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To The Printer Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
In short , my idea extends to the admitting every essay or treatise OH Freemasonry that can be collected ; as from the whole , though some maybe unpolished and some imperfect , your readers must necessarily gain information , and in many cases qualify themselves for administering instruction with increased effect to others . Always , however , remembering to-act under the fame prudence and caution which has hitherto marked
the progress of your publication . I should , perhaps , have left the foregoing advice to have been administered by others , if I had not found it within my own power to assist you by the free use of a collection of books , which are neither few nor ( as I have been told ) ill chosen . To these you shall at any time have access , on the very easy condition of using them with care , and returning them
with punctuality . You , no doubt , pursue such a plan with respect to the selection of matter , as to you seems most likely to please in general ; but I only suggest , as a hint either to be adopted or rejected , the assigning a greater number of pages monthly to Masonic articles . If it were not considered improper ( of which I will not presume to judge ) , it would certainly be of great service to your country readers particularly , if you could obtain permission of the Grand Lod ge to publish regularly , under the inspection of their respectable Secretary , the
proceedings of the Quarterly Communications and Committees of Charity , so far at least as they are not peculiar to our mysteries , but matters of general information . —This also . is only a hint . Before I conclude my letter , I cannot help pointing out to you what appears to me somewhat like an attempt at imposition on the patrons of the Free-masons' Magazine , surely inconsistent with the general tenor of conduct
your . Nay , be not startled , for it is plain that you have been misled by some other person , to publish in your last number " a Charge delivered b y Edward Cc / lis , in the Roman Eagle Lodge at Edinburgh , April 22 , _ 1793 . " Now , sir , this same Charge , it is true , has considerable merit in the matter of it , though not much in the manner , and is very properly admitted into your Magazine ; but wh y Mr . E . C . should have been uncandid
so as to have put his name ( or suffered it to have been put ) to an article , ofwhichheis not the author of a single line from beginning to end , is beyond my capacity to conceive . I am willing to hope that it has been so communicated to you without his knowled ge or intention . Be that as it may , I have now before me a book printed in London 1778 ; and another edition printed in Ireland 1783 , with the name of Derraott
"Laurence , D . 'G . M . [ of Ancient Masons ] , " as the author , in which every line of the above Charge is printed verbatim as a Lecture on Secrecy ; the title of the book is " AHIMAN REZON : " surel ** , sir , this is not " rendering unto Oesar the things which are Cesar ' s . " * ' ' I am , Sir , Your Friend and Brother , J .
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To The Printer Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
In short , my idea extends to the admitting every essay or treatise OH Freemasonry that can be collected ; as from the whole , though some maybe unpolished and some imperfect , your readers must necessarily gain information , and in many cases qualify themselves for administering instruction with increased effect to others . Always , however , remembering to-act under the fame prudence and caution which has hitherto marked
the progress of your publication . I should , perhaps , have left the foregoing advice to have been administered by others , if I had not found it within my own power to assist you by the free use of a collection of books , which are neither few nor ( as I have been told ) ill chosen . To these you shall at any time have access , on the very easy condition of using them with care , and returning them
with punctuality . You , no doubt , pursue such a plan with respect to the selection of matter , as to you seems most likely to please in general ; but I only suggest , as a hint either to be adopted or rejected , the assigning a greater number of pages monthly to Masonic articles . If it were not considered improper ( of which I will not presume to judge ) , it would certainly be of great service to your country readers particularly , if you could obtain permission of the Grand Lod ge to publish regularly , under the inspection of their respectable Secretary , the
proceedings of the Quarterly Communications and Committees of Charity , so far at least as they are not peculiar to our mysteries , but matters of general information . —This also . is only a hint . Before I conclude my letter , I cannot help pointing out to you what appears to me somewhat like an attempt at imposition on the patrons of the Free-masons' Magazine , surely inconsistent with the general tenor of conduct
your . Nay , be not startled , for it is plain that you have been misled by some other person , to publish in your last number " a Charge delivered b y Edward Cc / lis , in the Roman Eagle Lodge at Edinburgh , April 22 , _ 1793 . " Now , sir , this same Charge , it is true , has considerable merit in the matter of it , though not much in the manner , and is very properly admitted into your Magazine ; but wh y Mr . E . C . should have been uncandid
so as to have put his name ( or suffered it to have been put ) to an article , ofwhichheis not the author of a single line from beginning to end , is beyond my capacity to conceive . I am willing to hope that it has been so communicated to you without his knowled ge or intention . Be that as it may , I have now before me a book printed in London 1778 ; and another edition printed in Ireland 1783 , with the name of Derraott
"Laurence , D . 'G . M . [ of Ancient Masons ] , " as the author , in which every line of the above Charge is printed verbatim as a Lecture on Secrecy ; the title of the book is " AHIMAN REZON : " surel ** , sir , this is not " rendering unto Oesar the things which are Cesar ' s . " * ' ' I am , Sir , Your Friend and Brother , J .