Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

ecommendation to all Lodges and brethren in all
parts as a brother well qualified to give Masonic
information to any desirous of his services.
"This report of the committee was accepted and
adopted by the Grand Lodge, and Brother
Barney, provided with the recommendation thus
obtained, visited many of the Lodges of the State,
and imparted to them a knowledge of these
lectures. At this time Brother Barney wrote a
portion of them in cipher. Subsequently to 1818,
Brother Barney went to the Western and
Southwestern States, and, being in delicate
health, adopted the profession of Masonic
lecturing as a means of subsistence.
"A few years afterward, on his return to his
brethren in Vermont, he stated to them, as I have
been credibly informed and believe, that he found
in the Western and Southwestern States different
systems of lecturing prevailing, and that, upon
presenting Gleason's Lectures to them, they were
objected to by the different Grand Masters, who
would not sanction his lecturing in their
respective jurisdictions, unless he would adopt
the lectures then in use among them; that,
desiring to pursue his occupation there, he
learned the different systems of lecturing existing
among them, and made use of his newly acquired
knowledge under the sanction of the respective
Grand Masters." (See Note Q, Appendix.)
These facts will account for the want of
agreement between the East and the West and
Southwest, as to what are the true Barney
Lectures.
From the foregoing remarks, it will be seen that
the essential points of Masonry are identical the
world over, and that the differences, which are of