-
Articles/Ads
Article MASONIC MISSIONS. ← Page 2 of 6 →
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Missions.
many as some of the small states of Europe which have Masonic Grand Lodges . To the above Lodges will have to be added the newly consecrated Lodge at Windsor , when it has got into full working . It is not our object to blame Bro . the Marquis of Downshire , or any one else in particular for this state of affairs , but simply to show that there
is a screw loose somewhere . About the division of the blame we do not squabble , because some part belongs to the Grand Lodge of England , some to the Provincial Grand Master , some to the Provincial Grand Lodge , and some to the Masons of the province . There is , however , some vital activity iu tho province , because on the I Sth of last month the new Lodge referred to was consecrated in Windsor , but the only Provincial Grand Officer or Past Grand Officer present was , the Provincial Grand Chaplain j aud a brother from London performed the consecration .
We do not even single out Bucks and Berks more particularly , as we shall work our way round . The only Lodge in Buckinghamshire is the Buckingham Lodge at Aylesbury , No . 861 ; and we may observe that its date in the calendar is 1850 , a startling comment on the antiquity and direct transmission of the Masonic art in the county of Bucks .
Berkshire is luckier , for the Lodges date as follows : — Windsor , No . . 352 , — 1772 . Reading , No . 597 , — 3 833 . Newbury , No . 839 , — 1 S 50 . Windsor , No . 1073 , — 1859 . Still Masonry must at times have very nearl y died out in Berks
, for there is only one Lodge more than a quarter of a century old , one of that date , one nine years old , and one neiv born ; so that within the last quarter of a century it must have been as much as the province could do to keep itself alive . Arch Masonry is not more flourishing , for in tho province it has just one Chapter , namelythat attached to No . 839 at Newbury .
, Why or how this is , we cannot say—we leave it to local correspondents to explain . In . Buckinghamshire we have the following boroughs and towns -, — . ' Buckingham . Population 4 , 020 .
* Aylesbury . Population G , 08 l . Newport Pagnell . Beaconsfield . Wycombe . Population 7 , 167 . Great Marlow . Eton .
Fenny Stratford . Population 870 . Olney . Stoney Stratford . Amersham . Winslow . Population 1 , 920 . Eton we will pass over , because it is a suburb of Windsor , and may
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Missions.
many as some of the small states of Europe which have Masonic Grand Lodges . To the above Lodges will have to be added the newly consecrated Lodge at Windsor , when it has got into full working . It is not our object to blame Bro . the Marquis of Downshire , or any one else in particular for this state of affairs , but simply to show that there
is a screw loose somewhere . About the division of the blame we do not squabble , because some part belongs to the Grand Lodge of England , some to the Provincial Grand Master , some to the Provincial Grand Lodge , and some to the Masons of the province . There is , however , some vital activity iu tho province , because on the I Sth of last month the new Lodge referred to was consecrated in Windsor , but the only Provincial Grand Officer or Past Grand Officer present was , the Provincial Grand Chaplain j aud a brother from London performed the consecration .
We do not even single out Bucks and Berks more particularly , as we shall work our way round . The only Lodge in Buckinghamshire is the Buckingham Lodge at Aylesbury , No . 861 ; and we may observe that its date in the calendar is 1850 , a startling comment on the antiquity and direct transmission of the Masonic art in the county of Bucks .
Berkshire is luckier , for the Lodges date as follows : — Windsor , No . . 352 , — 1772 . Reading , No . 597 , — 3 833 . Newbury , No . 839 , — 1 S 50 . Windsor , No . 1073 , — 1859 . Still Masonry must at times have very nearl y died out in Berks
, for there is only one Lodge more than a quarter of a century old , one of that date , one nine years old , and one neiv born ; so that within the last quarter of a century it must have been as much as the province could do to keep itself alive . Arch Masonry is not more flourishing , for in tho province it has just one Chapter , namelythat attached to No . 839 at Newbury .
, Why or how this is , we cannot say—we leave it to local correspondents to explain . In . Buckinghamshire we have the following boroughs and towns -, — . ' Buckingham . Population 4 , 020 .
* Aylesbury . Population G , 08 l . Newport Pagnell . Beaconsfield . Wycombe . Population 7 , 167 . Great Marlow . Eton .
Fenny Stratford . Population 870 . Olney . Stoney Stratford . Amersham . Winslow . Population 1 , 920 . Eton we will pass over , because it is a suburb of Windsor , and may