244 

fjreenville    24S 

El  Paso    246 

Rob  Morris 247 

Golden  Gate 248 

Hibbard 249 

Robinson   250 

Heyworth 251 

Aledo   252 

Avon   Harmony    1  253 

Aurora 254 

Donnelson   255 

Algonquin    256 

Warsaw 257 

Chemung •  •  i  258 

Mattoon    \  260 

Amon 261 

Channahon 262 

Illinois 263 

Franklin  Grove ^  264 

Vermilion |  265 

Kinifston |  266 

La  Prairie 1  267 

Pans :  268 

Whcaton 269 

Levi  Lusk ]  270 

Blanev 271 

Carnii 272 

Miners 273 

riyron 274 

Milton 27s 

Elizabeth \  276 

Accordia j  277 

J  o  D avies  I  278 

279 
280 
282 
2S3 
28s 
286 
287 
288 
291 
292 

293 
294 


Neof^a 

Kansas 

Brooklyn 

Meteor 

Catlin 

Plymouth 

De  Soto 

Genoa 

Wataga 

Chenoa    

Prophetstown 
Pontiac 


Dills  ;  295 

297 
298 
299 
300 
301 
302 
303 
304 
30s 
306 
307 
308 
309 


Benjamin. 

^\  aconda 

Mechanicsburg  . 

Hanover 

Cortland 

Durand 

Raven    

Cement 

Onarga 

W.  C.  Hobbs.... 

T.  J.  Pickett 

Ashlar   

Harvard   


Chas.  Wilson 

R.  S.  Gordon 

H.  J.  Dunlap 

E.  J.  IngersoU 

H.  L.  Dickinson  . . . . 

D.  A.  Baxter 

I.  Norman 

G.  L    Gibson 

S.  Kidder 

G.  W.  Hamilton  ... 

F.  Stewart 

M.  C.  Mills 

Nathan  Low 

J.  M.  Wilson 

P.  Harrod 

A.  F.  Wade 

H.  S.  Hanner 

J.  Peter 

John  Harris 

W.  G.  Billings 

J.  L.  Scott 

W.  H.  Cardiff  ..    .  . 
Albert  Pandall 

C.  M.  Cummings   .. 
Peter  C.  Rooney.   . . 

J.  R.  Grace 

Theodore  Roth 

Chas.  M.  Kern 

W.  B.  Humphrey  .  . 
W.  H. Johnson  .  . . . 

W.  H.  Robinson 

Edward  Cook 

Geo.  Darrah 

R.  H.  Fiddick 

John  C.  Davis 

G.  R.  Roush 

J.  H.  B.  Renfro  ... 

H.  Rocher 

S.  A.  Clark 

P.  Welshimer 

S.  J.  Payne 

J.  W.  Smisher 

G.  H.  Frizzell 

S.  R.  Tilton 

D.  "W.  Huddleston. 

Henry  J  acobs 

J.  McLean 

H.  H.  Marsh 

R.  E    Beard 

J.  C.  Paddock  

E.  E.  Wallace 

Oscar  J.  Reese 

Joseph  P.  Lasley  .. 

H.  B.  Burritt 

J.  W.  Houston.  .    ., 

A.  B.  White 

A.  Cone 

D.J.  Stewart.     ... 
Chas.  Roberts  .... 

C.  J.  Gardner 

J.  C.  Culver 

E.  W.  Dickenson  . 
W.  J.  Frisbee 

F.  S.  Allen... 

J.  B.  Rosencrantz. 


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1878.] 


GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


91 


REPORT  o^J   MILEAGE   AND  PER  DIEM — Continued. 


Dearborn 310 

Kilwinning 311 

Ionic 312 

York 3'3 

Palatine 3>4 

Erwin S'S 

Abraham  Jonas 316 

J.  L.  Anderson 318 

Doric 3'9 

Malta 320 

Dunlap 321 

Windsor 322 

Orient 323 

Harrisburg 325 

Grafton 32S 

Altona 330 

Tuscola 332 

Tyrian 333 

Sumner 334 

Schiller 335 

New  Columbia 33fi 

Oneida 337 

Kedron    340 

Full  Moon 341 

Summertield 342 

Wenona 344 

Milledgeville 34S 

N.  D .  Morse 346 

Sidney 347 

Russellville 3+S 

Sublette 349 

Fairview 350 

Tarbolton 351 

Kinderhook 353 

Ark  and  Anchor 354 

Marine ...    355 

Her.nitage 3St> 

Orion 358 

Blackberry 359 

Princeville .......    360 

Douglas    36r 

Noble ...    362 

Horeb 363 

Tonica 364 

Bement 365 

Areola 366 

<  )xford  367 

Jefferson ...    36S 

I.,i vingston 37 1 

Galesburg 372 

Chambersburg 373 

Shabbona    374 

Archimedes ...    377 

Aroma 37S 

Payson 379 

Liberty    380 

M.R.Thompson 381 

Gill 382 

LaMoille 383 

Waltham 384 

Bridgeport '  386 

Youngstown [  3S7 

Kankakee 389 

Ashmore I  390 


REPKESENTATIVES. 


Wm.  K.  Forsyth  .. 

R.  Thibodo 

J.  C.  Hosteller 

S.  B.  Lake 

F.  J.  Filbert 

Wm.  Sonntag 

T.  N.  Bone 

R.  J  .  Greyson 

N.  R.  Zeigler 

Caleb  Peters 

E. J. Congar 

W.  W.  M.  Barbom. 
N.  J.  Cobleigh  .... 
F.  M.  Pickett 

F.  J.  Glazier  . . 

L.  B.  Zong 

B.  Ervin 

Jesse  K.  Dubois  . . . 

T.  M.  Stevens 

John  Corsoski 

J.  G.  Helm 

E.  Marsh . 

H.  D.  ParKcr 

Jacob  Godfrey 

J.  F.  Uttley 

O.  M.  Southwell  .  . 

J.  Q.  Russell 

J.  H.  Leonard  . .  . . 
Wm.  Freeman  . . .  . 

G.  P.  VVeger 

Chas.  H.  Ingalls  . 

David  A.  Parks 

Smith  Olney 

W.  G.  Smith 

J.  W.  Nuckols  .... 

G.  A.  Elbring 

Joseph  White 

J.  D.  Bliss 

C.  Spaulding. . . .  . 
J.  L.  Blancharcl  .  . . 

P.  W.  Lill 

Henry  Palmer 

T.  V.  R.  Dafoe     .. 

G.  W.  Howe 

B.  B.  Bacon . 

A.  D.  Kaga 

A.  P.  Petrie 

Abram  Marlow. . . . 

J.  G.  Strong 

W.  H.  Davidson  .. 

Oscar  Dennis 

F.  A.  Frost 

August  Kohler.  .. 

J.  C.  Danforth 

John  Kidder  

S.  F.  McBride 

P.  S.  Lerch 

Richard  Boston     . 

F.  \j.  Angier 

Wm.  Wilson 

B.  Leach 

W.  W.  Shoop 

John  K.  Croswell. 
W.  R.  Comstock  . 


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92 


PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE 


[Oct.    2, 


REPORT    ON    MILEAGE    AND    PER    DIEM Continued. 


Oconee 

Blair 

Jerseyville 

H.  G.  Reynolds 
Muddy   Point. 


392 
393 
394 
395 
,  3'l6 
Kinnuindy |  39S 

399 
400 
401 

402 

403 
404 

40s 
408 

409 
410 
412 
414 
416 
4'7 
418 

419 
420 
421 
422 
424 
426 
427 


Buda 

Pacific 

Odell 

Kishwaukec    . .  . 

Mason  City 

Batavia 

Ramsey 

Stratton 

Thos.  J .  I'unicr 

Mithra 

BoUen    

Evening  Star. . . 

Paxton 

Marseilles 

Freeburg 

Reynoldsburg  . . 

Oregon 

Washburn    

Landmark 

Exeter 

Scottville    

Red    liud 

Sunbeam j  42S 

Chebanse !  429 

Summit [  431 

Murrayville     432 

Annawan j  433 

Makanda    434 

Neponset    435 


Phil 

Chicago 

Luce 

Camargo 

Sparland 

Casey  

Hampshire  . . . 
Cave-in-Rock 
Chesterfield. . 

Watseka 

S  D.  Monroe. 
Yates  City   ... 

Mendon 

Loami 

Grant 

New  Hartford, 

Maroa 

Irving 

Nokomis 

Moscow 

Blazing  Star  . 

Butler 

Jeffersonville. 

Plainview 

Tremont 

Palmyra 

Denver 

Huntsville  . . . 

Cobden I    '/^ 

South  Macon |  467 


436 
437 
439 
440 

441 
442 

443 
444 

44S 
446 

447 

44S 

449 
4S0 
45^ 
453 
4S4 
455 
456 
457 
458 
459 
460 
461 
462 

463 
464 

465 


REPRESENTATIVES 


W.  H.  Aughinbaugh 

D.  H.  Dickenson 

C.  E.  Miner 

Richard  Terrill 
B.  B.  Olmstead 
W.  R.  Hubbard 
J.  N.  Pervier 

E.  Plummer. . . 
Chas.  F"inefield 

0.  Rodgers.  . . . 
J.  S.  Townsend 
Jas.  M.  Miller 
H.  B.  McKnight 

1.  J.  Lamb 

W.  Lowe 

August  Koblitz 
B.  C.  Benson 
John  Weber 

B.  F.  Mason 

Edward  T.  Keagle 
T.  O.  Holcomb 
J.  S.  Whiltenberg 
A. S.  Babcock 
G.  W.  Burson 

P.  Daggy 

Stephen  Rcdshaw 
G.  W.  Dudderar 

D.  R.  Guker 
Chas.  A.  Getnian 
R.J.  McDonald 
J.  C.  Tucker 
J.  I?.  Beadles 
H.  N.  Oilman. 
John  A.  Prickett 
A.  B.  Avery 
W.  Fleming 
Chas.  Cohen 
John  A.  Riley 
D.  A.  Ward.. 
T.  E.  Gapen 
W.  \V.  Bruce 
L.  J.  Carlyle 
John  Tyre  . . 
H.  J.   Loomi: 
John  W.  Riggh 
L.  C.  Conover 
J.  I)    C.  Hoit 

D.  B.  Cooke 
Jolin  I>owry 
R.  B.  Keyes 
Henry  Pollard 
\V.  M.  Phares 

E.  H.  Kitch 
Geo.  Sippell 
H.  W.  Mercer 
J.  C.  Campbell 
\V.  EUiman 
G.  H.  Hillard 
A.  W.  Schultz 
A.  V.  Norman 
J .  T.  Gardner 
L.  Hartman 
C.  H.  Phelp 
I.  H.  Lawrenc 
R.  H.  Woodcock 


Total. 


1878.] 


GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


93 


REPORT  ON  MILEAGE  AND  PER  DIEM — Continued. 


McLean 

Rantoul 

Kendall 

Amity 

Columbia 

Walshville 

Manito 

New  Rutland 

Pleiades 

Wyoming 

Logman 

Momence 

Lexington 

Edjjewood 

Oskaloosa 

Bowen  

Clay  City 

Cooper 

Shannon  

Martin 

Libertyville 

Tower  Hill 

Stone  P'ort 

Tennessee 

Alma 

Murphysboro 

Saint  Paul 

Stark  

VVoodhuU  

Odin 

East  St.  Louis. . . . 

O.  H.  Miner 

Home , . . 

Parkersburg    

J.  D.  Moody 

Clintonville 

Wade  Barney.  . . . 

Cold  Sprinjf 

Bradford 

Dement 

Andalusia    

Litchfield 

Abraham  Lincoln 

Roseville 

Anna 

Illiopolis 

Monitor    

Evans 

Delia 

Covenant 

Rossville 

Minooka  

Adams 

Maquon    

Ashton 

.Seneca 

Freemanton 

Cuba 

Sherman 

Plainfield 

J.   R.  Gorin 

Lockport 

Chatsworth 

Harlem 

Sigel  


469 
470 
47' 
472 
474 
47S 
476 

477 
478 
479 
480 
4S1 
482 
484 
485 
4S6 
488 
4S9 
490 

491 
492 

493 
495 
496 

497 
498 

SOD 

SOI 
502 

S03 
504 
506 
50S 
509 
510 

Sii 

S'2 

S13 

SIS 
S16 
S17 
S18 
S19 
520 

521 

522 
SH 
525 
526 

527 
528 
529 
53° 
S3' 

533 

534 
535 
536 
537 
538 
539 
540 
54' 


REPRESENTATIVES! 


C.  C.  Aldrich 

I.  Messengfer 

R.  W.  Willett 

John  McWilliams.. 

M.  M.  Gray 

A.  B.  Copeland  .... 
Fred.  Schenaman  .. 

W.  O.  Ensign   

W.  Fennemore 

T.  W.  Bloomer 

David  Gillespie 

Thos.  B.  Manning 

J.  L.  Langstaff 

Joseph  Danks 

A.  Pickthall 

Jesse  Palmer 

J.  T.  Evans 

H.  A.  Eidson 

C.  Hines 

J.  M.  Daggett 

E.  B.  Messer 

E.  Brounback 

W.  R.  Mizelle 

S.  W.  Aiken 

W.  H.  Stevens  .... 

G.  W.  Smith 

J.  K.  McNeil  ....... 

W.  T.  Dickenson  . 
J.  AV.  Willis 

E.  I!.  Wilcox 

A.  Gustin 

W.  H.  McClain  ... 

D.  G.  Hamilton  ... 
Wm.  Williamson. . 

J.  A.  Irwin 

Wm.  Dolting ... 

L.  L.  Burr 

Thos.  J.  Kritts 

A.  B.  Abbot 

J.  V.  Diamond 

James  Cozad 

W.  B.  Schoen 

W.  J.  Sofield 

R.  L.  McReynohls 

John  .Spire 

John  P.  Cowdin    .., 

\V.  H.  Wilcox 

C.  Raymond 

T.  J.  Dunn 

H.  W.  Wolselev  .. 
W.  W.  Phillips'...., 

Wm.  Bedford , 

J.  W.  Hollenbeak., 
J.  L.  Hurkhalter  .., 

H.  BIy 

A.  F.  Rogers 

Perry  Carpenter  . .. 

J.  G.  Moss 

Fred  Thompson  . . . 

A.  H.  Tyler 

J.  G.  Wright 

F.  W.  Stowe 

N.  C.  Kenyon , 

C.  H.  Coolidge 

R.  T.  Woiley , 


141 

114 

49 

30 

294 

248 

173 
114 

U8 

'57 
54 
no 

215 
233 
242 
244 
233 
'^S 
187 

36 
212 

3'9 
212 
306 
316 
'85 
146 

'54 
244 
280 
89 

268 
259 

39 
126 
210 
129 

70 
192 

234 

186 

191 
329 

188 
36 


no 

5' 
279 
172 

84 

71 
210 
192 
180 

4' 

142 

32 

97 

8 

191 


Total. 


$14  10 
II  40 

4  90 
3  00 

29  40 
24  80 

17  30 
II  40 

13*80 

IS  70 

5  40 
II  00 
21  so 

23  30 

24  20 
24  40 

23  30 
'3  50 

18  70 
3  60 

21  20 
31  90 
21  20 

30  60 

31  60 
18  so 
14  60 

'5  40 

24  40 
28  00 

8  90 


26  80 
25  90 

3  90 
12  60 
21  00 
12  90 

7  00 
19  20 
23  40 

18  60 

19  10 
32  90 
18  80 

3  60 
I  20 


30 


II  00 
S  10 
27  90 

17  20 

8  40 
7  10 

21  00 
19  20 

18  00 
4  10 

14  20 
3  20 

9  70 
80 

19  10 


$20  10 
17  40 
6  90 
9  00 

35  40 
30  80 

23  30 
17  40 

6  GO 

19  80 

21  70 
II  40 

17  00 

27  SO 

29  30 

30  20 
30  40 

29  30 

'9  so 

24  70 

9  60 
27  20 
37  90 
27  20 

36  60 

37  60 

24  So 

20  60 

21  40 

30  40 
34  00 
14  90 

6  00 
32  80 

31  90 
9  90 

18  60 
27  00 
18  90 

13  00 

25  20 
29  40 

24  60 

25  10 

38  90 
24  So 

9  60 

7  20 
27  30 

6  00 
17  00 
II  10 

U  90 

23  20 

14  40 
'3  10 
27  00 

26  20 

24  00 

ID  10 
20  20 
9  20 

15  70 
6  80 

25  10 


94 


PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE 


[Oct.  2, 


REPORT    ON    MILEAGE    AND    PER    DIEM Continued. 


REPRESENTATIVES. 


Towanda 54^ 

Cordova    j  543 

Virginia |  544 

VaUey  ;  547 

Apple  River 

Sharon 

Dar\vin 

Ancona 

Humboldt  . . 
Dawson  .... 
Lessinj^     .... 

Leland 

Thompson   .  . 

Madison 

Trinilv 

Villa  Ridge  . 
Hamilton. 


S4S 
55° 
551 

552 

5Sb 
SS7 
S5S 
559 
560 
SOi 
562 
563 

Winslow I  564 

565 
566 
57° 
S72 
573 
574 
575 
S76 

577 
578 
579 
580 
S8i 


Pleasant  Hill 

Albany 

Jacksonville    

Bardolph 

Gardner   

Pera  

Capron 

O'Fallon 

Viola 

Prairie  City 

Elbridge  .". 

Hazel  Dell 

Dongola 

Shirley „ 

Highland    583 

Vesper _    . 

Fisher    585 

Troy 588 

Elwood 589 

Fairmount 59° 

Fieldon 59^ 

Miles  Hart .595 

National 59^ 

Lostant 597 

Dorchester 59^ 

Fowler 599 

Cerro  Gordo 600 

Laclede 601 

Watson 602 

Clark 603 

Hebron 604 

Allen 60s 

Sheldon 609 

Union  Park 610 

Rock  River 612 

Patoka i  613 

Forrest j  614 

\V  adley 616 

Milan 617 

Basco   61S 

Berwick I  619 

New  Hope  !  620 

Venice '  621 

Hopedale 622 

Dul>ois 624 

Union 627 

Norton '  631 


F.  M.  Jones 

Isaac  Cool 

C.  M.  Hubbard  ... 

L.  B.  Thomas 

Geo.  Frost 

J.  H.  Welsh 

Albert  Prevoe  . . . . 
A.  J.  Bosseman  . . . 
Geo.  W.  Ravens.. 

W. W.  Judd 

Wm.  Heinenian  . . 
J.  W.  Blood 

G.  W    Sweet 

Abraham  .Allen.   .. 

0.  D.  Wilcox 

A.  IJ.  Robinson  . . . 

1.  C   Noble 

N.C.  Tyler 

F.  L.  Zerenberg. .  . 
J.  M.  Eaton 

G.  V.  Black 

T.  A.  Jackson 

W.  H.  Long 

J.  .M.  Harnet 

N.  H.  Wooster. . . . 

L.  Simmonds 

Van  R  Harriott  . . 
Joseph  Eskridge  . 
Stephen  Maddock . 

C.  G.  Cochran 

T.  J.  Edelman 

D.  F.  Quinn   

Jame.-:  H.  Miller  .. 
Judson  Graves  . . . . 

K.  P.  Hunter 

Samuel  Rawson  . . 

C.  Elkin 

J.  L.  Carr 

\V.  Parks 

J  as.  H.  Cross 

M.  E.  Stone 

W.  F    Willev 

Geo.  W.  Smith 

E.  F.  Davis 

E.  Drum 

I.  N.  Kepner 

W.  M.  Abraham  .  . 

Jerry  Ishler 

J.  M.  Mansfield  . 
J.  S.  Weir 

D.  J.  Eastburn.  . . 

J  .  S.  Cook 

W.  A.  .McCune..., 
J.  H.  Hudspeth... 

B.  M.  BuUard 

W.  P.  Hart 

I.  S.  Wallin  .... 
J.  R.  McGinnis.  . 
P.  H.  Shelton  .... 
H.  W.  Haslit  .... 

B.  F.  Sippv 

G.  P.  Orendortf  . . . 
S.  B.  Gilbert 

E.  Wiggs 

Geo.  W.  Lowden. 


Total. 


27  40 
16  00 

14  40 
25  60 

6  00 
10  70 
20  30 

31  60 
23  90 
41  30 

32  90 
20  40 

28  SO 
20  30 
27  SO 
25  70 

12  so 

16  90 

13  bo 

35  10 

22  80 
25  90 

23  60 

29  ID 

39  80 

19  30 

32  70 
22  40 

25  40 
34  00 
22  40 

20  ID 

33  20 

24  30 
6  00 

17  59 

30  80 

31  20 
22  30 
27  80 

26  60 

27  ID 

"3  30 

19  80 

15  'o 
0  00 

17  00 
30  5° 

16  20 

28  40 
26  00 
30  60 
24  90 
26  00 
33  60 

20  90 
33  40 
39  90 
13  80 


1878.] 


GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


95 


REPORT  ON   MILEAGE   AND  PER  DIEM — Continued, 


Ridge  Farm 632 

E.  F.  W.  Ellis I  633 

Buckley i  634 

Rochester 635 

Peotone    636 

Fortitude 638 

Comet 641 

Apollo 642 

D.  C.  Cregier 643 

Oblong  City i  644 

San  Jose '  645 

Somonauk 646 

Blueville 647 

Camden    648 

Irvington 650 

Centre  Star 651 

Polar  Star 652 

Greenvie\v 653 

Yorktown 655 

Mozart 656 

Lafayette 657 

Rock  Island 658 

Lambert 659 

Grand  Chain 660 

Bethesda 661 

Phenix 1  663 

Mayo I  664 

Greenland    665 

Crawford ,  666 

Erie '•   667 

Burnt  Prairie '  668 

Herder 669 

670 
672 

673 
674 

67s 
677 
679 
681 
682 
683 
685 
686 
687 
6SS 
690 
691 
692 
693 


REPRESENTATIVES. 


Fillmore  , 

Eddyville 

Normal 

Waldeck 

Pawnee 

Enfield 

Illinois   City  .... 

Morrisonville. . . . 

Blue  Mound 

Burnside 

Rio 

D.  A.  Cashman  . 

Orangeville 

Clifton 

Englewood 

lola 

Raymond , 

Herrin's  Prairie. 

«.  entre , 

ShilohHill 

Belle  Rive , 

Richard  Cole 697 

Hutton I  698 

Pleasant  Plains j  700 

Temple  Hill I  701 

Alexandria 702 

St.  Andrews |  703 

Braidwood !  704 

Ewing j  70s 

706 
707 
709 
710 


696 


Joppa. 

Circle 

Star 

Farmer  City 


Geo.  A.  Dice 

J.  C.  Garver 

J.  G.  McClave 

B.  F.   Montgomery, 

C.  A.  Westgate  ..'. . 

A.  McFarland 

J.  M.  Edmiston 

Thos.  Neill 

James  Keats 

B.  M.  Arnold     

Henry  Thorn 

P.  H    Evans 

W.  T.  Huston 

G.  R.  Anderson. . . . 
T.  D.  Hinckley  .... 

W.J.  Biggs 

Isham  Harrison..., 

H.  K.  Rule 

T   S.  Beach 

M.  Hansen 

Wm.  Kunze 

John  R.  W  arner  . . 
W.  H.  Konantz  .. 
Geo.  W.  Bristow. . 
H.  L.  Turpening. . 

Thos.  Jefford 

W.  C.  Harned 

J.  K.  Fleniken  .... 

T.J.  Athey 

Arthur  McLane  . . . 

Wesley  Phillips 

I  »avid  Braun 

E.  H.  Donaldson. . 

Wm.  Jackson 

J.  S.  Lackey 

Wm.  Bushman.... 
G.  C.  Drennan  .... 

W.  H.  Baird 

W.  H.  Kistler  .... 
John  Watson,  )r... 
J.  W.  McClure".... 

0.  C.  Ing 

Michael  Connely.  . 
J.  H.  Frees  ...... 

Wm  R.  Moore  . . . 
S.  R.  Beardslee  . . . 

D.  W.  Rosseter  ... 

J.  C.  Craig 

Edward  Grimes  ... 

A.  H.  James 

W.  E.  Scott 

1.  Barrow 

O.  P.  Nesmith 

Chas.  A.  Mathay.. 
A.  N.  Rosencrans  . 
John  A.  Larmon  . . 
J.  H.  lienham  .... 
J.  E.  Alexander  .  . . 

H.  C.  Ranney 

John  Broadbent. . . 

C.  O.  Kelley 

S.  Cosart 

J.  J.  Peebles 

Geo.  Steely 

Thompson  Rosier  . 


'44 
93 
93 

'93 
40 

198 

143 


$14  40 
9  30 
9  30 
'9  30 
4  00 
19  80 
'4  30 


236 

23  60 

162 

16  20 

61 

6  10 

203 

20  30 

^39 

23  90 

^59 

2S  90 

161 

16  10 

298 

29  80 

'79 

17  90 

124 

12  40 

120 

12  60 

3.^6 

33  60 

182 

18  20 

263 

26  30 

302 

36  20 

118 

II  So 

177 

17  70 

221 

22  10 

220 

22  00 

215 

21  so 

'.« 

13  30 

272 

27  20 

231 

23  10 

33' 

.33  '0 

124 

12  40 

201 

20  10 

277 

27  70 

202 

20  20 

214 

21  40 

1 84 

18  40 

226 

22  60 

'OS 

16  50 

124 

12  40 

69 

6  90 

7 

70 

221 

22  10 

222 

22  20 

328 

32  80 

202 

.  20  20 

300 

30  00 

294 

29  40 

191 

ig  10 

201 

20  10 

36S 

36  SO 

191 

19  10 

57 

s  70 

300 

30  00 

223 

22  30 

'73 

'7  30 

104 

10  40 

'30 

13  00 

Total. 


|20  40 

'S  30 

'5  30 
25  30 
6  00 

25  So 
20  30 

6  00 
6  00 
29  60 
22  20 
12  10 

26  30 
29  90 

31  90 

22  10 

35  80 

23  90 
iS  40 
iS  60 
39  60 

24  20 

32  .30 
42  20 

17  80 

23  70 
28  10 

28  00 

27  So 
19  30 

33  20 
6  00 

29  10 
39  'o 

18  40 
6  00 

26  10 
33  70 

26  20 

27  40 

24  40 

25  60 

22  SO 

6  00 
iS  40 
12  go 

6  70 

25  10 

28  20 
38  So 

26  20 

36  00 

35  40 
6  00 

25  10 

26  10 
42  so 
25  'o 

6  00 
II  70 

36  00 
28  30 

23  30 
16  40 

19  00 


96 


PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE 


[Oct. 


REPORT    ON    MILEAGE    AND    PER    DIEM — Continued. 


Providence  . . . . 
Collinsville  . . .. 
Johnsonville  . . 

Newtown 

Elvaston 

Calumet 

May 

Chapel  Hill.... 

Varna 

Rome     

Walnut 

Omaha 

Chandlerville.. 

Rankin 

Golden  Rule  . . 

Raritan 

Waterman  .... 
Lake  Creek.  . . . 

Eldorado 

Harhor 

Carman 

Canton 

Sheridan 

Dennison 

Sullivan  Center 

Lakeside 

Grant  Park 

Danvers   

Scott  Land. .. . 

Goode   

Winnebago 

Weldon     

Centennial  .... 

Alta 

Akin 

I^yndon 

Lounshury  .... 

Allendale 

Og^den 

Preemption. . . 


711 
712 

713 
7'4 
71.'; 
716 
71S 
719 
720 
721 
722 

723 

724 

72s 
726 
727 
72S 

72Q 
730 

73  > 
732 
734 
735 
73<' 
738 
739 
740 
742 
743 
744 
74.'! 
746 
747 
748 

749 

750 
75' 

752 
754 
755 


REPRESENTATIVES. 


A.  Dunning 

W.  C.  Hadley  ... 
AVin. M.  Johnson 
Thos.  J.  George. 
W.  H.  Speckman 
H.  B.  Robinson  . 
W.  E.  Jennings  . 
L.  L.  Gallemore. 

Edwin  Gants . 

R.  F".  Casey 

I^.  J.  Thompson 

I.  M.  Asberv 

L.  C.  Chandler.. 

B.  R.  Cole 

D.  Goodman.  .  . . 
S.  D.  Parsons  ... 

C.  F.  Greenwood 

E.  L.  Darrow  .  . . 
S.  T.  Webber  . . . . 
W.  J.  McVay  ... 
G.  H.  Messick  ... 
C.  N.  Henkle  ... 

Abe  White 

W.  W.  Wilson  .. 

R.  F.  Griffin 

W.  M.  Burbank. 
A.  D.  VanDorcn 
C.  C.  Rowell  .... 

A.  M.  Workman 
C.  G.  Reagin. . . . 
John  Tanner. .. . 

F.  A.  Winslow.. 

B.  L.  Tabler 

John  C.  Wood... 
J.  W.  Meador  ... 
E.  B.  Hazard  ... 
Edgar  Isbel  .... 
Chas.  W.  Day... 

J.  W.  Leney . 

\Vm.  C.  Gray..  . 


286 
252 
136 
241 
16 
285 
326 
118 
268 
no 
292 
209 
116 

200 
6+ 

334 

300 

12 

214 

183 
(•5 
'93 
107 

52 
1.36 
1 58 
290 
100 

157 
142 
162 
305 
123 
32 
256 

'43 
177 


$1  00 
28  60 

25  20 
13  60 
24  10 

I  60 

28  50 

32  <^ 
II  So 

26  80 
II  00 

29  20 
20  90 
II  60 

20  00 
6  40 

33  40 

30  00 
I  20 

21  40 
18  20 

6  So 
'9  .30 


5  20 

13  60 

15  So 

29  00 

ID  00 

'5  70 

14  20 

16  20 

30  SO 

,12  30 
3  20 
25  60 
14  30 

17  70 


E 

.« 

Total. 

u 

PU 

?6 

.|7  00 

6 

34  60 

6 

31  20 

6 

19  60 

30  10 

6 

7  do 

6 

34  .50 

6 

3860 

6 

17  80 

6 

32  80 

6 

17  DO 

6 

35  20 

6 

26  90 

^^ 

17  60 

6 

b   00 

6 

26  00 

t 

12  40 

b 

39  40 

b 

36  00 

6 

7  20 

b 

27  40 

b 

24  20 

6 

12  so 

4 

23  .30 

b 

16  70 

b 

6  00 

0 

II  20 

6 

19  60 

6 

21  80 

6 

35  00 

b 

16  00 

b 

21  70 

b 

20  20 

b 

22  20 

b 

36  so 

6 

.830 

b 

9  20 

b 

31  60 

b 

20  -50 

b 

23  70 

MEMORIAL— From  Mt.  Joliet  Lodge,  No.  42. 

W.   Bro.   Gray   (42)   presented  the  following    memorial,  which 
was  referred  to  the  Finance  Committee: 


7b  f/ie  M.  ]V.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  •"■j'  A.  M.: 

Mt.  Joliet  Lodge,  No.  42,  represents  that  in  the  year  A.  D.  1S76,  by  the 
failure  of  its  Treasurer,  said  lodge  lost  all  its  funds,  amounting  to  about  $400; 
that  said  lodge  has  since  that  time  paid  up  its  dues  for  the  years  1876  and 
1877,  as  well  as  the  present  year;  that  said  lodge  was  represented  at  the 
Annual  Communications  of  the  Grand  Lodge  in  1876  and  1877  unofficially, 
at  the  expense  of  the  said  lodge.  Said  lodge  prays  that  a  sum  equal  to  its 
mileage  and  per  diem  for  the  years  1876  and  1S77  be  appropriated  to  reimburse 


1878.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  97 


said  lodge  for  its  expense  incurred  in  said  years  1876  and  1877,  in  sending  its 
representative  to  this  Grand  Lodge. 


Oct.  I,  1S78. 


JOHN  GRAY,  IV.  M.  Mt.  Joliet  Lodge,  No.  42. 


REPORTS— Finance  Committee. 


The  Finance  Committee  submitted  the  following  reports  on 
matters  which  had  been  referred  to  them. 

The  several  reports  were  received  and  adopted,  and  the  recom- 
mendations concurred  in: 

To  the  M.   jr.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  &  A    M.  : 

Your  Finance  Committee,  to  whom  was  referred  the  petition  of  Knoxville 
Lodge,  No.  66,  asking  the  co-operation  of  this  Grand  Lodge  in  the  erection 
of  a  monument  to  the  memory  of  the  late  R.  W.  Bro.  Sylvester  Stevens,  beg 
leave  to  report:  That  we  have  had  the  same  under  consideration;  that, 
recognizing  the  many  years  of  a  long  and  well  spent  life,  devoted  to  the  best 
interests  of  Masonry,  we  cannot  doubt  but  the  lodges  so  largely  benefitted  by 
the  valuable  services  of  Bro.  Stevens,  will  gladly  join  in  erecting  a  suitable 
memorial  to  so  good  a  man  and  Mason. 

Your  committee  regret  that  the  finances  of  this  Grand  Lodge  do  not 
warrant  any  appropriation,  even  for  so  good  a  cause,  and  would  therefore  ask 
to  be  relieved  from  any  further  consideration  of  the  subject. 

Fraternally  submitted, 

J.  C.  Smith,  ^ 

Thos.  J.  Bronson,  y  Committee. 

E.  C.  Selleck,       J 

Your  Finance  Committee,  to  whom  was  referred  the  communication  of 
Mrs.  Lavinia  Glenn,  proposing  the  transfer  of  two  policies  of  life  insurance 
held  by  herself  upon  the  life  of  her  husband,  R.  W.  Bro.  A.  A.  Glenn,  late 
Grand  Treasurer  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  in  settlement  of  the  amount  due  by 
Bro.  Glenn  to  this  Grand  Lodge,  have  had  the  same  under  consideration, 
and  respectfully  report: 

Your  committee  having  no  knowledge  of  the  value  of  the  assets  of  Bro. 
Glenn,  of  the  life  policies  proposed  to  be  surrendered,  or  the  probabilities  of 
collecting  the  deficiency  from  his  sureties,  and  the  lateness  of  the  session 
preventing  a  full  inquiry  into  the  same,  are  of  the  opinion  that  the  interests 
of  this  Grand  Lodge  demand  a  careful  consideration  of  this  whole  subject, 
and  would  therefore  recommend  that  the  M.  W.  Grand  Master  appoint  a 
committee  of  three,  who  shall  have  power  to  arrange  with  Bro.  Glenn  upon 

*i3 


^8  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct.  2y 

such  terms  as  in  their  judgment  are  for  the  best  interests  of  this  Grand  Lodge^ 
subject  to  the  approval  of  the  M,  W.  Grand  Master. 

Fraternally  submitted, 

J.  C.  Smith,  ~| 

Thos.  J.Bronson,  >  Committee. 

E.  C.  Selleck,        J 

Your  committee,  to  whom  was  referred  the  petition  of  Mt.  Joliet  Lodge, 
No.  42,  asking  that  a  voucher  be  drawn  for  mileage  and  per  diem  amounting 
to  $19.60,  paid  by  said  lodge  to  its  Master,  who  was  in  attendance  on  this 
Grand  Lodge  in  1S76  and  1S77,  ^"^  which  was  not  paid  by  this  Grand 
Lodge. 

We,  your  committee,  having  examined  into  the  facts,  and  find  Mt.  Joliet 
Lodge,  No.  42,  paid  capitation  tax  for  the  years  1S76  and  1S77,  amounting  to 
$^43.50. 

We  would  respectfully  recommend  that  a  voucher  be  drawn  for  said 
mileage  and  per  diem,  amounting  to  $19.60. 

Fraternally  submitted, 

J.  C.  Smith,  ] 

Thos.  J.  Bronson,  >-  Committee. 

E.  C.  Selleck,         j 

Your  Committee  on  Finance,  to  whom  was  referred  the  accounts  of  M.  W. 
Grand  Master  Joseph  Robbins,  R.  W.  A.  A.  Glenn,  late  Grand  Treasurer,. 
R.  W.  Grand  Treasurer  O.  H.  Miner,  and  R.  W.  Grand  Secretary  John  F, 
BuRRiLL,  respectfully  report: 

first. 

That  during  the  past  year  the  M.  W,  Grand  Master  has  received  the  fol- 
lowing sums  of  money : 

Dispensation  fees  for  two  new  lodges $200  00 

"  "     "     other  purposes 146  00 

From  Grand   Secretary  John    F.   Burrill  .    .  600  27 

Total $946  27 

By  paid  to  Grand  Secretary  John  F.  Burrill $346  00 

"       "     "         "      Treasurer  O.  H.  Miner .    .  27 

"       "     special  order  No.  395,  Springfield  Printing  Company  .    .    .      60000 

Total $946  27 

We  find  that  the  Grand  Master  has  paid  out  for  stationery,  postage  and 
other  necessary  expenses  in  the  performance   of  oflScial  duties,  the  sum  of 


187S.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  99 


one  hundred  and  fiftj-two  dollars  and  ninetj-one  cents  ($152.91).  Your 
committee,  therefore,  recommend  that  an  order  for  $153.91  be  drawn  in  favor 
of  M.  W.  Bro.  Joseph  Robbins,  to  reimburse  him  for  said  expenditures. 

We  also  find  upon  an  examination  of  the  correspondence  between  the 
Grand  Master  and  Macon  Lodge,  No.  S,  relative  to  the  payment  of  ten  dol- 
lars dispensation  fees,  that  Grand  Master  Robbins  received  a  draft  for  said 
sum  as  he  was  leaving  home  on  business;  returning  several  weeks  after  and 
presenting  said  draft  for  payment,  he  was  informed  that  the  bank  had  failed. 
As  this  loss  was  occasioned  by  no  neglect  on  the  part  of  the  Grand  Master 
or  Macon  Lodge,  No.  8,  we  therefore  recommend  that  an  order  be  drawn  in 
favor  of  M.  W.  Grand  Master  Joseph  Robbins  for  the  sum  of  ten  dollars. 

SECOND. 

We  have  examined  all  the  accounts  and  papers  submitted  by  late  Grand 
Treasurer  A.  A.  Glenn,  and  find  as  follows: 

Balance  on   hand  from  1877 $35)239  73 

He  has  paid  out  on  regular  orders  issued  by  this  Grand 

Lodge  the  sum  of $20,416  96 

Paid  to  Grand  Secretary 1,506  04 

$21,923  00 


Leaving  a  balance  due  from  R.  W.  Bro.  A.  A.  Glenn  of  ...    .    $13,316  73 

Your  committee  regret  exceedingly  to  note  the  deficiency  in  the  account 
of  R.  W.  Bro.  Glenn,  occasioned  by  his  failure  in  business;  and  as  this 
Grand  Lodge  has  already  taken  the  necessary  steps  to  protect  its  interests, 
your  committee  make  no  further  recommendation. 

THIRD. 

A  careful  examination  of  the  accounts  of  R.  W.  O.  H.  Miner,  Grand 
Treasurer,  shows  as  follows,  viz.: 

Received  from  Grand  Secretary  J.  F.  Burrill $31,393  83 

"  "  "       Master  Joseph  Robbins 27 

Total $31,394  10 

Paid  out  on  orders  as  scheduled 3,075  88 

Leaving  balance  in  his  hands  of $28,318  22 


Your  committee  have  made  a  careful  examination  of  the  books  and 
accounts  of  the  Grand  Secretary,  and  find  he  has  received  during  the  past 
year: 


PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct.  2, 


Dues  for  187S $28,074  75 

"       "    1S77 i'078  75 

"       "    1S76 174  75 

Miscellaneous      2,471  00 

Charity  Fund ^94  S5 

$31,994  37 

He  has  paid  Acting  Grand  Treasurer  Jos.  Robbins  .    $      600  27 
"     '<       "  «'  "  O.  H.  Miner  31,393  83 

$31,994  10 

We  find  the  Grand  Secretary  has  paid  out  for  postage,  stationery  and 
other  expenses  of  his  office,  as  per  detailed  statement  rendered,  the  sum  of 
$741.18,  for  which  we  recommend  an  order  be  drawn  in  his  favor. 

FIFTH. 

Your  committee  having  had  the  following  bills  before  them,  have  care- 
fully examined  the  same,  and  recommend  that  they  be  paid,  and  that  orders 
be  drawn  upon  the  Treasurer  for  the  amounts  named: 

Springfield  Printing  Co $i,33i  60 

"                       "                   19  50 

J.  B.  Brown,  stationery 7  50 

John  Middleton,  carpenter  work 27  00 

Culver,  Page,  Hoyne  &  Co.,  sundries 2  65 

John  P.  Ferns,  expenses  as  per  bills  rendered 7S  85 

John  P.  Ferns,  attendance  on  this  Grand  Lodge 100  00 

John  Gray,  District  Deputy 15  00 

Gustave  H.  B.  Tolle,  District  Deputy 12  95 

S.  \V.  Waddle,  District  Deputy 3  00 

E.  S.  MuUiner,  District  Deputy 25  00 

O.  H.  Miner,  interest  on  moneys  advanced .    .  42  45 

R.  S.  &  W.  G.  McCormick,  rent  of  Hall 225  00 

P.  Bird  Price,  Ass't  Grand  Secretary 25  00 

In  accordance  with  the  requirements  of  Sec.  2,  Art.  S,  of  the  By-Laws  of 
this  Grand  Lodge,  your  committee  submit  the  following  estimates  of  the 
probable  expenses  of  the  Grand  Lodge  for  the  ensuing  year: 

Salaries  of  Grand  Master,  Grand  Treasurer  and  Grand  Secretary,  $,:j,400  00 
Sundry  expenses  of  offices  of  Grand  Master,  Grand  Treasurer  and 

Grand  Secretary 1,000  00 

Contingent  expenses 2,000  00 

Mileage  and  Per  Diem 17,000  00 

Outstanding  orders 2,500  00 

Total $26,900  00 


1878.]  GRAND    I-ODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  lOI 


Your  committee  would  therefore  respectfullj  recommend  that  these 
amounts  be  appropriated  for  the  purposes  above  indicated. 

Fraternally  submitted, 

J.  C.  Smith,  ^ 

T.  J.  Bronson,        >-  Coynmittee.     - 

E.  C.  ISelleck,      j 

The  reports  of  the  Grand  Treasurer  and  Grand  Secretary  having  been 
approved  by  this  Grand  Lodge,  your  Committee  on  Finance  have,  in  accord- 
ance with  the  duty  imposed  upon  them  in  by-laws.  Art.  9,  Sec.  2,  Part  i, 
destroyed  all  vouchers  presented  to  and  acted  upon  by  them. 

Fraternally  submitted, 

J.  C.  Smith, 

T.J.  Bronson,        \  Committee. 

E.  C.  Selleck, 


REPORT— Committee  on  Obituaries. 

W.  Bro.  Waggoner  presented  the  report  of  the  Committee  on 
Obituaries. 

The  report  was  received  and  adopted,  and  the  recommenda- 
tions concurred  in. 

To  the  M.   W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.: 

Your  Committee  on  Obituaries,  to  whom  was  referred  that  portion  of  the 
M.  W.  Grand  Master's  Address  which  refers  to  those  of  our  beloved  brethren 
who,  during  the  Masonic  year  just  closed,  have  been  called  from  their  labors 
on  earth  to  eternal  rest  and  refreshment,  would  beg  leave  to  make  the  follow- 
ing report: 

The  pathway  of  Time  through  all  past  ages  has  been  strewn  with  the  frag- 
ments of  broken  columns,  shattered  pillars,  falling  monuments  and  crumb- 
ling arches.  Its  course  has  been  marked  by  destruction  and  death. 
Kingdoms,  empires  and  republics  have  fallen  before  Death  in  his  onward 
march.  The  bright  and  the  beautiful — the  noble  and  the  lovely  of  earth, 
have  bowed  before  his  unsparing  and  relentless  scythe.  The  great  and  the 
good — even  the, most  gifted  sons  of  earth,  have  gone  down  before  him  in  his 
victorious  march.  And  still  the  work  of  decay  and  death  goes  on  unchecked. 
Every  breeze  that  is  wafted  over  this  beautiful  earth  is  laden  with  the  miasm  and 
taint  of  death.  From  every  quarter  come  to  our  ears  the  sounds  of  grief  and 
lamentation.  The  members  of  our  beloved  institution  cannot  escape  the 
common — yea,  the  universal  doom  of  man.  During  the  Masonic  year  just 
closed,  "the  grim-visaged  tyrant"  has  claimed  as  his  own  some  of  the  noblest 
pillars  of  our  institution,  and  the  most  honored  and  trusted  of  our  brethren. 


I02  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct.  2, 


GEORGE    E.    LOUNSBURY. 

One  year  ago  we  were  called  upon  to  record  the  death  of  our  venerable 
Past  Grand  Master,  Levi  Lusk,  the  oldest  Past  Grand  Master  of  this  juris- 
diction;  to-daj  it  is  our  mournful  duty  to  chronicle  the  death  of  M.  W. 
Grand  Master  George  E.  Lounsbury,  our  youngest  Past  Grand  Master, 
who  died  in  the  city  of  Denver,  Colorado,  on  tlie  4lh  day  of  August,  1878, 
whither  he  had  gone  in  the  vain  and  delusive  hope  that  the  salubrious  climate 
of  the  Centennial  State  would  restore  his  tailing  health,  and  recuperate  his 
wasted  form  and  energies.  Vain  hope!  The  destroyer  came  in  the  guise  of 
consumption,  the  most  insidious  and  deceptive  of  all  diseases;  and  tliough 
for  many  months  he  fought  bravely  for  life,  he  was  finally  vanquished,  and 
beneath  the  shadows  of  the  Rocky  Mountains,  whose  snow-capped  summits 
pierce  the  skies,  catching  the  first  beams  of  the  rising  sun,  and  around  whose 
tops  linger  the  last  rosy  flush  of  day,  a  thousand  miles  from  home  and  the 
Grand  Lodge  he  loved  so  well,  George  E.  Lounsbury  laid  down  his  pil- 
grim's staff  and  calmly  and  peacefully  went  to  rest. 

George  E.  Lounsbury  was  born  at  Long  Ridge,  Fairfield  County,  Con- 
necticut,   ,    1S37.      He  was  made  a  Mason  in  Cache  Lodge,  No.  290,  at 

Mound  City,  Illinois,  where  he  was  initiated  December  15th,  1864,  passed 
February  15th,  and  raised  May  ist,  1S65.  He  was  elected  Worshipful  Master 
of  Cache  Lodge,  December  19th,  1866. 

Bro.  Lounsbury  received  the  Capitular  Degrees  in  Mound  Chapter,  No. 
74,  at  Mound  City,  receiving  the  Degrees  of  Mark  Master  and  Past  Master 
May  i2th.  Most  Excellent  Master  June  8th,  and  the  Royal  Arch  June  15th, 
1S65. 

Bro.  Lounsbury  was  elected  R.  W.  Junior  Grand  Warden  in  1868,  and 
re-elected  in  1869;  elected  R.  W.  Senior  Grand  Warden  in  1870,  and  re-elected 
in  1871 ;  elected  R.  W.  Deputy  Grand  Master  in  1S72,  and  re-elected  in  1873; 
elected  M.  W.  Grand  Master  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  State  of  Illinois  in 
1S74,  ^"^  re-elected  in  1875;  ^'^  ^^  which  honorable  and  exalted  positions  he 
filled  with  credit  to  himself  and  honor  to  the  fraternity. 

Bro.  Lounsbury  also  filled  successively  the  offices  of  Deputy  Grand  High 
Priest,  and  Grand  High  Priest  of  the  Grand  Chapter  of  the  State  of  Illinois. 

SYLVESTER     STEVENS. 

R.  W.  Bro.  Stevens,  Past  Master  of  Knoxville  Lodge,  No.  66,  and  Past 
High  Priest  of  Canton  Chapter,  No.  68,  Past  Grand  Lecturer,  and  at  the 
time  of  his  death  a  member  of  the  Standing  Committee  on  Chartered  Lodges 
of  this  Grand  Lodge,  died  at  his  home  in  Knoxville,  Illinois,  June  15th,  1878. 

Bro.  Stev^ens  was  well  known  to  the  officers  and  members  of  this  Grand 
Lodge,  and  to  the  Craft  in  this  State,  as  a  devoted  Mason,  an  honorable  and 
courteous  gentleman,  and  a  teacher  of  Masonic  mysteries  who  had  few  equals 
and  perhaps  no  superiors. 


iSyS.]  GRAND    LODGE    OK    ILI.INOIS.  IO3 


HORACE    HAYWARD. 

Horace  Havvvard,  Past  Master  of  Olney  Lodge,  No.  140,  and  Past 
Junior  Grand  Warden  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  died  in  Olney,  on  the  5th  day  of 
January,  1S7S,  aged  56  years. 

Bro.  Hayvvard  was  born  in  Shrewsbury,  Vermont,  Mav  14th,  1S24.  He 
was  made  a  Mason  in  Olney  Lodge,  No.  140,  over  which  lodge  he  afterward 
served  nine  years  as  Worshipful  Master.  He  served  this  Grand  Lodge  one 
year  as  Junior  Grand  Warden,  and  many  years  as  a  member  of  the  Standing 
Committee  on  Masonic  Jurisprudence.  He  was  Eminent  Commander  of 
Gorin  Commandery,  No.  14,  from  its  organization  and  institution  to  within 
one  year  of  his  death.  He  served  the  Craft  with  fervency  and  zeal,  and  those 
who  knew  him  best  loved  him  most. 

SIDNEY    BREESE. 

Amongst  the  gifted  men  and  Masons  whom  this  Grand  Lodge  has,  from 
time  to  time,  had  occasion  to  mourn,  none  have  occupied  a  more  con- 
spicuous place  before  the  public  than  our  late  brother,  the  Hon.  Sidney 
Breese,  Past  Master  of  Scott  Lodge,  No.  79,  who  died  at  Pinckneyville, 
Illinois,  June  27th,  1S7S. 

At  the  time  of  his  death  Bro.  Breese  was  the  oldest  attorney  at  law  in 
the  State,  his  license  ante-dating  that  of  all  other  members  of  the  legal  pro- 
fession in  Illinois.  Bro.  Breese  was  a  man  of  extraordinary  ability,  ripe 
scholarship  and  great  legal  acumen.  In  the  course  of  his  long  and  useful 
public  life  he  filled  many  offices  of  honor  and  trust.  He  successively  filled 
the  positions  of  Prosecuting  Attorney,  United  States  Attorney  for  District  of 
Illinois,  member  of  the  Legislature,  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives 
of  the  State,  United  States  Senator,  Circuit  Judge,  Judge  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  State,  and  twice  filled  the  honorable  and  exalted  position  of 
Chief  Justice  of  the  State  of  Illinois.  In  all  these  stations,  and  in  all  the 
relations  of  life,  he  was  noted  for  his  unswerving  integrity  and  his  unfalter- 
ing fidelity  to  the  principles  and  teachings  of  that  institution  of  which  he 
was  so  prominent  a  member,  exemplifying  in  his  life  the  virtues  of  Faith, 
Hope  and  Charity — three  cardinal  principles  of  oiu-  institution. 

Thus,  full  of  years  and  full  of  honors,  he  who,  for  more  than  half  a  cen- 
tury, has  trodden  the  Courts  of  Justice  on  earth,  laid  off  his  judicial  robes, 
as  we  trust,  to  wear  a  robe  of  righteousness  in  the  Paradise  of  God. 

Elijah  Lutener,  Past  Master  of  Kingston  Lodge,  No.  266,  died  at 
Kingston,  March  4,  1S78. 

J.  B.  Kyle,  Past  Master  of  Macomb  Lodge,  No.  17,  died  at  Macomb, 
June  1st,  1S78. 

Henry  B.  Pierce,  Past  Master  of  Geneva  Lodge,  No.  139,  died  at  Elmira, 
N.  Y.,  August  26th,  1S78. 


I04  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct. 


EwiNG  HoucHiN,  Worshipful  Master  of  Sigel  Lodge,  No.  541,  died  July 
-,  1878. 

In  the  cases  of  Brethren  Lutener,  Kyle,  Pierce  and  Houchin,  your 
committee,  after  strict  search  and  due  inquiry,  have  been  unable  to  obtain 
any  data  upon  which  to  base  obituary  notices. 

Your  committee  would  respectfully  recommend  that  a  memorial  page  in 
the  proceedings  of  this  Grand  Lodge  be  given  each  of  the  following  deceased 
Past  Grand  Officers,  to  assist  in  keeping  their  memory  green  in  the  minds  of 
the  Craft,  and  as  a  slight  token  of  our  brotherly  love  and  affection: 

M.  W.  Past  Grand  Master  George  E.  Lounsbury,  R.  W.  Junior  Grand 
Warden  Horace  Hayward,  and  R.  W.  Grand  Lecturer  Sylvester  Stevens. 

We  tender  our  fraternal  sympathy  and  condolence  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Minnesota  in  the  death  of  its  Grand  Master,  M.  W.  James  C.  Braden.  To 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Nebraska,  in  the  loss  of  its  Grand  Master,  M.  W.  Frank 
Welch.  To  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Hampshire,  in  the  death  of  its  Grand 
Secretary,  R.  W.John  A.  Harris.  To  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Tennessee,  in 
the  death  of  M.  W.  Past  Grand  Master,  A.  J.  Wheeler.  To  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Mississippi,  in  the  death  of  its  Past  Grand  Master,  M.  W.  Harvey 
W.  Walter. 

All  of  which  is  fraternally  submitted. 

E.  E.  Waggoner,        ^ 

A.  A.  Glenn,  y  Committee. 

Chas.  Trowbridge,    J 

REPORT— Committee  on  Masonic  Jurisprudence. 

M.  VV.  Bro.  Hawley,  P.  G.  M.,  presented  the  report  of  the 
Committee  on  Masonic  Jurisprudence,  which  was  received  and 
adopted,  and  the  amendment  to  the  Grand  Lodge  By-Laws  pro- 
posed therein  duly  seconded. 

To  the  M.   W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.,  A.  F.  dc  A.  M.: 

The  Committee  on  Masonic  Jurisprudence  having  had  under  considera- 
tion so  much  of  the  report  of  the  M.  W.  Grand  Master  as  was  referred  to 
them,  respectfully  and  fraternally  report  that  they  fully  concur  in  the  opin- 
ions expressed  by  the  M.  W.  Grand  Master  in  the  several  decisions  reported 
to  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  recommend  their  approval  and  confirmation  by  this 
Grand  Lodge. 

Your  committee  also  concur  in  the  action  of  the  M.  W.  Grand  Master,  in 
the  matter  of  paying  the  expenses  incurred  in  suit  of  W.  H.  Robinson  vs. 
Yates  City  Lodge,  No.  44S;  also  in  the  views  and  opinions  expressed  by  the 
Grand  Master  as  to  the  impropriety  of  permitting  lodges  to  unite  with  other 
organizations  in  the  burial  of  their  members  who   are  also   members  of  the 


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Masonic  fraternity,  and  trust  that  such  will  ever  be  the  practice  and  usage  in 
this  Gra'ffd  Jurisdiction. 

Your  committee  would  further  report  that  the  question  involved  in  the 
trial  of  C.  J.  Jenkins,  in  Olney  Lodge,  No.  140,  has  been  carefully  consid- 
ered. They  do  not  deem  it  necessary  to  give  the  details  of  the  case,  but 
simply  their  opinion  as  to  the  intention  of  the  law  as  laid  down  in  the  Penal 
Code  of  this  Grand  Lodge. 

Section  5,  Article  5,  of  this  Code,  for  obvious  reasons,  provides  that  testi- 
mony may  be  taken  in  open  lodge  or  by  a  special  committee. 

Section  13  of  same  Article,  clothes  a  committee  when  appointed  for  this 
purpose,  with  the  same  powers  as  the  Master  and  Secretary  may  exercise  if 
testimony  were  taken  in  open  lodge,  and  such  powers  are  fully  set  forth  in 
Section  9  ot  same  Article. 

These  Sections  contain  all  the  law  that  bears  upon  the  question  at  issue, 
and  from  which  your  committee  reach  the  conclusion  that  the  committee 
may  take  testimony  and  rule  upon  its  relevancy;  also  that  the  accuser  and 
accused  may  take  issue  with  the  committee  upon  its  rulings,  which  exceptions 
or  objections  shall  become  a  part  of  the  committee's  record,  and  shall  be  by 
them  embraced  in  and  made  a  part  of  their  written  report  to  the  lodge,  as 
provided  in  Section  15,  of  Article  5,  of  said  Code.  When  such  report  is 
made  to  a  lodge,  the  W.  Master  will  exercise  the  official  authority  referred  to 
in  Section  9,  Article  5,  by  passing  upon  the  questions  as  to  relevancy  of  the 
evidence  and  the  regularity  of  the  proceedings  had,  and  thus,  as  your  com- 
mittee holds,  all  appeals  from  the  decisions  and  acts  of  the  committee  must 
be  made  to  the  lodge  or  its  W.  Master,  and  all  appeals  from  the  decisions  and 
acts  of  the  lodge  or  its  Master  must  be  taken  to  the  Grand  Lodge  in  the 
manner  and  form  provided  by  law.  Hence,  your  committee  are  of  the  opin- 
ion that  £he  decision  of  the  W.  Master  of  Olney  Lodge,  No.  140,  in  the  case 
under  consideration,  "that  an  appeal  from  the  committee  must  be  made  to 
the  Grand  Master  or  the  Grand  Lodge,  is  erroneous  and  should  be  overruled, 
being  contrary  to  the  letter  and  spirit  of  the  law." 

Your  committee  fully  concur  with  the  action  of  the  Grand  Master  in  set- 
ting aside  the  action  of  the  several  lodges  enumerated  in  the  cases  for  non- 
payment of  lodge  dues,  and  other  cases,  as  the  proceedings  in  all  of  said 
cases  were  at  variance  with  the  law  as  plainly  prescribed.  Your  committee' 
take  occasion  to  assert  that  the  law  for  disciplining  delinquents  for  non-pay- 
ment of  lodge  dues  is,  in  their  opinion,  full,  clear  and  concise,  and  applicable 
to  such  offense.  Neither  do  we  think  that  any  lodge  can  or  ought  to  err,  if 
the  Master  and  lodge  will  give  ordinary  attention  to  the  provisions  of  the 
law  as  it  now  stands,  and  follow  its  instructions.  In  this  connection, 
your  committee  would  further  report,  that  they  find,  in  the  cases  above 
referred  to,  that  the  names  of  brethren  are  given,  which,  according  to  the  too 
common  practice,  are  to  be  published  in  our  printed  proceedings,  which  may 

*I4 


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be  read  not  only  by  Masons,  but  also  by  the  world  at  large,  notwithstanding 
the  fact  that  these  brethren  have  not  been  found  guilty  of  the  charges  pre- 
ferred against  them. 

By  the  provisions  of  Section  5,  Article  i.  Part  3,  Grand  Lodge  By-Laws,, 
no  lodge  in  this  grand  jurisdiction  is  permitted  to  publish  in  any  manner  the 
details  or  result  of  any  trial ;  and  while  this  law  is  not  to  govern  the  action 
of  the  Grand  Lodge,  your  committee  are  of  the  opinion  that  we  should  be 
as  consistent  as  circumstances  will  permit,  and  that  the  Grand  Lodge 
should  not  go  further  in  giving  publicity  to  the  affairs  of  Masonry  than  may 
be  deemed  necessary  to  accomplish  the  end  sought.  Your  committee  there- 
fore recommend  that  hereafter  no  printed  document  emanating  from  this 
Grand  Lodge  should  contain  the  names  of  brethren  who  may  have  been 
disciplined  by  lodges;  nor  any  of  the  details  ot  charges,  specifications  or 
proceedings  of  the  trial.  It  seems  to  your  committee  to  answer  all  the 
requirements  of  the  case,  to  preserve  the  full  reports  made  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  for  future  reference,  and  that  an  abstract  thereof  be  furnished  by  the 
Grand  Secretary  to  the  parties  interested  therein,  or  who  may  desire  the 
same.  And  after  careful  deliberation,  your  committee  are  unanimous  in  the 
opinion  that  our  practice  in  this  regard  should  be  changed,  and  therefore 
submit  the  following  as  an  amendment  to  the  by-laws,  viz.,  to  add  to  Section 
13,  Article  6,  as  follows : 

'■'■Provided,  That  none  of  the  details  of  Masonic  trials,  emanating  from 
the  Committee  on  Appeals  and  Grievances,  that  of  petitions,  or  others, 
whereby  the  name  of  the  accused  or  the  offense  charged,  shall  be  published 
in  the  printed  proceedings;  but  that  the  Grand  Secretary  shall  number  such 
cases,  giving  name  and  number  of  lodge,  and  the  final  action  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  had  thereon." 

Your  committee  would  further  report,  that  they  have  considered  with 
much  care  and  gratification  the  full,  clear  and  concise  exposition  made  by 
our  M.  W.  Grand  Master  of  the  fundamental  principle  underlying  the  system 
of  Grand  Lodge  Sovereignty  on  this  continent ;  and  that  the  recommenda- 
tions of  the  Grand  Master  may  receive  formal  and  emphatic  concurrence  by 
this  Grand  Lodge  in  Grand  Communication  assembled,  we  therefore  submit 
the  following: 

Resolved,  That  the  M.  W.  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  jealous  alike  of 
,  her  own  sovereign  power  and  that  of  her  sister  Grand  Lodges,  hereby  declare 
that  the  unwarranted  action  of  the  M.  W.  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland,  in 
invading  the  jurisdiction  of  the  M.  W.  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec,  by 
planting  two  lodges  within  the  limits  of  her  territory,  as  conceded  to  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec  by  all  the  Grand  Lodges  of  North  America — with 
one  exception — should  receive  such  action  on  the  part  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Illinois  as  the  importance  of  the  case  demands;  and  be  it  further 

Resolved,  That  the  M.  W.  Grand  Master  of  Illinois  is  hereby  requested  to 
issue,  as  soon  as  practical,  his  edict,  notifying  the  constituent  lodges  under 
his  jurisdiction  of  the  facts  in  the  case,  and  interdicting  all  further  Masonic 
communication  with  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland,  and  all  individual 
Masons  owing  allegiance  thereto. 


iSyS.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  lO^ 


Resolved,  That  the  Grand  Secretary  he  and  he  is  herehj  instructed  to 
notify  the  M.  W.  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland,  and  all  other  Grand  Lodges 
with  whom  we  are  in  communication,  of  the  action  above  recited. 

All  of  which  is  fraternally  submitted. 

J  AS.  A.  Hawley,  ] 

Dewitt  C.  Cregier,  | 

Wm.  Lavely,  j-  Committee. 

Wiley  M.  Egan,  | 

John  C.  Bagby,  J 

M,  W.  D.  C.  Cregier  in  the  East. 

REPORT— Committee  on  Chartered  Lodges. 

The  Committee  on  Chartered  Lodges,  to  whom  was  referred 
that  part  of  the  Grand  Master's  address  relative  to  St.  John's 
Lodge,  No.  13,  reported  as  follows: 

To  the  M.   W.Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  ii-  A.  M.: 

Your  Committee  on  Chartered  Lodges,  in  the  matter  of  St.  John's  Lodge, 
No.  13,  suspended  by  the  M.  W.  Grand  Master,  ask  leave  to  report,  and 
recommend  that  the  action  of  the  M.  W.  Grand  Master  be  approved,  and 
that  St.  John's  Lodge  be  suspended  until  the  time  of  the  annual  meeting  of 
said  Lodge  in  December,  1S7S. 

Fraternally  submitted, 

C.  Kirkpatrick,        j 

J.  C.  McMurtry,       V  Committee. 

J.  L.    McCoLLOUGII,  J 

Upon  motion  ot  M.  W.  Bro.  Robbins,  the  report  was  received, 
and  the  committee  discharged  from  further  consideration  of  the 
subject. 

W.  Bro.  Buck  (35)  moved  that  the  action  of  the  Grand  Master 
be  approved,  but  deen.iing  that  St.  John's  Lodge  has  been  suffi- 
ciently punished,  the  Grand  Lodge  allows  said  lodge  to  resume  its 
functions  at  once.     The  motion  prevailed,  and  it  was  so  ordered. 

REPORT — Committee  on  Chartered  Lodges. 

The  Committee  on  Chartered  Lodges,  to  whom  was  referred 
that  part  of  the  Grand  Master's  rejDort  relative  to  Altamont  Lodge, 
No.  533,  reported  as  follows: 

To  the  M.   W.  Grand  Lod-^s  of  Illinois^  A.  F.  &=  A.  M.: 

In  the  matter  of  Altamont  Lodge,  No.  533,  your  Committee  on  Chartered 
Lodges   would  respectfully   report,  they  have   carefully  examined  all  papers 


Io8  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct.  3, 


pertaining  to  said  lodge,  and  approve  the  action  taken  by  the  Most  Worship- 
ful Grand  Master,  but  believing  that  they  have  sufficiently  atoned  for  their 
fault,  your  committee  would  recommend  that  Altamont  Lodge,  No.  533,  be 
allowed  to  resume  work. 

Fraternally  submitted, 

C.    KiRKPATRICK,        "I 

J.  C.  McMuRTRY,      I  Committee. 

y.   L.  McCuLLOUGH,  J 

The  report  was  received  and  adopted. 

AMENDMENT  TO  BY-LAWS— Proposed. 

W.  Bro.  Garver  (633)  proposed  the  following  amendment  to 
the  Grand  Lodge  By-Laws,  which  was  seconded: 

Amend  Section  i,  of  Article  25,  Part  Second,  of  the  By-Laws,  by  strik- 
ing out  the  words  "  seventy- five,"  and  substituting  the  word    fifty. 

RESOLITION. 

W.  Bro.  Garver  (633)  offered  the  following  resolution,  which 
was  adopted ; 

Resolved,  That  the  Finance  Committee  be  instructed  to  prepare  from 
the  printed  records  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  or  from  other  accessible  sources  of 
information,  a  condensed  summary  of  the  cash  receipts  and  disbursements  of 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  during  the  past  fifteen  years, 
showing  from  what  sources  its  revenue  has  been  derived,  for  what  purposes 
expended,  and  its  present  available  or  contingent  cash  assets,  and  how 
invested.  The  same  to  be  presented  to  the  Grand  Lodge  at  its  next  annual 
communication,  together  with  such  recommendations  relating  to  the  method 
of  keeping  the  accounts  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  to  the  management  of  its 
financial  affairs,  as  the  committee  may  deem  appropriate  for  the  considera- 
tion of  the  Grand  Lodge. 

APP0INT3IENT  OF  GRAND  OFFICERS. 

The  Grand  Master  elect  announced  the  appointment  of  the  fol- 
lowing named  brethren  as  grand  officers: 

George  Wiley  Martin Grand  Chaplain. 

John  R.  Thomas Grand  Orator. 

Frank  Hudson,  Jr Deputy   Grand  Secretary. 

John  P    Norvell Grand  Pursuivant. 

Henry  C.  Cleveland Grand  Marshal 

Loyal  L.  Munn Grand  Standard  Bearer. 

Samuel  Rawson Grand  Sword  Bearer. 


1S7S.]  GRA\D    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS.  IO9 


Alfred  Sample Senior  Grand  Deacon. 

Frank  A.   Halliday Junior   Grand  Deacon. 

A.   M.   Bennett ' Grand  Sle-ioard. 

James  Stronc "  «' 

J.  L.  Wallar "  " 

Gilbert  R.  Smith "  " 

John  P.  Ferns Grand   Tyler. 

INSTALLATION. 

M.  W.  Bro.  Joseph  Robbins,  assisted  by  M.  W.  Bro.  D.  C. 
Cregier,  acting  Grand  Marshal,  installed  M.  W.  Bro.  Theodore 
T.  GurNey  as  Grand  Master,  who,  being  conducted  to  the  East, 
was  duly  proclaimed  Grand  Master  of  Masons,  and  received 
with  the  Grand   Honors. 

Bro.  RoBBixs  then  installed  the  remaining  grand  officers,  as 
follows: 

R.  W.  William  H.  Scott Deputy  Grand  Master. 

R.  W.  Louis  Zeigler Senior   Grand  Warden. 

R.  W.  Daniel  M.  Browning    . Junior  Grand  Warden. 

R.  W.  Orlin  H.  Miner Grand  Treasurer. 

R.  W.  John  F.  Burrill Grand  Secretary. 

R.  W.  Geo.  Wiley  Martin Grand  Chaplain. 

R.  W.  John  R.  Thomas  .        Grand  Orator. 

W.  Frank  Hudson,  Jr Deputy  Grand  Secretary. 

W.  John  P.  Norvell Grand  Pursuivant. 

W.  Henry  C.  Cleveland Grand  Marshal. 

W.  Loyal  L.  Munn Grand  Standard  Bearer. 

W.  Samuel  Rawson Grand  Sword  Bearer. 

W.  Alfred  Sample Senior  Grand  Deacon 

W.  Frank  A.  Halliday Junior  Grand  Deacon. 

W.  A.  M.  Bennett Grand  Steward. 

W.  James  Strong Grand  Steward. 

Bro.  John  P.  Ferns Grand  Tyler. 

REMARKS  BY  THE   GRAND  MASTER. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  installation  ceremonies,  the  Grand 
Master  said : 

Brethren  of  the  Grand  Lodge: 

As  it  has  been  jour  pleasure  to  place  me  in  this  exalted  position,  I  feel 
that  it  will  not  be  out  of  place  to  express  my  high  appreciation  of  this 
distinction. 


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I  should  not  adopt  this  method  of  conveying  this  expression  of  mv  gratifi- 
cation, but  for  the  purpose  of  asking  attention  to  some  thoughts,  at  all  times 
pertinent,  but  not  unfrequently  obscured  by  the  generalities  ordinarily 
engrossing  too  much  of  our  attention. 

We  are  apt  to  leave  these  annual  gatherings  more  impressed  with  the 
importance  of  our  official  functions,  than  with  the  weightier  considerations 
of  personal  responsibilities  attaching  to  our  professions. 

If  Masonry  is  but  a  social  organization,  alone  resting  upon  a  necessity  for 
diversion  from  the  ordinary  cares  of  life,  we  do  not  act  wisely  in  a  selection 
that  involves  so  much  of  thought  and  labor.  In  this  age  of  novelties,  it  is 
unnecessary  that  simple  recreation  should  make  severe  drafts  upon  either 
mind  or  purse.  If,  however,  Masonry  is  the  natural  outgrowth  of  a  principle 
that  lies  at  the  foundation  of  human  needs,  it  will  not  admit  of  a  classifica- 
tion that  clouds  its  purposes,  if  we  wish  that  it  should  retain  the  respect  and' 
confidence  of  thinking  men. 

It  is  possible  that  I  over  estimate  its  value  as  a  force  in  the  welfare  of 
humanity,  but  I  cannot  admit  that  our  professions  are  a  senseless  boast,  an 
ignis  fataus  in  the  realm  of  humanitarian  activities:  neither  is  it  a  toy  for  the 
diversion  or  amusement  of  its  votaries.  Masonry  has  for  too  many  years 
engaged  the  attention  of  too  many  good  men — it  has  too  often  survived  the 
storms  set  in  motion  for  its  destruction — too  much  the  foe  of  tyrants,  to  be 
classed  with  the  ephemeral  or  delusive  agencies.  It  has  its  place,  irrevocably, 
in  the  welfare  of  our  race,  and  will  never  be  forced  into  the  domain  of 
sensuous  gratification;  neither  will  it  lose  its  claims  to  the  favorable  con- 
sideration of  mankind,  except  through  our  indiscretions;  consequently  the 
Masonry  of  a  community  mu§t  -occupy  one  of  three  positions:  it  will 
either  be  a  moral,  beneficent  force,  evolving  a  fragrance  that  is  promptly  and 
gladly  recognized;  else  a  passive,  inert  mass  without  aims,  power  or  influ- 
ence; or,  worse  still,  an  aggregation  of  character  and  influence  that  inter- 
poses grave  objections  to  its  existence.  VVe  have  so  much  faith  in  the 
organization  as  to  believe,  that  it  is  through  gross  and  unpardonable  indiffer- 
ence to  its  ethics,  if  it  occupies  any  other  relations  to  society  than  the  first. 
If  the  character  of  a  lodge  is  examined  that  fails  of  an  appi-oximation  to  the 
higher  standard,  we  are  certain  to  find  rational  causes  for  its  retrogression. 

Bear  in  mind,  brethren,  that  every  lodge  is  a  focal  point  for  a  conflict  of 
forces.  These  exist  both  in  morals  and  physics.  We  forget  that  good  and 
evil  are  not  unlike  the  poles  of  a  bittery,  either  of  which  if  aggressive  devel- 
opes  antagonisms.  It  is  impossible  that  truest  manhood  can  affiliate  with 
vice,  purity  with  lust,  or  benevolence  with  selfishness.  If  the  lodge  is  true  to 
itself  there  must  come  these  conflicts,  if  there  is  any  significance  attaching 
to  our  professions. 

It  is  not  my  purpose  to  erect  an  ideal  lodge,  neither  an  ideal  Mason — 
something  extravagant  and  unknown — but  to  impress  upon  our  minds  that  if 
a  lodge  has  not  the  disposition  to  enforce  the  practice  of  the  Cardinal  Virtues,  it 


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is  only  because  opposing  forces  have  obtained  the  mastery.  Of  what  value 
to  Masonry  is  a  lodge  yielding  to  influences  that  are  at  war  with  its  funda- 
mental principles,  or  neglecting  to  cultivate  and  perpetuate  the  ennobling 
thoughts  of  fraternity  and  charity,  which  lie  at  the  foundation  of  the  edifice. 

You  will  all  admit,  brethren,  that  success  in  any  department  of  life,  is  in 
the  exact  ratio  of  application.  There  never  existed  a  cultivated,  useful,  pro- 
fessional mechanic  or  farmer,  except  at  the  expense  of  study  and  toil.  There 
never  existed  an  exemplary  christian  or  philanthropist,  that  did  not  reflect 
the  christian  virtues,  or  whose  abnegations  did  not  add  charms  to  his  inter- 
course with  the  world.  We  have  lawyers,  physicians,  and  theologians  that 
would  not  be  known  except  for  crimes  against  their  professions.  We  have 
farmers  whose  acres  indicate  that  spontaneous  production  is  the  measure  of 
their  ambition;  and  mechanics  that  stumble  through  their  hours  of  labor 
without  a  thought  of  anything  beyond,  or  a  purpose  of  adding  to  the  dignity 
or  importance  of  their  respective  callings.  But  for  the  brain  and  devotion 
happily  found  in  all,  the  world  would  soon  relapse  into  barbarism.  To 
accomplisli  any  thing  therefore,  as  Masons,  we  must  represent  in  word  and 
deed,  the  grand  realities  that  cluster  around  our  professions.  Our  objective 
point  should  be,  to  make  the  Craft  a  principal  factor  in  man's  welfare,  by 
erecting  a  moral  and  Masonic  edifice  so  beautiful  and  symmetrical  that  it  will 
influence  good  men  to  seek  its  portals,  and  deter  bad  men  from  expressing 
a.ny  wish  in  that  direction. 

It  is  an  axiom,  brethren,  that  men  seek  associations  adapted  to  their 
tastes. 

Again.  It  would  be  a  novelt}'  to  find  distinction  as  a  physician  and 
mechanic,  in  one  man.  I  do  not  wish  to  be  understood  as  suggesting  inter- 
ference with  any  relation  to  benevolent  life-  in  which  you  may  be  engaged  ; 
but  experience  has  demonstrated  that  to  be  of  practical  importance  to 
Masonry,  we  must  give  it  our  undivided  attention.  Our  best  intentions 
fail  of  securing  good  results,  if  our  efforts  lack  concentration. 

Masters  and  Wardens,  if  you  have  brethren  unappreciative  and  careless 
of  their  responsibilities,  you  can  only  hold  them  to  their  responsibilities  by 
exerting  a  power  through  the  integrity  of  your  own  lives,  that  rarelv  fails  of 
happiest  results. 

The  Master  is  the  representative  of  his  lodge,  as  is  the  Grand  Master  the 
representative  of  the  entire  jurisdiction.  I  should  grossly  fail  of  my  duty  to 
the  Craft  if  I  did  not  frankly  confess  my  determination  to  uphold  the  dignity 
and  good  name  of  the  fraternity,  entirely  regardless  of  personal  considera- 
tions to  myself  or  others.  And  you.  Masters  and  Wardens,  selected  to  rule 
and  admonish,  I  invoke  your  aid  in  liberating  your  lodges  from  anything 
and  everything  that  may  be  obstacles  to  a  full  realization  of  the  supreme 
thought  of  Masonry. 

In  a  few  moments  we  separate;  one  to  his  farm,  another  to  his  workshop, 
another  to  his  professional  duties,  and  still  another  to  his  counting-room, 


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and  it  may  be,  not  to  meet  again  till  we  stand  face  to  face  with  the  sequences 
of  an  earthly  pilgrimage.  Whatever  may  be  our  convictions  concerning  our 
relations  to  the  mysterious  empire  to  which  we  hasten,  all  will  concede  that 
a  disregard  for  our  Masonic  responsibilities,  will  not  add  to  our  happiness 
for  the  present,  neither  establish  claims  to  hopes  for  the  future. 

R.  W.  Bro.  Sample,  Grand  Orator,  then  delivered  the  follow- 
ing— 

ORATION. 

WHY    DOES    iMASONRY    LIVE    AND    PROSPER? 

The  answer  to  this  question  is  fraught  with  manv  interesting  and  useful 
lessons  to  every  Mason.  The  inconsiderate  reply  is,  because,  in  common 
parlance,  it  is  a  good  thing.  Very  true — but  have  not  many  good  things  per- 
ished.' Permanency  and  vitality  are  not  necessarily  the  peculiar  character- 
istics of  the  beautiful  and  the  good.  Bad  institutions  have  survived  the  wreck 
of  empires,  while  the  shores  of  time  are  blackened  with  the  ruins  of  what 
were  once  esteemed  benevolent  and  philanthropic  enterprises. 

But  why  has  Masonry  outlived  almost  every  other  organization  contempo- 
raneous with  its  beginning.'  To  those  who  have  never  crossed  the  threshold 
of  the  Masonic  Temple,  and  who  therefore  are  unacquainted  with  its 
principles  and  the  method  by  which  they  are  taught,  this  must  indeed  seem 
an  enigma. 

They  observe  that  it  never  proselytes,  that  it  does  not  go  out  into  the 
highways  and  by-ways  of  life  to  gather  in  converts  to  augment  its  numbers; 
that  its  votaries  do  not  proclaim  its  principles  from  the  house-tops,  however 
zealous  and  enthusiastic  they  may  be;  that  it  never  seeks  aid  outside  the 
mystic  circle  of  its  own  members;  that  it  seeks  not  the  encomiums  or 
applause  of  men,  but  quietly  and  unostentatiously  relies  upon  its  record  of 
good  deeds  nobly  done.  It  courts  not  the  "boast  of  heraldry  or  the  pomp  of 
power"  to  tickle  the  fleeting  fancy,  nor  to  attract  the  eye  of  the  multitude. 
Yet  to-day,  never  more  so.  Masonry  is  a  living,  potent  moral  power,  exer- 
cising an  influence  for  good  over  the  whole  world,  wherever  there  are  intelli- 
gent minds  to  comprehend  its  principles,  or  virtuous  souls  to  respond  to  the 
higher  aspirations  of  their  natures. 

In  view  of  its  organization  and  mode  of  growth,  that  it  should  be  so  wide- 
spread and  progressive,  almost  surpasses  human  comprehension. 

Ordinarily,  and  I  might  say  with  only  this  exception,  it  has  been  supposed 
necessarj'  to  wage  an  unceasing  warfare  with  mankind  to  build  up  human 
institutions,  to  bring  the  people  up  to  a  realizing  sense  of  the  importance  of 
professed  doctrines  and  theories. 

Every  agency  which  the  genius  of  man  could  invent — -all  the  wonderful 
eloquence  of  "tongue  and  pen," — guided  and  controlled  by  earnest  convic- 
tions, have    been    employed    to    build    up    other    institutions.      They   have 


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sought  members  from  every  station  in  life  and  material  aid  from  friends 
and  foes  alike,  they  have  listened  erectus  auribus  for  the  applause  of  the 
multitude,  and  the  solitary  places  of  the  earth  have  re-echoed  their  shouts  and 
hosannas. 

But  Masonry,  pursuing  the  even  tenor  of  its  \\z.y  without  any  such  adven- 
titious aid,  exists  the  saine  to-day  as  it  did  centuries  ago,  in  all  its  essential 
principles,  and  has  witnessed  the  rise,  decay  and  fall  of  other  institutions, 
professedly  originated  for  the  benefit  of  man,  without  a  single  shock. 

Governments,  societies,  doctrines  and  isms  have  come  and  gone,  and 
Masonry  has  survived  them,  with  still  a  freshness  and  youthful  vigor,  as  if 
but  in  the  budding  manhood  of  its  existence. 

This  wonderful  vitality  is  the  natural  result  of  the  moral  and  rational 
principles  underlying  the  base  of  its  magnificent  superstructure. 

Masonry  is  founded  upon  the  moral  law,  not  upon  a  morality  with  a 
^ 'local  habitation  and  a  name,"  but  upon  principles  everywhere  self-evident — 
the  natural  formulas  and  responses  of  human  nature,  so  that  among  all  good 
men,  of  whatever  nationality  or  clime,  of  whatever  political  or  religious 
opinion,  Masonry  may  grow  and  flourish,  a  beautiful  plant  in  the  garden  of 
the  human  soul. 

This  moral  law  written  in  the  hearts  of  men,  upon  which  Masonry  is 
founded,  is  even  more  permanent  than  human  nature  itself.  History  teaches 
us  that  gradually  through  the  ages,  by  the  multifarious  influences  around  and 
within,  human  nature  has  progressed,  through  the  savage,  the  barbarous  and 
civilized,  up  to  the  enlightened  state.  But  the  moral  law,  changeless  as  eternity 
itself,  is  the  same  for  the  wild  Ashantee  as  for  the  learned  Greek — not  that 
he  understands  it  the  same.  His  interpretation  may  be  wrong,  but  that  does 
not  change  the  law.     The  moral  law  is  the  immutable  in  human  nature. 

It  is  not  a  codified  law,  or  decalogue,  of  which  I  speak,  but  those  natural 
impulses  which  direct  to  virtuous  conduct.  Of  this  law  Cicero  said,  that  "It 
was  not  only  older  than  nations  and  cities  (and  therefore  of  the  inhabitants 
thereof),  but  co-existent  with  that  Divine  Being  who  sees  and  rules  both 
Heaven  and  Earth.  For  the  principle  or  law  which  impels  to  right  conduct 
springs  out  of  the  nature  of  things,  and  began  to  be  law,  not  when  it  was  first 
written,  but  when  it  originated." 

Right  and  wrong  are  as  eternal  as  Deity.  They  are  not  created  existences, 
but  the  moral  quality  of  created  existences  Masonry  is  the  great  interpreter 
of  this  law,  and  upon  this  immutable  and  universal  basis  she  has  chosen  to 
lay  her  corner-stone.  Masonry  exerts  its  influence  principally  through  the 
most  potent  of  all  moral  methods,  example  rather  than  precept. 

It  is  a  maxim,  that  deeds  speak  louder  than  words.  The  force  of  exam- 
ple is  not  open  to  the  charge  of  hypocrisy,  though  it  stands  out  prominent — 
a  subject  for  criticism.  It  conceals  nothing,  words  may  be  false,  but  deeds 
speak  the  truth.      Good  deeds  need  no  other  praise  than  the  acts  themselves. 

*i5 


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They  in  the  moral,  like  the  sun  in  the  physical  universe,  reflect  their  own 
resplendence.  I  know  it  is  said,  that  no  good  thing  or  act  should  remain 
unpublished  to  the  world.  But  I  say,  that  every  good  deed  has  for  itself  a 
golden  tongue — a  language  sweeter  and  more  forcible  than  the  silvery  speech 
of  gifted  orators. 

To  be  a  good  man  and  true  in  Masonry,  is  the  chief  good.  For,  as  has 
been  said,  "If  a  man  should  lay  down,  as  the  chief  good,  that  which  has  no 
connection  with  virtue,  and  measure  it  by  his  own  interests  and  not  accord- 
ing to  its  moral  merit,  if  such  a  man  shall  act  consistently  with  his  own  prin- 
ciples, and  is  not  influenced  by  the  goodness  of  his  heart,  he  can  neither  cul- 
tivate friendship,  justice  or  generosity." 

Whether  mankind  be  totally  depraved  or  not,  Masonry  recognizes  enough 
of  the  ruins  of  a  natural  goodness  upon  which  to  build  a  noble  superstruc- 
ture. She  finds  this  remnant,  this  germ  of  immortality,  in  the  longing  of 
the  human  heart  for  a  higher  and  nobler  existence.  Leaving  the  speculative 
question  of  human  depravity  to  the  philosophers,  Masonry  recognizes  the 
fact  that— 

"  There  is  an  unseen  battle  field 
In  every  human   breast, 
Where  two  opposing  forces  meet, 
But  where  they  seldom  rest." 

It  is  this  innate  desire  to  be  good  that  involves  virtue  in  a  continual  war- 
fare with  vice.  There  is  no  quietus,  no  position  of  rest,  except  in  the 
cowardly  surrender  of  all  that  is  manly,  good  and  true. 

It  is  this  desire  for  happiness,  this  longing  after  the  beautiful  in  life,  that 
plunges  human  nature  into  the  sea  of  unrest. 

Human  nature  is  ever  seeking  a  higher  plane  of  existence.  "Nature 
itself  has  made  it  delightful  to  man  to  be  good,  and  disquieting  to  him  to 
know  that  he  is  not  wholly  so,  which  creates  a  desire  that  nothing  can  abate." 
It  remains  even  after'the  moral  life  has  been  wrecked  upon  the  shoals  of  vice, 
sometimes  to  reassert  itself  in  the  stings  and  pangs  of  a  self-accusing  con- 
science. 

Human  nature  would  rise  at  once  to  this  state  of  perfection  and  rectitude, 
were  it  not  held  down — swaddled  and  tangled  in  the  habiliments  of  its  own 
infirmity. 

Who  would  not  rejoice  with  ineffable  joy,  if  he  could  this  moment  shake 
off  the  infirmities  of  his  nature,  and  rise  at  once  to  the  true  dignity  of  ideal 
manhood — erect  and  proud  in  the  consciousness  of  perfect  purity  and  upright- 
ness of  character.? 

Ideal  manhood,  my  brothers,  is  the  goal  of  Free-Masonry.  It  is  the  star 
of  our  hope,  the  beacon  light  upon  the  shore,  to  the  mariner  Mason  tossed 
hither  and  thither  upon  the  ocean  of  life. 


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I  I 


But  while  the  principles  of  our  institution  are  founded  upon  the  immu- 
table moral  law,  and  the  aspirations  of  our  natures  reach  out  toward  this 
grand  ideality  of  perfect  manhood,  our  philosophy  and  history  teach  us  that 
we  have  a  rough  and  rugged  road  to  travel,  beset  with  many  trials  and  diffi- 
culties; and  experience  and  observation  have  shown  us  that  many,  very  manv, 
grow  faint  and  weary  by  the  way. 

Recognizing,  as  Masonry  does,  the  natural  infirmity  of  man  and  the 
mutual  dependence  of  one  upon  the  other,  through  the  varied  vicissitudes  of 
life,  for  all  the  kind  offices  which  justice  and  mercy  require,  its  members 
aid,  sustain  and  uplift  each  other  by  their  mutual  pursuit  of  this  ideal  man- 
hood. In  this  pursuit  by  Masons,  nothing  should  distract  their  attention 
from  the  common  goal.  The  sordid  passions  of  unworthy  ambition,  hatred 
and  revenge,  should  find  no  place  for  existence  or  growth  in  our  Order. 
Masonic  soil  should  afford  no  fertility  for  such  passions.  They  are  the 
greatest  infirmities  of  our  nature.  Masonry  recognizing  this  fact,  has  by 
most  impressive  symbolic  lessons,  taught  the  Mason  to  keep  his  passions 
within  due  bounds  with  all  mankind,  especially  his  brethren.  This  lesson 
does  not  import  that  the  passions  are  to  be  destroyed,  as  the  ascetic  theology 
and  cynic  philosophy  taught;  and  in  speaking  of  the  passions,  I  speak  of 
them  as  the  faculties  of  emotion.  These  are  all  necessary,  and  as  essential 
to  human  happiness  as  the  nerves,  veins  and  arteries  are  essential  to  life.  As 
has  been  beautifully  said: 

"The  passions  are  the  gales  that  swell  our  mental  bark  as  it  sails  over  the 
sea  of  life.  Like  the  wind  itself  they  are  engines  of  high  importance  and 
mighty  power."  Kept  within  due  bounds  they  are  the  fountains  of  benevo- 
lence, the  springs  of  joy  and  life.  "Let  loose,  and  at  random,  they  distract 
and  ruin  us." 

Vices  and  crimes  are  the  results  of  uncontrolled  passions,  hatred  of  the 
good  is  their  necessary  concomitant.  Dissensions  and  strifes  are  abundant 
among  the  passionate. 

It  is  this  injunction  concerning  the  control  of  the  passions  and  the  unity 
of  Masonic  aspiration,  which  keeps  discord  out  of  the  beautiful  Temple  of 
Masonry.     Here  is  the  strength  of  our  perpetuity. 

Personal  dissensions  and  sordid  ambition  have  destroyed  other  institutions ; 
it  is  only  unmasonic  conduct  that  we  have  to  fear.  So  long  as  the  Mason 
remembers  the  impressive,  symbolic  lessons  of  the  compass  and  square,  the 
Order  will  find  in  him  its  cheerful  supporter.  The  man  who  enters  the 
portals  of  the  Masonic  Temple  has  a  right  to  expect  that  he  is  seeking  a  place 
where  he  will  be  free  from  the  dissensions  and  wrangles  of  life,  begotten  by 
uncontrolled  passions, 

Man  worn  out  by  the  toil  of  struggle  and  contention  with  the  world,  how 
natural  it  is  that  he  should  seek  security  from  strife  and  aid  to  a  nobler  man- 
hood. Here  let  him  find  it,  beneath  the  shelter  of  an  institution  that  has 
been  the  shadow  of  rest  to  many  of  earth's  noblest  minds.     Here  let  him  find 


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a  home  for  the  soul,  free  from  the  factious  opposition  of  the  world,  where 
no  contention  should  exist,  "but  rather  a  noble  emulation  of  who  best  can 
work  and  best  agree." 

It  is  thus,  with  its  principles  breathing  such  aspirations,  that  men  are 
brought  together  hy  Masonry  into  the  closest  and  holiest  bonds  of  friendship. 
A  friendship  stripped  of  the  false  covering  of  flattery,  disrobed  of  the  cloak 
of  hypocrisy,' and  if  its  principles  are  lived  up  to,  made  as  pure  and  fresh  as 
the  "breath  of  morn."  It  takes  the  peasant— the  cotter  king— from  his 
hovel,  and  lifts  him  up  to  a  position  higher  than  a  throne — the  status  of  true 
manhood.  It  even  lifts  the  prince  out  of  his  titled  place,  and  clothes  him 
with  that  noblest  regal  dignity  of  earth— true  manhood. 

Such  a  friendship  is  sacred  in  a  palace  or  hut,  on  the  desert  plain,  or  in 
the  populous  city,  beneath  the  burning  skies  of  Africa,  or  amid  the  snow- 
hills  of  Greenland.  Such  a  friendship  wipes  out  all  caste  and  rank,  destroys 
all  the  splendor  of  pageantry,  strips  off  the  husks  of  humanity,  and  leaves  soul 
to  commune  with  soul,  upon  the  broad  principle  of  universal  brotherhood. 
Some  have  sought  such  friendship  in  the  cloister,  but  it  lacked  companion- 
ship, and  they  became  cynical;  others  have  sought  it  among  the  multitude, 
but  the  heedless  throng  trampled  it  relentlessly  under  its  feet; 

Wealth,  station  and  rank  yet  rule  the  world.  A  friendship  which  cares- 
nothing  for  these  vain  distinctions  cannot  survive  by  the  laws  which  govern 
the  multitude.  For  this  reason  Masonry  creates  a  secret,  sacred  and  holy 
friendship  of  its  own,  controlled  and  directed  by  this  moral  law,  which  is 
written  upon  the  tablets  of  eternity. 

Such  a  friendship,  closely  interwoven  with  its  twin-sister,  Charity,  as  in 
Masonry,  with  humble  step  approaches  the  lowly  habitation  of  the  sorrowings 
and  administers  comfort.  It  knocks  at  the  lowly  and  disconsolate  heart  and 
speaks nvords  of  encouragement  and  cheer  It  fills  the  mind  with  a  pure  and 
holy  contentment,  which  all  the  wealth  of  the  Indies  could  not  bestow. 

In  Masonry  this  friendship  is  world-wide.  It  knows  no  nationality,  no 
clime,  no  creed,  no  profession,  no  belief,  except  the  belief  in  God,  the  Giver 
of  all  Good,  and  the  immortality  of  the  soul.  The  hut  of  poverty  and  the 
palace  door  of  the  rich  open  with  equal  celerity  to  its  mystic  touch. 

While  by  some  these  remarks  may  be  regarded  as  mere  platitudes,  yet  who 
is  there,  if  he  were  under  the  burning  sun  of  the  equator,  on  the  other  side 
of  the  globe,  would  not  take  pleasure  in  knowing  that  there  were  human 
beings,  on  this  side,  who,  though  personally  unknown,  were  bound  to  him 
by  such  sacred  ties  of  friendship.?  Not  because  he  would  ever  call  for  the 
ministration  of  that  friendship,  but  for  the  sweet  satisfaction  of  knowing 
that,  whatever  might  betide  him,  they  stand  there,  as  solid  bulwarks  against 
all  the  accidents  and  vicissitudes  of  life.  The  Mason  is  conscious  of  just  such 
friendship,  and  it  is  one  of  the  delights  of  his  Masonic  life. 


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Cicero,  in  speaking  of  friendship,  has  said:  "What  can  be  more  delight- 
ful than  to  have  one  to  whom  you  can  speak  on  all  subjects,  just  as  to  your- 
self?" How  aptly  this  language  describes  Masonic  intercourse.  Man 
naturally  longs  for  a  closer  union  with  his  fellow-man  than  that  which  ordi- 
nary friendship  creates;  a  more  permanent  identity  of  interest,  and  a  more 
intense  reciprocation  of  feeling.  He  finds  a  want  for  those  with  whom  he 
can  trust  the  secrets  of  his  heart  and  feel  that  they  are  as  inviolable  as  before 
communicated.  "  He  desires  to  relieve  himself  by  imparting  to  others  the 
interior  joys  and  sorrow  with  which  every  human  heart  is  fraught." 

Masonry  supplies  these  natural  inborn  wants  of  man.  True  friendship 
and  brotherly  love  lead  straight  along  the  pathway  of  the  cardinal  principles 
of  our  Order: — Temperance,  Fortitude,  Prudence,  and  Justice.  These  prin- 
ciples should  ever  be  kept  in  view  in  the  daily  transactions  of  life.  They 
lead  to  happiness  and  usefulness  here,  and  to  a  bright  immortality  hereafter. 

No  man  can  lay  up  a  store  of  happiness  and  utility,  either  here  or  here- 
after, without  adhering  to  these  principles.  To  stand  by  them  in  the  daily 
vocations  of  life  may,  at  times,  cost  a  momentary  pang,  but  what  they  take 
from  the  quantum  of  our  present  pleasure,  they  add  a  hundred  fold  to  the 
future.  It  is  for  these  reasons  Masonry  has  had  such  an  extended  influence 
in  the  world.  It  must  necessarily  have  had  a  wonderful  effect  upon  the 
organization  and  reformation  of  society.  Born  in  the  past,  when  caste  and 
rank  marked  the  divisions  among  men  with  as  clearly  defined  lines  as  the 
boundaries  of  our  own  State,  its  work  was  to  cause  them  to  meet  .upon  the 
common  level  of  true  manhood,  and  to  eradicate  the  warring,  envy,  jealousy 
and  strife  of  creed  and  clan.  These  fierce  disputes  and  wrangles  have  been 
begotten,  at  all  times,  more  or  less,  by  ignorance  and  lack  of  acquaintance 
among  those  who  originated  them. 

In  the  Masonic  lodge-room,  where  they  had  to  meet  upon  a  common  level 
and  commingle  together,  and  witnessed  the  solemn,  symbolic  lessons 
imparted  by  the  different  degrees,  these  envies,  jealousies  and  strifes  must 
have  been,  in  a  measure,  healed  by  the  Masonic  balm  of  fraternal  love. 

Masonry  has  almost  invariably  been  regarded  by  governments  as  a  valu- 
able aid  in  the  preservation  of  peace  and  good  order.  While  sudden  conver- 
sions, like  that  of  Saul  of  Tarsus,  have  never  been  the  boast  of  Masonry, 
yet  it  has  often  converted  organized  enemies  into  warm  and  zealous  friends 
and  members  of  the  Order. 

Take,  for  instance,  the  case  of  the  persecution  of  Masonry  in  Holland  in 
1735,  as  recorded  in  Mackey's  Encyclopedia,  where,  at  the  instigation  of  a 
crowd  of  ignorant  fanatics,  the  States  General  had  prohibited  Masons  from 
assembling,  and  arrested  those  who  did;  one  of  the  leading  citizens  of 
Amsterdam,  who  had  been  a  persecutor,  as  a  test  was  initiated  into  the  mys- 
teries of  the  Order,  and  he  was  so  impressed  with  the  high  moral  grounds  of 
its  teachings  that  he  made  such  a  favorable  report  of  the  Order  as  to  cause 


Il8  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct.  3, 

the  leading  citizens  and   magistrates  of  the  place  to  join  the  institution  and 
become  its  most  zealous  supporters. 

The  law  that  was  passed  against  Masons  in  England,  more  than  a  century 
ago,  had  a  similar  effect,  for  afterwards,  an  investigation  of  the  principles  of 
the  Order  by  the  King  himself,  called  forth  the  highest  encomiums. 

Tiie  bull  that  was  issued  by  Pope  Clement,  in  173S,  against  Masons,  served 
no  other  purpose  than  to  cause  investigation,  and  in  less  than  thirteen  years 
from  that  time  Masonic  lodges  spread  over  all  Italy,  and  were  formed  in  the 
eternal  city  itself,  almost  beneath  the  shadow  of  the  Vatican. 

Occasionally  to-day  we  find  a  voice  uplifted  against  Masonry.  The  insti- 
tution and  its  principles  are  held  up  to  ridicule  and  slander,  but  as  has  been 
said,  "slanders  are  like  flies,  which  always  overlook  good  parts  in  order  to 
light  upon  sores  "  It  is  from  such  a  source  that  they  extract  their  sustenance, 
and  if  they  think  it  agrees  with  their  moral  digestion,  I  say  let  them  live  upon 
it.  "As  a  great  body  is  not  without  a  like  shadow,  neither  is  any  eminent 
virtue  without  eminent  detraction."  We  should,  however,  receive  whatever 
criticism  is  just,  and  cast  the  balance  aside. 

There  should  be  more  Masonic  education.  Its  cardinal  principles  in  all 
their  bearings,  should  be  better  understood  and  more  thoroughly  impressed. 
In  order  to  properly  appreciate  our  noble  institution  and  its  principles,  and 
to  awaken  that  enthusiasm  it  deserves,  there  must  be  education,  not  only  in 
its  ritual,  but  in  its  philosophy  and  history. 

Some  one  has  said  that  Masonic  intelligence  is  the  key  to  the  prosperity 
and  perpetuity  of  Free-Masonry,  and  I  believe  it.  As  has  been  said  by 
another,  "the  character  of  the  institution  is  elevated  in  the  mind  of  every 
Mason  just  in  proportion  to  the  amount  of  his  knowledge  of  its  ritual,  sym- 
bolism, philosophy  and  history."  Masonry  declares  truth  to  be  a  divine 
attribute  and  the  foundation  of  every  virtue.  But  how  find  it  without  we 
educate  ourselves? 

And  what  a  noble  pursuit  is  this  search  after  truth;  there  is  none  greater. 
It  lies  just  before  our  vision,  awaiting  discovery,  but  it  will  not  reveal  itself 
without  an  effort  on  our  part.  This  effort  should  be  to  us  our  highest 
pleasure.  If  the  mountain  will  not  come  to  Mahomet,  let  Mahomet  go  to 
the  mountain. 

Lessing  says:  "Did  the  Almighty,  holding  in  His  right  hand  Truth,  and 
in  His  left  hand  Search  after  Truth,  deign  to  tender  me  the  one  I  might  pre- 
fer, in  all  humility,  but  without  hesitation,  I  should  request  Search  after 
Truth." 

Von  Muller  says:  "Truth  is  the  property  of  God;  the  pursuit  of  it, 
what  belongs  to  man." 

We  are  told  to  work  faithfully  in  the  quarries  of  truth  and  knowledge, 
but  this  implies  that  we  have  the  tools  whereby  we  can  work.  Education  is 
the  skill  of  the  Craftsman.     "As  our  information  increases,  the  sphei-e   of 


1S7S.]  GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


our  mental  and  moral  vision  enlarges."  "Knowledge  furnishes  ejes  tp  the 
understanding,"  and  enables  us  to  comprehend  the  mjstic  meaning  of 
Masonic  symbolism. 

This  understood,  points  to  the  life  everlasting,  and  enables  the  Mason  to 
lift  the  veil  of  the  future  and  behold  the  haven  of  rest  and  peace,  which  lies 
beyond.  With  our  minds  awakened  by  a  Masonic  education  to  an  intelli- 
gent appreciation  of  the  great  principles  on  which  Masonry  is  founded,  we 
need  have  no  fear  of  its  perpetuity  or  prosperity. 

I  believe  every  Mason  in  the  State  of  Illinois  should  possess  some  stand- 
ard works  on  the  subject  of  Masonry,  and  take  some  Masonic  literature  to 
keep  himself  posted  on  the  current  events  in  the  Masonic  world.  It  is  a 
crying  shame  that  our  literature  finds  so  little  demand  and  such  poor 
pay.  Are  you  a  doctor,  a  lawyer,  a  merchant,  a  mechanic,  or  I  care  not 
what,  you  possess  works  or  literature  of  some  kind,  by  which  to  obtain  aid 
and  light  in  your  vocation.  Why  should  Masonry  be  an  exception,  the 
noblest  vocation  of  them  all?  Built,  as  it  is,  upon  the  permanent  needs  and 
aspirations  of  the  human  soul,  and  which  possesses  the  foundation  virtues  of 
every  honorable  calling,  leading  us  up  step  by  step  on  the  strong  rounds  of 
our  Masonic  ladder — Temperance,  Fortitude,  Prudence  and  Justice,  Faith, 
Hope  and  Charity,  to  the  standard  of  true  manhood,  and  into  the  presence 
of  the  Great  Architect  of  the  Universe.  Then,  I  say,  let  there  be  more 
Masonic  light.  It  will  not  engender  strife  or  contention,  for  Masonry  has 
no  war  to  make  upon  other  institutions.  She  runs  side  by  side  in  peaceful 
harmony  with  religion.  Many  of  her  votaries  are  zealous  supporters  of  the 
Church.  And  this  is  right,  for  the  sphere  of  usefulness  is  so  extended,  that 
every  institution  which  has  the  welfare  of  mankind  for  its  purpose  should 
receive  the  encouragement  of  every  other  engaged  in  the  same  benevolent 
work. 

We  claim  that  Masonry  in  lifting  its  members  to  a  better  life,  draws  all 
men  towards  perfection.  No  individual  member  of  society  can  be  elevated 
without  benefiting  in  a  greater  or  less  degree  his  associates.  The  principles 
of  Free-Masonry  are  inculcated  in  almost  every  portion  of  the  civilized  world, 
and  it  would  be  impossible  not  to  benefit  mankind  at  large,  by  teaching  Ma- 
sons to  become  better  men  and  better  citizens. 

This  may  be  considered  an  enthusiastic  effort,  lacking  the  dignity  of  an 
elaborate  oration  discussing  the  antiquity  of  the  order,  its  history  and  phi- 
losophy. Let  me  be  considered  an  enthusiast,  an  ardent  in  the  cause. 
Enthusiasm  is  the  great  regenerator  of  society,  and  Masonry  needs  its  pro- 
portionate share.  I  would  rather  be  an  enthasiast,  with  an  imagination 
painting  in  glowing  colors  the  fruition  of  hope,  than  a  morose  misanthrope. 
The  one  drinks  the  sweet,  limpid  waters  of  perennial  joy,  while  the  other 
gropes  through  a  frigid  world,  gnawing  ice. 

Masonry,  like  all  other  institutions,  needs  some  patriotic  fervor  and  zeal. 
They  were  present,  twin  angels,  at  its  birth,  but  will  not  be  at  its  death — if, 


120  PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE  [Oct.    3, 


forsooth,  it  should  ever  cease  to  exist.  It  has  lived  through  the  centuries  past 
because  it  is  founded  upon  the  moral  law,  those  eternal  principles  of  right 
and  wrong,  antecedent  to  positive  precept.  It  lives  in  the  present,  because 
human  hearts  everywhere  enthusiastically  respond,  as  with  an  electric  touch, 
to  its  beautiful  lessons  on  human  life. 

Teaching  by  example  rather  than  precept,  it  has  a  vital  power,  far  greater 
than  any  mere  professions  of  creeds  and  doctrines.  Silent  and  unseen  as 
the  ^vaters  of  Lethe,  the  stream  of  Masonic  influence  flows  down  the  channels 
of  Time  into  the  great  ocean  of  Eternity.  It  grows  because  friendship  is  its 
object,  true  manhood  its  goal,  mutual  assistance  its  inculcated  duty,  broth- 
erly love  its  ruling  passion.  Temperance,  Fortitude,  Prudence  and  Justice  its 
cardinal  principles. 

Thus  founded,  it  will  continue  to  live  and  grow  until  the  end  of  earthly 
existences,  when,  as  the  result  of  its  sublime  teachings,  it  is  to  be  hoped  it 
will  have  done  its  proportionate  share  in  regenerating  humanity,  and  will 
present  to  the  Great  Architect  of  the  Universe  its  full  measure  of  fashioned 
materials,  polished  and  fitted  for  their  appropriate  positions  in  the  Eternal 
Temple. 

Upon  motion  of  R.  W.  Bio.  Scott,  D.  G,  M.,  Bro.  Sample 
was  requested  to  furnish  a  copy  of  the  oration  for  publication  in 
the  proceedings. 

THANKS— To  Past  Grand  Master  Robbius. 

Upon  motion  of  W.  Bro.  Wei-ls  (14)  the  thanks  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  were  tendered  to  M.  W.  Bro.  Robbins  for  the  able  and 
impartial  manner  in  which  he  has  presided  over  the  Grand  Lodge 
for  the  past  two  years. 

CLOSED. 

No  further  business  appearing,  solemn  prayer  was  offered  by 
the  R.  W.  and  Reverend  Grand  Chaplain,  when  the  Grand 
Master  closed  the  Grand  Lodge  in  ample  form. 


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Attest  :  Grand  Master. 


Z^O^...™// 


Grand  Secretary. 


LIST  OF  STANDING  COMMITTEES. 


JURISPRUDF.NXE. 


Joseph  Robbins,  James  A.  Hawley,  D.  C.  Cregier,  Wiley  M.  Egan, 
Henry  C.  Ranney. 


APPEALS    AND    GRIEVANCES. 


Joseph  E.  Dyas,  Miles  H.  Wilmot,  A.  B.  Campbell,  John  M.  Pearson, 
G.  M.  Haynes. 


CHARTERED    LODGES. 


C.  Kirkpatrick,  S.  S.  Chance,  John  L.  McCullough,  H.  G.  Calhoun, 
James  C.  McMurtry. 

LODGES     U.    D. 

Charles  H.  Patton,  Jacob  Messmore,  Joseph  Holland,  John  C.  Hall, 
John  R.  Shannon. 

rORRKSPONDENGE. 

Joseph  Robbins. 

MILEAGE    AND    PER    DIEM. 

S.  W.  Waddle,  E.  S.  Mulliner,  Geo.  W.  Cyrus. 

IINANCE. 

John  C.  .Smith,  Gilbert  W.  Barnard,  T.  J.  Whitehead. 

GRAND    EXAMINER?. 

M.  D.  Chamberlain,  Edward  Cook,  A.  T.  Uarrah,  J.  II.  P'avvcelt, 
H.  W.  Hubbard. 

SPEC:iAL    COMMITTEE. 

To    SETTLE    WITH    A.    A.    GLENN. 

John  C.  Smith,  Joseph  Robbins,  John  M.  Pearson. 

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..  M.  -m^ar^t  W.  ||oanabnrg. 


Junior  Grand  Warden,  1S6S-70. 

Senior  Grand  Warden,  1870-72. 

-Deputy  Grand  Master,  1872-74. 

Grand  Master,  1874-76. 

Died  at  Denver,  Col.,  August  4,  1S78, 

Aged  41  Years. 


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TO  THE  MEMORY  OF 


Past  Master  of  Olney  Lodge,  No.  140. 

Past  Junior  Grand  Warden. 

Died  at  Olney,  January  5,   1878, 

Aged  56  Years. 


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He  served  the  Craft  with  fervency  and  zeal." 


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Past  Master  Knoxville  Lodge,  No.  66. 

Past  High  Priest  Canton  Chapter,  No.  6S, 

R.  A.  M. 

Past  Grand  Lecturer. 

Died  at  Knoxville,  III.,  June  15,  1878. 

Aged  74  Years. 


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'A  devoted  Mason  ;  an  honorable  and  courteous  gentleman." 


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APPENDIX. 


REPORTS  OF  D.  D.  GRAND  MASTERS. 


FIRST  DISTRICT. 


Office  of  D.  D.  G.  M..  First  District,  1 
Chicago,  September  28th,  1878.      / 

M.  W.  Bro.  Joseph  Robbins,  Grand  Mmter: 

Dear  Sir  and  W.  Bro. — From  the  First  District  there  is  but  little  to 
report  that  has  not  been  communicated  to  jou.  At  the  present  time  all  the 
lodges  in  this  District  are  in  harmony  in  each  and  with  each  individual  body, 
so  far  as  has  come  to  the  knowledge  of  your  Deputy. 

The  lodges  throughout  this  District  are  endeavoring  to  curtail  their 
expenses,  so  as  to  be  at  all  times  ready  to  respond  to  the  calls  of  their  unfor- 
tunate brethren,  as  they  have  been  called  to  do  in  the  present  suffering  of 
our  brethren,  in  some  of  the  Southern  States,  with  the  yellow  fever. 

A  meeting  of  Masons  and  officers  of  lodges  in  the  First,  Second  and 
Third  Districts  was  called  early  in  the  breaking  out  of  the  fever,  and  such 
worthies  as  Bro.  T.  T.  Gurney  were  chosen  President,  D.  C.  Cregier,  Secre- 
tary, and  John  O'Neill,  Treasurer — as  a  permanent  committee  to  receive  and 
disburse  such  funds  as  might  be  collected  for  the  suffering  brethren.  From 
their  well-known  zeal  in  Masonry  there  is  no  doubt  they  are  performing  their 
duty  with  fidelity. 

And  now,  as  another  Masonic  year,  with  its  duties  and  responsibilities  of 
the  offices  which  were  placed  in  our  care,  is  about  to  be  closed,  may  we  trust 
that  those  who  shall  come  after  us  shall  say  that  we  were  faithful  "overseers" 
of  the  Craft  while  they  were  under  our  charge. 

Fraternally  yours, 

W.  A.  Stevens, 
D.  D.  G.  M.  First  District. 


[32  APPENDIX. 


SECOND  DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D   D.  G.  M.,  Second  District,  \ 
Chicago,  September  i6lh,  1878.      J 

M.  W.  Bro.  Joseph  Robbins,  Grand  Master : 

M.  W.  AND  Dear  Bro. — I  am  happy  to  be  able  to  report  that  the  Craft  in 
the  Second  District  are  all  living  in  harmony,  and  the  lodges  are  working 
well  and  prosperously. 

The  two  lodges  in  which  trouble  seemed  impending  in  the  early  part  of  the 
presentyear,  have,  by  letting  better  counsels  prevail,  avoided  the  rocks  of  discord 
which  threatened  their  very  existence,  and  in  the  one  where  the  differences 
were  so  amicably  adjusted  without  a  trial,  the  election  passed  off  harmo- 
niously, and  I  feel  to  congratulate  the  brethren  in  their  wisdom  in  choosing 
competent  officers,  and  also  the  officers  in  having  brethren  to  rule  and  gov- 
ern who  seem  ever  ready  to  second  them  in  every  good  word  and  work. 
Nothing  has  occurred  under  the  present  administration  to  in  any  manner 
interrupt  the  peace,  harmony  and  good  will  of  the  lodge  or  members. 

With  reference  to  the  other  lodge  which  was  so  unfortunate  as  to  be  com- 
pelled to  call  upon  you  for  an  adjustment  of  then  existing  difficulties  between 
some  of  its  members,  while  it  has,  perhaps,  suffered  by  reason  of  the  interrup- 
tion of  its  business,  and  the  intense  feeling  engendered  between  the  members,  it 
has  now  so  far  recovered  from  its  shock  as  to  give  promise  of  future  useful- 
ness. By  a  rigid  observance  of  the  symbolic  teachings  of  the  compasses,  and 
a  firm  determination  to  promote  harmony,  confidence  has  been  so  far  restored 
among  the  members  as  to  insure,  as  I  believe  and  trust,  the  future  prosperity 
of  the  lodge.  That  such  is  the  earnest  desire  of  each  and  every  member  of 
the  lodge,  I  feel  assured. 

From  my  observation  and  experience  during  the  past  four  years  as  District 
Deputy  Grand  Master  of  the  Second  District,  I  feel  it  my  duty  to  express 
the  opinion  that  very  many  of  the  difficulties  occurring  in  our  lodges  could 
be  amicably  adjusted  to  the  full  satisfaction  of  all  parties  concerned,  and 
much  trouble  and  annoyance  avoided,  were  the  parties  interested  obliged  to 
submit  their  differences  to  the  District  Deputies  before  appealing  to  the 
Grand  Master.  The  District  Deputies  being  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of  the 
lodges  in  their  respective  Districts,  have  a  better  opportunity  of  investigating 
such  matters  than  the  Grand  Master,  living  perhaps  in  a  remote  part  of  the 
Grand  Jurisdiction,  could.  Had  they  the  power  they  could  adjust  and  settle 
nearly  all  of  the  questions  arising  between  the  officers  and  members  of  the 
lodges,  and  save  the  Grand  Master  from  very  many  of  the  labors  now  imposed 
upon  him.  I  have  searched  the  laws  of  our  Grand  Jurisdiction  carefully  to 
find  the  duties  of  a  District  Deputy  Grand  Master,  and  aside  from  acting  as 
a  sort  of  inspector  of  records,  with  no  fowcr  to  make  corrections  of  errors, 
I  find  the  office  much  more  ornamental  than  useful.     It  is  true  the  Deputies^ 


REPORT  OF  D.  D.  GRAND  MASTERS.  I  33 

are  frequently  called  upon  for  advice;  so  is  nearly  every  Past  Master  of  a 
lodge;  but  the  advice  given  is  not  authority,  and  if  the  officer  seeking  and 
obtaining  it  is  not  of  the  same  opinion  as  the  Deputy,  he  is  not  required  to 
follow  the  advice  so  given,  except  on  complaint  to  the  Grand  Master. 

I  think  an  amendment  to  our  laws,  conferring  rights,  duties  and  powers 
upon  the  District  Deputy  Grand  Masters,  making  them  responsible  and 
amenable  to  the  Grand  Master  and  Grand  Lodge  for  their  official  acts,  would 
be  of  great  advantage  to  the  Craft. 

Immediately  after  receiving  notice  of  my  appointment  as  District  Deputy 
Grand  Master  for  the  Second  District,  I  sent  the  usual  notices  to  the  lodges, 
and  aside  from  installing  officers,  visiting  lodges  and  giving  advice  to  Wor- 
shipful Masters,  other  officers  and  brethren,  my  duties  have  been  very  circum- 
scribed. I  have  been  called  upon  for  no  opinions  upon  questions  which 
were  not  positively  settled  by  the  by-laws,  or  opinions  and  decisions  duly 
approved  and  concurred  in,  of  the  Grand  Masters. 

Thanking  you  for  the  honor  conferred  in  my  appointment,  I  remain. 

Yours  fraternally, 

Daniel  J.  Avery, 
D.  D.  G.  M.  Second  District. 


THIRD  DISTRICT. 

Oi'i'icE  OF  D.  D.  G.  M.,  Third  District.  \ 
Chicago,  September  5th,  1878.      J 

M.  W.  Bko  Joseph  PvObbins,  Grand  Master: 

Your  postal  dated  "Quincy,  S-17,  187S.  Notice — Sec.  3,  Art.  9,  Part  i, 
G  L.  By-Laws;  also  correction  of  20th,  Art.  8  instead  of  9,"  has  brought  me 
to  a  sudden  realization  of  the  fact,  that  indeed  another  Masonic  year  has 
almost  passed,  leaving  upon  our  minds  the  faint  or  vivid  recollection  of 
pains  we  have  suffered,  or  pleasures  we  have  enjoyed ;  and  with  thoughtful 
minds  to  look  back  and  consider,  whether  in  word  and  spirit,  as  men  and 
Masons,  we  have  done  our  whole  duty  to  God  and  our  fellow  men, — may  the 
great  future  prove  that  we  have.  I  hope  and  trust  that  the  instructions  we 
have  received  have  not  been  given  in  vain.  My  duties,  as  Deputy  of  the 
Third  Masonic  District  of  this  State,  have  been  a  repetition  of  former 
years — that  is,  to  notify  the  lodges  of  my  appointment,  visit  them  when  con- 
venient or  when  called  upon,  examine  the  records,  listen  to  complaints,  give 
advice,  and,  above  all  things,  to  look  ivise;  all  of  which  has  been  done,  I 
hope  and  trust,  in  the  often  repeated  language  of  District  Deputies,  "with 
honor  to  myself,  credit  to  the  Craft,  and  principally  to  your  satisfaction." 


134  APPENDIX. 


In  a  large  and  still  increasing  society  like  ours,  composed  of  so  many 
intelligent  men,  having  different  opinions  on  questions  that  come  before 
legislative  bodies,  and  becoming  animated  and  excited  in  debate,  are  the 
stronger  impressed  that  they  are  right,  and  the  other  side  wrong;  and  if  the 
question  is  of  importance,  liable  to  take  very  strong  and  stubborn  side  issues — 
w^hich  in  the  end  lead  to  more  or  less  discord  and  confusion — while  this  has, 
in  a  few  instances,  occurred  in  the  Third  District,  from  a  lack  of  knowledge 
on  the  part  of  the  Master  of  parliamentary  law,  yet  I  am  happy  to  state  that 
all  differences  have  been  easily  and  amicably  settled  without  appeal  to  the 
Grand  Master,  and  the  utmost  harmony  and  good  fellowship  prevails.  It  is 
true  that  very  many  of  the  contentions  and  differences  arising  in  our  lodges 
are  the  result  of  an  imperfect  knowledge,  on  the  part  of  the  Master,  of 
Masonic  and  parliamentary  law,  which  possibly  might  be  successfully  over- 
come, if  we  had  a  short,  concise  and  comprehensive  Digest  and  Manual  of 
Masonic  Law  and  Rules  of  Procedure,  containing  the  standing  resolutions  of 
the  Grand  Lodge,  the  decisions  of  the  Grand  Master — in  short,  a  "  Vade 
il/ec«;«"  of  the  Master.  With  this  instructor  constantly  before  him,  he 
could  not  go  very  far  astray,  and  many  vexatious  questions  and  discussions 
avoided  by  his  correct  and  prompt  decisions,  which  often,  through  his  suffer- 
ance or  ignorance,  become  whirlwinds  of  confusion.  Possibly  a  majority  of 
all  lodge  troubles  could  in  the  first  instance  be  prevented  by  a  wise  and 
timely  ruling-  of  the  presiding  officer;  and  while  we  may  deprecate  the 
troubles,  we  ought  not  to  censure  the  officer  who  may  not  have  access  to  libra- 
ries of  Masonic  literature;  ought  we  not  rather  to  extend  to  him  the  facilities 
to  acquire  the  necessary  knowledge,  and  thus  promote  that  harmony  which 
should  always  prevail  in  our  beloved  Fraternity.'  Would  it  not  be  a  step  in 
the  right  direction  for  the  Grand  Lodge  to  appoint  a  committee  to  compile 
such  a  work,  for  the  use  of  Masters  specially,  and  for  the  information  of 
the  Craft  generallv?  While  happily  adding  my  testimonial  of  the  har- 
mony and  prosperity  of  the  Craft  in  the  district  over  which  I  am  honored  by 
you  to  represent,  and  have  reason  to  hope  that  like  reports  from  all.  sections 
within  your  jurisdiction  may  gladden  your  heart,  and  make  you  feel  that 
your  zealous  labors  have  not  been  in  vain. 

With  manv  thanks  for  your  kind  consideration,  I  am, 


Sincerely  and  fraternally. 


John  O'Neill, 
D.  D.  G.  M.  Third  District. 


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FOURTH  DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D  D.  G.  M  ,  F"ourth  District  \ 
Aurora,  III  ,  August  26th,  1S78.      f 

M.  W   Bro.  Joseph  Rokbins,  Grand  Master  .- 

Dear  Sir  and  M.  W.  Bro. — The  duties  of  your  Deputy  in  this  District 
have  been,  fortunately  for  myself  and  to  the  credit  of  the  Order,  very  light, 
in  fact,  beyond  some  correspondence  in  relation  to  matters  of  no  great  import- 
ance, I  have  had  no  official  work  to  perform,  and  I  am  pleased  to  report  that 
Masonic  matters  in  this  District  are  usually  prosperous. 

Respectfully  yours, 

F.  L.  Bartlett, 

D.  D.  G.  M.  Fourth  District. 


FIFTH  DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D.  D.  G.  M.,  Fifth  District,  ) 
Freeport,  III.     j 

M.   W.    Bro.  Joseph   Rorrins,    Grand  Master  : 

Dear  Sir  and  M.  W.  Bro. — As  your  Deputy  for  the  Fifth  Masonic  Dis- 
trict, I  have  no  official  acts  to  report;  the  year  having  been  one  of  peace  and 
harmony  among  the  Fraternity  of  this  District.  I  have  not  been  called  upon 
by  any  of  the  lodges  to  visit  them  in  my  official  capacity,  nor  for  any  decisions 
on  Masonic  law;  and  I  know  of  no  instance  where  peace  and  harmony  does 
not  prevail. 

Accept  my  thanks  for  the  honor  conferred  upon  me  by  making  me  your 
D.  D.  G.  M. 

Fraternally  yours, 

E.  L.  Cronkrite, 
B.  D.  G.  M.  Fifth  District. 


SIXTH  DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D    D.  G.  M.,  Sixth  District,  1 
Mt.  Carroll,  III.,  September  2d,  1878.      j 

M.  W.  Bro.  Joseph   Robbins     Grand  Master  : 

Dear  Sir  and  M.  W.  Bro. — I  have  the  honor,  as  your  Deputy  from  this, 
the  Sixth  District,  to  present  the  following  as  my  report  for  the  current  year: 


APPKNDIX.  136 


I  have  but  one  official  act  to  report.  On  the  13th  day  of  June,  at  the 
lequest  of  Lyndon  Lodge,  No.  780,  through  the  Worshipful  Master,  I  wrote 
an  opinion  at  some  length  upon  the  proper  course  of  procedure  in  case  of 
petition  for  membership,  when  the  petitioner  requested  a  withdrawal  on 
account  of  removal  before  initiation.  The  question  appears  to  have  been 
settled  by  the  lodge  upon  the  decision  rendered  by  your  Deputy,  and  as  far 
as  known,  in  a  satisfactory  manner  to  all  parties  concerned. 

No  other  question  of  importance  has  been  submitted  during  the  year. 

There  have  been  no  official  visits  made  in  this  jurisdiction.  The  lodges 
of  this  District  are  generally  in  a  healthy  condition,  although  the  growth, 
owing  to  the  hard  times,  has  been  slow.  Peace  and  harmony  prevail,  and 
the  order  is  moving  quietly,  but  certainly,  in  the  direction  of  a  higher  and 
better  standard.  The  lodges  of  this  jurisdiction  are  presided  over  by  breth- 
ren of  high  character  and  good  business  tact  and  ability,  so  that  the  position 
of  Deputy  is  rather  one  of  honor  than  labor.  I  regret  that  my  time  has 
been  so  thoroughly  occupied  by  my  business  that  I  have  found  it  almost 
impossible  to  visit  the  various  lodges  of  the  District  as  I  should  have  done. 

With  many  thanks  for  your  consideration  and  the  honor  conferred  upon 
me,  with  many  good  wishes  and  an  earnest  desire  for  the  same  success  in  the 
future  to  the  Order  that  has  attended  it  in  the  past  under  your  excellent 
management,  I  am. 

Most  sincerely  and  fraternally  yours, 

R.  M.  A.  Hawk, 
D.  D.  G.  M.  Stxtk  District. 


SEVENTH  DLSTRICT. 

Office  of  D.  D.  G.  M.,  Seventh  District,  ) 
Dixon,  III,  September  i6th,  1S78.      / 

M.  W.  Bro.  Joseph  Robbins,  Grand  Master  : 

Dear  Sir  and  M.  W.  Bro. — In  accordance  with  the  regulation  governing 
D.  D.  G.  Masters,  I  submit  my  annual  report :  Upon  the  reception  of  my  com- 
mission I  notified  all  the  lodges  in  my  territory  of  my  readiness  to  visit  them 
whenever  I  could  be  of  service,  but  in  no  instance  have  I  been  called  upon.  It  has 
been  my  pleasure,  however,  to  visit  several  lodges,  and  in  every  instance  have 
I  found  them  without  dissension  and  prosperous,  their  only  "thorn"  being 
that  seemingly  universal  one  of  having  many  upon  the  roll  careless  as  to 
paying  their  dues.  Would  not  a  word  from  the  "throne"  cause  many  to 
reflect  and  rectify  this  great  cause  for  so  long  a  "suspension  list,"  which  is 
found  in  almost  every  annual  report .-' 


REPORT  OF  D.  D.  GRAND  MASTERS, 


137 


I  reluctanth'  report  the  arrest  of  the  charter  and  the  taking  into  my  hands 
the  effects  of  Grand  Detour  Lodge,  No.  33S.  This  act,  after  long  waiting, 
became  necessary,  because  of  the  inability  of  the  resident  membership  to  call 
sufficient  together  to  resume  labor. 

The  officers  of  said  lodge  are  deserving  of  great  praise  for  their  efforts  to 
restore  an  institution  so  long  dormant.  They  have  given  up  their  lodge  only 
after  fighting  manfully  to  restore  it,  after  making  many  sacrifices,  and  after 
their  resident  membership  had  become  reduced  to  seven,  a  part  of  whom  are 
laboring  daily  in  a  distant  town,  and  home  only  on  each  Saturday  night. 

With  thanks  for  the  honor  you  have  conferred,  and  your  courtesies 
during  my  official  term,  I  shall  ever  remain. 

Very  truly  and  fraternally, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

John  V.  Thomas, 
D.  D.  G.  M.  Seventh  District. 


EIGHTH   DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D.  D  G.  M.,  Eighth  District,  ) 
JOLIET,  September  23d,  1878       j 

M.  W.  Joseph  Robbins,   Grand  Master  : 

Dear  Sir  and  M.  W.  Bro. — In  compliance  with  the  rules  of  the  Grand 
Lodge,  I  herewith  submit  my  report  as  D.  D.  G.  M.  for  the  Eighth  Masonic 
District. 

Upon  the  receipt  of  my  commission,  I  notified  the  lodges  of  the  Eighth 
District  of  my  appointment,  and  also  notified  them  of  my  readiness  to  attend 
to  any  matters  relating  to  the  Craft  that  might  require  my  attention.  On 
the  9th  of  Januaiy,  1878, 1  visited  Verona,  and  instituted  Verona  Lodge  U.  D. 
This  constitutes  all  my  official  acts,  with  the  exception  of  my  visit  to  Raven 
Lodge,  No.  303,  at  Oswego,  a  full  report  of  which  has  been  submitted. 


Truly  and  fraternally, 


John  Gray, 
D.  D.  G.  M.   Eiohth  District. 


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138  APPENDIX. 


