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Article THE FREEMASON S' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 3 of 4 →
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The Freemason S' Quarterly Review.
by reason , we punish with honour : while on the one hand we -will not be bearded , on the other we will not submit to insult , His lordship will , in tbe first place , ask for justice , if tbat is denied ( need we say how earnestly we hope that it will not ) , we must protect ourselves against oppression ; we stand proudly pre-eminent for our theory and our practice , and our successors will do well to follow our example . But , while
regretting as much as the M . W . the Grand Master can do , that this question has arisen , we cannot come to some of the same conclusions from the same arguments . While the Grand Master stated that a Jew had been admitted , but had been compelled to make his exit from the Lodge at the request of a person present , we cannot think it would have been as honourable for the Brethren who presented themselves at a
Lodge in Berlin on the 19 th May , 1845 ( with certificates of their initiation granted by the Grand Lodge of England ) , on purpose to try the question , not to have stated they were Jews , for that was the very thing they went to prove ; if they had not stated it , they might have been AnMITTED , but , tbey might have been ORDERED OUT ; they knew the objection , they went to the Lodge to teach us what was going on in
Berlin , and no other mode presented itself . We will be governed by his lordship ' s code of honour , and we know he would not ask any man to do that which he himself would not do . Would his lordship attempt
to gam admission to any place , if he knew a law existed for his exclusion ; and if he could get in accidentally , would he risk the public insult of expulsion ? We presume it is quite unnecessary to proceed upon that part of the subject , we will turn to another—his lordship stated that the observations of the representative have been mis-stated . By whom ? when ? and where ? we and hundreds of others heard the words uttered ;
which the representative now wishes unsaid ; we do not wish to press anything unpleasant to the feelings of a gentleman ; the representative of the Grand Lodge of Berlin made a statement either in ignorance of the facts or designedly ; at all events , he wishes the latter idea abandonedbe it so ; we will not again , unless compelled , accuse him of it , but must remind him , that we are well acquainted with the system adopted in a
Lodge in London , of which he is a Past Master ; he will understand the hint , it is not meant to be intelligible to any other person . But how stands the plea of mis-statement ? we and many others heard the statement made— " that no law existed in Prussia for the exclusion of Freemasons orr religious grounds . " It was replied to . Did the Brother then state he was misunderstood ? has he not had one half hour to
spare to write to that effect during the year and a quarter that has since , elapsed ? could he not attend one Grand Lodge arid explain ? has he not received letters requesting him to do so ? has he not heard of it from different sources ? We hold it to be the first prerogative of a noble mind
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The Freemason S' Quarterly Review.
by reason , we punish with honour : while on the one hand we -will not be bearded , on the other we will not submit to insult , His lordship will , in tbe first place , ask for justice , if tbat is denied ( need we say how earnestly we hope that it will not ) , we must protect ourselves against oppression ; we stand proudly pre-eminent for our theory and our practice , and our successors will do well to follow our example . But , while
regretting as much as the M . W . the Grand Master can do , that this question has arisen , we cannot come to some of the same conclusions from the same arguments . While the Grand Master stated that a Jew had been admitted , but had been compelled to make his exit from the Lodge at the request of a person present , we cannot think it would have been as honourable for the Brethren who presented themselves at a
Lodge in Berlin on the 19 th May , 1845 ( with certificates of their initiation granted by the Grand Lodge of England ) , on purpose to try the question , not to have stated they were Jews , for that was the very thing they went to prove ; if they had not stated it , they might have been AnMITTED , but , tbey might have been ORDERED OUT ; they knew the objection , they went to the Lodge to teach us what was going on in
Berlin , and no other mode presented itself . We will be governed by his lordship ' s code of honour , and we know he would not ask any man to do that which he himself would not do . Would his lordship attempt
to gam admission to any place , if he knew a law existed for his exclusion ; and if he could get in accidentally , would he risk the public insult of expulsion ? We presume it is quite unnecessary to proceed upon that part of the subject , we will turn to another—his lordship stated that the observations of the representative have been mis-stated . By whom ? when ? and where ? we and hundreds of others heard the words uttered ;
which the representative now wishes unsaid ; we do not wish to press anything unpleasant to the feelings of a gentleman ; the representative of the Grand Lodge of Berlin made a statement either in ignorance of the facts or designedly ; at all events , he wishes the latter idea abandonedbe it so ; we will not again , unless compelled , accuse him of it , but must remind him , that we are well acquainted with the system adopted in a
Lodge in London , of which he is a Past Master ; he will understand the hint , it is not meant to be intelligible to any other person . But how stands the plea of mis-statement ? we and many others heard the statement made— " that no law existed in Prussia for the exclusion of Freemasons orr religious grounds . " It was replied to . Did the Brother then state he was misunderstood ? has he not had one half hour to
spare to write to that effect during the year and a quarter that has since , elapsed ? could he not attend one Grand Lodge arid explain ? has he not received letters requesting him to do so ? has he not heard of it from different sources ? We hold it to be the first prerogative of a noble mind