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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 2 of 10 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
therewith . The Brethren individually derive a great benefit from the existence of this periodical , because a perusal of its varied ' contents will add to their stock of useful information on the subject of Freemasonry . The Lodges reap considerable advantage from it , because they thus become acquainted with each other ' s proceedings , and are enabled practically to apply that sagacious admonition which is annually addressed to the Wardens at their installation . "That which you have seen
praiseworthy in others , it is expected you will carefully imitate ; and what in them may have appeared defective , you will in yourselves amend . " The Charities will benefit from its continuance , not only because it is their consistent and untiring advocate amongst the Brethren , but because it produces conviction in the mincls of the uninitiated ; which , being followed by initiation , causes the funds to be increased by an augmented number of subscribing Brethren , and produces a feeling
in their behalf which cannot fail to operate beneficially . And the Grand Lodge must be desirous of continuing this useful periodical , inasmuch as it is the parent and protector of the institution , and consequently rejoices when it beholds its children directed into the way of truth . There are many other reasons why the existence of the" Freemasons' Quarterly Review " ought to be preserved ; but the above will be sufficient to convince you , that—loving Masonry on its own merits , as I do—I should consider it an irremediable misfortune if it were suffered to become extinct . "
Bno . EDWARD RALFISII MORAN . — " I read with much sorrow ancl deep-felt regret the announcement in your last Number that there was a probability of your ceasing from your valuable and instructive labours in the " Freemason ' s Quarterly Review . " When you started your periodical some ten years since , its first Number came into my hands in my critic ' s po ' sition as a pronouncer of book-opinions for a daily paper . I had then seceded from Masonry for some years , and
chiefly because of the too evident departure from tbe light of the ruling powers , the absurdity of the command that leaden darkness should cover its benevolent ancl holy intentions . Tbe perusal of that first Number awakened in me the dormant hope that good miyht be found in its ceremonials , and benevolent utility in its doctrines . Nor was I mistaken , when , yielding to its influence upon me , I rejoined the Craft . 1 haveduring the interval which has elapsedwitnessed much , I admit
, , , that had better not have been—all uncharitableness when it was least to he expected , and suspicion of motives on the part of those whose own would have borne no scrutiny . In these remarks I neither war with , nor allude to tbe dead—death has , as it ought always to do , " killed our enmity . " I know that in the minds of many , who , like myself , smile at all traditionary lore , your successive numbers kindled up the desire and the hope to accomplish for our mysterious body , through its
symbolical apparatus , some of the good which the Craft declare to be its aim , as it can be its sole sustaining object . Although you have not heen able to accomplish all that your original intention had in contemplation , still , Brother of the " Freemasons' Quarterly Review , " believe me you have done much . You have given the electric spark to that universal chain of Masonry whose links encompass the globe , and make us , Christian , Jew , Mabomedan , and Hindoo , brothers of one faith and
children of one Great Father . Let me implore you , then , to re-consider your avowed intention . Your departure from the sphere of periodical literature will be , I fear , to the Craft what the extinction of the great
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
therewith . The Brethren individually derive a great benefit from the existence of this periodical , because a perusal of its varied ' contents will add to their stock of useful information on the subject of Freemasonry . The Lodges reap considerable advantage from it , because they thus become acquainted with each other ' s proceedings , and are enabled practically to apply that sagacious admonition which is annually addressed to the Wardens at their installation . "That which you have seen
praiseworthy in others , it is expected you will carefully imitate ; and what in them may have appeared defective , you will in yourselves amend . " The Charities will benefit from its continuance , not only because it is their consistent and untiring advocate amongst the Brethren , but because it produces conviction in the mincls of the uninitiated ; which , being followed by initiation , causes the funds to be increased by an augmented number of subscribing Brethren , and produces a feeling
in their behalf which cannot fail to operate beneficially . And the Grand Lodge must be desirous of continuing this useful periodical , inasmuch as it is the parent and protector of the institution , and consequently rejoices when it beholds its children directed into the way of truth . There are many other reasons why the existence of the" Freemasons' Quarterly Review " ought to be preserved ; but the above will be sufficient to convince you , that—loving Masonry on its own merits , as I do—I should consider it an irremediable misfortune if it were suffered to become extinct . "
Bno . EDWARD RALFISII MORAN . — " I read with much sorrow ancl deep-felt regret the announcement in your last Number that there was a probability of your ceasing from your valuable and instructive labours in the " Freemason ' s Quarterly Review . " When you started your periodical some ten years since , its first Number came into my hands in my critic ' s po ' sition as a pronouncer of book-opinions for a daily paper . I had then seceded from Masonry for some years , and
chiefly because of the too evident departure from tbe light of the ruling powers , the absurdity of the command that leaden darkness should cover its benevolent ancl holy intentions . Tbe perusal of that first Number awakened in me the dormant hope that good miyht be found in its ceremonials , and benevolent utility in its doctrines . Nor was I mistaken , when , yielding to its influence upon me , I rejoined the Craft . 1 haveduring the interval which has elapsedwitnessed much , I admit
, , , that had better not have been—all uncharitableness when it was least to he expected , and suspicion of motives on the part of those whose own would have borne no scrutiny . In these remarks I neither war with , nor allude to tbe dead—death has , as it ought always to do , " killed our enmity . " I know that in the minds of many , who , like myself , smile at all traditionary lore , your successive numbers kindled up the desire and the hope to accomplish for our mysterious body , through its
symbolical apparatus , some of the good which the Craft declare to be its aim , as it can be its sole sustaining object . Although you have not heen able to accomplish all that your original intention had in contemplation , still , Brother of the " Freemasons' Quarterly Review , " believe me you have done much . You have given the electric spark to that universal chain of Masonry whose links encompass the globe , and make us , Christian , Jew , Mabomedan , and Hindoo , brothers of one faith and
children of one Great Father . Let me implore you , then , to re-consider your avowed intention . Your departure from the sphere of periodical literature will be , I fear , to the Craft what the extinction of the great