The extent to which some of the Lodges give way to their enthusiasm may be Judged irom the following address, unani linously voted by a Grand Urient Lodge:
"fo the Most Worthy Brother Edward Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1):
"foo much blood having been shed during the last two years, and your position in the non-Masonic world enabling you to stop the work of ruin and desolation, we venture to fraternally remind you that Human Solidarity is the basis of Freemasonry, hero is an arbitration tri-burial. Should you remain deaf to our fraternal appeal and to the duties we Freemasons owe to all men, without distinetion of nationality, you will entitle us to declare you unworthy of our order and akin to the criminals whose baleful names will forever remain nailed to the pillory of History."
It is hardly necessary to say that the Grand Orient has taken no notice either of this, or of similar Masonic attempts to put the world right.
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