Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-16


emergency meeting held of any Z. the
departments Of the Scottish RitoCnless
all members Of the bodies are oaNifed
to that effect.
Second-No deputy has any power or
right to confer the Ancient Accepted
Scottish Rite degrees upon a candidate
when there is a consistory organized
in said city or place.
Third-There is not any proxy sys-
tenn in the order of the Ancient Acc
cepted Scottish Rite.
Fourth-Postal cards must not be
used for the purpose of notifying menu
bers of the consistory about the sus-
pension or expulsion of members.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
First-That the first Sunday in July
Of each year should he set apart and
designated as Masonic decorations day.
and all Scottish Rite Masons should
decorate the graves Of their deceased
members.
Second-At each annual session of .
cient time should be set apart and a
Lodge of Sorrow held in memory of all
deceased Scottish Rite Masons.
Third-The time should be changed
from September to the first Monday in
July of the meeting of the annual ses-
sion of the United Supreme Council.
Fourth-At this session the place
should be determined upon where the
Masonic Temple should be located.
Fifth-All members of the Scottish
Rite should be fully equipped with
their necessary uniforms within ninety
days after their admission in the Order.
SiNth-The Grand Secretary General
should receive a salary of one hundred
dollars a year for his services.
We have now siXty-two consistories
of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite
under our Jurisdiction, and who are
under the obedience of the United
Supreme Council From the ye,.r Of
1862 when our United Supreme Coun-
ell was established up to the year 1895.
we had only ten consistorieS and since
1855 up TO August the first, 1898, We
have organized fifty consistories, max
ing total number now or siXty-two.
The work from 1895 down TO the pres
ent day shows the zeal, energy and de-
termination on the part OF the officers
of the United Supreme Council In
spreading the work and building up
the order everywhere.
The Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite
is daily growing in favor with all true
lovers and students of Free Masonry.
look forward with pleasing expeeta-
tions for still greater and grander
success in the future.
SPURIOUS AND BOGUS MASONRY
AMONG CoLORED MEN.
The United Supreme Council in the
wear of 1895 expelled from it I. A.
Jackson and James O. Hampheld, of
Washington. d. c., for gross unmasonic
conduct and all Masons who have or
who will receive any OF the
degrees of the Ancient Accepted Scot
fish Rite from the hands of these men
1t is bogus, spurious and elandesune.
and will not be recognized by any le-
ultimate Masonic body in the world.
here warn all Masons who have
apy regard for their oaths and obliga-
tions as Masons and who wish to sus-
tain Masonic law and principles oil our
ancient time honored institutions not
TO hold any Masonic communication
whatever with these men, and here
assert that any Mason who will adyo-
cate or support the claims OF these
bogus and expelled Masons are ignor-
ant OF Masonic laws and the principles
of Freemasonry and are wholly untt
and unworthy, in my opinion, to ever
have been permitted to take or receive
the first degree of Masonry, and any
Mason. wherever he may be, and who
ever he may be, who will aid or sym
pathize and advocate the cause or
these clandestine Masons are them
selves dangerous men 10 have in any
secret organization and are not de-
serving Of respect of the people of cur
race.
First-Can you name one act that
these expelled Masons and any OF
their followers ever done for the bene-
fit and advancement of Freemasonry;
If you can, when was 1t and where
was 1t?
Second-Can you point to one act
that they ever accomplished for the
elevation OF our race of people; II you
can, when was it?
Thirds it not fact that they are
now engaged in a small and inslgnifi-
cant number of six men in trampling,
down and destroying every principle
of Masonic law?
Fourth-Can any one name a SUI
preme Council or a Consistory where
one Of these men las ever been admit
ted or recognized, If you can, when
was 1t and where was IL at?
Fifth--Is it not true and doubly
true that these two expelled Masons
have authorized some Of their agents.
who claim TO be Masons, to go around
through the country and there insti
tute lodges Of Symbolic Masonry, and
claiming Il 10 be done under their
bogus, self-instituted and unauthorized
so-called Supreme Council?