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Correspondence.
As regards the features of " sackcloth on the loins , and ropes upon the heads , " a visit to the British Museum , or the perusal of the history of France , might have explained them most satisfactorily to your reviewer . I trust you will kindly excuse the length of tins epistle , and will agree with me that it has been loudly called for . I am , Dear Sir and Brother , Yours faithfully and fraternally , MOSES MARGOLIOUTH .
[ In the above letter , Bro . Dr . Margoliouth says that he wrote " simply to rectify a few observations which , if left unnoticed , might damage our system in the estimation of the intelligent uninitiated ;" whereas it will be clearly seen that it contains a regular tirade of abuse scarcely worthy of notice . The first Lecture put into our hands by the Rev . Brother , which ¦ was more worthy of himself than those delivered since , was favourably noticed by usof whicli he has taken the full benent by quoting
, our review in his advertisements ; and because we could not conscientiously award equal merit to his posthumous performances , we are treated with a degree of petulancy rather unbefitting a Brother of such high talent . The quotation introduced by our Rev . Brother , as used by us , was simply marked by italics to convey certain meanings to the Craft , and the account of Ben-hadad , it will be seenwas only introduced as an example of that universal
cha-, rity which , we lament to say , did not appear to be entertained by oui- Brother for his former brethren the Jews , when he addressed first the Bishop of Norwich by letter , ancl then reads an extract therefrom as a component part of his Lecture , in which he uses the following remarkable words : — " How well-informed and zealous Jews could be Freemasons is a greater mystery to me than is Masonry to the
mass of the people ! But his Lecture throughout was neither one thing nor the other . We expected to see illustrations of " Freemasonry in Palestine , Arabia , Egypt , Abyssinia , and other Countries , " as promised in the introduction of his discourse , and not a medley of extracts . Now , down to the 17 th page , we have only a reiterated account of the exhibition of the Bible said to be the same on which tho celebrated Washington was obligatedthe identity of whichit will be seenis questioned by
, , , an American correspondent in the present Number . Then we havo the extract of his aforesaid letter to the Bishop of Norwich , and a copy of a letter from one of his admirers complimenting the Rev . Brother on his work , " The Pilgrimage to the Land of my Fathers , & c . " only 16 pages , in all thirty-three pages of irrelevant matter . But we cannot , at present , spare either time or space to reply to this Brother ' s very extraordinary epistle . His Lecture and our
critique are both before the public ; let them judge for themselves . Having , by the admission of the Brother ' s long letter , already occupied every available space , we must decline , for the present , entering into controversy with the learned Dr . We may , however , probably refer to tins matter at greater length in our next publication . ]
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Correspondence.
As regards the features of " sackcloth on the loins , and ropes upon the heads , " a visit to the British Museum , or the perusal of the history of France , might have explained them most satisfactorily to your reviewer . I trust you will kindly excuse the length of tins epistle , and will agree with me that it has been loudly called for . I am , Dear Sir and Brother , Yours faithfully and fraternally , MOSES MARGOLIOUTH .
[ In the above letter , Bro . Dr . Margoliouth says that he wrote " simply to rectify a few observations which , if left unnoticed , might damage our system in the estimation of the intelligent uninitiated ;" whereas it will be clearly seen that it contains a regular tirade of abuse scarcely worthy of notice . The first Lecture put into our hands by the Rev . Brother , which ¦ was more worthy of himself than those delivered since , was favourably noticed by usof whicli he has taken the full benent by quoting
, our review in his advertisements ; and because we could not conscientiously award equal merit to his posthumous performances , we are treated with a degree of petulancy rather unbefitting a Brother of such high talent . The quotation introduced by our Rev . Brother , as used by us , was simply marked by italics to convey certain meanings to the Craft , and the account of Ben-hadad , it will be seenwas only introduced as an example of that universal
cha-, rity which , we lament to say , did not appear to be entertained by oui- Brother for his former brethren the Jews , when he addressed first the Bishop of Norwich by letter , ancl then reads an extract therefrom as a component part of his Lecture , in which he uses the following remarkable words : — " How well-informed and zealous Jews could be Freemasons is a greater mystery to me than is Masonry to the
mass of the people ! But his Lecture throughout was neither one thing nor the other . We expected to see illustrations of " Freemasonry in Palestine , Arabia , Egypt , Abyssinia , and other Countries , " as promised in the introduction of his discourse , and not a medley of extracts . Now , down to the 17 th page , we have only a reiterated account of the exhibition of the Bible said to be the same on which tho celebrated Washington was obligatedthe identity of whichit will be seenis questioned by
, , , an American correspondent in the present Number . Then we havo the extract of his aforesaid letter to the Bishop of Norwich , and a copy of a letter from one of his admirers complimenting the Rev . Brother on his work , " The Pilgrimage to the Land of my Fathers , & c . " only 16 pages , in all thirty-three pages of irrelevant matter . But we cannot , at present , spare either time or space to reply to this Brother ' s very extraordinary epistle . His Lecture and our
critique are both before the public ; let them judge for themselves . Having , by the admission of the Brother ' s long letter , already occupied every available space , we must decline , for the present , entering into controversy with the learned Dr . We may , however , probably refer to tins matter at greater length in our next publication . ]