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world , a strong attachment to ancient customs , and the Aveight of tyrannical power , bears down the active genius of Freemasonry ; "Tho' Masons first in Asia saw tlie light—Here Masons first their secrets did impart , And to mankind revealed their secret art ;" yet it has broken through the trammels which would otherwise
confine its influence , and Lodges are spread throughout its dominions . In Africa the mind seems so much degraded below its natural state that Masonry has made but slow progress in that vast country . In 1736 , I believe , the first British Constitution was granted there ; and at the Cape of Good Hope , Madagascar , and various other places it flourishes . Americawhether considered as
, an immense continent , inhabited b y an endless variety of different people , or as a country intimately connected with our happy isle by the ties of commerce , government , and friendship , has not been anyways backward in establishing and promoting Freemasonry , as
the great number of its Lodges testify . Thus far Masonry has withstood the ravages of the times unshaken , unpolluted , and without the least variation in its secrets , customs , and usages ; Avhen even the tombs and monuments , & c , which should perpetuate our memories are crumbled into dust . Kingdoms , and provinces , and towns- and cities , have they not had their periods ? and when that which cemented and put them together have performed their several
revolutions , they fall back . AVhere are Troy , Nineveh , Babylon , & c . ? The fairest toAA'ns that ever the sun rose upon are no more ; the names only are left , and in length of time may be in measure forgotten ; but Masonry ( dating from time immemorial ) , still remains , and appears destined to survive and flourish until time is no more . Its institutions are most extensiveits universality unbounded ; it
, expands itself to all of every party , of every people ;—preserves good fellowship , on the broad basis of good manners and good morals . Men of all persuasions may here unite , hold intercourse and friendship , assist and be assisted by each other . The epithet Brother , like music , has a charm to soothe the savage breast .
" Christians , and Jews , and Turks , and Pagans stand One blended throng , one undistinguished band . " At an early hour the party retired , with expressions of delight at having spent one of the most agreeable festivals of tbe Craft . Everything Avas conducted with the strictest conformity to ancient order . DERBYSHIRE .
GLOSSOP . —Province of Derbyshire . —Sis Grace the Dulce of Devonshire , K . Q ., Provincial Grand Master . —On Thursday , the Sth of June , the New Lodge recently established in this toAvn , called the Devonshire Lodge , No . 908 , was consecrated in ancient and solemn form by the R . W . Dep . Acting G . M . C . R . Colvile , M . P ., and the Officers of the Prov . G . L . of Derbyshire , in the presence of a large number of visiting Brethren from Cheshire , Lancashire , Yorkshire , A'OL . II . 2 O
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Provincial.
world , a strong attachment to ancient customs , and the Aveight of tyrannical power , bears down the active genius of Freemasonry ; "Tho' Masons first in Asia saw tlie light—Here Masons first their secrets did impart , And to mankind revealed their secret art ;" yet it has broken through the trammels which would otherwise
confine its influence , and Lodges are spread throughout its dominions . In Africa the mind seems so much degraded below its natural state that Masonry has made but slow progress in that vast country . In 1736 , I believe , the first British Constitution was granted there ; and at the Cape of Good Hope , Madagascar , and various other places it flourishes . Americawhether considered as
, an immense continent , inhabited b y an endless variety of different people , or as a country intimately connected with our happy isle by the ties of commerce , government , and friendship , has not been anyways backward in establishing and promoting Freemasonry , as
the great number of its Lodges testify . Thus far Masonry has withstood the ravages of the times unshaken , unpolluted , and without the least variation in its secrets , customs , and usages ; Avhen even the tombs and monuments , & c , which should perpetuate our memories are crumbled into dust . Kingdoms , and provinces , and towns- and cities , have they not had their periods ? and when that which cemented and put them together have performed their several
revolutions , they fall back . AVhere are Troy , Nineveh , Babylon , & c . ? The fairest toAA'ns that ever the sun rose upon are no more ; the names only are left , and in length of time may be in measure forgotten ; but Masonry ( dating from time immemorial ) , still remains , and appears destined to survive and flourish until time is no more . Its institutions are most extensiveits universality unbounded ; it
, expands itself to all of every party , of every people ;—preserves good fellowship , on the broad basis of good manners and good morals . Men of all persuasions may here unite , hold intercourse and friendship , assist and be assisted by each other . The epithet Brother , like music , has a charm to soothe the savage breast .
" Christians , and Jews , and Turks , and Pagans stand One blended throng , one undistinguished band . " At an early hour the party retired , with expressions of delight at having spent one of the most agreeable festivals of tbe Craft . Everything Avas conducted with the strictest conformity to ancient order . DERBYSHIRE .
GLOSSOP . —Province of Derbyshire . —Sis Grace the Dulce of Devonshire , K . Q ., Provincial Grand Master . —On Thursday , the Sth of June , the New Lodge recently established in this toAvn , called the Devonshire Lodge , No . 908 , was consecrated in ancient and solemn form by the R . W . Dep . Acting G . M . C . R . Colvile , M . P ., and the Officers of the Prov . G . L . of Derbyshire , in the presence of a large number of visiting Brethren from Cheshire , Lancashire , Yorkshire , A'OL . II . 2 O