A STRANGE MASONIC MEETING.
A curious Masonic incident is related
by Chafles Dv Val, in his work entitled " With a Show through Southern Africa," as having occurred in Praetoria, while} be- * leagured by the Boers during the late war ' • in the Transvaal. The writer says:—■" A meeting of Freemasons was held towards the end of January, and under circumstances so entirely novel that it may be worth while jto recount them. In the first 'place the members of the Craft had to > obtain permission "from their various com- ,\ imanding officers or their respective Ward ,-- Masters to attend the meeting. These passes countersigned by the garrison ad- ■ jutant, were granted at the bearer's own risk ~the Masonic Hall of the to vrn of Pretoria being the place of assembly. Slightly at ■ ! variance with' the motto of the brethren
~" Peace, • Love, and Harmony " -—was their appearance, clad in the various cos- '' "tumes of war, many carrying thoir rifles and bandoliers ; a group of horses standing outside the hall, while the Master and . officers, of the lodge wont through the ...Various rites of the ancient craft in an apartment through which the breezes , freely.blew,.entering a line of loopholes knocked out of the wall at the oae side i tolescape by a similar set at the other— - • possibly the moßt novel sysfcemof ventilation that ever admitted the fresh air—to participate in the mystic ceremonies of < tbe^Free' and Accepted ones, in either South Africi. or wherever else the maul htfiJ resoiifa'ded or the compasses been ex- • tended in open Lodge."
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Thames Star, Volume xv, Issue 4767, 19 April 1884, Page 4
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255A STRANGE MASONIC MEETING. Thames Star, Volume xv, Issue 4767, 19 April 1884, Page 4
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