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

France, which the records show and
which Supreme Council authorized and
instructed the very illustrious DR.. ST.
Larnie to confer upon the lilustrous
David Leary, at Philadelphia, the 33rd
degree and then and there by the au-
thority of the Supreme Council OF
France granted power and authority
to the illustrious David Leary to in
stitute a Supreme Council at Philadel
phia, which was accordingly done in
the year 1854, and was called King
David Supreme Council. This body
was the first Supreme Council in the
United States of the Ancient Accepted
Scottish Rite among the colored Ma
sons, and it may be here stated accord
ing to the Grand constitution of 1852
and of 1856, that no Supreme Council
can be instituted unless it is regularly
authorized and established by another
Supreme Council. In the year OF 1856,
John A. Gray, Alfred Lee, John II.
Smallwood AdClphus Hall and several
others resided at Washington, d. O.,
having already received the SD
degree and being members of a Supreme
Council at Philadelphia, Pa, pc
titioned to the King David Supreme
| Council to organize a Supreme Council
| Of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite
at Washington, d. C. On the 5th Of
May, 1856, the prayer of the above
named petitioners was received and
unanimously adopted by the King Da-
vid Supreme Council at Philadelphia
! Pa, and in compliance with said order
the very illustrious Edward M. Thomas,
33rd, a Grand Inspector General then
residing at Washington, D. c., with
| John A. Gray, Alfred Lee and several
| others, was duly instructed empowered
, and authorized by King David Supreme
! Council at Philadelphia to organize a
| Supreme Council at Washington, d. c.,
and in the year of 1869 the number Of
! Inspector Generals having been com
! pleted under the power and authority
| granted to the illustriOus Edward NJ.
| Thomas, 33rd., and others, a Supreme
/ Council in the year OF 1869 was law
| fully organized and opened with high
Masonic honors at Washington, which
| is known now as the United Supreme
Council for the Southern and Western
| Masonic Jurisdiction United States of
America, its Grand East located at
Washington, D. c., organized in 1869.
MASONIC QUALIFICATIONS OF
CANDIDATES To ADVANCE TO
THE 32D DEGREE.
| It is a subtle and fixed rule of
Masonic law, beth in the United States
and in every foreign country, and is
adhered to and followed by every SUI
preme Council, both white and col
ored, in the Ancient Accepted Scottish
4 Rite all over the world, and
that is that the only neces-
! sary qualification for a Mason
to advance from the fourth degree to
! the thirty-second and thirty-third de-
( grees of the Ancient Accepted Scottish
/ Rite is that he must be Master Ma
son in good standing The Ancient
/ Scottish Rite degree has got nothing
whatever to do with or has any con-
/ nectiOr with a Chapter degree OF
Royal Arch Masors or the Knight
1 Templars degree Of a Commandery Of
/ knight Templars. and no Mason is re-
1 CURED, under any circumstances what
ever, to go through Chapter of Royal
/ Arch Masons and a Commandery of
| Knight Templars before he takes the
| Scottish Rite degree. A Master Mason
is eligible and qualified and can go
I from the fourth to the thirty-second de-
gree without having anything to do
with the Royal Arch or the Knight
! Templars degree, because the Ancient
| Accepted Scottish Rite is a separate
| and distinct Rite of Free Masonry and