NINTH    DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D.  D.  G.  M.,  Ninth  District,  \ 

Ottawa,  September  5th,  1878.      J 

M.  W.   Bro.  Joseph  Robbins,   Grand  Master  : 

Immediately  after  you  renewed  my  appointment  as  District  Deputy  Grand 
Master,  I  notified  the  lodges  in  this  District  that  I  would  visit  them  when 
called  upon  to  do  so.  Not  having  any  call  during  the  year,  I  can  only  say 
that  no  trouble  has  come  to  my  knowledge,  except  in  St.  John's  Lodge,  No.. 
13,  which,  by  your  order,  I  investigated  and  reported  to  you. 

Fraternally  yours, 

Thomas  J.  Wade, 
D.  D.    G.  M.  Niuth  District. 


TENTH  DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D.  D.  G.  M  ,  Tenth  District,  \ 
Princeton,  III  ,  August  26th,  1878.      J 

M.  W.  Bro.  Joseph  Robbins,  Grand  Master: 

I  gives  me  pleasure  to  report  that  harmony  prevails  throughout  the  Tenth 
Masonic  District, 

I  visited  Neponset  Lodge  in  consultation,  in  a  case  of  discipline  before 
them.  I  did  not  learn  that  there  was  any  want  of  harmony,  but  just  the 
proper  course  to  pvirsue  was  what  they  wished  to  arrive  at.  I  have  to  report 
Neponset  a  zealous  lodge,  with  well  posted  officers. 

I  visited  Sheffield  Lodge  on  a  funeral  occasion.  I  was  pleased  with  the 
promptness  and  efficiency  of  its  officers,  and,  from  the  very  brief  acquaint- 
ance, have  to  make  a  very  favorable  report  of  Sheffield. 

Thanking  you  for  the  honor  conferred  upon  me,  I  remain. 

Yours  fraternal h'-j 

Geo.  Crossley, 
D.  D.  G.  M.  Tenth  District. 


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ELEVENTH  DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D.  D.  G.  M.,  Eleventh  District,) 
Cambridge,  August  24th,  1878.      | 

M.  W.  Bro.  Joseph   Robbins,   Grand  Master: 

Dear  Sir  and  Bro.— In  making  my  report  tor  the  year  1877-8,  I  have 
simply  to  say  that  in  this  District  peace  and  harmony  have  prevailed  among 
the  Craft  throughout  the  year. 

Fraternally  yours, 

F.  G.  Welton, 
D.  D.  G.  M.  Eleventh  District. 


TWELFTH  DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D.  D.  G.  M.,  Twelfth  District. 
M.  W.  Bro   Joseph  Robbins,   Grand  Master : 

Immediately  upon  the  receipt  of  iny  commission  re-appointing  me  as 
your  Deputy  for  the  Twelfth  Masonic  District  of  Illinois,  composed  of  the 
Counties  of  McDonough,  Fulton  and  Schuyler,  I  notified  the  lodges  in  my 
District  of  that  fact,  and  of  my  readiness  at  any  and  all  times  to  make  them 
an  official  visit  should  they  so  desire,  but  up  to  the  present  time  I  have  had 
no  call  of  that  kind. 

I  have  been  called  upon  in  three  several  cases  only,  for  a  decision  in  cer- 
tain cases,  but  the  matter  was  so  simple  and  plain  and  fully  covered  by  our 
Grand  Lodge  By-Laws,  that  I  merely  had  to  call  the  attention  of  the  breth- 
ren to  the  articles  of  Masonic  law  deciding  their  questions  for  them. 

I  have  visited  (unofficially)  quite  a  number  of  the  lodges  in  my  District, 
and  have  corresponded  with  others,  and  in  each  and  all  I  find  the  ancient 
landmarks  intact,  and  their  work  and  records  strictly  in  accord  with  the 
requirements  of  our  Grand  Lodge  By-Laws.  Although  the  quantity  of  work 
done  in  the  several  lodges  in  my  District  will  not  compare  favorably  with 
some  former  years,  I  am  led  to  believe  that  Masonry  has  suffered  no  loss 
thereby. 

And  in  conclusion,  I  take  great  pride  in  commending  to  you  the  brethren 
composing  the  Twelfth  Masonic  District,  for  their  jealous  regard  for  the 
ancient  landmarks  of  our  Order,  for  their  strict  conformity  and  cheerful 
obedience  to  the  regulations,  laws  and  edicts  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois, 


140  .  APPENDIX. 


and  above  all,  for  the  fact  that  they  are  daily  exemplifying  the  truth  of  our 
motto,  of  "How  good  and  pleasant  it  is  for  brethren  to  dwell  together  in 
unity." 

Again  thanking  you  for  the  honor  conferred  upon  me,  I  am,  as  ever, 

Respectfully  and  fraternally  j'ours, 

W.  H.  H.  Rader, 

D.  D    G.  M.  Txvelfth   District. 


THIRTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D.  D.  G.  M.,  Thirteenth  District,") 
Galesburg,  III.,  September  ist,  1878.      j 

M.  W.  Bro.  Joseph  Rokbins,  Grand  Masti'r: 

Dear  Bro. — I  have  the  honor  to  submit  the  following  report  of  the  con- 
dition of  Masonry  in  the  Thirteenth  District: 

All  the  lodges  within  this  District  were  promptly  notified  of  m^'  appoint- 
ment as  D.  D.  G.  M.,  and  of  my  readiness  to  attend  them  officially  on  all 
occasions  requiring  my  attention.  I  have  been  called  upon  but  once  during 
the  past  year  to  serve  in  my  ofiicial  capacity,  and  that  was  for  the  purpose  of 
adjusting  a  financial  difficulty  in  Rio  Lodge,  No.  6S5.  A  committee,  consist- 
ing of  Bros.  Frank  Murdock,  Judson  Graves  and  myself,  visited  that  lodge 
June  29th,  1878,  heard  the  evidence,  and,  upon  careful  consideration,  recom- 
mended that  the  lodge  be  placed  in  charge  of  the  Senior  Warden.  A  full 
report  of  our  proceedings  was  at  that  time  forwarded  to  you,  and  you  saw  fit 
to  act  upon  our  recommendation.  I  regret  to  report  that  complete  harmony 
has  not  been  restored.  The  lodge  is  laboring  under  severe  financial  embar- 
rassment, and  its  future  condition  cannot  at  present  be  defined. 

I  desire  to  speak  of  the  tendency  to  the  fonnation  of  new  lodges  in  certain 
towns  that  ought  to  support  but  one,  hoping  that  my  suggestions  will  be  care- 
fully read  and  dispassionately  considered  by  the  brethren,  not  only  in  the 
Thirteenth  District,  but  elsewhere.  It  must  be  apparent  to  all  that  one  good 
lodge  is  better  than  two  weak  ones.  This  proposition  is  so  plain  that  it  is 
scarcely  necessary  to  discuss  it.  A  large  and  powerful  lodge  is  independent 
and  in  a  condition  to  exercise  a  wise  discretion  in  the  admission  of  candi- 
dates to  the  secrets  of  our  Order.  It  need  cost  no  more  to  support  a  large 
lodge  than  a  small  one,  and  the  annual  dues  will  nearly  pay  the  current 
expenses.     The  influence  of  a  large  lodge  upon  the  community  in  which  it 


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is  working  is  almost  incalculable,  while  that  of  a  small  one  is  almost  insignifi- 
cant in  comparison.  The  members  of  a  small  lodge  are  many  times  con- 
strained, by  the  depletion  of  their  treasury,  to  recommend  and  admit  persons 
who  are  unfit  to  become  Masons.  It  is  not  suflicient  that  a  man  be  endowed 
with  those  necessary  qualifications  of  Temperance,  Fortitude,  Prudence  and 
Justice.  We  should  also  see  that  the  candidate  belongs  to  that  class  of  men 
who  can  best  work  and  best  a^ree.  There  are  many  men  who  inorallj' would 
be  an  ornament  to  the  Fraternitj',  but  whose  other  mental  characteristics  are 
such  that  they  never  make  good  Masons,  and  we  are  taught  never  to  recom- 
mend a  man  unless  we  know  that  he  will  cheerfully  submit  to  the  rules  of  the 
Order.  Were  those  ancientiandmarks  strictly  followed,  we  should  see  but 
very  little  of  that  restiveness  under  authority  that  creates  dissensions  and 
impels  men  to  form  new  lodges  whose  usefulness  is  destined  to  be  short- 
lived. It  is  safe  to  gay  that  soinething  is  wrong,  when  we  see  a  lodge  having 
a  membership  of  from  fifty  upwards,  holding  meeting  after  meeting  with 
scarcely  a  quorum  of  their  own  members  present.  It  is  equally  true  that  the 
formation  of  a  new  lodge  will  not  awaken  an  interest  in  the  cause.  These 
difficulties  can  only  be  reached  by  an  earnest  effort  on  the  part  of  each  mem- 
ber to  settle  ail  differences  and  unite  upon  the  proper  officers,  and  then  put 
forth  their  hands  to  encourage  and  sustain  them  when  elected. 

Rowley  Page, 

/).  D.  G.  M.    T^iirteenth  District. 


FOURTEENTH   DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D.  D.  G.  M  ,  Fourteenth  District,  ^ 
Peoria,  September  14th,  1878.  j 

M    W   JdSEHH    RiiHiiiNs     Gnnui  Master  : 

Dear  Sir  and  M.  W.  Bro. — I  can  report  the  condition  of  our  Order  in 
the  Fourteenth  District,  so  far  as  I  have  been  informed,  with  but  a  few  excep- 
tions satisfactory.  I  have  nothing  of  interest  to  report;  have  not  made  any 
official  visits,  as  there  has  been  no  demand  for  my  services,  which  I  think  is 
good  evidence  of  peace  and  prosperity.  A  few  questions  of  Masonic  law  and 
usages  have  been  submitted,  which  I  think  have  been  answered  satisfactorily 
to  the  brethren.     Hoping  to  meet  you  soon,  I  remain. 

Yours  fraternally, 

W.  H.  Eastman, 

D.   D.    G.  M.   fourteenth  District. 


142  APPENDIX. 


FIFTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D.  D.  G  M.,  Fifteenth  District,") 
DeWitt,  III.,  Sept.  ist,  1878.      / 

M.  W.  JosKPH   RoBBlNS,  Grand  Master  : 

Dear.  Sir  and  M.  W.  Bro. — In  accordance  with  law,  and  in  obedience  to 
your  instruction,  I  iierewitli  submit  a  report  as  D.  D.  G.  Master  of  the  Fif- 
teenth District, 

Immediately  after  receiving  the  appointment  I  notified  all  the  lodges  in 
this  District  of  the  same,  and  expressed  a  readiness  to  visit  any  of  them  offi- 
cially or  otherwise,  when  requested  so  to  do,  but  have  had  no  application 
requiring  interference  in  an  official  capacity  the  past  year,  from  which  fact  I 
infer  that  harmony  and  good  order  prevail  among  the  Craft  in  this  District. 
I  have  made  social  and  friendly  visits  to  a  few  lodges  in  McLean  and  DeWitt 
counties,  in  each  of  which  I  find  much  to  commend  and  but  little  to  object  to. 

Hoping  to  meet  you  at  the  Grand  Lodge  next  month,  I  remain 
Yours  fraternally, 

John  H.  Tyler, 
D.  D.  G.  M.  Fifteenth  District. 


SIXTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D.  D.  G.  M.,  Sixteenth  District,  > 
Kankakee,  III.,  September  3d,  1878.      J 

M.  W.  Bro  Joseph  Robbins,  Grand  Master: 

Dear  Sir  and  M  W.  Bro. — As  District  Deputy'  Grand  Master  of  the 
Sixteenth  District  of  this  grand  jurisdiction,  my  duties  for  the  past  year  have 
not  been  very  onerous.  Peace  and  harmony  have  prevailed  among  nearly  all 
the  lodges  in  this  District. 

Agreeably  to  your  orders,  I  took  charge  of  the  charter,  funds  and  property 
of  Manteno  Lodge,  No.  507,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  forwarded  them  to  the 
R.  W.  Grand  Secretary,  receiving  his  receipt  for  the  same.  Matters  at 
Vermilion  Lodge,  No.  265,  A.  F.  &  A,  M.,  seem  to  have  been  running 
smoothly  and  harmoniously  since  the  visit  to  them  of  W.  Bro.  F,  S. 
Hatch,  whom  you  were  pleased  to  appointy  our  special  deputy-  for  that  pur- 
pose during  my  absence  from  home. 

With  the  exception  of  officiating  at  some  funerals  and  presiding  at  some 
installations,  these  constitute  all  the  duties  performed  by  me  as  D.  D,  G.  M, 
during  the  past  year. 


REPORT    OF    D.    D.    GRAND    MASTERS.  I43 


Thanking  you  for  the  confidence  which  you  have  reposed  in  me,  and  with 
the  best  of  good  wishes,  I  remain, 

Yours  fraternalij, 

Haswell  C.  Clarke, 

£>.  D.  G.  M.  Sixteenth  District. 


SEVENTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D   D.  G.  M.,  Seventeenth  District,  "I 
Champaign,  III  ,  September  23d,  1878.      / 

M.  \V.  Bro.  Joseph  Robbins,  Grand  Master: 

Dear  Sir  and  R.  W.  Bro. — Pardon  my  delay  in  making  my  report  to 
you.  Ill  health,  absence  from  home  and  pressing  business  demands  consti- 
tute my  excuse.  Everything  pertaining  to  Masonry  in  my  District  is  in  a 
most  healthy  and  prosperous  condition.  Neither  envy,  discord  nor  confu- 
sion exist  to  interrupt  that  degree  of  peace  and  harmony  which  should 
always  prevail  among  the  brethren  of  that  noble  institution,  one  of  the  chief 
aims  of  which  is  to  see  "who  best  can  work  and  best  agree." 

Beyond  answering  a  few  questions  of  Masonic  law  which  have  been 
referred  to  me,  there  has  been  no  call  for  my  services,  except  in  the  case  of 
Ogden  Lodge,  No.  754.  Upon  the  21st  of  December  last  I  duly  constituted 
said  lodge  according  to  ancient  form.  Also,  upon  the  evening  of  the  same 
day,  installed  the  officers.  The  installatiorx  was  public,  and  when  our  labors 
were  concluded  we  enjoyed  a  bountiful  repast,  prepared  by  the  ladies,  who, 
if  not  of  us,  are  certainly  with  us,  and  never  let  the  opportunity  pass  where 
thev  can  demonstrate  their  interest  in  our  cause. 

Respectfully  and  fraternally, yours, 

George  Scroggs, 

D.  D.  G.  M.  Seventeenth  District. 


EIGHTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D    D.  G.  M.,  Eighteenth  District,  ) 
Decatur,  III.,  September  20th,  1878.      j 

M.  W.   Bro.  Joseph  Robbins,   Grand  Master: 

Most  Worshipful  Sir  and  Bro. — In  compliance  with  Masonic  law  and 
the  custom  of  our  Order,  I  have  the  pleasure  to  submit  this  my  report  as 
District  Deputy  of  the  Eighteenth  Masonic  District: 


144'  APPENDIX. 


My  duties  the  pa^t  Masonic  year  have  not  been  arduous,  with  two  excep- 
tions have  been  sources  of  pleasure,  as  it  always  is  a  pleasure  to  me  to  visit 
lodges  and  participate  in  the  ceremonies  attendant  upon  the  installation  of 
their  officers,  and  the  annual  gatherings  in  June  and  December.  The  two 
exceptions  were  in  the  cases  of  South  Macon  Lodge,  No.  467,  and  Lovington 
Lodge,  No.  22S,  reports  of  which  have  been  transmitted  to  you.  In  Blue 
Mound  Lodge,  No.  6S2,  charges  have  been  preferred  against  a  brother  for 
taking  the  life  of  a  brother.     The  trial  is  set  for  the  first  vveek  in  October, 

With  these  exceptions,  peace  and  harmony  have  reigned  throughout  this 
jurisdiction.  Some  of  the  lodges  have  increased  their  roll  of  members 
largely,  others  have  done  but  very  little  work,  but  all  the  lodges  are  in  a  good 
healthy  condition. 

With  many  thanks  for  the  honor  conferred  upon  me,  I  am 

Fraternally  vours, 

A.  A.  Murray, 

D    D.    G.   M   Ei^^hleenth  District. 


NINETEENTIi    DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D  D.  G.  M.,  Nineteenth  District,) 
Petersburg,  September  2d,  1878.      j 

M.  W.  Bro   Joskph  Robbins,  Grand  Master: 

Dear  Sir  and  R.  W.  Bro. — If  I  had  not  been  aware  of  the  fact,  your 
postal  would  have  reminded  me  that  the  present  Masonic  year  was  drawing 
to  a  close,  and,  as  one  of  your  Deputies,  I  had  a  duty  to  perform. 

As  to  my  official  acts  I  have  nothing  to  report,  not  having  been  called  in  a 
single  instance,  although  the  lodges  in  my  District  were  duly  notified  of  my 
readiness  to  serve  them;  and  from  this  fact  I  must  conclude  that  all's  well 
throughout  the  Nineteenth  District.  I  am  however  in  full  accord  with 
Bro.  Zeigler,  of  the  Fifteenth  District,  in  his  report  of  last  year,  as  to  the 
evils  that  pervade  the  Craft  in  general,  "intemperance  and  profanity,"  and  I 
would  add  two  others — gambling  and  visiting  houses  of  ill-fame.  I  consider 
all  these  not  only  evils,  but  Masonic  crimes;  and  if  all  members  were  really 
Masons,  they  would  not  be  heard  of  among  the  Fraternity,  and  I  do  hope 
that  the  Grand  Lodge  will  take  some  more  decided  action  in  the  matter. 
This  is  very  plain  language,  and  will  not  look  well  in  print,  but  every  Mason 
must  acknowledge  the  justness  of  it. 

Most  respectfully  and  fraternally, 

Jno.  Bennett, 
D.  D.  G.  M  Nineteetith  District. 


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TWENTIETH  DISTRICT, 

Office  of  D,  D.  G    M  ,  Twentieth  District,  "» 
Jacksonville,  III.,  August  26th,  1878.      J 

M.  W.  Bro.  Josei'H   Robbins,    Grand  Master; 

Dear  Sir  and  M.  W.  Bro. — As  your  Deputy  for  the  Twentieth  District, 
I  report  that  as  soon  as  I  received  official  notice  of  my  appointment,  I  sent 
a  circular  to  each  of  the  lodges  of  my  District,  informing  them  of  my  readi- 
ness to  visit  and  assist  them  at  any  time  that  might  be  designated. 

On  the  evening  of  January  4th,  1878,  at  the  request  of  Waverly  Lodge, 
No.  118,  I  visited  said  lodge  and  witnessed  the  work  in  the  Third  Degree, 
and  afterwards  installed  the  newly  elected  officers,  and  I  take  pleasure  in 
reporting  said  lodge  in  good  working  order  and  an  honor  to  Alasonry.  I 
have  visited  a  number  of  other  lodges,  and  so  far  as  my  observation  has 
extended,  I  find  the  lodges  in  this  District  conforming  to  the  "ancient  land- 
marks of  Masonry." 

I  must  refer  to  a  "new  departure"  instituted  by  my  own  lodge,  Jackson- 
ville, No.  570,  which  consists  in  having  monthly  lectures  delivered  by  resi- 
dent members,  upon  some  subject  connected  with  the  Order. 

The  following  named  brothers  have  delivered  lectures,  and  in  the  order  in 
which  named:  Dr.  J.  P.  Johnston,  S.  M.  Martin,  Dr.  J.  P.  Willard,  Rev. 
D.  W.  English,  C.  M.  Morse,  Rev.  R.  M.  Barns  and  Dr.  H.  W.  Milligan. 
These  lectures  were  well  received  and  have  created  considerable  interest  in 
the  Fraternity.  A  brother  is  selected  one  month  in  advance,  and  notified 
accordingly,  and  thus  far  no  one  has  failed  to  respond  at  the  proper  time. 

I  thank  you  for  the  honor  conferred  upon  me,  and  congratulate  you  and 
the  Craft  in  this  jurisdiction  upon  the  happy  results  of  your  official  term. 


Fraternally  yours. 


Samuel  M.  Martin, 
D.  D.  G  M    Twentieth  District. 


TWENTY-FIRST   DISTRICT. 

V 

Office  of  D.  D.  G.  M.,  Twenty-first  District,  / 
LaHarpe,  Fll.,  August  31st,  1878.      \ 

M.  W.  Bro  Joseph  Robbins,  Grand  Master: 

In  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  Section  3,  of  Article  8,  of  Part  ist,  of 
Grand  Lodge  By-Laws,  I  have  to  report,  that  upon  the  receipt  of  my  com- 
mission of  D.  D.  G.  M.  of    this  District  I  immediately  notified  all  the  lodges 

*i9 


146  APPENDIX. 


in  this  District  of  my  appointment  and  readiness  to  visit  tiiem,  in  an  official 
capacity,  if  requested. 

On  December  25th,  A.  D.  1S77,  I  received  an  invitation  from  Quincy 
Lodge,  No.  296,  to  visit  them  olficially  and  install  its  officers  for  the  coming 
Masonic  year,  but,  owing  to  previous  business  arrangements  and  sickness  in 
my  family  at  the  time,  was  unable  to  attend;  but,  from  the  reports  received, 
the  occasion  was  an  enjoyable  one,  and  regret  very  much  my  inability  to 
attend.  In  this  case  only  have  I  been  called  upon  to  visit  any  lodge  officially, 
or  to  listen  to  any  complaint  or  trouble  between  lodges  or  any  members  of 
the  same;  so  that  peace,  harmony  and  brotherly  love  prevail  among  the 
Fraternity  in  the  Twenty-first  District.  It  has  been  my  pleasure  to  visit 
several  lodges  in  this  District  during  my  term  of  office,  and  in  every  instance 
have  found  them  in  a  healthy  and  prosperous  condition.  On  August  22d, 
upon  the  invitation  of  Bro.  Ing,  W.  M.  of  Burnside  Lodge,  No.  6S3,  I  visited 
said  lodge  in  company  with  other  brethren  from  LaHarpe  Lodge,  No.  195, 
and  conferred  the  tliird  degree  upon  two  candidates.  I  had  the  pleasure  of 
meeting  at  the  same  time  Bro.  W.  R.  Hamilton  (one  of  the  "old  stand-by's" 
of  Hancock.  Lodge,  No.  20,)  with  other  brethren  of  Hancock  Lodge,  No.  20, 
and  a  goodly  number  of  the  membership  of  Burnside  Lodge.  The  meeting 
was  a  social  good  time  before  and  after  "work,"  and  will  long  be  remembered 
by  me. 

Thanking  you  for  the  honor  conferred  on  me  by  the  appointment  as 
D.  D.  G,  M.,  you  have  my  best  wishes  for  your  future  happiness  and 
prosperity. 

Very  truly  and  fraternally  yours, 

James  Mayor, 
D.  D.  G.  M.  Twenty  first  District. 


TWENTY-SECOND  DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D.  D.  G.  M.,  Twenty  second  District,  \ 
ViRUEN,  III.,  September  4ih,  1878.      j 

M.  W.  Bro.  Joseph  Robuins,  Grand  Master  : 

Dear  Sir  axd  Bro. — I  have  but  little  to  report  in  regard  to  my  official 
duties  as  D.  D.  G.  M.  My  health  and  business  has  been  such  that  I  have 
not  been  able  to  visit  but  few  of  the  lodges  in  my  District,  and  have  not  been 
officially  called  to  visit  any  lodge  during  the  jear.  But  so  far  as  I  have  been 
able  to  learn,  the  lodges  in  this  District  are  prosperous,  and  peace  and  har- 
mony prevail,  with  probably  one  or  two  exceptions. 

Very  respectfully  and  fraternallj', 

A.  L.  ViRDEN, 

D.  D.  G.  M.  Twenty-second  District. 


J 


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TWENTY-THIRD  DISTRICT. 

0[.KicE  OF  D.  D.  G.  M.  Twenty  third  Dfstrict,  ) 
Taylorville,  III.,  Sept.  i6th,  187.8,  | 

M.  W.  Bro.  Joseph  Rohkins,  Grand  Master: 

During  the  past  Masonic  year  I  liave  not  been  called  on  to  make  any  offi- 
cial visit. 

The  few  questions  which  have  been  referred  to  ine  involved  only  the  most 
elementary  principles  of  Masonic  law.  In  this  District  peace  and  good-will 
prevail,  but  it  has  been  a  season  of  inactivity.  On  the  27th  of  December, 
1S77,  I  installed  the  officers  of  Mound  Lodge,  No.  122.  I  have  visited  but 
few  lodges  during  the  year,  but  so  far  as  I  know,  or  am  advised,  the  lodges 
are  in  good  condition,  and  are  working  in  substantial  conformity  to  law. 

VVm.  T.  Vandeveer, 
D.  D   G.  M.   Twenty -third  District. 


TWENTY-FOURTH   DISTRICT. 

Oefice  ok  D.  D.  G.  M.,  Twenty-kourth  District,  ") 
Olney,  III.,  August  22d,  1878.      | 

M.  W.  Bro.  Joseph  Robbins,  Grand  Master  : 

Dear  Sir  and  M.  W.  Bro. — In  accordance  with  the  Grand  Lodge 
By-Laws,  I  beg  leave  to  submit  to  you  this,  my  report  as  your  Deputy  for  the 
Twenty-fourth  District. 

Immediately  upon  receipt  of  my  commission  I  notified  the  lodges  in  the 
District  of  my  appointment,  and  my  readiness  to  visit  them,  if  desired. 

According  to  your  instruction  to  investigate  the  state  of  Westfield  Lodge, 
No.  161,  located  at  Westfield,  Clark  Co.,  I  visited  said  lodge  on  July  nth; 
the  full  particulars  of  which  visit  I  had  the  honor  to  report  to  you  on  July 
15th. 

I  have  received  no  official  call  from  any  of  the  lodges ;  and  while,  from 
this  fact,  together  with  the  information  I  have  gathered  from  conversations 
with  brethren  of  the  Craft  in  this  District,  and  from  my  own  observation,  I 
feel  warranted  in  saying  that  peace  and  harmony  prevails,  yet  I  do  firmly 
believe  that,  by  a  closer  study  and  more  thorough  knowledge  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  By-Laws  on  the  part  of  the  presiding  officers  in  some  instances,  and 
in  others  again  a  more  careful  discharge  of  their  duties  on  the  part  of  the 
Secretaries,  much  could  be  done  to  facilitate  and  simplify  the  business  of  the 
lodges,  much  valuable  time  saved,  and  a  great  deal  of  correspondence 
avoided. 


148  APPENDIX. 


It  also  becomes  my  sad  duty  to  report  to  you  the  death  of  R.  W.  Bro. 
Horace  Hayward,  Past  Junior  Grand  Warden  of  the  M.  W.  Grand  Lodge  of 
Illinois,  which  occurred  at  his  residence  in  this  city  on  the  5th  of  January. 
As  a  near  relative,  however,  of  the  deceased,  having  been  bound  to  him  by 
the  most  sacred  family  tie,  I  feel  restrained  from  commenting  upon  his  lif& 
and  character. 

Thanking  you,  M.  W.  Sir,  for  the  honor  conferred  upon  me,  I  am, 

Fraternally  yours, 

GUSTAVE  H.  B.  TOLLE, 

D.  D.  G.  M.  Tneniy-fourih  District. 


TWENTY-FIFTH  DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D.  D.  G.  M.,  Twenty-fifth  District,  \ 
Odin,  III,  September  iilh,  1S78.      J 

M.  W.  Bro.  Joseph  Robbins,  Grand  Master: 

M.  W.  Sir  and  Bro. — In  accordance  with  the  requirements  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  By-Laws,  I  beg  herewith  to  submit  my  report  as  D.  D.  G.  M.  of  the 
Twenty-fifth  District  for  the  Masonic  year  ending  October  ist,  187S. 

Immediately  on  receipt  of  my  commission  I  notified  all  the  lodges  in  my 
District  of  my  appointment  and  readiness  to  oflScially  visit  them  when 
called  upon;  but  as  I  have  not  been  called,  I  feel  justified  in  reporting  that 
peace  and  harmony  prevail  in  this  District.  The  only  official  act  I  have 
performed  was  to  refer  to  you  the  irregularity  in  work  in  Altamont  Lodge, 
No.  533. 

I  desire  to  suggest  the  advisability  of  an  official  inspection  of  the  work 
and  standing  of  each  lodge  in  this  Grand  Lodge  Jurisdiction.  I  am  satisfied 
that  it  would  prove  beneficial  to  the  Craft  throughout  the  State.  Competent 
brethren,  with  time  to  spare  to  attend  to  this  important  duty,  would  soon 
have  our  lodges  so  instructed  that  two-thirds  of  the  errors  and  irregularities 
now  occupying  the  Grand  Master's  time,  would  be  done  away  with,  through 
the  ability  of  the  various  lodges  to  manage  their  own  affairs.  The  first  result 
would  be  to  erase  from  our  Grand  Lodge  Records  a  number  of  lodges  which 
are,  and  have  been  for  years,  drones  in  the  Masonic  hive.  This  good  work 
can  only  be  accomplished  by  Grand  Lodge  interposition  officially  and  finan- 
cially, as  the  lodges  needing  this  inspection  will  never  voluntarily  send  for  a 
D.  D.  G.  M. 


REPORT    OF    D.    D.    GRAND    MASTERS.  I49 


Fraternally  suggesting  that  you,  if  it  meets  your  approval,  bring  this 
before  the  Grand  Lodge  in  your  Annual  Address,  and  cordially  thanking  you 
for  the  honor  conferred  on  me,  I  remain, 

Fraternally  yours, 

Thos.  J.  Whitehead, 
D.  D.  G.  M.  T-ve7ity-fifth  District. 


TWENTY-SIXTH  DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D.  D.  G.  M  ,  Twenty-sixth  District,) 
Alton,  III.,  August  31st,  1878.      J 

M.  W.  Bro.  Joseph   Robbins     Grand  Master  : 

Dear  Sir  and  M.  W.  Bro. — I  herewith  submit  my  report  as  D.  D.  G.  M. 
of  the  Twenty-sixth  Masonic  District. 

Beyond  answering  a  few  unimportant  questions,  I  have  not  received  an 
official  call  from  any  of  the  lodges  in  my  District,  and  the  presumption  is 
that  peace  and  harmony  prevail.  Last  January  I  had  the  pleasure  of  publicly 
installing  the  officers  of  Girard  Lodge,  No.  171.  At  the  conclusion  of  the 
ceremonies,  we  were  invited  to  partake  of  a  bountiful  repast,  prepared  under 
the  auspices  of  the  appropriate  committee,  and  I  seldom  have  the  opportu- 
nity of  passing  an  hour  more  pleasantly  than  on  that  occasion.  Although 
not  in  my  District,  I  have  frequent  opportunities  of  visiting  this  lodge,  and 
always  receive  a  hearty  welcome. 

Congratulating  you  upon  a  year  of  success  and  prosperity  in  the  Order, 
and  hoping  to  meet  you  at  G.  L.,  I  remain 

Yours  sincerely  and  fraternally, 

Geo.  Barry, 

D   D.  G.  M.    Tjveuty-sioefh  District. 


TWENTY-SEVENTH  DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D  D.  G.  M.,  Twenty-seventh  District,"! 
Chester,  III.,  September  15th,  1878.      / 

M.  W.  Bro.  Joseph  Robbins,   Grand  Master  : 

Dear  Sir  and  M.W.  Bro. — As  another  Masonic  year  has  almost  expired, 
it  reminds  me,  as  your  Deputy,  that  it  is  time  to  make  my  annual  report. 


150  APPENDIX. 

On  receipt  of  my  commission  I  notified  all  the  lodges  in  my  District  ot 
my  appointment  as  your  Deputy,  and  my  readiness  to  visit  them  when  called 
on. 

I  have  visited  the  majority  of  the  lodges  in  my  District,  and  find  that 
peace  and  harmony  reign  supreme  among  the  members  generally,  and  inany 
of  them  making  rapid  proficiency  in  the  standard  work  of  this  grand  jurisdic- 
tion, and  all  very  careful  in  the  selection  of  material  for  our  Masonic  edifice. 
I  have  not  been  called  upon  by  any  of  the  lodges  to  visit  them  officially. 
Several  matters  of  minor  importance  have  been  submitted  to  me  for  my 
decision,  and  all  satisfactory  so  far  as  I  am  aware 

I  regret  exceedingly  that  mv  report  is  somewhat  iale,  but  sickness  for  the 
two  last  weeks  has  caused  the  delay,. 

Accept  my  thanks  for  the  honor  conferred,  and  with  renewed  expressions 
of  my  high  regard  for  you. 

Fraternally  yours, 

James  Douglas, 
D.  D.  G.  M    rwenty- seventh  District. 


TWENTY  EIGHTH  DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D.  D.  G.  M  ,  Twenty-eighth  District,  ) 
Mt.  Vernon,  III  ,  September  5th,  1878.      ) 

M    W.  Bro.  Joseph    Rohbins,  Grand  Master  : 

Dear  Sir  and  M.  W.  Bro. — My  annual  report  is  that  I  have  nothing  to 
report — at  least  this  would  be  true  were  I  reporting  for  a  daily  paper,  where 
only  something  eventful,  exciting  or  sensational  would  find  favor  either  with 
publisher  or  reader.  And  I  am  glad  that  in  this  sense,  "I  have  nothing  to 
leport,"  because,  if  the  record  of  a  whole  year's  doings  of  the  Craft  at  large 
revealed  as  much  moral  obliquity  as  the  pages  of  a  single  issue  of  any  of  the 
daily  papers  show  in  general  society,  our  doom  would  be  sealed. 

It  will  be  far  pleasanter  then  to  you,  as  our  honored  head,  and  to  every 
true  Mason  who  reflects  upon  the  deep  and  silent  majesty  with  which  the 
current  of  Masonic  affairs  moves  on,  to  learn  that  in  this  District  its  surface 
is  as  unruffled  and  its  depths  as  placid  as  ever;  that  peace  and  harmony  pre- 
vail; that  the  cement  of  brotherly  love  is  being  spread  with  an  unsparing 
hand,  and  its  fruits  are  seen  in  a  steady  and  healthy  growth  in  both  numbers 
and  influence.  Not  a  single  case  requiring  discipline  or  official  attention  has 
been  reported  to  me  during  the  year  pasl,  and  but  for  an  occasional  letter 
asking  my  decision  upon  questions  of  Masonic  law  or  usage,  I  should  have 
been  of  no  assistance  to  you  whatever. 


REPORT    OF    D.    D.    GRAND    MASTERS.  I5I 


With  thanks    for  the    many  marks  of  your  esteem,    and   the  honor  con- 
ferred, I  remain, 

Yours  fraternally, 

C.  H.  Patton, 
D.  D.  G.  M.  Tivcnty-ctghih  District.. 


TWENTY-NINTH   DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D.  D.  G.  M  ,  Twenty-ninth  District,  "l 
Carmi,  III.,  August  3ist,   1878.      | 

iSI,    W.    Bko.  Ioskfh    Rohitns,    Grand  Muster  : 

Dear  Sir  and  R.  W.  Bro. — In  accordance  with  the  Grand  Lodge  By- 
Laws,  I  submit  the  following  report  of  my  acts  as  D.  D.  G.  M.  of  the  29th 
District. 

Upon  receipt  of  my  commission,  I  notified  all  the  lodges  in  mv  District  of 
my  appointment,  but  have  had  no  occasion,  or  invitation,  to  visit  any  of  the 
lodges  in  an  official  capacity. 

But  one  question  has  been  submitted  to  me  for  decision  during  the  past 
year,  and  that  was  concerning  a  matter  in  which  the  law  is  well  settled,  and  I 
suppose  that  my  decision  was  satisfactory,  as  I  have  had  no  further  commu- 
nication on  the  subject. 

Having  received  notice  from  you  that  a  dispensation  had  issued  for 
Hickory  Hill  Lodge  in  Wayne  county,  and  my  business  engagements  being 
such  that  I  could  not  attend  in  person,  I  appointed  W.  Bro.  L.  D.  Bennett 
of  Fairfield,  my  Deputy  to  attend  and  institute  said  Lodge,  which  duty  was 
performed  by  Bro.  Bennett,  on  the  19th  day  of  August,  187S,  as  shown  by  his 
report,  which  I  have  transmitted  to  you. 

The  only  other  official  duty  in  which  I  have  been  engaged  during  theyear 
was  the  investigation  of  charges  preferred  by  order  of  Sheba  Lodo-e,  No.  200 
against  Bro.  James  R.  Ennis,  W.  M.  of  said  lodge.  By  virtue  of  a  warrant 
issued  by  you,  a  commission  consisting  of  myself  and  Past  Masters  T.  W. 
Hay  and  T.  ('<.  Parker,  after  due  notice  to  the  parties  interested,  met  at  the 
hall  of  said  Sheba  Lodge  in  Grayville,  and  proceeded  to  hear  the  evidence 
and  investigate  said  charges.  Our  proceedings  and  conclusions  in  the  matter 
having  been  fully  reported  to  you,  I  presume  that  any  further  report  at  this 
time  would  be  unnecessary. 

Although  I  have  but  little  personal  knowledge  of  the  condition  of  Masonry 
in  this  District,  I  am  satisfied,  from  inquiries  made  and  information  received 
that  the  lodges  in  this  District  are  composed  of  good  material,  are  doing  good 
work,  and  are  striving  faithfully  to  see  "who  can  best  work  and  best  agree," 


152  APPENDIX. 


I  have  no  suggestions  to  make  at  this  time,  as  I  believe  that  our  present 
laws  and  regulations,  if  probably  observed,  contain,  substantially,  all  that  is 
necessary  for  the  government  and  needs  of  the  fraternity. 

In  conclusion,  I  tender  you  my  sincere  thanks  for  the  honor  conferred  upon 
me,  and  for  the  advice  and  assistance  so  cheerfully  and  thorougiily  given 
to  me  during  the  year. 

Very  respectfully  and  fraternally  yours,  &c., 

J.  I.  McClintock, 
D.  D.  G  M.  Tiventy-niiith  District. 


THIRTIETH  DISTRICT. 

Office  of  D.  D.  G   M  ,  Thirtieth  District,) 
Cairo,  III.,  September  21st,  1878.      / 

M.  W.  Bro.  Joseph  Rohbins,  Grand  Master: 

During  the  year  just  closing  my  officTal  duties  as  District  Deputy  Grand 
Master,  with  one  exception,  have  been  confined  to  a  limited  correspondence 
with  lodges  of  the  District. 

I  have  had  no  questions  of  importance  presented,  and  my  communica- 
tions have  consisted  mostly  of  advice  and  instructions  in  regard  to  trials  and 
the  ordinary  business  of  the  lodges  addressed. 

I  regret  exceedingly  that  an  almost  entire  suspension  of  transportation  on 
the  river,  caused  by  the  fear  of  yellow  fever,  rendered  it  impossible  for  me 
to  execute  your  orders  in  regard  to  the  surrender  of  its  Charter  by  New 
Liberty  Lodge,  No.  317. 

So  far  as  I  can  learn,  work  in  the  lodges  has  been  limited,  and  will  con- 
tinue so  until  there  is  a  general  revival  of  business. 

Congratulating  you  upon  the  very  general  approval  of  your  administra- 
tion as  Grand  Master,  and  thanking  you  for  official  and  personal  considera- 
tion, I  am. 

Fraternally  yours, 

P.  W.  Barclay, 
D.  D.  G.  M.    Thirtieth  District. 


D.    D.    GRAND    MASTERS. 


FOR  THE  YEAR  1S7S-79. 


'53 


DISTRICTS  AND  D.  D.  GRAND  MASTERS. 


POSTOFFICE    ADDRESS.  COUNTIES  COMPOSING  DISTRICT. 


Walter  A.  Stevens. 


Daniel  J.  Avery. 


John  O'Neill Chicago,  Cook  Co 


F.  L.  Bartlett 
Jacob  Krohn . 


Robert  M.  A.  Hawk 
J.  V.  Thomas 


8     John  Gray 

^     W.T.Mason 

Georg^e  Crossley. . 

Frank  G   Welton. 
W.  H.  H.  Rader  . 


Rowley  Page 

W.  H.  Eastman. . . 

John  H.  Tvler 

Haswell  C."  Clarke. 


17  [George  Scroggs 

18  A.  A.  Murray  .. 
ig     John  Bennett 


20  Samuel  M.  Martin. 

21  Ijames  Mayor 

22  I  A.  L.  Virden 


Wm.  T.  Vandeveer 
G.  H.  B.  Tolle 


25     Thos.  J.  Whitehead. 


26  John  M.  Pearson. 

27  James  Douglas. . . 


Edward  C.  Pace. 


James  I.  McClintock. 
P.  W.  Barclay 


Chicago,  Cook  Co "South  Chicago,"    and    all   that 

part  of  Cook  county  lying  south 
of  the  Chicago  river  and  east 
of  the  Illinois  and  Michigan 
Canal. 

Chicago,  Cook  Co All  that  part   of   West   Chicago 

and  the   county  of  Cook  lying 
soi/i/i  of  the  "  Fulton  Branch  " 
of     the    Chicago     and    North- 
western R.  R.,  and  Tvesf  of  the 
Illinois  and  Michigan  Canal. 
All   that  part  of  the  city  of  Chi- 
I     cago  and  the   county   of  Cook 
lying      no?-i//     of    the      Fulton 
!     Branch  of  the  C.  &  N.  W.  R.  R. 

Aurora,  Kane  Co Kane,  McHenry  and  Lake. 

Freeport,  Stephenson  Co  ..  .jBoone,  Winnebago  and  Stephen- 
1     son. 

Mt.  Carroll,  Carroll  Co Jo  Daviess,    Carroll  and  White- 

I     side. 

Dixon,  Lee  Co Ogle,  Lee  and  DeKalb. 

Joliet,  Will  Co |KendaIl,      DuPage,      Will      and 

I     Grundy. 

LaSalle,  LaSalle  Co LaSalle  and  Livingston. 

Princeton,  Bureau  Co Bureau,   Putnam,   Marshall    and 

Stark. 

Cambridge,  Henry  Co Henry,  Rock  Island  and  Mercer. 

Huntsville,  Schuyler  Co    McDonough,  Fulton  and  Schuy- 

!  ler. 

Galesburg,  Knox  Co Knox,  Warren  and  Henderson. 

Peoria,  Peoria  Co Peoria,  Woodford  and  Tazewell. 

DeWitt,  DeWitt  Co McLean,  DeWitt  and  Ford. 

Kankakee,  Kankakee  Co. ...  Kankakee,    Iroquois    and     Ver- 

I     milion. 
Champaign,  Champaign  Co.  jCliampaign,  Douglas,  Edgar  and 
1  Coles. 

Decatur,  Macon  Co !  Piatt,  Moultrie,  Macon  and  Lo- 

I     gan. 

Petersburg,  Menard  Co Mason,  Menard,  Sangamon   and 

Cass. 
Jacksonville,  Morgan  Co. . . .  iBrown,  Morgan,  Scott  and  Pike. 

LaHarpe,  Hancock  Co Adams  and  Hancock. 

iVirden,  Macoupin  Co Calhoun,      Greene,     Jersey     and 

Macoupin. 
Taylorville,  Christian  Co. ...  Montgomery,        Christian        and 
Shelby. 

Olney,  Richland  Co Cumberland,     Clark,    Crawford, 

Jasper,  Richland  and  Law- 
rence. 

Odin,  Marion  Co Clay,     Effingham,    Fayette     and 

Marion. 

Godfrey,  Madison  Co Bond,  Clinton  and  Madison. 

Chester,  Randolph  Co St.      Clair,     Monroe    and    Ran- 

.,  dolph. 

Ashley,  Washington  Co jWashington,    Jefferson,    Frank- 

lin.    Perry,   Jackson  and   Wil- 
;     liamson. 

Carmi,  White  Co Wayne,        Edwards,        Wabash, 

White,  Hamilton,  Saiine    and 
Gallatin. 
Hardin,    Pope,     Massac,    John- 
son, Union,  Pulaski  and  Alex- 
ander. 


Cairo,  Ale.vander  Co 


* 


20 


154 


APPENDIX. 


LODGES  BY  DISTRICTS. 

Their  Location  and  Titnc  of  holding  Stated  Meetings. 


FIRST  DISTRICT. 
Walter  A.  Stevens,  Chicago,  D.  D.  G.  M. 


LODGE. 

V 

1 

LOCATION. 

COUNTY. 

STATED    MEETINGS. 

33 

'f 
i6o 

209 

271 

sS 

III 

409 
422 
437 
S08 
642 
674 
697 
703 
726 
739 
7S8 
662 
690 
70S 
73: 

Chicago 

Cook 

. .  1  ist  and  3d  Fridays. 

Garden  City 

.  .Every  Wednesday  evening. 

II 

II 

. .  2d  and  4th  Saturdays. 
. .  2d  and  4th  Wednesdays. 
..2d  and  4th  Fridays. 

Accordia 

II 

Dearborn 

II 

. .  Every  Friday. 
. .  Every  Monday. 

II 

Thos.  J.  Turner. 

II 

II 

.  .Every  Friday. 

Chicago 

I, 

■  I 

.  .  lEvery  Friday. 

Apollo 

II 

11 

. .  2d  and  4th  Mondays. 
.  .Every  Thursday. 

..list  FH.iav 

II 

St.  Andrews 

Golden  Rule 

jj       ' 

"       iqt  anrl  :iii  Tiipsdavs. 

II 

Mystic  Star 

South  Park 

Englewood 

II 

Hyde  Park  

Englewood 

"      ]ist  and  3d  Thursdays. 

"      Every  alternate  Thursday. 

"      Every  Wednesday. 

Harbor. . . 

South  Chicago.    ,  . 

SECOND  DISTRICT. 
Daniel  J.  Avery,  Chicago,  D.  D.  G.  M. 


Cleveland 

Pleiades 

Hesperia 

Lessing 

211 

478 
411 
SS7 
596 
610 
669 
686 
717 

Cook 

ist  and  3d  Thursdays, 
ist  and  3d  Thursdays. 
Every  Wednesday. 

ist  and  3d  Tuesdays. 
Every  Wednesday, 
ist  and  3d  Mondays. 

Union  Park 

Herder 

D.  A.  Cashman. . 
Lumberman's  . . . 

'      Every  Thursday. 

LODGES   BY    DISTRICTS. 


'55 


LODGES   BY   DISTRICTS — Continued. 


THIRD  DISTRICT. 
John  O'Neill,  Chicago,  D.  D.  G.  M. 


LODGE. 

01 

S 

3 

LOCATION. 

COUNTY. 

STATED  MEETINGS. 

Vitruvius 

8i 
182 

3" 
526 

611 
539 
643 
314 

524 
54° 
711 
716 

7S> 

w 

Ch 

Pa 
Ev 
Oa 
Jef 
Bl 
Ba 

leeling 

icago 

Cook 

..Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Kilwinning 

Covenant 

. .  Every  Thursday. 

it 

II 

Keystone 

D.  C.  Cregier  ... 

1. 

<< 

..  Every  Wednesday. 
..  ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 

anston 

k  Park 

Harlem 

. .  2d  and  4th  Tuesdays. 
. .  ist  and  3d  Thursdays. 

je  Island 

rnngton 

Lounsbury 

. .  2d  and  4th  Saturdays 

FOURTH  DISTRICT. 

F.  L.  Bartlett,  Aurora,  D.  D.  G.  M. 

The  Counties  of  Kane,  McHenry  and  Lake. 


Unity 

Jerusalem  Temp 

Elgin 

Geneva , 

Dundee 

Aurora 

Blackberry 

Batavia 

KaneviUe 

Hampshire 

Clintonville 

Monitor 

St.  Marks 

Marengo 

Richmond 

McHenry 

Nunda 

Algonquin 

Chemung 

Harsard 

Gralton 

Orion 

Hebron 

Waukegan 

Rising  Sun 

Antioch 

Wauconda 

Libertvville 

A.  O.  Fav 


48, St.  Charles , 

90  Aurora 

117  Elgin 

139  Geneva 

igoDundee 

254  Aurora , 

359  Blackberry  Station 

404  Batavia 

425  KaneviUe 

443  Hampshire 

511  Clintonville         . . . . 

5^2  Elgin 

63  Woodstock 

13S  Marengo , 

143  Richmond 

158  McHenry 

169  Nunda , 

256  Algonquin 

258  Chemung , 

309  H  arvard 

32S  Huntley     

358  LTnion 

604  Hebron 

78  Waukegan 

115  Hainesville 

127  Milburn 

298  Wauconda 

492  Libertyville 

676  Highland  Park... 


Kane ist  and  3d  Mondays. 

"      1st  and  3d  Tuesdays. 

"       2d  and  4th  Fridays. 

"      ist  and  3d  Wednesdays. 

"      ist  and  3d  Fridays. 

"      2d  and  4th  Wednesdays. 

"      2d  and  4th  Saturdays. 

"      ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 

"      1st  and  3d  Saturdays. 

"      ist  and  3d  Tuesdays. 

"      ist  and  3d  Wednesdays. 

"      ist  and  3d  Thursdays. 

McHenry ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 

"  ist  and  3d  Wednesdays. 

"  Monday   on    or    before,    and    ad 

Monday  after,  full  moon. 

"  Sat.  on  or  before  F.  M.,  and  each 

alternate  Sat.  thereafter. 

"  2d  and  4th  Thursdavs. 

"  ist  and  3d  Wednesdays. 

"  1st  and  3d  Saturdays. 

"  ist  and  3d  Mondays. 

"  2d  and  4th  Tuesdays. 

"  Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

"  1st  and  3d  Wednesdays. 

Lake ist  and  3d  Mondays. 

"      Saturday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

"      Thursday  on  or  before  F.  M.,  and 

two  weeks  thereafter. 

"       1st  and  3d  Thursdays. 

"       2d  and  4th  Saturdays. 

"      ist  and  3d  Tuesdays. 


156 


APPENDIX. 


LODGES    BY    DISTRICT Coiltlmied. 


FIFTH  DISTRICT. 
Jacob  Krohn,  Freeport,  D.  D.  G.  M. 
The  Counties  of  Boone,  Winnebago  and  Stephenson. 


LOCATION. 


STATED    MEETINGS. 


60 

S7S 
74 

ist  and  3d  Mondays. 
2d  and  4lh  Wednesdays. 
Friday    on    or   before  F.  M., 
every  two  weeks  thereafter. 
Tuesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 
ist  and  3d  Thursdays. 
2d  and  4th  Mondays, 
ist  and  3d  Fridays. 
2d  and  4th  Fridays, 
ist  and  3d  Thursdays.  ' 
2d  and  4th  Thursdays, 
ist  and  3d  Thursdays. 
1st  and  3d  Thursdays, 
ist  and  3d  Mondays, 
ist  and  3d  Fridays. 
Wednesday  before  F.  M. 
ist  and  3d  Fridays, 
ist  Monday, 
ist  and  3d  Thursdays. 

Capron  

Winnebago  .  . . 

Rnsroe 

Rockford 

A.  W.   Rawson . . 

Star  in  the  East.. 
Cherry  Valley . . . 

102  Rockford 

145  Pecatonica    

166  Rockford 

173'Cherry  Valley 

302  Diirnnd 

Stephenson. 

E.  F.  W.Ellis... 

Winnebago 

Excelsior 

633 

745 
97 
170 

381 
174 
414 

564 
687 

Rockford 

Winnebago 

Freeport 

M.  R.  Thompson 

11 

Evening  Star 

Davis 

• 

Orangeville 

Orangeville 

SIXTH  DISTRICT. 

Robert  M.  A.  Hawk,  Mt.  Carroll,  D.  D.  G.  M. 

The  Counties  of  JoDaviess,  Carroll  and  Whiteside. 


Kavanaugh 

3« 

m 

300 
491 

S48 
554 

iSS 

3tS 
385 
423 
490 
SS9 

189 
293 
321 

412 
S66 
612 
667 
750 

Elizabeth 

Jo  Daviess  .... 
Carroll....  .... 

Whiteside 

1st  and  3d  Saturdays, 
ist  and  3d  Fridays, 
ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 
1st  and  3d  Fridays, 
ist  and  3d  Saturdays, 
ist  and  3d  Fridays. 
Thursday  on  or  before  F.  M. 
Tuesday   on    or  before  F.  M. 

every  two  weeks  thereafter 
ist  and  3d  Tuesdays. 
1st  and  3d  Thursdays. 
1st  and  3d  Thursdays, 
ist  and  3d  Mondays. 
Tuesday   before   F.  M.,  and  < 

two  weeks  thereafter. 
Monday  on  or  before  F.  M. 
1st  and  3d  Saturdays. 
Monday  on  or  before  F.  AL 

two  weeks  thereafter. 
Friday  after  F.  M. 
Saturday  on  or  before  F.  M, 
ist  and  3d  Fridays. 
Saturday  on  or  before  F.  M. 
2d  and  4th  Saturdays. 

Jo  Daviess 

Dunleith 

Apple  River 

Plum  River 

Mt.  Carroll 

Milledgeville 

Apple  River 

Plum  River 

Cyrus 

Milledgeville . 

Mississippi 

Lanark 

and 

Lanark 

ivery 

Fulton  City 

Prophetstown     . . 

Fulton 

Prophetstown 

Bollen 

Spring  Hill 

Albany 

Erie 

Erie 

Lyndon 

Lyndon 

LODGES    BY    DISTRICT. 


157 


LODGES  BY  DISTRICT — Continued. 

SEVENTH  DISTRICT. 

John  V.  Thomas,  Dixon,  D.  D.  G.  M. 

The  Counties  of  Ogle,  Lee  and  DeKalb. 


LODGES. 

g 
2 

LOC.VTIOX.                        COUNTY. 

1 

ST.\TF.D    MEETINGS. 

Samuel  H   Davis. 

274 
420 

505 
^'2 
146 
17S 
264 
2S2 

349 

134 
144 

205 

283 

288 
301 
320 
374 

402 
646 

ist  and  3d  Mondays. 

Every  I'hursday. 

Wednesday  on  "or  before  F.  M. 

Thursday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

W'ednescfay  on  or  before  F'.  M. 

Saturday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

1st  Monday. 

Thursday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

Friday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

ist  and  3d  Mondays. 

2d  and  4th  Saturdays. 

Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

Tuesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

1st  and  3d  Saturdays. 

Friday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

ist  and  3d  ^Vednesdays. 

Thursday  on  or  before  F.  M.,  and 

two  v^feeks  thereafter. 
2d  and  4th  Fridays. 
Wednesday  before  F.  M. 
ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 
1st  Thursday. 
Tuesday   on  or  before  F.  M.,  and 

every  two  weeks  thereafter. 
Thursday  on  or  before  F.  M. 
ist  and  3d  Mondays. 

Mystic  Tie 

Horicon 

Polo "         

Rochelle "       

Oregon 

Meridian  Sun. . .  . 

White  Rock "       

Friendship 

Lee  Centre 

Illinois  Central 
Franklin  Grove.. 

Brooklvn 

Sublette 

Lee  Center "       

Amboy "       

Franklin  Grove "      

Malugir.  Grove.    ..      "       

Sublette '     "      

Ashton "       

Svcamore   

DeKalb 

Corinlhian 

Meteor 

Sycamore   iDcKalb 

DeKalb "          

West  Paw  Paw "          

Sandwich "          

Hincklev 

Malta...' 

Hincklev "          

Malta..: "          

Shabbona  Grove. .  .          "          

Kingston 1         "          

Somonauk   "          

Shabbona 

Kishwaukee    .... 
Somonauk 

EIGHTH  DISTRICT. 

John  Gray,  Joliet,  D.  D.  G.  M. 

The  Counties  of  Kendall,  DuPage,  Will  and  Grundj. 


303 

428 

47' 
S49 

269 

649 
42 

17s 
208 
262 
536 
538 
636 
704 
124 
528 
573 
757 

1st  and  3d  W^ednesdays. 
Every  alternate  Friday. 
1st  and  3d  Saturdays. 
2d  and  4th  Thui-sdays. 
2d  and  4th  Thursdays. 
Tuesday  before  and  after  F". 
1st  and  3d  Wednesdays, 
ist  and  3d  Saturdays, 
ist  and  3d  Thursdays, 
ist  and  3d  Fridays. 
1st  and  3d  Tuesdays. 
2d  and  4th  Wednesdays. 
ist  and  3d  Tuesdays, 
ist  and  3d  Tuesdays, 
ist  and  3d  Thursdays. 
2d  and  4th  Saturdays. 
1st  and  3d  Thursdays, 
ist,  3d  and  5th  Tuesdays. 
Every  alternate  Wednesday 
2d  and  4th  Saturdays. 
2d  and  4th  Saturdays. 

Newark 

Euclid 

Newark. "        

\  aperville DuPage 

M. 

Amity 

Turner " 

Mt.  Joliet 

Johet Will    

Wilmington 

Wilmington "       

Plainfield 

Plainfield "       

Lockport 

Cedar 

Morns Grundy 

'5S 


APPENDIX. 


..ODGES   BY   DISTRICT — Continued. 

NINTH  DISTRICT. 

William  T.  Mason,  LaSalle,  D.  D.  G.  M. 

The  Counties  of  LaSalle  and  Livingston. 


LOCATION. 


STATKD    MEETINGS. 


St.John's !  13I 

Occidental j  40 

Acacia •  67 

Mendota ,  176 

Meridian '  1S3' 

Freedom     194 

Cement 304J 

Tonica 364] 

Wallham 3S4! 

Shiloh 397 

Marseilles 417: 

Rutland 477 

Seneca 532 

Humboldt 555 

Leland i  558, 

Lostant 597 

Streator     607 

Pontiac 294 

Tarbolton 3,Si 

Livingston 371 

Odell \  401 

Chatsworth 539 

Long  Point i  552, 

Forrest !  614 

Sullivan  Centre.  .:  73S, 

Cornell !  7S3 


Peru 

Ottawa 

LaSalle 

Mendota 

EarlviUe 

Freedom 

Utica 

Tonica 

Waltliam 

Troy  (jrove 

Marseilles 

Rutland 

Seneca  

Ottawa 

Leland 

Lostant ! 

Streator [ 

Pontiac L 

F"airbury 

D  wight 

Odell 

Chatsworth  . 

Long  Point. ... 

Forrest 

Sullivan  Centre 
Cornell 


aSalle ist  and  3d  Thursdays. 

1st  and  3d  Mondays. 

Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

2d  and  4th  Tuesdays. 

1st  and  3d  Wednesdays. 

Saturday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

Tuesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 

Monday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

Thursday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

2d  and  i|th  Saturdays. 

2d  and  4th  Wednesdays. 

ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 

2d  and  4th  Fridays. 

isl  and  3d  Wednesdays. 

2d'and  4th  Saturdays. 

ist,  3d  and  5th  Wednesdays, 
ivingston  ....  ist  and  3d  Tuesdays. 

....  Thursday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

. . .  .jist  and  3d  Mondays. 

. . . .  i2d  and  4th  Saturdays. 

. . .  .list  and  3d  Fridays. 

....  ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 

....  ist  and  3d  Mondays. 

....  2d  Saturday. 

....  ist  and  3d  Fridays. 


TENTH    DISTRICT. 
Geo.  Crossley,  Princeton,  D.  D.  G.  M. 
The  Counties  of  Bureau,  Putnam,  Marshall  and  Stark. 


Bureau 

Ames 

112 
142 

23  > 

270 

383 

395 
399 
435 

587 

655 

722 

70 

61 
119 
344 
41S 
441 
720 

93 
479 
501 
S'4 

Bureau 

Putnam 

Marshal 

Stark 

2d  and  4th  Tuesdays. 

ist  Tuesday. 

2d  and  4th  Saturdays. 

Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

Friday   on   or  before    F.  M.,  ar 

two  weeks  thereafter. 
Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  M.  _ 
2d  and  4th  Tuesdays. 
2d  and  4th  Wednesdays. 
1st  and  3d  Fridays, 
ist  and  3d  Tuesdays. 
2d  and  4th  Saturdays, 
ist  and  3d  Wednesdays. 
2d  and  4th  Wednesdays. 
ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 
2d  Monday. 
2d  and  4th  Tuesdays. 
1st  and  3d  Tuesdays. 
Wednesdays  on  or  before  F.  M. 
ist  and  3d  Wednesdays. 
2d  and  4th  Fridays. 
Saturday  on  or  before  F.  M. 
Thursday  on  or  before  F.  M. 
Saturday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

Sheffield 

Levi  Lusk 

LaMoille 

H.  G.  Reynolds. 

d 

Milo            

Buda 

Neponset 

Sharon  

Princeton 

Yorktown 

Tiskilwa   

Magnolia 

il 

w 

Lawn  Ridge 

Sparland  

Varna 

Lawn  Ridge 

Wyoming 

,,      

Bradford 

_ 

LODGES    BY    DISTRICT. 


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T.ODGES  BY   DISTRICT — Continued. 


ELEVENTH  DISTRICT. 

F'rank   G.   VVelton,  Cambridge,  D.  D.  G.  M. 

The  Counties  of  Henry,  Rock  Island  and  Mercer. 


STATED    MEETINGS. 


Cambridge j     49 

Stewart |     93 

Kewanee 159 

Galva i  243 

Annawan 433 

WoodhuU  502 

Sherman j  S3S 

Clement 6S0 

Trio 57 

Kureka 6 

Keener  ..      223 

Doric 319 

Philo 436 

Andalusia ,  516 

Cordova 543 

Valley   j  547 

Illinois  City 679 

New  Boston |     59 

Robert  Burns 1  113 

Aledo I  252I 

Oxford   !  367 

Viola ■■•^577 

Pre-emption ,  755 


Cambridge Henry 'ist  and  3d  Thursdays. 


Geneseo  .. 
Kewanee  . 

Galva 

Annawan . 
WoodhuU  . 
Orion  ..... 
Cleveland. 

Rock  Island Rock  Island. 

Milan 

Edginf^ton " 

Moline " 

Port  liyron " 

Andalusia " 

Cordova " 

Coal  Valley |  " 

Illinois  City 


Friday  before  full  moon. 
1st  and  3d  Tuesdays, 
ist  and  3d  Tuesdays. 
Friday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Friday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Wednesday  before  full  moon. 
Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon, 
ist  Thursday, 
ist  and  3d  Fridays. 
Wednesday  before  full  moon, 
ist  and  3d  Thursdays. 
Thursday  before  full  moon. 
Tuesday  before  full  moon. 
Friday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Friday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Monday  before  full  moon. 


New  Boston Mercer    ist  Saturday  before  new  and  f.m. 


Keithsburg 

Aledo 

New  Windsor 

Viola 

Pre-emption  .. 


Friday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
[Thursday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 


TWELFIH   DISTRICT 

W.   H.   H.  Rader,  Huntsville,  D.  D.  G.  M. 

The  Counties  of  McDonough,|FuIton  and  Schuyler. 


Macomb 

Blandinsville  .... 

Golden  Gate 

T.J.  Pickett 

Industry 

17  Macomb 

233  Blandinsville 

2:l8  Prairie  City 

307!Bushnell ....... 

McDonough  . . . 
Fulton 

ist  Friday. 
1st  and  3d  Tuesdays. 
1st  Tuesday. 

Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Friday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  alter  full  moon. 
Friday  on  or  after  full  moon,  and 

two  weeks  thereafter. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon, 
ist  Monday. 

Thursday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Monday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Monday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Bardolph 

Milan 

617  Good  Hope 

Lewistown 

104  Lewistown  

Farmington 

IQ3  Farmington 

Avon  Harmony.. 

Cuba 

534  Cuba 

Huntsville 

465iHuntsville 

i6o 


APPENDIX. 


LODGES  BY   DISTRICT — Continued. 

THIRTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Rowley  Page,  Galesburg,  D.  D.  G.  M. 

The  Counties  of  Knox,  Warren  and  Henderson. 


Hiram 

Knoxville 

Pacific 

Alpha  

Galesburg    

Vesper 

Abingdon   

Wataga 

Altona 

Oneida 

Yates  City 

Maquon 

Rio I 

Monmouth 

Youngstown. . . .  . 
Abraham  Lincoln; 

RoseviUe i 

Trinity 

Berwick ; 

Alexandria , 

Oquawka j 

Fortitude 


LOCATION. 


66!Knoxville. 


STATED    MEETINGS. 


26' Henderson Knox '. . . .  iThursday  on  or  before  full  moon. 


400 

i55!Galesburg  . 

372) 

SS4:  "         •  ■ 

1S5  Abingdon. . 

2QI '  A'ataga. . . . 

330  Altona 

337|Oneida  . . . . 
448I Yates  City. 

530' Maquon     .. 
6S5  Rio 


Saturday  on   or  before  f.  m.,  and 

two  weeks  thereafter. 
ist  and  3d  Thursdays. 
1st  and  3d  Fridays, 
istand  3d  Thursdays. 
2d  and  4th   W  ednesdays. 
Every  alternate  Tuesday. 
list  and  3d  Wednesdays, 
ist  and  3d  Mondays. 
1st  and  3d  P"ridays. 
Thursday  on  or  before   f.  m.,  and 

two  weeks  thereafter. 
tst  and  3d  Fridays. 
Wednesday  on  orbeforefull  moon. 


37  Monmouth  Warren ist  and  3d  Tuesdays. 


387  Youngstown. 
51S  Kirkwood. 
519  Roseville  . . 
561  Monmouth. 
61Q  Cameron  . . 
702  Alexis    .... 

123  Oquawka Henderson 

638  Sagetown " 


2d  and  4th  Saturdays. 
2d  and  4th  Tuesdays. 
1st  and  3d  Fridays. 
2d  and  4th  Thursdays. 
2d  and  4th  Tuesdays. 
Friday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Momlay  on   or  before   full  moon, 
I     and  two  weeks  thereafter. 


FOURTEENTH  DISTRICT. 
W.  H.  Eastman,  Peoria,  D.  D.  G.  M. 
The  Counties  of  Peoria,  Woodford  and  Tazewell. 


Peoria 

Temple 

Illinois 

Schiller 

Lancaster 

Geo.  Washington 

Princeville 

Horeb 

Phenix 

Alta 

Metamora 

El  Paso 

Rob  Morris 

W.  C.  Hobbs. 

Washburn 

Pekin 

Empire 

Taylor 

Mackinaw 

Delavan 

Groveland 

Tremont 

Hopedale 

Comet  .. . 


Peoria Mondaj'  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Last  Wednesday. 

2d  and  4th  Tuesdays. 

Last  Friday. 

Friday  before  full  moon. 

Monday  before  lull  moon,  and  two 
weeks  thereafter. 

ist  Tuesday. 

Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Thursday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Woodford ist  Monday. 

Thursday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

ist  and  3d  \\  ednesdays. 

Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Tazewell ist  and  3d  Tuesdays. 

1st  and  3d  Thursdays. 

Friday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Monday  on  or  before  lull  moon. 

2d  and  4th  Fridays. 

Saturda5"  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Monday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

ist  and  3d  Thursdays. 

Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 


LODGES  BY    DISTRICT. 


l6l 


LODGES  BY  DISTRICT — Continued. 

FIFTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

John  H.  Tyler,  DeWitt,  D.  D.  G.  M. 

The  Counties  of  McLean,  DeWitt  and  Ford. 


LOCATION. 


STATED    MEETINGS. 


Bloorninton.  . . 
Wade  Barney. 

Mozart 

LeRoy 

Hey  worth 

Chenoa 

Cheney's  Grove 

McLean 

Lexington 

Towanda 

Shirley 

Allin 

Mosaic 

Bcthesda 

Normal 

Arrowsmith.  . . . 

Danvers 

DeWitt 

Wayne 

Amon 

Farmer  City 

Weldon 

Paxton 

Piper 


I                                        I  I 

43  Bloomington McLean ist  Thursday. 

Si2  "  "  4th  Tuesday. 

656  "  "  2d  and  4th  Tuesdays. 

221  Leroy "  Tuesday  before  full  moon. 

251  Heyworth  '  "  Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon, 


292  Chenoa 
46S  Saybrook  . 
469  McLean  .  . 
4S2  Lexington 


542  Towanda I  " 

5S2  Shirley ^  " 

605  Stanford |  " 

62S  Hudson " 

661  Potosi " 

673|Normal " 

737!  Arrowsmith " 

742'Danvers " 

84lClinton DeWitt. 

172  VVaynesville " 

261  DeWitt "      . 

710  Farmer  City ,  " 

746  Weldon " 

416  Paxton Ford. . . . 

60S  Piper  City i  "     .... 


2d  and  4th  Wednesdays. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
2d  and  4th  Mondays. 
Thursday  on  or  before  full  moon, 

and  two  weeks  thereafter. 
Friday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
1st  and  3d  Saturdays. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Friday  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
2d  and  4th  Mondays. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  nearest  full  moon. 
Friday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Monday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full   moon. 
2d  and  4th  Tuesdays. 
1st  and  3d  Thursdays. 


SIXTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Haswell  D.  Clarke,  Kankakee,  D.  D.  G.  M. 

The  Counties  of  Kankakee,  Iroquois  and  Vermilion. 


Aroma. 


Kankakee 

Momence 

Norton 

Grant  Park 

Milford 

Onarga 

Abraham  Jonas.. 

Chebanse 

Watseka 

O.  H.  Miner 

Gilman 

Sheldon 

Buckley 

Clifton 

Olive  Branch  . . . . 

Russell 

Vermilion    

Catlin 

Marvsville 

Fossville 

Fairmount 

Ridge  Farm 

Star 

Newtown 

Rankin 


Waldron Kankakee Saturday   on   or  before  full  moon 

and  2  weeks  thereafter. 


Kaukakee  . 
Momence.  . 
Caberey.  . . 
Grant  Park 


ist  and  3d  Tuesdays, 
ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
2d  and  4th  Saturdays. 


Milford Iroquois ist  and  3d  Thursdays 


Onarga  . 
Oakalla. . 
Chebanse 
Watseka. , 
Iroquois.  . 
Gilman  . . , 
Sheldon... 
Buckley.  . 
Clifton^ 


M. 


ist  and  3d  Saturdays, 
ist  and  3d  Mondays. 
Wednesday  on  or  before  F. 
ist  and  3d  Wednesdays. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
2d  and  4th  Fridays. 
1st  and  3d  Tuesdays. 
Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 
Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 


Danville I  Vermilion 1st  and  3d  Tuesdays. 


Georgetown. 

Indianola 

Catlin 

Marysville.    . 

RossviUe 

Fairmount  — 
Ridge  Farm. 
Hoopeston  . . 

Pilot 

Rankin 


ist  and  3d  Tuesdays. 

1st  and  3d  Saturdays. 
.  2d  and  4th  Saturdays. 
.  Saturday  on  or  before  full   moon. 
.  1st  and  3d  Saturdays. 

2d  and  4th  Thursdays. 

ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 

2d  and  4th  Saturdays. 
.  2d  and  4th  Wednesdays. 

ist  and  3d  Mondays. 


* 


21 


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APPENDIX. 


LODGES    BY    DISTRICT Co7ltinucd. 

SEVENTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

George  Scroggs,  Champaign,  D.  D.  G.  M. 

The  Counties  of  Champaign,  Douglas,  Edgar  and  Coles. 


STATED    MEETINGS. 


Urhana [  IS7  Urbana Champaign 

Homer i  igg  Homer 

Mahomet '  220  Mahomet " 

Western  Star \  240  Champaign " 

Sidney 347  Sidney " 

Tolorio 301  Tolono 

Rantoul 470  Rantoul " 

J.R.Gorin 537  Sadorus " 

Pera 574  Ludlow " 

Centennial 747  Philo 

Ogden 7^4  Ogden "' 

Tuscola 332  Tuscola Douglas 2d  and  4th  Thursdays. 

Areola ^66  Areola '■      Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Newman!.!'. ^egNewman "       Saturday  on    or  before  full   moon 

I  '     and  2  wetks  thereafter. 

Camargo ,  440  Camargo "      Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

Prairie '     77  Paris Edgar Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 


, .  ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 

,  .  Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

. .  ist  and  3d  Mondays. 

.    2d  and  4th  Mondays. 

. .  Thursday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

. .  ist  and  3d  Tuesdays. 

•    Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

. .  Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

. .  ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 

. .  ist  and  3d  Wednesdays. 

.  .  Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 


Paris 268 

Bloomfield i4SChrisman. 

Grandvie^v igSDudley... 

Kansas 280  Kansas  .. , 

Stratton 40S  Vermilion 

Elbridge 579  Elbridge  . 

Scott  Land 743  Scott  Land 


Thursday  on  or  before  full    moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full   moon. 
Tuesday-  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  ]M. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  after  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  after  full  moon. 


Charleston 35  Charleston Coles Tuesday  on  or  before  full   moon 


Wabash 170  Etna. 

Muddy  Point 1396'     "     

Oakland 2iq  Oakland. 

Mattoon j  26oMattoon. 

Circle 707         " 

Ashmore 1  390  Ashmore 


Elwood 589  Humboldt 


Miles  Hart 595  Paradise. 

Hutton i  egS'Hutton  .. 


Friday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Friday  on  or  before  full  moon, 
ist  ani-i  3d  Mondays. 
ist  and  3d  Wednesdays. 
Monday    on    or   before   full  moon 

and  2  weeks  thereafter. 
Saturday   on    or   before  full  moon 

and  2  weeks  thereafter. 
Wednesday  on  or  before  full  moon 
Wednesday  on  orbefore  full  moon 


EIGHTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

A.  A.  Murray,  Decatur,  D.  D.  G.  M. 

The  Counties  of  Piatt,  Moultrie,  Macon  and  Logan. 


Fraternal 58 

Bement 365 

Cerro  Gordo 600 

Centre  Star 651 

Moultrie   iSi 

Loyington 22S 

Macon 

Ionic I  312 

Summit 43 

Maroa  454 

South  Macon 1  467 

Blue  Mound 682 

Mt   Pulaski 87 

Atlanta i6j 

Lincoln 2:0 

Logan I  480 

Elkhart j  545 

New  Holland 741 


Monticello Piatt [Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Bement "      |Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Cerro  Gordo "       'Friday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Mackyille "       Monday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Sullivan Moultrie Monday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Lovington "  Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Decatur Macon Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

"  I     "  Monday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Harristovvn j     "  Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Maroa    '     "  [Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Macon "  Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Blue  Mound "  Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Mt.  Pulaski Logan Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 


.Atlanta  , 
Lincoln. 


Elkhart 

New  Holland. 


ist  and  3d  Mondays 

ist  and  3d  Tuesdays,  June  24th  and 

Dec.  27th. 
2d  Tuesday. 

Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
jSaturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 


LODGES    BY    DISTRICT. 


163 


LODGES  BY  DISTRICT — Continued. 

NINETEENTH  DISTRICT. 

John  Bennett,  Petersburg,  D.  D.  G.  M, 

The  Counties  of  Mason,  Menard,  Sangamon  and  Cass. 


LOCATION. 


STATED  MEETINGS. 


Havana 88 

Mason  City 403 

Manito 476 

Bath 494 

San  Jose 645 

Clinton 19 

Greenvievv 653 

Spring^field 4 

Central 71 

Tyrian 3331 

St.  Paul 500, 

Lavely 203 

Mechanicsburg..  2991 

Ark  and  Anchor.  354] 

Loami 450 

Illiopolis 5211 

Chatham I  523 

Dawson '  556 

Rochester 635 

Pawnee 675 

Pleasant  Plains. .  700 

Cass 23 

Virginia 544 

ChandlerviUe.  . .  .  724 


Havana Mason 

Mason  City '         " 

Manito " 

Bath 

San  Jose " 

Petersburg Menard 

Greenview " 

Springfield Sangam 


WilHamsville ]  " 

Mechanicsburg '  " 

Auburn " 

Loami " 

Illiopolis " 

Chatham " 

Dawson " 

Rochester " 

Pawnee " 

Pleasant  Plains.  .. .  " 

Beardstown Cass. 

^'irginia " 

ChandlerviUe ,  " 


. .  1st  Monday. 

.  .2d  and  4th  T\iesdays. 

. .  1st  and  3d  ^Vednesdavs. 

. .  1st  Saturday. 

. .  ist  and  3d  Thursdays. 

. .  Saturday  on  or  before  full   moon, 

June  24th  and  Dec  27th. 
. .  Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

on 1st  Monday. 

. .  2d  Monday. 

..  3d  Monday. 

. .  2d  Tuesday. 

..  Saturday  after  full  moon. 

. .  Thursday  before  full  moon. 

. .  Friday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

. .  Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

. .  1st  Saturday. 

..Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

.  .Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

..  Wed.  on  or  before  full  moon. 

..Tuesday'  on  or  before  full  moon. 

. .  Wed.  on  or  before  full  moon. 

. .  ist  and  3d  Mondays. 

..  1st  and  3d  Saturdays. 

. .  2d  and  4th  Tuesdays. 


TWENTIETH  DISTRICT. 
Samuel  M.  Martin,  Jacksonville,  D.  D.  G.  M. 
The  Counties  of  Brown,  Morgan,  Scott  and  Pike. 


Hardin 44I 

Versailles  '  108 

Hendrick :  430 

Harmony 3 

Jacksonville ,  570 

Benevolent 52 

Waverly iiS 

N.  D.  Morse 346 

Gill 382 

Murrayville 432 

AVadley 616 

Naples   68 

Winchester 105 

Manchester 229 

Exeter 424 

B  arry 34 

Griggsville 4s 

Pittsfield 56 

Perry 95 

New  Salem 21S 

Milton 275 

Kinderhook 353 

Chambersburg 373 

El  Dara 3SS 

New  Hartford...  453 

Pleasant  Hill 565 

Time 569 


164 


APPENDIX. 


LODGES  BY  DISTRICT — Continued. 


TWENTY-FIRST    DISTRICT. 

James  Mayor,  LaHarpe,  D.  D.  G.  M. 
The  Counties  of  Adams  and  Hancock. 


LOCATION. 


STATED    MEETINGS. 


Bodley  . .. . 
Herman  . . . 
Quincy  . . . . 

Luce 

Lambert .. . 
Marcelline  . 

Lima 

Clayton. . . . 
Columbus  .. 
Kingston  . . 
LaPrairie  . 
Beniamin. . 
Payson  . . . . 


ijQuincy 


Liberty j  380J 

Mendon 1  449 

Adams  529 

Fowler I  599 

Hancock ]     20 

Reclamation |     S4 

Herrick 1  193 

LaHarpe 19=; 

Dallas  City '  235 

Black  Hawk i  23S 

WarsaAv 257 

Plymouth 286 

Di'lls 29s 

J.  L.  Anderson  .  .1  318 

Denver ■  464 

Bowen 4S6 

Basco ,  61S 

Burnside 1  683 

Elvaston !  715 


Adams 


ist  and  3d  Mondays. 

2d  and  4th  Wednesdays. 

istand  3d  Fridays. 

ist  and  3d  Thursdays. 

1st  and  3d  Tuesdays. 

Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Wed.  on  or  before  full  moon. 

ist  Monday.  ■ 

Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

ist  and  3d  Tuesdays.. 

Tuesday  on   or  before  full  moon, 
and  2  weeks  thereafter. 

Liberty "         Thursday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Mendon "        Saturdaj'  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Stone's  Prairie "         Thursday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Fowler....    j       "        Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Carthage Hancock .Mondav  on  or  before  full  moon. 


Marcelline  . . 

Limr.    

Clayton 

Coatsburg  . . 
Fairweather 
LaPrairie. . . 
Camp  Point. 
Payson 


Nauvoo 

Pontoosuc 

LaHarpe 

Dallas  City 

Hamilton 

Warsaw 

Plymouth 

Hickory    Ridge. 

Augusta 

Denver 

Bowensburg  . . . . 

Basco 

Burnside  

Elvaston 


Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Wed.  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  before  lull  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Friday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  after  full  moon. 
Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 


LODGES    BY    DISTRICT. 


^65 


LODGES  BY  DISTRICT — Continued. 

TWENTY-SECOND  DISTRICT. 

A.   L.  ViRDEN,  Virden,  D.  D.  G.  M. 

The  Counties  of  Calhoun,  Greene,  Jersey  and  Macoupin. 


LOCATION. 


COUNTIES. 


Carrollton 

Whitehall 

Fayette 

Greenfield 

King  Solomons 

Sheffield 

Fidelity' 

Full  Moon 

Jerseyville   

Hamilton 

Fieldon 

Mt.  Nebo 

Bunker  Hill  ... 

Virden  

Girard 

Staunton 

Shipman 

Gillespie 

Hibbard 

Scottville 

Chesterfield 

Plainview  

Palmyra 

Dorchester 


Carrollton Greene  . 

Whitehall " 

Fayette " 

Greenfield " 

Kane " 

Rockbridge " 

Fidelity   Jersey  ■ . 

Grafton " 

Jersevville " 

Otterville " 

Fieldon " 

Carlinville Macoupi 


Bunker  Hill 

Virden   

Girard 


Staunton. . . . 
Shipman  ... 
Gillespie  ... 
Brighton  . . . 
Scottville  . .. 
Chesterfield  . 
Plainview. . . 
Palmyra  . . . . 
Dorchester  . 


ST.ATED    MEETINGS. 


.  ist  and  3d  Mondays. 

.  Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

.  Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

.  P~riday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

. iSaturday  on  or  before  full  moon, 

and  2d  Saturday  thereafter. 
.Thursday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
.'Wed.  on  or  before  full  moon. 
.  iSaturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

'Monday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
.Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

(Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Monday  on  or  before  F.  M.,  and 
every  two  weeks  thereafter. 

Thursday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Wed.  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Monday  on   or  before   full  moon, 
and  two  weeks  thereafter. 

Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Friday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Saturday  on  or  after  full  moon. 

Monday  on  or  belore  full  moon. 

Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Wed.  on  or  before  full  moon. 


Mt.  Moriah . . 
Charter  Oak 
Litchfield  . . . 
Donnelson  .. 

Irving 

Nokomis 

Butler 

Walsliville  . . 

Fillmore 

Raymond 

Mound 

Pana 


Centre 

Kedron 

Bromwell 

Fisher 

Locust 

Blueville 

Morrisonville . . . . 


Jackson  .. 
Moweaqua 
Windsor. . . 


Oconee 

Tower  Hill  , 
Cold  Spring 

Sigel , 

Joppa 


TWENTY  THIRD  DISTRICT. 

Wm.  T.  Vandeveer,  Taylorville,  D.  D.  G.  M. 

The  Counties  of  Montgomery,  Christian  and  Shelby. 


Thursday  on  or  before  full  moon, 
ist  and  3d  Thursdays. 
2d  and  4th  Thursdavs. 
Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
1st  and  3d  Tuesdays. 
Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  M, 
2d  and  4th  Tuesdays. 
.Thursday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Mond.ay  on  or  before  full  moon. 
ist  and  3d  Thursdays. 

Taylorville Christian ist  Saturday  and  3d  Tuesday. 

"  .,  [Thursday   before    full    moon    and 

every  subsequent  two  weeks. 
,  2d  Wednesday. 
Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 
Saturday  on  or  after  full  moon. 
, .Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Thursday  before  full  moon. 
Saturday   on   or  before  full  moon 

and  two  weeks  thereafter. 

;  Shelbyville Shelby j  Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Tuesday   on    or   before    full  moon 

and  two  weeks  thereafter. 
^A  ednesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 
Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Thursday  on  or  before   full  moon. 
Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 
Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 


1 66 


APPENDIX. 


LODGES  BY  DISTRICT — Continue  I . 

TWENTY-FOURTH  DISTRICT. 

G.  H.  B    ToLLE,  Olney,  D.  D.  G.   M. 

The   Counties  of    Cumberland,   Clark,  Crawford,  Jasper,  Richland 

and  Lawrence. 


LOCATION. 


STATED    MEETINGS. 


Greenup. . . . 

Neoga 

Prairie  Citv. 
Hazel  Deli  . 


Marshall  . 
Westfield 
York 


Casey 

Darwin 

Clark 

New  Hope 

Dennison 

Hutsonville 

Robinson 

Oblong  City 

Crawford 

Hardinsville 

Newton 

Cooper 

Olney 

Noble 

Parkersburg 

Edward  Dobbins. 

S.  D.  Monroe 

Sumner 


Russellville. 
Bridgeport  . 


I2S, 
279 

S/S, 

580 

133 
163 
313 

442 

SSI 
603 
620 
736 
136 

250 

644 

666 

756 
216' 
489 

1401 

36^ 

509; 
164 
447,' 
334, 

348 
386, 


Greenup Cumberland 

Neofja " 

Majority  Point " 

Hazel  Dell 


Casev 


.Thursday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
.Thursday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
.  Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
.  Sat.    on   or    before  full  moon,  and 
two  weeks  thereafter. 

Marshall Clark Wed.  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Westfield 1     "       Thursday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

York I     "       Tuesday  on  or  before  full  and  new 

moon. 
Saurday  on   or  before   full    moon, 

and  20  Sat.  thereafter, 
ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
iist  Saturday. 

Hutsonyille Crawford JMon.  on  or  before  new  and  F.  M. 

Robinson j     "      Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Oblong  City I     "      iSaturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Annapolis !     "      Sat.  on  or  before  new  and  F.  M. 

Hardinsville \     "       Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Newton Jasper jSaturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 


Darwin 

MartinsyiUe 
Liyingston  . 
Dennison. 


Willow  Hill. 

Olney jRichland  . 

Noble I        " 

Parkersburg " 

Lawrenceville [Lawrence. 


Sumner. 


Russellyille. 
Bridgeport  . 


2d  and  4th  Saturdays 

Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Thursday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

2d  and  4th  Saturdays. 

Friday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon, 

and  two  weeks  thereafter. 
Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 
ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 


TWENTY-FIFTH  DISTRICT. 
Thomas  J.  Whitehead,  Odin,  D.  D.  G. 


M. 


The  Counties  of  Clay,  Effingham,  Fayette  and  Marion. 


Louisyille 1   196 

Flora 204 

Oskaloosa 485 

Clav  City 4SS 

lola 691 1 

Effingham   149 

Mason j  217: 

Edgewood j  4S4 

Delia |  S^^. 

Altamont 533 

Watson ,  602 

Mayo ;  664 

Temperance 16 

Ramsey 4"S 

Laclede i  601 

Greenland ;  665 

Marion !   13° 

Centralia '  201 

Kinmundy ,  ,iy8 

Odin I  503 

J.  D.  Moody I  510 

Patoka j  613 

Farina 671 


Louisville 

Flora 

Oskaloosa 
Clay  City... 
Larkinsburg 


Clay iThursday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

Wednesdays  on  or  before  F.  M. 
Tuesday  before  full  moon. 
Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 


Effingham Effingham ist  and  3d  Friday 


Centralia 
Kinmundy 

Odin 

luka 

Patoka 
Farina 


Mason 
Edgewood 
Elltottstown 
Altamont 

Watson 

Winterrowd  . 


Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturda)-  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  alter  full  moon, 
ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 
Saturday  on  or  before  F.  M. 


Vandalia    iFayette jMonday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

Ramsey "         Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Laclede I       "         Thursday  on  or  before  F.  ^L 

Greenland "         jFriday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Salem Marion jist  and  3d  Wednesdays. 


1st  and  3d  Fridays, 
ist  and  3d  Tuesda)'s. 
ist  and  3d  Thursdays. 
1st  and  3d  Fridays, 
ist  and  3d  Mondays. 
2d  and  4th  Saturdays. 


LODGES    BY    DISTRICT. 


167 


LODGES  BY   DISTRICT — Continued. 

TWENTY-SIXTH  DISTRICT. 

John  M.  Pearson,  Godfrey,  D.  D.  G.  M. 
The  Counties  of  Bond,   Clinton  and  Madison. 


Greenville |  24S 

Gordon 473 

Scott 79 

Trenton 109 

Franklin 25 

Piasa '  27 

Erwin    ;  315 

Edwardsville. . . .  ijQ 

Marine 35s 

Madison 560 

Highland "^Ss 

Troy 5SS 

Venice ,  6. 

Collinsville 712 


LOCATION. 

COUNTY. 

STATED    MEETINGS. 

Bond 

Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 
Friday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
ist  Monday. 

Thursday  on  or  before  F.  M. 
Saturday  before  F.  M. 

Pocahontas 

Carlyle 

Trenton 

Clinton 

Madison 



Upper  Alton 

Alton   

Edwardsville 

Marine 

New  Douglas 

Highland 

Troy 

Thursday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Every  Thursday. 
Saturday  on  or  before  F.  M. 
Friday  on   or  before   F.  M. 
Thursday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
2d  and  4th  Wednesdays, 
ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 
Tuesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

Collinsville    

TWENTY-SFA'ENTH  DISTRICT. 

James  Douglas,  Chester,  D.  D.  G.  M. 
The  Counties  of  St.  Clair,  Monroe  and  Randolph. 


St.  Clair I  24 

Archimedes 377I 

Lebanon no' 

Suinmerfield 343 

Douglas 361 

Bethalto 406 

Freeburg 41S 

East  St.  Louis.    .  504 

O'Fallon 576 

Columbia 474 

Chester 72 

Kaskaskia   S6 

Hope 162 

Red  Bud 427 

Alma 497 

Shiloh  Hill 1  69s 


Belleville |St.  Clair |ist  Monday. 

1st  Thursday. 

Lebanon 

Summerfield 
Mascoutah  . . 

Bethalto 

Freeburg 

East  St.  Loui 
O'Fallon  .... 

Columbia Monroe ist  Saturday 

Chester Randolph ist  and  3d  Saturdays 


Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Wed.  on  or  before  full  moon. 

ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 

Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

ist  and  3d  Thursdays. 

Wed.  on  or  before  full  moon. 


Ellis  Grove. 

Sparta 

Red  Bud  

Steel's  Mills 
Shiloh  Hill  .. 


ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 
S.iturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  after  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  after  full  moon. 
.Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 


i6S 


APPENDIX. 


LODGES  BY   DISTRICT — Continued. 


TWENTY-EIGHTH  DISTRICT. 

Edward  C.  Pace,  Ashley,  D.  D.  G.  M. 

The   Counties  of  Washington,   Jefferson,    Franklin,    Perry,  Jackson  and 
Williamson. 


LOCATION. 


STATED    MEETINGS. 


Washington. 
Clay 


Grant 

Dubois 

Irvington. . . 
Mt.  Vernon 


Jefferson 

Belle  Rive 

Rome 

Benton 

Frankfort 

Polar  Star 

Ewing 

Goode  

Akin 

Mitchell 

DuQuoin 

Shekinah 

DeSoto 

Makanda 

Murphysboro  .  . . . 

Lafayette 

Fellowship 

Blazing-  Star  . . . . 
Andrew  J  ackson. 
Herrin's  Prairie. 
Chapel  Hill 


ss 

153 

452 

624 

650 

31 


368! 
696 

7-^1 
64 
567 
652 

70s 
744 
749 

Ss 

234 

241 

2S7 

434 
49S 

6S7 
S9 
4SS 
4S7 
693 
7191 


Nashville |  Washington. 

Ashley " 

Richview " 

Dubois " 

Irvington 


..2d  and  4th  Wednesdays. 
..Monday    on    or   before  full    moon 

and  2  weeks  thereafter. 
..  ist  and  3d  Mondays. 
..  1st  and  3d  Saturdays. 
. .  1st  and  3d  Saturdays. 

Mt.  Vernon Jefferson Mon.  on  or  before  full    moon    and 

I     2  weeks  thereafter,  June  24   and 
Dec.  27. 

Opdyke I         "  Wednesday  on  or  before  F.  M. 

Belle  Rive j         "  Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Dix j         "  1st  and  3d  Tuesdays. 

Benton Franklin Saturday  on  or  before    full    moon. 

Frankfort !         "  Saturday  on  or  before  full    moon. 

Mulkeytown i         "  Saturday  on  or  after  full  moon. 

"  Saturday  on  or  after  full  moon. 

"  1st  Saturday. 

"  Thursday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Perry Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

"       Thursday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Jackson 'ist  and  3d  Fridays. 

Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Thursday  before  full  moon. 
Monday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Thursday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Friday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Friday  after  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 
Saturday  on  or  after  full  moon, 
ist  Saturday. 


Ewina 

Prosperity 

Akin 

Pinckneyville  . . . 

DuQuoin 

Carbondale 

DeSoto 

Makanda 

Murphysboro. 

Grand  Tower . 

Marion 

Crab  Orchard  . . . 

Corinth 

Herrin's   Prairie 
Wolf  Creek 


Williamson.  . . 


LODGES     BY    DISTRICT. 


169 


LODGES  BY  DISTRICT — Continued. 

TWENTY-NINTH  DISTRICT. 

James  I.  McClintock,  Carmi,  D.  D.  G.  M. 

The  Counties  of  Wayne,  Edwards,  Wabash,  White,  Hamilton,  Saline  and 

Gallatin. 


LOCATION. 


COUNTIES. 


STATED    MEETINGS. 


Fairfield 

Mt.  Erie 

Middleton 

Jeffersonville. . 
Johnsonville. . . 
Hermitage 

Mt.  Carmel. . .. 

Allendale 

Sheba , 

Carmi 

Burnt  Prairie  . , 
Enfield 

May . 

Polk  

Belle  City 

Tuscan 

Raleigh 

Harrisburg 

Stflne  Fort  ... 

Galatia 

Equality 

Warren 

New  Haven  . . 
Omaha 


2o6i  Fairfield Wayne 2d  and  4th  Saturdays. 

33ilMt.  Erie I         "      ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 

370'Long  Prairie "       ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 

460'JeffersonvilIe "       Wednesday  on  or  before  full  moon 

7i3ljolinsonville I         "      ist  and  3d  Mondays. 

356  Albion Edwards Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon, 

and  two  weeks  thereafter. 

239  Mt.  Carmel Wabash ist  and  3d  Tuesdays. 

752  Allendale "      2d  and  4th  Mondays. 

200  Grayville White 2d  and  4th  Mondays. 

272  Carmi "       ist  and  3d  Tuesdays. 

66S  Burnt  Prairie "       ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 

Enfield i         "       Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon, 

and  two  weeks  thereafter. 

Norris  City "       Thursday  on   or  before  full  moon, 

and  two  weeks  thereafter. 

McLeansboro 1  Hamilton Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Belle  Prairie \         "       ISaturday  on  or  after  full  moon. 


677 
718 

■37 

4S3 

630  Walpole 

liS'Raleigh  .. . 

325  Harrisburg 

495  Stone  Fort 

684 


"      [Thursday  on  or  before  lull  moon. 

Saline [Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

"      ist  and  3d  Saturdays. 

"       Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Galatia j         "       Saturday  after  full  moon. 

Equality Gallatin Saturday  on   or  before  full   moon 

and  two  weeks  thereafter. 

Shawneetown I         "       Tuesday  before  lull  moon. 

New  Haven !         "      Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Omaha "       Wed.  on  or  before  full  moon,  and 

each  alternate  Wed.  thereafter. 


THIRTIETH  DISTRICT. 

P.  W.  Barclay,  Cairo,  D.  D.  G.  M. 

The  Counties  of  Hardin,  Pope,   Massac,  Johnson,  Union,  Pulaski  and 

Alexander. 


Elizabeth 276 

Cave-in-Rock   ..    444 

Golconda 131 

New  Liberty  ....    317 

Eddyville 672 

Temple  Hill 701 

Metropolis 91 

Farmer's 232 

New  Columbia  .  .i  3361 

Vienna 150 

Saline |  339' 

Reynoldsburg.  ..j  419' 

Jonesboro 11 1 

Moscow I  4S7 

Cobden ,  466 

Anna 1  520 

Dongola  581 

Union.  . .    j  627 

Caledonia 47 


Villa  Ridge. 
Grand  Chain 
Cairo 


Elizabethtown Hardin Friday  on  or  after  full  moon. 

Cave-in-Rock ,,        Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Golconda Pope Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

New  Liberty "       Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Eddyville "       Saturday  on  or  after  full  moon. 

Temple   Hill "       Saturday  on  or  after  full  moon. 

Metropolis Massac ist  Monday. 

Pellonia "  Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

New  Columbia  ....        "        Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Vienna Johnson Tuesday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Goreville "  [Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Reynoldsburg...  "  Wed.    on  or  before  full  moon. 

Jonesboro Union Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon, 

Moscow I       "         Wed.  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Cobden "         Friday    on  or   before    full    moon, 

I  and  every  two  weeks  thereafter. 

Anna     "         Wed.  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Dongola !       "        Thursday  before  full  moon. 

Lick  Creek 1       "         Saturday  after  full  moon. 

North  Caledonia..  .Pulaski Thursday  be 'ore  full  moon. 

Villa  Ridge "         Saturday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Grand  Chain "        Monday  on  or  before  full  moon. 

Cairo 1  Alexander i2d  and  4th  Mondays. 


•22 


170 


APPENDIX. 


PROPOSED  AMENDMENTS  TO  THE  BY-LAWS. 


No.  I.  Amend  Section  2,  Article  13,  Part  Second  of  By-Laws,  by  adding: 
Each  member  of  said  committee  shall  respectively  make  a  private  verbal 
report  to  the  Worshipful  Master,  who,  at  the  proper  time,  shall  announce  to 
the  lodge,  only  the  degree  of  unanimity  of  the  committee,  and  the  nature  of 
the  report. 

D.  C.  Cregier. 

No.  2.  Amend  Section  i  of  Article  2,  Part  First  of  By-Laws,  by  adding: 
Atid  shall  be  conducted  as  follows,  viz  : 

1.  At  the  time  of  election  of  each  and  every  officer,  a  list  of  lodges  by 
number,  the  permanent  members  by  name  or  title,  and  the  Grand  Officers  by 
title,  shall  be  called  in  the  order  prescribed  by  Section  4,  of  Article  S,  of  the 
Constitution. 

2.  Said  call  shall  be  made  from  a  list  prepared  in  accordance  with  the 
provisions  of  Section  i,  Article  9,  Part  First,  of  By-Laws. 

3.  Upon  such  call,  each  representative,  member  and  Grand  Officer 
present,  shall  deposit  his  ballot,  marked  with  the  number  of  votes  they  are 
respectively  entitled  to. 

4.  Upon  such  announcement  the  votes  may  be  received,  and  the  number 
thereof  shall  at  the  same  time  be  duly  recorded  by  special  tellers,  upon 
suitable  tally  sheets,  said  votes  shall  be  credited  to  the  respective  lodge,  mem- 
ber, and  Grand  Officer  casting  the  same,  and  the  aggregate  number  thereof 
shall  correspond  with  the  call  list. 

5.  Said  record  of  votes  shall  be  filed  among  the  archives. 

John  O'Neill. 


PROPOSED    AMENDMENTS    TO    BY-LAWS.  l^I 


No.  3.  Strike  out  the  present  Section  15,  of  Article  9,  of  Part  First,  and 
insert  in  lieu  thereof  the  following: 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Committee  on  Printing  to  meet  at  the  office  of 
the  Grand  Secretary,  at  least  ninety  days  before  each  annual  session  of  the 
Grand  Lodge,  and  there  open  and  compute  all  bids  for  printing  for  this 
Grand  Lodge,  and  award  contracts  therefor  to  the  lowest  and  best  bidders. 

Printing  Committee, 


No.  4.  Add  to  Section  13,  Article  6,  Part  First:  Provided,  That  none  of 
the  details  of  Masonic  trials,  emanating  from  the  Committee  on  Appeals  and 
Grievances,  that  of  Petitions,  or  others,  whereby  the  name  of  the  accused  or 
the  offence  charged,  shall  be  published  in  the  printed  proceedings,  but  that 
the  Grand  Secretary  shall  number  such  cases,  giving  name  and  number  of 
lodge,  and  the  final  action  of  the  Grand  Lodge  had  thereon. 

Committee  on  Jurisprudence. 

No.  5.     Amend  Section  i  of  Article  25,  Part  Second,  of  the  By-Laws,  by 
striking  out  the  words  "Seventy-five,"  and  substituting  the  word  fifty. 

VV.  Bro.  Garver,  (633). 


172 


APPENDIX. 


REPRESENTATIVES 


OF   OTHER    GRAND    LODGES    IN    THE   GRAND    LODGE    OF    ILLINOIS. 


GRAND    LODGE. 


REPRESENTATIVES. 


RESIDENCE. 


Alabama 

Arkansas 

British  Columbia 

California 

Canada 

Colorado 

Connecticut 

Dakota 

Delaware 

District  ot  Columbia 

Florida 

Georgia 

Indiana ^ 

Indian  Territorj' ; 

Idaho i 

Iowa 

Kansas 

Kentucky 

Louisiana 

Manitoba 

Maine    

Maryland 

Michigan 

Minnesota 

Mississippi 

Missouri 

Montana 

Nebraska 

New  Hampshire 

New  J  ersey  

New  Alexico 

New  York 

Nevada 

North  Carolina 

Nova  Scotia 

Ohio  

Oregon    

Pennsylvania 

Quebec 

Rhode  Island 

South  Carolina 

Tennessee 

Texas  

Utah 

Vermont 

Virginia 

Washington 

West  Virginia 

Wisconsin 

Wyoming 

England  

Ireland 1 

Royal  York  and  Friendship, Prussia 

Grand  National  Mother  Lodge  ofi 

the  Three  Globes,  Berlin,  Prussia! 


James  A.  Hawley J  Dixon. 

John  Bennett |  Petersburg. 

Loyal  L.  ilunn i  Freeport. 

T   T.  Gurney ,  Chicago. 

Wiley  M.  Egan Chicago. 

James  A.  Hawley Dixon. 

Dewitt  C   Cregier 1  Chicago. 

Robt.  L.  McKinlay |  Paris. 

Dewitt  C.  Cregier |  Chicago. 

Orlin  H.  Miner Springfield. 

W.  J.  A.  DeLancey ,  Centralia. 

Dewitt  C.  Cregier ■[  Chicago. 

Charles  H.  Patton Mt.  Vernon. 

John  F.  Burrill Springfield. 

Joseph  Robhins Qtiincy. 

Harrison  Dills Payson. 

A.  A.  Glenn Mt.  Sterling. 

I.  A.  W.  Ruck Aurora. 

A.  A.  Glenn ISIt.  Sterling. 

Daniel  Wadsworth ;  Auburn. 

D.  A.  Cashman >  Chicago. 

Dewitt  C.  Cregier j  Chicago. 

William  Lavely i  Springfield. 

Dewitt  C.  Cregier Chicago. 

Jerome  R    Gorin Decatur. 

H    W.Hubbard Centralia. 

John  M.  Palmer Springfield. 

Henry  E.  Hamilton    Chicago. 

Ira  a'.  W.  Buck Aurora. 

Chas.  H.  Patton Mt.  Vernon. 

W.  B.  Alkn Aurora. 

John  C.  Smith Chicago. 

W.  A.  Stevens Chicago. 

Wm.  Floto Chicago. 

Orlin  H.  Miner     Springfield. 

Orlin  H.  Miner Springfield. 

John  M.  Pearson Godfrey. 

Dewitt  C.  Cregier (  hicago. 

James  A.  Hawlev Dixon. 

Chas.  H.  Patton .' Mt   Vernon. 

Haswell  C.  Clark Kankakee. 

Edward  Cook Chicago. 

A.  W.  Blakesley Quincy. 

Ira  A.  W.   I'.uck Aurora. 

Wm.  H.  Scott Edwardsville. 

Ira  A.  W.  Buck Aurora. 

Vincent  L.  Hurlbut Chicago. 

Gil.  W.  Barnard Chicago. 

John  C.  Bagbv ...  Rushville. 

John  M.  Palmer Springfield. 

Wiley  M.  Egan Chicago. 

Orlin  H.  Miner i  Springfield. 

J  ohn  M.  Niglas Peoria. 


REPRESENTATIVES    IN    OTHER    GRAND    LODGES. 


•7: 


REPRESENTATIVES 


OF   THE  GRAND    LODGE  OF  ILLINOIS  IN    OTHER    GRAND    LODGES. 


;rand  lodge. 


REPRESENTATIVES 


RESIDENCE. 


Alabama 

Arkansas 

Hrilish  Columbia 

California i 

Canada ^ 

Colorado 

Connecticut 

Dakota 

Delaware 

District  of  Columbia 

Florida ' 

Georgia 

Idaho 

Indiana ■' , 

Indian  Territory 

Iowa 

Kansas 

Kentucky 

Louisiana 

Manitoba 

Maine 

Maryland 

Michigan 

Minnesota 

Mississippi .... 

Missouri 

Montana 

Nebraska 

New  Hampshire 

New  Mexico 

New  Jersey 

New  York 

Nevada 

North  Carolina 

Nova  Scotia  

Ohio 

Oregon | 

Pennsylvania j 

Quebec 

Rhode  Island 

South  Carolina 

Tennessee 

Texas 

Utah , 

Vermont i 

Virginia 

VVashington j 

West  Virginia 

Wisconsin 

Wyoming 

England 

Ireland 

Royal  York  and  Friendship, Berlin, 

Prussia 

Grand   National  Mother  Lodge  of 

the  Three  Globes,  Berlin,  Prussia 


Daniel  Savre Montgomery. 

E.H.English Little  Rock. 

Simeon  Duck Victoria. 

Alex    G  Abell San  Francisco. 

David  McLellan Toronto. 

Henry  JM.  Teller Central. 

James  L.Gould Bridgeport. 

H.  H.  Folk 

Daniel  Godwin Milford. 

C.  F.  Slansbury Washington. 

D.  C.  Dawkins Jacksonville. 

Samuel  Lawrence...' Atlanta. 

J.W.Brown Idaho  City. 

Daniel  McDonald Plymouth! 

J.  S.  Murrow Atoka. 

Joseph  Chapman Dubuque. 

John  H.  Brown i  Wyandotte. 

Thomas  J.  Pickett Paducah. 

J.  Q   A.  Fellows I  New  Orleans. 

Samuel  I^.  Redson Winnipeg. 

George  W.  Deering j  Portland. 

John  A.  Berry  

Henry  Chamberlain Three  Oaks. 

A.  T.  C    Pierson  St.  Paul. 

J.  M.  Stone. Corinth. 

Martin  Collins St.  Louis. 

Cornelius  Hedges ;  Helena. 

George  H.  Thrummel j  Grand  Island. 

Horace  Chase  I 

Henry  L.  Waldo j  Santa  Fe. 

Thomas  J.  Corson    Trenton. 

Jamt  s  E.Morrison New  York. 

Robert  W.  Bollen Carson  City. 

D.  W.   Bain Raleigh. 

Theo.  A.  Grossman I  Halifax. 

S.  Sylvester  Wells 

B.  Jennintis 

Richard  Vaux ....  Philadelphia. 

G.   H.  Borlase Montreal. 

Thomas  A.  Doyle Providence. 

A.  G.  Mackey  .' i  Washington,  D.C. 

JohnFrizzell |  Nashville. 

Philip  C.  Tucker Galveston. 

James  Lowe Salt  Lake  City. 

J.  B.   Hollenbeck I  Burlington. 

Beverly  R.  Well  ford,  Jr i  Richmond. 

Thomas  M.  Reed Olympia. 

H.  R.  Howard ; 

John  W.  Woodhull. Milwaukee. 

\Vm.  G.  Tonn Evanston, 

John  Hervey London. 

Richard  B.  du  Burgh 1  Dublin. 


H.  Heutschel. 


Adolphe  Bohme Berlin. 


Berlin. 


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APPENDIX. 


PERMANENT  MEMBERS. 


M.  W.  Bro.  William  Lavelj,  P.  G.  M.,  Springfield,  No.  4. 

M.  VV.  Bro.  Harrison  Dills,  P.  G.  M.,  Bodley,  No.  i. 

M.  W.  Bro.  Ira  A.  W.  Buck,  P.  G.  M.,  Jerusalem  Temple,  No.  90. 

M.  W.  Bro.  Jerome  R.  Gorin,  P.  G.  M.,  Macon,  No.  S. 

M.  W.  Bro.  DeWitt  C.  Cregier,  P.  G.  M.,  Bianej,  No.  271. 

M.  W.  Bro.  James  A.  Havvley,  P.  G.  M.,  Friendship,  No.  7. 

M.  W.  Bro.  Joseph  Robbins,  P.  G.  M.,  Quincy,  No.  J96. 

M.  W.  Bro.  Theodore  T.  Gurney,  G.  M.,  St.  Andrews,  No.  703. 

R.  W.  Bro.  W.  H.  Scott,  D.  G.  M.,   Metropolis,  No.  91. 

R.  W.  Bro.  Edward  R.  Roe,  P.  D.  G.  M.,  Wade  Barney,  No.  512. 

R.  W.  Bro.  Ben.  L.  Wiley,  P.  D.  G.  M.,  Makanda,  No.  434. 

R.  W.  Bro.  James  H.  Matheny,  P.  D.  G.  M.,  Springfield,  No.  4. 

R.  W.  Bro.  John  C.  Baker,  P.  D.  G.  M.,  Waukegan,  No.  78. 

R.  W.  Bro.  Nathan  W.  Huntley,  P.  D.  G.  M.,  Hesperia,  No.  411. 

R.  W.  Bro.  Charles  Fisher,  P.  D.  G.  M.,  Central,  No.  71. 

R.  W.  Bro.  W.J.  A.  DeLancey,  P.  D.  G.  M.,  Centralia,  No.  2oi. 

R.  W.  Bro.  Isaac  R.  Diller,  P.  S.  G.  W.,  Central,  No.  71. 

R.  W.  Bro.  Andrew  J.  Kuykendall,  P.  S.  G.  W.,  Vienna,  No.  150. 

R.   W.  Bro.  Asa  W.  Blakesley,  P.  S.  G.  W.,  Bodley,  No.  i. 

R.  W.  Bro.  Edwin  F.  Babcock,  P.  S.  G.  W.,  Summerfield,  No.  342. 

R.  W.  Bro.  Henry  E.  Hamilton,  P.  S.  G.  W.,  Lincoln  Park,  No.  611. 

R.  W.  Bro.  Carlton  Drake,  P.J,  G.  W.,  Landmark,  No.  422. 

R.  W.  Bro.  William  H.  Turner,  P.J.  G,  W.,  Oriental,  No.  33. 

R.  W.  Bro.  Elijah  M.  Haines,  P.J.  G.  W.,  Waukegan,  No.  78. 

R.  W.  Bro.  James  C.  Luckey,  P.  J.  G.  W.,  Mystic  Tie,  No.  1S7. 


REPORT  OF  GRAND  TREASURER. 


LOUNSBURY  RELIEF  FUND. 

To  Dr.  Joseph  Robbins,  M.  \^. Grand  Master: 

The  undersigned,  Grand  Treasurer,  respecttullv  reports  moneys  received 
by  him  from  lodges  and  brethren,  and  disbursed  for  the  relief  of  Past  Grand 
Master  George  E.  Lounsbury,  as  follows,  to-wit: 

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REPORT  OF   GRAND    TRKASURRR—rCon^lJlieed. 


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om  lodges • $995   12 

Vandalia  Chapter,  No.  136 

Bro.  J.  C.  McMui-try 

Bro.  Charles  Fisher 

Bro,  John  D.  Hamilton 

Bro.  Henry  S.  Mattack 

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DISBURSEMENTS. 

Remitted  George  E.  Lounsbury $  75  00 

"          Aaron  Gove,  Denver,  Col 870  10 

"  Geo.    H.    Sampson,    Secretary'    of    Masonic 

Benevolent  Association -5  00 

"          Mrs.  Helen  A.  Lounsbury 23  50 

Paid  for  postage,  printing,    telegraphing,  exchange  and 

stationery ^^5^ 


$1,006  12 


Orlin  H.   Miner,    Grand  Treasurer. 


YELLOW    FEVER    FUND. 


177 


REPORT   OF  GRAND  TREASURER. —  Continued. 


YELLOW  FEVER  FUND. 

Dr.  Joseph  Robbins,  Grand  Master: 

M.  W.  Bro. — The  utuiersigned,  Grand  Treasurer,  respectfully  reports 
receipt  of  moneys  contributed  by  Illinois  lodges  and  brethren  for  relief  of 
Masonic  sufferers  from  yellow  fever,  and  disbursement  of  the  same,  as  fol- 
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APPENDIX. 


DISBURSEMENTS. 

Remitted  Grand  Master  of  Mississippi  Sept.  nth    , 

13th 

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Balance  in  hand 


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The  following  amounts  have  been  reported  to  me  as  contributed  and  for- 
warded by  lodges  through  other  channels,  viz.; 

By  Lodge,  No.  50,  $25  00;  No.  89,  $20  00;  No.  131,  $25  00;  No.  201, 
$107  10;  No.  321,  $107  50;  No.  333,  $39  50;  No.  377,  $30  00;  No.  418, 
$10  00;  No.  5S3,  $25  00;  Lodges  at  Jacksonville,  $225  00;  Lodges  at  Chi- 
cago, $1,350  00 — making  in  all  $1,964  10,  which  added  to  the  amount 
received  by  me  aggregates  $6,014  12. 

Fraternally  submitted, 

Orlin  H.  Miner,    Grand  Treasurer. 


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55S 

10  90 

756 

9  00 

81 

10  00 

172 

5  00 

362- 

9  75 

495 

IS  00 

5S3 

25  00 

S6 

500 
2  60 

188 

10  00 

3S4 

10  00 

496 

534 

8  00 
6  00 

634 
672 

ID  00 

S  00 

137 

143 

<J3  30 

ig6 

I  40 

412 

10  00 

535 

10  00 

677 

10  00 

?39'  45 

Balance  from  report. 


4S  02 
%39  47 


Remitted  J.  L.  Power,  Grand  Secretary  of  Grand  Lodge  of  Mississippi, 

$439  47- 


O.  H.  Miner,  Grand  Treasurer. 


REPORT  CHICAGO  RELIEF  COMMITTEE 


YELLOW    FEVER    FUND. 


M.  W.  Joseph  Robbins,  Grand  Master  of  Masons  of  the  State  of  Illinois  : 

Dear  Sir  and  Bro  :  The  undersigned,  having  been  appointed  by  the 
Masonic  fraternity,  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  to  receive  and  disburse  the  funds 
contributed  by  the  Craft  of  said  city  in  aid  of  the  brethren  suffering  from 
yellow  fever  in  the  South,  ask  leave  to  sul)mit  to  you  an  account  of  their 
official  doings  in  the  matter,  and  as  a  full  detailed  report  of  the  transaction 
is  contained  in  the  documents  issued  by  the  Committee  to  the  several 
Masonic  bodies  located  in  Chicago,  and  herewith  appended,  we  respectfully 
ask  that  the  same  may  be  accepted  and  approved  by  you,  in  lieu  of  a  special 
report  upon  the  subject. 

Fraternally  submitted, 

Theodore  T.  Gurney,  Chairman,  ^ 

John  O'Neill,  Treasurer,  >  Committee. 

Dewitt  C.  Cregier,  Secretary,       J 

The  following  circular  and  report  were  issued  on  the  date  indicated: 

Chicago,  Sept.  loth,  1S7S. 

To  the  W.  Master,   Wanic-us  and  Brethren  oj  Lodge,  No.  —,A.  F.  Jr  A.  M.,  Chicago  .■ 

BRiiTiu<EN— A  mass  nieetiriir  of  the  Craft  of  this  city  was  held  on  the  eveninjf  of  the  26lh 
ult.,  for  the  purpose  of  taking  steps  to  respond  to  the  urgent  appeals  for  aid  on  the  part  of 
our  brethren  suffering  from  the  ravaoes  of  yellow  fever  in  the  Southern  States. 

At  said  meeting,  16  Lodges,  6  Chapters,  and  4  Scotch  Rite  Bodies  were  represented  An 
amount  of  money  was  promptly  pledged  for  each  of  said  bodies,  a  portion  of  which  was 
paid  in  at  the  time.     The  individual  brethren  present  also  paid  in  a  generous  contrilnition 

The  Treasurer  immediately  forwarded  to  the  Grand  Masters  of  Mississippi  and  Tennes- 
see a  sum  in  the  aggregate  in  excess  of  the  total  amount  collected,  in  order  that  tlie  effort  to 
assist  in  alleviating  the  distress  might  at  least  be  prompt. 

At  the  said  meeting  the  undersigned  were  appointed  a  committee  to  receive  and  send  for- 
ward the'balance  of  the  amount  pledged,  and  such  other  sums  as  may  be  donated  for  the 
purpose. 


l8o  APPENDIX. 


At  a  subsequent  meeting  of  the  Craft,  held  on  the  9th  inst.,  said  committee  was  requested 
to  address  a  circular  to  each  and  every  Masonic  Body  in  our  city,  calling  attention  to  the 
subject,  and  solicit  aid  for  the  object  herein  referred  to. 

In  accordance  with  such  request,  the  undersigned  fraternally  and  respectfully  urge  upon 
the  Masonic  Fraternity  of  this  city,  both  as  organized  bodies  and  individuals,  to  give  this 
subject  the  attention  that  the  awful  necessities  of  the  hour  demand. 

We  would  earnestly  appeal,  in  behalf  of  our  suffering  Fellovir  Craftsmen,  to  those  lodges 
and  other  Masonic  bodies  which  have  not  been  heard  from,  to  send  such  contributions  as  they 
can  spare,  and  to  those  bodies  that  have  pledged  certain  amounts  and  paid  a  portion,  we 
would  fraternally  request  that  they  send  at  once  the  balance,  and  governed  by  the  sense  of  the 
recent  meeting  of  the  Craft,  we  would  suggest  that  each  Lodge,  Chapter,  Commandery  and 
other  Masonic  body,  hold  special  meetings,  that  all  may  have  an  opportunity  of  contributing 
to  this  relief  fund. 

The  undersigned  need  not  attempt  to  depict  the  terrible  effects  of  the  pestilence  now 
raging  in  the  South,  as  those  whom  we  have  the  honor  to  address  are  fully  advised  of  the  sit- 
uation. Nor  would  we  presume  to  indicate  the  duty  of  every  Masonic  body  and  individual 
Mason,  when  his  fellows  appeal  for  aid  to  mitigate  the  pangs  of  suffering  and  death. 

The   dictates    of  humanity   are   sufficient  to   inspire    mankind  to   deeds  of  benevolence. 
Coupled  with  this  let  us  not  forget  that  the  teachings  of  our  ancient  institution  inculcate  that 
its  greatest  virtue  is  SWEET  CHARITY. 
Fraternally, 

Theodore  T.  Gurney,  Chairman,  Board  of  Trade  Building. 
John  O'Neill,  Treasurer,  Cor.  Ohio  and  Franklin  Sts. 
Dewitt  C.  Cregier,  Secretary,  ^Vater  Works. 

Chica(,o,  November  ist,  1S78. 

To  the  W.  Master^   Wardens,  and  Brethren  of Lodge,  No.  — ,  A.  F.  &.A.  M.,  Chicago  : 

Brethren: — A  circular  dated  September  loth  ultimo,  was  addressed  to  each  Masonic 
body  in  our  city,  setting  forth  the  steps  which  had  been  taken  to  render  aid  to  the  suffering 
of  the  South,  and  the  authority  by  which  the  undersigned  were  constituted  a  committee  to 
receive  and  disburse  the  funds  contributed  by  the  Craft  of  Chicago.  In  th-:;  discharge  of  the 
duties  assigned  your  committee,  it  has  been  governed  by  the  corresjiondence ;  a  portion  of 
which  is  herewith  submitted.  On  the  23d  ot  August,  187S,  the  following  dispatch  was  sent  to 
the  Masonic  authorities  of  the  States  of  Mississippi,  Tennessee  and  Louisiana,  viz: 

The  Masonic  Fraternity  of  this  city  (Chicago)  desire,  if  necessary,  to  aid  brethren  of 
your  State,  who  may  be  suffering  by  the  yellow  fever.    Advise  us  at  once  of  the  necessities. 

Dewitt  C.  Cregier. 

To  this  came  replies  as  follows: 


Jackson,  Mississippi,  August  23d,  1S7S. 

Dewitt  C.  Cregier,  Chicago  : 

Our  necessities  very  great.  The  death  and  destitution  at  Vicksburg,  Grenada,  and  Port 
Gibson,  absolutely  appalling.  We  are  hourly  expecting  fever  here.  I  will  distribute  what- 
ever you  send. 

(Signed)  John  L.  Power,  Grand  Secretary. 

Nashville,  Tennessee,  August  23d,  1878. 

D.  C.  Cregier,  Chicago: 

Your  telegram  forwarded  to  Grand  Master  Warr.  No  assistance  now  needed  at  Mem- 
phis, the  only  infected  place  in  Tennessee.     Many  thanks  for  kind  offer. 

(.Signed)  John  Fkizzell,  Grand  Secretary. 


YELLOW   FEVER    FUND.  i8l 


RossviLLE,  Tennessee,  August  37th,  1S7S. 
D.  C.  Cregier,  Chicago: 

Masonic  Belief  Board  at  Memphis  does  not  need  money  yet.     Thanks. 

(Signed)  A.  V.  Warr,  Grand  Master  Masons,  Tennessee. 

Grand  Master's  Office,  Grand  Lodge,  Louisiana,  / 
New  Orleans,  La.,  August  23d,  1878.      \ 
D.  C.  Cregier,  P.  G.  M.,  Chicago: 

Vours  received.  The  Masons  of  Louisiana  thai:k  you  for  tender  of  aid,  but  do  not  need 
it  at  prt-sent. 

(Signed)  Edwin  Marks,  Deputy  Grand  Master. 

Gr.\nd  Master's  Office,  j 

Grand  Lodge  of  the  State  of  Louisiana,  F.  and  A.  M.,  [ 

New  Orleans,  August  23d,  1S78.     ) 

t).  C.  Ckegiek,  Esq.,  P.  G.  M.,  Chicago,  111. : 

Dear  Sir  and  M.  \V.  Bro. — I  am  in  receipt  of  your  telegram  of  this  date,  tendering: 
the  aid  1  if  necessary)  of  the  Fraternity  of  your  city  towards  the  sufferers  bj-  yellow  fevel- 
belonging  to  the  Craft.  I  was  happily  enaliled  to  reply  as  follows;  "  Yours  received.  The 
Masons  of  Louisiana  thank  you  for  tender  of  aid,  but  do  not  need  it  at  present." 

The  proffer,  M.  W.  Brother,  is  characteristic  of  the  Illinois  Masons,  and  demonstrates 
that  the  great  sympathetic  chord  that  unites  our  noble  Order,  still  pulsates  and  moves  upon 
the  first  note  of  distress.  The  Masons  of  Louisiana  kindly  thank  you,  but  fortunately  do  not 
need  foreiirn  aid  at  this  time.     I  remain,  fraternally, 

Edwin  Marks,  Deputy  Grand  Master. 

It  will  be  observed  by  the  foregoing  dispatches  and  letter,  that  while 
Mississippi  accepted  the  proffered  assistance,  Tennessee  and  Louisiana  did 
not,  at  the  time,  need  aid,  consequently  your  committee  immediately  for- 
warded $400  00  to  the  Grand  Master  of  Mississippi. 

A  few  days  subsequently,  the  following  dispatch  was  received: 

Nashville,  September  3d,  1S7S. 
D.  C.  Cregiek,  p.  G.  M.,  Chicago : 

Send  what  you  can  for  Tennessee  :  we  need  it. 

(.Signed)  John  FRizziiLi,,  (Jraiid  Secrctarv. 

In  response  to  this,  your  committee  immediately  forwarded  $200  00  to  the 
Grand  Master  of  Tennessee,  and  since  that  time,  through  the  prompt  and 
generous  contributions  of  nearly  every  Masonic  Body  in  Chicago,  and  a  few 
located  beyond,  as  well  as  from  the  contributions  from  a  number  of  individual 
Masons,  your  Committee  have  been  enabled  to  send  to  the  two  States  named, 
the  amounts  stated  below. 

Louisiana,  as  appears  from  the  only  communication  received,  has  not 
needed  Masonic  aid.  Sometime  after  the  brethren  of  Chicago  had  entered 
upon  the  work  referred  to,  M.  W.  Joseph  Robbins,  Grand  Master  of  Masons  in 
Illinois,  issued  a  circular  letter  to  all  the  lodges  in  the  State,  appealing  for 
aid  for  the  same  object,  directing  all  contributions  to  be  sent  to  the  Grand 
Treasurer  at  Springfield.  The  Grand  Master  was,  however,  aware  of  the  fact 
that  the  Masons  of  every  grade  in  Chicago,  had  anticipated  his  letter  by  mov- 
ing in  the  matter,  which  action  met  his  entire  approval,  it  being  his  will  and 
pleasure  that  the  work  in  hand  should  be  continued  and  completed,  without 
regard  to  his  instructions,  which,  under  the  circumstances,  were  intended  for 


l82  APPENDIX. 


lodges  onl}',  which  had  not  contributed.  The  desire  of  the  Grand  Master 
was,  that  the  funds  contributed  siiould  be  devoted  to  the  object  intended,  at 
the  earliest  moment. 

Your  Committee  learned,  through  the  report  of  the  Grand  Treasurer, 
made  to  the  Grand  Lodge  at  its  late  session,  that  the  appeal  of  the  Grand 
Master  has  met  with  a  prompt  and  generous  response  on  the  part  of 
the  lodges  and  brethren  of  our  State.  Your  committee  also  submitted 
a  report  of  their  doings  in  the  matter,  to  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  asked  to 
have  same  incorporated  in  the  forthcoming  print  of  the  proceedings  of  that 
body.     The  request  was  agreed  to. 

The  terrible  visitation  upon  the  people  of  the  South,  is  a  theme  that  may 
justify  extended  i-eference  to  its  mournful  results,  but  we  have  no  heart  to 
dwell,  nor  you  to  listen  to  events  of  which  all  are  fully  advised,  and  which 
have  awakened  the  active  sympathies  of  the  peoples  of  the  civilized  world. 
It,  however,  incites  a  pardonable  pride  to  know  that  the  lodges  and  individual 
brethren,  as  such  of  our  city,  have,  in  a  quiet  and  unostentatious  manner, 
nobly  responded  to  the  appeal  for  aid  from  their  distressed  fellow  Craftsmen 
of  Mississippi  and  Tennessee,  and  in  addition,  through  other  channels  in 
common  with  their  fellow  citizens  of  Chicago,  who,  actuated  by  humane  and 
Christian  feelings,  and  by  the  memory  of  their  own  local  experiences  in 
misfortune  and  distress,  have,  by  prompt  and  generous  aid  to  the  suffering- 
people  of  the  South,  added  another  laurel  to  the  name  and  fame  of  Chicago. 

Your  committee  desire  to  present  the  thanks  of  the  Craft  of  Chicago, 
unanimously  voted  at  a  mass  meeting,  to  the  Chicago  Tribune,  Times,  Infer 
Oceati,  Staats  Zeitung,  and  Evening  yournal  for  publishing  the  calls  for 
meetings  without  cost,  and  to  the  Western  Union  Telegraph  Co.,  for  gratui- 
tously forwarding  dispatches  of  the  committee  to  the  distant  States,  also  to 
Apollo  Commandery  No.  i,  K.  T.,  for  free  use  of  its  armory,  in  which  to 
hold  meetings;  to  Messrs.  Donnelley,  Cassette  &  Loyd,  througii  kindness  of 
E.  Sir  N.  T.  Cassette  for  printing  this  report  without  pay,  and  to!  Messrs. 
Culver,  Page  &  Hoyne,  through  kindness  of  Bro.  A.  Pettibone,  for  a  l)lank 
book.  The  circulars  sent  to  lodges  on  loth  ult.,  were  furnished  at  expense  of 
W.  Bro.  A.  Shire. 

In  conclusion,  your  committee  submit  the  following  detail  of  all  moneys 
received  and  disbursed  by  them  for  the  object  herein  referred  to,  with  copies 
of  receipts  for  same,  and  the  names  of  the  contributing  bodies,  arKl  of  tlie 
individuals  from  whom  the  committee  received  donations.  It  is  proper  to 
state  that  many  brethren  contributed  to  the  fund,  whose  names  were  not 
submitted  to  your  committee,  but  whose  donations  are  merged  with  the 
amount  credited  to  their  lodge,  Commandery,  etc. 


YELLOW    FEVER    FUND.  I 83 


The  total  amount  received  from  Lodges,  A.  F.  &  A.  M T'jOSQ  75 

"         "             "               "             "     Chapters  R.  A.  M 20000 

"         "            "               "             "     Con^manderies  K.  T 13700 

"        "            "              "            "     Bodies,  A.  A.  Scottish  Rite 100  00 

"         "             "               "            "     Individual  Masons 23700 

Grand  total $1 ,733  7S 

Forwarded  10  Grand  Master  and  Grand  Secretary  of  Mississippi ?i,030  27 

"  "  "  "  "  "  Tennessee 70000 

Postage  on  letters  and  this  report 3  4S 

?i,7.«  75 

Jackson,  Mississippi,  November  ist,  1S7S. 
Received  to  date  from  the  lodges  and  brethren  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  111.,  by  the  hand  of 
Dewitt  C.  Cregier,  the  sum  of  one  thousand  and  thirty  dollars  and  twenty-seven  cents. 
$1,030.27.  John  I^.  Powbr, 

Grand  Secretary,  Grand  Lodge,  Mississippi. 

