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Bicentennial of F ounding
~~ Of Masonry In erie)
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Two hundred years ago PYRtTaBECh.
tied in Pennsylvania, and now all over
the state are heralded expressions in
All the
warious phases of progressive business
life have their periodic checking up,
and i it is highly proper and commen-
dable that the same system prevail in
social life.
And this may be done intelligently
and understandingly it is well to take
a casual glance at the conditions and
standing of the Fraternity prior to
and at the time of its institution here.
“In “all periods and ages of man’s’
existence he appears to have had an
uneontrollable desire or ambition to
build—seen in the Pryamids of Egypt,
the ruins of Pompeii and the “great |:
mass of ancient architectual produc-
tions. ~ os o
Thorsburgh says “In all ages or the
world, and especially since the buiid-
ing of King Solomon's temple, there
Have been skilled artisans distinguish-
ed from the ordinary “workmen. Among
the most noted of them were the work-
ers in stone, called masons. The word
Mason come from the Latin "macone-.
tus,” meaning a builder. v
Skilled operative masons plied their
trade in England, France and Italy
during the Middle Ages and were fam-
ed for the character of their WOrK,
They were not only builders, but were
architects as well, They stamped their
individuglity on every building, They
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8 | who joined with him from the
had so far advanced as skilled Masons
as to be a privileged class, free to tra-
vel wherever they pleased, and to’ plan
and erect buildings exempt from taxes
and limitations imposed on the less
skilled workers,
' Being free as to territory and toes)
land free as ‘to the character ‘of their
work they were called Free Masons.
‘In those days they traveled HHA,
from place to place in the world of
the Craft, ‘Writing was not much
practiced and, certificates of character
not’ known, So. that to have confi-
dence in each other and to prove to
the Craft that he had been regularly
taught the trade, had served the re-
quisite apprenticeship, a system of
signs and passwords were adopted.
They naturally formed the ‘custom of
meeting in lodges where ritualistic
methods were adopted. Operative Ma-
sopary was a religion and a trade.
In the year 926 of the Christian era
the Operative Masons were granted a
charter for a regular organization em-
powering \ ‘them to meet annually at
York, where the first Grand Lodge
was organized at which Edwin, the
brother of King Athelstan, presided as
Grand Master,
Here the germ of Speculative or
Symbolic Masonry was planted.
' It has been described as “a beauti-
ful system. of morality, veiled in alle-
gory and illustrated by symbols.” Its
underlying principles being the “Fath-
erhood of God and the Brotherhood of
Man.” jc { / }
This is the manner of its institu-
tion: Early in the eighteenth century
the Operative Masons began to admit
into their lodges. gentlemen who were
distinguished in the professions and
who the Operatives desired to honor.
They were Accepted Masons. This
accounts for the words Free and ‘Ac
cepted. Free meant Free Operative
Masons, and Accepted meant not an
Operative, but one honored as having
been accepted among the Operatives
as a distinction. °
The custom of accepting selected
gentlemen and admitting them 0
‘membership in the Operative Lodges
became quite common. These Accep-
ted Masons were admitted 10 the de-
grees of HEantered. Apprentice and Pei-
low Craft, but not. of Master. Eh
In the year of 1710 the Rev, James
| Anderson, D. D., a Scotch Presbyter-
{lan minister, who was an Accepted
| Mason, was made Chaplain of an op-'
erative Lodge in London. By this time
any other men who were Dot Oper-
|atives were ‘adenitted ‘ato the Lodges. {sons
Among these Accepted Masons a 'spir-
it of digsatisfaction grew up because
|they realized that they were not admit-
ted to all the degrees and they chafed
under this discrimination. They also
doncluded that Operative Masonry was
too narrow in its teachings for men
who were not actual Operatives, and
they conceived the idea and under-
took the work of broadening the
teachings and elevating the moraly of
the fraternity. 7
Their numbers grew until they were
able, in 1717, to influence the major-
ity of the members of four lodges to
unite in the organization of a Grand
Lodge and to adopt a new system
which would abrogate the Operative
requirements.
