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Scotland.
hood ; and further , that a decoration for such Honorary Grand Crosses be adjusted . " * AVe are not aware whether this " motion intimated" has been intimated to every member ofthe Older , and therefore we give it full publicity ; it probably was confirmed on the 3 d of November . AAliether it was so or not , is , we opine , of no importance . But as to the Order itselfgenerally speakingthe Masonic Knihts Templar are unfriendl
, , g y to any innovation on the long-existing discipline and practice , by allowing entrants to the Order without undergoing the previous qualifications of Craft and Arch-masonry . The reasons for the change are of an exclusive nature , and therefore erroneous in principle - , they are grounded on this basis , to suit the taste of some noblemen and gentlemen who wished to be Templars without entering Masonry . So a door is to be opened midway in the pyramid , to save them the trouble of entering at
the basement . For such persons it may work well ; but it will do , at a sad cost to the honour ancl reputation of Scottish Masonry ! The Craft in Scotland does not with a favourable eye look on this change . Among the nobility of nature there are many Brethren of sterling worth , inviolable honour , and strict moral integrity , who view in this assumption of rank and superiority an object altogether unmasonic , and certainly not very palatable to those whohaving entered the Order by the tests of
, Masonry , consider the exemption from those tests in favour of aristocracy to be even offensive . There is also something ungrateful in the plan . The new system of Templary emanated from , ancl was founded on , a junction with the old Scottish Masonic Knights Templar , among whom there was no distinction of worldly rank , who , are thus discarded as useless ; ancl by this new system numbers are put " out of the pale" ancl cannot hope for a share of the honours which
, it professes to confer , ancl which many honest and upright Masons justly aspired to . They , at least , have no expectation of , in due time , shaking hands with Fras ., Prince Albert , Nicholas of Russia , & c ., on their future visits to the "Chief Seat of the Temple , ; now in , the Scottish capital . "
EDINBURGH . —AA'illiam Edmonston Aytoun , Esq ,, Advocate Past Master of the Lodge Canongate , Kilwinning , has been formally installed by the Senatus Academicus of the University , as Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres . We congratulate the accomplished and talented Brother on the new field of honour and of usefulness which has opened unto him . ... ...... We in Auld Reekie , albeit though unable of ourselves to erect an asylum for the aged workman , look with reverential feeling on the
Asylum for the Aged Mason in London , and trust that its ultimate success is not doubtful . It appears to be framed of too stern stuff to be , blown aside by any side wind , and most sincerely do we hope that at the ensuing Grand Lodge a different result will reward the efforts of its untiring friends . .- - ' ' . We observe that our enterprising friend , Dr . Burnes ,, in Bombay , is rather hard upon his first favourites , the European Chevalier , Orders ; His plan , however , maybe feasible , in the East ; and , assuredly that , of adiriitting the natives into the Craft degrees is a most admirable , one .:
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Scotland.
hood ; and further , that a decoration for such Honorary Grand Crosses be adjusted . " * AVe are not aware whether this " motion intimated" has been intimated to every member ofthe Older , and therefore we give it full publicity ; it probably was confirmed on the 3 d of November . AAliether it was so or not , is , we opine , of no importance . But as to the Order itselfgenerally speakingthe Masonic Knihts Templar are unfriendl
, , g y to any innovation on the long-existing discipline and practice , by allowing entrants to the Order without undergoing the previous qualifications of Craft and Arch-masonry . The reasons for the change are of an exclusive nature , and therefore erroneous in principle - , they are grounded on this basis , to suit the taste of some noblemen and gentlemen who wished to be Templars without entering Masonry . So a door is to be opened midway in the pyramid , to save them the trouble of entering at
the basement . For such persons it may work well ; but it will do , at a sad cost to the honour ancl reputation of Scottish Masonry ! The Craft in Scotland does not with a favourable eye look on this change . Among the nobility of nature there are many Brethren of sterling worth , inviolable honour , and strict moral integrity , who view in this assumption of rank and superiority an object altogether unmasonic , and certainly not very palatable to those whohaving entered the Order by the tests of
, Masonry , consider the exemption from those tests in favour of aristocracy to be even offensive . There is also something ungrateful in the plan . The new system of Templary emanated from , ancl was founded on , a junction with the old Scottish Masonic Knights Templar , among whom there was no distinction of worldly rank , who , are thus discarded as useless ; ancl by this new system numbers are put " out of the pale" ancl cannot hope for a share of the honours which
, it professes to confer , ancl which many honest and upright Masons justly aspired to . They , at least , have no expectation of , in due time , shaking hands with Fras ., Prince Albert , Nicholas of Russia , & c ., on their future visits to the "Chief Seat of the Temple , ; now in , the Scottish capital . "
EDINBURGH . —AA'illiam Edmonston Aytoun , Esq ,, Advocate Past Master of the Lodge Canongate , Kilwinning , has been formally installed by the Senatus Academicus of the University , as Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres . We congratulate the accomplished and talented Brother on the new field of honour and of usefulness which has opened unto him . ... ...... We in Auld Reekie , albeit though unable of ourselves to erect an asylum for the aged workman , look with reverential feeling on the
Asylum for the Aged Mason in London , and trust that its ultimate success is not doubtful . It appears to be framed of too stern stuff to be , blown aside by any side wind , and most sincerely do we hope that at the ensuing Grand Lodge a different result will reward the efforts of its untiring friends . .- - ' ' . We observe that our enterprising friend , Dr . Burnes ,, in Bombay , is rather hard upon his first favourites , the European Chevalier , Orders ; His plan , however , maybe feasible , in the East ; and , assuredly that , of adiriitting the natives into the Craft degrees is a most admirable , one .: