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in Lodges, some authorities sustaining and
others condemning it . Thus, twenty years
ago, the Committee of Correspondence of the
Grand Lodge of Mississippi proposed this
question : "In case of excess of business, cannot
the unfinished be laid over until the next
or another day, and must the Lodge be closed
in form, and opened the next, or the day designated
for the transaction of that business? "
To this question some authorities, and among
others Brother C. W . Moore (Mag., vol . xii .,
No . 10), reply in the negative, while other
equally good jurists differfromthem in opinion .
The difficulty seems to be in this, that if the
regular meeting of the Lodge is closed in form,
the subsequent meeting becomes a special
one, and many things which could be done at
a regular communication cease to be admissible
. The recommendation, therefore of
Brother Moore, that the Lodge should be
closed, and, if the business be unfinished, that
the Master shall call a special meeting to complete
it, does not meet the difficulty, because
it is a well-settled principle of Masonic law
that a special meeting cannot interfere with
the business of a preceding regular one .
As, then, the mode of briefly closing by adjournment
is contrary to Masonic law and
usage, and cannot, therefore, be resorted to,
as there is no other way except by calling off
to continue the character of a regular meeting,
and as, during the period that the Lodge is
called off it is under the government of the
Junior Warden, and Masonic discipline is
thus continued, I am clearly of opinion that
calling off from day to day for the purpose of
continuing work or business is, as a matter of
convenience, admissible. The practise may
indeed be abused. But there is a well-known
legal maxim which says, Ex abusu non arguitur
in usum. "No argument can be drawn
from the abuse of a thing against its use ."
Thus, a Lodge cannot be called off except for
continuance of work and business, nor to an
indefinite day, for there must be a good reason
for the exercise of the practise, and the Brethren
present must be notified before dispersing
of the time of reassembling ; nor can a Lodge
at one regular meeting be called off until the
next, for no regular meeting of a Lodge is permitted
to run into another, but each must be
closed before its successor can be opened .
Calling On. When a Lodge that is called
off at a subsequent time resumes work or business,
it is said to be "called on ." The full
expression is " called on from refreshment to
labor ."
Calumny . See Back.
Calvary . Mount Calvary is a small hill or
eminence, situated due west from Mount
Moriah, on which the Temple of Solomon was
built . It was originally a hillock of notable
eminence, but has, in more modern times,
been greatly reduced by the excavations made
in it for the construction of the Church of the
Holy Sepulcher . There are several coincidences
which identify Mount Calvary with
the small hill where the "newly-made grave,"
referred to in the Third Degree, was discovered
by the weary brother . Thus, Mount Calvary
was a small hill ; it was situated in a westward
direction from the Temple, and near Mount
Moriah ; and it was on the direct road from
Jerusalem to Joppa, and is the very spot where
a weary brother, traveling on that road, would
find it convenient to sit down to rest and refresh
himself; it was outside the gate of the
Temple ; it has at least one cleft in the rock, or
cave, which was the place which subsequently
became the sepulcher of our Lord . Hence
Mount Calvary has always retained an important
place in the legendary history of Freemasonry,
and there are many traditions connected
with it that are highly interesting in
their import .
One of these traditions is, that it was the
burial-place of Adam, in order, says the old
legend, that where he lay, who effected the
ruin of mankind, there also might the Savior
of the world suffer, die, and be buried .
Sir R. Torkington, who published a pilgrimage
to Jerusalem in 1517, says that "under the
Mount of Calvary is another chapel of our
Blessed Lady and St. John the Evangelist,
that was called Golgotha ; and there, right
under the mortise of the cross, was found the
head of our forefather, Adam ." Golgotha, it
will be remembered, means, in Hebrew, "the
place of a skull " ; and there may be some connection
between this tradition and the name
of Golgotha by which, the Evangelists inform
us, in le time of Christ Mount Calvary
was known . Calvary, or Calvaria, has the
same signification in Latin .
Another tradition states that it was in the
bowels of Mount Calvary that Enoch erected
his nine-arched vault, and deposited on the
foundation-stone of Masonry that Ineffable
Name, whose investigation, as a symbol of
Divine truth, is the great object of Speculative
Masonry.
A third tradition details the subsequent discovery
of Enoch's deposit, by King Solomon,
whilst making excavations in Mount Calvary
during the building of the Temple .
On this hallowed spot was Christ the Redeemer
slain and buried . It was there that,
rising on the third day from his sepulcher, he
gave, by that act, the demonstrative evidence
of the resurrection of the body and the immortality
of the soul .
And it is this spot that has been selected,
in the legendary history of Freemasonry, to
teach the same sublime truth, the development
of which by a symbol evidently forms
the design of the Third or Master's Degree .
Camp . A portion of the paraphernalia
decorated with tents, flags, and pennons of a
Consistory of Sublime Princes of the Royal
Secret, or Thirty-second Degree of the Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rite . It constitutes
the tracing board, and is worn on the apron of
the degree . It is highly symbolic, and represents
an imaginary Masonic camp . Its symbolism
is altogether esoteric .
Campe, Joachim Heinrich. A Doctor
of Theology, and Director of Schools in Dessau
and Hamburg, who was born in 1740