This “movement, under the lead of
Dr. Anderson, resulted in the organi-
zation of Speculative Freemasonry, or
rather the transformation of the Oper-
ative ‘into tire Symbolic.
Speculative or Symbolic Freemas-
onry was fully launched by the organ-
ization of this Grand Lodge. Dr. An-
derson was elected the first Grand Se-
cretary. was entrusted the
work of modifying the ceremonies and
regulations.
He took the Operative Ritual and
made such changes in it
To him
as would
Accepted and not Operative Masons.
plements symbolic meaning, by which
beautiful moral lessons are taught.
The fact that in Operative Lodges
only able-bodied men who were capa-
ble of doing Operative work were ad-
mitted, accounts for the physical per-
fection required in the Speculative
Masonry. i
In the Operative system the: idea
was for the Master to observe the sun
at its rising and therefore was in the
West. The Junior Warden should face
the sun at high meridian and was
therefore placed in the north. The
Senior Warden, to face the setting sun
was placed in the East.
Dr. Anderson changed this to the vs
tem as now worked.
In the Operative Ritual the lodge
was not opened in the first and then
in the second and third degrees, but
was opened in ‘the seventh degree
which is the Master's degree. * * x
As he (Dr. Anderson) and the others
Opera-
tives had only received the first and
second degrees, they had to begin at
the bottom and work up the new sys-
tem, and as they had not received
they
form of the opening or ceremonies of
the Master's degrees, had no
that degree. Dr. Anderson, not know-
ing the ceremony of the Operative
make it suitable for those who were |
He gave the Operative tools and im- |
Master’ { degree, invented the legend
of the Speculative third degree, in
which he portrays the loss of the se-
crets of a Master Mason by the deati
of Hiram Abif,
The legend of the third degree was
doubtless taken by Dr. Anderson from.
the Ancient Egyptian Mysteries.
Egypt, once the land of science and
philosophy, and now. the keeper of
stately tombs and historical monu-’
ments, was the birthplace of many of
the mysteries adopled by succeeding
people. aft Jy rt
As before. stated in 1717, four lod-
ges in the south of England united and
made up the ‘Premier Grand Lodge.
In 1725 the lodges of York formed a
Grand Lodge of their own calling it
the Grand Lodge of York. These two
Grand Lodges worked together in un-
ison until in 1785 the Grand Master
of England constituted two lodges
within the jurisdiction of the Grand
Lodge of York; therefore all inter-
course between them ceased.
In 1738 a lot of the Brothers, be-
ing agrieved of what they termed in-
novations of the Landmarks, seced-
ed from the Grand Lodge of England
and seeing the breach between the
two Grand Lodges formed a third
took the name of Ancient York Ma-
sons,
called the Grand Lodge England,
“Modern,”
These three Grand ‘Lodges operat-
ed independently until 1813, when they
were united ‘under the name of the
United Grand Lodge of England.
There, is little or no record evidence
fyears of this country.
New Jersey claims the distinction
of having the first permanent resi-
dent Mason in the person of John
Skene, who landed there in 1682 and
settled at Burlington, N. J., Massa~
chusetts claims to have the first born
American citizen to be made. . a Ma-
son in the country in the person of
of the Province.
Prior to the establishing abd; ren.
ular lodge bere, no doubt that among
; the sarly emigrants were Masons who
often convened together and possibly
did some masonic work.
In 1780, ‘Daniel Cox, armed with a
deputation from the Grand Lodge of
England, (the. first authority. ever
given for the assembling of Free Ma-
sons in America in Lodges.) and es-
tablished in the city of, Philadefphia,
Pa, St. John's Lodge. In this ‘lodge
Benjamin “Franklin was made a Ma-
son, and was Master of it in 1734.
In 1773 a second St. John's Lodge
| was established in Boston, Mass.
