Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-09
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AT the ninety-siXth annual com
munication Of the grand lodge o.
New York. Il report was presented
by NJ. W. John w Simons, on the
condition Of Masonry throughout
the world. Itembraces thirty-seyeu
grand lodges in the United States,
seven in The Dominion Of Canals
and seven grand orients ana lodges
in other eonnTiexEW uMT
In Brazil there are aS9L symbolic
lodges, 107 Rose Croix chapters and
five provincial grand bodies. The
subordinate grand lodge "Uniso e
Segredo at Bahia, founded on the
day Of The installation Of its newly
elected officers, an orphan asylum,
and bought sixty slaves to be liber-
ated. Bro. N. A. Lopez, a member
Of the lodge, gave the liberated
slaves the means for further subsis-
tence. The lodge eur Eintracht,
at Porto Allegro (in the province Rio
Gmnde DO Sui, working in the
German tongue, bat under the
Brazilian jurisdiction, has laid the
cornerstone Of a Masonic temple.
The constitution Of the jurisdiction
lorbids the initiation Of any indi.
yidual who is a STAKEHOLDER or who
raises or imports slaves.
In Cuba an Independent Grand
Lodge was formed on the 1st Of
August, 1876, IN Havanaa q
In England the three principal
officers Excluding the deputy grand
master) are Of the royal family.
The Prince of Wales is grand mas
ter, and his brothers, the Duke Of
Oonnaught and Prince Leopold,
senior and junior grand wardens.
The safe return Of the grand master
from his visit to India was com
memorated by %appropriating $1O,-
600 to form two life boat stations
in perpetuity on the English coast,
and a memorial tablet in commem-
grafton of the event was ordered to
be erected in the Grand Lodge hall.
The Prince Of Wales was reelected
grand master. Harmony prevails,
and prosperity attends the labors Of
the Grand Lodge.
In France the Masons have taken
a retrograde movement, reversing
its Cwn constitution, the second
section of which says: Stree Ma
sonry is based on the existence of
God and the Immortality Of the
soul" In American and English
Masonry a candidate may hold
what religious opinions ne pleases,
but he must believe in the exist
ence of an almighty and everything
God, or he cannot be admitted. No
atheist can be made a Mason.
When a body Of men departs from
this, the original plan If Free Ma
sorry, it has stepped beyond the
pale, and ceases to be Masonry IN
fact, WhaeFer il may call itself.
France has 22S lodges.
In Germany there are eight
grand lodges, united in what is
called a Grand Lodge League,
which holds annual SESSIONS. The
asst Diet heard Of was held in
Berlin June 4, 1876, and its pro
ceedings were anything but salts
factory to Pennsylvania and New
York. The former has cut off all
communication with il, and does
not recognize Masohs from a Ger.
J man grand lodge. New York has
/ not taken action as yet Under the
eight grand lodges there are 32G
subordinate lodges, and there are
five Independent lodges Of English
origin. There are altogether in ex-
%istence 4G5 German lodges, which
are thus divided: Germany, 331;
Switzerland, 9; Hungary 90; Rou-
mania, 1; England, I; Italy, 2;
Turkey, l; Egypt, 2; China, l;
Peru, 1; Brazil, u United States,
%, Of which three are working
under the grand lodge Of Ham
burg.
Switzerland has a symbolic grand
lodge 1.-THE Alpina), and is likely to
be soon recognized by our American
grand lodges. The Grand Orient
Of the Netherlands has seventy sub
ordinate lodges; Prince Frederick
is grand master, and has held the
Office sixty years. Sweden has a
grand lodge and twenty-seven sub.
ordinate lodges; King 0scar Fred
erick is grand master. In Hungary
the condition of Masonry is not
satisfactory, the grand lodge having
established relations with the su.
preme council at Luxembourg, and
the colored body in Boston known
as the Prince Hall Grand Lodge.
Her charitable institutions are in ;
he%urishing condition.
In Hungary the Countess HadicI
received the Masonic degrees &C.
cording to a so-ealled Scottish rite
After the initiation the CRANE
master entered the lodge withou