Nashville,  Tennessee,  November  ist,  1S7S. 
Received  to  date  from  the  lodges  and  brethren  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  111.,  by  the  hand  of 
Dewitt  C.  Cregier,  the  sun;  of  seven  hundred  dollars. 

.f 700  00.  John  Fkizzell, 

Grand  Secretary,  Grand  I^odge,  Tennessee. 

Received  for  postage  on  'etters  and  this  report,  the  sum  of  three  dollars  and  fortv  eight 
cents.  Dewitt  C.  Ckegiek, 

13,48.  Secretary  Special  Masonic  Relief  Co'.nmittee  of  Chicago. 

The  undersigned  would  fraternally  request  that  this  report  be  read  at  the 
meetuigs  of  the  several  Masonic  bodies  to  which  it  is  addressed.  All  of 
which  is  fraternally  submitted. 

Theodore  T.  Gurney,  G.  M.,  Chairman,  ^ 
,     John  O'Neill,  D.  D.   G.   M.,  Treasurer,     I  Committee. 
Dewitt  C.  Cregier,  P.  G.  M.,  Secretary.) 


For  Tabular  Statement  of  the  amount    received    from   the  dif- 
ferent bodies,  and  from   individuals,  see  the  two  succeeding  pages. 


184 


APPENDIX. 


RECEIVED    FROM    LODGES. 


NAME    OF    LODGE. 


AMOUXT. 


Oriental 33 

Garden  City 141 

Waubansia 160 

Germania :S2 

Win.  B.  Warren 209 

Cleveland 3ii 

Blaney 271 

Accordia 277 

Ashlar 30S 

Dearborn 310 

Kilwinning 311 

Blair 393 

T.  J.  Turner 409 

Mithra I  410 

Hesperia !  411 

Landmark I  422 

Chicafifo    j  437 

Pleiades !  47S 

Home 50S 

Covenant 526 

Lessing 1  SS7 

Lincoln  Park 611 

Keystone 639 

Apollo   ■. 642 

D.  C.  Cregier 643 

Waldeck 674 

D.  A.  Cashman 686 

Richard  Cole 697 

St.  Andrews 703 

Golden  Rule :  726 

Lakeside 1  739 

A.  C).  Fay !  676 

Harbor I  731 

Englewood. .    j  690 

Total  amount  from  Lodges |?ioS9  75 


$25 

00 

27 

00 

2S 

00 

z,'? 

00 

■  2.c; 

00 

25 

00 

216 

00 

25 

00 

124 

25 

25 

00 

10 

00 

2=; 

00 

10 

00 

2.=; 

00 

^a 

00 

12 

00 

^0 

00 

10 

00 

2.-; 

00 

2^ 

00 

10 

00 

26 

25 

2.'; 

00 

2.=; 

00 

25 

GO 

25 

00 

2?. 

00 

10 

00 

2S 

00 

M 

25 

2.S 

00 

10 

00 

10 

00 

25 

00 

REMARKS, 


Of  which  ^2.00  was  from  a  member. 

Of  which  141.00  was  from  members. 
Of  which  ^99.25  was  from  members. 


Of  which  $24.25  was  from  members. 

Located  at  Highland  Park,  Ills. 
Located  at  South  Chicago,  Ills. 
Located  at  Englewood,  Ills. 


RECEIVED    FROM    CIIAPTER.S. 


NAME  OF    CHAPTER 


Lafayette 
Washington 
Corinthian 
W.  M.  Egan 
Chicago 
York 

Fair  View 
Lincoln  Park 

Total  amount  from  Chapters 


REMARKS. 


YELLOW    FEVER    FUND. 


18: 


RECEIVED    FROM    COiMMANDERIES    K.    T, 


NAME    OF    COMMANDERY. 

NO. 

AMOUNT, 

REMARKS. 

1 
'9 
35 

$87   00 
25   00 

25  00 

Of  which  $62.00  was  from  members. 

St.  Bernard 

Total  am' t  trom  Commanderies 

$137  00 

RECEIVED    FROM    SCOTTI.SH    RITE    BODIES. 


NAME    OF   BODY.. 


Van  Rensellaer  Grand  Lodge  of  Perfection  $25  00 

Chicago  Council  P.  of  J 25  00 

Gourgas  Chapter  R.  C I  25  00 

Oriental  Consistory  S.  P.  R.  S 25  00 

Total  am't  from  A.  A.  Rite ^loo  00 


REMARKS. 


CONTRIBUTED    BY    INDIVIDUAL    BRETHREN. 


AMOUNT. 


W.  A.  Stevens ?  S  00 

T.  T.  Gurney S  00 

A.  Shire S  00 

F.  N.  Bradshaw S  00 

R.B.Roberts 500 

B.  F.  Hornier 5  00 

D.S.  Coulter !  500 

J.FLanigan   500 

E.Addy 5°° 

N.  T.  Gassette ]  S  00 

J.  B.  Bradweli 1000 

C.  H.  Davie !  S  00 

J .  S.  Norton 1  S  00 

A.  M.  Thompson S  00 

S.  W.  McArthur S  00 

E.  B.  Kambo 2  00 

O.Young ;  S  00 

L.  Young ,  S  00 

G.  R.  McClellan S  00 

A.  Schwarz 10  00 

Amount  carried  forward i  $107  00 


Amount  brought  forward. 

AV.  Young 

J.  C   Fernis 

H.  O.  Maynard 

D.  J.  Avery      

Win.  McNeil 

B.  F.  Howard    

R.  Thibodo 

A  McMall 

W.  H.  Blackler 

I.  Rossmar 

E.  A.  Jourdan 

L.  D.  Cleaveland 

J.  B.  Kirk 

E.  F.  C.  Klokke 

J .  Sherwin 

J.  D.  Watson 

D.  A.  Strong 

J.  McLaughlin 

T.  F.  BuUard 


AMOUNT. 

fl07 

00 

5 

00 

S 

00 

.3 

00 

s 

00 

2 

00 

s 

00 

s 

00 

3 

00 

3 

00 

3 

00 

I 

00 

S 

00 

SO 

00 

s 

00 

5 

00 

s 

00 

s 

00 

5 

00 

10 

00 

Total  received  from  individuals       $237  00 


IsfoTE.— Two  hundred  dollars  included  in  receipt  of  Grand  Secretary  Frizzeli  was  sent 
to  M.  W.  A.  V.  Warr,  Grand  Master  of  Tennessee. 


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KEPOKT  OiN  CORKESPONDENCE. 


REPORT 


COMMITTEE  ON  MASONIC  CORRESPONDENCE. 


To  the  M.   W  Grand  Lodge  A.  F.  d-  A.  M.  of  the  State  of  Illinois  : 

We  have  the  honor  to  submit  herewith,  our  Third  Annual  Report  on 
Masonic  Correspondence.  We  send  it  forth,  never  more  profoundly  im- 
pressed with  the  quotation — 

Deo  adjiiz'ante,  ?ton  timendum. 

The  material  interests  of  Masonry  ebb  and  flow-  with  the  general  financial 
conditions  of  society.  Not  only  this,  but  its  practical  ethics  are  not  ordina- 
rily in  advance  of  the  sentiment  of  the  period.  There  seems  to  be  a  ten- 
dency in  all  organizations  to  be  in  sympathy  with  the  general  current  of  life's 
activities  and  social  surroundings;  and  it  is  only  when  a  people  have  found  the 
maximum  of  regrets  for  the  past,  and  stand  amid  the  ruins  of  unattainable 
aspirations,  that  they  are  disposed  to  recognize  the  fact,  that  the  harmonies 
of  benevolent  life  cannot  be  maintained,  except  by  sincere  devotion  to  the 
central  figure  of  all  ethical  and  beneficent  inspiratiofi. 

Masonry,  with  other  human  agencies  of  a  like  character,  has  been  diverted 
from  its  normal  relations  to  humanity,  by  being  in  too  active  sympathv  with 
an  unpardonable  strife  for  considerations  foreign  to  its  principles  and  de- 
clared purposes.  Lodges  have  been  authorized  without  regard  (bv  their  pro- 
jectors) for  the  real  interests  of  the  Craft,  resulting  too  frequently  in  a  devel- 
opment of  personal  ambitions,  strife  for  novelties,  ostentatious  charities, 
halls  and  paraphernalia,  that  imposing  expenditures  and  unnatural  display, 
in  and  out  of  the  lodge,  should  be  an  element  in  the  competitive  race  for 
numbers  and  notoriety.  The  consequences  have  been,  that  we  have  suffered 
alike  with  theology  and  politics  by  contact  with  that  loose  sense  of  moral  obli- 
gation that  has  been  characteristic  of  the  present  decade. 


APPENDIX. 


It  will  not  do  to  close  our  eyes  to  these  facts  in  the  delusive  hope  that  a 
passive  recognition  of  the  situation  will  add  any  claim  to  the  favorable  judg- 
ment of  mankind.  Duty  demands  that  we  return  to  Masonry,  regardless  of 
the  mortification  that  the  confession  extorts. 

We  feel  perfectly  justified  in  assuming,  that  if  the  present  financial  em- 
barrassments should  take  lodges  out  of  existence,  that  have  had  their  origin 
in  the  morbid  ambitions  of  the  past  few  years,  the  loss  of  this  moiety  would 
not  entail  ultimate  injury  to  the  Craft. 

In  many  jurisdictions  there  has  not  been  a  notable  increase  of  lodges, 
while  in  others  there  has  been  a  loss.  Lodge  membership,  as  a  rule,  exhibits 
a  decline,  and  principally  from  non-affiliation.  These  facts  are  among  the 
most  hopeful  evidences  of  returning  reason,  and  enduring  prosperity. 

Our  aim  in  this  report,  is  to  give  "  tidings  from  the  Craft,"  rather  than  to 
enter  into  prolonged  discussion.  The  "  morals  and  dogma  "  of  the  institu- 
tion are  so  well  understood,  that  it  does  not  seem  necessary  to  present  yearly, 
a  recapitulation  of  duty  and  obligation.  If  there  is  a  Craftsinan  in  Illinois 
that  does  not  comprehend  his  responsibilities  to  his  race,  and  is  not  inclined 
to  pursue  investigation  in  that  direction,  it  would  be  wise  in  him,  and  in  the 
direct  interests  of  all,  if  he  would  promptly  sever  his  relations  with  the  Fra- 
ternity. 

In  conclusion,  we  desire  to  express  a  grateful  appreciation  of  the  kindness 
and  forbearance  of  our  cotemporaries.  Not  in  a  single  instance  have  w^e  met 
with  aught  else  but  friendly  criticism — too  friendly,  perhaps,  for  fraternal 
interests. 

To  the  brethren  of  our  jurisdiction,  we  wish  to  convey  acknowledgments 
for  the  very  many  expressions  of  sympathy,  in  our  efforts  to  draw  increased 
attention  to  the  ititertial  concerns  of  the  Brotherhood. 

THEODORE  T.  GURNEY, 
Chicago,  Oct.  ist,  1S7S.  Committee. 


ALABAMA. 

This  Grand  Lodge  Assembled  in  its  Fifty-Seventh  Annual  Communication 
December  3d. 

R.'.W.". Henry  Claj^  Armstrong,  D.  G.  M.,  in  the  Grand  East. 

The  Grand  jSIaster  speaks  quite  encouragingly  of  the  future  of  the  Craft 
of  his  Jurisdiction.  He  says  that  fewer  new  lodges  have  been  formed,  and 
that  many  that  had  become  dormant,  had  been  restored  to  life  and  activity. 
Five  new  lodges  were  organized. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  Ill 


In  consequence  of  a  complaint  by  the  Grand  Master  of  Wisconsin,  involv- 
ing a  question  of  jurisdiction,  the  Grand  Master  recommended  that  hereafter 
petitions  should  include  the  interrogatory — "  have  you,  or  have  you  not, 
been  rejected  by  any  other  lodge!"  The  Grand  Lodge  adopted  this  import- 
ant suggestion. 

The  following  decisions  are  of  record: 

That  charges  having  been  subniiUed  to  a  lodge,  could  not  be  withdrawn,  though,  if  the 
brother  making  the  charges  becomes  satisfied  that  they  are  without  foundation,  a  statement 
so  made  in  open  lodge  by  him  would  warrant  the  lodge,  as  a  court,  in  dismissing  the  case. 

That  an  officer,  like  a  member,  must  be  suspended,  if  he  be  in  arrears  for  two  years  dues, 
on  the  meeting  immediately  preceding  the  anniversary  of  Saint  John  the  Baptist,  and  that  if 
not  done  at  that  time,  it  cannot  be  done  at  any  subsequent  communication.  The  remedy  being 
extraordinary,  and  the  law  providing  thai  time  only,  it  should  be  strictly  complied  with. 

That  an  unaffiliated  Mason  may  be  tried  by  any  lodge  within  whose  jurisdiction  he  may 
reside,  and,  if  his  residence  be  unknown,  by  the  lodge  within  whose  jurisdiction  the  offense 
was  committed. 

That  although  a  lodge  may  have  had  no  meeting  during  six  months,  except  one  for  the 
trial  of  a  member,  this  constituted  a  meeting  within  the  constitution,  and  its  charter  was 
thereby  saved. 

A  brother  prosecuting  has  the  right  to  close. 

Every  member  present  in  good  standing  has  the  right  to  vote,  he  alone  being  the  jiidge 
if  his  relations  to  the  accused  forbid  it. 

The  vote  of  the  lodge  should  be  taken  by  call  of  the  roll,  on  all  questions  as  to  guilt,  or 
assessment  of  punishment,  and  the  W.  M.  must  vote. 

Tliat  a  lodge  may  remit  the  dues  of  one  sus))ended  for  non-payment  of  dues  and  restore 
him  to  fellowship. 

That  public  meetings,  balls,  itc,  cannot  be  tolerated  in  a  Masonic  Hall. 

Allow  me  to  draw  your  attention  to  the  following  questions,  and  that  of  the  Committee  on 
Jurisprudence,  for  action;  and  I  am  induced  to  do  this  because  I  found  myself  compelled  to 
rule  against  my  better  judgment,  because  of  Rule  19,  Art.  VII.,  of  the  constitution,  although 
I  felt  assured  that  the  framers  of  that  instrument  did  not  contemplate  its  application  to  cases 
of  definite  suspension,  it  being  only  a  very  severe  reprimand : 

A  brother  being  tried,  is  found  guilty,  and  suspended  for  a  definite  period  ;  he  takes  an 
appeal  to  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  the  appeal  is  sustained  before  the  termination  of  the  period 
of  suspension.  What  is  the  position  of  this  brother  iQ  relation  to  his  lodge?  The  brother 
presenting  the  certificate  of  the  Grand  Secretary,  of  the  action  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  applied 
for  membership  to  another  lodge,  can  he  he  elected? 

The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  were  engaged  with  other  questions, 
aside  from  those  presented  by  the  Grand  Master.- 

The  Rulings  of  Grand  Master  Wilson,  found  in  his  address  to  the  Grand  Lodge  at  the 
Communication  of  1875,  were  taken  up,  severally  examined  and  discussed,  and  were  indorsed 
and  approved  by  the  committee,  except  as  to  the  following,  to-wit:  Rulings  Nos.  J,  6,  and 
19.  In  Ruling  No.  5,  where  the  principle  is  announced,  "That  a  woman  who  has  been 
divorced  from  her  husband  is  not  a  competent  witness  against  him  in  a  Masonic  Tribunal,  as 
to  matters  or  things  which  transpired  during  coverture,"  the  committee  recommend  an 
exception  in  cases  of  injuries  to  her  person. 


IV  APPENDIX. 


To  Ruling  No.  6,  which  is  in  these  words :  "The  written  testimony  used  in  a  court  of  law 
or  chancery  cannot  be  used  as  evidence  in  a  masonic  trial,  except  by  the  consent  of  the  parties 
therelo,"the  committee  instruct  me  to  report  as  an  additional  clause  the  following:  "Or  when 
the  witness  is  dead,  having  been  cross-examined." 

The  committee  recommends  as  the  proper  construction  of  the  word  '^ Right  "  where  it 
ajjpears  in  Ruling  No.  19,  is  that  it  is  used  in  the  sense  of  privilege. 

Then,  if  a  woman,  divorced,  knows  that  her  former  husband  is  guilty  of 
murder,  arson,  larcenj',  and  a  score  of  other  crimes  committed  during  cover- 
ture, she  is  not  a  competent  witness!  There  is  a  constant  tendency  to  en- 
cumber our  sj)ii'liual  cod^s,  with  the  technicalities  and  practices  of  the  courts, 
and  sooner  or  later,  if  persisted  in,  will  destroy  the  simplicity  and  Masonic 
character  of  our  jurisprudence.  Where  are  the  grounds  for  the  exception 
made  by  the  committee.^  Please  give  us  the  reason,  from  a  Masonic  sfa?id- 
point,  why  this  woman's  testimony  is  not  as  credible  in  cases  arising  during 
coverture,  as  after.''  We  again  find  the  Imvyer  in  the  following  judgment  of 
the  cominittee : 

The  decisions  of  the  Grand  Master,  reported  to  the  present  Communication  of  the  Grand 
Lodge,  have  received  careful  consideration,  and  most  of  them  are  heartily  and  fully  indorsed. 
The  committee  felt  constrained  to  dissent  from  one  of  the  rulings  against  their  better  judg- 
ment. The  Grand  Lodge  having  heretofore  aj  proved  of  a  ruling  by  the  Grand  Master  in  1S75, 
directly  in  conflict  with  the  one  alluded  to,  and  which  is  as  follows:  "Every  member  pres- 
ent in  good  standing,  has  the  right  to  vote,  he  alone  being  the  judge  if  his  relations  to  the 
accused  forbid  it." 

The  ruling  heretofore  indorsed  by  the  Grand  Lodge,  (ruling  No.  27,  p.  12,  Proceedings 
187s,)  is  as  follows:  "When  there  is  such  near  relation  bv  blood  or  marriage  to  any  member 
of  the  lodge  by  a  person  accused  of  a  masonic  offense,  as  would  likely  bias  his  verdict,  such 
member  should  not  be  permitted  to  sit  on  trial  of  the  case,  and  when  the  vole  is  being  taken, 
should  retire  from  the  lodge." 

We  do  not  understand  the  propriety  of  the  committee's  dissent  "  against 
its  better  judgment."  The  decision  of  the  Grand  Master  is  correct,  if  he 
had  ended  the  opinion  with  the  word  "vote."  Every  member  of  a  lodge  is 
a  juror  de  facto  and  de  jure,  made  so  i)y  the  fundamental  law,  and  there  is 
nothing  in  Masonry  that  can  deprive  him  of  the  right  to  sit  in  judgment 
upon  any  question  that  is  presented  for  the  deliberation  of  the  lodge.  The 
family  relations  of  a  member  to  the  accused  may  place  the  member  in  a  posi- 
tion of  extreme  delicacy ;  and  a  lodge,  at  his  request,  might  with  some  sense 
of  propriety  excuse  him  from  voting;  but,  if  he  insists  upon  the  exercise  of 
his  prerogative,  we  hold  that  his  determination  must  be  respected. 

The  ancient  charges  say :  "  If  any  complaint  be  brought,  the  brother  found 
guilty  shall  stand  to  the  award  and  determination  of  the  lodge,  who  are  the 
proper  and  competent  judges  of  all  such  controversies,  etc."  (Italics  ours). 
Here  we  find  the  provision  for  a  lodge  jury ;  but  do  not  find,  anywhere,  that  a 
member  can  be  ousted  from  the  panel  by  challenge.  If  it  is  proper  for  a 
lodge  to  challenge  a  relative  of  the  accused,  where  is  the  impropriety  of 
the  defendant  in  objecting  to  any  member  who  may  be  suspected  of  a 
liability  to  render  a  biased  verdict.?  It  would  be  a  somewhat  remarkable 
spectacle  for  a  respondent  to  object  that  because  brother  A,  B,  or  C,   had 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE. 


expressed  an  opinion  on  the  merits  of  the  case,  that  they  should  not  be 
permitted  to  sit  on  the  trial.  It  may  be  unfraternal  and  unwise  for  a  Masonic 
juror  to  do  this,  but  such  expression  will  not  be  a  bar  to  his  rights  in  the 
premises.  The  committee  did  not  endorse  the  second  decision  of  the  Grand 
Master.     Correct. 

In  reply  to  the  query  of  the  Grand  Master,  the  committee  say,  that  a 
brother  definitely  suspended  by  his  lodge,  but  restored  by  the  Grand  Lodge 
prior  to  the  termination  of  the  award,  can  immediately  and  lawfully  apply  to 
another  lodge  for  membership.     .Sound. 

The  Committee  on  Correspondence  advise  that  our  Brazilian  brethren 
settle  their  own  controversies.  A  jewel  was  ordered  for  the  retiring  Grand 
Master. 

The  death  of  Past  Grand  Master  James  McCaleb  Wiley,  was  announced. 
He  died  the  day  preceding  the  present  communication,  beloved  by  all  who 
were  honored  with  his  acquaintance. 

The  report  on  Foreign  Correspondence  is  by  Oliver  S.  Beers.  We  wish 
that  he,  with  other  brethren,  would  di'op  "  Foreign,"  and  substitute  "  Ma- 
sonic." 

We  admire  the  spirit  of  the  report.     He  says: 

Our  report  is  therefore  essentially  an  aggregation  of  the  quotations ;  preserving,  however, 
our  favorite  liiieoi  operations  by  giving  preference  in  all  cases  to  extracts  which  tend  to  illus 
trale  and  perpetuate  the  true  principles,  as  well  as  record  the  trials  and  triumphs  of  ancient 
craft  Masonry.     The  oldest  and  most  honorable  institution,  devoted  to  the  service  of  6'orfand 
the  elevation  of  man,  of  which  we  (this  writer)  have  any  knowledge. 

Correct,  Brother  B. 

Our  Jurisdiction  receives  kindly  notice.  He  dissents  from  the  views  of 
Grand  Master  Robbins,  (1876),  on  the  proposition  to  establish  a  Widows  and 
Orphans'  Home.  We  are  quite  certain  that  not  a  Mason  in  Illinois  would 
seriously  object  to  the  enterprise,  if  tno»ey  was  provided  for  the  undertaking; 
but  our  brethren,  with  the  e.xperiences  of  other  Jurisdictions,  will,  we  hope, 
never  consent  to  the  establishment  of  any  public  Masonic  Charity,  in  the 
absence  of  means  to  insure  its  success.  We  are  not  now  encumbered  with 
obligations  that  we  cannot  meet — distracting  lodges  with  constant  appeals  for 
aid,  and  we  propose  to  keep  from  under  the  harrow. 

Lodges,  269;  membership,  (our  footing)  7816.  M.-.W.-.  Henry  Clay 
Armstrong,  Suspension,  G.  M;   R.'.W.'.  Daniel  .Sayre,  Montgomery,  G.  S. 


APPENDIX. 


ARKANSAS,  1877. 

This  Grand  Body  assembled  in  Little  Rock,  October  Sth. 

M.-.W.-.  M.  M.  McGuire,  presiding. 

After  reading  the  address  of  the  Grand  Master,  we  were  impressed  with 
the  Claudian  quotation  :     FortuniF  Majoris  f/oiios,  erecfus  et  acer. 

If  our  readers  -..vill  recul  our  selections,  an  apology  for  giving  the  address 
so  much  attention  will  not  be  necessary : 

Amid  the  revolving  spheres,  in  the  grand  universe  of  God,  our  planet  has  made  another 
circuit  of  the  heavens,  and  the  tap  of  the  Grand  Miister's  gavel  numbers  its  rounds  as  it 
passes  His  stations.  The  Recording  Angel  has  kept  a  faithful  record  in  the  great  "  booli  of 
remembrance,"  and  to-day  sends  up  the  minutes  for  inspection.  How  stands  the  record  in 
that  great  book  with  us?  is  an  inquiry  that  each  is  individually  interested  in  answering.  Has 
our  work  been  good,  true  and  square,  and  will  it  stand  the  test  of  the  Master's  inspection. 
That  whicli  has  been  written  on  life's  page  against  our  names  must  there  stand ;  the  charac- 
ters are  indelible.  We  cannot  now  erase  a  word  or  interline  a  syllable  ;  then  we  should  be 
very  careful  how  each  page  is  made  up,  day  after  day,  as  we  pass  along.  Since  last  we  met 
around  our  sacred  altar,  in  a  Grand  Lodge  capacity,  a  year  has  passed,  never  to  be  recalled, 
but  we  can  turn  over  the  leaves  and  inspect  the  pages — for  that  purpose  we  have  met — and  by 
this  we  hope  to  gain  wisdom  from  our  errors,  as  well  as  our  virtues,  to  direct  us  in  the  future 


Since  last  we  met,  great  events  have  transpired  that  shape  the  destiny,  not  only  of  indi- 
viduals, but  of  States,  of  nations,  of  the  world,  perhaps.  In  the  old  world,  bloody  handed 
war  with  grim  visage  stalks  abroad,  wielding  his  unrelenting  sword  of  vengeance  and 
brandishing  the  torch  of  destruction.  He  has  no  mercy  on  old  men  or  maidens,  or  those  that 
stoop  from  age,  but  plunges  his  bloody  sabre  alike  into  innocent  and  helpless  women  and 
children  as  he  does  into  the  mail-clad  warrior  that  opposes  his  onward  march.  A  war,  born 
of  religious  fanaticism,  drenches  the  old  world  in  blood,  and  that,  too,  around  the  very  spot 
where  the  Prince  of  Peace  taught  his  disciples  love  and  good-will  among  men.  Over  the 
same  country  where  Paul  traveled,  preaching  peace,  now  march  and  counter  inarch  the 
bloody  handed  Russian  and  Turk,  both  equally  wicked  and  fanatical,  both  fighting  tor  ; as 
the  great  primary  and  moving  cause)  the  supremacy  of  a  religion  equally  foreign  to  trutTi  and 
the  will  of  Heaven — Greek  Catholicism  -vs.  Mahomedanism.  For  the  leaders  on  either  side 
of  the  conflict  we  may  feel  but  little  sympathy;  but,  for  the  non-combat:ints  and  innocents  on 
both  sides,  we  feel.  This  war  rages ;  how  long  it  may  last  we  know  not.  Other  parts  of  the 
old  world  are  threatened  by  the  rockings  of  political  commotions,  but  we  have  not  time  to 
speak  at  greater  length  on  this  subject.  Let  us  thank  the  Great  Ruler  of  worlds  that  the 
clouds  that  obscured  our  own  horizon,  when  last  we  met,  have  all  been  banished,  and  the  low 
muttering  thunders  that  reverberated  along  our  skies  have  all  been  hushed.  Order  has  come 
out  of  confusion,  and  symmetry  has  sprung  from  chaos.  Good  home  governments  have  been 
restored  in  every  State,  and  our  sister  States  of  the  South,  that  sat  in  sackcloth  and  wept, 
because  the  foot  of  the  oppressor  was  grinding  on  their  necks,  have  been  liberated  from  their 
shackles;  have  put  on  the  robes  of  prosperity,  and  joy  lights  up  the  smiling  countenances  of 
their  people.  Peace  and  happiness  reign  supreme,  and,  to  make  our  cup  to  run  over  with  good 
things,  the  Great  Giver  of  all  good  has  not  only  blessed  us  with  plenty,  but  abundance  has 
been  showered  upon  us.  Cornucopia — the  famed  horn  of  plenty — has  literally  poured  out  its 
rich  treasures;  the  land  has  brought  forth  its  increase,  and  the  toil  of  the  husbandman  has 
been  liberally  rewarded.     The  crops  were  perhaps  never  equaled,  and,  we  feel  sure,  never 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE. 


surpassed   in   our  State;  and,  when   we  add  to  this,  that  good  health   prevails,  as  a  rule> 
throughout  our  borders,  we  should  exclaim  in  the  fullness  of  our  hearts,  "What  shall  we 

RENDER    UNTO   THE    LORD    FOR    ALL    HiS    BENEFITS?" 


A  few  weeks  aso  we  read  in  a  newspaper  an  advertisement,  headed  in  bold  letters,  MEN 
^VA^{TED  I  and  this  awakened  a  train  of  thought  why  it  was  our  institution  was  not  accom- 
plishing greater  victories  in  its  mission  in  the  world.  The  institution  is  faultless.  The  mind 
of  man  could  not  conceive  a  better  system  of  morals,  or  select  symbols  more  impressive  in 
the  teachings  of  lessons  of  wisdom,  than  we  here  find,  and  all  who  cross  our  threshhold  view 
with  wondering  admiration  its  beautiful  proportions,  yet  ofttimes  the  candidate  for  its  mys- 
teries turns  away  with  indifference,  or,  like  a  man  who  beholds  his  face  in  the  glass,  he  forgets 
what  manner  of  man  he  was.  The  lessons  taught  around  our  altar  fail  to  make  the  impress 
designed  upon  his  heart.  Therefore  we  should  advertise  for  men.  Men  Wanted  I  Give 
us  men,  made  in  the  image  of  their  Creator,  and  Masonry  will  have  no  trouble  in  convincing 
the  world  of  its  good  effects.  We  need  to  elevate  the  standard  high  ;  none  but  the  worthy 
should  find  an  entrance  through  our  portals.  The  internal  should  be  inspected  more  than  the 
external.  The  applicant  may  have  two  feet,  two  hands,  and  a  big  head,  and  yet  be  destitute 
of  a  heart,  and,  if  so,  we  opine  he  wants  more  of  being  "a  perfect  man,"  according  to  the 
Masonic  rule,  than  he  would  with  a  full  grown  heart  and  a  missing  foot.  We  are  gratified  to 
report  that  the  standard  of  Masonry  has  been  elevated  in  our  State  much  higher  than  it  was  a 
few  years  ago.  The  outlook  for  Masonry  in  Arkansas  is  brighter  than  it  has  been  ;  all  things 
are  improving.  While  we  have  been  constituting  but  few  new  lodges,  we  have  been  reviving 
the  old.  Several  old  lodges,  that  it  was  thought  were  dead  and  only  awaiting  interment,  have 
been  revived  to  anew  life,  and  it  is  hoped  they  may  never  again  fall  into  a  comatose  condition. 

The  loss  by  fire  of  the  Grand  Secretary's  office,  December,  1S76,  entailed 
great  inconvenience,  as  did  the  loss  of  the  Grand  Master's  office  the  follow- 
ing February.  His  official  papers  and  books  were  destroyed,  and,  as  a 
consequence,  he  is  able  to  present  but  a  limited  record  of  his  official  acts. 

He  decides  that  it  is  not  obligatory  on  the  brother  casting  a  black  ball 
upon  an  application  for  advancement  or  affiliation,  to  prefer  charges  against 
the  rejected  candidate. 

We  give  the  14th  and  15th  decisions  entire. 

14.  The  reception  of  the  Past  Master's  degree  in  .a  Chapter,  confers  no  authority  on  the 
brother  to  preside  in  a  Master's  Lodge.  Symbolic  Masonry  is  not  dependent  on  Capitular 
Masonry  to  furnish  it  with  qualified  officers  for  the  government  of  the  craft. 

15.  Is  it  necessary  tor  the  Past  Master's  degree  to  be  conferred  on  a  W.  M.  elect,  prior 
to  his  installation?  We  regard  the  Past  Master's  degree  as  a  modern  innovation, accepted  by 
usage,  but  wholly  unsupported  by  law.  The  full  and  complete  installation  ceremonies  seats 
the  Master  elect  in  the  Oriental  Chair,  and  qualifies  and  empowers  him  to  preside;  and  no 
t/^j^r^e' conferred  in  an  irregular  manner,  unknown  and  unrecognized  by  Symbolic  Masonry, 
can  do  more. 

The  Committee  on  Law  and  Usage  dissent,  and  hold  that  "  the  order  of 
Past  Master,  as  conferred  in  convocations  upon  Masters  elect,  isasold(!) 
and  as  constitutional  (!)  as  any  degree  in  Masonry."  The  committee  further 
say : 

As  a  Chapter  degree  it  is  American,  adopted  as  part  of  our  capitular  system  nearly  a 
hundred  years  ago,  as  above  observed,  and  is  made  by  the  constitution  of  the  General  Grand 
Chapter  of  the  United  States  and  the  constitutions  of  the  State  Grand  Chapters  a  regular 
degree. 


APPENDIX. 


As  an  order,  conferred  in  convocations,  or  as  a  degree  of  the  Chapter  series,  it  is  sup- 
ported by  law,  and  when  properly  conferred,  like  all  of  the  orders  and  decrees  of  Masonry,  is 
instructive  and  improving.  An  accomplished  Past  Master  is  familiar  with  heauliful  cere- 
monies, and  with  the  constitutions  and  laws  of  symbolical  Masonry. 

Now,  we  object  that  because  it  is  a  Chapter  degree,  it  has  any  relation  to 
Craft  Masonry.  The  venerable  character  of  the  impostor  is  unquestioned ; 
as  is  a  score  of  other  addendas  that  have  been  tacked  upon  the  body  of  the 
Craft  in  the  various  jurisdictions  of  the  world.  The  degrees,  not  orders, 
of  the  Symbolic  Lodge,  are  E.  A.,  F.  C.  and  M.  M.  Nothing  else  is  pro- 
vided for  in  our  rituals,  esoteric  or  exoteric.  The  learned  committee  might 
with  as  much  propriety  insist  that  because  the  Royal  Arch  was  conferred  by 
lodges  in  the  early  and  late  history  of  English  Masonry,  that  the  practice  is 
"  supported  bv  law,"  and  would  not  now  be  objectionable.  There  is  not  a 
degree  in  Craft  Masonry  that  can  be  lawfully  conferred  without  the  assent  of 
the  lodge.  Neither  is  it  lawful  to  create  an  order  within  a  lodge,  and  which 
is  not  attainable  by  every  member  thereof,  under  the  usual  restrictions  of 
advancements.  We  admit  that  it  is  the  practice  of  doing  these  unwarranted 
things,  but  we  would  like  the  committee  to  go  to  the  foundation  of  all 
Masonic  law,  our  rituals,  and  point  out  the  authority  for  them.  In  the  report 
of  last  year  we  talked  considerably  on  this  subject,  and  do  not  wish  to  pro- 
long the  discussion,  and  will  simply  inquire  if  this  order  is  necessary  to  the 
presiding  officer,  what  is  to  be  done  with  the  S.  W.,  who  is  authorized  ^v  law 
to  preside  in  the  absence  of  the  W.  M.? 

After  writing  the  foregoing,  we  stumbled  upon  the  following  action  of  our 
Arkansas  brethren,  at  the  session  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  in  1853: 

Sec.  259.  The  order  or  degree  of  Past  Master,  as  an  order  or  degree  separate  from  the 
installation  ceremony  of  a  Master  elect,  and  as  conferred  by  organized  or  occasional  bodies, 
outside  of  the  Blue  Lodges,  is  not  a  legitimate  degree,  and  cannot  be  allowed  to  become 
such"  but  a  mere  order  bv  wav  of  honorarium,  distinction  and  rank,  conferred  by  way  ot 
reward  for  present  or  past  services  as  Master  of  a  lodge,  and  is  not  necessary  as  a  separate 
de°-ree  or  order  to  qualify  a  Master  to  preside  ;  such  qualification,  complete  and  ample,  being 
arrived  at  by  election,  and  installation  in  ample  form,  which  includes  so  much  of  that  degree 
as  is  now  used  as  a  part  of  the  ceremony ;  and  so  much  of  said  degree  is  a  necessary  part  of 
the  ceremony  of  installation,  and  an  indispensable  prerequisite  to  taking  the  chair. — Pro. 
iSS3,/.  71. 

We  think  the  Grand  Master  erred  in  deciding  that  the  loss  of  a  foot, 
artificiallv  supplied,  was  not  a  bar  to  the  favorable  consideration  of  an  appli- 
cation for  the  degrees.  So  did  the  committee.  We  coincide  in  his  view, 
that  moral  fitness  has  more  to  do  in  making  a  perfect  man  than  "  physical 
conformation;"  but  our  opinion  is,  that  the  difficulty  in  settling  upon  a  line 
of  demarcation  in  these  qualifications,  should  induce  a  rigid  construction  of 
the  Ancient  Charge  on  this  subject. 

The  Grand  Master  holds  that  the  claims  of  the  "widow"  ceases  when  she 
again  becomes  a  wife;  likewise  the  "daughter,"  when  she  sets  up  a  new 
family  relation  bv  jumping  into  a  man's  arms,  for  better  or  for  worse.  The 
committee  endorse  the  decision  in  low  breath.  Such  law,  if  sound,  is  not  a 
good  family  sedative. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE. 


Dispensations  were  issued  for  the  formation  of  tliree  new  lodges. 

The  Grand  Master  makes  very  fraternal  allusion  to  the  decease  of  Past 
Grand  Master  E.  H.  Whitfield,  aged  seventy-six  years.  Also  to  the  loss  of 
Bro.  Gourley. 

St.  John's  College,  like  most  other  Jurisdictional  institutions,  isa  burthen; 
yielding  nothing  but  embarrassment.  In  the  language  of  the  G.  M. :  "This 
institution  has  arrived  at  that  point  when  it  is  viewed  by  the  Masons  of  the 
State  very  much  like  the  man  viewed  his  bargain  when  he  had  bought  an 
elephant,  and  did  not  have  the  means  to  fit  out  his  menagerie  and  run  his 
show.  The  elephant  was  too  valuable  to  kill,  and  would  not  pay  to  keep." 
These  experiences  should  be  instructive  to  Grand  Lodges,  who  are  so  fre- 
quently urged  into  these  enterprises. 

The  Committee  on  Appeals  and  Grievances  were  engaged  with  12  cases. 

Recognition  was  accorded  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Indian  Territory.  A 
minority  report  by  P.  G.  M.  DuVal  was  presented.  He  objects  to  the  recog- 
nition, upon  grounds  to  which  we  shall  hereafter  allude.  The  "  Grand 
Lodge  of  Cuba"  was  also  recognized. 

The  time  for  holding  Annual  Communication  was  changed  from  October 
to  the  second  Tuesday  in  January. 

The  office  of  Grand  Lecturer  was  abolished,  and  in  its  place  an  elective 
body  of  five  members  is  provided  for,  "who  shall  be  a  Committee  on  Work 
and  Lectures."  A  unanimous  assent  of  the  committee  must  be  had  before 
any  work  or  lectures  can  be  adopted  and  promulgated. 

The  report  on  Foreign  Correspondence,  by  Bro.  Geo.  E.  Dodge,  is  a  brief 
review  of  the  transactions  of  the  thirty-seven  jurisdictions.  We  regret  that 
Illinois  is  not  among  the  number.  From  the  tone  of  his  special  report,  and 
the  fact  that  he  was  made  "permanent  Chairman,"  we  expect,  with  others,  to 
receive  attention  another  year. 

Statistics — lodges,  345;  membership,  8,:!9i. 

M.-.W.-.John  F.  Hill,  Clarksville,  G.  M.  ;  R.-.W.-.  L.  E.  Barber,  Little 
Rock,  G.  Sec. 


APPENDIX. 


CALIFORNIA. 

The  Twenty-eighth  Annual  Communication  was  held  in  San  Francisco, 
October  gth. 

M.'.W.'.  John  Mills  Browne,  occupying  the  Grand  East. 

The  volume  before  us  is  one  of  the  finest  and  most  elaborate  contributions 
to  Craft  record  that  it  has  been  our  pleasure  to  examine.  We  have  read  many 
complimentary  notices  of  Bro.  Abell's  work,  but  have  not  till  now  fully 
appreciated  his  value  to  his  Grand  Lodge. 

The  address  of  the  Grand  Master  is  so  symmetrical,  that  it  is  difficult  to 
make  selections  without  marring  the  structure;  but  we  will  present  enough 
to  show  the  Craft  the  advantages  of  having  a  clear  headed,  cultivated  and 
industrious  presiding  officer: 

Our  last  communication  occurred  at  a  time  memorable  as  the  Centennial  of  our  political 
institutions,  which  signalized  the  substitution  of  acknowledged  fact  for  experiment,  and 
demonstrated  the  practicability  of  popular  sovereignty  and  the  education  of  the  masses, 
thereby  confirming  the  principles  of  self-government  and  the  right  of  every  one  to  exercise 
the  liberty  of  the  soul.  It  witnessed  the  centenary  of  a  republic  and  all  that  pertained  to  its 
material  progress,  the  advancement  of  a  higher  civilization,  and  the  arts  and  sciences— a  repub" 
lie  born  under  oppression,  increasing  without  unjust  conquest  or  unlawful  absorption,  respect, 
ing  the  rights  of  other  nations,  with  no  disposition  to  suppress  or  destroy,  seeking  interna- 
tional friendship,  fostering  "  the  struggle  of  intelligence  en  the  pacific  ground  of  national 
development,"  and  finally  arriving  at  a  matured  growth,  which,  nourished  by  common  effort,, 
common  forbearance,  and  common  devotion,  will  continue  to  preserve  individual  liberty  and 
perpetuate  national  unity. 

******** 

We,  representatives  of  the  noblest  sentiments,  have  come  hither  from  our  various  voca-  ' 
tions,  to  meet  again  in  convocation,  not  impelled  by  "a  brief  flash  of  energy,  but  with  definite 
motives,  and  a  foreshadowed  intention  to  completely  perform  our  duty,  to  exchange  fraternal 
greetings,  to  give  and  receive  opinions,  to  labor  and  fulfill  claims;  and  this  we  do  with  an 
assurance  of  the  healthy  condition  of  the  Craft,  and  in  the  knowledge  that  comparative  peace 
and  harmony  prevail  throughout  the  jurisdiction.  Let  us  have  faith  in  the  boundless  wisdom 
of  God;  let  us  realize  the  great  law  of  duty  toward  Him;  let  us  strive  to  learn,  to  think,  to 
do,  to  bear;  and  thus,  in  fervency  and  earnestness,  g-ratefully  recognize  His  loving  kindness 
in  permitting  this  assemblage,  and  humbly  invoke  His  guidance  that  its  important  duties 
may  be  acceptably  done. 

It  is  to  be  supposed  that  you  have  made  yourselves  acquainted  with  all  the  requirements 
demanded  for  the  proper  government  and  piloting  of  your  lodges  under  the  varied  conditions 
to  which  they  may  be  subjected.  You  will  meet  with  perplexities  and  discouragements  which 
will  call  forth  the  strongest  effort  for  self-repression ;  yet,  knowing  well  your  duty,  and  reso- 
lutely performing  it  in  fearless  truthfulness  and  confidence,  with  a  force,  calm  and  benignant 
but  simple  and  direct  in  purpose,  with  a  judgment  which  partiality  cannot  pervert  nor  preju- 
dice color,  irrespective  of  antipathies  and  sympathies,  j'ou  will  receive  a  ready  and  respectful 
obedience,  enjoy  an  independence  that  will  not  be  shaken,  and  be  reputed  for  an  integrity 
that  cannot  be  corrupted,  and  a  moral  and  intellectual  rcctitute  that  will  not  be  questioned. 
You  will  have  continual  opportunities  for  doing  good  and  being  kind,  and  for  the  exhibition, 
of  tenderness,  patience,  and  self-denial;  your  generosity  will  be  supposed,  your  liberality 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE. 


expected,  and  your  charity  asked  for;  these  and  other  things  will  happen  because  you  are 
Masons.  Of  you  much  is  expected,  but  you  will  not  disappoint  the  expectations  if  you  do 
your  duty,  and  your  duty  is  to  fulfill  the  claims  of  the  lodge ;  and,  in  doing  your  duty,  let  it  be 
combined  with  love  for  Masonry,  which  is  a  love  for  the  beautiful  and  true— a  love  for  the 
cause  of  right  and  justice — a  love  for  lofty  views  of  life,  nobleness  of  character,  and  gener- 
osity of  disposition — and,  strong-hearted  and  practical,  you  will  have  served  Masonry  in  its 
interests,  advancement  and  honor. 

******** 

During  my  term  of  oflice  I  have  visited  twenty-seven  of  the  thirty-one  districts  in  the 
jurisdiction,  the  unvisited  being  the  second,  the  twelfth,  the  twenty-seventh,  and  the 
thirtieth,  which,  from  their  remoteness,  together  with  the  want  of  requisite  time  for  govern- 
mental duties,  I  have  been  unable  to  inspect,  greatl)'  to  my  regret,  not  alone  for  the  pleasure 
and  advantage  expected  therefrom,  but  as  an  unavoidable  non-performance  of  the  pro- 
gramme arranged.  The  attendance,  the  interest,  general  good  sense  and  good  feeling 
evinced,  and  the  endeavor  to  profit  by  the  occasion,  were  prominent  features  of  the  district 
meetings.     The  average  work  was  good,  all  was  fair,  and  some  excellent. 


In  investigating  the  causes  which  disturb,  perplex,  and  embarrass  lodges  in  their  financial 
and  working  condition,  retarding  growth,  impairing  influence,  injuring  reputation,  and 
making  them  what  they  ought  not  to  be,  in  striking  contrast  to  what  they  might  and  should  be, 
I  found  a  lack  of  attendance  at  lodge  labors,  careless  introduction  of  new  material,  persistent 
abuse  and  indiscriminate  use  of  the  black-ball,  a  reluctant,  tardy,  or  non-pavment  of  dues, 
inexcusable  carelessness,  and  an  illiberal  and  unmasonic  treatment  of  the  applications  for 
affiliation  from  non- affiliates.  These  depressing  and  sapping  influences  were  mentioned  at 
length  in  my  former  message,  and  consequently  it  is  not  proposed  to  again  occupv  your  lime 
in  their  detailed  reiteration,  all  that  is  requisite  being  to  indicate  in  substance  that  they  do 
exist,  and  to  urge  a  more  determined  effort  for  their  removal,  else  it  may  rightfully  be 
expected  that  there  will  be  no  decided  improvement,  and  that  our  just  reward  for  this  indif- 
ference, negligence,  and  absence  of  genuine  Masonic  feeling  will  be  a  want  of  proper  estima- 
tion, or  even  a  condemnation,  from  without  our  borders,  and  repining  and  regret  from  within 
our  hearts. 

The    Grand    Master   reports    one    lodge  as  having   adopted   the  following 
'  bj-law : 

"  One-half  of  all  moneys  received  for  degrees  conferred  by  this  lodges  hall,  at  the  time  of 
the  receipt  thereof  by  the  Treasurer,  be  by  him  set  apart  for  the  purpose  of  instituting  and 
maintaining  a  permanent  Lodge  Fund.  The  Treasurer  may,  from  time  to  time,  place  at 
interest,  or  invest  upon  good  and  sufficient  security,  all  or  any  part  of  the  money  con- 
stituting such  permanent  Lodge  Fund,  provided,  that  before  any  part  of  said  fund  shall  be 
loaned  or  invested  by  tlie  Treasurer,  he  shall,  in  each  case,  have  the  consent  of  two-thirds  of 
the  members  present  at  a  stated  meeting.  The  interest  received  from  the  loans  or  invest- 
ments of  said  fund  shall  go  to  the  general  fund,  unless  otherwise  ordered  by  the  lodge.  The 
Treasurer  shall  make  semi-annual  reports  to  the  lodge  of  the  condition  of  the  said  fund." 

On  the  subject  of  profanity  and  pledges,  he  says : 

Why  should  a  Mason  make  use  of  expressions  interlarded  with  profanity  that  would  not 
be  tolerated  in  polite  society?  Can  he  believe  that  the  use  of  profane  language  adds  force  to 
a  declaration,  makes  it  more  convincing,  or  renders  an  argument  more  persuasive  or  logical? 
I  think  not,  and  if  I  think  rightly  may  it  not  be  asserted  that  this  is  a  serious  defect,  an 
unwise  and  useless  habit? 

Masonic  pledges  are  sometimes  given  in  political  matters,  and,  whether  broken  or  not, 
should  be  equally  frowned  upon  as  subversive  of  projjriety  and  displaying  an  ignorance  of  the 
purpose  of  Masonry.  Living  by  a  law  unto  itself,  espousing  no  party,  sect,  nor  creed,  seek- 
ing no  outward  favors  or  patronage,  independent  of  foreign  power,  and  laboring  for  common 


XII 


APPKNDIX. 


good,  Masonry  was  not  created,  nor  is  it  kept  up  lor  political  or  pecuniary  purposes.  The 
sooner  brethren  become  aware  that  Masonry  is  incompatible  with  politics  and  business 
operations  the  belter;  the  sooner  they  manifest  their  displeasure  at  this  inharmonious  mix- 
ture the  better;  the  sooner  they  stop  the  reckless  pledging  of  Masonic  faith  and  "  communi- 
cating on  the  square  "  the  better ;  for  until  this  be  done  we  shall  have  this  foolish  yet  hurtful 
inconsistency,  and  suffer  within  and  without  from  its  demoralizing  tendency.  These  things, 
it  seems  to  me,  are  not  enough  considered  among  us,  and  for  their  avoidance  it  is  hardly 
necessary  to  Irgislate,  as  the  best  and  most  effectual  remedy  is  to  be  found  in  the  discourage- 
ment, displeasure,  and  reproof  displaved  by  the  brethren. 

Credentials  were  issued  by  order  of  the  Grand  Lodge  to  Bro.F.F.Odio, Grand 
Secretary,  as  Representative  near  the  Grand  Orient  of  Egypt.  In  our  review 
of  Idaho  (1876)  we  asked  Bro.  Purdy,  a  representative  of  the  same  Grand 
Orient  to  explain  the  fundamental  principles  involved  in  associating  Craft 
Masonry  with  such  organizations.  We  are  yet  in  the  dark,  and  would  like 
light.  Our  report  of  last  year  on  the  applications  of  the  Grand  Lodges  of 
"  Cuba"  and  "  Colon  "  for  recognition,  together  with  the  review  of  Penn- 
svlvania  for  the  same  year,  embrace  our  unchanged  views  on  this  subject.  It 
is  hoped  that  the  Craft  of  California  may  give  this  question  renewed  atten- 
tion. This  class  of  hand-shaking  may  lead  to  unpleasant  consequences,  if 
persisted  in. 

The  Grand  Master  presents  a  somewhat  remarkable  case.  It  appears  that 
Eureka  Lodge,  No.  16,  invested  $569  20  in  the  relief  of  a  member  of  Silver 
Star  Lodge,  No  17,  Montana.  At  the  request  of  the  former,  Bro.  Browne, 
forwarded  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Montana  a  claim  for  reimbursement. 
Upon  investigation  it  was  found  that  the  Montana  lodge  was  without  funds. 
Thereupon  this  lodge  of  seventeen  members  contribute  $200  of  the  amount, 
and  the  Grand  Lodge  the  balance,  $369  20.  In  this  response  to  a  claim 
against  a  subordinate,  the  brethren  of  Montana  completely  exhausted  their 
treasury.  There  are  some  features  of  this  transaction  that  are  perplexing, 
from  the  fact  that  the  Craft  of  California  have  enjoyed  an  enviable  reputa- 
tion for  large  and  disinterested  generosity.  It  may  be  that  they  will  yet  wash 
their  hands  of  this,  apparently,  unjustifiable  extortion.  We  are  intensely 
hostile  to  the  opinion  that  a  lodge  shall  be  held  liable  for  expenses  incurred 
in  the  relief  of  its  members  by  other  lodges,  unless  with  its  concurrence. 
Our  obligations  are  in  the  welfare  of  "  worthy  brethren,"  without  regard  to 
lodge  membership.  If  it  were  otherwise,  we  would  rank  with  mutual  insur- 
ance associations — nothing  more.     Later.     See  Montana. 

There  is  an  air  of  exclusiveness  in  the  following,  tliat,  under  the  circum- 
stances, does  not  appear  to  embrace  much  of  the  fraternal : 

A  question  of  precedence  arose  between  Hawaiian  Lodge,  No.  21,  and  a  Chapter  of  Rose 
Croix  Scottish  Rite,  at  Honolulu,  which  originated  in  the  observance  of  the  ceremonies  at 
the  obsequies  of  a  deceased  member.  Prince  Leleiohoku,  heir  apparent,  and  brother  of  his 
maiesty  King  Kalakua.  I  sustained  the  position  assumed  by  the  Master  of  Hawaiian 
Lodge,  in  the  following  terms: — A  lodge  of  Masons,  as  a  lodge,  will  only  appear  in  a  funeral 
procession  when  it  shall  conduct  the  ceremonies  ;  it  will  not  appear,  even  as  an  escort,  when  the 
funeral  services  are  performed  by  other  societies  or  appendant  Orders.  The  lodge  conduct- 
ing the  ceremonies  is  entitled  to  the  post  of  honor  in  tlie  procession,  at  the  left  of  the  line. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE. 


and  nearest  the  body  of  the  deceased;  other  lodges  in  the  same  iurisdiction  take  position  in 
jhe  line  in  accordance  with  their  Grand  Lodge  number;  the  lodge  may  invite  or  permit  other 
bodies  to  join  in  ihe  procession  as  escort  or  otherwise,  and  will  assign  their  position,  which 
must  invariably  be  in  advance  of  the  lodge  performing  the  service;  after  the  lodge  has  com- 
pleted its  services  it  cannot  prevent  services  that  may  be  performed  by  other  societies  or 
appendant  Orders,  but  it  retires  and  does  not  participate  therein. 

If  it  is  true  that  a  symbolic  Mason  cannot  be  interred  bj  any  other  "  Ma- 
sonic "  bod^-  of  which  he  may  be  a  member,  then  the  position  of  the  Grand 
Master  is  correct.  ^V'e  have  given  this  question  a  great  deal  of  thought,  and 
tintil  we  are  advised  of  some  Alationic  reason  to  the  contrary-,  we  shall  feel 
justified  in  the  belief  that  it  is  not  only  proper,  but,  further,  that  the  lodge  is 
under  fraternal  obligations,  in  the  presence  of  a  proper  request,  to  be  present 
at  the  obsequies  of  a  brother.  M.-.W.*.  Bro.  Browne  must  notforget  that  in 
recognizing  "  Grand  Orients  "  as  a  part  of  the  Masonic  system,  he  cannot  with 
any  great  degree  of  propriety,  decline  interchange  of  such  courtesies.  Aside 
from  this,  such  exclusiveness  amounts  to  intolerance,  so  freely  and  forcibly 
condemned  by  the  entire  genius  of  our  iiistitution ;  and  we  are  a  little  sur- 
prised that  our  distinguished  brother  should  be  found  within  its  hated 
shadow. 

We  are  constrained  to  think,  however,  that  there  is  something  in  connex- 
ion with  this  matter  that  we  do  not  understand ;  for  we  find  that  "  on  the  27th 
October,  1S76,  the  Grand  Master  convened  his  Grand  Lodge  in  Special  Com- 
munication at  Visalia,  and,  assisted  b}'  Visalia  Lodge,  No.  128,  laid  the  Cor- 
ner-stone of  the  New  Court  House  of  Tulare  county.  Escort  duty  was 
performed  by  a  lodge  of  Odd- Fellows.''''  (Italics  ours.)  It  is  probable  that 
this  Rose  Croix  Chapter  at  Honolulu  was  oft  color.     So? 

The  Grand  Master  presents  other  decisions,  and  closes  this  section  of  his 
address  with  the  following:  He  is  asked  if  a  Secretary  of  a  lodge  would  be 
justified  in  refusing  dues  of  a  suspended  member,  tendered  by  persons  having 
personal  interests  in  the  matter,  and  in  the  absence  of  a  request  by  the  delin- 
quent. This  interrogatory  grew  out  of  a  case  submitted  at  the  last  session  of 
the  Grand  Lodge,  in  which  a  suspended  member,  while  dying,  was  secretly 
restored  to  membership  through  the  interposition  of  interested  friends,  who 
had  hastily  collected  the  money  and  paid  the  dues,  but  without  the  brother's 
knowledge  or  consent;  and  simply  that  they  might  be  relieved,  and  the  lodge 
forced  to  defray  funeral  expenses.  The  payment  of  dues  under  such  circum- 
stances, and  for  the  purposes  contemplated,  was  a  palpable  fraud,  and  if 
Masons  were  engaged  in  the  enterprise  they  should  be  expelled,  and  the  Sec- 
retary receiving  the  monej',  sent  to  Congress.  The  Grand  Master  thus  con- 
cludes his  able  and  interesting  address: 

"  Like  as  the  waves  make  to  the  pebbled  shore,  so  do  our  minutes  hasten  to  the  enrl,"  and 
when  time  shall  cause  the  resumption  of  my  original  position  among  you,  remembering  that 
"deeds  are  the  pulse  of  time,"  it  will  be  my  duty,  it  will  be  my  pleasure,  animated  bv  loyalty 
and  truth,  with  the  harshness  of  experience  softened  by  passing  years,  to  make  efforts  after 
greater,  higher,  and  better  results  in  the  future,  for  the  honor,  prosperity,  and  grandeur  of  the 
moral  foundation  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  California. 


APPENDIX, 


The  Grand  Lecturer  epitomizes  the  reports  of  tvventy-tive  District  Inspect- 
ors. The  system  has  been  in  existence  seven  years,  and  has  proved  satisfac- 
tory. If  we  understand  it,  inspectors,  aside  from  the  duties  imposed  upon 
D.  D.  G.  Masters,  have  authority  as  lecturers.     The  Grand  Lecturer  says: 

It  is  now  seven  years  since  the  present  system  of  inspection  was  adopted  by  this  Grand 
I^od^e,  and  it  affords  me  great  pleasure  to  be  able  to  report  that  it  has  accomplished  all  that 
was  expected  of  it.  The  many  irreu^ularities  which  then  existed  in  the  conferring'  of  the 
degrees  have  been  corrected,  and  the  lodges  now,  with  very  few  exceptions,  confer  the 
deo^rees  in  accordance  with  the  ritual  prescribed  by  this  Grand  I..od>je.  I  have  exemplified 
the  work  in  nearly  all  the  districts  under  the  jurisdiction,  and  have,  more  than  an  hundred 
times,  seen  the  deg^rees  conferred  therein;  and  I  am  pleaseil  to  say  that  the  lodges  have 
gained  as  high  a  state  of  proficiency  in  the  work  and  lectures  as  they  will  (in  my  opinion) 
ever  attain. 

The  Committee  on  Grievances  were  not  without  considerable  drafts  upon 
their  attention.  Bro.  John  E.  Purdy,  Past  Master  of  Occidental  Lodge,  No. 
22,  presented  a  memorial  representing,  in  substance,  that  a  member  thereof 
who  was  not  in  arrears  for  dues,  had  been  made  helpless  by  accident,  and 
that  the  authorities  of  the  lodge  had  refused  to  contribute  of  its  funds  to  his 
relief.  The  injured  brother  therefore  prays  "the  Grand  Lodge  to  aid  him 
in  his  distress,  either  by  its  direct  action,  or  by  such  direction  to  said  officers 
of  Occidental  Lodge,  No.  22,  as  shall  compel  them  to  aid  a  sick,  suffering 
and  destitute  brother,  who  is  a  member  of  that  lodge  in  good  standing." 
We  gather  from  the  Report  of  the  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  to  whom  the 
memorial  was  referred,  that  the  brother  was  injured  by  being  thrown  from  a 
buggy  while  drunk ;  and  from  the  fact  that  the  lodge,  as  a  lodge,  has  persistently 
declined  to  afford  aid,  we  take  it  for  granted  that  dissipation  was  his  habit. 
The  committee  say : 

The  case  presents  some  remarkable  features  It  is  certainly  remarkable  that  a  Mason 
should  continue  in  full  membership  with  a  lodge  for  fifteen  years,  and  that  no  inquiry  should 
be  made  as  to  his  moral  fitness  until,  by  a  sudden  misfortune,  he  is  rendered  helpless  and 
compelled  to  call  for  assistance.  The  common  instincts  of  humanity  should  then  impel  us  to 
forget  his  faults  and  delinquencies,  and  to  tender  such  aid  as  his  necessities  require  If  we 
can  afford  to  overlook  his  offenses  against  the  moral  law  when  he  is  hale  and  strong  and 
amply  able  to  provide  for  himself,  it  certainly  is  not  the  part  of  manhood  to  begin  to  speer 
out  his  faults  when  misfortune  has  overtaken  him  and  he  is  helpless.  It  is  a  good  maxim, 
which  has  come  down  to  us  from  the  generous  and  brave  old  Saxons,  that  every  man  is  to  be 
deemed  innocent  until  he  be  proven  guilty,  and  until  his  guilt  has  been  established  by  the 
judgment  of  some  proper  tribunal. 

When  Bro.  Downing  applied  to  his  lodge  for  relief,  his  name  was  on  its  roll  as  a  member 
in  good  standing,  and  the  only  inquiry  then  to  be  made  by  the  lodge,  or  by  its  charity  com- 
mittee, was  whether  he  was  in  actual  distress;  and,  if  found  so  to  be,  the  duty  to  relieve  him 
was  plain  and  imperative,  and  it  was  a  duty  for  the  neglect  of  which  it  is  hard  to  conceive  a 
plausible  excuse.  It  is  no  excuse  for  the  lodge,  in  this  neglect  of  its  first  duty,  to  say  that  the 
applicant  had  been  dissipated,  had  squandered  his  estate,  and,  through  his  own  folly,  reduced 
himself  to  penury.     That  is  a  specious  pretext— not  an  excuse. 

Your  committee  think  that  the  time  when  one  of  its  members  needs  and  applies  lor  relief 
is  not  the  time  when  the  lodge  may  stop  to  inquire  whether  he  has,  in  something  or  in  many 
things,  offended,  and  that  he  must  be  presumed  to  be  worthy  until  his  unworthiness  has  been 
judicially  determined;  and,  further,  that  it  is  not  the  province  of  the  charity  committee  of  a 


MASONIC    COUKESPONDENCE. 


lodge  at  any  time,  to  canvass  or  determine  the  question  whether  or  not  a  member  of  their 
lodge  is  worthy  of  Masonic  consideration.  Tlieir  only  duty  is  to  ascertain  if  the  member  is 
in  actual  need,  and  if  they  find  that  he  is,  they  are  to  relieve  him.  Your  committee  are  of  the 
opinion  that  it  is  the  right  of  every  member  of  a  lodge  to  move,  at  any  one  of  its  meetings, 
that  the  lodge  relieve  the  distress  of  any  one  of  its  own  members,  and  that  it  is  not  within  the 
discretion  of  the  Master  to  refuse  to  entertain  such  a  motion ;  and  they  are  also  of  the  opinion 
that  Occidental  Lodge  was  guilty  of  a  flagrant  offense  when,  under  the  circumstances,  it 
refused  to  render  any  assistance  to  Bro.  Downing,  and  that  that  lodge  should  be  required  to 
make  prompt  amends,  so  far  as  it  may,  for  the  wrong  done,  and  for  its  wanton  disregard  of 
one  of  its  plainest  and  most  imperative  Masonic  duties. 

To  the  end  that  justice  may  be  done,  your  committee  propose  and  recommend  the  adop- 
tion of  the  following  resolution  : 

Resolved,  That  the  matter  of  Occidental  Lodge,  No.  22,  in  its  relations  with  Bro.  Henry 
Clay  Downing,  be  referred  to  the  Grand  Master,  with  instructions  to  require  that  lodge  to 
take  promptly  such  action  in  the  case  of  Bro.  Downing  as  he  shall  deem  proper  in  the 
premises. 

The  Committee  rest  their  argument  upon  the  proposition  that  a  Mason 
''  must  be  presumed  to  be  worthy  until  his  unworthiness  has  been  judicially 
determined."  In  our  review  of  Missouri  (1S76)  we  examined  this  proposi- 
tion, and  still  insist  that  it  is  an  assumption,  and  not  law.  It  is  not  proposed 
to  reproduce  what  we  then  said,  but  only  to  call  attention  to  the  fundamental 
law  upon  the  subject.  First — Masonic  benevolence  is  never  matidatory .  We 
are  to  contribute  to  the  relief  of  brethren,  "if  finding  them  worthy."  Not 
one  word  can  be  produced  from  esoteric  or  exoteric  Craft  obligation  that 
commands  my  benevolence;  but,  on  the  contrary,  I  am  to  meet  such  demands 
to  the  extent  of  my  ability^  I  being  permitted  to  determine  the  worthiness  of 
the  applicant.  If  then,  the  Grand  Lodge  can  order  its  constituent  lodges  in 
the  administration  of  its  charities,  it  can  exercise  the  same  authority  over 
their  members,  in  the  face  of  a  law  that  lies  at  the  foundation  of  the  insti- 
tion.  With  all  due  deference  to  the  opinion  of  the  committee,  we  insist  that 
it  is  an  axiom  in  Masonry,  that,  so  far  as  these  relations  to  each  other  are 
concerned,  the  Grand  Lodge  is  without  even  remote  authority  to  impose 
obligations  or  commands  that  are  not  sanctioned  by  the  esoteric  law. 

The  committee  reported  a  resolution  recognizing  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
New  Mexico.     Agreed  to. 

The  "  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba"  applied  for  recognition,  and  on  the  advice 
of  the  committee,  no  action  was  taken.  The  committee  will  present  the 
case  next  year.  It  was  also  decided  that  charges  pending  against  a  Master 
elect,  was  not  a  bar  to  his  installation. 

The  oration  of  Bro.  Aaron  A.  Sargent  is  of  exceptional  interest.  He  does 
not  indulge  in  either  gaudy  or  gauzy  rhetoric.  It  is  just  such  papers  that 
command  thoughtful  attention,  and  our  only  regret  is  that  we  are  not  per- 
mitted to  lay  it  before  our  readers.  We  must  content  ourselves  with  a  closing 
paragraph : 

Here,  to-day,  in  this  beautiful  temple  of  Masonry,  in  the  heart  of  this  city  which  thirty 
years  ago  did  not  exist,  surrounded  by  thousands  of  the  Craft  who  are  busy  with  their  indus- 
tries as  you  legislate  upon  their  Masonic  interests — here,  in  the  metropolis  of  a  Pacific  empire 


XVI  APPENDIX. 


whose  growing  power  gives  promise  of  majestic  destiny — cilzens  of  a  free  land  where  intelli- 
gence, virtue  and  happiness  are  every  one's  birthright — you  may  rise  above  the  shivery  of 
prejudice  into  the  liberty  of  humanity,  and  mould  our  institution  into  the  proportions  of  ihe 
skies  which  grandly  overhang  us,  pure  as  the  health-giving  breezes  which  fan  us,  grand  as 
our  mountains  that  lift  their  snow-crowned  summits  into  the  upper  light,  and  eternal  as  the 
stars  which  keep  holy  vigil  through  the  ages. 

Bro.  William  H.  Hill  presented  a  valuable  report  on  correspondence. 
Illinois  is  kindly  noticed. 

His  views  are  so  generally  correct,  that  we  dislike  to  dissent  from  anything 
he  says.     Under  Nebraska,  he  gets  off  the  following: 

All  right,  except  the  last  clause.  We  hold  that  any  brother  in  "good  standing  and  clear 
of  the  books,"  is  entitled  to  his  dimit,  and  that  neither  a  majority  or  unanimous  vote  can 
deprive  him  thereof.  It  is  llis  absolute  right  to  leave,  if  he  so  determine,  that  particular 
Masonic  family:  but  they  should  not  recommend  him  to  others,  except  by  actual  vote  of  the 
lodge.  Hence  our  distinction,  which,  as  we  have  said  again  and  again,  is  no  mere  "tweedle- 
dee  and  tweedle-dum"  matter. 

In  Illinois  there  is  not  an  authorized  form  of  dimit.     Our  by-laws  provide  : 

"All  applications  for  dimits  shall  be  made  in  writing,  signed  by  the  applicant,  be  pre- 
sented to  the  lodge  at  a  stated  communication,  shall  be  read  in  open  lodge,  and  lie  over  until 
the  next  or  some  subsequent  stated  meeting,  when,  if  the  applicant's  dues  are  paid,  and  there 
are  no  charges,  a  dimit  shall  be  granted,  and  a  record  made  thereof  " 

We  opposed  the  adoption  of  the  regulation,  and  are  yet  hostile  to  its  provi- 
sions. The  practice  is,  that  when  the  provisions  of  the  law  are  complied 
with,  the  Master  orders  the  dimit. 

The  Master  is  but  the  executive  and  judicial  head  of  the  lodge.  It  is  his 
prerogative  to  enforce  obedience  to  law,  and  to  decide  questions  of  a  judicial 
character.  Beyond  this  he  is  powerless.  He  is  not  invested  with  lawful 
authority  to  interpose  obstacles  to  lawful  legislation,  or  to  ignore  the  right 
of  objection.  He  cannot  appropriate  the  funds  of  a  lodge  without  the  con- 
sent of  the  brethren,  neither  can  he  receive  any  person  into  the  lodge  -ivifhouf 
their  approval.  If,  therefore,  it  is  lawful  for  the  Grand  Lodge  to  direct  that 
a  brother  upon  his  simple  obiter  dictum  may  compel  a  dimit,  we  cannot 
understand  why  it  is  not  just  as  lawful  for  the  same  authority  to  direct  that 
any  lodge  to  which  this  dimit  is  presented,  shall,  under  like  circumstances 
and  in  the  absence  of  charges,  receive  the  brother  to  membership.  In  other 
words,  if  it  is  justifiable  in  our  supreme  authorities  to  assume  any  legislation 
of  the  lodge,  or  impair  any  inherent  right  of  members,  it  is  proper  to  assume 
everything,  and  reduce  us  to  complete  vassalage. 

One  word  in  reply  to  Bro.  Hill's  split-leather  dimits.  We  insist,  that 
under  the  law  of  his  own  jurisdiction,  a  dimit  cannot  issue  without  the 
declaration,  "  that  the  bearer  thereof  is  a  worthy  brother  and  in  good  stand- 
ing." The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  in  the  case  of  Downing,  decided 
(the  Grand  Lodge  assenting)  that  a  member  "  must  be  presumed  to  be  xvorthy 
until  his  utiworthiness  has  been  Judicially    decided."      (Italics  ours.)      Now, 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  XVII 


by  what  authority  do  you  issue  a  document,  tantamount  to  a  declaration  that 
the  brother,  "  whose  name  appears  in  the  margin  hereof,"  is  not  worthy  of 
a// fraternal  consideration? 

We  will  follow  this  question  up  on  some    other   occasion.      Good    night, 
Bro.  Hill. 

Statistics — Lodges,  203;   membership,  i2,i6S. 

M.-.W.-.  John  Mills  Browne,  M.  D.,  Vallejo,  G.  M.      R.-.W.-.  Alexander 
G.  Abel!,  San  Francisco,  G.  Sec. 


CANADA  1877. 

The  Twenty-second  Annual  Communication  was  held  in  St.  Catharines, 
July  nth. 

The  Grand  Secretary  presented  the  following  edict  of  the  M.'.W.",  Grand 
Master : 

By  command  of  the  M.'.W.'.  the  Grand  Master,  I  beg  to  notify  you  that  he  has  been 
unexpectedly  called  upon  to  go  to  Britain  immediately,  and  that  he  has  been  unable  to  defer 
setting  out  upon  his  journey  beyond  the  present  week.  In  consequence  of  his  unavoidable 
absence  from  the  country  during  the  month  of  July,  and  in  order  to  carry  out  the  spirit  of  the 
resolution  passed  at  the  last  Annual  Communication  ot  the  Grand  Lodge,  to  the  following 
effect: 

"  That  this  Grand  Lodsje  considers  that  the  time  of  holding  its  meeting  might,  with  great 
advantage,  be  changed  so  that  the  Annual  Communication  be  held  in  a  cooler  month." 

It  has  been  determined  that  the  Communication  of  Grand  Lodge  already  summoned  for 
the  nth  day  of  July,  1877,  ^t  ^t.  Catharines,  shall  be  simply  a  formal  meeting,  at  which  no 
business  will  be  transacted;  and  it  will  be  unnecessary  for  the  representatives  at  a  distance 
then  to  attend. 

Whereupon  the  M.'.W.'.  the  acting  Grand  Master  declared  the  Grand  Lodge  called  off 
until  Wednesda)^,  the  12th  day  of  September,  A.  D.  1877,  for  the  dispatch  of  business. 

In  reviewing  this  order,  the  Board  of  General  Expenses  express  the 
opinion  that — 

While  highly  appreciating  the  honorable  sentiments  expressed  by  the  M.'.W.'.  the  Grand 
Master,  we  cannot  agree  with  him  in  the  necessity,  nor  recommend  as  a  precedent  his  direc- 
tion for  a  postponement  as  given  to  the  Grand  Secretary.  The  day  for  the  holding  of  the 
Annual  Communication  of  Grand  Lodge  for  the  transaction  of  its  business  being  fixed  by  the 
Constitution,  that  day  can  only  be  changed  as  directed  by  the  Constitution. 

Notwithstanding  the  approval  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  of  this  report  of  the 
Board,  the  next  session  is  called  to  meet  in  Toronto,  September  15,  1S78. 
The  record  upon  the  question  seems  incomprehensible,  else  we  have  missed 
the  connecting  link — probably  the  latter. 


XVIII  APPENDIX. 


September  12.  The  Grand  Lodge  was  called  from  refreshment  to  labor 
by  M.-.W.-.  J.  R.  Kerr,  Grand  Master. 

The  address  of  our  M.*.W.*.  Brother  assures  us,  "  that  the  year  just  ended 
has  contributed  largely  to  the  marked  prosperity  which  has  uniformly  at- 
tended our  Grand  Lodge." 

'*  New  lodges  have  been  formed  in  improving  sections  of  the  country,  and 
give  promise  of  successful  operations.  Old  lodges  have  increased  their  mem- 
bership and  spheres  of  usefulness." 

"The  attention  which  is  given  to  Masonic  matters  by  its  membership  is 
greater  than  at  any  previous  time.  The  moral  and  financial  strength  of  the 
Order  is  better  than  it  has  ever  been  within  our  jurisdiction." 

Following  this  flattering  representation,  is  a  record  of  fourteen  dispensa- 
tions for  new  lodges;  together  with  the  fact  of  $58,155  96  standing  to  the 
credit  of  the  Grand  Lodge  in  government  securities,  and  not  in  worthless 
assets  of  private  bankers,  or  in  corner  lots. 

Fraternal  relations  with  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Louisiana  has  been  resumed. 

That  bogus  affair,  the  so-called  "Grand  Lodge  of  Ontario,"  does  not 
appear  to  cut  any  figure  as  a  disturbing  element.  Many  have  severed  their 
unfortunate  connection  with  it,  and  are  seeking  a  renewal  of  their  former 
associations.     The  Grand  Lodge  authorized  the  Grand  Master — 

To  take  such  action  as  may  prove  just  and  proper  with  individual  cases  of  those  who, 
through  misunderstanding  on  their  own  part  and  misrepresentation  on  the  part  of  others,  have 
been  in  luced  to  join  the  above  organization,  so  that  not  even  the  appearance  of  injustice  may 
be  done  to  any  through  the  operation  of  our  much  loved  institution. 

The  Grand  Master  makes  official  announcement  of  the  decease  of  the 
venerable  brother  John  Dove,  of  Virginia,  brother  Washburn,  of  Ohio,  and 
brother  Gouley,  of  Missouri.  He  presents  a  beautiful  tribute  of  respect  to 
the  memory  of  each.  His  allusions  to  our  lainented  Gouley  are  particularly 
fraternal.  One  thousand  dollars  was  ordered  for  the  relief  of  the  suffering 
brethren  of  St.  John,  which  was  promptly  endorsed  by  the  Grand  Lodge. 

Our  M.'.W.*.  Brother  declines  a  re-election. 

We  notice,  in  reading  the  excellent  reports  of  D.  D.  G.  Masters,  that  they 
are  authorized  to  grant  dispensations  for  lodges  to  appear  in  public,  other 
than  on  funeral  occasions;  they  also  recommend  applications  for  new  lodges. 
A  good  idea,  so  it  seems  to  us. 

R.-.W.-.  Bro.  Peplow,  of  Ontario  District,  resident  at  Port  Hope,  requires 
the  lodges  of  his  bailiwick  to  advise  him  of  every  communication  for  work 
or  otherwise.  By  this  means  he  is  able  to  find  them  in  their  tiormal  condi- 
tion. Our  district  officers  would  do  well  to  adopt  the  suggestion.  This  was 
made  a  law  of  the  jurisdiction. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  XIX 


The  linancial  report  of  the  Board  of  General  Expenses  is  of  exceeding 
interest,  because  it  represents  the  animus  of  the  Canada  Craft.  Of  the  $4,655 
expended  in  benevolence  for  the  past  year,  the  larger  proportion  was  con- 
tributed to  the  relief  of  one  hundred  and  eleven  widows  and  orphans  of 
deceased  brethren,  in  sums  varying  from  fifteen  to  forty  dollars  each.  This 
does  not  include  the  transactions  of  six  local  Boai'ds. 

The  Board  also  furnish  a  tabular  statement  of  relief  granted  during  the 
past  year.  With  the  exception  of  $640  expended  prior  to  1863,  there  has 
been  devoted  for  relief,  from  1863  to  1876,  both  inclusive,  the  large  sum  of 
$48,917  65.  God  will  bless  such  Masonry,  notwithstanding  its  inability  to 
point  with  a  beggar's  pride  to  magnificent  temples  and  asylums  shingled  with 
mortgages,  and  decorated  with  discord  and  discontent. 

We  came  in  contact  with  the  "connecting  link"  mentioned  above,  and 
find  the  constitution  amended,  by  striking  out  the  word  "July,"  and  substitut- 
ing "  September." 

A  movement  to  amend  the  constitution,  providing  that  all  routine  busi- 
ness of  lodges  should  be  transacted  in  the  Third  Degree  instead  of  the  First, 
was  defeated. 

The  Board  of  Grievances  and  Appeals  were  engaged  with  sixteen  cases. 

Statistics — Lodges,  319;   represented,  240;   membership,    17,220.     Receipts 
for  the  fiscal  year  $17,013  46. 

M.-.W.-.  W.  H.  Weller,  Cobourg,  G.  M.  R.-.W.-.  J.J.  Mason,  Hamilton, 
G.  Sec'y. 


COLORADO,  1877. 

The  Eighteenth  Annual  Communication  was  held  in  Denver,  Sept.  i8th. 
M.'.W.*.  Harper  M.  Orahood,  occupying  the  Grand  East. 

Among  the  visitors  present,  we  notice  the  names  of  Past  Grand  Master 
Lounsbury,  of  this  jurisdiction,  and  M.'.W.*.  Bro.  Mackey,  of  Washington, 
D.  C. 

Twenty-one  lodges  were  represented.  The  Grand  Master  reports  several 
decisions  in  exposition  of  jurisdictional  regulations.  His  address  is  occupied 
with  matters  of  local  interest.  He  closes  with  an  allusion  to  "Colored  Ma- 
sonry." Although  apparently  in  sympathy  with  our  Ohio  brethren,  yet 
wisely  suggests  that  the  questions  involved  should  be  first  solved  by  the  Grand 
Bodies  more  directly  interested.  The  Committee  on  jurisprudence  submitted 
a  report  on  this  question,  concise  and  to  the  point: 


XX  APPENDIX. 


To  the  first  interrogatory,  viz: 

"  Is  there  any  law  or  laws  prohibiting  colored  masons  from  visiting  your  Grand  or  Subor- 
dinate Lodges?"  we  would  answer  that  there  is  not. 

To  the  second,  viz  : 

"  What  is  the  status  of  this  Grand  Lodge  with  the  Colored  Lodges  in  this  country?"  We 
answer;  That  this  Grand  Lodge  knows  of  no  legitimate  lodges  in  this  jurisdiction  so  denom- 
inated as  "  Colored  I^odges."  Nor  do  we  believe  that  the  large  [iroportion  of  lodges  through- 
out the  country  called  "  Colored  Lodges,"  are  lefritimate  lodges,  holding  under  regular  con- 
stitutional charters  from  the  Grand  Lodges  in  the  several  States. 

To  the  third,  viz: 

"  Can  a  respectable  colored  mason  be  admitted  to  visit  your  Grand  Lodge?"  Weanswer: 
That  any  Mason,  whether  black  or  white,  who  hails  from  a  regularly  constituted  lodge,  and 
not  suspended  or  expelled  from  such  lodge,  is  at  liberty  to  visit  this  Grand  Lodge,  and  to  all 
such  we  extend  a  hearty  fraternal  welcome. 

Your  committee  are  aware  that  there  are  throughout  the  country  organizations  known  as 
Colored  Grand  and  Subordinate  Lodges  of  F.  &  A.  M.,  that  these  organizations  have  made 
applications  to  the  regularly  constituted  Grand  and  Subordinate  Lodges  for  recognition,  but 
thus  far  your  committee  arc  not  apprized  that  recognition  has  been  extended.  We  believe 
this  is  a  matter  that  should  be  adjusted  in  the  older  jurisdictions,  and  the  conflict  be  settled 
there.  We  cannot  recognize  the  lodges  hei-e  who  are  styled  Colored  Lodges,  because  we 
cannot  allow  the  establishment  of  any  organizations  in  this  jurisdiction  not  the  creature  of 
our  own  making.  This  we  conceive  to  be  the  law  of  Masonry,  that  no  two  grand  jurisdic- 
tions can  hold  or  claim  the  same  territory. 

The  Special  Committee  on  "  Masonic  Asylum  "  presented  an  elaborate 
report,  favoring  the  project  of  establishing  an  institution  of  the  kind.  Its 
consideration  was  postponed.  If  our  brethren  desire  liglit  on  (his  subject, 
we  call  their  attention  to  the  historj  of  these  enterprises  in  other  jurisdic- 
tions. Illinois  had  a  slight  attack  of  the  same  complaint,  but  upon  mature 
deliberation  concluded  to  secure  the  necessary  funds  before  entering  upon 
tlie  undertaking.  These  "  charities"  look  well  in  reports  and  orations,  but 
not  elsewhere,  so  far  as  our  observation  extends. 

Bro.  Mackey  delivered  an  address  on  the  "  Symbolisms  and  Traditions  of 
Masonry."     It  was  not  published. 

Bro.  Byron  L.  Carr's  oration  is  published.  He  does  not  seem  to  care 
much  for  the  past  of  our  history — our  antiquity  as  an  organization,  but  is 
inclined  to  inquire  after  our  present  purposes: 

To  the  thirsty  traveler  journeying  across  the  trackless  plains  under  the  scorching  rays  of 
a  noonday  sun,  what  matters  it  whether  the  sparkling  rivulet  which  appears  to  him  in  the 
distance  derives  its  source  from  the  eternal  snows  of  the  distant  mountains,  or  from  peren- 
nial springs  a  lesser  distance  away,  or  from  showers  of  rain  which,  but  recently,  perhaps, 
have  fallen  upon  the  plains  higher  up?  Hisonly  conoern  is  to  know  -Mhether  the  stream  itself 
is  pure,  and  will  satisfy  the  burning  thirst  which  is  consuming  him,  and  sustain  tlie  life  wliich 
is  languishing  within  him.  He  slops  not  to  inquire  whether  it  has  flowed  for  hundreds  or 
thousands  of  miles,  but  he  laves  his  body  in  the  cooling  water,  and,  with  a  heai  t  thankful  to 
the  Giver  of  all  Good,  he  applies  it  to  the  uses  for  which  nature  intended  it,  and  draws  life 
and  physical  comfort  therefrom. 

To  the  members  of  our  Masonic  institution  it  is  a  matter  of  little  concern  who  were  its 
founders  or  what  was  its  original  purpose.  It  is  with  the  institution  itself,  as  we  see  it  at 
the  present  time,  that  we  as  Masons  are  most  concerned.     The  question  is  not,  what  were  its 


MASONIC    COI{KESPONDENCE. 


objects  and  purposes  centuries  ago?  but,  what  are  its  objects  and   purposes  to-day?  and,  are 
we  doing  all  in  our  power  to  carry  out  to  the  fullest  extent  those  objects  and  purposes? 

It  is  unnecessary  for  us  to  inquire  whether  our  ancient  brethren  performed  their  labors  in 
such  a  manner  as  to  meet  the  approbation  of  the  Master  Workman,  but  it  is  for  us  to  inquire 
are  we  doing'  our  Masonic  work  upon  the  square  and  with  honesty  and  fidelity?  In  our  im- 
provements upon  the  temple  are  we  guided  by  the  plumb  and  spreading  the  cement  in  such  a 
manner  as  to  unite  the  building  into  one  common  mass,  or  are  we  laboring  upon  a  structure 
which,  by  reason  of  unskillful  workmanship  or  unsound  and  worthless  material,  is  destined 
at  some  time  in  the  future,  near  or  far,  to  crumble  and  fall,  carrying  with  it  in  one  common 
mass  of  ruin  the  fair  structure  erected  and  left  us  as  a  legacy  by  the  Master  Workmen  who 
have  preceded  usr 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  "  Cuba"  was  recognized. 

Bro.  D  C.  Collies  presented  a  report  on  Foreign  Correspondence.  By 
the  by;  why  not  style  these  papers,  M.isonic  Correspondence?  We  are  all 
of  one  household,  are  we  not?  Under  Illinois,  he  commends  the  views  of 
Grand  Master  Robbins  on  the  question  of  "  public  Masonic  charities." 
Twenty-five  pages  are  devoted  to  "  Colored  Masonry."  This  special  report  is 
largely  an  aggregation  of  historical  data. 

Statistics — Lodges,  i-i^-,   menibersiiip,  14S6. 

M.-.W.-.  Cornelius  J.  Hart.  Pueblo,  G.  M  R.-.W.  .  Ed.  C.  Parmelee, 
Georgetown,  G.  Sec'y. 


COLON. 


The  "Grand  Lodge  of  Colon"  again  applies  for  recognition.     The  com- 
niimication  is  as  follows: 


Grand  Lodge  of  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  ok  Colon,  \ 
Office  of  Gkand  Mastek,  Havana,  Cuba,  April  13th,  187S.      J 

To  the  Most   Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois: 

M.-,  \V.-.  Grand  Master  and  R.-.W.-.  Brethren.  —  The  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon 
(Island  of  Cuba)  .asks  anew  your  valued  recognition  ;  it  desires  earnestly  to  est.ablish  fraternal 
intercourse  and  interchange  representatives  with  you. 

The  grounds  and  reasons  upon  which  we  ask  this  recognition  are  clear  and  well  founded. 
I  request  you  to  grant  them  your  attentive  consideration  and  careful  study  for  the  ends  of 
Justice  and  Truth. 

liut  .is  time  Hies  past  quicker  than  we  would  desire,  and  it  becoming  our  interest  which  at 
the  same  time  is  our  right  .and  legal  standard,  th.at  before  your  next  annual  communication 
you  may  be  acquainted,  if  not  in  all  its  details,  at  least  in  a  general  manner,  though  per- 
fectly plain,  regarding  that  which  constitutes  our  moral   force,  and  the  reason  and  Justice  of 


XXn  APPENDIX. 


the  cause  which  we  defend,  we  herewith  send  you  such  reports  and  data  as  are  most  import- 
ant and  necesary  that  you  may  reach  a  just  and  conscientious  decision.  This  without  preju- 
dice to  forwarding-  you  very  shortly  the  Address  or  Exposition,  which  under  date  20th  Octo- 
ber, 1S77,  I  liave  addressed  to  the  Masonic  World  in  the  name  of  the  Most  Worshipful  Grand 
l^odge  of  Colon  over  which  I  have  the  honor  to  preside,  and  which  havina;  been  translated 
into  English  is  now  being  put  into  print. 

For  the  present  I  shall  limit  myself  to  calling  your  attention  to  the  following  main  points: 

I. — The  Grand  I>odge  of  Colon  was  organized  in  December,  1859,  ^eighteen  years  ago) 
by  a  Convention  of  three  regular  Symbolical  Lodges  then  existing  in  the  city  of  Santiago  de 
Cuba.  To-day  it  is  located  at  Havana  hy  the  will  of  the  majority  of  its  Subordinate  Lodges, 
by  a  vote  of  nth  June,  1877. 

2. — A  schismatic  Grand  Lodge  under  the  name  of  "Gran  Logia  de  la  Isla  de  Cuba,"  wa.s 
established  at  Havana  on  ist  August,-  I876,  when  the  territory  was  already  occupied  by  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Colon,  a  regular  Masonic  body. 

3. — None  of  the  Subordinate  Lodges  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon  have  given  their  vote 
lor  the  creation  of  the  so-called  "  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Island  of  Cuba;"  all  of  them  have 
remained  faithful  to  their  oaths  and  duties. 

4. — The  so-called  "  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Island  of  Cuba"  has  been  created  hy  Jew 0/ 
the  members  of  some  lodges  of  the  jurisdiction  submitted  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon;  viz: 
Amor  Fraternal,  No.  5 ;  Hijos  de  la  Viuda,  No.  12;  Cosmopolita;  No.  14;  Constancia,  No. 
21 ;  F"e,  No.  22;  Caridad,  No.  30;  Vucayo,  No.  32;  and  Ciencia  y  Virtud,  No.  },^.  These 
lodges  at  'he  time  protested  against  the  punishable  conduct  of  their  disloyal  members. 
Therefore  the  "  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Island  of  Cuba,"  has  not  been  created  by  the  unanimous 
will  of  all  the  duly  constituted  Blue  lodges.     It  is  a  spurious  body. 

5. — The  Worshipful  Masters  of  the  aforesaid  lodges  were  also  the  officers  and  members 
of  the  Provincial  Mother  Lodge  of  the  West,  founded  in  1875,  and  which  was  suspended  in 
July,  1876,  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon  tor  rebellion,  slander  and  disrespect. 

6. — The  Worshipful  Masters  referred  to,  at  the  meeting  of  the  Provincial  Mother  Lodge, 
held  on  2d  July,  1S76,  had  unanimously  resolved  to  rebel  against  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon. 
They  had  already  contemplated  creating  a  Grand  Lodge.  Bro.  Aurelius  Almeida,  the  Senior 
Warden  of  the  Provincial  Mother  Lodge,  after  having  cowrtv/^i/ the  means  of  performing  the 
scheme,  was  sent  on  22d  July,  1876,  to  hold  a  conference  with  Bro.  Ramon  Ilia,  W.  M.  of  the 
Lodge  "  Fraternity,"  No.  387,  New  York,  and  with  Bro.  John  W.  Simons,  the  chairman  of 
the  Committee  on  Foreign  Correspondence  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  that  State.  In  order 
to  insure  success  of  the  undertaking,  the  zeal  of  Bro.  Ilia  and  the  valued  protection  ot  Bro. 
Simons  were  secured.  Both  assented  ;  and  Bro.  A.  Almeida  communicated  the  good  news 
to  the  conspirers  in  a  ciphered  telegram. 

Then  the  conspirers  created  what  they  had  titled  a  Grand  Lodge,  at  a  clandestine  meet- 
ing, held,  they  state,  on  ist  August,  1876,  in  accordance  with  the  contrived  plot. 

After  this  event,  the  Worshipful  Masters  held  their  respective  lodges,  previous  to  a  mysterious 
convocation,  and  without  any  charter,  they  proposed  to  disavow  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon 
and  give  notice  of  the  formation  of  a  new  Grand  Lodge  under  the  name  of  "Gran  Logia  de 
la  Isla  de  Cuba."  The  resistance  was  energetic,  and  most  part  of  the  members  protested.  ■ 
At  the  meeting  of  the  Lodge  Amor  Fraternal,  No.  5,  twenty-eight  were  present:  Ivjenly-one 
protested  against  the  punishable  proceedings  of  the  W.  Master  and  went  out.  It  may  be 
noticed  that  the  aforesaid  W.  Masters  unlawfully  kept  the  charters  of  which  they  were  mere 
trustees. 

The  contents  of  the  minute  of  said  convention  is  not  the  true  expression  of  the  facts. 

Firstly. — It  is  false  that  Symbolical  Lodges  Amor  Fraternal,  Esperanza,  Hijos  de  la 
Viuda,  Cosmopolita,  Constancio,  Fe,  Caridad,   Yucayo  and  Ciencia  y  Virtud  authorized  its 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE. 


W.  M;iNteib,  Wardens  and  Deputies  to  celebrate  a  constituent  convention.  These  officers 
had  been  the  representatives  of  the  aforesaid  lodges  in  the  Provincial  Grand  Lodge  of  the 
west;  but  they,  by  abusing  of  their  character,  appropriated  to  themselves  the  representation 
of  the  lodges,  without  any  previous  resolution  from  the  same.  W  hen  those  lodges  were 
acquainted  with  such  fraudulent  proceedings,  they  issued  protests  and  exjjressed  their  senti- 
ments of  loyalty  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon.  The  Grand  Lodge  then  authorized  said 
lodges  to  continue  its  labors  with  provisional  charters,  because  the  said  \V.  Masters  refused 
to  give  back  the  charters  patent.  Therefore,  the  so-called  constituent  convention,  on  ist 
August,  1S76,  has  been  a  conventicle,  an  unlawful  meeting. 

Secondly. — Lodges  under  dispensation  have  no  power  to  concur  in  the  formation  of  a 
Grand  Lodge;  and,  notwithstanding  it  is  seen  in  the  minute  of  the  convention  referred  to, 
that /o//r  lodges  under  dispensation  (Pers.eysva.nc'ia.,  Mercedes,  Perfeccion  and  La  Escuadra' 
took  part  in  the  formation  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Island  of  Cuba,  in  its  organization 
and  in  its  elections:  all  that  involves  the  nullity  of  the  convention.  This  original  vice  cannot 
be  healed. 

Thirdly  —\X.  is  not  true  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon,  on  2Sth  September,  186S,  surrendered 
to  the  Supreme  Council.  There  was  a  conflict  unjustly  provoked  by  the  Supreme  Council 
because  it  claimed  to  be  the  lawmaker  of  the  Craft,  and  the  Grand  I^odge  refused  firmly  to 
recognize  it  that  sovereign  power.  The  Supreme  Council,  on  the  5th  September,  iSoS, yielded 
and  i/^/^A"/7'ie:/ its  ozf// constitutions  of  all  worth  and  efficacy.  Then  the  Grand  Lodge  con- 
sented, on  the  30th  September,  1S6S,  to  suspend  the  observance  of  its  constitution  and  by-laws 
promulgated  in  1S67  ;  but  it  consented  to  it  under  the  strict  condition  that  the  Grand  Assembly 
of  the  Grand  Orient  resolved  the  controversy. 

Therefore,  tlie  Grand  Lodge  did  not  surrender  to  the  Supreme  Council,  but  an  agreement 
was  entered  into  between  the  two  high  bodies,  when  the  day  for  the  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Assembly  was  appointed.  Tliis  was  to  be  in  November,  1S68,  but  in  October  of  same  year 
the  revolution  of  Culia  independence  broke  out,  and  it  being  impossible  to  convene  the 
Grand  Assembly  Masonry  stood  in  a  very  precarious  condition.  In  the  confusion  of  the 
war,  when  members  were  scattered,  when  the  Grand  Master,  J.  Andres  Puente,  s.  n.  Tobias 
was  shot,  there  was  a  period  of  stupor  and  discouragement.  The  Supreme  Council  in  the 
meantime  would  meet  now  and  then  and  gave  orders  to  all  bodies  of  every  degree,  which 
created  still  further  confusion.  The  few  members  composing  the  Supreme  Council  did  not 
consider  that  the  interregnum  (from  30th  September  to  30th  November,  1S68,)  had  ceased, 
which  was  an  unjust  and  wrongful  claim,  because  the  Grand  Assembly  held  not  on  appointed 
day;  and  it  persevered  in  its  previous  system  of  excess  towards  the  Grand  Lodge.  Not  only 
did  the  Grand  Commander  violate  the  duty  that  the  Supreme  Council,  had  solemnly  knitted 
of  consulting  the  Grand  Master  on  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  Symbolical  I^odges,  but  went 
so  far  as  to  authorize  the  Havana  Consistory  of  3zd  degree,  to  organize  in  the  West  a  Pro- 
vincial Mother  Lodge  granting  temporarily  the  powers  of  a  Grand  Lodge  !  iThis  Provincial 
Grand  (Mother!  Lodge  must  not  be  confounded  with  the  Provincial  Mother  Lodge  chartered 
in  1875,  by  the  Grand  Lodge,  suppressed  by  the  same  on  2Sth  July,  1876  )  The  Grand  Lodge 
upon  being  acquainted  with  the  facts,  issued  a  protest,  but  could  do  nothing  else  on  account 
of  the  disturbed  political  condition  of  the  country. 

Our  detractors  have  asserted  thatthe  Grand  Lodge,  from  Sept.,  1S6S,  to  April,  1S73,  entirelv 
paralyzed  its  action,  and  surrendered  its  authority  to  the  Supreme  Council;  but  all  this  is 
false.  Though  in  the  midst  of  a  precarious  condition,  the  Grand  Lodge  never  resigned  its 
powers  and  prerogatives:  it  issued  the  protest  referred  to;  it  held  (1870)  a  geneml  election  of 
Officers ;  it  chartered  (1871)  a  new  Symbolic  Lodge  in  St.  Thomas,  No.  25,  under  the  name  of 
"The  Star  in  the  East;"  it  issued  charter  in  1S73  to  Lodges  No.  26  and  27  (Humanidad  and 
Igualdadi. 

On  28th  August,  1874,  an  agreement  was  entered  into,  by  which  it  will  be  seen  that  the 
Supreme  Council  made  amende  honorable  ;  it  acknowledged  thatthe  Grand  Lodge  was,  and 
had  been,  the  sole  competent  authority  to  govern  and  rule  Symbolic  Masonry.  I  earnestly  ask 
your  attention  to  said  agreement,  in  which  our  detractors  have  maliciously  omitted  to  relate 


XXIV  APPENDIX, 


facts  and  events  pertaining  to  tlie  history  of  Blue  Masonry  of  Colon.  Finally  the  Grand  Lodgfe 
is  the  Supreme  Governing  Authority  over  Symbolical  ISIasonry  within  its  territory;  it  mciies  lis 
own  la-jjs,  and  apfiroves  those  adopteA  by  its  stibordinale  lodjoes ;  it  issues  chatters  to  newly 
formed  lodges  ;  it  establishes  and  maintai'is  foreign  correspondence;  lastly,  it  is  the  final 
Court  of  appeal.  The  sovereii?n  attributes  and  free  personality  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon 
were  solemnly  acknowledged  by  the  same  that  had  unjustly  disregarded  them,  and  the  Su- 
preme Council,  which  took  part  in  said  agreement.  Since  that  time  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Colon  IS  in  the  indisputed  possession  ot  its  inherent  rights. 

The  Grand  Lodare  issued  charters  in  1874,  to  Lodges  No.  29  (Hijos  de  la  Luz);  No.  30 
(Carid-idi;  No  31  (Union  y  Concordia);  No.  33  (Yucayo)  ;  and  No.  33  (Ciencia  y  Virtud)  ;  in 
1S75,  to  lodges  No.  3^  (Hijos  de  la  Hamanidad;  and  No.  35  (Luz  y  Verdadt. 

Fourthly. — All  the  lodges  composing  the  Symbolical  Masonry  of  Colon  had  been  chartered 
exclusively  by  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  by  no  means  by  the  Supreme  Council.  All  the  charters 
Patent  issued  commence  thus :  We  (Nos.)  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Ancient  and  Most  Honor- 
able Fraternity  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  Colon . 

The  provincial  Mother  Lodge  of  the  West,  ceased  to  exit  the  28th  July,  1S76;  was  also 
chartered  by  the  Grand  Lodge. 

7. — The  Grand  I^odge  of  Colon  held  six  Constituent  meetings  on  the  6th,  roth,  I2lh,  iblh 
and  26th  August,  1876,  in  order  to  discuss  and  sanction  its  constrtution  and  by-laws,  promul- 
gated by  degree  of  26th  August. 

The  first  Chapter  of  the  constitution  is  as  follows ; 

Art.  1. — This  Grand  Lodge  will  be  known  under  the  title  of  the  M.  W.  Symbolic  G. 
Lodge  of  Colon  for  Cuba  and  the  adjacent  Islands  of  the  Spanish  West  Indies,  located  at  St. 
Jago  of  Cuba.     (.To-day  it  is  located  at  Havana.^ 

Art,  2. — It  declares  itself  the  lawful  governing  authority;  it  will  govern  lodges  of  the 
three  first  symbolical  degres :  Entered  App.,  Fellow  Craft,  and  Master  Mason  of  the  Ancient 
and  Accepted  Scottish  Rite,  according  to  the  Ancient  Landmarks  of  the  Fraternity.  This 
article  concludes  thus ;  "and  it  will  live  in  peace  with  the  Supreme  Council  of  the  same  name, 
residing  in  the  same  territory." — This  phrase  has  no  value  because  in  the  treaty  regarding  the 
mutual  acknowledgment  of  powers  entered  into  the  25th  Nov.,  1S76,  by  the  Supreme  Council 
and  the  Grand  Lodge,  the  sovereignty  of  the  latter  was  acknowledged  rvithoiit  any  condition. 

It  is  stated  bv  the  schismatics  that  the  sovereignly  and  independence  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Colon  had  been  granted  to  it  by  the  Supreme  Council.  In  this  they  are  wrong.  The  Grand 
Lodge  declares  itselj  the  governing  authority.  Afterwards,  the  25th  November,  1S76,  the 
aforesaid  treaty  was  entered  into.  It  is  therein  to  be  seen  that  the  Supreme  Council  acknowl- 
edged the  Grand  Lodge  as  the  sole  lawful  governing  authority  over  ail  regular  symbolical 
lodges  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons.     A  right  to  be  acknowledged,  must  he  pre- existent. 

On  the  other  hand,  see  Chapter  3d  of  the  constitution,  in  which  the  powers  and  attributes 
ot  the  Grand  Lodge  are  detined  as  follows: 

Art.  I. — To  make  its  own  laws,  and  to  approve  those  adopted  by  its  subordinate   lodges. 

Art.  2. — To  issue  charter  to  new  lodges. 

Art.  3. — To  constitute,  organize,  govern,  inspect  and  rule  over  all  the  symbolical  lodges 
of  its  jurisdiction;  to  counsel,  reprimand  and  suspend  the  same,  and  to  withdraw  their  char- 
ters whenever  it  shall  be  for  the  better  order,  decorum  and  credit  of  the  craft. 

Art.  4. — It  has  the  exclusive  right  to  try  and  punish  its  own  officers  and  Worshipful 
Masters  of  the  Symbolical  Lodges  of  its  jurisdiction,  and  is  the  Court  of  final  appeal  in  judg- 
ments rendered  by  subordinate  lodges  in  trials  of  their  respective  members,  and  also  to 
decide  all  cases  of  controversy  arising  between  lodges. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE,  XXV 


Akt.  5. — All  other  powers  which  it  may  properly  exercise  for  the  diffusion  of  the  true 
principles  of  Masonry,  that  do  not  conriict  with  this  constitution,  or  with  the  ancient  land- 
marks of  the  order  herewith  annexed. 

These  same  powers  and  attributes  had  been  already  acknowledged  by  the  Supreme 
Council  in  said  agreement  of  28th  August,  1874. 

Lastly,  it  will  be  seen  in  the  Treaty  entered  into  by  the  Supreme  Council  and  the  Grand 
Lodge  on  the  24th  November,  1876,  (Art.  7),  that  the  former  declares  to  have  no  Symbolical 
Lod^e  under  its  government;"  and  the  latter  "ratijies"  that  it  will  only  extend  its  jurisdiction 
to  the  first  degrees,  and  that  of  Past  Master. 

The  declaration  of  the  Supreme  Council  proves  that  the  rule  and  government  of  Symbol- 
ical Lodges  was  exercised  exclusively  by  the  Grand  Lotlge ;  and  the  ratification  of  this 
demonstrates  that  it  had  been  and  z'jas  in  the  full  possession  of  its  inherent  rights  over  tlic 
Symbolical  Lodges. 

I  think  that  the  data  and  reasons  that  I  have  had  the  honor  to  submit  to  your  consideration 
prove  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon  is  the  only  regular  and  legitimate  Governinij'  Power 
over  Freemasonry\n  Cuba  and  Puerto- Rico,  and  therefore,  it  deserves  your  valued  recognition. 

I  must  announce  to  you  that  brother  Gabriel  y  Gahona,  resident  in  New  Orleans,  is  our 
representative  in  those  States  and  in  British  possessions  of  America.  With  expression  of  my 
consideration,  I  am. 

Very  Fraternally  yours, 

ANTONIO  GOVIN,  Grand  Master. 

Should  the  other  paper  mentioned  be  received  prior  to  our  report  goiut> 
to  press,  it  will  also  be  presented. 

We  have  given  the  questions  prominent  in  this  connection  much  thought, 
but  do  not  find  any  avenue  of  escape  from  the  views  presented  last  vear.  See 
special  report  on  "  Cuba  and  Colon,"  1S77. 

Most  Worshipful  J^rother  Covin  does  not  appear  to  understand  that  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  is  of  the  opinion  that  there  is  not  a  regularly  con- 
stituted lodge  of  Symbolic  Masonry  on  the  Island  of  Cuba,  unless  organized 
since  August,  1S76.  The  brethren  of  this  jurisdiction  insist  that  there  can 
not  be  a  lawful  lodge  except  constituted  by  the  authority  of  a  sovereign  and 
independent  Grand  Body  of  the  Craft:  and  that  there  cannot  be  a  lawful 
Grand  Lodge,  unless  organized  by  such  lodges.  It  is  entirely  improbable 
that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  will  ever  consent  to  be  stricken  from  the 
role  of  Symbolic  Powers  by  the  cession  of  any  inherent  prerogative,  whether 
to  Grand  Chapters,  Commanderies  or  Supreme  Councils. 

The  questions  at  issue  between  the  two  Grand  Lodges  said  to  exist  in 
Cuba,  are  entirely  subordinate  to  the  question  of  the  legitimacv  oi  their  con- 
stituent lodges. 

Some  of  the  Grand  Lodges  of  our  country  have  been  induced  to  extend 
fraternal  recognition  to  the  "  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba;"  but  our  belief  is,  that 
after  more  careful  investigation  they  will  reconsider  their  action.  They  must 
either  do  this,  or  frankly  admit  the  right  of  all  bodies  claiming  Masonic 
parentage,  to  exercise  similar  authority  thus  conceded  to  Grand  Orients. 
France  is  the  birth-place  of  these  bodies,  and  we  only  find  them  in  countries 
deriving  their  Masonry  from  this  source. 


XXVI  APPENDIX. 


It  is  never  "  too  late  "  to  retire  from  an  untenable  position.  It  is  held  by 
some  very  distinguished  brethren,  that  because  the  Ancient  Accepted  Rite, 
through  Grand  Orients,  and  with  the  assent  of  the  Craft  in  times  past,  has 
organized  and  governed  "lodges,"  that  there  is  an  impropriety  in  now  rais- 
ing the  question  of  their  legitimacy.  In  reply  we  have  only  to  say,  "  that 
two  or  more  wrongs  can  never  make  one  right."  It  is  true  that  the  Craft 
through  misapprehension,  have  submitted  to,  and  countenanced  violations  of 
the  fundamental  law  in  this  regard;  but  this  error  is  not  an  argument  for 
eternal  acquiescence. 

We  do  not  know  of  but  two  ways  by  which  our  Cuban  friends  can  extri- 
cate themselves  from  their  unfortunate  position.  The  first — by  applying  to 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  South  Carolina  for  a  restoration  of  charters  surrendered 
in  1S59.  The  second — by  applying  to  that,  or  any  other  Grand  Lodge,  for 
authority  to  organize  three  lodges.  Either  accomplished,  a  Grand  Lodge 
can  be  instituted  that  will  command  the  respect  and  sympathy  of  the  Craft. 
We  offer  the  following  resolution  for  the  consideration  of  the  Grand  Lodge : 

Resolved,  That  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  respect- 
fully decline  to  recognize  the  "Grand  Lodge  of  Colon  "  as  a  governing  body 
of  Symbolic  Masonry. 


CONNECTICUT,  1878. 

The  Nineteenth  Annual  Communication  was  held  January  i6th ;  and  on 
February  6th,  just  twetity-two  days  after,  we  had  the  official  proceedings,  a 
finely  printed  and  well  arranged  volume  of  134  pp.  Grand  Secretaries  and 
printers  please  take  notice  and  be  governed  accordingly.  Bro.  Wheeler  is 
entitled  to  much  commendation  for  this  expedition,  and  we  hope  that  his  ex- 
ample may  bear  fruit. 

The  address  of  M.*.W,".  Edward  B.  Rowe  is  mainly  devoted  to  matters  of 
local  interest.  He  congratulates  the  Craft  upon  the  reign  of  entire  harmony 
throughout  the  jurisdiction,  aud  that  much  has  been  accomplished  in  cor- 
recting irregularities,  and  placing  lodges  upon  a  plane  of  efficiency  never 
before  attained. 

He  devotes  a  few  sentences  to  Foreign  Relations;  referring  more  particu- 
larly to  the  German  Grand  Lodge  League.  He  recommends  a  fraternal  pro- 
test against  its  untenable  position  in  insisting  upon  recognizing  the  clandes- 
tine Masonry  of  this  country.  The  Grand  Lodge  acted  upon  the  suggestion. 
Very  fraternal  mention  is  made  of  the  decease  of  several  brethren,  among 
them  Past  Grand  Master  George  F.  Daskam.  Of  the  Veterans'  Association 
he  says: 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  XXVII 


The  seventh  annual  re-union  of  the  Veteran  Masons  was  held  at  Meriden,  June  27th,  in 
the  rooms  of  Meridian  Lodge.  No,  77.  Business  engagements  of  importance  prevented  me 
from  participating  in  the  exercises  of  the  day,  which  were  of  unusual  interest.  There  were 
present  forty  veritable  Veterans,  whose  combined  ages  amounted  to  3027  5'ears,  averaging 
over  75 years  of  age  each  ;  truly,  a  very  remarkable  gathering.  A  more  permanent  organiza- 
tion was  effected,  and  a  much  deserved  tribute  paid  Brother  R.  C.  Naraniore,  by  electing  him 
president  of  the  association.  It  will  be  remembered  that  Brother  Naramore  first  congregated 
the  ^'eterans,  and  to  him  more  than  any  other,  belonged  the  honor;  and  it  may  be  safely 
predicted  that  under  his  management  the  Veterans'  Association  will  become  a  permanent 
and  creditable  protege  of  this  Grand  Lodge. 

The  Grand  Master  refers  to  a  creditable  increase  of  the  charity  fund,  now 
amounting  to  $3,000.  Four  hundred  and  four  dollars  were  contributed  to  the 
relief  our  St.  John  brethren.     The  charter  of  one  lodge  was  revoked. 

The  decisions  of  the  Grand  Master  are  quite  numerous — largely  in  excess 
of  the  preceding  year.  He  gathers  from  this  thirst  for  knowledge,  that  it  is  "  a 
cheering  sign  that  the  lodges  in  our  jurisdiction  are  awakening  to  the  tact 
that  the  Grand  Lodge  laws  and  edicts  mean  something  and  must  be  re- 
spected."    Debatable.     Selections  are  made  from  the  list: 

Question.  Can  a  lodge  receive  the  petition  of  a  candidate  who  has  been  once  accepted 
by  another  lodge,  but  failed  to  apph'  for  the  degrees? 

Answer.  No.  After  a  candidate  has  been  elected,  he  cannot  receive  either  of  the  degrees 
in  anv  other  lodge,  without  the  consent  of  the  lodge  first  electing  him. 

That  a  man  with  so  much  of  an  infirmity  as  to  incapacitate  him  from  receiving  a  proper 
knowledge  of  the  degrees,  and  complying  with  the  necessary  requirements,  cannot  he  made  a 
Mason. 

Question.     Can  a  lodge  be  open  on  the  E.  A.  degree  in  the  first  instance? 

Answer.  No.  The  proper  course  to  follow  is,  to  open  a  M.  M.  Lodge,  call  it  off,  and 
then  open  upon  the  degree  to  ht  worked.  The  work  completed,  the  Subordinate  Lodge  is 
closed — lodge  called  on  again  in  the  M.  M.  degree  for  the  purpose  of  closing  in  due  form. 

That  a  lodge  cannot  absolve  a  brother  from  his  Masonic  obligations.  If  the  brother, 
from  conscientious  motives,  wishes  to  withdraw  from  his  lodge,  he  must  apply  for  a  dimit,  and 
having  obtained  the  same,  quit  the  society  of  Masons. 

A  lodge  charges  a  brother  with  conduct  unbecoming  a  Mason.  The  brother  pleads  guilty, 
and  asks  the  clemency  of  the  lodge.  The  lodge  refuses  to  inflict  punishment,  and  the  W.  M. 
asks  the  Grand  Master  to  interfere,  as  serious  division  is  threatened. 

Decision. — The  Grand  Master  will  not  interfere  in  such  cases,  if  evidence  is  clear  of  the 
regularity  of  proceedings. 

Lodges  must  regulate  their  own  domestic  affairs,  and  if  the  W.  M.  is  unable  to  control 
his  lodge,  the  arrest  of  the  Charter  will  of  necessity  follow. 

We  are  not  in  sympathy  with  the  first  decision,  notwithstanding  that  it  is 
generally  accepted  as  good  law. 

The  primary  purpose  of  all  regulations  on  personal  jurisdiction,  is  to 
prevent  bad  men,  or  men  unfitted  for  fraternal  relations,  gaining  access  to 
the  lodge — nothing  more.  For  this  reason  alone  has  originated  the  practice 
of  recognizing  the  right  of  the  objecting  lodge  to  retain  jurisdiction  over 
rejected   candidates.      We   cannot  conceive  of  any  good    reason   therefore. 


Xxvin  APPENDIX. 


why  an  elected  candidate,  who  has  removed  from  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
lodge  that  elected  him,  should  be  continued  under  its  surveillance.  If  the 
Grand  Master  is  to  be  understood,  that  the  elected  candidate,  applying  to 
another  lodge  for  the  degrees,  must  again  encounter  the  ordeal  of  the  ballot, 
then  we  agree  with  him. 

In  the  matter  of  physical  qualifications  suggested  by  the  second  decision, 
we  have  frequently  expressed  the  opinion  that  an  applicant  for  the  degrees 
should  be  without  defect;  for  the  reason,  that  practice  under  an  important 
land-mark  should  be  uniform,  otherwise  it  is  without  sufficient  vitality  to 
command  respect. 

If  Illinois  insists  that  the  loss  of  a  finger  is  not  a  bar  to  the  favorable  con- 
sideration of  an  application,  and  Connecticut  demurs;  if  Connecticut  de- 
mands every  toe,  and  Vermont  does  not;  if  Mississippi  is  satisfied  with  one 
eye,  and  Ohio  wants  both;  if  California  demands  sound  lungs,  and  New 
York  cares  nothing  for  them,  and  only  requires  a  full  measure  of  eyes,  fing- 
ers and  toes,  we  are  surely  being  educated  in  a  loss  of  respect  for  land- 
marks. 

Under  the  decision  of  the  Grand  Master,  how  much  of  an  infirmity  does 
incapacitate  a  man  "from  receiving  a  proper  knowledge  of  the  degrees.^" 
Certainly,  not  the  loss  of  a  toe  or  two  from  either  or  both  feet;  not  the  loss 
of  a  finger  from  either  or  both  hands;  neither  the  loss  of  an  eye.  We  are 
well  acquainted  with  a  brother  who  lost  a  foot  in  battle,  but  the  skill  of  the 
artificer  has  furnished  a  substitute  so  perfect,  that  he  complies  with  "neces- 
sary requirements"  without  difficulty.  Under  the  decision,  applicants  with 
like  infirmities  would  be  eligible;  or  would  our  M.-.W.*.  Brother  insist  that 
such  dismemberment  would  be  of  too  large  proportions. 

There  are  infirmities  entirely  invisible  except  to  the  skillful  physician. 
It  is  not  an  infrequent  occurrence  to  find  an  initiate  afflicted  with  an  incura- 
ble organic  disease,  but  capable  of  "  receiving  a  proper  knowledge  of  the 
degrees."  Should  he  have  been  received?  We  have  within  a  short  time 
witnessed  the  ceremonial  of  the  third  degree,  and  the  Master  giving  particu- 
lar instructions  on  the  occasion,  because  the  brother  was  laboring  under  a 
chronic  derangement  of  the  functions  of  the  heart.  Was  this  proper.?  It 
could  not  be  objected  that  he  could  not  receive  and  disseminate  if  need  be, 
a  "  proper  knowledge"  of  Masonry.  Scores  of  men  are  received  into  the 
fraternity  with  well  developed  pulmonary'  difficulties,  and  other  less  visible 
but  fatal  maladies,  but  who  can  execute  every  esoteric  requirement.  Is  all 
this  in  conformity  with  the  charges  which  declare  that  the  "  Apprentice  must 
be  a  perfect  youth,  having  no  maim  or  defect  in  /lis  body  that  may  render  him 
incapable  of  learning  the  art?"  (Italics  ours).  Would  it  not  be  better  that 
we  adhere  to  a  literal  construction  of  the  law,  than  to  jeopardize  its  integrity 
by  bending  its  provisions  to  meet  the  views  of  individual  judgment?  We 
think  so. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDKNCE. 


The  Grand  Lodges  of  New  Mexico,  Prince  Edward  Island  and  Dakota 
were  recognized.  The  so-called  Grand  Lodges  of  Cuba  and  Colon  presented 
like  requests.     Consideration  deferred. 

A  constitutional  amendment  was  adopted,  that  Grand  Annual  Com- 
munications shall  be  held  alternately  at  Hartford  and  New  Haven. 

The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  presented  the  following.     Adopted. 

A  Mason  can  be  tried  for  Masonic  offenses  comiTiitted  wherever  he  may  be  served  with 
a  proper  Masonic  process,  and  without  regard  to  the  place  of  his  membership,  or  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  jurisdiction,  and  upon  conviction  and  expulsion,  h's  membership  in  his  lodge  and  in 
the  fraternity  is  severed.  The  facts  necessary  to  confer  jurisdiction  on  the  trj'ing  lodge  is 
commission  of  the  offense,  and  service  of  the  process  within  its  territorial  jurisdiction.  A 
fortiori  hreihren  residing  within  and  Toluntarily  submittiiig  themselves  to  the  jurisdiction  of 
a  Grand  Lodge,  are  subject  to  the  exercise  of  its  authority  and  power,  and  to  all  of  the  leeai 
consequences  of  the  exercise  of  such  power,  among  which  is  the  severance  of  former  mem- 
bership by  the  granting  of  a  Charter. 

The  Report  on  Correspondence  is  by  Bro.  Wheeler,  G.  Sec'y.  It  is  un- 
necessary- to  say  that  it  ranks  among  the  best  that  comes  to  our  sanctum. 
Illinois  is  fraternally  noticed. 

Statistics — I^odges,  113;  membership,  15,016. 

M.-.W.-.  Dwight  Phillips,  West  Winsted,  G.  M.  R.-.W.-.  Joseph  K. 
Wheeler,  Hartford,  G.  Sec'y. 


DAKOTA,    1877. 

The  Third  Annual  Commimication  occurred  at  Yankton,  June  12th. 

M.-.W.-.  H.  H.  Blair,  in  the  Grand  East. 

Five  lodges  represented.  The  address  of  the  Grand  Master  is  brief,  but 
abounding  in  good  sense,  and  practical  suggestions. 

Since  our  last  Grand  Annual  Communication  so  many  events  have  transpired,  that  seemed 
to  demand  the  earnest  and  undivided  attention  of  every  citizen  of  our  country,  that  it  is  not 
strange  that  the  interests  of  Masonry  should  have  been  overlooked  to  some  extent;  and 
although  we  have  felt  impressed  with  the  importance  of  the  work,  the  excitement  attendant 
upon  the  unsettled  political  and  financial  condition  of  our  country  has  unfitted  our  minds  for 
the  contemplation  of  those  sublime  truths  and  principles  which  characterize  Masonrv  and 
make  its  study  so  pleasant  and  profitable. 


Believing  that  Masonry  has  proved  itself  a  power,  to  raise  man  from  the  depths  of  selfish 
ignorance  to  the  level  of  universal  brotherhood,  and  a  handmaid  to  Christianity,  in  the  work 
of  improving  the  condition  of  the  human  race,  and  deeming  that  a  just  appreciation  of  its 
principles  by  the  fraternity  is  essential  to  its  success  and  usefulness,  a  brief  consideration  at 


APPENDIX. 


this  time  of  some  of  the  more  important  characteristics  of  the  order  may  not  be  out  of  place, 
then  layinjj  aside  all  question  as  to  its  origin  or  antiquity;  the  motives  or  objects  that  called 
it  into  existence;  and  estimating  it  by  what  it  is  to-day,  measuring  it  by  the  highest  standard 
of  right  and  justice  that  the  human  mind  is  capable  of  conceiving,  or  better  still,  bv  that 
standard  that  it  recognizes  and  adopts,  the  "  Holy  Bible,"  it  will  be  found  that  there  does 
not  exist  on  earth  an  organization  that  teaches  a  higher  system  of  moriilitv  and  virtue,  or 
that  more  clearly  points  out  the  varied  duties  and  obligations  of  man  ;  and  allhoiish  there  are 
some  among  us  who  through  ignorance,  or  prompted  by  base  motives,  are  loud  in  their  oppo- 
sition to  Masonry,  and  have  used  the  weapons  of  falsehood  with  some  effect  against  it;  yet 
we  are  pleased  to  notice  the  high  esteem  in  which  it  is  held  by  all  intelligent  liberal  minded 
men  and  women,  and  are  satisfied  that  there  never  was  a  time  when  its  real  merits  were  so 
well  appreciated,  or  its  humanizing  and  christianizing  influence  on  mankind  so  widely  felt 
as  at  the  present. 

Under  a  dispensation  from  the  Grand  Master,  and  with  the  approval  of 
the  G.  M.  of  Nebraska  and  consent  of  a  lodge  of  the  same  jurisdiction,  Mt. 
Zion  Lodge,  No.  6,  located  at  Springfield,  conferred  the  degrees  upon  three 
non-residents.  The  Grand  Master  suggests  the  propriety  of  a  "  request  for 
the  mutual  appointment  of  representatives  to  be  sent  to  each  Grand  Lodge 
of  Masons  in  America."  Concurred  in.  We  notice  the  petition  for  a  lodge 
to  be  located  at  Deadwood.  Among  the  petitioners  is  Bro.  H.  H.  Falk,  late 
of  Peotone,  No.  636;  also  Bro.  A.  W.  Hastie,  late  of  Wataga,  No  291,  both 
of  Illinois.     Bro.  Falk  is  named  as  Master.     Charter  granted. 

A  uniform  code  of  by-laws  for  constituent  lodges  was  adopted,  but  not 
published  in  proceedings. 

From  some  cause  Minnesota  continues  to  exercise  jurisdiction  within  the 
territory  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Dakota.  Two  lodges,  working  under  the 
authority  of  the  former,  have  not  responded  to  the  claims  of  the  latter; 
neither  has  Minnesota  replied  to  the  representations  of  Dakota.  We  wait 
awhile  before  passing  judgment. 

The  following  was  adopted: 

Resolved,  That,  in  the  opinion  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  where  there  is  no  express  provision 
in  the  constitution  or  by-laws,  the  principles  laid  down  by  Bro.  Mackey  shall  be  considered 
authority  to  guide  the  Masters  of  subordinate  lodges  under  this  jurisdiction  in  forming  their 
decisions. 

At  the  suggestion  of  the  Grand  Master,  the  constitution  was  amended, 
allowing  appointed,  as  well  as  elective  officers  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  a  vote  in 
its  deliberations. 

Statistics — Lodges,  6;  membership,  249. 

M.-.W.-.  George  H.  Hand,  Yanktown,  G.  M;  R.-.W.-.  W.  E.  Caton,  Elk 
Point,  G.  Sec'y. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  XXXI 


DELAWARE,  1877. 

The    Seventy-First  Annual    Communication    assembled    in    Wilmington, 
October  3d.     M.'.VV.'.  Thomas  N.  Williams,  presiding. 

Of  the  Craft,  the  Grand  Master  says: 

Nothing  has  occurred  to  mar  the  fraternal  feelings  so  long  existing  among  the  member- 
ship. I  assure  you  it  affords  me  much  gratification  to  be  able  to  inform  you  that  our  beloved 
Order  shows  that  the  protecting  arm  of  Uim  whose  eye  never  slumbers,  has  been  thrown 
around  us,  watcliing  over  our  time  honored  institution,  permitting  us  to  advance  its  useful- 
ness, enlarge  its  sphere  for  good,  and  develop  its  mission  among  mankind. 

lie  advised  enforcement  of  an  authorized  ritual.  A  Grand  Lecturer  was 
appointed.  The  Grand  Master  presents  a  case  that  brings  to  the  surface,  law 
with  which  we  have  not  been  acquainted. 

A  lodge  of  the  jurisdiction  of  Pennsylvania,  makes  a  Mason  of  an  appli- 
cant who  had  been  rejected  by  a  lodge  of  Delaware.  Upon  a  representation 
to  the  Grand  Master  of  the  former,  Reorders  that  the  party  be  "stricken 
from  membership  of  the  lodge."  Here  is  the  correspondence.  It  will  repay 
perusal : 

OhUCE    OF    THE    R.    W.    GkANU    MaSTEK    OF   Fr.EE    AND    ACCEPTED    MasONS    OF    PeNN.   / 

Masonic  Temple,  Philadelphia,  March  12,  1877.  \ 

George  W.  Cuaytor,  Esti: 

Chairman  oj   Committee  on  Correspondence,  G.  Lodge  oj  Del. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  The  case  of  John  M.  Dunn  who  was  rejected  in  your  juris- 
diction, and  applied  for,  and  received  his  degrees  in  a  lodge  in  this  jurisdiction,  which  was 
referred  to  me  by  you,  Jan.  16,  1S77,  has  received  my  earliest  attention,  and  after  a  careful 
examination  of  the  facts  in  the  case,  I  am  perfectly  satisfied  that  the  Lodge  here  was  imposed 
upon,  and  the  said  applicant  fraudulently  admitted,  and  I  directed  the  lodge  to  strike  his  name 
from  the  roll  of  members  ;  at  the  stated  meeting  of  the  lodge  held  February  22,  rS77,  the  said 
John  M.  Dunn  was  so  stricken  from  membership  of  the  lodge,  and  so  returned  to  the  office 
of  the  Grand  Secretary  of  this  Grand  Lodge  ;  and  by  such  action  he  is  deprived  of  all  the  rights 
and  privileges  of  Free  Masonry,  as  far  as  this  jurisdiction  is  concerned,  with  great  respect. 

I  am  yours  fraternally, 

ROBERT   CLARK, 

R.    W.    Grand  Master. 

Office  of  the  R.  W.  Grand  Master  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  Penn.  ( 

Masonic  Temple,  Philadelphia,  March  27,  1S77.  \ 

Geokge  W.  Ch.wtor,  Esq. 

Chairman  0/  Foreign  Correspondence,  Grand  Lodge  of  Delaware  . 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  Yours  of  the  23d  inst.  received,  in  answer  would  reply,  that 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  will  not  allow  any  one  rejected  in  another  jurisdiction  to 
be  made  a  Mason  in  this  jurisdiction  until  that  rejection  has  been  removed,  the  case  of  Dunn 
stands  in  that  position,  the  only  one  who  can  remove  that  rejection  (according  to  our  law,)  is 
the  authority  under  whose  jurisdiction  he  was  rejected;  when  cases  of  this  kind  are  brought 
to  the  notice  of  the  Grand  Master,  and  after  a  careful  examination  into  the  iacts  thereof  have 
been  made,  he  is  satisfied  Ih.it  a  fraud,  or  false  representations  have  been  perpetrated  on  the 
lodge,  he  directs  the  lodge  to  strike  his  name  from  the  roll  of  members,  and  declares  all  that 


XXXII  APPENDIX. 


has  been  done  in  the  matter  null  and  void,  and  his  decision  is  final,  if  tlie  lodge  in  this 
jurisdiction  had  brought  charges  against  him  for  making  false  statements  they  could  have 
tried  him,  and  if  proven,  expelled  him.  But  cases  of  this  nature  from  other  jurisdictions  are 
brought  directly  before  the  Grand  Master  for  his  adjudication,  and  the  lodge  in  their  monthly 
returns  to  the  Grand  Secretary,  return  him  as  stricken  from  the  roll  of  members  by  orderof  the 
Grand  Master,  andshould  he  make  application  to  any  other  lodge  in  this  jurisdiction  it  would 
so  appear  against  him  ;  Dunn  being  a  resident  of  your  jurisdiction  and  rejected  therein,  you 
are  the  only  authority  by  which  the  rejection  can  be  removed,  subject  to  your  own  laws. 
With  sentiments  of  my  kind  regard  and  esteem, 
I  remain  yours  fraternally, 

ROBERT  CLARK, 

R.    If.    Gra7id  Master. 

Office  ok  the  Chairman  on  Foreign  Correspondence,  ( 
Wilmington,  Del.,  March  28,  1877.  i 

Thomas  N.  Williams,  Esq.,  Grand  Master  of  Masons  in  Delaware : 

Most  Worshipful  Sir:  I  have  the  honor  herewith  to  enclose  the  correspondence  in 
the  case  of  John  M.  Dunn,  and  to  e.^press  a  hope  that  its  result  will  meet  with  your  approba- 
tion. There  are  one  or  more  letters  transferred  to  the  cojjying  book  of  this  office  which  I  am 
unable  to  return,  but  they  are  of  no  particular  importance  e.^cept  what  is  here  extracted  that, 
the  letter  of  Grand  Master  Clark  may  be  more  clear  to  you. 

