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Article THE FREEMASONRY QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 5 of 8 →
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The Freemasonry Quarterly Review.
have not the power to expand the tail in the rays of the sun -with the gracefulness of that bird . Turn we now to those Brethren who boldly , fearlessly , and successfully vindicated the glorious principles of Freemasonry by bringing to the rescue honourable and truthful statements in contradiction of every argument brought against our reports—annihilating , with fearful
demolition , the frothy verbiage , the pusillanimous persiflage , and the fawning sycophancy of those who would shield themselves under the words of a law the spirit of which they could neither understand nor explain . Thanks to those Brethren , not for ourselves—for we have no fearbut for the great moral principle involved in the debate , which was made to shine forth in happy contrast with the degrading effrontery of
ignorance . AVe and our predecessors have been nearly thirteen years before the Masonic public , and are proud of our position . AVe know we are needed by the Craft , and shall not shrink from our duty ; and as one proof of the many of our usefulness , we extract the following from our number for June , 184 G : — " A Masonic Anecdote , founded on factand conveying a most
in-, structive moral . —Some five years ago a certain Lodge in a certain province received a circular from head quarters denouncing the Freemasons ' Quarterly Review , and prohibiting its perusal . The mandate was religiously obeyed . That Lodge has been gradually declining , in a great measure from the want of some intellectual impetus . Two other Lodges in the immediate neighbourhood have regularly subscribed to , and read the excommunicated and inhibited periodical organ of Masonic
intelligence . Those two Lodges are in a particularly active and thriving condition . The inference may fairly be drawn in favour of a publication that visibly unites a widely scattered host by one wide channel of useful and interesting information , so peculiarly necessary to the Fraternity and so well adapted for the library of every Lodge . " A PROVINCIAL GRAND OFFICER . "
Again and again have we urged on the authorities to give reports of the jn-oceedings of Grand Lodge , instead of the garbled and false statements made in the circulars issued when it pleases the Grand Secretary so to do—statements which have sometimes been withheld for nearly two years , and at other times issued with ludicrous haste when they were calculated to affect private character ! It is of no use now to conceal
facts—all this we can prove , and will illustrate these proofs to others , when properly called on so to do . And now that we have prevailed on the Grand Master to pay back one small instalment of a great debt due to the English Craft , by a promise to publish the proceedings of Grand Lodge , we sincerely thank him for that promise , and trust he will redeem it , and without delay , * so that we
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The Freemasonry Quarterly Review.
have not the power to expand the tail in the rays of the sun -with the gracefulness of that bird . Turn we now to those Brethren who boldly , fearlessly , and successfully vindicated the glorious principles of Freemasonry by bringing to the rescue honourable and truthful statements in contradiction of every argument brought against our reports—annihilating , with fearful
demolition , the frothy verbiage , the pusillanimous persiflage , and the fawning sycophancy of those who would shield themselves under the words of a law the spirit of which they could neither understand nor explain . Thanks to those Brethren , not for ourselves—for we have no fearbut for the great moral principle involved in the debate , which was made to shine forth in happy contrast with the degrading effrontery of
ignorance . AVe and our predecessors have been nearly thirteen years before the Masonic public , and are proud of our position . AVe know we are needed by the Craft , and shall not shrink from our duty ; and as one proof of the many of our usefulness , we extract the following from our number for June , 184 G : — " A Masonic Anecdote , founded on factand conveying a most
in-, structive moral . —Some five years ago a certain Lodge in a certain province received a circular from head quarters denouncing the Freemasons ' Quarterly Review , and prohibiting its perusal . The mandate was religiously obeyed . That Lodge has been gradually declining , in a great measure from the want of some intellectual impetus . Two other Lodges in the immediate neighbourhood have regularly subscribed to , and read the excommunicated and inhibited periodical organ of Masonic
intelligence . Those two Lodges are in a particularly active and thriving condition . The inference may fairly be drawn in favour of a publication that visibly unites a widely scattered host by one wide channel of useful and interesting information , so peculiarly necessary to the Fraternity and so well adapted for the library of every Lodge . " A PROVINCIAL GRAND OFFICER . "
Again and again have we urged on the authorities to give reports of the jn-oceedings of Grand Lodge , instead of the garbled and false statements made in the circulars issued when it pleases the Grand Secretary so to do—statements which have sometimes been withheld for nearly two years , and at other times issued with ludicrous haste when they were calculated to affect private character ! It is of no use now to conceal
facts—all this we can prove , and will illustrate these proofs to others , when properly called on so to do . And now that we have prevailed on the Grand Master to pay back one small instalment of a great debt due to the English Craft , by a promise to publish the proceedings of Grand Lodge , we sincerely thank him for that promise , and trust he will redeem it , and without delay , * so that we