Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-07

Two years later he was called from work to
refreshment" On Sunday, December Is, 1790
the morning bells were ringing for church wheu
the news came Washington is dead" The bell.
ringing ceased for few minutes and then the
bells began to toll, and tolled night and day I'm.
til the Alexandria Masons dropped the acacia
into the grave of the most renowned Mason thai
ever travelled to the east"
On Monday the 10Th a funeral lodge was held.
DR.. z. c. Dick, worshipful master; Col. George
Deneale. senior warden; Col. Dennis Ramsay.
junior warden; David Wilson Scott. secretary;
r. B. Jameson, treasurer, William Bartleman,
senior deacon; Josiah Natson. junior deacon;
Jno. c. Kempf Tyler and 33 MasOns being present.
Arrangements for his funeral having been made
in Brook lodge OF Alexandra and Federal
lodge of Washington. united on "Wednesday the
18th of December his lodge proceeded to Mount
Vernon. and when after the services of the Eps-
copal church had been performed. buried the
Grand Mason with Masonic rite. Worshipfu Mas
ter Dick and Rev. DIR. Muir. chaplain, reading
the service. A few years later the name OF the
Industrious master of the lodge was added to its
name and for more than eighty years it has been
known as Washington lodge.
WARRINGTON AND THE ANTI-MAsoNs.
The opponents Of Masonry in Washington's
time sought to withdraw him from his order by
representing that the organization was being
used In Europe to advance the purposes of the
illuminate, and designed to overthrow the
church or state then held by many to be iden-
tical with social order. A Lutheran minister,
Rev. g. W. Snyder of Frederick. Md, sent him
spiracy, designed to show that European Free
Masonry wasa menance to public order. In reply
Washington wrote to him.
IL have heard much of the nefarious and dan
gerous plan and doctrines of the ILLUMINATE: but
never saw the book until you were pleased to
- Ia.
allows me to add little more now
than thanks for your kind wishes and favorable
sentiments, except to correct the error which
you have run into of my presiding over the
English lodges IN this country. The fact Is /
preside over none nor have i been in one more
than once or twice within the last thirty years.
i believe. notwithstanding, that none OF the
lodges OF this Country are contaminated with
the principles ascribed to the society Of the
illuminate"
And afterwards, when the same anti Masonic
minister had again addressed him on the subject
Washington replied under date Of October "a,
179S, as follows:
1T was not my Intention to doubt that the
doctrines of the illuminate and the principles OF
Jacobinism had not spread in the United States.
On the contrary no one Is more fully satisfied OF
this fact than am. The idea meant 70 CONVEX
wasthat 4 did not believe that the lodges of Free
Aasons In this country had as societies en-
deavored to propagate the diabolical tenets OF
the former or pernicous principles OF the latter.
II they are susceptible of division
At Washington's death the book sent him by
Rev. Mr.. snyder. The Proofs OF q Conspiracy "
was found in the library of Mount Vernon along
side ''Alsman Recon, both quietly sitting on
the same shelves.
1t Is notable that the spirit which Washington
was sure had not entered American Masonry has
always been kept out, not only of Alexandria
Washington lodge but out of all genuine Ma
sonic lodges Ia the country. but it has infected
European continental lodges to such a degree III
lately to remove the French Masonic landmarks
and compel the American and English Masonl
to rrfase fellowship With French lodgss- Says
Mr.. William X Singleton Of thiscity: "A fungus
| growth, produced By the seed Of an efFete phil
| osophy, France, Germany and Belgium have be-
come strongly tinctured In their Masonry. Sci
eotinc men Of eminently social status wert
| wanted 10 the Masonic institution to make theil
banquets Q success as literary clubs. Thes<
| the doors Of the lodge, for that terrible ordea
stared them In the face. and that question coult
| not be honestly and honorabiy answered bv ar
afheist hence that barrier must be removed
and BY the act Of september Is, lS77. the Grand
| Orient Of France decided that 1t was not neces
sary to ask OF sny candidate hts religious belief
Hence any man, be he inidel or CHRISTIAN. could
be made Mason. This OF course required a
alterstsoa Of the sign In one Of its essential
points, in doing which the French Mssons thai
were at one feii blow. cut themselves of from al
fellowship With those who hold to the Old land
narkA Of which the one In question Is the chic
| corner stone, and without which the structure
can only exist for temporary period, and fol
| the mere purposes Of Q social club, which the
society In France has now become; and we "a
more recognize - Masons members from thai
French society than We would members Of any
/ other modern tastltutioo."
| One Of ne reoso1s why regular Aoeouic bod.
les declare clandestiue the oeFuesn Assous n
| the allegation TINT the Cerneau bodies are in