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The Charities.
tion , on his way to Calcutta , became the guest of the Prov . Grand Mastei of Bombay , Dr . Burnes , under the Grand Lodge of Scotland , who associated upwards of one hundred Masons to greet Dr . Grant . Our report , although but an outline , is worthy attention . The following extract will mark the spirit and intelligence of the various addresses : — " Among the anomalies of the physical world , accounts have been
given by some who have gone clown to the deep in ships and seen the wonders therein displayed , of founts of living fresh water in the midst of the sea ; and in arid deserts the weary traveller has been comforted by spots of loveliness and verdure . It is even so in the moral world . In these cold utilitarian days , whatever clings to the past or cherishes the tender and the ideal , is apt to be looked upon with leer malign , by
material philosophy ancl worldly wisdom . Springing up from the dim depths of remote antiquity , like freshets of the ocean , preserving their sweetness amid the waste bitterness around , the institutions of Masonry from primeval eras , even through the darkness of the middle ages , athwart whicli they gleamed star-like , have ever evinced a salient power , and living freshness of their own , not to be overborne by barbarism ancl tyranny , or to be annihilated by political changes and revolutions . "
AMERICA . —Freemasonry in this hemisphere is resuming its original sway ; the mists of error on the part of its opponents are passing away , and the principles of Washington , Franklin , De Witt , Clinton , and others of the noble-minded are in the ascendant . We doubt not that Masonry may even neutralize the deadly upas poison of conflicting politics , ancl that Brethren of one common stock , and speaking one
language , may be kept from that fatal collision which submerges all in the curse of desolation and ruin . The Grand Master , Peabody , in his address to his Grand Lodge , after commenting on the necessity " of strengthening peace and the bonds of concord between two nations , kindred in laws , religion , and language , and which should never have been at variance , " observes , that " pursuant to a provision recently
incorporated into our Constitutions , two Englishmen , "" " who have become highly distinguished by their zeal and devotion in the cause of the Craft and of humanity , have been elected honorary members of this Gmna Lodge . " This compliment from American Masons is doubly valuable at this moment , when the political horizon is so much overcast . CANADA . —Freemasonry is thriving . Thc Provincial Grand Lodge is about to be revived .
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The Charities.
tion , on his way to Calcutta , became the guest of the Prov . Grand Mastei of Bombay , Dr . Burnes , under the Grand Lodge of Scotland , who associated upwards of one hundred Masons to greet Dr . Grant . Our report , although but an outline , is worthy attention . The following extract will mark the spirit and intelligence of the various addresses : — " Among the anomalies of the physical world , accounts have been
given by some who have gone clown to the deep in ships and seen the wonders therein displayed , of founts of living fresh water in the midst of the sea ; and in arid deserts the weary traveller has been comforted by spots of loveliness and verdure . It is even so in the moral world . In these cold utilitarian days , whatever clings to the past or cherishes the tender and the ideal , is apt to be looked upon with leer malign , by
material philosophy ancl worldly wisdom . Springing up from the dim depths of remote antiquity , like freshets of the ocean , preserving their sweetness amid the waste bitterness around , the institutions of Masonry from primeval eras , even through the darkness of the middle ages , athwart whicli they gleamed star-like , have ever evinced a salient power , and living freshness of their own , not to be overborne by barbarism ancl tyranny , or to be annihilated by political changes and revolutions . "
AMERICA . —Freemasonry in this hemisphere is resuming its original sway ; the mists of error on the part of its opponents are passing away , and the principles of Washington , Franklin , De Witt , Clinton , and others of the noble-minded are in the ascendant . We doubt not that Masonry may even neutralize the deadly upas poison of conflicting politics , ancl that Brethren of one common stock , and speaking one
language , may be kept from that fatal collision which submerges all in the curse of desolation and ruin . The Grand Master , Peabody , in his address to his Grand Lodge , after commenting on the necessity " of strengthening peace and the bonds of concord between two nations , kindred in laws , religion , and language , and which should never have been at variance , " observes , that " pursuant to a provision recently
incorporated into our Constitutions , two Englishmen , "" " who have become highly distinguished by their zeal and devotion in the cause of the Craft and of humanity , have been elected honorary members of this Gmna Lodge . " This compliment from American Masons is doubly valuable at this moment , when the political horizon is so much overcast . CANADA . —Freemasonry is thriving . Thc Provincial Grand Lodge is about to be revived .