You  will  observe  that  Grand  Master  Clark's  letter  dated  March  12th,  states  that  Dunn's 
name  was  "  stricken  "  from  the  roll  of  "  membership  of  the  lodge,"  and  "  that  by  such  action 
he  is  deprived  of  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  Free-Masonry,"  in  that  jurisdiction.  This 
in  my  view  being  clearly  an  expulsion,  and  consequently  depriving  the  lodge  ^No.  14)  of  this 
jurisdiction  from  all  future  action  in  his  case,  if  they  ever  desired  to  take  any  such  action,  I 
was  induced  to  ask  of  Grand  Master  Clark  the  following  questions,  taken  from  a  letter 
directed  to  him  and  copied,  as  before  stated,  in  the  copying  book. 

"  What  I  desire  to  be  informed  upon  is,  as  to  the  effect  of  the  action  of  this  sentence  in 
other  jurisdictions?  Whether  an  expulsion  in  one  jurisdiction  is  not  equally  active  in  all.' 
And  whether  expulsion  can  be  inflicted  without  trial?  Under  the  circumstances,  I  wish  to 
fully  understand  the  true  position  of  Dunn,  with  this  jurisdiction.  At  present  I  look  upon 
him  as  an  expelled  Mason  and  entirely  in  the  possession  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Penna.,  and 
exclusively  under  her  control." 

Extract  from  letter  dated  z^d  inst. 

You  will  observe  by  reference  to  the  reply  dated  the  27th  inst.,  that  the  position  of  Dunn 
is  changed— he  is  not  held  in  the  light  of  an  expelled  Mason,  but  in  that  oj  a  rejected  profane. 
He  stands  towards  Lafayette  Lodge,  No.  14,  of  this  city,  exactly  where  he  stood  before  he 
entered  the  Philadelphia  Lodge ;  and  whatever  control  the  Lodge,  14,  possessed  prior  to  this 
event  has  been  fully  restored. 

With  great  respect,  I  remain  yours,  &c., 

GEO.  W.  CHAYTOR, 

Ck'n  on  Foreign  Correspondence. 

If  we  have  a  correct  understanding  of  the  matter,  the  Grand  Master  of 
Pennsylvania  assumes  to  blot  a  man  from  Masonry  (in  the  absence  of  formal 
procedure)  simply  upon  his  ipse  dixit.,  and  as  he  would  have  it,  placing  an 
offender  just  where  he  stood  prior  to  his  first  application,  a  rejected  profane' 
Comments  will  not  be  ventured. 

Many  years  ago  an  old  farmer,  fearfully  profane,  lost  his  favorite  dog. 
He  stood  looking  at  the  brute  in  anything  but  a  religious  frame  of  mind,  when 
he  was  accosted  by  his  neighbor : 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE. 


"Well,  friend  B.,  who  killed  thy  dog,  Ponto?" 

"  Don't  know,"  responded  Mr.  B.,  angrily. 

"  Now,  tell  me  old  friend,  how  is  it  that  thee  refrains  from  swearing.^" 

"  Well,  the  truth  is  just  here,  neighbor,  /  can't  do  justice  to  the  subject.'''' 

A  regulation  was  adopted,  "that  no  member  of  a  subordinate  lodge  shall 
be  suspended  for  non-payment  of  dues  until  after  charges  have  been  pre- 
ferred, and  trial  has  been  had."     Correct. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Mexico  was  recognized.  The  Deputy  Grand 
Master  was  sustained  in  a  decision,  that  members  of  a  lodge  U.  D.  were  not 
responsible  for  dues  to  the  mother  lodge  after  the  organization  of  the  new 
lodge  under  its  charter.  There  appears  to  have  been  some  dissent  to  this,  but 
upon  what  grounds  we  cannot  understand.  A  resolution  was  subsequently' 
adopted : 

Resolved,  That  hereafter  all  members  who  may  desire  to  join  or  form  a  new  lodge,  shall 
as  soon  as  a  charter  has  been  granted  by  the  Grand  Lodge  for  that  purpose,  make  applica- 
tion to  their  old  lodge  for  a  dimit,  and  they  shall  not  be  considered  members  of  the  new  lodge 
until  said  dimit  shall  have  been  deposited  in  the  new  lodge. 

We  do  not  find  anv  report  on  Masonic  Correspondence. 

Statistics. — Lodges,  22;  membership,  1,266. 

M.-.W.-.  Thomas  N.Williams,  Seaford,  G.  M.  R.-.W.-.  Wijliam  S.  Hayes, 
Wilmington,  G.  Sec'y. 


DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA.   1S77. 

At  the  Semi-Annual  Communication  of  May  9th,  M.-.W.-.  E.  G.  Davis, 
Presided. 

A  report  of  the  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  was  adopted,  recognizing 
the  Grand  Lodges  of  Prince  Edward  Island,  Manitoba,  Dakota,  Indian  Ter- 
ritory and  Wyoming. 

The  financial  embarrassment  of  the  Masonic  Hall  Association  was  referred 
to  the  lodges  for  their  consideration.  We  hope  to  see  the  time  when  both 
Grand  and  Subordinate  bodies  will  be  wise  enough  not  to  accept  these  respon- 
silities.  Thus  far,  a  ver3'  large  majority  have  impecunious  histories — dis- 
tracting and  frequently  humiliating. 

A  communication  was  received  from  Centennial  Lodge,  No.  14,  setting 
forth  that  a  member  had  been  expelled  by  a  lodge  of  Washington  Territory. 
Subsequently  the  brother  was  restored  by  the  lodge  that  inflicted  the  penalty. 

5 


XXXIV  APPENDIX. 


Centennial    Lodge  insists  that  the  restoration  does  not  reinstate  to  member- 
ship.    The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  report: 

The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  having  examined  the  papers  in  the  case  of  Bro.  G.  B. 
Hansell,  are  ot  opinion  that,  by  vote  ot  Centennial  Lodge,  February  15,  1877,  Bro.  Hansell 
was  restored  to  membership  in  that  lodge,  and  could  only  be  deprived  of  membership  thus 
restored  by  the  regular  constitutional  method  of  trial  and  sentence  by  the  lodge.  The  action 
of  Centennial  Lodge  in  depriving  the  Brother  of  membership  by  a  reconsideration  at  a  sub- 
sequent meeting  of  the  resolution  by  which  he  had  been  restored,  was  irregular,  and  without 
authority  ot  law.     We  recommend  the  adoption  of  the  following  resolution: 

Resolved,  That  Bro.  G.  B.  Hansell,  having  been  restored  to  membership  in  Centennial 
Lodge,  by  a  vote  of  said  lodge  in  regular  meeting,  and  not  having  been  charged  with  any 
Masonic  offense,  or  subject  to  Masonic  trial  since  said  restoration,  is  still  a  member  in  good 
standing  in  said  lodge. 

The  report  was  recommitted  to  the  committee  with  the  following  resolu- 
tion: 

Resolved,  That  the  report  be  recommitted  to  the  committee,  with  instructions  to  consider 
and  report  upon  the  question  as  to  the  right  of  the  Grand  Lodge  or  a  Subordinate  Lodge  of 
Washington  Territory  to  disciplme  an  affiliated  Mason  of  this  jurisdiction  without  the  consent 
of  the  lodge  to  which  the  brother  may  be  connected,  and  that  the  Grand  Secretary  be  directed 
to  notify  Centennial  Lodge,  No.  14,  to  send  up  a  complete  account  of  the  case  and  its  own 
action  thereon  for  the  use  of  the  Committee  on  Jurisprudence. 

Our  views  on  this  question  were  presented  last  year. 

Past  Grand  Master,  Isaac  L.  Johnson,  was  the  recipient  of  an  elegant  jewel, 
the  first  "who  ever  received  the  offer  of  it."  Past  Grand  Master  Stansbury 
made  the  presentation.  Two  Special  Communications  preceded  the  Annual 
Communication  of  November  14th. 

Grand  Master  Davis  says : 

Another  Masonic  year  has  been  added  to  the  eterniil  past;  the  record  is  made  up;  the 
book  is  closed;  indelibly  inscribed  on  its  pages  are  our  actions;  we  cannot  amend  or  alter 
them  ;  no  line  or  syllable  can  we  erase. 

This  my  brethren,  is  a  sad  reflection  for  us  ali,  for  who  among  us  would  not  alter  some 
act  of  his  past  life,  correct  some  error,  or  blot  out  some  indiscretion?  But  this  cannot  be  ;  an 
act  once  accomplished,  whether  it  be  for  good  or  evil,  is  done  for  all  time.  The  mighty  waves 
of  centuries  may  with  ceaseless  regvilarity,  wash  against  the  shores  of  the  past  and  throw  the 
glamour  of  oblivion  over  her  pages,  but  cannot  efface  a  single  letter.  We  must,  therefore, 
turn  to  the  great  unsealed  future  which  is  unfolding  to  us  day  by  day,  and  on  its  bright, 
unsullied  leaves  stamp  our  history ;  and,  endeavoring  to  avoid  the  errors  of  the  past,  let  us 
have  no  blot  upon  its  pages. 


The  year  just  passed  has  been  marked  with  the  usual  peace  and  harmony  among  the  craft 
that  has  so  long  existed  in  this  jurisdiction.  Death  has  entered  few  of  our  homes,  as  the 
almost  unbroken  ranks  of  our  Grand  Lodge  bear  testimony.  The  places  of  Bro.  Craven 
Ashford,  Past  Senior  Grand  Warden  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  and  Bro.  J.  B.  Cramer,  P.  M.  of 
Acacia  Lodge  are  indeed  vacant.  They  have  fought  the  good  fight,  and  have  now  passed 
into  that  higher  life,  where  those  who  wait  on  the  Divine  Master  find  peace,  joy  and  eternal 
bliss. 

The  Grand  Master  refers  to  a  somewhat  novel  case.  On  the  25th  June, 
Mr. ,  petitioned  Arminius  Lodge  for  the  degrees.     The  committee  made 


MASONIC     CORRESPONDENCE.  XXXV 


favorable  report,  but  at  the  request  of  a  brother  not  a  member  of  the  lodge, 
the  ballot  was  postponed.  Subsequently,  August  13th,  a  protest,  signed  by 
thirteen  brethren  of  different  lodges  of  the  jurisdiction  was  presented  to 
Arminius  Lodge,  and  by  its  Master  referred  to  a  committee  for  further  report. 
The  committee  again  reported  favorable,  September  loth ;  the  Grand  Master 
being  present.  At  this  time  a  member  of  the  lodge  objects  to  the  ballot 
being  had.,  and  thus  the  case  now  stands. 

We  do  not  observe  anything  of  a  "peculiar  nature"  in  the  case,  except, 
that  an  "objection"  is  apparently  allowed  to  take  precedence  in  the  prem- 
ises. My  right  to  the  ballot  is  of  just  as  much  force  as  this  brother's  objec- 
tions. It  is  true  that  he  may  object  to  the  report  of  the  committee,  but  this 
cannot  stay  proceedings.  The  objection  to  be  of  any  validity  must  be  pre- 
sented in  the  form  of  a  motion  for  the  assent  or  dissent  of  the  brethren. 
Even  though  the  committee  had  made  an  unfavorable  report,  this  would  not 
be  a  bar  to  my  prerogatives.  The  matter  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on 
Jurisprudence.     The  report  is  not  published,  if  made. 

The  Grand  Master  recommends  a  well  organized  system  for  dispensing 
charity.  We  do  not  see  how  it  is  possible  to  avoid  imposition  without  a 
Central  Board  of  Relief;  particularly  in  a  city  that  is  necessarily  infested 
with  the  prime  impostors  of  every  clime. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Mexico  was  recognized,  as  was  also  the  so-called 
Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba.  It  does  not,  of  late  years,  require  much  Masonry  for 
new  Grand  Lodges.  The  day  will  come,  brethren,  when  these  affiliations 
with  the  products  of  systems,  the  positive  antipodes  of  Symbolic  Masonry, 
will  be  evoked  for  our  degradation,  if  not  our  destruction.  We  are  friendly 
to  all — belong  to  all,  and  have  abundant  reason  to  be  gratified  with  our  rela- 
tions to  every  branch  of  the  Mystic  Tie :  but  for  the  good  of  all,  and  the 
prosperity  of  all,  we  insist  upon  the  indivisible  independent  sovereignty  of  the 
Craft.  Nothing  short  of  this  will  we  ever,  directly  or  indirectly,  counte- 
nance.    We  speak  for  ourselves  only. 

An  effort  to  increase  the  tax  on  lodge  membership  from  fifty  to  seventy- 
five  cents,  was  defeated.  In  the  place  of  this  proposed  amendment  to  the 
constitution,  an  assessment  of  eight  hundred  dollars  was  ordered  for  Grand 
Lodge  wants.  The  expenditures  of  the  lodges  in  charity,  for  the  past  year, 
are  in  keeping  with  the  well  known  generosity  of  our  brethren  of  this  juris- 
diction. 

The  report  on  Correspondence  by  Brother  Singleton,  is  restricted  to  50  pp. 
One  brother,  whom  we  infer  wanted  his  name  in  print,  thought  that  Bro  S. 
could  exl.aust  himself  on  one  page.  The  entire  reportorial  corps  so  fully 
appreciate  their  distinguished  cotemporar^',  that  it  is  earnestly  hoped  that  his 
Grand  Lodge  will  soon  be  in  a  position  to  give  us  the  benefit  of  his  ability 
and  large  experience.  There  is  a  grim  satisfaction  however,  in  knowing 
that  he  is  not  at  liberty  to  talk  back,  to  any  great  extent.      IVe  rest  easier. 


XXXVI  APPENDIX. 


He  makes  very  fraternal  mention  of  Illinois,  making  extended  quotations. 
Thanks,  Bro.  Singleton. 

Statistics — Lodges,  21;  membership,  2,750.     Total  receipts  of  Lodges  for 
the  year,  $17,116  97.     Expended  in  charity,  $3,335  66. 

M.-.W.-.  E.  G.  Davis,  Washington,  G.   M.       R.-.W.-.  Wm.  R.  Singleton, 
Washington,  G.  Sec. 


ENGLAND. 

We  give  the  following  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England  tliatour  readers 
may  have  a  correct  understanding  of  the  question  that  has  so  recently  separ- 
ated the  Grand  Orient  of  F" ranee  from  the  Masonic  Fraternity-  of  the  world. 
It  is  needless  to  say  that  the  Grand  Lod^e  of  Illinois  is  in  hearty  unison  with 
their  brethren  of  England  on  this  subject: 

United  Grand  Lodge  of  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  ok  England. 

His  Royal  Highness  the  PRINCF:  OF  WALES,    K.  G.,  etc.,  M.  W.  Grand  Master: 

Report  presejiied  to  Grand  Lodge  on   Wednesday ,  tin- 6t/i  Mure li ,   1S78, 

The  Committee  appointed  at  the  last  Grand  Lodge  on  Wednesday',  the  5th  December, 
18/7)  to  consider  the  recent  action  of  the  (irand  Orient  of  France,  beg  to  report  that  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  England  has  received  information  that  the  Grand  Orient  ot  France  has 
resolved,  by  a  considerable  majoritj',  to  rescind  the  ist  and  2(1  paragraphs  of  its  Constitu- 
tion, and  to  substitute  for  them  the  following  laws: 

The  laws  as  they  formerly  stood  read  thus:  — 

Freemasonry,  an  Institution  essentially  philanthropic,  philosophical,  and  progressive,  has 
lor  its  object  the  inquiry  after  truth,  the  study  of  universal  morality,  sciences  and  arts,  and 
the  practice  of  benevolence. 

1.  Its  principles  are  the  existence  of  God,  the  immortality  of  the  soul,  and  human 
solidarity.  1 

2.  It  regards  liberty  of  conscience  as  the  common  right  of  every  man,  and  excludes  no 
person  on  account  of  his  belief. 

3.  Its  motto  is  Liberty,  Equality,  and  F'raternity. 

As  they  now  stand,  they  are  as  follows : 

F'reemasonry,  an  Institution  essentially  philanthropic,  philosophical,  and  progressive,  has 
for  its  object  the  inquiry  after  truth,  the  study  of  universal  morality,  sciences  and  arts,  and 
the  practice  of  benevolence. 

1.  Its  principles  are  absolute  liberty  of  conscience  and  human  solidarity. 

2.  It  excludes  no  person  on  account  of  his  belief. 

3.  Its  motto  is  Liberty,  Equality,  and  Fraternity. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  XXXVII 

The  committee  have  carefully  considered  this  action  on  the  part  of  the  Grand  Orient  of 
France,  and  having  regard  to  all  the  circumstances  of  the  case,  they  have  unanimously 
agreed  to  recommend  the  following  resolutions  for  the  adoption  of  Grand  Lodge : — 

\st  Resolution. — That  this  Grand  f^odge  views  with  profound  regret  the  step  taken  by  the 
Grand  Orient  of  France  in  thus  removing  from  its  constitution  those  paragraphs  which  assert 
a  belief  in  the  existence  of  T.  G.  A.  O.  T.  U.,  because  such  an  alteration  is  opposed  to  the 
traditions,  practice,  and  feelings  of  all  "true  and  genuine"  Masons  from  the  earliest  to  the 
present  time. 

2ii  Resolution. — That  this  Grand  Lodge,  whilst  always  anxious  to  receive  in  the  most 
fraternal  spirit  the  brethren  of  any  Foreign  Grand  Lodge  whose  proceedings  are  conducted 
according  to  the  Ancient  Landmarks  of  the  Order,  of  which  a  belief  in  T.  G.  A.  O.  T.  U.  is 
the  first  and  most  important,  cannot  recognize  as  "  true  and  genuine  "  brethren  any  who 
have  been  initiated  in  Lodges  which  either  deny  or  ignore  that  belief. 

3^  Resolution. — That  in  view  of  the  foregoing  resolutions  the  W.  Masters  of  all  lodges 
holding  nnderthe  Grand  Lodge  of  England  be  directed  not  to  admit  any  foreign  brother  as 
a  visitor  unless — 

ist.  He  is  duly  vouched  for,  or  unless  his  certificate  shows  that  he  has  been  initiated 
according  to  the  Ancient  rites  and  ceremonies  in  a  lodge  professing  belief  in  T.  G.  A.  O. 
T.  U.,  and 

2d.  Not  unless  he  himself  shall  acknowledge  that  this  belief  is  an  essential  landmark  of 
the  Order. 

6,th  Resolution. — That  a  copy  of  the  foregoing  resolutions  be' transmitted  to  the  Grand 
Lodges  of  Scotland  and  Ireland,  to  each  Grand  Lodge  with  which  this  Grand  Lodge  is  in 
communication,  and  to  the  W.  Masters  of  all  lodges  holding  under  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
England,  and  that  it  be  an  instruction  to  the  W.  Master  of  each  lodge  to  read  these  resolutions 
at  the  first  meeting  of  his  lodge  after  the  reception  thereof,  and  to  direct  that  they  shall  be 
entered  upon  the  minutes. 

London,  22d  February,  1878. 


At  the  Quarterly  Communication  of  Grand  Lodge,  holden  at  Freemasons'  Hall,  London, 
on  Wednesday,  the  6th  of  March,  187S. 

The  Right  Honorable  the  Earl  of  Carnarvon,  M.    (F.,  Pro  Grand  Master,  on  the  throne  .- 

It  was  moved  by  the  Most  Worshipful  Pro  Grand  Master,  and  seconded  by  the  Right 
Honorable  Lord  Sherborne,  the  Right  Worshipful  Provincial  Grand  Master  for  Glouces- 
tershire, 

"That  the  foregoing  report,  and  the  resolutions  therein  contained,  be  received,  adopted, 
and  entered  on  the  Minutes;"  which  was  carried  unanimously. 

FREEM.A.SONS'  Hall,  Lo.ndon,  W.  C.,6lh  March,  1S7S. 

JOHN  HERVEV,  G.  S. 


XXXVIII  APPENDIX. 


FLORIDA,   1878. 


A  Special  Communication  was  held  June  iSth,  1877,  to  lay  the  corner- 
stone of  a  public  edifice  in  Jacksonville.  The  services  of  the  occasion  were 
conducted  by  M.'.W.".  Enos  Wasgate,  Grand  Master. 

The  Forty-Ninth  Annual  Communication  assembled  in  Jacksonville  Jan- 
uary 8th.  There  is  much  in  the  address  of  the  Grand  Master  that  will  attract 
attention.     In  his  opening  remarks,  he  says: 

Be  true  to  the  teachings  and  principles  of  our  Institution,  be  true  to  one  another. 

******** 

Do  all  this,  my  brethren,  and  your  beautitul  temple  will  stand  complete  in  all  its  glory; 
the  world  will  look  on  and  applaud,  and  God's  angels  will  touch  their  harps  with  notes  of 
approval.  All  over  our  land,  from  where  the  sun  first  touches  with  soft,  warm  kisses  the  pine- 
clad  hills  of  Maine,  to  where  his  last  rosy  beams  glide  away  over  the  golden  sands  of  Califor- 
nia, a  grateful  people,  both  North  and  South,  have  erected  to  their  heroic  dead,  monuments  of 
marble,  and  tablets  of  brass.  And  they  have  done  well.  But  Time,  relentless  in  his  march — 
Time,  the  great  leveller — putting  his  sickle  in  among  the  days,  will  crumble  and  corrode, 
little  by  little  away.  And  when  the  ponderous  pendulum  of  this  great  clock  shall  cease,  and 
cease  forever  its  beating;  when  the  world  at  the  command  of  the  Almighty,  shall  be  rolled 
up  like  a  scroll,  each  and  every  vestige  of  those  grand  memorials,  rearing  their  proud  heads 
so  high  in  the  glorious  sunlight  of  to-day,  will  disappear  amid  the  wreck  and  ruin  of  a  world. 
But  the  monuments  reared  by  you,  brethren,  no  dust  of  time  shall  ever  light  upon;  neither 
shall  oblivion's  shroud  hide  their  splendor;  for  it  is  an  immortal  principle,  engrafted  on  the 
souls  of  men,  and  passing  the  confines  of  time,  they  will  live  on  through  the  endless  cycles  of 
eternity.  Upon  you,  brethren,  a  great  responsibility  rests.  A  glorious  work  awaits  you,  and 
grand  results  will  be  achieved  if  your  work  be  well  done. 

******** 

Man  shall  be  and  do  something,  and  his  temporal  life  shall  leave  behind  it  in  the  spiritual 
world  an  imperishable  result." 

"Man  is  not  placed  in  the  world  of  sense  alone,  but  the  essential  root  of  his  being- 
is  in  God.  Hurried  along  by  sense  audits  impulses,  the  consciousness  of  this  life  in  God 
may  be  readily  hidden  from  him,  and  then,  however  noble  may  be  his  nature,  he  lives  in  strife 
and  disunion  with  himself,  in  discord  and  unhappiness,  without  true  dignity  and  enjoyment 
of  life." 

"But  when  the  consciousness  of  the  true  source  of  his  existence  first  rises  upon  him,  and 
he  joyfully  resigns  himself  to  it  till  his  being  is  steeped  in  the  thought,  then  peace  and  joy 
and  fjlessedness  flow  in  upon  his  soul.  And  it  lies  in  the  Divine  idea  that  all  men  must 
come  to  this  gladdening  consciousness,  that  the  outward  finite  life  may  be  tasted  by  the  Infin- 
ite, and  so  enjoyed. 

The  Grand  Master  makes  feeling  mention  of  the  decease  of  Past  Grand 
Master  Samuel  Benezet:  Bro.  David  Jones,  Grand  Tyler;  Bro.  Benjamin  G. 
Alderman,  D.  D.  G,  M. ;  and  Bro.  Edmund  P.  Jordan,  Past  S.  G.  W. 

Dispensations  for  three  new  lodges  were  issued;  one  charter  arrested  ;  one 
surrendered. 

Several  decisions  are  of  record;  but  none  that  require  particular  mention, 
except  the  following: 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  XXXIX 


Question — A  M.  M.  lives  in  the  jurisdiction  of  our  lodge  for  several  years,  during  which 
time  he  is  notoriously  intemperate,  and  if  he  was  a  member  of  our  lodge  would  have  been 
dealt  with.  He  dies,  and  his  lodge  requests  us  to  bury  him  with  Masonic  honors.  Are  we 
bound  under  any  circumstances  to  extend  Masonic  honors  to  a  man  who  we  know  to  be 
unworthy  of  them  ? 

Answer — You  are  not  under  any  obligation  to  an  unworthy  brother,  but  he  should  have 
been  reported  to  the  lodge  of  which  he  was  a  member  while  living.  (See  proceedings  of  1S76, 
page  282,  rule  143.) 

We  discussed  this  subject  at  considerable  length  in  reviewing  Missouri 
last  year.  The  Grand  Master,  as  we  think,  is  correct.  The  failure  of  a  lodge 
to  discipline  for  vice,  does  not  prolong  an  offender's  claim  to  fraternal  con- 
sideration. We  would  treat  him  kindlv,  and  make  every  effort  for  his  well- 
being;  but  we  are  entirely  hostile  to  the  view,  that  technical  "good  standing  " 
implies  an  obligation  on  the  lodge  to  endorse,  in  the  eyes  of  the  world,  a  life 
of  vice  by  any  formal  recognition  of  an  unworthy  brother's  relations  to  the 
Craft,  neither  the  mercy,  charity  or  cowardice  of  a  lodge,  is  a  good  plea  for  its 
public  degradation. 

The  Grand  Master  concludes  his  address  with  several  pointed  reminders. 
Among  the  number  is  found  the  following: 

We  attend  with  scrupulous  punctuality  the  convocations  of  the  Craft;  we  pay  our  quar- 
terly dues  with  careful  promptitude,  and  we  contribute  to  the  wants  of  those  around  us  when  - 
ever  their  miseries  are  presented  at  our  doors.  All  this  accomplished,  in  the  technicallan- 
guage  of  the  fraternity,  we  are  pronounced  "Bright  Masons."  Are  we  so,  my  brethren? 
Let  us  not  thus  deceive  ourselves.  How  hollow  and  contemptible  is  the  Masonic  character 
which  extends  no  further,  and  embraces  no  more  than  the  cold,  constrained  and  formal  dis- 
charge of  these  obligations.  Masonrj' is  something  more  than  ceremonies,  forms  and  svm- 
bols.  It  is  the  Spirit  of  God  manfesting  itself  in  purity  and  power,  through  the  beautiful 
language  and  material  emblems  devised  by  man  with  His  Almighty  aid  and  counsel. 

A  brother  propounds  this  question  : 

In  a  lodge  there  are  present  say  24  members  besides  the  \V.  M.  On  a  question  submited 
to  vote  by  show  of  hands,  12  vote  in  favor  of  its  adoption,  12  refuse  to  vote,  and  the  W.  M, 
declines  to  decide,  what  is  the  result,  and  what  is  the  duty  of  the  W.  M.  in  the  premises? 
Can  a  member  absolutely  refuse  to  vote  in  such  matters,  and  can  a  member  be  excused  from 
voting  in  such  matters,  and  if  so,  how,  and  under  what  circumstances? 

The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  thus  responded : 

In  the  matter  where  a  vote  was  taken  bj'  a  show  of  hands,  twelve  members  voted  in  the 
affirmative,  twelve  refused  to  vote,  and  the  Master  refused  to  decide,  the  result  is  that  the 
twelve  voting  members  carr}'  the  question,  and  the  \V.  M.  should  have  so  decided.  Every 
member  present  should  vote  upon  all  questions  rising  before  the  lodge,  because  it  is  the  duty 
as  well  as  the  high  privilege  of  a  Mason  to  assume  his  part  of  the  responsibilities  of  the  lodge 
as  well  as  to  enjoy  its  privileges. 

The  reports  of  District  Deputy  Grand  Masters  present  a  favorable  condi- 
tion of  the  Craft.  Some  lodges  suffered  largely  last  j'ear  from  the  presence 
of  Yellow  Fever. 

The  Grand  Secretary  reports  the  theft  of  a  gold  jewel.  Strong  suspicion 
rested  upon  an  Ohio  Mason,  of  Mansfield.  He  was  reported  to  his  lodge,  and, 
as  Bro.  Dawkins  says,    "  he  found  a  screening  element,  from  the  influence  of 


XL  APPENDIX. 


which  he  was  never  brought  to  Masonic  discipline."     We  do  not  understand 
this.     Perhaps  our  Ohio  brethren  will  explain. 

At  the  session  of  1877,  a  uniform  code  of  by-laws  for  constituent  lodges 
were  adopted.  A  considerable  trouble  resulted.  Several  attempts  were  made 
to  repeal  them,  without  success. 

The  Grand  Lodge  sustained  the  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  in  the  fol- 
lowing expression : 

As  to  the  uniform  code  of  by-laws,  the  committee  has  not  time  to  examine  the  by  laws  in 
full  but  in  the  absence  of  any  specific  objection,  claim  that  they  ixre.  prima  facie  Constitu- 
tional. This  code  was  established  by  a  regulation  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  will  remain  m 
force  until  the  regulation  is  changed. 

In  regard  to  the  proposition  of  Hro.  Wentworth,  to  repeal  this  code  of  by-laws,  the  com- 
mittee recommend  that  the  particular  lodges  have  leave  to  make  such  additions  to  this  code 
as  may  suit  their  circumstances,  or  to  use  in  connection  with  the  same,  such  other  by-laws  as 
have  been  heretofore  adopted  by  the  particular  lodges,  which  are  not  in  conflict  with  the 
uniform  code,  or  the  constitution  of  the  Grand  Lodge. 

Bro.  D.  C.  Dawkins  presented  a  brief  report  on  Correspondence — scarce 
three  pages.     Of  the  Grand  Orient  of  France,  he  says: 

Your  attention  is  necessarily  directed  to  a  few  special  subjects,  foremost  among  which  is 
that  the  unscrupulous  conduct  of  the  Grand  Orient  of  France,  in  violating  and  ruthlessly 
invading  the  American  Masonic  doctrine  of  Grand  Lodge  Sovereignty  and  exclusive  juris- 
diction and  for  which  it  has  been  so  universally  ostracised,  is  explainable  in  its  recent  action 
of  striking  from  its  constitution  and  tenue  all  acknowledgment  of  Deity,  for  the  express 
purpose  of  admitting  Atheists  into  their  society.  And  when  the  subject  matter  was  under 
discussion  a  few  brethren  opposing  such  a  measure,  suggested  among  other  things  that  such 
an  action  would  tend  to  estrange  the  rest  of  the  Masonic  world  from  their.,  and  they  were 
met  with  the  reply  that  such  argument  was  used  in  the  case  of  their  support  of  Foulhouse  in 
Louisiana  which  had  proved  untrue,  and  that  their  said  action  had  not  given  displeasure  to 
the  Masonic  world,  or  any  material  part  of  it.  So  it  is  observable  that  in  ignoring  the  ever 
living  God,  falsehood  is  at  a  premium. 

The  following  resolutions  were  adopted  : 

Resolved  That  the  brethren  of  this  Grand  Jurisdiction  be,  and  are  hereby,  forbidden  to 
visit  or  in  any  way  recognize  a  body  claiming  to  be  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Ontario,  or  from 
having  any  associations  therewith,  or  its  pretended  allegiance. 

Resolved  That  the  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of 
Indian  Territory,  of  which  M.'.W.".  Bro.  Granville  McPherson  is  Grand  Master,  and  R.".\V.-. 
Bro.  R.  P.  Jones  is  Grand  Secretary,  be  and  is  hereby  welcomed  to  our  fraternal  recognition, 
and  we  recommend  a  reciprocal  representation. 

Resolved,  That  this  Grand  Lodge,  recognizing  the  Masonic  legitimacy  of  Masonry  in 
the  Island  of  Cuba,  but  feeling  unwilling  to  sit  in  judgment  and  decide  at  present  for  our- 
selves upon  the  question  as  to  whether  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon,  or  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Cuba  should  be  recognized  as  the  only  foreign  and  exclusive  power  there,  in  symbolic  Ma- 
sonry we  deem  it  expedient  to  remain  neutral,  and  the  brethren  of  our  Grand  Jurisdiction  on 
visiting  said  Island,  are  hereby  left  to  their  own  sound  discretion  as  to  their  Masonic 
Associations. 

The  Oration,  by  Bro.  Charles  A.  Fuhvood,  is  worthy  of  far  more  atten- 
tion than  we  can  give  it.     We  must  content  ourselves  with  limited  quotations  : 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  XLI 


The  misfortunes  and  wide-spread  calamities  that  have  befallen  the  country  within  the 
last  score  of  years  are  educational.  Many  a  difficult  lesson  touching  the  arts  of  war  and  the 
blessings  of  peace —  many  profound  truths  relating'  to  governmental  principles  and  policies, 
have,  in  the  wonderful  march  of  events,  been  illustrated  and  enforced.  Dull,  indeed,  is  he 
who  learns  not  in  the  school  of  adversity !  and  the  people  of  the  United  States  otiffht  to  learn 
and  lav  to  heart  the  lessons  inculcated  in  their  own  history.  As  to  the  good  citizens  of  Flor- 
ida, the)'  have  learned  and  are  learning;  and  those  elements  of  character  which  enshrined 
them  martyrs  in  war,  now  crown  them  "  princes  in  peace."  Their  resolution,  courage  and 
fortitude  have  been  equal  to  all  emergencies. 

The  sentiment  of  true  brotherhood,  as  taught  among  Freemasons,  is  largely  dominant, 
and  a  liberal,  forgiving  spirit  prevails.  Bitterness  is  put  away,  animosities  buried,  wrongs 
condoned,  errors  forgotten,  and  the  foul  spirit  of  revenge  utterly  exorcised.  Hence,  during 
the  past  year,  the  trite  adage,  "There  is  life  in  the  old  land  yet,"  was  rendered  especially 
appropriate.  There  is  life  !  National  life — State  life!  Home  government  is  secure.  Every 
material  interest  is  under  the  protection  of  law,  and  henceforth  State  and  municipal  govern- 
ments are  to  be  as  righteous  and  wise  as  the  virtue  and  intelligence  of  our  people  are  capable 
of  making  and  maintaining. 

There  is  much  in  all  this  to  inspire  gratitude  and  renew  our  hopes  for  the  future.  Truly, 
the  long,  drearj-  night  of  our  adversity  is  past,  and  the  sun  of  prosperity'  shines!  My  prayer 
is — and  it  is  a  petition  in  which  all  brethren  of  the  Mystic-tie,  from  Maine  to  California,  and 
from  Alaska  to  the  Keys  of  the  Gulf,  will  devoutly  join — that  the  rising  and  shining  of  the  sun 
of  prosperity  may  be  "  with  healing  in  his  wings;"  that  the  wounds  of  our  common  country 
mav  be  healed,  and  each  section,  freed  from  all  trammels,  move,  without  "  let  or  hindrance," 
along  the  highway  of  progress  and  renown  to  a  glorious  destiny. 

Bro.  Fulvvood  concludes  with  an  exceedingly  complimentarv  allusion  to 
the  retiring  Grand  Master. 

Statistics — Lodges,  58;  membership,  1,842. 

M.-.W.-.  William  A.  McLean,  Jacksonville,  G.  M.  R.-.W.-.  D.  C.  Daw- 
kins,  Jacksonville,  G.  Sec'y. 


GEORGIA,  1877. 


This  M.-.W.-.  Grand  Lodge  assembled  in  Macon,  Octoberjoth.  M.-.W.*. 
Daniel  E.  Butler  presiding. 

The  address  of  the  Grand  Master  is  quite  brief.  Of  defaulting  lodges  he 
cogently  remarks : 

This  subject  affords  me  an  opportunity  to  make  the  following  observations:  Delinquent 
Lodges  are  made  such  by  defaulting  and  delinquent  members.  The  Worshipful  Master  is 
sometimes  the  cause,  but  more  often  the  great  reason  is,  the  absence  of  wholesome  discipline. 
And  the  want  of  discipline  often  arises  from  an  ignorance  of,  and  an  incompetency  to 
discharge  the  duties  of  the  offices  which  the  members  hold.  From  these  causes  disorder,  dis- 
obedience to  rightful  authority,  and,  great  confusion  must  come.  Behind  all  these  reasons 
lies  another  fact,  more  potent  still.  It  is  the  ease  with  which  new  members  obtain  admit- 
tance into  too  many  of  our  lodges.      The  profane  are  allowed  to  come  in  with  improper 

6 


Xr.II  APPENDIX. 


motives,  and  without  sufficient  iniiuiry.  And  the  privileges  of  Masonry  are  used  for  other 
purposes  than  the  nohle  one  of  who  can  best  work  and  best  agree  in  the  practice  of  our 
sublime  precepts. 

To  remedy  these  evils  the  Grand  I^odge  at  this  communication,  would  do  well  to  apply 
its  discipline  to  all  lodges  which  are  in  arrears  for  dues,  also  to  those  lodges  which,  with 
incompetent  officers,  use  unwarrantable  means  to  confer  the  degrees  upon  those  officers  who 
do  not  enforce  the  laws  of  Freemasonry  against  the  vices  of  drunkenness,  profanity,  and  dis- 
honesty. Such  a  procedure  will  cost  some  money,  but  the  purity  of  our  professions,  and  the 
high  standing  of  our  Ancient  Order  is  in  great  i)eril  from  these  things. 

The  "Southern  Masonic  Female  College"  occupies  the  earnest  attention 
of  the  Grand  Master.  We  sincerel}'  hope  that  the  Craft  of  Georgia  will 
respond  to  his  devotion  to  its  welfare: 

For  twenty-four  years,  in  office  and  out,  I  have  watched  over  and  cherished  this  College 
as  a  father  would  his  child.  It  3-et  lives,  and  will  live  to  accomplish  much  more,  if  judicious 
councils  shall  guide  its  interest  for  the  time  to  come.  These  years  of  service  in  its  behalf  are 
to  me,  a  source  of  joy,  and  the  more  is  it  a  pleasure  to  me  because  the  work  was  done  will- 
ingly, without  fee  or  reward,  and  at  my  own  expense.  I  have  done  what  I  could,  and  some 
good  has  been  the  result.  I  commend  the  college  to  your  better  judgment  and  more  cordial 
support.  This  Grand  Lodge  at  a  small  expense,  can  make  it  an  honor  to  the  fraternity,  and 
a  fountain  of  learning  for  hundreds  of  our  daughters.  It  is  now  existing  and  going  on,  in 
spite  of  your  coldness  and  indifference.  What  might  it  not  be  with  your  hearty,  warm  and 
generous  fostering  care. 

Experience  has  signally  failed  to  impress  us  with  the  propriety  of  Grand 
Bodies  engaging  in  such  enterprises;  hut  when  entered  upon,  one  of  two 
things  should  be  done;  either  support  or  abandon  them.  The  report  of  the 
Committee  having  charge  of  the  institution,  represents  much  hope  for  the 
future. 

In  this  connection,  considerable  embarrassment  is  experienced  in  provid- 
ing for  the  liabilities  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  from  the  fact  that  seventy-seven 
constituent  bodies  are  delinquent  in  the  sum  of  $2,342  65.  This  is  less  than 
the  exact  amount.  Several  lodges  are  reported  as  delinquent  and  who  have 
neglected  to  make  returns.  The  Grand  Lodge  has  inaugurated  measures  to 
ascertain  upon  what  lodges  it  ca7i  rely.  The  writer  is  not  a  novice  in  Ma- 
sonry. One  year  more  will  finish  the  third  decade  of  fraternal  experience; 
and  when  the  lessons  of  the  past  are  carefully  reviewed  it  is  found  that,  ex- 
cept in  rare  instances,  delinquent  lodges  are  not  of  value  to  the  fraternity. 

The  Finance  Committee  recommended  a  reduction  of  mileage  to  five 
cents;  which  was  agreed  to.  The  Grand  Lodge  also  increased  the /<?r  cf/^/Vrt 
dues  twenty-five  per  cent.  There  is  true  heroism  in  such  measures  to  meet 
liabilities.     We  tender  our  congratulations. 

The  Committee  on  Grand  Master's  address  recommended  the  re-appoint- 
ment of  a  standing  committee  on  correspondence.  Concurred  in.  Past 
Grand  Master  Samuel  Lawrence  was  made  chairman  of  the  committee. 

The  Committee  on  Grievances  were  engaged  with  thirtj'-three  cases. 

The  Committee  on  New  Constitution  made  a  report  which  was  agreed  to 
by  sections,  but  its  adoption  as  a  whole  was  deferred  until  the  next  Annual 
Communication. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  XLIII 


We  notice  new  features  in  the  bj-laws ;  some  of  which  are  worthy  of  par- 
ticular notice.     They  require  the  initiation  fee  with  the  petition  : 

And  the  fees  for  initiation  must  accompany  this  declaration. 

Sec.  5.  In  all  cases  which  are  declared  to  be  cases  of  emergency,  and  in  all  cases  where 
dispensations  may  be  necessary,  the  fees  due  from  a  candidate  to  the  lodge  shall  be  increased 
twenty-five  per  cent.,  one-fourth  of  which  increase  shall  accrue  to  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  the 
lodge  to  ivltom  the  same  is,  or  ought  to  be  paid,  shall  be  chargeable  with  the  collection  of 
the  same. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Mexico  was  recognized. 

Statistics — The  tabular  statements  of  the  Grand  Secretary,  Bro.  Blackshear, 
are  very  full.  Chartered  lodges  300,  membership  13,195 — a  decrease  of  1280 
from  report  of  1S76.  For  the  five  years,  including  r873  and  ending  with 
1877  inclusive,  there  had  been  suspended  and  "  excluded  "  2,974,  and  dimitted 
3,009. 

M.-.W.-.  James  M.  Mobley,  Hamilton,  G.  M.  R.-.W.-.  J.  Eminett  Black- 
shear,  Macon,  G.  Sec'y. 


IDAHO,  1877. 

The  Tenth  Annual  Comnumiration  was  held  in  Boone  City,  .Sept.  15th. 

The  Grand  Master,  M.".W.'.  Edward  A.  Stevenson,  delivered  a  good 
address.  It  is  largely  devoted  to  reminders  of  our  duties  as  Craftsmen.  He 
believes  that  persistent  violations  of  obligations  "  will  end  in  reproach,  dis- 
honor and  disgrace."     So  do  we. 

Of  late  years  the  mental  strength  of  Masonry  has  been  so  much  devoted 
to  decoration,  that  but  little  time  has  been  occupied  with  the  weightier  mat- 
ters upon  which  the  structure  is  erected.  There  would  be  less  transgression 
if  we  had  less  learned  disquisitions  on  the  virtues,  and  more  determination  in 
enforcing  their  practice.  We  are  speaking  in  general  terms,  and  without 
remote  allusion  to  the  discourse  of  Bro.  Stevenson. 

The  Craft  has  been  too  mueh  enamored  of  the  delusion  that  jurisprudence 
and  ritual  are  primary,  and  principle  a  secondary  consideration.  Lodges 
will  never  obtain  moral  force  and  supremacy  in  communities,  till  Grand  and 
Subordinate  Officers  are  Masons:  and  encourage  by  their  own  practices,  the 
elementary  thought  of  Masonry.     The  Grand  Master  says  : 

Charity  and  relief  are  in  part  fundamental  principles  of  our  order,  and  we  are  taught  to 
inculcate  and  practice  them  as  the  tenets  of  our  profession.  Faith  may  be  lost  in  sight,  Hope 
end  m  fruition,  but  Charity  extends  beyond  the  grave  throughout  the  boundless  realms  of 
eternity.     The  potency,  influence,  and  success  of  our  noble  order  are  in  part  due  to  the  silent 


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ministration  of  our  munificent  charity.  It  does  not  go  abroad  to  proclaim  its  benevolentspirit, 
but  it  wipes  tlie  tear  from  tlie  widow's  eye  and  binds  up  the  broken  hearted,  and  guides  the 
feet  of  the  orphan  in  the  paths  of  truth  and  virtue.  It  finds  the  lame,  the  halt,  and  the  blind 
of  its  household  and  pours  into  their  hearts  the  oil  of  joy  and  gladness.  It  never  boasts  of  its 
deeds  of  charity,  but  it  feeds  the  hungry,  clothes  the  naked,  and  provides  for  the  wido%v  and 
the  orphan.  In  fact,  Truth,  Honor,  Virtue  and  Charity  should  be  the  peculiar  characteristics 
of  every  Mason,  and  well  may  we  rejoice  in  the  stability  and  splendor  of  our  time  honored 
Craft,  yet  we  should  not  count  it  as  the  result  of  mere  human  skill  and  ingenuity.  For  an 
institution  of  so  long  duration,  of  proportions  so  vast,  of  tradition  so  glorious,  and  history  so 
pure  amid  all  its  persecutions,  must  have  had  more  than  human  aid.  Let  us  therefore,  my 
brothers,  thank  the  Supreme  Ruler  of  the  Universe,  for  its  vigorous  life,  its  unabated  pios- 
perity,  and  its  now  conceded  respectability  and  usefulness  to  the  world,  and  although  its 
honor  is  for  a  time  in  this  jurisdiction  confined  to  our  keeping,  we  are  but  agents  and  doing 
our  Supreme  Grand  Master's  work." 

Masonry  has  its  mysteries  and  secrets,  but  in  that  great  day  when  everything  shall  be 
made  public,  and  we  shall  all  be  gathered  around  the  great  white  throne,  if  I  have  lived  up 
strictly  to  the  principles  and  teachings  of  Masonry,  and  fulfilled  all  the  obligations  and  duties 
demanded  of  me,  I  shall  have  little  to  fear,  but  will  enjoy  the  happy  reflection  consequent  on 
a  well  spent  life,  and  have  a  bright  hope  of  a  glorious  immortality. 

He  renders  several  decisions.     On  the  question  of  dimits,  he  replies: 

The  word  dimit  simply  means  "  to  send  awiiy,  to  let  go,"  conse(|uently  a  certificate  of 
withdrawal  either  with  or  without  a  recommendatory  certificate  is  a  dimit.  "Article  xiv, 
Section  25,  Grand  Lodge  By-Laws :  "A  member  of  a  lodge  in  good  standing  and  whose  dues 
are  paid,  inajf  withdraw  therefrom  at  any  time,  by  giving  notice  of  his  intention  so  to  do  at 
a  regular  meeting;  but  no  recommendatory  certificate  shall  be  given  him  except  by  a  vote  of 
a  majority  of  the  members  of  the  lodge  then  present."  By  the  above  by-law  it  is  clear  that  a 
brother  can  withdraw  his  membership  at  any  time  and  demand  a  dimit ;  butifhe  wish  arecom- 
mendatory  certificate  attached  thereto,  it  cannot  issue  unless  it  be  authorized  by  a  vote  of  the 
lodge. 

It  is  unnecessary  to  reproduce  our  views  on  this  subject.  We  cannot  con- 
sent to  the  doctrine  that  a  dimit  must  issue  on  the  demand  of  the  applicant. 
The  general  principle,  that  the  lodge  is  a  voluntary  organization,  and  that  the 
worthy  member  should  be  allowed  to  exercise  the  same  freedom  in  leaving  as 
in  imiting,  will  not  be  seriously  questioned  ;  but  we  do  not  believe  that  a  Mason 
is  at  liberty  to  foul  the  lodge  with  dishonor,  and  then  compel  his  brethren  to 
father  the  odium  by  giving  any  avouchment  that  would,  by  implication  even, 
convey  the  impression  that  he  was  a  "  worthy  brother."  A  dimit,  however 
tart  and  brief,  is  an  evidence  of  "good  standing."  If  this  be  true,  upon  what 
principle  of  justice  do  you  refuse  the  "  recommendatory  certificate,"  in  other 
words,  the  diploma?  We  find  from  this  address,  that  our  Grand  Lodge  is 
involved  in  a  question  of  jurisdiction  with  our  brethi-en  of  Idaho.  Nothing 
serious  can  grow  out  of  it,  in  the  presence  of  the  healing  qualifications  of 
Grand  Master  Robbins.  M.*.W.-.  Bro.  Stevenson  concludes  his  address  with 
fraternal  notices  of  the  death  of  Brothers  D.  B.  Randall,  P.  M.;  and  Lewis 
Day,  P.  M.;  both  of  whom  were  destroyed  bv  Indians. 

The  following  resolution  was  submitted: 

Resol-ved,  That  Section  i  of  Article  16,  of  Grand  Lodge  By-Laws  be  amended  by  insert- 
ing after  the  word  "  Masonry  "  in  eighth  line,  "by  declaration  by  the  Master,"  so  that  it  will 
read,  "  No  lodge  shall  expel  a  member  for  the  non-payment  of  his  dues.      But  in  case  any 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE. 


member  shall  have  refused  or  neg;lected  to  pay  his  regular  dues,  during  the  period  of  six 
months,  he  shall  be  notified  by  the  Secretary,  that,  unless  at  the  next  stated  meeting,  his  dues 
be  paid,  or  sickness  or  inability  to  pay  be  sliovvn  as  the  cause  for  such  refusal  or  neglect,  he 
will  be  suspended  from  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  Masonry,  by  declaration  by  the  Mas- 
ter. If  neither  of  these  things  be  done,  he  shall  be  so  suspended,  unless,  for  special  reasons 
shown,  the  lodge  may  otherwise  determine;  but  any  Mason  thus  suspended,  who  shall  at  any 
time  pay  the  arrearages  due  at  the  time  of  his  suspension,  together  with  such  further  dues  as 
would,  had  he  retained  his  membership,  have  accrued  against  him  to  the  date  of  such  pay- 
ment, shall,  by  that  act  be  restored." 

It  was  not  agreed  to.  This  matter  elicited  considerable  discussion.  We 
are  unalterably  opposed  to  any  act  of  the  Master,  that  casts  a  shadow  over 
the  inherent  rights  of  members. 

Bro.  O.  H.  Purdy,  from  the  Committee  on  Correspondence,  presented  a 
report,  accompanied  with  resolutions  recommending  the  recognition  of  the 
"Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba."     Adopted.     Sorry,  brethren. 

The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  do  not  advise  the  recognition  of  the 
Grand  Orient  of  Hungary.  We  think  one  quite  as  legitimate  as  the  other. 
Why  not.' 

Bro.  Purdy  also  reported  a  mortuary  service  for  "  Colored  Masonry." 

One  of  the  most  attractive  features  of  Idaho  benevolence,  is  the  Orphan 
Fund  of  $4,205  00.  This  will  afford  much  more  consolation  to  the  needy 
than  costly  Asylums. 

A  special  committee  make  the  following  commendable  report.    Adopted. 

That  so  much  of  the  Grand  Master's  address,  as  relates  to  Bro.".  G.  P.  Brown's  letter, 
asking  this  Grand  Body  to  reimburse  Mt.  Idaho  Lodge  in  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars,  which  she  has  paid  to  the  families  of  deceased  Masons.  Believing  it  to  be  the  duty 
of  every  subordinate  lodge  to  assist  the  families  of  deceased  brothers,  they  being  found  worthy 
and  that  in  the  instance  referred  to  in  the  letter  of  Bro.'.  Brown,  Mt.  Idaho  Lodge,  per- 
formed a  duty  that  all  other  lodges  in  this  jurisdiction  are  doing  continually.  We  therefore 
recommend  that  the  prayer  of  Mt.  Idaho  Lodge  be  not  granted. 

Bro.  Purdy  submitted  a  report  on  Correspondence  of  118  pp.  It  is  a 
good  production,  and  an  improvement  upon  the  one  of  last  year.  We  have 
read  it  carefully,  and  find  much  that  we  heartily  approve.  In  his  review  of 
Nova  Scotia,  he  thus  speaks  our  mind,   and  the  mind  of  our  Grand  Loiige : 

The  idea  of  giving  an  unprincipled  heartless  member  of  a  lodge  the  power  to  keep  the 
advancement  of  a  candidate  in  abeyance  for  no  other  reason,  perhaps,  than  personal  pique  or 
revenge  is,  to  us,  devoid  of  every  act  and  principle  of  justice  and  right,  and  we  hope  to  see 
the  time  soon  when  the  law  of  our  Grand  Lodge  will  be  abrogated.  We  hold  that  if  a  mem- 
ber of  a  lodge  has  aught  against  his  brother  worthy  of  stopping  his  advancement,  the  brother 
so  stopped  should  have  an  opportunity  given  him  to  "  rise  and  explain."  We  insist  that  E. 
A.  and  F.  C.  Masons  have  some  rights.  We  have  no  charity  for  Masonic  assassins,  or  for  the 
coward  who  will  stab  in  the  dark  or  in  the  back. 

He  is  not  quite  orthodox  on  the  dimit  question.  In  his  conclusion,  he 
asks  indulgence  for  the  lack  of  careful  preparation  of  his  work.  The  request 
is  not  called  for. 


Statistics — Lodges,  12;  membership,  3S5. 


APPENDIX. 


M.-.W.-.  E.  A.  Stevenson,  Pioneerville,  G.  M,     R.-.W.-.  Charles  Himrod, 
Boise  City,  G.  Sec'y. 


INDIANA,  1877. 

The  Sixtieth  Annual  Meeting  was  held  May  22d. 

M.-.W.-.  Frank  J.  Devol,  at  his  station. 

His  address  is  very  elaborate,  and  chiefly  occupied  with  a  presentation  of 
his  official  transactions.     He  thus  speaks  of  his  late  brother,  E.  W.  H.  Ellis: 

It  is  with  great  sorrow  that  I  am  called  upon  to  record  the  death  of  our  late  Grand  Mar- 
shal, Brother  E.  W.  H.  Ellis,  which  event  occurred  at  his  home  in  Goshen,  Indiana,  on  the 
loth  of  October,  1876.  He  was  born  at  Penfield,  New  York,  April  29,  1815.  His  youth  and 
early  manhood  were  spent  in  acquiring  that  knowledge  which  made  him  distinguished  as  a 
professional  and  literary  gentleman.  He  was  zealous  and  proficient  in  the  propagation  of 
the  sublime  tenets  of  Freemason,  y,  into  which  he  was  initiated  in  the  city  of  Goshen  in  1S46. 
He  was  for  several  years  the  honored  Master  of  Goshen  Lodge  No.  12.  He  had  been  Grand 
High  Priest  of  the  Grand  Chapter  of  Indiana,  and  Grand  Commander  of  the  Scottish  Rite  in 
the  same  State.  He  was,  at  the  time  of  his  death,  the  Representative  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Michigan  near  this  Grand  Body,  which  he  has  served  with  great  ability  in  the  past.  He  was 
a  man  of  positive  character,  remarkuble  literary  abilities,  irreproachable  life,  and  gentlemanly 
deportment. 

The  Grand  Master  does  not  recommend  the  recognition  of  either  the 
"  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon,"  or  the  "  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba,"  and  says,  "there 
being  two  Grand  Bodies  claiming  jurisdiction  over  the  same  territory,  the 
proper  course  for  us  to  pursue  is  to  decline  to  recognize  either  at  present." 
We  deny  the  existence  of  a  solitary  lodge  of  Symbolic  Masonry  on  the  Island 
of  Cuba,  unless  recently  established. 

Fourteen  new  lodges  were  authorized.  Lodge  irregularities  have  occu- 
pied very  much  of  the  attention  of  the  Grand  Master.  His  report  on  the 
subject  is  of  interest  to  any  jurisdiction,  but  its  great  length  will  not  justify 
us  in  giving  it  entire  : 

I  received  reports  in  relation  to  the  above  from  four  hundred  and  sixty-one  Special  Depu- 
ties out  of  five  hundred  and  twenty-three  appointed.  From  these  reports  we  are  placed  in 
possession  of  the  following  information  : 

Thirty-eight  lodges  failed  to  hold  the  annual  election  ot  officers  at  the  stated  meeting 
next  preceding  the  27th  of  December,  1S76,  thirty-one  of  which  made  application  to  me  for 
dispensations  to  hold  special  elections. 

The  officers  elect  of  twenty -three  lodges  were  not  installed  by  an  affiliated  actual  Past 
Master  on  or  before  the  next  succeeding  stated  meeting. 

Four  lodge  records  are  not  signed  by  the  Worshiptul  Master  and  attested  by  Secretary. 

Four  lodges  have  transacted  business  at  called  meetings,  other  than  trials,  conferring 
dearrees  and  ceremonial  observances. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  XLVII 


Four  lodges  have  failed  to  meet  for  six  months  conclusively. 

The  halls  of  fifteen  lodges  are  not  considered  safe  and  suitable  for  their  intended  use. 

Six  lodges  meet  in  the  same  halls  with  other  associates  or  orders  not  Masonic. 

Eight  Lodges  have  been  opened  with  less  than  seven  Master  Masons  present,   and   have 
transacted  business  (other  than  conferring  degrees)  with  a  less  number  than   seven  members 
-  of  the  Lodge. 

One  lodge  has  iniated  a  candidate  whose  physical  disabilitv  was  such  as  to  prevent  his 
literal  compliance  with  the  ceremonies  of  the  Order. 

Eighteen  lodges  have  received  petitions  for  initiation  from  persons  who  had  not  resided 
within  their  jurisdiction  six  months. 

Eleven  lodges  have  balloted  upon  the  election  or  rejection  of  candidates  whose  petitions 
had  not  been  referred  to  a  committee  for  investigation,  and  then  laid  over  four  weeks. 

When  balloting  for  initiation,  advancement  or  membership,  twenty-five  lodges  excused 
members  from  voting. 

Eight  lodges  have  not  required  proficiency  in  the  preceding  degree  before  advancement. 

Eleven  lodges  have  reconsidered  ballot  votes. 

Nine  lodges  have  conferred  more  than  one  degree  upon  candidates  at  the  same  meeting, 
and  the  same  degree  upon  more  than  one  candidate  at  the  same  time. 

Three  lodges  have  participated  in  public  processions  which  were  not  formed  for  purely 
Masonic  purposes. 

Two  lodges  failed  to  open  an  the  third  degree  at  funerals. 

Thirty-three  lodges  have  conferred  the  degrees  upon  candidates  for  a  less  sum  than 
twenty-five  dollars. 

Fifty-one  Secretaries  failed  to  promptly  forward  the  annual  returns  to  the  Grand 
Secretary. 

Forty-seven  lodges  have  neglected  to  preserve  copies  of  the  printed  proceedings  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  for  each  year. 

Thirty-one  lodges  were  not  in  possession  of  a  copy  of  the  constitution,  by-l.Tws  and  rules 
and  regulations  for  the  government  of  subordinate  lodges. 

Fifteen  lodges,  while  conferring  degrees,  do  not  conform  to  the  ritual  and  ceremonies  of 
the  "  Freemasons  Monitor  or  Illustrations  of  Mosonry,"  arranged  by  Thomas  Smith  Webb. 

One  hondred  and  fort\--nine  lodges  permitted  their  members  to  use  intoxicating  liquors 
as  a  beverage,  several  of  whom  are  also  permitted  to  manufacture  and  sell  the  same. 

Five  lodges  have  conferred  the  degrees  upon  such  as  were  in  the  habit  of  becoming 
intoxicated  or  made  it  their  business  to  manufacture  or  sell  intoxicating  liquors  to  be  used  as 
a  beverage. 

Seventy-five  ]ier  cent,  of  the  transient  applicanis  for  relief  claiming  to  be  Masons  have 
subsequently  proven  to  be  imposters. 

It  will  be  observed  that  two  hundred  and  five  lodges  have  violated  ihe  law  in  one  or  more 
instances. 

Bro.  Devol  is  much  interested  in  the  establishment  of  a  "  Masonic  Wid- 
ows' and  Orphans'  Home  and  Infirmary."  He  finds,  however,  that  the  Craft 
do  not  favor  the  enterprise  in  consequence  of  the  present  large  liabilities  of 
the  Grand   Lodge.      A  special  committee  to  which  the  matter  was  referred. 


XLVIII  APPENDIX. 


reported  in  favor  of  a  voluntary  organization,  but,  under  the  patronage  and 
influence  of  the  Grand  Body. 

In  our  report  of  last  year,  reference  was  made  to  the  case  of  a  lodge  that 
had  become  indebted  to  a  Mrs.  Page  in  the  sum  of  $4,000.  We  are  glad  to 
know  that  the  Grand  Lodge  passed  the  following  order: 

Your  committee,  therefore,  recoinmenj  that  the  functions  of  Perry  Lodge,  No.  37,  be 
suspended  for  a  period  of  three  months,  and  if,  at  the  expiration  of  that  time,  the  members 
of  said  lodge  shall  not  have  fully  satisfied  or  secured  the  said  claim  of  Mrs.  Page,  that  then 
the  charter  of  said  lodge  be,  ant  the  same  is,  hereby  revoked,  and  the  name  of  Perry  I^odge, 
No.  37,  stricken  from  the  lodge  rolls  of  this  Grand  Jurisdiction. 

The  Grand  Lodge  finds  itself  much  embarrassed  by  the  presence  of  a 
large  Grand  Lodge  Hall  indebtedness.  The  perplexing  legislation  of  the 
session  grew  out  of  making  provision  for  its  liquidation.  The  brethren 
wisely  concluded  to  suspend  unfavorable  criticism  on  what  had  been  accom- 
plished, imfortunate  though  it  has  been,  and  work  together  for  the  honor  of 
the  jurisdiction.  We  sincerely  hope  that  this  experience,  with  the  like  ex- 
perience of  every  Grand  Body  engaged  in  these  large  undertakings,  will  deter 
Grand  Lodges  from  repeating  similar  histories. 

The  attention  of  the  Committee  on  Grievances  and  Appeals  was  occupied 
with  considerable  business.  The  committee  was  not  disposed  to  settle  finan- 
cial dilTiculties  between  brethren.     Correct.  . 

The  following  sound  doctrine  is  found  in  the  report  of  the  Committee  on 
Jurisprudence : 

Your  Committee  on  Jurisprudence,  to  whom  was  referred  a  memorial  from  New  Albany 
Lodge  No.  39,  in  regard  to  allowing  lodges  to  "  suspend  or  drop  their  members  for  non-pay- 
ment of  dues  without  the  formalit}'  of  a  trial,"  having  considered  the  subject-matter  referred 
to  them  in  this  memorial,  offer  the  following  report: 

Your  committee  feel  and  realize  that  membership  and  good  standing  in  a  Masonic  lodge 
is  a  sacred  right  that  should  not  be  lightly  trifled  with.  The  account  kept  by  the  Secretary  is 
not  conclusive  evidence  of  a  brother's  delinquency  or  guilt  so  as  to  justify  a  lodge  in  taking 
action  against  him  without  notice,  and  the  facts  substantiated  by  evidence  to  the  satisfaction 
of  the  lodge.  Many  reasons  may  be  assigned  for  the  appearance  of  the  brother's  delinquency 
on  the  Secretary's  books.  He  may  have  paid  his  dues  and  the  Secretary  failed  to  enter  the 
proper  credit  through  mistake,  forgetfulness,  or  otherwise,  and  thus  the  brother's  apparent 
delinquency  would  only  be  a  question  between  himself  and  the  Secretary.  And  under  such 
circumstances  to  drop  or  suspend  the  brother,  and  thus  impeach  his  good  standing  in  the 
lodge,  as  well  as  in  the  order,  without  giving  him  an  opportunity  to  defend  himself  or  being 
heard,  is  too  foreign  to  the  principles  of  Masonr}'  to  be  entertained  by  this  Grand  Lodge. 

Bro.  Elisha  L.  McLallen,  presented  his  second  annual  report  on  Cor- 
respondence. We  are  impressed  with  distinctness  of  his  enunciations,  and 
his  sound  views  on  questions  involving  a  correct  and  /)-(7/<v«r7/ interpretation 
of  Masonic  law. 

We  thank  our  distinguished  brother  for  his  generous  notice  of  our  juris- 
diction. Indiana  was  omitted  in  our  first  report,  and  for  the  only  reason  that 
we  did  not  receive  the  proceedings.     Talk  to  Bro.  Burrill,  please. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  XLIX 


In  his  review  of  Texas  we  find  the  following: 

E.  J.  Russell,  a  Past  Master,  was  tried  and  expelled  on  charges  of  openlv  and  publicly 
denying  the  divine  authenticity  of  the  Scriptures,  asserting  the  same  in  open  lodge,  and  that 
he  did  not  want  his  children  taught  what  it  teaches  for  it  is  not  true.  He  plead  guilty,  an 
wa-  expelled.  He  appealed  to  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  the  Ending  was  sustained.  This  action 
was  clearly  in  accordance  with  Masonic  law,  as  they  have  it  in  Texas,  and  is,  in  our  opinion, 
clearly  in  violation  of  the  true  principles  of  Masonry,  which,  while  requiring  of  a  candidate 
a  belief  in  God,  leave  it  to  his  conscience  in  what  form  His  Will  shall  be  symbolized. 

Last  year  we  became  acquainted  with  his  peculiar  views  on  this  subject — 
peculiar  because  presented  by  a  Mason. 

There  are  difficulties  surrounding  even  a  limited  notice  of  such  questions 
which  none  but  a  Mason  can  appreciate.  The  intelligent  Craftsman  will 
understand  our  allusions.  This  is  not  a  question  of  Deism,  Pantheism  or  other 
ism.  Masonry  is  a  law  unto  itself,  resting  in  beliefs  and  principles  that  are 
held  to  be  fundamental,  and  so  plain  and  unequivocally  are  they  stated,  that 
there  does  not  seem  to  be  a  reasonable  apology  (Masonic)for  the  position 
of  Bro.  Mc.  L. 

The  central  figure  of  the  entire  structure  is  God.  Masonry  says  that  the 
Bible  is  His  gift  to  man,  and  given  us  as  a  guide  for  faith  and  practice.  Its 
place  SinA  functions  in  the  lodge  are  in  entire  harmony  with  these  declarations ; 
and,  as  we  said  last  year,  there  is  not  an  allusion  to  the  volume,  esoteric  or 
exoteric,  that  does  not  represent  it,  directly  or  indirectly,  as  of  divine  authen- 
ticitv.  There  is  an  unfathomable  gulf  between  Deism  and  Masonrv.  In 
the  latter,  inspiration  is  of  recognized  force  and  authority,  while  in  the 
former  it  is  rejected. 

Would  a  lodge  of  Indiana  tolerate  the  presence  of  a  man  who,  after  his 
admission  to  membership,  should  declare  the  Bible  unworthy  of  credence — 
a  cheat,  a  fraud.'     Please  let  us  know. 

Statistical— Lodges,  536;  membership,  28,101  ;  again  of  212  over  returns 
of  the  previous  year. 

M.-.W.-.  Andrew  J.  Hay,  Charlestown,  G.  M.  R.-.W.-.  John  M.  Bramwell, 
Indianapolis,  G.  S. 


APPENDIX. 


INDIAN  TERRITORY,  1877. 

The  Third  Annual  Comrflunication  was  held  at  Vinita,  September  4th. 

M.'.W.-.  Granville  McPherson  presiding.  All  the  lodges  of  the  juris- 
diction represented. 

We  ha^'e  been  much  interested  in  the  address  of  the  Grand  Master.  He 
says : 

Owing  to  our  anomalous  political  condition,  masonry  cannot  be  expected  to  progress  in 
this  Territory  at  the  same  rate  it  does  in  other  jurisdictions.  Yet  it,  together  with  religon  and 
education,  keeps  pace  with  our  slowly  advancing  civilization  ;  and  in  due  time,  if  we  are  true 
to  ourselves  and  true  to  the  interests  of  our  glorious  cause,  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Indian 
Territory  will  shine  forth  in  all  her  beauty  and  splendor,  and  take  her  stand  in  the  great 
Masonic  family,  first  among  her  equals.  The  intermediate  link  in  the  chain  that  binds  Ihe 
Orient  and  Occident — the  center  of  the  great  American  Lodge,  and  located  in  a  country  as 
lovely  as  that  in  which  Masonry  first  found  its  natal  home,  there  is  nothing  to  prevent  this 
from  becoming  at  some  day  in  the  future  the  seat  of  masonic  empire.  It  but  remains  with  you 
my  brethren,  and  those  who  come  after  you,  to  make  it  as  such.  The  Gr.ind  Master  of  the 
Universe  has  done  his  part — bestowed  with  a  bounteous  hand  all  the  precious  gifts  of  nature 
upon  your  lovely  land;  a  land  where  Religion,  Kducation  and  Masonry,  the  hand-maids  of 
civilization,  will  one  day,  like  our  cherished  emblem  of  immort.ality,  in  perpetual  verdure 
bloom. 

Two  dispensations  for  new  lodges  were  issued.  The  Grand  Master  de- 
cides: 

A  man  is  made  an  Entered  Apprentice  in  anotner  jurisdiction  ;  he  removes  to  this  jurisdic- 
tion and  the  lodge  in  which  is  he  made,  grants  permission  to  a  lodge  here  to  finish  him.  He  puts 
in  his  petition  and  is  rejected.  I  hold  now  that  he  can  only  apply  to  any  lodge  in  whose  juris- 
diction he  may  reside ;  that  thatlodge  has  the  right  to  entertain  his  petition  for  the  two  other 
degrees  without  consiilting  either  the  lodge  in  which  he  was  initiated  or  the  one  that  rejected 
him. 

So  long  as  the  system  of  perpetual  jurisdiction  is  maintained,  we  cannot 
assent  to  the  decision  of  Bro.  McPherson.  Our  opinion  would  be,  that  until 
the  E.  A.  is  accepted  by  some  lodge,  he  remains  the  ashlar  of  the  lodge  that 
initiated  him. 

The  Grand  Master's  views  on  non-affiliation  are  well  stated,  and  in  entire 
harmony  with  the  "principal  tenets  of  his  profession."  We  give  a  single 
paragraph : 

I  deem  it  not  inappropriate  for  me  to  say  something  on  the  subject  of  non- affiliated  Ma- 
sons. I  am  not  in  favor  of  treating  them  as  rigidly  as  some  of  my  brethren  here  are,  nor  as 
some  of  our  sister  Grand  Lodges  do.  I  believe  it  to  be  the  duty  of  every  good  Mason  to 
belong  to  some  lodge>  yet  I  think  it  is  not  an  impossibility  for  a  man  to  be  a  good  Mason 
without  belonging  to  a  lodge.  And  when  a  non-affiliated  Mason  dies,  if  he  be  recognized  by 
his  neighbors  as  a  just  and  upright  man,  I  believe  it  to  be  the  duty  of  the  lodge  in  whose 
jurisdiction  he  is,  to  bury  him  with  masonic  honors,  if  he  or  his  family  request  it.  I  am  fully 
satisfied  in  mj' own  inind,  that  such  a  magnanimous  course  on  our  part  would  have  a  tend- 
ency to  diminish  the  list  of  non- affiliated  Masons,  and  that  it  would  be  more  in  keeping  with  the 
true  spirit  of  Masonry  than  the  opposite  policy. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  LI 


The  Committee  on  Masonic  Law  and  Usage,  to  which  this  topic  was  re- 
ferred, reported  the  following; 

The  Committee  on  Masonic  Law  and  Usage,  would  beg  leave  to  report  on  as  much  of  the 
M.  W.  Grand  Master's  address  as  refers  to  non-affiliated  Master  Masons  who  refuse  to  con- 
tribute to  the  support  of  the  institution,  unless  prevented  by  disability,  by  so  doing  forfeit  all 
the  rights,  privileges  and  benefits  of  the  fraternity. 

Adopted. 

The  Grand  Master  further  recommended  the  abrogation  of  the  affiliation 
fee,  also  the  charge  of  twenty  cents  for  visitations  of  non-affiliates.  The 
latter  is  something  new.  The  Grand  Lodge  did  not  express  an  opinion  upon 
either  subject.  If  any  of  Caucasian  blood  are  skeptical  as  to  the  possibility 
of  any  good  coming  from  any  other  division  of  the  human  family,  we 
again,  and  earnestly,  ask  their  attention  to  M.-.W.-.  Bro.  McPherson  : 

My  brethren,  I  fear  some  of  us  are  inclined  to  pay  more  regard  to  useless  customs  tliaii 
to  our  every  day  duties  and  obligations  to  each  other.  I  hold  it  better  to  deviate  from 
an  empty  form  than  from  the  principles  of  Masonry.  It  is  all  well  enough  for  us  to  be  posted 
on  Masonic  Law  and  Usage,  and  to  be  familiar  with  the  ancient  land -marks;  in  fact  these 
are  a  part  of  our  Masonic  duties  ;  but  suppose  we  stop  here ;  of  what  benefit  would  Masonry 
be  to  the  world?  We  may  know  by  heart  all  the  disquisitions  on  Masonic  Jurisprudence  that 
Mackay  ever  wrote;  have  at  our  tongue's  end  all  the  beautiful  things  that  Pike  has  ever  said, 
and  yet  be  as  void  of  the  true  spirit  of  Masonry  as  is  the  marble  slab  of  the  virtues  of  him 
whose  name  it  commemorates.  It  is  in  the  daily  avocations  of  lite,  the  missions  of  Masonry 
must  be  fullilled;  in  a  strict  adherence  to  the  solemn  obligations  we  are  under  to  each  other. 
This  it  is  that  will  lift  the  lowering  clouds  and  show  forth  Masonry,  the  white-winged  angel 
in  waiting  upon  religion,  and  civilization,  in  all  her  resplendent  beauty. 

The  order  of  last  year  arresting  the  charters  of  Flint  and  Alpha  Lodges, 
was  rescinded.  It  will  be  remembered  that  these  bodies  refused  to  recognize 
the  authority'  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  insisted  upon  retaining  relationship 
with  the  mother  Grand  Lodge  of  Kansas.     We  refer  to  our  special  report. 

The  Committee  on  Correspondence,  Bros.  Murrow,  Hague  and  Jones,  pre- 
sent a  very  creditable  production.  It  is  a  pleasure  to  assure  the  Craft,  that 
though  the  report  is  brief,  it  will  not  suffer  in  intellectual  comparison  with 
the  large  majority  of  such  papers. 

Brother  Jones,  in  his  review  of  Kansas,  gives  the  bretliren  of  that  baili- 
wick a  sly  reminder,  as  follows : 

He  I  the  Grand  Master,)  also  made  an  unusual  large  number  of  decisions.  Many  of  them 
have  long  since  been  held  as  matters  of  Law  and  Usage.  Hence  it  appears  that  the  brethren 
of  Kansas  should  devote  more  time  and  attention  to  Masonic  literature,  and  thereby  acquire 
a  more  thorough  acquaintance  with  Masonic  Law  and  Usage. 

Illinois  is  not  included  in  the  review. 

Statistics — Chartered  lodges,   lo;   membership,  259. 

M.-.W.-.  J.  S.  Murrow,  Atoka,  G.  M.  R.-.W.-.  R.  P.  Jones,  Caddo, 
G.  Sec'y. 


LII  APPENDIX. 


INDIAN  TERRITORY— SPECIAL  REPORT. 

To  the  Most    Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinob: 

At  your  last  session,  the  undersigned  was  directed  to  inquire  into  the 
legality  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Indian  Territory. 

One  Grand  Lodge  had  recalled  its  recognition,  and  although  the  mother 
Grand  Body,  Arkansas,  has  accorded  it  fraternal  relations,  it  was  thought 
wise  by  many  prominent  brethren  of  this  jurisdiction,  that  this  incjuiry  should 
be  instituted. 

The  government  of  Indian  Territory  is  an  anomaly  in  our  political  system  ; 
difficult  to  comprehend,  and  still  more  difficult  to  harmonize  with  our  national 
organic  law.  For  these  reasons  it  is  troublesome  to  define  the  political  status 
of  this  section  of  our  National  Domain,  upon  which  depends  the  constitu- 
tionality or  regularity  of  a  ("(rand  Lodge. 

The  facts  are,  that  the  principal  Tribes  or  Nations  now  occupying  this 
Territory,  were  the  acknowledged  proprietors  of  certain  lands  lying  east 
of  the  Mississippi  River.  By  treaties,  dating  back  forty  years  or  more,  these 
lands  were  purchased  by  the  United  States,  and  in  payment,  the  Indians 
received  the  territory  they  now  occupy.  These  treaties  are  too  numerous 
to  quote.  They  are  with  the  various  resident  Tribes,  substantially  alike  in 
their  provisions,  and  embrace  the  following:  "The  Creeks  and  Seminoles 
shall  be  secured  in  the  unrestricted  right  of  self  goi>erntnent,  and Jull  Juris- 
diction over  person  and  property  xvitkin  their  respective  limits.''''  Italics 
ours. 

A  case  involving  the  question  under  advisement,  was  adjudicated  by  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  in  1S72.     17  Wallace,  p.  Jii. 

******** 

Indeed,  treaties  have  been  made  by  the  United  States  with  the  Indian  tribes  ever  since 
the  Union  \Yas  formed,  of  which  numerous  examples  are  to  be  found  in  the  seventh  vohime  of 
the  public  statutes. — ^Cherokee  Nation  v.  Georgia,  5  Pet  ,  17;   Worcester  v.  Georgia,  6  Pet., 

S43-) 

Indian  tribes  are  states  in  a  certain  sense,  though  not  foreign  states,  or  States  of  the 
United  States,  within  the  meaning  of  the  second  section  of  the  third  article  of  the  Constitu- 
tion, which  extends  the  judicial  power  to  controversies  between  two  or  more  States,  between 
a  State  and  citizens  of  another  State,  between  citizens  of  different  States,  and  belween  a 
State  or  the  citizens  thereof  and  foreign  states,  citizens  or  subjects.  They  are  not  states 
within  the  meaning  of  any  one  of  these  clauses  of  the  Constitution,  and  yet  in  a  certain 
domestic  sense,  and  for  certain  municipal  purposes,  they  are  states,  and  have  been  uniformly 
so  treated  since  the  settlement  of  our  country  and  throughout  its  history,  and  numerous 
treaties  made  with  them  recognize  them  as  a  people  capable  of  maintaining  the  relations  of 
peace  and  war,  of  being  responsible,  in  their  political  character,  for  any  violation  of  their 
engagements,  or  for  any  aggression  committed  on  the  citizens  of  the  United  States  by  any 
ndividual  of  their  community. 

Laws  have  been  enacted  by  Congress  in  the  spirit  of  those  treaties,  and  the  acts  of  our 
Government,  both  in  the  e.Kecutive  and  legislative  departments,  plainly  recognize  such  tribes 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE. 


or  nations  as  states,  and  the  courts  of  the  United   States  are  bound  by  those  acts. — (Doe  v. 
Braden,  i6  How. ;  Garcia  v.  Lee,  i3  Pet  ,  S19.I 

Express  power  is  given  to  the  President,  by  and  willi  tlie  advice  and  consent  of  tlie 
Senate,  to  make  treaties,  provided  two-thirds  of  the  Senators  present  concur,  and  inasmuch 
as  the  power  is  given,  in  general  terms,  without  any  description  of  the  objects  intended  to  be 
embraced  within  its  scope,  it  must  be  assumed  that  the  framers  of  the  Constitution  intended 
that  it  should  extend  to  all  those  objects  which,  in  the  intercourse  of  nations,  had  usually 
been  regarded  as  the  proper  subjects  of  negotiation  and  treaty,  if  not  inconsistent  with  the 
nature  of  our  Government  and  the  relation  between  the  States  and  the  United  States. — 
(Holmes  v.  Jennison  et  al.,  14  Pet.,  569;  I  Kent's  Com.,  166;  2  Story  on  Const  ,  sec.  1508;  7 
Hamilton's  Works,  501  ;  Duer's  Jurisp.,  229  ) 

Beyond  doubt  the  Cherokees  were  the  owners  and  occupants  of  the  territory  where  they 
resided  before  the  first  approach  of  civilized  man  to  the  western  continent,  deriving  their 
title,  as  they  claimed,  from  the  Great  Spirit,  to  whom  the  whole  earth  belongs,  and  they  were 
unquestionably  the  sole  and  exclusive  masters  of  the  territory,  and  claimed  the  right  to 
govern  themselves  by  their  own  laws,  usages  and  customs. 

Guided  by  nautical  skill,  enterprising  navigators  were  conducted  to  the  New  World. 
They  fourd  it,  says  Marshall,  Ch.  J.,  in  possession  of  a  people  who  had  made  small  progress 
in  agriculture  or  manufactures,  and  whose  general  employment  was  war,  hunting  and  fishing. 
Expeditions  were  fitted  out  by  all  the  great  maritime  powers  of  the  Old  World,  and  they 
visited  many  parts  of  the  newly  discovered  continent,  and  each  made  clairn  to  such  part  of 
the  country  .as  they  visited.  Disputes  arose  and  conflicts  were  in  the  prospect,  which  made  it 
necessary  to  establish  some  principle  which  all  would  acknowledge,  and  which  should  decide 
their  respective  rights  in  case  of  confiicling  pretensions.  Influenced  by  these  considerations 
they  agreed  that  discovery  should  determine  the  right,  that  discovery  should  give  title  to  the 
government  by  whose  subjects,  or  by  whose  authority,  it  was  made,  against  all  other  govern- 
ments, and  that  the  title  so  acquired  might  be  consummated  by  possession.— (Johnson  v. 
Mcintosh,  8  Wheat.,  573. 

As  a  necessaay  consequence  the  principle  established  gave  to  the  nation  making  the  dis- 
covery the  sole  right  of  acquiring  the  soil  and  of  making  settlements  on  it.  Obviously  this 
principle  regulated  the  right  conceded  by  discovery  among  the  discoverers,  but  it  could  not 
affect  the  rights  of  those  already  in  possession,  either  as  aboriginal  occupants  or  by  virtue  of 
a  more  ancient  discovery.  It  gave  the  exclusive  right  to  purchase,  but  did  not  found  that 
right  on  a  denial  of  the  right  of  the  possessor  to  sell.  Colonies  were  planted  by  Great 
Britain,  and  the  United  States,  by  virtue  of  the  Revolution  and  the  treaty  of  peace,  succeeded 
to  the  extent  therein  provided  to  all  the  claims  of  the  government,  both  political  and 
territorial. 

Throughout  the  Indians,  as  tribes  or  nations,  have  been  considered  ;is  distinct,  indepen- 
dent communities,  retaining  their  original,  natural  rights  as  the  undisputed  possessors  of  the 
soil,  from  time  immemorial,  subject  to  the  conditions  imposed  by  the  discoverers  of  the  con- 
tinent, which  excluded  them  from  intercourse  with  any  other  government  than  that  of  the 
first  discoverer  of  the  particular  section  claimed.  They  could  sell  to  the  government  of  the 
discoverer,  but  they  could  not  sell  to  .any  other  government  or  their  subjects,  as  the  go\  em- 
inent of  the  discoverer  acquired,  by  virtue  of  their  discovery,  the  exclusive  pre  emption  ritrht 
[O  purchase  and  the  right  to  exclude  the  subjects  of  all  other  governments,  and  even  their 
own,  from  acquiring  title  to  the  lands. 

Enough  has  already  been  remarked  to  show  that  the  lands  conveyed  to  the  United  States 
by  the  treaty  were  held  by  the  Cherokees  under  their  original  title,  acquired  by  immemorial 
possession,  commencing  ages  before  the  New  World  was  known  to  civilized  man.  Unmis- 
takably their  title  was  absolute,  subject  only  to  the  pre-emption  right  of  purchase  acquired 
by  the  United  States  as  the  successors  of  Great  Britain,  and  the  right  also  on  their  part  as 
such  successors  of  the  discoverer  to  prohibit  the  sale  of  the  lands  to  any  othergovernments  or 

their  subjects,  and  to  exclude  all  other  governments  from  any  interference  in  their  affairs. 

(.Mitchell  et  al.  v.  United  States,  9  Pet.,  748.) 


LIV  APPENDIX. 


The  various  Tribes  or  Nations  to  which  we  refer,  remained  distinct  from 
each  other,  and  governed  by  their  respective  tribal  regulations  till  the  treaty 
of  1866,  which  organized  them  into  a  Confederation.  This  Treaty  is  as  fol- 
lows: 

********** 

First.  After  the  ratification  of  this  treaty,  and  as  soon  as  may  be  deemed  practicable  by 
the  Secretary  of  tlie  Interior,  and  prior  to  the  first  session  of  said  council,  a  census  or 
enumeration  of  each  tribe  lawfully  resident  in  said  territory,  shall  be  taken  under  the  di  1  ection 
of  the  Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs,  who,  for  that  purpose,  is  hereby  authorized  to  designate 
and  appoint  competent  persons,  whose  compensation  shall  be  fixed  by  the  Secretary  of  the 
Interior,  and  paid  by  the  United  States. 

Second.  The  first  general  council  shall  consist  of  one  member  from  each  tribe,  and  an 
additional  member  for  each  one  thousand  Indians,  or  each  traction  of  a  thousand  greater  than 
five  hundred,  being  members  of  any  tribe  lawfully  resident  of  said  territory,  and  shall  be 
selected  by  said  tribes  respectively  who  may  assent  to  the  establishment  of  said  General 
Council ;  and  if  none  should  be  thus  formally  selected  by  any  nation  or  tribe  so  assenting,  the 
said  nation  or  tribe  shall  be  represented  in  said  General  Council  by  the  Chief  or  Chiefs  and 
headmen  of  said  tribes,  to  be  taken  in  the  order  of  their  rank  as  recognized  in  tribal  usage,  in 
the  same  number  and  proportion  as  above  indicated.  After  such  census  shall  have  been 
taken  and  completed,  the  Superintendent  of  Indian  Affairs  shall  publish  and  declare  to  each 
tribe  assenting  to  the  establishment  of  such  council,  the  number  of  members  of  such  council 
to  which  they  shall  be  entitled  under  the  provisions  of  this  article,  and  the  persons  entitled  to 
represent  said  tribes,  shall  meet  at  such  time  and  place  as  he  shall  approve  ;  but  thereafter  the 
time  and  place  of  the  session  of  said  council  shall  be  determined  by  its  action ;  provided,  that 
no  session  in  any  one  year  shall  exceed  the  term  of  thirty  days ;  and  provided ,  that  special 
sessions  of  said  council  may  be  called  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior,  whenever,  in  his  judg- 
ment, the  interests  of  said_tribes  shall  require  such  special  session. 

Third.  Said  General  Council  shall  have  power  to  legislate  upon  matters  pertaining  to 
the  intercourse  and  relations  of  the  Indian  Tribes  or  Nations  and  colonies  of  freedmen  resi- 
dent in  said  territory ;  the  arrest  and  extradition  of  criminals  and  offenders  escaping  from 
one  tribe  to  another,  or  into  any  community  of  freedmen;  the  administration  of  justice 
between  members  of  different  tribes  of  said  territory,  and  persons  other  than  Indians,  and 
members  of  said  tribes  or  nations  and  the  common  defence  and  safety  of  the  nations  of  said 
territory.  All  laws  enacted  by  such  council,  shall  take  effect  at  such  times  as  may  therein 
be  provided,  unless  suspended  by  direction  of  the  President  of  the  United  States.  No  law 
shall  be  enacted  inconsistent  with  the  constitution  of  the  United  States,  or  laws  of  Congress, 
or  existing  treaty  stipulations  with  the  United  States.  Nor  shall  said  council  legislate  upon 
matters  other  than  those  above  dictated :  provided,  however,  that  the  legislative  power  of 
said  council  may  be  enlarged  by  the  consent  of  the  National  Council  of  each  nation  or  tribe 
assenting  to  its  establishment,  and  with  the  approval   the  President  of  the  United  States. 

Fourth.  Such  council  shall  be  presided  over  by  such  person  as  maybe  designated  by 
the  Secretary  of  the  Interior. 

The  fifth  and  sixth  articles  of  this  treaty  provide  for  a  Secretary  and  his 
compensation,  and  payment  of  members  of  the  council,  all  of  which  is 
defrayed  by  the  United  States. 

After  a  more  extended  investigation  than  tjie  foregoing  would  indicate, 
your  committee  is  led  to  the  conclusion,  that,  although  there  may  be  techni- 
cal objections  to  the  regularity  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  they  are  not  of  such 
importance  as  to  justify  a  removal  of  the  recognition  heretofore  accorded. 

THEODORE  T.  GURNEY, 
Chicago,  October  1,  187S.  Committee. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  LV 


IOWA,   1878. 

The  Thirty-fifth  Annual  Communication  met  June  4th,  at  Cedar  Rapids. 

M.-.W.-.  Zephaniah  C.  Luse  in  the  Grand  East. 

Two  hundred  and  eighty-six  lodges  represented. 

'      The    address  of  the  Grand   Master  is  very  elaborate,  and  just  what  we  ex- 
pected from  a  brother  of  his  zeal  and  industry. 

Eleven  lodges  were  constituted  during  the  year,  and  four  dispensations 
for  new  lodges  granted  A  large  number  of  applications  were  rejected  in 
consequence,  principally,  of  the  existence  of  the  "  ten  mile  rule."  We  are 
glad  to  find  that  the  Grand  Lodge  agreed  with  the  Committee  on  Jurispru- 
dence, that  the  law  was  both  unwise  and  unlawful. 

The  amount  of  unfinished  business  referred  to  the  Grand  Master  was  very 
large,  mostly  consisting  of  complaints  against  officers  and  lodges  for  irregu- 
larities, and  old  cases  of  discipline;  all  of  which  were  adjusted. 

The  Grand  Master  presented  a  few  decisions.  He  is  asked:  can  a  man 
who  has  a  stiff  knee  be  made  a  Mason? 

In  reply  he  says:  "That  depends  somewhat  on  the  degree  of  stiffness." 
*  *  *  "At  this  time,  when  Masonry  is  on\y  speculative,  we  should 
be  stringent  as  to  the  mental  qualifications  of  candidates,  but  liberal  as  to 
their  physical.  Therefore,  in  the  case  at  bar,  I  would  decide  if  this  candi- 
date can  kneel  at  the  altar,  and  take  the  proper  steps,  he  is  qualified  in  that 
respect  to  be  made  a  Mason." 

The  Grand  Master  denounces  the  Grand  Orient  of  France  for  having  oblit- 
erated from  its  constitution  the  paragraph  which  asserted  a  "belief  in  the 
existence  of  a  Deity."  The  matter  was  referred  to  a  special  committee,  who 
reported  a  recommendation  that  further  intercourse  with  the  Grand  Orient 
of  France  be  interdicted.     Agreed  to. 

The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  reported,  the  Grand  Lodge  concurring, 
in  favor  of  the  recognition  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba.  We  have  only  to 
reply,  that  we  challenge  the  proof  that  there  is  a  lawful  lodge  of  Symbolic 
Masonry  on  the  Island,  or  represented  in  the  so-called  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba. 
If  our  brethren  of  Iowa  are  satisfied  with  bodies  of  the  Craft  (!)  born  of 
Grand  Orients,  Chapters  or  Commanderies,  we  must  rest  content  with  their 
tastes.     Time  and  thought  will  rectify  these  anomalies. 

The  "  Grand  Lodge  of  New  South  Wales  "  was  not  recognized. 

The  finances  of  the  Grand  Lodge  appear  in  good  condition,  notwithstand- 
ing a  failure  to  reduce  mileage  and  per  diem  expenses. 


APPENDIX. 


The  Committee  on  Chartered  Lodges  conclude  an  able  report  by  saying: 

The  committee  find  that  there  are  several  lodges  in  the  state  that  are  compatively  dead. 
They  are  doing  very  little,  if  any,  work,  and  are  in  a  starving  condition,  both  Masonicallv 
and  financially.  Some  of  them  have  not  paid  their  dues  for  1S77,  and  one  says  that  it  is  very 
doubtful  if  they  can  pay  this  year.  We  would  earnestly  recommend  to  such  lodges  to  surren- 
der their  charters,  and  unite  with  some  neighboring  lodge. 

We  are  satisfied  that  the  percentage  of  correct  returns  is  no  greater  than  it  was  ten  years 
ago.  Some  of  them  are  so  much  at  fault  that  it  is  impossible  to  make  them  right,  and  we  see 
no  remedy  so  long  as  the  lodges  persist  in  electing  officers  who  (judging  from  the  returns) 
are  utterly  incompetent  to  discharge  the  duties  of  the  offices  to  which  they  are  ekcted. 

Iowa  is  not  an  exception.  We  note  the  quotation  to  e.\press  a  hope  that 
more  rigid  rules  applying  to  such  lodges  may  soon  become  general.  The 
business  of  a  Grand  Lodge  is  to  promote  Craft  welfare,  and  when  it  finds  a 
constituent  that  has  no  practical  existence,  useless  and  offensive  because  of 
its  inactivity,  or  want  of  moral  force,  it  should  be  treated  as  inimical  to 
Masonry. 

Bro.  Parvin  presented  a  brief  report  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Canada, 
which  he  represents;  also,  Bro.  Hartsock,  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Louisiana. 

Bro.  Parvin,  imexpectedly  to  himself,  was  called  upon  to  prepare  a  report 
on  Correspondence.  In  form  it  is  unlike  his  other  efforts  of  the  same  char- 
acter, and  modeled  after  the  reports  of  Bro.  Caldwell,  of  Ohio. 

He  takes  early  opportunity  to  detract  from  the  value  of  these  reports,  and 
thinks  that  they  have  had  their  day.  Further  on  he  says:  "At  all  events,  a 
great  reform  is  needed  in  bringing  them  within  proper  limits."  Well,  this 
maybe  true;  nevertheless  a  faithful  report  of  the  doings  of  a  Grand  Body 
will  occupy  time  and  labor  in  its  preparation,  and  space  for  presentation. 
There  is  nothing  in  connection  with  our  institution  that  affords  more 
pleasure  to  a  Mason  than  a  knowledge  of  the  transactions  of  Grand  Lodges. 
Although  some  of  the  corps  indulge  in  much  that  is  foreign  to  the  purpose  of 
this  work,  still,  and  as  a  whole,  we  think  them  of  too  inuch  value  and  im- 
portance to  be  dispensed  with. 

Bro.  Parvin  is  becoming  just  a  little  cynical.  Bro.  Henry  W.  Rothert,  P. 
G.  M.,  will  write  the  next  report. 

The  Oration,  by  Bro.  L,  D.  Llewelling,  is  a  sharp,  sound  and  useful  pro- 
duction. We  ha%'e  read  it  with  more  than  ordinary  care  and  interest,  and 
should  be  glad  to  give  it  in  full.  We  must  be  content  with  a  single  selection. 
Read  it : 

J  tell  vou  there  is  nothing,  among  all  God's  creatures,  to  equal  the  dignity  of  manhood. 
Man,  with  a  mind  cap.ablc  of  subduing  earth  ;  man,  who  can  grasp  the  lightning  and  make  it 
do  his  bidding;  man,  whose  soul  is  a  spark  of  divinity,  and  whose  destiny  is  high  as  heaven, 
and  vast  as  eternity;  and  when  a  man  carries  about  in  his  bosom  a  great  warm  he  irt,  throb- 
bing with  love  for  wife  and  children,  and  home  and  fellow-men;  and  when  he  struggles  on 
and  on  through  the  mystery  of  pain  and  sorrow  for  the  development  of  his  race,  he  is  as  much 
superior  to  the  Adam  of  his  race  as  a  suit  of  broadcloth  is  superior  to  an  apron  of  fig  leaves. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  I.VII 


What  then?  Only  this:  the  human  race  has  been  a  developing  race.  The  law  of  devel- 
opment was  implanted  in  the  nature  of  the  first  Adam,  and  it  impelled  him  to  pluck  the  first 
fruit  from  the  tree  of  knowledge  ;  and  ever  since  he  has  been  going  on  through  strife  and  pain 
toward  ultimate  perfection.  I  do  not  believe  the  world  is  growing  worse  every  day;  and 
when  a  man  tells  nie  it  is,  1  set  it  down  that  he  is  a  sour  and  crusty  cynic,  and,  ten  to  one  an 
old  bachelor. 

I  do  not  believe  the  race  is  going  to  the  bad.  We  have  had  our  dark  ages,  our  ages  of 
persecution  and  intolerance;  but  then  men  had  no  charity  for  different  views,  and  so  they 
bound  men  on  the  rack,  and  delivered  them  over  to  exquisite  torture.  Hundreds  of  men  were 
murdered  for  refusing  to  believe  that  portions  of  bread  and  wine,  made  bv  the  bakers  and 
brewers  of  London,  were  the  real  body  and  blood  of  Christ.  Men  and  women  were  bound  to 
stakes  by  chains,  fagots  of  wood  piled  high  around  them,  and  touched  with  fire,  and  then,  as 
they  writhed  in  anguish,  and  as  the  fiames  rose  higher,  and  the  flesh  crisped,  and  the  tendons 
cracked,  men  stood  back  and  viewed  the  scene  with  infinite  satisfaction. 

The  wing  of  an  angel  was  shown,  which  was  said  to  have  brought  over  from  Jerusalem 
the  point  of  the  spear  which  pierced  the  body  of  Jesus,  and  men  were  punished  who  refused 
to  believe  the  story. 

A  queer  notion  arose,  and  it  is  believed  to-day,  that  it  was  wrong  to  eat  meat  on  certain 
days  ;  and  four  men,  who  had  eaten  a  goose,  were  actually  hung  for  the  enormity  of  the  crime. 

Well,  all  that  was  what  people  call  too  much  of  a  good  thing !  It  was  the  excess,  the 
overdoing,  the  excrescence  of  Christianity.  Did  it  ever  occur  to  you  that  the  only  sins  of 
men  are  their  extremes — their  excesses? 

Statistics. — Lodjes,  (Working,)  351;  membership,  18,486. 

M.-.W.-.  Jeremiah  W.  Wilson,  Newton,  G.  M.  M.-.W.-.  Theodore  S. 
Parvin,  Iowa  City,  G.  Sec'y. 


KANSAS,   1.S77. 

The  Twenty-second  Annual  Coninuinication  was  in  session  at  Topeka, 
October  17th. 

M.-.W.-.  Jacob  D.  Rush,    presiding. 

Five  authorizations  tor  new  lodges  were  issued — one,  to  take  the  place  of 
No.  62,  that  had  been  extinguished.  Many  other  applications  had  been 
received  during  the  year,  but  did  not  meet  with  favorable  consideration. 

All  applications  for  permission  to  confer  degrees,  "  in  less  than  the  usual 
time  prescribed,"  were  rejected.  One  lodge  was  reprimanded,  and  two  chart- 
ers arrested — one  had  been  burglarized  of  its  parchment,  which  the  Grand 
Master  is  pleased  to  call  a  charter.  We  have  always  supposed  that  the  act  of 
the  Grand  Lodge  was  the  charter,  and  tlie  parchment  but  a  certificate  of  the 
fact. 

8 


LVIII  APPENDIX. 


Durint^  the  past  year  the  work  has  been  disseminated  by  a  salaried  Grand 
Lecturer.  The  change  appears  to  work  satisfactorily.  From  a  statement  by 
the  Grand  Master,  alluding  to  a  report  from  the  Grand  Lecturer,  it  would 
appear  that  some  lodges  wanted  righting.     Most  likely. 

The  Grand  Master  makes  several  decisions.     We  select  one  ; 

^uerj.     What  is  the  status  of  non-affiliated  Masons  in  this  jurisdiction. 

Answer.  Every  Master  Mason  should  belong  to  some  lodge,  and  be  a  contributing  mem- 
ber to  its  charities.  One  who  voluntarily  takes  his  diniit,  and  severs  his  connection  with  the 
Fraternity,  not  for  the  purpose  of  becoming  affiliated  with  another  lodge,  thereby  relinquishes 
his  claim  upon  the  Fraternity  ior  all  those  benefits  which  he  acquired  by  becoming  a  member 
of  it.  Therefore,  in  the  absence  of  any  local  regulation  upon  the  subject,  I  hold  this  is  to  be 
the  correct  and  just  status  of  that  class  of  Masonic  vagrants,  viz. :  any  non-affiliated  Master 
Mason  in  this  jurisdiction  who  does  not,  within  six  months  from  the  date  of  his  dimit, become 
a  member  of  some  lodge,  shall  not  be  permitted  to  visit  any  lodge  (after  that  time)  more  than 
once,  nor  be  permitted  to  walk  in  any  Masonic  procession,  or  participate  in  any  Masonic 
ceremony;  neither  shall  they  be  entitled  to  receive  Masonic  burial,  nor  to  receive  relief  from 
the  charity  funds  of  the  lodge. 

The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  thus  dispose  of  it: 

With  regard  to  Decision  No.  7,  your  committee  report  that  the  general  tenor  of  the  same 
is  correct,  but  with  regard  to  that  portion  of  it  relating  to  the  right  of  visitation  of  non- affil- 
iates, we  are  of  the  opinion  that  on  that  question  the  rule  laid  down  by  the  Grand  Master  is 
not  correct,  but  that  the  whole  matter  should  be  left  to  the  exercise  of  a  wholesome  and  salu- 
tary discretion  by  the  brethren  of  each  particular  lodge,  since  the  right  of  visitation  is  subject 
to  the  objection  of  any  member  of  the  lodge. 

M.-.W.'.  Bro.  Rush  seems  much  exercised  in  the  matter  of  discipline  for 
non-payment  of  dues,  and  non-affiliation.  So  much  space  was  devoted  to 
these  topics  in  our  report  of  last  year,  that  we  do  not  feel  at  liberty  to  repro- 
duce what  was  then  said;  but,  to  give  our  readers  the  advantages  of  the  ripe 
experience  and  erudition  of  our  distinguished  brother,  a  selection  or  two 
from  his  address  is  appended: 

This  alternately,  much  abused,  coaxed  and  petted  portion  of  our  Fraternity,  has  occupied 
and  engaged  the  attention  ot  various  sister  Grand  Lodges  for  years  past.  Each  in  their  turn 
have  had  one  or  more  committees  chasing  after  these  good  (  ? »  brothers,  until  all  have  pretty 
nearly  exhausted  their  strength  and  patience,  and  have  had  to  stop  at  last  and  fold  their  arms 
in  despair  almost,  as  they  beheld  this  "numerous  and  constantly  increasing  brother,"  slowly 
but  surely  leaving  them  in  the  rear.  And  still  the  question  is,  what  shall  we  do  to  not  only 
"catch  him,"  but  also  hold  him  when  caught?  This  question  has  been  asked  me  a  number 
of  times  during  the  past  year. 

******** 

We  have  run  after  the  non-affiliated  Mason  long  enough,  to  the  detriment  of  the  faithful 
and  true  Masons  who  have  held  fast  to  their  faith  and  Masonic  homes  at  the  same  time. 
Let  us  try  a  different  kind  of  tactics  upon  them,  by  changing  our  course;  and  instead  of 
chasing  after  them,  let  us  turn  and  face  them  ;  and  establish  our  laws  saying,  thus  far  you  can 
go  and  no  farther,  only  at  your  peril.  Let  us  give  them  an  opportunity  to  run  after  us  for 
awhile,  and  see  which  is  the  most  successful  plan.  Believing  the  latter  would  be,  I  made  my 
decision  accordingly. 

The  Grand  Master  recommended  that  a  waiver  of  jurisdiction  should 
require  unanimous  consent.  From  this,  tlie  Committee  on  Jurisprudence 
dissented;  adhering  to  the  established  rule  of  a  two-third  \ote.  We  cannot 
understand  the  value  of  the  right  of  objection  under  this  regulation. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  I.IX 


The  report  of  the  Grand  Secretary  urges  an  appropriation  of  $150  for 
library  purposes.  The  committee  to  whom  the  suggestion  was  referred, 
reported  ad\ersely. 

Tiie  Committee  on  Appeals  and  Grievances  were  engaged  with  a  number 
of  cases;  the  majority  growing  out  of  whisky — some  for  vending,  and  others 
for  its  too  liberal  use.  Whatever  may  be  the  opinions  of  Masons  as  to  the 
propriety  of  Grand  Lodges  inhibiting  the  traffic  in  this  poison,  there  cannot 
be  a  doubt  but  that  Grand  Lodges  insisting  that  their  subordinates  shall  not 
tolerate  it,  will  secure  renewed  claims  to  public  and  private  commendation. 
Our  relations  to  the  world  demand  every  effort  to  place  men  upon  advanced 
moral  altitudes,  and  we  cannot  be  a  creditable  force  in  moral  agencies,  unless 
we  are  consistent. 

It  is  possible  that  our  Kansas  brethren  may  not  be  wise  in  their  methods, 
but  the  fact  that  they  have  the  courage  to  grapple  with  an  appalling  vice,  should 
command  our  admiration,  and  protect  them  from  unfriendly  criticism, 
while  engaged  in  honest  efforts  for  the  welfare  of  the  fraternity  and  the 
world.  Our  private  opinion  is,  that  it  would  not  result  in  any  injury  to  the 
Craft  to  see  the  "  red  ribbon,"  with  an  emblematical  fastening,  upon  the 
breast  of  the  fraternity  universal. 

At  the  conclusion  of  their  report  the  committee  say: 

In  conclusion,  your  committee  beg  leave  to  say  that  their  experience  leads  them  to  the 
conclusion  that  there  is  a  serious  defect  in  our  By-Laws  with  reference  to  the  venue  where 
charges  should  be  tried.  There  should  be  a  tribunal  other  than  the  lodge  where  the  charges 
originated,  to  try  and  decide  cases  when  the  original  proceedings  have  been  set  aside  upon 
appeal  to  the  Grand  Lodge.  They  therefore  repoit  the  following  amendment  to  the  By- 
Laws,  and  ask  that  it  be  referred  to  the  Comn.ittee  on  Jurisprudence: 

NEW     TKIALS. 

There  shall  be  api)ointed  by  the  Grand  Master,  at  each  session  of  the  Grand  I^odge,  a 
Standing  Committee  of  three,  to  be  called  the  Committee  on  New  Trials,  which  committee 
shall  continue  until  the  close  of  the  next  session  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  shall  exercise  the 
powers  and  duties  hereinafter  set  forth. 

When  a  trial  has  been  had  in  a  lodge  and  an  appeal  taken  to  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  the 
finding  reversed,  or  the  sentence  set  aside  as  inadequate,  the  case  shall  then  be  referred  to 
the  Standing  Committee  on  Trials,  which  shall  give  to  both  parties  ample  notice  of  the  time 
of  trial,  and  at  such  time  they  ^hall  proceed  to  try  and  determine  the  matter,  and  in  case  of  a 
finding  of  guilt,  declare  the  penalty.  Their  findings  and  sentences  shall  be  forthwith  certified 
to  the  lodge  where  the  charges  originated,  and  if  the  sentence  is  suspension  or  expulsion,  it 
shall  go  into  immediate  effect. 

They  shall  report  their  proceedings  with  all  the  evidence  to  the  Grand  Lodge  at  its  next 
session  for  approval. 

Such  trial  shall  be  had  upon  the  evidence  already  taken,  and  such  other  evidence  as  the 
parties  may  choose  to  submit,  taken  in  writing,  after  due  notice  to  each  other  of  the  taking  of 
such  testimony. 

The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence,  to  whom  the  report  was  referred,  report 
their   approval  of  the  proposed  amendment,  and,  on  motion,  it  was  referred 


LX  APPENDIX. 


to  the  lodges  for  their  consideration.  This  identical  question  was  before  us, 
and  received  extended  notice  in  our  review  of  Texas  October  last.  It  is  a 
matter  of  serious  import  as  affecting  the  sovereignty  of  lodges,  and  there- 
fore entitled  to  much  thoughtful  investigation.  Centralization,  is  the  general 
tendency  of  the  age.     Watch,  brethren. 

The  Committee  on  Chartered  Lodges  having  recommended  the  consoli- 
tion  of  lodges,  the  following  plan,  submitted  l)y  the  Committee  on  Jurispru- 
dence, was  adopted : 

Resolved,  That  in  all  cases  in  which  two  or  more  lodges  regularly  chartered  shall  agree  to, 
consolidate  and  become  one  lodge,  the  proper  Grand  Officers  of  this  Grand  Lodge  shall  have 
power  to  issue  at  once  to  such  consolidated  lodge  a  charter  in  regular  form,  and  also  by 
special  dispendation,  appoint,  or  authorize  the  election  of,  officers  for  such  consolidited 
lodge,  who  shall  hold  for  the  remainder  of  that  year,  provided  the  Grand  Master  shall  be 
satisfied  that  the  lodges  agreeing  to  consolidate  shall  have  each  complied  with  the  following 
terms : 

^/,-.«/_Each  lodge  shall  vote  upon  the  question  of  consolidation  at  a  Regular  Com- 
munication. 

Second — Each  lodge  shall  give  at  least  one  month's  notice  of  such  meeting  to  each  of  its 
members,  whose  address  is  known,  which  notice  may  be  by  mail,  and  shall  state  that  the 
question  of  consolidation  with  the  other  lo('„'e  or  lodges,  naming  it  or  them,  will  be  voted 
upon  at  such  meeting. 

Third — The  vote  upon  the  question  of  consolidation  shall  be  by  yeas  and  nays,  and  a 
record  thereof  shall  be  made  by  the  Secretary  upon  the  minutes  of  the  meeting. 

Fourth — That  two-thirds  of  all  the  members  present  and  voting  in  each  of  said  lodges 
shall  vote  in  favor  of  the  consolidation. 

When  such  consolidation  shall  have  been  completed,  and  a  charter  issued  as  herein 
specified,  the  membership  rights,  credits,  property  and  effects  of  all  kinds  belonging  to  each 
of  such  lodges,  shall  at  once  vest  in  and  belong  to  such  consolidated  lodge. 

A  committee  of  three  was  appointed,  to  confer  with  a  like  committee  from 
the  Grand  Chapter,  looking  to  the  erection  of  a  monument  to  the  memory 
Past  Cirand  Master  Richard  R.  Rees. 

The  following  resolution  was  offered,  and,  "by  a  large  majority,  laid  on 
the  table:"  "That  the  (irand  Seci-etary  is  instructed  not  to  publish  the  Report 
on  Correspondence,  until  ordered  by  the  Grand  Lodge  at  its  next  session." 
Bro.  Brown  must  have  crossed  the  bows  of  Bro.  Bettis  sometime;  or  else 
Bro.  Bettis  is  not  well  pleased  with  the  expenditure  necessary  for  the  publi- 
cation. Bro.  Brown  says  many  good  things,  notwithstanding  his  disposi- 
tion to  be  placed  on  the  role  of  sharp  criticism.  Under  New  York  he 
■  remarks : 

But  is  this  muchness  of  Masonic  legislation  necessary?  Cannot  three-fourths  of  it  be 
swept  away,  and  yet  Freemasonry  be  immensely  the  gainer?  Simplicity  is  the  essence  of 
Masonry;  why,  then,  should  the  enactments  in  its  name,  rival  in  number  and  obscurity  those 
elaborated  by  the  codifiers  of  civil  law?  Why  in  consequence  necessitate  a  guild  of  learned 
men  to  elucidate  their  principles  and  declare  the  status  of  a  Mason  in  a  given  case?  Why 
not  as  of  old  let  simple  charges  and  rules  prevail  that  a  plain  brother  mav  find  his  way  with- 
out the  need  of  constant  legal  interpretation? 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  LXI 


If  many  of  tlie  so-called  schools  of  reform  are  not  vast,  dreary  caverns  of  in;inity,  thev 
are  worse,  for  to  gloom  they  add  confusion  by  the  multitude  of  their  points  and  discrimina- 
tions, their  corollaries  and  exceptions,  and  so  make  every  step  a  burden  to  him  who  is 
unversed  in  their  mental  jugglery  and  gratuitous  deceit.  Masonrv  cannot  afford  to  drop  from 
its  high  plane  into  a  similar  cavern.  It  cannot  afford  to  eclipse  or  extinguish  its  own  lights, 
and  in  a  tirm.inient  of  thick  darkness  seek  .a  guiding  ray  of  light.  It  cannot  afford  to  be 
classed  with  the  reforming  failures  of  the  past,  and  cast  out  upon  the  rubbi:<h  heaps  left  in  the 
march  of  a  struggling,  advancing  civilization.  A  light  unto  itself,  it  should  be  a  pharos  to 
the  world.  Let  it,  therefore,  reject  every  useless  regulation — every  by-law  and  statute  unwar- 
ranted by  the  landmarks  and  past  regular  usage— and  model  all  its  legislation  after  the 
fashion  set  by  its  founders.  Let  the  complex  give  way  to  the  simple,  the  intricate  to  that 
whose  plainness  and  clearness  comm(  nds  it  to  all  men. 

Complimenting  M.-.W.".  Yeo,  of  Prince  ?2d\vard  Island,  on  his  annual 
address,  he  empties  himself  thus: 

We  commend  this  discourse  to  those  brotliers  who  begin,  stuff  and  conclude  otherwise 
good  business  reports  with  a  deal  of  downright  flapdoodle  and  long  stretches  of  pure  bosh,  to 
which  the  hearer  must  listen,  and  through  which  the  reader  must  go,  or  not  hear  or  know  the 
good  things  they  happen  to  contain.  As  the  fashion  has  been  set  in  reputable  quarters  for 
the  rendition  of  purely  business  reports,  accompanied  with  timely  suggestions  by  Grand 
Masters,  we  sincerely  hope  the  day  is  soon  to  pass  when  we  shall  see  or  hear  of  any  further 
invasions  of  the  prerogatives  of  Grand  Orators  and  Grand  Chaplains  by  them.  Masonry 
does  not  need  to  be  annually  eulogized,  and  whenever  it  is,  one  is  reminded  of  a  courageous 
boy  who  whistles  in  the  dark.  Masters  who  indulge  in  such  nonsense  seem  to  forget  that 
Masonry  existed  before  a  single  modern  nation  had  sent  down  its  anchoring,  roots,  or  else 
they  imagine  themselves  the  only  ones  who  have  found  out  the  fact,  and  being  oppressed 
with  the  weight  of  the  knowledge  thus  borne,  hasten  to  lay  off  the  burden  to  prevent  being 
crushed,  and  at  the  same  time  astound  their  hearers.  Masonry  will  live  in  some  form  when 
such  babblers  have  for  centuries  been  buried  in  forgetfulness ;  so  let  them  study  new  themes, 
and  irrigate  the  shallow  convolutions  of  their  own  brains  with  a  little  fresh  reading — much 
would  "do  them  to  death"— and  in  this  wise  relieve  the  Fraternity  from  the  perusal  of  their 
flatulent  lucubrations. 

If  our  good  brother  will  point  out  the  advantages  of  this  class  of  criti- 
cism, we  will  not  object  to  all  that  he  can  say  in  this  line  of  his  accom- 
plishments. As  we  now  look  upon  the  subject,  we  are  of  the  opinion  that 
such  efforts  are  absolutely  prejudicial  to  every  fraternal  interest,  and  should 
be  discountenanced. 

The  Committee  on  Correspondence  recommended  the  recognition  of  the 
so-called  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba,  also  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Mexico. 
Both  were  agreed  to.  The  committee  also  presented  the  following  resolu- 
tions : 

Resolved,  That  the  so-called  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Indian  Territory  having  been  organ- 
ized contrary  to  the  doctrine  of  exclusive  sovereignty  universally  recognized  on  this  continent, 
is  an  illegal  body,  and  that  all  its  acts  are  without  the  warrant  of  Masonic  usage  or  law. 

Resolved,  That  this  Grand  Lodge  fully  sustains  Alpha  Lodge,  No.  122,  located  at  Fort 
Gibson,  in  the  Cherokee  Nation,  in  maintaining  its  due  allegiance,  and  will  continue  it  on  its 
register  and  exercise  jurisdiction  over  it  during  the  pleasure  of  its  members,  or  until  a  legally 
organized  and  duly  constituted  Grand  Lodge  shall  be  erected  within  the  territory  of  the 
Cherokee  Nation. 


Adopted  unanimously. 


APPENDIX. 


Statistics — Lodges,  169;   inembership,  6,589. 

M.-.W.-.  John  Guthrie,  Topeka,  G.  M.     R.-.W.-.  John  H.  Brown,  Wyan- 
dotte, G.  Sec'y. 


KENTUCKY,   1877. 


The  Seventy-eighth  Annual  Grand  Communication  was  in  session  Octo- 
ber i6th. 

M.-.W.-.  R.  M.  Fairleigh,  in  the  Grand  East. 

Constituent  lodges  were  largely  represented. 

The  address  of  the  Grand  Master  is  an  able  paper,  embracing  topics  of 
general,  as  well  as  of  local,  interest.  Six  dispensations  for  new  lodges  were 
issued,  and  other  applications  declined.  Three  lodges,  that  had  lost  their 
parchment,  improperly  called  charters,  "were  granted  dispensations."  It 
has  always  seemed  to  us  that  the  act  oi  the  Grand  Lodge  was  the  charter,  and 
the  parchment  but  a  certificate  of  the  fact,  therefore,  if  this  be  destroyed  it 
does  not  impair  the  status  of  the  lodge.  A  large  number  of  decisions  are  of 
record — fifty-nine. 

20.  Entered  Apprentices  and  Fellow  Crafts  are  not  permitted  to  engage  in  a  Masonic 
burial. 

******** 

J       22.     Any  offense  against  the  laws  of  God  is  a  violation  of  the  laws  of  Masonry. 

We  cannot  understand  why  an  Entered  Apprentice  or  Fellow  Craft  should 
not  be  allowed  to  engage  in  funeral  services — in  a  portion  of  them  at  least. 
Perhaps  we  do  not  comprehend  the  Grand  Master.  Would  he  exclude  them 
from  a  procession — services  at  the  aliode  of  the  deceased,  or  at  the  grave? 
Surely,  he  cannot  mean  this. 

The  last  decision,  the  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  could  not  endorse. 

Of  the  condition  of  the  Order,  the  Grand  Master  says: 

Being  to  a  great  extent  incapacitated  by  the  demands  of  an  active  profession,  from  making 
as  many  visits  to  the  Subordinate  Lodges  as  J  desired  to  do,  and  as,  under  other  circum- 
stances, I  would  have  done,  I  have  taken  pains,  through  personal  conference  with  brethren, 
and  a  very  large  correspondence,  to  incpiire  into  the  condition  of  Subordinate  I^odges,  and 
the  defects,  if  any,  which  are  apparent  in  their  workings.  There  is  much,  very  much,  in  the 
present  condition  of  Kentucky  lodges  that  is  calculated  to  give  pride  and  ])leasure  to  every 
true  Mason.  The  spirit  of  fraternity,  which  is  the  very  essence  of  the  Order,  is  warm  and 
active.  Lodges  respect  lodges,  and  with  rare  exceptions,  avoid  infringement  upon  each  othei's 
prerogatives.  The  sick  and  distressed  are  cared  for,  and  often,  even  the  unworthy  impe- 
cunious traveler  succeeds  in  imposing  upon  our  charitable  proclivities.  The  State  is  full  of 
them.    Among  the  country  lodges,  particularly,  much  honoris  paid  deceased  Masons  in  the 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  LXIII 


burial  of  the  dead.  The  old  fashioned  courtesy,  for  which  Kentucky  was  so  famous  in  earlier 
days,  still  survives  and  is  seen  to  perfection  in  irany  lodges.  There  is  a  growing  disposition 
to.  make  the  halls  of  Ma.' onry  more  attractive  ;  to  increase  its  social  enjoyments;  to  elevate 
its  moral  and  spiritual  tone.  The  importance  of  these  things  is  impressing  itself  upon  an 
intelligent  brotherliood  and  it  will  not  be  many  years  until  the  man  of  leisure  will  find  such 
attractions  at  his  lodge  as  will  induce  him  oftener  to  leave  for  an  evening  the  comforts  of  a 
warm  fireside  and  the  ease  of  dressing  gown  and  slippers. 

Here  is  a  matter  that  concerns  more  jurisdictions  tiian  one  : 

I  have  seen  with  much  regret  how  large  a  number  of  defalcations  are  reported  in  the 
accounts  of  Secretaries  of  lodges.  Sometimes  these  are  total  and  involve  the  whole  of  the 
cash  collections  for  a  year.  Often  they  arc  partial  and  are  compromised  by  taking  notes, 
etc.  But  the  whole  error  lies  in  permitting  the  Secretary  to  retain  Die  funds  oj  the  lodffe. 
He  has  no  more  right  to  hold  the  lodge  moneys  than  the  Tyler  or  any  other  private  member 
has.  It  is  his  positive  duty  to  pay  over  all  his  collections  to  the  Treasurer  once  a  nionlli,  and 
oftener  if  the  lodge  meet  more  frequently. 

It  is  the  Worshipful  Master's  duty  to  see  that  he  does  this.  It  is  the  prerogative  of  the 
Treasurer  to  demand  that  he  shall  do  this,  and  on  failure,  to  report  the  defaulting  Secretary 
to  the  lodge 

The  Master  is  justified  in  removing  a  Secretary  who  persistently  uses  money  to  which  he 
has  not  the  shadow  of  a  right.  I  should  approve  of  the  Grand  Lodge  passing  a  stringent  edict 
upon  this  subject. 

The  duty  of  the  Secretary  is  to  pay  the  receipts  of  the  lodge  into  the  hands 
of  the  Treasurer,  not  "  once  a  month,"  hut  at  the  time  he  receives  them. 
We  never  knew  of  but  one  presiding  officer  that  enforced  this  duty.  He, 
prior  to  the  close  of  the  lodge,  ordered  the  Secretary  "  to  pay  all  money 
received  from  the  brethren  into  the  hands  of  the  Treasurer,  taking  his  receipt 
therefor."     An  edict  is  unnecessary.     Enforce  the  fundamental  law. 

The  Grand  Master  presented  the  case  of  a  lodge  that  had  petitioned  the 
Grand  Lodge,  at  its  last  session,  to  change  its  place  of  meeting.  Although 
the  request  was  declined,  the  lodge  did  remove  to  another  locality,  and 
escaped  without  so  much  as  a  reprimand !     "  Old  Kentucky  never  tire." 

He  very  forcibly  condemns  the  disposition,  in  some  lodges,  to  look  with 
favor  upon  the  "Benefit  System;"  and  calls  attention  to  the  fact  that  other 
organizations  cannot  participate  in  Masonic  funerals.  On  the  subject  of 
"obituary  resolutions,"  the  Grand  Master  speaks  plainly  and  truthfully. 
Read  it. 

While  I  believe  in  only  speaking  well  of  the  dead,  and  I  am  confident  there  is  somethino- 
good  to  be  said  of  every  Mason,  yet  indiscriminate  praise,  in  matters  where  no  praise  is  due, 
is  the  worst  kind  of  censure.  To  publish  a  Mason  as  a  profound  Christian,  who  in  truth  was 
scarcely  a  believer  in  Divine  Inspiration  ;  to  proclaim  a  man  a  devoted  Mason  because,  for- 
sooth, he  was  an  eminent  politician  but  in  fact  had  totally  neglected  Masonic  duties ;  to  eulo 
gize  the  whole  career  of  a  man  notoriously  intemperate — if  such  things  have  ever  been  done,  and 
it  is  said  they  have,  why  this  is  to  make  Masonry  a  mantle,  not  of  charity,  but  of  falsehood. 
In  my  opinion  committees  appointed  to  prepare  obituary  resolutions  should  say  nothing  but 
the  truth,  and  if  the  deceased  brother  has  not  left  sufHcient/or/.';  on  record,  or  in  the  recollec- 
tion of  his  comrades,  to  afford  him  a  eulogy,  let  the  matter  pass.  An  intelligent  and  consci- 
entious brother  of  my  lodge  once,  when  appointed  chairman  of  such  a  committee,  wrote  as 
follows : 


l.XIV  APl'ENDIX. 


Resolved,  1st,  That  brother  is  dead. 

Resolved,  id,  That  we  are  sorry  for  it. 

How  many  of  voii  can  recall  instinccs  where  these  resolutions  would  express  the  full 
sentiment  ot  the  lodge? 

Much  attention  is  given  to  the  "Widows  and  Orphans'  Home."  The 
resohition  of  1S76,  ordering  an  assessment  of  one  dolhir  upon  lodge  mem- 
bership, was  submitted  to  the  lodges,  and  by  them  approved.  Some  little 
friction  resulted,  which  is  fast  disappearing.  This  action,  with  reasonable 
economy,  places  the  Home  on  sure  footing. 

All  attempts  to  reduce  the  mileage  ami  pei'  diem  expenses  of  representa- 
tives failed.     Quite  likely. 

Past  Grand  Master  Thomas  Todd  presented  a  dignified  and  coiuteous 
report  on  Correspondence.     L'nder  Aikansas  is  the  following: 

Among  other  (juestions,  the  Committee  on  I. aw  and  I'sage  decided,  that  "a  citizen  of 
another  State  may  be  an  officer  of  the  lodge  in  Arkansas  of  which  he  is  a  member;"  thereby 
making  membership,  and  not  residence,  the  test  of  eligibility.  While  we  know  that  quite  a 
large  number  of  Masons  take  a  different  view  of  the  subject,  we  hold  that  the  decision  is  a 
correct  one.  The  constitution  of  the  Grand  I^odge  of  Kentucky  says,  "the  removal  of  a 
member  of  the  lodge  into  another  jurisdiction  does  not  forfeit  his  membership  in  his  own 
lodge:"  and  if  his  membership  is  not  forfeited,  by  what  right  is  he  to  be  deprived  of  holding 
office  in  bis  lodge  if  his  brethren  choose  to  elect  him?     We  can  conceive  none. 

It  seems  to  us  that  thi.s  doctrine  is  in  direct  conilict  with  the  jurisdictional 
sovereignty  of  Grand  Lodges.  The  necessity  for  these  Bodies  developed  a 
like  necessity  for  Masonic  citizenship.  A  citizen  of  Great  Britain,  resident 
of  the  United  States,  does  not  loose  his  right  of  protection  as  a  subject  of 
the  Queen,  but  he  does,  diuung  such  residence,  vacate  political  franchises. 
A  citizen  of  the  United  .States  domiciled  in  the  Dominion  may  remain  a  citizen 
here,  but  such  citizenship  does  not  carry  with  it  any  right  to  participate  in 
our  National  or  State  Governments,  or  ininiiinity  from  the  consequences  of 
violation  of  the  laws  of  the  Dominion.  As  between  the  States  of  the  Federal 
Union:  ^V  citizen  of  Illinois  removing  to  Kentucky  acquires  citizenship  in 
the  latter  by  virtue  of  a  residence  therein,  btit  vacates  his  citizenship  here  the 
moment  he  makes  Kentucky  his  home.  Where,  then,  is  the  analogy  between 
the  State  and  the  Grand  Lodge .^ 

The  Constitution  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  not  imlikc  those  of 
other  jurisdictions,  provide: 

Whereas,  Every  Grand  Lodge  is  sovereign  within  its  prescribed  jurisdiction,  and 
possesses  the  inherent  power  to  form  a  Constitution,  as  the  law  of  its  Masonic  act  on ;  to 
amend  or  alter  tlie  same;  to  enact  By-I-aws  from  time  to  time,  and  to  make  such  rules  and 
prescribe  such  regulations  for  the  administration  of  its  subordinate  lodges  as  will  insure  the 
prosperity  thereof,  and  promote  the  general  good  of  Masonry;  and, 

Whereas,  Every  Grand  Lodge  is  the  representative  of  all  the  Fraternity  in  communi- 
cation therewith,  and  in  that  behalf  is  an  absolute  independent  body,  with  supreme  legislative, 
executive  and  judicial  authority:  Provided,  ahvays,  that  the  Ancient  Landmarks  of  the 
Institution  be  held  inviolate.    Therefore,  upon  these  principles,  which  iire  indisputable,  the 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  LXV 


Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  does  hereby  ordain,  establish  and  promulgate  the  following 
Constitution  for  its  future  government. 


Section  i.  This  Grand  Lodge  is  the  onl^- source  of  authority,  and  exercises  exclusive 
jurisdiction  in  all  matters  pertaining  to  Ancient  Craft  Masonry  in  the  State  of  Illinois. 

Sec.  2.  Any  organizations,  associations,  parties  or  persons,  professing  to  have  any 
authority,  powers  or  privileges  in  Ancient  Craft  Masonry,  not  derived  from  this  Grand  Lodge, 
within  the  State  of  Illinois,  are  declared  to  be  clandestine,  and  all  intercourse  with,  or  recog- 
nition of  them,  or  any  of  them,  is  prohibited. 

