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To The Editor.
likely to flourish as in the one which you have thought it right to speak of with so much disparagement . You are pleased to say that " it is a matter of regret that Cambridge is sadly in the rear . " May I be allowed to ask in what respect ? Will you have the goodness to point out our errors , that we may , in your own emphatic language , " awake and arise ? " Are the duties of the constituent members of our different Lodges neglected ? Have you ever visited them ? And if you havehave
, you never borne testimony , to what you might have been pleased to say , the very excellent manner in which every department is fulfilled ? We have a most excellent , indefatigable , and an attentive acting Provincial Grand Master ; courteous in manners , affable in conduct , and most anxiously desirous to see Masonry flourish under his auspices . We ourselves have repeatedly intimated our wishes and desires , that some greater impulse should be given to the wheels of Masonry in the provinces under his
jurisdiction ; but in this respect is he not , to a great extent , all but helpless ? The authority and the power which devolves upon the acting Provincial Grand Master is not equal to that which belongs to the Provincial Grand Master himself . We cannot hold Provincial JLodges ( I believe ) under his sign manual alone . We have forborne to petition His Royal Highness the Grand Master for a Prov . Grand Master , out of respect for the kindattentiveand considerate behaviour towards us of the acting
, , Prov . Grand Master himself ; but I firmly believe that he would willingly continue to lend us the aid of his valuable assistance , if His Royal Highness the Grand Master ivould nominate some nobleman ( in our immediate vicinity , or one of those who have received the first impress amongst us ) to fill that honourable and distinguished post ; and I would
respectfully call to the notice of His Royal Highness , amongst other most distinguished Brethren , Brother the Earl of Sandwich , of Hinchinbrook , near Huntingdon ; Brother the Lord Viscount Milton , of Milton , near Peterborough , who have property in tbe neighbourhood . Brother the Lord Walpole , and Brother Lord John Beresford , and our county members , Mr . R . Greaves Townley , of Fulbourn , or Captain R . J . Eaton , of Stetchworth ; to all of whom I would respectfully desire and recommend to their especial noticethe truly honourable and magnanimous
, conduct of such noblemen as tbe Marquis of Salisbury , the Earl of Durham , Lord Monson , and many other distinguished noblemen and gentlemen , members of the Fraternity , who , by their zeal in the pursuit of Masonry , reflect honour upon themselves , and give great and distinguished efficacy to those doctrines and tenets which it is the peculiar advantage of a good Freemason to inculcate . For us , my dear sir and Brotherwho are filling a more humble station in the Orderanxious as
, , we may be , and no doubt are , to promote , to the utmost of our power , the moral and philosophical advantages of Freemasonry , it is our business only , at least it is all that we can do , to keep the embers burning ; whilst with those in a more exalted sphere rests the power to add fuel to the flame , and to strengthen and extend , by their patronage and example , those moral influences which must necessarily result to all who follow in the Masonic wakewith the view to improve their intellectual and
, reasoning powers . It has been our anxious wish to see Freemasonry advancing still more , especially in this county . There has been recently a new Lodge constituted in this town , which , of course , adds one more to the number already existing . We have been anxious that the annual Grand Lodges should be held under the authority of the acting Provincial Grand Master for the counties of Cambridge , Huntingdon , and
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To The Editor.
likely to flourish as in the one which you have thought it right to speak of with so much disparagement . You are pleased to say that " it is a matter of regret that Cambridge is sadly in the rear . " May I be allowed to ask in what respect ? Will you have the goodness to point out our errors , that we may , in your own emphatic language , " awake and arise ? " Are the duties of the constituent members of our different Lodges neglected ? Have you ever visited them ? And if you havehave
, you never borne testimony , to what you might have been pleased to say , the very excellent manner in which every department is fulfilled ? We have a most excellent , indefatigable , and an attentive acting Provincial Grand Master ; courteous in manners , affable in conduct , and most anxiously desirous to see Masonry flourish under his auspices . We ourselves have repeatedly intimated our wishes and desires , that some greater impulse should be given to the wheels of Masonry in the provinces under his
jurisdiction ; but in this respect is he not , to a great extent , all but helpless ? The authority and the power which devolves upon the acting Provincial Grand Master is not equal to that which belongs to the Provincial Grand Master himself . We cannot hold Provincial JLodges ( I believe ) under his sign manual alone . We have forborne to petition His Royal Highness the Grand Master for a Prov . Grand Master , out of respect for the kindattentiveand considerate behaviour towards us of the acting
, , Prov . Grand Master himself ; but I firmly believe that he would willingly continue to lend us the aid of his valuable assistance , if His Royal Highness the Grand Master ivould nominate some nobleman ( in our immediate vicinity , or one of those who have received the first impress amongst us ) to fill that honourable and distinguished post ; and I would
respectfully call to the notice of His Royal Highness , amongst other most distinguished Brethren , Brother the Earl of Sandwich , of Hinchinbrook , near Huntingdon ; Brother the Lord Viscount Milton , of Milton , near Peterborough , who have property in tbe neighbourhood . Brother the Lord Walpole , and Brother Lord John Beresford , and our county members , Mr . R . Greaves Townley , of Fulbourn , or Captain R . J . Eaton , of Stetchworth ; to all of whom I would respectfully desire and recommend to their especial noticethe truly honourable and magnanimous
, conduct of such noblemen as tbe Marquis of Salisbury , the Earl of Durham , Lord Monson , and many other distinguished noblemen and gentlemen , members of the Fraternity , who , by their zeal in the pursuit of Masonry , reflect honour upon themselves , and give great and distinguished efficacy to those doctrines and tenets which it is the peculiar advantage of a good Freemason to inculcate . For us , my dear sir and Brotherwho are filling a more humble station in the Orderanxious as
, , we may be , and no doubt are , to promote , to the utmost of our power , the moral and philosophical advantages of Freemasonry , it is our business only , at least it is all that we can do , to keep the embers burning ; whilst with those in a more exalted sphere rests the power to add fuel to the flame , and to strengthen and extend , by their patronage and example , those moral influences which must necessarily result to all who follow in the Masonic wakewith the view to improve their intellectual and
, reasoning powers . It has been our anxious wish to see Freemasonry advancing still more , especially in this county . There has been recently a new Lodge constituted in this town , which , of course , adds one more to the number already existing . We have been anxious that the annual Grand Lodges should be held under the authority of the acting Provincial Grand Master for the counties of Cambridge , Huntingdon , and