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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 9 of 10 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
These words are truthful . The late Earl of Durham was a nobleman b y nature , and wore gracefully the coronet his virtue won . The Festival in honour of Burns , was impressive and
unique ; the gathering of the shepherds fro , )) the " banks and braes , " and the tens of thousands of bonny lads and lassies who assembled to do honour to their native poet was most effective . The uncovering of the multitude as they passed in procession by the platform on which She three sons of Burns were seated had a thrilling effect . The music of
the p ipers and the bands , playing airs adapted to the poet ' s songs entered the heart , aucl while it enraptured the feeling , gave rise to a universal and grateful sentiment of cheerfulness—it was a burst of affection—a triumph of genius . The banquet business and ( he after-dinner speeches , however excellent , ivere as nothing in the balance . The after-meeting
in the Tarbolton Lodges was worth y the occasion . THE MASONIC JJ - . U ' S . —This class of our fraternity have sustained a very uncalled for attack on their privileges b y being prevented from entering the Masonic Temples of
Prussia and elsewhere . This violation of tlie Landmarks must be looked to ; and it will , or PUBLIC OPINION will judge severely on the case , and the sentence may well be dreaded . We have no fear for the Order , but we have no desire that it should be desecrated ; let us have our altars free , or in still greater secresy than now we may be
obliged to maintain their purity . In America the Lodges are unanimous in favour of their injured Brethren . It is the same in France , ancl we can state , without contradiction , that had not the two representatives of the Grand Lodges of Berlin and Hamburgh , to the Grand Lodge of England stated in the latter assembl y on the 4 th instant ( when the
attendance was unusually numerous ) , that they believed the impediments alluded to certainly were , or would be removed , the address of the Grand Lodge of England to the Prince of Prussia , on his visit to England , would not have been voted unanimously , if at all . We are glad it was moved ; and we look confidently to a full verification of what was averred .
THE MASONIC WIDOWS' FUND still remains an affair of hope ; the debate on the report of the Board of General Purposes having retarded tho time until it was too late for new motions , and this after twelve months of patient endurance-. VOL . II . . 11 M
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
These words are truthful . The late Earl of Durham was a nobleman b y nature , and wore gracefully the coronet his virtue won . The Festival in honour of Burns , was impressive and
unique ; the gathering of the shepherds fro , )) the " banks and braes , " and the tens of thousands of bonny lads and lassies who assembled to do honour to their native poet was most effective . The uncovering of the multitude as they passed in procession by the platform on which She three sons of Burns were seated had a thrilling effect . The music of
the p ipers and the bands , playing airs adapted to the poet ' s songs entered the heart , aucl while it enraptured the feeling , gave rise to a universal and grateful sentiment of cheerfulness—it was a burst of affection—a triumph of genius . The banquet business and ( he after-dinner speeches , however excellent , ivere as nothing in the balance . The after-meeting
in the Tarbolton Lodges was worth y the occasion . THE MASONIC JJ - . U ' S . —This class of our fraternity have sustained a very uncalled for attack on their privileges b y being prevented from entering the Masonic Temples of
Prussia and elsewhere . This violation of tlie Landmarks must be looked to ; and it will , or PUBLIC OPINION will judge severely on the case , and the sentence may well be dreaded . We have no fear for the Order , but we have no desire that it should be desecrated ; let us have our altars free , or in still greater secresy than now we may be
obliged to maintain their purity . In America the Lodges are unanimous in favour of their injured Brethren . It is the same in France , ancl we can state , without contradiction , that had not the two representatives of the Grand Lodges of Berlin and Hamburgh , to the Grand Lodge of England stated in the latter assembl y on the 4 th instant ( when the
attendance was unusually numerous ) , that they believed the impediments alluded to certainly were , or would be removed , the address of the Grand Lodge of England to the Prince of Prussia , on his visit to England , would not have been voted unanimously , if at all . We are glad it was moved ; and we look confidently to a full verification of what was averred .
THE MASONIC WIDOWS' FUND still remains an affair of hope ; the debate on the report of the Board of General Purposes having retarded tho time until it was too late for new motions , and this after twelve months of patient endurance-. VOL . II . . 11 M