FREEMABONRY.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2803, 7 February 1878, Page 2

FREEMABONRY.

Lord Carnarvon, who is Pro-Grind Master of Fngland, acting thus as ooad-, iutor or the Prince of Wales,; presided last week at a mammoth Masonic meeting which included the representatives of seventeen hundred English lodges. It ..- was the largest assemblage khown: sine* v the installation of the. Prince as Grand . Master three rears back at the Albert Hall, and it had been summoned to. eon- , sider a subject of vital consequence to the craft in all parti of .the uworld. Lord Carnarvon caHed atten*

tion to the extraordinary action of , the. Grand Orient or Grand Lod^e of France, which had recently renouncedone of the leading and fundamental principles of Freemasonry.' Hitherto the craft in France, as elsewhere, bad been based on the existence of God, the ira-

mortality of the soul, and the aolidaritt of man. Now the Grand Orient had struck the first principle out' of its primary declarations, and in doing so aimed a blow at the whole fabric of Freemasonry. . Several; • French lodges had protested against the new doctrine, so had the Irish Grind Lodge, and Lord Garnarron after commenting in earnest language upon the painful subject, wished the English Grand Lodge to decide whai; steps it would take in the matter. Eventually a committee consisting of Lord CarUairon, \ Lords :s Tenterderi, Skelmersdale, and Leigh, were appointed to inyestigate and report upon ~ the whole question.—Home News.