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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 3 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
The financial statement of affairs betokens a favorable aspect—and the Secretariat is in a general course of improvement . The Provinces are , under all circumstances , in a very fair state ; a gentle sprinkling of Provincial Grand Masters
, would prove refreshing in districts where due authority is wanting , while such appointments would greatly relieve the Grand Master . We have not heard much of the effects of the regulations of the Grand Registrar , under whom it was stated that Provinces without Grand Masters were to be placed .
COMMITTEE OF LAWS . —Five Brethren are appointed by the Grand Master to investigate the Constitutions , and to report to the Grand Lodge . It is singular that all the selected are lawyers , ( Grand Officers ) , and no doubt eminent as such , and qualified to investigate and report . But why all lawyers ?
FREEMASONRY IN GENERAL . —The reports from Scotland , Ireland , and from Foreign parts , will be perused with unusual interest . THE SCHOOLS are in a very satisfactory state ; their festivals have terminated greatly to the honour of their supporters .
THE ASYLUM has , although but of new birth , proved to be of Herculean strength , and has fairly strangled all prejudice . Its festival has come off with a splendid collection , and with a credit that redounds to the honour and generosity of those who aided in the spirited effort . The excellent chairman of the day , Brother Rowland
Gardiner Alston , the Deputy Provincial Grand Master for Essex , felt as a young , generous , and ardent mind , that he was entrusted with a high and dignified office , —that the confidence of one numerous class of the Masonic community , and the tearful hopes of another , were committed to his guidance and guardianship for the dayon whichof all
, , others , that confidence and those hopes were to be gratified and realized . Brother Alston blenched not at the task , but delivered himself with ease , judgement , and with such power as in a measure greatly to neutralize the effect which contradictory circumstances had occasioned . The result must
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
The financial statement of affairs betokens a favorable aspect—and the Secretariat is in a general course of improvement . The Provinces are , under all circumstances , in a very fair state ; a gentle sprinkling of Provincial Grand Masters
, would prove refreshing in districts where due authority is wanting , while such appointments would greatly relieve the Grand Master . We have not heard much of the effects of the regulations of the Grand Registrar , under whom it was stated that Provinces without Grand Masters were to be placed .
COMMITTEE OF LAWS . —Five Brethren are appointed by the Grand Master to investigate the Constitutions , and to report to the Grand Lodge . It is singular that all the selected are lawyers , ( Grand Officers ) , and no doubt eminent as such , and qualified to investigate and report . But why all lawyers ?
FREEMASONRY IN GENERAL . —The reports from Scotland , Ireland , and from Foreign parts , will be perused with unusual interest . THE SCHOOLS are in a very satisfactory state ; their festivals have terminated greatly to the honour of their supporters .
THE ASYLUM has , although but of new birth , proved to be of Herculean strength , and has fairly strangled all prejudice . Its festival has come off with a splendid collection , and with a credit that redounds to the honour and generosity of those who aided in the spirited effort . The excellent chairman of the day , Brother Rowland
Gardiner Alston , the Deputy Provincial Grand Master for Essex , felt as a young , generous , and ardent mind , that he was entrusted with a high and dignified office , —that the confidence of one numerous class of the Masonic community , and the tearful hopes of another , were committed to his guidance and guardianship for the dayon whichof all
, , others , that confidence and those hopes were to be gratified and realized . Brother Alston blenched not at the task , but delivered himself with ease , judgement , and with such power as in a measure greatly to neutralize the effect which contradictory circumstances had occasioned . The result must