These  quotations  are  presented  to  settle  a  point  which  seems  to  determine 
the  whole  question  of  Masonic  citizenship,  and  the  jurisdictional  powers  of 
Grand  Lodges.  If  a  member  of  a  Wisconsin  lodge,  residing  in  Illinois, 
could,  by  virtue  of  a  law  of  the  former,  be  elected  a  Master  and  exercise  the 
functions  of  his  office,  would  he  be  exempt,  in  Illinois,  from  the  provisions 
of  the  common  law  which  provides,  that  a  Master  is  not  amenable  to  disci- 
pline during  his  Mastership.^     Certainly  not. 

It  is  quite  true  that  Wisconsin  may  permit  her  lodges  to  elect  as  Masters 
citizens  of  Illinois,  hut  this  does  not  prove  that  we  cannot  disregard  any 
claims  which  they  may  seek  to  establish  by  virtue  of  such  election.  If  the 
position  of  Bro.  Todd  be  correct,  we  do  not  see  why  a  Past  Warden  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Arkansas,  and  affiliated  in  that  jurisdiction,  cannot  be 
elected  its  Grand  Master,  though  a  resident  of  Illinois. 

Bro.  Todd  dissents  from  the  position  of  the  Grand  Master  of  Kansas,  that 
the  loss  of  a  limb  (left  arm),  after  initiation,  disqualifies  for  advancement, 
and  in  the  same  review  "flies  in  the  face  of  Providence,"  thus: 

With  all  due  respect  to  Brother  Sharp,  and  the  ruling  of  his  Grand  Lodge,  if  this  is  not 
"flying  in  the  face  of  Providence,"  we  don't  know  what  it  is.  Why,  nature  gave  us  two  eyes 
and  two  ears  to  meet  this  very  emergency — one  eye  will  see  all  there  is  in  signs  and  Masonic 
movements ;  one  ear  will  hear  the  word  as  accurately  as  two.  As  well  decide  that  the  candi- 
date must  have  teeth  on  both  sides  of  his  mouth,  and  that  his  olfactory  nerves  must  be  equally 
susceptible  to  snuff.  No,  no,  Brother  Sharp,  we  "go  one  eye"  on  Masonry  and  the  other  we 
keep  as  a  look-out  for  cowans  and  eaves-droppers. 

LTnder  West  Virginia,  he  says  : 

We  hold  that  a  lodge  cannot  be  leffally  opened  for  work  without  the  presence  of  the 
charter  in  view,  or  to  be  seen  by  any  brother  whom  may  choose  to  call  for  it;  consequently, 
any  business  transacted  in  a  lodge  when  the  charter  is  not  present  is  iUe^al. 

Our  views  on  this  question  arc  stated  elsewhere.  In  a  somewhat  extended 
discussion,  and  endorsement  of  the  claims  of  the  "Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba," 
he  falls  into  the  too  common  error,  that: 

No  sooner,  however,  was  the  Supreme  Council  of  Colon  established  than  it  asserted  com- 
plete jurisdiction  over  Masonry  in  all  its  branches,  and  issued  its  constitution  to  that  effect, 
in  which  it  provided  for  a  Grand  Orient  to  look  after  the  affairs  of  the  lodges,  and  thus  con- 
temptuously set  aside  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon,  which  had  a  previous  and  undoubtedly 
regular  existence. 


I.XVI  APPENDIX. 


If  the  statements  of  the  Grand  Representative  of  Cuba  are  of  any  value, 
the  facts  are,  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon  "  submitted  itself  to  the  abso- 
lute authority  of  the  Sup.'.C".  acktiozvledgitii^  and  observing  the  consti- 
tution that  this  body  in  same  date  of  its  institution  to  rule  in  the  G.'.O.'.  of 
Colon,"  &c.     Italics  ours. 

Further  on,  Bro.  Todd  says: 

At  this  point  it  will  be  seen  that  the  orij^inal  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon  had  become  a  mere 
appendage  of  the  Supreme  Council  without  the  slightest  power  or  authority  of  its  own,  and, 
as  a  Grand  Lodge,  was  as  totally  dead  as  if  it  had  nevtr  existed. 

We  believe  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon  died,  when,  on  the  27th  day  of 
December,  1S59,  ^^  went  voluntarily  into  the  arms  of  the  Supreme  Coimcil. 
Its  subsequent  and  frequent  humiliations — its  renunciations  of  Craft  alle- 
giance are  onlv  further  evidences  of  its  annihilation.  If  there  did  not  exist 
an  independent  Grand  Lodge  on  the  Island  of  Cuba  after  the  '■'■submission'''' 
of  this  Body  to  the  S.".  C.*.,  by  what  authority,  recognized  by  American 
Grand  Lodges,  do  the  lodges  exist  that  make  up  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba? 
If  it  is  true  that  the  three  lodges  that  originally  formed  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Colon  were  forced  from  their  Craft  allegiance,  then  they  could  unquestion- 
ably organize  a  Grand  Lodge;  but  if  they  -•oliintarily  surrendered,  they 
were  as  dead  to  Symbolic  Masonry  as  if  they  had  surrendered  themselves  to 
any  other  organization  not  recognized  by  the  Craft.  Symbolic  Masonry  is 
an  Independent  Sovereign  Body,  or  it  is  nothing.     Hands  off. 

Bro.  Todd  concludes  with  extended  notices  of  se\'eral  foreign  jurisdictions. 

Illinois  is  fraternally  noticed. 

Statistics,  502  ;  membership,  19,914. 

M.-.W.-.  Campbell  H.  Johnson,  Henderson,  G.  M.;  R.-.W.-.  Hiram 
Bassett,  Millersburg,  G.  Sec. 


LOUISIANA,   1878. 

An  active  and  intelligent  Grand  Secretary  furnishes  us  with  the  proceed- 
ings of  the  Sixty-sixth  Annual  Communication,  within  sixty  days  from  the 
close  of  the  session  of  February  nth.  Nothing  new  for  Bro.  Batchelor, 
however. 

M.-.W.-.  Samuel  J.  Powell  delivered  an  address  of  much  ability.  His 
mortuary  list  is  quite  large,  but  does  not  include  any  Officer  or  Past  Officer 
of  the  Grand  I>odse. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  I.XVII 


He  presents,  to  us,  a  novel  case.  A  lodge  not  having  facilities  for  doing 
work,  asks  permission  to  convene  in  another  lodge  jurisdiction  for  the  pur- 
pose of  conferring  degrees.      He  sajs: 

I  am  entirely  satisfied  that  I  had  no  authority  to  grant  the  request.  The  dispensing 
power  of  the  Grand  Master  is  not  absolute  and  unlimited,  as  some  suppose,  but  only  extends 
to  the  suspension  of  rules  and  regulations,  and  under  no  circumstance  authorizes  him  to 
disturb  old  landmarks,  or  set  aside  the  solemn  enactinenls  of  the  Grand  I,odge. 

The  charter  of  that  lodge  emanated  from  the  Grand  Lodge,  which,  among  other  things, 
fixed  and  determined  its  territorial  limits,  and  confined  its  operations  within  those  limits 
The  removal  of  a  lodge  from  one  point  to  another  within  its  fixed  territorial  limits,  is  provided 
for.  But  neither  the  usages  of  the  Order  nor  the  Charter  ever  contemplated  a  removal  into 
another  jurisdiction.  In  my  judgment,  as  soon  as  a  lodge  passes  its  territorial  jurisdiction, 
its  charter  is  inoperative,  and  its  work  irregular. 

Our  opinion  is  that  a  lodge  without  such  facilities  should  not  be  permitted 
to  exist.  He  also  very  properly  objected  to  a  lodge  having  stock  in  an  asso- 
ciation for  building  purposes.  We  suppose  that  stockholders  were  not  con- 
fined to  the  fraternity. 

The  decisions  of  the  Grand  Master  are  as  follows: 

But  few  questions  of  any  general  practical  importance  have  been  submitted  to  me.  I 
submit  the  following: 

I.  That  a  change  in  a  by-law  of  a  constituent  lodge,  referring  to  the  administration  of 
its  local  affairs,  such  as  a  change  in  the  time  of  meeting,  made  after  legal  notice  and  delays, 
went  into  effect  immediately  after  its  passage,  and  it  did  not  require  the  approval  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  or  the  Grand  Master  to  make  it  operative. 

By  a  resolution  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  passed  in  1S74,  constituent  lodges  were  required  to 
forward  a  copy  of  their  by-laws  to  the  Grand  Secretary.  From  this  the  inference  was  drawn 
that  those  by-laws  thus  deposited  could  not  be  changed,  nor  new  ones  added,  without  the 
consent  and  approval  of  the  Grand  I^odge  or  the  Grand  Master. 

I  do  not  so  read  that  resolution.  It  is  right  and  proper  that  the  Grand  Lodge  should  at 
all  times  exercise  a  supervisory  control  over  the  rules  and  regulations  of  constituent  lodges, 
but  I  concede  them  the  right  to  pass  laws  for  their  own  local  administration  without  let  or 
hindrance  from  the  Grand  Lodge,  assuming  always  that  such  laws  infringe  no  usage  or  land- 
mark. In  this  respect  we  are  assimilated  to  the  government  under  which  we  live.  In  many 
respects  the  State  governments  are  independent  of  the  Federal  Government,  although  they 
are  component  parts  of  that  government.  Our  brethren  of  Massachusetts  claim  that  by  the 
assertion  of  their  separate  State  jurisdiction  and  sovereignty  as  far  back  as  1772  that  they 
were  the  authors  of  the  State  rights  doctrine,  so  dear  to  the  States  of  this  Union.  If  we  iaj' 
claim  to  the  authorship  of  that  doctrine,  should  we  not  be  willing  to  accord  to  the  constituent 
lodges  its  very  essence,  which  is  the  right  to  govern  their  own  internal  local  affairs,  pro- 
vided they  in  all  things  recognize  the  supremacy  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  do  not  violate  the 
landmarks  or  the  constitution. 

2.  That  an  Entered  Apprentice  with  one  e)'e  was  not  ineligible  to  receive  tlie  two 
remaining  degrees  in  this  jurisdiction  by  means  of  said  defect. 

3.  That  an  applicant  with  a  defect  in  the  right  hip  that  makes  it  impossible  to'put  the 
right  heel  to  the  ground,  is  ineligible. 

4.  That  an  applicant  who  has  lost  the  first  three  fingers  on  the  right  hand  is  ineligible. 

The  physical  effects  in  both  of  these  cases  clearly  prevent  a  literal  compliance  with  the 
requirements  of  the  degrees. 


LXVIII  APPENDIX. 


5.  That  when  cliarges  have  been  preferred,  anj  a  trial  oidered,  the  charges  cannot  be 
withdrawn  without  the  consent  of  the  lodge. 

My  predecessor  decided  that  charges,  when  openly  made  in  the  lodge,  cannot  be  with- 
drawn without  the  consent  of  the  accused.  See  Proceedings,  1875,  page  44.  I  entirely  concur 
in  this  decision,  but  think  it  is  not  broad  enough. 

It  is  a  grave  error  to  suppose  that  the  accuser  and  the  accused  are  the  only  interested 
parties.  In  my  judgment  the  lodge  has  a  far  greater  interest  than  either.  As  soon  as  the 
charges  are  preferred,  and  a  trial  ordered,  those  charges  become  the  property  of  the  lodge. 
A  Masonic  offense  directed  against  a  brother  is  a  violation  of  the  principles  of  the  order,  and 
whatever  of  mere  personality  may  have  been  intended  is  merged  into  a  common  offense 
against  the  Fraternity  at  large.  While  the  lodge  is  bound  to  protect  its  members,  it  must 
enforce  a  practice  of  its  teachings,  and  observance  ot  its  rules. 

I  cannot  concede  to  individual  members  the  right  to  compromise  Masonic  offenses  at 
will,  and  tlius  deprive  the  lodge  of  the  power  to  vmdicate  its  authority. 

Particular  attention  is  asked  to  the  first  decision,  for  the  reason  that  there 
is  a  general  tendency  to  rob  lodejes  of  their   individuality. 

Our  Louisiana  brethren  are  cumbered  with  Grand  Lodge  indebtedness. 
The  Grand  Master  alluded  to  it,  and  expressed  the  hope  thai  the  recommenda- 
tions of  the  Board  of  Directors  would  meet  with  favor.  After  much  earnest 
discussion,  which  is  certain  to  grow  out  of  such  affairs,  the  Grand  Lodge 
ordered  an  assessment  ot  one  dollnv,  J>er  capita,  for  five  years,  upon  all  mem- 
bers of  constituent  lodges. 

The  Grand  Master  congratulates  the  Craft  on  their  pleasant  relations  with 
all  the  Grand  Lodges  of  this  Continent.  Of  the  Grand  Bodies  of  Hamburg 
and  France,  he  says : 

There  has  been  no  change  in  our  relations  with  the  Grand  Lodges  of  Hamburg  and  the 
Grand  Orient  of  France,  and  there  is  no  immediate  prospect  of  a  renewal  of  fraternal  inter- 
course. As  the  question  which  they  so  hastily  and  unadvisedly  seized  upon  as  an  occasion 
for  the  violation  of  the  American  doctrine  of  Grand  Lodge  Sovereignty,  and  the  outrage  on 
this  Grand  Lodge  was  of  no  direct  or  personal  interest  to  them,  and  their  acts  so  signally 
failed  to  obtain  the  indorsement  of  the  Grand  Lodges  on  this  continent,  I  have  indulged  the 
hope  that  they  would,  some  day,  recede  from  their  false  and  untenable  position,  and  make 
the  amende  honorable  to  this  Grand  Lodge. 

A  re-establishment  of  fraternal  relations  with  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Hamburg  is  possible, 
as  she  is  already  giving  evidences  of  disquietude  in  her  present  false  position.  Not  so  with 
the  Grand  Orient  of  France.  Between  us  there  is  run  a  great  gulf  fixed,  which  no  Mason  can 
pass.  By  a  solemn  decree  they  have  expunged  "  God  and  the  immortality  of  the  soul  "  from 
their  constitution  and  ritual. 

In  view  of  our  unfriendly  relations,  it  would,  perhaps,  be  in  bad  taste  to  subject  this 
action  of  the  Grand  Orient  of  France  to  severe  criticism  or  denunciation,  but  I  cannot  allow 
this  occasion  to  pass  without  expressing  an  emphatic  and  indignant  condemnation  of  this 
innovation  upon  the  Body  of  Masonry. 

The  paternity  of  God,  and  the  fraternity  of  man,  are  the  inseparable  tenets  of  Masonry. 
Eliminate  the  one,  and  the  other  is  a  shadow  without  a  substance ;  the  ritual  is  stripped  of  its 
beauty  and  impressive  solemnity;  the  great  moral  design  is  gone,  and  the  Order  is  powerless 
for  good.  I  turn  away,  with  fearful  misgivings,  from  a  contemplation  of  the  results  of  this 
unfortunate  delusion. 

Amen. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  LXIX 


The  Grand  Master  concludes  his  address  with  a  reference  to  the  condition 
of  the  Craft : 

It  is  with  great  pleasure  I  announce  to  you  that  peace  and  good  will  have  prevailed 
during  the  year.  The  conduct  of  the  brethren,  with  few  exceptions,  has  been  commendable, 
and  the  administration  of  the  lodges,  for  the  most  part,  harmonious  and  successlul. 


The  reports  of  the  lodges  and  of  the  D.  D.  G.  Masters  do  not  indicate  increased  acces- 
sions to  our  numbers,  or  any  increased  prosperity.  Many  things  have  conspired  to  bring 
about  this  result.  You  will  remember  that  when  we  were  last  assembled  in  Grand  Communi- 
cation, oBr  beloved  State  was  on  the  verge  of  a  revolution,  and  the  Federal  Government  was 
but  one  remove  further  from  it.  Perhaps  it  is  not  fitting  that  I  should  speak  of  usurpations 
of  authority,  maladministrations  of  government,  denials  of  rights,  and  abridgments  of  privi- 
leges of  which  this  people  complained  ;  but  one  thing  we  do  know,  and  that  is,  they  were  in  a 
death  struggle  for  free  government  and  constitutional  liberty.  The  result  is  known  to  you. 
The  dark  shadows  that  hung  over  our  political  horizon  have  passed  away,  and  Louisiana  has 
resumed  her  proud  position  among  her  sister  States. 

One  authorization  for  a  new  lodge  was  issued,  and  four  charters  surren- 
dered. 

The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  in  their  report  saj : 

In  cases  of  expulsion,  it  is  true,  the  Grand  Lodge  alone  can  restore,  unless  it  be  in  the 
case  of  an  absentee  who  has  been  tried  and  convicted  in  his  absence,  without  notice  of  the 
charges  preferred  against  him,  and  who,  having  demanded  a  new  trial  under  section  55,  has 
been  acquitted  on  this  trial. 

However,  the  restoration  by  the  Grand  Lodge  can  only  be  done  on  the  recommendation 
of  the  lodge  having  jurisdiction,  and  by  the  vote  required  for  expulsion.  How  can  that 
recommendation  be  obtained?  It  must  be  through  an  application  to  the  lodge.  A  motion  to 
that  effect  being  presented,  is  entertained  by  the  lodge,  unless  a  majority  of  the  members 
present  refuse  to  do  so.  On  the  adoption  of  it,  is  not  the  whole  case  open  for  investigation, 
argument  and  refutation,  or  support  of  the  evidence  adduced  in  the  former  trial,  by  further 
and  other  evidence?  Is  this  not  a  form  of  new  trial?  And  this  can  be  applied  for  at  any 
time. 

So  far  as  these  cases  are  concerned,  no  legislation  seems  necessary,  and  all  cases  are 
provided  for,  except  cases  of  acquittal,  and  the^e  had  better  be  left  to  be  re -investigated  by 
appeal. 

Finallv,  considering  the  subject  matter  on  general  principles,  we  submit  that  all  original 
powers  are  in  the  lodge,  unless  surrendered  in  the  constitution,  or  otherwise  prohibited  by 
usages  or  landmarks  ;  and  new  trials  not  being  prohibited,  are  necessarily  within  the  sound 
discretion  of  the  lodge  to  allow  or  refuse  them,  and  may  exercise  that  power  until  the 
lodge  has  lost  its  jurisdiction,  as  is  the  case  when  an  appeal  has  been  applied  for  and  granted, 
and  the  Grand  Lodge  has  become  vested  with  jurisdiction. 

If  these  principles  are  true,  and  the  Grand  Lodge  adopt  this  report,  no  legislation  is 
necessary  on  the  subject  of  new  trials. 

The  Grand  Lodge  adopted  the  report,  and  we  hoinologate — most  deci- 
dedly. We  could  never  see  upon  what  Alasotiic  grounds  a  lodge  should  not 
be  allowed  full  disciplinary  powers,  subject  only  to  appellate  jurisdiction. 
The  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon  (Cuba),  through  its  Grand  Representative,  Bro. 
G.  Seguiy  Galiona,  petitioned  for  recognition.     The  application  was  referred 


LXX  APPENDIX. 


to    the    Committee  on    Correspondence,    with     "full    power   to    act    in    the 
premises." 

The  following  amendment  to  the  Constitution  was  presented,  and  ordered 
to  lie  over  until  the  next  Annual: 

Sec.  3.  All  Past  Masters  of  lodges  under  this  Grand  Lodge,  as  long  as  they  are  mem- 
bers in  good  standing  of  lodges  under  this  jurisdiction,  shall  be  entitled  to  seats  in  this 
Grand  Lodge,  and  to  take  part  in  all  its  proceedings,  but  shall  have  no  vote. 

We  now  come  to  the  able  and  interesting  report  on  "  Foreign  Corres- 
pondence "  by  Bro.  G.  H.  Braughn.  We  feel  under  many  obligations  for 
his  fraternal  notice  of  our  jurisdiction.  Bro.  Ernest  Marvel,  one'bf  the 
committee,  -contributed  articles  on  Masonry  in  the  Argentine  Republic, 
Brazil,  Cuba,  Egypt,  France  and  Italy;  all  of  which  we  have  perused  with 
pleasure  and  profit. 

Bro.  Braughn  does  not  seem  to  be  in  sympathy  with  our  Michigan  breth- 
ren on  the  temperance  question.  We  have  felt  that  the  fundamental  law 
of  the  Craft  was  ample  for  our  protection  against  drunkenness.  In  this  we 
may  be  mistaken  ;  and  for  this  reason  we  are  disposed  to  study  the  sequences 
of  different  views.  Our  Michigan  fraters  are  both  conscientious  and  earnest 
in  their  efforts  to  suppress  the  most  appalling  vice  of  the  age;  and  if  they 
succeed  in  banishing  rum  from  any  association  with  the  fraternity  of  their 
jurisdiction,  we  do  not  see  what  injury  will  follow. 

Our  special  report  of  last  year  on  the  applications  of  the  Grand  Lodges 
of  "Cuba"  and  "Colon"  for  recognition,  it  given  in  full,  with  approving 
comments. 

Statistics — Lodges,  155  ;  membership,  6,034. 

M.-.W.-.  Samuel  J.  Powell,  St.  FrancisviUe,  G.  M;  R.-.W.-.  J.  C.  Batche- 
lor,  M.  D.,  New  Orleans,  G,  Sec. 


MARYLAND,  1877. 

The  Grand  Lodge  met  in  Baltimore,  November  20th. 

M.-.W.'.  John  H.  B.  Latrobe  in  the  Grand  East. 

The  address  of  the  Grand  Master  is  restricted  to  the  affairs  of  his  juris- 
diction.    He  first  makes  a  charge  on  Grand  Inspectors: 

Brethren  ; — Since  the  May  Communication  nothing  has  occurred  claiming  particular 
attention.  In  the  annual  address  of  the  Grand  Master,  it  would  seem  to  be  only  proper  that 
he  should  inform  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  condition  of  the  Order  within  the  Stale.  But  on 
the  present,  as  on  all  previous   occasions  since  the  Grand  Master  has  occupied  the  East,  the 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  LXXl 


want  of  materials  has  prevented  it.  This  he  has  stated  again  anj  again.  He  has  changed 
the  Grand  Inspectors,  in  the  hope  of  finding  brethren  in  the  counties  whose  interest  in  the 
Order  would  induce  them  to  perform  the  duties  of  the  otfice,  hut  in  vain  ;  and  at  this  date  the 
only  reports  which  the  Grand  Master  has  received  are  from  the  Grand  Inspectors  of  Paltimore 
City  and  Baltimore  County,  and  the  Grand  Lecturer.  Having  •  xhausted  all  the  means  in  his 
power,  heretofore,  to  obtain  through  the  Grand  Inspectors  a  knowledge  of  the  condition  of 
the  Order  in  the  State,  the  Grand  Master  has  to  pronounce  the  existing  svstem  to  be  an  use- 
less one,  and  leaves  it  to  the  wisdom  of  the  Grand  Lodge  to  devise  some  other,  if  it  is  desired 
to  furnish  the  Grand  Master  with  the  means  of  making  a  satisfactory  report. 

The  matter  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  I'nfinished  Business,  with 
instructions  to  report  at  the   Communication  in  Mav. 

We  find  the  following  decision  : 

A  question  was  submitted  whether  a  petition  for  initiation,  when  once  before  the  lodge, 
could  be  withdrawn  without  being  acted  upon.  There  seemed  to  be  some  doubt  here  as  to 
what  "action"  would  comply  with  the  Constitution— whether  a  vote  permitting  withdrawal 
would  not  be  a  compliance.  The  Grand  Master,  however,  decided  that  the  "action"  referred 
o  is  the  acceptance  or  rejection  of  the  application  on  balloting. 

The  practice  of  the  jurisdictions,  generally,  is  to  vote  viva  voce  upon  the 
reception  of  a  petition.  If  received,  it  then  becomes  the  property  of  the 
lodge  and  cannot  be  withdrawn. 

The  Grand  Master  concludes  a  brief  review  of  the  transactions  of  the 
year,  by  declining  a  re-election.  For  seven  years  he  has  devoted  his  energies 
in  behalf  of  the  interests  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  it  is  not  a  matter  of  sur- 
prise that  he  should  ask.  a  release  from  labors  that  have  so  severely  taxed  his 
attention.  No  better  estimate  of  his  value  to  the  Craft  of  Maryland  can  be 
foimd,  than  in  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Grand  Master's  Address: 

tn  view  of  what  is  said  by  the  Grand  Master  in  regard  to  his  declining  a  le-election, 
5our  committee  begs  to  say  one  word  more.  When  an  appeal  was  made  to  him  seven  years 
ago  to  assume  the  duties  of  his  office,  the  pecuniary  affairs  of  the  Grand  Lodge  were  in  a 
deplorable  condition,  and  the  most  mortifying  possibilities  threatened  the  interests  and  moral 
standing  of  the  Order  in  this  State.  But  there  was  no  hesitation  on  his  part.  When  we 
remember  however,  that  the  sheriff  was  then  almost  standing  upon  the  steps  of  our  Temple, 
and  that  there  was  scarcely  a  hope  of  adjusting  the  lawful  demands  of  our  creditors;  that 
there  appeared  to  be  no  escape  from  insolvency,  with  all  its  humiliating  consequences,  and 
that  Masons  who  valued  the  honor  of  the  Order  as  they  did  their  own,  bowed  their  heads  at 
the  thought  of  the  stain  that  seemed  to  be  coming  upon  its  good  name;  when  we  recall 
these  things  we  know  that  nothing  but  devotion  to  Masonry  could  have  induced  such  a  man 
as  our  Grand  Master,  at  such  a  time,  to  accept  an  office  which,  however  high,  could  add 
no  honor  to  him,  and  yet  imposed  the  most  laborious  and  critical  responsibilities. 

His  name  was  at  once  equivalent  to  an  extension  of  time  by  our  creditors.  In  the  midst 
of  absorbing  professional  and  public  duties,  he  applied  himself  with  untiring  industry  and 
signal  ability  to  the  complicated  affairs  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  with  the  earnest  co-opera- 
tion of  our  beloved  Deputy  Grand  Master  and  others,  he  has  continued  to  labor  with  unabated 
zeal  and  cour.age  for  seven  years,  until  now  order  has  ar  sen  from  disorder,  credit  from  insol- 
vency, honor  from  threatened  dishonor:  and  your  committee  disparages  no  brother  Mason 
when  it  expresses  the  belief  that,  but  for  what  has  been  done  by  our  Grand  Master,  we  would 
not  be  holding  our  Communication  in  this  great  Temple  to-night. 

But  your  committee  respectfully  submits  that  this  is  yet  no  time  to  allow  our  Grand 
Master  to  consult  his  personal  wishes  in  regard  to  retirement.      While  much  has  been  done, 


LXXII  APPENDIX. 


as  much  remains  to  be  done.  It  is  true  our  credit  has  been  restored,  and  not  only  restored, 
but  maintained  through  the  most  trying  period  of  general  financial  distress;  and  yet  the 
Grand  Lodge  need  not  be  told  that  our  immense  debts,  though  in  process  of  liquidation,  still 
hang  heavy  around  us  like  great  weights,  and  our  pecuniary  affairs  require  every  day  the  aid 
of  the  greatest  possible  experience  and  financiering  skill,  needed  all  the  more  because  of  new 
difficulties  from  impending  taxation. 

While  it  is  sure  that  all  Masons  of  this  jurisdiction  will  ever  hold  in  affectionate  remem- 
brance, and  to  his  great  honor,  the  services  of  our  Grand  Master,  it  is  equally  sure  that  the 
interests  of  the  Order,  at  this  time,  require  him  to  forego  his  personal  wishes,  and  give  us 
again  the  help  of  his  administration.  Distinguished  as  he  is,  not  only  throughout  our  own 
State,  but  to  a  great  extent  throughout  the  country,  for  his  great  learning,  his  high  personal 
character,  and  his  professional  and  public  life,  there  is  no  brother  whose  name,  as  the  head  of 
Masonry  in  Maryland,  could  be  a  stronger  pledge  to  the  public  of  the  character  and  aims  of 
our  Order,  or  whose  services  under  present  circumstanc  s  could  be  as  valuable  in  that  office- 
It  is  unnecessary  to  add,  that  our  distinguished  brother  accepted  a  re- 
election.    Our  brethren  of  Maryland  are  to  he  congratulated. 

The  following  standing  resolutions  were  adopted: 

Resolved,  That  no  lodge  in  this  jurisdiction  shall  be  permitted  to  receive  the  petition  of  a 
candidate  who  has  been  rejected  by  another  lodge  without  the  consent  of  the  rejecting  lodge. 

Resolved,  That  every  applicant  for  initiation  shall  state  in  his  petition  whether  he  has 
or  has  not  been  rejected  by  any  lodge. 

Resolved,  That  the  consent  of  the  rejecting  lodge  shall  be  determined  by  a  majority  of 
ballots  cast  in  open  lodge,  and  be  properly  authenticated  in  writing  over  the  signatures  of  the 
W.  Master  and  Secretary  and  seal  of  the  rejecting  lodge. 

One  charter  surrendered  in  1876,  was  restored. 

The  Library  Committee  report  the  co-operation  of  twenty-nine  lodges,  in 
the  formation  of  a  "  Masonic  Library  Association."  The  organization  starts 
off  well.     Sotne  valuable  contributions  have  been  received. 

A  resolution  was  offered,  that:  "Any  Master  Mason  in  good  standing, 
in  this  jurisdiction,  shall  have  the  privilege  of  voting  upon  the  application  of 
a  candidate  for  degrees  in  any  lodge  in  the  State  of  Maryland."  Declared 
out  of  order. 

The  report  on  Correspondence,  by  Bro.  John  S.  Tyson,  is  a  good  one, 
notwithstanding  his  inclination  to  think  little  of  it.  Under  Lousiana,  he 
says : 

As  to  the  other  question,  we  see  no  reason  why  a  Lodge  should  not  grant  a  new  trial 
upon  the  application  of  the  accused,  since  it  has  the  greater  power  of  remitting  the  penalty. 
There  are  quite  different  reasons  why  a  lodge  should  not  re-try  a  brother  for  an  offense  of 
which  he  has  been  once  acquitted ;  but  even  for  that  power  there  may  be  found  some  prece- 
dents, in  cases  where  the  charge  was  grave  and  the  evidence  was  nezuly  discovered  and 
decisive. 

Just  SO.  It  affords  us  pleasure  to  find  our  brother  taking  a  Masouic  view 
of  this  subject.  Last  year  we  discussed  the  principles  involved,  in  reviewing 
South  Carolina. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE. 


He  thinks,  with  Bro.  Simons,  of  New  York,  that  any  body  clatining  to 
be  a  legitimate  Masonic  organization,  should  be  reviewed.  Why,  then, 
should  not  Colored  Grand  Lodges  receive  attention.?  We  saj,  hands  off; 
for  the  reason  that  making  them  subjects  of  reports  is  an  indirect  concession 
that  they  are  entitled  to  some  kind  of  consideration.     "  Not  any  for  us." 

Brother  Tyson  makes  fraternal  mention  of  our  jurisdiction,  and  quotes 
liberally  from  the  annual  address  of  M.-.W.-.  Bro.  Robbins,  and  from  the 
oration  of  Bro.  McConnell. 

Statistics — none. 

M.-.W.-.  John  H.  B.  Latrobe,  Baltimore,  G.  M.  R.-.W.-.  Jacob  H.  Me- 
dairy,  Baltimore,  G.  Sec'y. 


MASSACHUSETTS   1877, 

The  Quarterly  Communication  of  September  12th,  was  held  in  Boston. 

M.-.W.-.  Percival  L.  Everett  presiding. 

Seventy-eight  lodges  represented. 

"  The  charter  of  Hiram  Lodge,  of  Copiapo,  Chili,  which  had  ceased  to 
exist,"  had  been  returned. 

The  death  of  R.-.W.-.  John  A.  Harris,  Grand  Secretary  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  New  Hampshire,  was  arwnounced.  He  expired  at  his  home  in 
Concord,  Sept.  3d.  R.-.W.-.  Charles  H.  Titus,  proposed  and  presented  a 
statement  of  the  eminent  character  and  services  of  the  deceased.  The  com- 
mittee on  the  death  of  R.-.W.-.  Samuel  Knox  Hutchison,  through  its  chair- 
man, Bro.  Solon  W.  Stevens,  presented  a  beautiful  testimonial  to  the  exalted 
character  of  our  deceased  fratre.  They  say:  "In  life  beloved  and  highly 
respected,  in  death  honored  and  lamented.  Our  brother  has  left  behind  the 
record  of  an  ardent,  loyal  Mason,  and  an  estimable  Christian  gentleman." 

The  President  of  the  Board  of  Trial  Commissioners  presented  the  follow- 
ing case:  On  June  iith,  last,  Caleb  Butler  Lodge  elected  a  candidate  to 
receive  the  degrees.  Subsequently,  objections  to  his  initiation  were  raised, 
when  a  committee  was  appointed  to  consider  the  objections.  Upon  investi- 
gation, this  committee  reported  that  the  objections  were  "  of  a  trivial  nature, 
and  capable  of  a  satisfactory  explanation  " — not  valid,  "  and  should  not  pre- 
vent his  initiation."  The  lodge  adopted  the  report.  The  objectors  now 
present  an  appeal,    concurred  in  by  thirteen    members  of  the  lodge  who  were 

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LXXIV  APPENDIX. 


not  present  when  the  ballot  of  June  nth  was  taken.  The  appeal  was  dis- 
missed, and  the  action  of  the  lodge  justified.  Corson,  take  notice  and  take 
courage. 

Accepting  an  invitation  from  the  city  authorities  of  Boston,  to  dedicate 
the  Army  and  Navy  Monument  on  Boston  Common,  the  Grand  Lodge 
assembled  in  Special  Communication  September  17th.  The  exercises  were 
of  the  customary  character,  followed  by  an  address  by  the  Grand  Master. 
He  seems  to  have  given  much  attention  to  "State  Rights,"  and  Civil  Service 
Reform. 

The  Annual  Communication  was  held  December  12th. 

M.".W.-.  Percival  Lowell  Everett  presiding. 

The  annual  address  of  the  Grand  Master  opens  with  an  announcement  of 
the  sudden  death,  on  December  3d,  of  R.-.  W.*.  Bro.  William  J.  Sawin,  Past 
Grand  Senior  Warden. 

The  Committee  appointed  to  prepare  a  memorial,  after  giving  the  princi- 
pal incidents  in  the  life  of  the  deceased,  conclude  by  saying: 

Such,  brethren,  are  the  meagre  f.acts  of  that  part  of  the  life  of  William  J.  Sawin  most 
interesting  to  us  as  Masons;  they  afford  but  a  poor  picture  of  the  man;  aside  from  them, 
those  who  knew  him  best  knew  him  as  a  man  of  warm  and  generous  impulses,  a  true  friend, 
and  a  good  Mason.  He  lived  no  double  life;  his  faults,  like  his  virtues,  were  open  to  the 
light  of  day,  and  were  known  of  all  men.  What  more  can  be  said?  The  grave  has  closed 
over  him,  and  his  spirit  is  with  God. 

The  Grand  Master  presented  a  report  of  the  Directors,  showing  a  reduc- 
tion of  Grand  Lodge  indebtedness  of  $12,055. 

Two  dispensations  were  granted  for  new  lodges. 

The  Grand  Master  rehearses  some  qf  the  most  interesting  events  con- 
nected with  his  administration,  and  concluded  with  the  following  pertinent 
remarks : 

I  trust  that  this  time-honored  Institution  will  go  on  prospering  and  to  prosper;  but  this 
can  only  be  by  the  good  character  of  Masons  as  upright  men  in  every  walk  of  life. 

Returns  show  that  there  are  about  twenty-six  thousand  Masons  in  this  State,  and  nearly 
six  hundred  thousand  in  the  United  States;  consider  for  a  moment  the  influence  they  exert 
on  the  morals  and  character  of  society,  and  how  careful  we  should  be  that  none  but  good 
men  should  enter  our  ranks.  It  is  to  the  good  character  of  Masons,  as  citizens,  neighbors, 
and  friends,  that  our  Institution  owes  its  prosperity  and  the  consideration  it  receives. 

Let  us  preserve  it  pure  and  untarnished,  and  ever  realize  that  we  have  received  it  as  a 
sacred  trust  to  be  passed  on  to  succeeding  generations. 

A  sacred  burden  in  this  life  ye  bear; 
Look  on  it,  lift  it,  bear  it  solemnly; 
Stand  up  and  walk  beneath  it  steadfastly. 
Fail  not  for  sorrow,  falter  not  for  sin. 
But  onward,  upward,  till  the  goal  ye  win. 


MAbONIC    CORRESPONDENCE. 


The  following  constitutional  amendment  was  adopted : 

Add  at  the  close  of  Sect.  2,  Art.  III.,  Part  IV.,  of  the  Grand  Constitutions,  the  words 
following: — 

Provided,  however,  that  whenever  it  shall  appear,  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  M.  \V.  Grand 
Master,  that  any  person  deemed  a  clandestine  Mason  under  the  provisions  of  this  Article 
shall  have  received  the  decrees  solely  by  the  fault  or  mistake  of  the  lodge  conferring  the  same, 
or  of  any  officer  or  member  of  such  lodge,  the  Grand  Master  may,  in  his  discretion,  cause 
such  person  to  be  healed  without  a  petition  to  the  Grand  Lodge  therefor. 

We  do  not  have  the  Grand  Constitution  before  us,  and  it  is  improper, 
perhaps,  to  discuss  this  amendment.  We  take  it  for  granted,  however,  that 
the  Grand  Lodge  recognizes  a  humiliating  fact,  that  the  regular  lodges  of 
the  jurisdiction  are  in  the  practice  of  making  irregular  Masons.  We  noticed 
in  the  address  of  the  Grand  Master,  that  three  brethren  were  "  formallv 
healed"  by  taking  upon  themselves  "the  several  obligations  of  Entered 
Apprentice,  Fellow  Craft  and  Master  Mason."-  It  is  difficult  to  understand 
how  a  man  receiving,  in  good  faith,  the  degrees  at  the  hands  of  a  laivful 
lodge  can  be  held  to  be  clandestine,  even  though  the  lodge  may  have  failed 
to  comply  with  the  law.  We  understand,  that  a  person  made  a  Mason  by  a 
legal  officer,  in  a  legal  lodge,  is  a  Mason  regardless  of  errors  in  ritualistic 
administration,  or,  in  the  formula  of  application  for  the  degrees. 

Fraternal  recognition  was  extended  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Mexico. 

The  Committee  on  Charity  report  the  expenditure  of  $1,697  50.  Two 
hundred  applicants  were  relieved. 

The  Grand  Lodge  closed  to  meet  on  the  27th  day  of  December,  in  stated 
Communication,  for  the  installation  of  officers,  and  celebration  of  the  Feast 
of  St.  John  the  Evangelist.  One  hundred  and  eighty-seven  brethren  were 
present.  The  speeches  of  the  occasion  were  of  peculiar  interest,  particularly 
that  of  R.'.W.'.  Solon  W.  Stevens.  We  make  a  selection  from  it  which  it  is 
hoped  will  attract  the  attention  it  merits: 

One  other  point.  I  believe  that  the  doctrines  taught  by  the  symbolism  of  Freemasonry  are 
not  only  in  accordance  with  the  profoundest  scholarship  of  the  times,  but  that,  upon  reflection, 
it  will  be  found  that  they  are  serving,  in  some  degree  as  a  check  to  the  courses  of  materialism, 
and  false  liberalism  which  are  insinuating  themselves  into  the  crevices  of  the  bulwark  of  our 
Christian  faith.  I  know  I  am  now  approaching  what  by  some  is  in  these  days  considered 
debatable  ground.  I  do  not  mean  that  Freemasonry  is  religion,  and  that  the  lodge -room  is 
a  church.  But  if  the  lessons  taught  in  our  Ritual  mean  anything,  I  believe  they  teach  unmis- 
takably, trust  in  God,  the- duty  of  an  aspiration  to  an  higher  life,  and  the  immortalitj'  of  the 
soul.  If  the  atheistic  evolutionist  avows  that  in  the  name  of  Science  these  doctrines  have 
been  exploded,  that  man,  once  a  monkey,  evolved  by  a  "creative  principle,"  is  at  last  simply 
dust,  and  the  after-life  simply  a  fancy,  my  answer  is,  that  the  highest  authority  in  scientific 
thought  to-day,  the  ripest  scholarship  in  this  country  and  in  Germany,  has  proved,  not  from 
the  theologian's  stand  point,  but  from  the  scientific  point  of  view,  that  the  fundamental  truths 
of  the  Bible,  relative  to  the  existence  of  God,  and  the  immortality  of  the  soul,  are  undeniably 
true.  Freemasonry  resting  on  the  Bible  as  its  corner-stone,  teaches  by  its  own  peculiar, 
beautiful  symbolisms  these  fundamental  truths,  therein  contained,  and  chiims  morality  as  its 
vital  essence  and  central  idea.  For  myself,  I  as  a  Mason  must  believe  in  these  doctrines, 
rather  than  in  what  Carlyle  calls  the  "  philosophy  of  dirt;"  and  if  it  be  a  delusion,  it  is  one 
which  I  hope  may  always  enwrap  me  in  its  encircling  folds.      By  it  I  am  led  to  believe  that 


LXXVI  APPENDIX. 


death  is  not  a  "  leap  in  the  dark."  By  it  I  am  brought  to  surrender  to  that  faith,  of  which 
William  CuUen  Bryant  gave  a  beautiful  expression  not  long-  ago,  when  sitting  in  the  vesti- 
bule of  his  summer  home  at  the  close  of  a  mild  autumn  day.  Glancing  upward,  he  chanced 
to  see  a  swallow  migrating  through  the  heavens  toward  the  south.  Giving  vent  to  the  emo- 
tions of  his  heart,  he  exclaimed, — 

"  He  who  from  zone  to  zone 
Guides  through  the  boundless  sky  thy  certain  flight 
In  the  long  way  which  I  must  tread  alone, 
Will  guide  my  steps  aright!" 

One  of  the  most  valuable  contributions  to  our  Masonic  literature  is  the 
eulogy  pronounced  by  the  late  Past  Grand  Master,  Timothy  Bigelovv,  Feb. 
nth,  1800,  on  the  life  and  character  of  our  illustrious  brother,  George  Wash- 
ington. With  this,  is  also  published  two  addresses  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Mas- 
sachusetts to  the  distinguished  brother,  with  his  replies.  Being  assured  that 
our  brethren  will  be  interested  in  anything  emanating  from  a  man  and  Mason 
whose  memory  occupies  so  large  a  place  in  our  hearts,  the  eulogy  and  cor- 
respondence is  given : 

At  a  meeting  oj  the  Committee  of  the  Gratid  Lodge  of  Massachusetts,  at  Concert  Hall,  in  Bos- 
ton, February  12,  A.  D.  1800. 

Voted,  that  our  Right  Worshipful  Brethren,  Paul  Revere,  J osiah  ISartlett,  and  Joseph 
Laughton,  be  appointed  to  wait  on  our  Honorable  Bro.  Timothy  Bigelow,  Esq  ,  with  the 
thanks  of  the  Grand  Lodge  for  the  chaste  and  appropriate  eulogy  delivered  by  him  on  the 
nth  inst.,  before  the  most  numerous  and  respectable  assembly  of  the  Fraternity  ever  convened 
in  this  commonwealth,  in  display  of  the'sublime  virtues  and  unequalled  labors  of  that  Pillar 
of  the  Institution,  and  Ornament  of  Humanity,  our  late  illustrious  Brother,  George  Wash- 
ington ;  and  to  request  a  copy  for  the  press. 

Attest:  DANIEL  OLIVER,  Grand  Secretary. 

To  the  Committee  of  the  Grand  Lodge  oJ  Massachusetts,  at    Concert   Hall,  in  Boston, 
February  12,  iSoo. 

Brothers:     The  eulogy  delivered  by  me  yesterday,  having  been  written  at  your  desire, 
custom,  in  some  measure,  renders  it  a  duty  to  yield  the  copy  requested  for  publication.      Im- 
pressed with  a  grateful   sense  of  the  honor  conferred  on  me  by  your  approbation,    I  am  your 
obliged  brother, 
Boston,  February  12,  A.  L.  sSoo.  TIMOTHY  BIGELOW. 

Brethren  of  the  Masonic  Fraternity,  and  Fello-w-  Citizens  of  this  respectable  audience: 

Though  silence  be  justly  considered  the  language  of  grief,  yet  it  is  equivocal.  Hypoc- 
risy or  indifference  may  assume  it.  On  great  occasions,  therefore,  it  becomes  a  duty  to 
vindicate  our  feelings,  though  it  be  impossible  fully  to  express  them.  Highly  laudable  then 
is  the  conduct  of  our  generous  nation,  at  the  present  mournful  crisis.  While  all  classes  of 
our  fellow-citizens,  obedient  to  the  injunctions,  and  imitating  the  example  of  Congress,  are 
pouring  forth  their  sorrows,  and  recounting  the  virtues  of  the  deceased  Washington;  while 
the  great  and  good  of  other  nations  are  mingling  their  regrets  with  the  lamentations  of  his 
afflicted  countrymen--shall  the  Masonic  Fraternity  be  silent?  Suppress  their  grief  thev  can- 
not; and  shall  they  attempt  to  conceal  it?  No,  my  brethren,  he  had  a  double  claim  to  our 
attachment,  and  we  will  dwell  on  his  memory  with  peculiar  affection.  If  our  departed 
brother  yet  takes  an  interest  in  what  passes  upon  earth,  if  his  blest  shade  still  hovers  over  the 
country  which  he  protected  and  loved,  may  we  not  hope  that  our  tribute  of  respect  will  be 


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acceptable :  that  our  united  plaudit  may  even  touch  his  immortal  soul  with  pleasure  !  A  hope 
like  this  would  soften  our  pangs,  and  dart  a  ray  of  comfort  through  the  gloom  of  affliction 
which  surrounds  us.  But  ah,  how  unlike  are  our  present  emotions,  at  best,  to  those  we  have 
been  wont  to  indulge  on  the  return  of  this  anniversary  I  Long  have  we  been  accustomed  to 
hail  it  with  joy,  and  regard  it  as  the  era  of  Heaven's  peculiar  favor  to  our  country.  Blind  to 
futurity,  we  have  fondlj' hoped  that  he  would  yet  continue  many  years ;  that  he  would  long 
defend  us  with  his  sword,  and  bless  us  with  his  counsels;  that  he  would  glide  gently  down  the 
declivity  of  life,  majestic  as  some  mighty  river,  and  late,  very  late,  sink  in  the  ocean  of  eter- 
nity. So  long  shall  we  deplore  his  apparently  untimely  departure.  So  long  will  this  returning 
day  call  forth  the  mingled  emotions  of  joy  and  mourning.  But  future  times  will  again  regard 
it  as  auspicious.  Our  remotest  posterity,  inheriting  our  freedom  and  independence,  and  that 
happy  constitution  which  alone  can  secure  them,  will  never  be  unmindful  of  the  Master,  who 
presided  at  the  building  of  the  fair  fabric  of  political  glory,  or  forget  that  on  this  da}-  Wash- 
ington was  born. 

When  we  see  a  whole  nation  of  freemen  in  tears,  disconsolate  for  the  death  of  a  fellow- 
citizen,  whatwords  can  swell  his  panegyric?  Indeed,  the  people  of  the  United  States  exhibit 
a  spectacle  that  is  scarcely  to  be  paralleled  in  the  annals  of  mankind.  Nations,  it  is  true, 
have  often  assumed  the  garb  of  sorrow,  and  pompously  displayed  the  emblems  of  grief  for 
the  death  of  Emperors  or  Kings.  But  it  was  when  obedience,  perhaps  reluctant,  was 
yielded  to  the  orders  of  a  successor;  or  when,  for  reasons  of  State,  mourning  was  established 
by  laws.  Under  such  circumstances,  appearances  may  be  deceptive;  but  on  our  happy 
shores,  we  fear  no  tyrant  frown  ;  we  need  nothing  extraneous  to  prompt  our  sighs ;  our  sor- 
rows are  the  spontaneous  effusion  of  grateful  hearts ;  they  demonstrate  our  respect  to  be  sin- 
cere, and  are  scarce  less  honorable  to  the  nation  than  to  the  memory  of  him  whose  death 
the)' deplore.  Still  more  striking  is  another  view  of  this  interesting  scene.  Rarely  has  the 
world  done  justice  to  the  merit  of  the  great,  while  living.  It  has  often  ungenerously  perse- 
cuted its  best  benefactors, or  suffered  them  to  pine  in  the  gloom  of  neglect.  Socrates,  though 
a  luminary  to  his  own  and  future  times,  in  science  and  in  virtue,  was  condemned  by  his 
infatuated  countrymen  to  death.  Belisarius,  who  conquered  a  kingdom  for  his  master,  was 
suffered  ignominiously  to  beg  his  bread.  Columbus,  who  gave  a  new  world  to  mankind, 
was  loaded  with  chains,  and  pursued  with  insatiate  rancor  to  his  grave.  Americans  are  more 
just:  While  the  great  Washington  was  yet  alive,  they  knew  how  to  appreciate  the  mighty 
blessing.  Let  us  exult  in  the  remembrance  that  they  long  since  hailed  him  the  First  of 
Men;  that  they  twice  invested  him  w  th  the  chief  command  of  their  armies;  that  with  their 
unanimous  suffrages  they  twice  raised  him  to  the  dignity  of  Supreme  Magistracy;  that  their 
united  acclamations  and  fervent  blessings  followed  him  in  his  repeated  retirement  from  office; 
that  he  lived  in  honor  and  died  in  glory.  Yes,  they  even  claim  from  his  family  a  right  to 
share  their  afflictions ;  with  them  to  mourn  their  deceased  Father,  to  plant  the  cypress  on  his 
gr.ive,  and  water  it  with  their  tears.  Heaven  surely  approves  this  conduct:  Heaven  will 
continue  to  distinguish  a  people  duly  sensible  of  their  blessings. 

Voluminous  would  be  a  detail  of  all  the  meritorious  actions,  or  even  of  the  great  achieve  ■ 
ments  of  our  departed  friend.  To  recount  his  heroic  deeds  would  be  but  to  recite  the  history  of 
his  country  while  he  was  in  the  field  ;  would  be  to  repeat  what  t'lousands  have  already  told  ; 
what  many  of  }'ou,  my  auditors,  have  personally  witnessed  ;  what  even  his  vanquished  ene - 
mies  have  published  to  the  world.  Oh  that  we  could  analyze  his  mighty  mind :  that  we  could 
ascertain  the  elements  of  this  splendid  luminary  in  the  moral  world;  that  we  could  with  un- 
erring eye  trace  on  the  intellectual  map  the  path  which  he  pursued  to  immortal  happiness 
and  fame. 

It  has  not  unfrequently  happened  that  the  possession  of  a  single  estimable  talent  in  a 
high  degree  has  rendered  an  individual  an  object  of  admiration  to  mankind.  The  military 
powers  of  Alexander,  besides  subjecting  the  world  to  his  dominion,  procured  him  the  title  of 
Great  i  and  in  the  opinion  of  a  superstitious  age  enrolled  him  among  the  gods.  Solon  and 
Lycurgus  acquired  immortal  renown  for  their  wisdom  as  legislators.  Nobility  was  consid- 
ered a  poor  reward  for  Chatham's  merit  as  a  statesman.     Sully  has  been  justly  celebrated  for 


APPENDIX. 


cultivating  the  arts  of  peace.      These  talents  all  centered  in  our  great  countryman,  without 
their  kindred  vices,  rashness,  severity,  pride  or  supineness. 

Judging  the  conduct  of  others  by  the  inadequate  standard  formed  in  their  own  narrow 
minds,  there  were  not  wanting  those,  who,  at  one  time,  dared  even  to  question  his  ability  for 
the  command  of  our  revolutionary  army.  The  Fabion  policy  which  induced  him  to  avoid  a 
decisive  engagement  with  the  invading  enemy,  at  the  time  drew  upon  him  an  ill-judged  impu- 
tation of  timidity  and  indecision.  But  the  illusion  was  transitory.  It  was  soon  perceived 
that  the  error  was  in  the  optics  of  his  accusers  ;  that  the  mist  of  ignorance  which  had  envel- 
oped them  had  never  obscured  the  sunshine  of  intelligence  which  constantly  beamed  on  him. 
This  very  conduct  is  now  universally  acknowledged  to  be  among  the  most  decisive  proofs  of 
his  greatness  ;  without  which,  the  issue  of  the  contest,  if  not  ruinous  to  our  country,  would  at 
best  have  been  extremely  problematical.  His  penetration  taught  him  that  his  countrymen 
were  daily  becoming  more  formidable,  b)'  experience  in  discipline  and  the  duties  of  the  camp  ; 
by  habits  of  danger  and  an  increased  knowledge  of  the  arts  of  war;  while  none  of  these 
advantages  attached  to  their  enemies.  Remote  from  the  source  of  supplies,  their  subsistence 
was  precarious ;  and  the  waste  of  troops  necessarily  occasioned  by  the  casualties  of  war,  was 
repaired  with  difficulty.  To  them,  therefore,  delay  was  defeat.  Regardless  of  the  mistaken 
or  invidious  suggestions  which  his  prudence  might  draw  upon  him,  he  discerned  the  path  of 
safety  for  his  country,  and  steadily  pursued  it.  It  is  strange  that  at  that  period  his  courage  or 
his  conduct  could  have  been  distrusted.  Previous  to  that,  at  a  time  when  the  clouds  of  des- 
pondency overspread  our  hemisphere  with  their  deepest  shade,  when  despair  had  almost  lost 
her  energy,  he  had  in  person,  with  a  handful  of  troops,  gallantly  surprised,  defeated,  and  cap- 
tured anumerous  enemy  at  Trenton  :  and,  eluding  the  vigilance  of  an  army  sufficiently  power- 
ful to  have  crushed  him,  again  astonished  his  adversaries  by  the  brilliant  victory  at  Princeton. 
On  that  memorable  occasion  he  at  one  moment  exhibited  a  spectacle  anxiously  interesting  to 
his  companions  in  arms.  From  the  necessity  of  rallying  a  disordered  part  of  his  troops,  he 
intrepidly  placed  himself  in  their  front,  and  led  them  on  to  the  charge.  More  eager  to  repair 
their  disgrace  than  attentive  to  the  peril  of  his  personal  situation,  they  rashly  renewed  the 
engagement  while  he  was  at  their  head ;  and  thus  he  was  for  some  time  exposed  to  the  fire  of 
both  the  contending  armies. 

But  whatever  ungenerous  surmises  might  at  any  time  have  been  indulged  by  the  heedless 
or  envious,  the  voice  of  murmuring  had  been  silenced  before  the  victory'  at  Monmouth. 
After  that  event  he  was  the  object  of  uninterrupted  confidence  to  his  country,  and  of  terror 
to  her  toes;  till,  by  annihiliating  the  power  of  the  invaders  by  the  splendid  reduction  of 
Yorktown,  he  put  a  glorious  period  to  the  war;  and  the  admiring  world  pronounced  his 
character  as  a  general  consummate. 

Having  finished  his  military  career,  and  entered  on  the  tranquil  scenes  of  retirement,  for 
which  he  had  a  peculiar  fondness,  it  seemed  generally  to  be  thought  that  his  public  life  was 
finished.  As  yet,  however,  he  had  executed  but  in  part  Heaven's  high  commission.  Few, 
perhaps,  had  hitherto  perceived  in  him  that  universality  of  mind  which  has  enabled  him 
successfully  to  adorn  every  station  he  has  filled.  Modest  and  unassuming  in  his  deportment, 
he  never  indulged  in  a  pompous  display  of  talents  unimportant  to  the  duties  before  him; 
but,  unfolding  them  as  exigencies  required,  he  was  always  equal  to  the  occasion.  When  the 
deserved  partiality  of  the  electors  in  his  native  State  delegated  him  to  the  General  Conven- 
tion, and  the  respect  of  that  body  placed  him  in  their  chair,  he  there  discovered  the  qualities 
of  a  great  Legislator,  and  eminently  contributed  to  the  production  of  that  instrument,  which 
is  justly  considered  a  model  of  political  wisdom,  and  which,  we  trust,  will  long  secure  that 
Liberty  which  his  valour  had  achieved. 

As  a  statesman  he  was  yet  untried.  But  gratitude  for  his  services,  respect  for  his  char- 
acter, and  confidence  in  his  integrity,  impelled  his  fellow-citizens,  with  one  consent,  to 
elevate  him  to  the  dignity  of  President.  As  if  this  had  been  his  peculiar  province,  he  here 
shone  with  unrivalled  lustre.  His  administration  was  a  satire  on  those  who  are  born  to  rule. 
Making  the  general  good  the  sole  object  of  his  pursuit,  and  carefully  distinguishing  the 
attention  which  was  due  from  him  as  an  individual  to  the  claims  of  relation  and  friendship, 
from  the  duties  he  owed  to  the  public,  he  never  yielded  to  the  influence  of  private  partiality, 


MASONIC    COKHESPONDENCE. 


nor  stooped  to  the  low  policy  of  aggrandizing  his  family  by  the  gifts  of  office.  He  bestowed 
employments  on  those  only  who  added  to  integrity  the  qualities  necessary  to  discharge  them. 
Patient  in  investigation,  and  cautious  in  research,  he  formed  his  resolutions  with  deliberation, 
and  executed  them  with  decision.  Conscious  of  the  purity  of  his  motives,  and  satisfied  with 
the  propriety  of  his  determinations;  duly  estimating  also  the  sacred  duty  of  maintaining  the 
constitutional  rights  of  his  office,  he  was  not  to  be  soothed  into  dishonorable  compliance  by 
the  blandishments  of  flattery  nor  diverted  from  his  purposes  by  the  terroi'  of  numbers,  or  the 
imposing  weight  of  public  character.  When  a  revolution,  unprecedented  in  its  kind,  had 
involved  the  European  world  in  confusion,  and  the  flame  of  war  was  spreading  into  other 
quarters  of  the  globe,  neither  the  insidious  attempts  of  the  emissaries  of  France,  nor  the 
treacherous  arts  of  her  American  adherents,  could  induce  him  to  hazard  our  quiet.  Though 
himself  a  soldier,  and  equal  to  the  emergencies  of  war,  he  perceived  not  only  that  the  true 
interests  of  his  country,  but  justice  and  humanity,  enjoined  a  continuance  of  peace.  He 
therefore  wisely  adjusted  the  misunderstandings  which  threatened  our  tranquility, and  resolved 
on  a  strict  neutrality.  Our  own  experience  and  the  events  which  have  since  transpired  in 
other  countries,  have  fully  justified  the  measure.  Yet,  strange  to  tell,  disappointed  faction, 
despairing  of  success  in  an  impeachment  of  his  discernment  or  understanding,  has  dared 
here  to  arraign  the  purity  of  his  motives.  Circumstances  seem  to  have  placed  him  beyond 
the  reach  of  suspicion.  His  wealth  was  more  than  suflicient  for  all  the  purposes  of  splendid 
enjoyment:  he  had  no  posterity  to  inherit  hereditary  honors;  and  he  was  surely  too  wise  not 
to  know  that  a  crown  would  tarnish  his  glory ;  that  his  own  reputation  was  inseparably  con- 
nected with  the  prosperity  of  his  country;  that  his  fame  would  mount  no  higher  than  her 
eagle  could  soar.  What  more  than  he  possessed,  could  ambition  pant  for?  What  further 
had  the  world  to  bestow?  Where,  then,  are  these  accusers,  these  self-imagined  models  of 
perfection,  who  can  show  us  where  Washington  was  wrong,  where  they  would  have  con- 
ducted with  more  wisdom  and  integrity?  Do  they,  too,  join  the  general  acclamation,  or  are 
they  silent?  If  there  are  those  upon  earth  who  renounce  all  pretensions  to  morality,  who 
disclaim  the  obligations  of  gratitude,  who  dare  even  refuse  to  ascribe  glory  to  God  (and  we 
have  too  much  evidence  of  the  melancholy  fact',  can  a  mortal  expect  justice  from  them? 
But  how  transcendent  must  be  that  greatness  which  either  exhorts  applause  from  its  enemies, 
or  awes  them  into  silence  ! 

About  to  relinquish  the  toils  of  his  arduous  station,  and  retire  once  more  to  that  domestic 
repose  which  he  had  left  with  reluctance,  and  which  his  declining  years  now  seemed  to 
require,  he  could  not  close  his  public  life  without  an  act  peculiarly  appropriate  to  his  char- 
acter, and  which  fully  demonstrates  that  ardent  attachment  to  his  country  which  governed  all 
his  conduct.  His  farewell  advice  discloses  an  intimate  knowledge  of  the  internal  concerns, 
foreign  relations,  present  and  future  interests  of  the  United  States,  sufficient  of  itself  to  have 
entitled  its  author  to  fame.  But  when  it  is  considered  as  the  result  of  an  intelligence  ade- 
quate to  the  subject,  as  the  fruit  of  personal  experience  matured  by  profound  meditation,  and 
in  which  no  motive  could  have  operated  but  the  welfare  and  glory  of  the  nation,  we  may 
safely  pronounce  it  an  oracle  of  political  truth;  a  palladium,  which,  while  carefully  preserved, 
will  perpetuate  our  Union  and  Independence;  an  amulet,  which,  if  constantly  improved,  will 
render  the  body  politic  invulnerable,  we  might  almost  say  immortal. 

In  Washington  occurred  a  union,  rarely  to  be  found,  of  greatness  and  goodness. 
Courage,  wisdom  and  magnanimity,  those  eminent  qualities,  which  embrace  the  whole  com- 
munity in  their  operation,  were  not  those  only  which  distinguished  his  character.  He  was 
equally  remarkable  for  the  less  splendid,  though  not  less  amiable,  virtues,  which  more  imme- 
diately respected  himself,  his  family,  and  friends.  However  the  abundance  of  his  means,  or 
his  long  and  familiar  intercourse  with  the  world,  might  have  exposed  him  to  temptation,  he 
preserved  his  morals  not  only  pure,  but  even  unsullied  by  the  breath  of  suspicion.  However 
the  applause  of  mankind,  and  the  wealth  and  honors  which  Fortune,  no  longer  blind, 
bestowed  on  him  with  a  liberal  hand,  might  have  attached  him  to  the  world,  he  never  forgot 
that  he  was  mortal  and  destined  to  another  state  of  existence.  In  him  religion  was  a  steady 
principle  of  action.  It  not  only  taught  him  fortitude  in  danger,  and  patience  under  misfor- 
tunes, but  instructed  him  in  the  yet  harder  lesson  of  moderation,  of  even  humility  in  the  full 
swell  of  prosperity.     How  often  does  history  inform  us  of  commanders,  transported  with  the 


APPENDIX. 


tide  of  success,  and  grown  giddy  in  its  eddies,  forgetting  their  dependence,  and  arrogating 
even  divine  honors !  As  a  counterpart  to  this,  our  annals  may  record  the  concluding  passage 
of  the  eeneral  orders,  published  on  the  surrenderor  Yorktown :  "Divine  service  shall  be 
performed,  to-morrow,  in  the  different  brigades  and  divisions.  The  Commander  in  Chief 
recommends  that  all  the  troops  that  are  not  upon  duty  do  assist  at  it  with  a  serious  deport- 
ment, and  that  sensibility  of  heart  which  the  recollection  of  the  surprising  and  particular 
interposition  of  Providence  in  our  favor,  claims  " 

That  Washington  was  affectionate  and  endearing  in  his  conjugal  relation,  the  anguish 
of  his  widowed  wife  sufficiently  evinces ;  and  no  language  can  do  so  much  justice  to  her  sensi- 
bility as  her  own  affecting  answer  to  the  condolence  of  Congress,  and  her  more  recent  return 
of  thanks  for  those  expressions  of  sympatliy,  which  you,  my  respected  brethren,  thought  it  your 
duty  to  communicate  to  her.*  That  he  was  compassionate  and  humane,  is  honorably  told  by 
the  tears  of  his  disconsolate  domestics.  That  he  was  benevolent,  his  emancipated  slaves  will 
long  remember,  and  even  their  posterity  acknowledge  with  gratitude.  How  amiable,  how  con- 
sistent, is  the  character  of  this  illustrious  man  !  Himself,  the  champion  of  political  freedom, 
he  disdained  to  hold  his  fellow- creatures  in  abject  domestic  servitude.  An  advocate  for  mild 
and  equal  law,  he  disclaimed  the  right  of  unlimited  control  over  the  actions  of  others.  Not 
satisfied  with  barely  restoring  to  them  that  freedom,  of  which,  in  common  with  their  country- 
men, a  cruel  policy  had  deprived  them,  but  yielding  to  the  claims  of  justice,  though  unaided 
by  law,  he  gave  them  in  a  freehold  the  hire  that  had  not  been  stipulated,  and  blest  them  at 
once  with  competency  and  independence.  Highly  honorable  would  it  be  to  our  fellow-citi- 
zens in  the  South,  if  this  magnanimous  example  should  have  its  proper  effect;  if,  in  their 
treatment  of  the  wretches  subjected  to  their  power,  they  would  emulate  the  benevolence  of 
Washington;  if,  obedient  like  him  to  the  voice  of  humanity,  justice  and  religion,  they 
would  abandon  the  savage  claim  of  holding  human  beings  in  slavery,  and  repeal  every 
statute  in  their  code  which  countenances  a  principle  so  derogatory  to  the  laws  of  Freemen. 

Having  already  contemplated  such  a  variety  of  distinguishing  features  in  tiiis  great  and 
amiable  character,  does  it  still  admit  of  addition?  Is  there  room  in  the  portrait  for  another 
trace  of  the  faithful  pencil,  that  will  increase  its  beauty?  Yes,  my  brethren,  to  us  another 
and  no  less  interesting  view  remains.  Animated  with  a  generous  philanthropy,  our  deceased 
brother  early  sought  admission  into  our  Ancient  and  Honorable  Fraternity,  at  once  to  enable 
him  to  cherish  with  advantage  this  heavenly  principle,  and  enlarge  the  sphere  of  its  opera- 
tion. He  cultivated  our  art  with  sedulous  attention,  and  never  lost  an  opportunity  of  advanc- 
ing the  interest  or  promoting  the  honor  of  the  Craft.  While  Commander  in  Chief  of  the 
American  revolutionary  army,  he  countenanced  the  establishment  and  encouraged  the  labors 
of  u  traveling  lodge  among  the  military.  He  wisely  considered  it  as  a  school  of  urbanity, 
well  calculated  to  disseminate  those  mild  virtues  of  the  heart,  so  ornamental  to  the  human 
character,  and  so  peculiarly  useful  to  correct  the  ferocity  of  soldiers,  and  alleviate  the  mis- 
eries of  war.  The  cares  of  his  high  office  engrossed  too  much  of  his  time  to  admit  of  his 
engaging  in  the  duties  of  the  chair;  yet  he  found  frequent  opportunities  to  visit  the  lodge, 
and  thought  it  no  derogation  from  his  dignity  there  to  stand  on  a  level  with  the  brethren. 
True  to  our  principles  on  all  occasions,  an  incident  once  occurred  which  enabled  him  to  dis- 
play their  influence  to  his  foes.  A  body  of  American  troops,  in  some  successful  rencounter 
with  the  enemy,  possessed  themselves,  among  other  booty,  of  the  jewels  and  furniture  of  a 
British  traveling  lodge  of  Masons.  This  property  was  directed  by  the  Commander  in  Chief 
to  be  returned  under  a  flag  of  truce  to  its  former  proprietors,  accompanied  with  a  message, 
purporting  that  the  Americans  did  not  make  war  upon  institutions  of  benevolence. 

Of  his  attachment  to  our  Order  in  general  you,  my  respected  brethren  of  the  Most  Wor- 
shipful Grand  Lodge  of  this  Commonwealth,  have  had  personal  knowledge.  His  answers 
to  your  repeated  addresses  breathe  throughout  the  spirit  of  brotherly  love ;  and  his  affection- 
ate return  of  thanks  for  the  Book  of  Constitutions,  which  j'ou  presented  him,  and  for  the 
honor,  as  he  was  pleased  to  consider  it,  which  you  did  him  in  the  dedication,  must  be  evi- 
dence highly  satisfactory  of  the  respectful  estimation  in  which  he  held  you.  The  information 
received  from  our  brethren,  who  had  the  happiness  to  be  members  of  the  lodge  over  which 

*  See  Appendix. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  LXXXI 


he  presided  many  years,  and  of  which  he  died  the  Master,  furnishes  abundant  proof  of  his 
persevering  zeal  for  the  prosperity  of  the  Institution.  Constant  and  punctual  in  his  attend- 
ance, scrupulous  in  his  observance  of  the  regulations  of  the  lodge,  and  solicitous  at  all  times 
to  communicate  light  and  instruction,  he  discharged  the  duties  of  the  Chair  with  uncommon 
dignity  and  intelligence  in  all  the  mysteries  of  our  art.  Nothing  can  more  highly  conduce  to 
the  prosperity  and  honor  of  Masonry  than  a  successful  imitation  of  this  bright  example.  It 
cannot  fail  ot  its  effect  upon  our  brethren  in  its  immediate  neighborhood  in  the  South ;  thej' 
will  beautify  their  column.  And  shall  we  be  outdone  in  zeal?  Placed  geographically  in  the 
east,  in  a  qu.arter  of  a  Union  from  which  the  nation  has  been  accustomed  to  learn  wisdom,  it 
should  be  our  peculiar  care  to  diffuse  light  through  the  temple  of  Masonry.  As  it  is  known 
that  we  shared  largely  in  the  esteem  and  affection  of  our  deceased  brother,  it  is  easy  to  per- 
ceive that  our  good  conduct  will  itself  be  an  enconium  on  his  memory.  We  see  before  us, 
among  the  sad  emblems  of  mortality,  not  only  the  sword  which  in  this  neighborhood  he  drew 
in  defence  of  his  country,  but  also  the  very  attire  which  he  has  often  worn  as  a  Mason.  How 
devoutly  is  it  to  be  wished,  that  these  striking  memorials  may  stimulate  us  to  a  noble  emula- 
tion;  that,  like  the  mantle  of  Elijah,  they  may  inspire  us  with  an  unalterable  attachment  to 
virtue  and  benevolence!  This  day  witnesses  to  the  world  in  what  veneration  we  hold  the 
memory  of  departed  gre.atness.  Let  not  the  solemnity  be  without  its  appropriate  effect  upon 
ourselves.  While  with  funeral  pomp  and  Masonic  honors  we  celebrate  the  obsequies  of  our 
deceased  brother,  while  we  bend  with  anguish  over  the  urn  which  contains  a  part  of  what 
was  mortal  in  him,*  let  us  like  him  remember,  that  we  are  animated  with  a  heavenly  flame, 
which  the  ehill  damps  of  death  cannot  extinguish;  like  him,  resolve  to  square  our  actions  by 
the  rules  oi  rectitude,  persevere  in  the  line  of  our  duty,  and  restrain  our  passions  within  the 
compass  of  propriety,  knowing  that  the  all-seeing  Eye  of  our  Supreme  Grand  Master  above 
continually  observes  us.  That  when  we  shall  have  performed  the  task  assigned  us  here,  we 
maj'  like  him  be  called  from  our  work  to  the  rejreshments  which  alone  can  satisf}'  our  im- 
mortal desires.  That  when  we  put  off  this  earthly  clothing,  may  we  be  arrayed  with  the 
garments  of  glory,  put  on  the  jezvels  of  light,  and  shine  forever  in  the  sublime  arch  above. 


APPENDIX. 

An  Address  of  the   Grand   Lodge  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  for  the    Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts,  to  their  Honored  and  Illustrious  Brother  George  Washington. 

"Whilst  the  historian  is  describing  the  career  of  your  glory,  and  the  inhabitants  of  our 
extensive  empire  are  made  happy  in  your  unexampled  exertions;  while  some  celebrate  the 
hero,  so  distinguished  in  liberating  United  America;  and  others,  the  patriot  who  presides  over 
her  councils — a  band  of  brothers,  having  always  joined  the  acclamations  of  their  country- 
men, now  testify  their  respect  for  tfiose  milder  virtues  which  have  ever  graced  the  Man. 

Taught  by  the  precepts  of  our  Society,  that  all  its  members  stand  upon  a  level,  we  ven- 
ture to  assume  this  station,  and  to  approach  you  with  that  freedom  which  diminishes  our 
diffidence  without  lessening  our  respect. 

Desirous  to  enlarge  the  boundaries  of  social  happiness,  and  to  vindicate  the  ceremonies 
of  their  institutions,  this  Grand  Lodge  have  published  a  Book  oj  Constitutions  (and  a  copy 
for  your  acceptance  accompanies  this),  which,  by  discovering  the  principles  that  actuate 
will  speak  the  eulogy  of  the  Society;  though  they  fervently  wish  the  conduct  of  its  members 
may  prove  its  higher  commendation. 


*  A  lock  of  General   Washington's  hair  was  deposited  in  the   urn   borne  in  the  Masonic 
funeral  procession  on  the  occasion.     See  Appendix, 

II 


I.XXXn  APPENDIX. 


Convinced  of  his  attacliment  to  its  cause,  and  readiness  to  encourag^e  its  benevolent 
designs,  they  have  taken  the  liberty  to  dedicate  this  work  to  one,  the  qualities  of  whose 
heart,  and  the  actions  of  whose  life,  have  contributed  to  improve  personal  virtue,  and  extend 
throughout  the  world  the  most  endearing  cordialities;  and  they  humbly  hope  he  will  pardon 
this  freedom,  and  accept  the  tribute  of  their  esteem  and  homage. 

May  the  Supreme  Architect  of  the  Universe  protect  and  bless  you,  give  you  length  of 
days  and  increase  of  felicity  in  this  world,  and  then  receive  you  to  the  harmonious  and 
exalted  society  in  heaven. 


(Signed, 


Boston,  December  27,  A.  D.  1792 


JOHN  CUTLER,  Grand  Master. 
JOSIAH  BARTLETT,  (  ^         .  „ r  .  .  „, 
MUNGO  MACKAY,       j  ^'^""'^  Wardens. 


The  Answer  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  for  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts  ; 

Flattering  as  it  may  be  to  the  human  mind,  and  truly  honorable  as  it  is,  to  receive  from 
our  fellow-citizens  testimonies  of  approbation  for  exertions  to  promote  the  public  welfare,  it 
is  not  less  pleasing  to  know  that  the  milder  virtues  of  the  heart  are  highly  respected  by  a 
Society  whose  liberal  principles  are  founded  in  the  immutable  laws  of  truth  and  justice. 

To  enlarge  the  sphere  of  social  happiness  is  worthy  the  benevolent  design  of  a  Masonic 
Institution,  and  it  is  most  fervently  to  be  wished  that  the  conduct  of  every  member  of  the 
Fraternity,  as  well  as  those  publications  that  discover  the  principles  which  actuate  them,  may 
tend  to  convince  mankind  that  the  grand  object  of  Masonry  is  to  promote  the  happiness  of 
the  human  race. 

While  I  beg  your  acceptance  of  my  thanks  for  the  "  Book  of  Constitutions"  which  you 
have  sent  me,  and  for  the  honor  you  have  done  me  in  the  dedication,  permit  me  to  assure  you 
that  I  feel  all  those  emotions  of  gratitude  which  your  affectionate  address  and  cordial  wishes 
are  calculated  to  inspire.  And  I  sincerely  pray  that  the  Great  Architect  of  the  Universe  may 
bless  you  here,  and  receive  you  hereafter  in  His  immortal  Temple. 

(Signed,)  G.  WASHINGTON. 


The  East,  the  West,  and  the  South,  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Ancient,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons  oj  the  Commonvjealth  of  Massachusetts,  to  their  Most  Worthy  Brother,  George 
Washington. 

Wishing  ever  to  be  foremost  in  testimonials  of  respect  and  admiration  for  those  virtues 
and  services  with  which  you  have  so  long  adorned  and  benefited  our  common  country;  and 
not  the  last  nor  least  to  regret  the  cessation  of  them  in  the  public  councils  of  the  Union; 
your  brethren  of  the  Grand  Lodge  embrace  the  earliest  opportunity  of  greeting  you  in  the 
calm  retirement  you  have  contemplated  to  yourself. 

Though,  as  Citizens,  they  lose  you  in  the  active  labors  of  political  life,  they  hope  as 
Masons  to  find  you  in  the  pleasing  sphere  of  fraternal  engagement.  From  the  cares  of  State 
and  the  fatigues  of  public  business,  our  Institution  opens  a  recess,  affording  all  the  relief  of 
tranquilit}',  the  harmony  of  peace,  and  the  refreshment  of  pleasure ;  of  these  may  you  partake 
in  all  their  purity  and  satisfaction  ;  and  we  will  assure  ourselves  that  your  attachment  to  this 
social  plan  will  increase,  and  that  under  the  auspices  of  your  encouragement,  assistance  and 
patronage,  the  Craft  will  attain  the  highest  ornament,  perfection,  and  praise.  And  it  is  our 
ardent  prayer,  that  when  your  light  shall  be  no  more  visible  in  this  Earthly  Temple,  you  may 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  LXXXIII 

be  raised  to  the  All-perfect  Lodge  above;  be  seated  on  the  right  of  the  Supreme  Architect  of 
the  Universe,  and  there  receive  the  refreshment  your  labors  have  merited. 

In  behalf  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  we  subscribe  ourselves,  with  the  highest  esteem, 

Your  affectionate  brethren, 

PAUL  REVERE,  Grand  Master. 
ISAIAH  THOMAS,   Senior  Grand  Warden. 
JOSEPH  LAUGHTON,  Junior  Grand  Warden. 
DANIEL  OLIVER,  Grand  Secretary. 
Boston,  March  21,  1797. 


To  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Ancient,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  the  Commonivealth  of  Massa- 
chusetts : 

Brothers,  it  was  not  until  these  few  days,  that  I  have  been  favored  by  the  receipt  of  your 
affectionate  address,  dated  in  Boston  the  21st  of  March. 

For  the  favorable  sentiments  you  have  been  pleased  to  express  on  the  occasion  of  my  past 
services,  and  for  the  regrets  with  which  they  are  accompanied  for  the  cessation  of  my  public 
functions,  I  pray  you  to  accept  my  best  acknowledgments  and  gratitude. 

No  pleasure,  except  that  which  results  from  a  consciousness  of  having,  to  the  utmost  of 
my  abilities,  discharged  the  trust  which  has  been  reposed  in  me  by  my  country,  can  equal 
the  satisfaction  I  feel  from  the  unequivocal  proofs  1  continually  receive  of  its  approbation  of 
my  public  conduct,  and  I  beg  you  to  be  assured  that  the  evidence  therefore,  which  is  exhibited 
by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Massachusetts,  is  not  among  the  least  pleasing  or  grateful  to  my 
feelings. 

In  that  retirement  which  declining-  years  induced  me  to  seek,  and  which  repose  to  a  mind 
long  employed  in  public  concerns  rendered  necessary,  my  wishes  that  bounteous  Providence 
will  continue  to  bless  and  preserve  our  country  in  peace,  and  in  the  prosperity  it  has  enjoyed, 
will  be  warm  and  sincere ;  and  my  attachment  to  the  society  of  which  we  are  members  will 
dispose  me  always  to  contribute  my  best  endeavors  to  promote  the  honor  and  interest  of  the 
Craft. 

For  the  prayer  you  offer  in  my  behalf,  I  entreat  you  to  accept  the  thanks  of  a  grateful 
heart,  with  the  assurance  of  my  fraternal  regard,  and  best  wishes  for  the  honor,  happiness, 
and  prosperity  of  all  the  members  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Massachusetts. 

G.  WASHINGTON. 


Boston,  January  11,  iSoo. 

Madam: — The  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts  have  deeply 
participated  in  the  general  grief  of  their  fellow-citizens,  on  the  melancholy  occasion  of  the 
dea4h  of  their  beloved  Washington. 

As  Americans,  they  have  lamented  the  loss  of  the  Chief  who  had  led  their  armies  to 
victory,  and  their  country  to  glory;  but  as  Masons,  they  have  wept  the  dissolution  of  that 
endearing  relation  by  which  they  were  enabled  to  call  him  tlieir  Friend  and  their  Brother. 
They  presume  not  to  offer  you  those  consolations  which  might  alleviate  the  weight  of  com- 
mon sorrows,  for  they  are  themselves  inconsolable.  The  object  of  this  address  is,  not  to 
interrupt  the  sacred  offices  of  grief  like  yours,  but,  whilst  they  are  mingling  tears  with  each 
other  on  the  common  calamity,  to  condone  with  you  on  the  irreparable  misfortune  which  you 
have  individually  experienced. 


LXXXIV  APPENDIX. 


To  their  expressions  of  sympathy  on  this  solemn  dispensation,  the  Grand  Lodge  h^ve 
subjoined  an  order,  that  a  Golden  Urn  be  prepared  as  a  deposit  for  a  lock  of  hair,  an  invalu- 
able reliqtte  of  the  Hero  and  the  Patriot  whom  their  wislies  would  immortalize;  and  that  it  be 
preserved  with  the  jewels  and  regalia  of  the  Society. 

Should  the  favor  be  granted,  Madam,  it  will  be  cherished  as  the  most  precious  jewel  in 
the  Cabinet  of  the  lodge,  as  the  memory  of  his  virtues  will  forever  be  in  the  hearts  of  its 
members. 

We  have  the  honor  to  be. 
With  the  highest  respect. 

Your  most  obedient  servants, 

JOHN  WAKKEN, 
PAUL  REVERE, 
JOSIAH  BARTLETT. 
Mrs.  Martha  Washington. 


Mount  Veknon,  January  27,  1800 

Gentlemen; — Mrs.  Washington  has  received  with  sensibility  your  letter  of  the  nth  inst. 
enclosing  a  vote  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Massachusetts,  requesting  a  lock  of  her  deceased 
husband's  hair,  to  be  preserved  in  a  Golden  Urn,  with  the  jewels  and  regalia  of  the  Grand 
Lodge. 

In  complying  with  this  request,  by  sending  the  lock  of  hair,  which  you  will  find  enclosed, 
Mrs.  Washington  begs  me  to  assure  you  that  she  views  with  gratitude  the  tributes  of  respect 
and  affection  paid  to  the  memory  of  her  dear  deceased  husband;  and  receives,  with  a  feeling 
heart,  the  expressions  of  sympathy  contained  in  your  letter. 

With  great  respect  and  esteem, 

I  have  the  honor  to  be,  gentlemen, 
Your  most  obedient  servant, 

TOBIAS  LEAR. 

JOHN  WARREN,  ; 

PAUL  REVERE,  \  Past  Grand  Masters. 

JOSIAH  BARTLETT,) 

A  Quiirterlj  Communicution  was  held  March  13th,  1S7S. 

In  the  absence  of  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Master,  Charles  Alfred  Welch, 
Right  Worshipful  Abraham  H.  llowland  presided. 

The  transactions  of  this  session  were  limited  to  matters  that  do  not  require 
particular  mention. 

Statistics — Chartered  lodges,  221;   membership,  26,226. 

M.-.  W.-.  Charles  Alfred  Welch,  Waltham,  G,  M.;  R.-.W.-.  Charles  H. 
Titus,  Boston,  G.  S. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  LXXXV 


MICHIGAN,  1877. 

The  Thirty-third  Annual  Communication  was  held  in  Grand  Rapids 
Jan'y  23d. 

M.'.W.'.  Bro.  Matthew  H.  Maynard  presiding. 

The  address  of  the  Grand  Master  is  a  business-like  document.  Twelve 
lodges  were  constituted,  five  authorizations  for  new  lodges  issued,  and  one 
charter  arrested. 

Of  District  Deputy  Grand  Masters,  he  says: 

A  proposition  practically  to  abolish  the  office  of  District  Deputy,  and  incidentally  to  do 
awaj'  with  those  Schools  of  Instruction  is  to  be  acted  upon  at  this  session  of  Grand  Lodge. 
I  trust  this  proposition  will  receive  careful  consideration  before  any  action  is  taken.  [  have 
occupied  a  position  during  the  past  year,  from  the  observation  and  experiences  of  which  I 
may  be  presumed  to  be  able  to  speak  with  some  degree  of  intelligence  upon  this  subject.  In 
the  light  of  such  experience,  and  as  the  result  of  such  observation,  I  unhesitatingly  declare 
that  if  you  abolish  these  offices,  or  materially  decrease  their  number,  you  impose  upon  the 
Grand  Master  an  amount  of  labor  unreasonable,  if  not  absolutely  insupportable.  If  my 
administration  has  been  In  any  degree  successful,  I  feel  bound  to  acknowledge,  that  to  the 
intelligent  co-operation  of  the  District  Deputies,  all  credit  is  due.  They  have  stood  between 
me  and  the  flood  which  would  have  overwhelmed  me ;  they  have  divided  with  me  the  labor 
to  the  performance  of  which  my  own  strength  was  totally  insufficient. 

The  Grand  Master  reports  twenty-five  decisions.  He  declined  to  waive 
jurisdiction  over  parties  living  near  the  Indiana  State  line,  who  had  expressed 
a  wish  to  be  chiseled  into  perfect  ashlars  by  a  lodge  of  the  latter  jurisdiction. 
He  holds  that  the  S.  W.  should  occupy  the  East  in  the  absence  or  disability 
of  the  W.  M.,  and  deprecates  special  elections  to  fill  their  vacancies.  He 
also  very  properly  decides  that  a  lodge  is  not  the  tribunal  for  the  adjustment 
of  business  contracts.     Both  correct. 

He  refused  all  requests  for  Masonic  processions  on  Decoration  Day  or  the 
Fourth  of  July,  notwithstanding  the  centennial  character  of  the  latter.  We 
have  frequently,  of  late,  met  with  these  decisions.  Our  Grand  Master  does 
not  hesitate  in  the  expression  of  similar  views. 

The  opinion  has  been  heretofore  vouchsafed,  that  Masonry  was  not  de- 
signed for  knot  holes,  caves  or  monasteries.  Any  question  of  mere  practice, 
that  does  not  involve  an  infraction  of  fundamental  principle,  must  find  its 
solution  in  our  relations  to  the  world.  If  we  are  to  be  a  force  in  man's  wel- 
fare, we  cannot,  with  any  consistency,  withhold  our  sympathies  from  any 
national  or  local  sentiment  that  represents  freedom,  humanity,  fraternity  or 
benevolence.  Munching  sandwiches  at  a  pic-nic,  working  with  a  silver  trowel 
in  the  presence  of  admiring  thousands,  public  installations,  or  joining  in  a 
dance,  are  not  measures  of  Masonry.      They  are  the  oufgiowlh  of  a  Mason  s 


LXXXVI  APPENDIX. 


disposition  to  fraternity  and  good  cheer,  but  no  more  represent  the  genius 
and  fundamental  structure  of  the  institution,  than  does  a  mule  the  highest 
tvpe  of  physical  beauty. 

Masonry  is  held  to  be  a  vital  living  principle,  adapted  to  the  development 
of  our  highest  manhood  and  benevolent  possibilities;  and  in  such  presence 
to  say,  that  the  common  practice  of  public  demonstrations  is  a  fair  index  of 
our  character  and  purposes,  is  to  invite  ridicule  rather  than  respect;  particu- 
larly when  we  decline  to  recognize  the  power  that  interposes  for  our  protec- 
tion. 

Very  fresh  in  memory  is  that  great  outpouring  when  the  remains  of 
President  Lincoln  passed  through  our  city.  The  Grand  Master  of  Illinois 
did  not  hesitate  in  granting  permission  to  the  Craft  to  appear  on  that  occa- 
sion, notwithstanding  Mr.  Lincoln  was  not  a  Mason.  He  was,  however,  the 
Executive  of  the  Nation.  Not  a  man  living  had  less  respect  for  the 
politics  of  the  President  than  the  writer,  but  we  gladly,  and  in  the  name  of 
Masonry,  united  with  citizens  of  all  shades  of  political  opinion  in  paying  a 
tribute  of  respect,  which  was  intended  to,  and  did  intensify  devotion  to  a 
government,  to  which  we  are  indebted  for  the  grand  and  significant  relations 
we,  as  Masons,  now  hold  to  the  world. 

After  the  close  of  the  conflict,  and  its  only  reminder  historic;  after  men 
of  all  sections  have  once  more  gathered  with  patriotic  purpose  under  our 
national  symbols,  are  we  to  be  denied  the  poor  boon  of  publicly  testifying 
our  regard  for  the  soldiers,  upon  the  insufficient  plea  that  such  demon- 
strations are  not  strictly  Masonic?  O,  fie!  To  our  understanding,  such 
opinions  bear  the  same  relations  to  consistency  as  did  the  action  of  a  distin- 
guished Mason  of  a  sister  iurisdiction,  who,  when  called  upon  to  permit  the 
bodies  under  his  command  to  assist  in  the  ceremonies  of  unveiling  a  monu- 
ment to  the  memory  of  LaFayette,  conceded  the  Masonic  character  of  the 
occasion,  and  a  splendid  parade  was  the  consequence;  but  when,  and  in 
almost  the  same  breath,  permission  was  asked  by  Commanderies  to  do  escort 
dnty  on  "decoration  day,"  that  a  tribute  of  affection  might  be  paid  to  the 
humble  soldier,  it  was  found  that  the  occasion  was  not  strictly  Masonic,  (!) 
and  the  request  denied.  If  we  maj'  be  permitted  to  express  our  opinion,  we 
insist  that  lodges  should  be  allowed,  under  reasonable  restrictions,  to  engage 
in  any  exercises  of  a  national  or  local  character,  that  reflect  its  devotion  to 
good  government  and  the  better  promptings  of  the  human  heart.  This  is 
Masonic  ;  so  we  think. 

We  do  not  wish  to  be  misunderstood  in  this  matter.  We  are  irrevocably 
hostile  to  any  demonstration  by  Masons  that  has  any  political  significance; 
and  it  is  more  than  probable  that  should  an  occasion  again  occur  like  the  one 
referred  to,  we  should  hesitate  before  associating  Masonry  with  it.  Neither 
would  we  on  the  4th  day  of  July,  Decoration  Day,  or  upon  any  other  occa- 
sion, sanction  affiliation  with  any  political  sentiment.      But  when  the  day 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  LXXXVII 


comes  when  exercises  on  such  occasions  are  in  the  hands  of  thQ  people,  irres- 
pective of  partizan  sympathies,  we  shall  be  glad  to  see  the  soldier,  north  or 
south,  the  recipients  of  the  considerations  now  so  freely  tendered  to  selfish 
indulgence. 

The  Grand  Master  is  of  opinion  that  a  brother  who  had  not  been  pres- 
ent to  hear  the  testimony  during  a  trial,  should  not  be  permitted  to  vote  on 
the  question  of  conviction  or  punishment. 

We  call  particular  attention  to  the  two  last  decisions: 

24.  The  rules  which  might  apply  in  courts  of  Justice  of  the  Peace,  do  not  bind  commit- 
mittees  of  lodges  in  the  taking  of  testimony  to  be  used  upon  Masonic  trials.  The  committee 
should  proceed  with  a  careful  regard  to  all  the  equitable  rights,  both  of  the  accuser  and 
accused  ;  and  it  is  the  duty  of  the  \Vorshipful  Master  to  advise  them,  and  if  he  wants  advice 
to  apply  to  the  Grand  Master. 

25.  It  IS  not  ground  for  objection  to  the  installation  of  a  duly  elected  W.M.  that  he  keeps 
a  billiard  saloon  ;  if,  however,  connected  with  such  business,  he  has  a  bar  of  which  intoxi- 
cating drinks  are  retailed  to  his  patrons,  his  business  is  essentially  immoral  and  demoralizing 
in  all  of  its  effects  upon  the  communitv.  Any  lodge  that  will  elect  such  a  man  as  its  W.  M. 
is  unworthy  to  hold  its  charter. 

The  Grand  Master  makes  affectionate  allusion  to  the  decease  of  the  ven- 
erable Grand  Lecturer,  Judge  Stillman  Blanchard : 

Right  Worshipful  Bro.  Stillman  Blanchard,  for  eleven  years  grand  V^isitor  and  Lecturer 
of  this  Grand  Lodge,  died  at  his  home  in  Tecumseh,  on  the  24th  day  of  February  Iast>full  of 
years  and  full  of  honors,  venerable  and  venerated,  loving  and  beloved.  He  went  from  the 
society  and  arms  of  his  brethren  here,  to  the  companionship  and  embrace  of  his  elder  brother, 
his  Savior  and  his  God. 

His  poor  blind  eyes  have  opened  upon  eternal  light,  and  his  feeble,  tottering  frame  is 
clothed  anew  in  everlasting  youth. 

The  reports  of  the  District  Deputies  are  very  full,  and  exhibit  a  prosper- 
ous condition  of  the  Craft. 

The  following  amendment  to  the  constitution  was  adopted  : 

The  Grand  Master  may  appoint  one  or  more  District  Deputy  Grand  Masters  (not  exceed- 
ing three  in  all)  with  such  powers,  duties,  and  compensation  as  this  Grand  Lodge  may, 
from  time  to  time,  determine  and  appoint. 

A  proposition  to  limit  "mileage  and  per  diem  "  to  amounts  received  from 
lodges,  was  "  hove  over  among  the  rubbish." 

The  Regulations  of  the  Grand  Lodge  were  subjected  to  some  changes: 

ist.  An  objection  shall  not  bind  the  lodge,  if  the  objecting  brother  cease, 
from  any  cause,  to  be  a  member  thereof. 

2d.     The  Grand  -Secretary  was  made  Committee  on  Credentials. 

3d.  Dues  from  constituent  lodges,  were  increased  from  twenty-five  to 
thirty-five  cents  for  each  member. 

The  temperance  question  occupied  much  attention;  and  a  proposition  to 
make  the  manufacture,  vending  or  use  of  intoxicating    liquors  as  a  beverage 


LXXXVIII  APPENDIX. 


a  Masonic  offence,  was  referred  to  a  special  committee  for  their  report  at  the 
next  Annual. 

The  Report  on  Correspondence  is  bv  Bro.  Foster  Pratt.  It  includes  1S76 
and  1S77.  Fraternal  notice  is  made  of  our  jurisdiction;  and  we  should  be 
glad  to  notice  very  much  that  Bro.  Pratt  savs,  if  we  had  notalreadv  occupied 
so  much  space  with  the  proceedings  of  his  Grand  Lodge.  We  too,  must 
condense. 

Statistics— Lodges,  335;   Eleven  extinct ;   membership,  27,055. 

M.-.W.-.  William  Dunham,  Manistee,  G.  M.  R.-.W.-.  Ellerj  I.  Garfield, 
Detroit,  G.  Sec'y. 


MAINE,  1878. 


We  are  much  indebted  to  Past  Grand  Master  Drummond  and  Grand  Sec- 
retary Berrv  for  an  advanced  copy  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Fifty-ninth 
Annual  Communication  of  May  7th. 

M.'.W.-.  Edward  P.  Burnham  opens  his  address  with  a  notice  of  the 
decease  of  Past  Grand  Master  Reuel  Washburn. 

At  each  communication  we  ai'e  called  to  take  notice  of  the  departure  of  some  of  our 
associates.  At  this  time,  we  miss  our  Senior  Past  Grand  Master  Reuel  Washburn,  of 
Oriental  Star  Lodge,  No.  21,  at  North  Livermore.  Bro.  Washburn  died  very  suddenly, 
March  4th,  at  Livermore.  The  funeral  service  was  performed  by  his  lodt;e,  March  Sth. 
Bro.  Day,  D.  D.  G.  M.,  attended  in  behalf  of  the  Grand  Lodge.  I  was  in  a  distant  State  at 
the  time  of  the  death  and  of  the  funeral.  Bro.  Washburn  had  been  a  Mason  about  sixty 
years,  having  been  made  June  16,  iSiS,  in  Oriental  Star  Lodge;  was  Master  seven  years, 
Secretary  eleven  years,  Royal  Arch  Mason  about  fifty  years.  He  w.as  Master  of  his  lody:e  in 
1822.  He  was  D.  D.  Grand  Master  1826,  1S27;  Senior  Grand  Deacon  1S32  ;  Deputy  Grand 
Master  1S33.  1834;  Grand  Master  1S3S,  1836,  1837;  a  Trustee  of  the  Charity  Fund  i8|i  to  1847; 
D.  D.  Grand  Master  1S50.  For  many  years  he  has  attended  our  annual  gatherings,  tlie  last 
time  being  at  the  session  of  1S76.  He  has  always  felt  great  interest  in  the  prosperity  of  his 
lodge,  and  wasvery  constant  in  attending  the  meetings.  Bro.  Washburn  was  born  in  Rayn- 
ham,  Mass.,  May  21,  1793,  the  son  of  Israel  Washburn.  He  was  graduated  at  Brown 
LTniversity  1814;  studied  law  with  Hon.  Albion  K.  Parris,  at  Paris,  and  settled  in  Livermore 
in  1817.  He  was  a  member  of  both  branches  of  the  Legislature,  and  of  the  Executive  Coun- 
cil;  was  Register  and  Judge  of  Probate,  and  was  three  times  the  candidate  of  his  party  for 
Congress.  He  was  always  faithful  in  the  performance  of  the  many  duties  devolving  upon 
him,  in  all  the  relations  of  life.  Our  sympathy  is  for  his  widow,  the  partner  of  more  than 
fifty  years  of  his  life,  and  for  his  sons  and  daughters,  both  at  home  and  away.  He  obeyed 
the  command,  and  is  no\v  enjoying  the  fruition  of  the  promise,  "  Be  thou  faiLlifuI  unto  death 
and  I  will  give  thee  a  crown  of  life." 

Appropriate  action  was  had  by  the  Grand  Lodge. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  LXXXIX 


"  No  dispensations  for  new  lodges  have  been  asked  for."  One  charter 
surrendered. 

The  Grand  Master  thus  makes  mention  of  the  Grand  Orient  of  France; 
all  of  which  we  heartily  endorse: 

The  Grand  Orient  of  France,  at  the  meeting  which  commenced  Sept.  ij,  1877,  adopted  a 
proposition  submitted  the  previous  year,  to  strike  out  of  the  constitution  the  declaration, 
"The  foundation  of  P'reemasonrv  is  a  belief  in  the  existence  of  God  and  the  immortality  of 
the  soul."  The  Freemasons  of  Maine,  while  they  are  very  tolerant  of  the  many  varieties  ot 
religious  belief,  do  require  some  religious  belief.  They  do  believe  in  the  existence  of  God 
and  the  immortalitv  of  the  soul.  We  should  put  forth  our  protest  against  this  innovation, 
striking  at  the  foundation  of  our  Freemasonry. 

Bro.  Drummond,  from  the  Committee  on  Correspondence,  makes  a  spe- 
cial report  on  this  matter.     We  clip  the  following: 

While  this  Grand  Lodge  yields  to  no  man  or  body  of  men,  in  its  emphatic  belief  in  the 
freedom  of  conscience  and  the  brotherhood  of  man,  it  recognizes  these  as  the  result  of  a 
belief  in  the  F'atherhood  of  God.  From  time  immemorial,  a  belief  in  God,  the  Creator  and 
Father,  has  been  the  fundamental  principle  of  Freemasonry,  and  from  this  principle  all  others 
flow  as  results.  To  abandon  this  principle,  therefore,  is  to  destroy  the  deep  laid  foundation 
upon  which  our  whole  Masonic  Temple  is  builded.  Our  reply  to  the  Grand  Orient  is,  "No 
man  or  body  of  men  can  make  innovations  in  Masonry.  To  attempt  this  does  not  change 
Masonry,  but  puts  those  who  make  the  attempt  outside  of  the  pale  of  the  Institution." 

We  therefore  recommend  the  adoption  of  the  accompanying  resolution: 

Resolved,  That  the  Grand  Orient  of  France,  by  amending  its  Constitution  in  such  a 
manner  that  atheists  may  be  admitted  as  Masons,  has  ceased  to  be  a  Masonic  body  ;  and  all 
Masonic  intercourse  with  it,  its  subordinate  lodges,  or  the  members  of  its  obedience,  is  here- 
by forbidden. 

The  report  was  adopted. 

He  also  notices  the  application  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  South  Wales 
for  recognition.     Action  was  deferred.     See  our  report. 

The  following,  with  other  decisions,  are  of  record: 

1.  A  Past  Master  of  a  chartered  lodge  may,  in  the  absence  of  the  Master  and  Wardens 
open  the  lodge,  preside  therein  at  the  transaction  of  ordinary  business,  including  the  election 
of  officers,  as  well  as  the  conferring  of  degrees,  and  also  may  close  the  lodge. 

2.  A  lodge  cannot  properlv  confer  the  Master  Mason's  degree  at  the  request  of  another 
lodge,  the  requesting  lodge  not  having  waived  jurisdiction  ot  the  candidate.  The  constitu- 
tion does  not  authorize  the  conferring  of  degrees  or  admitting  to  membership  without  a 
previous  application  and  a  ballot  being  had  thereon.  The  conferring  of  the  third  degree  con- 
stitutes the  recipient  a  member  of  the  lodge.  One  lodge  cannot  elect  members  for  another 
lodge. 

10.  A  Masonic  hall,  after  dedication,  cannot  be  used  for  other  than  Masonic  purposes. 
A  lodge  having  been  obliged  to  vacate  its  hall  may,  if  necessary,  having  obtained  consent 
from  the  proper  authority,  temporarily  occupy  a  hall  used  by  another  society,  until  a  suitable 
hall  can  be  procured. 

11.  A  person  who  has  irregularly  received  the  degrees  in  a  regular  lodge,  and  who 
desires  to  be  formallv  healed  as  a  Mason,  must  petition  the  lodge  which  he  wishes  to  enter. 
The  lodge  must  ask  of  the  Grand  Master  a  dispensation  to  act  upon  the  petition,  and  send  the 

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dispensation  fee.     The  ordinary  course  will  tlien  he  taken  with  the  petition.     After  a  clear 
ballot  is  had,  the  person  must  be  re-obligated  in  all  the  degrees,  and  a  record  thereof  made. 

The  first  decision  is  the  reverse  of  our  regulations  on  this  subject.  Sec.  6, 
Art.  4,  says:  "The  Master  cannot  authorize  any  one  to  open  the  lodge  in 
his  absence,  to  the  exclusion  of  the  Wardens  present;  and  in  the  absence  of 
the  Master  and  both  Wardens,  a  lodge  cannot  be  opened  for  any  purpose, 
except  by  the  Grand  Master  or  his  special  deputy." 

We  have  always  understood  it  to  be  the  theory,  that  in  the  absence  of 
Master  and  Wardens,  the  only  remaining  authority  in  the  premises  rested 
with  the  Grand  Master.  A  Past  Master  cannot  exercise  any  more  authority 
in  the  lodge  than  can  any  other  member,  until  lawfully  invested  with  official 
prerogative.  The  ancient  regulations  confirm  this  view:  "And  in  case  of 
sickness,  death,  or  necessary  absence  of  the  Master,  the  Senior  Warden  shall 
act  as  Master  fro  tempore,  if  no  brother  is  present  who  has  been  Master  of 
that  lodge  before;  for  in  that  case  the  absent  Master's  authority  reverts  to  the 
last  Past  Master  then  present ;  though  he  cannot  act  until  the  said  Senior 
Warden  has  once  congregated  the  lodge,  or  in  his  absence,  the  yiinior  War- 
den.''''    Italics  ours. 

We  believe  that  a  Masonic  hall  should  not  be  used  for  other  than  Masonic 
purposes,  either  before  or  after  dedication,  but  we  do  not  believe  that  a  cere- 
be  held  responsible,  but  free  to  act  as  their  Masonic  interests  dictate.  We 
have  before  referred  to  the  principle  involved  in  the  eleventh  decision;  and 
mony  invests  it  with  any  peculiar  or  additional  sanctity.  Each  lodge  should 
should  like  to  ask,  where  is  the  justice  or  sound  reason  for  holding  a  candi- 
date responsible  for  the  blunders  of  the  lodge.?  The  civil  law  will  not  justify 
the  withholding  of  rights  lawfully  acquired,  and  we  cannot  understand  why 
we  should  disregard  a  principle  that  is  at  the  foundation  of  all  good  govern- 
ment. 

The  Grand  Master  refers  to  a  text  book  compiled  by  Bro.  Josiah  H.  Drum- 
mond,  and  which  has  been  distributed  to  the  lodges  of  the  jurisdiction ;  and 
concludes  his  address  with  the  pleasant  assurance,  that  lodges  are  enjoying  a 
reasonable  degree  of  prosperity, 

A  proposition  to  revive  a  standing  regulation  which  prevented  the  with- 
drawal of  members  of  lodges,  except  to  form  anew  lodge  or  joining  another, 
did  not  meet  with  favor.     The-following  regulation  was  adopted  : 

Resolved,  That  with  the  consent  of  his  lodge  a  member  may  petition  another  lodge  for 
membership  without  taking  a  dimit ;  the  lodge  receiving  the  application  may  act  thereon, 
but  the  applicant  shall  not  become  a  member  of  such  lodge  until  he  has  tiled  his  dimit  and 
signed  the  by-laws;  and,  unless  he  procures  his  dimit  and  .signs  the  by-laws  within  six 
months  after  his  election,  he  shall  lose  all  right.s  thereunder. 

The  following  is  from  the  Committee  on  Jurisprudence.     Adopted : 

The  question  whether  one  lodge  can  properly  do  the  work  of  another  has  been  frequently 
decided  in  other  States,  but  never  before  in  this.      Your  committee  know  of  bpt  one  instancy 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE. 


in  this  State  in  which  one  lodg'e  has  conferred  the  degrees  for  another.      In  other  States,  the 
decisions  are  in  conflict  in  respect  to  many  of  the  consequences  of  such  action. 

The  prevailing  decision  is  that  the  lodge  which  confers  the  degrees  is  the  mere  proxy  of 
the  other  lodge,  and  the  work  is  the  work  of  the  latter,  of  which  the  candidate  becomes  a 
member,  even  under  a  constitutional  provision  as  e.xplicit  as  our  own. 

The  committee  fully  concur  with  Grand  Master  Moore  in  his  doubts  as  to  the  expediency 
if  not  the  authority,  of  thus  conferring  the  degrees.  In  this  jurisdiction  an  objection  by  a 
member  after  ballot,  and  before  initiation,  is  equivalent  to  a  rejection,  and  even  after  initia- 
tion objections-mav  be  made  to  advancement,  and  must  be  considered  and  determined.  This 
right  of  objection  may  be  wholly  lost  if  .mother  lodge  can  confer  the  degrees.  There  are 
other  complications  which  may  arise;  and  your  committee  recommend  that  the  Grand  Lodge 
decide  that  one  lodjie  cannot  confer  the  degrees  upon  the  candidate  of  another  lodge,  except 
when  one  waives  jurisdiction  and  the  other  accepts  the  candidate  as  its  own  in  the  regular 
manner. 

Since  the  foregoing  was  written,  Grand  Master  Burnham  has  announced  a  decision  upon 
the  same  question,  in  whicli  the  authority  of  one  lodge  to  confer  the  third  degree  for  another 
lodge,  is  denied. 

We  recommend  that  his  decision,  modified  so  as  to  apply  to  all  the  degrees,  be  contirmcd 
as  follows: 

"One  lodge  cannot  conler  a  degree  at  the  request  of  another  lodge,  unless  the  requesting 
lodge  waives  jurisdiction,  and  the  other  lodge  accepts  the  candidate  in  the  usual  manner,  and 
for  its  usual  fees. 

A  regulation  on  the  subject  of  diniits  was  presented  by  Bro.  Druinmond, 
and  approved  by  the  Grand  Lodge. 

Resolved ,  That  on  application  at  a  stated  communication,  and  on  paying  all  dues  and 
assessments,  a  member  shall  be  entitled  to  a  discharge  from  membership  at  the  next  stated 
communication,  without  a  vote  of  the  lodge,  unless  charges  are  pending  against  him.  But 
this  sliall  not  prevent  a  lodge  from  recommending  a  dimitted  member  to  the  favorable  con- 
sideration ot  the  Craft. 

Sandwiched  in  the  proceedings,  we  find  the  report  on  Correspondence  by 
Bro.  Drummond ;  and  like  everything  from  his  pen,  attracts  attention.  In 
reviewing  Arkansas  he  says  : 

The  fundamental  principle  of  Masonic  charity  and  benevolence  is  indi-vidual  obligation. 
All  measures,  tending  to  change  this  obligation  from  the  individual  to  an  association,  are 
really  subversive,  in  a  greater  or  less  degree,  of  the  ancient  plan  of  Masonry,  which  never 
contemplated  that  the  individual  brother  can  relieve  himself  from  his  obligations  bv  substi- 
tuting relief  by  an  association,  to  whose  funds  he  should  contribute.  It  is  true  that,  in  conse- 
quence of  there  being  so  many  impostors,  an  organized  method  of  distributing  charity 
became  in  many  places  a  necessity.  But  as  the  tendency  of  that  method  is  to  lessen  the 
personal  responsibility  resting  upon  each  brother,  it  should  not  be  extended.  We  have  there- 
fore been  opposed  to  attempts  to  create  Masonic  charities  on  an  extended  scale  for  this 
reason,  as  well  as  the  manifest  difficulty  of  managing  such  institutions  through  our  Masonic 
organizations,  created  for  entirely  different  purposes. 

Good  doctrine. 

He  quotes  liberally  from  our  proceedings  of  last  year,  and  speaks  in  very 
complimentary  terms  of  the  address  of  Grand  Master,  Joseph  Robbins.  With 
the  large  majority  of  views  entertained  by  Bro.  R.,  he  is  in  sympathy.       On 


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the  subject  of  "  Masonic  Prayers  "  he  dissents  from  the    opinion,  that  they 
must  be  of  that  character  in  which  all  men,  who  believe  in  God,  agree. 

As  a  question  of  ritual,  Bro.  Robbins  is  undoubtedly  correct,  but  not 
otherwise.  Speaking  of  a  decision,  that  the  record  of  a  conviction  for  the 
same  offense  (of  which  a  brother  may  be  charged  before  a  lodge)  in  a  civil 
court  is  not  sufHcient  to  warrant  the  lodge  in  finding  a  verdict  of  guilt,  he 
remarks : 

We  dissent  from  No.  7,  holding,  as  has  been  decided  by  many  Grand  Lodges,  that  the 
judgment  of  conviction  by  a  civil  court  of  an  offense  is  prima  Jacie  evidence  of  guilt,  and, 
unless  controlled  b)'  other  evidence,  requires  the  conviction  of  the  party  by  the  lodge.  The 
evidence,  by  which  a  conviction  in  court  is  obtained,  is  very  frequently  unattainable  by  the 
lodge:  and  judgments  of  courts  are,  by  all  codes,  evidence  for  or  against  the  parties  to  them: 
and  we  see  no  reason  whatever  for  discarding  this  kind  of  evidence  in  lodge  trials,  any  more 
than  anv  other  kind  of  evidence  which  human  experience  has  found  to  be  reliable. 

On  another  decision  of  Bro.  Robbins,  he  is  in  agreement  with  our 
opinions. 

We  are  not  prepared  to  concur  in  No.  30;  it  seems  to  us  that  the  character  of  the  docu- 
ment must  be  determined  by  its  contents,  and  not  by  the  manner  in  which  it  is  served:  more- 
over, if  a  member  actually  receives  a  summons  addressed  to  him,  it  matters  not  hozv  he 
receives  it,  and  he  is  bound  to  obey  it:  of  course  a  lodge  cannot  act  upon  a  service  of  a 
summons  by  mail,  without  actual  proof  that  the  party  received  it,  and  we  apprehend  that  the 
decision  should  be  limited  to  the  effect  of  a  service  by  mail. 

He  does  not  know  of  any  remedy  for  non-affiliation,  and  says: 

It  requires  money  to  support  a  lodge:  to  raise  this  money  by  voluntary  contribution 
throws  the  whole  burden  on  a  few,  and  keeps  the  lodge  in  a  chronic  shortness  of  funds :  if  a 
man  can  pay  for  lodge  priveleges,  and  will  not,  we  believe  Masonry  is  better  off  to  have  him 
out  of  the  lodge  than  in  it:  but,  although  out  of  the  lodge,  he  is  a  M;ison,  and  entitled  (as  we 
hold)  to  such  recognition  as  each  brother  conscientiously  feels  that  he  ought  to  accord,  but 
not  entitled,  as  oj  right,  to  any  of  the  privileges  springing  from  a  lodge  organization.  This 
is  no  remedv  for  non  -  affiliation  :  but  we  believe  it  is  the  wisest  plan  to  adopt  in  reference  to 
the  matter. 

He  takes  exceptions  to  our  comments  on  the  validity  of  the  charter  issued 
to  Prince  Hall  Lodge,  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England. 

We  recognize  the  fact  that  there  are  scores  of  lodges  that  could  not,  from 
the  Grand  Lodge  record  alone,  establish  their  legal  existence;  but  this  can- 
not be  advanced  as  a  pretext  for  assuming  the  legitimacy  of  the  Prince  Hall 
affair.  As  we  understand  it,  these  colored  men  were  never  recognized  by  the 
Masonic  authorities  of  Massachusetts,  and  must  have  secured  a  (so  called) 
charter  without  any  lawful  knowledge  on  the  part  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
England  that  the  petitioners  were   Masons. 

We  do  not  believe  with  Bro.  Drummond  that  lodge  "  equity  is  utterly 
fallacious."  The  secret  constitutions  of  the  fraternity  explicitly  provide  for 
the  regulations  that  are  to  govern  us  in  our  relations  to  each  other.  Legal 
rules  are  proper  when  they  do  not  contravene  this  fundamental  law,  but 
when  a  Grand  Lodge  accepts  jtirisprudence  that  denies  the  lodge  the  right  to 
exercise  the  cardinal  doctrines  of  the  brotherhood  in  mattei^s  of  discipline. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE. 


or  upon  any  question  in  which  personal  rights  or   interests  are   in  question, 
it  assumes  a  position  utterly  at  war  with  Masonry. 

He  decides  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Indian  Territory'  is  a  lawful  organ- 
ization. We  have  devoted  much  time  to  this  subject,  and  have  arrived  at  the 
same  conclusion.  He  makes  quite  an  extended  report  on  the  application  of 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba  for  recognition.     Li  concluding  it  he  says: 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba  cannot  be  recognized  for  several  reasons : 

1.  Because  there  was  a  regular  Grand  Lodge  then  existing  in  Cuba,  or  else  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Cuba  was  formed  by  a  convention  composed  in  part  of  the  representatives  of  clan- 
destine lodges. 

2.  Because  the  officers  undertaking  to  represent  their  lodges  were  not  authorized  by 
their  lodges  to  do  so. 

3.  Because  the  convention  was  not  legally  called,  nor  all,  or  even  a  majfirity,  of  the 
regular  lodges  in  the  Island  notified  thereof. 

4.  Because  a  majority  of  the  regular  lodges  in  the  jurisdiction  did  not  participate  in  the 
movement:  il  we  regard  those  chartered  before  the  alleged  "suicide  of  the  Grand  Lodge,'' 
nine  did  not  participate,  and  it  is  not  claimed  that  more  than  six  did  ;  if  we  regard  all  the 
lodges,  twenty-four  did  not  participate,  and  not  more  than  nine  did. 

He  then  very  pertinently  submits  the  following  propositions  to  Bros. 
Simons  and  Vaux,  who,  it  will  be  remembered,  are  the  particular  cham- 
pions of  "  Cuba." 

1.  If  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon  was  not  a  regular  Grand  Lodge  on  August  I,  1S76,  had 
it  not  been  irregular  during  the  three  years  previous? 

2.  Is  a  Lodge,  chartered  by  an  irregular  Grand  Lodge,  a  regular  lodge? 

3.  Were  the  three  lodges  chartered  b)'  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon  between  1873  and  1876, 
which  took  part  in  the  formation  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba,  regular  or  irregular? 

4.  If  irregular,  is  not  the  Grand  Lodge,  which  they  took  part  in  forming,  for  that  reason 
irregular,  also? 

5.  Are  the  Masters  and  Wardens  of  a  lodge  authorized  to  represent  their  lodge  in  the 
formation  of  a  Grand  Lodge,  without  a  vote  of  the  lodge  empowering  them  to  do  so? 

6.  Can  a  minority  of  lodges  in  a  given  jurisdiction  legally  form  a  Grand  Lodge  for  that 
jurisdiction? 

7.  Must  not,  at  least,  a  majority  of  the  lodges  in  the  jurisdiction  be  notified  of  a  conven  - 
tion  to  form  a  Grand  Lodge,  in  order  to  make  their  action  valid? 

In  our  report  of  last  year  we  referred  to  these  questions,  but  believing  that 
the  sovereign  powers  of  Symbolic  Masonry  of  primary  importance,  we  con- 
fined ourselves  to  that  aspect  of  the  question.  Commenting  upon  our 
conclusions  he  says: 

He  concludes  that  neither  of  the  two  Bodies  claiming  to  be  Grand  Lodges  are  legitimate, 
and  the  Grand  I-odge  accepted  his  conclusion.  He  holds  that  the  lodges,  by  giving  in  their 
adhesion  to  the  Supreme  Council,  forfeited  their  charters  and  became  extinct.  While  it 
may  be  possible  that  their  course  made  them  liable  to  forfeit  their  charters,  yet,  inasmuch  as 
no  judgment  of  forfeiture  was  ever  declared  against  them,  they  can  scarcely  be  said  to  become 
extinct.  Nor  are  we  ready  to  cut  off,  as  illegitimate,  all  the  Masons  of  the  nations  other  than 
the  English-speaking  nations,  or  to  declare  that  their  form  of  organization  is  so  irregular  as 
to  make  them  clandestine.  Nor  do  we  assent  to  the  proposition  that,  when  a  Grand  Lodo-e 
becomes  extinct,  the  lodges  regularly  chartered  under  its  jurisdiction  become  extinct  also. 


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APPENDIX. 


If  no  "judgment  of  forfeiture"  was  pronounced  against  the  lodges  that 
buried  themselves  in  another  organization,  their  annihilation  as  bodies  of 
Craft  Masonry  was  not  the  less  positive.  So  we  think.  We  believe  with 
Bro.  D.,  that  the  extinguishment  of  a  Grand  Lodge  does  not  affect  the  life 
of  the  constituent  lodges;  but  when  the  latter  surrenders  its  charter  to  a 
foreign  organization,  it  is  dead. 

By  and  by,  and  in  another  connection,  we  shall  have  more  to  say  of  Grand 
Orients.  We  are  reading  them  up.  As  a  member  of  the  Scottish  Rite 
Bodies,  we  are  glad  to  find  from  the  constitutions  of  our  Order  published  by 
our  distinguished  brother  Albert  Pike,  1859,  '^'^^'^  ^^^  three  first  degrees  were 
never  a  part  of  the  A,  A.  Rite,  and  as  Bro.  D.  says:  "The  connection  of 
those  degrees  with  it  in  some  countries,  is  an  innovation  of  their  own.       * 

*  *  The  Grand  Orient  of  France,  ainong  its  many  unmasonic  acts, 
connected  the  two  systems  together,  but  the  bodies  of  the  A.  &  A.  Rite  do 
not  recognize  that  Grand  Orient  as  a  Masonic  body,  any  more  than  he  (Bro. 
Vaux)  or  his  Grand  Lodge  does."  This  accumulating  evidence  strengthens 
the  position  of  our  Grand  Lodge  on  this  subject. 

Bro.  Drummond  gives  us  the  benefit  of  his  statistical  inquiries.  We 
quote  in  part : 

COMPARISON  OF  STATISTICS. 


Members 54 

Raised '  5' 

Admissions,  (Sc 5' 

Dimissions 5' 


Expulsions  . 
Suspensions 


Deaths 

Rejections. 


non-payment  dues 


592,443 
23,S6i 
16.744 
17,681 
yS6 
770 
21,051 

7.038 

4.374 


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602,089  1 

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30,695 

46 

17.976    : 

49 

18,920 

49 

1,039  ! 

37 

1,064  ' 

i   49 

17,261 

50 

7,102 

28 

6,142 

1876. 


52 

48 
46 

47 
47 
31 

+2 
48 

28 


594,617 
34,208 

19.23' 

18.475 

go8 

775 
15,984 
6,804 
6,340 


If  our  report  was  not  assuming  too  large  proportions,  we  should  devote 
more  space  to  his  interesting  discussions.  It  is  scarcely  necessary  that  we 
express  thanks  for  his  kindly  notice  of  our  jurisdiction. 

Statistics — Lodges,  181;   membership,  19,436. 

M.-.  W.-.  Edward  P.  Burnham,  Saco,  G.  M.  R.-.  W.-.  Ira  Berry,  (of 
course)  G.  Sec'y. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  XCV 


MINNESOTA,    187S. 

A  Special  Communication  assembled  in  St.  Paul,  Dec.  t6th,  last;  over 
which  R.'.W.*.  E.  W.  Durant,  Deputy  Grand  Master,  presided. 

Thirty-four  constituent  lodges  united  with  the  officers  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
in  conveying  the  remains  of  Grand  Master,  James  C.  Braden,  to  their  final 
resting  place.  We  noticed  his  decease  in  our  review  of  Texas,  whither  he  had 
gone  in  search  of  health. 

The  Twentj'-fifth  Annual  Communication  was  held  January  15th.  The 
address  of  R.\  W.\  Bro.  Durant  opens  with  an  extended  notice  of  the  late 
Grand  Master: 

The  sad  duty  devolves  upon  me  to  formalh'  announce  to  you  the  death  of  our  late  Grand 
Master,  Bro.  J.  C.  Braden  who  departed  this  life  in  the  city  of  San  Antonio,  Texas,  Decem- 
ber gth  last,  at  the  early  a^e  of  forty-two  years. 

Death  to  our  brother  had  no  terrors,  save  the   severing  of  those  dearest,  sweetest  ties  on 
earth,  that  bind  us  to  our  friends,  our  wives  and  little  ones. 

Calmly  he  put  his  house  in  order  for  the  last  great  day  of  life,  the  first  great  day  of  death. 
Little  he  thought  of  himself,  but  his  every  thought  and  wish  seemed  to  go  out  with  caressing 
tenderness  for  his  wife  and  little  ones. 

1  am  glad  to  say  that  Bro.  Braden  during  his  last  sickness  was  the  recipient  of  that  loving 
care  f)f  his  Masonic  brethren  that  has  so  long  made  the  order  memorable  for  its  deeds  of  love 
and  kindness.  Our  brethren  of  San  Antonio,  with  loving  hands  performed  the  last  sad  offices 
due  from  the  living  to  the  dead,  and  the  widow  and  the  fatherless,  though  in  a  strange  land, 
found  in  the  fraternity  true  and  affectionate  friends  in  the  dark  hour  of  their  affliction.  Bro. 
R.  H.  Neal,  Worshipful  Master  of  Anchor  I^odge,  No.  424,  of  San  Antonio,  Texas,  with  Bro. 
C.  E.  Fisher,  were  with  the  family  of  our  Grand  Master,  during  his  last  hours,  rendering 
every  attention  that  could  alleviate  the  sorrows  of  those  who  stood  by  the  bedside  of  him  who 
was  so  soon  to  enter  the  gloomy  portals  of  the  world  beyond.  When  the  spirit  of  our  brother 
had  taken  its  flight,  and  but  his  unconscious  form  remained.  Masonic  hands,  actuated  bv  the 
same  brotherly  love,  performed  the  last  sad  duties  due  to  our  dead  brother,  and  with  kind 
words  and  deeds,  did  all  that  in  their  power  lay  to  lighten  the  grief  of  his  widow  and  little 
ones.  The  same  good  offices  to  the  dead  and  widowed  were  bestowed  by  the  brethren  at 
Houston,  Texas,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  at  St.  Paul. 

Bro.  Braden's  remains  were  followed  to  their  last  resting  place  by  a  large  and  imposino- 
cortege  of  our  brethren,  and  as  the  sun  sank  slowly  below  the  horizon  on  Sunday,  December 
i6lh,  we  tenderly  and  sadly  placed  all  that  was  mortal  of  our  late  Grand  Master  in  the  silent 
tomb. 

Bi-ethren,  the  character  of  our  Grand  Master  was  such  as  merits  our  warmest  commenda- 
tion. His  character  was  of  that  rare  type  that  men  delight  to  honor,  and  my  brethren,  the 
honors  that  we  have  paid,  and  on  this  day  pay,  to  the  memory  of  our  deceased  brother  are 
not  mere  offerings  to  the  dead,  or  mere  consolation  to  the  living,  for  honors  paid  to  the  mem  ■ 
cry  of  such  a  man  go  beyond,  a4id  become  incentives  to  those  who  witnessing  such  scenes 
cannot  remain  insensible  to  the  fact  that  men's  lives  live  after  them  in  the  memory  of  their 
fellow  men.  As  a  citizen  Bro.  Braden  was  strictly  moral  and  of  rare  ability;  as  a  soldier 
our  State  and  country  can  testify  of  his  worth,  recorded  as  it  is,  in  the  history  of  hard  fought 


XCVI  APPENDIX. 


battles;  as  a  husb:ind,  devoted  and  affectionate,  and  solicitous  always  for  the  happiness  and 
welfare  of  her  who  in  early  life  he  had  chosen  to  walk  with  him  life's  pathway  hand  in  hand. 


The  temple  built  by  King  Solomon  has  passed  away.  The  story  of  its  magnificence  lin- 
gers and  floats  down  the  ranks  of  dead  centuries,  a  thing  of  beauty.  But  the  spiritual  temple 
built  by  our  brother  shall  endure  as  long  as  the  hills  of  God  shall  stand. 

My  brethren,  the  lesson  of  our  sad  bereavement  comes  to  us  with  an  appealing  cry,  for 
noble  thoughts,  noble  words,  and  noble  deeds.  It  comes  with  a  force  and  pathos  to  which  I 
can  give  no  expression,  and  so  I  leave  this  lesson  to  be  treasured  up  in  the  hearts  of  each  of 
you,  with  the  kindly  remembrance  of  our  dead  brother. 

We  did  not  have  the  pleastire  of  a  personal  acquaintance  willi  this  distin- 
guished brother;  but  the  fact  of  being  at  the  head  of  the  Craft  of  Minnesota, 
is  a  testimonial  to  his  worth  as  a  citizen  and  Mason,  that  the  fraternity 
generally,  can  appreciate. 

The  Deputy  Grand  Master  also  pays  a  very  fraternal  tribute  of  respect  to 
the  memory  of  Bro.  Richardson,  late  Grand  Tyler,  who  died  September  9th, 
1877,  at  the  advanced  age  of  72  years: 

To  the  fraternity,  who  through  long  acquaintanceship  had  learned  to  know  and  love  our 
departed  brother,  I  need  notremind  that  the  genial  smile  and  kindly  salutation  of  Bro.  Rich- 
ardson was  one  of  the  pleasant  memories  connected  with  each  communication  of  this  Grand 
body.  Never  more  will  he  receive  from  the  Grand  East  on  earth  again,  the  command,  "receive 
from  me  the  implement  of  your  ofiice,  and  repair  to  your  station."  No  my  brother,  although 
your  station  may  be  filled  by  brethren  zealous  in  the  performance  of  their  duty,  your  memory 
will  be  cherished  by  us  as  an  upright  man,  a  citizen  a  soldier  true  and  steadfast  to  the  great 
principles  that  makes  the  perfect  man,  as  a  brother  Mason  who  measured  his  every  action  by 
the  plumb  line  of  rectitude,  holding  always  strictly  in  view  the  cardinal  principles  of  our  order, 
we  feel  and  deplore  the  loss  we  have  sustained. 

Four  dispensations  for  new  lodges  were  issued,  and  others  declined. 

Brother  Durant  submits  a  few  decisions,  but  none  that  require  particular 
notice. 

Brother  A.  Goodrich,  presented  a  series  of  resolutions  on  "Colored 
Masonry."  The  Grand  Lodge  declined  to  entertain  them  for  the  reason  that 
the  action  of  last  year  was  thought  sufficient.  During  the  year  1875,  '^'"'e 
Grand  Secretary,  E.  D.  B.  Porter,  defaulted  in  a  considerable  sum  of 
monev.     He  was  expelled.     A  good  example  to  follow. 

The  attention  paid  to  the  late  Grand  Master  by  the  Masons  at  San  Antonio, 
and  their  kindness  to  his  family,  received  warm  expressions  of  gratitude  and 
commendation. 

In  this  connection  it  is  pleasure  to  furnish  an  abstract  from  the  report  of 
the  Grand  Secretary,  Bro.  Pierson: 

I  wrote  to  W.\  Bro.  Neal,  Master  of  Anchor  Lodge,  asking  for  a  statement  of  expenses, 
Bro.  Neal  appears  to  he  one  of  those  Masons  who  prefer  not  to  let  the  left  hand  know  what  the 
right  doeth,  as  no  reply  has  been  received.  I  suggest  that  the  Grand  Secretary  be  instructed 
to  officially  ask  for  a  statement  of  expenses  from  Anchor  Lodge ;  and  that  an  appropriation 
be  made  sufficient  to  cover  the  presumed  amount.     (Italics  ours.1 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  XCVII 


On  the  evening  of  the  first  day  of  the  session  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  a 
Lodge  of  Sorrow  was  held,  over  which  "111,  Bro.  A.  T.  C.  Pierson  33°," 
(Whew!)     P.-.G.-.M.-.,  and  acting  as  W.-.M.-.,  presided. 

