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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 3 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
As the only public organ of Masonry , we claim the privilege of offering , to the Masonic world , a general analysis of the life of the illustrious deceased . To have waited until our next period of publication , would have been unjust to the memory of the departed , as
betraying a necessity to think of , and examine into , many of those circumstances connected with the life of a Prince who was more socially linked with his countrymen than any other of his line , —who as a Mason , felt directed to " LOVE THE BROTHERHOOD , FEAR GOD , HONOR THE KING ;—as
Prince or Mason his acts were public , and required no laboured investigation to record . For the political extracts , we are of course indebted to the public press , which in this case has pretty generally
agreed on the , leading subjects ; and it must be gratifying to the honorable-minded of all parties to observe , in the contemplation of the transit from the palace to the tomb , how readily all difficulties arising from difference of opinion in other respects , liave yielded to the peaceful consideration
of the propriety of paying a merited tribute to departed worth . Among the noble-minded , the shady side of character can always be so gently noticed , as to display , with more truthful sincerity , its sunny opposite . To have won golden opinions from such authorities as " The Times" ancl
many of its contemporaries in the same line of politics , is sufficient praise . The honest record of that portion of the public press , with which the departed Prince was more particularly connected in politics , is but a just acknowledgment of his consistency .
As Freemasons , we are inhibited from entering into political observations ; for what we re-publish from authentic sources , as we deserve no praise , so we incur no responsibility . To have omitted this tribute of public testimony would not have been just . It is true that some portion of
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
As the only public organ of Masonry , we claim the privilege of offering , to the Masonic world , a general analysis of the life of the illustrious deceased . To have waited until our next period of publication , would have been unjust to the memory of the departed , as
betraying a necessity to think of , and examine into , many of those circumstances connected with the life of a Prince who was more socially linked with his countrymen than any other of his line , —who as a Mason , felt directed to " LOVE THE BROTHERHOOD , FEAR GOD , HONOR THE KING ;—as
Prince or Mason his acts were public , and required no laboured investigation to record . For the political extracts , we are of course indebted to the public press , which in this case has pretty generally
agreed on the , leading subjects ; and it must be gratifying to the honorable-minded of all parties to observe , in the contemplation of the transit from the palace to the tomb , how readily all difficulties arising from difference of opinion in other respects , liave yielded to the peaceful consideration
of the propriety of paying a merited tribute to departed worth . Among the noble-minded , the shady side of character can always be so gently noticed , as to display , with more truthful sincerity , its sunny opposite . To have won golden opinions from such authorities as " The Times" ancl
many of its contemporaries in the same line of politics , is sufficient praise . The honest record of that portion of the public press , with which the departed Prince was more particularly connected in politics , is but a just acknowledgment of his consistency .
As Freemasons , we are inhibited from entering into political observations ; for what we re-publish from authentic sources , as we deserve no praise , so we incur no responsibility . To have omitted this tribute of public testimony would not have been just . It is true that some portion of