In 1758 the Ancient York Lodge es-
tablished a Lodge of Ancient Master
Masons in Philadelphia.
As near as can be determined, during
the Revolutionary period the ‘Mod-
{erns” sided with the Britons, and the
“Ancients” with the Americans, but
all loyal to their fraternal vows,
In 1780, inspired by the spirit of
Independence several of the lodges
‘united and formed an independent
Grand Lodge and unanimously chose
Brother George Washington, Master,
but it seems that it never functioned.
St. John’s Lodge, No. I, of’ 1730,
vacated long ago, and the present St.
John’s Lodge, "No. 115, is a different
body.
The first meeting
lodges in Pennsylvania was the Tun
Tavern in Philadelphia. ’*
In 1755 the first Masonic lodge
house was dedicated in Philadelphia
by the Ancient York Masons, with
impressive ceremonies. :
In 1786 the Grand Lodge of Penn-
sylvania withdrew its: allegiance to
the Grand Lodge in America to take
such action. The most ‘important
step ever taken by a Grand Lodge. It
was decisive ‘declaration that’ it alone,
had absolute Masonic jurisdiction of
the state and all territory thereunto
belonging. ;
“Up to 1843 all of the
lodges in Pennsylvania. was transac-
ted in the first degree. ‘At that time
it was ordered that all business of
the lodge and the opening and clos-
ing must be in the Master's degree.”
In 1873 the New Masonic
at Philadelphia was dedicated. Writ-
ing in 1914, Thornburgh ‘says of 1t:
“The Masonic Temple at Philadelphia
is . the largest and finest Masonic
building in the world devoted ex-
clusively to Freemasonry. One of
its halls, the Egyptian Hall, is said
to be the finest specimen of Egyptian
decoration outside of Egypt.”
November 4th, 1752, Brother George
Washington was initiated ' inte the
Masonic Fraternity by the Sedge in
Fredericksburg, Va.
On the 150th anniversary of that
event, our Grand Lodge put on, a
grand celebration at which the Presi-
dent of the United States, Brother
Theodore Roosevelt, was present and
delivered ‘an address on ‘Freema-
sonry and Citizenship.” This address
place of Masonic
business
is preserved in full by Grand Lodge.
1824, (October 2nd, in the afternoon)
Brother (General) Lafayette was the
Grand Lodge in London in 1739 and}
claiming that they alone ad- |
heared to- the ancient landmarks, and |,
of the Fraternity in the very sarly, X
Jonathan Belcher, who went to New §
Jersey and finally became Governor
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guest of the Grand Lodge at an’ extra
communication held in Philadelphia.
In the address of welcome he ‘was no-
tified that he had been made a member
of the Grand Lodge. In reply he said:
“I thank you for the honor you have
just conferred on me, and assure you
that I shall never forget this mark
of your kind distinction by which I
am made a member of a body oft
which Franklin was the father and
Washington was. ‘the associate.”
1831, © (Dec. 26th,) oceurred the
death of Brother Stephen Girard, who
by his will bequeathed to the Grand
Lodge $20,000. This legacy now
known as the ‘Stephen Girard Charity
Fund” and now amounts to
than $100,000,—the first Jarse bequest
to the Grand Lodge.
In the year 1706 occured the birth
of our most distinguished: Brother,
Benjamin Franklin, a former Grand
Master of Masons. y
1903, (March 4th the Grand Lodge
promulgated the foes of a Masonic
Home.
1913, June 5th) the Grand Lodge
Hall, at Elizabethtown, Pa., was de-
dicated. It was the greatest of the
accomplishments of the Grand Lodge.
Of it Past Grand Master, Brother J.
Henry Williams, said: “The Crowning
Glory of the Grand Lodge of Penn-
Sylvania, 144
In’ 1903 the Freeh of the Fra-
ternity in Pennsylvania was 214,660.
is
more
January 1930, the number of guests
at the Masonic Home was 510.
