LECTURE ON FREEMASONRY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2093, 18 September 1875, Page 3

LECTURE ON FREEMASONRY.

The^Rer. P. ,-P^vAgnew delivered his a|T^rtisVdl MWtii're oh' Freemnsonryin the A^allwmy-yeSt'erday evening, the audience being Te'ry limited indeed.- 'he lecturer on risuifi^giggressßd; his disappointment at^sh<^scsat. support offered him. by M^ttl^Jtjwas at their request he had prfcp^wiSliiSerVleoture ; not to disappoint r pffese'bt^however, he would, he said, Weißflltu-Fji.th "his subject. He.then re<^wecfc^o>tlie'antiquity of Mason ry, saving were softie w-ho traced its ri«e back to»shsssjtne *?f'- "Enoch, the seventh from AdaWrfjdjstetclie^its descent downwards, ■pe^ipg."""of^tKe glofiesi of Solomon's Teinjple>»jr§feiring in detail to the cost of;.t^e,7^old' and silver therein, which at^olintM .to no less a sum than £9i3]0dd,600, the daily expenses of the COuH.'Tie showed how 1 the bands of workmen went foxth from Jerusalem into all* Tands to exercise their craft. H©rl thenm told how Athelstan first brought Masons to England, and that the' fiijst' meeting 'held' was ,at York in the year 926 A.D. And how Cromwell though himself a mason legislated against the'order, so that it was not until 1813 A.D. that London joined York. The lecftirer. then '.mentioned many, famous men as Masons-^Freclerie the; Great, Sir Ci Owen, Franklin, the present Pope and others?* and gave as far as he could the ta'^gWs'oriptiori of :a Masonic Lodge as h«isk*q^t?i?iyen to the ;Giy^ernq>v of- New South.Wales, explaining the typical'nrean ings of different., parts of the Lodge. Mrs Cau3?e;s-curtain lecture was also brought into the subject, and the lecturer concluded by alludirig to the very diffefrf nt treatment: he had 'experienced whenlectUTcfb.a to Masons at.Ec.huca and other parls ■ of, New South Whites from that which was shown him by Thames , Masons. ... , '"""' ■.