Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-24
IS AN ENTERED APPRENTICE A ma.


! OF course he is. The following quo
tations by some Bro. writing in the
Compass and Square are ample to
prove it.
Preston, illustrations Of Masonry, D.
34S), says: Every Mason was bound
at his initiation" and see bottom of
same page " making, passing and rais-
ing AISOHs." Page 1896 every Mason
initiated" Oliver, in his Book of the
Lodge, quotes from an ancient Masonic
manuscript, "when a man was to be
made a Mason" d" A History Of Free
masOns," published in London 1894,
says, "soOn requested to be accepted as
members OF the Lodge, and Brothers of
the Graft; till by merit, those Free and
Accepted Ad8Oas came TO be Masters
and Wardens." On page IS of the same
work, find the following quotation from
the disry of the famous Elias Ashmole,
Esq: / was made FFeeBidsOn at
Warrington, Lancashire, with Colonel
by Mr.. Richard Peuket, the Warden,
and the Fellow Crafts, on the sixteenth
Of October, 1646.' Masters and Fellow
Crafts could only be made at the Grand
Lodge On page $50, among the
charges TO be read at the making of New
Brethren is the following: No
Brother can be Warden until he has
passed the part Of Fellow Craft The
most expert Of the Fellow CraftsmeB
shall be chosen or appointed Master
page ISL No Lodge shall ever make
q Mason without due inquiry, page 2O2.
Had these new made Brethren or Ma
sons no vote p The short Charge to a
new admitted Mason, as found in
Altman Recon, printed in London,
1894, see page "a, is quoted from freely
in the charge in the first degree Of
Webb's Monitor.
The Masonic editor of the New York
Courier says:
"Our friend and Brother, the editor Of
the FreeDldSOH, published at st. Louis,
Mo-, in his really valuable paper, holds
the, TO US, extraordinary doctrine that
there is no such thing as Lodge out
side of a Masters Lodge. In other
words, there is legally ~ such thing as
an Z. A. Lodge or F. G. Lodge.
"This is q novelty to US, after q Ma
sonic life of over thirty years and
would certainly sound strangely to all
Craftsmen in England, from whence we
in this country have mediately or imme-
diately derived our Masonic existence;
for in that jurisdiction, so extended as it
is, all the work Of the Lodge except the
comforting of the degrees above Entered
Apprentice and election Of officers, is
done in a Lodge Of the latter. We would
ask Of our esteemed contemporary a sim
pie question, which may, by his answer,
show him the view he takes is incorrect,
although it may be in cOnsOnance with
the regulations Of his Grand Lodge.
"If K. As. and +. Cs. have to be made
in a Masters Lodge, that is, if there are
no such things as Lodges of the first and
second degrees, how should the great
lights be displayed?
"To dilate farther on this point would
be treading on esoteric ground, but to so
intelligent a Brother will undoubtedly
be understood"
There is nothing more certain than
that the custom of doing the work of the
Lodge ia the Masters degree is a new
tangled one, directly against the old rule
and custom and habit Of Masonry. No
body in Europe ever dreamed that an
apprentice was not Mason.
The truth is that as the apprentice has
tdbea upon himself no duties at all
tOtOdrCls his fellOaUs, of mutual assistance,
protection and defence, but is simply
bound to secrecy, they, on the other
hand, because there must be mutuality
of obligation, are as little bound 70 him;
and that, instead OF saying this, and de-
fning the relations of K. 4. Masons to
their Brethren and of their Brethren to
them, innovstors and manufacturers Of
Masonic law have fallen into innumera- |
BILE absurdities by pronOuDcing them not
MEsons at all. OF course. the next thing /
was to deny that there can be an Ap- |
prentices' Lodge.