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NY Times article from 1912
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LONDON, Sept. 14,—The scheme of the Freemasons to rebuild the Temple of Solomon at Jerusalem has aroused much sentimental interest in Jewish quarters here, and much doubt is expressed as to whether the project will ever be realized.
Some two years ago it was denounced that Chester had decided to form a lodge of research to meet at Jerusalem and to be known as the Lodge of King Solomon’s Temple. Its members were to be drawn from all parts of the world. but in viewof the unsettled state of affairs then prevailing in the Turkish Empire the lodge was consecrated in the Province of Ches
ter, and met under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of England.
At any time an announcement such as this could not have failed from its very character to arouse the deepest interest throughout Jewry, whether members of the craft or not, but coming as it has within hail of the solemn New Year, when the thoughts of the Jewish people naturally revert to the past history of their nation, it has struck afar deeper note
than it might otherwise have done.
As to the intended uses of the projected temple, details are necessarily incomplete, but however generous the financial support that has been placed at the disposal of the promoters of the scheme, however skilled the artificers, it will be difficult to convince the Jew that even modern
arts and crafts can reproduce the stateliness and the splendor of the original temple, a splendor that is considered by some to have been exaggerated.
The scheme appears in one respect to anticipate the yearnings of the pious Jew, who in his devotions prays daily for the restoration of Jerusalem, and incidentally the rebuilding of the temple.
“O dwell in the midst of Thy City of Jerusalem. as Thou hast spoken, and
speedily establish the Throne of Davidtherein. O build it speedily in our days astructure of everlasting frame.”
https://www.europeanfreedom.com/2019/02/12/solomons-temple-scheme-of-freemasons-and-opinion-of-jews-on-rebuiiding-new-york-times-1912/