"111.  Bro.  R.  A.  Jones  32°,"  Grand  Orator,  in  concluding  his  address, 
thus  speaks  of  the  distinguished  deceased: 

It  was  my  good  fortune  to  have  known  Bro.  Braden  many  years,  and  in  all  the  paths  of 
life,  as  patriot,  luishand,  father,  brolher,  friend,  he  proved  himself  a  noble,  a  true  man. 

No  shadow  ever  touched  his  integrity,  no  shame  ever  was  found  at  his  door,  no  evil  can 
be  traced  to  his  doing. 

A  man  of  strong  convictions  and  good  heart,  he  was  ever  true  to  the  right,  and  patient 
with  the  erring.  His  was  a  charity  that  "sufferetli  long  and  is  kind,  that  envieth  not,  is  not 
puffed  up,  vaunteth  not  itself,  seeketh  not  her  own,  not  easily  provoked,  rejoiceth  not  in  ini- 
quity, but  in  the  truth.  Beareth  all  things,  hopeth  all  things,  believeth  all  things,  endureth 
all  things,  that  never  fa I'letli." 

"111.  Bro.  Charles  Griswoid  30^,"  presented  afeeling  andglowing  tribute  to 
the  memorv  of  the  faithful  Grand  Tjler. 

The  Report  on  Correspondence  by  Bro.  Pierson  always  attracts  attention. 
We  do  not  have  his  report  of  last  year  before  us,  but  our  impression  is,  that 
he  has  given  less  attention  to  comment  than  formerly. 

His  reply  to  Bro.  Sajre,  of  Alabama,  will  meet  with  general  approval: 

"Caucasian  race,"  we  never  saw  the  phrase  in  any  of  the  earlier  Masonic  books,  but  have 
seen  the  phrase,  "free  born."  About  one  hundred  years  ago  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England 
considered  the  initiation  of  Omdit-ul  Omrah  Bahauder,  a  Hindoo,  of  so  much  importance,  as 
denionstratingthe  Universality  of  Masonry,  that  she  sent  hun  a  copy  of  the  "Book  of  Con- 
stitutions superbly  bound,"  and  a  "blue  apron,  elegantly  decorated,"  and  gave  to  the  initiating 
officer  the  rank  of  a  "  Past  Grand  Officer  "  of  the  Grand  Lodge. 

We  submit  th.at  our  Alabama  brethren  are  the  first  to  deny  the  long  vaunted  boast  of 
Masons  that  the  institution  is  universal. 

In  this  part  of  the  country  we  have  been  taught  not  to  go  behind  the  returns,  that  we 
cannot  discriminate,  but  must  accept  the  whole  or  none,  now,  if  our  Alabama  brethren  have 
had  the  same  teachings  we  cannot  understand  upon  what  principle  they  can  recognize  any 
of  the  lodges  outside  of  the  United  States,  for  they  all  do  it,  make  Masons  of  negroes,  and 
so  too  does  several  of  our  own  lodges. 

We  remember  having  heard  that  within  the  last  fifteen  years,  the  Nassau  brethren  were 
recognized  by  Alabama  Masons,  and  negroes  were  made  in  that  lodge;  but  enough,  let  us 
stick  to  the  universality  of  Masonry,  the  free-born  restriction,  and  the  ballot-box,  is  amply 
sufficient  to  protect  the  Craft  from  unworthy  members. 

Under  Kansas  he  says : 

The  action  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Kansas  was  right.  If  Alpha  Lodge  desired  to  remain 
in  allegiance  to  her  mother  lodge,  she  had  a  perfect  right  to  do  so,  there  are  abundant  pre- 
cedents in  the  history  of  Masonry  in  this  country  to  sustain  her  action. 

It  will  be  remembered  that  Alpha  Lodge,  located  in  Indian  Territory,  but 
chartered  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Kansas,  declined  to  yield  obedience  to  the 
former  new  Grand  Lodge.  If  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Indian  Territory  is  a 
lawful  body,  the  views  of  Bro.  Pierson  would  demolish  every  Grand  Lodge  in 

13 


XCVIII  APPENDIX. 


existence.  We  know  that  lodges  have  been  rebellious,  and  have  been,  and 
are  now  permitted  to  occupy  the  anomalous  position  which  Bro.  Piersop 
appears  to  justify;  but  for  the  only  reason  that  new  Grand  I^odges  have 
exercised  cliarity  in  the  belief  that  reflection  would  induce  a  better  under- 
standing of  law  and  duty.  We  rest  our  conclusions  on  the  well  established 
law,  on  this  Continent,  of  Grand  Lodge  jurisdictional  rights.  A  Grand  Lodge 
is  unworthy  of  the  name,  and  should  not  be  tolerated,  if  it  fail,  after  reason- 
able leniency,  to  vindicate  its  authoritj'. 

We  do  not  agree  with  Bro.  Pierson,  that  "  Coercion  is  not  a  Masonic 
term."  He  sometimes  shoots  at  random  ;  but  we  do  endorse  his  objections 
to  eternal  jurisdiction  over  rejected  candidates. 

Illinois  receives  fraternal  notice.  The  Annual  Address  of  >L'.W.*.  Bro. 
Robbins  is  largely  and  approvingly  quoted. 

Statistics — Lodges,  129;  membership,  6,730. 

M.-.  W.'.  E.  W.  Durant,  Stillwater,  G.  M.  R-.  W.-.  A.  T.  C.  Pierson, 
St.  Paul,  G.  Sec. 


MISSISSIPPI,  1878. 


The  Sixtieth  Annual  Grand  Communication  was  held  February  6th. 

We  invite  attention  to  quotations  from  the  practical  address  of  Grand 
Master,  John  Y.  Murry: 

We  have  cause  to  congratulate  each  other  in  the  fact  that  harmony  prevails  throughout 
this  Grand  Jurisdiction,  with  a  few  slight  exceptions.  It  may  he  safely  asserted  that  there  is 
as  complete  harmony  between  subordinate  lodges  and  among  the  brotherhood,  as  ever  existed 
in  the  Order,  since  the  organization  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  when  comparative  numbers  are 
considered.  Still  I  have  to  report  what  was  said  in  my  address  twelve  months  gone  by:  "Our 
numbers  are  not  increased  as  in  some  former  years,"  and  for  the  same  reason  as  was  then 
given — "hard  times" — only  it  has  been  intensified.  I  consider  this  a  good  omen — although 
we  all  may  regret  the  cause,  taking  it  for  granted  I  have  given  the  correct  one, — for  I  cannot 
believe  the  greatest  danger  to  the  Institution  lies  in  the  mere  want  of  numbers.  Much  of  the 
danger  is  to  be  found  within  the  lod^e;  consequently,  in  proportion  as  our  numbers  are,  the 
quality  being'  bad,  just  in  the  same  ratio  will  injury  accrue  to  Freemasonry.  In  fact,  the 
purging  which  has  been  going  on  in  our  jurisdiction  for  the  past  few  years,  while  it  has 
reduced  our  membership  roll,  has  made  us  much  more  powerful  for  good.  This  agency 
should  not  be  relaxed,  and  when  there  is  added  to  it  strict  tvling,  that  is  to  say,  allow  none  to 
enter  our  portals  except  the  truly  worthy,  and  in  a  short  time  the  genuine  essence  of  Free- 
masonry will  he  felt,  seen  and  heard,  all  around  us. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  XCIX 


It  is  implied  in  what  I  have  said  that  it  is  not  the  uninitiated,  or  even  the  Anti-Mason 
who  is  endangering  our  Masonic  Temple  most;  nay,  verily,  the  assaults  of  foes  from  without 
dwindle  into  insignificance  when  conlrasUd  w'lVh  the  influence  of  bad  men  within  who  have 
deceived  us,  and  who  have,  perchance,  been  too  strongly  recommended  by/f;'.?o«a/ friends 
among  us.  Overzeal  of  the  friends  in  trying  to  break  down  even  v.'dl  founded  opposition  to 
the  reception  of  a  candidate,  or,  as  is  very  often  the  case,  in  trying  to  drive  other  members 
ffom  their  honest  conviction  of  duty,  where  efforts  are  being  made  to  get  rid  of  the  unwor- 
thy, very  often  produces  discord,  and  sometimes  results  in  irreparable  injury  to  subordinate 
lodges.  Only  men  of  the  strongest  moral  courage  dare  to  use  the  negative  vote  in  the  one, 
or  affirmative  in  the  other  class  of  cases.  My  idea  of  duty,  in  such  matters,  is  this:  "  oppose 
with  firmness  the  unworthy  applicant,"  and  when  a  piece  of  timber  has  been  brought  in, 
"which  is  unfit  for  the  builder's  use" — when  the  fruit  of  the  tree  is  evil  instead  of  good, — go 
forward  with  equal  firmness  and  earnestness:  "cut  down  and  cast  it  out." 

The  Grand  Master  is  of  the  opinion  that  connection  with  other  secret 
societies  has  a  tendency  to  impair  a  Mason's  usefulness.     So  are  we. 

A  good  General  does  not  scatter  his  forces  in  the  presence  of  an  enemy; 
neither  should  we  divide  our  attention  with  other  organizations  if  we  expect 
to  accomplish  much  in  the  interests  of  the  Craft.  Years  gone  by  we  were 
associated  with  every  secret  organization  within  our  reach;  but  experience 
convinced  us  that  to  be  of  the  least  importance  to  any,  we  must  cling  to  one 
and  abandon  the  others. 

We  do  not  coincide  with  Brother  Murry  in  the  opinion  that  "the  higher 
degrees  of  Masonry,  as  organized  and  worked  separately  and  apart  froni  the 
Blue  Lodge,  have  seriously  injured  Ancient  Craft  Masonry."  A  true  Mason 
will  sustain  the  lodge  regardless  of  all  other  fraternal  relations. 

It  is  a  mistake  to  say  that  there  is  anything  higher  in  Masonry  than  the 
degree  ot  Master  Mason;  the  "  degree"  of  Past  Master  not  excepted.  De- 
grees and  Orders  that  follow,  are  the  product  of  ambition,  and  of  which  the 
Craft  cannot  have  knowledge  or  association.  There  are  questions  intimately 
associated  with  this  topic,  that  must  soon  be  determined,  else  we  may  drift 
beyond  secure  anchorage.  New  organizations  are  constantly  springing  into 
existence  claiming  a  common  parentage,  and  it  maybe  that  these  "branches" 
will  impair  the  parent  trunk,  if  permitted  to  appropriate  its  vitality  without 
restraint. 

The  decisions  of  the  Grand  Master  are  quite  numerous.  He  is  very  much 
opposed  to  the  joint  occupancy  of  lodge  halls  with  other  organizations.  He 
also  determines  "  that  the  loss  of  one-half  of  the  little  finger  of  the  right 
hand  is  not  a  physical  disqualification."  We  would  be  obliged  to  these 
brethren  of  easy  virtue  on  this  subject,  if  they  will  draw  a  line,  and  tell  us  at 
what  poitit  they  think  this  class  of  disability  should  disqualify.  Somewhere 
between  the  finger  and  shoulder.? 

Brother  Murry  is  of  the  opinion  that  a  suspended  Mason  should  be  charged 
with  dues  from  date  of  suspension  to  restoration.  We  are  not.  It  does  not 
seem  just  to  demand  money  for  anything  in  the  absence  of  a  consideration. 

In  the  following  he  correctly  defines  a  dimit: 


APPENDIX. 


Three  things  only  are  requisite  to  constitute  dimission:  first,  payment  of  all  dues;  second, 
application  in  writing  at  a  stated  meeting;  third,  entry  in  lodge  minutes  that  a  dimit  was 
granted.  After  these  prerequisites  have  been  complied  with,  membership  de  facto  et  de  jure 
(remember  I  was  writing  to  a  lawyer)  is  severed,  and  the  issuance  of  forty  certificates  of 
dimit  would  not  make  him  any  less  a  member.  He  is  no  longer  entitled  to  lodge  privileges 
and  benefits,  nor  is  he  subject  to  lodge  dues. 

He  again  sajs : 

April  9th,  Bro.  Foster,  secretary  of  No.  363,  informed  me  that  a  brother  had  obtained  a 
dimit  from  the  lodge  and  in  a  few  days  thereafter  abandoned  his  wife  and  eloped  with 
another  woman,  whereupon  the  lodge  had  called  a  meeting  and  rescinded  its  action  granting 
the  diinit,  and  also  resolved  to  publish  the  unworthy  brother  to  the  world,  by  sending  out  cir- 
cular letters.  After  which  the  brother  had  written  very  insulting  letters  to  the  lodge,  using  much 
profanity.  Bro.  Foster  also  stated  that  the  brother  had  been  arraigned  for  trial  before  the 
criminal  court  and  confined  in  jail  within  the  jurisdiction  of  another  lodge,  and  asked  whether 
lodge  No.  362,  or  the  lodge  in  whose  jurisdiction  the  offender  was  at  the  time,  should  try 
him.  Answer — First.  The  action  of  the  lodge  rescinding  its  former  act  of  dimission  is 
null  and  void;  secondly,  the  lodge  in  whose  jurisdiction  the  accused  resides  has  the  right  to 
try  him,  but  if  it  refuses,  or  fails  to  do  it,  then  No.  362  may  try  him;  but  in  either  case  he 
must  be  tried  as  a  non-affiliate. 

June  9th,  I  received  a  communication  from  the  Committee  on  Complaints  and  Offenses 
of  No.  308,  asking  how  the  lodge  should  proceed  in  order  to  suspend  a  member  during  the 
pendency  of  a  criminal  prosecution  against  him.  This  matter  had  been  before  your  Com- 
mittee on  Law  and  Jurisprudence,  and  by  this  Committee  forwarded  to  me  for  my  deliver- 
ance upon  it,  which  I  made  in  the  following  manner,  substantially ."  In  the  absence  of  any 
law  prescribing  the  mode  of  procedure  in  such  cases,  I  have  decided  (and  that,  too,  in  the 
case  at  Meridan)  that  the  lodge  may  proceed  upon  charges,  notice,  etc.,  as  in  cases  where 
there  is  no  prosecution  in  the  civil  courts  against  the  accused,  until  it  comes  to  fixing  the 
Ipenalty.  Here  the  departure  is  to  be  made,  and  the  lodge  should  vote  on  definite  suspen- 
sion— that  is,  until  the  case  shall  be  disposed  of  in  the  courts,  omitting  for  the  time  being  the 
two  higher  grades,  expulsion  and  indefinite  suspension,  make  full  entries  of  everything  in 
lodge  minutes;  and  by  resolution  continue  the  case  until  the  expiration  of  the  sentence  of 
definite  suspension,  at  which  time  take  up  the  case  a.i\<\Jinish  it,  by  voting  on  the  two  higher 
grades  of  punishment. 

From  the  first  of  these  opinions  the  Committee  on  Jtn-isprudence  dissent, 
and  state : 

Question.    At  a  stated  meeting  of  lodge,  a  dimit  was  granted  Bro.  A.,  but  before 

its  issuance  by  the  secretary,  Bro.  B.,  wlio  was  not  present  at  the  time  the  dimit  vi^as  granted, 
presented  objections  thereto,  and  informed  the  secretary  that  Bro.  A.  had  been  guilty  of  gross 
unmasonic  conduct,  and  that  he,  B.,  was  prepared  to  prefer  charges  against  A.;  has  the  sec- 
retary the  right  to  withhold  the  dimit  until  the  next  stated  meeting  of  the  lodge,  and  can  the 
lodge  rescind  its  action  had  at  the  last  meeting  in  that  behalf? 

A'lswer.  The  principle  involved  in  this  case  was  first  announced  by  this  Grand  Lodge 
in  1S70  and  reasserted  in  1S71.  Sec.  67  arid  6S  R.  and  R.,  cleai-ly  give  the  lodge  jurisdiction 
of  the  case.  Had  the  lodge,  at  the  time  application  was  made  to  it  for  a  dimit,  been  in  pos- 
session of  the  facts  which  were  afterwards  communicated  to  the  secretary,  it  would  have  de- 
layed the  granting  of  a  dimit,  and  ordered  an  investigation,  and  the  secretary,  as  the  official 
organ  of  the  lodge,  acted  wisely,  and  showed  his  zeal  for  the  institution  of  Masonry  by  de- 
laying the  whole  matter  until  the  lodge  should  again  meet,  when  the  statements  made  to  him 
would  be  laid  before  the  lodge,  for  such  action  thereon  as  might  be  deemed  best  for  the  har- 
mony of  the  lodge  and  the  good  of  Masonry.  The  simple  granting  of  a  dimit  does  not  de- 
prive the  lodge  of  jurisdiction.  The  lodge  should  cause  the  charges  to  be  preferred,  and 
prosecute  the  case  with  a  view  of  ascertaining  the  whole  truth  of  the  matter.      If  the  brollier 


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be  found  guilty,  as  charged,  he  ought  to  be  punished,  but  if  innocent,  he  should   at  once  be 
furnished  with  the  certificate  of  his  diniit. 

We  are  ven'  decidedly  of  the  opinion  that  the  Grand  Master  is  correct. 
What  the  lodge  xvould  have  done  had  it  been  in  possession  of  certain  facts, 
cannot  justify  it  in  assuming  that  the  dimit  granted  was  not  a  lawful  act. 
The  member,  when  once  released  from  affiliation,  or  becoming  invested 
with  any  Masonic  right,  cannot  be  forceil  to  a  surrender  except  by  lawful 
process.  A  dimit  was  granted,  and  from  that  moment  the  brother  was  a 
non-affiliate,  regardless  of  the  absence  of  a  certificate.  There  does  not  seem 
to  be  any  necessity  for  this  determination  of  the  committee,  because  a 
Mason  cannot  escape  discipline. 

The  second  opinion  of  the  Grand  Master  is  a  novelty.  It  seems  tinpar- 
donable  to  assume,  for  any  purpose,  the  guilt  of  a  brother,  simply  because 
he  is  under  duress  by  the  civil  authorities.  Again,  it  would  be  a  singular 
procedure  to  try  an  offender,  find  him  guilty  of  an  act  that  demands  expul- 
sion, and  then  decline  to  inflict  the  penalty  because  the  civil  tribunal  had 
not  adjudicated  the  case. 

We  do  not  understand  that  our  discipline  has  any  relation  to  the  courts. 
An  offender  may  be  in  prison,  but  this  fact  alone  would  not  justify  a  penalty 
by  the  lodge.  It  would  be  prima  facia  evidence  of  guilt,  but  not  so  conclu- 
sive as  to  afford  sufficient  grounds  for  the  arrest  of  his  Masonic  rights. 

The  Grand  Master  announces  the  decease  of  the  venerable  brother  Ben- 
jamin Springer,  Past  Deputy  Grand  Master;  also,  the  death  of  Bro.  Gouley, 
of  Missouri. 

The  Committee  on  Masonic  Law  and  Jurisprudence  make  an  extended 
and  valuable  report.  Among  the  questions  discussed  is  the  following.  We 
present  the  views  of  the  committee,  that  the  Craft  of  our  jurisdiction  may 
understand  the  methods  of  other  Grand  Bodies: 

At  its  last  annual  grand  communication  the  Grand  I^odge  granted  further  time  to  the  Com- 
mittee on  Masonic  J^aw  and  Jurisprudence  to  consider  whether  a  lodge  has  the  right  to  try  a 
brother  twice  for  the  same  offense.  The  committee  regret  that  in  the  absence  of  the  chairman, 
P.  G.  M.  Barkley,  they  have  been  deprived  of  his  learning  and  judgment  in  the  decision  of  this 
mportant  question.  They  have,  however,  given  the  subject  mature  consideration,  and  trust 
that  they  have  reached  a  correct  solution. 

Rule  XIII  of  the  Rules  and  Regulations  for  the  Government  of  Subordinate  Lodges  on 
Trials,  provides  that  the  Master  presiding  at  a  trial,  or  the  lodge  may,  for  good  cause  shown , 
grant  o«f  new  trial.  In  the  judgment  of  the  committee  this  is  a  wise  and  useful  regulation. 
If  by  a  second  trial  it  is  intended  that  after  the  final  conclusion  of  a  trial,  the  subject  matter 
js  to  be  re-opened  and  a  second  investigation,  with  all  its  incidents,  including  acquittal,  or 
conviction  and  punishment,  is  to  be  proceeded  with,  we  see  no  reason  why  the  matter  may 
not  be  indefinitely  prolonged,  until  a  result  is  reached  in  accordance  with  the  views  of  the 
most  zealous  and  determined  actors ;  in  other  words,  until  one  or  the  other  party  is  worn  out 
with  the  controversy.  Surely  there  must  be  a  time  when  a  trial  ought  to  be  brought  to  a  close. 
If  after  two  (rials  such  as  are  now  permitted,  a  just  result  is  not  reached,  there  is  no  proba- 
bility that  a  tiiird  or  a  fourth  investigation  would  result  in  a  conclusion  more  In  accordance 
with  the  very  truth  of  the  case,  or  that  the  brethren  would  be  more  likely  to  deal  justly  and 
fairly  with  themselves  or  the  accused.     Such  a  procedure  would  engender  a  train  of  evils  far 


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more  dangerous  to  the  welfare  of  the  Fraternity  than  the  occasional  escape  of  a  wrong-doer 
or  the  unmerited  conviction  of  the  few  who  suffer  unjustly  at  the  hands  of  their  brethren.  It 
might  be  that  the  peace  and  harmony  of  a  lodge  would  be  perpetually  broken  by  the  repeti- 
tion of  trials,  one  of  which  is  sufficient  in  most  instances,  to  leave  the  "  trail  of  the  serpent" 
behind  it.  Instead  of  extending,  we  would  favor  a  contraction  of  the  rule,  and  restrict  the 
danger  of  lodge  disruption  to  one  trial  rather  than  incur  that  of  extending  it  through  a  num- 
ber, after  the  blood  of  the  members  has  been  warmed  by  the  arguments /ro  and  con. 

We  do  not  understand  the  question  submitted  to  us  to  be  "  can  a  brother  be  twice  inin- 
ished  for  the  same  offense?"  or  "  after  a  part  of  the  punishment  has  been  suffered,  can  the 
brethren  reconsider  tlie  matter  and  proceed  to  inflict  other  or  further  punisliinent?"  but  if 
such  be  the  case,  we  need  only  say  that  after  a  careful  search  we  have  been  unable  to  find 
the  subject  referred  to  by  anv  Masonic  writer,  and  as  it  seems  to  us  that  either  proceeding 
would  be  contrary  to  all  the  instincts  of  natural  justice,  we  trust  we  have  not  misapprehended 
the  scope  of  the  inciuirv  submitted  to  us. 

On  the  application  of  tlie  "Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba"  for  recognition,  action 
was  deferred.     The  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Mexico  was  recognized. 

An  effort  to  adopt  the  following  amendment  to  the  by-laws,  was  defeated : 

Dimits  should  not  be  encouraged,  but  any  member  in  good  standing  may  petition  the 
lodge  for  a  dimit,  in  writing,  setting  fourth  his  reasons  for  asking  the  same,  and  if  the  lodge 
shall  deem  said  reasons  satisfactory,  the  dimit  may  be  granted  on  payment  of  all  dues. 

An  amendment  to  the  Constitution  providing  for  bi-ennial  sessions  of  the 
Grand  Lodge,  was  also  defeated. 

An  amendment  "to  the  General  and  Permanent  Regulations"  of  the  Grand 
Lodge,  dividing  the  jurisdiction  into  twelve  districts,  and  the  appointment  of 
a  D.  D.  G.  M.  for  each,  was  agreed  to. 

Intercourse  with  "all  persons  owing  allegiance  to  the  Grand  Orient  of 
France,"  was  interdicted.  The  Protestant  Orphan  Asylum  located  at  Nat- 
chez, received  an  appropriation  of  five  hundred  dollars.     Worthily  bestowed. 

The  Report  on  Correspondence  is  a  clever  production  of  136  pp.,  by  Bro. 
J.  M.  Howry.     In  his  review  of  Alabama,  he  expresses  us  exactly : 

We  give  it  as  our  deliberate  conviction,  after  years  of  observation  and  reflection,  that  we 
have  too  many  lodges — too  many  members.  We  throw  our  doors  wide  open,  and  some 
lodges  are  afflicted  with  a  member  or  two  whose  main  business  seems  to  be  to  hunt  up  every 
man  he  can  find  and  get  him  to  "join  the  Masons,"  when  our  rules  and  teachings  positively 
forbid  it.  We  want  them  to  come  of  their  own  will  and  accord,  or  not  come  at  all.  A  reac- 
tion must  take  place,  and  if  it  has  begun  in  Alabama,  we  trust  it  will  extend  westward  and 
embrace  the  whole  circle  of  the  Grand  Jurisdictions,  until  we  attain  a  proper  equilibrium  and  a 
sound  and  healthy  condition.  Prosperity  does  not  depend  on  the  quantity,  hut  the  quality  of 
the  material  we  work  into  our  moral  and  Masonic  edifice. 

Under  Connecticut  he  announces  the  opinion,  that  if  an  officer  of  a  lodge 
can  be  suspended  from  the  ftmctions  of  his  office  by  the  Master,  it  is  also 
proper  to  "exclude  a  member  from  the  exercise  of  rights  and  privileges  in 
the  lodge  until  they  are  acquitted  of  charges  reflecting  on  their  moral  charac- 
ter, and  also  on  the  character  of  the  whole  fraternity."  We  think,  that  by 
the  time  our  good  brother  has  finished  up  another  report,  he  will  have  a  bet- 
ter understanding  of  his  obligations. 


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In  justification  of  his  views  he  quotes  the  suspension  from  office  of  a 
former  Grand  Secretary  of  Iowa,  for  appropriating  the  funds  of  the  Grand 
Lodge.     We  do  not  comprehend  tlie  analogy. 

His  review  of  Illinois  is  verj-  fraternal.  Our  distinguished  Grand  Master 
is  largely  noticed.     Thanks. 

Statistics — lodges,  322;  membership  of  247  lodges,  8,416;  net  loss  during 
the  year,  520. 

M.-.W.-.  Charles  T.  Murphy,  Uurant,  G.  M.  R.-.W.-.  I.  L.  Power, 
Jackson,  G.  Sec. 


MISSOURI. 

The  Fifty-seventh  Annual  Communication  convened  in  St.  Louis,  Oct.  9. 

M.".W.*.  Zenophon  Ryland,  presiding. 

A  very  correct  likeness  of  our  departed  friend  and  brother,  George  Frank 
Gouley,  accompanies  the  proceedings. 

The  address  of  the  Grand  Master  is  of  exceptional  ability  and  excellence. 

Fraternal  allusion  is  made  to  the  decease  of  Bros.  Dove  and  Gouley.  A 
special  Memorial  Committee  was  appointed  to  prepare  a  fitting  tribute  to  the 
memory  of  the  latter,  and  from  which  we  shall  make  selections.  The  Grand 
Master  also  announces  the  loss  of  Past  Grand  Master,  William  E.  Dunscomb. 
Of  the  latter,  he  says  : 

No  man  in  the  State  possessed  a  more  unstained  and  spotless  character  than  Brother 
Dunscomb.  His  work  and  dealings  as  a  man  of  business  called  for  no  correction,  owing  to 
the  precision  and  accuracy  with  which  he  transacted  everjthing  committed  to  his  care.  In 
recognition  of  his  true  nobility,  he  was  maile  Grand  Master  in  1867.  A  mysterious  Providence 
suffered  his  mind  to  become  shattered  and  broken  in  the  last  years  of  his  existence.  The 
tenderness  and  care  bestowed  upon  him  in  his  affliction  demonstrated  how  strong  a  hold  he 
possessed  upon  the  Masonic  Fraternity.  The  gentleness  and  kindness  which  lie  acquired  in 
a  life-time  of  usefulness  never  deserted  him,  even  after  the  light  of  his  reason  was  darkened. 
His  remains  were  sent  to  Jefferson  City,  and  were  deposited  in  the  grave  with  appropriate 
honors,  the  services  being  conducted  b}*  Past  Grand  Master  S.  H.  Owens. 

The  difficulties  referred  to  last  year,  with  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland, 
have  been  adjusted  and  fraternal  relations  established. 

The  new  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Mexico  received  kindly  notice  and  recog- 
nition. 


CrV  APPENDIX. 


The  decisions  of  tiie  Grand  Master  are  numerous.  We  quote  the  second, 
third  and  eighth : 

2.  The  loss  of  two  fingers  of  the  left  hand  constitutes  no  physical  disqualification  under 
the  laws  of  Masonry. 

3.  It  is  suggested  that  there  is  a  seeming  conflict  in  the  rules  of  this  body  upon  the  sub- 
ject matter  of  physical  qualifications.  We  should  adhere  strictly  to  the  rule,  and  "make  no 
man  a  Mason  that  is  not  upright  in  body,  not  deformed  or  dismembered,  at  the  time  of 
making,  but  of  hale  and  entire  limbs,  as  a  man  ought  to  be,"  as  affirmed  in  1850,  or  declare, 
as  in  1871,  that  ability  to  conform  literally  to  tlie  ceremonies  of  initiation  into  the  several 
degrees  meets  the  ancient  qualification  of  "sound  in  mind  and  member."  While  requiring 
adherence  to  the  decision  "that  a  petition  for  the  degrees  should  not  be  received  from  a  per- 
son who  had  lost  the  use  of  one  eye,"  I  deemed  it  expedient  to  refer  the  question  back  to  the 
law-making  power,  that  in  its  wisdom, by  harmonizing  any  apparent  conflict  in  our  decisions, 
it  may  adopt  such  a  rule  as  will  permit  no  departure  from  the  Landmarks  of  Masonry,  nor  be 
antagonistic  to  the  enlightened  spirit  that  characterizes  our  Institution. 

8.  "  Can  a  lodge  of  Masons,  when  requested  to  conduct  the  funeral  ceremonies  of  a 
deceased  brother,  who  was  also  a  member  of  non-Masonic  associations,  share  with  such 
associations  the  right  of  appointing  pallbearers,  or  allow  them  to  participate  in  the  cere- 
monies at  the  grave?" 

The  difficulties  surrounding  this  question  are  recognized.  If  no  request  is  made,  we  have 
no  right  whatever  to  appear  in  procession  with  other  associations  which  have  been  requested 
to  perform  the  last  sad  rites  of  burial  over  the  remains  of  a  deceased  brother.  This  is  a  rock 
of  offense  to  such  associations.  If  the  request  is  legally  and  properly  made  to  a  M.isonic 
lodge,  then,  in  performing  these  ceremonies,  it  must  have  absolute  control,  and  in  those 
jurisdictions  permitting  other  associations  to  assist  at  the  grave,  the  lodge  performs  its  cere- 
monies last.     This  gives  offense. 

We  cannot  afford  to  apologize  to  other  associations  for  our  laws.  They  have  been 
handed  down  to  us  from  generation  to  generation,  and  we  can  suffer  no  infringement  upon 
them.  The  lodge  on  such  occasions  is  at  labor,  and  no  one  not  a  Mason  can  participate 
therein.  Non-affiliated  Masons  cannot  appear  in  our  processions.  Why  exclude  them,  as 
well  as  our  Entered  Apprentices  and  Fellow  Crafts,  if  profanes  are  to  assist  in  this  labor? 
There  is  no  question  of  courtesy  here.  It  is  a  question  of  Masonic  law,  and  is  not  rightly 
viewed  in  any  other  light. 

There  is  no  prohibition  against  any  other  associations  following  the  lodge  in  procession 
to  the  grave,  thus  testifying  their  respect  to  the  dead,  but  they  are  excluded  from  all  further 
participation. 

This  is  the  only  rule  that  will  prevent  conflicts  on  such  mournful  occasions,  and  is  in 
strict  accordance  with  our  principles. 

Decision. — That  a  Masonic  lodge  is  at  labor  when  conducting  funeral  services,  and  in 
the  performance  of  this  or  other  Masonic  labor  in  public  it  must  have  absolute  control  :  and. 
while  exercising  this  control,  no  non-Masonic  association  shall  be  permitted  to  participate. 
This,  of  course,  does  not  extend  to  religious  exercises. 

The  report  of  the  Coinmittee  on  Jurisprudence,  on  these  questions,  is  as 
follows : 

The  subject  of  "physical  qualifications"  comes  up  in  some  quarter  ot  the  jurisdiction 
regularly  every  year.  It  is  here  the  loss  of  an  eye,  there  of  a  finger  or  two,  and  somewhere 
else  a  thumb,  or  even  an  arm  or  leg.  It  also  happens  that  those  persons  who  have  been  so 
unfortunate  as  to  lose  a  member  or  limb  are  good  men,  and  their  friends  think  il  unjust  that 
they  should  be  deprived  of  the  privileges  and  benefits  of  Masonry  through  an  accident  for 
which  their  moral  character  is  in  no  way  responsible.  This  is  a  question  which  must  be  mej 
and  adjusted  on  a  basis  of  common  sense,  to  be  either  just  or  generally  satisfactory ;  and  our 


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forms  and  rituals  furnish  the  key  to  such  a  solution.  The  orig^inal  object  of  many  of  our 
forms  of  initiation  was  to  place  a  bar  ag^ainst  the  admission  of  any  one  who  had  not  the  free 
and  imhani])ered  use  of  all  his  limbs.  Ability  to  conform  to  our  ceremonies  implied  that  he 
was  also  able  to  make  his  own  living^,  and  not  be  a  burden  on  the  Order;  and,  if  need  be,  to 
render  bodily  assistance  to  a  brother  in  distress.  These  conditions  were  exemplified  in  the 
rule:  "We  should  make  no  man  a  Mason  who  is  not  upright  in  body,  or  who  is  deformed 
or  dismembered  at  the  time  of  making,  but  he  must  be  of  hale  and  entire  limbs,  as  a  man 
ought  to  be,"  which  was  affirmed  bj'  our  Grand  Lodge  in  1850.  It  has  been  necessary  to 
construe  and  apply  this  rule  to  individual  cases  from  year  to  year,  and  men  have  been  ruled 
out  for  the  lack  of  an  eye,  and  admitted  when  their  defect  was  the  loss  of  one  or  two  fingers 
of  the  left  hand.  A  strict  construction  of  the  old  regulations  would,  doubtless,  exclude  all 
physical  or  mental  defects  that  are  apparent.  Let  us  construe  the  law  and  usage  at  once,  and 
for  all,  according  to  the  forms  and  ceremonies  of  initiation,  making  them  the  infallible  test  of 
bodily  and  mental  qualifications,  by  reaffirming  the  rule  of  1871:  "Ability  to  conform  literally 
to  the  ceremonies  of  initiation  into  the  several  degrees  meets  the  ancient  qualifications  of 
'sound  in  mind  and  member.'  " 

This  rule  can  work  on  unjust  ostracism,  and  it  is  understood  by  all  Masons.  Let  it  be 
adopted, 

******** 

The  subject  of  "  mixed  funerals  "  has  come  up  again  for  discussion  and  adjudication.  The 
question  presented  to  the  Grand  Lodge  is  thus  stated: 

"Can  a  lodge  of  Masons,  when  requested  to  conduct  the  funeral  ceremonies  of  a  deceased 
brother,  who  was  also  a  member  of  other  non-Masonic  associations,  share  with  such  asso- 
ciations the  right  of  appointing  pall -bearers,  or  allow  them  to  participate  in  the  ceremonies 
at  the  graver" 

The  Grand  ISIaster  argues  this  question  in  the  true  Masonic  spirit:  the  ground  he  takes  is 
eminently  sound,  and  his  conclusions  are  just.  The  impregnable  stronghold  of  the  argument 
IS  that  in  the  whole  conduct  of  funeral  ceremonies  the  lodge  is  at  labor.  It  is  not  "  called- 
off  "  for  the  procession  from  the  lodge  room  to  the  grave  and  return,  as  many  have  supposed, 
but  is  at  work  in  open  lodge.  Now  it  is  well  known  that  we  do  not,  and  cannot,  permit  non- 
Masons  to  participate  with  us  in  the  proceedings  and  work  of  the  lodge.  It  is  equally  well 
known  that,  according  to  our  law.  Masons  cannot  turn  out  in  public,  unless  Ihey  have  certain 
specified  work  to  do,  and  have  sole  charge  of  that  work.  So  far  as  funeral  services  are  con- 
cerned, the  lodge  cannot  perform  them  at  all  unless  it  lakes  sole  and  absolute  charge.  This 
is  unbending  Masonic  law.  Under  its  inflexible  operation  no  question  of  courtesy  can 
arise,  whether  another  association  shall  be  permitted  lo  unite  with  us  in  the  funeral  services 
of  a  deceased  brother,  conducted  according  to  Masonic  forms.  The  question  at  issue  is, 
whether  we  can  permit  a  non-Masonic  association  to  unite  with  us  in  the  performance  of 
Masonic  labor,  as  another  jurisdiction  which  has  had  to  wrestle  with  this  subject  has  point- 
edly put  it.  This  view  of  the  case  is  endorsed  by  our  Grand  Master,  and  the  argument 
irresistibly  led  him  to  the  following  decision : 

"  In  the  burial  of  a  deceased  brother  by  a  Masonic  lodge,  or  in  the  performance  of  other 
Masonic  labor  in  public,  the  control  by  the  lodge  must  be  absolute,  and,  while  the  lodge  is 
exercising  that  control,  no  non-Masonic  association  shall  be  permitted  to  participate.  This' 
of  course,  does  not  exclude  religious  exercises  by  ministers  of  the  Gospel,  nor  does  it  prohibit 
non-Masonic  associations  from  following  in  the  procession,  and  thus  testifying  their  respect 
for  the  dead." 

Which  rule  is  ajjproved,  and  made  the  law  of  this  Grand  Lodge. 

The  Grand  Master  concludes  this  section  of  his  address  with  the  follow- 
ing reverential  and  eloquent  tribute  of  devotion  to  our  Great  Light: 

The  question  has  been  asked  with  practical  force,  should  a  Master  elect  be  installed  into 
office  who  is  habitually  guilty  of  denouncing  the  Uible?     It  was  put  at  rest  by  the  accused 

H 


CVl  APPENDIX. 


acknowledging  the  error  of  such  conduct,  and  promising  its  avoidance  in  future.  From  the 
very  nature  of  Masonry  there  can  never  be  added  to  the  solemn  religious  test  which  the  pro- 
fane finds  applied  to  him  ere  he  crosses  the  threshold  of  her  mystic  Temple.  Perish  the  hand 
that  will  attempt  to  mar  or  overthrow  it.  Masonry  has  never  claimed  to  exercise,  nor  has  she 
any  desire  to  encroach  upon,  the  prerogatives  of  the  Church.  She  finds  man  in  darkness, 
and  on  her  altar,  as  the  first  object  of  his  vision,  open  wide  the  sacred  volume  stands.  It  is 
given  to  him  as  the  rule  and  guide  for  his  faith  and  practice.  He  is  not  commanded  to 
accept  or  reject  it  as  a  whole.  It  is  simply  spread  open  before  him.  The  joy  that  filled  the 
heart  of  the  devout  Israelite  when  the  "  book  of  the  law,"  long  lost,  was  found,  still  finds  its 
place  in  the  Masonic  heart.  The  light  of  our  lodge  homes  will  never  be  dimmed  so  long  as 
that  Book  is  kept  open.  While  its  open  pages  are  the  foundation  on  which  rests  the  square 
of  truth,  and  it  is  touched  by  the  circle  drawn  by  the  elevated  points  of  the  compasses,  dark- 
ness will  be  dispelled,  and  the  enemies  of  Masonry  will  strike  at  her  in  vain.  He  who,  by 
denouncing  the  Bible,  would  thrust  discord  into  his  lodge,  and  become  a  disturbing  element, 
vvrill  find  himself  led  therefrom  throttled  by  the  cable-tow  of  harmony.  Like  the  proud  bird 
that  hurls  his  breast  against  the  storm,  seeking  to  reach  the  light  of  the  sun  beyond  the  cloud,  ' 
finds  itself  dashed  to  the  earth  with  soiled  and  broken  plumage,  so  the  Mason  that  thrusts 
himself  against  our  Book  of  Constitutions,  in  searching  for  light  beyond,  will  find  hiinself  at 
last  thrown  down  by  the  contact  into  deeper  darkness  of  ignorance  and  error,  amid  the  rub- 
bish of  our  Temple.  "  For  the  miracles  of  God  have  ceased,  and  Nature,  secure  and  unmo- 
lested, is  no  longer  called  on  for  testimony  to  her  Creator's  voice.  No  burning  bush  draws 
the  footsteps  to  His  presence  chamber;  no  invisible  voice  holds  the  ear  awake;  no  hand 
comcth  forth  from  the  obscure  to  write  His  puri)oses  in  letters  of  flame.  The  vision  is  shut 
up,  and  the  testimony  is  sealed,  and  the  word  of  the  Lord  is  ended,  and  that  solitary  volume 
is  the  sum  total  of  all  for  which  the  chariot  of  heaven  made  so  many  visits  to  the  earth,  and 
God  himself  tabernacled  and  dwelt  among  us."  It  was  the  day-star  of  the  hopes  of  our 
fathers — their  pavilion  of  peace.     So  may  it  be  ours. 

We  can  well  understand  why  there  should  exist  diversities  of  opinion  on 
physical  qualifications.  The  ancient  charges  upon  which  this  subject  rests, 
is  as  follows.     We  give  it  verbatim  et  literatim: 

"All  preferment  among  Masons  is  granted  upon  real  worth  and  personal 
merit  only ;  that  so  the  Lords  may  be  well  served,  the  Brethren  not  put  to 
shame,  nor  the  Royal  Craft  despised  :  Therefore,  no  Master  or  Warden  is 
chosen  by  seniority,  but  for  his  merit.  It  is  impossible  to  describe  these 
things  in  writing,  and  every  brother  must  attend  in  his  place,  and  learn  them 
in  a  wav  peculiar  to  this  Fraternity:  Only  candidates  may  know  that  no 
Master  should  take  an  Apprentice,  unless  he  has  sufficient  Imployment  for 
him,  and  unless  he  be  a  perfect  Youth,  having  no  Maim  or  Defect  in  his 
Body,  that  may  render  him  uncapable  of  learning  the  Art  of  serving  his 
Master's  Lord,  and  of  being  made  a  Brother  and  then  a  Fellow-Craft  in  due 
Time.  Even  after  he  has  served  such  a  term  of  3'ears  as  the  Custom  of  the 
Country  directs;  a?id  that  he  should  be  descended  of  honest  parents:  that  so, 
when  otherwise  qualify'd,  he  may  arrive  to  the  Honor  of  being  the  Warden, 
and  then  the  Master  of  the  lodge,  the  Grand  Master,  and  at  length  the 
Grand  Master  of  all  the  lodges,  according  to  his  merit."  Italics  ours.  If 
any  brother  can  furnish  a  satisfactory  rule,  excepting  exclusion  because  of 
any  physical  disability,  we  should  be  pleased  to  see  it.  This  seems  to  us  to 
be  the  on\y  safe  interpretation  of  the  law;  notwithstanding  that  this  rigid 
construction  may  not  have  been  contemplated.  Our  boy,  looking  over  our 
manuscript,  pointed  significantly  at  the  italics  in  the  quotation. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CVII 


We  have  called  the  attention  of  several  distinguished  Craftsmen  to  this 
section  of  the  charge- — hrethren  who  express  a  profound  interest  in  the  wel- 
fare of  their  successors.  M.-.W.'.Bros.  Cregier  and  Hawley  denounce  it,  and 
insist  that  it  is  obsolete,  ( !)  while  M.-.  E.-.  Grand  Master  Hurlbut  does  not 
propose  to  anticipate  any  trouble  in  that  direction.  Grand  Master  Robbins 
not  heard  from. 

The  third  paragraph  of  the  eighth  decision  is  not  unlike  many  other 
propositions  that  have  been  allowed  to  gravitate  into  too  close  proximity  with 
good  sense.  We  noticed  this  question  of  open  lodges  in  the  streets,  dwell- 
ings, churches — anywhere  and  everywhere — in  our  review  of  Kentucky,  page 
62,  1S76. 

Four  dispensations  were  issued  for  the  organization  of  new  lodges,  and 
three  applications  declined.  Four  charters  were  arrested.  One  of  the  latter 
refused  to  convict  a  culprit  upon  unquestioned  testimony.  The  Grand 
Master  treats  the  offender  with  a  prompt  reminder  that  lodges  are  not  asy- 
lums for  felons: 

The  lodge  that  will  shelter  within  its  sacred  walls  men  who  have  justly  been  found  guilty 
of  feloniously  violating  the  laws  of  the  land,  and  assert  such  false  and  heinous  precepts  as 
have  been  referred  to,  deserves  no  leniency.  It  is  a  standing  menace  to  the  good  name  and 
harmony  of  our  Institution.  Such  sentiments  are  the  outgrowth  of  those  spirits  that  are 
inimical  to  the  perpetuation  ot  our  principles.  In  the  name  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Missouri, 
and  of  Freemasons  everywhere,  I  entered  my  solemn  protest  against  such  doctrines,  and 
arrested  the  charter  of  Zeredatha  Lodge.  The  papers  connected  with  the  case  are  herewith 
submitted. 

O,  for  more  Ryland's. 

Reports  from  thirty-six  districts  were  received.  "The  condition  of  the 
Craft  throughout  the  State  is  promising."  Intemperance  and  non-payment 
of  dues  are  the  main  sources  of  disquiet  and  annoyance.  The  Grand  Master 
insists  that  a  firm  and  just  enforcement  of  the  law  is  the  only  way  to  correct 
these  evils. 

We  cannot  resist  a  quotation  from  his  conclusion.     Read  it: 

It  has  been  said  that  a  famous  light-house  off  the  coast  of  Cornwall,  England,  was  first 
built  by  an  eccentric  genius,  who,  proud  of  its  structure,  from  its  balcony  defied  the  storm. 
The  night  came  when  the  sea  swallowed  up  its  tower  and  builder.  It  was  built  a  second  time 
of  wood  and  stone,  by  another,  who  perished  in  the  flames  that  destroyed  it.  Yet  the  third 
time  it  lifted  up  its  head  under  the  skill  of  the  builder,  who  from  the  rock  of  the  foundation 
took  the  stone  of  superstructure.  Upon  its  lower  course  was  inscribed,  "  Except  the  Lord 
build  the  house,  they  labor  in  vain  that  build  it."  And  on  its  key-stone,  above  the  lantern, 
the  simple  tribute,  "Laus  Deo."  And  the  structure  still  stands,  holding  its  beacon  light  to 
the  storm -tossed  mariner. 

The  Temple  we  are  erecting  has  for  its  foundation  stone,  "Trust  in  God."  In  faith,  hope 
and  charity,  we  draw  from  this  foundation  material  for  our  superstructure,  and  so  long  as  we 
shall  labor  with  temperance,  fortitude,  prudence  and  justice,  our  building  shall  rise  in  wisdom, 
strength  and  beauty. 

The  Committee  on  Grievances  were  employed  with  seventeen  cases. 


CVIII  APPENDIX. 


Measures  were  perfected  looking  to  the  speedv  liquidation  of  Grand 
Lodge  indebtedness.  A  motion  was  adopted  appointing  a  committee  to 
make  "provisional  contract"  for  a  burial  lot  to  be  located  in  the  vicinity  of 
St.  Louis. 

If  we  had  not  already  occupied  so  much  space,  it  would  be  a  gratification 
to  present  the  reader  with  the  entire  report  of  the  Committee  on  Memo- 
rial to  our  late  Brother  Gouley. 

We  have  given  Grand  Master  Ryland's  address  in  another  place;  and  so 
much  of  the  report  is  before  the  Craft  through  other  sources,  that  we  content 
ourselves  with  a  single  paragraph  from  the  address  of  Brother  Goodin: 

In  speaking-  of  him  I  shall  use  no  fulsome  expression,  no  fulsome  phraseology,  to  conceal 
imperfection  or  to  hide  a  fault,  for  what  is  man  without  these?  Yet,  so  far  as  George  Frank 
Gouley  had  faults,  they  were  errors  of  the  judgment,  and  never,  never,  errors  of  the  heart. 
And  I  feel  that  I  can  give  offence  to  none  who  knew  him,  when  I  say  that  if  they  failed  to 
recognize  in  him  sterling  merit  of  a  high  order,  it  must  have  been  from  a  moral  obtuseness, 
unable  to  appreciate  one  who,  as  far  as  may  be,  was  in  himself  the  exemplification  of  manly 
excellency.  I  shall  not  enter  into  an}'  detailed  history  of  the  life  of  our  brother,  nor  of  his 
Masonic  connection.  The  latter  has  been  done  to  some  extent  by  the  Most  Worshipful 
Grand  Master;  but  I  wish  most  particularly  to  refer  to  those  traits  of  character  which 
rendered  him  a  man  prominent  among  his  fellows.  As  a  Masonic  journalist  he  was  among 
the  most  efficient  of  his  day.  His  knowledge  of  Masonic  jurisprudence  was  varied,  and 
erudite  his  interpretation  of  its  laws;  on  this  point  his  opmion  was  everywhere  sought  and 
respected.  The  high  position  with  which  he  was  honored  by  our  Grand  I^odge,  and  which, 
by  his  long  continuance  in  it,  he  alike  honored,  was  the  best  evidence  of  his  Masonic  ability, 
integrity  and  efficiency.  As  a  general  writer,  while  he  may  have  lacked  the  pathos  which 
would  influence  impulse,  his  mind  was  analytical  and  acute,  his  comprehension  broad,  his 
purposes  honest  and  true.  As  a  speaker  he  was  eloquent,  but  it  was  the  eloquence  of  intel- 
lect and  mighty  will,  not  the  persu.isive  tones  which  might  stir  to  sentiment  or  touch  the 
springs  of  emotion.  He  sought  to  guide  the  mind,  not  to  move  the  heart.  His  speeches  were 
logical,  strong,  cogent,  forcible.  As  a  debater  he  was  a  powerful  adversary,  but  still  ever 
was  he  the  courteous  opponent.  There  was  no  sacrifice  which  he  would  not  make  for  a 
friend,  yet  no  personal  bias  could  swerve  him  from  what  he  considered  the  line  of  duty.  He 
was  laudably  ambitious,  but  his  every  effort  was  made  as  he  conceived  for  the  greatest  good 
of  his  fellow  men.  He  was  courageously  firm  in  the  advocacy  of  truth,  and  he  possessed 
that  indomitable  pluck  which  would  have  led  him  to  a  martyr's  end  rather  than  yield  his 
convictions  of  right;  yet,  tenacious  as  he  was  of  these  convictions,  he  never  dogmatically 
forced  them  upon  others.  This  combination  of  vigorous  intellect,  generous  friendship,  laud- 
able ambition  and  dauntless  courage,  which  formed  his  character,  are  very  rarely  found 
united.  In  all  these  characteristics  he  was  great;  he  was  great  in  all  the  elements  which  go 
to  make  a  strong,  useful,  honest  man.  In  his  death  the  Masonic  Fraternity  of  Missouri  have 
lost  one  of  their  most  useful — yes,  they  have  lost  the  most  useful  of  its  members,  for  wherever 
the  Engligh  tongue  is  spoken  and  Masonry  exists,  there  must  the  impress  of  his  labors  be 
found  in  its  behalf.  In  his  demise  his  confreres  have  lost  a  good,  able,  loving  instructor;  his 
friends,  a  genial  companion ;  society,  a  worthy  member;  the  State,  a  respected  citizen ;  and, 
although  his  daily  labors  will  no  longer  be  present  with  us,  yet  the  world  is  better  that  he  has 
INed. 

Much  of  the  Report  on  Correspondence  is  by  Bro.  Gouley.  Bro.  I^uke 
concludes  it  with  work  well  done.  Illinois  is  fraternally  noticed.  Bro.  Bur- 
rill  objects  to  the  "Bun"  part  of  his  natne. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CIX 


Statistics — Lodges,   38S;    membership,    23,220 — a  decrease  of   519   from 
last  report.     The  statistical  tables  are  very  full. 

M.-.W.-.    Thomas  C.  Ready,  St.  Louis,  G.  M.;   R.-.W.-.  John  D.  Vincel, 
St.  Louis,  G.  Sec'v. 


MONTANA,  1877. 

The  proceedings  of  the  Thirteenth  Annual  Communication  of  Octobe>- 
2d,  is  embellished  with  a  likeness  of  the  Grand  Master,  M.-.  \V.*.  Brother 
Julian  M.  Knight. 

From  the  address  of  the  Grand  Master,  we  are  glad  to  find  that  "peace  and 
harmony  have  prevailed;  and  that  with  few  exceptions  the  subordinate  lodges 
are  in  a  prosperous  condition."  On  the  subject  of  making  lodges  more 
attractive,  he  remarks: 

Every  lodge  should  collect  sufficient  dues  from  its  members  to  support  itself  in  a  credita- 
ble manner.  It  is  not  my  intention  to  advocate  extravagance,  but  I  do  think  that  our  lodge 
rooms  should  be  comfortably  furnished,  and  well  warmed,  well  lighted,  and  well  ventilated. 
They  should  be  made  so  cheerful  and  attractive — such  a  pleasant  place  to  spend  an  evening, 
that  a  brother  will  feel  that  he  is  deprived  of  a  great  pleasure  when  circumstances  prevent 
his  attending  a  meeting  If  the  financial  condition  of  the  lodge  will  permit  the  expense, 
there  is  nothing  that  will  contribute  more  toward  the  enjoyment  of  the  members  than  a  good 
library;  and  our  leisure  moments  can  be  employed  to  no  better  advantage  than  by  reading 
good  books.     Brethren,  let  us  make  every  effort  to  render  our  lodge  rooms  more  attractive. 

Try  quarterly  social  gatherings,  including  your  families.  Get  up  for 
these  occasions  a  good  cup  of  coffee  or  tea,  sandwiches,  &c. ;  something 
inexpensive,  and  spend  two  or  three  hours  in  brief  speeches,  interspersed 
with  music.      IVe  never  knew  a  failure. 

The  Grand  Master  says; 

I  am  of  the  opinion  that  the  standing  resolution  adopted  at  our  Sixuth  Annual  Commu- 
nication, A.L.  5872,  declaring  that  "  indulgence  in  the  vices  of  intemperance,  gambling,  licen  ■ 
tiousness  and  profanity,  is  virtual  high  treason  to  the  most  vital  and  essential  tenets  of 
Masonry,"  has  not  been  as  strictly  enforced  as  it  should  have  been.  If  we  desire  to  main  - 
tain  the  honor,  and  .advance  the  prosperity  of  the  Fraternity,  we  should  not,  in  our  intercourse 
with  the  world,  disregard  its  principles,  or  neglect  the  duties  which  it  teaches.  Indulgence 
in  those  vices  not  only  injures  the  individual  Mason,  but  it  brings  disgrace  upon  the  entire 
Fraternity.  Masonry  is  not  a  temperance  organization;  yet  temperance  is  one  of  the  car- 
dinal virtues  of  the  Order.  Masonry  is  not  a  religious  Order;  but  it  advocates  a  high  stand- 
ard of  moraliti,',  and  teaches  us  to  square  our  actions  by  the  unerring  rule  of  God's  sacred 
word. 


ex  APPENDIX. 


It  is  well  enough  to  discuss  this  subject,  but  far  better  that  Grand  Masters 
should  see  the  statute  respected.  Men  have  but  little  respect  for  law  if  its 
administrators  are  timid  or  inefficient.  Masons  must  obey  the  moral  law. 
This  is  mandatory;  consequently  the  passage  of  prohibitory  resolutions  is  a 
confession  that  our  authorities  are  at  fault.  If  a  Mason  is  a  transgressor, 
calling  his  attention  to  the  fact  through  these  annual  methods  will,  ordi- 
narily, excite  a  smile  of  derision. 

Bro.  Hedges,  from  the  Committee  on  Correspondence,  reported  a  resolu- 
tion recognizing  the  new  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Mexico.  Agreed  to.  He  also 
reported  upon  a  like  application  from  the  so-called  Grand  Lodges  of  Cuba 
and  Colon,  but  did  not  recommend  immediate  action.     Concurred  in. 

Under  California,  we  indulged  in  a  little  animadversion  under  the  impres- 
sion that  the  claim  of  that  Grand  Body,  in  behalf  of  one  of  its  subordinates, 
upon  Silver  Star  Lodge,  of  Montana,  was  not  fraternal.  We  find  however, 
that  the  expenditure  was  by  direction  of  the  latter,  consequently  a  proper 
claim,  and  to  the  credit  of  Montana,  promptly  met. 

The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  reported  an  amendment  to  the  consti- 
tution.    Adopted: 

No  charter  or  dispensation  for  constituting  a  new  lodge  shall  be  granted  to  any  person  or 
persons  whomsoever  residing  without  Montana,  if  within  the  jurisdiction  of  any  other  Grand 
Lodge ;  nor  shall  any  charter  be  granted  to  any  persons  within  Montana  until  after  they  shall 
have  worked  under  a  dispensation  and  shown  themselves  ciuaiified  to  confer  the  degrees  and 
properly  carry  on  the  business  of  a  lodge. 

We  do  not  understand  the  necessity  of  the  first  half  of  the  provision. 

The  same  committee  reported  an  amendment  to  the  by-laws,  requiring 
the  petition  of  fifteen,  instead  of  eight,  Master  Masons  necessary  for  a  dis- 
pensation for  a  new  lodge.  Not  agreed  to.  This  committee  also  reported 
the  case  of  one  J.  Sidney  Osborn,  who,  a  number  of  years  since,  received  the 
degrees  in  one  of  the  lodges  of  the  jurisdiction.  Now  residing  in  Minnesota, 
he  applied  for  a  dimit.  It  appearing  that  he  became  a  member  of  the  lodge 
under  an  assumed  name,  the  application  was  denied  and  the  lodge  ordered 
to  strike  the  name  from  the  records.  The  report  excited  considerable 
discussion. 

The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  was  directed  to  report,  at  the  next 
session  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  a  uniform  code  of  by-laws  for  constituent 
lodges. 

The  report  on  Correspondence,  by  Bro.  Hedges,  is  brief  but  concise.  We 
are  under  many  obligations  for  his  kind  words,  and  hope  to  merit  the  confi- 
dence of  just  such  brethren.  There  is  a  vein  of  Masonry  in  all  his  utterances, 
genial  and  fraternal. 

Statistics — lodges,  i6;   membership,  664;  decrease  for  the  year,  13. 

M.-.W.-.  William  A.  Clark,  Deer  Lodge,  G.  M.;  R.-.W.-.  Cornelius 
Hedges,  Helena,  G.  Sec. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CXI 


NEBRASKA,  1877. 

The  Twentieth  Annual  Communication  was  held  in  Omaha,  June  19th. 

M.  .W  •.  George  H.  Thummel,  presiding. 

After  fraternal  notice  of  the  decease  of  Past  Grand  Master  R.  S.  Bruns, 
of  South  Carolina,  and  the  lamented  Gouley,  of  Missouri,  both  Reprenta- 
tives  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Nebraska,  he  speaks  very  encouragingly  of  the 
affairs  of  his  jurisdiction.  He  also  alludes  to  the  applications  for  recognition 
by  the  so-called  Grand  Lodges  of  Ontario  and  Colon.  The  first  was  referred 
to  the  Committee  on  Jurisprudence,  while  the  latter  appears  to  have  been 
pigeon-holed. 

The  Grand  Master  brings  up  a  matter  of  dispute  with  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Indiana.     From  the  report  of  a  special  committee  we  gather  these  facts: 

That  in  1S71  Lincoln  Lodge,  No.  19,  expended  the  siini  of  ei^jhty-three  dollars  in  the  care 
and  burial  of  a  brother  of  Noblesville  Lodj^e,  No.  15.  of  Indiana;  that  in  1S75,  Western  Star 
Lodge,  No.  2,  of  Nebraska  City,  expended  the  sum  of  fifty  dollars  and  fifty  cents,  over  and 
above  contributions,  in  the  burial  ot  a  member  of  Turpin  Lodge,  No.  401,  of  Indiana;  that 
requests  in  due  season  were  made  upon  the  Indiana  lodges  to  reimburse  the  several  lodges 
the  amounts  by  them  expended,  respectively:  that  no  compliance  was  made,  except  that 
Western  Star  Lodge  received  a  remittance  of  ten  dollars;  that  by  resolution  of  this  Grand 
Lodge,  upon  petition  of  Lincoln  Lodge,  No.  19,  our  Grand  Secretary  was  directed  to  call  the 
attention  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Indiana  to  the  matter  (see  page  45,  proceedings  of  '72;;  that 
no  attention,  beyond  the  acknowledgment  of  the  receipt  of  his  letter,  has  been  received  by 
our  Grand  Secretary.  In  1875  the  matter  was  again  before  this  Grand  I^odge  (see  page  1^4, 
proceedings  of  '751,  but  action  was  deferred.  At  the  last  communication  of  this  Grand 
Lodge  the  question  received  a  new  impetus  from  a  petition  of  Western  Star  Lodge,  No.  2,  to 
be  reimbursed  by  this  Grand  Lodge  for  expenses  incurred  by  it  in  the  care  of  a  brother  of 
Turpin  Lodge,  No.  401,  of  Union  City,  Indiana  (see  page  29,  et  seq.,  proceedings  of  '76). 

Much  unfraternal  feeling  has  grown  out  of  the  controversy,  but  which  the 
good  sense  of  the  brethren  will  undoubtedly  dispose  of  We  do  not  propose 
to  sit  in  judgment;  our  only  object  being  to  examine  briefly,  principles 
involved,  that  are  of  general  interest  and  importance. 

In  the  first  place,  we  utterly  repudiate  any  suggestions  that  places  Masonry 
in  the  role  of  mutual  assurance  associations — direct,  or  indirect.  Our  belief 
is,  that  this  narrowing  down  our  charities  within  the  limits  of  trade  obliga- 
tions, is  repugnant  to  the  vital  principles  of  Masonry. 

We  have  heretofore  insisted,  and  still  insist,  that  the  entire  theory  and 
practice  of  Masonic  government,  together  with  every  relation  to  each  other 
as  brethren,  have  their  root  within  the  circle  of  obligations,  tenets  and  pro- 
fessions. Before  reviewing  this  part  of  the  subject,  there  is  another  principle 
involved,  that,  in  a  purely  commercial  point  of  view,  cannot  be  overlooked. 
Mr.  A  is  not  authorized  to  incur  indebtedness  for  Mr.  B  without  his  knowledge 
or  assent.     If  a  lodge  in  Arkansas  finds  a  brother  upon  its  hands,  a  member 


CXII  APPENDIX. 


of  an  Illinois  lodge,  as  a  business  transaction,  the  former  cannot  administer 
relief  to  the  brother  without  the  knowledge  or  approval  of  the  latter,  if  it  is 
intended  to  hold  the  lodge  for  the  expenditure.  If  the  lodges  of  each  juris- 
diction were  corporate  bodies,  it  would  not  be  contended  that  the  Arkansas 
lodge  could  successfully  prosecute  such  a  claim. 

Again  :  If  it  be  admitted  that  lodges  are  responsible  one  to  the  otiier  in 
such  matters,  it  would  be  idle  to  attempt  to  carry  out  the  plan,  imless  it  was 
made  obligatory  that  the  lodge  granting  relief,  should  consult  the  body  in 
whose  behalf  aid  was  granted.  It  would  seem  a  reflection  upon  the  intelli- 
gence of  the  reader  to  farther  pursue  this  part  of  the  suliject. 

Referring  now  to  the  Masonic  aspect  of  the  question,  it  is  found  that  ire 
are  to  administer  to  the  needs  of  worthy  brethren  (not  to  members  of  our 
lodge  only)  in  the  exaci  line  of  their  necessities,  and  our  ability  Oiu"  cove- 
nants do  not  tolerate  the  idea  that  we  are  to  respond  to  such  obligations  with 
any  expectation  of  material  compensation.  If  it  were  otherwise,  the  entire 
fabric  of  Masonry  as  a  fraternal  benevolent  organization  would  wreck.  Under 
many  circumstances  it  is  a  benevolent  act  to  loai/  monej',  but  this  is  not  the 
charity  contemplated  by  our  rituals.  It  is  quite  true  that  there  are  a  multi- 
tude of  acts  or  fa\ors  that  we  may  extend  to  each  other  growing  out  of  the 
supreme  Masonic  thought,  but  these  are  not  the  charities  of  the  lodge.  The 
distinct  feature  of  Masonic  charity  pre-supposes  a  brother  in  distress  and 
without  the  ability  to  meet  his  wants.  These  contributions,  as  we  under- 
stand it,  are  free-will  offerings,  without  remote  expectation  of  compensa- 
tion 

We  must  insist  that  if  it  is  proper  for  lodges  to  exact  remuneration  for 
charity  [\  )  bestowed  upon  a  sojourner,  it  is  et]uallv  proper  for  indi\'idual 
Masons  to  do  the  same  thing.  If  a  brother  presents  himself  for  relief,  I  can, 
in  the  presence  of  such  a  system,  demand  a  retm-n  of  my  offering.  Do  our 
Nebraska  brethren  seriously  entertain  a  proposition  so  palpably  hostile  to  the 
entire  theory  of  Masonic  charities  .^  It  would  seem  so  from  the  following, 
from  the  Committee  on  Jurisprudence: 

1.  Is  it  the  duty  of  ,i  constituent  lodge  under  this  iurisdiction,  in  the  event  of  a  member 
thereof  requirinf^  and  receiving  pecuniary  assistance  at  the  hands  of  a  lodge  in  a  sister  juris- 
diction, to  reimburse  the  lodge  so  rendering  assistance  the  amount  thus  advanced? 

2.  Is  it  the  duty  of  a  constituent  lodge  in  this  jurisdiction  to  reimb\irsc  a  lodge  of  this  or 
a  sister  jurisdiction  for  the  expenses  incurred  in  the  care  and  burial  of  sojourning  Masons, 
members  in  good  standing  of  such  other  lodge? 

The  committee  reported: 

1.  It  is,  so  far  as  his  actual  necessities  mav  require. 

2.  It  is,  if  the  deceased  brother  was  in  indigent  circumstances. 

Which  report  was  adopted  by  the  Grand  Lodge. 

Five  dispensations  were  granted  for  new  lodges,  and  one  charter  surren- 
dered. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CXIII 


The  Grand  Master  does  not  report  any  decisions. 

The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  decided  that  as  the  law  of  the  jurisdic- 
tion required  the  application  of  eight  Masters  to  form  a  new  lodge,  therefore 
not  less  than  eight  members  should  constitute  a  quorum.     Disagreed  to. 

The  Grand  Lecturer  and  District  Custodians  represent  much  improvement 
in  the  workings  of  lodges. 

The  special  committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  "colored  "  question,  pre- 
sented through  Past  Grand  Master  Furnas,  an  able  report  of  considerable 
length,  with  the  following  resolutions,  which  were  adopted: 

Resolved,  That  this  Grand  I^odge  does  not  recognize  the  so-called  African  or  colored 
Masonic  organizations,  or  membership,  as  existing  in  this  State,  or  the  United  States  of 
America. 

Resolved ,  That,  regarding  initiation,  each  subordinate  lodge  in  this  jurisdiction  must  be 
governed   by  the  landmarks  of  the  Fraternity,  and  the  regulations  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 

Nebraska. 

Resolved,  That,  regarding  admission  to  membership,  subordinate  lodges  in  this  jurisdic- 
tion cannot  elect  a  brolhor  who  does  not  last  hail  from  a  lodge  chartered  by  a  Grand  Lodge 
recognized  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Nebraska. 

Soimd. 

The  oration  of  W.  Bro.  Mack  W.  Wilcox  is  of  more  than  ordinary  excel- 
lence. We  do  not  admire  his  disposition  to  "  lock  arms  "  with  "  Star  de- 
grees." A  few  sentences  will  indicate  the  character  of  the  production.  Read 
them : 

He  only  is  a  true  Mason  in  whom  light  and  morality  abound.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that 
members  of  our  Order,  who  not  only  have  the  impressed  lessons  of  Masonry,  but  the  pure 
teachings  of  Christianity,  should  yet  fail  in  the  performance  of  the  excellent  duties  which  is 
the  privilege  of  all  to  perform.  As  a  single  unmanly  act  soils  individual  character,  so  a  single 
unmasonic  act  drapes  the  Order.  It  is  the  duty  of  all  men,  but  more  especially  of  Masons,  to 
avoid  all  of  those  excesses  that  interfere  with  moral  advancement.  As  Masons  we  have  work 
to  accomplish — a  destiny  to  fulfill.  The  day  has  long  passed  for  building  temples;  we  no 
longer  engage  in  material  architecture. 

Our  principles,  properly  exemplified  and  practiced,  would  place  us  at  the  head  of  the 
column  in  the  army  of  reform.  As  Masons,  we  claim  much;  much  is  expected  of  us.  We 
regard  the  internal;  the  world  only  views  the  external.  May  the  time  speedily  come  when 
signs  and  emblems  will  not  be  necessary  to  designate  our  membership;  when  we  shall  all  be 
known  by  our  upright  acts,  daily  conversation,  and  by  a  strict  observance  of  all  the  tenets  of 
our  Order.  A  pure  and  unsullied  manhood  is  the  proudest  distinction  on  earth;  there  is  no 
higher  honor  — no  greater  glory— than  to  stand  among  our  fellows  as  upright  men  and  Masons. 

A  special  communication  of  the  Grand  Lodge  Convened  on  the  afternoon 
of  the  first  day  of  its  annual  communication  to  consecrate  a  "  lodge-room," 
supposed  to  be  located  in  Omaha.  This  is  inferred  from  the  remarks  of  the 
Grand  Master,  and  the  fine  address  by  Past  Grand  Master  Robert  C.Jordan. 

The  report  on  correspondence  is  not  published.  Statistics:  Lodges,  65; 
membership,  2,989. 

M.-.W.-.  George  W.  Lininger,  Omaha,  G.  IvL ;  R.-.W.-.  William  R. 
Bowen,  Omaha,  G,  Sec'y. 

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CXIV  APPENDIX. 


NEVADA,  1877. 

Our  brethren  assembled  in  their  Thirteenth  Annual  Communication, 
June  I2th. 

M.'.W.".  Bro.  George  Robinson,  delivered  a  very  brief  address.       He  thus 
speaks  of  the  condition  of  the  Craft: 

I  am  happy  to  say  that,  notwithstanding  the  great  depression  in  businesi  and  financial 
affairs  throughout  this  jurisdiction,  I  can  congratulate  you  upon  the  flourishing  condition  of 
the  lodges  in  a  material  sense ;  while  I  am  still  more  happy,  and  indeed  proud,  to  say  that 
general  peace,  harmony  and  accord  prevail  within  our  borders.  1  have  not  been  called  upon 
to  exercise  any  of  the  disciplinary  powers  vested  in  me  as  your  Grand  Master.  As  a  rule, 
the  brethren  seem  to  be  thoroughly  imbued  with  the  principles  of  our  great  Fraternity;  and 
the  exceptions  are  so  few,  and  occur  in  such  unimportant  points,  as,  while  they  display  only 
the  ordinary  weakness  of  human  nature,  assure  us  in  the  trust  reposed  in  the  humanizing 
influence  of  our  tenets. 

After  alluding  to  some  unimportant  official  work,  he  says  a  thing  or  two 
worthy  of  attention : 

The  foregoing  comprises  all  my  official  acts  since  the  last  Annual  Grand  Communica- 
tion. The  constitution  makes  it  the  duty  of  the  Grand  Master  to  recommend  such  legisla- 
tion as  he  may  deem  necessary  or  expedient  for  the  welfare  of  the  Fraternity.  At  this  time 
I  have  no  legislation  to  recommend.  Politically  it  has  been  said,  "  the  world  is  governed  too 
much,"  and  it  is  quite  possible  that  Grand  Lodges  are  prone  to  legislate  too  much.  With  a 
constitution  based  upon  the  true  theory  of  Masonic  Government,  and  a  strict  observance  of 
the  Landmarks  of  the  Craft,  it  is  scarcely  necessary  to  take  up  much  of  the  time  of  the  com- 
munication with  the  making  of  new  rules  and  regulations.  When  the  matters  appertaining 
to  such  individual  cases  as  shall  come  before  the  Grand  Lodge  are  interpreted  in  tiie  light  of 
existing  regulations,  the  constitution,  and  the  Landmarks  of  Masonry,  our  duty  in  this  direc- 
tion will  have  been  well  nigh  ended.  It  is  better  to  work  by  the  line  already  marked  than  in 
a  new  departure  to  change  the  fundamental  law  or  regulation  of  long  standing  in  order  to 
make  them  lit  new  cases.  It  is  better  that  the  law  remain  settled  than  to  strive  after  perfec- 
tion by  innovation. 

The  following  amendment  to  the  constitution,  presented  last  year,  was 
not  agreed  to : 

No  Master  Mason,  a  member  of  a  lodge  under  this  jurisdiction,  shall  be  entitled  to  a 
dimit  in  any  case,  except  for  the  purpose  of  affiiliating  with  another  lodge,  nor  until  the 
lodge  of  which  he  is  a  member  shall  receive  oflScial  notice  from  the  Secretary  and  under  the 
seal  of  the  lodge  applied  to  for  membership  of  the  fact  of  such  application  having  been 
made.  Upon  the  receipt  of  such  notice  and  the  payment  of  all  dues,  a  member  in  good 
standing  may  be  dimitted  by  making  application  at  any  stated  communication  of  his  lodge. 

In  response  to  a  resolution  upon  the  subject,  a  special  committee  make 
this  report : 

Your  special  committee,  to  whom  was  referred  the  resolution  of  Bro.  GAbTON,  limiting 
expenditures  in  the  burial  of  a  deceased  brother  who  dies  outside  the  jurisdiction  of  his 
lodge  but  within  the  confines  of  our  own  State,  have  had  the  same  under  consideration,  and 
respectfully  report  that,  notwithstanding  we  are  too   well  aware  of    the  fact  that  ofttimes 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CXV 


extravagance  and  even  recklessness  characterizes  the  interment  of  our  deceased  brethren, 
thereby  presenting  an  osteiitatio\is  display  which  we  deem  ill  suited  to  our  benevolent  "Art," 
nevertheless  we  fail  to  see  tlie  propriety  of  attempting  to  legislate  in  this  direction,  believing 
that  more  of  evil  than  of  good  results  would  accrue  thereby,  and  hence  it  is  better  to  trust  to 
the  judgment  of  those  charged  with  the  solemn  rf?//)' rather  than  hedge  them  about  with  arbi- 
trary instructions  or  statutory  laws. 

The  views  of  the  Coinmittee  were  approved.     Good  doctrine. 

Mandatory  benevolence,  in  its  application  to  lodge  or  personal  responsi- 
bility, is  contrary  to  the  fundamental  law.  The  foundation  of  all  regulations 
upon  this  subject  rest  upon  esoteric  provisions  onlv — depending  entirely 
upon  the  "worthy"  character  of  the  applicant,  and  our  "ability"  to  meet 
the  demand.  A  Mason  is  not  invested  with  any  claim  upon  the  Fraternity 
that  is  measured  bv  dollars  and  cents.  There  are  certain  rights  that  inhere 
from  our  relations  to  the  Craft;  but  we  do  not  have  any  right  to  insist  that 
our  demand  tor  material  aid  shall  meet  with  favor.  It  is  true  that  we  prom- 
ise, under  certain  conditions,  that  we  will  relieve  the  wants  of  brethren, 
"  their  widows  and  orphans,"  but  the  law  never  says  that  we  shall  do  it.  A 
Orand  Lodge,  therefore,  is  without  authority  to  impose  any  obligations  in 
this  regard  that  are  not  recognized  and  provided  for  by  the  fundamental  law. 
The  entire  genius  of  the  institution  revolts  at  the  thought  of  becoming  a 
mutual  insurance  association.  If  the  so-called  Grand  Lodge  of  Ontario  had 
been,  otherwise,  a  lawful  body,  this  particular  feature  of  the  organization 
would  have  been  a  bar  to  its  recognition. 

Furthermore,  as  a  business  principle,  one  lodge  is  not  justified  in  contract- 
ing liabilities  for  another  without  its  consent. 

We  sincerely  hope  that  this  unmasonic  attitude  of  some  of  the  brethren 
will  be  abandoned. 

Here  is  a  poser : 

Resolved,  That  in  consideration  of  his  valuable  services  to  the  Craft,  the  Grand  Secre- 
tary of  this  Grand  Lodge  is  hereby  authorized  and  directed  to  issue  to  our  Very  Excellent 
Bro.  Robert  H.  Taylor  a  certificate  of  life  membership,  certifying  his  good  standing  in  the 
Fraternity  for  life,  so  far  as  his  Masonic  standing  as  a  Master  Mason  is  affected  by  his  being 
or  not  being  a  contributing  member  of  some  constituent  lodge  maybe  concerned;  and  other- 
wise, but  without  fee,  in  accordance  with  the  fourteenth  section  of  the  General  Regulations 
of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Nevada. 

We  should  like  to  see  regulation  referred  to. 

Past  Grand  Master  Horatio  S.  Mason,  was  reported  ill.  A  resolution  of 
sympathy  was  adopted. 

The  report  on  correspondence  by  Bro.  Robert  H.  Taylor,  reviews  the  pro- 
ceedings of  tliirty-five  Grand  Bodies,  Illinois  included.  It  is  a  pleasure  to 
find  a  brother  of  his  experience  and  ability  in  accord  with  our  views.  Under 
California  he  says: 

A  worthy  distressed  brother  is  entitled  to  the  relief  of  Masons  wherever  he  may  be,  and 
the  moment  they  demand  to  be  reimbursed  they  declare  that  the  relief  they  afforded  was  not 
Masonic  chanty.     A  Grand   Lodge  has   not,  in   our  opinion,  the  power  to  require  one  of  its 


CXVI  APPENDIX. 


constituent  lodges  to  restore  the  relief  granted  to  one  of  its  members,  any  more  than  it  has 
to  require  the  brother  relieved  to  make  such  restitution.  The  obligations  of  Masonry  re- 
specting Masonic  charity  are  too  sacred  to  be  tampered  with  and  hampered  by  legislation. 

He  is  also  of  opinion  that  lodges  should  not  charge  an  affiliation  fee.  He 
cherishes  considerable  affection  for  side  degrees — sorry  to  say.  In  his  re- 
view of  Texas,  he  takes  Bro.  Gushing  to  task  for  animadverting  upon  that 
aged  impostor,  the  degree  (!)  of  Past  Master.  We  are  eatirely  in  sympathy 
with  Bro.  C.  The  obligation  is  well  enough — yes,  proper;  but  to  hedge  it 
around  with  grips  and  signs,  is  to  create  a  degree  unknown  to  the  lodge. 
Symbolic  Masonry  knows  nothing  above,  belon' or  beyond  th&  orthodox  de- 
grees of  E.  A.,  F.  C,  and  M.  Mason;  and  whatever  is  added  thereto  is  a 
sheer  fabrication  and  should  be  discountenanced. 

Bro.  Taylor  submits  an  interesting  digest  of  discussions.  He  concludes 
them  thus: 

Treason  consists  not  alone  in  levying  war  against  the  government  under  which  we  live, 
or  in  giving  aid  and  comfort  to  its  enemies,  but  the  foulest  treason  is  against  a  brother,  and 
the  blackest  traitor  is  the  Mason  sworn  not  to  cheat,  wrong,  or  defraud  a  brother,  secretly 
plotting  to  injure  that  brother  in  business  or  reputation,  and  "upon  the  square"  finding  some 
other  brother  willing  to  receive  and  keep  his  infamous  secret,  becoming  thereby  a  partner 
and  sharer  in  the  guilt. 

Sound. 

Statistics — Lodges,  19;   membership,  1,515.  '' 

M.-.W.-.  Merrill  T.  Freeman,  Elko,  G.  M. 

R.-.W.-.  Samuel  W.  Chubbuck,  Gold  Hill,  G.  Sec'y. 


NEW  YORK,   1878. 

The  Ninety-Seventh  Annual  Communication  was  in  session  June  4th, 
with  M.'.W.".  Joseph  J.  Couch  presiding.  Constituent  lodges  were  largely 
represented. 

The  address  of  the  Grand  Master  opens  with  notices  of  the  decease  of  sev- 
eral brethren  of  his  jurisdiction;  and  among  them,  R.  W.  Bro.  Orin  Welch 
of  Syracuse.     Of  him  he  says: 

R.  W.  Orin  Welch  died  at  Syracuse,  March  21,  1878.  "The  life  history  of  Orin  Welch 
is  not  made  up  of  startling  events  or  brilliant  achievements,  but  its  story  tells  of  honest, 
manly  endeavor,  of  an  honorable  upright  course.  *  *  *  it  may  be  safely  said  that 
no  man  had  more  friends,  and  no  man  fewer  enemies.  His  was  a  plain,  straightforward, 
manly  nature — just  what  it  seemed  to  be,  without  a  sham  or  a  pretense."  This  brief  extract 
from  his  obituary  is  a  just  portrayal  of  the  characteristics  of  our  deceased  brother,  as  we 
recall  him.  His  intimate  friend,  M.  W.  Clinton  F.  Paige,  conducted  the  solemn  Masonic 
service  at  the  grave.  In  the  Grand  Lodge  Bro.  Welch  held  the  office  of  Grand  Marshal  from 
1863  to  1867,  and  of  District  Deputy  Grand  Master  from  1867  to  1869. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE. 


He  also  makes  fraternal  mention  of  the  decease  of  R  W.  Bro.  Harris,  of 
New  Hampshire,  and  M.  W.  Bro.  Chaytor,  of  Delaware. 

Under  Foreign  Relations,  he  expresses  the  opinion  that  the  reports  of  the 
Committees  on  Foreign  Correspondence  are  understood  to  give  the  opinions 
and  acts  of  (irand  Bodies  in  correspondence,  together  with  individual  opin- 
ion; but  that  the  Grand  Lodge  is  not  to  be  held  responsible  for  the  latter. 
The  Grand  Master  says:  "While  fully  appreciating  the  valuable  services 
of  our  committee,  *  *  *  ^^.g  j^j.  (.|^g  same  time  readily  distinguish 
between  the  running  comments  of  a  committee  and  the  deliberate  acts  of 
the  Grand  Lodge."  These  remarks  were  for  the  benefit  of  some  European 
jurisdictions  who,  it  appears,  have  been  in  the  habit  of  accepting  these  com- 
mittees as  Grand  Lodge  oracles.  A  more  intimate  acquaintance  with  the 
"  Corps  "  by  these  foreign  brethren,  would  make  any  such  explanation  by 
the  Grand  Master  unnecessary. 

A  conflict  of  jurisdiction  with  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Connecticut  induced 
much  discussion.  It  appears  that  two  members  of  a  New  York  Lodge 
united  in  the  restoration  of  a  dormant  lodge  of  Connecticut.  The  Grand 
Lodge  of  the  latter  claimed  that,  under  its  law,  these  brethren  became  mem- 
bers of  the  resurrected  lodge,  and  without  the  assent  of  the  New  York  Lodge. 
Grand  Master  Couch  very  properly,  as  we  think,  denies  the  assumption,  and 
holds  that  these  brethren  are  still  under  the  jurisdiction  of  New  York,  and 
cannot  be  relieved  of  their  relation  thereto,  except  by  virtue  of  her  law. 
The  reverse  of  this  proposition  would  soon  annihilate  jurisdictional  bounda- 
ries.    The  Grand  Master  sa\'s: 

This  is  not  a  simple  declaration  of  the  effect  of  local  laws  applied  to  a  case  within  the 
exclusive  jurisdiction  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Connecticut,  but  is  the  ultimate  conclusion  of 
the  committee  in  a  matter  that  Involves  the  rights  of  independent  Grand  Lodges.  The  doc- 
trine therein  contamed  is,  in  general  terms,  tliat  membership  held  under  the  jurisdiction  of 
one  Grand  I^odge  may  be  severed  by  the  executive  or  legislative  act  of  another  Grand  Lodge, 
whenever  a  member  chances  to  be  domiciled  within  the  territory  of  such  other  Grand  Lodge. 
This  is  an  affirmative  answer  to  the  question  propounded  by  our  own  Committee  on  Foreign 
Correspondence,  in  these  words:  "Can  a  Grand  I^odge  in  one  jurisdiction  unaffiliate  mem- 
bers of  a  subordinate  lodge  in  another  jurisdiction  without  the  knowledge  or  consent  of 
such  lodge?"  Our  committee  based  their  negative  answer  upon  the  fundamental  principle, 
"that  each  jurisdiction  has  the  sole  right  to  govern  and  control  its  own  members  and  their 
Masonic  relations  until  membership  has  been  lawfully  terminated  in  accordance  with  the 
local  law." 

The  position  of  the  Grand  Master  was  accepted  by  the  Grand  Lodge. 

Brother  Couch  also  insists,  the  Grand  Lodge  assenting,  that  dues  are  not 
chargeable  after  involuntary  unatilliation.  The  penalty  in  our  sister  jurisdic- 
tion for  non-payment  of  dues,  is  "  unafHliation."  In  some  jurisdictions  it 
is  known  as  "dropping  from  the  roll."  Referring  to  conflicting  opinions 
upon  this  and  other  c[uestions,  the  Grand  Master  says: 

In  theory,  our  constitution  is  the  fundamental  law.  It  contains  those  principles  and  pro- 
visions of  Masonic  government  which  are  intended  to  be  permanent.  It  furnishes  the  crite- 
rion by  which  the  validity  of  all  general  or  special  legislation  is  to  be  tested,  and  supplies  the 


CXVin    ,  APPENDIX. 


standard  to  which  all  details  of  organization  and  administration  must  conform.  But  in  prac- 
tice we  have  no  fundamental  law.  We  have  instead  a  double  system  of  law-making.  We 
legislate  on  the  one  hand  by  making  frequent  amendments  to  the  constitution,  and  on  the 
other  by  adopting  decisions  of  Grand  Masters,  and  giving  to  such  decisions  the  force  of  gen- 
eral regulations. 

It  is  true  that  in  this  regard  we  simply  continue  methods  which  were  in  use  prior  to  the 
adoption  of  the  present  constitution,  and  it  is  because  we  are  departing  from  the  theory  upon 
which  our  constitution  was  revised,  and  are  falling  into  this  habit  of  former  years  that  we 
have  occasion  to  pause  and  reflect.  Observe  the  working  of  these  separate  and  distinct 
methods  of  law-making  as  they  run  side  by  side  through  a  series  of  years.  A  constitution  is 
adopted  and  distributed  among  our  seven  hundred  subordinate  lodges.  It  is  potential  in  all 
matters  of  organization,  administration  and  discipline.  Questions  arise  regarding  the  force 
and  application  of  its  provisions;  tiiese  questions  are  decided  by  the  Grand  Master,  and 
these  decisions,  approved  by  the  Grand  Lodge,  become  laws.  These  laws  once  made  are 
not  changed.  Meanwhile,  changes  are  made  in  the  constitution.  New  provisions  are  added 
and  old  ones  moilified  or  repealed.  The  original  text  disappears  from  the  printed  copy,  and 
the  amended  text  takes  its  place.  After  a  time  we  shall  find  that  decisions  made  in  conform 
itv  with  the  constitution  have  ceased  to  accord  with  that  instrument;  that  laws  enacted  at 
different  times  are  irreconcilable  with  each  other,  and  thus  by  logical  steps  we  surely  ap- 
proach that  confused  and  uncertain  administration  of  conflicting  laws  which  existed,  in 
fact,  prior  to  the  adoption  of  our  present  constitution. 

******** 
In  this  connection  it  is  well  to  note  that  by  our  present  constitution  "  all  general  govern- 
mental powers,  whether  executive,  legislative  or  judicial,"  are  reposed  in  the  Grand  Lodge. 
The  Grand  Master  is  empowered  and  charged  "  to  exercise  all  the  executive  functions  of  the 
Grand  Lodge,  when  it  is  not  in  session."  He  is  also  clothed  with  certain  judicial  functions. 
But  he  is  nowhere  invested  with  legislative  powers;  and  in  doing  such  things  as  are  inherent 
in  and  pertain  to  his  office,  he  is  controlled  by  the  proviso  that  they  "  are  not  in  conflict  with 
this  constitution."  Under  the  law,  then,  it  follows  that  Grand  Masters'  decisions  are  made 
in  the  discharge  of  executive  or  judicial  duties,  and  in  no  way  partake  of  the  nature  of  leg- 
islative enactments.  They  express  the  force  and  effect  of  existing  laws  applied  to  specific 
cases.  They  are,  in  essence,  authoritative  conclusions  derived  from  mixed  premises  of  law 
and  fact,  and  should  find  their  full  justification  in  the  law  and  facts  that  call  them  forth.  To 
separate  these  conclusions  from  their  premises  and  give  them  the  force  of  general  regula- 
tions certainly  tends  to  confusion.  There  can  hardly  be  a  doubt  that  our  laws  will  be  better 
defined  and  more  easily  understood  if  we  discriminate  clearly,  and  always  between  the  sev- 
eral functions  of  enactment,  of  administration,  and  of  adjudication. 

"  In  theory,"  the  secret  constitutions  of  Masonry,  with  its  esoteric  land- 
marks, are  the  fundamental  law,  as  much  as  is  the  Bible  to  Judaism  or  Chris- 
tianity, or  the  Koran  to  Mahomedanism.  Written  constitutions  are  the  out- 
growth of  our  enlarged  boundaries,  but  do  not  have  any  force  when  they 
contravene  the  fundamental  law.  There  are  prerogatives  embraced  in  the 
unwritten  constitutions  with  which  a  Grand  Master  is  invested,  that  are  older 
than  Grand  Lodges,  and  with  which  no  enlightened  Grand  Lodge  should 
attempt  to  interfere.  In  the  line  of  these  prerogatives  he  is  both  the  execu- 
tive and  judicial  head  of  the  Grand  Lodge;  and  we  hold,  that  under  them,  a 
Gand  Lodge  cannot  annul  his  exposition  of  law,  during  his  occupancy  of  the 
Grand  East.  We  have,  for  many  years,  been  of  the  opinion  that  it  should  be 
the  first  duty  of  a  Grand  Lodge,  upon  its  assembling,  and  after  the  Grand 
Master  has  presented  his  report,  to  elect  and  install  its  officers;  then  the 
administration  of  its  retiring  presiding  officer  could,  at  the  same  session,  be 
lawfully  disposed  of. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CXIX 


The  Grand  Master  objects  to  special  legislation  in  the  interests  of  partic- 
ular lodges.     Correct. 

He  concludes  his  address  with  a  review  of  the  recent  action  of  the  Grand 
Orient  of  France.  We  have  only  space  for  a  limited  quotation  from  an  ele- 
gant peroration : 

Though  the  wonderful  progress  of  the  past  shall  be  accelerated  in  the  future,  man  will 
continue  to  find  disclosures  of  God  in  nature,  God  in  history,  and  God  in  humanity.  Thus 
it  appears  that  this  symbol  of  the  burning  bush  retains  its  sublime  significance  through  all 
the  changes  of  time,  through  all  the  vicissitudes  of  man's  earthly  experience.  When,  there- 
fore, the  report  comes  to  us  that  certain  parties  profess  to  practice  a  Masonic  rite  in  which 
there  is  no  God,  we  unhesitatingly  declare  that  such  rite  is  not  Masonic,  and  to  call  it  so  is 
an  utter  perversion  of  terms;  for,  in  the  full  light  of  our  symbolism,  of  our  traditions,  and  of 
our  world-wide  precepts  and  charges,  we  know  full  well  that  no  atheist  can  be  made  a  Mason 
and  that  no  Godless  temple  can  be  erected  on  the  foundation  of  Ancient  Freemasonry. 

Four  new  lodges  were  chartered,  and  nine  authorized  under  dispensation. 

The  Grand  Secretary,  Bro.  Austin,  concludes  his  report  with  the  statement, 
that  "this  is  my  tiveMty-fifth,''''  and  that  during  the  time,  he  nas  served  "under 
fifteen  Grand  Masters." 

The  finances  of  the  Grand  Lodge  are  in  a  hopeful  condition.  The  capi- 
tation tax  for  the  Hall  and  Asylum  Fund  was  continued. 

An  attempt  is  being  made  to  establish  district  conventions  for  the  election 
of  representatives  to  the  Grand  Lodge.  The  design  is  to  introduce  some 
plan  that  shall  lessen  expenditures. 

The  reports  of  District  Deputy  Grand  Masters  are  very  full,  and  embrace 
a  large  amount  of  valuable  information  and  suggestion.  As  a  whole,  the 
Craft  of  New  York  are  enjoying  a  fair  degree  of  prosj^erit}'. 

The  report  on  correspondence  is,  of  course,  by  our  distinguished  brother 
John  W.  Simons.     In  his  notice  of  Illinois,  he  says: 

The  annual  address  is  a  document  of  nearly  forty  pages,  treating  in  a  clear  and  logical 
manner  the  various  topics  presenting  themselves  for  consideration  in  so  large  a  jurisdiction. 
It  is  above  the  dignity  of  a  report,  and  is  indeed  a  message. 

He  assents  to  the  view  of  Grand  Master  Robbins,  touching  the  use  of 
Christian  prayers  in  the  lodge;  also  to  his  opinion,  of  the  right  of  a  Master 
to  summon  a  member  to  sit  up  with  a  sick  brother.  He  also  endorses  Bro. 
Robbins  on  the  subject  of  re-imbursement  for  aid  "extended  by  a  lodge  to 
the  member  of  another." 

Bro.  Simons  speaks  a  kind  word  for  our  work  of  last  year,  and  hopes  that 
further  thought  will  modify  our  position  on  Cuban  Masonry.  His  notices  of 
Foreign  Grand  Bodies  are,  as  usual,  very  full  of  interesting  detail.  We  must 
be  content,  however,  with  limited  quotations.  Under  the  German  Grand 
Lodge  League,  we  find  the  following  on  lodge  jurisdiction: 

If  a  candidate  resides  in  a  place  where  or  near  which  there  is  a  lodge,  and  seeks  for  ad- 
mission in  any  other  lodge,  such  lodge  must  ask  for  information  of  the  former,  which  infor- 
mation should  be  given  within  six  weeks. 


APPENDIX. 


If  in  that  time  no  answer  be  returned,  the  inference  will  be  drawn  that  nothinf!^  can  be 
said  aga'nst  the  candidate,  provided  always  the  letter  of  inquiry  has  reached  its  address. 

But  if,  on  the  other  hand,  objections  arc  made,  the  inquiring  lodge  has  to  consider  them 
conscientiously,  but  if  finding  thein  unimportant,  they  ought  to  be  settled  with  the  other 
lodge  in  a  brotherly  spirit. 

Should  a  settlement  between  the  two  lodges  not  be  arrived  at,  the  lodge  to  which  the  ap- 
plication was  made  has  to  bring  the  subject  before  the  Grand  I-odge. 

A  candidate  cannot  be  proposed  in  any  lodge  of  another  jurisdiction  within  a  year  from 
the  day  of  his  rejection  or  postponement. 

If  he  should  apply  after  the  lapse  of  one  year  for  admission  into  a  lodge  of  another 
jurisdiction,  this  last  one  has  to  inquire  of  the  first  one  whether  the  olijections  to  the  admis- 
sion of  the  candidate  prevail  any  longer,  and  in  such  a  degree  that  they  think  him  unworthy 
to  be  admitted  into  the  lodge  under  the  other  jurisdiction  and  to  the  Masonic  Fraternity. 

If  this  lodge  insists  upon  her  protest,  the  other  lodge  is  not  permitted  to  consider  his  ap 
plication  any  further. 

It  will  then  be  the  business  of  the  Grand  Lodge  to  make  final  decisions  on  these  propo- 
sitions recommended  by  the  Grand  Lodge  Diet,  and  which  will  probably  be  most  useful  to 
the  Masonic  Fraternity,  and  thus  settle  the  details  between  themselves  and  cause  a  good 
understanding  between  their  sister  lodges,  so  that  in  this  resjiect  there  would  be  a  perfect 
harmony  among  the  German  Freemasons. 

A  circtilai"  emanating  from  M.'.  W.".  Bro.  Eckstein,  of  tlie  Grand  Lodge 
of  Saxony,  vvill  afford  its  own  explanation: 

The  political  union  of  our  Fatherland  has  called  forth  similar  exertions  in  the  sphere  of 
letters  ;  we  have  learned  by  experience  to  estimate  how  valuable  it  is  to  unite  isolated  pow- 
ers. In  our  lodges,  too,  the  idea  of  an  entire  union  of  all  the  German  lodges  has  found  more 
friends  and  patrons,  and  there  are  many  signs  visible  that  in  many  places  they  work  enthusi- 
astically for  such  a  union,  that  all  the  separated  members  may  unite  under  one  flag,  and  to 
enable  them  to  fight  more  consciously  and  energetically  against  intolerance  ami  spiritual 
darkness  than  heretofore. 

A  call  for  the  formation  of  a  German  National  Lodge  has  been  heard  from  different 
sides,  and  has  almost  everywhere  been  sympathetically  received;  but,  owing  to  the  individu- 
ality of  our  people,  the  Masonic  union  proceeded  slowly.  The  present  time  seems  to  be 
favorable  to  form  one  united,  powerful  German  Grand  Lodge  out  of  the  Grand  I^odge 
Ivcague,  which  every  right-minded  critic  has  been  greeting  as  a  progress  :  it  will  be  so  if  the 
brothers  without  paltry  or  frivolous  particularism,  thoughtless  self-sufficiency,  or  narrow- 
minded  prejudice,  will  act  on  it  with  forbearance,  and  if  the  historic  traditions  be  ada|ited  to 
the  times,  and  only  that  retained  which  is  attainable. 

The  difficulties  which  work  against  the  union  of  all  Grand  Lodges  in  one  living  body,  are 
numerous  enough,  to  be  sure,  but  the  gap  may  be  bridged  over,  as  has  been  done  in  other 
countries,  especially  in  England,  under  quite  similar  circumstances,  so  that  we  can  grow 
strong  in  harmony  and  come  into  more  intimate  connection  with  other  elements  of  culture 
than  we  could  under  our  late  relations. 

The  following  chief  outlines  are  an  attempt  at  solving  satisfactorily  this  difficult  question, 
from  which  German  Masonry  cannot  withdraw  any  longer: 

At  the  head  of  the  whole  Fraternity  is  one  Grand  Lodge  with  the  name  "  United  Grand 
Lodge  of  Germany,"  with  its  seat  in  the  Capital  of  the  Empire. 

Every  German  Grand  Lodge,  as  it  was  called  heretofore,  has  to  give  up  a  part  of  its 
independence,  and  each  one  will  continue  as  a  Mother  Lodge. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CXXI 


For  every  Mother  Lodge  and  St.  John's  Lodge  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
there  will  be  drawn  up  a  Constitution  on  the  basis  of  the  fundamental  laws,  to  he  adopted  by 
the  Grand  Lodge  Diet,  in  which  Constitution  only  the  three  symbolic  degrees,  Entered 
Apprentice,  Fellow  Craft,  and  Master  Mason,  are  recognized. 

After  debating  this  project  for  some  time,  it  was  referred  to  the  subordinate  lodges  for 
action  thereon. 

A  good  opportunity  for  Bro.  Vaux's  powers. 

Statistics. — Lodges,  718;  represented  at  the  present  Communication,  666; 
membership,  78,050;  lodge  dues  May  ist,  $89,329  25. 

M.-.W.-,  Edmund  L.  Judson,  Albany,  G.  M.     R.-.  W.-.  James  M.  Austin, 
New  York,  G.  Sec'y. 


NEW  BRUNSWICK,  1877. 

A  Special  Communication  was  held  November  17th,  1S76,  in  memory  of 
R.-.W.-.  Bro  William  H.  A.  Keans,  deceased.  The  M.-.W.-.  Grand  Master 
thus  speaks  of  him  : 

The  masonic  record  of  our  eminent  brother  is  inseparably  connected  with  the  history  of 
our  ancient  Graft  in  this  jurisdiction.  P'rom  his  early  manhood  an  active  member  of  the 
Fraternity,  he  was  soon  advanced  to  the  responsible  position  of  Master  of  the  lodge,  ruling 
with  firmness  and  courtesy.  In  the  Provincial  and  District  Grand  Lodge  under  England  he 
held,  during  many  successive  years,  responsible  positions.  At  the  organization  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  New  Brunswick  he  took  an  active  part,  giving  to  the  convention  of  lodges  the 
benefit  oi  his  matured  judgment,  conservative  sagacity,  and  great  Masonic  experience. 
Chosen  as  the  first  Treasurer  of  Grand  Lodge,  he  was  annually  re  elected  by  acclamation, 
and  continued  in  that  important  office  until  the  last  annual  communication,  when  he  was 
unanimously  advanced  to  the  distinguished  position  of  Deputy  Grand  Master. 

I  need  not  recall  to  your  memories  the  thoughtful,  earnest  words  with  which,  in  Grand 
Lodge  at  the  time  of  installation,  on  the  28th  of  September  last,  he  acknowledged  the  honor 
conferred  on  him  by  his  brethren.  While  then  referring  to  his  failing  health,  he  assured  the 
Craft  that  during  so  long  as  it  pleased  the  Great  Architect  of  the  universe  to  prolong  his  life, 
his  best  services  would  be,  as  ever,  devoted  to  the  Fraternity.  These  were  his  last  words 
among  us.  Within  two  days  thereafter  he  closed  a  long,  active,  and  distinguished  Masonic 
life,  and  full  of  yrars  and  honors,  passed  to  his  place  in  the  "  Temple  not  made  with  hands." 

Appropriate  resolutions  were  adopted. 

The  Tenth  Annual  Communication  assemi)led  in  St.  John,  September  26, 
M.-.W.-.  Robert  T.  Clinch  presiding. 

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CXXllI  APPENDIX. 


The  address  of  the  Grand  Master  opens  with  brief  allusion  to  the  terrible 
fire  that  laid  waste  the  city  of  St.  John  the  preceding  June.  Nothing  but  the 
regalia  of  the  Grand  Lodge  was  saved.  The  library  and  other  valuable  prop- 
erty was  lost.     Our  report  of  last  year  gave  details  of  the  disaster. 

An  authorization  for  a  new  lodge  was  granted. 

The  Grand  Master  refers  to  the  decease  of  Bro  Henry  Card  of  his  own 
jurisdiction;  also,  to  the  loss  of  the  Fraternity  in  the  death  of  Bro.  John 
Dove,  of  Virginia,  Bro.  Gouley,  of  Missouri,  and  the  Earl  of  Shrewsbury, 
Provincial  Grand  Master  of  Staffordshire,  England. 

The  Grand  Secretary  reports  substantial  aid  to  the  suffering  brethren  of 
St.  John  ;  also,  generous  responses  to  his  applications  for  Grand  Lodge  pro- 
ceedings to  take  the  place  of  those  lost  by  fire. 

Bro.  John  Street,  jeweler,  of  Montreal,  presented  the  lodges  of  St.  John 
full  sets  of  elegant  lodge  jewels,  and  Bro.  Henry  M.  Alexander,  Grand 
Treasurer  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec,  the  necessary  collars,  together 
with  a  ballot  box.  It  is  a  real  pleasure  to  mention  this  generosity.  God 
will  always  bless  just  such  brethren. 

The  following  standing  regulation  was  rescinded: 

That  any  lirother  hailing  from  a  lodge  beyond  the  jurisdiction  of  New  Brunswick,  de- 
siring to  be  received  as  a  visitor  in  any  lodge  within  the  province,  and  who  cannot  be 
vouched  for,  shall,  previous  to  undergoing  an  examination,  be  required  to  produce  a  certifi- 
cate from  the  Grand  Lodge  to  which  he  belongs:  and  if  he  cannot  produce  such  certificate, 
no  examination  shall  lake  place,  and  he  shall  be  refused  admission. 

Action  upon  the  application  of  the  so-called  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba,  for 
recognition,  was  deferred  for  one  year.  The  application  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  New  Mexico  was  similarly  disposed  of. 

The  proceedings  close  with  a  report  of  the  Grand  Secretary  as  Secretary 
of  the  Board  ot  Relief. 

Total  contributions  for  sufferers  by  the  late  fire  to  September  30,  1877,  in 
gold,  $5,048  57.  Of  this  amount  Illinois  contributes  $1,388  42.  Amount 
expended  to  same  date,  $2,669  o*^- 

Statistics — Lodges,  33  ;  membership,  2,236. 

M.-.W.-,  Robert  T.  Clinch,  St.  John,  G.  M. 

R.-.W.-.  William  F.  Bunting,  St.  John,  G.  Sec'y. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CXXIII 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE,  1877. 

The  Annual  Communication  was  Iield  in  Concord.  May  16. 

M.-.W.-.  John  A.  Bell  in  the  Grand  East. 

The  Grand  Master  congratulates  the  "  Grand  Lodge  on  the  general  peace 
and  harmony  which  has  prevailed  throughout  our  jurisdiction."  He  notices 
the  decease  of  Brethren  Edward  W.  Harrington,  Francis  Russell  and  Ira 
Rust,  all  Past  D.  D.  G.  Masters.  He  also  alludes  to  the  loss  of  Bro.  Gouley, 
of  Missouri,  and  the  Venerable  Bro.  Dove,  of  Virginia. 

Several  decisions  are  reported,  from  which  we  select: 

I.  That  a  ballot  for  advancement  is  not  upon  proficiency  merely,  but  upon  general 
fitness  for  Masonic  membership,  and  carries  with  it  all  the  consequences  which  follows  the 
original  ballot. 

In  making  this  decision,  I  am  aware  that  I  reverse  the  rulings  of  my  two  immediate  pre- 
decessors. But  my  knowledge  of  tHe  struggle  which  led  to  the  change  in  the  Constitution 
from  one  ballot  to  three,  and  of  the  reasons  which  finally  lee  the  Grand  Lodge  to  make  the 
change,  would  not  permit  me  to  assent  to  their  decision,  and  thus  by  what  might  seem  an 
indirection  to  practically  nullify  the  action  of  the  Grand  Lodge.  Furthermore,  very  few 
lodges  I  am  satisfied  have  ever  made  any  connection  between  the  examination  and  the  ballot, 
as  there  clearly  should  be  if  the  ballot  is  on  proficiency  only.  The  Grand  Lodge  has 
hesitated  to  approve  the  decision  of  mj'  predecessors.  I  deem  it  a  matter  of  importance  that 
the  Grand  Lodge  should  finally  and  authoritatively  settle  this  question,  and  recommend  that 
either  my  ruling  or  that  of  my  predecessors  be  approved- by  this  Grand  Lodge. 

II.  Masons  should  appear  in  public  as  such,  for  the  performance  of  some  Masonic  work, 
and  for  no  other  purpose. 

III.  In  the  absence  of  any  constitutional  provision,  a  candidate  should  present  himself 
for  initiation,  or  for  the  degrees,  within  a  reasonable  time.  What  is  a  reasonable  time  is  a 
matter  for  the  Master  to  determine,  under  all  the  circumstances  of  the  Case.  It  should  be 
such  that  there  should  be  no  suspicion  of  any  change  in  him  or  in  his  relatioi-s  to  the  lodge. 
If  for  any  cause  there  is  reason  for  supposing  that  a  ballot  now  would  result  differently,  he 
should  present  a  new  petition. 

IV.  The  general  principle  is  that  lodge  membership  is  voluntary ;  and  a  brother  clear  on 
the  books  and  free  from  charges  has  a  right  to  withdraw  from  membership  at  his  pleasure. 
He  is  not,  however,  entitled  to  the  certificate  of  character  and  the  recommendation  to  other 
lodges,  which  usually  form  a  part  of  the  certificate  called  a  dimit.  These  the  lodge  may 
grant  or  refuse  at  its  pleasure.  Nor  would  his  dimission  free  him  from  the  lodge  jurisdiction 
over  him  for  purposes  of  discipline. 

The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  concur  in  the  opinions  of  the  Grand 
Master,  excepting  in  the  first  decision.  They  ask  further  time  for  its  con- 
sideration. 

Alluding  to  the  second  decision  :  There  are  such  diversities  of  opinion  as 
to  what  should  be  embraced  in   the   catalogue  of  "  Masonic  Work,"  that  we 


APPENDIX. 


should  have  been  extremely  gratified  if  our  distinguished  brother  had  ap- 
pended a  list.  Such  decisions,  though  frequent  are  too  vague  to  be  appre- 
ciated.    A  review  of  the  subject  will  be  found  under  Michigan. 

Respecting  the  fourth  decision :  We  are  at  a  loss  to  understand  how  a 
qualified  dimit  can  issue.  Perhaps  we  do  not  comprehend  the  intent  of  the 
Grand  Master.  If  it  is  designed  to  convey  the  opinion,  that  if  Bro.  A, 
whose  life  as  a  man  and  Mason  disturbs  the  olfactories  of  the  community 
and  brethren,  applies  for  a  dimit,  that  he  is  only  entitled  to  a  statement  that 
he  has  withdrawn  from  membership;  and,  in  the  absence  of  that  other  "cer- 
tificate of  character  and  the  recommendation  to  other  lodges,"  it  is  to  be 
taken  that  his  application  for  membership  cannot  be  entertained  with  safety 
unless  accompanied  by  that  latter  and  customary  form  of  fraternal  benedic- 
tion, then  there  is  a  glimmor  of  reason  for  such  procedure;  but  from  the 
"general  principle  that  lodge  membership  is  voluntary',"  and  as  a  sequence, 
a  member  in  good  standing  by  being  clear  of  the  books  and  no  charges  of 
record  against  him,  has  a  right  to  depart  At  pleasure,  we  dissent. 

We  are  not  of  the  opinion  that  lodge  membership  is  a  rope  of  sand.  All 
Masonic  law  and  practice  musi  be  rooted  in  our  tenets  and  professions. 
Membership  therefore,  involves  two  primary  propositions.  P'irst,  my  une- 
quivocal acceptance  of  the  fraternity  and  all  that  such  relationship  implies; 
and  secondly,  and  in  return,  fraternal  care  and  consideration,  together  with 
rights  and  privileges  that  are  guaranteed  by  the  lodge.  I  am  not  at  liberty 
to  disregard  my  part  of  the  contract.  Neither  is  the  lodge  permitted,  with- 
out cause,  to  disrupt  my  relations  with  the  fraternity.  If  it  be  true  that  a  mem- 
ber can  depart  at  pleasure  and  in  defiance  of  objections,  it  is  none  the  less 
true  that  a  lodge  can,  on  its  own  election,  cast  me  from  its  folds.  Masonry 
is  founded  in  justice  and  equality ;  consequently  we  cannot  assent  to  the  doc- 
trine that  a  lodge  must  come  to  its  knees  at  the  beck  of  a  dissatisfied  or  re- 
fractory member.  If  he  can  expel  the  lodge  without  assigning  reasons  for 
the  act,  the  lodge  is  certainly  invested  with  like  power.  We  do  not  assent 
to  either  proposition. 

The  Grand  Master  authorized  the  formation  of  two  new  lodges;  one  to  be 
known  as  "  Bible  Lodge."  He  has  also  visited  fifty-four  of  the  seventy-five 
lodges  of  the  jurisdiction.  These  visitations  brought  to  light  many  irregu- 
larities, which  were  corrected. 

The  reports  of  District  Deputies  are  very  full,  showing  much  interest  in 
the  welfare  of  the  Craft  Bro.  Daniel  W.  Edgerly,  of  the  First  District, 
merits  particular  commendation.  The  Committee  on  Appeals  was  engaged 
with  two  cases. 

The  business  before  the  Grand  Lodge  was  limited,  and  of  local  interest 
only 

The  following  amendment  to  the  constitution  was  proposed: 

Whenever  the  Grand  Lodge  shall  reverse  or  abrogate  the  decision  of  a  particular  lodge, 
uspending  or  expelling  a  brother,  and  shall  restore  him  to  the  benefits  and  privileges  of 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CXXV 


Masonry,  he  shall,  thereby,  be  restored  to   membership  within  the  body  from  which  he  was 
suspended  or  expelled. 

The  Report  on  Correspondence,  by  Bro.  Joseph  E.  Bennett,  (too  pp.)  con- 
tains a  large  amount  of  valuable  information,  and  reflects  much  credit  on 
behalf  of  his  industry  and  sound  judgment.  Illinois  receives  fraternal 
attention. 

Statistics. — Lodges,  75;   membership,  7,647. 

M.-.W.-.  John  A.  Bell,  Exeter,  G.  M.  R  -.W.-.  John  A.  Harris,  Concord, 
G.  Sec'v. 


NEW  JERSEY,  1878. 


The  Ninetj'-first  Annual  Grand  Communication  assembled  in  Trenton, 
January  i6th.     Lodges  were  largely  represented 

Most  Worshipful  Grand  Master,  Marshall  B.  Smith,  alludes  in  his  address 
to  the  decease  of  several  brethren  of  the  jurisdiction;  among  them,  the  ven- 
erable R.  W.-.  Haley  Fiske,  P.  D.  G.  M.,  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-six 
years. 

The  Grand  Master,  in  referring  to  the  Grand  Instructor's  report,  remarks, 
that  some  lodges  decline  to  receive  the  authorized  work.  He  therefore 
advises  that  lodges  should  be  required  to  comply  with  the  regulation  provid- 
ing for  schools  of  instruction  ;  but  if  this  cannot  be  accomplished,  the  law 
should  be  abolished.  The  obnoxious  law  was  repealed,  and  our  Jersey 
brethren  are  once  more  sovereign  and  independent. 

The  decisions  of  the  Grand  Master  are  quite  numerous.  We  give  those 
that  will  be  likely  to  interest  our  readers  of  this  jurisdiction: 

A  lodge  should  not  assess  its  members  for  any  purposes  other  than  those  specified  in  a 
by-law  of  that  lodge  or  ordered  by  the  Grand  Lodge,  without  the  consent  of  all  the  members 
who  may  be  affected  by  such  assessment. 

A  lodge  is  under  no  obligation  to  pay  bills  for  funeral  or  other  expenses  unless  such 
expenses  were  incurred  by  express  permission  or  direction  of  the  lodge,  or  in  accordance 
with  some  provision  of  its  bv-laws. 

A  notice  in  the  newspapers  is  not  a  legal  summons.  It  is  only  information  to  those 
concerned. 

Any  by-law  of  a  lodge  requiring  a  brother  to  return  his  traveling  certificate,  or  "deposit 
it  on  the  pedestal,"  prior  to  taking  his  seat  as  a  member,  is  null  and  void.  The  "certificate" 
must  be  returned,  but  membership  can  only  be  affected  by  death,  dimission,  suspension, 
expulsion,  or  the  dissolution  of  the  lodge. 


CXXVI  APPENDIX. 


When  a  lodge  surrenders  its  warrant  and  becomes  extinct,  its  members  cannot  affiliate 
without  certificates  from  the  Grand  I-odge.  For  a  like  reason,  candidates  who  have  been 
rejected  in  such  lodge  cannot  apply  to  any  lodge  for  initiation  without  the  consent  of  the 
Grand  Lodge,  if  in  session,  or  of  the  Grand  Master  in  the  interim. 

The  trustees  of  a  lodge  may  be  incorporated,  and  thus  exclude  from  courts  of  law  all 
matters  except  those  of  finance  ;  but  the  incorporation  of  lodges  makes  them  practically  inde- 
pendent of  this  Grand  Lodge,  and  is  unmasonic,  and  hei'cby  prohibited. 

The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  object  to  the  first,  and  say: 

They  are  of  opinion  that  a  lodge  has  not  the  right  to  assess  its  members,  except  for 
annual  dues,  as  provided  by  the  by-laws,  and  therefore  cannot  recommend  the  adoption  of 
the  decision  as  presented. 

There  are  suggestions  that  present  themselves  in  the  last  decision  that 
merit  attention.  The  Grand  Lodge  endorsed  the  views  of  the  Grand  Master. 
We  are  in  entire  sympathy  with  the  concluding  words  of  his  address: 

We  are  here  not  only  for  legislative  purposes,  but  to  guard  the  trust  left  to  us  by  the 
Masonic  fathers.  That  trust  is  a  system  animated  by  the  spirit  of  universal  benevolence, 
unmarred  by  the  strifes  of  sector  party;  its  watchword  is  human  brotherhood,  its  mission 
peace  and  love.  While  claiming  no  divine  origin,  it  builds  upon  the  foundation  truth  that 
the  "Lord  reigneth  ;"  atheism  and  unbelief  are  therefore  alien  to  its  system.  The  book  of 
the  law  of  God — the  Holy  Bible — is  set  forth  as  its  only  rule  of  faith  and  practice,  and  is  lifted 
up  as  a  beacon  light  for  humanity.  No  other  "book  of  the  law"  could  have  any  signification 
in  Masonry,  for  all  the  teachings,  symbolism  and  lectures  of  the  degrees  of  Ancient  Craft 
Masonry  are  drawn  directly  from  Holy  Scripture.  That  sacred  Word  of  God  is  reverently 
opened  upon  our  altars  as  a  silent  witness  to  the  unseen  presence  of  Deity.  It  is  borne 
forth  in  ceremonial  procession,  that  the  world  may  know  that  the  "light"  by  which  true 
Masons  work  is  from  the  throne  of  Him  who  is  "God  over  all,  blessed  forever." 

The  gospel  of  charity,  proclaimed  at  Jerusalem,  and  on  Moriah's  summit  among  the 
everlasting  hills — where  hewers  and  burden -bearers  toiled,  where  Craftsmen  wrought,  and 
where  kings  built  up  Jehovah's  temple — this  we  send  forth  among  the  nations.  We  have  no 
conflict  with  revealed  religions;  we  only  join  in  the  great  work  of  doing  good.  Such- are  our 
principles,  and  such  our  work,  so  far  as  I  understand  them. 

If  we  are  but  faithful  to  our  trust  and  to  our  duty,  the  world  may  continually  witness  such 
fruits  as  these — the  hungry  fed,  the  naked  clothed,  the  poor  relieved,  the  dead  reverently 
buried,  the  widow  and  orphan  provided  for,  the  civil  ruler  honored,  God  obeyed  and  wor- 
shipped. 

The  reports  of  D.  D.  Grand  Masters  represent  the  Craft,  with  few  excep- 
tions, enjoying  fair  prosperity.     Some  of  them  are  able  papers. 

The  financial  condition  of  the  Grand  Lodge  is  excellent. 

The  following  inc^uiries  were  submitted  to  the  Committee  on  Jurispru- 
dence : 

1.  When  a  member  of  a  lodge  in  good  standing  has  been  elected  to  the  position  of  Warden, 
and  it  appears  that  at  the  time  of  such  election  such  elective  officer  was  under  physical  disa- 
bility, is  he  entitled  to  be  installed  notwithstanding  such  disability? 

2.  What  physical  disability,  if  any,  will  prevent  a  duly  elected  Warden  from  being 
installed? 

Ill  response,  the  committee  say : 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CXXVII 


Should  the  physical  disability  of  a  Warden  or  other  elective  officer  of  a  lodge  be  of  such 
a  character  as  to  prevent  him  from  performing  the  F.ecessary  duties  of  his  office,  he  should 
not  be  installed. 

The  Committee  on  P'oieign  Correspondence  made  a  special  report  recog- 
nizing tlie  "Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba,"  which  was  adopted: 

The  Committee  on  Foreign  Correspondence,  to  which  was  referred  the  subject  of  recog- 
nition of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba,  respectfully  reports  that  by  a  careful  examination  of  the 
history  of  Masonry  in  Cuba,  since  the  establishment  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon  in  the  year 
1859,  they  find  the  following  to  be  true,  namelv  : 

That  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon  existed  as  an  Independent  Sovereign  Masonic  Power  for 
a  few  years,  and  was  recognized  as  such  by  American  Grand  Lodges. 

That  alter  a  time  it  submitted  to  an  authority  claimed  by  the  Sujjrome  Council,  accepted 
the  Constitution  of  the  Supreme  Council,  and  became  its  subordinate. 

That  on  the  i8th  of  September,  1867,  it  officially  proclaimed  itself  to  be  a  section  of  the 
Grand  Orient  under  the  Supreme  Council,  when  it  proclaimed  a  new  Constitution;  for  this 
latter  act  it  was  disciplined  by  the  Supreme  Council,  on  the  5th  of  September,  1868,  was  sus- 
pended from  labor,  and  twenty-five  days  thereafter  assented  to  this  dictation  by  informing"  its 
subordinate  lodges  of  what  had  been  done,  enjoining  their  obedience. 

That  after  a  while  the  Supreme  Council  proclaimed  the  Constitution  of  1859,  revived  the 
Grand  Lodge,  making  it  subordinate  to  the  Consistory,  a  subordinate  of  the  Supreme 
Council. 

That  in  1873  lodges  were  instructed  to  report  direct  to  the  Supreme  Council. 

That  in  1874  lodges  were  requested  to  send  delegates  for  the  election  of  officers  to  the 
Grand  Lodge,  which  request  was  signed  by  a  33°(G.  M.),  and  an  i8°(G.  S.),  neither  of 
whom  had  been  legally  elected. 

That  during  the  j'ear  1871.  the  Grand  Lodge  again  proclaimed  the  Constitution  of  the 
Supreme  Council,  and  that  this  was  in  force  at  the  lime  of  the  formation  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  the  Island  of  Cuba. 

On  this  state  of  facts,  the  committee  believes  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon  surrendered 
its  sovereignty,  and  has  none  of  the  attributes  of  an  Independent  Sovereign  Grand  Lodge; 
that  after  its  surrender  it  had  such  existence  and  authority  only  as  the  Supreme  Council  saw 
fit  to  bestow. 

That  in  point  of  fact,  on  the  first  day  of  August,  1876,  there  was  not,  and  for  years  prior 
to  that  date  there  had  not  been,  an  Independent  Sovereign  Grand  Lodge  in  the  Island  of 
Cuba;  but, 

That,  on  the  first  day  of  August  aforesaid,  one  was  established  by  the  Lodges  of  Havana, 
Matanzas  and  Cardenas,  to  be  called  the  Grand  J^odge  of  tiie  Island  of  Cuba,  which  now 
seeks  recognition  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Jersey. 

We  did  not  intend  to  add  anything  to  what  we  have  already  said  on  this 
subject;  but  the  report  is  so  filled  with  inaccuracies  that  further  notice  of  the 
matter  seems  necessary. 

It  must  have  been  a  "careful  examination  of  the  history  of  Masonry  in 
Cuba"  that  leads  the  committee  to  state,  "that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon 
existed  as  an  Independent  Sovereign  Masonic  Power  for  a  few  years,"  when 
the  facts  are,  that  it  existed  just  twenty-two  days,  and  no  more.  It  was 
organized  on  the  5th  day  of  December,  1859,  and  surrendered  every  sem- 
blance of  an  "independent  sovereign"  existence  on  the  27th  day  of  the  same 


CXXVIIl  APPENDIX. 


month.     On  this  point,  we  give  the  following  from  the  paper  adopted  by  the 
"Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba,"  at  its  organization,  August  ist,  1876: 

Whereas:  When  the  G.-.  I^.'.  of  Colon  was  instituted  on  Ihe  fifth  day  of  December, 
1859,  there  was  not  in  the  Island  of  Cuba  a  Sup.'.  C.'.  of  3,?°  or  any  other  body  to  confer 
the  hierarchical  grades  higher  than  the  three  ancient  and  original  degrees  wliich  constitute 
the  inost  Ancient  Institution  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  the  World. 

WtlEREAS,  On  the  twenty-seventh  day  of  the  same  month  and  year,  or  twenty-two  days 
after,  the  S.".  C".  of  Charleston  founded  in  Santiago  de  Cuba  a  S.'.  C.'.  of  the  33°  for  all  the 
Island  and  West  Indies,  etc.  etc. 

Whereas,  The  G.*.  L.".  of  Colon,  sovereign  and  independent  as  it  rvas,  and  without  any 
explanation,  .<;//i»7/y/^rf  itself  to  the  absolute  authoritv  of  the  Sup.'.  C.\  arknov.'ledging  and 
observing'  the  Constitution,  that  this  Body  promulgated  in  the  same  date  of  its  institution  to 
rule  in  the  G.-.  O.".  of  Colon,  etc.  etc.     Italics  ours. 

After  presenting  some  other  data,  the  committee  say:  "On  this  state  of 
facts,  the  Committee  believe  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon  surrendered  its 
sovereignty,  and  had  none  of  the  attributes  of  an  Independent  Sovereign 
Grand  Lodge;  that  after  its  surrender  it  had  such  existence  and  authority 
only  as  the  Supreme  Council  saw  fit  to  bestow."  The  committee  wish,  we 
suppose,  to  convey  the  iinpression  that  the  "Surrender  "  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Colon  did  not  take  place  for  a  number  of  years  after  its  organization, 
for  the  purpose  of  establishing  the  legitimacy  of  the  lodges  that  were  present 
at  the  organization  of  the  "Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba."  This  will  not  do, 
because  the  facts  will  not  justify  the  assumptions  of  the  Committee.  If,  then, 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon,  after  its  "surrender"  had  none  of  the  attributes 
of  an  Independent  Sovereign  Grand  Lodge,  the  lodges  created  by  it  cannot 
have  been  lawfully  constituted. 

This  is  an  important  question,  and  should  receive  earnest  consideration  ; 
for  when  Grand  Lodges  assent  to  the  proposition  that  a  Supreme  Council, 
Grand  Orient,  (Jrand  Chapter  or  Grand  Commandery,  can  exercise  authority, 
direct  or  indirect  in  Craft  Masonry,  we  yield  a  point  that  is  vital  to  otu-  exis- 
tence. Attention  is  directed  to  the  report  of  Bro.  Urummond  on  the  sub- 
ject. The  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Mexico  was  recognized.  A  resolution  was 
adopted  recommending  contributions  for  the  erection  of  a  monument  on  the 
battle  field  of  Monmouth. 

The  following  preamble  and  resolutions  were  adopted : 

Whekeas,  There  is  reason  to  believe  that  candidates  for  Masonry  have  been  elected  in 
this  jurisdiction  in  violation  of  the  Sixth  General  Regulation  ;  therefore, 

f<esolved.  That  all  persons  initiated  in  lodges  in  this  jurisdiction  in  violation  of  the  Sixth 
General  Regulation,  if  any  there  be,  are,  and  they  are  hereby  declared  to  be,  irregularly  made, 
and  are  not  entitled  to  the  benefits  and  rights  of  Masonry  until  properly  healed. 

Resolved,  That  the  Master  of  any  lodge  where  such  irregularity  has  occurred,  be  and  he 
is  hereby  required  to  report  the  same  to  the  Grand  Master. 

We  will  venture  the  suggestion  that  if  lodges  are  in  the  habit  of  violating 
the  law,  it  would  be  more  advisable  to  punish  them  than  to  inflict  penalties 
upon  innocent  parties.  When  a  candidate  is  made  a  Mason  by  an  authorized 
lodge,  his  rights  cannot  be  impaired  except  for  an  offense. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CXXIX 


The  Grand  Orient  of  France  received  attention: 

Whekeas,  It  beinjj  reported  in  the  public  prints  that  the  Grand  Orient  of  France  has 
abolished  within  its  jurisdiction  one  of  the  Landmarks  of  Masonry,  as  follows:  "That  every 
Mason  must  believe  in  the  existence  of  God  as  the  Grand  Architect  of  this  universe;"  there- 
fore, be  it 

Resolved,  That  this  Grand  Lodge  appoint  a  committee,  the  duties  of  which  committee 
shall  be  to  inquire  into  the  lacts  of  the  case  and  report  the  results  of  their  inquiry  to  the  Grand 
Master,  who  shall  thereupon  take  such  action  as  may  be  deemed  advisable  by  him. 

We  have  read  the  Report  on  Correspondence  by  Bro.  James  A.  Norton, 
with  a  good  deal  ot  pleasure.  With  the  large  majority  of  his  views  we  can 
homologate.  He  is  a  little  "  oft' color  "  on  the  "Cuba"  question,  but  our 
belief  is  that  he  is  too  much  of  a  Symbolic  Mason  not  to  give  the  matter 
more  critical  attention.     Our  Jurisdiction  receives  kindly  notice. 

Statistics — Lodges,  147;   membership,  12,025. 

M.-.  W.-.  Marshall  B.  Smith,  Passaic,  G.  M.  R.-.  W.-.  Joseph  H.  Hough, 
Trenton,  G.  Sec. 


NEW  MEXICO,   1877. 

