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A Country Rector's Easter Visit To His Rustic Parishioners.
through his steward . Such was the sincere feeling of support towards the Established Church . j ¥ ow that boon is withdrawn , and the incumbents are obliged to collect their own tithes as heretofore , at their own expense , and the nullifying of the principle of the Tithe Act . On my entering the church , the congregation rose in the most respectful manner . To a townsman such good manners is electrifying . I wonder what town congregation would rise upon their rector ' s
entrance ! I should be sorry to draw any odious comparison with some I have in my mind ' s eye at this moment . Their attention during service was most devout , and their example at the communion of the Lord ' s Supper most worthy of imitation . Fifty regular communicants out of a rural scattered population of 280 souls . But this is an agricultural district—merely a parcel of boors . In a manufacturing district , where wealth is amassed , newspapers , periodicals , and novel , , & c . are read
, fine clothes array the person , and church is tolerably well filled , some hundreds in a congregation , you may get together twenty or thirty communicants . 0 proh pudor ! I could have fain stayed where I was on the spot . The affection , the honesty , the plain attachment of my flock to their church and its admirable services , and their heartfelt expressed regrets that I could not remain among them , fairly overcame my nerves ; and I wept at the idea of quitting such a scene of happiness , for an abode among the votaries of vice , libertinism , and infidelity , with which all large masses of population are deluged in crowded cities .
On The Knowledge Of Freemasonry By The Druids.
ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF FREEMASONRY BY THE DRUIDS .
DV BltO . C GOODWYN , 327-Tun introduction into the early history of Masonry in Great Britain , of an account of the Druids , naturally tends to induce something like an impression that Freemasonry was known to them ; and that some of their ceremonials were Masonic , and this too , at a period , according to Andersonmany centuries anterior to the present era ; and although
, Preston , in his Illustrations of the History of Freemasonry in Great Britain , in some degree qualifies the time of its introduction into these Isles , yet lie tends to confirm the impression that it existed amongst the Druids at a period long prior to the invasion of the Romans under Ciesar . I have , from my first perusal of Preston , felt a difficulty in reconciling the titles of Druid and Freemasonas associated with each other ; and a
, more intimate knowledge of the precepts of Freemasonry has added so much to that difficulty , that I now find myself at a perfect loss to imagine in what the " convincing proofs that the SCIENCE of Masonry was not unknown even in the rude ages of Druidism" * consist , or where those proofs are to be found . The similarity of many of the ceremonies practised by Freemasons in the present day to those used by the Druids , mav possibly have induced
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A Country Rector's Easter Visit To His Rustic Parishioners.
through his steward . Such was the sincere feeling of support towards the Established Church . j ¥ ow that boon is withdrawn , and the incumbents are obliged to collect their own tithes as heretofore , at their own expense , and the nullifying of the principle of the Tithe Act . On my entering the church , the congregation rose in the most respectful manner . To a townsman such good manners is electrifying . I wonder what town congregation would rise upon their rector ' s
entrance ! I should be sorry to draw any odious comparison with some I have in my mind ' s eye at this moment . Their attention during service was most devout , and their example at the communion of the Lord ' s Supper most worthy of imitation . Fifty regular communicants out of a rural scattered population of 280 souls . But this is an agricultural district—merely a parcel of boors . In a manufacturing district , where wealth is amassed , newspapers , periodicals , and novel , , & c . are read
, fine clothes array the person , and church is tolerably well filled , some hundreds in a congregation , you may get together twenty or thirty communicants . 0 proh pudor ! I could have fain stayed where I was on the spot . The affection , the honesty , the plain attachment of my flock to their church and its admirable services , and their heartfelt expressed regrets that I could not remain among them , fairly overcame my nerves ; and I wept at the idea of quitting such a scene of happiness , for an abode among the votaries of vice , libertinism , and infidelity , with which all large masses of population are deluged in crowded cities .
On The Knowledge Of Freemasonry By The Druids.
ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF FREEMASONRY BY THE DRUIDS .
DV BltO . C GOODWYN , 327-Tun introduction into the early history of Masonry in Great Britain , of an account of the Druids , naturally tends to induce something like an impression that Freemasonry was known to them ; and that some of their ceremonials were Masonic , and this too , at a period , according to Andersonmany centuries anterior to the present era ; and although
, Preston , in his Illustrations of the History of Freemasonry in Great Britain , in some degree qualifies the time of its introduction into these Isles , yet lie tends to confirm the impression that it existed amongst the Druids at a period long prior to the invasion of the Romans under Ciesar . I have , from my first perusal of Preston , felt a difficulty in reconciling the titles of Druid and Freemasonas associated with each other ; and a
, more intimate knowledge of the precepts of Freemasonry has added so much to that difficulty , that I now find myself at a perfect loss to imagine in what the " convincing proofs that the SCIENCE of Masonry was not unknown even in the rude ages of Druidism" * consist , or where those proofs are to be found . The similarity of many of the ceremonies practised by Freemasons in the present day to those used by the Druids , mav possibly have induced