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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY MAGAZINE AND REVIEW. ← Page 3 of 10 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
thought improper to interfere , whilst the authorities of the Order could have no wish to come into collision or contact with those architects and builders , corporations and committees , who care nothing for time honoured customs , provided they can only secure the fleeting patronage of
royalty to their undertakings , and anticipate the probabilities—thrown out in dim shadow—of baronetcy or knighthood in perspective . But the abstaining from protest in such cases has at length produced results , which are now beginning to be seen and felt in the conduct of Masons
themselves , as tending to the abrogation of the very principles , which they , as Craftsmen , are bound to maintain and observe . We know not whether Freemasons have been present , or have taken part in the ceremonies of placing first stones at the N . E . corners , or at any other parts of public buildings ;
the probabilities are that they have been so present , for we can scarcely suppose that amongst such gatherings as took place when the primary work of the Royal Exchange , for instance , was commenced , no member of the Order would have been found . If this were the case , most certainly
" Evil communications have corrupted good manners . " Time-honoured customs and ceremonies have been thus supplanted by a spurious imitation , and because royalty happened to be present to grace the pageant , the Order and its privileges—to which , and to which alone , every
country of the world is largely indebted for its stateliest piles—has been first pushed aside , then sneered at , and now positively insulted in the persons of members of its own Fraternity . No better proof can be offered of the injury , which such negligence has occasioned to the interests of the Craft , than the facts of
" That plain unvarnished tale " we will now unravel , relative to the commencement of the building of the new Girls' School .
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
thought improper to interfere , whilst the authorities of the Order could have no wish to come into collision or contact with those architects and builders , corporations and committees , who care nothing for time honoured customs , provided they can only secure the fleeting patronage of
royalty to their undertakings , and anticipate the probabilities—thrown out in dim shadow—of baronetcy or knighthood in perspective . But the abstaining from protest in such cases has at length produced results , which are now beginning to be seen and felt in the conduct of Masons
themselves , as tending to the abrogation of the very principles , which they , as Craftsmen , are bound to maintain and observe . We know not whether Freemasons have been present , or have taken part in the ceremonies of placing first stones at the N . E . corners , or at any other parts of public buildings ;
the probabilities are that they have been so present , for we can scarcely suppose that amongst such gatherings as took place when the primary work of the Royal Exchange , for instance , was commenced , no member of the Order would have been found . If this were the case , most certainly
" Evil communications have corrupted good manners . " Time-honoured customs and ceremonies have been thus supplanted by a spurious imitation , and because royalty happened to be present to grace the pageant , the Order and its privileges—to which , and to which alone , every
country of the world is largely indebted for its stateliest piles—has been first pushed aside , then sneered at , and now positively insulted in the persons of members of its own Fraternity . No better proof can be offered of the injury , which such negligence has occasioned to the interests of the Craft , than the facts of
" That plain unvarnished tale " we will now unravel , relative to the commencement of the building of the new Girls' School .