In  response  to  a  call  directed  to  tiie  several  lodges  of  the  Territory,  a 
convention  assembled  in  Santa  Fe,  August  6th,  for  the  purpose  of  organizing 
a  Grand  Body.  Three  lodges  were  represented;  each  having  voted  to  par- 
ticipate in  the  organization.  The  proceedings  appear  to  have  been  entirely 
regular. 

M.-.  W.-.  Bro.  William  W.  Griffin  was  elected  G.  M.;  R.-.  W.-.  David  J. 
Miller,  G.  Sec'y. 

We  regret  to  notice  that  R.'.W.-.  Bro.  George  W.  Stebbins,  G.J.  W.,  lost 
his  life  April  i6th,  last,  by  being  thrown  from  a  carriage. 

After  agreeing  upon  a  ritual,  and  after  the  adoption  of  a  constitution  and 
code  of  by-laws,  the  new  Grand  Lodge  closed  its  labors,  to  meet  in  Santa 
Fe  on  the  first  Monday  of  January,  1S79. 

We  congratulate  our  brethren  of  New  Mexico  on  this  iinportant  con- 
summation. 

They  have  an  abundant  experience  to  be  gathered  from  the  successes  and 
failures  of  others,  and  our  hope  is,  that  they  may  always  be   in  a  position  to 

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CXXX  APPENDIX. 


exert  a  large   and   useful   Masonic   influence.       God  speed  you   brethren,  in 
every  good  word  and  work. 

If  the  volume  now  before  us  had  been  on  our  table  prior  to  the  last  session 
of  our  Grand  Lodge,  we  should  have  then  recommended  the  recognition  of 
this  young  jurisdiction. 

Statistics — Lodges,  4;   membership,  165. 

Address  the  Grand  Master  and  Grand  Secretary  at  Santa  Fe 


NEW  SOUTH  WALES,   1877. 

We  have  before  us  the  proceedings  of  a  Convention  held  in  Sydney,  Dec. 
3d,  1877,  to  organize  a  Grand  Lodge.  Eleven  lodges  were  represented,  seven 
of  which  are  constituents  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland,  and  four  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Ireland.  Upon  inquiry  of  Right  Worshipful  D.  Murray- 
Lyon,  Grand  Secretary  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland,  we  find  that  there 
are  constituent  lodges  as  follows: 

Of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland 2S  lodges 

Of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England,  over    ...     .......  30     " 

Of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Ireland,  about 6     " 

Making  a  total  of  about 64  bodies 

The  brethren  of  New  South  Wales  who  are  instrumental  in  this  organiza- 
tion, rest  their  claims  to  legitimacy  upon  the  fact  that  more  than  "three  lodges" 
were  engaged  in  the  new  enterprise.  We  apprehend  that  this  doctrine  does 
not  hold  good  unless  the  "three  lodges"  comprised  a  majority  of  the  bodies 
of  the  territory,  or,  that  the  majority  of  all  the  lodges  assente  d  to  the  organ- 
ization;  which  they  might  have  done  without  being  present. 

Furthermore,  we  do  not  find  that  the  brethren  notified  all  the  lodges  of 
their  purposes,  but  the  conclusion  is  (from  their  own  record)  that  they  acted 
in  opposition  to  the  expressed  wish  of  the  majority.  We  here  append  a 
circular  letter  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland: 

GRAND  LODGE  OF  SCOTLAND. 

Freemasons'  Hall,  ( 

Edinburgh,  7th  ^L'lrcl^,  1S7S.  i 

To  the  Most  Worshipful  the  Grand  Master  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  •■ 

Most  Worshipful  Sir  and  Dear  Brother: — I  am  instructed  by  the  Grand  Master 
Mason  of  Scotland  (Bro.  Sir  Michael  R.  Shaw-Stewart,  Bart.),  and  the  Grand  Committee,  to 
inform  you  that  certain  brethren  belonging  to  lodges  in  New  South  Wales,  holding  of  the 


MASO.VrC     COURESPONDENCE.  CXXXI 


Grand  I-odge  of  Scolland,  luive,  in  conjunction  with  others  of  the  Irish  Constitution,  formed 
themselves  into  "  Tlie  Gr;ind  Lody^e  of  Xew  Sonth  Wales,"  and  now  seek  recognition  as  a 
lawfully  constituted  body. 

In  asking  you  to  withhold  from  this  irregular  and  unconstitutional  body  recognition  in 
any  form,  I  beg  to  state  that  of  the  twenty-seven  Scotch  lodges  in  New  South  Wales,  eight 
only  were  represented  at  the  meeting  at  which  the  schismatics  threw  off  their  allegiance  to 
their  respective  Grand  Lodges. 

Bro.  Dr.  Sedgwick,  Right  Worshipful  Provincial  Grand  Master,  and  Bro.  William 
Higstrim,  Worshipful  Provincial  Grand  Secretary,  and  the  Provincial  Grand  Lodge  of  New 
South  Wales,  are  doing  all  in  their  power  to  counteract  the  disloyal  movement  above  referred 
to — and  in  this  thev  have  the  cordial  and  fraternal  co-operation  of  the  District  Grand  Master 
and  lodges  under  the  Knglish  Constitution. 

From  information  received  from  the  Province,  it  appears  that  a  great  majority  of  the 
Scottish  brethren  are  not  only  determined  to  remain  staunch  in  their  allegiance,  but  repudiate 
the  idea  of  severing  a  connection  which  they  are  so  desirous  to  maintain  with  their  Mother 
Grand  Lodge. 

I  have  therefore  respectfully  to  request  that  you  will  have  the  goodness  to  caution  the 
lodges  under  your  jurisdiction  against  admitting  either  as  a  member  or  visitor  any  brother 
seeking  to  gain  admission  as  a  member  of  the  so-called   Grand  Lodge  of  New  South  Wales 

I  am.  Most  Worshipful  Sir  and  Dear  Brother, 

Yours  faithfully  and  fraternally, 

D.  MURRAY  LYON, 

Grand  Secretary. 

That  no  injustice  mav  he  the  result  of  hasty  action,  we  recommend  the 
adoption  of    this  resokition  : 

Resolved,  That  the  application  of  the  "Grand  Lodge  of  New  South 
Wales"  for  recognition,  he  referred  to  the  Connnittee  on  Correspondence 
for  further  consideration. 


NORTH  CAROLINA,  1878. 

The  Grand  I^odge  of  this  jurisdiction  met  in  its  Ninety-first  Grand  Com- 
munication, December  4th. 

The  address  of  Grand  Master  Horace  II.  Munson,  is  a  paper  of  much 
excellence.  It  is  not  only  an  able  review  of  his  administration,  but  so  filled 
with  the  sunshine  of  a  genial  and  devoted  officer,  that  it  is  not  reinarkable  to 
find  the  brethren  of  the  old  "North  State"  enjoying  a  large  degree  of  har- 
mony and  prosperity. 


CXXXII  APPENDIX. 


We  do  not  make  quotations  to  fill  up  these  pages.  Read  them  thought- 
fully: 

The  wheels  of  time  move  on.  Slowly  indeed  they  seemed  to  turn  in  our  boyhood  days, 
but  with  advancing  years  they  grew  apace  'till  now,  standing  (as  I  do)  where  the  shadows  of 
the  past  and  lights  of  the  future  meet  in  my  half  century  pilgrimage,  they  revolve  so  quickly, 
that  scarcely  do  we  enter  upon  a  new  year,  ere  we  are  called  to  note  its  end. 

It  is  not  pleasant  always  to  retrospect  the  past,  too  many  sad  and  bitter  memories  crowd 
into  the  twelve  months  as  they  go  so  swiftly  by.  Rather  would  we  with  faith  hopefully  point 
to  the  future,  resolving  that  upon  its  page  no  record  of  conscious  wrong  shall  be  inscribed; 
that  repeated  acts  of  charity  and  benevolence  shall  mark  our  way,  so  that  our  closing  hours 
may  be  gladdened  with  thoughts  of  a  well  spent  life,  and  the  promised  glorious  immortality. 

******** 
We  now  stand  upon  the  threshold  of  a  new  Masonic  year.  The  past  is  valuable  only  for 
the  experience  it  brings  and  for  the  lessons  it  teaches.  By  it  we  are  warned  of  the  rocks  upon 
which,  it  may  be,  our  happiness  was  nearly  wrecked,  and  are  taught  to  avoid  those  quick- 
sands upon  which,  it  may  be,  our  moral  character  nearly  foundered.  Masonry,  we  are 
taught,  is  a  progressive  science,  but  our  experience  teaches  that  with  some  its  spirit  may  be 
too  greatly  progressive.  Too  often  we  meet  with  those  who,  conscious  of  superior  knowledge 
above  their  fellows,  seek  offensively  to  demonstrate  their  ideas  of  Masonic  reform,  as  they 
bear  about  high  sounding  titles,  and  adorn  their  persons  with  many  emblems  of  Masonic 
greatness.  Such  persons  do  harm  to  Masonry,  because,  being  its  acknowledged  votaries,  the 
world  judges  by  what  it  sees  and  hears.  When  our  sensibilities  are  thus  intruded  upon,  we 
are  reminded  of  the  man  who  thought. 

As  a  step  in  the  way  of  reform, 

(The  stupid,  stupid  ass,) 
To  take  the  sun  from  off  his  throne, 

And  light  the  world  with  gas  ! 

Our  Masonry  teaches  a  meek  and  quiet  spirit;  charily  for  all  unenlightened  brethren;  a 
modest  seeking  to  overcome,  it  may  be,  honest  error,  an  exem|)lification  in  our  own  walk  and 
conversation  of  that  friendship,  love  and  truth,  so  beautifully  taught  in  our  rituals  ;  an  earnest, 
hearty,  continued  effort,  without  ostentation,  to  benefit  the  human  race;  a  looking  after  and 
alleviating  distress;  a  thoughtful  care  of  orphan  children  ;  a  diligence  in  our  resi)ective  call- 
ings; a  liberal  benevolence;  all  these  go  to  make  up  an  unselfish,  true  and  beautiful  M.asonic 
character.  Let  us  emulate  that  pattern,  so  cons])icuous  in  Masonry,  whose  virtuous  conduct, 
unfeigned  piety  and  inflexible  fidelity  to  his  trusts  made  his  life  work  not  only  a  blessing  to 
those  by  whom  he  was  surrounded,  but  a  guide  for  us  and  countless  generations  yet  to  come. 

The  Grand  Master  recommended  the  appointment  of  D.  D.  G.  Masters. 
The  suggestion  does  not  appear  to  have  been  acted  upon.  The  system  works 
well  in  this  jurisdiction.  Some  modifications  miglit  be  introduced  that 
would  relieve  the  Grand  Master  of  a  large  amoimt  of  labor,  and  add  greatly 
to  the  dignity  and  importance  of  the  Deputy. 

If  lodges  and  members  were  required  to  correspond  through  these  officials 
with  the  Grand  Master,  and  they,  permitted  to  have  a  larger  supervision  over 
the  interests  of  the  Craft  of  their  Districts,  it  would,  we  think,  secure  greater 
efficiency,  and  strengthen  the  influences  of  the  system. 

The  Grand  Master  devotes  considerable  attention  to  the  interests  of  their 
Orphan  Asylum.  From  the  report  of  the  Superintendent,  Bro.  I.  H.  Mills,  the 
Craft  will  be  pleased  to  know  that  it  is  doing  a  good  work,  notwithstanding 
some  difficulties  in  securing  its  support. 


MASONIC    COKUESPONDENCE.  CXXXIll 


Inmates  last  year,  103;  admitted,  53;  discharged,  32 ;  leaving  in  Asylum 
Dec.  4lh,  124.  The  cost  of  supporting  each  orphan  is  $6  per  month,  includ- 
ing repairs  on  the  premises.  The  Grand  Lodge  appropriated  two  thousand 
dollars  for  its  support,  and  also  ordered  an  assessment  of  live  dollars  for  each 
initiate,  together  with  sixty  cents  yearly  upon  each  member  of  constituent 
lodges. 

The  Grand  Master  refers  in  very  fraternal  terms  to  the  decease  of  Past 
Grand  Master,  William  Getty  Hill,  M.  D.,  who  died  May  4,  1S77,  at  the  ripe 
age  of  71  years.  A  Special  Communication  of  the  Grand  Lodge  assembled 
May  6th,  over  which  R.-.W.".  Eugene  Grierson  presided;  who,  with  the  rep- 
resentatives of  18  lodges,  conducted  the  funeral  ceremonies.  In  announcing 
the  death  of  Bro.  Hill,  the  acting  Grand  Master  says: 

In  his  death  zve  lose  a  friend,  his  family  a  protector,  the  poor  a  sympathizer,  the  profes- 
sion  a  votary,  the  Fralernity  an  ornament,  Christianity  an  exemplar. 

He  was  called  suddenly,  but  not  unexpectedly.  He  kept  his  lamp  trimmed  and  the  oil 
burning  ready  for  the  feast.  He  cherished  the  constant  remembrance  of  another  life  than 
this,  another  judge  than  man,  another  ordeal  than  human  opinion.  He  did  his  duty  at  all 
times,  in  all  places,  to  all  men.  My  brethren,  we  have  to-day  mingled  emotions  of  sorrorv 
and  i^ladness.  Wc  mourn  that  Dr.  Hill  is  dead!  we  rejoice  that  Dr.  Hill  shall  never  die! 
So  dear  to  him  did  the  path  of  duty  become  from  faithful  habit,  that,  as  old  age  gently 
williered  his  strength,  he  tottered  on  towards  honor  and  immortality. 

He  went  down  to  the  grave  calmly,  without  a  struggle,  and  without  a  fear.  His  example 
will  teach  on  earth,  while  his  spirit  rejoices  with  God.  His  loved  ones  commit  his  ashes  to 
our  care  ;  we  commit  them  to  the  tomb  !     Peace  to  those  ashes. 

Several  decisions  are  of  record,  and  all  good  law. 

M.'  VV.'.  Bro.  Mimson  condemns  in  forcible  terms  the  tendencies  of  French 
Masons  to  infidelity.  This  matter  was  referred  to  a  special  committee,  and 
the  following  report  adopted  : 

The  committee  to  whom  was  referred  that  portion  of  the  Grand  Master's  address  which 
alludes  to  the  fact  that  the  great  fundamental  principle  which  underlies  Masonry,  to- wit:  the 
belief  in  the  God  of  the  Biljle,  has  been  stricken  from  the  constitution  of  a  bodv  of  men  who 
claim  to  be  Masons,  recommend  the  adoption  of  the  following: 

Resolved,  That  we  denounce  this  innovation  upon  one  of  the  ancient  landmarks  of 
Masonrv,  as  a  blot  upon  civilization,  the  entering  wedge  by  which  Masonry  will  be  brought 
into  disrepute,  and  ultimately  be  made  a  by-word  and  reproach  to  Christianity;  that  the  seal 
of  condemnation  of  this  Grand  Body  should  be  put  upon  this  movement  in  its  incipiency,  not 
to  explain  the  belief  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  but  that  those  that  are  to  come  after  us  shall  be 
apprised  of  the  unmistakable  position  taken  upon  this  question,  and  have  the  heiietit  and 
support  of  those  who  have  gone  before  them. 

The  Grand  Secretary  reports  three  dispensations  for  new  lodges,  three 
continued,  and  one  charter  surrendered.  The  Grand  Lodges  of  Dakota, 
Manitoba,  Wyoming,  and  Prince  Edward  Island,  were  recognized. 

The  Report  on  Correspondence,  by  Bro.  E.  G.  Reade,  is  a  brief  affair  of 
one  and  and  one-half  pages.     He  concludes  as  follows: 

The  virtues  which  we  find  most  enjoined  are,  education  of  the  young,  care  of  the  widows 
and  orphans,  help  for  the  poor,  and  charity  for  all.  The  vices  most  denounced  are,  idleness, 
the   man  who,  instead  of  being  a  help,  is   a  burden  to  his  brethren;    drunkenness,  which 


CXXXIV  APPENDIX. 


destroys  usefulness  and  decency,  and  entails  wretchedness  and  shame:    and  profanity,  which 
dishonors  God. 

These  everhisting  teucliin^.s  commend  our  Order  to  earth  and  to  Heaven. 

We  see  that  Past  Grand  Master,  George  W.  Blount,  occupies  the  reporto- 
rial  chair,  vice  Bro.  Reade,  who  is  now  at  the  head  ot  tlie  Committee  on 
Jurisprudence. 

Statistics. — Lodges,  237 ;   lodges  extinct,  123;   membership,  8,017. 

M.  W.-.  Horace  II.  Munson,  Wilmington,  G.  M. ;  R.-.W.-.  Donald  W. 
Bain,  Raleigh,  G.  Sec'y. 


NOVA  SCOTIA,   1877. 

The  representatives  of  fifty-two  constituent  lodges  assembled  in  the 
Twelfth  Annual  Communication  of  this  Grand  Body,  January  6th. 

M.'.W.-.  J.  Winburn  Laurie,  presiding. 

These  was  also  present,  M.-.W.-.  Bro.  Robert  T.  Clinch,  Grand  Master  of 
New  Brunswick,  and  M.".W.-.  Bro.  B.  Lester  Peters,  Past  Grand  Master  of 
the  same  jurisdiction. 

The  first  business  of  the  session  was  the  dedication  of  "  Free  Masons' 
Hall,"  recently  erected  in  Halifax  by  the  Grand  Lodge.  The  occasion  was 
of  extraordinary  interest  and  significance.  We  quote  from  the  daily  Reporter 
atid  Times:'''' 

To-day's  celebration  reminds  us  of  the  rapid  jrrowth  of  Freemasonry  the  world  over, 
especially  during  the  last  few  years.  Marked  progress  has  been  made,  not  only  in  the 
civilized,  but  even  what  we  call  the  uncivilized,  world.  It  shows  increased  vigor  in  India,  in 
China  and  Japan,  and  even  in  Africa;  while  in  the  United  States,  in  Canada,  and  all  our 
colonies,  it  has  grown  during  the  last  quarter  of  a  century,  and  particularly  within  the  last 
decade.  But  in  no  country  has  the  progress  of  the  Fraternity  been  so  marked  as  in  England, 
trom  which,  what  ma}'  be  called  "modern"  Masonry  has  spread  into  all  other  countries.  The 
Grand  Lodge  of  Itngland  was  establshed  in  1717,  and  in  1S13  existing  differences  among 
English  Masons  as  to  certain  points  of  order  and  ceremonial  were  settled  by  the  acknowledg- 
ment of  the  one  common  jurisdiction  of  the  United  Grand  Lodge  of  Freemasons'  Hall. 
From  this  latter  year  the  great  progress  of  modern  Masonry  may  be  dated,  but  its  greatest 
advancement  is  rather  of  the  last  ten  or  even  five  years.  The  English  monarchs  and  princes 
from  the  reign  of  King  Athelstane  (A.  D.  926)  down  to  the  present  era,  have  from  time  to 
time  given  encouragement  to  the  Craft  or  become  actual  members  of  it.  The  greatest 
impetus  of  all  imparted  to  it  was  the  installation  of  the  I'rince  of  Whales  as  Grand  Master  of 
the  English  Masons  in  the  spring  of  1875,  when  the  ceremony  in  the  Albert  Hall  presented  a 
most  striking  spectacle.  The  number  of  lodges  under  the  English  Constitution  alone  is  now 
little  short  of  1,600,  comprising  well-nigh  500,000  members,  to  say  nothing  of  Masons  "  unat- 
tached," while  in  Scotland  and  Ireland  nearly  1,000  regularly  constituted  lodges  are  reckoned, 
and  hardiv  a  week  passes  without  a  new  one  being  consecrated  in  some  part  of  the  Ifnited 
Kingdom. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CXXJvV 


It  may  be  asked,  what  is  the  secret  of  this  popularity  of  Freemasonry,  and  what  is  the 
special  influence  at  work  which  makes  it  just  now  more  popular  than  ever?  A  full  answer  to 
this  would  involve  a  long^disquisition.  Suffice  it  to  say  that  the  first  and  chief  attraction  of 
Masonry  is  the  mystery  with  which  it  is  surrounded,  combined  with  an  activity  more  than 
respectable,  and  a  universalit)'  greater  than  has  been  attained  by  any  religion  in  the  world. 
Although  the  fact  has  been  ipiestioncd,  it  is  generally  believed  that  Masonry  is  of  pre- 
Christian  origin,  and  since  its  origin  its  principles  have  remained  unchanged,  and  one  great 
central  idea  has  continued  to  nm  through  all  its  forms  and  ceremonies,  though  they  have 
received,  from  time  to  time,  in  different  countries,  certain  modifications,  additions  and 
diminutions.  Here,  then,  we  have  the  great  fact  that  a  world-wide  institution  has  existed  for 
an  immense  length  of  time,  and  that  up  to  the  present  moment  the  outside  world  is  in  absolute 
ignorance  of  the  specific  forms  and  ceremonies,  the  signs  and  pass-words,  connected  with 
this  wondrous  Fraternity;  its  general  principles,  which  it  makes  known  itself,  arc  all  that 
non-members  know  of  it.  This  is  in  itself  enough  to  attract  candidates  for  admission, 
prompted  as  they  probably  are  in  very  many  cases  by  no  higher  feeling  than  that  of  curiosity. 

The  Bible  used  on  this  occasion  was  subsequently  presented  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  by  James  Robertson,  Esq.,  of  Middleton,  and  is  of  historic  interest. 

It  appears  that  the  late  R't  Reverend  Dr.  Charles  Inglis,  Lord  Bishop  of 
Nova  Scotia,  and  the  lirst  Colonial  Bishop  in  the  British  Dominions,  was 
Rector  of  Trinity  Church,  New  York,  during  our  first  contest  with  mother 
Britannia.  The  good  Doctor,  loyal  to  King  George  III,  persisted  in  prayer 
for  his  good  health  and  reformation.  A  differe7tce  of  opi7iion  was  the  conse- 
quence; and  rather  than  submit  to  the  presence  of  "Uncle  Samuel"  in 
Church  liturgy,  the  Rector  found  a  home  in  Nova  Scotia.  This  unselfish 
devotion  attracted  the  attention  of  the  Monarch,  who  responded  with  this 
Bible. 

The  annual  address  of  the  Grand  Master  is  quite  brief. 

He  recommends  an  appropriation  for  the  establishment  and  support  of  a 
Library  and  Reading  Room. 

We  regret  to  learn  that  he' has  been  absent  from  his  jurisdiction,  much  of 
the  year,  in  consequence  of  ill  health.  Our  distinguished  brother  makes 
mention  of  his  cordial  reception  by  his  brethren  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Eng- 
land; and  the  fact  of  "being  the  first  Grand  Master  of  an  independent  juris- 
diction that  had  ever  visited  that  Body." 

His  recommendations,  approved,  in  regard  to  Grand  Lodge  Representa- 
tives, have  our  hearty  concurrence  : 

1  have  not  yet  received  replies  to  all  my  communications  on  the  subject  of  interchanging 
Grand  Lodge  Representatives,  but  I  submit  a  list  of  brethren  so  far  nominated  by  me  for 
your  approval;  in  pursuance  of  the  views  expressed  by  me  that,  as  a  rule,  no  brother  should 
represent  more  than  one  Grand  Lodge,  I  have,  although  with  regret,  forwarded  my  resigna- 
tion of  the  honorable  position  of  representative  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Wisconsin,  and  R.  W. 
Brethren  Geo.  F"raser  and  C  J.  McDonald  have  also  resigned  the  duplicate  representations 
held  by  them. 

The  reports  of  D.  D.  G.  Masters  are  ably  prepared  papers,  and  represent 
reasonable  prosperity  throughout  the    jurisdiction.      The  fact  that  there  has 


CXXXVI  APPENDIX. 


been  an. increase  of  membership  during  the  past  year  of  financial  depression, 
is  very  satisfactory. 

Two  constitutional  amendments  were  adopted:  One,  making  it  manda- 
tors' upon  lodges  located  in  Halifax  to  occupy  Freemasons'  Hall;  and  the 
second,  making  annual  dues  to  the  Grand  Lodge  75  instead  of  60  cents  per 
capita.  There  was  also  a  regulation  adopted,  providing  for  the  consolidation 
of  lodges 

One  enthusiastic  brother  offered  the  following,  which,  after  a  livelv  dis- 
cussion, was  laid  over  for  further  consideration: 

WiiEKEAS,  This  Grand  Lodge  recognizes  (lie  fact,  that  intemperance  is  a  very  great  and 
growing  evil,  and  whereas,  temperance  is  one  of  the  cardinal  virtues  of  Masonry. 

Therefore  resolved.  That  this  Grand  Lodge  recommends  temperance  to  every  Mason  in 
this  jurisdiction,  as  being  calculated  to  promote  the  best  interests  of  its  members,  and 
pledges  itself  at  its  next  meeting,  to  take  some  decided  step  towards  an  organization  in  con- 
nection with  the  Craft,  pledged  to  total  abstinence. 

The  purposes  of  the  brother  are  entirely  commendable ;  but  our  opinion 
is,  that  Masonry  must  stand  by  itself,  and  einploy  its  own  peculiar  methods 
in  dealing  with  vice.  We  cannot  afford  to  jeopardize  our  existence  as  a 
moral  force,  by  associating,  as  Masonic  bodies,  directly  or  indirectly  with 
other  agencies  for  the  suppression  of  wrong  doing.  More  than  this,  it  would 
be  Kdepariiire  that  would  ultimately  crush  the  entire  fraternal  fabric. 

If  vice  is  prevalent  in  a  lodge,  the  lodge  is  alone  responsible;  and  the 
Grand  Master,  in  the  absence  of  a  disposition  to  discipline  the  unworthy, 
should  not  hesitate  in  the  performance  of  a  plain  duty.  Such  a  lodge  has 
not  the  semblance  of  a  right  to  exist;  and  the  Grand  Master  who  would  tol- 
erate its  presence  on  the  roll  of  constituent  bodies,  does  not  comprehend  his 
relations  to  the  Craft. 

We  are  glad  to  find  a  report  from  M.-.W.-.  Bro.  Laurie,  Representative  of 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  York,  near  his  Grand  Lodge.  We  made  a  similar 
report  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  California,  in  October  last. 

Bro.  A.  H.  Crowe  presented  a  report  on  correspondence,  written  by  his 
associates,  Bros.  Treneman  and  Moore.  Bro  Crowe  was  presented  by  ill 
health  froin  participating  in  the  labors  of  the  Committee. 

Our  jurisdiction  receives  fraternal  notice,  and  our  remarks  on  tb.e  subject 
of  uniforin  laws  for  the  government  of  the  English  speaking  jurisdictions  of 
this  continent,  are  approved.  Our  brethren  will  notice  an  initiatory  move- 
ment in  this  direction,  inaugurated  at  the  last  session  of  our  Grand  Body. 

Statistics— Lodges,  67;   membership,  3,499. 

M.-.W.*.  T  Winburn  Laurie,  Halifax,  G.  M. ;  R.-.W.-.  Benjamin  Curren, 
Halifax,  G.  Sec'y. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CXXXVII 


OHIO,    1877. 


The  Sixty-Eighth  Annual  Communication  was  held  in  Columbus,  Octo- 
ber i6th. 

M.-.W.-.  Charles  A.  Woodward,  in  the  Grand  East. 

The  Grand  Master  announces  the  decease  of  Bro.  Joseph  Covert,  Nov.  4, 
1876;  of  P.  G.  M.  Lucius  V.  Bierce,  Nov.  14,  1S76;  of  Rev.  Bro.  A.  H.Wash- 
burn, Dec.  29,  1S76;  of  R.  W.  Bro.  Kent  Jarvis,  Jan'y  15,  1S77;  of  R.  W. 
Edgar  A.  Hopkins,  July  3d,  1S77. 

The  bluff,  kind  hearted  "  Uncle  Joe,"  was  among  the  first  of  the  Cincin- 
nati Craft  with  whom  we  became  acquainted,  years  ago.  We  felt  a  pang  of 
sincere  sorrow  when  we  learned  that  he  would  no  more  announce  us  from 
his  station. 

Three  new  lodges  have  been  authorized.  The  Grand  Master  presents  six 
decisions: 

I  have  been  frequently  called  upon  during  the  year  for  opinions  upon  questions  of 
Masonic  jurisprudence,  a  very  large  portion  of  which  were  unimportant,  and  not  worthy  of 
note,  and  I  submit  onlj'  the  following  for  your  consideration: 

1.  A  lodge  cannot  confer  the  distinction  of  honorary  membership  upon  one  of  its  own 

members. 

2.  A  lodge  may  not  adopt  a  resohition  whereby  members  who  have  not  paid  their  dues 
for  the  current  year  shall  be  deprived  ot  their  right  to  vote  at  the  annual  election  of  officers, 
because  members  cannot  be  deprived  of  their  rights  of  membership  by  a  mere  resolution  of 
the  lodge. 

3.  A  brother  who  lias  applied  to  a  lodge  for  affiliation,  and  has  been  rejected,  can  apply 
to  any  other  lodge  within  our  jurisdiction,  and  may  be  elected  to  membership  therein,  the 
Prohibitory  Rule  31  of  the  Code  having  reference  to  applicants  for  the  degrees  only. 

4.  Charges  having  been  regularly  preferred  against  a  member,  and  having  been  enter- 
tained by  the  lodge,  trial  must  ensue,  unless  said  charges  are  withdrawn,  which  can  only  be 
done  on  motion  and  by  vote  of  the  lodge. 

5.  It  is  not  proper  for  a  lodge,  in  the  absence  of  any  by-law  upon  the  subject,  to  require 
any  of  its  officers  to  give  bonds  for  the  faithful  performance  of  their  duties. 

6.  A  lodge  having  been  regularly  opened  in  staled  communication  at  the  lime  specified 
in  Its  by-laws,  and  then  regularly  closed,  cannot  be  re-opened  for  the  transaction  of  business, 
and  anv  business  transacted  under  such  circumstances  is  illegal  and  void. 

A  Master  having  been  elected  who  was  engaged  in  the  sale  of  intoxicating 
liquors,  contrary  to  the  laws  of  the  State,  the  Grand  Master  prohibited  his 
installation,  and  ordered  a  new  election.     Correct. 

Our  brethren  of  Hanselman  Lodge  continue  dyspeptic  on  tlie  "color" 
problem,  and  call  for  a  remedy.  The  Grand  Lodge  concluded  not  to  extend 
its  practice  as  a  "healer,"  and  dismissed  the  patient. 

18 


CXXXVIII  APPENDIX. 


The  Committee  on  Charters  and  Dispensations  recommend: 

In  view  of  the  fact  that  a  large  number  of  lodges  are  not  self-supporting,  and  are  a  con- 
stant drain  upon  the  Treasury  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  your  committee  therefore  recommend 
that  no  dispensation  or  charter  shall  hereafter  be  granted  for  any  new  lodge,  until  satisfac- 
tory information  be  given  to  the  Grand  Master  and  to  the  Grand  Lodge,  that  said  new  lodge 
will  be  self-supporting,  and  that  the  lodges  giving  their  consent  will  be  left  in  a  condition  not 
to  become  a  drain  upon  the  Treasury  of  the  Grand  Lodge. 

The  Committee  on  unfinished  business  reported  several  propositions  for 
changes  in  the  organic  law.  Among  them  is  one  to  reduce  mileage,  another 
requiring  lodges  to  pay  their  representatives.  Both  disagreed  to.  We  pre- 
sume the  brethren  were  quite  unanimous  in  this  expression. 

The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  declined  to  concur  in  the  recommenda- 
tion of  the  Grand  Master,  for  a  single  ballot  for  all  the  degrees." 

There  are  several  objections  to  the  practice  of  our  Ohio  brethren.  The 
particular  one,  and  that  which  claims  serious  consideration,  rests  in  the  fad 
that  an  Entered  Apprentice  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  household,  and  as 
such  is  invested  witli  rights  and  immunities  so  well  known  to  the  Fraternit\'. 
For  this  reason  our  jurisdiction  permits  a  single  ballot  for  the  three  degrees, 
and  then  insists  that  an  objection  to  advancement  cannot  be  entertained, 
except  ior  good  and  sufficient  reasons.  The  lodge  is  to  be  the  judge  of  pro- 
ficiency, or  of  other  qualifications,  should  the  question  be  raised  in  either 
case.  This  regulation  acts  as  a  positive  bar  to  much  of  the  discord  that 
came  of  the  old  practice,  and  to  which  our  Ohio  brethren  cling. 

The  same  committee  are  of  opinion  that  a  lodge  is  justified  in  adopting  a 
bv-law  prohibiting  members  in  arrears  for  dues  from  holding  office,  at  the 
same  time  agree  with  the  Grand  Master,  that  a  lodge  cannot  inflict  this  pen- 
altv  bv  resolution.  We  are  too  near-sighted  to  comprehend  the  distinction. 
We  have  always  understood  that  a  standing  regulation  was  of  equal  force 
with  a  bv-law.  Be  this  as  it  may,  we  stand  squarely  upon  the  proposition, 
that  there  is  nothing  in  Masonry  that  will  tolerate  a  lodge  in  inflicting  a  pen- 
alty in  the  absence  of  a  fair  and  impartial  investigation,  or  upon  confession, 
in  lodge,  of  overt  acts. 

Action  upon  the  recognition  of  the  Grand  Lodges  of  Cuba,  New  Mexico 
and  Ontario^  were  deferred  until  the  next  Annual  Comtnunication. 

The  Committee  on  Grievances  were  not  troubled  with  very  onerous  duties. 
A  good  symptom  in  a  large  and  important  jurisdiction. 

An  unsuccessful  effort  was  made  to  adopt  the  District  system  : 

Resolved,  i.  That  a  committee  of  five  be  appointed  to  take  into  consideration  the  expedi- 
encv  of  amending  the  constitution  by  districting  the  State  into  Grand  Divisions,  as  well  as 
Representative  Districts,  to  be  so  adjusted  that  no  lodge  shall  be  deprived  of  a  per  capita,  or 
other  representation,  at  any  annual  session  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  such  as  will  be  conduc- 
ive to  the  economies  and  other  grand  interests  of  Masonry. 

2.  That  such  committee  shall  meet  at  such  time  or  times  and  places  as  they  find  best 
suited  to  their  labors. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CXXXIX 


3.  That  said  report  shall  be  made  to  the  next  session  of  the  Grand  Lodge  for  such  action 
as  by  the  constitutional  provisions  shall  be  required. 

Governor,  Bro.  Thomas  L.  Young,  was  introduced,  and  in  response  to 
the  fraternal  greetings  of  his  brethren,  dechired  that  "  he  would  rather  be 
Grand  Master  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Ohio,  than  the  Governor  of  the  State." 
Our  distinguished  brother  was  not,  probably,  aware  that  the  Grand  Treasurer 
reports  but  a  small  balance  in  the  treasury.  Our  experience  is,  that  these 
Governors  have  their  weak  points 

Bro.  Caldwell  presents  one  of  his  peculiar  reports  on  correspondence. 
After  taking  from  the  shelf  and  dusting  off  the  colored  man,  he  gives  us  one 
of  the  most  valuable  compendiums  of  Masonic  history  that  we  have  ever 
examined. 

The  controversy  of  1845,  between  Harmony  Lodge,  No.  3,  at  Jacksonville, 
and  the  lodges  of  Chicago,  is  given  in  full. 

We  venture  an  extract,  which  we  believe  will  interest  our  readers: 

WHAT    HEATHEN    PHILOSOPHERS    SAY    OF   DEITY. 

Pertinent  to  what  was  hinted  here  by  Bro.  Hall,  I  quote  from  sacred  anthology  of  ancient 
nations,  some  of  them  even  before  the  time  of  Jesus : 

From  the  Arabic. — "Moses  cried, 'Where,  O  Lord,  shall  I  find  thee?'  God  said, 'Know 
that  when  thou  hast  sought,  thou  hast  already  found  me.'  One  asked  a  Bedouin,  '  How 
knowest  thou  that  God  exists?'     He  answered,  'Does  the  dawn  then  need  a  torch  to  be  seen?' 

"The  Methnevi  says,  'Supreme  Being  soars  above  thought  and  imagination.  We  are 
lost  when  we  would  comprehend  or  even  suspect  that  which  he  is.  How  vain,  then,  to  seek 
words  worthy  of  that  Being?    Let  it  suffice  us  to  adore  in  reverent  silence.'  " 

From  The  Persian  — TV/e  Heart.— "Thou  wilt  be  asked,  'By  what  dost  thou  know  God?" 
Say,  'By  what  descendeth  in  the  heart.'  Say  unto  mankind,  'Look  not  upon  the  Self  existent 
with  this  eye ;  ask  for  another  eye,  the  eye  of  the  heart.'  'How  can  he  who  knoweth  not  him- 
self know  the  Lord?'     'True  self-knowledge  is  knowledge  of  God.'  " 

Egypt — T/ie  Unknowable.— "Inscription  on  the  Temple  of  Isis  at  Said:  'I  am  that  which 
has  been,  which  is,  which  will  be,  and  no  one  has  lifted  the  veil  that  covers  me.'  " 

From  the  Hindoo — Pantheistn.—"  Foolish  are  they  who  are  perpetually  inquiring 
where  the  Deity  resides.  God  dwells  in  all  things  in  his  fullness.  Kine  are  of  divers  colors, 
but  all  milk  is  alike:  altar-flowers  are  of  many  species,  but  all  worship  is  one.  Systems  of 
faith  are  different,  but  God  is  one.  If  a  man  knows  not  himself,  how  should  he  know  the 
Deity?" 

From  the  Kokan— T^^^  Nearest.— "GoA  best  knows  the  impious.  With  him  are  the 
keys  of  the  secret  things :  none  knoweth  them  but  he.  He  knoweth  whatever  is  on  the  land 
and  in  the  sea;  and  no  leaf  falleth  but  he  knoweth  it;  neither  is  there  a  grain  in  the  darkness 
of  the  earth,  nor  a  green  thing  or  sere,  but  it  is  noted  in  his  decree.  No  vision  taketh  him  in, 
but  he  taketh  in  all  vision." 

From  the  Zendavesta— T/i^  Best.— "G06.  appears  in  the  best  thought,  the  truth  of 
speech,  and  the  sincerity  of  action;  giving,  through  his  pure  spirit,  health,  prosperity,  devo- 
tion, and  eternity  to  this  universe.     He  is  the  father  of  all  truth." 

Safi  Oracles.— "  Which  is  the  great  name  of  God?  Communicate  to  me  his  least 
name,  and  I  will  return  to  thee  the  greatest.  Every  day  he  is  in  action:  one  day  of  his  is 
equal  to  a  thousand  years  of  man's.  O  thou  whose  light  manifests  itself  in  the  vesture  of  the 
world!     Thy  names  are  manifested  in  the  bounty  of  great  hearts.     Recognize  the  mark  of 


CXL  APPENDIX. 


God  in  every  place,  and  never  place  the  foot  without  its  own  limit.     The  world  is  the  image 
of  God." 

From  the  Koran — The  Unchatigeahle. — "When  the  night  overshadowed  Abraham,  he 
beheld  a  star.  'This,'  said  he,  '  is  my  Lord  ;'  but  when  it  set,  he  said,  '  I  love  not  gods  which 
set.'  And  when  he  beheld  the  moon  uprising — '  this,'  said  he,  '  is  my  Lord ;'  but  when  it  set, 
he  said,  'surely  if  my  Lord  guide  me  not,  I  shall  surely  be  of  those  who  go  astray.'  And 
when  he  beheld  the  sun  uprise,  he  said,  '  this  is  my  Lord:  this  is  the  greatest !'— but  the  sun 
too,  went  down;  and  Abraham  said,  'O  my  people,  I  turn  my  face  to  the  Father  of  the 
heavens  and  the  earth  !'  " 

From  the  Koran— 77;^  Light. — "  In  the  name  of  God,  the  compassionate,  the  merciful. 
All  that  is  in  the  heavens  and  the  earth  praiseth  God,  and  he  is  the  mighty,  the  wise.  He 
is  the  first  and  the  last;  the  seen  and  the  hidden :  and  he  knoweth  all  things !  He  will  bestow 
on  you  light  to  walk  in.  God  is  the  light  of  the  heavens  and  of  the  earth.  His  light  is  like  a 
niche  in  which  is  a  lamp— the  lamp  incased  in  glass— the  glass,  as  it  were,  a  glistening 
stone.  From  a  blessed  tree  it  is  lighted,  the  olive — neither  of  the  East  nor  of  the  West  — 
whose  oil  would  well-nigh  shine  out,  even  though  fire  touched  it  not.  It  is  light  upon  light. 
Hast  thou  not  seen  how  all  in  the  heavens  and  the  earth  uttereth  the  praise  of  God? — the  very 
birds  as  they  spread  their  wings?  Every  creature  knoweth  its  prayer  and  its  praise?  The 
East  and  the  West  are  God's;  therefore,  whichever  way  ye  turn,  there  is  the  face  of  God 
He  will  guide  to  himself  him  who  turneth  to  him,  and  whose  heart  rests  securely  on  the 
thought  of  God.  What!  shall  not  men's  hearts  repose  on  the  thought  of  God?  They  who 
believe  and  do  the  things  that  be  right,  blessedness  awaiteth  them." 

Persian  Tradition. — Nanac  lay  on  the  ground,  absorbed  in  devotion,  with  his  feet 
towards  Mecca,  a  Moslem  priest,  seeing  him,  cried,  'Base  infidel,  how  daresl  thou  turn  thy  feet 
towards  the  house  of  Allah?  Nanac  answered,  'And  thou  turn  them,  if  thou  can'st,  toward 
any  spot  where  the  awful  house  of  God  is  not.'  " 

The  Hebrews  (from  the  Psalms) — The  Rejtcled  Sione.— "God  reignelh  ;  let  the  earth 
be  glad  ;  let  the  multitude  of  lands  beyond  the  sea  rejoice.  Clouds  and  darkness  are  round 
about  him;  righteousness  and  justice  are  the  foundation  of  his  throne.  His  lightnings 
enlighten  the  world ;  the  heavens  declare  his  righteousness.  Light  is  sown  for  the  righteous, 
and  joy  for  the  upright  in  heart.  The  stone  which  the  builders  refused  is  become  the  chief 
cornerstone.  This  has  been  from  the  Most  High  :  It  is  wonderful  in  our  eyes.  This  is  the 
day  which  God  hath  made,  we  will  exult  and  rejoice  in  it." 

Er,\PTj\N  —Ascn'/>/ioH  of  Praise  by  J/ermes  Trisiiti'gistiis. — "Who  can  bless  thee,  or 
give  thanks  for  thee  or  to  thee?  When  shall  i  praise  thee,  C)  Father;  for  it  is  neither  possible 
to  comprehend  thy  hour  nor  thy  time?  Wherefore  shall  I  praise  thee,  as  being  something  of 
myself,  or  having  any  thing  of  mine  own,  or  rather  as  being  another's?  Thou  art  what  I  am, 
thou  art  what  I  do,  thou  art  what  I  say.  Thou  art  all  things,  and  there  is  nothing  Vifhich  thou 
art  not.  Thou  art  then  all  that  is  made  and  all  that  is  not  made — the  mind  that  understandeth; 
the  Father  that  maketh ;  the  good  that  worketh  ;  the  good  that  doeth  all  things.  O  All ! 
receive  a  reasonable  homage  from  all  things.     Thou  art  God." 

Hear  what  the  Hindoo  says  as  to  observances: 

"  Witliout  purity  of  mind,  to  what  end  is  the  worship  of  God?  Why  say,  '  I  will  go  to 
benares?'  Why  long  for  the  sacred  wells?  How  shall  the  true  Benares  be  attained  by  the 
evil  doer?  Though  we  roam  the  wilds,  sanctity  is  not  in  them;  nor  is  it  in  the  sky ;  nor  on 
earth,  at  the  confluence  of  holv  streams.  Make  thy  body  pure,  and  thou  shalt  behold  the 
King.  The  devout  man,  by  the  gradual  progress  of  his  soul,  shall  attain  his  desire.  He  who 
is  converted  into  pure  mind,  knows  the  great  secret.  Convert  thy  body  into  a  temple,  and 
restrain  thyself;  give  up  evil  thoughts,  and  see  God  with  thy  internal  eye.  When  we  know 
him  we  shall  know  ourselves.  Without  personal  experience,  the  mere  savor  of  the  Scripture 
will  not  remove  the  fears  of  the  aspirant;  as  darkness  is  never  dispelled  by  a  painted  flame. 
Though  he  roam  to  Sacred  Concan,  ho  dog  will   turn  into  a  lion;  going  to  holy  Benares  will 


MASONIC     CORRESPONDENCE. 


make  no  pig  an  elephant;  and  no  pilgrimag^e  will  make  a  saint  of  one  whose  nature  is  differ- 
ent. Be  thy  creed  or  thv  prayers  what  they  may,  unles  thou  hast  a  little  truth  thou  shalt  not 
attain  the  path  to  happiness.  He  who  possesses  the  truth  is  the  twice  born.  The  source  of 
final  happiness  is  inherent  in  the  heart;  he  is  a  fool  who  seeks  it  elsewhere;  he  is  like  the 
shepherd  who  searched  for  the  sheep  which  was  in  his  bosom.  Why  should  you  collect 
stones  from  the  hills  and  build  fine  temples?  Why  torment  yourselves  so,  while  the  God,  as 
a  livinar  being:,  constantly  dwells  within  you?  Better  is  the  house-dog  than  the  inanimate 
household  goddess ;  and  better  than  all  demigods  is  the  Lord  of  the  universe.  That,  like  the 
mornmg  star,  that  dwells  in  the  inmost  heart  of  every  man,  is  our  refuge." 

Statistics — Lodges,  473  ;    membership,  1S76,  29,296. 

M.-.W.-.  W.  M.  Cunningham,    Newark,  G.  M. ;  R.-.  W.-.    John  D.  Cald- 
well, Cincinnati,  G.  Sec'j. 


OREGON,  1877. 

The  Twenty-Seventh  Annual  Communication,  convened  in  Portland, 
June  nth. 

M.-.W.-.  J.  H.  Kinzie  presiding. 

The  address  of  the  Grand  Master  is  verj  full.  He  sajs  many  good  things  ; 
among  them  the  following: 

Masonry  may  be  older  or  newer — we  know  not  and  probably  never  shall  know  when  or 
where  It  originated,  or  how;  but  these  were  the  rules  prescribed  by  the  All-Wise  and  All- 
Merciful  for  the  rational  creatures  of  His  hands,  before  the  foundations  of  the  world  were 
laid.  Throughout  all  the  globe  we  inhabit — throughout  the  vast  immensity  of  creation,  obe 
dience  to  these  commands  constitutes  the  moral  happiness  of  rational  beings.  Living  faith 
and  active  benevolence  are  the  real  foundations  of  Freemasonry.  Masters  and  Wardens  of 
lodges,  keep  that  fact  in  view  of  your  brethren  ;  your  words  and  style  may  be  rude  and  un- 
polished, but  if  your  heart  be  in  them  they  will  awaken  admiration  and  sympathy.  It  is 
generally  supposed,  by  those  who  do  not  object  to  Masonry  as  a  positive  evil,  that  it  is  at 
least  a  harmless,  charitable  association;  but,  in  truth,  the  real  spirit  of  Masonry  is  not  con- 
fined to  the  relief  of  a  brother's  physical  wants,  or  the  preservation  of  his  life  when  in  peril — 
of  which  we  have  all  heard  many  interesting  instances — such  occasions  seldom  occur,  but 
every  day  affords  opportunity  to  promote  our  brother's  temporal  good  by  lawful  and  honora- 
ble means;  to  help  him  by  enabling  him  to  help  himself;  to  extend  our  sympathy  to  his 
troubles,  and  our  charity  to  his  failings  .and  imperfections  ;  to  make  peace  between  friends  " 
to  warn  one  of  his  danger,  another  of  liis  errors  ;  to  be  patient,  tolerant  and  forgiving  toward 
all.  And  it  is  because  Masonry  brings  into  exercise  qualities  of  which  all  acknowledge  the 
excellence,  that  it  has  its  vitality,  universality  and  importance. 

The  Grand  Master  has  visited  nearly  forty  lodges,  and  the  D.  G.  Master 
fifteen  others.  The  Grand  Wardens  also  report  the  condition  of  lodges  in 
their  immediate  vicinities. 


CLXII  APPENDIX. 


The  Grand  Master  says:  "From  these  reports  and  my  own  personal 
observation,  I  find  not  over  two-thirds  live,  energetic,  working  lodges,  and  the 
balance  sadly  lacking  vitality  and  force.  'Tis  true  peace  and  harmony  pre- 
vails; but  alas!  in  the  case  of  these  one-third,  it  is  but  synonymous  of  stag- 
nation." In  the  light  of  personal  experience,  we  are  of  opinion  that  if  two- 
thirds  of  the  lodges  of  any  jurisdiction  are  in  good  working  order,  it  is  about 
as  much  as  we  can  reasonably  look  for. 

We  must  not  forget  that  a  revulsion  from  great  prosperity  to  the  present 
unfortunate  condition  of  finances,  will  induce  lethargy  in  all  benevolent 
organizations.  It  would  be  a  marvel  if  Masonry  should  escape  a  depression 
so  universal.  The  best  and  most  active  of  brethren  may  meet  with  reverses, 
or  may  be  burdened  with  a  business  that  has  become  precarious  or  uncer- 
tain; consequently  cannot  give  that  attention  to  the  Craft  that  they  would 
be  glad  to  under  more  favorable  circumstances.  A  man's  business,  around 
which  cluster  the  interests  of  home  and  kindred,  , cannot  be  neglected.  It 
should  demand  his Jirsf  attention.  This  declension  is  not  doing  real  injury; 
but,  on  the  contrary,  as  a  rule,  is  bringing  to  light  the  true  friends  of  the 
Fraternity,  and  ridding  us  of  floodwood. 

Several  decisions  are  reported.  The  first,  with  all  its  surroundings,  is 
rather  peculiar: 

On  August  14th  I  received  the  following  from  a  P.  G.  M. : 

Question  No.  i.  Is  the  following  action  of  Harmony  Lodge  No.  12  in  accordance  with 
the  "  ancient  landmarks?"  viz. : 

The  ballot  was  spread,  and  it  being  dark,  the  W.  M.  ordered  it  re -spread  with  same 
result :  the  candidate  was  therefore  declared  duly  rejected.  A  few  days  after  a  member  of 
the  lodge  informed  the  W.  M.  that  he  believed  he  had,  through  mistake,  deposited  a  black 
instead  of  a  white  ball. 

At  the  next  regular  communication,  the  W.  M.,  after  informing  the  lodge  of  this  brother's 
statement,  ordered  the  ballot  again  spread,  and  the  same  being  clear,  he  declared  the  candi- 
date duly  elected,  and  he  was  made  an  Entered  Apprentice  shortly  afterwards. 

On  receipt  of  this  question  I  went  to  Portland  and  investigated  this  action  of  the  W.  M. 
of  Harmony  Lodge  No.  12,  and  found  the  above  correct,  except  that  said  \V.  M.  had  notified 
the  brethren  whom  he  ascertained  had  been  present  at  the  time  the  candidate  was  rejected, 
that  his  petition  would  again  be  balloted  upon  at  following  meeting  and  the  reason  therefor.  . 

The  Grand  Master  issued  the  following  edict,  with  his  replies  to  the  ques- 
tion : 

By  order  of  the  Grand  Master,  the  action  of  W.  M.  of  Harmony  Lodge  No.  12,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.,  in  initiating  a  candidate  after  he  had  been  duly  rejected,  because  a  brother  had 
informed  said  W.  M.  that  he  had  cast  the  rejecting  ballot  by  mistake,  is  hereby  declared 
illegal  and  void,  and  said  candidate  is  stayed  from  further  advancement  until  healed — and 
W.  M.  of  Harmonv  Lodge  No.  12  did  wrong  in  allowing  subsequent  ballot  and  initiation  of 
petitioner,  as  contrary  to  Masonic  law  and  the  secresy  of  the  ballot." 

And  I  also  stated  the  following,  which  answers  the  question  first  asked : 

I.  The  Master  or  presiding  officer  alone  can  order  a  reconsideration  of  the  ballot;  but 
he  only  on  the  same  night  and  before  any  member  has  departed.  And  cannot  after  a  mem- 
ber has  left  the  lodge,  or  at  any  subsequent  meeting. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE. 


2.  The  by-laws  adopted  by  this  Grand  Lodge  say — "In  no  case  shall  more  than  a  second 
ballot  be  had  to  correct  real  or  supposed  mistakes." 

3.  No  member  has  a  right  to  explain  his  own  vote,  for  if  one  has,  they  all  have,  and  the 
rejection  having  been  announced  from  the  chair,  the  petitioner  having  been  duly  rejected, 
rests  on  the  law  that  governs  receiving  petitions  of  rejected  applicants,  and  a  new  ballot  can- 
not be  effected  except  after  due  time  and  a  new  petition. 

Passing  by  tlie  fact  of  balloting  in  the  absence  of  light,  and  the  local  law 
upon  the  effect  of  the  second  ballot,  we  are  at  a  loss  to  understand  -a'hy  the 
the  irregularity  of  the  initiate.  Was  he  less  a  Mason  because  of  an  irregu- 
larity in  his  election?  Certainly  not.  The  degree  was  conferred  by  a  lodge 
authorized  to  do  the  work.  This  males  a  man  a  Mason :  But  if  the  lodge 
erred  in  any  part  of  the  necessary  procedure,  it  was  responsible  to  the  Grand 
Lodge,  which  could  have  imposed  a  penalty;  but  neither  the  lodge  or  Grand 
Body  could  properly  inflict  a  disability  upon  the  candidate  who  had,  under 
the  instructions  of  the  lodge,  and  as  he  had  a  right  to  suppose,  complied  with 
the  law. 

The  Grand  Master  decides  that  the  loss  of  an  eye  disqualifies  for  degrees. 
The  Grand  Lodge  did  not  concur.     See  Connecticut. 

On  the  subject  of  ritual,  the  Grand  Master  suggests  uniformity;  while  the 
committee  to  whom  the  matter  was  referred,  "are  of  opinion  that  at  this 
time  this  Grand  Lodge  cannot  recommend  the  use  of  any  particular  ritual  in 
Lodge  Work.  Rituals  of  merit  will  commend  themselves  to  the  Craft,  and 
be  read  ( !)  by  subordinate  lodges,  without  a  rule  or  recommendation  from  this 
Grand  Lodge  on  the  subject."  This  view  of  the  committee  is  explained,  in 
a  measure,  by  the  concluding  paragraph  of  their  report: 

Your  committee  deem  it  impolitic  to  publish  anything  relating  to  matters  mentioned  in 
the  second  resolution,  which  prohibits  the  use  of  Mnemonics,  &c.  This  resolution  might  be 
taken  as  an  admission  that  there  are  keys,  &c.,  to  our  work,  while  the  fact  is  otherwise. 
Your  committee  join  the  M.  W.  Grand  Master  in  his  condemnation  of  the  practice  to  which 
said  resolution  refers.  We  trust  that  it  does  not  exist  among  the  Craft  in  this  jurisdiction. 
In  order  that  nothing  may  go  forth  from  this  Grand  Lodge  to  indicate  that  we  are  troubled 
with  this  evil  in  any  degree  whatever,  your  committee  ask  that  all  reference  to  the  same  in 
said  address,  be  withdrawn. 

This  same  old  cat  was  in  our  meal,  years  ago.  We  were  scratched. 
Where  is  Bro.  Rob  Morris? 

A  resolution  was  adopted  providing  that  members  of  lodges  "stricken 
from  the  roll  "  for  non-payment  of  dues,  shall  not  onlv  be  held  for  past  dues, 
but  for  dues  accruing  during  such  disability. 

An  attempt  to  introduce  a  system  of  D.  D.  G.  Masters,  failed. 

The  Committee  on  Correspondence,  to  whom  was  referred  the  remarks 
of  the  Grand  Master  on  the  decease  of  Bro.  Gouley,  of  Missouri,  make  an 
extended  and  fraternal  report.  The  same  committee,  on  application  for 
recognition  by  the  so-called  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba,  report :  "  That  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Oregon  proffers  Masonic  recognition  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba, 
Havana,  to  whom  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Oregon  sends  fraternal  greeting," 


CXI.IV  APPENDIX. 


The  committee  seem,  in  this  case,  to  take  for  granted  that  the  views  of 
Bro.  Simons,  of  New  York,  are  orthodox.  Perhaps  they  are;  but  we  venture 
the  suggestion  that  our  brethren  of  Oregon  take  another  look  at  the  question, 
unless  ihey  are  content  to  aid  in  casting  the  hateful  shadow  of  servility  over 
Craft  Masonry. 

The  report  on  Correspondence  by  P.  G.  M.  Chadwick,  is  a  courteous  and 
dignified  review  of  thirty-six  jurisdictions.  When  a  brother  of  his  ability 
speaks  well  of  us,  we  are  inspired  with  a  renewed  determination  that  each 
succeeding  effort  shall  be  in  advance  of  the  last. 

Statistical — Number  of  lodges,  58;  membership,  2,380.  Charters  surren- 
dered, II ;  of  these,  7  lodges  have  become  connected  with  other  Grand  Juris- 
dictions, 3  extinct,  and  one  consolidated  with  No.  iS. 

M.-.W.-.  Robert  Clow,  Dallas,  G.  M. ;  R.-.W.-.  Rockey  P.  Earhart,  Port- 
land, G.  Sec'y. 


PENNSYLVANIA,  1877. 

A  Quarterly  Commiuiication  was  held  June  6.  R.-.  W.-.  Robert  Clark, 
Grand  Master. 

The  Grand  Master  acknowledged  the  receipt  of  a  portrait  of  the  late  Rev. 
John  Chambers,  D.  D.,  who,  at  time  of  his  death,  was  Senior  Grand  Cliap- 
lain  of  the  Grand  Lodge. 

A  series  of  resolutions  were  adopted,  expressing  sympathy  for  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Missouri  and  the   Fraternity  generally,  in  the  loss  of  Bro.  Gouley. 

The  Grand  Lodge  then  closed  to  meet  in  Quarterly  Communication, 
September  3d. 

The  Grand  Secretary  presented  an  annual  report  of  lodge  membership — • 

Lodges,  375;   membership,  37,811. 

This  is  slight  falling  off  from  the  membership  of  1S75. 

The  Committee  on  Correspondence  presented  a  resolution  : 

Resolved,  That  the  Grand  I^odge  of  the  Most  Ancient  and  Honorable  Fraternity  of  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons  of  Pennsylvania,  opens  Masonic  intercourse  and  fraternal  Masonic 
relations  with  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  Scotland,  and  the  Kight 
Worshipful  Grand  Secretary  be  requested  to  forward  a  copy  of  the  report  of  his  committee, 
presented  to  and  approved  by  this  Grand  Lodge  :it  its  communication,  held  March  ist,  1S76, 
with  the  fraternal  hope  that  thereby  the  best  int(;rests  of  the  Craft  may  be  guarded  and 
secured. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CXLV 


The  first  business  before  the  Quarterly  Communication  of  Dec.  3d,  was 
the  election  of  Grand  Officers.  R.-.W.-.  James  Madison  Porter,  was  elected 
Grand  Master,  in  the  place  of  R.-.  W.-.  Robert  Clark,  who  declined  a  re- 
election. 

The  reports  of  the  various  financial  agencies  of  the  Grand  Lodge  make 
very  flattering  exhibits. 

We  take  the  following  from  the  report  of  the  Library  Committee : 

In  order  to  place  the  Grand  Lodge  in  its  proper  position  as  regards  its  being  the  oldest 
Grand  Lodge  in  America,  a  short  but  concise  history  of  the  establishment  of  Freemasonry  in 
this  country  has  been  prepared  from  authentic  authorities  now  extant,  which  proves,  beyond 
a  reasonable  doubt,  that  Masonry  was  first  established  in  this  city  about  the  year  1730. 

Step  by  step  can  be  traced  the  ineffaceable  marks  of  the  existence  of  genuine  Freema- 
sonry here,  and  the  connection  between  the  Moderns  and  Ancients  is  made  clear. 

It  may  not  be  known  that  the  earlier  minutes  of  the  Grand  Lodge  prior  to  1779  have  been 
lost  or  mislaid  ;  nothing  is  known  of  them  previous  to  that  time.  In  order  to  trace  the  earlier 
history,  we  have  given  full  extracts  from  the  minutes  of  Lodge  No.  3,  from  1767. 

Part  I  ,  just  issued,  brings  the  minutes  down  to  17S6,  at  which  time  the  Grand  Lodge 
separated  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England,  ceasing  to  be  a  Provincial  Grand  Lodge  and 
becoming  the  present  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Fraternity  of  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  according  to  the  old  constitutions  for  Pennsylvania  and  Masonic  iurisdic- 
tion  thereunto  belonging. 

The  Committee  on  Appeals  reported : 

That  the  action  of Lodge  No.  — ,  in  admitting  honorary  members,  was  erroneous, 

and  that  it  promptly  strike  any  such  from  its  roll  of  members. 

Perhaps  Bro.  Vaux  will  be  kind  enough  to  state,  another  year,  the  objec- 
tions to  honorai-y  membership.  In  this  jurisdiction  the  system  is  not  ob- 
jected to.  It  is  not  largely  practiced,  but  when  brethren  have  acquired  hon- 
orable distinction,  they  are  sometimes  rewarded  for  their  usefulness  to  the 
Craft  by  being  made  honorary  mertibers  of  lodges.  This  is  only  a  mark  of 
appreciation  however,  and  does  not  carry  with  it  any  prerogative  of  active 
membership.     We  do  not  discover  the  harm  that  arises  from  the  practice. 

The  Annual  Grand  Communication  assembled  Dec.  27th. 

R.".W.".  Robert  Clark,  Grand  Master,  presiding. 

The  Grand  Master  opens  his  address  with  a  record  of  twelve  visitations, 
in  which  two  hundred  and  twenty-nine  lodges  were  represented.  We  heartily 
endorse  all  that  he  says  in  this  connection : 

At  all  of  these  meetings  there  was  a  very  large  attendance  of  the  brethren,  and  great 
interest  was  manifested  by  them  to  receive  instruction;  and  the  reception  given  to  the  Grand 
Officers  was  such  as  to  elicit  from  us  the  highest  praise  for  their  brotherly  attention.  The 
value  of  these  communications  between  the  Grand  Officers  and  the  brethren,  and  the  lodges 
in  the  various  parts  of  this  jurisdiction,  can  hardly  be  estimated,  without  witnessing  their 
effects.  It  should  be  the  aim  of  the  Grand  Officers  to  cultivate  the  closest  ties  of  fraternal 
feeling  and  interest  between  the  brethren  and  the  Grand  Lodge.  This  interest,  sympathy  and 
regard  show,  in  the  knowledge  which  these  visits  create,  that  the  Grand  Lodge  feels  that  the 
harmony  and  prosperity  of  the  whole  Fraternity  is  its  highest  glory'  and  worthy  of  its  most 
19 


CXLVl  APPENDIX. 


assiduous  efforts  to  establish.  There  is  so  much  instruction  that  can  only  be  communicated  in 
person  to  the  officers  and  members,  and  also  those  of  the  brethren  who  are  called  upon  to 
take  active  labor  in  the  subordinate  lodges,  by  Grand  Masters  and  other  Grand  Officers  who 
accompany  him  on  these  fraternal  visits,  that  in  this  point  of  view  they  are  of  the  highest 
moment. 

Of  the  financial  prosperity  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  he  says: 

I  cannot  but  congratulate  every  member  of  the  subordinate  lodges,  as  well  as  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Grand  Lodge,  at  the  unexampled  result  of  the  financial  year  just  terminated. 
Many  public  institutions,  which  have  relied  on  the  abilitj'  and  fidelity  of  those  who  conduct 
their  economic  and  monetary  affairs,  are,  in  the  present  state  of  trade  and  business,  failing 
to  hold  their  places  in  the  estimation  of  the  public. 

The  Grand  Master  indulges  in  a  little  innocent  but  old-time  penchant  for 
domestic  congratulations: 

It  is  a  cause  of  just  pride  to  the  Fraternity  under  the  jurisdiction  of  this  Grand  Lodge, 
that  within  the  past  few  years  the  evidence  of  respect  of  the  other  Grand  Lodges  of  the 
United  States  for  our  Grand  Lodge  has  increased  and  grown  in  a  very  marked  degree.  It 
was  once  and  not  unfrequent,  that  our  sister  Grand  Lodges  seemed  to  take  pleasure  in  the 
utterances  of  what  was  no  doubt  regarded  by  them  as  innocent  or  harmless  attempts  at  cyn- 
ical criticism  on  what  they  deemed  the  exclusiveness  and  self-conceit  of  this  Grand  Lodge. 
We  were  twitted  with  the  paucit}'  of  the  official  published  proceedings,  the  absence  of  dis- 
quisition, either  in  Grand  Masters'  addresses  or  other  official  papers  that  were  presented  in 
print  for  public  perusal,  or  for  that  of  the  brotherhood. 

Pennsylvania  modestly  listened  to  all  this  with  a  patience  inexhaustible  as  its  prudence^ 
and  waited  for  that  coming  time  when  the  policy  of  this  Grand  Lodge  would  be  vindicated 
by  the  common  acquies'cence  of  the  Craft  in  the  propriety  of  its  course.  This  time  has  come. 
When  now  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  speaks  to  those  who  wish  to  hear,  on  subjects 
which  directly  and  unquestionabl)'  concern  the  common  welfare  of  all  Freemasons,  it  is  with 
profound  satisfaction  that  we  find  her  words  are  not  unnoticed,  or  her  views  unheeded. 

It  is  rarely  that  Pennsylvania  deems  it  her  province,  or  her  duty,  to  interfere  on  questions 
which  pertain  to  the  well-being  of  Masons  outside  of  her  own  borders.  The  reason  must  be 
one  of  such  importance  as  to  justify  it  on  the  strictest  interpretation  of  that  paramount  duty 
\vhich  only  permits  it.  Such  occasions  have  occurred,  and  may  occur  again,  when  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  accepts  the  responsibility  of  expressing  her  opinions.  It  has  ever 
been  done  in  the  closest  obedience  to  that  "charity  that  suffereth  long  and  is  kind,"  and 
thinking  no  evil,  performs  a  duty  under  the  solemn  sense  of  its  obligations. 

There  can  be  no  contention,  when  perfect  love  casteth  out  all  other  considerations  than 
those  which  relate  to  the  integrity  of  the  landmarks,  usages  and  customs  of  the  Fraternity, 
which  cannot  be  assailed  anywhere  without  producing  the  remonstrances  or,  if  need  be,  the 
resistance  of  those  whose  obligations  enforce  every  effort  in  their  defense. 

In  noticing  the  increasing  respect  which  is  manifested  by  our  sister  Grand  Lodges  for 
our  jurisdiction,  I  feel  it  an  opportune  moment  to  make  these  remarks,  and  at  the  same  time 
to  offer  to  them  severally  the  gratification  this  has  produced,  and  which  I  here  desire 
emphatically  to  express. 

We  have  been  quite  familiar  with  this  distinguished  Body  for  more  than 
a  quarter  of  a  century,  but  have  never  before  known  that  there  has  existed 
any  want  of  respect  for  it;  neither  have  we  understood  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Pennsylvania  to  be  "  the  cynosure  of  neighboring  eyes."  It  occupies  a  large 
place  in  the  affections  of  the  Fraternity,  but  not  larger  than  many  others. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CXLVIl 


The  Grand  Master  thus  concludes  a  very  fine  address : 

I  cannot,  my  brethren,  fail  to  congratulate  you  and  every  brother  of  this  jurisdiction  at 
the  spirit  of  harmony,  unity,  and  true  Masonic  feeling  which  governed  the  last  communica- 
tion, and  the  decorum,  ability,  and  calm  thoughtfulness  which  were  conspicuously  evidenced 
by  the  brethren  present  at  that  communication,  and  the  wise  results  reached  by  their  delibera- 
tions are  worthy  of  commendation.  I  mention  it  at  this  time  because  I  hope  it  is  the  sign  of 
the  latent  determination  of  the  Craft  to  make  the  Masonic  Fraternity  an  example  of  those 
virtues  which  can  best  he  cultivated  under  its  benign  teachings. 

The  close  of  my  administration  finds  the  Craft  in  this  jurisdiction  prosperous,  harmonious 
and  consolidated  into  a  brotherhood  of  earnest,  faithful,  confiding  Freemasons,  who  regard 
w^ith  love  and  reverence  their  Grand  Lodge,  and  exhibit  an  abiding  faith  in  the  virtues  of  the 
Craft,  and  in  its  high  destiny,  and  regard  as  a  sacred,  solemn  duty,  God  helping  them,  to 
maintain  its  landmarks  inviolate,  doing  their  work  in  the  Temple  dedicated  to  Him,  and 
resting  under  the  favor  of  Heaven. 

The  Committee  on  Correspondence,  through  its  well  known  and  highly 
appreciated  chairman,  Bro.  Vaux,  submitted  a  brief  but  comprehensive 
report : 

The  significance  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania  as  a  fraternal 
agency,  cannot  be  over  estimated.     Bro.  Vaux  says: 

Pennsylvania  has  no  mission  in  Masonry  either  to  proselyte  or  reform.  As  we  received 
the  faith,  so  we  propose  to  hand  it  over  to  those  who  come  after  us,  neither  changed  nor 
altered  in  jot  or  tittle.  But  Pennsylvania  feels  that  she  has  a  mission  to  preserve,  conserve, 
protect  and  defend  the  foundations  of  Freemasonry.  Not  exulting,  not  proclaiming,  not 
superserviceable,  not  meddlesome,  not  as  a  busy-body  seeking  for  a  cause  to  intervene  in  the 
affairs  of  others  that  do  not  concern  her,  yet  firm  as  the  eternal  hills,  bold  as  truth,  sincere  as 
a  Samaritarian  devotee,  modest,  earnest  arid  unpretending,  Pennsylvania  will  exercise  her 
high  prerogative  as  a  Grand  Lodge  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  to  enter  her  judgment 
against  those  who  are  false  to  Freemasonrj',  and  within  her  jurisdiction  put  prohibition  on 
false  doctrine,  heresy  and  schism. 

His  remarks  upon  Masonry  in  Germany  will  attract  attention : 

Without  any  desire  to  renew  the  expression  of  our  views  as  to  the  condition  of  Masonry 
in  Germany  under  the  "  Grand  Lodge  League,"  and  the  extraordinary  proceedings  styled 
Masonic,  which  resulted  in  the  formation  of  that  "  League,"  we  cannot  consent  that  the 
novelties  which  have  been  thus  presented  to  the  Craft  in  the  United  States  should  be 
excluded  from  this  reference. 

The  principal  objection  to  this  "German  Diet"  of  so-called  Masonic  bodies  is  that  it 
arrogates  to  itself  a  sort  of  Teutonic  supremacy  over  the  Craft.  The  phlegmatic  arrog;ince 
by  which  rationalistic  dogma  asserts  itself  in  cities  and  citadels  of  the  modern  "  illuminati " 
in  the  land  of  the  language  of  the  Nibelungen  Lied,  the  Vilkena  Saga,  the  Empire  of  the 
Hohenshaufens  and  the  country  of  Goethe,  may  be  appreciated  by  the  universities,  or 
defended  by  disciples  of  the  doctrine  of  evolution,  which  rejects  the  concrete  wisdom  of 
mankind  and  accepts  hypotheses  that  are  made  from  hypothetical  premises;  but  the  ancient 
Craft  cannot  follow  such  examples,  or  defend  such  teachings  as  applicable  to  its  landmarks. 

Freemasonry  is  a  law  unto  itself.  Its  virtues,  its  principles,  its  peace,  security  and  per- 
petuity depend  on  its  isolation  from  the  profane,  and  their  ever-shifting  purposes  for  what 
they  term  "  progress." 

The  world  to-day  is  filled  with  witnesses  of  a  destruction  which  has  signalized  conse- 
quences of  new  theories,  in  conflict  with  accepted  truth. 


CXLVIII  APPENDIX. 


To  protect  our  landmarks,  to  preserve  their  integrity  unimpaired  in  our  jurisdiction,  we 
labor  in  that  sublime  faith  which  is  "  the  substance  of  things  hoped  for  and  the  evidence  of 
things  not  seen." 

We  are  under  obligations  for  his  kindly  notice  of  our  jurisdiction.  We 
wish  to  say,  however,  that  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Master,  Joseph  Robbins, 
was  the  "  predecessor  "  of  "  Right  Worshipful  Theodore  T.  Gurney."  We 
make  the  explanation  to  relieve  Bro.  Vaux  of  a  misapprehension  under  which 
he  seems  to  labor. 

We  cannot  close  this  review  without  quoting  his  nonchalant  dismissal  of 
Bro.  Drummond,  of  Maine: 

In  noticing  Pennsylvania  specially,  if  we  understand  Bro.  Drummond,  he  criticises  our 
report  on  the  German  Bund,  and  portions  of  our  report  on  the  recognition  of  Cuba.  We  do 
not  intend  to  reply  to  these  criticisms,  for  they  are  unworthy  of  serious  contravention.  If  the 
terms  "Ancients"  and  "Moderns"  are  regarded  by  Bro.  Drummond  as  equivalent  to  the  dis- 
tinctions between  the  "York"  and  "A.  and  A.  Rite,"  then  all  further  remark  on  the  subject 
by  us  is  useless.  There  is  one  singular  position  of  Bro.  Drummond,  as  to  the  power  of  the 
A.  and  A.  Rite,  that  causes  us  to  smile  as  we  read  it.  Bro.  Drummond  tries  to  make  it 
appear  that,  because  the  A.  and  A.  Rite  does  not  exercise  control  over  the  three  symbolic 
degrees,  its  power  to  do  so  is  extinct.  As  well  might  he  argue  that  the  seclusion  of  the 
anchorite  destroys  its  virility;  but  mav  be  it  does  in  Maine.  Bro.  Drummond's  report  is  like 
all  that  comes  from  his  pen — able,  interesting  and  exhaustive.  Bro.  Drummond,  please  take 
notice,  this  is  not  an  ex  parte  opinion. 

Bro.  James  M.  Porter,  Philadelphia,  R.-.W.-.  G.  M. ;  Bro.  John  Thompson,. 
Philadelphia,  R.-.W.  .  G.  Sec'y. 


PRINCE  EDWARD  ISLAND,   1877. 

Quarterly  Comunications  of  May,  August  and  September,  of  1S76,  con- 
vened in  Summerside,  Port  Hall  and  Georgetown. 

The  Second  Annual    Communication  assembled  in  Charlottetown,  Feb- 
ruary 2ist. 

M.'.W.".  John  Yeo  presiding. 

The  address  of  the  Grand  Master  is  exceedingly  brief.  The  Grand  Lodges 
of  Nova  Scotia,  British  Columbia,  Texas,  California,  Massachusetts,  Maine, 
Louisiana,  New  York,  Wisconsin,  Iowa,  Florida,  Oregon,  Idaho,  and  South 
Carolina,  have  recognized  this  Grand  Body. 

Two  authorizations  for  new  lodges  granted.  The  Grand  Master  has  made 
several  visitations,  with  satisfactory  results.  He  reports  the  Craft  progress- 
ing favorably,  and  in  good  financial  condition. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CXLIX 


It  appears  that  the  Grand  Lodges  of  Eng-land  and  Scotland,  Mother  Bod- 
ies, "have  not  thought  us  worth  their  notice,  as  they  have  never  acknowl- 
edged the  receipt  of  our  memorial  or  proceedings." 

Old  England  never  did  encourage  rebellion ;  but  cordially  accepts  the 
inevitable,  after  a  little  reflection.  Give  the  good  old  mother  time :  she  is 
generally  stubborn,  right  or  wrong,  but  never  vindictive. 

An  unsuccessful  effort  was  made  to  change  the  quarterly  communications 
to  half-yearly. 

R  -.W.-.  Bro.  Higgs,  Grand  Secretary,  was  complimented  for  his  elBciency. 

The  ritual  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Brunswick  was  adopted. 

Statistics — Lodges,  9;  membership,  5S4.  Total  Grand  Lodge  revenue, 
$341   10. 

M.-.  W.-.  John  Yeo,  Port  Hill,  G.  ^L  ;  R.-.  W.-.  B.  Wilson  Higgs,  Char- 
lottetown,  G.  Sec'_\-. 


PRINCE  EDWARD  ISLAND,  1S7S. 

The  pamphlet  before  us  contains  a  record  of  the  transactions  of  the  Quar- 
terly Communications  of  May  15th,  August  15th,  and  November  25th,  1877 ; 
together  with  the  proceedings  of  the  Third  Annual  Communication,  held  in 
Charlottetown,  February  20th. 

M.-.W.'.  Bro.  John  Yeo,  at  the  quarterly  of  May  15th,  decided  that,  "  in 
his  opinion,  there  was  nothing  in  the  constitution  or  landmarks  for  disquali- 
fying a  hunchback  from  being  initiated  into  Masonry."  The  Grand  Lodge 
does  not  appear  to  have  taken  any  exception  to  the  decision.  Each  year's 
experience  strengthens  the  conviction  we  have  so  frequently  expressed,  that 
therp  is  but  one  safe  rule  to  adopt  in  regard  to  physical  qualifications.  It  is 
quite  true  that  a  strict  construction  of  the  regulation  frequently  appears 
unwise,  but  it  seems  to  us  that  it  is  far  better  that  it  should  thus  a^^ear,  than 
for  Grand  Lodges  to  differ  so  widely  on  an  important  subject. 

Bro.  Yeo  is  doubtless  of  the  opinion  that  such  enlargements  are  not  more 
objectionable  on  the  back  than  in  front.     Either  may  be  abnormal. 

The  Grand  Master  was  unavoidably  absent  from  the  Annual  Communica- 
tion. We  find  in  his  address  a  number  of  interesting  items.  Our  good  Bro. 
Ira  J.  Bloomfield,  has  been  appointed  to  represent  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Prince 
Edward  Island,  near  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  We  take  this  occasion  to 
congratulate  our  brethren  on  their  selection. 

The  Grand  Master  advises  us  of  two  new  lodges,  making  eleven  in  the 
jurisdiction. 


CL  APPENDIX. 


He  alludes  to  the  decease  of  Past  Master  Bro.  Neil  Rankin,  "who  was  an 
active  worker,  and  held  in  high  estimation."  He  also  notices  the  decease  of 
Bro.  George  Frank  Goulej,  of  Missouri. 

At  thejast  Quarterly  Communication  notice  was  given  of  several  amend- 
ments to  the  organic  law;  among  others,  one  to  dispense  with  Quarterly 
Communications.  The  Grand  Master  was  of  opinion  that  this  change  would 
not  at  present  be  desirable.  He  notices  the  action  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Scotland  regarding  its  severance  of  relations  with  the  Grand  Orient  of 
France,  and  approves  the  determination  of  the  former. 

A  communication  was  received  from  Bro.  Ramon  Ilia,  asking  recognition 
of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba.     Consideration  of  the  matter  was  deferred. 

The  following  effort  to  amend  the  Constitution  was  lost: 

Resolved,  That  on  page  55,  Art.  5  of  the  Constitution,  the  word  "  two  "  on  the  seventh 
line,  be  struck  out,  and  the  word  "  one"  substituted. 

The  purpose  of  the  proposed  amendment  was  to  make  balloting  on  appli- 
cations for  degrees  or  membership,  unanimous.  We  regret  the  defeat  of  a 
regulation  as  old  as  Masonry'.  The  ancient  regulations  are  as  follows  :  "But 
no  man  can  be  entered  a  brother  in  any  particular  lodge,  or  admitted  to  be  a 
member  thereof,  without  the  unanimous  consent  of  all  the  members  of  that 
lodge  the7i  present,  etc.,  etc."     Italics  ours. 

The  time  for  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Grand  Lodge  was  changed  from 
February  to  June  24th. 

We  do  not  find  a  report  on  Correspondence. 

Statistics — Lodges,  11;  membership,  566. 

M.-.W.-.  John  Yeo,  Port  Hill,  G,  M.;  R.-.  W.-.  B.  Wilson  Higgs,  Char- 
lottetown,  G.  Sec'y. 


QUEBEC,   1877. 

The  Eighth  Annual  Communication  was  held  in  Montreal,  Sept.  26th. 
M.-.W.-.  James  Dunbar  on  the  Throne. 

The  address  of  the  Grand  Master  is  brief,  but  practical  and  comprehen- 
sive. He  congratulates  the  Craft  on  numerical  achievements,  and  the  financial 
prosperity  of  the  Grand  Lodge  : 

The  increase  of  Freemasonry  during  the  past  few  years  has  been  very  remarkble,  and 
particularly  in  the  United  Kingdom,  where,  according  to  recent  authority,  it  has  been  com- 
puted that  nearly  one  out  of  every  tour  or  five  men  of  the  upper  and  middle  classes  is  a  Mason. 


MASONIC     CORRESPONDKNCE.  CLI 


The  Grand  Lodge  of  England  has  now  three  Princes  occupying  the  three  first  chairs, — the 
Prince  of  Wales  being  Grand  Master,  the  Duke  of  Connaught  Senior  Grand  Warden,  and 
Prince  Leopold  Junior  Grand  Wai^^n. 

If  the  children  have  a  moiety  of  the  integrity  of  the  good  Queen  Mother, 
we  will  not  object  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England  making  as  much  of  them 
as  she  is  inclined. 

Speaking  of  Princes,  we  have  a  few  in  Chicago — say  five  hundred,  more 
or  less — and  filled  to  the  brim  with  "Royal  Secrets."  It  is  a  magnificent, 
benevolent  spectacle  to  look  upon  them  at  a  banquet.  Like  all  other  exalted 
characters,  they  take  kindly  to  good  things. 

The  Grand  Master  makes  the  gratifying  announcement  that  fraternal  rela- 
tions have  been  established  with  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland.  The  corres- 
pondence is  published.     Missouri  still  withholds  recognition. 

The  Grand  Lodge  sanctioned  an  appropriation  of  two  hundred  dollars  for 
the  relief  of  St.  John  brethren. 

Dispensations  for  three  new  lodges  have  been  issued. 

The  Grand  Master  recommended  the  resumption  of  reports  on  corres- 
pondence.    A  committee  was  appointed.     Amen. 

The 'reports  of  D.  D.  G.  Masters  are  very  readable  papers.  R.-.W.".  J.  T. 
McMinn,  D.  D.  G,  Master  of  the  Montreal  District,  recommended  that 
measures  be  instituted  by  the  Grand  Lodge  to  assert  its  supreme  jurisdiction. 
The  following  resolutions  were  adopted  : 

Resolved,  Thai  in  consideration  of  the  recognition  of  this  Grand  Lodge — through  the 
establishment  of  fraternal  relations  in  the  interchange  of  Grand  Representatives — by  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland;  and  in  view  of  the  fact  that  there  still  exists  in  this  jurisdiction,  a 
subordinate  Lodge  working  under  charter  from  that  Grand  Body,  as  well  as  three  subordinate 
lodges  working  under  charters  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England ;  therefore,  it  is  expedient, 
that  a  definite  period  be  now  fixed  when  those  several  lodges  shall  return  to  their  respecfive 
Grand  Lodges  their  charters,  and  receive  from  this  Grand  Lodge  a  duplicate  thereof,  so  that 
the  supremacy  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec  may  be  preserved  intact  in  accordance  with  the 
well  understood  regulations  defining  the  territorial  jurisdiction  of  Grand  Lodges  on  this 
Continent. 

And,  inasmuch  as  the  interests  of  the  Craft  in  this  jurisdiction  require  that  no  unnecessary 
delay  shall  ensue  in  carrying  out  this  resolution,  the  Most  ^Vorshipful  tie  Grand  Master  is 
hereby  instructed  to  cause  the  same  to  be  communicated  forthwith  to  the  Grand  Lodo-e  of 
England  and  Scotland  respectively,  with  a  respectful  notification  that  their  several  subordi- 
nate lodges  shall  on  or  before  the  ist  of  January  next  comply  with  the  terms  thereof. 

A  lodge  having  placed  an  E.  A.  on  probation  for  six  rionf/ts,  the  Board 
of  General  Purposes  presented  a  sound  view  of  the  case: 

We  are  bound  to  say  that  we  consider  the  action  of  Golden  Rule  Lodge  No.  5  arbitrary 
and  unconstitutional,  and  would  recommend  that  the  lodge  be  ordered,  at  its  next  Regular 
Communication,  or  whenever  the  brother  making  the  complaint  presents  himself  for  the  pur- 
pose to  examine  him, — and  if  he  be  found  sufficiently  advanced  to  pass  him  to  the  Second 
Degree,  and  within  the  usual  time  thereafter,  upon  his  undergoing  a  satisfactory  examination 
and  proving  himself  qualified,  to  raise  him  to  the  Sublime  Degree  of  a  M.  M.,  unless,  indeed, 
a  distinct  and  sufiicitnt  charge  has  been  previously  preferred  against  him,  and  he  be  in  due 
time  tried  and  convicted  thereupon. 


APPENDIX. 


Dual  membership  was  extinguished. 

The  Committee  on  Rituals  reported  progress.  Their  labors  in  revising 
the  first  degree  met  with  favor.  The  evening  ^as  occupied  in  its  exemplifi- 
cation. 

The  first  business  of  the  morning  session  was  to  present  Past  Grand  Master 
J.  H.  Graham  with  a  silver  tea  service,  in  recognition  of  his  distinguished 
services. 

The  various  reports  of  the  Board  of  General  Purposes  are  models  of  clear 
and  concise  statement.  The  Board  recommended  that  the  consideration  of 
the  application  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  "Cuba"  for  recognition,  be  deferred. 
The  Board  say: 

In  view  of  the  fact  that  all  possible  means  have  been  exhausted  by  this  Grand  I^odge,  to 
bring  about  an  amicable  settlement  with  these  lodges  working  under  Foreign  Grand  Lodges 
without  effect,  the  Board  recommends  that  the  proper  steps  be  now  taken  to  establish  the 
authority  of  this  Grand  Lodge  over  all  subordinate  lodges  in  this  jurisdiction. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec  is  an  indcpendeiit  sovereign  Grand  Body, 
and  so  recognized  by  the  Grand  Lodges  of  this  continent,  with  but  one  ex- 
ception. Standing  in  this  relation  to  the  Craft,  it  is  her  solemn  duty  to  insist 
upon  her  jurisdictional  rights  regardless  of  conscqtierices.  Our  brethren  of 
Quebec  have  lieen  patient  and  forbearing;  more  so  than  would  have  been 
Illinois  under  like  circumstances. 

We  find  a  memorial  page  to  our  distinguished  brother    Gouley,  deceased. 

Statistics — Lodges,  62  ;   membership,  2,810. 

M.-.W.-.  Bro.  Melbourne  M.  Tait,  Montreal,  G.  M.;  R.-.W.  .  I.  H.  Isaac- 
son, Montreal,  G.  Sec'y;  Rev.  Bro.  H  W.  Nye,  Ironhill,  Chairman  Com- 
mittee on  Correspondence. 

Since  the  foregoing  has  been  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  printer,  we  are 
in  receipt  of  the  following  proclamation  : 

Grand  I^odge  of  Quebec,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons.  ) 
Office  of  the  Grand  Master,  Montreal,  P.  Q.,  28th  June,  5878.  i 

To  the  M.    W.  the  Grand  Masters,  Officers  and  Brethren  of  all  Regular  Grand  Lodges  of 
Freemasons  throughout  theworld,  to  -whom  these  presents  may  come  Greeting  ■■ 

Brethren:  It  was  with  profound  regret  that  I  felt  it  my  duty  to  issue  the  following 
proclamation. 

To  all  brethren  in  ohedience  to  the  M.    W.  the   Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec,    Ancient   Free  and 
Accepted  Masons  .- 

Whereas,  The  Grand  Lodge  of  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  Scotland,  has 
granted  warrants  to  form  two  lodges  of  Masons  at  Montreal,  in  the  Province  of  Quebec,  one 
to  be  called  "King  Solomon  No.  622,"  and  the  other  "Argyle  No.  625."     And 

Whereas,  It  has  been  officially  announced  that  the  said  lodges  are  to  be  erected,  consti- 
tuted and  consecrated  by  virtue  of  such  warrants,  and  their  officers  to  be  installed  on  the  24th 
day  of  June,  instant.     And 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CLIII 


Whereas,  By  such  action,  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland  has  unjustifiably  and  unlaw- 
fully invaded  the  territory  and  jurisdiction  of  "The  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec,  Ancient  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,"  in  violation  of  the  laws  and  traditions  of  the  fraternitv  affecting  the 
establishment  and  sovereignty  of  Grand  Lodges,  and  in  a  manner  calculated  to  interfere  most 
seriously  with  the  welfare  and  harmony  of  the  Craft  in  the  said  Province.     And 

Whereas,  such  action  on  the  part  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland  has  occurred  after 
unconditional  recognition  by  her  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec,  as  having  and  exercising 
supreme  Masonic  jurisdiction  in  said  Province,  which  recognition  she  subsequently  withdrew 
without  just  or  lawful  cause. 

Be  it  therefore  known  unto  you  all,  that  in  vindication  of  the  sovereignty  of  "the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Quebec,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,"  and  of  the  inherent  rights  and  pre- 
rogative of  our  ancient,  honorable  and  loyal  fraternity,  and  in  justice  to  all  those  Grand 
Lodges  whose  recognition  has  been  extended  to  her; — I  therefore,  in  virtue  of  the  authority 
vested  in  me  as  Grand  Master  of  "The  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,"  declare  and  proclaim  that  the  action  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland,  in  granting 
said  two  warrants,  was  and  is  unfraternal  and  unconstitutional;  that  said  warrants  are  irreg- 
ular and  illegal;  that  the  lodges  to  he  formed  thereunder  will  be  irregular  and  illegal  lodges; 
that  all  Masons  named  in  said  warrants  are  now,  and  all  persons  becoming  members  of  said 
lodges  will  be  irregular  Masons ;  and  I  hereby  further  declare  and  proclaim  all  Masonic  inter- 
course to  be  suspended,  and  to  cease  between  this  Grand  Lodge,  its  subordinate  lodges,  and 
all  brethren  in  obedience  thereto,  and  the  G.  L.  of  Scotland,  and  all  lodges  and  brethren  in 
obedience  thereto;  and  all  brethren  of  the  G.  L.  of  Quebec,  are  hereby  commanded  to  hold 
no  Masonic  intercourse  with  any  brother  in  obedience  to  the  said  G.  L.  of  Scotland,  as  far  as 
Ancient  Craft  Masonry  is  concerned ;  and  this  edict  shall  be,  and  remain  in  full  force  and 
effect,  until  revoked  by  the  Grand  Master,  or  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec.  And  it  is  hereby 
further  ordered  that  due  proclamation  of  this  edict  be  made  to  all  brethren  in  obedience  to 
this  Grand  Lodge;  of  all  which  they  will  take  due  notice  and  govern  themselves  accordingly; 
and  also  that  the  same  be  communicated  to  all  regular  Grand  Lodges  throughout  the  world. 

Witness  my  hand  and  the  seal  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec,  at  Montreal,  Province  of 
•Quebec,  Dominion  of  Canada,  this  2ist  day  of  June,  A.  L.  5878. 

John  H.  Isaacson,  MELBOURNE  M.  TAIT, 

Grand  Secretary,  G.  L.  of  ^.  .  Grnad  Master. 

Some  historical  data  will  be  necessary  for  a  clear  understanding  of  the 
-unfriendly  attitude  of  these  Bodies;  particularly  that  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Scotland  towards  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec  was  organized  on  the  20th  day  of  October, 
1869,  and  has  since  been  recognized  as  an  independent  sovereign  Grand 
Lodge  of  symbolic  Masonry  by  forty-two  Grand  Lodges  of  the  English  speak- 
ing jurisdictions  of  the  continent  of  North  America,  (including  that  of 
Illinois)  together  with  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Ireland,  and  various  other  Grand 
Bodies  of  Europe  and  South  America. 

At  the  date  of  its  institution,  four  lodges,  three  working  under  English 
authority,  and  one,  Elgin,  by  authority  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland, 
declined,  and  still  decline  to  accept  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec  as  a  govern- 
ing body.  Every  effort  has  been  made  by  the  latter,  consistent  with  her  dig- 
nity as  a  Masonic  power,  to  induce  these  lodges  to  respect  the  rights  and 
authority  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec;  and  also  to  induce  the  Grand 
Lodges  of  Scotland  and  England  to  aid  her  in  the  undertaking.  Our  sister 
20 


CLIV  APPENDIX. 


jurisdiction  had  reason  to  suppose  that  the  former  had  assented  to  her  juris- 
dictional claims;  for,  on  the  5th  day  of  February,  1877,  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Scotland  did  "  unanimously  resolve  to  open  fraternal  relations  with  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Quebec."  In  accordance  with  this  recognition,  an  interchange  of 
representatives  followed. 

Soon  after,  on  the  4th  day  of  October,  1877,  believing  that  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Scotland  could  not  interpose  reasonable  objection  to  the  absolute 
supremacy  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec,  within  her  established  jurisdictional 
limits,  the  latter  suggested  to  the  former,  the  "propriety  of  directing  that 
Elgin  Lodge  take  such  steps  as  may  be  necessary  to  place  itself  under  the 
jurisdiction  of  this  Grand  Lodge." 

In  response  to  this  request  and  resolutions  accompanying  it,  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Scotland  authorized  the  following  communication  to  Elgin  Lodge, 
a  copy  of  which  was  forwarded  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec : 

"In  opening  fraternal  relations  with  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec,  our 
Grand  Lodge  could  not  have  had  the  slightest  intention  of  recognizing  any 
right  upon  which  might  be  founded  a  demand  for  the  severance  of  the  tie 
existing  between  it  and  its  daughter  lodge  of  Montreal.  Should  such  a  right 
be  insisted  upon,  I  feel  certain  that  rather  than  accede  to  the  demand,  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland  will  authorize  the  recall  of  its  commission  to  its 
representative  near  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec."     It  was  recalled. 

The  reply  of  the  Grand  Master  of  Quebec,  of  May  17th,  1878,  to  the  deter- 
mination of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland,  covers  the  whole  ground  of  the 
controversy;  also  affirming  a  well  recognized  principle,  tenaciously  insisted 
upon  by  every  English  speaking  jurisdiction  on  this  continent,  that  political 
and  Masonic  boundaries  should  be  coterminous. 

We  do  not  wish  to  judge  harshly,  but  in  the  present  aspect  of  the  case,  we 
must  believe  that  the  establishment  of  two  new  lodges,  immediately  succeed- 
ing the  disruption  of  fraternal  relations,  was  a  malicious  defiance  of  the 
authority  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec.  Not  only  this,  but  a  direct  declar- 
ation of  disregard  for  the  jurisdictional  claims  of  every  Grand  Lodge  in 
America.  We  do  not  believe  that  this  determination  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Scotland  admits  of  remote  justification;  consequently,  we  hope  that  every 
Grand  Body  on  this  continent  will  at  once  adopt  measures  to  show  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland,  that  she  cannot  invade  our  rights  with  impunity. 


MASONIC     CORRESPONDENCE.  CI-V 


RHODE    ISLAND,   1877. 

Preceding  the  Semi-Annual  Communication  of  November  20th,  1876,  we 
find  several  special,  and  one  festival  communication.  At  the  latter  some 
business  was  transacted,  and  the  following  report  presented  and  adopted : 

Your  committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  annual  address  of  the  M.  W.  Grand  Master, 
delivered  in  May  last,  respectfully  report  that  thej'  have  examined  the  same  carefully,  and 
present  the  result  of  their  considerations  in  the  following  resolutions,  and  recommend  their 
adoption  by  this  M.  W.  Grand  Lodge: 

Resolved,  That  the  edict  issued  on  the  27th  day  of  January,  A.  D.  1S76,  A.  L.  5876,  by 
the  M.  ^V.  Grand  Master  of  Masons  of  this  jurisdiction,  in  relation  to  clandestine  Masons, 
be,  and  the  same  is,  hereby  approved  and  confirmed. 

Resolved,  That  the  M.  W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Rhode  Island  deems  it  necessary  to  declare, 
and  hereby  does  declare,  that  each  State  and  Territory  within  the  United  States,  wherein 
there  is  now  existing  a  Grand  Lodge  recognized  by  and  in  fellowship  with  this  Grand  Lodge, 
is  a  separate  and  distinct  Masonic  jurisdiction,  under  the  sole  government  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  so  recognized  therein. 

Resolved,  That  the  above  declaration  being  the  fundamental  law  of  Masonry,  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Rhode  Island  has  never  acknowledged,  and  will  not  acknowledge  the  right  of  any 
Grand  Lodge  or  Grand  Orient  to  claim,  hold,  or  exercise  Masonic  authority  over  any  portion 
of  any  State  or  Territory  wherein  already  exists  a  regularly  recognized  Grand  Lodge. 

Resolved,  That  it  is  not  \*ithin  the  power  of  any  Grand  Lodge  to  legally  surrender  any 
portion  of  its  authority  or  jurisdiction  to  any  other  Grand  Lodge  or  Grand  Orient,  or  to  per- 
mit any  other  Grand  Lodge  or  Grand  Orient  to  exercise  concurrent  authority  within  its  own 
territorial  jurisdiction. 

Resolved,  That  if,  at  any  time,  any  Grand  Lodge,  recognized  by  and  in  fellowship  with 
this  Grand  Lodge,  shall  surrender  its  sole  and  exclusive  territorial  jurisdiction  to  any  other 
power  or  authority,  or  shall  recognize  any  other  Grand  Lodge  or  Grand  Orient  as  holding 
jurisdiction  within  its  territory,  then  and  in  that  case  this  Grand  Lodge  will  cease  to  hold 
Masonic  fellowship  with  such  Grand  Lodge. 

Resolved,  That  the  M.  W.  Grand  Master  of  Masons  of  this  jurisdiction  be,  and  he  is, 
hereby  requested,  whenever  it  shall  come  to  his  knowledge  that  any  Grand  Lodge  has  so 
surrendered  its  authority  or  divided  its  jurisdiction,  to  issue  his  edict  suspending-  all  Masonic 
intercourse  between  the  lodges  and  members  of  this  State  and  the  lodges  and  members  of  the 
jurisdiction  under  the  Grand  Lodge  aforesaid. 

Resolved,  That  the  R.  W.  Grand  Secretary  be,  and  he  is,  hereby  authorized  and  directed 
to  pay  to  the  publisher  of  the  "Freemasons'  Repository"  the  cost  of  publishing  therein  the 
official  directory  and  papers  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  as  the  same  shall  be  approved  by  the 
M.  W.  Grand  Master. 

Resolved,  That  it  is  hereby  recommended  to  the  subordinate  lodges  of  this  jurisdiction  to 
pay  to  the  publisher  of  the  "  Freemasons'  Repository"  the  cost  of  printing  therein  the  direc- 
tory of  said  lodge. 

Resolved,  That  this  Grand  Lodge  declares  the  connection  of  Masonic  emblems  with  the 
business  of  individuals  to  be  unmasonic. 

Sound,  every  word  of  it. 


CLVI  APPENDIX. 


The  Semi-Annual  Communication  convened  in  Providence.  M.'.W.-. 
Nicholas  VanSljck  in  the  Grand  East. 

The  Committee  on  Correspondence  reported  adversely  to  the  recognition 
of  the  so-called  Grand  Lodge  of  Ontario.     Concurred  in. 

Brother  Addeman,  in  behalf  of  a  Special  Committee  to  whom  had  been 
referred  the  proposition  "to  provide  for  a  Board  or  Commission  on  Masonic 
Trials,"  reported  that  they  did  not  deem  it  expedient  that  the  Grand  Consti- 
tution should  be  amended  in  the  direction  suggested.  The  committee  sub- 
sequently asked  further  time  for  the  consideration  of  the  question.  In  this 
connection,  the  following  resolution  was  adopted: 

Resolved,  That  when  in  any  lodge  a  trial  shall  be  ordered,  the  Master  of  such  lodge  shall 
cause  notice  thereof,  and  of  the  time  and  place  where  such  trial  is  to  be  held,  to  be  sent  to  the 
M.  W.  Grand  Master  and  to  the  Grand  Secretary,  at  least  seven  days  before  such  trial. 

An  Emergent  Communication  assembled  April  12th,  1877,  in  Wakefield,  to 
attend  "the  funeral  of  M.".W.*.  Stephen  Ayrault  Robinson,  a  Past  Grand 
Master,"  of  the  jurisdiction. 

The  Eight^'-Seventh  Annual  Communication  assembled  in  Providence, 
May  2 1  St. 

The  transactions  of  the  session  were  largely  devoted  to  local  interests.  It 
gives  us  pleasure  to  know  that  the  Grand  Body  is  relieved  of  all  financial  em- 
barrassment. 

There  is  nothing  presented  in  the  address  of  the  Grand  Master  that  calls  for 
particular  mention ;  except  that  he  declined  a  re-election  : 

Four  years  have  now  elapsed  since  you  placed  this  jewel  upon  my  breast,  and  to-day  it 
must  be  placed  upon  the  breast  of  another.  As  I  have  heretofore  informed  )'ou  I  have  looked 
forward  to  this  day  to  dissolve  the  official  relationship  that  has  existed  between  us  as  your 
Grand  Master.  This  determination  has  not  been  made  without  mature  consideration  of  my 
duty  to  the  Craft,  its  claims  upon  me  and  the  effect  upon  your  welfare.  There  never  could 
exist  a  more  favorable  moment  for  a  change  than  now.  All  is  peaceful  and  harmonious 
Freemasonry  was  never  so  firmly  established  as  now,  and  never  gave  better  promise  for  the 
future. 

Rev.  and  W.  Bro.,  Henry  W.  Rugg,  submitted  a  two  page  report  on  For- 
eign Correspondence.  His  remarks  recommending  the  recognition  of  the 
"Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba,"  we  cannot  endorse: 

The  "Grand  Lodge  of  Colon"  in  Cuba  was  established  in  1859.  It  seems  to  have  been 
regularly  formed,  and  claimed  to  be  and  was  a  Sovereign  Grand  Masonic  Body.  When, 
however,  a  little  later,  the  Supreme  Council  of  the  Scottish  Rite  was  organized,  the  "  Grand 
Lodge  of  Colon  "  accepted  its  constitution  and  government,  so  becoming  a  subordinate  of,  or 
an  appendage  to,  that  organization.  The  lodges  of  symbolic  Masonry  vainly  tried  to  obtain 
their  rights  under  the  rule  of  the  Supreme  Council,  and  to  preserve  the  independency  of  their 
own  Grand  Lodge;  failing  in  which,  in  August  last,  thirteen  lodges  met  in  convention  and 
formed  the  "Grand  Lodge  of  the  Island  of  Cuba,"  only  assuming  to  recognize  and  regulate 
the  three  degrees  of  Ancient  Craft  Masonry.  The  steps  taken  were  regular,  and  the  organiz- 
ation then  created  was  made  independent  and  sovereign,  without  any  entangling  alliances. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDKNCE. 


Either  Bro.  Ruggor  we  are  incorrect.  We  made  our  statements,  last  year, 
from  documents  furnished  by  the  representatives  of  the  rival  bodies.  If  they 
are  consulted,  it  would  seem  impossible  to  arrive  at  any  other  conclusion 
than  that  neither  claimant  has  any  claim  to  symbolic  consideration. 

It  is  difficult  to  understand  how  Bro.  Rugg  reconciles  his  position  in  this 
case,  with  his  views  expressed  in  another  part  of  his  report. 

There  have  been  received  at  the  office  of  the  Grand  Secretary,  and  by  your  committee, 
communications  from,  and  published  proceedings  of,  various  Grand  Masonic  Bodies  whose 
constitutions  or  methods  of  procedure,  or  relations  with  other  organizations  are  of  such  a 
nature  as  to  debar  them  from  official  recognition  in  jurisdictions  where  it  is  held  that  every 
Grand  Lodge  must  have  an  independent  existence,  and  not  be  merely  co-ordinate  with  some 
other  organization ;  and  where  it  is  believed  that  each  Grand  Lodge  must  have  exclusive 
control  within  certain  territorial  limits,  and  be  the  ultimate  authority  for  its  new  members. 

Tried  by  this  standard  manj'  of  the  Grand  Bodies  in  Europe  and  South  America  appear 
lacking  in  the  true  essentials  of  independent  Gransl  Lodges,  such  as  should  represent  and 
govern  Ancient  Craft  Masonry.  They  acknowledge  allegiance  to  Grand  Orients;  or  vest 
their  powers  in  some  convention  in  which  they  only  have  a  representative  voice  or  vote ;  or 
they  onh'  possess  a  concurrent  jurisdiction,  hence  they  are  irre£riilar  according  to  the  Ameri- 
can standard,  although,  in  many  cases,  they  make  noble  manifestation  of  the  distinguishing 
characteristics  of  the  Masonic  Institution. 

Statistics — Lodges,  31 ;   membership,  4,326. 

M.-.W.  .  Charles  R.  Cutler,  Warren,  G  M.  R.- W.-.  Edwin  Baker, 
Providence,  G.  Sec. 


SCOTLAND,  1878. 

It  affords  us  much  pleasure  to  acknowledge  receipt  of  the  proceedings  of 
the  Quarterly  Communication  of  this  distinguished  Grand  Body,  held  in 
Edinburgh,  on  the  6th  of  February. 

M.-.W.-.  Brother,  Sir  Michael  R.  Shaw-Stewart,  Bart.,  on  the  Throne. 

Worshipful  Brother  Adam  Thompson  was  received  and  congratulated  as 
the  Representative  of  the  M.-.W.-.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  near  the  M.-.W.-. 
Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland.  We  but  echo  the  sentiments  of  the  brethren  of 
this  jurisdiction,  when  we  express  an  ardent  hope  that  these  fraternal  courte- 
sies may  result  in  more  intimate  relations  between  the  two  Grand  Lodges. 

The  particular  business  of  the  session  was  the  election  of  the  Grand  Com- 
mittee composed  of  thirty-six  members,  and  which,  it  appears,  is  of  recent 
origin.  This  body  is,  as  we  understand  it,  analogous  to  the  Board  of  Gen- 
eral Purposes  of  the  Grand  Lodges  of  the  Dominion.  We  find  this  record, 
which  will  in  a  measure  explain  the  functions  of  the  Committee: 


CLVIII  APPENDIX. 


The  minutes  of  last  Quarterly  Communication,  and  the  several  minutes  of  the  Grand 
Committee,  which  had  been  printed  and  circulated  among  the  members  of  Grand  Lodge,  held 
as  read,  were  confirmed,  as  were  also  the  minutes  of  a  Statutory  Meeting  of  Grand  Commit- 
tee held  to-day. 

Following  the  meeting  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  are  several  sessions  of  the 
Grand  Committee.  At  the  meeting  of  the  26th  of  February  we  find  the  fol- 
lowing : 

The  Grand  Secretary  submitted  a  communication  from  the  Provincial  Grand  Lodge  of 
New  South  ^Vales,  stating  that  certain  brethren  belonging  to  lodges  there,  holding  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Scotland,  had,  in  conjunction  with  others  of  the  Irish  Constitution,  formed  them- 
selves into  "The  Grand  I^odge  of  New  South  Wales  ;"  that  of  the  twenty-seven  Scotch  lodges 
in  that  Province,  eight  only  had  been  represented  at  the  meeting  at  which  the  schismatics 
threw  off  their  allegiance  to  their  respective  Grand  Lodges;  that  the  Provincial  Grand  Lodge 
were  doing  all  in  their  power  to  counteract  the  disloyal  movement  referred  to  ;  and  that  in  this 
they  had  the  cordial  and  fraternal  co-operation  of  the  District  Grand  Master  and  lodges  under 
the  English  Constitution.  The  Grand  Secretary  also  tabled  his  reply,  containing  instructions 
for  the  guidance  of  the  Provincial  Grand  Lodge,  which  ^vas  approved  of. 

An  application  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Missouri  (Colored)  for  recognition  was  remitted  to 
the  Foreign  and  Colonial  Committee,  with  the  recommendation  that  in  reporting,  the  Sub- 
committee be  not  influenced  by  any  distinction  of  color. 

We  suppose  that  our  brethren  are  so  familiar  with  the  views  of  the  Eng- 
lish speaking  Grand  Lodges  of  this  continent,  that  any  reference  to  the 
question  of  recognizing  the  Colored  Masonry  of  this  country  would  be 
entirely  unnecessary.  We  may  be  permitted  to  say,  however,  that  "  color  " 
does  not  enter  into  the  controversy.  With  us,  it  is  a  question  of  legitimacy, 
and  nothing  more. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Grand  Committee  on  March  26th,  the  following 
action  appears . 

The  resolutions  adopted  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England  regarding  the  recent  action  of 
the  Grand  Orient  of  France  were  read  by  the  Secretary.  They  are  as  follows: — "ist.  That 
this  Grand  Lodge  views  with  profound  regret  the  step  taken  by  the  Grand  Orient  of  France 
in  thus  removing  from  its  constitution  those  paragraphs  which  assert  a  belief  in  the  existence 
of  T.  G.  A.  O.  T.  U.,  because  such  an  alteration  is  opposed  to  the  traditions,  practice,  and 
feelings  of  all  'true  and  genuine'  Masons  from  the  earliest  to  the  present  time.  2d,  That  this 
Grand  Lodge,  whilst  always  anxious  to  receive  in  the  most  fraternal  spirit  the  brethren  of  any 
Foreign  Grand  Lodge  whose  proceedings  are  conducted  according  to  the  Ancient  Landmarks 
of  the  Order,  of  which  a  belief  in  T.  G.  A.  O.  T.  U.  is  the  first  and  most  important,  cannot 
recognize  as  'true  and  genuine'  brethren  any  who  have  been  initiated  in  lodges  which  either 
deny  or  ignore  that  belief.  3d,  That  in  view  of  the  foregoing  resolutions  the  W.  Masters  of 
all  lodges  holding  under  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England  be  directed  not  to  admit  any  foreign 
brother  as  a  visitor,  unless — [D  He  is  duly  vouched  for,  or  unless  his  certificate  shows  that  he 
has  been  initiated  according  to  the  ancient  rites  and  ceremonies  in  a  lodge  professing  belief 
in  T.  G.  A.  O.  T.  U. ;  and  (2)  Not  unless  he  himself  shall  acknowledge  that  this  belief  is  an 
essential  landmark  of  the  Order.  4th,  That  a  copy  of  the  foregoing  resolutions  be  transmitted 
to  the  Grand  Lodges  of  Scotland  and  Ireland,  to  each  Grand  Lodge  with  which  this  Grand 
Lodge  is  in  communication,  and  to  the  W.  Masters  of  all  lodges  holding  under  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  England,  and  that  it  be  an  instruction  to  the  W.  Master  of  each  lodge  to  read  these 
resolutions  at  the  first  meeting  of  his  lodge  after  the  reception  thereof,  and  to  direct  that  they 
shall  be  entered  upon  the  minutes."  The  Grand  Committee  unanimously  agreed  in  this  case 
to  recommend  to  Grand  Lodge  to  adopt  resolutions  similar  to  those  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
England. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE. 


We  also  find  a  charter  granted  for  a  lodge  in  Montreal,  Canada. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  Wyoming  was  recognized. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Committee  held  on  the  9th  daj'  of  April,  a  large 
number  of  alterations  to  the  laws  and  constitution  were  recommended  for 
the  action  of  the  Grand  Lodge : 

Paid  Officers  of  Grand  Lodge  not  to  be  subject  to  annual  election.  Section  i  of  chapter 
I  to  read  thus — "The  whole  Office-bearers  of  the  Grand  Lodge  shall  be  annually  elected  by 
its  members,  with  the  exception  ot  the  paid  officers  whose  appointments  shall  be  held  term- 
inable at  St.  Andrew's  Day  annually  on  three  months  prior  notice  being  given  by  resolution 
to  terminate  their  appointment  at  such  period." 

The  Foreign  Colonial  Committee  report: 

The  committee  had  under  its  consideration  an  application  from  certain  brethren  in  Mon- 
treal craving  a  warrant  for  the  erection  of  a  lodge  there,  to  be  called  the  "Argyle."  In 
respect  this  Grand  Lodge  does  not  recognize  the  pretended  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec,  which 
now  seeks  the  exclusive  jurisdiction  of  this  district,  and  which  jurisdiction  has  been  relin- 
quished by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Can;ida,  the  committee  recommends  Grand  Lodge  to  grant 
the  prayer  of  the  petition,  particularly  as  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland  exercises  at  present 
jurisdiction  over  lodges  at  Montreal,  which  were  instituted  by  it  long  prior  to  the  existence  of 
any  Grand  Lodge  in  Canada,  pretended  or  real. 

We  are  not  fully  acquainted  with  the  differences  between  these  Grand 
Lodges,  that  prompted  this  action,  and  for  that  reason  withhold  remarks. 
We  sincerely  hope  that  whatever  friction  may  exist  will  soon  disappear. 
Statistics  are  not  given. 


SOUTH  CAROLINA,   1877. 

The  One  Hundred  and  First  Annual  Communication  was  held  Decem- 
ber 15th. 

M.".W.".  Wilmot  G.  DeSaussure,  Grand  Master. 

The  Grand  Master  opens  a  very  creditable  address  with  a  fraternal  men- 
tion of  the  decease  of  Bros.  Gouley  of  Missouri,  Dove,  of  Virginia,  and 
Harris,  of  New  Hampshire.  On  the  subject  of  dispensations  for  new  lodges 
he  says : 

No  dispensations  for  the  formation  of  new  lodges  have  been  issued  during  the  past  year. 
In  view  of  the  pecuniary  pressure,  which  has  prevailed  so  generally  throughout  the  United 
States,  this  is  neither  surprising  nor  discouraging.  New  lodges  are  more  often  organized 
for  the  convenience  of  brothers,  than  because  of  actual  necessity  within  any  particular  terri- 
torial limit.  It  consequently  follows  that  in  times  of  financial  stringency,  members  are  more 
willing  to  submit  to  temporary  inconvenience  than  incur  unnecessary  expenses. 


APPENDIX. 


He  also  calls  attention  to  the  "able  and  interesting"  report  on  Foreign 
(why  not  say  Masonic)  Correspondence  of  Bro.  Inglesby;  and  in  the  same 
connection  recommends  the  recognition  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba.  His 
remarks  on  French  Freemasonry  we  are  glad  to  notice  : 

In  October,  1877,  the  Grand  Orient  of  France  struck  from  its  constitution  the  following 
clause:  "Freemasonry  holds  to  the  principle  of  the  existence  of  God,  and  of  the  immortality 
of  the  soul,"  and  in  lieu  of  it,  inserted:  "Freemasonry  holds  to  the  principle  of  an  absolute 
freedom  of  conscience,  and  to  the  brotherhood  of  mankind.  It  excludes  no  one  on  account 
of  his  belief."  The  action  thus  taken  is  in  direct  contravention  of  what  we  regard*  as  the 
Nineteenth  Landmark,  to-wit:  "That  every  Mason  must  believe  in  the  existence  of  God,  as 
the  Grand  Architect  of  the  Universe."  It  is,  therefore,  almost  needless  to  say  that  the  above 
change  has  greatly  shocked  Freemasons  generally,  and  has  been  generally  condemned.  F^or 
several  years  there  has  been  no  communication  between  the  Grand  Orient  of  France  and  this 
Grand  Lodge,  by  reason  of  what  was  regarded  an  unw.irrantable  interference  with  one  of  our 
sister  jurisdictions.  The  course  which  it  has  now  adopted  is  but  another  step  in  the  road 
w^hich  it  has  been  pursuing.  No  expression  of  opinion  upon  our  part  can  reach  it,  and  cer- 
tainly would  be  disregarded.  But  we  owe  it  to  ourselves  to  express  our  condemnation  of  so 
utter  an  abandonment  of  what  we  have  been  taught  to  regard  as  a  great  principle  of  Free- 
masonry. 

It  appears  to  have  been  a  mooted  question,  when  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
the  jurisdiction  was  organized.  The  Grand  Master  devotes  much  attention 
to  the  subject,  and  concludes  that  "  the  true  date  of  the  organization  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  South  Carolina  ivas  the  year  J777,  and  its  first  Grand 
Master  tvas  Barnard  Elliott.'''' 

Past  Grand  Master  William  K.  Blake  dissented  from  this  opinion,  and  is 
sustained  by  a  Special  Committee,  who  report : 

That,  as  is  well  known,  Masonry  was  inaugurated  in  South  Carolina  in  the  year  1736  by 
the  organization  of  Solomon's  Lodge.  The  first  inception  of  Grand  Lodge  Masonry  seems 
to  have  been  in  the  year  1737,  when  the  Provincial  Grand  Lodge  was  first  organized.  In  the 
year  17S4  the  Provincial  Grand  Lodge  was  re-organized  and  put  upon  a  firm  basis.  This 
occurrence  was  commemorated  by  this  Grand  Lodge  by  full  and  impressive  Centennial  exer- 
cises held  in  the  year  1854.  In  these  exercises  our  distinguished  brother,  A.  G.  Mackey,  took 
full  part,  as  appears  by  the  published  proceedings  of  the  occasion. 

The  next  prominent  event  in  the  history  of  Grand  Lodge  Masonry  in  South  Carolina 
occurred  in  the  year  1777,  when,  to  use  the  words  of  Worshipful  Master  W.  G.  DeSaussure 
in  his  address  delivered  at  the  last  Annual  Communication,  "  the  Provincial  Grand  Lodge 
declared  itself  the  Independent  Grand  Lodge  of  the  State  of  South  Carolina."  This  certainly 
marked  the  epoch  when,  for  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  Masonry,  there  existed  in  South 
Carolina  a  Grand  Lodge  claiming  and  exercising  jurisdiction  within  the  State,  independent 
of  any  other  or  outside  authority.  Whether  this  Grand  Lodge  be  the  same  to-day  as  then 
existing  or  not,  it  certainly  has  succeeded  to  the  authority  and  position  then  claimed  and 
exercised  by  such  Grand  Lodge.  To  use  again  the  language  of  Bro.  DeSaussure  in  the 
address  referred  to.  This  year  is  "  consequently  the  Centennial  year  of  the  Independent 
Grand  Lodge  of  the  State  of  South  Carolina,  of  which  Colonel  Barnard  Elliott  was  first 
Grand  Master.' ' 

Your  committee,  however,  concur  with  Bro.  Blake  in  his  position,  that  this  cannot  be 
considered  the  Centennial  year  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  considering,  as  he  does,  this  Grand 
Lodge  to  be  the  corporate  Body  chartered  in  1817,  and  still  existing  under  such  charter.  It  is 
too  well  established  that  a  corporation  derives  its  existence  simply  and  only  from  the  act  of 
the  higher  body  which  incorporates  it.  As  then  this  charier  was  granted  only  in  1S17,  it  fol- 
lows that  the  present  corporate  entity  known  as  the  Grand  Lodge  of  A.  F.  M.  of  South  Caro- 
lina could  not  have  existed  prior  to  that  date. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CLXI 


But  as  this  is  certainly  the  Centennial  year  of  the  first  organization  of  an  Independent 
Grand  Lodge  in  the  State,  and  as  it  is  equally  true  that  while  this  present  Grend  Lodge  may 
not  be  the  same  to-day  as  then  existed,  it  certainly  has  succeeded  to  the  position  then  for  the 
first  time  occupied  by  such  Grand  Body,  and  as  this  present  Grand  Lodge  has  already,  in  the 
year  iSS4,  celebrated  the  Centennial  of  the  first  Provincial  Grand  Lodge  in  this  State,  it  seems 
to  your  committee  only  proper  that  some  fitting  celebration  be  had  of  the  present  interesting 
and  important  occasion. 

Several  decisions  are  reported  by  the  Grand  Master.  The  first  is  some- 
what new  in  the  line  of  physical  disqualifications: 

First.  Application  for  initiation  was  made  by  one  who  was  strictured,  but  whose  avoca- 
tion in  life  was  that  of  a  mechanic,  and  whose  stricture  did  not  prevent  the  exercise  of  great 
bodily  strength. 

The  question  was  originally  submitted  to  Right  Worshipful  Bro.  L.  T.  Izlar,  District 
Deputy  Grand  Master  of  District  No.  6,  who  decided  that  it  was  such  a  maim  as  prevented 
the  initiation.  An  appeal  from  his  decision  was  taken,  and  I  decided,  overruling  the  District 
Deputy  Grand  Master,  that  a  stricture  was  not  a  maim  in  such  sense  as  prevented  initiation. 

As  our  M.-.  W.-.  Bro.  Robbins  is  the  "medicine  man  "  of  the  fraternity 
of  our  State,  it  is  rather  unsafe  for  a  non-professional  to  hazard  much  of  an 
opinion  on  this  class  of  infirmity;  but  as  this  will  not  probably  meet  his  eye 
till  after  the  Annual  Communication,  we  shall  venture  to  insist  that  Brother 
Izlar  is  correct.  If  an  applicant  for  the  degrees  is  so  much  troubled  with  a 
stricture,  (ordinarily  referring  to  the  urethra)  that  it  is  a  noticeable  impedi- 
ment to  the  full  exercise  of  his  physical  powers,  we  cannot  understand  why 
it  is  not  as  much  of  a  bar  to  his  reception  as  would  be  a  noticeable  organic 
trouble  of  the  heart,  lungs,  or  brain.  How  was  it  known  that  the  petitioner 
was  thus  afflicted,  if  not  by  external  evidences.'  We  repeat  an  opinion, 
often  expressed,  that  the  safe  method  is  to  require  a  strict  construction  of  the 
land-mark.  The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  seem  to  accept  this  position, 
but  soften  up  a  little  in  concluding  their  review  of  the  case: 

Your  committee,  however,  are  not  agreed  that  every  case  of  stricture  or  rupture  would  be 
such  as  to  disqualify  the  candidate.  But  they  deem  it  best,  therefore,  to  leave  such  cases  to 
be  acted  upon,  as  they  may  from  time  to  time  arise. 

Bro.  Smith,  D.  D.  G.  M.,  submits  the  following: 

A  brother  owes  the  lodge  for  money  borrowed  while  in  distress,  can  the  lodge  refuse  to 
grant  him  a  dirait  after  he  pays  in  full  his  annual  dues?  and  if  it  can  be  proven  that  a  brother 
owes  his  lodge  and  is  able  to  pay  it  and  will  not,  can  the  lodge  prefer  charges  against  him 
when  the  indebtedness  is  for  borrowed  money? 

Upon  which  I  ruled,  that  the  two  questions  would,  I  thought,  be  covered  by  one  answer, 
viz:  The  lodge  is  competent  to  refuse  the  dimit  if  it  is  satisfied  that  the  brother  in  question 
is  able  to  pay  the  borrowed  money,  but  it  should,  in  that  case,  prefer  charges  against  him  for 
un-Masonic  conduct,  and  allow  him  a  fair  trial.  If  it  appears  that  he  is  still  in  distress,  and 
the  money  cannot  be  refunded  by  him,  then  the  lodge  can  cancel  the  debt  by  its  vote,  and,  if 
the  dues  are  paid  in  full,  upon  his  written  application  grant  him  the  dimit. 

To  which  the  Committee  reply: 

The  word  arrears  has  a  technical  meaning.  It  does  not,  and  cannot,  in  the  sense  used  in 
Article  137,  mean  "borrowed  money."  No  matter  how  much  money  a  brother  may  owe  his 
lodge  outside  of  his  dues,  if  these  are  paid  in  full  he  is  entitled  to  his  dimit.    If  a  lodge  under- 

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CLXII  APPENDIX. 


takes  to  lend  its  money,  it  must  collect  it  through  the  courts  of  the  country,  as  all  other 
creditors  are  required  to  do,  and  it  makes  no  difference  that  the  debtor  Js  a  brother.  The 
lodge  cannot  be  made  a  tribunal  for  the  collection  of  debts  of  this  nature. 

Good  law. 

The  Committee  on  "  Decisions  and  Legislation  of  the  Grand  Lodge," 
submitted  a  valuable  report,  from  which  we  make  selections : 

When  a  question  is  before  the  Grand  Lodge,  no  motion  shall_be  received  but  to  adjourn 
the  debate,  to  lay  on  the  table,  to  postpone  indefinitely,  to  postponeto  a  certain  day,  to  com- 
mit, or  to  amend ;  which  several  motions  shall  have  precedence  in  the  order  in  which  they 
here  stand  arranged,  and  shall,  with  the  exception  of  the  last,  be  decided  without  debate. 

Jt!  *  *  *  *  * 

The  Master  of  a  lodge  has  a  right  to  exclude  a  member  whilst  in  a  state  of  intoxication, 
and  upon  the  ground  that  he  could  exclude  any  one  whose  behavior  produced  want  of 
harmony. 

December  19th,  1S71. 

*  *  *  *  *  * 

The  Grand  Lodge  will  not  require  from  the  subordinate  lodges  under  this  jurisdiction  any 
fee  for  the  entering,  passing  or  raising  any  person  who  is  regularly  and  properly  acknowledged 
by  the  religious  denomination  to  which  he  belongs,  to  be  a  minister  of  God,  according  to  their 
usages,  nor  require  any  annual  contributions  on  his  account. 

Permanent  Regulations,  1845. 


That  it  is  the  opinion  of  this  Grand  Lodge  that  lotteries  (being  a  species  of  gambling) 
cannot  be  held  under  the  sanction  of  a  Masonic  body  for  any  purpose  whatever,  without  a 
violation  of  the  great  principles  of  the  Order. 

November  17th,  1S68. 

Such  lodges  have  no  members;  the  three  officers  named  in  the  dispensation  a.re  guasi 
members,  and  they  alone  are  entitled  to  ballot  for  candidates  for  initiation.  Mackey's  His- 
tory of  Freemasonry,  445;  December  9,  1S74. 

A  Master  may  preside  over  a  lodge  under  dispensation  without  having  first  received  the 
degree  of  Past  Master. 

December  19th,  1871. 

****** 

When  a  candidate  has  received  a  favorable  ballot,  the  naked  objection  of  a  member  not 
present  at  the  ballot,  will  not  prevent  the  degree  balloted  for  from  being  conferred.  The 
objector  is  required  to  assign  a  reason  for  his  objection,  or  prefer  charges,  as  the  case  may 
require,  and  upon  the  validity  of  which  the  lodge  shall  pass. 

December,  1S75. 


The  conferring  of  the  Past  Master's  degree  is  a  necessary  portion  of  the  installation  cere- 
mony, and  an  absolute  condition  precedent  to  the  Master  taking  his  seat  in  the  East.  And 
should  it  so  happen  that  on  the  night  of  installation  there  is  no  one  present  competent  to  con- 
fer the  degree,  the  ceremony  should  be  postponed  until  some  such  person  can  be  procured. 

December  15,  1875. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CLXIII 


A  Master  maj'  preside  over  a  lodge  under  dispensation  without  having  first  received  the 
degree  of  Past  Master. 
December  19,  1S71. 

No  one  who  has  received  the  symbolic  degrees  from  a  Sovereign  Grand  Inspector,  33°  , 
can  be  admitted  to  visit.     Mackey's  History  of  Freemasonry,  312. 

The  right  to  visit  is  one  of  the  essential  rights  conferred  in  the  very  act  of  making  a  Mas- 
ter Mason,  and  he  can  only  be  deprived  of  it  for  just  cause.  Every  member  of  a  lodge  has 
the  right  of  objecting  to  the  admission  of  any  visitor  to  his  lodge,  but  the  validity  of  his 
objections  are  to  be  determined  by  the  Master  of  the  lodge.  If  the  objecting  member  is  to 
decide  on  the  validity  of  his  objection,  the  right  is  the  right  of  exclusion,  not  of  objection. 
The  inherent  right  to  visit,  and  the  unqualified  right  to  exclude,  cannot  co-exist.  To  exclude 
a  visitor  without  just  cause  is  contrary  to  the  fundamental  principles  of  the  Order,  and  the 
right  to  do  so  should  not  depend  upon  the  caprice  or  passions  of  a  single  member.  By  recog- 
nizing in  the  master  alone,  the  right  to  exclude,  an  impartial  judgment  is  secured,  and  the 
rights  of  the  visitor  and  of  the  lodge  equally  protected. 

December  ig,  1S70. 

The  fifth  quotation  is  one  of  those  abnormal  curiosities  that  come  from 
brethren  who  are  constantly  on  the  alert  for  something  new;  or  who  are  in 
active  sympathy  with  the  theories  of  "  advanced  grades."  We  have  heretofore 
taken  occasion  to  warn  our  brethren  of  this  disposition  to  force  into  our  sys- 
tem, principles  subversive  of  the  primary  thought  of  Free  Masonry.  The 
Grand  Lodge  of  South  Carolina,  as  far  back  as  1845,  promptly'  rebuked  this 
tendency,  and  we  exceedingly  regret  that  it  has  yielded  to  a  more  insidious 
attack  upon  its  integrity  as  a  body  of  Symbolic  Masons. 

