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precipitately retreating to the Fountain Hotel to partake of a good dinner and its usual accompaniments ( when every care that prudence or forethought could dictate had been taken by our Canterbury Brethren to provide amply for the comfort and convenience of all ) , savours to me very power ^ of disrespect . „ " Masonic rank- is frequently ^ allied with poverty , and it sometimes happens ihat the best JVIasons in and , put of } Lodge are thosewhose means will no |; allow of their dining at a Masonic Tmnquet . " Now , sir , if honour is given
to whom honour is due , poverty must necessarily be associated with rank in some instances , and the result is that the recipients of those honours are sometimes the best Masons , and cannot enjoy the luxuries of a Masonic banquet without incurring responsibilities which their circumstances ia life wiljl not fairly warrant , and no pru 3 erit man would spend in luxury that whic | t Providence has given him to provide * the necessaries of life . Life is a lottery ^ and man should make up his minj for the blanks , but " One who has respect for the Chair" has respect for the ; poor also , and would scorn the imputation
so ingeniously and ungenerously trumped up by the " P ; M . and Z ., " viz . / by holding up to the contempt of the Brethren " those whose means will not allow of their dining at a Masonic banquet , " the words of " P . M and Z . " ratost aptly recoil on himself— " I am ashamed of such Masonry , or rather the lack of it , displayed by your correspondent . " Your Warwick Brother , in conclusion , says that ^ he never dines with the Master of the Province to which he belongs , because
he cannot afford it , " but he does not say that he never dines with the llasjerof any other Province . Disgraceful , indeed / would it be fi > r airy Brother to : - aim the shaft of ridicule " at poverty ; and I pray the G . AX ) . T . U , may never aliow me to so far forget myself as to ridicule those who are borne down by its burdens ) but rather hope to be endued with power to fulfil that Divine command 69 emphatically alluded to by your correspondent— " Let us do unto others as wi would they should do unto us . " The outward world will then , indeed , admire our Order instead of laughing at it . I remain , Sir and Brother , One who has Respect for the Chair .
THE ROYAL ARCH . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS * MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Sir and Brother , —In Dr . Cooke Taylor ' s History of Mahommedanism , when treating of the Assassins , in allusion to the misuse that may be made of Secret Societies , by way of note he says : — " The Royal Arch Degree in the institution of Freemasonry , was originally
devised by some Scotch Jacobites , as a means of holding together the party of the Pretender . From the place where they met , the new Degree was called ' The J & oyal Arras , ' and the meetings of its members , the / Royal Arras Chapter . ? When the cause of the Pretender became hopeless , the new Degree merged into the general system , and by an easy corruption the name was changed to the < Royal Arch . '"
. Now , having had a very intimate acquaintance with Dr . Taylor from his first appearance in the world of literature till his decease , I can confidently say he was not a Mason . I never heard him allude to the subject , although frequently with him when he was writing the work in which the note appears , and it was but a few days since . 1 accidently saw it . Can any of your readers inform nle from whence Dr . Taylor could have derived
his information 1 I am fully aware that our present Degree was established at i the Union in 1813 , and that the ceremonial of the Royal Arch was , prior to that date , very different to tjiat we now have ; and that the Royal Arch forms no part of the Ancient and Accepted Rite . I am , yours fraternally , J . How , P . Z . No . 593 . TOL . ITT . ' 5 A
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precipitately retreating to the Fountain Hotel to partake of a good dinner and its usual accompaniments ( when every care that prudence or forethought could dictate had been taken by our Canterbury Brethren to provide amply for the comfort and convenience of all ) , savours to me very power ^ of disrespect . „ " Masonic rank- is frequently ^ allied with poverty , and it sometimes happens ihat the best JVIasons in and , put of } Lodge are thosewhose means will no |; allow of their dining at a Masonic Tmnquet . " Now , sir , if honour is given
to whom honour is due , poverty must necessarily be associated with rank in some instances , and the result is that the recipients of those honours are sometimes the best Masons , and cannot enjoy the luxuries of a Masonic banquet without incurring responsibilities which their circumstances ia life wiljl not fairly warrant , and no pru 3 erit man would spend in luxury that whic | t Providence has given him to provide * the necessaries of life . Life is a lottery ^ and man should make up his minj for the blanks , but " One who has respect for the Chair" has respect for the ; poor also , and would scorn the imputation
so ingeniously and ungenerously trumped up by the " P ; M . and Z ., " viz . / by holding up to the contempt of the Brethren " those whose means will not allow of their dining at a Masonic banquet , " the words of " P . M and Z . " ratost aptly recoil on himself— " I am ashamed of such Masonry , or rather the lack of it , displayed by your correspondent . " Your Warwick Brother , in conclusion , says that ^ he never dines with the Master of the Province to which he belongs , because
he cannot afford it , " but he does not say that he never dines with the llasjerof any other Province . Disgraceful , indeed / would it be fi > r airy Brother to : - aim the shaft of ridicule " at poverty ; and I pray the G . AX ) . T . U , may never aliow me to so far forget myself as to ridicule those who are borne down by its burdens ) but rather hope to be endued with power to fulfil that Divine command 69 emphatically alluded to by your correspondent— " Let us do unto others as wi would they should do unto us . " The outward world will then , indeed , admire our Order instead of laughing at it . I remain , Sir and Brother , One who has Respect for the Chair .
THE ROYAL ARCH . TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS * MAGAZINE AND MASONIC MIRROR . Sir and Brother , —In Dr . Cooke Taylor ' s History of Mahommedanism , when treating of the Assassins , in allusion to the misuse that may be made of Secret Societies , by way of note he says : — " The Royal Arch Degree in the institution of Freemasonry , was originally
devised by some Scotch Jacobites , as a means of holding together the party of the Pretender . From the place where they met , the new Degree was called ' The J & oyal Arras , ' and the meetings of its members , the / Royal Arras Chapter . ? When the cause of the Pretender became hopeless , the new Degree merged into the general system , and by an easy corruption the name was changed to the < Royal Arch . '"
. Now , having had a very intimate acquaintance with Dr . Taylor from his first appearance in the world of literature till his decease , I can confidently say he was not a Mason . I never heard him allude to the subject , although frequently with him when he was writing the work in which the note appears , and it was but a few days since . 1 accidently saw it . Can any of your readers inform nle from whence Dr . Taylor could have derived
his information 1 I am fully aware that our present Degree was established at i the Union in 1813 , and that the ceremonial of the Royal Arch was , prior to that date , very different to tjiat we now have ; and that the Royal Arch forms no part of the Ancient and Accepted Rite . I am , yours fraternally , J . How , P . Z . No . 593 . TOL . ITT . ' 5 A