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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 4 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
will be enabled to perceive and to understand . But if this natural and goodly view is obscured by placing men in a false position—if they are to be taught that no good can come from themselves , and that all they have to do with the co-existent and co-ordinate grandeur of moral opinion , is but
to follow a custom , or to observe a law , to the one of which they have been no part y in the practice , and , in the second , to what they have been no party in the framing—and if when in the awakening mind there shall dawn a wish to improve even what is good , by a wholesome examination into
its excellence , and to reject what may be of the lesser value , what must result ? why , that mental cultivation and moral improvement will of themselves take their natural lead , and burst forth with all the splendour of re-animated vigour ; and so far from our Order sustaining an injury thereby , it will
hold its firmer tenure upon the fidelity of mankind , by the renewed impulse which it will derive b y its moral greatness . It is to be hoped that no endangerment of this sublime truth shall be permitted by the faithless importunacy of any who , thinking merely for themselves , may be unmindful of the good of a community .
Freemasonry NEVER , in its most halcyon clays , was in such a state of moral influence as now , and , therefore , never required greater caution in thc examination and ¦ protection of its landmarks .
IN LONDON , —The last quarter presents a record of the most gratifying results . The Grand Festival , at which our illustrious Grand Master presided , was attended by the greatest concourse of Masons ever assembled in their Hall , to greet upon the conclusion of his twenty-fifth year of service
to the principles , and of protection to the Order of Freemasonry , the presence of a Prince and a Brotherwhose conduct for such a period can hardly be sufficiently
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
will be enabled to perceive and to understand . But if this natural and goodly view is obscured by placing men in a false position—if they are to be taught that no good can come from themselves , and that all they have to do with the co-existent and co-ordinate grandeur of moral opinion , is but
to follow a custom , or to observe a law , to the one of which they have been no part y in the practice , and , in the second , to what they have been no party in the framing—and if when in the awakening mind there shall dawn a wish to improve even what is good , by a wholesome examination into
its excellence , and to reject what may be of the lesser value , what must result ? why , that mental cultivation and moral improvement will of themselves take their natural lead , and burst forth with all the splendour of re-animated vigour ; and so far from our Order sustaining an injury thereby , it will
hold its firmer tenure upon the fidelity of mankind , by the renewed impulse which it will derive b y its moral greatness . It is to be hoped that no endangerment of this sublime truth shall be permitted by the faithless importunacy of any who , thinking merely for themselves , may be unmindful of the good of a community .
Freemasonry NEVER , in its most halcyon clays , was in such a state of moral influence as now , and , therefore , never required greater caution in thc examination and ¦ protection of its landmarks .
IN LONDON , —The last quarter presents a record of the most gratifying results . The Grand Festival , at which our illustrious Grand Master presided , was attended by the greatest concourse of Masons ever assembled in their Hall , to greet upon the conclusion of his twenty-fifth year of service
to the principles , and of protection to the Order of Freemasonry , the presence of a Prince and a Brotherwhose conduct for such a period can hardly be sufficiently