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-H untsville-
Ladies’ Aid Society will meet in the
M. B, Church next Thursday. Dinner
will be served at noon by Mrs. A. J.
Hadsall, Mrs. Frank H. Johnson, Mrs.
M. E. Keeler.
come.
Every one will be wel-
Mrs. W. S. Rieiver spent Tuesday
with relatives in Wilkes-Barre.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Edwards and
son Harry Jr., spent a few days with
Mrs. Edwards sister in New York
City.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Elston enter-
tained the Adult Bible Class of the
M. E. Sunday School on Tuesday ev-
ening. The following officers were el-
ected: President, Mrs. H. A. Randall,
Vice President, Fred Weaver, Secre-
tary, Mrs. Lee Earl, Treasurer, Mrs.
prizes were
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George Lamoreaux.
Lunch was ser-
ved to Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Kleiner,
Mr, and Mrs. Fred Weaver, Mr. and
Mrs.
Hadsall,
Nusz,
George Lamoreaux,
Earl, Mrs. 0. L Harvey, Mrs. ‘A. J.
Mrs. H. A. Randall,
Frank Bulford,
“Mrs. Lee
Charles
Elizabeth
Breckenridge, Elsie Earl, Helen Splitt,
Ruth May Hazel,
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence. Elston.
Harold ‘B. Elston,
.
—Shavertown-
Shavertown Auxiliary
Shavertown branch,
Side hospital auxirary held a
ered dish luncheon and
Nesbitt West
COov-=-
card party
on Friday afternoon at the shop of
J. A. Girvan, Claude
street, Dallas.
Mrs. Sherman Warden, Mrs. Mitchell
Jenkins, Mrs,
BE. L. Jeness and Mrs.
Hayden D. Williams were hostesses.
Following
Christmas
the members.
other
the
gifts were exchanged by
awarded at
luncheon, small
Tables of bridge and
card games were formed and
each table.
Guests numbered 56 and were:
. Mrs. Clarence Elston, Miss Beatrice
Belles, Harold B. Elston,
Hayden D.
Eddinger, Mrs. O. L. Har-
Howell,
Mrs. A.
Mrs.
G.
Mrs. Z. R.
' Williams,
vey, Ruth May Hazel, Mrs. E. A. Adel-
|
man, Mrs. Clifford J. Ide,
Mrs. Zel
Garinger, Mrs. Ray Shiber, Mrs. R. L.
Brickel, Mrs.
C.
S. Behee, Mrs. S. P.
Frantz, Mrs. G. A. Learn, Mrs. Wil-
lam Laidler, Mrs. J.
A. Hildebrant,
Mrs. John 'A. Girvan] Mrs. E. D. Par-
rish, Mrs. D. F. Westover,
Frantz, Mrs.
James
George McLuckie,
E. Hildebrant,
Mrs. J. H.
Mrs.
Mrs. G. A.
Frantz, Miss Marguerite Frantz, Mrs.
H. L. Titman, Mrs. A.
C. Kelly, Mrs.
C. W. Fisher, Mrs. J. N. Whipp.
Mrs.
Smith, Mrs.
Mrs.
Sherman Warden,
D.
1¥. M. Gordon, Mrs.
Frank G. Matheis,
Mrs, J. H.
P. Honeywell, Mrs.
G.. Hoffmeister,
Mrs. C4 FF.
'
Lewis, Mrs. H. Lohman, Jane Keen-
er, Mrs. G. Evans, Mrs. C. S. Morris,
Mrs. G. I.
Howell,
Mrs. © J.. Roland
Crompton, Mrs. Edward D. ~ Griffith,
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
den Williams.
Welton Batey, Mrs. George Metz,
Corey J. Major, Mrs. Arthur Ide,
Frances Lewis, Mrs. E. L. Jeness,
Mitchell Jenkins and Mrs. Hay-
The next meeting will
be held Friday, February 5th, at the
home ‘of Mrs. Ray Shiber of Dallas.