We  object,  that  every  Master  Mason  is  the  peer  of  the  other,  and  that 
there  is  not  a  prerogative  or  position  in  Craft  Masonry,  in  which  all  are  not 
equally  interested,  and  to  which  all  cannot  lawfully  aspire. 

We  further  object,  that  there  is  nothing  known  to  Craft  Masonry  as  quasi, 
or  membership  by  implication.  Honorary  membership  may  be  so  classed, 
but  this  can  only  exist  by  the  direct  action  of  the  lodge,  from  which  it  must 
formally  emanate. 

We  still  further  object  that  it  is  a  usurpation  of  power  for  a  Grand  Lodge 
to  deprive  a  member  of  a  constituent  lodge,  under  dispensation  or  charter, 
of  any  inherent  right,  particularly  the  right  of  ballot  or  objection.  These 
or  any  other  rights  can  only  be  abridged  by  the  lodge  upon  trials  for  unma- 
sonic  conduct. 

If  the  Grand  Lodge  has  authority  to  organize  a  "Supreme  Council,"  by 
providing  that  the  three  first  officers  of  a  lodge  L".  D.  are  its  on\y  "  active 
membership,"  it  has  the  power  to  determine  an  active  membership  for  a  chart- 
ered lodge. 

Look  well  to  precedents,  brethren.  They  are  dangerous,  and  often  inter- 
pose obstacles  to  harmony  and  efficiency. 

Bro.  Inglesby  is  not  only  a  model  Secretary,  but  a  model  Reporter.  He 
crowds  a  large  amount  of  information   into   ninety-one    pages — much  more 


CLXIV  APPENDIX. 


than   most  of  the  corps,   with  a  deal  larger  space  at  their  disposal.      In  his 
review  of  Alabama,  he  says : 

In  South  Carolina,  we  are  not  troubled  with  this  question,  for  the  Ahiman  Rczon  com- 
piled by  Bro.  Albert  G.  Mackey,  M.  D.,  in  1S51,  and  adopted  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  South 
Carolina,  as  its  Book  of  Constitutions,  in  enumerating  the  external  qualifications  necessary, 
before  one  can  be  initiated  or  become  a  member  of  a  lodge,  enacts  as  the  first  requisition, 
that  he  be  "horn  of  free  white  parents." 

We  notice,  in  this  connection,  that  the  Crrand  Lodge  of  Indian  Territory 
has  an  accredited  Representative  near  the  Grand  Lodge  of  South  Carolina. 

We  entirely  concur  in  his  remarks  under  Indiana,  on  the  rum  question: 

In  referring  to  the  regulation  passed  at  their  last  Annnal  Communication,  making  the  use 
of  intoxicating  liquors  as  a  beverage  a  Masonic  offense,  (which  regulation  we  animadverted 
upon  in  our  Report  on  Correspondence  last  year,)  the  Grand  Master  very  wisely  calls  atten- 
tion to  the  fact,  that  "a  decided  distinction  should  be  made  between  temperance  and  total 
abstinence,  and  recommends  that  the  regulation  be  either  repealed  or  amended  so  as  to  read, 
"the  use  of  intoxicating  liquors  as  a  beverage  to  excess,"  etc.  The  Grand  Master's  head  is 
entirely  level  when  he  says  that  the  "excess"  is  the  Masonic  offense,  but  we  suggest  that  inas- 
much as  the  use  of  liquor  to  excess,  is  already  a  crime  by  the  common  law  of  Masonry  the 
world  over,  it  would  be  idle  to  re-enact  so  clearly  settled  a  Masonic  law.  The  most  sensible 
thing  would  be  to  repeal  the  regulation  of  last  year,  and  leave  the  matter  where  it  already  is 
by  the  common  law  of  Masonry. 

We  like  the  following  from  Bro.  Inglesby's  review  of  Maine: 

We  further  dissent  from  Bro.  Drummond,  and  think  the  Mason  who  by  mistake  has  cast 
a  black  ball,  not  only  can  Masonically  make  known  to  the  lodge  the  fact  of  his  mistake,  but 
as  a  man  and  Mason  it  is  his  duty  to  do  so !  Honor,  honesty  and  justice  demands  it  of  him. 
The  secrecy  of  the  ballot  is  intended  to  ist  secure  free,  intelligent  and  consciencious  use,  and  is 
not  invaded  in  the  case  given.     The  mistake  nullified  the  ballot. 

Illinois  receives  kindly  notice. 

Statistics — Lodges,  1S2  ;   membership,  6,913. 

M.-.W.-.  Beaufort  W.  Ball,  Laurens,  G.  M.;  R.-.  W,-.  Charles  Inglesby, 
Charleston,  G.  Sec'y. 


TENNESSEE,   1877. 

The  Sixty-Fourth    Annual    Communication  met  in  Nashville,   November 
12th.     There  was  a  large  representation  of  constituent  lodges. 

M..W.-.  Bro.  E.  Edmundson  presents  in  his  address,  a  very  truthful  rep- 
resentation of  our  relations  to  the  world.     He  says: 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE. 


When  our  predecessors  met  here  twelve  months  ago,  our  country  had  just  emerged  from 
an  active,  exciting  and  acrimonious  political  contest,  in  which  the  two  great  political  parties 
had  been  for  several  months  arrayed  one  against  the  other,  and  while  no  deadly  or  hostile 
weapons  had  been  used,  the  English  vocabulary  had  been  pretty  well  exhausted  in  the  use  of 
unpleasant  and  offensive  epithets.  Many  of  our  brotherhood  who  were  assembled  here  had 
been  active  participants  in  that  contest,  and  although  its  excitement  was  then  at  its  acme,  yet 
within  these  walls  all  was  peaceful  and  harmonious;  no  bitterness,  dissension  or  discord  was 
seen  here — the  political  differences  were  left  without ;  we  met  then  as  we  meet  now,  upon  the 
level  and  as  brothers.  However  great  our  religious  and  political  differences  outside,  within 
these  walls,  and  those  of  our  subordinate  lodges,  they  are  unknown.  One  of  the  candinal 
principles  of  our  Order,  instilled  in  the  mind  of  the  novice  at  the  very  threshold,  is  that 
Masonry  is  not  to  interfere  with  our  politics  or  religion,  and  is  never  to  be  discussed  at  our 
meetings,  and  this  only  would  commend  it  favorably  to  the  world,  especially  at  a  time  when 
party  spirit  and  religious  fanaticism  run  high.  Now,  I  am  gratified  to  say,  there  is  less  of 
this  in  our  broad  and  favored  land  than  there  has  been  lor  a  very  long  time;  and  from  one 
extreme  to  another,  we  have  politically  as  well  as  Masonically  a  country  free,  peaceful  and 
harmonious — no  sections  or  divisions,  but  united,  indivisible,  inseparable  and  happy. 

The  dread  Reaper  has  been  active.  Many  good  brethren  have  fallen. 
The  Grand  Master  mentions  them,  together  with  the  decease  of  prominent 
Masons  of  other  jurisdictions. 

He  says  that  accessions  to  lodges  have  not  been  large,  in  consequence  of 
depressed  finances.  It  would  have  been  a  good  thing  for  the  Fraternity,  the 
world  over,  if  this  depression  had  occurred  ten  years  ago.  We  should  not 
complain. 

Two  new  lodges  were  authorized.  The  Grand  Master  is  of  opinion  "  that 
there  are  now  too  many  lodges;"  and  further  says,  that  at  the  outset  of  his 
administration  he  determined  not  to  authorize  new  lodges  except  for  good 
reasons;  and,  "  not  that  a  few  brethren  might  be  accommodated,  but  that 
the  interests  of  Masonry  should  be  promoted."     Sound. 

He  made  a  loan  of  a  small  sum  of  money  to  defray  the  necessary  expenses 
of  the  Grand  Lodge.  We  should  not  refer  to  it  except  to  present  an  objec- 
tion of  the  Committee  on  Jurisprudence,  as  follows: 

In  relation  to  the  question  of  the  Order  of  the  Grand  Master  to  the  Grand  Treasurer  to 
borrow  money  for  the  Grand  Lodge,  the  committee'is  divided  as  to  the  power  of  the  Grand 
Master  to  talie  such  action.  A  majority  of  the  committee  are  decidedly  of  the  opinion  that  the 
Grand  Master  has  no  right  to  borrow  rnoney  for  the  Grand  Lodge.  That  it  is  the  duty  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  to  take  care  of  itself  in  financial  matters,  and  failing  at  one  communication  to 
provide  the  necessary  funds  with  which  to  meet  its  obligations,  its  debts  shall  remain  unpaid 
-until  the  next  meeting. 

A  minority  of  the  Committee  dissented,  but  the  majority  report  was 
adopted.  In  the  absence  of  a  regulation  making  provision  for  such  emer- 
gencies, the  Grand  Master,  in  our  opinion,  is  perfectly  justified  in  providing 
for  authorized  liabilities  of  the  Grand  Lodge. 

The  Grand  Master  calls  attention  to  non-afiiliates : 

During  the  last  nine  years— from  1S69  to  1877,  inclusi  ve — there  have  been  14,700  Master 
Masons  added  to  the  subordinate  lodges  of  Tennessee,  and  these  added  to  the  then  member- 
ship, viz.,  18,601,  would  give  an  aggregate  membership  of  33,301,  when  in  fact  there  are  now  only 
about  18,000,  being  600  less  than  there  were   nine  years   ago,  showing  15,227  that  have  died. 


CI.XVI  APPENDIX. 


moved  away,  stand  suspended  or  expelled,  or  g-one  into  the  ranks  of  the  non-contributing 
Masons,  Unless  something  is  done  to  curtail  the  "  privileges"  enjoyed  by  this  class,  we  will 
find  their  ranks  swelling  more  and  more,  and  the  coutributing  ones  growing  correspondingly 
less.  The  only  right  or  privilege  the  affiliate  has  in  Tennessee  over  the  non-affiliate  is  the 
single  one  of  voting  in  the  lodge.  The  "old  Constitutions,"  which  we  are  all  bound  to 
observe,  require' every  Mason  "to  be  a  member  of  some  lodge,  and  subject  to  its  By-Laws 
and  the  General  Regulations."  We  should  discriminate  between  the  working  or  paying 
Mason  and  the  non-working  or  non-paying.  I  would  deny  all  non  affiliates,  who  are  such 
from  choice,  the  privilege  of  visitation  beyond  a  certain  number  of  visits,  also  the  privilege  of 
Masonic  burial,  and  a  participation  at  our  festivals  and  public  processions.  Several  of  our 
sister  Grand  Lodges  have  a  constitutional  provision  denying  such  privileges  to  this  class,  and 
other  Grand  Lodges  have  edicts  of  like  import.  I  would  suggest  further  that  the  Secretaries 
of  lodges  be  required,  in  their  annual  returns  here,  to  show  the  number  of  non-affiliates  living 
in  their  jurisdictions,  and  that  the  Grand  Secretary  have  a  heading  in  the  returns  for  non- 
affiliates. 

We  think  Bro.  Edmundson  a  little  hastj.  Although  not  particularly  friendly 
to  brethren  who  decline  to  support  the  lodge,  we  ai'e  of  opinion  that  lodges 
should  be  at  liberty  to  settle  all  such  questions.  We  insist  now,  as  hereto- 
fore, that  a  non-affiliate  is  without  any  lawful  claim  to  fraternal  considera- 
tion. They  do  not  have  the  right  or  reason  to  expect  it;  still,  if  a  lodge  is 
disposed  to  extend  courtesies,  they  should  be  at  liberty  to  act  their  pleasure. 
Several  decisions  are  of  record.     We  select  a  limited  number: 

The  lodges  themselves   must   decide  whether  or  not  it  is   uninasonic  for   a   brother  to 
engage  in  "  tippling."     Edict  33  says,  "It  is  the  province  of  lodges  under  the  restrictions 
.  prescribed  by  Masonic  law  and  usage,  to  determine  what  pursuits,  practices  or  delinquencies 
are  in  violation  of  the  moral  law." 

That  the  Master's  signature  to  a  certificate  is  not  necessary  to  make  valid  a  "  dimit,"  and 
he  is  dimitted  zvhen  such  an  order  is  made,  the  certificate  being  only  evidence  ot  such. 

That  a  legal  summons  is  a  Masonic  writ,  attested  by  the  Secretary,  with  the  lodge  seal, 
and  served  by  a  proper  person,  usually  by  the  Tyler,  though  any  one  may  serve  it.  It  is  suf- 
ficient that  he  is  known  to  have  received  it,  and  he  is  not  relieved  from  its  observance  should 
he  get  it  through  the  post-office,  or  otherwise.  A  newspaper  notice,  however,  is  not  a  sum- 
mons.    And  the  Master  may  issue  a  verbal  summons  equally  binding. 

A  novel  case  of  "  prerogative  "  is  presented  by  the  Grand  Master.  A  lodge 
had  been  guilty  of  reprehensible  irregularities.  The  charter  was  arrested  and 
subsequently  restored.     He  says  : 

In  restoring  it,  however,  I  felt  justifiable  in  the  exercise  of  certain  extraordinary  powers. 
I  appointed  a  new  Master  and  Wardens  to  supersede  the  last  ones  elected  and  installed.  A 
memorial  signed  by  a  majority  of  the  members  of  the  lodge,  asking  for  a  restoration,  sug- 
gested certain  brethren  for  the  three  highest  officers,  and  I  appointed  them,  and  respectfully 
ask  you  to  sanction  these  appointments  and  continue  them  until  the  next  election,  for  the 
reports  I  have  received  from  the  lodge  justify  fully  the  selection  made. 

The  Grand  Lodge  did  no-t  homologate. 

The  Committee  on  appeals  and  Grievances  made  an  extended  report. 

The  Grand  Lodge  adopted  the  report  ot  the  Committee  on  Ways  and 
Means,  recommending  that  wo  per  diem  be  paid  to  its  members  save  to  stand- 
ing committees;  and  that  thQ per  capiia  tax  be  reduced  to  thirty  cents. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDKNCK, 


An  effort  was  made  to  put  the  Grand  Lodge  on  wheels — to  be  considered 
another  year. 

For  the  first  time  in  a  number  of  years  we  find  a  report  on  Correspond- 
ence. It  is  presented  by  our  distinguished  Bro.  George  Stodart  Blackie,  and 
will  be  read  with  pleasure  by  those  who  have  heretofore  known  him  in  this 
same  connection. 

At  the  conclusion  of  his  report  he  submits  a  series  of  resolutions,  which 
were  adopted.     The  following  are  of  general  interest: 

Resolved,  That  the  M.  W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Tennessee  heartily  welcomes  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  the  Indian  Territory  into  the  sisterhood  of  American  Grand  Lodges,  and  has 
pleasure  in  extending  to  her  fraternal  relations. 

Resolved,  That  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Mexico,  having  been  regularly  formed  in 
August  last,  the  M.  W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Tennessee  takes  pleasure  in  welcoming  her  youngest 
American  sister,  and  extends  to  her  recognition  and  neutral  representation. 

Resolved,  That  it  having  appeared  to  her  satisfaction  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon  was 
a  defunct  Masonic  body  at  the  time  of  the  formation  of  the  Grand  I^odge  of  the  Island  of 
Cuba,  and  that  the  latter  Grand  Lodge  was  formed  on  unoccupied  Masonic  Territory,  the 
M.  W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Tennessee  enrolls  with  pleasure  the  name  of  her  island  sister,  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba,  among  those  bound  to  her  in  amity  and  correspondence. 


Resolved,  That  the  action  of  the  Grand  Lodge  Alpina,  Switzerland,  in  separating  her- 
self from  other  organizations,  and  assuming  sole  control  of  the  symbolic  degrees  in  that 
country,  has  knit  closer  the  bonds  which  unite  her  with  the  M.  W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Tennessee 
and  the  other  American  Grand  Lodges,  and  has  set  an  example  which  we  hope  to  see  fol- 
lowed by  other  European  Masonic  powers. 

Resolved,  That  in  the  opinion  of  the  M.  \V.  Grand  Lodge  of  Tennessee,  the  Grand 
Orient  of  France,  by  erasing  from  its  Constitution  the  belief  in  the  Supreme  Architect  of  the 
Universe  and  the  immortality  of  the  soul,  has  made  a  concession  to  atheism  and  atheists 
which  takes  away  the  basis  of  all  their  degrees,  and  that  therefore  the  so-called  Masons  of 
that  obedience  are  no  longer  to  be  regarded  as  a  part  of  the  great  Masonic  family. 

In  relation  to  the  "Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba,"  Brother  Blackie  labors 
under  the  misapprehension,  with  others,  that  the  Supreme  Council  usurped 
powers.  This  is  not  true  if  the  statements  of  Bro.  Ilia  are  correct.  The 
Grand  Lodge  of  Colon  submitted  itself,  and  the  three  lodges  chartered  by 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  South  Carolina  surrendered  charters  received  from  that 
body,  and  necessarily  received  authorizations  from  the  Supreme  Council,  or 
a  Grand  Orient  under  its  supervision  and  control.  If  Bro.  Blackie  will  admit 
the  power  of  any  body  apart  from  a  Grand  Lodge  of  Symbolic  Masonry  to 
create  Craft  lodges,  then  he  may  be  correct.  We  do  not  believe  in  the 
doctrine.     See  New  Jersey. 

Statistics — Lodges,  409;  membership,  17,911.  This  is  a  slight  decline 
from  the  report  of  last  year. 

M.-.  W.-.  Americus  V.  Warr,  Rossville,  G.  M. ;  R.-.  W.-.  John  Frizzell, 
Nashville,  G.  Sec'y. 


CLXVin  APPENDIX. 


TEXAS,    1877. 

The  Forly-Second  Annual  Communication  was  held  in  Houston,  Decem- 
ber 13th. 

M.-.W.  .  Marcus  F.  Mott,  presiding. 

We  should  fail  to  convey  our  high  appreciation  of  our  distinguished 
brother  if  we  neglected  to  give  the  beginning  and  conclusion  of  his  able 
address : 

From  all  the  information  I  have  been  able  to  gather  I  am  satisfied  that  the  moral  tone  of 
Masonry  in  Texas  was  never  better  than  now.  There  has  been  less  comparative  increase  of 
membership  than  at  some  former  periods  of  its  history,  which  of  itself  is  an  auspicious 
omen.  Lodges  have  given  more  attention  to  the  exclusion  of  unworthy  material.  The  por- 
tals have  been  more  closely  guarded,  and  the  moral  qualifications  of  candidates  more  strictly 
inquired  into.  Gambling,  intemperance  and  kindred  vices  have  been  warred  against,  disci- 
pline enforced  and  the  laws  and  regulations  of  this  jSrand  Lodge  generally  observed  and 
respected.  The  spirit,  philosophy  and  teachings  of  the  Order  are  being  better  under- 
stood and  its  great  moral  design  more  appreciated.  Still,  much  remains  to  be  done  in  this 
direction.  There  is  yet  much  groping  in  the  darkness  by  those  who  have  been  accustomed 
to  consider  the  ritual  and  lectures  as  the  sum  and  substance  of  Masonry — though  I  am  happy 
to  say  that  inquiry  is  awakening  and  the  moral  beauties  and  sublime  truths  of  the  Order  are 
being  daily  more  and  more  unfolded  in  the  light  of  earnest  investigation.  When  every  Mason 
in  this  iurisdiction  comes  to  understand  that  Masonry  means  something  more  than  lectures, 
attendance  upon  lodge  meetings,  and  the  payment  of  lodge  dues — that  it  is  something  higher,  , 
nobler  and  better  than  a  mere  mutual  aid  association,  a  brighter  future  will  take  the  place  of 
the  already  bright  present.  The  Fatherhood  of  God  and  the  brotherhood  of  man  find  ample 
exposition  in  the  spirit  of  our  institution.  It  reaches  into  and  touches  the  hearts  and  homes 
of  men,  their  happiness  and  their  moral  welfare.  It  guides  them  into  the  sweet  paths  of 
virtue  and  holds  out  the  hope  of  a  glorious  immortality.  "Her  ways  are  ways  of  pleasantness 
and  all  her  paths  are  peace." 

******** 

Yes,  brethren!  the  Institution  of  Freemasonry  is  worth  preserving  and  perpetuating.  It 
is  a  house  not  made  with  hands.  It  is  a  blending  of  the  spiritual  of  another  life  with  the 
realistic  of  this.  It  is  a  Temple  which  has  its  corner-stone  and  stable  foundations  in  Truth 
and  Charity;  it  has  its  mystic  crypts,  its  sacred  fanes,  and  its  towering  columns,  while  above 
bends  its  canopy,  fretted  with  the  tracery  of  Deity's  hand.  In  the  heart  of  every  true  Mason 
this  Temple  has  its  shrine,  while  its  entire  fabric  is  hallowed  by  God's  Word,  and  every  part 
made  strong  and  lasting  by  the  cement  of  brotherly  love.  Let  us  keep  pure  and  holy  this 
glorious  structure,  and  we  may  hope  to  walk  by  the  beautiful  River  of  Life  and  enjoy  forever 
the  beatitudes  of  the  Just. 

For  various  causes,  nineteen  charters  were  arrested.  The  Grand  Master 
also  reports  authorization  for  thirteen  newr  lodges. 

It  is  difficult  to  understand  wliy  Bro.  Mott  should  "  deplore  the  increase" 
of  lodges,  and  still  consent  to  these  large  additions.  He  recommends  that 
the  rule  requiring  fifteen  petitioners  for  a  new  lodge,  should  be  enlarged  to 
twenty. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CLXIX 


He  includes  in  the  list  of  deceased  brethren,  Bros.  Goulej',  of  Missouri, 
and  Harris,  of  New  Hampshire.  M.-.W.*.  Bro.  J.  C.  Braden,  Grand  Mas- 
ter of  Minnesota,  died  at  San  Antonio: 

On  thegth  inst.  M.  W.  J.  C.  Braden,  Grand  Master  of  Masons  of  Minnesota,  died  at  San 
Antonio,  where  he  had  gone  with  the  hope  of  benefiting  his  health.  This  distinguished 
brother  came  to  Texas  some  weeks  ago  with  his  family,  seeking  our  Western  salubrious 
climate  as  a  panacea  for  consumption.  The  disease,  however,  was  too  strongly  fastened 
upon  him,  and  after  lingering  several  weeks  he  died  in  a  strange  land  far  from  his  home. 
The  brethren  at  San  Antonio  gave  him  every  attention,  and  did  all  in  their  power  to  soothe 
and  comfort  his  last  moments.  His  remains  were  prepared  for  removal  to  Minnesota,  and 
were  escorted  by  the  Fraternity  to  the  train.  Anchor  Lodge  No.  424  designated  one  of  its 
members  to  take  charge  of  the  remains,  and  accompany  the  widow  and  children  as  far  as 
Chicago,  where  they  will  be  met  by  a  deputation  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Minnesota.  The 
remains  were  received  in  Houston  by  Holland  Lodge  No.  i  on  the  night  of  the  loth  inst.,  and 
placed  in  its  hall  until  the  next  day,  when  the  lodge,  under  the  immediate  direction  of  our 
R.  W.  Deputy  Grand  Master,  and  escorted  by  Ruthven  Commandery  No.  2,  K.  T.,  carried 
the  remains  in  Masonic  procession  to  the  Northern  bound  train.  The  brethren  and  lodges 
who  thus  bestowed  care  upon  our  distinguished  brother  in  his  last  moments,  and  paid  appro- 
priate respect  to  his  remains,  illustrated  the  teachings  of  our  Order,  and  are  entitled  to  the 
thanks  of  this  Grand  Lodge. 

Bro.  Braden  was  elected  Grand  Master  of  Minnesota  in  1S76,  and  was  re-elected  in  1877. 
He  served  in  that  capacity  with  distinguished  ability,  and  our  brethren  of  Minnesota  have 
our  profound  sympathy  in  their  bereavement. 

The  following  incidents  in  the  history  of  Masonry  of  Texas,  are  worthy 
of  attention  : 

An  interesting  incident  in  the  early  history  of  Masonry  in  Texas  has  just  been  brouo-ht 
to  light.  Forty-nine  years  ago,  and  eight  years  before  Texas  achieved  her  independence 
upon  the  battle-field  of  San  Jacinto,  Bros.  Stephen  F.  Austin,  the  father  of  Texas  Ira 
Ingram,  the  first  speaker  of  the  Congress  of  the  Republic  of  Texas,  H.  H.  League,  Eli  Mit- 
chell, Joseph  White  and  Thomas  M.  Duke  met  together  at  the  little  village  of  San  Felipe,  on 
the  Brazos  river,  in  the  first  Masonic  Convention  ever  held  upon  the  soil  of  Texas.  These 
■distinguished  pioneers  and  settlers  of  this  great  State  must  hereafter  rank  brothers  John  A. 
Wharton,  Asa  Brigham,  James  A.  E.  Phelps,  Alexander  Russell,  Anson  Jones  and  J.  P. 
Caldwell  as  the  earliest  patrons  and  promoters  of  Masonry  in  Texas,  and  go  down  into  his- 
torv  with  this  additional  halo  of  glory  around  their  memories. 

In  November  last  Bro.  Guy  M.  Bryan,  of  Galveston,  who  is  the  custodian  of  the  papers 
and  archives  of  Stephen  F.  Austin,  handed  me  a  document  found  by  him  amono-  Gen.  Aus- 
tin's papers,  containing  the  proceedings  of  this  convention,  and  desired  me  to  present  the 
same  to  this  Grand  Lodge.  It  is  accompanied  by  a  paper  in  Spanish  which  proves  to  be  the 
form  of  a  petition  or  dispensation  for  a  new  lodge.  Before  removing  to  Texas,  Bro.  Stephen 
F.  Austin  was  a  member  of  St.  Louis  Lodge  No.  3,  holding  a  charter  from  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Pennsylvania,  at  the  town  of  St.  Louis,  in  what  was  then  the  unoccupied  Masonic  Terri- 
tory of  Missouri.  His  status  as  a  M.  M.  being  established,  there  can  be  no  question  of  the 
authenticity  of  the  documents,  and  I  have  deposited  them  with  the  Grand  Secretary  in  accor- 
dance with  Bro.  Byran's  request  to  await  your  pleasure. 

The  convention  met  for  the  purpose  of  petitioning  the  Grand  York  Lod^-e  of  Mexico  for 
dispensation  for  a  lodge  at  San  Felipe.  About  that  time  and  afterwards  intense  excitement 
existed  in  Mexico  on  the  subject  of  suppressing  the  Masonic  societies  injobedience  to  a  Bull 
fulminated  against  them  by  the  reigning  Pope.  Indeed,  in  a  short  time,  all  the^  men  of 
influence  in  the  country  were  arrayed  upon  the  side  of  one  ortheothei  of  the  political  factions 
which  were  said  to  be  under  the  guidance  of  the  several  Scotch  and  English  lodges.  The 
"Escoses,"  (or  Scotch)  lodges  were  composed  of  large  proprietors  and  persons  of  distinction, 
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CLXX  APPENDIX. 


and  were  mostly  men  of  moderate  and  conservative  principles.  The  "Vorkanos,"  (or  York 
Masons;  were  opposed  to  the  Central,  or  Royal,  government,  and  were  in  favor  of  the  entire 
expulsion  of  the  Spanish  from  Mexico.  Towards  the  close  of  1S27,  Don  Jose  Montano  pub- 
lished his  plan  for  the  forcible  reform  of  the  government  in  order  to  counteract  the  growing 
influence  of  the  Yorkanos.  Civil  war  soon  after  raged,  and  in  the  struggle  that  followed,  the 
rival  Masonic  bodies  lost  their  power  and  prestige,  and  were  rent  into  fragments.  Disaster 
will  always  follow  when  Masonry  goes  beyond  her  legitimate  sphere,  and  enters  into  the 
domain  of  things  which  concern  her  not.  Owing  to  this  distracted  state  of  affairs  the  enter- 
prise of  forming  a  lodge  at  San  Felipe  was  permitted  to  die  out. 

The  document  alluded  to,  being  an  important  contribution  to  our  history,  I  copy  it  in  full, 
so  that  it  may  be  published  in  our  proceedings  for  the  information  of  the  Craft  in  this  juris- 
diction, and  for  the  benefit  of  the  future  historian  of  our  Order  in  Texas: 

"At  a  meeting  of  Ancient  York  Masons,  held  in  the  town  of  San  Felipe  de  Austin,  on 
the  nth  day  of  February,  1828,  for  the  purpose  of  taking  into  consideration  the  expediency  of 
petitioning  the  Grand  York  Lodge  of  Mexico  for  granting  a  charter  or  dispensation  for 
organizing  a  subordinate  lodge  at  this  place,  the  following  brethren  were  present:  Bros.  H. 
H.  League,  Stephen  F,  Austin,  Ira  Ingram,  Eli  Mitchell,  Joseph  White,  G.  B.  Ball,  and 
Thos.  M.  Duke. 

"On  motion  of  Bro.  Ira  Ingram,  and  seconded,  Bro.  H.  H.  League  was  appointed  chair- 
man, and  Thos.  M.  Duke,  Secretary. 

"On  motion  of  Bro.  Stephen  F.  Austin,  and  seconded,  it  was  unanimously  agreed  that 
we  petition  to  the  Grand  York  Lodge  of  Mexico  for  a  charter  or  dispensation  to  organize  a 
lodge  at  this  place  to  be  called  the  Lodge  of  Union. 

"On  balloting  for  oflicers  of  the  lodge,  the  following  brothers  were  duly  elected:  Bro.  S. 
F.  Austin,  Master;    Bro.  Ira  Ingram,  Senior  Warden;  Bro.  H.  H.  League,  Junior  Warden. 

Signed, 
Attest:  H.    H.    LEAGUE,   Chairman. 

THOMAS  M.  DUKE,  Secretary." 

There  is  something  peculiarly  touching  and  interesting  in  this  record.  Those  noble  men, 
standing  upon  the  confines  of  civilization,  seeking  to  establish  an  Empire  in  the  almost 
untrodden  wilds  of  Texas,  and  looking  forward  with  prophetic  ken  to  the  time  when  the 
"  wilderness  would  blossom  as  a  rose,"  and  "  tower'd  cities  and  the  busy  hum  of  men  "  usurp 
the  resort  of  the  Indian  and  the  home  of  the  wild  beast — seemed  to  feel  that  Masonry  was  a 
necessary  incident  to  the  civilization  of  the  Anglo-American.  They  sought  to  invoke  its 
beneficent  teachings  and  humanizing  influences  in  aid  of  their  grand  undertaking.  No 
higher  tribute  was  ever  paid  to  our  Order.  No  nobler  estimate  of  its  wisdom  and  truth  ever 
imprinted  upon  the  records  of  time. 

The  Committee  on  Grievances  and  Appeals  reported  a  case  in  which  a 
member  was  expelled  from  his  lodge  for  disbelief  in  the  divine  authenticity 
of  the  Bible: 

The  question  may  well  be  asked  whether  the  specification  contains  any  Masonic  offense. 
It  is  in  these  words  : 

"1.  In  that  the  accused,  Bro.  Hodges,  is  a  member  of  a  club  organized  at  Little  River 
Academy  who  call  themselves  Free  Thinkers,  but  better  known  as  infidels,  whose  leading 
principles  are  a  denial  of  the  divine  authenticity  of  the  Holy  Bible." 

The  most  that  this  plea  finds  him  guilty  of  is  belonging  to  a  certain  club  whose  leading 
principles  are  found  in  the  denial  of  the  divine  authenticity  of  the  Holy  Bible.  It  does  not 
necessarily  follow  that  he  adopts  all  its  tenets,  or  promulgates  such  doctrines.  He  may  have 
joined  from  curiosity,  a  desire  to  learn  the  reasons  held  out  by  its  members,  or  from  social 
influences.      Take  the  contrary  proposition:  He  belongs  to  the  Masonic  fraternity,  a  society 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CLXXI 


which  lakes  the  Bible  for  the  rule  and  guide  of  their  faith,  declaring  it  to  be  "the  inestimable 
gift  of  God  to  man."  Yet  it  would  seem  from  the  findings  of  the  lodge  that  he  ignores  the 
doctrines  of  that  society.  Taking  the  two  together  itwould  seem  as  if  one  was  a  set-off 
against  the  other. 

This  case  is  different  from  that  of  L.  J.  Russell,  from  the  same  lodge,  which  was  before 
this  Committee  at  the  June  Communication  of  this  Grand  Lodge  in  1876.  See  page  68, 
Printed  Proceedings.  He  was  charged  with  "  openly  and  publicly  denying  the  authenticity 
of  the  Holy  Scriptures,"  plead  guilty  to  the  specification,  and  made  the  issue  squarely  upon 
the  constitutionality  of  Edict  No.  93.  For  the  reasons  above  stated,  we  recommend  the  adop- 
tion of  the  tollowing  resolution  : 

Resoh'ed ,  That  the  action  of  Little  River  Lodge  No.  401,  in  the  case  of  Geo.  P.  Hodges, 
te  reversed,  without  prejudice  to  the  right  of  said  lodge  to  prefer  new  charges  embodying 
the  offense  intended  to  be  charged  in  said  case. 

The  report  of  the  committee  was  approved.  It  is  always  proper  to  give 
the  accused  the  benefit  of  every  doubt;  but  our  opinion  is,  that  if  this  Bro. 
publicly  associated  with,  countenanced  and  supported  the  organization  men- 
tioned, it  was  evidence  beyond  reasonable  doubt,  of  his  complicity  with  its 
sentiments  and  purposes. 

It  may  be  that  the  "  Holy  Bible,  the  inestimable  gift  of  God  to  man," 
given  us  as  a  guide  for  '■'■faith  and  practice"  is  a  huge  delusion.  It  maybe 
that  one  hand  supporting  and  the  other  resting  upon  Renan,  Hume  or  Vol- 
taire, would  as  well  represent  the  animus  of  the  Fraternity  as  the  Biljle;  yet, 
while  the  latter  is  upon  our  altars,  and  recognized  as  the  Great  Light  that  is 
to  direct  man  in  his  pilgrimage  toward  the  final  culinination  of  his  highest 
and  holiest  aspirations,  we  do  earnestly  insist  that  a  man  stultifies  his  man- 
hood, degrades  himself  in  his  own  estimation,  and  in  the  estimation  of  all 
right  thinking  men,  when  he  assents  to  ritualistic  declarations  of  belief  that 
Jie  believes  are  not  entitled  to  credence. 

In  connection  with  this  subject,  we  are  glad  to  find  that  the  following  res- 
olution, presented  by  Bro.  Sayres,  received  the  assent  of  the  Grand  Lodge: 

Resolved,  That  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Texas  considers  the  position  heretofore  assumed  by 
her  in  reference  to  the  existence  of  God,  the  immortality  of  the  soul,  and  the  divine  authen- 
ticity of  the  sacred  Scriptures,  with  the  explanation  contained  in  Resolution  95,  adopted  June, 
A.  L.  5857,  as  of  the  most  vital  importance  to  Freemasonry. 

There  is  much  that  would  interest  the  reader  in  the  reports  of  the  Griev- 
ance and  Appeal  Committee.  We  would  give  other  extracts  if  the  space  nec- 
essary was  at  our  disposal.  We  can  say  this,  however,  that  we  never  find 
papers  that  embrace  a  better  understanding  of  our  jurisprudence.  The  fol- 
lowing resolution  was  referred  to  the  committee  for  future  report: 

Resolved,  That  after  acquittal  of  a  member  by  a  subordinate  lodge,  it  is  not  proper  for 
such  lodge  to  again  try  him  for  the  same  offense,  save  after  a  new  trial  ordered  bv  the  Grand 
Lodge. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Mexico  was  recognized,  and  fraternal  inter- 
course with  Grand  Orient  of  France  withdrawn.  The  resolution  adopted 
regarding  the  latter,  is  as  follows: 


CLXXII  APPENDIX. 


Resolved ,  That  the  Grand  Orient  of  France,  in  abolishing  from  the  foundation  of  its  Con- 
stitution the  assertion  of  the  existence  of  God,  and  the  immortality  of  the  soul,  and  so  opening 
its  doors  to  atheism,  had  made  a  fundamental  change  in  its  character,  and  we  can  no  longer 
recognize  it  as  a  part  of  the  Masonic  body. 

The  system  of  Grand  Lecturers,  which  had  been  abolished,  was  renewed, 
and  an  appropriation  of  two  thousand  dollars  voted  to  meet  its  expenses. 

The  report  on  Correspondence,  bj  brother  Gushing,  opens  with  a  com- 
mendation of  the  plan  of  Masonic  trials  adopted  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Massachusetts.  We  expressed  our  views  upon  this  question  last  year,  and  do 
not  yet  find  any  good  reason  for  an  approval  of  the  system. 

Under  Kansas,  he  denies  the  right  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Indian  Terri- 
tory to  arrest  charters  of  lodges  organized  prior  to  the  institution  of  the 
Grand  Lodge.  If  this  Grand  Lodge  is  a  legal  body,  we  would  ask  what  be- 
comes of  its  sovereignt}'  if  another  Grand  Lodge  is  permitted  to  occupy  its 
territory?  We  are  unable  to  discover  any  analogy  between  lodge  member- 
ship and  the  relation  of  a  constituent  lodge  to  a  Grand  Lodge.  It  is  true 
that  I  can  retain  membership  in  Illinois,  no  matter  where  my  lot  may  be  cast; 
but  a  lodge  cannot  retain  fealty  to  the  Grand  Body  of  original  jurisdiction, 
after  the  jurisdiction  in  which  it  is  located  has  been  organized  into  a  regular 
Grand  Lodge. 

Under  Maine,  Bro.  Gushing  seems  to  entertain  another  view  of  the  ques- 
tion. In  reply  to  Bro.  Drummond,  who  insists  that  it  is  proper  for  some 
thirty  lodges  of  that  jurisdiction  to  exist  under  charters  from  Massachusetts, 
(although  constituents  of  his  Grand  Lodge)  he  smiles  thus: 

Now,  what  evidence  has  Bro.  Drummond  that  those  thirty  lodges  are  subordinate  to 
Maine?  By  the  authority  of  what  Grand  Lodge  do  they  exist  at  all?  By  that  of  Massachu- 
setts? But  Massachusetts  has  no  jurisdiction.  By  that  of  Maine?  But  they  have  no  such 
authority,  nor  evidence  of  it.  We  do  not  claim  that  these  lodges  are  irregular,  but  their  posi- 
tion is  abnormal,  and  it  seems  to  us  inconsistent. 

Illinois  is  not  noticed,  from  the  fact  that  the  proceedings  of  1876  had  not 
been  received. 

Statistics — Lodges,  415  ;   membership,   16,856. 

M.-.W.-.  Norton  Moses,  Strickling,  G,  M. ;  R.-.W.-.  Geo.  H,  Bringhurst, 
Houston,  G.  Sec'y;  W.'.  I.  B.  Likens,  Ghairman,  Gom.  on  Gorrespondence, 
Houston. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CI.XXIII 


UTAH,    1877. 

The  Sixth  Annual  Communication  assembled  in  Salt  Lake  City  Novem- 
ber 13th.     M.-.W.'.  Joseph  Milton  Orr,  presiding. 

We  are  glad  of  the  information  that: 

The  Supreme  Grand  Master  has  been  kind  to  us.  The  "Angel  of  Death"  has  not  been 
in  our  midst.  The  several  subordinate  lodges  have  increased  in  numbers,  wealth  and  influ- 
ence, during  the  last  Masonic  year.  Peace,  comfort  and  happiness  have  attended  our  homes, 
and  we  may  in  all  sincerity  thank  the  munificent  Father  of  the  Universe  for  the  many  bless- 
ings we  have  enjoyed. 

The  Grand  Master  favors  us  with  numerous  decisions.  He  is  of  opinion 
that  the  jurisdiction  of  a  lodge  over  a  rejected  candidate  is  perpetual;  and 
that  the  loss  of  an  eye  is  not  a  bar  to  the  reception  of  a  petition  for  the 
degrees.  The  minority  of  the  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  dissented  from 
the  last,  but  was_not  sustained  by  the  Grand  Lodge.     See  Connecticut. 

The  committee  approved  the  following  decision,  the  Grand  Lodge  dis- 
senting: 

^.  How  shall  I  act  in  the  following  case:  A  resident  of  our  city  presents  to  me  a  duly 
authenticated  communication  trom  a  lodge  in  the  State  of  New  York,  stating  that  the  bearer 
had  received  the  Entered  Apprentice  degree  in  their  lodge,  December  19th,  1S76,  (the  brother 
is  well  posted  in  the  lecture);  that  he  had  paid  for  the  Fellow  Craft  and  Masters  degrees,  and 
had  been  elected  to  receive  them,  but  he  being  absent,  our  lodge  would  confer  a  great  favor 
on  their  lodge  if  we  would  pass  and  raise  him.  Can  we  comply  with  their  request?  And  if 
we  can,  whose  by-laws  shall  the  newly  made  Master  sign?  If  ours,  is  he  then  not  a  member 
of  our  lodge?  And  if  he  is,  should  not  the  New  York  lodge  remit  to  us  the  fees  received 
from  the  brother  for  these  two  degrees?  If  the  work  is  required  by  Masonic  courtesy,  our 
lodge  is  in  duty  bound,  and  will  cheerfully  do  it;  but  I  like  to  be  informed  as  to  the  law  and 
general  usage  in  this  and  similar  cases? 

A.  Yes,  you  can  pass  and  raise  the  brother  at  the  request  of  the  New  York  lodge,  pro- 
viding he  is  found  worthy;  but  after  you  have  raised  him,  he  becomes  a  member  of  your 
lodge,  and  consequently  must  sign  your  by-laws,  and  if  he  refuses,  he  is  subject  to  Masonic 
discipline.  In  this  instance  Masonic  courtesy  requires  that  you  permit  the  New  York  lodge 
to  retain  the  fees.     (See  Sections  4  and  £,  Code  Standard  By-Laws). 

The  Grand  Master  also  decides  that  "any  member  of  the  lodge  may  object 
to  the  initiation,  passing  or  raising  of  a  candidate,  and  the  objections  are  good , 
He  cannot  be  compelled  to  prefer  charges."  Illinois  says:  "Whenever 
objection  is  made  by  any  member  of  a  lodge  to  the  advancement  of  a  brother 
therein,  to  the  second  or  third  degree,  the  reasons  therefor  must  be  made 
known,  if  required  by  the  lodge  or  Master;  or  the  matter  may  be  referred  to 
a  committee  with  power  to  inquire  into  such  reasons,  who  shall  report  them 
to  the  lodge  as  soon  as  practicable.  Upon  the  reception  of  such  report,  if 
no  cause  for  objection  has  been  assigned,  or  if  the  reasons  assigned  be,  in 
the  opinion  of  a  majority  of  the  members  present,  insufficient,  the  lodge 
may  confer  the  degree  in  the  same  manner  as  if  no  objection  had  been  made ; 


CLXXIV  APPENDIX. 


but  if  the  reasons  assigned  shall  be  deemed  to  be  sufficient  to  stay  the  degree, 
the  candidate  shall  be  entitled,  upon  application,  to  trial  upon  the  alleged 
objections." 

Which  is  the  better  or  more  fraternal :  to  treat  a  Mason  as  a  Mason,  or  an 
alien,  simply  because  he  has  not  reached  the  ritualistic  plane  upon  which  -we 
stand?  Judge  ye,  brethren.  We  present  the  views  of  the  Grand  Master  on 
Masonry  in  France: 

The  Grand  Lodges  of  America  have  for  many  years  past  had  difSculties  and  misunder- 
standings with  French  Masonry,  and  now  arises  a  new  source  of  trouble  which  we  exceed- 
ingly regret.  In  charity  we  say  that  some  erratic  leader  of  French  Masonry  has  caused  the 
name  of  God  to  be  stricken  from  their  Constitution,  and  profess  a  belief  only  in  that  old 
French  adage,  "  Equality  of  man  and  Universal  Brotherhood."  We  believe  and  feel  that 
there  is  a  God  who  will  love  and  cherish  us  "  after  shuffling  off  this  mortal  coil."  It  is  a 
pleasing  thought,  and  one  w^e  cannot  and  do  not  surrender.  A  belief  in  Divinity  is  impressed 
upon  our  hearts.  It  grew  with  us  from  infancy,  and  we  carry  it  with  us  to  the  grave.  When 
the  lodges  of  France  struck  from  their  Constitution  the  name  of  the  "  Great  I  am,"  they 
violated  one  of  the  most  ancient  and  revered  landmarks  of  our  Institution.  France  ought  to 
learn  something  from  history,  and  remember  that  when  infidelity  wrote  over  the  church  yards 
of  France  "  Death  is  an  eternal  sleep,"  their  nation  suffered,  and  that  Order  of  Brotherhood 
which  teaches  man  "to  do  justly,  love  mercy,  and  walk  humbly  before  his  God,"  received  a 
wound  from  which  France  never  recovered. 

Our  M.'.  W.'.  Brother  concludes  his  address  with  a  brief  but  irreverent 
mention  of  the  Mountain  Meadow  Saints: 

J  ustice  will  prevail.  It  is  said  to  be  *'  blind  and  slow,"  yet  it  gropes  its  way  along  with 
unerring  certainty,  and  will  in  time  overtake  us  all.  Justice  is  radical,  it  knows  no  compro- 
mise. This  IS  the  idea  that  controlled  our  brothers  when  they  established  the  first  Masonic 
lodge  in  Utah. 

We  say  to  the  priests  of  the  latter-day  church,  you  cannot  enter  our  lodge  rooms — you 
surrender  all  to  an  unholy  priesthood.  You  have  heretofore  sacrificed  the  sacred  obligations 
of  our  beloved  order,  and  vye  believe  you  would  do  the  same  again.  Stand  aside;  we  want 
none  of  you.  Such  •  wound  as  you  gave  Masonry  in  Nauvoo,  is  not  easily  healed,  and  no 
latter-day  saint  is,  or  can  become  a  member  of  our  Order  in  this  jurisdiction. 

From  the  report  of  the  Grand  Secretary,  we  are  glad  to  find  that  the 
Grand  Lodge  Library  is  assuming  valuable  proportions;  also,  that  five  lodges 
contributed  $So  to  their  brethren  of  St.  John,  New  Brunswick. 

Bro.  Diehl  speaks  in  very  fraternal  terms  of  our  late  Brothers  Dove,  of 
Virginia,  and  Gouley,  of  Missouri. 

The  Grand  Lodges  of  New  Mexico  and  Cuba  were  recognized. 

An  amendment  to  the  constitution  making  fifty  dollars  the  minimum  for 
conferring  the  degrees,  instead  of  seventy-five,  was  disagreed  to. 

We  regret  to  find  an  amendment  to  the  by-laws,  authorizing  the  Master  to 
suspend  a  brother  "from  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  Masonry  "  for  non- 
payment of  dues.     This  is  the  regulation : 

Any  member  of  a  lodge  being  twelve  months  in  arrears  for  dues,  and  residing  within  the 
jurisdiction  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  shall  be  notified  by  the  Secretary  that  unless  within  thirty 
days,  or  if  residing  without  the  jurisdiction  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  within  sixty  days  from  th 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE. 


date  of  the  stated  meeting  at  which  such  delinquency  shall  be  made  known  to  the  lodge, 
either  his  dues  he  paid,  or  sickness  or  inability  to  pay  be  shown  as  the  cause  of  such  refusal 
or  neglect,  he  will  be  liable  to  suspension  from  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  Masonry.  If 
neither  of  the  foregoing  excuses  be  made,  he  may,  at  the  first  stated  meeting  after  the  expir- 
ation of  the  specified  time,  he  declared  by  the  Master  to  be  suspended,  unless  for  special 
reasons  shown,  the  lodge  shall  remit  his  dues  or  grant  him  further  time  for  payment.  But 
any  Mason  ihus  suspended,  who  shall  at  any  time  pay  the  arrearages  due  at  the  time  of  his 
suspension,  or  who  shall  have  such  arrearages  remitted  by  his  lodge,  shall  be  declared  by  the 
Master  thereof  restored. 

It  is  not  worse,  in  principle,  than  our  rule,  permitting  a  Master  to  order  a 
diinit.  Both  are  objectionable.  We  yet  insist  that  if  brethren  are  to  be  con- 
sulted in  admission,  they  ought  to  be  consulted  when  relation  to  the  lodge  is 
to  be  severed.  We  would  like  to  ask,  if  it  is  proper  in  one  instance  for  the 
Master  to  inflict  the  penalty  of  suspension,  why  not  in  all  others? 

The  Report  on  Correspondence  by  Bro.  Christopher  Diehl  is  restricted  to 
46  pp.  It  is  a  very  concise  paper.  He  never  did  use  a  dull  razor;  and  for 
this  reason  we  hope  that  his  Grand  Lodge  finances  will  be  in  a  condition, 
another  year,  to  enlarge  his  sphere  of  usefulness. 

Illinois  is  fraternally  noticed. 

Statistics — Lodges,  6;  membership,  367.  Disbursements  for  charity  for 
the  year,  $1,843  75!   i"  treasury  of  lodges,  $7,947.     None  in  debt 

M.-.W.-.  John  Shaw  Scott,  Salt  Lake  City,  G.  M.  R.-.W.-.  Christopher 
Diehl,  Salt  Lake  City,  G.  Sec. 


VERMONT,    1877. 

We  have  perused  the  proceedings  of  the  Eighty-Fifth  Annual  Communi- 
cation with  much  more  than  ordinary  interest.  The  Grand  Lodge  convened 
in  Burlington,  June  13th. 

M.-.W.-.  Henry  H.  Smith  presiding. 

The  address  of  the  Grand  Master  bears  unequivocal  testimony  to  his  zeal 
for  Masonry. 

He  makes  fraternal  allusion  to  several  brethren  deceased;  among  the  num- 
ber the  venerable  brother  Rev.  Kittridge  Haven,  Past  Grand  Chaplain,  aged 
85  years.  "  He  was  a  Mason  for  more  than  50  years — a  pure,  consistent, 
honest,  christian  man."  What  further  could  have  been  said  of  him.?  Noth- 
ing.    Of  the  Past  Master's  degree,  he  says : 

I  confess  it  is  apparent  on  looking  over  the  reports  that  there  is  a  diversity  of  opinion 
upon   the   subject  rather  startling  to  one  not  yet  in  his  Masonic   teens,   but  after  as  careful 


CLXXVI  APPENDIX. 


study  as  I  can  !<ive  it,    I  fully  concur  with  my  lamented  and  "SI.  W.  Brother  Hall  as  far  as  he 
decides  it,  and  add  yet  a  little  more  on  my  own  belief. 

I  deem  it  well  enough  to  confer  the  Past  Master's  degree  on  a  Master  elect,  but  not  essen- 
tially necessary,  and  I  beg  the  privilege  of  enlarging  upon  this  subject  a  moment,  because  it 
appears  to  be  considered  quite  important  indeed  in  some  jurisdictions  and  very  much  unsettled. 
Neither  Grand  or  subordinate  lodges  have  such  a  degree  or  the  right  to  confer  it.  No  one 
disputes  that  The  only  Past  Masters  recognized  in  Blue  Masonrj'  are  those  who  have  been 
dulv  elected,  installed  and  passed  the  chair,  and  in  any  event,  none  but  such  actual  Past 
Masters  can  confer  the  degree  in  question,  should  it  be  held  to  be  part  of  the  installation 
service  or  ceremony. 

We  made  two  or  three  allusions  to  this  question  in  our  report  of  last 
3'ear,  and  do  not  now  feel  justified  in  saying  more,  than,  that  the  more  thought 
we  devote  to  the  matter,  our  convictions  are  strengthened  that  this  degree 
should  never  be  associated  with  Craft  Masonry. 

The  Grand  Master  speaks  encouragingly  of  Grand  Lodge  finances, 
and  recommends  still  greater  economy. 

He  devotes  much  attention  to  dimission  and  non-affiliation,  and  is  of  the 
opinion  "that  every  Master  Mason  should  hesitate  long  before  asking  a  dimit 
for  any  purpose,  except  to  unite  with  some  other  lodge."  We  are  glad  to 
endorse  his  views  of  the  subject,  but  must  dissent  from  his  understanding  of 
"duties  and  benefits:'" 

Every  member  of  a  lodge  in  good  standing  is  liable  to  two  classes  of  duties,  and  can 
claim  two  classes  of  benefits.  First,  those  which  he  assumes  when  made  a  Mason,  and  which 
he  can  never,  under  any  circumstances,  divest  himself  or  be  divested  of  lexceptby  expulsion) 
and  which  are  distinctly  laid  down  in  the  ritual;  and. 

Second,  those  resulting  from  membership  in  a  regular  lodge. 

The  first  class  of  obligations  and  benefits  it  is  unnecessary  to  recount  here,  because  they 
are,  no  doubt,  familiar  to  you. 

The  second  class  consists  of  those  things  emanating  directly  from  connection  with  a 
lodge  as  a  member.  The  right  of  visitation,  the  right  of  relief  from  the  lodge  for  himself 
and  familv--the  right  of  Masonic  burial,  and  the  right  to  represent  and  be  represented  in 
General  Assembly.  These  are  undoubted  prerogatives  of  affiliated  Masons  in  good  stand- 
ing only.  A  non-affiliate  can  claim  no  one  of  these  benefits.  He  has  no  lawful  Masonic 
right  to  them,  having  surrendered  them  all  in  taking  a  dimit;  so  that  the  status  of  a  dimitted 
Mason  is  unquestionably  determined. 

A  member  of  a  lodge  is  invested  with  certain  inherent  rights,  among  them 
that  of  visitation,  participation  in  its  deliberations,  and  the  occupancy  of  any 
place  of  trust  and  responsibility  in  which  his  brethren  may  place  him;  but 
we  do  not  understand  that  he  has  any  vested  claim  to  material  considerations — 
"  the  ri£-/ii  to  relief  from  the  lodge  for  himself  and  family,  or  the  rt's^/i^  of 
Masonic  burial."  Italics  ours.  If  this  were  true,  the  lodge  is  made  an  insur- 
ance agency,  and  not  unlike  other  associations  that  make  pecuniary  benefits, 
the  principal  feature  of  their  organizations.  Speculative  Masonry  has  never 
suggested  a  system  of  the  kind,  but  on  the  contrary,  has  avoided  it,  that 
mercenary  motives  should  not  form  any  part  of  an  application  for  member- 
ship.    As  Masons,  we  are  pledged  to  consider  the  wants  of  uorthy  brethren, 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CLXXVII 


but  our  obligations  never  tell  us  that  we  shall  contribute  to  their  relief; 
consequently,  the  lodge  cannot  impose  upon  itself  obligations  in  this  regard, 
in  advance  of  the  duties  obligatory  upon  members. 

Our  organization  rests  in  the  supreme  thought  that  men  should  be  breth- 
ren; each  seeking  the  well  being  of  the  other,  that  the  greatest  good  may 
accrue  to  the  whole.  Thus  it  is  that  we  do  not  find  obligations  that  are  man- 
datory, except  those  that  i-est  in  our  duties  to  God,  which  carry  with  them, 
and  embrace  the  entire  range  of  moral  and  fraternal  responsibilities;  leaving 
all  that  refers  to  material  benevolent  life,  within  the  circle  of  individual  duty 
and  ability. 

The  Grand  Master  makes  extended  mention  of  the  condition  of  Masonry 
within  his  jurisdiction.  On  the  whole  it  is  encouraging.  Of  Foreign  Cor- 
respondence he  remarks : 

I  have  read,  with  the  deepest  interest,  every  report  received  during  the  past  year,  and 
very  many  old  ones  kindly  furnished  me  by  our  Grand  Secretary,  and  I  can  truthfully  say  I 
have  gleaned  from  them  more  information  than  from  all  other  sources  combined.  These 
reports  are  absolutely  invaluable  to  any  one  desiring  to  inform  himself  thoroughly,  and 
especially  to  the  brethren  who  are  elected  to  oversee  the  Craft  and  keep  that  vigilant  watch 
over  their  interests  which  their  ever  increasing  necessities  demand.  We  could  not  afford  to 
be  deprived  of  this  compendium  of  facts,  opinions  and  decisions  from  all  over  the  world, 
accompanied,  as  it  usually  is,  by  its  keen  criticisms  and  suggestions.  By  all  means  let  our 
report  be  made  and  printed  as  usual. 

The  following  decisions  are  of  record: 

Question. — The  Festivals  of  St.  John  in  June  and  December  being  regular  communica- 
tions, under  the  b3'-laws  of  a  lodge,  can  a  petition  for  initiation  be  received  at  either  of  said 
communications,  and  be  acted  upon  at  the  regular  monthly  communication  of  the  lodge 
coming  within  less  than  a  month  vfive  days)  after? 

Answer,  i. — Yes:  unless  those  extra  communications  are  purely  festival  communica- 
tions, in  which  event  the  petition  should  be  presented  at  a  regular  monthly  communication, 
and  lie  over  until  the  next  regular  monthly  communication.     (Art.  20,  G.  L.  By-Laws.) 

^uestioti.  Is  it  proper  to  permit  an  Eastern  Star  Lodge  (so-called)  to  use  a  Masonic 
lodge  room  for  their  meetings? 

Answer.  3. — Yes.  It  being  an  "  adoptive  rite  "  is  so  far  Masonic  as  to  take  it  out  of 
the  ordinary  rule  prohibiting  joint  occupancy  with  other  societies.     (12.  Davis,  74). 

3. — In  balloting  for  officers  of  a  lodge,  a  vote  for  a  person  not  a  Mason  should  be  counted> 
but  a  blank  piece  of  paper  is  not  a  vote. 

4. — A  W.  Master  duly  elected  and  installed  m.ay  legally  preside  as  such,  though  he  may 
not  have  received  the  P.  M.  degree,  and  the  same  rule  obtains  as  to  the  Wardens  in  his 
absence.     The  P.  M  degree  is  not  part  of  the  installation  ceremony. 

5. — In  the  absence  of  the  W.  M.  and  either  AVarden,  the  other  Warden  (whether  he  has 
taken  the  Past  Master's  degree  or  not)  can  lawfully  and  regularly  open  and  close  the  lodge 
and  confer  the  degrees,  and,  after  congregating  his  lodge,  may,  as  lawfully,  call  any  Master 
Mason  (Past  Master  or  not)  to  preside,  confer  the  degrees,  and  do  any  other  proper  business, 
the  Warden  being  present  and  assenting  thereto,  and  such  work  is  legal  and  regular. 

6.— Lodges  should  not  parade  in  public  procession  as  a  lodge  except  in  attending  the 
business  exclusively  theirs  and  sanctioned  by  the  ancient  usjiges  of  Masonry;    therefore  it  is 


CLXXVm  APPENDIX. 


not  proper  to  parade  as  a  lodge  in   public  with  other  civic  bodies  on  Decoration  Day  or 
Fourth  of  July. 

The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  approve  numbers  one,  five  and  six,  but 
decline  to  sanction  the  remainder.  After  a  discussion,  (in  undertones,  prob- 
ably,)  tlie  Grand  Lodge  came  to  the  rescue  of  a  sympathetic  Grand  Master, 
by  declaring  the  spinster  regulation  good  lavir.  If  Bro.  Smith  and  his  Grand 
Lodge  intend  to  "  adopt "  the  surplus  calico  of  Vermont,  they  will  have  abun- 
dant occupation,  without  devoting  much  time  to  Masonry.  Seriously,  why 
this  tacit  recognition  of  this  "  Adoptive  Rite."  Just  this  class  of  unwarranted 
hand-shaking  has  been  productive  of  more  dissension  than  all  other  causes 
combined.  Our  private  opinion  is,  that  in  sparsely  settled  communities, 
when  the  exclusive  occupancy  of  halls  for  Masonic  purposes  will  impose 
unnecessary  burdens,  that  a  joint  occupation  with  any  recognized,  respect- 
able benevolent  association,  like  the  one  mentioned,  is  justifiable. 

The  committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  following  by-law,  reported 
adversely  to  its  adoption.     Sustained: 

That  no  Mason  connected  with  any  lodge  in  the  State  of  Vermont  can  be  dimitled  from 
the  lodge  to  which  he  belongs  until  his  petition  has  been  presented  and  accepted  by  some 
other  Masonic  lodge,  and  a  petition  for  a  dimit  sent  by  the  Master  of  such  Masonic  lodge 
accepting  such  petition  to  the  lodge  to  which  such  petitioner  belongs,  by  said  petitioner 
and  by  the  Master  of  the  lodge  to  which  said  member  has  applied  for  admission,  notifying  the 
lodge  to  which  said  petitioner  formerly  belonged,  thai  said  member  had  made  due  application 
and  was  accepted  by  said  lodge  to  which  he  petitioned  for  acceptance. 

Another  proposition,  that  "  each  member  receiving  a  dimit  shall  pay  to 
his  lodge  one  dollar  for  the  benefit  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  there  shall  be 
paid  to  the  Grand  Master  for  each  dispensation  granted  by  him,  two  dollars 
for  the  benefit  of  the  Grand  Lodge,"  did  not  meet  with  favor. 

Bro.  Geo.  H.  Bigelow,  from  a  special  committee  to  whom  was  referred  the 
claims  of  Colored  Masonry,  very  properly  says:  that  when  "that  Body  (the 
Ohio  Colored  Grand  Lodge)  demands  recognition  at  our  hands,  it  will  be 
time  enough  to  open  the  discussion." 

The  reports  of  D.  D.  Grand  Masters  show  very  commendable  intimacy 
with  their  duties. 

The  report  on  Correspondence,  by  Bro.  Henry  Clark,  is  an  excellent  pro- 
duction of  io6  pp.  Our  jurisdiction  receives  fraternal  notice.  The  thought 
and  purpose  of  his  labors  for  the  year,  will  be  found  in  the  two  concluding 
paragraphs  of  his  "conclusion:" 

Primitive  Masonry  is  fast  fading.  We  regret  this,  but  the  transactions  of  the  various 
Grand  Lodges  make  it  so  potent  a  fact  that  we  cannot  disguise  it  if  we  would.  Let  the  con- 
servative old  Grand  Lodge  of  Vermont  stand  faithfully  by  the  teachings  of  Chipman, 
Haswell,  Tucker,  and  Englesby,  and  remain  firm  in  the  faith  and  according  to  the  landmarks, 
and  all  will  be  well  with  us.  Masonry  is  an  institution  that  cannot  be  moved  from  its  founda- 
tions, and,  although  the  moorings  may  have  been  loosened,  still,  at  least,  the  old  doctrines 
and  teachings  must  be  adhered  to,  and  all  departures  from  the  true  faith  will,  at  last,  be 
reconciled,  for  the  foundations  are  as  everlasting'as  the  granite  of  our  mountains. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CLXXIX 


We  would  gladly  refer  to  other  subjects,  but  our  space  is  alreadj'  occupied.  Let  us 
Masons  of  Vermont  neither  be  hoodwinked  by  party  fealty,  sectarian  bias,  nor  personal  pre- 
dilections or  prejudice;  let  our  every  movement  be  in  the  name  and  for  the  sake  of  that 
universal  charity,  which  is  the  aim  of  Freemasonry,  and  whence,  as  from  a  well-spring  on 
high,  rtow  over  the  sands  of  this  world's  wilderness  its  eternal  enduring  benefits. 

Statistical — Grand  Masters — 

Noah  Smith,  3  years,  from  1794  to   1796  inciitsive 

John  Chipman,  18  "  "  1797  to  1S14  " 

Jonathan  Nje  3  "  "  1S15  to   1S17  " 

Lemuel  Witney  4  "  "  181S  to  iSzi  " 

George  Robinson  2  "  "  1822  to   1823  " 

Phineas  White  3  "  "  1824  to  1826 

George  E.  Wales  2  M  "  1827  to  182S 

N.  B.  Harville  iS  "  ."  1829  to  1S46  " 

Philip  C.  Tucker  15  "  "  1847  to   1861 

L.  B.  Englesby  6  "  "  1862  to  1S67 

Geo.  M.  Hall  3  "  "  1868  to  1870  " 

Park  Davis  3  "  "  1871  to   1873  " 

N.  T.  Bowman  2  "  "  1874  to   1875  " 

H.  H.  Smith  2  "  "  1876  to   1877  " 

The  oldest  charter  of  the  jurisdiction  is  that  of  Middletown  Lodge  No.  2, 
chartered  Oct.,  1791.     Lodges,  100;   membership,  8,396. 

M.-.W.-.  Henry  H.  Smith,  Rutland,  G.  M.  R.-.W.-.  Henry  Clark,  Rut- 
land, G.  Sec. 


VIRGINIA,   1877. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  this  distinguished  jiuisdiction  was  in  Annual  Session 
in  Richmond,  Dec.  loth. 

M.-.W.-.  Richard  Parker,  in  the  Grand  East. 

We  gather  from  the  Address  of  the  Grand  Master,  that  the  Craft  of  the 
Old  Dominion  are  not  languishing. 

It  is  with  sentiments  of  the  profoundest  gratitude  to  Almighty  God  that  we  should 
assemble  here  to-night.  Since  our  last  Annual  Communication,  our  body  has  been  almost 
entirely  exempt  from  the  ravages  of  our  great  enemy — Death :  in  this  respect  forming  a 
striking  contrast  to  our  last  assemblage,  at  which  we  had  to  mourn  the  loss  of  three  of  our 
most  esteemed  and  valued  officers.  Since  our  last  meeting,  expressions  of  sympathy  with  us 
in  our  bereavement  have  been  received  from  several  of  our  sister  Grand  Lodges,  and,  as  the 
present  head  of  our  order,  I  have  returned  the  thanks  of  all  Virginia  Masons  for  the  tribute 
thus  paid  to  our  departed  brethren. 


CLXXX  APPENDIX. 


We  should  likewise  be  truly  grateful  for  the  improved  condition  of  our  political,  social 
and  business  relations;  for  the  harmony  that  extends  throughout  our  wide  country;  and  for 
the  rich  harvests  which  have  rewarded  our  toils,  and  are  the  promise  of  increased  activity  in 
all  the  avocations  of  life. 

As  we  constitute  a  portion  of  the  body  politic,  we  must  expect  to  share  in  its  blessings, 
and  to  be  subjected  to  its  sufferings;  for  whatever  affects  the  body  of  a  community,  of  neces- 
sity affects  each  of  its  several  parts.  In  times  of  disturbance  and  monetary  depression. 
Masonry  may  languish,  but  her  revival  to  fuller  life  may  be  looked  for  with  the  return  of  peace 
and  general  prosperity. 

For  the  want  of  full  returns  from  our  various  lodges,  it  is  difficult  to  compare  with 
accuracy  our  present  numerical  strength  with  that  of  the  preceding  year;  and  yet,  from  my 
knowledge  of  the  condition  of  some  of  our  lodges,  and  from  information  obtained  from  such 
of  the  returns  as  have  been  received,  I  am  satisfied  that  we  have  not,  even  in  this  respect, 
lost  ground.  But  numbers  is  no  fair  test  of  the  real  strength  of  Masonry ;  this  should  be 
measured  rather  by  the  beneficial  influence  she  exerts  within  her  own  households,  and  through 
them  over  others  yet  outside  of  our  Institution.  Our  daily  practice  of  the  virtues  she  incul- 
cates will  attract  the  esteem  of  the  world  around  us,  and  worthy  men,  seeing  our  good  deeds 
of  charity  and  brotherly  love,  will  seek  to  be  united  to  an  Order  whose  constant  aim  is  to  be 
of  benefit  to  mankind. 

A  member  of  a  lodge  (we  can  hardly  call  him  a  Mason),  having  publicly 
declared  that  "  no  Jew  should  be  admitted  "  to  his  lodge,  the  Grand  Master 
does  honor  to  himself  and  the  Fraternity  by  administering  a  rebuke,  that  the 
erring  brother  will  not  be  liable  to  forget. 

Included  in  his  decisions  is  this: 

Where  a  brother  lived  at  a  very  considerable  distance  from  his  lodge,  though  within  this 
jurisdiction,  and  in  his  absence  was  tried  and  sentenced  to  be  reprimanded,  but  was  unable 
from  poverty  to  pay  the  expenses  of  traveling  to  the  lodge,  he  might  be  notified  of  the  sen- 
tence b)'  a  letter  addressed  to  him  at  his  proper  post-office,  and  tliat  at  a  Regular  Communi- 
cation to  be  named,  the  sentence  would  be  executed;  and  at  that  time  (unless  good  cause  be 
shown  to  the  contrary)  the  Worshipful  Master  should  pronounce  the  reprimand,  and  order 
the  Secretary  to  inform  the  brother  that  such  reprimand  had  been  administered.  Unless  some 
such  course  be  pursued,  the  guilty  brother  might  altogether  escape  punishment,  which  can- 
not be  permitted.  His  inability  to  bear  the  expense  of  traveling  to  the  lodge  ought  to  save 
him  from  being  proceeded  against  b)'  a  regular  summons  to  attend  and  receive  his  sentence, 
and  from  being  punislied  for  disobeying  such  summons.  His  failure  to  attend  on  such 
summons  should  be  attributed  to  his  poverty,  and  not  to  a  purpose  to  disobey  the  mandate  of 
the  lodge. 

The  Grand  Lodge  resolved  to  secure  the  erection  of  a  monument  to  the 
memory  of  their  late  lamented  Grand  Secretary,  John  Dove.  A  committee 
was  appointed  for  that  purpose;  the  Grand  Lodge  making  an  appropriation 
of  $250. 

In  the  case  of  a  defaulting  Secretary,  who  had  adjusted  the  defalcation  by 
surrendering  securities  to  the  lodge,  the  D.  D.  Grand  Master  decided  that 
the  settlement  was  a  bar  to  an  action  for  unmasonic  conduct.  The  Com- 
mittee on  Jurisprudence,  sustained  by  the  Grand  Lodge,  very  properly  took 
exceptions  to  the  decision. 

The  Committee  on  Propositions,  Grievances  and  Appeals  reported  upon 
several  propositions  submitted  for  its  consideration,  to-wit : 


MASONIC     CORRESPONDENCE.  CI.XXXl 


1.  Resolved,  That  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Virginia,  on  and  after  its  next  Annual  Session, 
meet  alternatelv  in  such  of  the  cities  of  this  State  as  can  accommodate  it. 

2.  Resolved,  That  any  Master  Mason  in  this  jurisdiction,  who  shall  bring-  sufficient 
evidence  to  his  lodge  that  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Order  twenty-one  years,  shall  not  be 
subject  to  discipline  for  the  non-payment  of  dues. 

3.  Resolved,  That  lodges  be  required  to  notify  all  lodges  having  concurrent  jurisdiction 
of  applications  for  the  degrees  or  membership. 

4.  Resolved,  That  no  subordinate  lodge  which  may  be  in  arrearages  to  the  Grand  Lodge 
for  dues,  for  one  or  more  years,  shall  be  entitled  to  vote  on  any  question  whatever,  except 
upon  the  special  recommendation  of  the  Committee  on  Finance  and  Investment. 

The  tirst  and  second  were  not  agreed  to;  the  third  endorsed.  In  lieu  of 
the  fourth,  the  committee  presented  a  substitute,  which  was  adopted : 

Resolved,  That  no  subordinate  lodge  shall  be  allowed  to  vote  in  this  Grand  Lodge  which 
has  not  paid  its  dues  for  the  i)receding  year,  except  upon  the  special  recommendation  of  the 
Committee  on  Finance  and  Investment:  provided  that  this  law  shall  have  no  reference  to  dues 
which  have  accrued  prior  to  this  Grand  Annual  Communication. 

Two  thousand  dollars  was  added  to  the  invested  fund  of  the  Grand  Lodge. 

The  committee  on  doings  of  Grand  Officers  gave  a  synopsis  of  reports  of 
District  Deputy  Grand  Masters.  As  a  rule,  lodges  were  found  in  good  con- 
dition. 

The  following  resolutions  were  adopted: 

Resolved,  That  the  Grand  Master  and  Grand  Wardens  take  into  consideration  during 
recess  the  propriety  of  celebrating,  in  a  proper  manner,  the  centennial  year  of  this  Grand 
Lodge;  and. 

Resolved,  That  if  they  deem  it  expedient  to  celebrate  it,  they  be  authorized  to  make  all 
suitable  arrangements  therefor,  calling  to  their  aid  such  committeemen  as  they  may  think 
necessary. 

R.'.W.".  Bro.  W.  F.  Drinkard  presented  his  first  report  on  Correspon- 
dence.    We  regret  to  find  that  Illinois  is  not  included. 

In  his  review  of  District  of  Columbia  he  takes  the  ground  that  a  Past 
Master  should  not  be  tried  by  his  lodge;  and  this  appears  to  be  the  law  of 
Virginia.  In  support  of  the  wisdom  of  this  regulation  he  refers  to  a  case  of 
a  Past  Master  who  had  been  lately  tried  by  a  commission  of  Past  Masters  and 
acquitted;  and  then  says:  "It  is  the  belief  of  every  member  of  his  lodge 
with  whom  we  have  conversed,  that  if  he  had  been  tried  by  that  body,  he 
would  have  been  expelled."  This  statement  does  not  reflect  any  credit  upon 
the  law;  for  it  seems  conclusive  that  this  universal  sentiment  of  the  lodge  is 
ample  evidence  that  the  offender  should  have  been  expelled. 

Bro.  Drinkard  adds:  "This  law,  doubtless,  comes  down  to  us  from  our 
English  ancestors,  who  would  allow  no  member  of  the  House  of  Lords  to  be 
tried  except  by  his  peers." 

Well,  we  are  inclined  to  think  that  this  practice  of  his  jurisdiction,  with 
many  others  of  a  similar  character,  in  other  departments  of  the  Masonic  fam- 
ily, did   have  their   origin  in  hostility  to  the  fundamental  principles  upon 


CLXXXII  APPENDIX. 


which  J^reemasonry  is  founded.  Men  were  not  satisfied  one  hundred  years 
ago,  neitlier  are  they  now,  with  the  leveling  tendencies  of  the  institution: 
and  from  time  iminemorial  it  is  found,  that  to  get  away  from  too  close  com- 
munion with  the  body  of  the  Craft,  advanced  degrees  were  necessary.  It  is 
quite  true  that  the  welfare  of  the  lodge  and  fraternity  demand  that  the  Mas- 
ter shall,  during  his  official  term,  but  no  longer,  be  exempt  from  charges 
issuing  from,  and  to  be  tried  by  his  lodge.  It  is  also  true  that  Peers,  or  other 
law  making,  or  executive  agencies  should  have  safe-guards  thrown  around 
them  during  official  life,  otherwise  political  partizans  would  have  it  in  their 
power  to  interrupt  legislation,  and  clog  the  machinery  of  government;  but 
we  never  hear  of  their  being  invested  with  such  immunities  because  of  Aav- 
ing  been  branches  of  the  governing  power.  It  would  be  rather  funny  to 
assume  that  a  Past  Peer,  Past  President,  or  Past  Representative  in  Congress 
should  not  be  tried  for  an  offense,  except  by  present  or  past  members  of 
these  authorities.  But  this  assumption  is  not  more  unfortunate  than  to  hold 
that  a  Past  Master  should  only  be  tried  by  Masons  of  equal  rank:  except  it 
can  be  established  that  there  exists  a  lawful  body  ivithin  Symbolic  Masonry, 
recognized  as  a  lodge  of  Past  Masters,  and  a  fourth  degree  in  the  Symbolic 
system.  If  there  be  such  a  body  or  degree,  it  must  not  only  have  a  home  and 
resting  place,  but  must  be  accepted  as  a  section  of  Craft  Masonry,  and  to 
which  every  member  of  the  lodge  can  aspire  under  the  customary  restrictions 
of  advancements.  If  it  is  not  this,  it  can  only  be  a  "side  degree,"  without 
vitality  or  force,  except  as  a  mark  of  official  distinction ;  not  carrying  with  it 
any  immunities  beyond  the  occupancy  of  the  Master's  chair.  Here  is  just 
where  we  have  always  placed  this  venerable  barnacle,  that  our  Virginia  breth- 
ren would  erect  into  a  city  of  refuge,  in  which  every  titled  violator  of  law 
might  find  a  secure  resting-place.  We  believe  that  Grand  Lodges  are  without 
authority  to  institute  additional  degrees  to  our  present  system,  and  to  which 
brethren  may  not  have  equal  rights  in  their  attainment :  and  we  further  believe 
that  they  are  wholly  unauthorized  to  establish  a  privileged  class  within  the 
body  of  the  Craft.  We  would  like  to  ask  Bro.  D.  if  it  is  necessary  that  a  Past 
Master  should  be  tried  by  present  or  Past  Masters,  why  is  it  not  proper  that 
provision  should  be  made  to  try  a  Past  Grand  Master  by  a  body  of  the  same 
grade. ^ 

Bro.  Drinkard  makes  extended  review  of  Bro.  Singleton  for  1S76.  Our 
comments  on  the  views  of  this  distinguished  writer  will  be  found  in  our 
report  of  last  year. 

Under  Indiana,  he  objects  with  force  and  good  reason,  to  perpetual  juris- 
diction over  rejected  candidates,  and  gives  his  brethren  of  that  bailiwick  an 
overhauling  on  the  temperance  question.  It  is  well  enough  to  take  a  look  at 
these  Hoosiers,  although  it  is  difficult  to  condemn  brethren  who  are  only 
intent  upon  the  purity  and  good  name  of  the  Fraternity. 

The  entire  report  is  a  good  one,  and  will  be  read  with  interest;  although 
for  some  reason,  he  only  notices  thirty-five  jurisdictions. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CLXXXIII 

Statistics — Lodges,  231;  membership,  9,234. 

M.-.W.-.    Beverly  R.  Wilford,    Richmond,  G.  M. ;   R.-.   W.-.   William  B. 
Isaacs,  Richmond,  G.  Sec'y. 


WASHINGTON,    1877. 


The  Twentieth  Annua!  Grand  Communication  was  opened  in  ample  form, 
in  Olvmpia,  September  26th. 

M.-.W.-.  Piatt  A.  Preston  in  the  Grand  East 

Twentv-one  of  the  twenty-two  lodges  of  the  jurisdiction  were  repre- 
sented. 

Mention  is  made  of  the  decease,  by  assassination,  of  Bro.  Phillip  L. 
Hawley,  Junior  Warden  of  Blue  Mountain  Lodge.  The  Grand  Master  speaks 
of  him  as  a  brother  of  much  worth.  Two  authorizations  for  new  lodges 
were  issued.  The  Grand  Master  reports  several  decisions,  none  of  which  are 
suggestive  of  a  large  exercise  of  mental  effort.  The  following  is  not  quite 
understood : 

That  the  Master  of  a  lodge  would  not  be  warrantable  in  conferring  the  Past  Master's 
degree  upon  a  member  of  a  remote  lodge,  without  official  information  that  the  applicant  was 
entitled  to  receive  it. 

Of  "  aged  and  honored  brethren,"  the  Grand  Master  says: 

OUR    AGED    AND    HONORED    BRETHREN — FAITHFUL   WORKERS    IN    THE    VINEYARD. 

I  desire  to  remind  you  that  there  is  a  considerable  number  of  Masons  in' this  jurisdiction 
who  count  their  years  by  scores,  who  are  infirm,  and  some  of  them  poor,  who  have  bravely 
and  consistently  withstood  persecution  for  their  faith  and  practice,  who  have  fought  a  good 
fight,  and  won  a  victory. 

These  brethren,  probably  by  no  inexcusable  fault  of  their  own,  are  denied  the  full  benefit 
of  lodge  privileges,  for  through  financial  inability  they  have  failed  to  pay  lodge  dues,  and 
therefore  have  been  dropped  from  the  roll  of  members.  While  their  age  and  physical  abilities 
would  admit  of  competition  with  their  fellows  for  wealth  and  honors,  they  neither  required 
nor  accepted  benefits.  For  many  years  they  labored  in  the  vineyard.  For  many  years  they 
have  borne  the  heat  and  burden  of  the  day.  For  many  years  they  have  contributed  to  the 
lodge  fund,  and  for  many  years  they  have  helped  to  feed  the  poor,  educate  the  orphan,  and 
protect  the  lonely  widow. 

Their  life  career  has  been  a  struggle  between  fortune  and  misfortune,  and  finally  misfor- 
tune has  prevailed.  Now  that  these  brethren  require  all  their  income  for  the  support  of 
themselves,  and  those  dependent  upon  them,  it  seems  to  me  that  it  would  only  be  confirming 
a  Masonic  principle  to  enact  some  rule  or  law  by  which  this  class  of  brethren  shall  enjoy  all 
lodge  rights  and  immunities. 


CLXXXIV  APPENDIX. 


Endow  them,  and  all  who  shall  come  after  them,  after  arriving  at  a  certain  age,  with  all 
these  privileges,  notjin  charity,  but  as  an  inalienable  right  for  a  life  of  faithful  services  ren- 
dered. National  gratitude  prompts  the  pensioning  of  faithful  soldiers,  and  an  upright  son 
welcomes  to  his  hearth  and  home  an  aged  and  infirm  parent.  Shall  we  be  less  considerate 
toward  those  whom  we  love  and  honor?    With  these  suggestions  I  leave  the  matter  with  you. 

This  matter  was  referred  to  a  special  committee,  with  directions  to  report 
at  the  next  Annual  Communication. 

Any  lodge  that  will  cut  off  a  member  because  ot  inability  to  pay  dues, 
knows  little  of  Masonrj'. 

Bro.  Preston  concludes  a  brief  but  practical  report  by  recommending  that 
the  resolution  of  1879,  restricting  the  Committee  on  Correspondence  to  the 
simple  acknowledgment  of  proceedings  of  Grand  Lodges,  be  reconsidered. 
We  are  glad  to  find  the  suggestion  agreed  to.  He  also  recommended  a  rule 
prohibiting  ]the  recognition  of  Masons  of  other  jurisdictions  in  the  absence 
of  a  certificate  of  good  standing.  On  this  subject,  the  Grand  Lodge  adopted 
the  following: 

Resolved,  That  all  persons  claiming  to  be  Master  Masons  hailing  from  any  lodge  not 
within  the  jurisdiction  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  and  having  no  proper  personal  avouchment, 
applying  for  visitation  to  any  of  the  lodges  in  this  jurisdiction,  or  who  may  desire  to  obtain 
pecuniary  or  other  assistance  from  any  lodge,  shall,  before  they  be  allowed  to  visit  such  lodge, 
or  before  such  pecuniary  or  other  assistance  be  granted  to  them,  be  required  to  produce  and 
exhibit  a  properly  attested  Diploma,  Certificate,  or  other  satisfactory  documentary  evidence 
of  their  Masonic  standing  at  the  time  of  making  such  visit,  or  applying  for  such  relief. 

And  in  order  that  the  brethren  of  this  jurisdiction  may  act  in  conformity  with  the  spirit 
of  this  resolution,  we  do  earnestly  recommend  all  brethren  of  this  jurisdiction  to  obtain  diplo- 
mas   and  to  have  the  same  with  them  when  traveling  beyond  the  limits  of  this  Grand  Lodge. 

The  Grand  Master  also  called  attention  to  the  necessity  of  greater  uni- 
formity in  work ;  and  congratulates  the  Craft  on  the  condition  of  Masonry 
throughout  the  jurisdiction. 

The  time  for  meeting  of  the  Grand  Lodge  was  changed  to  the  first  Wed- 
nesday of  June. 

An  unsuccessful  effort  was  made  to  change  the  constitution,  providing  for 
a  single  ballot  for  the  three  degrees. 

Among  other  propositions,  Bro.  Haller  submitted  the  following,  which 
was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Jurisprudence : 

Can  a  candidate  who  is  well  known  to  be  addicted  to  gambling  in  public  saloons,  or  who 
depends  for  his  living  solelv  by  keeping  a  dram  shop,  be  said  to  come  "  under  the  tongue  of 
good  report,"  or  "  coming  well  recommended?" 

We  shall  be  glad  to  hear  from  the  committee.  There  is  a  principle,  involv- 
ing' the  responsibility  of  lodges  in  this  connection,  that  merits  careful  consid- 
eration. The  Grand  Lodge  is  the  great  conservator  of  a  jurisdiction,  and 
we  cannot  understand  why  it  should  not  hold  lodges  to  strict  accountability 
for  the  character  of  those  whom  they  impose  upon  the  fraternity. 

The  Grand  Lodge  ordered  : 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CLXXXV 


That  the  subordinate  lodges  in  this  jurisdiction,  be,  and  they  are  hereby  required,  to  fur- 
nish eacli  candidate  raised  to  the  third  degree  ot  Masonry,  a  Master  Mason's  diploma,  the 
cost  of  which  shall  be  included  in  the  initiation  fee. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba  was  recognized.  Bro.  Reed,  please  renew 
attention  to  this  subject. 

The  Report  on  Masonic  Correspondence,  bj  Bro.  Thomas  M.  Reed 
reviewing  the  doings  of  42  Grand  Lodges  (Illinois,  1876,  included)  is  a  good 
paper.  His  views  are  eminently  practical,  and  breathe  a  spirit  that  inspires 
confidence  in  his  value  to  the  Craft. 

He  quotes  liberally  and  approvingly  from  the  opinions  of  our  Grand  Mas- 
ter Robbins.     We  have  room  but  for  one  quotation  from  the  report: 

While  we  say  there  is  much  to  encourage,  and  for  which  congratulations  are  offered, 
there  are  some  things  subjects  of  lamentation.  In  seeking  admission  to  our  altars  none  but 
tlie  good  and  morally  intellectual  should  be  encouraged.  There  never  was  a  time  in  the  his- 
tory of  Masonry  when  this  caution  was  more  eminently  a  necessity.  Masonry  is  too  popular 
in  one  sense,  and  not  sacred  enough  in  another.  It  has  been  bartered  away  too  much  as  if 
an  article  of  merchandise.  The  idle  and  curious,  the  passive  and  perverse  with  an  ease  and 
readiness  distasteful  and  repulsive  to  nobler  manhood,  have  been  permitted  to  purchase  Ma- 
sonic privileges  as  if  they  were  no  more  than  toys  from  a  curiosity  shop.  There  should  be 
an  end  to  this  thing;  then,  we  may  hope  that  many  of  the  difficulties  of  non-afliliation  and 
non-payment  of  dues  will  be  solved  and  disappear. 

Statistics — Lodges,  22  ;  membership,  859. 

M-.W-.  Robert  Crosby  Hill,  Coupeville,  G.  M.  R.-.W.-.  Thomas  M. 
Reed,  Olympia,  G.  S. 


WEST  VIRGINIA,   1877. 

The  Thirteenth  Annual  Communication  was  held  in  Martinsburg,  Nov- 
ember 13th. 

M.-.W.-.  G   W.  Atkinson,  presiding. 

Seventy-one  of  the  seventy-six  lodges  of  the  jurisdiction  represented. 

The  Grand  >Lister  presented  an  attractive  address;  not  having  had  very 
much  of  detail  to  engross  his  attention  in  connection  with  his  official  posi- 
tion, he  gives  some  "general  reflections  upon  the  principles  and  tenets  of  the 
Order,"  which  are  worthy  of  attention. 

As  is  the  case  with  many  writers,  he  draws  largely  upon  his  imagination 
for  Masonic  antiquities.  There  is  nothing  lovable  in  the  hoary  age  of  insti- 
tutions, unless,  clustering  around  them,  we  find  the  root,  stalk  and  tendrils  of 
lofty  purposes  in  human   welfare.      We  do  not  know  but  little  of  the  age  of 

24 


CLXXXVI  APPENDIX. 


Masonry.  It  may  ante-date  Solomon  or  Enoch.  This  alone  would  not  give 
it  a  large  place  in  the  affections  of  the  thoughtful.  Good  men  measure 
every  institution  that  claims  attention,  by  the  same  rules  that  determine  per- 
."^onal  probity  and  usefulness.     The  Grand  Master  says : 

Ag-ain :  We  delight  in  its  antiquity  because  there  is  an  irresistible  enchantment  about 
everything  that  is  hoary-headed  and  aged.  The  old  man  whose  head  is  silvered  over  with 
the  frosts  of  many  winters,  and  whose  body  is  curved  by  the  weight  of  the  years,  is  more  to 
be  respected  than  at  any  other  period  of  life.  The  old  arm  chair,  and  the  clothing  which 
grandfather  wore,  are  as  sacred  as  the  spot  where  his  body  lies  buried  in  the  dreamless  sleep 
of  death.  The  old  family  Bible,  all  scarred  and  torn,  is  treasured  all  the  more  because  of  its 
scars,  its  age  and  its  history.  Thus  it  is  with  Freemasonry.  We  revere  it,  because  it  is  the 
oldest  secret  society  on  the  globe;  and  its  age,  if  nothing  else,  should  make  it  honorable. 

Further :  /  observe  that  there  is  something  magnificent  and  ennobling  in  its  purposes. 
Its  object  is  to  elevate  and  better  the  condition  of  men.  In  short,  it  is  founded  upon  a  broad 
and  glorious  philanthrop}-.  Through  all  the  years  of  its  existence,  it  has  labored  to  make 
men  better;  to  place  all  of  them  on  the  same  footing  in  the  world;  and  to  judge  them,  and 
weigh  them  by  their  characters,  their  merits  and  their  worth.  Besides,  it  offers  relief  to  the 
distressed,  and  help  to  those  who  cannot  help  themselves.  It  teaches  men  not  only  the  uncer- 
tainty of  life,  but  it  teaches  them  that  health  and  wealth  are  evanescent  also ;  that  there  is 
nothing  permanent  and  enduring  but  God  and  His  laws,  and  that  while  we  are  in  health  and 
prosperity  we  should  provide  means  of  relief  for  the  dark  days  that  must  ultimately  come  to 
so  many  of  our  race.  It  teaches  us  that  the  wealthy  and  strong  of  to-day  may  be  the  beggar 
and  invalid  of  to-morrow,  and  warns  us  to  provide  for  these  emergencies;  and  it  teaches  us 
also  that  the  pale  horse  and  its  rider  may  call  for  us,  we  know^  not  when,  and  that  we  should 
always  be  ready  for  the  summons,  and  willing  to  respond  to  tlie  authority  of  our  Supreme 
Grand  Master,  who  doeth  all  things  well. 

The  Grand  Master  writes  well.  He  assures  us  that  the  fraternity  is  as 
flourishing  as  the  stringency  in  finances  will  permit.  No  authorizations  for 
new  lodges  have  been  issued. 

The  D.  D.  G.  Master  of  the  fourth  district,  reports  the  case  of  a  brother 
rejected  in  Colorado.  Two  years  subsequently  he  applied  to  a  lodge  of  his 
district  and  received  the  degrees.  The  form  of  petition  used  in  the  applica- 
tion did  "  not  contain  the  words,  I  have  never  made  application  to  any 
other  lodge,  and  been  rejected."  For  this  reason  the  brother  (who  had  been 
arraigned;  was  acquitted,  and  the  action  of  the  lodge  sustained  by  the  Grand 
Lodge. 

An  amendment  to  the  constitution  was  offered  :  "And  any  Master  Mason 
who  has  been  unafliliated  for  more  than  one  year,  shall  not  be  permitted  to 
visit  any  lodge  in  this  jurisdiction  more  than  twice,  nor  shall  he  be  entitled 
to  any  of  the  charities  of  the  lodge  while  uiiafliliated."  Laid  over  for  one 
year.     Let  it  sleep.     Lodges  are  the  proper  judges  in  such  cases. 

The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  submitted  the  following  opinion, 
which,  we  regret  to  find,  was  sanctioned  by  the  Grand  Lodge: 

A  lodge  must  grant  a  brother  a  dimit,  -without  question,  -whenever  he  desires  it,  if  he  is 
clear  of  the  books,  and  there  are  no  charges  pending  against  him.     (Italics  ours.) 

We  should  like  to  ask  Bro.  Walker  a  question.  If  a  member  of  Fairmount 
Lodge  should  demand  a  dimit  under  this  law,  and  the  members  should  abso- 
lutely refuse  by  vote  to  grant  the  request,  under  what  law  of  Masonry  could 


MASONIC    CORRKSPONDENCE.  CLXXXVII 

they  be  punished  for  such  disobedience?  We  insist  that  the  right  of  the 
member  to  object  to  any  proceeding  of  the  lodge,  is  indefeasible.  The  law 
of  Illinois  on  this  subject  is  nearly  as  objectionable,  but  it  is  not  contended 
by  the  author  of  the  regulation,  that  an  objection  would  not  be  a  bar  to 
favorable  action  upon  the  application. 

The  same  committee  questioned  "  the  propriety  of  the  Orand  Master  in 
delegating  his  authority  and  prerogatives  to  be  exercised  by  another."  From 
this  opinion  the  Grand  Lodge  dissented. 

The  Committee  on  Correspondence  came  forward  again  with  "  unavoida- 
ble circumstances,  in  extenuation  "  for  a  meagre  production  of  a  half  dozen 
pages.     Bro.  Long  indulges  in  a  brief  criticism,  not  altogether  out  of  place: 

It  has  been  said  by  some  sagacious  observer,  {probably  an  old  bachelor),  that  ladies 
indulge  in  extravagance  of  dress,  not  to  please  their  husbands,  or  attract  lovers,  but  mainly 
to  excite  the  envy  of  their  less  favored  sisters.  Whether  this  theory  be  true  or  not  as  regards 
the  ladies  of  our  acquaintacne,  we  have  not  the  temerity  to  say,  but  it  has  sometimes  seemed 
to  us  that  the  Committees  on  Foreign  Correspondence  in  some  of  the  Grand  Lodges  prepared 
their  reports  with  a  view  to  foreign  consumption  rather  than  to  supply  the  home  market, 
and  that  the  anxiety  to  overwhelm  and  outshine  a  rival  committee  in  a  distant  State  out- 
ranked the  purpose  of  furnishing  for  home  consumption  an  intelligent  statement  of  the  condi- 
tion of  the  craft  in  sister  jurisdictions.  If,  in  this  statement  we  tread  on  anybody's  toes,  we 
cannot  help  it,  and,  with  all  due  deference — we  stand  there  still. 

Statistics — Lodges,  76;  membership,  3,365;  an  increase  of  57  from  last 
report. 

M.-.  VV.-.  George  Baird,  Wheeling,  G.  M.;  R.-.W.-.  O.  S.  Long,  Wheel- 
ing, G.  Sec'y. 


WISCONSIN,  1877.     . 

The  Thirty-Third  Annual  Communication  assembled  in  Milwaukee, 
June  I2th. 

M.-.W.-.  Jedd.  P.  C.  CottriU  presiding. 

We  take  a  peculiar  interest  in  our  neighbor,  because  of  the  many,  many 
pleasant  associations  clustering  around  such  names  as  Cottrill,  Carpenter, 
Woodhull,  Youngs,  Bouck,  and  a  score  of  others  we  might  name.  They  are 
good  and  true  Masons,  "often  tried,"  and  never  found  wanting  in  Masonic 
graces.  Sometimes  a  little  angular  in  presenting  their  interests,  but  always 
disposed  to  "  meet  upon  the  level  and  part  upon  the  square." 

The  address  of  the  Grand  Master  is  a  good  paper,  and  is  without  circum- 
locution in  demonstrating  his  conclusions.  Six  lodges  were  constituted  and 
four  new  lodges  authorized. 


CLXXXVIII  APPENDIX. 


In  reviewing  relations  with  other  Grand  Lodges,  he  alludes  to  the  appli- 
cation of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba  for  recognition,  and  is  rather  inclined 
to  endorse  the  opinions  of  Bro.  Simons,  of  New  York.  The  matter  was 
was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Jurisprudence,  who  will  doubtless  secure 
all  the  light  possible  before  presenting  a  recommendation. 

He  also  refers  to  the  "  Sprague  case,"  which  has  occupied  the  attention 
of  our  own  local  talent  for  a  considerable  time ;  and  still  seems  an  attractive 
subject  of  inquiry  by  our  Wisconsin  brethren.  We  do  not  know  anything  of 
the  case,  but  have  entire  confidence  that  Grand  Master  Robbins  is  disposed 
to  meet  all  such  questions  intelligently  and  fraternally.  In  this  connection, 
the  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  speak  with  unnecessary  severity.  So  we 
think. 

The  project  of  erecting  a  mausoleum  to  George  Washington  is  not  aban- 
doned. The  Grand  Master  will  continue  to  press  this  enterprise  upon  the 
attention  of  the  Craft. 

Six  decisions  are  presented: 

I  have  been  frequently  called  upon,  as  I  have  no  doubt  every  Grand  Master  will  continue 
to  be,  for  decisions.      The  constitution  and  standing  rules  have  answered  most  of  the  ques 
tions,  the  general  law  of  Masonry   answered  the   remainder.      1  report  the  following  among 
others  made: 

1.  For  the  fourth  time  in  this  Grand  Lodge,  upon  its  decisions  in  iS6i,  1S64  and  1S75,  that 
the  loss  of  an  eye  renders  the  candidate  ineligible.  I  report  the  decision  that  finally  upon 
this  point  the  law  may  be  understood. 

2.  I  denied  an  application  from  a  subordinate  to  issue  an  official  request  as  Grand  Mas- 
ter to  all  the  subordinates  to  aid  a  brother  said  to  be  in  distress,  deeming  that  his  own  lodge 
should  first  contribute  to  his  relief  to  the  extent  of  their  ability  before  calling  upon  other 
lodges. 

3.  That  an  E.'.  A.",  rejected  for  the  second  degree  was  in  good  standing  as  an  E.-.  A.-. 
until  convicted  on  charges. 

4.  That  a  wife  was  a  competent  witness  against  her  husband  in  a  Masonic  trial. 

5.  That  an  E.'.A.'.  who  had  not  applied  for  advancement  for  nine  years,  and  had,  in  the 
mean  time,  lost  his  right  hand,  was  ineligible  for  advancement. 

6.  That  a  lodge  could  rightfully  charge  an  affiliation  fee;  though  I  think  it  ought  to  be 
prohibited  by  the  constitution. 

7.  That  a  candidate  for  advancement  must  exhibit  proficiency  in  the  English  language, 
except  in  the  case  ot  lodges  allowed  to  work  in  other  languages. 

8.  That  after  the  lapse  of  thirteen  years,  an  E.'.A.'.  applying  for  advancement,  must 
petition  for  it,  and  a  ballot  be  had. 

The  fourth  decision  was  not  approved.  We  think  Bro.  Cottrill  correct, 
and  the  committee  wrong.  We  occupied  so  much  of  the  reader's  attention 
with  the  principles  involved  in  this  decision,  in  our  last  year's  review  of 
South  Carolina,  that  we  do  not  feel  at  liberty  to  reproduce  what  was  then 
said.      This    decision  of  the   committee  is  taken   from    legal    codes,  and  not 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CLXXXIX 


from  Masonry.  If  the  lodge  with  which  Bro.  Bouck  is  connected  was  un- 
fortunate enough,  as  is  sometimes  the  case,  to  have  a  member  who  persist- 
ently maltreated  his  wife,  would  his  lodge  ignore  his  conduct  because  there 
was  not  a  witness  to  her  sufferings?  If  that  wife  comes  to  Bro.  Bouck, 
wounded  and  bleeding,  will  he  have  the  courage  to  say  to  her,  I  sincerely 
regret  your  condition.  It  is  generally  understood  that  your  husband,  my 
brother,  has  inflicted  these  wounds,  but  the  law  of  Masonry,  founded  in  jus- 
tice, equity,  love  and  truth,  cannot  accept  your  statements,  as  against  a  brother 
in  regular  standing.  Our  impressions  are,  that  if  a  daughter,  or  other  deaj- 
friend  of  any  member  of  that  committee,  should  come  to  them  under  such 
circumstances,  they  would  not  undertake  to  shield  the  culprit  by  the  interpo- 
sition of  legal  dictums,  so  utterly  at  variance  with  the  ground  work  of  the 
entire  Masonic  structure. 

The  Committee  on  Appeals  were  engaged  with  six  cases. 

The  Committtee  on  Chartered  I-odges  reported  upon  the  complaint  of 
No.  31,  against  No.  14.  The  former  claimed  that  the  latter  should  refund 
moneys  expended  for  the  relief  of  one  of  its  members.  It  was  the  opinion 
of  the  committee,  that  "as  a  matter  of  Masonic  courtesy  and  duty,"  a  lodge 
should  reimburse  money  so  expended. 

The  finances  of  the  jurisdiction  are  A*  *  *.  We  find  $13,779  77  ''^  the 
treasury  June  ist.  The  Constitution  and  By-laws  are  published;  also  officers 
and  members  of  subordinate  lodges — the  latter  occupying  104  pages  of  the 
publication,  while  Bro.  WoodhuU  is  confined  to  54  pages  for  his  report  on  cor- 
respondence.    Not  good  taste. 

Notwithstanding  its  meagre  proportions,  the  report  will  be  read  with 
interest. 

Illinois  receives  kindly  notice.  In  our  report  of  1S76  Wisconsin  was 
omitted  because  we  did  not  know  enough  to  inquire  for  her  proceedings, 
which  our  G.  S.  neglected  to  furnish. 

Statistics. — The  Grand  Secretary  furnishes  tables  of  rare  interest.  Tliey 
will  be  appreciated  by  the  Craft.  Whole  number  of  lodges,  iSS ;  member- 
ship, io,6SS — 173  over  last  report.     Total  Grand  Lodge  dues,  $4,373  40. 

M.-.W.-.  Jedd.  P.  C.  Cottrill,  Milwaukee,  G.  M. ;  R.-.W.-.  John  W.  Wood- 
hull,  Milwaukee,  G.  Sec'y. 


CXC  APPENDIX. 


WISCONSIN,  1878. 

Through  the  kindness  of  Bro.  Woodhull,  Grand  Secretary,  we  have  the 
proceedings  (advanced  sheets)  of  the  Thirty-Fourth  Annual  Communication, 
held  in  Milwaukee,  June  nth.  Special  Communications  were  held  in  Nov- 
ember and  December  of  last  year,  and  one  the  January  following. 

The  first  was  for  the  purpose  of  dedicating  a  new  hall  at  Evansville. 
M.-.W.-.  Bro.  Cottrill  delivered  an  excellent  address  on  the  occasion,  from 
which  we  gather  interesting  facts  concerning  the  early  history  of  Masonry 
in  Wisconsin : 

In  Wisconsin,  the  first  lodge  was  organized  at  Green  Bay,  in  the  year  A.  D.  18^4,  under 
a  dispensation  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  York.  It  was  composed  principally  of  officers 
of  the  United  Slates  Army  stationed  there.  In  that  lodge,  Bro.  Henry  S.  Baird,  afterwards 
Grand  Master  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Wisconsin,  received  the  degrees  of  Masonry,  and 
became  its  Master.  It  was  the  first  Masonic  lodge  organized  west  of  Detroit.  Its  existence 
terminated  about  1830,  and  Washington  Lodge  No.  21  now  occupies  its  place,  of  which  Bro. 
Baird  was  also,  for  several  years.  Master.  In  the  year  A.  D.  i8(0,  what  is  now  Mineral  Point 
Lodge  No.  I, "at  Mineral  Point;  Melody  Lodge  No.  2,  at  Platteville;  and  Kilbourn  Lodge 
No.  2,  at  Milwaukee,  were  organized.  These  three  lodges  in  1843,  formed  the  present  Grand 
Lodge  of  Wisconsin.  The  number  of  lodges  were  then  three,  and  their  membership  was 
about  sixty. 

The  annual  address  of  the  Grand  Master  opens  with  the  gratifying  an- 
nouncement, "that  death  has  not  removed  from  us,  during  the  past  year, 
any  present  or  past  Grand  Ofiicer." 

Three  lodges  were  constituted,  and  one  new  lodge  authorized. 

The  Grand  Master  declined  granting  a  dispensation  to  re-ballot  upon  an 
application  for  the  degrees.     He  says : 

It  was  asked  on  the  ground,  that,  after  the  result  of  the  ballot  was  declared,  a  brother 
said  thathe  had  cast  the  averse  ballot  by  mistake.  Both  Masonic  law  and  the  standing  regula- 
tions forbid  every  brother  from  disclosing  his  ballot ;  therefore,  the  disclosure,  if  made,  ought 
not  to  have  been  made.  Deeming  that  balloting  is  one  of  the  very  highest  and  weightiest 
matters  in  the  discharge  of  Masonic  duty,  requiring  the  utmost  vigilance  and  care  to  its  right 
and  conscientious  discharge,  I  deemed  it  a  very  dangerous  precedent  to  grant  a  dispensation 
because  a  brother  had  admitted,  in  direct  opposition  to  the  requirements  of  the  standing  regu- 
lations, that  he  had  carelessly  or  mistakenly  discharged  this  high  duty. 

If  we  have  a  correct  understanding  of  the  matter,  the  ballot  is  to  express 
both  the  opinion  of  a  member  and  that  of  the  lodge  upon  the  propriety  of 
granting  the  prayer  of  a  petitioner.  If,  therefore,  a  brother  exercises  his 
prerogative  under  a  misapprehension  ;  that  the  party  applying  was  not  the  Mr. 
Roe  whom  he  supposed  was  presented  for  consideration,  then  the  ballot  has 
not  been  his  expression,  consequently  not  the  voice  of  the  lodge. 

The  case  presented  was  of  actual  occurrence  in  this  city  during  the  past 
year.      A  brother  voted   upon  the  petition  of  a  man  who  had  not  applied  for 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CXCI 


the  degrees.  It  was  purely  an  error  in  identity.  We  hold  that,  under  such 
circumstances,  the  ballot  was  of  no  force  and  should  have  been  so  declared 
the  moment  the  facts  were  known;  because  the  lodge  did  not  have  jurisdic- 
tion over  the  party  rejected,  neither  was  it  the  determination  of  the  lodge 
upon  the  merit  or  demerit  of  the  applicant. 

Further:  A  member  may  come  to  his  lodge  under  the  false  impression 
that  the  candidate  has  been  guilty  of  acts  that  would  disqualify  him  for  the 
fraternal  relation,  consequently  objects;  but  subsequently  finds  that  he  has 
been  imposed  upon.  Now,  and  in  the  first'place,  we  do  not  knowof  any  law  in 
Masonry  that  will  justify  a  falsehood  in  interposing  ai  objection  to  a  peti- 
tioner. In  the  second  place,  the  rejection  is  not  the  determination  of  the 
lodge;  neither  is  it  the  will  of  the  member  objecting.  We  insist,  therefore, 
that  he  has  an  unquestionable  right  to  state  the  facts,  and  ask  a  reconsidera- 
tion of  the  ballot,  without  being  chargeable  with  an  impropriety  in  declaring 
his  ballot. 

The  Grand  Master  in  concluding  a  notice  of  the  recent  action  of  the 
Grand  Orient  of  France,  to  which  allusion  has  been  so  frequently  made, 
recommended  that  the  further  recognition  of  that  Body  be  withheld.  1  he 
Grand  Lodge  adopted  the  suggestion. 

•    His  recommendation  that  Past  Grand  Officers,  permanent  members  of  the 
Grand  Lodge,  should  receive  compensation  for  attendance,  was  not  adopted. 

The  Grand  Master  very  forcibly  urged  the  propriety  and  necessity  of  erect- 
ing a  Temple.  A  special  committee  was  favorably  impressed  with  the 
scheme,  but  the  Grand  Lodge  demurred.  The  very  practical  address  of  M.-. 
W.*.  Bro.  Cottrill,  concludes  with  the  gratifying  assurance  of  harmony  and 
prosperity  throughout  the  jurisdiction. 

The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  reported  adversely  upon  a  recommen- 
dation to  abolish  affiliation  fees.  This  question  was  left  to  the  discretion  of 
lodges.  The  committee  also  recommended  that  a  committee  be  appointed 
to  draft  a  uniform  code  of  by-laws,  and  "  a  model  for  keeping  the  records 
and  books  of  accounts  of  lodges."  The  Grand  Lodge  adopted  the  views  of 
the  committee. 

The  finances  of  the  Grand  Body  show  a  balance  of  nearly  eleven  thousand 
dollars  in  the  hands  of  the  Treasurer. 

The  Grand  Lodges  of  Dakota,  Prince  Edward  Island,  Manitoba  and 
Indian  Territory  were  recognized.  Action  upon  the  applications  of  the 
"  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba,"  New  Mexico  and  New  South  Wales,  was  deferred. 

Turning  now  to  the  more  interesting  features  of  the  session,  we  find  lib- 
eral appropriations  by  the  Committee  on  Charity. 

The  venerable  Bro.  John  Crawford,  for  more  than  sixty  years  a  Mason, 
was  received  by  the  brethren  of  the  Grand  Lodge  with  many  assurances  of 
fraternal  affection.     His  remarks  are  published. 


CXCri  APPENDIX. 


The  Report  on  Correspondence  is  the  production  of  our  estimable  Bro. 
Woodhull. 

We  appreciate  his  work,  because  we  know  tlie  man.  It  is  enough  to  say 
of  him,  that  not  a  Mason  of  the  North-west  lives  nearer  the  line  of  his  profes- 
sions tlian  our  distinguished  cotemporarv.  Brethren,  this  is  not  "mutual" 
praise.     We  would  be  glad  to  say  it  of  every  Mason  living. 

In  his  review  of  Alabama,  he  gives  expression  to  our  ideas  of  the  validity 
of  a  divorced  woman's  testimony  against  her  husband,  as  to  matters  trans 
piring  during  coverture. 

Of  public  charities,  he  says: 

Usually  more  money  is  expended  for  the  buildings  and  expenses  of  maintaining-  such  insti- 
tutions than  would  be  necessary  to  provide  for  the  necessities  of  those  demanding  charity  at 
home  in  the  jurisdiction  of  their  own  lodges. 

Illinois  is  fraternally  noticed.  Commenting  upon  the  position  of  our 
Grand  Master,  Bro.  Robbins,  that  lodges  should  not  be  held  responsible  for 
aid  furnished  destitute  brethren,  he  remarks: 

It  we  have  a  right  to  demand  of  our  members  annual  dues,  they  have  the  right  to  expect 
that  when  misfortune  overtakes  them,  and  they  become  destitute,  the  lodge  will  care  for 
thcni.  It  the  Grand  Master  holds  that  the  system  of  enforced  dues  is  wrong,  and  will  put  a 
stop  to  it  in  Illinois,  then  we  will  gladly  hang  our  baton  the  same  nail  with  the  M.'.W.'.  bro- 
ther, and  exclaim,  "Amen  to  all  he  says  ;"  but  while  the  law  exists  for  enforced  annual  dues, 
we  hold  that  the  law  of  reimbursement  follows,  and  should  be  enforced  in  every  Masonic 
jurisdiction. 

When  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  says  to  her  members,  "If  you  are  in  Wisconsin,  sick 
and  destitute,  the  brethren  there  will  assist  you,  if  they  are  true  Masons;  but  we  will  not 
return  them  one  cent  they  may  expend  for  you;  if  you  die  and  they  bury  you,  they  must  pay 
the  bills;  your  lodge  will  pay  nothing  for  you."  What  would  be  the  natural  inquiry  of  the 
brethren?  Would  they  not  question  your  right  to  force  from  them  five  to  twenty  dollars 
annually  for  dues. 

To  refuse  reimbursement  for  money  expended  tor  a  worthy  destitute  Mason,  and  at  the 
same  time  adhere  to  the  collection  of  annual  dues  from  our  members,  is  inconsistent  and 
unmasonic. 

We  have  given  our  views  upon  this  subject  elsewhere.  Bro.  Woodhull 
gives  considerable  attention  to  our  review  of  California.  The  addenda  to  the 
"diagnosis"  is  accepted.  We  would  also  remind  hi  in  that  the  affiliation 
fee  suggested,  was  to  be  of  limited  duration.  We  are  quite  as  adverse  to  these 
fees  as  he,  and  hope  to  see  their  abolition.  We  should  be  glad  to  quote  his 
thrust  at  Bro.  Vaux,  of  Pennsylvania,  and  many  other  sharp  and  pleasant 
sa3'ings,  but  we  have  already  exceeded  our  limit. 

Statistics — Lodges,  iSS;  membership,   10,703:  again  of  114  for  the  year. 

M.-.W.-.  Charles  F.  Collins,  Beloit,  G.  M.;  R.-.W.'.  John  W.  Woodhull, 
Milwaukee,  G.  Sec. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  CXCIII 


WYOMING,  1877. 

The  Third  Annual  Grand  Communication  was  held  in  Evanston,  Octo- 
ber 9th. 

M.-.W.-.  Frederick  E.  Addoms  presiding.  Constituent  lodges  all  repre- 
sented. 

The  Grand  Master  makes  the  pleasant  announcement,  that — 

The  year  which  has  passed  has  been  marked  with  many  substantial  benefits  to  us  as 
members  of  the  great  brotherhood,  whose  universality  is  as  extensive  as  the  world  itself,  and 
whose  influence  and  power  are  only  limited  by  the  confines  of  civilization.  It  gives  me  plea- 
sure to  announce  to  you  that  peace  and  good  fellowship  have  prevailed  throughout  the  juris- 
diction, and  that  although  we  have  not  advanced  with  great  strides,  still  we  are  gradually 
increasing  in  numbers  and  influence.  We  have  laid  our  Masonic  foundation  deep  and 
strong,  and  are  building  the  superstructure  upon  it  with  care  and  deliberation,  and  upon  the 
broad  principles  of  morality,  virtue  and  truth.  Our  financial  condition  continues  to  improve, 
and  from  a  small  beginning,  we  may,  by  economy  and  thrift,  confidently  look  forward  to  the 
inauguration  and  accomplishment  of  some  Masonic  undertaking  which -will  prove  of  lasting 
benefit  to  this  Grand  Lodge. 

A  new  lodge  was  authorized. 

The  Grand  Master  recommended  the  establishment  of  a  library.  The 
suggestion  received  the  favorable  notice  of  the  Grand  Lodge.  He  also  alludes 
to  the  action  of  the  Grand  Orient  of  France,  as  follows: 

The  action  of  the  Grand  Orient  of  France  in  declaring  that  it  is  not  necessary  that  a  can- 
didate for  Masonrv  should  express  or  entertain  a  belief  in  Deity,  and  that  an  Atheist  may  be 
initiated  into  Masonrv.  and  is  entitled  to  its  rights  and  privileges,  will  tend  to  effectually  iso- 
late her  from  the  great  body  of  Masons  spread  over  the  surface  of  the  Globe.  We  are  taught 
to  place  our  trust  in  God.  The  belief  in  the  existing  attributes  of  a  Supreme  Being  is  the 
very  groundwork  of  our  institution.  It  is  the  keystone  of  our  faith.  Any  attempt  to  eliminate 
this  governing  principle  of  our  fraternity  from  its  code  of  morality  and  religion  must  meet 
with  the  reprobation  it  so  justly  deserves  from  all  the  American  Grand  Lodges. 

The  Grand  Master  advised  the  recognition  of  the  "Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba." 
R.  W.  Bro.  Mortiiner  C.  Adams  making  an  extended  report  on  the  subject, 
embracing  the  views  entertained  by  Bro.  Simons,  of  New  York. 

Until  it  is  demonstrated  that  there  is  a  Power,  outside  and  apart  from  an 
independent  sovereign  symbolic  Grand  Lodge,  that  is  authorized  to  create 
Craft  Lodges,  we  shall  adhere  to  the  opinions  expressed  last  year.  Brethren, 
we  warn  you  one  and  all,  that  the  time  will  come  when  these  hasty  conces- 
sions of  authority  to  other  organizations  to  establish  lodges  in  the  name  of 
Craft  Masonry,  will  result  in  disaster.     Bro.  Tonn  says: 

Thus  it  will  be  observed  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Island  of  Cuba  was,  in  all  respects, 
regular  in  its  inception,  and  is  fullv  entitled  to  recognition  by  foreign  Grand  Lodges,  unless 
the  Grand  Lodge  has  subsequently  severed  its  connection  with  the  A.  F.  and  A.  Rite,  and 
placed  itself  on  an  equal  footing  with  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Island  of  Cuba. 

Now  we  submit,  that  but  three  of  the  lodges  associated  in  the  formation 
of  the  "  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba,"  ever  had  a  remote  claim  to  legitimacy, 
unless  you  concede  that  the  A.  A.  Scottish  Rite  is  invested  with  the  authority 


CXCIV  APPENDIX. 


of  our  Grand  Lodges  in  the  establishment  of  subordinates.    Are  jou  prepared 
for  this  concession? 

Think  it  over  once  again. 

Tlie  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Mexico,  and  the  "  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba," 
were  recognized. 

The  Obituary  Committee  extended  fraternal  sympathy  to  the  Grand 
Lodges  of  Virginia  and  Missouri,  in  the  loss  of  Bros.  John  Dove  and  Gouley. 

The  oration  by  M.-.W  •.  Melville  C.  Brown,  is  rather  unique,  but  highly 
entertaining.  He  does  not  indulge  in  homilies,  neither  does  he  seem  fond  of 
antiquities  He  calls  attention  to  our  present  relations  to  humanity,  and  in 
doing  this,  presents  illustrations  that  represent  the  Mason.     Here  is  one: 

As  examples  of  the  power  of  love  that  actuates  the  brotherhood,  I  present  a  few  truthful 
sketches.  During  the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  when  the  contending  armies  were  in  battle  at 
Lookout  mountain,  the  following  scene  occurred: 

There  is  a  momentary  lull  in  the  roar  of  cannon,  the  wind  lifts  the  smoke  of  battle  from 
the  brow  of  the  mountain,  and  there,  in  front  of  the  rebel  batteries,  down  the  mountain  side 
in  plain  view  of  Union  sharp-shooters,  is  seen  a  little  band  ofbrothers  walkingto  anewmade 
grave ;  quietly  and  gently  they  move  along  with  no  show  of  fear. 

A  thousand  rifles  are  leveled  upon  that  devoted  band,  but  not  one  discharged.  There  is 
breathless  silence,  wonder  stamped  on  every  face;  presently  above  the  grave  is  held,  for  a 
moment,  a  white  apron,  the  badge  of  a  Mason  ;  a  moment  it  flutters  in  the  breeze  and  then 
falls  into  the  grave  of  a  brother.  The  hands  of  the  faithful  are  raised  above  the  grave  as  in 
mute  farewell ;  an  army  stands  in  quiet  awe,  and  with  uncovered  heads  waits  until  this 
Masonic  band  return  to  their  trenches  in  safety,  ere  they  resume  their  work  of  death. 

We  call  attention  to  a  concluding  paragraph: 

A  true  Mason  should  regard  the  physical  laws  of  our  being,  and  the  moral  laws  of  God 
with  equal  reverence,  and  should  cultivate  the  physical  laws  of  health  and  strength  with 
religious  fidelity.  Let  the  body  be  perfect  in  structure,  and  filled  with  the  spirit  of  wisdom 
and  love,  and  the  union  of  the  physical  and  spiritual  temple,  each  unto  each  perfect,  shall 
form  a  complete  man  and  Mason,  in  whom  dwells  the  light  of  our  profession. 

The  legislation  of  the  session  was  unimportant. 

The  report  on  correspondence,  by  R.'.W.-.  Bro.  William  G.  Tonn,  Grand 
Secretary,  is  brief,  but  of  exceptional  good  quality.  He  gives  us  his  conclu- 
sions frankly,  but  without  a  tinge  of  ostentation.  More  than  this,  his  influ- 
ences as  a  writer  are  all  exerted  in  the  truest  interests  of  the  Fraternity. 

On  the  subject  of  physical  qualifications,  we  think  our  brother  somewhat 
"off  color."     Illinois  is  very  kindly  mentioned. 

Statistics — Lodges,  5;  membership,  300;  again  of  45  over  the  returns  of 
last  year. 

M.-.  W.-.  Orlando  North,  Evanston,  G.  M.;  R.-.  W.-.  William  G.  Tonn, 
Evanston,  G.  Scc'y. 


INDEX. 


PAGE. 

ADDRESS— 

Of  Grand  Master 13 

Committee  on ■ S 

Referred    13 

Report  of  Committee  on 63 

Of  Grand  Officers   1 

APPOINTMENTS  — 

Of  Committees 4 

Of  Grand  Officers  loS 

Of  Grand  Representatives 4^ 

AMENDMENTS  TO  BY-LAWS  — 

Action  on    S2 

Proposed 67,  6S,  77,  106,  loS 

List  of 170 

Reiected    66 

AUDITING  COMMITTEE— 

Appointment  of 4 

Report  of (^ 

APPEALS  AND  GRIEVANCES— 

Committee  on,  appointed    4 

Report  of 70 

ALLENDALE  LODGE,  No.  752— Murrell  Morgan  vs 74 

APPEAL — Joseph  B.  Jones  vs.  Effingham  Lodge,  No.  149     7S 

BLAIR  LODGE,  No.  393— Geo.  T.  Graham  vs 7" 

COMMITTEES— 

Appointment  of   4 

Jurisprudence — Report  of 104 

Appeals  and  Grievances — Report  of 7° 

Chartered  Lodges — Reports  of 62-107 


CXCVIII  INDEX. 


PAGE. 

COMUITTEKS—Coniimted. 

Lodges  Under  Dispensation — Reports  of 65-S3 

Mileage  and  Per  Diem — Report  of 84 

Auditing — Report  of ^ 

Correspondence — Report  of 69 

.Masonic  Congress S 

Credentials — Report  of S 

Finance— Reports  of    66,  76,  97 

Petitions— Report  of 79 

Obituaries — Report  of 'oi 

List  of 121 

CREDENTIALS— 

Committee  on 5 

Report  of 5 

CHARTERED  LODGES— 

Committee  on    S 

Reports  of 62-107 

CORRESPONDENCE— 

Committee  on 5 

Report  of    69 

Resolutions  by 6q 

CORRELL,  LEVI  S.,  vs.  Pleasant  Plains  Lodge,  No.  700 72 

CAMPBELL,  JOHN,  vs.  Marcelline  Lodge,  No.  114 73 

COMMUNIC ATION--From  Mrs.  Lavinia  Glenn 84 

CHICAGO  RELIEF  COMMITTEE— Report  of   179 

DARLING,  THOMAS— vs.  Grafton  Lodge,  No.  32S 7° 

DUDDKRER,  G.  W.— vs.  Scottville  Lodge,  No.  426 73 

DUNCAN,  JAMES  M— Restoration  of -.     So 

DISTRICT  DEPUTY  GRAND  MASTERS— 

Reports  of '  3 ' 

List  of 'S3 

DISTRICTS— Lodges  by '54 

ELECTION— 

Made  Special  Order 67 

Of  Grand  Officers 69 

EFFINGHAM  LODGE,  No.  149— Joseph  R.  Jones  vs.  Appeal 78 

FRATERNAL  LODGE,  No.  58 -Otto  N.  Sprague  vs 73 

FINANCE  COMMITTEE— Reports  of 'S6,  76,  97 

GRAND  MASTER— Report  of 13 

GRAND  OFFICERS— 

Election  of 7° 

List  of I 


*26 


INDEX.  CXCIX 


PAGE. 

GRAND  SECRETARY— Report  of 53 

GRAND  TREASURER— Reports  of 

Yellow  Fever  Fund 62-177 

Lounsburv  Relief  Funu t)9-i7S 

Grand  Lodge  Funds 75 

GRAFTON  LODGE,  No.  32S— Thomas  Darling  vs 70 

GRAHAM,  GEO.  T.— vs.  Blair  Lodge,  No.  393 71 

GICHALT,  ADOLPH— vs.  Lessing  Lodge,  No.  557 74 

GRIFFITH,  JOSEPH  Z.— Restoration  of 79 

GENEVA  LODGE,  139— Memorial  from 81 

GLENN,  MRS.  L A V(NI A— Communication  from S4 

INVITATION- to  visit  Board  of  Trade 75 

INSTALLATION— of  Grand  Officers .  109 

KNOXVILLE  LODGE,  No.  66— 

Memorial  from 78 

Report  on 97 

LODGES  U.  D- 

Committee  on 4 

Reports  of 65,  83 

LESSING  LODGE,  No.  557— Adolph  Gichau  vs 74 

LODGES  BY  DISTRICTS 154 

MINUTES — Reading  of  dispensed  with 13 

MEMORIAL— 

from  Knoxvi'ile  Lodge,  No.  66 78 

from  Geneva  Lodge,  No.  139 81 

from  Mt.  Joliet  Lodge,  No.  42 96 

MILLER,  A. — vs,  Raymond  Lodge  No.  692 70 

MENDON  LODGE,  No.  449— Geo.  W.  McGibbons  vs 72 

M ARCELLINE  LODGE,  No.  1 14— John  Campbell  vs 73 

MORGAN,  MURRELL— vs.  Allendale  Lodge,  No.  752 74 

McFARLANE,  J.  B.— vs.  Valley  Lodge,  No.  547 71 

McGIBBONS,  GEO.  W.— vs.  Mendon  Lodge,  No.  449 72 

MILEAGE  AND  PER-DIEM— 

Committee  on 4 

Report  of 84 

O'BRIEN,  WILLIAM— Restoration  of    So 

OBITUARIES— Report  of  Committee  on loi 

ORATION— By  R.  W.  Bro.  Sample 112 

PETITIONS— 

Committee  on ' ^ 

Report  of   79 

Humboldt  Lodge,  No.  555 67 

For  new  Lodge  at  Roodhouse 78 


INDEX. 


PACE. 

P1.EASANT  PLAINS  LODGE,  No.  700— Levi  S.  Correll  vs     72 

PRINTING— 

Committee  on    5 

Report  of 77 

PAYNE,  JAMES  D.— Restoration  of 79 

PltOPOSED  AMENDMENTS  TO   BY-LAWS 67,68,77,100,108 

List  of 170 

PERMANENT  MEMBERS— List  of 174 

REPORT— 

Of  Grand  Master 13 

Of  Grand  Secretary    53 

Of  Grand  Treasurer — Yellow  bever  Euiul . .  .6i,  177 

Lounsbury  Relief  Fund 69,  17s 

Receipts  and  Disbuisetnents 7S 

Committee  on  Chartered  Lodges    oj,  107 

On  Grand  Master's  Report 03 

Committee  on  Lodges  U.  D 65,  S3 

Auditing  Committee OO 

Finance  Committee '".  70,  97 

Committee  on  Correspondence     69 

Committee  on  Appeals  and  Grievances      70 

Committee  on  Printing 76 

Committee  on  Petitions    79 

Committee  on  Mileage  and  Per  Diem S4 

Committee  on  Obituaries loi 

Commitlee  on  Masonic  J  unsprudence 104 

Of  District  Deputy  Grand  Masters 131 

Chicago  Relief  Committee — Yellow  F'ever  b'und 179 

REPRESENTATIVES— 

Of  other  Grand  Lodges  in  this  Grand  Lodge 7 

List  of 17'^ 

Of  this  Grand  Lodge  in  other  Gi  and  L.-,.y;.j 173 

Of  Lodges 8 

RESOLUTION— 

To  appoint  Committee  on  Transportation  S3 

By  W.  Bro.  (Jarver  loS 

By  W.  Bro.  Buck    66 

READING  OF  MINUTES— Dispensed  with 13 

RAYMOND  LODGE,  No.  692— A.  Miller  vs 70 

ROODHOUSE— Petition  for  new  Lodge  at 7S 

RESTORATION   OF— 

J  ames  D.  Payne ■  •  •  79 

Thomas  Shirley •* 79 

Joseph  Z.  Griffith    79 

Benjamin  Sigsworth 79 

Henry  E.  Rives 79 


INDEX.  CCl 


RESTORATION  OF— Coii/im/ed. 

Joseph  Withinglon So 

James  M.  Duncan So 

Willia-n  O'Brien So 

REMARKS— Bv  Grand  Master loo 


SPRAGUE,  OTTO  N.— vs.  Fraternal  Lodi;e,  No.  58. 
SCOTTVILLE   LODGE,  No.  426— G.  W.  Duclderer  ■ 

SHIRLEY,  THOMAS— Restoration  of 

SIGSWORTH,  BENJAMIN,— Restoration  of 


THANKS— 

To  Board  of  Trade .  75 

From  Grand  Lodge  of  Mississippi S3 

From  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec    ...    S3 

To  Past  Grand  Master  Robbins ...  120 

TRANSPORTATION— Resolution  to  appoint  Committee  on 83 

VALLEY  LODGE,  No.  S47—J.  B.  McFarlane  vs 71 

WITHINGTON,  JOSEPH— Restoration  of So 


ANNUAI/COMMUNICATION. 


The  Fortieth  Annual  Communication  of  the  M.  W.  Grand 
Lodge  of  F.  and  A.  Masons  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  will  be  held 
in  the  city  of  Chicago,  on  the  first  Tuesday  in  October,  (being 
the  seventh  day),  A.  D.  1S79,  A.  L.  5S79,  commencing  at  10 
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