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The Freemasons' Magazine: Or, General And Complete Library.
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE : OR , GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY .
FOR JULY , 1793 . An Ori g inal Letter from a Gentleman at PHILADELPHIA tolas Friend in GLASGOW , on tlie Subject of FREE MASONRY .
MY DEAR RESFECTED FRIEND , I WAS very happy in receiving your last some time sooner than I expected , as I had concluded the weather had . been such , since you left us , as must have rendered your voyage both tedious , and disagreeable ; but I was a good deal chagrinedto find that in
, place of giving me any account of the weather , your voyage or yourself ; you begin very abruptly to furnish me with a number . of objections against Freemasonry , and which you suppose to be unanswerable , and make no other apology for this , than , that 3 < -oii know I cannot be more agreeably employed than in defending my favorite institution . You inform me that though you have spent
all the time you had from your studies , since 3 ou arrived in Glasgow , in perusing every thing you could hear of on the subject of Masonry , ' yet nothing you have found either there , or at home , has given you the smallest satisfactory information on that subject . You conclude that the whole you have yet learned respecting it , amounts to no more than a number of unproven assertions , and
unfounded conjectures relative to it ' s antiquity , fcc . And that those very assertions and conjectures , appeared to you , to be only applicable to operative Masonry . You look on it to be but an insufficient proof of men being Freemasons , that they have built houses , pyramids , temples , towers , & c . nor do you think it at ail necessary in order to effect this . But setting it ' s antiquity aside , you tell me ypu .-p . ever yet have met with any book or person , that could
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Magazine: Or, General And Complete Library.
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE : OR , GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY .
FOR JULY , 1793 . An Ori g inal Letter from a Gentleman at PHILADELPHIA tolas Friend in GLASGOW , on tlie Subject of FREE MASONRY .
MY DEAR RESFECTED FRIEND , I WAS very happy in receiving your last some time sooner than I expected , as I had concluded the weather had . been such , since you left us , as must have rendered your voyage both tedious , and disagreeable ; but I was a good deal chagrinedto find that in
, place of giving me any account of the weather , your voyage or yourself ; you begin very abruptly to furnish me with a number . of objections against Freemasonry , and which you suppose to be unanswerable , and make no other apology for this , than , that 3 < -oii know I cannot be more agreeably employed than in defending my favorite institution . You inform me that though you have spent
all the time you had from your studies , since 3 ou arrived in Glasgow , in perusing every thing you could hear of on the subject of Masonry , ' yet nothing you have found either there , or at home , has given you the smallest satisfactory information on that subject . You conclude that the whole you have yet learned respecting it , amounts to no more than a number of unproven assertions , and
unfounded conjectures relative to it ' s antiquity , fcc . And that those very assertions and conjectures , appeared to you , to be only applicable to operative Masonry . You look on it to be but an insufficient proof of men being Freemasons , that they have built houses , pyramids , temples , towers , & c . nor do you think it at ail necessary in order to effect this . But setting it ' s antiquity aside , you tell me ypu .-p . ever yet have met with any book or person , that could